Speaker 1: So happy that we have the Olympics to talk about,
Speaker 1: even though there's politics and everything in it. And and
Speaker 1: again we're not talking about I mean, some of it
Speaker 1: will talk about for the right reason. There's some good
Speaker 1: stuff there, but nah, for the most part, like what
Speaker 1: the holy hell was going on? And I use that
Speaker 1: exact phrasing for the exact reason that I too, happened
Speaker 1: to catch a glance of the opening ceremonies and was
Speaker 1: incredibly confused, and then we started getting lied to. And
Speaker 1: at that point I'm just popping that mic. Sorry, I
Speaker 1: like adjusted the cut. I have like a soft cover
Speaker 1: on my mic, and it finally gave out. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to go get my other little, uh little thing
Speaker 1: for it. So I apologize for that. But so the
Speaker 1: the the opening ceremonies, which by the way, were what
Speaker 1: like three hours or something. Now I get it, especially
Speaker 1: because it's Paris, they're gonna feel the necessity to flex
Speaker 1: their artistic muscle. So like the Marie Antoinette thing, Okay,
Speaker 1: well we'll start there. It was this weird pan shot,
Speaker 1: right and you had you had like this red back glow,
Speaker 1: and you know what looked like Marie Antoinette holding her head.
Speaker 1: If that was the if that, I didn't even mind that, Okay, whatever,
Speaker 1: it's Paris. That's the thing. French Revolution got it. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know, but when we've had opening ceremonies,
Speaker 1: including the ones in Atlanta, well not the not the
Speaker 1: bombing part, but you know, there was a there was
Speaker 1: a definitive nod to the American Revolution there, okay, because
Speaker 1: I saw people were posting like screenshots of previous opening
Speaker 1: ceremonies in Russia and the US and Brazil. And but
Speaker 1: what we watched on Friday quickly devolve from that into
Speaker 1: and you'd have to convince me otherwise into a blatant
Speaker 1: screw you from a religious perspective. And and and that
Speaker 1: question was answered when what they purport is Dionysus, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I want you to do something this morning,
Speaker 1: if you've never done it, I want you to knowing
Speaker 1: the image. I want you to all up the famous
Speaker 1: Feast of Dionysus painting, because that's what we were told
Speaker 1: they were attempting to go for with the long table
Speaker 1: full of drag queens. And then I want you to
Speaker 1: look at that painting. Okay, it's easy to search it up.
Speaker 1: You can even search it on Google because it doesn't
Speaker 1: have Trump's name in it. And so go and just
Speaker 1: be like, all right, I'm gonna do it right now,
Speaker 1: Beast of Dionysus. All right, all right, Beast of Dionysus.
Speaker 1: And you can go look at the painting. Yeah yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you get you go look at it. It is not
Speaker 1: remotely that. And then I want you to call up
Speaker 1: and maybe you have this image in your head, the
Speaker 1: Last Supper, and then I want you to look at
Speaker 1: any screen shot, any wide shot of what was going
Speaker 1: on at that table, and you tell me, because again
Speaker 1: we live in this post truth world where you just
Speaker 1: say it and then one hundred thousand idiots on Twitter
Speaker 1: will be like going into the community notes, no, it
Speaker 1: was actually this, and then the giant blue dress Jesus
Speaker 1: with the halo literally uh tweeted or excuse me, instagramed,
Speaker 1: let me get this, let me get this correct, instagrammed
Speaker 1: gay New Testament and referred to herself as her himself
Speaker 1: or what I didn't I don't even know, as God
Speaker 1: or as Jesus. Excuse me, but sure, no, it's the
Speaker 1: Feast of Dionysus. So you know, for an event that's
Speaker 1: now going to run for weeks. You decided to start
Speaker 1: it off by insulting a bunch of people, and they
Speaker 1: issued in a issued in a ology but not really,
Speaker 1: I don't know, And then I saw you know again, uh,
Speaker 1: the the trolling was heavy. We kind of got into
Speaker 1: the trolling on the show account because uh I uh
Speaker 1: I did yesterday point out that the predictive search may
Speaker 1: have been leaving some stuff out when you start typing
Speaker 1: in attempted assassination of and I and I, you know,
Speaker 1: I had hordes of disingenuous intellectually did us dishonest folks
Speaker 1: going you don't understand how algorithms work. Yeah, no, I
Speaker 1: kind of do. And even if you don't, it's it's
Speaker 1: pretty easy to get there. And we'll we'll touch on
Speaker 1: that in a moment. All right, So do you have
Speaker 1: a chance this morning to stare at the feast of
Speaker 1: Dionysus painting and the Last Supper and and then what
Speaker 1: we were presented with during the opening ceremonies. You tell me, okay,
Speaker 1: you ross you're an independent arbiter. I haven't told you
Speaker 1: were doing this test. I would like you to Akham's
Speaker 1: rasor this thing, and you tell me, Feast of Dionysus,
Speaker 1: Last Supper. What do you think the artistic director was
Speaker 1: going for with that particular piece of imagery. If you
Speaker 1: had to bet, you're you're not an art expert. I'm
Speaker 1: not an art expert. Best guess Beast of Dionysus or
Speaker 1: Last Supper. All right, so he's reviewing that your reviewed.
Speaker 1: You tell me, well, we get a statement from the
Speaker 1: Olympics and they're like, well, you know, we really, oh
Speaker 1: so sorry. Didn't mean to offend every every Christian on
Speaker 1: the planet. Didn't mean to do that, you know, was misinterpreted.
Speaker 1: The absolute gas lighting on this stuff is just legendary.
Speaker 1: And so what does it cause, Well, it causes folks
Speaker 1: to go ahead and not want to watch the Olympics.
Speaker 1: And that's too bad. A lot of people all across
Speaker 1: the world, but especially our athletes here in the United
Speaker 1: States and both the Olympics and the Paralympics, who will
Speaker 1: put a lot of work into their craft, their skill
Speaker 1: so they can go out and we can own one
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety some other countries. Plus we also there's
Speaker 1: also a refugee team. Did you know that? I did
Speaker 1: not know that? And then the there's a Palestinian team
Speaker 1: and only one person there is actually either from or
Speaker 1: living in quote unquote Palestine. The rest live elsewhere, including
Speaker 1: one who lives in the US and was born in Illinois.
Speaker 1: But you know, you get some of that where folks
Speaker 1: are not wanting or or not able to qualify, maybe
Speaker 1: on the US team who do that, or you get
Speaker 1: ones who want to get to payday, like the ah
Speaker 1: what was the ice Remember the ice skating chick in
Speaker 1: the Winter Olympics who decided to go be China's puppet
Speaker 1: and unfortunately fame and riches didn't follow because she choked
Speaker 1: during the Olympics. But that was a calculated thing, likely
Speaker 1: would have been on the US team, decided to compete
Speaker 1: for China because her mom or one side of her
Speaker 1: family is from China. The whole thing was wild, and
Speaker 1: yet we're all supposed to pretend that that wasn't that
Speaker 1: wasn't the attent. So we got that story this morning.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be in the stack and uh, and then
Speaker 1: of course we got all the you know, the general
Speaker 1: insanity of more election stuff. We'll figure out how climate
Speaker 1: change and feces is impacting the Olympics apparently.
Speaker 2: So, so I've compared the two photos.
Speaker 1: Now, all right, all right, usually hours of deduction.
Speaker 2: But well, because I've seen the Last Supper obviously, but
Speaker 2: I've never seen anything about the what.
Speaker 1: Is the Dionysus? It's so very famous painting.
Speaker 2: I would say without the weird blue guy that looks
Speaker 2: like a weird smurf, yeah, smurf thing, I would probably
Speaker 2: say Last Supper, but if you throw a smurf guy
Speaker 2: in there, it could be the feast. I don't know,
Speaker 2: so you I do know the big girl that was
Speaker 2: in the center there, she's come out and said that
Speaker 2: she was told that she was Olympic Jesus yeah.
Speaker 1: And gay New Testament Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, So that's weird.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is. I do know that
Speaker 2: it was enough to make me be like, well, I
Speaker 2: wasn't going to pay attention before, and now I'm definitely
Speaker 2: not going to pay attention. I was talking to the
Speaker 2: dude that works at the front desk at the Planet
Speaker 2: Fitness today at the gym, and you know, the Olympics
Speaker 2: were on the TV there. They were showing some of
Speaker 2: the gymnasts and I said, just making conversation, I said,
Speaker 2: remember when the Olympics were this huge thing, like in
Speaker 2: the nineties and eighties, Like, dude, we would watch it.
Speaker 2: We were glued to our televisions. In my family, it
Speaker 2: was a big family event. We'd get together. You still remember,
Speaker 2: I don't remember her name. It was a Carrie Strug.
Speaker 1: Carrie Strug, the gymnasts who who literally broke her ankle, right,
Speaker 1: he carried off after getting the gold.
Speaker 2: Bad right, and he mentioned that we couldn't remember her name,
Speaker 2: but he was like, you know, remember she she had
Speaker 2: the ankle and she she stuck the landing and she
Speaker 2: run that dude's arms, like the big guy with the mustache,
Speaker 2: and you.
Speaker 1: Know, yeah, the Russian dude who basically came he left
Speaker 1: the USSR to come over and basically him and his
Speaker 1: wife were the Olympic gurus the gymnastics for years. My ex,
Speaker 1: uh the X, I dated for a long time. She
Speaker 1: was a college gymnast and she actually coached, so I
Speaker 1: know way more about women's gymnastics than you would ever know.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that dude was famous. Carrie Strug was fan.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you. We used to be glued to our televisions.
Speaker 2: It was a big event. And now in this once again.
Speaker 2: The guy the gym said before even I could bring
Speaker 2: it up, he said, Now they had this weird opening
Speaker 2: ceremony where I'm like, what is going on? And then
Speaker 2: everyone has to make a political and Lebron James isn't
Speaker 2: standing during the anthem, yet they had him coming in
Speaker 2: a carrying like the flag in the in the in
Speaker 2: the d day boat or whatever it was, the DA Yeah.
Speaker 1: The landing was.
Speaker 2: Then stand like, what are you doing?
Speaker 3: Dude?
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, all right, would you I will?
Speaker 1: I would expect because it's it's Paris that they're gonna
Speaker 1: be weird, super weird. Yeah, okay, which is fine. Again
Speaker 1: the Marie Antoinette thing, I saw some people were mad
Speaker 1: about that. I no, I thought that was fine. That's
Speaker 1: right what I would expect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they're trying to say it's like a demonic symbolism.
Speaker 1: Yeah I'm not. I'm not here for it. What was
Speaker 1: the with the Marines when that's just a thing I understand.
Speaker 1: But the problem is you couple that with everything else,
Speaker 1: you know, gay New Testament, Olympic Jesus. Some people, uh,
Speaker 1: you had the horse right.
Speaker 2: The Pale Rider, Yeah, and the fourth Horsemen of the
Speaker 2: apocalypse whatever coming in. Yeah, is that bad? I mean,
Speaker 2: like I said, I'm just looking at it briefly.
Speaker 4: I was.
Speaker 2: I took a lot of time off this weekend from
Speaker 2: social media. This weekend did feel like a regular weekend.
Speaker 2: Last Friday, we retire, We were we had a lot
Speaker 2: going off at the Hayes compound. We have a lot
Speaker 2: of stuff going around the house and stuff or getting
Speaker 2: ready for obviously from the in laws. Oh but but
Speaker 2: all ont aside, it was still a nice, RESTful I
Speaker 2: guess it's RESTful as relevant compared to the past two weeks.
Speaker 2: It was a nice weekend. Tried to want paid some
Speaker 2: attention to the Olympics, but once I see like blue Smurf,
Speaker 2: nymph man or whatever is on the table and uh,
Speaker 2: you know, obese Olympic Jesus woman as and then I'm out.
Speaker 2: I'm out.
Speaker 1: Don't you don't like pedophile smurf?
Speaker 2: I don't care. Yeah, I'm out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is which which I hate because
Speaker 1: because it used to be a thing. It used to
Speaker 1: be a thing, and people have put a crap ton
Speaker 1: of work. I think Simone Biles is amazing, right again,
Speaker 1: it's incredible. Yeah, I know that people got into the
Speaker 1: whole Uh remember where she kind of dipped out on
Speaker 1: something like question or work.
Speaker 2: She's no, yeah, they did question the fact that she's
Speaker 2: a human being, and people get anxious and then it's psychological. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. She said I wouldn't be able to win right now,
Speaker 1: Let's let somebody else go in there. And then she
Speaker 1: came back and and kicked everybody's ass. So like I
Speaker 1: hated for her, I hated for everybody else who include
Speaker 1: we got many North Carolina athletes that are out there competing.
