Speaker 1: Let's see, I know nothing about the Grammys because I
Speaker 1: didn't watch the Grammys. I just consulted with Ross. He
Speaker 1: didn't watch it either. He was very busy. It was
Speaker 1: something I wasn't able to make it out. However, the
Speaker 1: only thing I know about it, based on literally every
Speaker 1: news site ever created that I ever go to in
Speaker 1: the morning, is Kanye West's chick Bianca. Whatever she decided
Speaker 1: to go with the dress, by no one. She was naked,
Speaker 1: just walked up on the I guess she was wearing
Speaker 1: like a fur overcoat, and then boom, here it is.
Speaker 1: So there's that everywhere. I don't know. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: make me watch. I know you think, oh, well, yeah, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe somebody's gonna show up not wearing anything. Don't care.
Speaker 1: Obviously it's everywhere already, so I don't even know if
Speaker 1: anybody wanted anything. Did they give awards out? I'm sure
Speaker 1: they did. Oh. Actually, I think I saw Beyonce happy
Speaker 1: about something, so maybe they gave her an award, don't care.
Speaker 1: Didn't see it. Ross didn't see it. I have no
Speaker 1: idea what happened. I just know that Kanye West Chick
Speaker 1: didn't wear it. He clothes and that was a bridge
Speaker 1: too far for Hollywood, considering everything, the number of people
Speaker 1: that have showed up on that red carpet and had
Speaker 1: a quote unquote wardrobe malfunction. Are you any less naked
Speaker 1: if it takes place in a split second, knowing that
Speaker 1: there's a thousand cameras that'll catch it, put it on
Speaker 1: the internet, and you've achieved your goal. At least she's
Speaker 1: honest about it anyway, it which is good because it
Speaker 1: was that last night and then they had like an
Speaker 1: employee holiday party, and I guess it's better that somebody
Speaker 1: showed up naked the Grammys versus the iHeart Company holiday party.
Speaker 1: No offense to any of the coworkers, but these were
Speaker 1: the Grammys. You can be like, it's just Hollywood, be
Speaker 1: in Hollywood. Although this was a little too much for Hollywood.
Speaker 1: And while all of that was going on, we finally
Speaker 1: had a question answered kind of, and the question was,
Speaker 1: when you evaluate the election cycle that you just went through,
Speaker 1: that you lost the presidency, the Senate, and the House,
Speaker 1: a few governor's races, and obviously some of those seats
Speaker 1: flipped over on the Senate side. As you evaluate that,
Speaker 1: and you tried to reconcile what message the voters may
Speaker 1: have sent you and you didn't let him have a primary?
Speaker 1: If you're the Democrat Party, are you really able to
Speaker 1: gauge what the problem was or I guess was in
Speaker 1: this case, Well, it's your you know. They do a
Speaker 1: little round tap. It's about fifteen of the candidates that
Speaker 1: are kind of the the front runners, if you will,
Speaker 1: So they're gonna they're gonna come up and kind of
Speaker 1: like a Miss Universe pageant, tell you why you should
Speaker 1: vote for them. So let's go ahead and hear from
Speaker 1: She didn't win. This woman didn't win, but she was
Speaker 1: one of the finalists, just to be clear, so she
Speaker 1: had been filtered through everything else up to this point
Speaker 1: so that she could, as part of this whole process,
Speaker 1: explain why she should be running or at the very
Speaker 1: least co running the Democrat Party.
Speaker 2: We'll begin with the opening statements.
Speaker 3: Each candidate will have thirty seconds, and we'll start with
Speaker 3: doctor Quintessa Hathaway.
Speaker 4: Good evening, everyone. It is my desire to be the
Speaker 4: next DNC chair, and I just want to give you
Speaker 4: all a little bit of something that's been on my
Speaker 4: heart here over the last couple of days.
Speaker 1: All right, don't do the hand with the heart.
Speaker 2: You fight all, you fight all, you fight all.
Speaker 1: Don't do it when your government is doing you roll
Speaker 1: you fight on.
Speaker 2: Oh you fight.
Speaker 1: All no Monday morning motivation. All right, that's it, thank you,
Speaker 1: that's thank you.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: Right, you know what, in the grand scheme of things,
Speaker 1: I actually respect this woman, heer. I. We probably don't
Speaker 1: align politically on a bunch of stuff, but like she
Speaker 1: still has that mindset, or at least appears to that
Speaker 1: old sixties mindset, you know, Uh, make make love not
Speaker 1: war kind of thing you fight on. We'll hit him
Speaker 1: with the Gospel, and I can understand that. I can
Speaker 1: understand that versus the dossiers, the underhandedness, the super delegates,
Speaker 1: the clearly out of touch. We're just gonna ram Kamala
Speaker 1: in here, even if Biden forced our hand. But to
Speaker 1: make it infinitely worse, we're gonna go and we're gonna
Speaker 1: find a vice presidential nominee and openly discriminate against one,
Speaker 1: probably because he's Jewish, and that nominee will have even
Speaker 1: more insane ideas than even our presidential nominee, who is
Speaker 1: greatly unpopular, and he will have honed them within this
Speaker 1: quasi Democrat party in Minnesota known as the DFL, which
Speaker 1: I have seen rapidly change over the years because I
Speaker 1: really started in this business covering them. It took me
Speaker 1: to just say Democrat was kind of a switch for
Speaker 1: me when I came to North Carolina. No, because it
Speaker 1: was always DFL in Minnesota, which stands for Democratic farm
Speaker 1: and Democrat farm and labor is all it stands for.
Speaker 1: And so you have this ideology that she's clearly expressing,
Speaker 1: not realizing that labor has left you for a large
Speaker 1: part of labor has left you, having the teamsters come
Speaker 1: over for Trump and various others, having the working man
Speaker 1: if you will, over for Trump. That's not It's clear
Speaker 1: that the ideals of a Democrat known as a DFL
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. We're very unpopular on that ticket. He did
Speaker 1: nothing to boost it, and the Minnesota Democrat Party is
Speaker 1: so outside what a lot of people are claiming as normal.
Speaker 1: So what did you do? Well, they didn't elect her, Okay,
Speaker 1: that didn't happen. They went in a different So they
Speaker 1: took the chair of the DFL party from Minnesota. That's right,
Speaker 1: that is the new head of the Democrat Party. Let's
Speaker 1: see here. Democrat members gathered Saturday to finalized selection of
Speaker 1: Minnesota Democrat Farmer Labor Party chairman Ken Martin. In an
Speaker 1: interview with New York Times after his win, Martin stated,
Speaker 1: this is great that the issue isn't the policies but
Speaker 1: the messaging and the brand problem. Yeah, that's right. The policies,
Speaker 1: we support all of the things, the open border stuff,
Speaker 1: the messing with kids stuff where you have doctors that
Speaker 1: he's eight, but he can't do anything legally other than
Speaker 1: tell us after a lot of discussion with his mom,
Speaker 1: who is a little weird, that he's ready to transition,
Speaker 1: and that was a bridge too far. The women's sports
Speaker 1: stuff was a bridge too far. We have polling, we
Speaker 1: have interviews, we have people who literally work for the
Speaker 1: party who've come out. So the chair of your party
Speaker 1: just said that all of these policies that drove record
Speaker 1: number of minority voters over to Republicans and kept people
Speaker 1: home or had them voting third party or splitting tickets,
Speaker 1: you end up with districts like Ocasio Cortes or she
Speaker 1: won in New York City and Trump did better. Right,
Speaker 1: Trump overperformed. He didn't win her district, but he did
Speaker 1: better than her. Even that's because you've alienated people. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: that's who you gave the top spot to. Clearly you
Speaker 1: want to make sure that they have somebody astride them
Speaker 1: that balances this maybe takes a little more of a
Speaker 1: populous message, so you can say, all right, well, that
Speaker 1: guy's gonna be in charge. But these other people who
Speaker 1: are up in the main room, so to speak, though, though,
Speaker 1: keep us on the straight and level and maybe, just
Speaker 1: maybe we'll figure out how to get voters back. Do
Speaker 1: you guys do that? Are you ready to go on
Speaker 1: the offense? Oh?
Speaker 6: Are you ready to go on the offense? Well, we
Speaker 6: have to win back our young people. I am the
Speaker 6: only candidate in this race for any of these positions
Speaker 6: that is under thirty.
Speaker 1: We had a twenty.
Speaker 6: Point shift to the right of our young people. We
Speaker 6: must show our young people we give a damn about them,
Speaker 6: that we support them and we invest in them. I
Speaker 6: embraced over eleven million dollars in the past year to
Speaker 6: support the future of our party. Because I don't just tweet,
Speaker 6: I don't just talk the talk.
Speaker 1: I also walk the walk, and I knocked the.
Speaker 6: Knock in doors across the country.
Speaker 2: But I'm counting on you in this.
Speaker 1: Moment right now.
Speaker 6: I need your support. Please vote for me, Thank you
Speaker 6: so much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's mister David Hogg, the vice chair there. So,
Speaker 1: and it's funny because he mentioned knocking doors, which I
Speaker 1: think when we all sat down and did this and
Speaker 1: look to see what was effective, that clearly isn't anymore.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure it has some benefit, but what
Speaker 1: was far more effective was clearly the social media. How
Speaker 1: many times did we talk about this where you had
Speaker 1: this bullpen of Harris social media people. You saw the picture,
Speaker 1: it's you know, what is there twenty some that were
Speaker 1: sitting there and they were getting lapped by three dudes
Speaker 1: who were also running their own accounts and doing other stuff,
Speaker 1: who were just when they decided something was funny and
Speaker 1: want to post it or they thought it was useful,
Speaker 1: they'd get it up there. I mean, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: There obviously was coordination there, but it was so much looser.
Speaker 1: And so the vice chair you've already you've already decided
Speaker 1: that the chair is going to represent the essentially your
Speaker 1: vice presidential candidate's politics, which nobody liked. You made that
Speaker 1: person your chair, and now your vice chair is an
Speaker 1: extremely unlikable except with the super fans David Hogg. Do
Speaker 1: you think David Hogg represents people under thirty? You know
Speaker 1: why you were hemorrhaging those A lot of them were
Speaker 1: white males. You've come out and you've blamed them because
Speaker 1: they've never known any other thing in their quasi at
Speaker 1: least will say adult lives, but I also mean older
Speaker 1: right when you get into high school. They've never known
Speaker 1: anything in their life except they're to blame for everything.
Speaker 1: And Hogs all in on that. That seems that seems
Speaker 1: crazy to me, Like I at least understand why the
Speaker 1: Democrats in North Carolina have the what Anderson Clayton or
Speaker 1: whatever his name. She's young, and yeah she's she's super
Speaker 1: into it, but she doesn't carry that baggage she may
Speaker 1: now although there is you know, Democrats won the governor's race.
