Speaker 1: The CaCO Day Radio program. It is Friday, so boo,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean yay on that, but boo, we
Speaker 1: have to do one more. So oh what is this thing? Oh?
Speaker 1: Why are you being this way this morning? That worked? Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, there's so much weirdness in our system today.
Speaker 1: Did we get sold to another company or something like?
Speaker 1: Everything is just weird this morning. Anyway, we'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and truck through it. Good morning to you coming up
Speaker 1: on the show today. I want to remind you Pete
Speaker 1: Calendar will join us. Excuse me, let me get a
Speaker 1: little a little more sip of my water here. Pete
Speaker 1: Calendar will join us, coming up at eight o five.
Speaker 1: And lord knows we got enough to go ahead and
Speaker 1: get into this morning, so you know that'll be fun.
Speaker 1: There we go. Dude, I don't know if they did
Speaker 1: a bunch of updates on stuff. Oh that is so weird.
Speaker 1: All right, sorry, I was ross and I were chatting
Speaker 1: there and then I didn't even log into this one
Speaker 1: thing I needed to log into and then it fought
Speaker 1: me on it. So all right, well whatever do do do?
Speaker 2: Do?
Speaker 1: All right? Hold on, yeah, no, you're getting you're you're
Speaker 1: watching how the sausage is made because I realized I
Speaker 1: didn't do it. We have this weird even when we're
Speaker 1: on company, you know, computers and all that thing. Uh,
Speaker 1: we have this weird verification thing that used to work
Speaker 1: one way and now kind of works. However it decides
Speaker 1: to work. And I don't know how to describe that.
Speaker 2: If you're waiting for a verification code this morning, oh
Speaker 2: your luck.
Speaker 1: Well that's what I was sitting there waiting.
Speaker 2: It'll it'll take about I don't know, fifteen twenty minutes
Speaker 2: for that code to come through.
Speaker 1: Well no, no, no, you did you hear the ding right there?
Speaker 1: I had my phone on instead of on silent. That
Speaker 1: was a verification code that literally was supposed to come
Speaker 1: twenty minutes ago, and then it just showed up. And
Speaker 1: now it's like your verification code is late. So I
Speaker 1: had to sit there and get another one. Ah see,
Speaker 1: your yours has been fun this morning too.
Speaker 2: I just stopped asking for him. I just haven't call
Speaker 2: my phone and then I just hang up on it,
Speaker 2: you know, push the pound thing and yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: get behind Because I like, we have this thing where
Speaker 2: like all of our stuff likes to sign us out
Speaker 2: of everything over and over and over again, and I'd like,
Speaker 2: if I'm putting recasts together, it's a nightmare. It's a
Speaker 2: complete Just call me. I don't hang up on you
Speaker 2: in So.
Speaker 1: My thing here here, here's what I always did in
Speaker 1: the morning. So I get up, I mean, so my
Speaker 1: I get up, I sit up in bed, and then
Speaker 1: I like bang through my phone and check Twitter and
Speaker 1: email and that. I don't know, it's like ten minutes.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of my you know, waking up thing.
Speaker 1: And then I get up, I go, you know, go
Speaker 1: go to the bathroom, take a shower, you know, all
Speaker 1: of that, and then it's you know, it's onto the show.
Speaker 1: And by then I can usually have everything logged in
Speaker 1: and and then it'll literally log you out after like
Speaker 1: twenty minutes and be like, no, you're an intruder and
Speaker 1: you need to get this other thing. And then you
Speaker 1: ask for a verification code and then it just doesn't
Speaker 1: send you one because obviously you're an intruder. Are there people?
Speaker 1: Are there people that are literally like hacking the system
Speaker 1: to get into our next gen and stuff like like like,
Speaker 1: is I mean I understand security, but is that a
Speaker 1: thing I'm more likely to try to get scammed by
Speaker 1: people telling me I got to pay tolls.
Speaker 2: Dude, I so many tolls the past few days, like
Speaker 2: so many?
Speaker 1: How did that just become a thing in like the
Speaker 1: last month and a half.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing, though, I pay them all at once,
Speaker 2: just to avoid prison and the interest, because I'm not
Speaker 2: a criminal and a degenerate. So I pay.
Speaker 1: You get tools from all over, or your tolls just over.
Speaker 1: Oh good, okay good. I don't want to be alone
Speaker 1: because it'll be like you didn't pay your Florida toll,
Speaker 1: you didn't play your you didn't pay your Texas toll,
Speaker 1: you didn't your North Carolina toll.
Speaker 2: And I'm sitting there doing the math, and I'm like, dude,
Speaker 2: I haven't been to Florida in like four or five years.
Speaker 2: But they finally got me. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 2: recalled driving in a toll road, but I guess they
Speaker 2: got me. So they must understand it was a road
Speaker 2: probably when I was driving out it, it wasn't a tool
Speaker 2: that they made it a toll. And then they retroactively
Speaker 2: build me for that rope, for that toll. That's how
Speaker 2: that's how.
Speaker 1: It gets you. Well no, no, no, but but let me,
Speaker 1: let me, let me be serious about this for just
Speaker 1: a moment. So, like when you travel and you go
Speaker 1: elsewhere from a toll perspective, like if you don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on, I understand why people would think that,
Speaker 1: because you know, one of the places that I've traveled
Speaker 1: over the years, literally driven down to is Tampa, and
Speaker 1: then they have the it's called the Sunland Expressway or
Speaker 1: whatever it is through downtown Tampa to because our radio
Speaker 1: station is literally our Tampa studios are literally at the
Speaker 1: end of the tollway on what's called Gandy Boulevard. If
Speaker 1: anyone knows Tampa, you know Gandy. So you go down
Speaker 1: on the peninsula there, past Bay Shore, past all of that.
Speaker 1: And I went there and drove on the tollway, and
Speaker 1: I didn't have whatever the Florida thing is, and you
Speaker 1: have like you have like a window where they don't
Speaker 1: bill you if it's under a certain amount, but it's
Speaker 1: but you have to like go and check and understand
Speaker 1: what's going on. So I understand why people would see
Speaker 1: that text if they had been to a place like Tampa,
Speaker 1: driven on the freeway the toll way there and they
Speaker 1: don't think anything about it. They just pay whatever the
Speaker 1: five dollars is. I'm actually like, how do I say?
Speaker 1: I don't want to say, I'm impressed. I'm surprised some
Speaker 1: scam piece of garbage who literally should be executed in
Speaker 1: the public square. I do. There's nothing I hate more
Speaker 1: than these scammers, and not just the Nigerian scammers, but
Speaker 1: basically people who use this where people will just pay
Speaker 1: the five dollars. And I'm really surprised nobody came up
Speaker 1: with it earlier, and why all of a sudden it's
Speaker 1: a thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we shouldn't have to point it out, but if
Speaker 2: you're getting one of these texts, it's a scam, and
Speaker 2: don't don't break it. Don't even click the link. Yes,
Speaker 2: are like, oh man, I keep clicking that link and
Speaker 2: nothing happens. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Something's happening, per probably yeah, and it's probably not good
Speaker 1: for you. But the fact that scammers literally just thought
Speaker 1: of it actually surprises me because in a way it's
Speaker 1: brilliant because it's not asking for I need, you know,
Speaker 1: I need five thousand dollars to pay the tax on
Speaker 1: this lottery? You want, you know, the really ridiculous stuff.