Speaker 1: I hate it for them because, you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of these sports, a lot of these events, this is
Speaker 1: the only notoriety you get, right.
Speaker 2: If you're being bust your ass. I mean, you've dedicated
Speaker 2: your life to this.
Speaker 1: Yes, and you're, but you're also you're in a sport
Speaker 1: that doesn't draw big crowds. You're you're probably you know,
Speaker 1: most of these athletes don't survive or wouldn't survive outside
Speaker 1: of the stipend and the end, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: they have to raise money. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, and if you're
Speaker 1: some own biles, that's a lot easier. But if if
Speaker 1: you're like in one of the shooting events, you got
Speaker 1: to grind. I've known a couple people just over the
Speaker 1: years because I was doing the hunting and fishing stuff too.
Speaker 1: I used to do a show in Minnesota. It was syndicated,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, so we talk shooting, we talk
Speaker 1: all this stuff, and you know, these are they got
Speaker 1: to go out and raise money for for for like
Speaker 1: going to the Olympics and stuff. So talking to some
Speaker 1: of the Olympic hopefuls, I mean, they're doing it because
Speaker 1: it's their passion, man, And we got all sorts of stuff,
Speaker 1: and yet you decide to kick it off with the
Speaker 1: thing that tells the dude at Planet Fitness talking with
Speaker 1: Ross this morning because he's there getting his gains on
Speaker 1: a Monday, which God bless you man, where you just like,
Speaker 1: I'm out out.
Speaker 2: Plus they made the female beach volleyball players put on pants.
Speaker 2: It's crap.
Speaker 1: Do you see the the swimmer retired at the Olympics.
Speaker 1: At the Olympic from Germany or something. I don't want
Speaker 1: her to win, but hello, so so anyway, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it absolutely decimates the the enthusiasm that we feel.
Speaker 1: Why were why was everything so much better in the
Speaker 1: nineties or is it just because that's the era you
Speaker 1: and I look back with fondness on right, we talked
Speaker 1: about the Dream Team, which is Olympic adjacent, but it's like,
Speaker 1: I feel like professional sports well, actually no, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you fondly remember the nineties from a professional
Speaker 1: sports standpoint, as they likely caused you great frustration. But
Speaker 1: oh crap, all right, look at that, I just went over.
Speaker 1: All right, we got to take a break. Hang on,
Speaker 1: we'll be back, obviously for something that huge. With that
Speaker 1: many people like they have their own committee there, and
Speaker 1: then the IOC has its committee, right, you have the
Speaker 1: local committee of the IOC. And I promise as much
Speaker 1: as these folks love bureaucracy with generally who's involved there
Speaker 1: the fact that nobody at any point when they were
Speaker 1: going over like sketches or practice, right, they had to practice.
Speaker 1: All of that went you know, you know that looks
Speaker 1: a little like the uh last Supper there. Maybe we
Speaker 1: shouldn't do that blue Smurf, Like if you'd have just
Speaker 1: done weird Peto Smurf, dude, I don't know, maybe still
Speaker 1: would be weird. What was the other? Oh, the other
Speaker 1: thing was did one of the dancers literally have his
Speaker 1: We'll go with twigs, twig and berries if you understand
Speaker 1: the reference the sports car reference there did were his
Speaker 1: berries hanging out of his short shorts. Because I saw
Speaker 1: that image getting posted around, I didn't, uh, Ross, what
Speaker 1: do you think? Okham's raising this thing again?
Speaker 2: They're gonna Okham's to raisor Ramona. Yeah, but they were
Speaker 2: debating like which part of the manhood it was?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the theory was berries, twig or tear into.
Speaker 2: It's definitely not tear but did you do some research?
Speaker 2: We should I saw the photo. The fact is we
Speaker 2: should not be having this debate at all, Like this
Speaker 2: shouldn't be like something that happens after the opening ceremony.
Speaker 2: We should be like, hey, like you said, hey, what's
Speaker 2: up with that blue smurf nymph? Elf guy?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Or hey, what's up with all those mines that were there?
Speaker 2: That was weird?
Speaker 1: Or is it though? Like Paris?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is what I'm saying. It should be like
Speaker 2: typical weird France.
Speaker 1: Stuff and people should be having fun with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and like one or two people should be offended whatever,
Speaker 1: Like if you'd have just done the horse right without
Speaker 1: all the other religious imagery. I'd be like, it's a
Speaker 1: laser light show basically.
Speaker 2: So, I don't know, man, I would like prefer my
Speaker 2: opening ceremonies not to have something that looks like a
Speaker 2: dark Soul's boss in it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Or all dark Souls bosses all at once and get
Speaker 1: a cage match, or so, I don't know. Whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: make it interesting.
Speaker 2: To your point. I also believe that Hell and his
Speaker 2: Cell should be an Olympic event.
Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough? Breakdancing is that's right? August ninth, They're
Speaker 1: gonna kick off the breakdancing. I bet they don't save
Speaker 1: one rec center? What do you think none? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say zero.
Speaker 2: If they use their powers for good, they probably could.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he said, the Olympic committee is sort of
Speaker 2: like FIFA whatever it's it's corrupt.
Speaker 1: Did you hear how the scoring works on that fake
Speaker 1: of it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: All right, so it's it's just like it's like a
Speaker 1: rap battle, right they.
Speaker 2: Just all right?
Speaker 1: What was his name in eight mile? Oh Rabbit?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, rab rabbit, Papa Doc, Yeah, Papa Doc Rabbit. You're
Speaker 1: up right, except they'll break dance off at each other
Speaker 1: back and forth, back and forth, move for move, there's
Speaker 1: no points, it'll just be after the judges who they
Speaker 1: liked more.
Speaker 2: This sounds completely fair. Is there a giant boombox?
Speaker 1: If there's not like a like a you know, like
Speaker 1: the size of a car one there just for the aesthetics,
Speaker 1: you've really let me down. So I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know. But those were the Those were the
Speaker 1: little intricacies and the things that people make jokes about.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't some seething hatred for what they were seeing.
Speaker 1: But when you just crap on people out of the
Speaker 1: game and then try to pretend like you didn't understand
Speaker 1: what was going on. Like even in the apology they
Speaker 1: were talking about how they're wanting to focus on inclusivity, Well,
Speaker 1: you're giving away the game between that and the Instagram thing.
Speaker 1: And the inclusivity for you was to tell a bunch
Speaker 1: of people who are religious that you're gonna stick, you know,
Speaker 1: drag queens in there, or you're going to do this
Speaker 1: because they need to understand that this is inclusivity. And
Speaker 1: the other thing is too like if it was the
Speaker 1: way you chose to include that right again, it's it's
Speaker 1: they're French. I expect that it's gonna be weird and
Speaker 1: so like if you had drag queens doing something else, like,
Speaker 1: you can still send your message, but you can't go there.
Speaker 1: And I noticed there wasn't And I'm not the first
Speaker 1: person to think of this. I noticed there wasn't a
Speaker 1: drag queen Mohammed. I think the and why don't you
Speaker 1: do that in Paris? I'm sure to be fine. I'm surely,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it'll be fine. You can call it drag
Speaker 1: queen Charlie epdo right to you know, have a little
Speaker 1: fun with it, so you can, I guess, plausibly deny
Speaker 1: it when your city's being burned to the ground.
Speaker 2: I mean, once again, I'm starting to think that maybe
Speaker 2: the burning of Notre Dame wasn't a wasn't an accident,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Whoa?
Speaker 4: Whoa?
Speaker 1: Is your conspiracy?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: Look at you? Your ross is making stuff up that
Speaker 1: seems kind of logical. I've been there, man, people, if
Speaker 1: you don't know this too, it's it's, it's it's on
Speaker 1: its own island thing. It's it's and it's amazing or
Speaker 1: it was, and I hope that it is. Again. I
Speaker 1: obviously I haven't been there since since that happened. What
Speaker 1: are they blame it on some dude with a cigarette.
Speaker 1: I think that's what they blamed it on, right, some
Speaker 1: worker with a cigarette or something. But I remember reading
Speaker 1: how that didn't really track. So I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I just I don't understand it, except for the need
Speaker 1: of people too, you know, crap on people that they
Speaker 1: don't agree with. And this is this goes back to
Speaker 1: our little nineties discussion we were having. And it could
Speaker 1: be just nostalgia, and it doesn't mean that everything was perfect.
Speaker 1: But I've heard it referred to as the Fresh Prince era. Right,
Speaker 1: So I can't remember who was on Twitter calls at that,
Speaker 1: but but they but they weren't talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: their love of Will Smith. They were talking about how
Speaker 1: all of the things that are just the worst parts
Speaker 1: of the political correctness stuff, the the pitting of individuals
Speaker 1: against each other, were we were softening. Right. You never
Speaker 1: had a larger unforced contingent of primarily black primetime television
Speaker 1: shows than you did in the nineties on the networks,
Speaker 1: not even today. I've said, uh, you know what, I
Speaker 1: could pull these numbers up. I remember reading this when
Speaker 1: you look, and and they weren't and and they were there,
Speaker 1: and they were popular. And it wasn't just black, it
Speaker 1: was it was Hispanic. You have a lot of Asian
Speaker 1: shows now, you had a few then, and and people
Speaker 1: watched it. Regardless how many of you watched Bernie mac show,
Speaker 1: it was great they had. You had Bernie Mack, you
Speaker 1: had Living Pez, George Lopez, you had Martin, you had
Speaker 1: all these shows. Yes, yes, I mean when you watched them.
Speaker 2: Then it was it was pre internet, so we had
Speaker 2: a lot more freedom than we did now, especially if
Speaker 2: you're growing up, you're like a teen or whatever. Right,
Speaker 2: your bosses couldn't get to you after hours. Right, So
Speaker 2: you had a typical nine to five, which is can
Speaker 2: you even imagine that now?
Speaker 1: Amazing?
Speaker 2: Right? Uh, pre nine to eleven. So you didn't have
Speaker 2: any of this stuff that we have in regards to
Speaker 2: that anymore. Just a simpler, better time. And it seemed
Speaker 2: like everything was really better.
Speaker 1: And the narrative would be it was for you because
Speaker 1: you you have white privilege. And but and again this
Speaker 1: is not denial that people weren't still out doing stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, being pieces of crap to each other and
Speaker 1: racist in some instances or sexist or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: It's not a denial of that, it's that we seem
Speaker 1: to be working through a lot of that.
Speaker 2: And you mentioned the politically and correct that like everything
Speaker 2: wasn't as it is now in regards to political correctness.
Speaker 2: The first time I remember hearing that, I think Bill
Speaker 2: Maher had this show where the political politically incorrect. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's the first time I remember hearing it.
Speaker 1: Early.
Speaker 2: Now it's so common, like everybody knows and everybody is,
Speaker 2: you know, triggered by everything, and there's microaggressions and everything.
Speaker 2: It's grown from that. But I mean it was it
Speaker 2: was before. I mean it just seemed simpler.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and and now we're in this uh DEI
Speaker 1: hell and uh no drag queen vishnu or but no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I hear you, I hear you by that dude. That
Speaker 1: dude seems smug. When I saw him being interviewed, I
Speaker 1: don't speak French, I don't know which which dude, the
Speaker 1: artistic director's young guy. He seemed like a smug I'm
Speaker 1: going to show them. I'm gonna take my opportunity. Dude
Speaker 1: who is just cheesed on religious people. That's the vibe I, God, no,
Speaker 1: I get proud of himself.
Speaker 2: I seem proud of himself, the same vibe as that
Speaker 2: chick that's in charge of the accolade on Star Wars, Like, Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're doing this stuff on purpose to push people's buttons.
Speaker 2: They want to make you upset. I'm going to the.
Speaker 1: Pot, and you do it at the detriment of people
Speaker 1: have worked their ass off to get there. And by
Speaker 1: the way, that's not to say maybe he hasn't worked
Speaker 1: his ass off. I don't know, but you have this opportunity.
Speaker 1: And if you're used to producing things for the theater crowd, right,
Speaker 1: if you're used to producing things in New York's theater district,
Speaker 1: you have a lot more flexibility because, like so much
Speaker 1: in entertainment, we try to gauge things, like the FCC
Speaker 1: will gauge things that I say, based on the standards
Speaker 1: of the audience that I broadcast to. It's a very
Speaker 1: weird wording and I'm not even wording it correctly, but
Speaker 1: it basically community the community standards, okay, and it's community standards,
Speaker 1: by the way, or something that is that is present
Speaker 1: in law, not just FCC regulations. And so if you're
Speaker 1: used to producing for that crowd. That's not who you're
Speaker 1: producing for. You're producing for the world. And the majority
Speaker 1: of people in the world are religious, even if you're not,
Speaker 1: and so you don't have to throw a religious homage
Speaker 1: in there. You should because Paris has a lot of
Speaker 1: very interesting religious history. The aforementioned church, the conspiracy Ross
Speaker 1: is on that, you know, that's kind of a big deal.
