Speaker 1: Day's b bbt uh. He is watching the Masters closely.
How you doing, sir?
Speaker 2: I am doing well. How are you doing, sir?
Speaker 1: Are you a golf I just made that up. I
don't even know if you like golf or watch the Masters?
I don't are you watching? All right? Well, that's a
pretty good thing that we have a gazillion other topics,
because like some of your politicians think they don't even
have to wear pants down there, and idiots are riding
horses around uptown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where do I don't know? I yeah, I don't
even know what is going on here.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure, all right, so so help me out here.
The the urban cowboy horse thing. I see this like
all over now, like this is a it's actually a
probmin Atlanta. Apparently I did not realize it had come
to the Queen City there. You saw the video. It's
the worst place. It's the worst place to ride a
horse horse with. There's too much stimul stimuli. Horses don't
do well usually, and especially when you try to stand
up on the saddle like you're a trick you know,
a trick rider from back in the Antioply days, and
then you get dumped and then the horse runs through
an intersection gets smoked by a car. Is there not
laws against this in Charlotte? Or is this some of
you guys are discussing? Because it makes me angry as
somebody grew up with horses, even to see people running
shod horses on pavement because they have no traction.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought it was very big, Like where are
all of the people that you know, protest the carriages,
the horse drawn carriages through uptown? Right, you know, like
where are all those people there are? Now there are
actually laws on the books apparently, which I was not
up to speed on until this incident occurred. And the
reason why everybody became aware of it was because, of course,
there was a video that was shot by what seems
to be you know, somebody who was who maybe you know,
part of the group or whatever. I'm not sure, but yeah,
like the it's like the guys riding motor cycles in
you know, the center city license. Yeah, and we've had
problems like this for years and years ever since you know,
Uptown became revitalized twenty years ago. You know, it became
this cruising zone and people you know, driving their cars
or their bicycles or their motorcycles through uptown with music
blaring and you know, just making fools of themselves and
annoying everybody and jamming up traffic and all of this.
And so I guess this is a new thing, now,
Is this a new trend, a social media trend where
people take horses into the city and uh, you know,
stand up on them or whatever. But there are apparently
laws against certain types of horse riding activities. If you
don't yeah, if you yeah, apparently if you don't have
uh an, if you have an unhaltered horse, then then
it is illegal for that horse to be on the streets.
So you can't be like driving horses through uh through
this center city, right, But these horses did have halters,
they had the saddles and all that, so they do
not appear, so to speak, Yeah, so they don't appear
to be in violation of that. But there is a
code that makes it illegal to recklessly or carelessly ride
or drive an animal through any street, alley or highway.
Now they may, I mean, I don't know what the
what what the penalty is for that. But I think
the real problem is that when the cops showed up.
According to the police report, they became very irate and
started screaming and cussing in the street, and then they
both resisted arrest. So I think that might be that got.
Speaker 1: Them and Trump in Atlanta. In Atlanta, there was an
incident and they were screaming racism because all the people
on the horses were black. And of course since the
polea showed up, uh, and they showed up for a fistfight,
they didn't even show up for the horse thing. And
then the horse thing became a thing, and then it
turned into you all being racist. There's a video. People
want to find it. But I'm just like, what what
are we doing here? But you give me a brilliant idea, Pete,
because I know how to drive cattle. Yeah, it's a
skill set that I have just from you know. I
we should we should drive cattle through uptown.
Speaker 2: We're going to have to put saddles on them so
we're not in violation of the ordinance.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll let you try to alter cattle.
Speaker 2: You're the expert here, man.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to be under saying I know how
to do it. Yeah, you need about eight guys, but
we can make this happen.
Speaker 2: I've never I've never done that, so I'll volunteer to
shoot the viral video.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, very good. I do appreciate it. You've
got to move on to a few other things because
there's a lot going on. I think Ross and Form
you we're not here next week, which is great news
for you because there is a there is an urban
legend that every time we take time off, the world explodes,
and I'm like, really, the only way it could get
worse would be what end of days? I don't know,
So yeah, it should be a big tune in two
diden week for you. But the.
Speaker 2: Do you want to talk about the pants list matter?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's right. I'm sorry I got distracted because
there's something else to try to think of, all right,
So explain this to me. So this is what the
mayor of Mooresville, Right, he was running around in the
in the city hall at night with a with a
lady friend and he didn't have pants on. But it's
all a misunderstanding because he got stick on his pants
and they went there and blah blah blah, what is
going on with that?