Speaker 1: It's it's people sitting there. And if people travel, you
Speaker 1: get somebody who travels for business in a rental car
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, or or or drives through a
Speaker 1: toll way, you know, really intermittently somewhere, and then people
Speaker 1: just because they're busy, they got things to do, they'll
Speaker 1: go pay four or five dollars. You get enough people
Speaker 1: that pay four five dollars because they don't want the hassle.
Speaker 1: Like I'm if I was a scam artist, i'd be
Speaker 1: sad I didn't think of it. And in fact, I think,
Speaker 1: I want to say, Jeff Jackson, the ag ah think
Speaker 1: of a thousand reasons to trash on this dude right now.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, yeah, so I saw him yesterday. He
Speaker 1: literally issued something saying, hey, this whole thing is not
Speaker 1: a thing. You know, there'd be a really easy way
Speaker 1: to handle this. Don't charge people to drive on roads
Speaker 1: you've they've already paid to, you know.
Speaker 2: Put in no worry about that toll's going away after
Speaker 2: a while, once it's paid for, Once the road is
Speaker 2: paid for, that will go away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just like Chicago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just like the New York State Throughway. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: it'll go away eventually once it's paid for.
Speaker 1: Why what did they put the tolls in the throughway
Speaker 1: when you were a kid?
Speaker 2: Right, I believe before I was born?
Speaker 1: Og?
Speaker 2: Possibly, Yeah, why can't they.
Speaker 1: Get it paid?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: No, aren't there people to drive it in New York?
Speaker 1: So weird? Yeah, Chicago is the same way. And then
Speaker 1: when they literally I remember when they hit the date
Speaker 1: when they're like, all right, the buddy's been and then
Speaker 1: they went all right, they had extra money and they're like, uh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna put uh speed the fast holding in right
Speaker 1: where you don't have to slow down, you can just
Speaker 1: holl it like free way speed. And it's like, that's
Speaker 1: not really what you said. So I blame McCrory on this.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like all taxes, Like once upon a
Speaker 2: time the income tax was supposed to be temporary. Wow, yeah, everything.
Speaker 1: How are you going to fund forty percent of the
Speaker 1: GDP of everyone in Somalia if the tax is temporary?
Speaker 1: Did you think about that? Dude? There is a stat
Speaker 1: and I'm going to get into this today. It's gonna
Speaker 1: make you so angry. It's gonna and and rightfully so,
Speaker 1: but you know it's uh, it's what we do. Oh
Speaker 1: wait hold on, yeah, see all right, So people are
Speaker 1: emailing me right now, he says. Our emailer says, I
Speaker 1: love my girl. But she sent me this thinking it
Speaker 1: was not understand it was a scam. She truly thought
Speaker 1: she owed them mind. I know, I know.
Speaker 2: And then they scare you. They're like, hey, if you
Speaker 2: don't pay this New Jersey toll, we're gonna lock you
Speaker 2: away in like a New Jersey prison or something. Nobody
Speaker 2: wants that.
Speaker 1: Oh can you imagine? Yeah, can you imagine you're in
Speaker 1: a New Jersey prison and like people from you know,
Speaker 1: Jersey Shore no kind of are in there, and there's
Speaker 1: nothing you can do. Can you imagine being in Who's
Speaker 1: the idiot you talk to about the Warren Serbia or whatever.
Speaker 2: The situation else?
Speaker 1: Mike what is his name? Sorrentino? Gosh, why do I
Speaker 1: know this? Mike Sorrentino?
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, but I find my memory is correct. I
Speaker 2: think that's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. By the way, if you guys don't know this story,
Speaker 1: so Ross. When Ross was still doing music radio, he
Speaker 1: had one of these Nitwitz from the Jersey Shore as
Speaker 1: part of a club gig. Right, Because if you do
Speaker 1: music radio and you do top forty, chances are you
Speaker 1: may have to go do a club gig. So part
Speaker 1: of like your whole thing was you had what did
Speaker 1: he have? He like a bag of money too, like
Speaker 1: this whole thing.
Speaker 2: So I had to em see the club gigs like
Speaker 2: every Friday night.
Speaker 1: Down down County standard for the night guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: But I was getting older and I was like thirty two,
Speaker 2: and it was like a year or two before, maybe
Speaker 2: even more so before I joined the show. I joined
Speaker 2: the show in twenty eleven. I was getting older and
Speaker 2: I was good at what I did, but I absolutely
Speaker 2: hated it because I was like, I'm a thirty two
Speaker 2: year old dude playing Britney Spears and I'm starting to
Speaker 2: become like the old guy at the club. And I
Speaker 2: was very politically like minded and motivated, and I wanted
Speaker 2: to talk about other things and like, you can't.
Speaker 1: Write right, you know, you're bordering I creepy at this point, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Kind of right, But and I was super like politically,
Speaker 2: like I was listening to Rush Limbaugh all the time, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: lot of people that were like listening to or like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, paying attention to the music charts or something,
Speaker 2: and I don't like paying attention to the news and
Speaker 2: listen to Rush Limbaugh and it was a completely different area,
Speaker 2: and I was ready to move on. But they had
Speaker 2: the situation in there, and he was up in the
Speaker 2: DJ booth and they paid him in cash, and he
Speaker 2: had this giant bag of money, like this giant bag
Speaker 2: of money, and he had this guy that was that
Speaker 2: he was paying to watch the money. So he would
Speaker 2: go on the dance floor, he would do his thing.
Speaker 2: I would introduce him mirrors mich situation makes some noise, yeah,
Speaker 2: and then like his big like Vin Vin Ring's sort
Speaker 2: of guy would stand in front of the bag of money,
Speaker 2: just you know, he's in it for the love of
Speaker 2: the game, not the money, right, No, No, No, he
Speaker 2: was you know at the time, I'm like, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe I feel like the guy was
Speaker 2: sort of maybe on drugs or something. I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe this is the left field. Maybe he wasn't, but
Speaker 2: he was sort of he we had a lot of energy.
Speaker 1: He's let's just go ahead and be honest, because you know,
Speaker 1: I used to work music radio two, not to the
Speaker 1: extent that you did, but uh as late as you did.
Speaker 1: But there is a there are a lot of these
Speaker 1: guys that are semi famous minute famous where what Ross
Speaker 1: is describing is normal. Right, they have their security guy.
Speaker 1: You know they're going to be broke in like five years.
Speaker 1: You get a lot of this in the hip hop world.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to generalize, but it's kind
Speaker 1: of a thing where it's like bag of money security dudes,
Speaker 1: and then you go out and you act a fool whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is what it is.
Speaker 2: I mean, and I'm sure he had amazing existence, but
Speaker 2: at the time, I'm surely you're gonna get the bag
Speaker 2: and you're gonna leave. But anyway, so I have to
Speaker 2: interview this dude in the air, and I do not
Speaker 2: care about him. I don't care about the What was
Speaker 2: the show called the Jersey Shore?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: How is that ub scene? Is that good?
Speaker 2: I wasn't watching this show. I knew nothing. I just
Speaker 2: knew he was an idiot. So I've got I've got
Speaker 2: him up there live on the air, and the music's going,
Speaker 2: and you know, you're at the club and even and
Speaker 2: the DJ's there and spinning it.