Speaker 1: But more than that, you got so much to play
Speaker 1: off of though, Dude, the whole Catacomb's thing, right.
Speaker 2: And once again, it's not the weirdness of it. We
Speaker 2: expect weirdness from France, Like that's what I expected it
Speaker 2: to be. And just as when they had the Olympics
Speaker 2: in Beijing, right, if you were like, hey, Ross, what's
Speaker 2: the opening ceremony for Beijing going to be, I'd be like, well,
Speaker 2: it's the it's the Chinese people, right, they're communist government.
Speaker 2: I assume it's going to be some sort of a
Speaker 2: display of how they're all choreographed. And remember that big
Speaker 2: drum banging session, remember that where they were now and
Speaker 2: it was amazing, And that's exactly what I would picture
Speaker 2: it would to be, right, And yeah.
Speaker 1: In Paris, I mean, pop around to some of the
Speaker 1: most iconic locations in France or in Paris, and there's
Speaker 1: so many, right, there's so many. If you ever go,
Speaker 1: if you ever go over there, I hate to say
Speaker 1: I would not. I wouldn't tell you to go to Paris,
Speaker 1: as bad as that sounds. And I enjoyed, but it
Speaker 1: was it was quite a while ago that I went.
Speaker 1: But you were already I already kind of felt like
Speaker 1: a bunch of people didn't want tourists there, which is
Speaker 1: a vibe you get. But I was far more entertained
Speaker 1: over in Normandy and Champagne, and could I travel all
Speaker 1: basically Paris and then you go to Versailles and then
Speaker 1: boom you pop out to the Atlantic coast there and
Speaker 1: the two days in Paris versus the five days elsewhere,
Speaker 1: it wasn't even close. Wasn't even close. But I nerd
Speaker 1: it out for two days. Right, stroll along the river,
Speaker 1: check out the shot. Are you getting overcharged? Yes? Are
Speaker 1: you getting a slice of Paris less and less? So
Speaker 1: now go to the louver. Don't throw soup on stuff,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Look at that Try that glass pyramid and
Speaker 1: at you know, and go eh, that looks way different
Speaker 1: in person. Even if you've seen the the Tom Hanks
Speaker 1: movie and go check that out. Go to the Arc
Speaker 1: de Trompe, go check it out. Stroll along the shopping
Speaker 1: street there. I can't pronounce it, so I'm not gonna try,
Speaker 1: but you know, the one, the lase whatever, go do
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Go check that out. And if I
Speaker 1: want to go check that out and the world recognizes
Speaker 1: you for that, lean into it, just as you did
Speaker 1: with the Marie Antoinette stuff, the Bastille stuff, and be weird,
Speaker 1: be euro weird. Do they think we're weird even though
Speaker 1: they literally can't get enough of our media? And then
Speaker 1: do that. But with that Instagram post and the smugness
Speaker 1: of that guy's interview, that was they were sitting in
Speaker 1: a room, probably smoking the cigarettes with those stupid holders
Speaker 1: pinky out, drinking some I don't know, French wine and
Speaker 1: laughing about how this will show them. And you can't
Speaker 1: convince me otherwise based on those posts that I've seen,
Speaker 1: All right, are you gonna you're gonna watch the Olympics?
Speaker 1: I guess selectively, I just depending on how you watch it.
Speaker 1: They got it on a bunch of different channels. If
Speaker 1: you go to the Uh, the peacock What is the app?
Speaker 1: What's the NBC's the peacock cap. Yeah, they have about
Speaker 1: nine thousand different ways you can watch it. You can
Speaker 1: go event by event. And people have traditions. Again, you
Speaker 1: talked about in your household how you guys would watch stuff.
Speaker 1: People have traditions. They want to watch this stuff. I
Speaker 1: want to watch the track and field stuff. I like
Speaker 1: that a little wild man. I'm not much of a
Speaker 1: swimming guy, but if that's your thing, absolutely, If gymnastics
Speaker 1: is your thing, as it was, Uh, my sisters loved
Speaker 1: watching the gymnastics. I don't know if I want to
Speaker 1: watch the men's basketball though. But you know, this is
Speaker 1: this is what you decide to do with your time.
Speaker 1: Here's something else maybe you could have done with it.
Speaker 1: Why don't if you want to make statements, why don't
Speaker 1: you make a statement about what's going on in Venezuela.
Speaker 1: That's absolutely insane if you're not following that. Once again,
Speaker 1: the commie runt dictator there has claimed victory, even though
Speaker 1: it was abundantly clear to anyone watching this that he
Speaker 1: was getting absolutely trounced. And there's there's literally selfie photos
Speaker 1: that got posted from one of the campaign centers where
Speaker 1: they're all wearing their jackets, right, because he's got a
Speaker 1: he's got a he's got like a uniform where they're
Speaker 1: all wearing that and they're smiling for the selfie and
Speaker 1: it kind of looks like that that selfie from the
Speaker 1: oscars with Degenerous and all them. Right, they're just all
Speaker 1: But the problem is they have monitors in front of
Speaker 1: them that show him getting his butt handed to him
Speaker 1: in each of the little districts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's his own staff there, and now you've got
Speaker 2: to worry it. I'm now you've got to be worried
Speaker 2: about their lives. They tweeted out that photo and you
Speaker 2: can see the pie charts and he's getting decimated.
Speaker 1: You know what, I don't care. Thirty percent of people
Speaker 1: are on the winning team and are willing to subjugate
Speaker 1: seventy percent of their countrymen because that's what they actually
Speaker 1: and take that for what it's worth. That is what
Speaker 1: outside experts believe is the actual margin. Yeah, where he
Speaker 1: got thirty percent of the vote. The dude who's never
Speaker 1: been a politician, he was an ambassa who basically got
Speaker 1: drafted into this because he's probably gonna have to move.
Speaker 1: It probably got seventy percent of the vote. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if I mentioned it. So I had the
Speaker 1: opportunity when I was traveling to meet somebody from Venezuela.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, all right, hold on, sorry, I'm so late
Speaker 1: on breaks. Let's take a break. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Is it again. It's not that it's all negative. It's
Speaker 1: that I don't understand why you would decide to open
Speaker 1: it with what is a very obvious fu And I
Speaker 1: one hundred percent believed that it was intentional. And I
Speaker 1: you know, everyone involves got some hang ups, they have
Speaker 1: some religious relative they don't like. I don't know what
Speaker 1: it is whether you would choose to insult that then
Speaker 1: detract from the ability to enjoy all the little micro
Speaker 1: stories and things that happen at the Olympics, Like let
Speaker 1: me give you some examples. Do you know do you
Speaker 1: know the first medal that the US won, It was
Speaker 1: a silver medal, all right, and it was the synchronous diving, right,
Speaker 1: so you got the two side by side boom boom boom. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very artistic in nature, and we won the silver medal.
Speaker 1: Do you know the name of the team Cook and Bacon,
Speaker 1: that's what they call themselves, and they have like bacon
Speaker 1: stuff and they wearing Bacon shirts and that's because one
Speaker 1: of them is named Cook and the other one's name Bacon.
Speaker 1: And they have a lot of fun with it. And
Speaker 1: what is a more American team than Cook and Bacon?
Speaker 1: Can we agree? Okay? Just you know, they're not major stories,
Speaker 1: but their fun stuff. You would not know who those
Speaker 1: two girls are, who've worked their ass off since high
Speaker 1: school where they were friends, if not for the Olympics
Speaker 1: and getting that medal and of course having you know,
Speaker 1: an affinity for bacon, which they obviously clearly probably don't
Speaker 1: because as they're Olympic athletes, but they probably sneak some.
Speaker 1: And that's great and you want those stories. And you've
Speaker 1: now precluded a bunch of people. If I didn't tell
Speaker 1: you about it, you wouldn't know that. But I got
Speaker 1: to dive through all of this. Bob the cap Catcher,
Speaker 1: some of you sent me this story. Do you know
Speaker 1: what that is? So this is a women's swimming event.
Speaker 1: They've got the women on the pedestals or whatever you know,
Speaker 1: waiting to go, and one of the judges notices something
Speaker 1: in the water and it's one of the you know,
Speaker 1: the speedo caps. They pull over their hair and it
Speaker 1: I guess, I don't know if it was previously in
Speaker 1: there or it fell off, whatever, but now it's in
Speaker 1: the pool. It's you know, about eight feet out and
Speaker 1: it's sinking down. And so they tell the women to
Speaker 1: dismount and they call in I guess, the crew, and
Speaker 1: this dude strolls out. He's, you know, middle aged looking dude.
Speaker 1: He's got a little millk pattern baldness, he's got a
Speaker 1: little bit of a gut on him, and he's wearing
Speaker 1: tight floral speedos. I said, ross the story, he'll tweet
Speaker 1: it out. You could go look at it. And this
Speaker 1: dude dives in there grabs that thing, and the commentators
Speaker 1: are like, who is that guy? And everyone's cheering as
Speaker 1: he holds it up, you know, like I am victorious. Right.
Speaker 1: It's a funny moment. It's a funny, silly moment that
Speaker 1: you and your family sitting on the couch watching would
Speaker 1: probably find memorable because your kids would relate to it.
Speaker 1: Why are they cheering for him? And then the commentators
Speaker 1: are like, what do we call him? And one of
Speaker 1: the guys goes. We'll call him the cap catcher, Bob,
Speaker 1: the cap Catcher. Again, it's a dumb little thing, but
Speaker 1: it's one of these little mini stories that people are
Speaker 1: going to miss out on because they chose to do this,
Speaker 1: and I hate that. I hate that for cooking bacon Bob.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's not his real name. And you know
Speaker 1: the amount of confidence it takes to where the hospedo's man.
Speaker 1: But he's just out there doing his thing. I bet
Speaker 1: he's a fun dude too, right, because he's hamming it
Speaker 1: up out there. He's clearly not the angry people that
Speaker 1: put together that opening ceremonies or our own athletes who
Speaker 1: were literally gifted one of the highest profile jobs during
Speaker 1: the Olympic opening ceremonies and representing your country. It can't
Speaker 1: be bothered to stand the anthem and it just it
Speaker 1: just turns people off. So well, look, I'll continue to
Speaker 1: try to bring you some of the fun stories, but
Speaker 1: a lot of people aren't gonna be catching this in
Speaker 1: real time. They're gonna be bogged down with what you know,
Speaker 1: what they what They sat there with their kids to
Speaker 1: watch and then probably at some point had to go
Speaker 1: all right, let's let's see if something else is on
Speaker 1: when we're trying to determine if a guy's testicles are
Speaker 1: hanging out of his clothes or Peto smurfs up there,
Speaker 1: or the Last Supper is being recreated, and it's very obvious.
Speaker 1: So there's that, all right. Let me get back to
Speaker 1: the Venezuela thing. So I met somebody when I was
Speaker 1: traveling and instantly like this guy. Okay, instantly like this dude,
Speaker 1: this was when I was in April? Was it last
Speaker 1: I tried? I can't remember the dates I trut whatever.
Speaker 1: So if you remember, I decided I was going to
Speaker 1: go to a place called Guatapei, which is outside Magazine,
Speaker 1: which is just really really cool natural formation. It's an
Speaker 1: old volcano and it's now become a lake and there's
Speaker 1: a huge magma spire still in the middle, and it's
Speaker 1: got like seven hundred stairs get the top. There is
Speaker 1: a bar up top, and then there's like a little
Speaker 1: halfway points for you to catch your because you're like, ah,
Speaker 1: seven hundred stares, that's nothing. Yeah, And then I went
Speaker 1: from there to Ecuador, and then I went to Galapago's Silence.
Speaker 1: Great trip. I had so much fun. If you scroll
Speaker 1: back in the timeline. I posted pictures of some fun stuff.