Speaker 1: David Hogg just doesn't. It's nothing. He feels out of
Speaker 1: touch or maybe he doesn't get it. He clearly is
Speaker 1: defined who he is. He does the power fist on
Speaker 1: the stage, he just looks so sad doing it. It
Speaker 1: turned into a meme that people made fun of. So
Speaker 1: while all of while Kanye's lady's walking around and no
Speaker 1: clothes and ihearts having a holiday party. The Democrats are
Speaker 1: doubling down on what they just did, and they're they're
Speaker 1: quoted saying it so David Hogg and Minnesota Democrat politics
Speaker 1: and no admission that they need to perhaps take a
Speaker 1: look at why they lost some voters. Republicans had to
Speaker 1: be ecstatic over the weekend. Although today's news cycle won't
Speaker 1: be that, there will be one word in it and
Speaker 1: it will be ominous, and that word will be tariffs
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about it next hang on. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so that that whole uh who's the chair, who's the
Speaker 1: vice chair and some of the others over it, that
Speaker 1: that went honestly not how I expected. And then firmly
Speaker 1: on the record as policies are not the problem. Branding
Speaker 1: is and that is the ground game that Democrats are
Speaker 1: gonna wun are going to run And okay, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll see how that goes, and who knows, maybe if
Speaker 1: it's the same policies, but they just don't talk about them.
Speaker 1: We just you know. But kind of that's what Kamala
Speaker 1: tried to remember. She they didn't want to talking about policies.
Speaker 1: They're like, what about uh, let's see joy. Could you
Speaker 1: talk about joy? You could talk about okay, great, And
Speaker 1: that didn't work. But what I firmly believe, I actually
Speaker 1: believe that David Hogg would be the vice chair. But
Speaker 1: I thought what they would do is they'd kind of
Speaker 1: they'd McConnell it up. So they get a party chair
Speaker 1: that seems kind of old school, not really exciting to
Speaker 1: younger folks, but not toxic, and it would probably leave
Speaker 1: some Democrats grumbling. And then you get Hog in there
Speaker 1: in the same way he kind of had like Pelosio
Speaker 1: Casio Cortes, right, Pelosi was very good from a leadership position,
Speaker 1: and yes, even though she represented San Francisco and it
Speaker 1: was very progressive in her ideas, people just saw as
Speaker 1: one of the old guard and there's a certain comfort there.
Speaker 1: And then you have the younger person. But you doubled
Speaker 1: down on Minnesota Democrat politics. You went on records saying
Speaker 1: the policies aren't a problem, and then you attached to
Speaker 1: David Hogg. That guy's they a still picture of David Hagg,
Speaker 1: even if you don't have to listen to him, inspires
Speaker 1: your enemies to donate against you. Whether he's standing there
Speaker 1: in his ill fitting suit with his power fist in
Speaker 1: the air that I'm not allowed to interpret is a
Speaker 1: Nazi thing, even though we can accuse Elon of that,
Speaker 1: and you think that's going to be a win, I
Speaker 1: guess we'll wait and see. Speaking to Elon this dude
Speaker 1: over the weekend, he's dropping all sorts of Doge stuff.
Speaker 1: He had an investor's meeting where he had to speak
Speaker 1: about some of the project's Tesla's working on. And now
Speaker 1: people can track this stuff so they know when the
Speaker 1: meeting happened and when he spoke, and literally you can
Speaker 1: there's like a footprint of it on x Twitter. So's
Speaker 1: he's posting a cat meme, he's you know, he's writing
Speaker 1: other stuff. You can see this little gap, or he
Speaker 1: stops meme posting, which is when he spoke to investors,
Speaker 1: and then it starts up again. All right, So as
Speaker 1: Doge does their thing and Trump does his things, all
Speaker 1: of his things, which we'll cover on the teraror front
Speaker 1: here in just a moment, as you can imagine the
Speaker 1: idea of this, you know, heye send an email with
Speaker 1: the word quit to go ahead and quit you know,
Speaker 1: the same way you opt out of mailing lists, or
Speaker 1: you can get eight months severance, or you can simply
Speaker 1: come back into the office. Federal workers are in a
Speaker 1: bit of a state, and I understand that, right, But
Speaker 1: it's when you have a bunch of stuff that clearly
Speaker 1: is is showing no return on investment and you never
Speaker 1: do anything about it. Eventually, this day was going to
Speaker 1: come and you just you hope that they're judicious in
Speaker 1: the way that they do it. I don't welcome people
Speaker 1: potentially losing their jobs or maybe even you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of government jobs. You there is transition available for
Speaker 1: open positions, and they'll even pay for training. But it's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. So what's happening a resistance quilt?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: I saw this the Shenanigans yesterday. Federal workers in fear
Speaker 1: of losing their jobs to doze or having to return
Speaker 1: from the work at home situation, who now say they
Speaker 1: either can't or won't return to the office. By the way,
Speaker 1: do you see why they get ross? Did you see
Speaker 1: why some of them don't want to return to the office.
Speaker 1: This was this was interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I read about this over the weekend.
Speaker 2: They were saying yeah, they don't want to return to
Speaker 2: the office. It's going to cause problems because they're not
Speaker 2: going to be able to go to their second job.
Speaker 1: Oh it's weird.
Speaker 2: So wait a second, wait.
Speaker 1: Hold on, now you're trying to put this together, all right?
Speaker 1: Hold on, Ross's math in the math, all right, So
Speaker 1: when you math.
Speaker 2: The math, my brain pieces have started moving here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, wait a mine, You're getting paid for
Speaker 2: your federal job, right right, and you can't go to
Speaker 2: your federal job because that's when you go to your
Speaker 2: second job. Correct, yes, so are you not doing your
Speaker 2: first job which we're paying for, right?
Speaker 1: Yeah. So anyway, you still haven't convinced me. What's what's
Speaker 1: the DC is expensive, man, very expensive up there. Now,
Speaker 1: technically I don't think they might have been even going
Speaker 1: into d C sore. There is that. I did see
Speaker 1: one woman, all right. She wasn't the only one, but
Speaker 1: there was one whose video ended up going a little
Speaker 1: viral who was very upset because childcare is very expensive.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've heard this. Child care is
Speaker 1: very expensive, and she was going to have to put
Speaker 1: her kids in childcare if she actually return to the
Speaker 1: office for a job and She said that with her
Speaker 1: face on camera and said where she worked. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't think you're you're contributing positively to your argument here,
Speaker 1: because everyone who sees that, just like that poll that
Speaker 1: caused poor Ross's brain to have to turn on this morning,
Speaker 1: tells everyone you aren't doing your damn job.
Speaker 2: I mean I can really kind of. I can understand
Speaker 2: that in some way where you can sit on your
Speaker 2: laptop at home and do your work while your kid
Speaker 2: is running around in front of you on the rug
Speaker 2: you're playing. I can understand that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But you don't understand making a video and it
Speaker 1: being your core argument, do you?
Speaker 2: Well? No, But I mean I can at least understand
Speaker 2: it that you are used because you're used to these
Speaker 2: rules that have been in place, and you're sitting there,
Speaker 2: and I can understand that, got it?
Speaker 1: Got it?
Speaker 2: The second job thing where you're like, well, no, now
Speaker 2: I can't leave my house. I can't. I can't go
Speaker 2: to my job because I have to be at my
Speaker 2: second job. So it means you weren't doing your first
Speaker 2: job my second jobs.
Speaker 1: In Arlington or whatever. And this is all the way
Speaker 1: over in DC. What are we doing here? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna be helped. But what about the
Speaker 1: quilt though, See I didn't know about the power of
Speaker 1: the quilt. I'm just looking at this panel here.
Speaker 2: This is nice.
Speaker 1: It kind of says hold the line.
Speaker 2: Like that, you send it to me, it's game over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, no yeah. Because you were all smug,
Speaker 1: You're like, ah, they said, look at the poll here,
Speaker 1: that's not going to be and then I showed you
Speaker 1: the quilt and you realize none of it matters. So
Speaker 1: when are you guys making the quilt? If I could ask,
Speaker 1: are you just just between nine and five? When was
Speaker 1: the quilt? So because also you're not allowed to politic
Speaker 1: during those times during quote unquote working hours, So there's
Speaker 1: that as well. So arguably there's second job, the kids
Speaker 1: and the resistance quilt.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's in there off time. You know, they get
Speaker 2: done with their job to come home or whatever.
Speaker 1: Which job which oiled up? Which job?
Speaker 2: The first? In the in the second first? And and
Speaker 2: you get home and you're like, what should I watch
Speaker 2: a Netflix or Amazon?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: You know, I just want to knit?
Speaker 1: And is that knitting?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 1: I don't want to irritate I've been I think I've
Speaker 1: screwed up knitting and crocheting with sewing before and been
Speaker 1: called out. So but yeah, to your point, Yeah, but what, well,
Speaker 1: hold on, what about their third job? Do they have
Speaker 1: a third job? And how does that was the first
Speaker 1: job and the second job interfere with that? Or it
Speaker 1: is only the second job, so it's completely not I.
Speaker 2: Don't know, they could be a third you could knit
Speaker 2: maybe will driving around the up or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you don't have your hands on the wheel
Speaker 1: and you're driving around DC, which is notorious healthscape for traffic.
Speaker 1: That's what I think is you should whoever knitted this
Speaker 1: wonderful little thing here in the article that says, hold,
Speaker 1: I think you knited, you knitted three too many letters
Speaker 1: the end. You would have been more accurate, and you
Speaker 1: would have saved time, either your time or my times
Speaker 1: as a paid worker there if you just wrote hold
Speaker 1: the l because that's clearly what democrats chose to do
Speaker 1: with their officer hearing whatever, with their new chair and
Speaker 1: CoA chair. So sorry, just trying to save you some
Speaker 1: time there. Meanwhile, what's Trump doing tariffs? That's all you're
Speaker 1: gonna hear about today, all the crazy headlines. Let's see here.
Speaker 1: Oh not on New York posts, they just have naked
Speaker 1: pictures of Kanye's chick over and over. But if you
Speaker 1: go to like Ril or something, top of the page,
Speaker 1: here we go. Trump's tariffs spark trade trade warfares North
Speaker 1: Carolinians racing for rising costs. All right, how many of
Speaker 1: you were panic buying syrup today?
Speaker 5: Ross?
Speaker 1: Did you panic buy any syrup over the weekend?
Speaker 2: It's what happened to me.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, you never tell me, just like
Speaker 1: I asked Harry week my eh.
Speaker 2: No, it was awful. All five of my Canadian servants
Speaker 2: did not show up this weekend, all five of them,
Speaker 2: all five days. They're Dave, Dave, Dave, Dave and Da
Speaker 2: vide Yeah, show up.
Speaker 1: Quebec yeah, frenchy yeah. Just they didn't even call.
Speaker 2: Just not enough show, no show.
Speaker 1: And then after what happened last week, this has to
Speaker 1: be compounding, uh, the whole surf master situation at your
Speaker 1: house man.
Speaker 2: Not to be fair, they are very polite because they're Canadian. Afterward,
Speaker 2: after the no show, they did call and apologize for
Speaker 2: the North show. But yeah, they're not showing up. They're gone,
Speaker 2: oh no.
Speaker 1: Oh no, you have to go get your own syrup.