Speaker 2: So apparently his story is that he and a bunch
of other like city officials and you know local, I
don't know, elites or whatever. There was a party of
some kind. They were out at a restaurant or a
bar or something, and he had had some drinks, he
had some wine, and then he realized on his way home,
I assume with this woman they that he needed his
work phone. He had left his work phone at the
office at city hall, so he had to stop off
and pick up the phone. And while there, the wine
that he had ingested interacted negatively with some prescription medication
that he was taking for something, and that made him
feel ill. He got sick. He got it on his pants,
so he took his pants off so he could clean them,
and then that's why he was walking around pantsless, which
was captured on video. Now, people who work for the
city who saw the video then got fired. There were
two of them, and they apparently have now filed lawsuits.
And you know, they say that they were fired because
they saw the video and this was retribution, right, So
they were like whistleblowers.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: So the other day this week, the Moorsville Town Commission
met and they took a vote of no confidence in
the mayor and called for him to resign. And he
said he will not doing that. He then also said
that he has since gone to three weeks of rehab
and he apparently had alcohol abuse issues. He really loved vodka,
he said, and so but now he's feeling great and
he's off of the booze and so that's all fine
and good.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: So I'm not sure why that booze would not have
interacted with his medication either, But I don't Yeah, I
don't know. Nobody really knows at this point. Now, the
local TV stations have sued to try to get the video,
and that's being fought in court by the city, saying
that it's part of an investigation and there's security details
like if you know where the cameras are, that may
be a security weakness that gets highlighted, and people would
then be able to break into city Hall I guess
and run around pantiless.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's not him just going hey, you want
to go hook up in city hall? Oh? No, a
Rube Goldberg. It's a Rube Goldberg of serious unfortunate coincidences.
Speaker 2: Right us here, right. And And that's the thing is,
like the story is not believable, you know it, It's
just it does it doesn't sound believable, like it probably
is something more than just oh I had to get
my work phone.
Speaker 1: I mean, that wouldn't be the first time the Shenanigans
in the does he does the mayor have an office
in city hall?
Speaker 2: Apparently?
Speaker 1: So yes, physically. Yeah. Yeah, Well I'm just saying he's
probably at the first mayor to go, hey, you know what, uh,
go hook up in my office. If in fact that's
what happened, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it is as he said, Yeah, and there's
been no explanation as to why she was there.
Speaker 1: You know, well they were they were just you know,
happened to be leaving the event together as car polling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were carpooling maybe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was Green's much greener that way.
All right, So we we haven't had a chance to
talk since the pilot rescue or have we mm hm
the weapon?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think so because that had oh no, no,
that happened over the Easter weekend. Yes, so we haven't. Yeah, God,
it feels like a month ago.
Speaker 1: I know, right, I try to remember, but like it's dude,
just watching the reaction to that. It's just a couple
of things because we can't cover all of it watching
the reaction to that, the way that they're trying to
position it as some sort of failure. I'm sorry between
that what happened in Venezuela. What an awesome time to
be watching what our military is capable of, right, And
it raises the question, And I've asked every guest this
this week, including elected officials, how the hell is a
hotel guy and Fox News hosts able to execute the
bad assy that we've seen if we have these technical capabilities,
which I believe that we do, were the most powerful
ones in the world and it preceded them. How poorly
and inefficiently have previous leaders utilized our military since basically
World War Two?
Speaker 2: Like what a stark contrast, man, Yeah, And it calls
into question, like the leadership ranks in the military for
the last forty years that did not seem to be
able to harness this kind of power, and the political
leadership as well that maybe was unwilling to utilize it
in the way that it's now being utilized. You know,
people gave Pete Hegseth all of this grief when he
was like, you know, we're going to refocus to what
our mission is, which is lethality, right, And everybody was like, oh,
look at this fox host. He doesn't know what he's doing.
He's probably drunk and all of this. But what better
person than a war fighter because that's what he was
before people always dismissed his credentials. But I mean the
guy served he was. I think he's also a lawyer,
I believe, but like he has served. He knows this
this world, and he knows what the troops can do
because he was one of them, and it does make.
Speaker 1: Me he was he was a trigger puller too, Yeah,
part of it. He was just some guy in a warehouse,
you know, office back on one of our bases.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there he was kicking doors in. He was first
through the door, leading, leading his comrades like he like.