Speaker 1: It's okay, but when I was in, when I was
Speaker 1: gonna out to pay, it is very touristy, right obviously
Speaker 1: for what it is, it's it's gorgeous. And I did
Speaker 1: the little cop out part for a while because I'm like,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stairs and they have like a
Speaker 1: little restaurant thing there, and then they have something that's
Speaker 1: attached back of the hotel that I stayed in, where
Speaker 1: I actually ran into this dude again, and I, you know,
Speaker 1: I started talking to him because he speaks very good
Speaker 1: English and my Spanish is not great, although I can
Speaker 1: read Spanish really well, which is weird because I can
Speaker 1: barely speak it. But it actually allowed me to really
Speaker 1: deep dive some of the tweets that I was seeing
Speaker 1: coming out about the Ventelan election. This guy's from Venezuela.
Speaker 1: He's a dentist, and he's and he is. He is
Speaker 1: not just a Venezuelan dentist. He received a bunch of
Speaker 1: his schooling in the US. He was very fortunate because
Speaker 1: his parents, both of his parents were successful dentists in
Speaker 1: Venezuela were and so that afforded him the ability obviously
Speaker 1: to follow in that path. And I want to say
Speaker 1: he's forty early forties something like that. And so we
Speaker 1: got to talking, and I'm naturally curious about stuff, and
Speaker 1: he had mentioned that he's actually Venezuelan, he's not Colombian,
Speaker 1: and so I was like, oh, okay, And I broached
Speaker 1: the topic very quietly because there are a lot One
Speaker 1: thing you notice when you get to Colombia is it's
Speaker 1: full of Venezuelans for obvious reasons, but you know, you
Speaker 1: can tell people in South America really like wearing flags,
Speaker 1: colors and stuff, kind of like Texans. But anyway, and
Speaker 1: we started talking about it, and basically they didn't fall
Speaker 1: in line with Chavez, and that was not good. So
Speaker 1: I wait, hold on, it's a refreshment center Boston. Paul
Speaker 1: is very upset. The halfway point doesn't have a bar.
Speaker 1: It's a refreshment center and the hotels will put stuff
Speaker 1: over there so you can actually have beer and stuff
Speaker 1: if you want so kind of but not really. So
Speaker 1: he's hauling this stuff over and and and he just
Speaker 1: he just tells me the story and it's wild and
Speaker 1: it's it is the slow degradation of people who wouldn't
Speaker 1: fall in line, people who vote, who vocally objected to
Speaker 1: some of the changes, especially within that field, who found
Speaker 1: themselves on the outs. And at that point you're not
Speaker 1: allowed to avail yourself of some of the government funded
Speaker 1: health insurance, which is still even if you're doing a
Speaker 1: lot of private stuff is a necessity. And eventually they
Speaker 1: had to shut it down, and then somebody arsened the building.
Speaker 1: Even after they had shut it down, they arsened the building.
Speaker 1: And it was at that point his family literally had
Speaker 1: to move. And I'm not going to tell you where
Speaker 1: they moved. I can't believe he told me, but basically
Speaker 1: out of Caracas to another part of the country. And
Speaker 1: he made the decision to go to Columbia. The problem
Speaker 1: was when Colombia's deal with taking in folks, even folks
Speaker 1: with educations, is they didn't the upper crust of Columbia
Speaker 1: had some concerns that you could flood the market with
Speaker 1: professionals and that would be bad for Colombian professionals, which
Speaker 1: I guess is understandable. So he's not allowed to he's
Speaker 1: not allowed to practice dentistry in Columbia. So the guy
Speaker 1: works as a porter for a hotel, and he uses
Speaker 1: that money, that which you don't make a lot of
Speaker 1: money in Colombia. He uses that money to attempt to
Speaker 1: support his family when he goes back to visit his family.
Speaker 1: Because he was shown as somebody who left and didn't
Speaker 1: leave in the proper way, he doesn't use He uses
Speaker 1: a fake passport, which you can go by. Because Venezuela
Speaker 1: is so corrupt, they'll sell blanks for it into Colombia
Speaker 1: and people will sell them. I could have gotten one,
Speaker 1: and he has. He sits on a bus for like
Speaker 1: sixteen hours to do it, and he goes on the
Speaker 1: regular bring supplies or money or whatever he needs to
Speaker 1: this formally very successful family who had everything taken from
Speaker 1: him because they wouldn't fall in line. And now a
Speaker 1: guy who's probably smarter than be's, a sharp dude, is
Speaker 1: sitting there is moving luggage and stuff because he has to,
Speaker 1: because that is what communism wrought there. And as you
Speaker 1: can imagine watching for the third time, what has happened
Speaker 1: I guess technically second time he was gifted the first term.
Speaker 1: What is happening now once again in Venezuela where it
Speaker 1: is clearly corrupt and you can take a head count
Speaker 1: based on the countries that are willing to recognize the results.
Speaker 1: Basically Cuba, Nicaragua. I'm trying to think of the Latin
Speaker 1: American countries, all all dictators themselves who have Chavez is
Speaker 1: bad or not shaves Maduro's back because they themselves may
Speaker 1: need him if they ever get ousted or attempted to
Speaker 1: be ousted. And you watch what communism has rot and
Speaker 1: you watch his personal reaction to it. I don't care
Speaker 1: what's going on in your life. Holy hell, I remember
Speaker 1: feeling I remember feeling bad. I mean, just like I.
Speaker 1: You know, there's no problem. I can tell you that
Speaker 1: outpaces what's happening with you. And you know the narrative is,
Speaker 1: while those are true Venezuelans, they left you. You are
Speaker 1: sit in their business. You are in their business and
Speaker 1: ran generational people out of a profession that is very
Speaker 1: necessary because they wouldn't get on board, they wouldn't make
Speaker 1: contributions to you. They spoke out against it. I guess
Speaker 1: his mom did. Just wild man, just absolutely wild and uh,
Speaker 1: we're you know, the the one of the main oversight board.
Speaker 1: They're all lackeys for this dude. International observers are not
Speaker 1: granted the access they need, and that's another six year term.
Speaker 1: The only out for these folks unless they're willing to
Speaker 1: do something, and that's could be difficult. Although even though
Speaker 1: they did confiscate a lot of their weapons, apparently there's
Speaker 1: a lot of weapons to be had when you go
Speaker 1: into the favelas because they're flowing it over from Columbia, barrios,
Speaker 1: basically the ghettos, and that's not even a fair word,
Speaker 1: but the forced living conditions of the majority of Venezuelans
Speaker 1: who did go vote and it didn't change anything. And
Speaker 1: once you're so deep down that hole and they've got
Speaker 1: your guns and the military isn't gonna what do you do?
Speaker 1: He continues to check luggage and all drinks around And
Speaker 1: I guess, hope all of the things that have come
Speaker 1: to pass in Venezuela, if you just give it a
Speaker 1: rudimentary look, are exactly what they predicted what happened with Trump.
Speaker 1: And yet the people posing for photos with Maduro and
Speaker 1: Chavez and shaking hands, or the people like Sean Penn
Speaker 1: and some of the you know who else was there.
Speaker 1: Danny Glover was a big, big friends with Chavez down
Speaker 1: there these absolute idiots who all think that it would
Speaker 1: be so great if we just had communism because they
Speaker 1: know they would be among the select few to be
Speaker 1: the beneficiaries. Letting folks like that drive public opinion is
Speaker 1: dangerous and everyone should look at what's going on in
Speaker 1: Venezuela right now. And I don't know how this is
Speaker 1: going to pan out, but I know that dude to
Speaker 1: challenge him probably is gonna live in Venezuela for very
Speaker 1: long unless something amazing happens. And I don't know that
Speaker 1: my buddy's gonna go back except under an assume fake
Speaker 1: passport so we can get in out of the country,
Speaker 1: and he has to do it by bus because that
Speaker 1: doesn't work with air travel. Meanwhile, he's he's literally was
Speaker 1: trained in America. Just wild, just absolutely wild. Ross. You
Speaker 1: have like a twitch buddy, right you were saying, Am
Speaker 1: I telling lies here or has this been the No?
Speaker 2: I know him over Twitter. He's a big he runs
Speaker 2: a big Buffalo Bill's fan account, and he's from Venezuela.
Speaker 2: He is an autistic child. And I tggle about a
Speaker 2: lot about you know, obviously football, but also politics in Venezuela.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean they can't vote themselves out of this. No,
Speaker 2: you're not gonna You're not You're you're at that that
Speaker 2: point in overturn. You can vot it in, but you
Speaker 2: can't vote it out. And now you've got them the
Speaker 2: Maduro they're floating like a Hillary Clinton type Russian hoax thing, saying, oh, well,
Speaker 2: the problems were election interference from right. Yeah, he called
Speaker 2: him a dictator. So if you if you listened to
Speaker 2: Maduro's speech that he gave last night, put the subtitles on,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what he said. He challenged him to
Speaker 2: a fight too, and then.
Speaker 1: He made fun of his face for like three minutes.
Speaker 1: It's just that, don't get me wrong. Do I think
Speaker 1: Donald Trump it makes a uh I would say something
Speaker 1: crazy as somebody called him a dictator. Yeah, but he
Speaker 1: didn't destroy a country and continue to do so and
Speaker 1: send the milla. Did you see the military running into
Speaker 1: the polling sites.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know they're a military, but they're going
Speaker 2: in there and they just like violently taking out the
Speaker 2: battle boxes and like bringing them out into the street. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So what they want is they want the computers and
Speaker 1: the tallies and and so that it becomes a race
Speaker 1: to get a hold of them. Thirty they were able
Speaker 1: to get I think thirty percent the opposition, but there's
Speaker 1: seventy They actually could be as high as eighty percent.
Speaker 1: The Meduro's people are just holding on to and they're
Speaker 1: letting their friends at the Oversight Board see it, but
Speaker 1: they won't release it to everybody. That's weird, and even
Speaker 1: international observers like that's weird. But nobody's willing to call
Speaker 1: this out, so you know, and you go in and
Speaker 1: you sanction them and and you know, all it just
Speaker 1: trickles down to the lowest among them. Meanwhile, Maduro's at
Speaker 1: the what's that idiot chef who's got like the fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred dollars stakes? He puts gold leaf on and does
Speaker 1: the little uh flips the salt salt was it Salt
Speaker 1: Bay or whatever. So if you go to one of
Speaker 1: his restaurants and they're not just in London, they have
Speaker 1: they haven't quite a few. I think they have one
Speaker 1: in Miami. Actually, yeah, so it's crazy. All right, we'll
Speaker 1: take a break. Hang on files story today, and it
Speaker 1: has to do with the Senator from Arizona, Mark Kelly,
Speaker 1: and they're obviously they're getting looked at much more thoroughly,
Speaker 1: right now, because Kelly, like Cooper, like uh well, Shapiro
Speaker 1: and others are you know, purportedly the VP shortlists. Right,
Speaker 1: So anyway, uh, Mark Kelly is a former astronaut, so
Speaker 1: the fact that he might have business interests in the
Speaker 1: aviation industry, that is not surprising, right, There's a lot
Speaker 1: of former astronauts and assa engineers to go private sector,
Speaker 1: and if only, if only to be the face of it.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's you know, when he's not when he
Speaker 1: was not punching trolls. It's a very high profile walked
Speaker 1: on the Moon astronauts, I had a lot of aviation
Speaker 1: stuff where they were kind of the face of it.
Speaker 1: So it's not unexpected. However, this particular business venture, let
Speaker 1: me read the uh this New York Times actually included
Speaker 1: one paragraph because this whole thing busted out, all right,
Speaker 1: So the company is called Worldview. Here's what the New
Speaker 1: York Times wrote. Mister Kelly has also not faced the
Speaker 1: harsh spotlight of a national campaign and has potential political
Speaker 1: liabilities like his high altitude surveillance balloon company he helped
Speaker 1: found funded by Chinese venture capital.
Speaker 2: That seems kind of problematic.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, wait, you can't. You can't use the what
Speaker 1: is probably Chinese government money and flows through venture capitalists
Speaker 1: to start a spy balloon company.
Speaker 2: I mean, those Chinese spy balloons are so hot right now, they.
Speaker 1: Are, man, Yeah, well you saw that. You saw the
Speaker 1: free pub they got last year, right right, put them
Speaker 1: on the map right there. How do you say yes
Speaker 1: to this? Or if you want to look, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: If if Mark Kelly was making spy balloons, just don't
Speaker 1: take the Chinese venture capital.
Speaker 2: What are you doing?
Speaker 1: How do you sit on that shark tank couch and
Speaker 1: go yeah?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, But my product is a it's a signal jam
Speaker 2: or and a portable EMP. It's great around you know, farmland.
Speaker 2: And also I would say, I don't know substations or
Speaker 2: power stations. It's got an American flag on it. Okay,
Speaker 2: will you faster?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You want to go kill bores or shut off the
Speaker 1: power or just boom. I don't know, man, I'm working
Speaker 1: on this thing. They're called weaker restraints. Now, hear me out.