Speaker 1: It's the whole thing, man. Yes, it's Trump's new tariffs
Speaker 1: on imports from Mexico, Canada and China take effect. Fear
Speaker 1: of trade wars loom large as economists for Dick a
Speaker 1: hit two consumer wallets, and they may be right. They
Speaker 1: may be right initially, because you're going to have you're
Speaker 1: going to have companies that will go to implement immediately.
Speaker 1: Some will do it for political some will think that
Speaker 1: they're doing it and they're not doing good analysis. But
Speaker 1: you got to look at it the larger scope. China's
Speaker 1: the only one that makes me nervous. Let's face it,
Speaker 1: China is willing to starve their own people to reform
Speaker 1: their government to death, tens of millions more than Hitler
Speaker 1: could have accomplished in four lifetimes. If the math is mathing, Okay,
Speaker 1: they're willing to do that. They're willing to take part
Speaker 1: of their population and effectively make them slaves. And then,
Speaker 1: just as an extra ignoring of history, a large part
Speaker 1: of them literally harvest cotton, talking about the Wigers folks
Speaker 1: and then openly sell it as a qualifier for the brand.
Speaker 1: So if you go on Chinese shopping sites, and not
Speaker 1: just the America facing ones, but the other ones. One
Speaker 1: of the ways that they will tell you that wool
Speaker 1: or cotton is better is it is Weiger sourced, because
Speaker 1: I guess slaves do the best over there, or quasi slaves.
Speaker 1: And in fact, it became so rampant that when people
Speaker 1: started shopping on like Timu and some of those other
Speaker 1: Chinese sites, they would get mocked for it. So when
Speaker 1: they put it they translated to English, they'd remove it,
Speaker 1: but then they'd put little code words in because buyers
Speaker 1: still wanted equality, buyers still wanted the good stuff. So China,
Speaker 1: China most definitely is interesting because we do get a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff from China. They get a lot of
Speaker 1: our ideas. I'm sure they'll still be importing those for free,
Speaker 1: well whatever costs to steal them. But with Canada, I
Speaker 1: make the maple syrup choke. But there are there is
Speaker 1: some stuff. It is not a non existent portion of
Speaker 1: our economy. And yes we do buy a lot of
Speaker 1: energy from them, but a lot of that is due
Speaker 1: to the fact that we positioned it so that previous
Speaker 1: presidents who wanted to show that the US was not
Speaker 1: in the drill, Baby drill, as a rebuttal of Republican
Speaker 1: wants and needs. It was happy to let Canada do
Speaker 1: it and then just pop it down here. It's really
Speaker 1: why a lot of this pipeline stuff was so important
Speaker 1: because of the way we positioned it. But it's not
Speaker 1: as though we can't backfill it. But it will take
Speaker 1: a little time, and we do get a lot of
Speaker 1: lumber from them. These are all true. We get cheese
Speaker 1: from them too, for some reason, which Wisconsin is never
Speaker 1: happy about and they always wind about. My point is
Speaker 1: Canada gets a lot from US and Mexico, or I
Speaker 1: should say we get a lot from them per se,
Speaker 1: and it is a big part of their economy, so
Speaker 1: they financially get a lot from US. And I don't
Speaker 1: mean it's a little part. I mean it's double digits,
Speaker 1: twenty thirty percentile. So Chuck Schumer can do as much
Speaker 1: as he wants with the well.
Speaker 7: This, let's just take Super Bowl Sunday. Okay, it's going
Speaker 7: to affect be here. Okay, most of it. Corona here
Speaker 7: comes from Mexico.
Speaker 1: Modelo is actually the top It actually was the top
Speaker 1: rand in the US for a while because bud lights
Speaker 1: thing not Corona. But you didn't know that because you've
Speaker 1: never drank either. Let's just be honest here, except for publicity.
Speaker 7: Stunts, it's going to affect your glock. Oh no, because
Speaker 7: what is guacamole made of avocados?
Speaker 1: Oh I'm not a chef. Okay, I'm not a Yes,
Speaker 1: we do get a lot of avocados from them. This
Speaker 1: is this is true. In fact, remember avocados from Mexico
Speaker 1: started buying Super Bowl ads a few years ago. It
Speaker 1: made some pretty good ones. So yeah, uh, do you
Speaker 1: know what agriculture from Mexico is a portion of your
Speaker 1: GDP is that's sold to the US? Or chuck? Do
Speaker 1: you know? I know that Rosto's that he looked it up.
Speaker 1: Let me guess just a tiny little percent, right, like
Speaker 1: one percent? Maybe just maybe one and a half. We
Speaker 1: eat a lot of avocados, avocado toast, guacamole. Rost doesn't
Speaker 1: need a lot of ado avocados, but Americans do.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: Once you you get all the agriculture mixed in, it's
Speaker 1: like a third of your economy. Agriculture then manufactured items
Speaker 1: that are manufactured expressly for the US. It's it's a
Speaker 1: it's a small amount, and that's not even counting another
Speaker 1: huge chunk of your economy, which are known as remittances,
Speaker 1: that is, monies that are sent from US based workers
Speaker 1: back to Mexico. This is it's largely impactful in a
Speaker 1: lot of countries, and China gets a lot of money
Speaker 1: to a lot of people who work here send money
Speaker 1: to China. But for Mexico it's a substantial part of it.
Speaker 1: So if Trump want, if you want to go toe
Speaker 1: to toe with him, and he feels that's another piece
Speaker 1: of leverage, that would be absolutely devastating for you.
Speaker 2: You know, the actual numbers are Mexican exports the US
Speaker 2: as a percentage of GDP, Mexican thirty thirty five. Canada
Speaker 2: is twenty two percent. However ours is one point two
Speaker 2: percent of theirs. Yes, so I mean the math isn't
Speaker 2: going to math for you.
Speaker 1: It's not going to work. China's the outlier because they're
Speaker 1: willing to literally kill their own people to make a
Speaker 1: point like, hey, we should dam up this river. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's like sixty million people. They use
Speaker 1: it for agriculture and food and I don't care build
Speaker 1: the dam, but they will move their village. And it's
Speaker 1: on the high side of the dam. I guess it's
Speaker 1: underwater now, like China's willing to do that. Mexico and Canada.
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do, but it will
Speaker 1: be the story of the day. Unless I don't know,
Speaker 1: buckets more crazy find their way, which isn't impossible. Oh
Speaker 1: and I was just gonna go the caller who's a
Speaker 1: federal worker, and he says he's fine to go back.
Speaker 1: But did he say whether he made a quilt patch.
Speaker 1: He probably didn't if he's calling this show all right,
Speaker 1: six forty nine Cacoday Radio program. A lot of federal
Speaker 1: positions require you not to I am aware. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: is the other thing too, and I don't know how
Speaker 1: it works for all of them. There are federal positions
Speaker 1: that you are expressly prohibited from having a second job
Speaker 1: for I don't even have beef. If somebody's got it
Speaker 1: like a second like if they drive uber on the side, whatever,
Speaker 1: I don't care. But it's when you're complaining about it
Speaker 1: or it's openly going to be a problem for you
Speaker 1: that most Americans are like, well, wait a sec, I
Speaker 1: can't work a job in the middle of my job.
Speaker 1: But you're not gonna get sympathy from people. All right,
Speaker 1: let's do this. We'll take a break and let's see here.
Speaker 1: Oh sadly, we do have some additional North Carolinians in
Speaker 1: this case on the military side involved in that plane crash.
Speaker 1: All update you coming up next here on the CaCO
Speaker 1: Day radio program. The Netflix WWE thing's going well. So
Speaker 1: I didn't watch did you watch it? Russ? You don't
Speaker 1: watch any of that, do you anymore? Even though it's
Speaker 1: on Netflix now? Yeah? So sore they're thing of the
Speaker 1: royal rumble in Indianapolis. Holy cow, man, So that's working
Speaker 1: out on the sports front of that. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they're gonna work out. How many of you are
Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks fans this morning? I'm sure we got a
Speaker 1: few in the audience. You doing okay? I yeah. I
Speaker 1: even said this on the radio the other day when
Speaker 1: I was looking at the ratings that the NBA has,
Speaker 1: which have taken an absolute nose dive. I think they're
Speaker 1: off like forty percent from just a few years ago.
Speaker 1: And I wonder why that is because they still have
Speaker 1: big players. Right, there's even if you don't watch basketball
Speaker 1: very much, they're still like you, you know, the guys,
Speaker 1: And so when I saw this trade that happened, I
Speaker 1: had some questions because I thought Luka Donsik was pretty good.
Speaker 1: And I know I mispronounced that. I don't care, but
Speaker 1: you're Dallas Mavericks. You didn't tell anyone, and then you
Speaker 1: just took the face of your franchise and a couple
Speaker 1: other big names U. Kleeber and then who is that
Speaker 1: Morris was the other one for and then you trade
Speaker 1: him to LA for ad Anthony Davis, Max Christian I
Speaker 1: think a first round pick in a few years, not
Speaker 1: the next one, but in a couple of years. Well,
Speaker 1: Utah is tied into this thing too, but but like,
Speaker 1: holy crap, like is there there wasn't a player with
Speaker 1: a bigger name for the Mavericks. And that all because
Speaker 1: you want to go to a defensive team, which okay,
Speaker 1: it's not really the NBA right now, but maybe it's
Speaker 1: a winning strategy. I know, you guys got smoked by
Speaker 1: the Cavaliers last night after this thing became public, and
Speaker 1: now the Lakers are gonna have all that. Oh you
Speaker 1: know what I was just thinking, is Bronie gonna start anymore? Mister?
Speaker 1: Averaging point four points per game? Or Bronni or whatever
Speaker 1: however you pronounce his name Lebron's kid, so keep write articles.
Speaker 1: Look it's father and son on the court, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the son isn't doing anything, and I think he just
Speaker 1: went two of eight on his on a good game,
Speaker 1: and uh, he can't shoot free throws or guard or
Speaker 1: assist or rebound. So I I don't know. I wonder
Speaker 1: if it's you think it's bait, maybe to see how
Speaker 1: long you get get Lebron to hold on so you
Speaker 1: get another ring. I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 2: If Lebron, James and Luca don't win a championship, there's
Speaker 2: something wrong, because that's fair.
Speaker 1: They took it to Miami and they didn't win.
Speaker 2: At first, somebody was playing they tried to make that
Speaker 2: trade and I think it was NBA two K whatever
Speaker 2: the latest one is, because you know, you can play
Speaker 2: like GM and like the game was like, would not
Speaker 2: allow them to do that trade. They said, it's ridiculous
Speaker 2: and this would never happen.
Speaker 1: But that's what But that's that's that's what we have.
Speaker 1: Miami was the first ridiculous, ridiculous. I think maybe the
Speaker 1: Lakers were.
Speaker 2: Going well that there are people that that will tell
Speaker 2: you it's like the ninety six, ninety seven Bowls or whatever.
Speaker 2: But the difference that I mean, Scottie Pippen and Michael
Speaker 2: Jordan were together for a long time that they were there.
Speaker 1: And when Golden State stacked they they they got worse,
Speaker 1: actually didn't they when they really brought in those guys
Speaker 1: at the end, I think they'll end up winning one more.