There were stories from people who served with him that said,
you know, he would he would take point because he
would not ask anybody to do things that he would
not do himself. And so yeah, so when I see
the reaction and everybody's like, you know, complaining about this thing,
and it's like, guys, like this is a like a
profound moment. The message we just sent that the military
just sent to all of the adversaries like like, we
can completely come into your country and do what we
want to do and leave and that should give every
adversary pause.
Speaker 1: Or or we'll come in and steal your president from
a base right with something called a discombobulator. And then
now we find out we have something called a ghost murmur. Yeah, which,
by the way, every time I see one of these
tools where they're like, oh, we can your heartbeats, a fingerprint,
we can find you wherever you are, I'm equal parts
like that's so cool, and also I'm like, I don't
know if I like the CIA. Haven't that right, you
know Big Brothers?
Speaker 2: So yeah, that was I was torn as well. But yeah,
I mean like from a technological standpoint, that is awesome.
And again it sends a message like we can literally
find you anywhere based on your heartbeat, so like you
can get your phone, you can go underground and all
this other stuff, but we will know where you are
because of this. I don't even know it's like telemetry
or whatever. I don't I don't even know the technology,
but it's it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And uh, and and if you think that they haven't,
they're not sitting around over at the UN and mapping
world leaders heart beats. I'm serious, Yeah, you would want
to get you want to get a registry of this
or bad guy's heart beats. I mean, think about it.
That's the practical application of it. Again, you probably got
a little list of all, right, here's this, this guy,
is this terrorist heartbeat? This one, this one, and you know, ye,
you're on notice, you're on notice. And then and then
the story too, of the leaker. I want to run
this by you because you and I we we host
radio shows now and I have both served in reporter capacity,
which is different. It is different. Commentator and reporter are different,
or at least they're supposed to be. So when I
hear him talking about somebody leaked information to the media,
and then the media basically by reporting it, let Iran
know that, in fact, no, we haven't got that guy
yet and he's not necessarily moving in this convoy for
a maritime EXTRATCHU, which is the story the CIA sold.
Remember they put a bounty on this, and you had
people that were IRGC, you had just bounty hunters. They
were all looking for this guy. And then we had
to set up predator drones to turn people to miss
the guy within three kilometers. Does this violate the line
where you think if they don't give up their sources
there should be penalties or do you think it's still
protected under the First Amendment.
Speaker 2: From the leaker standpoint, No.
Speaker 1: No, the talked about the reporter and the editor made
the decision to run that information.
Speaker 2: So, like me, personally, ethical standard would be, there's there's
a guy missing on the ground, and if the military says, hey,
do not publish this information, I do not. That's me
because I don't want to get some American service member killed,
you know, and that would be a huge win for
Iran because I'm I consider myself an American first, So
like I would not try to jeopardize that mission. So
for me, I would not have run the run the
story at that time. You could tell it afterwards. So
then the question is do you give up the source? Right?
And if you don't, then you're going to be tossed
in jail for contempt until you do turn And that's
that's a question every reporter has to wrestle with, Right
do you give up the source? That's going to be
up to that reporter. Me personally, again, I wouldn't have
run the story, so I wouldn't be put in that
position to have to then decide whether or not to
stay in jail. Now, the reporter, if they stay in jail,
that's going to be a boon to all sorts of
aspects of their career because they will be a person
who went to jail in order to protect a source,
and that will probably prompt more people to give them
leaked information.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I would horse trade with it. And you
probably know what I'm referring to. Let me explain it.
So I would go and I would say, hey, I
got this thing I called a pentagon or whatever whoever
whoever I was trying to get to confirm her to
that right, And I called him and they'd be like, hey,
can you not run that, because if you run that,
you could be putting this person in danger. And I'll say, okay,
I'll hold it. But when you capture the when you
get this guy, I interview you first.
Speaker 2: That would not be uncommon, right, Yeah, you try to
leverage it for a different story, or you know, well
give me something else you know you can, Yeah, try
your access.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, let me talk to the guy after he's rescued,
and there's something some along those lines. We're gonna have
to leave it there. I wanted to play some McFadden
Grant audio. I know you're.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he doesn't know you, bro, I know it. That's
why I was kind of bittersweet on election night. I
get four more years of content.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, well, all hell's gonna break loose next week.
If history holds, we'll talk to you in a couple
of weeks. Have a good one, mister Pete Allen.
Speaker 2: If I survive, I'll see you there.
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, well, you know fingers