Speaker 1: So you know how when you're making people work sixteen
Speaker 1: hours a day for nothing? Oh yeah, sure, yeah, right
Speaker 1: all right? And then sometimes it might get exhausted or
Speaker 1: dehydra and then they just fall over it right holds
Speaker 1: them in place so that they can properly pick the
Speaker 1: cot and stop.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm already invested in suicide nets. I feel
Speaker 2: like in the side of cliffs outside the factory.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel like we're in They're in
Speaker 1: the same sphere here, and uh, you know, it might
Speaker 1: make sense if you know when we're when we're talking. Look,
Speaker 1: do we need to send two salespeople to deskpot regimes
Speaker 1: who want to abuse human rights? Or do we want
Speaker 1: to send one salesperson to have a whole catalog for them?
Speaker 1: Which brings brings me to my cattle prods repurposing business.
Speaker 1: Obviously we've got a lot of cattle prods in Wyoming,
Speaker 1: but they you know, they have other uses. How do
Speaker 1: you say yes to a Chinese spy balloon, venture capital
Speaker 1: Chinese company startup? How how potential political liabilities? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Did you just recoil when you heard that? Because I did. Oh,
Speaker 1: the company or the investment venture capital firm known as
Speaker 1: ten cents, and I've told you about ten cents. If
Speaker 1: you don't know about ten cent, ten Cent is the
Speaker 1: largest tech company in China. And you have to understand
Speaker 1: the ten Cents app. Think about the apps that are
Speaker 1: most popular, social media, banking, it all the Google stuff,
Speaker 1: basically basically everything of like if you pick the top
Speaker 1: twenty apps in the US, the ten Cent app does
Speaker 1: all of it. And in fact, it is the only
Speaker 1: way to bank and it's going to be it's only
Speaker 1: way to mobile bank in China with very few exceptions,
Speaker 1: and which is great if you want to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on what everybody's doing. And it also will be
Speaker 1: utilized for voting, and they are working on the social
Speaker 1: credit system to be run through the app, and it
Speaker 1: currently in beta. Provides that that's the venture capital firm.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows that that is the Chinese government. Everybody right,
Speaker 1: because they can monitor everything. They can monitor all your
Speaker 1: web browsing because it's done through that app. They can
Speaker 1: monitor who you're communicating with on the few social media
Speaker 1: stuff that you can touch, how your banking's going, and
Speaker 1: and it can see all of that. It is the
Speaker 1: ultimate spy tool by the Chinese government. Convince me I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: but in my opinion, that's exact. This is exactly what
Speaker 1: you design whereas here in the US they said they
Speaker 1: have to go out and individually capture all of this
Speaker 1: information so they can monitor your life. That's who invested.
Speaker 1: And to say that New York Times says has close
Speaker 1: ties to the Chinese Communist Party, Yes, because in China
Speaker 1: and you can look this up even though they'll sit
Speaker 1: there and deny it in our own news media. You
Speaker 1: can't do business like this. You can't do tech business
Speaker 1: without committing to certain things that you will provide to
Speaker 1: the government upon request. And if you don't play, you disappear.
Speaker 1: That's why had Chinese billionaire disappeared what a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. Dude didn't want to play games. Meanwhile, you're
Speaker 1: just say you're too busy ordering your TMU stuff and
Speaker 1: you know, ignoring all of this garbage, ignoring what's going
Speaker 1: on in Venezuela. Well, not you, because you obviously had
Speaker 1: some intellectual curiosity, but ignoring what's going on in Venezuela
Speaker 1: and China and what they continue to do. And this
Speaker 1: guy is a city and US senator and he's like, yeah, absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do business. He should know most of all. And
Speaker 1: even though admittedly this dates back to twenty twelve when
Speaker 1: he co founded it. He took other rounds of investment
Speaker 1: about every two to three years, allowing this venture, this
Speaker 1: Chinese venture capital firm, to get a larger and larger
Speaker 1: steak in his company. In fact, about sixty five percent
Speaker 1: of the company is not owned by Kelly, primarily owned
Speaker 1: by Chinese venture capital, and roughly the same percentage last
Speaker 1: year when you look at their disclosures, was work that
Speaker 1: was done for defense related contracts. Let me ask you
Speaker 1: a question. Who's buying spy balloons?
Speaker 2: Is it? Is it the general ross?
Speaker 1: Have you ever bought a spy balloon?
Speaker 2: A few of them?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, you're not the that would explain some stuff. Rossell
Speaker 1: just texts me randomly. He's like, that's an red shirt
Speaker 1: you're wearing. I should have known it is beautiful, Yeah,
Speaker 1: very slimming. Yeah yeah, yeah, I appreciate that. But no,
Speaker 1: no regular person's buying spy balloons. I don't even know that.
Speaker 1: Maybe like if you're a golf broadcaster, but then you
Speaker 1: just use drones. Nobody's buying spy balloons. Absolute absurdity. It's
Speaker 1: just like, yeah, it's my business. This is wild man,
Speaker 1: all right. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
Speaker 1: seven four. I'm sorry, I just got so much stuff
Speaker 1: I want to fit in today, Jamal, Let's grab your
Speaker 1: call real quick. Got a couple of minutes.
Speaker 3: What's up, hey, case You know what hearing you describe
Speaker 3: what you're the gentleman down there at the hotel in
Speaker 3: Columbia about what's going on in Venezuela. Look that's going
Speaker 3: on here in America. We've already had experiences like this.
Speaker 3: Remember the cake shop that didn't want to bake the cake,
Speaker 3: or the gay couple collar. What did the government do?
Speaker 3: Government went otter them. The government literally went out for them,
Speaker 3: took everything for them to kept putting them in court
Speaker 3: so much to whether they had the quitting them insiness.
Speaker 3: They literally stopped because they couldn't deal with it. Look
Speaker 3: what happens here in America if you have wrong things,
Speaker 3: they will literally shut you down. And people say, well,
Speaker 3: that's just you know, the customers. Nobody should have political discrimination.
Speaker 3: Look what goes on Casey today? Look at today. Some
Speaker 3: of the things you talked about when you first got
Speaker 3: on the air, You can't talk about the same things
Speaker 3: now because if you do, oh, they're gonna call up
Speaker 3: in there and say oh this big thing, Casey, he
Speaker 3: said this, Well he needs to be taken off the air.
Speaker 3: And possibly if the right people get offended. Who knows
Speaker 3: if our Heart Radio or say well no, we're gonna
Speaker 3: keep KC O day. Look what happen during the George
Speaker 3: Floyd riots. Perfect example. You if you would have went
Speaker 3: out there and said this fentanyl crackhead, Saint George Florida,
Speaker 3: the spenting on methhalt Baptist church. If you if somebody
Speaker 3: went out there and said that, people was really fired
Speaker 3: for pointing that out about George Floyd, fired from the job,
Speaker 3: thrown out because people get got offended. So, yes, it's
Speaker 3: horrible talking about what's going on in Beninsuada. But you
Speaker 3: know what, Casey, hearing you talk about it on the
Speaker 3: radio and look at some of the current conditions. Look
Speaker 3: what's going on with Mark Robinson right now and what
Speaker 3: the goverment is trying to do to him and his family.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what report on we reported it. They
Speaker 1: are deep diving their financials. But let me say but
Speaker 1: let me say this, even if it was from a
Speaker 1: human error perspective, it does appear that some of the
Speaker 1: stuff that was filed. But This speaks to the complexity
Speaker 1: of government was not it was either not accurate or
Speaker 1: put it is basically mislabeled, right, So it doesn't show
Speaker 1: necessarily that it was nefarious. But when you couple that
Speaker 1: with the deep dive that's going on, and then you
Speaker 1: also look at the sheer volume of COVID dollars that
Speaker 1: disappeared into these fake company black holes, you have to
Speaker 1: ask yourself, where's the vigor in both categories. I appreciate
Speaker 1: the call jam all seven forty six race stagic here
Speaker 1: to try again on a Monday. What's going on?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: That much? How are you? I don't know. I mean
Speaker 1: it's Monday. I feel a lot better than I did Friday. Man,
Speaker 1: I was, but I you know, I took the weekend
Speaker 1: and not do crap. Yeah it was great.
Speaker 6: Yeah, isn't it nice?
Speaker 1: And you know what, if you want to give me
Speaker 1: some napping weather, you fire away, sir, because I got it. Man,
Speaker 1: suck at the end of the week.
Speaker 6: So yeah, yeah, it's gonna get hotter. That's gonna be
Speaker 6: the bigger change coming. Not much change in the short term.
Speaker 6: Rain already this morning showing up on radar, pushing through Greensboro.
Speaker 6: It's basically coming east and getting into Alemance County, Chatham
Speaker 6: County as we speak, coming across the trigle here. Shortly
Speaker 6: the showers imbedd at thunder. What we'll do again, scattered
Speaker 6: shower thunderstorms today, how to keep temperatures in the lower eighties.
Speaker 6: Same thing tomorrow, as we'll have a few shower thunder
Speaker 6: showers around.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 6: The change is going to be is that the coverage
Speaker 6: will be better today. There may be some downpours and
Speaker 6: some localized flooding again in spots. Tomorrow will be mid
Speaker 6: to late afternoons, so most of tomorrow actually should be
Speaker 6: dry with a cloud sun mix. Wednesday, some shower thunder
Speaker 6: showers around. But here comes the heat again. We're back
Speaker 6: in the low to mid nineties. With the heat and
Speaker 6: disease will start to push one hundred Thursday Friday, very
Speaker 6: small chances of rain. Mid and upper nineties coming back
Speaker 6: with the humidity again, it'll start feeling over one hundred,
Speaker 6: so little day up here.
Speaker 1: To start the week.
Speaker 6: Then the humidity and the temperature start taking over it
Speaker 6: again with the ridge with the heat to the west
Speaker 6: of us starts coming east.
Speaker 1: All right, you got a calendar in front of you,
Speaker 1: by the way, you know I don't, but I know
Speaker 1: my dates kind of. Okay, you know what Thursday is.
Speaker 6: Thursday is the first of August.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's called It's the Stop this crap Day. Okayliday,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll do it, all right, you can't make
Speaker 1: it feel like one hundred and five. Talk to the
Speaker 1: rest of the meteorologists, vote or whatever you guys do
Speaker 1: and get back to me. Okay, I'm out of man.
Speaker 1: All right, look at that. He's gonna go figure this out.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna we got some we gotta play
Speaker 1: some audio from the from the Olympics insanity, and we'll
Speaker 1: give you a chance to weigh in on that. Also,
Speaker 1: what's the craziest thing you've ever done for internet clout?
Speaker 1: Because this might be one of them. We'll get into
Speaker 1: it coming up.
Speaker 5: Bang on.
Speaker 1: Uh just wild times, not as wild as when you
Speaker 1: feasted your eyes upon that opening ceremony on Friday. Look,
Speaker 1: I hate what they've decided to do with this, but
Speaker 1: once again, it is the same thing. Some obviously bitter people,
Speaker 1: and you can't convince me otherwise. Some obviously bitter people
Speaker 1: looked at an opportunity to put a big middle finger
Speaker 1: up at Christians and see and took it and then
Speaker 1: tried to gaslight you on this about oh no, that's
Speaker 1: not the Last Supper, even though it's clearly the last
Speaker 1: up for that's the feast of Dionysus. And they are
Speaker 1: betting on the fact that you wouldn't take five seconds
Speaker 1: to google what that painting is a betrothal you did that, well, whatever,
Speaker 1: google it and see what it looks like, see what
Speaker 1: the Last Supper looks like, and then use the thinking
Speaker 1: part of your brain to ockham raizor ramone before you
Speaker 1: get yelled at the thing and you tell me it's
Speaker 1: clearly that. Oh and the the big Chicken Blue refers
Speaker 1: to herself as what was it? Olympic Jesus and put
Speaker 1: an Instagram post out calling it the gay New Testament
Speaker 1: perform a costumes. By the way, as you'll warn you,
Speaker 1: it's weird, but I expect it to be weird. It's
Speaker 1: a European thing, and I don't even necessarily usually mean
Speaker 1: that in a negative way. I'm just like, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of weird. You ever go to Italy or France,
Speaker 1: you know the vibe I'm talking about it. But it's
Speaker 1: also weird because it's you're not used to it, but
Speaker 1: you expect that. And I didn't mind the Marie Antoinat
Speaker 1: holding the head and the laser lights and all that.