Speaker 2: When they brought in Kevin Durant, Yeah, yeah, they want
Speaker 2: it right, they running like three guys. Yeah. I would
Speaker 2: say Miami probably was like the first like super Team
Speaker 2: where they they intentionally right. But this is just unfair.
Speaker 2: I read it online. It was like, imagine if the
Speaker 2: city of Buffalo woke up and you realize that Josh
Speaker 2: Allen has been traded for like Derek Carr and like three.
Speaker 1: The city of Buffalo after the trade.
Speaker 2: Right for that trade, like the equivalent, No, the whole
Speaker 2: city would commit suicide. They'll be dead. Yeah, And then
Speaker 2: especially to learn that like say, like Josh didn't even
Speaker 2: want the trade, wasn't even like didn't even know it
Speaker 2: was going to be a thing. Just suddenly I'm not
Speaker 2: here anymore.
Speaker 1: So with the Luca thing, they were ahead of having
Speaker 1: to pay him signed to a like five year deal,
Speaker 1: and then I think it was gonna ge three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty million for it. Yeah, it's a commitment, most definitely.
Speaker 1: But it's Luca dude, right, Even people don't pay attention
Speaker 1: to basketball, know this guy. He's pretty good. I heard
Speaker 1: he's pretty good.
Speaker 2: I would imagine imagine if back in the day, imagine
Speaker 2: if Larry Bird was just a bit younger and they
Speaker 2: like they trade Larry Bird to the Chicago Bulls.
Speaker 1: Oh that was him and MJ together. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they gel though.
Speaker 2: Because let's like, yeah, I know you saw the commercial, right,
Speaker 2: the mcdonna's commercial. They're like best friends, man, sure, bouncing
Speaker 2: it off the rafters and stuff through the windows.
Speaker 1: They're both getting paid like a million dollars a second
Speaker 1: to stand there. Both love Big Max, they do, and
Speaker 1: they are quite competitive too. Nothing but net absolutely, But
Speaker 1: I don't think that's what it was. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think those two could exist on a team
Speaker 1: together and did not turned into a little little problematic
Speaker 1: in the same way here, like Luca doesn't take any crap.
Speaker 1: I don't know, if you remember you remember how much
Speaker 1: they were ragging on him, and then the dude who
Speaker 1: plays for Denver, but ESPN can't hate him enough because
Speaker 1: I feel there's a racial component there. So they just
Speaker 1: go out and they will trash talk anybody and then
Speaker 1: deliver and you just got rid of him. As Ross said,
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, Josh Allen isn't here anymore, but
Speaker 1: it'll be fine. Our defense is better.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: Fans don't want to hear that, man, But yeah, it
Speaker 1: sounds like they wanted to get ahead of that. So
Speaker 1: either at work, So this guy's probably cooked whoever the
Speaker 1: GM that is there, Unless he's got some dirt on
Speaker 1: Mark Cuban I'm not aware of. But either way, we'll
Speaker 1: see and Lakers fans will probably be an extra obnoxious.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think Bronie's the real loser here. Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith destroyed him and lebron at the end of last
Speaker 1: week so badly. The other two hosts were sitting there
Speaker 1: and didn't say anything, and you could tell we're very like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, is he saying this right next to us?
Speaker 1: Not quite wheeling the chair out of the camera frame,
Speaker 1: but definitely wanting to. It was very interesting to watch Sadly.
Speaker 1: More and more North Carolinians find themselves attached to the
Speaker 1: plane crash. I think they've identified fifty some fifty eight.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the official number is of the
Speaker 1: folks who were on the commercial airliner. The final name
Speaker 1: of the military aircraft, Sadly is a woman from Durham.
Speaker 1: Army Captain Rebecca Lobeck was in the helicopter when it
Speaker 1: crashed into the American Airlines flight on Wednesday outside of
Speaker 1: Reagan Airport. Let's see, where's the other names? Here we go.
Speaker 1: Staff Sergeant Ryan Austin O'Hara and Chief Warren off for
Speaker 1: Sir Andrew Eves were the other two soldiers on the plane.
Speaker 1: So for what we know, it's one soldier. Lobot grew
Speaker 1: up in Durham, played high school basketball, went to the
Speaker 1: University of the South in Tennessee. Sawanee is that what
Speaker 1: they call it? Yeah, something like that. Did r otc
Speaker 1: through North Carolina Chapel Hill, according to her family, and
Speaker 1: they actually did together. They tracked down her military recruiter here,
Speaker 1: balal Cordab, who said he was devastated when you learned
Speaker 1: the low back was one of the victims. We still
Speaker 1: don't know. I guess the totality of what was going on.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what her mos here is she
Speaker 1: crew chief? I'm not sure there were three on that aircraft.
Speaker 1: And then with the American Airlines, the crew was Charlotte based,
Speaker 1: and you had one passenger, and I think that number
Speaker 1: stands at just one passenger who was a mother from
Speaker 1: wife from Charlotte that we told you about. On Friday,
Speaker 1: they put out a long statement here. Let's see. Let
Speaker 1: me just give you some of the highlights here. She
Speaker 1: had a lot of cool stuff. Man quarter fifty hours
Speaker 1: of flight times, so she was pilot. She was the
Speaker 1: most experienced pilot in her battalion. I don't know specifically
Speaker 1: what capacity she was on this helicopter. She might have
Speaker 1: been the pilot, but I heard a male voice, so
Speaker 1: I don't know in that let's see. Also, she had
Speaker 1: a lot of White House events too, so a big
Speaker 1: long list here. Obviously, her family is quite devastated, but
Speaker 1: they did release this statement. We were devastated by the
Speaker 1: loss of our beloved Rebecca. She was a right star
Speaker 1: in our lives. She was kind, generous, brilliant, funny, ambitious
Speaker 1: and strong. Rebecca began her career in the US Army
Speaker 1: as a Distinguished Military Graduate in ROTC from the University
Speaker 1: of North Carolina. Was in the top twenty percent of
Speaker 1: cadets nationwide, achieved the rank of captain, serving twice as
Speaker 1: platoon leader and company executive officer for the twelfth Aviation Battalion.
Speaker 1: They're out of Virginia, I believe. Yeah. Fort Belvoir, Virginia,
Speaker 1: and head log four hundred and fifty hours of flight
Speaker 1: time and receive certification as pilot and command through extensive
Speaker 1: testing and the most senior and experienced pilot in her battalion.
Speaker 1: So a little bit of background there, and they talk
Speaker 1: about some of the awards and various events. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I think there's but like ten more people they still
Speaker 1: haven't identified, which I'm sure will quickly come. All right,
Speaker 1: seven sixteen here on the CaCO Day radio program, there's
Speaker 1: a video. I'm not going to play the audio for you, Well,
Speaker 1: actually I will. Are you ready you want to hear
Speaker 1: the audio except that go on for like a minute
Speaker 1: twenty and it's not that it's new, but it's new
Speaker 1: to the internet, and I'll explain what it is. But
Speaker 1: we will tweet the video, so you can go watch it,
Speaker 1: probably not in your office, depending on where you work,
Speaker 1: and not with the volume up real high. But it's hilarious,
Speaker 1: is what I will say. So I'll share that with
Speaker 1: you and much more coming up. Seven seventeen. Hang on
Speaker 1: a couple of little videos floating around out there. I
Speaker 1: shouldn't use the word little. That's not fair. It's cold.
Speaker 1: But now you're viral, bro, and you know, maybe, just
Speaker 1: maybe maybe don't fight people naked outside in the snow,
Speaker 1: drunk or something is good advice because it may lead
Speaker 1: to this. I do the crowd, by the way, holy cow,
Speaker 1: spin on it. My god. No, so what what do
Speaker 1: you think they're witnessing? Just hearing that audio and the
Speaker 1: little bit of tease I gave you right there is
Speaker 1: Do you think it's just because the person's naked? No?
Speaker 1: All right, so he did have pants on kind of,
Speaker 1: but obviously they weren't fitting. And so h he gets
Speaker 1: into a bar fight. This is Canada, gets into a
Speaker 1: bar fight. It's now in the parking lot, and they're
Speaker 1: going to arrest him, but he doesn't want to be arrested.
Speaker 1: So they do the thing where eventually they tangle with
Speaker 1: the dude, and they've got him face down, they get
Speaker 1: his hands behind his back, put him in cuffs, and
Speaker 1: now it's the part where you got to pick him up.
Speaker 1: The problem is, you know, when skin makes contact with
Speaker 1: snow and ice, just as we went and the very
Speaker 1: famous Christmas story with the tongue on the light pole.
Speaker 1: That's a thing. And it doesn't have to be your tongue,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't have to be a light pole. It
Speaker 1: could be your uh, male part and a frozen parking lot.
Speaker 1: And so while these guys are are clowning this dude
Speaker 1: and laughing at him, and police are trying to do it,
Speaker 1: they they pick him up, and it is clear that
Speaker 1: that sticks to the ice, but the police are in
Speaker 1: the middle of picking them up. So all of a
Speaker 1: sudden it I don't have to describe this, do I.
Speaker 1: I mean it does free itself. Who and then and
Speaker 1: then they start telling him he's got a small one,
Speaker 1: and now he himself is unhappy. He's not he's I
Speaker 1: don't know how the cops could have stopped the other drunks.
Speaker 1: I guess they could have arrested him. I don't know
Speaker 1: what they're doing. That's se eagle and yeah, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: that you got clowned and for you'll forever be frozen
Speaker 1: to the ground tiny. You know what, dude, maybe don't
Speaker 1: go back to that bar, but probably you got trespassed anyway,
Speaker 1: so that's not gonna be an issue. But yeah, they
Speaker 1: shot that whole video and of you getting frozen to
Speaker 1: the ground in that spot and then getting clowned because
Speaker 1: you're suffering from both shrinkage as well as probably some
Speaker 1: maybe even some skin loss. You had a very bad day.
Speaker 1: This happened a way up in Alberta, Canada. So that's
Speaker 1: number one, number two, and I here's the thing I'll understand.
Speaker 1: This is the moment you see this, you realize it's
Speaker 1: internet gold. It's not great radio gold because we don't
Speaker 1: have that many bleeps in the budget. But it's pretty
Speaker 1: wild to watch. So it was. It took place a
Speaker 1: while ago, you can tell from just the way everyone's dressed.
Speaker 1: And it's in New York. But it's one of those
Speaker 1: standsos but where sometimes you catch lightning in a jar
Speaker 1: where you're going around you're just interviewing people. A lot
Speaker 1: of times, sometimes you go interview drunks at bars in
Speaker 1: Nashville and you get hot tooy girl. In this case,
Speaker 1: they were interviewing people that were protesting out front, out
Speaker 1: in front of Trump Tower up in New York, and
Speaker 1: it's just some New Yorkers trying to walk. Hey hey,
Speaker 1: I'm walking here in that same delivery. And you can
Speaker 1: tell he's just had enough of the protesters, right, he's
Speaker 1: just off probably to do so he's busy, he's got
Speaker 1: something to do. And they said something and then this
Speaker 1: guy starts filming who had been doing Q and A
Speaker 1: with people, and you just get gold Man, right, he
Speaker 1: goes Oprah at one point he's like, you're a moon bat.