Speaker 1: And that's why I say, douche, douche, dude perfect.
Speaker 2: So I'm up there and you know, I asked him
Speaker 2: like one or two easy questions and finally the third question,
Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, what do you think about the situation
Speaker 2: in Syria?
Speaker 1: Well, he is the situation. Yeah, yeah, you can ask
Speaker 1: him about situations.
Speaker 2: So I just wanted to know, like, what do you
Speaker 2: think about the conflict in Syria? Do you think it's
Speaker 2: going to be resolved? Do you think we should you know,
Speaker 2: should we be there? Should we? And it was the
Speaker 2: best answer that you've ever like, he didn't, he didn't.
Speaker 2: He kind of, I want to say he like flinched
Speaker 2: for a moment, but he was just like, yeah, you
Speaker 2: know it is I just think, you know, I'm all
Speaker 2: about the club life and I think we need to focus.
Speaker 1: On the now and.
Speaker 2: Just and I get back in my program director, who
Speaker 2: she was absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: She was like this is Randy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fantastic And she was like did you ask him
Speaker 2: about Syria? And I'm like, I mean it.
Speaker 1: Was in the news and she just started laughing, like
Speaker 1: that's great. That's one of my favorite stories, you know what,
Speaker 1: to his credit, answering it and not just you know,
Speaker 1: pitching a fit and watch you know, walking out. I mean,
Speaker 1: he didn't really answer it.
Speaker 2: Obviously, he had no idea what's going on. He was
Speaker 2: just an automode, just watching them. Big bag of money.
Speaker 1: I love these guys, man.
Speaker 4: MT these guys a hit show about of bunch gweedos.
Speaker 5: Look it out.
Speaker 1: The song is like, well games tall, the hit boot.
Speaker 4: On the dudees thing that they are in the Chit's
Speaker 4: all got figskank doo doo douches on the jersey, short match,
Speaker 4: the situation, all these God's creation.
Speaker 1: Jay Wave's got a ball friend. But you can get
Speaker 1: to sick and base trap. I mean, these guys were
Speaker 1: I don't have enough time to play the whole sung,
Speaker 1: but these guys were big enough, like even you know,
Speaker 1: I was mocking them. So all right, anyway, weird start
Speaker 1: to the show, but it's a Friday, that's what we do.
Speaker 1: So all right, we'll get to some semi serious stuff
Speaker 1: coming up. Hang on, I don't know, I'm just frustrated
Speaker 1: with like technology today. So oh but then that you know,
Speaker 1: poor Pete, he you know, he's waiting around. He's waiting
Speaker 1: for adoh five wants to be on the show, Opine.
Speaker 2: So Pete is just sitting there listening to the heart
Speaker 2: radio app just on his couch, waiting. He's just counting.
Speaker 1: Can I make fun of Pete for a little bit?
Speaker 1: And I would say this to his face. I just
Speaker 1: want to be clear. So when we have guests on
Speaker 1: the show, So if somebody, you know, whether it's Senator
Speaker 1: Bud or Steven yesterday we had Stephen on our NERD
Speaker 1: correspondent or Pete or whomever, you know, whomever do we
Speaker 1: give when we tell people what time to call? We
Speaker 1: don't say call it eight Ross. You know, Ross usually
Speaker 1: sets this stuff up. So if what do you tell people?
Speaker 1: I'm assuming you're you're like me. You tell him, Hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be on at eight oh five, why don't
Speaker 1: you call a minute before?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, Pete'll call it like seven fifty five like
Speaker 1: the dude's board. So he'll sit there and then it's
Speaker 1: like why And he works in radio. That's why I
Speaker 1: think it's so weird, because like he understands hard times
Speaker 1: for you know, segment starts because he does it. He
Speaker 1: does a radio show every day noon to three on
Speaker 1: wbt SO and then he'll but he'll gladly sit there.
Speaker 7: I do.
Speaker 1: I do a hit kind of like Pete does with
Speaker 1: our Ashville buddy Mark on Wednesdays, at three o'clock, I
Speaker 1: call a hint and it's and he comes and I
Speaker 1: asked him, I'm like, what time does your show start?
Speaker 1: And he's like, well, technically we come back at three
Speaker 1: oh five thirty. I call it three oh five twenty
Speaker 1: and Pete pete. So that is a dude who is
Speaker 1: all in on radio. So I can't leave him hanging.
Speaker 1: That's the point that I'm saying, Okay, all right, very good.
Speaker 1: All right. So I saw this chart yesterday and I
Speaker 1: actually I went and looked it up because I'm a
Speaker 1: little snake bit on Twitter. But for good reason, right,
Speaker 1: because because Twitter is the wilderness. Now, you know, whatever's
Speaker 1: up there, whatever you see on Twitter, you should check.
Speaker 1: And that's not me trashing on people. That's me telling
Speaker 1: you that when everything is wide open and they're not
Speaker 1: micromanaging and policing everything, and there are My one frustration
Speaker 1: is there's way too many accounts that are clearly parody
Speaker 1: but not really do you know what I'm saying, where
Speaker 1: they're not identifying as such, and only later do you
Speaker 1: find out, oh, no, they thought they were being funny
Speaker 1: like I They're they're clearly engagement farmers. And so you
Speaker 1: have to work around that. So I'm sitting here and
Speaker 1: I remember seeing this yesterday and I'm like, there's no way.
Speaker 1: That's too insane, And so I went to semaphore and
Speaker 1: literally pulled this up. Semaphore is.
Speaker 3: Is a.
Speaker 1: You know what, I don't know if they're clearly if
Speaker 1: they're purely academic, but it doesn't matter. Semaphore is a
Speaker 1: information aggregate, right, and then they're utilized by different businesses.
Speaker 1: They're utilized in academia, they're utilized in government, and it's
Speaker 1: basically a way where you can look at different financial data.
Speaker 1: And somebody had posted a chart showing you said dollars
Speaker 1: usaid dollars and how much of it was going to
Speaker 1: different countries. And so they had a chart and this
Speaker 1: chart is income per capita. So let me explain what
Speaker 1: this is. So I don't know what the average income
Speaker 1: for a Somalian person is, right, it's very low. Obviously.
Speaker 1: That being said, you know, things are what they are
Speaker 1: in different countries. Things cost different things, The exchange rate
Speaker 1: is different, so you got to keep that in mind
Speaker 1: when you're looking at this data. But what we're talking
Speaker 1: about is the conversion of dollars to whatever the Somalian
Speaker 1: currency is I don't know what it is. And they're
Speaker 1: talking about the income per capita. So if you took
Speaker 1: everyone in the US, you took whatever the average income
Speaker 1: in the US is, which I think is Wait, hold on,
Speaker 1: let me just tell you average US income. All right.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say forty thousand. I was almost spot
Speaker 1: on thirty nine two. That is the average US income.
Speaker 1: So Somalia's average income is what we're talking about here,
Speaker 1: which is I'll actually look it up for you. Trust me.
Speaker 1: This whole build up is worth it, because this thing
Speaker 1: is absolutely shocking. All right. So the average in oh
Speaker 1: geez ross, do you want to guess what the average
Speaker 1: income in Somalia is annual income? Good? Lord?
Speaker 2: For everyone or just the pirates? I would say, I would.
Speaker 1: Say, no, this is average, so it includes the pirates.