Speaker 1: But you couple that with the pale horse thing and
Speaker 1: a debate over whether a dude's testicles are hanging out
Speaker 1: of his leotard and how many families went no, And
Speaker 1: then when Peto Smurf, dude, let me translate, Oh no,
Speaker 1: it's gargamel. Oh no, where's the kids?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 1: What right?
Speaker 4: I say?
Speaker 2: He's laying on the table in front of Olympic Jesus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a feast of dionysis. We're all just gonna sit
Speaker 1: at this long table, the whole thing, man. And look,
Speaker 1: I didn't even mind the music stuff, that image representing
Speaker 1: Marie Antoinette.
Speaker 2: That you saw there. Yes, that sorry section.
Speaker 1: It is called liberty exploring the Paris Political and personal
Speaker 1: emancipation over time. All right, whatever gets some Ramstein. I
Speaker 1: don't know who that is, but you know, whatever, do
Speaker 1: your thing. I don't again, be weird, but don't be
Speaker 1: wildly insulting and then issue bs apologies that are clearly
Speaker 1: not truthful.
Speaker 7: Kelly, there was never an intention to show disrespect to
Speaker 7: any religious group.
Speaker 1: Brain's fired up enough because I'm trying to figure this out.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I missed this over the weekend. So
Speaker 1: so Robert Downey Junior as Tony Stark is now Doc
Speaker 1: your Doom.
Speaker 2: I mean that's the theory. Yes, Okay, he was unveiled
Speaker 2: at Comic Con in California, right that. Uh, Robert Donna
Speaker 2: Junior is gonna diego yah Sanduel Yeah, is going to
Speaker 2: be playing Doctor Doom. And people are like, well, how
Speaker 2: can that be because you know he can't be Victor
Speaker 2: von Doom, which was the character. So that the theory
Speaker 2: is that you're going to have an alternate universe multiverse
Speaker 2: because of everything that's happened in the MCU with Kang
Speaker 2: and with the ant Man, with the Infinity War and
Speaker 2: traveling back in time and Branches and issue and low
Speaker 2: key rate all this kind of stuff. So in a
Speaker 2: different timeline, in different universe, you had Robert Dunnell Jr.
Speaker 2: As Tony Stark, who you instead of using his his
Speaker 2: intelligence for good, used it for bad and became Doctor Doom.
Speaker 2: And now he's coming over to a different universe where
Speaker 2: there's Tony Stark. But now that Tony Stark died at
Speaker 2: the end of Infinity War, so Tony Stark who is endgame?
Speaker 1: Basically, it would be the Tony Stark not kidnapped, right,
Speaker 1: because that was the ampetus for change because he was
Speaker 1: he was the weapons manufacturer.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe he was kidnapped and maybe he just you know,
Speaker 2: pushed him over the edge and became super bad.
Speaker 1: You don't know, Okay, all right, I'll watch that. I'll
Speaker 1: see because you know why, because I think Robert Downey
Speaker 1: Junior has done a very good job of that role.
Speaker 1: I've enjoyed his character throughout.
Speaker 2: Tell you when he unveiled himself at Comic Con because
Speaker 2: they were like, you know, they had a bunch of
Speaker 2: Doctor Dooms on stage, yes, and they're like only one
Speaker 2: person could play this role. And the guy walks up
Speaker 2: and takes up the mask and you know shows this
Speaker 2: they lost their minds. Yeah, yeah, but you've got like
Speaker 2: the super super super comic book nerves. Oh dad, are like,
Speaker 2: you know, Victor von Doom is Doctor Doom. And now
Speaker 2: they're pissed off because like Tony Stark is going to
Speaker 2: be Doctor Doom. So you know, you can never make everybody.
Speaker 1: Happy, right, But these are the same. A lot of
Speaker 1: these cats are the same. People will tell me to
Speaker 1: shut up because you know and then you know insert
Speaker 1: whatever Hollywood change was done to a classic characters.
Speaker 2: So right, and these are the So there's gonna be
Speaker 2: two new Avenger movies and they're gonna be directed by
Speaker 2: the Russo Brothers, which did Infinity War and and well this.
Speaker 1: Is Marvel koping you would agree. We got to get
Speaker 1: back to the stuff. This is this is a hail Mary.
Speaker 1: This is you know, like look at look at do
Speaker 1: you love us again?
Speaker 4: Do you love us?
Speaker 2: Tony Star? But he's talking to and completely and understand that.
Speaker 2: But still I'm kind of excited because if it was
Speaker 2: up to me, I would just be like, hey, guess
Speaker 2: what all that stuff we did in the last phase
Speaker 2: that didn't happen? It was a Steve Rodgers Captain America gains.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, with the except you can keep Guardians of
Speaker 1: the Galaxy. But other than that, everything else canceled.
Speaker 2: But I woke up on Sunday and that was the news.
Speaker 2: I saw, like him like taking the mask off, and
Speaker 2: I was super excited. I was like, this is kind
Speaker 2: of cool.
Speaker 1: Do you think in the alternative universe, they're technologically advanced
Speaker 1: that the air conditionings work. How does your kids school
Speaker 1: not have they don't have AC this morning or something.
Speaker 2: He went back to school today. It's those first day back,
Speaker 2: and we got notifications. He's on year round. For people wondering, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and they got notifications last week that the kids that
Speaker 2: were currently in school. I don't know if because there's
Speaker 2: like different tracks sometimes even for me, like the year right,
Speaker 2: or maybe they were talking about kids in summer school.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but they they didn't have to go
Speaker 2: in on Friday, and they left early on Thursday because
Speaker 2: they said the air conditioning didn't work. And now it's
Speaker 2: back up. They have it sort of kind of running
Speaker 2: and they're gonna have new air conditioning installed. Mark. He said,
Speaker 2: the big truck, the big giant truck, and it looks
Speaker 2: like a funhouse or something with these like you know,
Speaker 2: like the what are they called, like the uh what
Speaker 2: do they call it? I mean, I'm obviously not in
Speaker 2: hv HVAC the portable you know, the silver things that
Speaker 2: go from the air strangers. No, not the air handler,
Speaker 2: the part that goes from the air handler to the
Speaker 2: vents in your house. Oh ducks, ducks, the portable ducks.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, yeah, Like they have all these ginormous portable
Speaker 2: ducks leading from this giant, ginormous, huge truck into the school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they do. When they needed to cool down at
Speaker 1: the US Open for the big media tent, they have
Speaker 1: those trucks that show up and it's how they ace
Speaker 1: these huge, like tended enclosed areas, so I am familiar
Speaker 1: with them. They also have the best porta potties you've
Speaker 1: ever seen. It's like a five star hotel inside these things. Dude,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, ever seen the porta potties that show
Speaker 1: up in like a white trail. These are the ones
Speaker 1: that'd be like in Hollywood, right for the stars, right
Speaker 1: for the elites. Yeah, oh dude. And there's like there's like,
Speaker 1: you know, music playing right, and they've got like, you know,
Speaker 1: they got like a bidet in there for no reason.
Speaker 1: There's this show. It's just crazy. So anyway, now I'm
Speaker 1: familiar with those. Have we tried to sell the school
Speaker 1: are portable air conditioners.
Speaker 2: Because we currently have roll around the floor of the
Speaker 2: building and this is the same sort of thing. Ginormous
Speaker 2: square units, like there's like four or five or six
Speaker 2: of them, and they're like they have the same thing,
Speaker 2: like the the air hose, flexible hose that goes up
Speaker 2: to the duct.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they wouldn't miss one of those result to
Speaker 1: the school judging man. All right, So that's obviously with
Speaker 1: the weather that race stags decided.
Speaker 2: I'm very confused. I really thought that maybe I just
Speaker 2: dreamt this up. But during COVID, what weren't like the
Speaker 2: schools given a lot of money for air conditioning. I
Speaker 2: was supposed to put new air conditioning units into all
Speaker 2: the schools and that was part of the money because
Speaker 2: they were, you know about installation.
Speaker 1: Some of it was not a new AC units, but
Speaker 1: it was scrubber units, so basically like Hepa filter systems.
Speaker 2: So yeah, because they were super concerned about ventilation.
Speaker 1: Correct, Yeah, they were Hepa filter systems. And uh they
Speaker 1: were literally a demand by many of the teachers unions
Speaker 1: who were refusing to come back that if they didn't
Speaker 1: do it. So when they did the big allocation, the
Speaker 1: two big allocations of COVID, one big chunk of that
Speaker 1: was money's for schools. And you can follow a series
Speaker 1: of stories where they have clearly decided that what was
Speaker 1: the intent for that money, and they're just repurposing it
Speaker 1: on stuff. Some of it's the repurpose it on DEI stuff.
Speaker 1: And they would make these fake arguments like, well, the
Speaker 1: reason that we need to use this money to pay
Speaker 1: you know, Kenji whatever his name is, to come in
Speaker 1: for seventy five thousand and speak to us about our
Speaker 1: privilege is because it'll help grow camaraderie and understanding to
Speaker 1: help us pull through COVID like events. It's all garbage.
Speaker 1: It's all just an absolute waste of taxpayer money. That
Speaker 1: is that was wildly abused. Now, did some schools probably
Speaker 1: put hepaphilter good?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 1: Probably. I still don't think that everyone need to be
Speaker 1: paying for it, but holy hell, a bunch of schools
Speaker 1: apparently didn't. That's a little weird.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look this up during the next break. I
Speaker 1: want to know how much how much Wake County schools
Speaker 1: got for COVID dollars for that purpose. I'll bet the
Speaker 1: number is dumb.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I swear I remember that being like a
Speaker 2: big thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, because it was like it was
Speaker 1: the stop it was the final stop gap for a
Speaker 1: lot of teachers. Who didn't want to come back. They
Speaker 1: wouldn't cut for teachers unions like Chicago, Los Angeles ones
Speaker 1: that were the route there. It was like it was
Speaker 1: one of the top tier demands. They wanted the they
Speaker 1: wanted the air exchangers changed, they wanted hepe filter's, you
Speaker 1: name it. And it was a big portion of the
Speaker 1: trillions of dollars that was literally spent. So I'll see
Speaker 1: if I can find that number. But you know, we're
Speaker 1: talking about government efficiency. You want something wild from a
Speaker 1: government efficiency standpoint. ABC News ABC News UH interviewed the
Speaker 1: members of the swat team. They're in Butler, Pa. Right.
Speaker 1: How how did this go so wrong? Was how nobody
Speaker 1: think that maybe we should the building? If you remember,
Speaker 1: the Secret Service director on her cowardly way out, indicated
Speaker 1: that the local law enforcement was actually inside of the building,
Speaker 1: and they may well have been some of them. It
Speaker 1: looks like some of the sheriff's folks might have been
Speaker 1: in there. But the job to secure these positions, she
Speaker 1: then tried to say, was THEIRS an operational command sits
Speaker 1: under the Secret Service. Okay, let's be abundantly clear here
Speaker 1: in the pecking order to say every one of those
Speaker 1: cop movies you ever see where the FBI shows up
Speaker 1: the local cops like, I don't want to work with you,
Speaker 1: and then somebody has to assert control. Secret Service has
Speaker 1: operational control for these events, and not just within the
Speaker 1: security perimeter, but with any law enforcement that is coordinating
Speaker 1: outside of it at the behest of the Secret Service. Again,
Speaker 1: it's not inappropriate to have local law enforcement to keep
Speaker 1: down the number of Secret Service members except in key roles.
Speaker 1: If you have operational command, it's going to be imperative,
Speaker 1: and in a sniper team position or a swat team position,
Speaker 1: you having constant communication and being able to sometimes make
Speaker 1: the call as to whether you breach, whether you fire
Speaker 1: on somebody. Right, do we know if that he is
Speaker 1: actually trying to shoot somebody? Do we have does somebody
Speaker 1: have eyes on this?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: It has to be run through somebody who's ultimately responsible.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't just that they got glad handed when
Speaker 1: the Secret Service showed up. No, what they told local
Speaker 1: swat told ABC is insane.
Speaker 7: You're supposed to get a face to face briefing with
Speaker 7: the Secret Service snipers whenever they arrived, and that never happened.
Speaker 7: So I think that that was probably a pivotal point
Speaker 7: where I started thinking things were wrong because that never
Speaker 7: happened and we had no communication with the Secret Service.
Speaker 6: You had no communication with the Secret Service at all
Speaker 6: on that Saturday, not until after the shooting, and by
Speaker 6: then it's too late.
Speaker 1: What how does that happen? I'm not even in law enforcement,
Speaker 1: and I know these cats get together. Where's Boston Paul
Speaker 1: when he's actually of use? Because he sent me a
Speaker 1: picture of him standing next to a president once get it,
Speaker 1: sober him up and get him on the phone for me.