Speaker 1: You're a moon bat. You're a moon bat. Everyone gets
Speaker 1: a car kind of thing. But he does it in
Speaker 1: the New York style and it is amazing. But it's
Speaker 1: also in New York style, absolutely chock full of explotives
Speaker 1: like every other word. But he has the accent and well,
Speaker 1: we'll tweet it out so you can go ahead and
Speaker 1: check that out. But it's really funny. But it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Is this guy filmed this and he was packaged it
Speaker 1: as part of a video he then upload He's not
Speaker 1: a big creator. It's a little weird. The article reads, weird.
Speaker 1: I just saw this headline large fire at funeral home
Speaker 1: in East Greenwich, Rhode Island is where this is. I
Speaker 1: was just wondering, like you, so if your family members
Speaker 1: there at the crematorium. But it's a full funeral home,
Speaker 1: so some people are cremated obviously, they just you know,
Speaker 1: coffins for the rest, I guess. And so that broke
Speaker 1: out absolutely towards the whole place. But if you're if
Speaker 1: you were there to be cremated, does your family still
Speaker 1: get charged? Because technically it worked kind of. But now
Speaker 1: I see that the bodies that were incinerated were not
Speaker 1: awaiting cremation in an odd twist, so I guess those
Speaker 1: were gonna go standard coffin there. So yeah, yeah, those
Speaker 1: families probably are gonna get paid. So let's see here.
Speaker 1: No living people's were hurt, so there's that, although one
Speaker 1: firefighter did get treated for smoke inhalation. But yeah, this
Speaker 1: absolutely torts this whole thing. Man, It's crazy. The actual
Speaker 1: fire broke out around four am. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: the answer. Not a mortician, all right. Somebody sent me
Speaker 1: this article and I was talking about the woman from
Speaker 1: Durham who was now the identified third on the Army
Speaker 1: helicopter and they I don't know that I read as
Speaker 1: much into this, but I understand why people are paranoid.
Speaker 1: So some folks have noticed that prior to the family
Speaker 1: officially releasing the statement Saturday, when they did it Saturday afternoon,
Speaker 1: obviously the family had been aware for some time but
Speaker 1: chose to One of the things that seems to us
Speaker 1: happened is her social media was taken down, essentially closed,
Speaker 1: they say, scrubbed. That could be. It could be a
Speaker 1: number of things. And I didn't go to her social media,
Speaker 1: but I believe that's true. I have a question, isn't
Speaker 1: that kind of what you should do now if one
Speaker 1: of your kids, God God forbid this ever happened, but
Speaker 1: one of your kids, So now you're you know there.
Speaker 1: I know she's an adult, but they're still your kid,
Speaker 1: and they're in their twenties or they're in that social
Speaker 1: media generation. I feel like, now, if you have access,
Speaker 1: the first thing you should do is lock their social
Speaker 1: media because the internet's awful. Man, the Internet's awful, and
Speaker 1: you just know people would have been in there. Because
Speaker 1: there's definitely a political angle to this. Digging around to
Speaker 1: see if she ever posted anything that so they'd get
Speaker 1: a bead on where her head was that or god forbid,
Speaker 1: even worse than that, if she's got some photos that
Speaker 1: people use for you know, deep fake AI porn. I
Speaker 1: have to say it because there are people out there
Speaker 1: who will do it well. They just the whole Internet
Speaker 1: lost its mind when they introduced this shit like squirrel
Speaker 1: girl thing and immediately there was like AI adult films
Speaker 1: with her because that's that's just how the Internet internets.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I feel like nowadays the smartest
Speaker 1: thing can do, especially if you know that it's going
Speaker 1: to be high profile. Obviously this is going to be
Speaker 1: a national story. I think you got to shut down
Speaker 1: even if you don't know what's on there. You don't
Speaker 1: have to necessarily delete it, but you gotta lock it
Speaker 1: down because you're gonna want to go through that. And
Speaker 1: maybe you don't want to go through that, Maybe you do,
Speaker 1: that's up to you the family. But like, honestly, if
Speaker 1: there was this, is there a setting And I don't
Speaker 1: know how it gets triggered. Man, I don't want on
Speaker 1: my social media up after I'm gone. Also delete all
Speaker 1: my hard drives just in case. But I don't know
Speaker 1: how you attach that to something like your own little
Speaker 1: failed safe device, sa if I don't log in in
Speaker 1: twenty days, lock it down without you know, giving your
Speaker 1: family access there. People are still making jokes about the
Speaker 1: poor man in this it's shrinkage. It's cold outside. Oh,
Speaker 1: I do have a question. Would you rather be the
Speaker 1: Canadian man who fought naked in the parking lot and
Speaker 1: then was placed face down in cuffs and went picked
Speaker 1: up a certain part of his body attached to the
Speaker 1: snow and got all stretchy manned and then and then
Speaker 1: people made fun of it. Would you rather do that?
Speaker 1: Or have been at the DNC's nominating committee for their
Speaker 1: chair and vice chair over the weekend where David Hogg
Speaker 1: and the head of the Minute Soda DFL Democrats are
Speaker 1: now in charge and sat through all of that ross.
Speaker 1: You're going naked down in the snow or a Saturday
Speaker 1: with David Hogg?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're going, David Hogg.
Speaker 1: You're going David hoggs Yep. What if Nancy Pelosi shows
Speaker 1: up and AOC and they sit on either side of
Speaker 1: you for the entirety of the event. Parking lot's not
Speaker 1: looking bad and it will throw a mazy herono in
Speaker 1: so she can just randomly accuse you of disinformation. I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, but I do know it's going to
Speaker 1: be interesting to watch. And I also I also kind
Speaker 1: of get I don't know that it's conspiratory. If I
Speaker 1: was family and my adult child died and I could
Speaker 1: lock their social media, I would do it, you know,
Speaker 1: a high profile case, and it wouldn't be conspiratory. The
Speaker 1: Army probably advised her that for some folks around her
Speaker 1: due to the high profile nature, said hey, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the things you may want to do is
Speaker 1: lock their social media down, because they would have It
Speaker 1: would have been a field day on that thing. You've
Speaker 1: seen literally how everything goes. And if it turns out
Speaker 1: she was specifically the pilot, you're going to have people
Speaker 1: that are going to start the gender stuff, the DEI stuff.
Speaker 1: She's got a lot of accomplishments here and and I
Speaker 1: think the family doesn't want to go through any of
Speaker 1: that stuff. But I don't think the government did it,
Speaker 1: which is I've seen some stories sitting there literally saying
Speaker 1: that they think that's the case. And I don't know
Speaker 1: that i'd get a board of that on board with
Speaker 1: that this morning, all right, And again the news cycle
Speaker 1: most likely is going to be have the ballet's out.
Speaker 3: There, Dred number one. You've got to stop people be
Speaker 3: boring into our country.
Speaker 6: And we've stopped.
Speaker 1: Today talking about the tear offs. It's actually co Canada.
Speaker 3: We have to stop people be boring in. We have
Speaker 3: to stop Bettanola that in China and that's Trentano's killed.
Speaker 3: This year at least two hundred thousand people is boring
Speaker 3: in from China through Mexico and Canada, and they've got
Speaker 3: to stop it. And if they don't stop it, the
Speaker 3: tariffs are gonna get worse, a lot of worse.
Speaker 1: All right, So just him putting into context, I guess
Speaker 1: his big concern. Obviously it's more than that, but I
Speaker 1: think it would be helpful if he I mean, it's
Speaker 1: easy to say, yeah, but what does it look like
Speaker 1: when you think it's China's addressing it enough? What is
Speaker 1: what are those standards? And have you communicated it to
Speaker 1: them or are you expecting them? And I don't know
Speaker 1: the answer to any of those, but it will be
Speaker 1: dooming gloom. I haven't I haven't watched like Good Morning
Speaker 1: America or seen they're a little opening. So days like
Speaker 1: this sometimes I would just kind of check that out.
Speaker 1: I assume they're leading with this. I assume the biggest
Speaker 1: story that they and others from a news cycle standard
Speaker 1: are going to be teariffs are going to be how
Speaker 1: everything's going to be too expensive and oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: if we've been to the grocery store, look what Trump did.
Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong, it may have an impact
Speaker 1: they if they want to drag this thing out, but
Speaker 1: groceries didn't just get expensive. And he's not wrong on
Speaker 1: the fennyl stuff. And as we pointed out earlier in
Speaker 1: the show, this is a huge slice of both of
Speaker 1: their economies, their trade economies for them, not as big
Speaker 1: of a slice for us. Noticeable, you know, almost two percent.
Speaker 1: Not something that goes unnoticed. So we'll see, all right,
Speaker 1: seven forty three. We got ray stagic creeping up on
Speaker 1: forty four there from the Weather Channel. What's up sporting? Yeh,
Speaker 1: I don't watch tell you Monday. I don't know if it's good,
Speaker 1: but you know, nothing you're gonna do that's Monday. You
Speaker 1: know you're not gonna be here next week because you're accurate.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 8: I am that guy.
Speaker 1: So your predictions held up for the most part, so uh,
Speaker 1: don't let us down this week. How about that?
Speaker 8: No mild a week this week then we had last week.
Speaker 8: We'll talk about records after today. We'll dig in tomorrow
Speaker 8: and see what they are. For the rest of the week.
Speaker 8: There's one kind of anomaly for some of us, and
Speaker 8: that's Wednesday. We get a little more of a wedge
Speaker 8: and that could bring an east wind and some cooler temperatures,
Speaker 8: but most mid upper sixties today. Got a little cloud
Speaker 8: around this morning from go about Johnson City, Tennessee, right
Speaker 8: across the Triad and the Triangle heading toward Greenville to
Speaker 8: the south, near Fayetteville points south, there's a little more sunshine,
Speaker 8: but we're all going to get into the sunshine later today.
Speaker 8: A beautiful Monday, close to fifty Tonight Tuesday gorgeous, lots
Speaker 8: of sunshine, low to mid seventies, and then Wednesday, maybe
Speaker 8: a little rain into Wednesday night highs only in the
Speaker 8: mid upper fifties, which is still at or slightly above average,
Speaker 8: and then that wedge'll break and we're gonna get into
Speaker 8: maybe a little rain for Thursday, but very mild to
Speaker 8: the mix of clouds and sun middle to maybe upper
Speaker 8: seventies and then back in the sixties on Friday. All
Speaker 8: these temperatures except Wednesday well above average, and as it said,
Speaker 8: we may be in record territory. The records are probably
Speaker 8: more like eighty or eighty plus for this time of
Speaker 8: the year, but still casey for this time of year
Speaker 8: so far. The groundhog, at least the official.
Speaker 1: Guy, through it without it. I thought never happened to Sunday.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 1: We'd make it through without having to hear about gobblers
Speaker 1: not whatever that stupid thing is. Sorry, so he predicted
Speaker 1: six more weeks a wi right, right, fos try to
Speaker 1: let a road and steer the direction of this ution
Speaker 1: based report here.