Speaker 1: But well, if they they protect of forty pieces of eight,
Speaker 1: it's not Why would you think it's in pirate dollars
Speaker 1: just because some of them are pirates? Man? Do you
Speaker 1: think everyone's on pirate currency? Okay, it's not. So the
Speaker 1: average the average income in Somalia is uh seven hundred
Speaker 1: dollars annually.
Speaker 2: What is that converted to pieces?
Speaker 1: Of eight? How much is a piece of eight? I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: Hold on, it's curse. I don't really care.
Speaker 1: Searches and everyone's got to sit through it, so just
Speaker 1: suck it up, everybody. Wait, hold on, how much is
Speaker 1: a piece of eight? Wait? Wait, it would be pieces
Speaker 1: of eight? Right, I don't even know. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: they actually have a conversion. Oh really, dude, do you
Speaker 1: know what pieces? Do you know what a piece of
Speaker 1: eight is worth?
Speaker 3: This kill?
Speaker 1: This absolutely kills is depressing movie?
Speaker 2: Is it depressing?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: It's really low? All right? Wait, hold on, I want
Speaker 1: to make sure I'm accurate on this. Oh it is. Okay,
Speaker 1: So it's based off the Spanish silver dollar. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: that actually makes sense. All right, So do you know
Speaker 1: what two bits is? When somebody says two.
Speaker 2: Bits, Yeah, that's like two cents on twitch.
Speaker 1: Okay, no, no, no, no, But in the in the
Speaker 1: colloquial us, what is two bits?
Speaker 2: It's a quarter.
Speaker 1: It's a quarter. By the way, if you ever hear
Speaker 1: somebody say two bits, they're talking about a quarter quarter
Speaker 1: of a dollar. So now I don't know whether this
Speaker 1: is convert to now, but a piece of eight is
Speaker 1: considered eight of the two bits, so eight coure, it's
Speaker 1: two dollars.
Speaker 2: That is depressing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well what are they running around marauding for?
Speaker 2: It must because of the magical qualities of the pieces
Speaker 2: of eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to understand you're talking about eighteen fifties, right, which.
Speaker 2: Is right, see thrown inflation plus the magical properties of
Speaker 2: the curse gold. And it was probably worth more back then.
Speaker 1: Well, no, it absolutely was, but I don't know how
Speaker 1: much more, all right, So a little sidetracked there. So
Speaker 1: it's you know, Sama, the average per capita is not
Speaker 1: you know, it's not much obviously. That being said, it
Speaker 1: is what it is for that particular country.
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 1: Somebody they put a chart together and it basically is
Speaker 1: percentage of income per capita provided by you said, so
Speaker 1: this is just USAID dollars, just that little section of
Speaker 1: government according to the stats. And it's not and I'll
Speaker 1: explain why it doesn't. It's not the same for everybody
Speaker 1: for obvious reasons. But if you average all the salaries
Speaker 1: in Somalia, forty percent of all the salaries forty percent
Speaker 1: of all income of every Somalian averaged, we were paying
Speaker 1: forty percent. I want you to Think about that. Think
Speaker 1: about in the US if forty percent of everybody's paycheck
Speaker 1: was coming from a foreign government. That's what was going
Speaker 1: on in Somalia. Forty percent. It's it's an insane number.
Speaker 1: It's an insane stat South Sudan thirty six percent, Sudan
Speaker 1: twenty nine percent. Now you should probably move to the south.
Speaker 1: Congo twenty seven percent, Ethiopia twenty seven, Liberia, which, if
Speaker 1: you remember, is a country started by Americans who didn't
Speaker 1: want to be Americans anymore, twenty three percent. You've gone
Speaker 1: to twenty one. I'm not going to go through the
Speaker 1: whole list, but you get the gist of it. Just
Speaker 1: US AID dollars. Now, it's not like it was going
Speaker 1: to all the Somalians too, right, you're having average it.
Speaker 1: You know, money flowing in through these programs, especially in
Speaker 1: a country like Somalia, is going to get corrupt. You know,
Speaker 1: you know, you got you got you know, government officials,
Speaker 1: you got people on you know that are in the
Speaker 1: upper echelon. Right, they're all siphoning off money. So you know,
Speaker 1: your standard Somali is not getting forty percent of their
Speaker 1: salary from you said dollars because corrupt people oh, and Ross,
Speaker 1: I just thought of this warlords. You can't. You got
Speaker 1: to remember the warlords, as Phil Hartman taught us. So,
Speaker 1: but forty percent of all revenue that was paid to
Speaker 1: people as part of their annual income was being paid
Speaker 1: by the US. That's a wild number, man. Uh And
Speaker 1: and again I listed all these other countries as well,
Speaker 1: So I think you're going to see a little more piracy.
Speaker 1: That's that's insane. What is the GDP of Somalia too?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's not a apples to apples thing,
Speaker 1: and I know we're doing math again at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the show, but I was just so blown away
Speaker 1: by this. All right, so, oh good lord. So the
Speaker 1: the GDP of Somalia is eleven billion dollars. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that counts for I don't know if pirate
Speaker 1: booty is in there. And actually, actually then it was
Speaker 1: actually fourteen billion last year. It's usually eleven billion. Well
Speaker 1: let me tell you it's gonna be a lot less
Speaker 1: this year. Holy hell. But yeah, yeah, we were paying
Speaker 1: forty percent of everybody's income in Somalia averaged into Somalia
Speaker 1: just through usaid and and by the way, we send
Speaker 1: money through other departments too, just to be clear, And
Speaker 1: in fact it's about equally matched, so chances are and
Speaker 1: I don't have the full thing here. The fact is
Speaker 1: we literally took half of their income into Somalia. But
Speaker 1: then you have to ask yourself, why the hell are
Speaker 1: US taxpayers paying nearly half the salaries in Somalia on average,
Speaker 1: even though the average Somali isn't getting it because warlords,
Speaker 1: corrupt leaders all the rest of it. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: saw this thing yesterday and I'm like, I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: sure everyone hears about that on the show on Friday.
Speaker 1: So all right, there you go. Now you are edumicated.
Speaker 1: All right, coming up on the show, we got more
Speaker 1: tariff insanity, we got a BUCkies update I'm not happy about.
Speaker 1: And oh yeah, Cale, he'll join us at eight oh five,
Speaker 1: so stick around. We'll get into more serious business here
Speaker 1: in just a few I am so glad that this
Speaker 1: absolute moron that is Jasmine Crockett said this yesterday.
Speaker 5: In my opinion, if we're shut down, you can't be fired.
Speaker 5: And what does that mean.
Speaker 8: It does mean that people will not be paid, but
Speaker 8: it does mean that they will get their back paid.
Speaker 1: All right, hang out I'm gonna play the whole clip
Speaker 1: for you, but you heard a little bit of it.
Speaker 1: So what Crockett is talking about is, as they say,
Speaker 1: the quiet part out loud with the hole Schumer shut down.
Speaker 1: The mindset is that if they do shut the government down. Now,
Speaker 1: now understand, this is merely an excuse, all right, it's
Speaker 1: not some vaunted plan. It's not they you know, they
Speaker 1: didn't sit there with actuaries to figure out how it works.
Speaker 1: This is a the narrative, and the narrative is that
Speaker 1: if the government shuts down, then Doze can't fire people.