Speaker 1: Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.
Speaker 1: All right, I want to know when you were in
Speaker 1: a local law enforcement capacity and Secret Service rolls in
Speaker 1: with a protect ee and you guys are obviously part
Speaker 1: of the detail. Do they just not tell you anything
Speaker 1: or do you guys have a conversation. I'm curious, So
Speaker 1: throw some water on his face. Let me grab a
Speaker 1: call while we're mating, Anthony, what's up?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: I was just gonna say that the schools they during
Speaker 5: the COVID and stuff, I do a tracy. Yeah, they
Speaker 5: put a higher MERDI rating on their filters, which unfortunately
Speaker 5: makes them clog up faster. And also it did GV
Speaker 5: lights and things like that.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's the stuff.
Speaker 8: Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: That's the stuff. That's the stuff they said they were
Speaker 1: going to do. And if they did do that, then fine.
Speaker 1: But some of the stuff they spent this money on
Speaker 1: is crazy. And it doesn't explain why Ross's kids school
Speaker 1: has to have a porta AC truck right now.
Speaker 5: Well, and that's the thing that I was telling Ross.
Speaker 5: There's one school in particular, I want to say the name,
Speaker 5: but it's been there for several years now. It's a
Speaker 5: charter school that the units were designed in Canada, and
Speaker 5: so the school's hot in the summer because they're designed
Speaker 5: for eighty degree outside ambient temperature, and schools have to
Speaker 5: have the same amount of air changes, so they're pulling
Speaker 5: in outside air. So you know, you're pulling in ninety
Speaker 5: five percent humidity on a unit that is only designed
Speaker 5: for eighty degree outside air.
Speaker 1: Well Sir, Now, hold on, Anthony, who could have predicted
Speaker 1: it would get higher than eighty degrees out here in
Speaker 1: North Carolina? Nobody?
Speaker 3: What do you?
Speaker 1: I can't go that man.
Speaker 5: That's because they spend money on bamas instead of what
Speaker 5: they need to spend it all how much.
Speaker 1: How much where you hide all your money like Pablo Escobar.
Speaker 1: This time of the year, you guys just got to
Speaker 1: be raking it in he's buried or what.
Speaker 5: My company does.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, get ahold of just all right,
Speaker 1: thanks for the call. I just assume everyone who works
Speaker 1: in h in Ac this time of the year is
Speaker 1: just it's you ever see the South Park where all
Speaker 1: of the guy the handyman we're driving around and like
Speaker 1: rolls royces and stuff because nobody knew how to fix
Speaker 1: anything anymore. It's wild, all right, it's being a while.
Speaker 1: Here's Boston, Paul, semi sober, Boston, Paul, what's going on?
Speaker 8: You know, I got things I gotta do. Man, what's up?
Speaker 1: You don't got You don't got anything to do now
Speaker 1: except send me pervy weather picks, which you're diving gonna
Speaker 1: get into it. So why you send me a photo
Speaker 1: one time trying to pretend like you did stuff and
Speaker 1: you were standing on the presidential detail. I can't remember
Speaker 1: which president it.
Speaker 8: Was, Yes, Clinton a few times. Clinton was on a
Speaker 8: detail him a few times.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, coming in to hit on some of them
Speaker 1: Southie chicks. Anyway, So like I'm assuming you guys talked
Speaker 1: to the Secret Service, and they would tell.
Speaker 8: You there's a calm center.
Speaker 3: You know that.
Speaker 8: You know, of course, you know all our radios don't
Speaker 8: we don't all have the same frequency, So you would
Speaker 8: have a com center where people with every agency, every
Speaker 8: radio including e MS and fire and it's all community.
Speaker 8: It's done the right way. But like him that time
Speaker 8: I was walking with him, he deviated from from where
Speaker 8: where he's supposed to go, and that that drives him
Speaker 8: over the edge.
Speaker 1: Did he go into McDonald's and eat everybody's food?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 8: No, no. And then you were asking one time about
Speaker 8: what that team is called there this night, the team
Speaker 8: that's the cat team, And I think they only had
Speaker 8: one of those down there where he were Yeah Trump, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I just I can't imagine these dudes are sitting around
Speaker 1: and they're a sniper swat team with a sniper and
Speaker 1: they have to make the call maybe to shoot somebody,
Speaker 1: and there they don't even know who to ask. That's
Speaker 1: insane to me.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't know what happened. There was big time,
Speaker 8: big time failure and communications. But I can tell you
Speaker 8: some other stuff where I can't tell you how.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right before you get busted. Look at that,
Speaker 1: he's got secrets. All right, Oh, I want to take
Speaker 1: this call. All right, Dave, I got a minute, a
Speaker 1: minute and a half.
Speaker 4: Hurry up, Casey, this is who repos to tell me
Speaker 4: another's order with the Chinese Tropo Adventure. Yeah, so he
Speaker 4: now fast, we use what's called aero spots, which is
Speaker 4: essentially a SI balloon. So we tell them and they
Speaker 4: go up above the base.
Speaker 1: And they yeah, I've seen them base.
Speaker 4: Yeah, never make it any better, but yeah, I just
Speaker 4: wanted a comment on that when you were kind of
Speaker 4: trying to figure out what the SPA ballooms would be
Speaker 4: used with Governor.
Speaker 1: Well, look, I was being slightly facetious. I was being
Speaker 1: slightly facetious, and Dave, I appreciate the call. The point is,
Speaker 1: and I say, I got some really disingenuous emailer. They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, you can't prove you're selling them to the
Speaker 1: It's not about the actual balloons they're producing. You have
Speaker 1: to understand that the reason that Chinese investment companies get
Speaker 1: in with these tech companies is they want the intellectual
Speaker 1: property right. They want Kelly and their rocket scientists and
Speaker 1: everybody to go ahead and do the work and create
Speaker 1: and innovate and all of that. Meanwhile they get a
Speaker 1: whold they photocopy the plans and you're off and running. Man,
Speaker 1: all right, it is a twenty three. I'm gonna actually
Speaker 1: hit a brake on time. We'll come back. We get
Speaker 1: more calls and lots more stories, including the worst YouTuber
Speaker 1: of the week. We'll explain case O Day radio program.
Speaker 1: This is why I am so upset with what they
Speaker 1: chose to do with the opening of the Olympics, because
Speaker 1: you have turned these you have turned people off something
Speaker 1: that should be a good thing, something that should allow
Speaker 1: athletes who train their whole lives but get really no
Speaker 1: recognition because of the sports they're in are not the
Speaker 1: ones they get the big TV deals, all of that,
Speaker 1: you know, and and instead you have these petty decisions,
Speaker 1: these hateful decisions that go and color the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Did you see the women's the women's basketball coach who
Speaker 1: was talking about why Caitlin Clark's not there, and it's
Speaker 1: obvious it's because f her, right, But then you go
Speaker 1: look at the opening ceremonies and the like, hey, look
Speaker 1: at this last supper thing with the new the gay
Speaker 1: Jesus or the gay New Testament and all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and it's just like, why do that? And by the way,
Speaker 1: nobody would care if everybody up there was gay that
Speaker 1: was recreating a painting. It's that you chose to go
Speaker 1: over the top drag queens because you know that that
Speaker 1: is a big thing right now, and then lie about it,
Speaker 1: and then these stories get buried that deserve us to
Speaker 1: talk about. And even if I talk about it on
Speaker 1: the radio, chances are people are now not gonna watch
Speaker 1: it live. I told you about the first metal one
Speaker 1: was cooking Bacon. I think that's funny. It's the girl's
Speaker 1: name is Cook. The other girl's name is Bacon. They've
Speaker 1: been friends since high school and they just want the
Speaker 1: silver medal in synchronous diving, and they play up the
Speaker 1: whole bacon thing. It's a dumb little thing, but it's funny.
Speaker 1: I would know. You wouldn't know anything about them unless
Speaker 1: you're in the sport Women's wat And I told you it. Literally,
Speaker 1: excuse me, Ross, we need a trillion dollars with new
Speaker 1: HEPA filters. Get on it. Don't worry, we'll spend it
Speaker 1: on other stuff. So you see these little stories and
Speaker 1: like it's robbing opportunities because people had to make a
Speaker 1: screw you point and it's just so bothersome. Let me
Speaker 1: let me, let me give you another one. So I
Speaker 1: told you that the athletes, many of the athletes are
Speaker 1: not as fortunate as like Simone Bios, who I who
Speaker 1: I think is great by the way, but you know,
Speaker 1: they don't have the financial opportunities that a higher profile
Speaker 1: sport necessarily does. So you have Olympic athletes that are
Speaker 1: working second jobs and having to go around in fundraise
Speaker 1: like your kid's little league team unless they can get
Speaker 1: a benefactor. And the US women's water polo team has
Speaker 1: won three straight gold medals. They're going for their fourth
Speaker 1: right now. That's pretty impressive. But they were all working
Speaker 1: second jobs. And one of the individuals with the team
Speaker 1: actually knew somebody who's got a little bit of money
Speaker 1: explain what was going on, and this dude stepped forward
Speaker 1: and he is the benefactor now to fund this so
Speaker 1: that they can concentrate on training, so they can go
Speaker 1: back and get us for our fourth gold medal, so
Speaker 1: we can go in your face other countries. Whatever. I'm petty,
Speaker 1: it's flavor flav.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 1: Because on the sidelines of the women's water polo behind
Speaker 1: the bench screaming because he's paying for them to be
Speaker 1: able to go ahead.
Speaker 2: And yes, it's an unfair advantage. It's like steroids there,
Speaker 2: you think, so before each other at the pool, you
Speaker 2: have like flavor flavor with the clock screaming everybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, yeah, yeah, girl, I guess you'd have to
Speaker 1: change it. But yeah, totally. It didn't look like his
Speaker 1: uh his romance worked out from his reality shows. So weird.
Speaker 1: But anyway, he's so he's turned his attention to this.
Speaker 2: First off, he should have never chosen Hoops. It was
Speaker 2: a big mistake. He should have went with New York.
Speaker 1: Wait, I'm sorry. You know their names?
Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, no, no. I was like one hundred in Atlanta,
Speaker 2: and I remember when that show came on. It was
Speaker 2: like two thousand and five or whatever, two thousand and six,
Speaker 2: and I was at a hot.
Speaker 1: Score I was dating. Was fascinated with it. I I
Speaker 1: literally couldn't sit in the room while that thing was on.
Speaker 2: I was at a house party and somebody was watching
Speaker 2: it and the sparroom we were going to watch this.
Speaker 2: It was like this show was amazing.
Speaker 3: This is good.
Speaker 2: I said, this is gonna be this was like the
Speaker 2: first show, like, this is gonna be a huge show.
Speaker 2: And I texted my boss at the time and I'm like,
Speaker 2: I want to interview Flavor Flave. He was like, what
Speaker 2: are you talking about? Like, I'm ne I need Flavor Flave.
Speaker 2: I want to do it. Yeah, And I saw him
Speaker 2: at at the station meeting on like Tuesday whatever, after
Speaker 2: the weekend, and he had assumed I was like stupid
Speaker 2: drunk dude, which I was, but just He's like why
Speaker 2: because he had he had no idea about the show.
Speaker 2: I'd never heard the show. I got him on the show,
Speaker 2: and then long story short, got to interview Flavor Flave.
Speaker 1: But the show was a big deal, right, he was
Speaker 1: huge And then they did who is It Brett Michaels
Speaker 1: another one which I had to suffer for love Yep. Yeah,
Speaker 1: probably should have broke up with her earlier. Listen, knowing
Speaker 1: what I know now, anyway, go ahead, completely unfair advantage.
Speaker 2: I love Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1: Flavor Flav hype man behind it and I love I
Speaker 1: love it too that if you're from some country you
Speaker 1: got no English and you have no bead on like
Speaker 1: you're the Mongolian team, and like you're not consuming a
Speaker 1: lot of US media, which is one of the lower
Speaker 1: consumption rates among countries. All you see is an insane
Speaker 1: dude in an America jersey wearing a hoodie with a
Speaker 1: giant clock around his neck, screaming, and you got to
Speaker 1: be like, what the hell is that?