Speaker 8: You know, a couple of weeks everybody forgets about it anyway,
Speaker 8: and somebody says, well, what about those six weeks or
Speaker 8: six weeks later, nobody remembers.
Speaker 1: It's accountable. You exec a few that get a few
Speaker 1: wrong in a row, like you know, not on the
Speaker 1: first one be handed to the former mayor of New York,
Speaker 1: but to in a row, even if you want to
Speaker 1: go to California. Three strikes. Yeah, right, I don't know
Speaker 1: what lifespan is much less when de blog told them,
Speaker 1: but still all right, Well we didn't make it, all right,
Speaker 1: thanks sir, all right, appreciate it. Yeah I was. I
Speaker 1: was thinking, we're gonna get away with not having to
Speaker 1: take a trip to guys. It's not gobbled, it's Gobbler's Knob, right,
Speaker 1: I always screw this up. Dixville Notch for the early voters.
Speaker 1: The only things I know about the New England. Oh
Speaker 1: and Boston fans, but that's a whole other thing. So
Speaker 1: it's Dixville Notches where they vote. Gobbler's Knob is where
Speaker 1: they use the road and to predict weather inacturately, I
Speaker 1: might add, No, he's the corporate shill. Well who wait,
Speaker 1: who's Puckstaddie working for Big what fake Browner?
Speaker 2: Big Winter?
Speaker 1: Oh, Big Winter? So like uh, snow tires and little
Speaker 1: handwarmers and yeah, you can't trust anybody. Everybody's an influencer
Speaker 1: these days, and not everyone discloses it. All right, seven
Speaker 1: forty six k co Oda Radio program Wild Story. If
Speaker 1: I got time, I'll share this thing. I was just
Speaker 1: reading with you real quickly from the from the Leverett
Speaker 1: Levitt cam. Excuse me say this, Catherine Levitt. There we go.
Speaker 1: It'll stick, I promise the White House Press Secretary getting
Speaker 1: a question by Peter Doucey at Friday's press conference. Let
Speaker 1: me just jip you a little audio from that. Here
Speaker 1: we go. President Trump is telling us that air traffic
Speaker 1: control towers are staffed with unqualified controllers, these DEI hires
Speaker 1: who never should have been brought on. Then it's not
Speaker 1: safe flying produ is.
Speaker 9: The President was asked to me answer yesterday, and he
Speaker 9: believes that it is still indeed safe, and Americans should
Speaker 9: feel safe traveling our skies. With that said, two things
Speaker 9: can be true at the same time. And we certainly
Speaker 9: have seen the deterioration of federal hiring standards at the
Speaker 9: Federal and aviation and aministration, and the President wants to.
Speaker 2: Increase those standards.
Speaker 9: He wants pilots in this country, who have the great
Speaker 9: responsibility of flying American citizens by the tens of millions
Speaker 9: every single day, to be chosen for that position based
Speaker 9: on their merit and their skills, And so the administration
Speaker 9: will continue to prioritize this.
Speaker 1: Scientists are casting doubt on the reliability of America's most
Speaker 1: celebrated forecaster. This is more pucksatani phil stuff. So let
Speaker 1: me get this straight. Scientists decided to do science to
Speaker 1: debunk that. Does anybody really think that a rodent predicts
Speaker 1: the weather? Am I missing something here? You don't. You
Speaker 1: don't have to do a research study. You can just
Speaker 1: tell me that. You'd be like, we don't think he knows,
Speaker 1: and I'd be like, no, he probably doesn't. Nothing. He's
Speaker 1: doing as natural as people are chanting outside of his
Speaker 1: fake hole his name, which he doesn't comprehend. He's just like,
Speaker 1: what's going on outside? Maybe there's food outside. Let's see
Speaker 1: what's going on. They doesn't see food, or he does
Speaker 1: see food. I think it's rigged, like the NFL. But
Speaker 1: we'll see. But yet again, in this article, second paragraph,
Speaker 1: Pukstani Phil made famous by the ninety three Groundhog Day,
Speaker 1: and now Ross was at least in proximity to this
Speaker 1: thing growing up in New York. Hey, whyoming I knew
Speaker 1: about this damn thing. We call it rock chucks. Sometimes
Speaker 1: we shoot at him, but we don't use them predict
Speaker 1: our weather. They didn't have a mule. They did it
Speaker 1: for a while though, and he died.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: I remember growing up like they would always like, go
Speaker 2: there were two of them. They would do. They'd be
Speaker 2: like well, this is what you know, punk Satani, Phil said,
Speaker 2: this is what our own version said.
Speaker 1: Done, yeah, whatever your local version is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So scientists dug into it. What do you think a
Speaker 1: puck Satani And obviously there's been lots of Pucksatani phills,
Speaker 1: But if you just take Pucksatani's predictions for the last
Speaker 1: hundred years or whatever, what do you think his success
Speaker 1: rate is? Because they have it here, they did, they
Speaker 1: did science stuff. What do you think his success rate is?
Speaker 1: As it as it pertains to It looks like the
Speaker 1: northeast is what they've decided to be the sample size,
Speaker 1: not just Pennsylvania thirty five percent. That might get you
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame in baseball if you hit
Speaker 1: three fifty. But it ain't like that's no good. That
Speaker 1: ranks him seventeenth. Yes, they went and they study the
Speaker 1: one or no, was it all one hundred or was
Speaker 1: it fifty? They studied like the top fifty. Yeah, here
Speaker 1: we go, top fifty famous groundhogs. So and uh, Pucksitani's
Speaker 1: bat in three fitty. Now stat Island Chuck, which is
Speaker 1: not the one that DiBlasio killed. This is this is
Speaker 1: one that probably heard his fellow Forest Rodent weather forecaster
Speaker 1: scream out in in pain as he died. But but
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's a ferry ride away. So Statn
Speaker 1: Island Phil is Batten eight fitty, which I may throw
Speaker 1: that back at Ray. Is Ray correct? Eighty five percent
Speaker 1: of the tie. I guess it comes down to what
Speaker 1: all he's doing is roughly when when winter will go away? Well,
Speaker 1: what is I don't even have your methodology in here,
Speaker 1: by the way, I did look it up, Ross, I
Speaker 1: was wrong. Do you know how long old Phil's been
Speaker 1: working there in Pennsylvania. I thought it was early nineteen hundreds,
Speaker 1: eighteen eighty seven, So we've had one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: years almost of him, and he's got thirty five percent,
Speaker 1: right stat Island. Chuck ain't been around as long, but
Speaker 1: he's got eighty five percent, and he's been over I
Speaker 1: think they had to be doing it for over fifteen
Speaker 1: years to make this. So he's he's leader. You guys
Speaker 1: should trade for him in the middle of the night
Speaker 1: and not tell your fans his shows that one day,
Speaker 1: here's Chuck just hanging around in Pennsylvania. People of Staten
Speaker 1: Island are devastated. You're gonna go get one of those
Speaker 1: octopuses that picks the World cup or whatever. Everybody's got
Speaker 1: a thing.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just a generational thing because like punk
Speaker 2: satani Phil, like when he started he was going against
Speaker 2: like plumbers and electricians and stuff, and you got this
Speaker 2: like you know, more modern age groundhog. You know, yeah,
Speaker 2: just further ahead. It's not fair to fill.
Speaker 1: Well. Yeah, although to be fair, this the actual current
Speaker 1: pill is younger than Chud, the current Chuck, which is.
Speaker 2: So it's like a it's a dread pirate Roberts thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he was the well I don't want to
Speaker 1: spoiler alert. There's not just one. Okay, so her beloved, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a whole thing. You should you should watch it,
Speaker 1: all right. So uh yeah, so thirty five percent. I'll
Speaker 1: keep that for Ray when we talk to him here
Speaker 1: in about forty five minutes and he can answer why
Speaker 1: he puts any trust in this thing, all right. Couple
Speaker 1: of other things we got to get too, other than oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: Terriff's tariffs, tariffs, dude. Yeah, today's just gonna be one
Speaker 1: of those days. Or maybe you just maybe you just
Speaker 1: want to sit back and watch cartoons or something all right,
Speaker 1: So I mentioned earlier in the show that Musk is
Speaker 1: tweeting and Doge is tweeting a lot of stuff, a
Speaker 1: lot of cuts. And one of the things they put
Speaker 1: out was a chart and it showed one point two billion.
Speaker 1: There we go. One point two billion in just DEI
Speaker 1: programs the savings cut and it covered all the different
Speaker 1: from Department of Bag to personnel management, which was the biggest.
Speaker 1: I think it's about a half billion because they do
Speaker 1: most of the governmental training and just everything under the sun.
Speaker 1: But when he tweeted it out, he tweeted this, and
Speaker 1: I think it's this is a really really I mean,
Speaker 1: you knew the deficits obviously insane, and their goal is
Speaker 1: to take it from two trillion to one trillion, and
Speaker 1: the hope is that the one trillion is chewed up
Speaker 1: by economic growth, which got'd be crazy. Do you know
Speaker 1: how much they'd have to cut every day in all right,
Speaker 1: So this is the cut is facing twenty twenty six
Speaker 1: projected spending. So they don't even have the number per
Speaker 1: se yet, but they kind of know what it is.
Speaker 1: So between now and twenty twenty six, so every day
Speaker 1: of this year, doze or somewhere in the government Congress
Speaker 1: could do this as well. Has to cut four billion
Speaker 1: dollars a day. So even that list that he put
Speaker 1: out on hey, here's all the DEI cuts we made
Speaker 1: on Friday or whatever the day was, is still only
Speaker 1: twenty five percent of what they have to do every
Speaker 1: single day between now and January first to twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: It's a really heavy lift. And this is the easy stuff, right,
Speaker 1: this is the DEI programs. You got to face to it,
Speaker 1: you know what it is. As soon as they start
Speaker 1: making hard cuts or cuts that are not as easily explainable, right,
Speaker 1: they'd be fine if they could sit you down and go, look,
Speaker 1: here's why we're cutting this. This is insane. But it'll
Speaker 1: have a cute see name, It'll have a nice name,
Speaker 1: like you know, and they'll be, oh, that's for the kids.
Speaker 1: And now you're cutting the stuff for the kids because
Speaker 1: you want kids to die of cancer. And the media
Speaker 1: will absolutely take this one by one. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: you're going to see extreme pushback on the DEI stuff.
Speaker 1: I think they've already had their tantrum. But this is
Speaker 1: the easy stuff, and they keep posting it. I appreciate
Speaker 1: the transparency Must went on to say, is cautiously optimistic
Speaker 1: though reach the four billion dollars per day twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six reduction goal, and then gave credit to I knowne
Speaker 1: of this to be possible without to Donald Trump. And
Speaker 1: he's doing this while he's doing shareholder meetings and posting
Speaker 1: memes and dominating Diablo. So again he's he's a freaking
Speaker 1: cyborg man. Uh must want on to write all right,
Speaker 1: hold on? Obviously there will be extreme opposition from the grifters,
Speaker 1: and they will make it sound like we're cutting funding
Speaker 1: to save baby pandas. I have a question, are we
Speaker 1: spending money to save baby pandas. I'm not diametrically opposed
Speaker 1: to pandas, but we don't have pandas that live here,
Speaker 1: not We don't even even the ones that come visit
Speaker 1: or owned by the Chinese government. Maybe we had a
Speaker 1: few like grandfathered in pandas, But then where are the
Speaker 1: baby pandas coming from? Because all I see you guys
Speaker 1: doing is send, you know, spending an an ordinate amount
Speaker 1: of money to make like panda porn and panda aphrodisiac
Speaker 1: so you can get the one over at the zoo too.