Speaker 1: And nobody had really said it, even though it's clearly
Speaker 1: what they're going to sell. Right when the going gets tough,
Speaker 1: they're going to say, well, look we had to shut
Speaker 1: it down to stop Doze from doing everything they're doing.
Speaker 1: It's a bad excuse and frankly it won't work. But
Speaker 1: you know it's a way to go ahead and just
Speaker 1: be a nuisance and do whatever you're going to do.
Speaker 1: But Crocket, like an idiot, and i'm sure probably irritating
Speaker 1: Democrat leadership, said that.
Speaker 5: In my opinion, if we're shut down, you can't be fired.
Speaker 5: And what does that mean?
Speaker 8: It does mean that people will not be paid, but
Speaker 8: it does mean that they will get their back pay,
Speaker 8: so hopefully we can stop some of the bleeding. We
Speaker 8: just saw that the Department of Education laid off fifty
Speaker 8: percent of their workforce. So I don't really understand why
Speaker 8: anybody would say, oh, we got to take the high road.
Speaker 5: We got to listen.
Speaker 8: Here is decimating the federal government and you're talking about
Speaker 8: whether or not we're gonna keep the doors open.
Speaker 5: He literally is shutting down departments anyway.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, this knit with uh who who
Speaker 1: is fast becoming the new AOC just because AOC kind
Speaker 1: of got trained on some of this stuff. But I
Speaker 1: don't want to say she completely stops saying stupid stuff,
Speaker 1: but she she definitely figured out how not to do
Speaker 1: it as often. So Crockett is the new AOC. And
Speaker 1: here's the thing. And and I don't know if anyone
Speaker 1: from the Trump administration is listening, but please hear me out.
Speaker 1: Don't give them the back pay, right every this is
Speaker 1: this is the dirty little secret. If you don't know,
Speaker 1: every time they have a government shut down and they
Speaker 1: put barricades around you know, stone World War II memorials
Speaker 1: and open parks and tell you you can't go to
Speaker 1: the bathroom on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Every time they
Speaker 1: do this, whenever they fix it, they credit government workers
Speaker 1: with the pay from the days they didn't work. And
Speaker 1: also they it's it's non essential. So the people that
Speaker 1: are doing the shutdown and doing the doge and all this,
Speaker 1: I promise you are going to be labeled essential. So
Speaker 1: they're not gonna stop what they're doing. So the way
Speaker 1: that the Trump administration can really hook this to the Democrats,
Speaker 1: and they should, is to not do that. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you a little sample of this kind of a
Speaker 1: lead into one of these stories we're doing. I'm not
Speaker 1: I know some of you aren't gonna believe this. I
Speaker 1: really don't like hating people. Does that make sense? I
Speaker 1: don't you know why, because it's not healthy for you.
Speaker 1: And when I say for you, I mean when you're
Speaker 1: out there just hating on people, it's not I'll make
Speaker 1: fun of people, right. We use sarcasm obviously as a
Speaker 1: tool to discuss and dismember bad arguments here on this show,
Speaker 1: bad policy, all the rest of it. But you and
Speaker 1: and some people don't understand this, like Ross and I.
Speaker 1: When we're not on the air and there's not work
Speaker 1: stuff around or later in the day when we're doing prep.
Speaker 1: We almost don't pay attention to the news. As weird
Speaker 1: as that say is, I don't want to put words
Speaker 1: about is that fair? Ross Like the mental disconnect that
Speaker 1: we do is it's not that we don't pay attention,
Speaker 1: it's just we're not engulfed in it. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of people that are just engulfed in it.
Speaker 2: I would say specifically on the weekends.
Speaker 1: Oh, on the weekends for sure. I mean you see stuff.
Speaker 1: You can't not see stuff. Your scrolling stuff will right, right, right.
Speaker 1: But but the thing that I tried not to do
Speaker 1: is hate. Hate is not good. You can talk about
Speaker 1: it from a religious connotation, right, but you know, just
Speaker 1: in general, just you know, even remove the religious side
Speaker 1: of it, it's not healthy for you because people who
Speaker 1: you are diametrically opposed to, if they're chewing up your
Speaker 1: emotions even when you're not engaged in the debate, then
Speaker 1: in a way they're kind of winning. Does that if
Speaker 1: that makes sense?
Speaker 3: Like, I.
Speaker 1: I'm hating people right now, and I don't like that.
Speaker 1: I don't like sitting there and watching people who think
Speaker 1: that they can go and they can vandalize stuff, and
Speaker 1: they can harass people, and they can do all the
Speaker 1: things that end up in my stories every day because
Speaker 1: they have some sort of weird moral high ground. And
Speaker 1: we got here right obviously, this is the rollover from
Speaker 1: everything that built up to this current administration, right where
Speaker 1: words are violence and all the rest, but this idea
Speaker 1: that you are somehow morally justified to go and a
Speaker 1: Republican or a Democrat for that matter, congressperson is holding
Speaker 1: a town hall. You can show up in mass and
Speaker 1: just screen the whole time. And I know that that's
Speaker 1: something that happened on the college campus. Is I understand it?
Speaker 1: Or you can go to Trump Tower and take the
Speaker 1: thing over, or you can vandalize tens of thousands of
Speaker 1: dollars worth of Tesla chargers or cars where you can
Speaker 1: go and what do they remove, like twenty eight cars
Speaker 1: tires in that one parking lot, and the smugness of
Speaker 1: the individuals doing it, and I hate to give them
Speaker 1: that element of my emotion. That being said, I think,
Speaker 1: because I mentioned on the show yesterday, I'm sitting here
Speaker 1: and I think something is gonna go real bad. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be an incident and I don't know what it
Speaker 1: is and I don't want it to happen, but we
Speaker 1: are we are, we are living in a moment where
Speaker 1: they have even though Trump has come in and he's
Speaker 1: kind of de escalated government spending obviously and everything that's
Speaker 1: going on, it has even though the protests are more, Uh?
Speaker 1: Are are are more?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 1: How do I say there's more of them even though
Speaker 1: there's less people there? The justification for the real whack
Speaker 1: jobs that is fed by like MSNBC calling the Tesla
Speaker 1: protests nonviolent. Right, That's the thing that happened this week.
Speaker 1: Like I sit there and I'm listening to the audio,
Speaker 1: like on our news where Chuck Edwards, the congressman from
Speaker 1: out West, was having a town hall in Ashville and
Speaker 1: all the moonbats showed up and rather than him being
Speaker 1: able to talk to people and take questions, he was
Speaker 1: taking questions. I've never met Chuck Edward. I don't know
Speaker 1: anything about the dude. Russ Weaver had Chuck Edwards on
Speaker 1: the show. I don't even think we've had him on
Speaker 1: the show. No, we have not. Yeah, so like, like,
Speaker 1: I mean, I know who he is, obviously, but I wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, you hate Tom Well, Tom Brady's different, bro
Speaker 1: Boston paul in here, that's different, that's earned, that's earned.
Speaker 1: I'm slightly kidding. But like, I sit there and I
Speaker 1: listen to it. And one of the things that I
Speaker 1: have prided myself on this show is you have to
Speaker 1: not let people get to you. And sometimes I do.