Speaker 2: That's?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it so I I love it,
Speaker 1: and I hate the part where this is, uh, this
Speaker 1: is screwing over people's ability just to enjoy a thing
Speaker 1: that we used to enjoy, that we used to embrace.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: First we first started the show, first sing Ross brought
Speaker 1: up was Kerrie strugg Absolutely that moment that Wheaties box,
Speaker 1: Are you kiddy me? And it was moments like that
Speaker 1: Jackie Joyner curse. I understand that there was some stuff,
Speaker 1: you know later on with you know, some of the
Speaker 1: some of the doping stuff, but like, it didn't matter
Speaker 1: who you are or where you came from. We were
Speaker 1: just like, let's say we're America. Let's go out and
Speaker 1: dominate man, And you don't have to be a jerk
Speaker 1: about it with me or I'm like, yeah, do a
Speaker 1: victory dancer to fad it, but like just just going.
Speaker 1: Do you remember how good it felt to watch the
Speaker 1: US and Russia medals back in the day? Count? Do
Speaker 1: you remember how good that felt watching those numbers tally?
Speaker 1: And it was you know, it was the Cold War
Speaker 1: esque era, even though it was post you know, the
Speaker 1: well some of it wasn't, but the disillusion of the
Speaker 1: USSR but watching US go against Russia and that pride
Speaker 1: you felt when we dominated the metal count.
Speaker 2: Didn't matter what the sport was either, No, it could
Speaker 2: be cricket.
Speaker 1: Nobody cared. We're just like, yeah, suck it, Ruskies. Because
Speaker 1: it was the attitude at the time.
Speaker 2: I for some reason I wanted to It was even
Speaker 2: like figure skating. I remember watching it, like I said,
Speaker 2: it's a big event or household we would sit down
Speaker 2: and watch it. And I think at the time, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I was she remember Exana Bayoulee? Was she
Speaker 2: she was from Russia? Right, wasn't that or was she not?
Speaker 1: I can't remember.
Speaker 2: She was going against Nancy Kerrigan and the Tanya Harding
Speaker 2: stuff back in the day. Yeah it's a big man.
Speaker 2: You wanted to kick their ass. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Winter Olympics was much closer than Summer Olympics. But so
Speaker 1: when we when we did, it was amazing. Some of
Speaker 1: the greatest moments. You guys know her Brooks was you
Speaker 1: probably do. You probably don't if you spend any time
Speaker 1: living in the Twin Cities. I got statues of the
Speaker 1: dude everywhere who literally uh has one of the best
Speaker 1: Olympics stories ever and died on black eyes driving by
Speaker 1: the exit of my house one time. It was literally
Speaker 1: on the radio when it happened, and like it period
Speaker 1: of morning. Herb Brooks was the guy who organized the
Speaker 1: US men's hockey team who went over and beat Canada
Speaker 1: and Russia. That was crazy. I personally know a guy
Speaker 1: by the name of Rulan Gardner. You may have heard
Speaker 1: his name. He was a wrestler on Afton, Wyoming. In fact,
Speaker 1: Bubba Daniel Vasco kid I went to high school with,
Speaker 1: had to wrestle his weight class. And even though Rulan
Speaker 1: Gardner went on to be a Roman greco versus you
Speaker 1: know the traditional wrestling, he just kicked everybody's butt. It
Speaker 1: was crazy. This dude stuck his hand into a snow
Speaker 1: machine one time, came off with three less fingers, didn't
Speaker 1: even notice. You know what he did do. He went
Speaker 1: over and beat the Russians for the first time, and
Speaker 1: that wasn't that long ago. They had never been beaten
Speaker 1: in that particular event in modern history. And he went
Speaker 1: over and won. And you love these stories, and yet
Speaker 1: you got to walk in on the insanity that was
Speaker 1: that opening ceremony where parents literally had to turn it
Speaker 1: off because their kids were watching. How does that? How
Speaker 1: does that comport with your childhood memory of the Olympics,
Speaker 1: Ray Stagic from the Weather Channel? Remember remember Kerrie Strugg
Speaker 1: the gymnas who literally had to be carried off by
Speaker 1: heer coach after I win the the wheaties boxes, the
Speaker 1: how did we get here? Did you watch any of
Speaker 1: the opening Sorry I shouldn't drag you into this, but
Speaker 1: you understand why people are upset right with the opening ceremony? Okay,
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 6: I didn't watch it, but from what I've gathered, I've gathered, yeah,
Speaker 6: and I I mean you and I probably grew up.
Speaker 2: I can remember where I was.
Speaker 6: I was in Lake georgea New York when we won
Speaker 6: the the hockey thing, yes her, the Miracle on ice,
Speaker 6: Miracle on ice, yep. I was snowmobiling in Lake Georgia,
Speaker 6: and I remember watching that. Of course, of course I
Speaker 6: was what what else thought I would be doing?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: And that was in was that in Lake Placid?
Speaker 6: That No, Lake George is south of like no, no, no, no, yeah,
Speaker 6: I think they were.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, wild, I want that. Do you know who?
Speaker 1: Do you know who's funding the women's water polo team.
Speaker 1: People don't realize that these athletes have to like fundraise
Speaker 1: to do all. Yeah, and so he benefactors stepped forward.
Speaker 1: So on the sidelines for the women's water polo funding
Speaker 1: the team this year is Flavor. Flav Oh nice, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: That's our man, Flavor. He was made for this.
Speaker 6: I will say, though, I'm still looking forward to the
Speaker 6: breaking just to see how the break dancing is gonna go.
Speaker 1: You gotta wait till August and ninth. You see the scoring.
Speaker 1: There's not even points. They basically they're going to battle
Speaker 1: individually and the three judges will go yeah, I like
Speaker 1: that one.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with that. That's my kind of score.
Speaker 1: They're not going to save a single rec center, don't
Speaker 1: even start all right anyway.
Speaker 6: Good stuff, all right, stuff, Yeah, Monday morning, seeing the
Speaker 6: next area of rain come through and just get ready
Speaker 6: over the next probably hour to two hours, come right
Speaker 6: across the triangle. Right now, it's between Greensboro, Raleigh, and Sanford,
Speaker 6: and so if you're in Sanford or Fayettevil, you're next,
Speaker 6: same thing for Raleigh and Durham, and another batch back
Speaker 6: behind that. After a little bit of a break, you
Speaker 6: get the picture a lot of clouds and these areas
Speaker 6: of showers and embedded rumbles a thunder which could produce
Speaker 6: some downpours at times. And after we get these couple
Speaker 6: of batches through midday early afternoon, you make it a break.
Speaker 6: But the storms will probably come back later today and
Speaker 6: probably more the same tomorrow, low eighties maybe to the
Speaker 6: middle eighties, and a triangle tomorrow, and then the ninety
Speaker 6: plus starts probably Wednesday, with less rain but still some
Speaker 6: and same thing Thursday. Friday, could even be pushing, especially
Speaker 6: around Raleigh, into the upper nineties with the heat and
Speaker 6: decease going back over one hundred, So we'll lose at
Speaker 6: least the coverage on the rainfall won't be zero mid
Speaker 6: weekend beyond, but we're gonna see tempatures go up. So
Speaker 6: we came back that high heat. We kind of kept
Speaker 6: the commidity over the past few days, and we'll keep
Speaker 6: that too, so I got to push the heat in.
Speaker 1: Decks up in the tropic.
Speaker 6: There is an area of the hurricane center over the
Speaker 6: Central Atlantic has a fifty percent chance of developing in
Speaker 6: seven days, and some of the guidance does bring it
Speaker 6: close to the southeast coast next week, so I have
Speaker 6: to keep an eye on that too.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, thank you sir, appreciate it. Have a
Speaker 1: good one and we'll come back. Mike, if you hang on,
Speaker 1: I will get to your call before the end. We
Speaker 1: get the YouTube thing as well, and wait till if
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it, go check out our Twitter. Casey
Speaker 1: on the radio. The New York magazine has fallen right
Speaker 1: in line on the Harris stuff and it's it's stomach churning.
Speaker 1: We'll be back. Hang on, well, good morning, Casey.
Speaker 9: Stocks ended last week with a rally, and the future
Speaker 9: suggests we'll start out higher this morning. Futures higher right
Speaker 9: across the board now. Futures are up one hundred and
Speaker 9: eighty one points. The Federal Reserves Policy meeting and the
Speaker 9: July employment report highlight the economic calendar this week, and
Speaker 9: this is going to be a big week for earnings
Speaker 9: from big tech. Microsoft to schedule to release quarterly results tomorrow.
Speaker 9: Meta platforms Apple and Amazon report over the next two days,
Speaker 9: McDonald's customers cut back in the spring. The fast food
Speaker 9: chain posted its first sales decline since twenty twenty, A
Speaker 9: key metric used to track restaurant business that's comparable store
Speaker 9: sales were down one percent from a year earlier. Analysts
Speaker 9: were expecting a modest decline. Apple's been working on some
Speaker 9: artificial intelligence features for its devices, but they're not going
Speaker 9: to be ready for release as early as originally expected.
Speaker 9: Bloomberg's Mark German reports they'll miss the initial launch of
Speaker 9: software overhauls for the iPhone and iPad Ai will be
Speaker 9: part of the software updates that Apple plans to roll
Speaker 9: out later in the fall. Most people who went to
Speaker 9: the movies over the weekend went to see Deadpool and Wolverine.
Speaker 9: That Walt Disney release took in two hundred five million dollars.
Speaker 9: It was the biggest opening weekend for any film so
Speaker 9: far this year, and the best ever opening for a
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Speaker 1: Casey, all right, hey, we were talking earlier about uh our,
Speaker 1: like how Ross and I used to work music radio,
Speaker 1: and he was talking about an interviewing flavor Flake. Did
Speaker 1: you ever do anything other than talk?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I started My first almost five years in the
Speaker 9: business were.
Speaker 1: With radio or with music radio. Oh really? Would did
Speaker 1: you go by Jeff Bellinger? Do you have like a
Speaker 1: cool name?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 9: I used my use my name or just the initials
Speaker 9: JB occasionally because I started in my hometown a small
Speaker 9: radio station and wanted people to know who I was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as did I Buffalo Wilie Man. All right, cool, cool,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jeff, appreciate it. Okay, take care? All right,
Speaker 1: there we go. All right, Ross said that to the notes.
Speaker 1: We're solving a mystery. If you already hear Friday, you
Speaker 1: know Thursday, you don't understand? All right? Anyway, eight fifty five,
Speaker 1: let me let me do this. Grab Mike's call. We're
Speaker 1: talking about how the local SWA and the sniper team
Speaker 1: didn't even meet with Secret Service that day's wild all right, Mike,
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 10: AKC. Just want to say, first of all, I enjoy
Speaker 10: your show, and Hayes for Sheriff number two number three.
Speaker 10: I was in law enforcement and Barack Obama come to
Speaker 10: the jurisdiction that I was in, and we had incident
Speaker 10: commands set up, and both CIA officials and our local
Speaker 10: officials were in that mobile command and basically they would
Speaker 10: just relay our COMPM yes, yes, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: And the second of all.
Speaker 10: The caveat to this is is I would have the
Speaker 10: FBI call and talk to me on when I was
Speaker 10: at the sheriff's office, and you know, they would tell
Speaker 10: us that they were coming into our county to serve
Speaker 10: a warrant and I would ask them how could we help,
Speaker 10: and they would say, just stay out of the way.
Speaker 10: And then I worked at DNC in Charlotte and they
Speaker 10: also had an incident command and my job was to
Speaker 10: write on the bus that the delegates were taken to
Speaker 10: the arena owned and I could not get off that
Speaker 10: bus or it was thing dirty. And we had colms too,
Speaker 10: So the fact that there was no comms is just
Speaker 10: beyond the pail for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's wild. People are not saying yeah, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 10: I'm not saying that there was a nefarious act that
Speaker 10: happened in Butler, PA. But there's a one appearance that
Speaker 10: there was.
Speaker 1: The incompetence rate is overwhelming, regardless of how you figure
Speaker 1: you got there, and people don't realize, especially because I've
Speaker 1: been to the rnc's the amount of different law enforcement
Speaker 1: entities from all over the state and country that are
Speaker 1: literally invited and all play a part in it. Right,
Speaker 1: you'll see departments and thanks for the call there, Mike,
Speaker 1: sheriffs and folks from all over the place. It's wild.
Speaker 1: Speaking of wild, you know what, I'm gonna bump this
Speaker 1: story tomorrow because I got to get it the the
Speaker 1: YouTube thing. I never got to the YouTube thing, so
Speaker 1: so I'll take the last minute. Rossie like your new couch.
Speaker 1: Ross got a new couch, So he was Brad.
Speaker 2: I'm going home and getting right on it. Yes, it
Speaker 2: was a struggle man, even to come in today, was it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe we should have the company buy you a
Speaker 1: duplicate for your studio or with
Speaker 2: That, No, I would I would compromise, ye,