Speaker 1: Hookup is that what you mean are we sending money
Speaker 1: to China for baby pandas, which god knows how they're
Speaker 1: using it. And by the way, that check better not
Speaker 1: come up. Short. Zelenski whining over the weekend because his
Speaker 1: hundred billion or his hundred he thought he was getting
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy seven billion, and he only got
Speaker 1: a hundred billion. And now he's like, what happened to
Speaker 1: the money, which is a good question, right, did it
Speaker 1: leave the treasury at one hundred and seventy seven but
Speaker 1: processing fees and uh, what interests chewed it up? Or
Speaker 1: he just thought he was gay. It sounds like he
Speaker 1: thought he was going to get that and he didn't
Speaker 1: get it. But it doesn't mean he still won't get
Speaker 1: the other seventy seven. He just didn't get it in time.
Speaker 1: And maybe it's because the Trump administration. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: we're we're looking at everything right now. But the audacity Ross,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a hundred and fifty billion dollars.
Speaker 1: You're okay with that? Give you a hundred and fifty billion?
Speaker 1: You like that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're great, and I'd spend it, would you you promise?
Speaker 1: Okay? All right, I'm gonna send you this one. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna send you a hundred billion now, but maybe the
Speaker 1: rest are car Are you happy now because you have
Speaker 1: one hundred billion? Are you happy? Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, I'm good.
Speaker 1: What if I never send you the other fifty billion?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna you're gonna hold a press conference whining
Speaker 1: about it? Or are you just gonna go buy all
Speaker 1: this horrible stuff and are gonna buy?
Speaker 2: I mean it depends if I blow through my other money. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Like if I blow through all that money that I'll
Speaker 2: be like, hey, where's my money?
Speaker 1: Well, revenging is expensive. It is right when you're trying
Speaker 1: to settle all scores and debts. I mean, bulldo have you.
Speaker 2: Seeing how long the list is?
Speaker 1: It's it is? Santa would be a he'd be like, nah,
Speaker 1: I'm not going out tonight. I just I can't do it.
Speaker 1: So am I still on the list? I saw that earlier?
Speaker 1: My name up there? Okay, Now he's busy. He's busy
Speaker 1: highlighting something. I think that's me. I think that's probably
Speaker 1: me anyway, And I gave him the money to do it,
Speaker 1: so jokes on me, all right? Eight seventeen, Hang on
Speaker 1: going after China, Canada and Mexico, and when you do
Speaker 1: the analysis on this stuff, we can get calls to
Speaker 1: if you want eight eight eight nine three four seven
Speaker 1: eight seven four. When we when we look individually, China
Speaker 1: is the outlier. I mean, obviously that would have a
Speaker 1: huge impact on China. So much of what gets sold
Speaker 1: here in the US, and a lot of it is
Speaker 1: just garbage, right, I'm gonna be ordered so on the internet,
Speaker 1: it's only eight cents for this snow shovel or whatever,
Speaker 1: and then it shows up and a damn thing just breaks.
Speaker 1: But people buy it. And there's a lot, a lot,
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that's manufacturing in China by American companies.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and China has shown a willingness to literally
Speaker 1: murder their own citizens if it fits with the party's
Speaker 1: policy there and what they're wanting to do. So if
Speaker 1: Ji Jinping there gets he wants to get into this
Speaker 1: match with Trump, he'll literally starve part of his population
Speaker 1: at least funding from them to accomplish it. Because everything's
Speaker 1: about a representation of power with those cats, They're not
Speaker 1: gonna do what the Colombian president did and issue a
Speaker 1: press release in the morning saying you'll fight till the
Speaker 1: bitter end, only to uh turn around later in the
Speaker 1: day and acquiesce on the point China won't do that.
Speaker 1: Tell me if this sounds like a good thing. China's
Speaker 1: quote they have quotes artificial sun fuels, Western fears it
Speaker 1: has lost race to energy, holy grail. So China they're
Speaker 1: kind of I'll explain why they're calling it the sun.
Speaker 1: But still, I don't know, man, this every time I've
Speaker 1: seen anything like this in a movie, it it, you know,
Speaker 1: some super energy like the well, the Death Star, I
Speaker 1: guess would be one. What was the what was the
Speaker 1: latest thing called that was able to be thwarted by
Speaker 1: like five people, two of them elderly, the big super
Speaker 1: weapon anyway, Eh, yeah, and it never ends. Well, so
Speaker 1: I don't know, but we'll give you the details of
Speaker 1: what they're talking about and uh speculate what they might
Speaker 1: do with it. You're gonna be hard to laser us
Speaker 1: directly because you know you're here and you'd have to
Speaker 1: bend in. It's a whole thing. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: One of those bad boys on the moon, I'm not
Speaker 1: too sure. Brian looked.
Speaker 5: Basically because I was listening to c NBC this morning
Speaker 5: and the whole point of these tariffs seems to be
Speaker 5: kind of going to the to the wayside here a
Speaker 5: lot from what they were saying from the White House. Basically,
Speaker 5: the trumps are being put on, I mean, the terraffs
Speaker 5: are being put on to stop China, Mexico, and Canada
Speaker 5: from engaging in the drug drug wars. I mean, you know,
Speaker 5: at least.
Speaker 1: Looking at least looking at not enforcing it as strictly
Speaker 1: in the in the form of Canada. Yeah, we played
Speaker 1: the audio from Trump. If people missed it, he said, uh,
Speaker 1: it would ask plane side. Basically fentanyl produced in China
Speaker 1: that then enters via Mexico and Canada. So that is
Speaker 1: on the record.
Speaker 5: So what he's doing, though, is basically telling me that
Speaker 5: those countries, look, either you stop the drugs from coming
Speaker 5: into the country, or we will tax you, take your money,
Speaker 5: and then we'll stop the drugs from coming in with
Speaker 5: that money. So but I mean, that is the main
Speaker 5: goal of this. Yes, the other goal is to also
Speaker 5: stop them because you know, it also seems to get
Speaker 5: kind of overlooked. China and Mexico and Canada. They also
Speaker 5: put tiffy on us. We don't have tariff on them.
Speaker 5: But they've got tariff on them out and now everybody's
Speaker 5: stopping it because going to do it, you have you.
Speaker 1: Have some we do have some TERRFT. You're absolutely right, sir.
Speaker 1: I just want to but I want to be accurate here.
Speaker 1: We do have some tariffs, uh, but it's not for
Speaker 1: as much as they utilize the market. It is nowhere
Speaker 1: near what tariffs used to be, and they have some
Speaker 1: specific carve outs. That's why the whole debate over Favored
Speaker 1: nation status with China was such a big thing because
Speaker 1: it essentially opened a lot of this up. But you're right,
Speaker 1: not only do they terrify us, they also prohibit US
Speaker 1: companies from selling into their markets in certain instances. So
Speaker 1: you know that's that's that's a huge deal right there.
Speaker 1: So I agree with you. I want the Trump admen,
Speaker 1: but what does that look like?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 1: What could Canada do where Trump went? Thank you? You're
Speaker 1: taking this seriously. What is the metric? And I don't
Speaker 1: know what the metric is yet, but maybe that's why
Speaker 1: he's leaving it open so they come back with some
Speaker 1: where he can accept it and feel like he's making
Speaker 1: a deal even though it accomplished what he wanted.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying to believe the metric is
Speaker 5: measuring how many, how much in terms of drugs are
Speaker 5: coming in? How much are we still catching coming into
Speaker 5: our borders or.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, I agree with you. That could be
Speaker 1: a metric because look, US, Mexico, Canada at large are
Speaker 1: not going to catch every drug that comes through any
Speaker 1: of the reports. Right, It's just it would be impossible
Speaker 1: worldwide deliveries would would we screeched to a halt? But
Speaker 1: you're right, what is a measurable metric? And maybe that's
Speaker 1: what it is. What is the US catching on the
Speaker 1: other side? Did it decrease fifty percent? Is that a
Speaker 1: good enough number? And I don't know the answer. So
Speaker 1: that's that's why I' putting it out there. Thanks for
Speaker 1: the call there, Brian, appreciate it. Janet, thanks for hanging on.
Speaker 1: What's up?
Speaker 10: Hey? I can completely understand the family shutting down the Facebook.
Speaker 10: Facebook is a lot to deal with, like right now,
Speaker 10: and let me go, let.
Speaker 1: Me, let me, let me explain to folks that I
Speaker 1: was talking about. So the family of the third military member,
Speaker 1: the female captain from Durham originally on Saturday afternoon when
Speaker 1: they put out the statement identified her, and the family
Speaker 1: put a statement they prior to that, they locked down
Speaker 1: her social media, and some people just going, oh, it's
Speaker 1: a conspiracy. But I don't know. I feel like, at
Speaker 1: the very least, you can't just leave it out there,
Speaker 1: especially in a high profile situation like that, because people
Speaker 1: are going to be digging in it, They're going to
Speaker 1: want to make political points, weirdos on the internet are
Speaker 1: going to find pictures of her, and god knows. So
Speaker 1: I was just pointing out to people like, maybe for
Speaker 1: the family's sanity, that's what they decided to do. Maybe
Speaker 1: they don't even want to review it. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but you were saying you could completely identify and I
Speaker 1: think the audience, if they've listened for any time, knows
Speaker 1: that your son died here last year. So what was
Speaker 1: the decision. Did you lock it down, did you post
Speaker 1: on it, what did you do?
Speaker 10: Yeah, well, their situation was completely different from mine that
Speaker 10: it was kind of there was some little bit of
Speaker 10: shady stuff going on around my son's situation, but you know,
Speaker 10: it's not like that for her. They know what happened
Speaker 10: to their daughter. So Facebook is really that's a lot
Speaker 10: to deal with when you're going through that and trying
Speaker 10: to plan a funeral and trying to grieve your loved one,
Speaker 10: and like everything comes out at once, so it's just sure,
Speaker 10: I understand the one and one last thing to deal with.
Speaker 10: I want the exact opposite direction. I took over my
Speaker 10: son's Facebook. I got to get to know, you know,
Speaker 10: the everyday little stuff that you don't pay attention to
Speaker 10: in your loved one's wife.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 10: I went digging up as much as that as I could,
Speaker 10: and digging into his friends and here he was talking
Speaker 10: to and what he was doing.
Speaker 1: So glad? Are you still glad that you did because
Speaker 1: that you know that, who knows how that goes? Right?
Speaker 10: I am. I'd found some valuable information actually for law enforcement.