Speaker 1: You hear me, like some send an email and all
Speaker 1: threat but I don't really mean it, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But like, I hear that stuff and I
Speaker 1: couple it with everything going on, and I get hate
Speaker 1: in the heart and I don't want that. I don't
Speaker 1: want that. I don't want that from a personal standpoint, right.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that if you go to the Bible,
Speaker 1: there's some stuff about maybe you shouldn't do that, right, So, like,
Speaker 1: I don't want that to be part of it. And
Speaker 1: I am every day battling not allowing people to make
Speaker 1: me hate them. You know why, because a part of
Speaker 1: me makes it, makes me think that they're winning, or
Speaker 1: they think they're winning. If I'm losing my mind over it.
Speaker 1: So I sit there and I listen to that audio,
Speaker 1: and I and then I read the stories about these
Speaker 1: judges who decide well you know, uh, basically the executive
Speaker 1: branch can't do anything. And then that piles on to
Speaker 1: the hate that's going going on there. And I realize,
Speaker 1: if me, somebody who's kind of trained to let it
Speaker 1: roll off, but you have to be in this business,
Speaker 1: is having it stick with you for even part of
Speaker 1: your day, That's the kind of stuff that I wander on.
Speaker 1: All sides escalates this to a place that we don't
Speaker 1: want to go. And and the thing that I can't
Speaker 1: understand is how we are in this semi new environment
Speaker 1: right where you know it's it's it's clearly different from
Speaker 1: when Joe Biden was in there. How we how we
Speaker 1: are in this timeline now where this is going on?
Speaker 1: Where where it How do I say? I want to
Speaker 1: be very clear here because I don't want people to
Speaker 1: misconstruct where it's the goal? Do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: Protest out, protesting even for things that I don't like,
Speaker 1: I have no problem with. We'll play the audio and
Speaker 1: we'll make the jokes, and we'll make the arguments too
Speaker 1: on a more serious note about why they're wrong or
Speaker 1: why they're right. But in reality, I find myself hearing
Speaker 1: stuff like that and just gritting my teeth.
Speaker 2: I think the way you're feeling is the majority. It's
Speaker 2: the majority of people are feeling. And I think we
Speaker 2: saw that as part of their repudiation that was election
Speaker 2: day right this past November. I know a personal friend
Speaker 2: who shall remain nameless, who's been mentioned on the show before,
Speaker 2: who was much more liberal into the left than he
Speaker 2: is now and he's moved to the center. And one
Speaker 2: of the reasons for him personally is when they started
Speaker 2: because everybody has their own thing that's going to push him,
Speaker 2: you know, over the age the center peeve. Yeah, is
Speaker 2: when they started throwing like paint and stuff on Rembrandts
Speaker 2: and paintings and stones and stone. Yeah, and it's stone hinge.
Speaker 2: And especially when you're so called principal arguments are so
Speaker 2: full of crap, and people can see through that full
Speaker 2: of crap now, right, like when they're oh, the climate
Speaker 2: is so important, but like you said the other day,
Speaker 2: they made they destroyed the rainforest to make a highway
Speaker 2: to get to your climate conference or whatever it is, yeah,
Speaker 2: or or oh my god, you know, the climate is
Speaker 2: so important that we need to mandate electric vehicles, and
Speaker 2: so if we don't mandate electric vehicles. Then everybody doesn't
Speaker 2: go along with the mandate, you know the world is
Speaker 2: going to end. And then two weeks later you're like,
Speaker 2: you know what, we need to destroy all the electric vehicles,
Speaker 2: well not all of them, just the best selling so
Speaker 2: Dom States and people see through that and they're like,
Speaker 2: you people are your garbage, right.
Speaker 1: But I used to be here's the thing I used
Speaker 1: to be, Like, let me give you an example. So
Speaker 1: let's say you're a government worker and Dose just came
Speaker 1: in and they cut a third of the staff there,
Speaker 1: right and and former DOSEE, former workers whatever the department
Speaker 1: are out there and they're having a protest. Here's the
Speaker 1: thing I used to be. And and to some extent
Speaker 1: still can I used to go, look, your ox is
Speaker 1: getting bored right now, And I understand why you're out there,
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? Like, I understand why
Speaker 1: you're standing out there going this is BS. I hate
Speaker 1: this guy. And I can sit there and go, look,
Speaker 1: you're you're too close to this to look at the
Speaker 1: larger picture. And the larger picture is it's it's not
Speaker 1: even your fault. It's the fault of government up to
Speaker 1: this point that allowed this beast to get so big.
Speaker 1: But I A it's this. It's the reason I don't
Speaker 1: criticize parents and those officer involve shootings usually right because
Speaker 1: even though you're probably wrong, you're emotionally connected to and
Speaker 1: I used to be able to understand. Now I'm having
Speaker 1: a really hard time allowing that to be a thought
Speaker 1: that crosses my mind. And that's not healthy, that's not
Speaker 1: But it's also not you. You've changed me emotionally, and
Speaker 1: you've changed a lot of people that are just fed
Speaker 1: up with this and and and don't have any sympathy
Speaker 1: and and but you think it's somehow going to get
Speaker 1: you closer to your goal. That's what I don't understand.
Speaker 1: Like you, you're hardening hearts when you're out there screaming
Speaker 1: down people there and and you know what, you know,
Speaker 1: here's the other thing. And the thing with the with
Speaker 1: the town halls that makes me so upset is it's
Speaker 1: not organic. It's a plan. They have stated that the plan.
Speaker 1: And this is why a lot of Republican congress people
Speaker 1: are not holding town halls because you had you organized
Speaker 1: to go and shut these things down. And at that point,
Speaker 1: I'm out.
Speaker 2: You know, the party is fake, the platform is fake.
Speaker 2: And the protests are fake, even the ones that Trump
Speaker 2: towered the other day, for the past three days, whatever
Speaker 2: it is, the pro Hamas ones, they're all wearing the
Speaker 2: same printed T shirts.
Speaker 1: Well, and then that happened, Well, you know, maybe they
Speaker 1: got a deal. I don't know, you know, going uh
Speaker 1: going to that. Sorry, I'm trying to find this one story.
Speaker 1: So you remember the other day with the videos we're
Speaker 1: making fun of, or twenty three Democrat senators all made
Speaker 1: the same video holding the little microphone, and so that
Speaker 1: should have been a learning moment. And yet yesterday, yesterday
Speaker 1: they had on social media lawmakers posting the same message, verbatim, verbatim,
Speaker 1: over and over. Like it's the inauthentticity of all of
Speaker 1: it that is absolutely mind blowing.
Speaker 2: You used to see this a lot with like random
Speaker 2: accounts on Twitter or x where you would be like, hey,
Speaker 2: this person's making a point about this issue, and then
Speaker 2: you would see another smaller account making the exact same point,
Speaker 2: using the exact same It's just copy and paste, is
Speaker 2: what it is. And was that funded by USAID because
Speaker 2: now but now you're seeing the actual like elected officials
Speaker 2: is copy and pasting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I and for those who don't know the Democrats here.
Speaker 1: Two weeks ago, they had like they brought in consultants
Speaker 1: to try to figure out how to do social media better.
Speaker 1: And like there's a was a Washington Post or Wall
Speaker 1: Street I think Wall Street Journal had the article. And
Speaker 1: in the article they were just talking about essentially this
Speaker 1: social media retreat that all these Democrats went on, and
Speaker 1: which I under that part. I understand, right, because you
Speaker 1: got your ass kicked social media wise in the last election,
Speaker 1: so I understand why you bring people in. They're like,
Speaker 1: you need to post more, you need to do this,
Speaker 1: you need to do that. And then the way that
Speaker 1: they decide to go ahead and do it is in
Speaker 1: the least authentic way possible. And they did it again.
Speaker 1: So yeah, in a span of just a few hours,
Speaker 1: roughly half half of Democrats posted either verbatim or essentially
Speaker 1: a small rewrite of the very same language, essentially talking
Speaker 1: about shutdown and and and it's it's the message is
Speaker 1: not important. It's the part where sounds like you need
Speaker 1: a vacation ema. No, no, I don't need a vacation.
Speaker 1: I just need to I just need people to act human,
Speaker 1: because you can't when when everyone's organized and it's not real.
Speaker 1: But you can't have a discussion with that person. You
Speaker 1: can't debate. You don't even have to debate, you can't discuss.
Speaker 1: You were just Ross, You were just talking about your
Speaker 1: person who remained nameless, who's definitely more liberal. You and
Speaker 1: him could have a conversation about an issue, and you
Speaker 1: don't go away hating each other.
Speaker 2: Right completely every time?
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's all that I want, That's all that
Speaker 1: I ask. And I understand that politic Hicks is real business.
Speaker 1: And maybe I'm not the one to be sitting here
Speaker 1: saying this, but I can get I can get through it,
Speaker 1: and I want to be able to have this discussion.
Speaker 1: You know how excited I get when somebody calls the
Speaker 1: show and they're not being you know, not trying to
Speaker 1: swear or be a jerk, but they disagree. I love
Speaker 1: those conversations. I thrive in those, and I don't have
Speaker 1: to walk away from those thinking that I won. But
Speaker 1: now I just want doom and that's not healthy. Man.
Speaker 1: I just want I just want you to you who
Speaker 1: are inauthentic, You who are not listening or having a discussion,
Speaker 1: You who are being hypocritical, like Ross, just pointed out where,
Speaker 1: you know, coming into the Trump administration, remember the plan,
Speaker 1: which initially was an Obama plan than Trump kind of
Speaker 1: undid it, but then the Biden administration put it in
Speaker 1: on steroids, was to not have gasoline vehicles by twenty
Speaker 1: thirty two. I want to I want to repeat that.
Speaker 1: By twenty thirty two, it was going to be all electric.
Speaker 1: This was the thing.
Speaker 2: It's how important was yeah, and now they're destroying those
Speaker 2: same cars.
Speaker 1: It's and it's the best. Tesla is the best selling
Speaker 1: electric vehicle buy a mile in the United States. It's
Speaker 1: the quickest way to the goal that you want. And
Speaker 1: by the way, how many quote unquote right wing people
Speaker 1: are on Twitter this week showing their receipts for their
Speaker 1: Tesla they just bought. Sean Hannity just bought one. You're
Speaker 1: getting what you want and you're losing your mind. You're
Speaker 1: getting healthier alternatives at Stake and Shake, and you're accusing
Speaker 1: them of being Nazis because they use old English font
Speaker 1: I'm not making that up. If you don't know that story,
Speaker 1: I will fill you in on that because it's that insane.
Speaker 1: And then we'll, you know, we'll get to a few
Speaker 1: other things coming up here on the CaCO Day Radio program.
Speaker 1: I just want to be really clear that when I
Speaker 1: talk about hate, and then we'll get into calls, and
Speaker 1: I promise I'll I'll get on more substantive issues. But
Speaker 1: when I talk about hate is something different. Hate is
Speaker 1: hate is something especially if you do what.
Speaker 6: I do.
Speaker 1: Right, not to uh, not to sit here and try
Speaker 1: to carve people out, but like it'll eat you up
Speaker 1: doing this job. And I know people in this business
Speaker 1: that hate, they hate, and it's all they ever talk about.
Speaker 1: And I always promise myself I would never be that
Speaker 1: because if people are making you, even in your off time,
Speaker 1: hate and just be miserable in a way, they're kind
Speaker 1: of winning if you want to look at it like that.
Speaker 1: And hate is different from anger, right, where there's anger,
Speaker 1: and then if I guess going again in the Biblical side,
Speaker 1: there's wrath that is you know, we're talking about the
Speaker 1: deadly censor. That is different. Right. So if I'm watching
Speaker 1: a video of a protester, for for most of my career,
Speaker 1: it's just been like, well, that guy's an idiot, he's wrong,
Speaker 1: but whatever, and then I go about my business. Now
Speaker 1: I'm like, I wonder if they hit him in the
Speaker 1: teeth with a baton, if that would be great.
Speaker 2: You want to be like the Don Draper meme in
Speaker 2: the elevator.
Speaker 1: Yeah, think about you at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how I sort of feel in the weekends.
Speaker 2: It's amazing.
Speaker 1: You don't have to let it roll off. And it
Speaker 1: should influence you to if you are diametrically opposed to
Speaker 1: what they're advocating for, to work harder, if if that's
Speaker 1: what you want to do, right and and obviously you know,
Speaker 1: you and I have an outsized platform to do that,
Speaker 1: you know, being here on the radio and having this
Speaker 1: great audience. But I don't want people to force me
Speaker 1: to hate. I want to I want to sit there.
Speaker 1: But when I see a judge like this, this female
Speaker 1: judge this week who said that the Secretary of Defense
Speaker 1: Pete Hegseeth needs to write an apology and she based
Speaker 1: her decision on the transgender issue based on what she
Speaker 1: thinks that a previous defense secretary would think, which is
Speaker 1: literally what's in the decision. I sit there and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you need to go to guantanamo. I don't like that.
Speaker 1: I understand. To some of you, you're like, oh, whatever, man,
Speaker 1: let the hate flaw. No, it's not healthy for you.
Speaker 1: But this is where we're going, and this is why
Speaker 1: I'm like, some's gonna pop off and it ain't gonna
Speaker 1: be good. And I don't want that. I don't want
Speaker 1: that to be a I don't want to have to
Speaker 1: sit here on the radio and dissect that. You can
Speaker 1: be as angry as you want, and you can go
Speaker 1: and you can protest and you you know, with your
Speaker 1: signs and all of that, but you can't do the
Speaker 1: things that you're doing. And it's like, why will nobody
Speaker 1: stop it? Why will nobody stop it? What is going on?
Speaker 6: And so?
Speaker 1: And to let me highlight a difference, anger is also
Speaker 1: something that's not partisan necessarily. You know how upset I
Speaker 1: am at Pambondy and the Trump administration right now over
Speaker 1: this Epstein list that has just disappeared. If you if
Speaker 1: you forgot about it, what the hell's going on with that?
Speaker 1: From it's on my desk and I read it and
Speaker 1: everything's horrible, And to releasing things redacted that are unredacted
Speaker 1: already on the internet. That makes me angry, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't make me hate. But some of this stuff going
Speaker 1: on right now makes me hate, and I don't like that.
Speaker 1: I'm having a real like emotional like have to it
Speaker 1: there to myself and go, bro, you're off the air,
Speaker 1: you're not doing prep yet. Let it go for now.