Speaker 2: There so.
Speaker 10: Actually a useful tool in some cases. But honestly, if
Speaker 10: I didn't have to do that, or if I didn't
Speaker 10: feel like I had to do that, I never would
Speaker 10: have messed with his Facebook.
Speaker 1: I totally get it. And again, we're so sorry here, Janet.
Speaker 1: But that's that's why when I saw this story and
Speaker 1: people were immediately going to the consult, I'm like, I
Speaker 1: don't know, because I try not to question grieving parents
Speaker 1: to my whether it's a high profile story or not,
Speaker 1: because I just I don't know how it'd acts there,
Speaker 1: but I stand either way.
Speaker 10: So yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Janne, I appreciate you calling in on this Monday. Have
Speaker 1: a good week, Okay, all right, there you go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I understand, uh, with
Speaker 1: Janni's motivation, there was just trying to fill in some pieces.
Speaker 1: I understand that. So this family just decided it looks
Speaker 1: like to go ahead and shut it off. Maybe that
Speaker 1: maybe a year down the road they'll go back through it.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but either way, I'm if that's the
Speaker 1: decision they made, then so be it. All right. So
Speaker 1: let me let me fill you in on this story
Speaker 1: real quick. Before we talked to Ray, Western governments and
Speaker 1: investors has spent much of the last week fretting about
Speaker 1: scientific breakthroughs in China. What they're talking about is that
Speaker 1: AI thing, which that's weird, man, that whole deep seek thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I understand why these conspiracies around that, although it also
Speaker 1: seems not really good as many processors and everything that
Speaker 1: they have, like because they didn't it's clear that it's
Speaker 1: backbone was some some tech from the US, which is
Speaker 1: not unusual concerning the intellectual property theft that China is
Speaker 1: known for and the constant hacking. But when at first,
Speaker 1: when they first talked about Deepseek and how little it
Speaker 1: costs and needed to run, and how much fast or
Speaker 1: powerful it was by their own claims, people start freaking out.
Speaker 1: Last week absolutely absolutely hit the stocks of some of
Speaker 1: those companies, and people want, all, right, did we lose
Speaker 1: to them? Well, now, there are some some satellite images
Speaker 1: of this facility which looks like a big X that's
Speaker 1: in central China, and the reports are that they have
Speaker 1: somehow using lasers basically created a fission reaction, so they're
Speaker 1: mirroring what the Sun's doing. That produces more energy than
Speaker 1: it takes to create, which is that's the goal, right,
Speaker 1: That's the goal of anything or cold fusion or fission
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. And I'm not a nuclear scientist,
Speaker 1: so bear with me. But it's like anything else, does
Speaker 1: it take more energy to produce than it produces, And
Speaker 1: once you can break that apart, it's all that's all
Speaker 1: free money, so to speak.
Speaker 2: Right, So they're making star Killer Base.
Speaker 1: They're making star Killer Base. Yes, but like you pointed out,
Speaker 1: you can't. Star Killer Base couldn't have shot on the
Speaker 1: other side of that planet, all right, because it was.
Speaker 2: The whole thing. I mean, maybe if you got like
Speaker 2: a giant mirror.
Speaker 1: Well, as I was wondering, are they gonna bankshot us
Speaker 1: or what? So if they've put if they put a
Speaker 1: satellite up that just looks like a giant disco ball,
Speaker 1: we're screwed right.
Speaker 2: Like a giant magnifying glass.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're the ants, man. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But as I pointed out, whether it's star Killer Base
Speaker 1: or you know, either of the two actual is that
Speaker 1: a moon? No, it's not like it all didn't work
Speaker 1: out for him. But also the planet on which those
Speaker 1: things were was decimated, so they still get us even
Speaker 1: if they don't get us. So I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know that they know, no, but that would be
Speaker 1: a big deal if they did. All right, let me
Speaker 1: get Race Stagic in here to break the news to them.
Speaker 1: Are you ready, Race Agic? Yeah?
Speaker 7: Go.
Speaker 1: Scientists who apparently had nothing better to do, did an
Speaker 1: in depth study of the most famous groundhogs in America,
Speaker 1: and of course Pucksatani is very fair. Although I'm sick
Speaker 1: of all these stories saying that the only reason Pakistani
Speaker 1: Phil is famous is because the Bill Murray movie in
Speaker 1: ninety three. Both AP and Yahoo have said that, but anyway,
Speaker 1: they wanted to check how good they are, and Pakistani
Speaker 1: Phil is abysmal. Do you know that Pucksatani and the
Speaker 1: various versions of him going back to eighteen eighteen eighty
Speaker 1: seven is batton three point.
Speaker 8: Fifty tens of millions of dollars in Major League Baseball?
Speaker 1: I understand in Major League Baseball, but if you had,
Speaker 1: if you had somebody at the weather channels who screwed
Speaker 1: it up two thirds of the time, it wouldn't work there, right.
Speaker 8: What do you think perception is?
Speaker 2: Is that we do?
Speaker 5: Though?
Speaker 1: I do you think you have a better track? Well,
Speaker 1: you have to know the boundaries too. It's like, what
Speaker 1: does it mean for winter to end? Is there a
Speaker 1: scientific reasoning as to what that is? You can This
Speaker 1: sounds like they just got bored and needed grant money. Now.
Speaker 1: Staten Island whatever Staten Island's name is, isn't it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know he's bad and eight fit he's up there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well he's number one. Yeah, I'm going with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So you think it'll be like one day the fans
Speaker 1: of State Island Chuck will wake up like Dallas Mavericks
Speaker 1: fans have this morning and realize they gave him away?
Speaker 1: What right do? What's going on?
Speaker 5: There?
Speaker 8: No idea that was crazy, but better.
Speaker 1: Than pucksatani And if you task you better than Chuck,
Speaker 1: what do you got?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 8: Well, it's certainly not five more days of winter. That's
Speaker 8: long gone. After that cold snap we had a few
Speaker 8: weeks back. We're back in the sunshine. A little cloud
Speaker 8: as we go through this morning, but that's starting to
Speaker 8: pull away to the east. And by this afternoon it's
Speaker 8: been upper sixties. Tomorrow lit to mid seventies and more sunshine.
Speaker 8: There might be a little rain. Wednesday will be cooler,
Speaker 8: we'll get wedged with an east breeze. We're back in
Speaker 8: the fifties Wednesday night, we'll see that rain continuing. And
Speaker 8: then Thursdays still a slight chance of rain, but partly
Speaker 8: sunny and milder. We're back to the seventies and the sixties
Speaker 8: Friday and even into the weekend as sixties and seventies.
Speaker 8: Casey gonna be another warm six to ten days. That's
Speaker 8: what the outlook is. I did look ahead, and I said, well,
Speaker 8: what could happen if I did want to be a
Speaker 8: long range prognosticator? Middle of the month, maybe starting to
Speaker 8: turn colder once again. So remember it's only early February.
Speaker 8: I'm sure we'll get cold. We one or two more times.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, thanks sir, appreciate it. We'll come back
Speaker 1: with Jeff Bellinger next.
Speaker 11: Hang on, Well, another rough Monday ahead, Casey, it's all
Speaker 11: about yeah, yes, it's all about trade and tariffs. As
Speaker 11: Wall Street prepares to start the new week and month
Speaker 11: and investors are fearful, President Trump is keeping his campaign
Speaker 11: promise to levy tariffs on trading partners he believes and
Speaker 11: giving the US a bad deal. Canada, Mexico, and China
Speaker 11: will be hit first. The President is also threatening to
Speaker 11: impose tariffs on the European Union. Economists say Americans will
Speaker 11: likely to see the prices of cars, avocados, bell peppers,
Speaker 11: and a lot of other products rise as the result
Speaker 11: of tariffs. Mister Trump says any pain to consumers will
Speaker 11: be short term. Costco and the Costco teamsters reached agreement
Speaker 11: on a tentative contract agreement over the weekend, so for now,
Speaker 11: a strike against the warehouse operator has been averted. The
Speaker 11: pact still has to be ratified. The union's prior contract
Speaker 11: with Costco expired at the end of the day on Friday.
Speaker 11: Arbucks in the union that represents workers at many of
Speaker 11: its coffee shops, maybe moving toward a contract deal. The
Speaker 11: two sides have agreed to drop their lawsuits against one another.
Speaker 11: A report from the financial modeling company First Street says
Speaker 11: the loss in real estate values resulting from climate change
Speaker 11: could top one point four trillion dollars. This because insurance
Speaker 11: costs arising faster than mortgage payments in some disaster prone markets.
Speaker 11: The report says this could eventually drive a migration away
Speaker 11: from high risk areas in the Sun Belt. In the West,
Speaker 11: it's become a lot harder to get a bank loan
Speaker 11: if your credit is less than sterling bank rates, says
Speaker 11: banks have tightened their lending standards and almost half of
Speaker 11: the Americans who applied for loans last year were turned
Speaker 11: down at least once.
Speaker 2: And Casey.
Speaker 11: MasterCard just announced this morning it has a new marketing
Speaker 11: deal with Lady Gaga.
Speaker 2: Casey.
Speaker 1: Oh, how nice for her. I didn't watch you Grammys.
Speaker 1: Watched Grammys last night. Anything we need.
Speaker 2: I did not.
Speaker 1: Oh it's too bad, got to as well. So he
Speaker 1: had a thing. All right, Thank you, Jeff, appreciate it. Okay,
Speaker 1: have a good day.
Speaker 2: Talk to mine.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep. I think Beyonce won some stuff. I think
Speaker 1: she want like country album or something too, but she
Speaker 1: won whatever the big one was, I guess album of
Speaker 1: the Year. Kanye was there, but he never made it inside.
Speaker 1: I guess they didn't even have a ticket. So what
Speaker 1: do they do? Kanye and whoever is his his girl
Speaker 1: is there who doesn't like to wear clothes very much.
Speaker 1: Really stressed that point because they showed up on the
Speaker 1: red carpet. She's got like a fur jacket thing on
Speaker 1: and then she takes it off and she's not wearing anything.
Speaker 1: She's wearing like some little sea through waste thing. But
Speaker 1: other than that, just here it is. Here's everything, and
Speaker 1: I guess police removed her. But also, and that should
Speaker 1: have dawned upon me, Kanye didn't have a ticket because
Speaker 1: he got eighty six over all that the Jewish stuff
Speaker 1: and probably some other stuff. So so they literally just
Speaker 1: went their toatrol and then I don't really know. There's
Speaker 1: a picture of a chicken like a dominatrix outfit, riding
Speaker 1: like a full size horse, size my little pony, and
Speaker 1: I don't know who that is, and I don't want
Speaker 1: to know actually who that is. But apparently they were
Speaker 1: quite pleased with the performance. And then that's it. That's
Speaker 1: what I know about the Grammys. I'm just not waiting
Speaker 1: for the Oscars. As we talked about where they're, you know,
Speaker 1: they're just like, hey, let's go ahead and give the
Speaker 1: most words to movie, any movie ever to send a
Speaker 1: political point to Trump, and I firmly think they'll do it.