Speaker 1: And it's it's honestly accepting certain like individual story circumstances
Speaker 1: like you know nine to eleven, where I'm just like
Speaker 1: turn it to glass right like that, that's an immediate
Speaker 1: emotional reaction. But I find myself on the daily sitting
Speaker 1: there going how is this allowed to progress? And then
Speaker 1: dark thoughts start entering and we all deal with it
Speaker 1: in different ways, but it's not healthy for you and
Speaker 1: and for a lot of these cats. I think it's
Speaker 1: the goal man, and that makes me hate more. If
Speaker 1: I just a moment of honesty for you this morning.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to some phones so other people
Speaker 1: can hate. Uh, Jamal, what's up man? How you going it?
Speaker 9: Why if someone case Sea who's a professional and it
Speaker 9: anger and stuff, let me tell you why?
Speaker 1: You again? Different? You You realize that, Okay, anger and
Speaker 1: hate difference. Yeah, you can be angry about stuff. You
Speaker 1: might be angry at your kids, but you don't hate them.
Speaker 1: It's a different, right, It's a different thing.
Speaker 9: But I have the hate par the I'm gonna tell
Speaker 9: you why what goes on? Casey, You have a natural
Speaker 9: part of you and a professional part of you. When
Speaker 9: you come to the radio every day you see this
Speaker 9: stuff that's been going on for years. It hasn't just
Speaker 9: oh you woke up one morning it was all.
Speaker 6: I hate them. No, it's not.
Speaker 9: Remember back in twenty ten, when Republicans protest and the
Speaker 9: Democrats they won't call protest. They was called a plan.
Speaker 9: It was all described that way.
Speaker 3: You saw them.
Speaker 9: Now this happens because if you protest for what liberal
Speaker 9: Democrats believe, you are a pat you are a patree,
Speaker 9: you're fighting for civil rights, or you're doing everything right.
Speaker 9: But when you counter protest or fight in disagreement and
Speaker 9: arguing disagreement, oh, year, your plan, your evil. You hate
Speaker 9: perfect example, the nineteen eighty one they called it the
Speaker 9: Greensboro massacre.
Speaker 6: It was not.
Speaker 9: They had a depth to clan, depth to the clan
Speaker 9: march where the clan showed up and they fell and
Speaker 9: the hand that was not a massacre. The clan b
Speaker 9: and the Black Panthers and the Communists couldn't accept that
Speaker 9: they lost hand to hand with the claiming because somebody
Speaker 9: from the Black Panther for to Night and the Klan
Speaker 9: that afore the gun only that person will shot.
Speaker 1: But they turned into me. Just to be I just
Speaker 1: want to be abundantly clear here, because some of that
Speaker 1: happened outside and away from the initial interaction, at a
Speaker 1: separate location, just to be clear, right.
Speaker 9: So yes, but that's what you call. But then you
Speaker 9: know the CASEY did from somewhere, that's because I was
Speaker 9: in the streets. We when we had fights like that,
Speaker 9: we had game fights. The fight they started the high
Speaker 9: school that we made end up still fighting all the
Speaker 9: way up the street. But it all started at that
Speaker 9: school and we were just fighting. But what has happened
Speaker 9: is whenever liberal Democrats has started the civil rights whenever
Speaker 9: someone march is for what people believe is civil rights
Speaker 9: or if they believed is a liberal agenda, you are
Speaker 9: painted with happiness and it's okay. But soon as you
Speaker 9: piw the protein, soon as you say I disagree with you,
Speaker 9: you'll automatically put in the permission of a hater. You're evil.
Speaker 9: And that's just raighing down.
Speaker 6: On the news.
Speaker 1: Jamal. I can deal with that. I've dealt with that.
Speaker 1: My entire career. You should see some of the email
Speaker 1: we get. It's it's always rolled off my back. I
Speaker 1: may make fun of it on the air, but I've
Speaker 1: the other than the dude who one time took pictures
Speaker 1: in front of my house and sent them to me,
Speaker 1: which I then had to send to the police. I
Speaker 1: I can let it roll off. This is something different, man,
Speaker 1: This is this is fever alpatem winning. Okay, if I
Speaker 1: can make a n difference, Okay.
Speaker 9: It's getting worse. You know what, Casey, let me teach
Speaker 9: you a whole I'm looking for me in the country.
Speaker 9: His country analogy is saying the straw that broke the
Speaker 9: cammel's back, that's the straw that broke the camel's back.
Speaker 9: So basically what it's saying, you're back to strang in, Casey,
Speaker 9: You're straw. You're dealing with it. But it gets to
Speaker 9: a point where even the cambell back will break. So
Speaker 9: that's the straw that broke the camel's back. People are
Speaker 9: seeing it. Look at them more. Around Monday, these people
Speaker 9: was doing stuff. Guess what they all was released by judges.
Speaker 9: You just brought up, b't judge.
Speaker 1: I know that I don't Reverend Soul goes to the
Speaker 1: face layer deserves every bit of mockery that I can
Speaker 1: dole out. I don't hate the dude. It's it's I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, it's different and and and I don't hate
Speaker 1: William Barber. I think that he's one of the most uh.
Speaker 1: I think he's one of the worst people in politics.
Speaker 1: But I don't want the dude to get hit by
Speaker 1: a truck, do you know well? And I don't want
Speaker 1: whoever owns the truck to have to deal with that
Speaker 1: like I can do. This is different, man, and I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people are feeling that way. And
Speaker 1: I almost didn't talk about it this morning, but I
Speaker 1: heard that audio of Chuck Edwards town hall and it
Speaker 1: just it made me livid this morning because it's not organic.
Speaker 1: It's just it's fakery, and it's fakery, and it causes
Speaker 1: other people to raise their ire to that level. And
Speaker 1: I don't want my fellow citizens, regardless of the disagreement,
Speaker 1: they're having, to go out and have another quote unquote
Speaker 1: Greensboro massacre. Right, you don't want that again, jamal Right,
Speaker 1: you don't want that.
Speaker 9: I be JC Little, I'm gonna be honest with you,
Speaker 9: and I will say this, it's gonna have to come
Speaker 9: to the time. Want you the Republican Party, and I
Speaker 9: blame the republic And when we get in power, don't
Speaker 9: throw organizations out. Witness Civil Rights Division of the arm
Speaker 9: FBI and the Department of Justice. It needs to go
Speaker 9: because the only seems to go one way against white,
Speaker 9: straight males and all these things to go that way.
Speaker 9: So that's number one. Until the Republicans, when we get
Speaker 9: in control, stop being scared of what the media and
Speaker 9: what some of these and some of these protesters think
Speaker 9: and start locking them up rightfully. So then it's going
Speaker 9: to continue the worse. But I go back to the
Speaker 9: analogy of the straw that broke the camel's back case. See,
Speaker 9: when it comes to you, you just have seen it
Speaker 9: so much, and it's powering up and it's powering up,
Speaker 9: and it's powered up to you like this, this ain't right,
Speaker 9: This isn't right, and so you just snapped and say
Speaker 9: I'm tired of it. And that's what happens to people.
Speaker 9: That's why people like Elon Musk, who were Democrats, who
Speaker 9: was praised by Democrats with the electric car. Guess what
Speaker 9: he's hated, nobody likes him, and guess what they're torturing
Speaker 9: and burning his place up. This farmer's by the Democrat.
Speaker 1: This man was, But you would I agree one thousand
Speaker 1: percent on all of this. I again, I'm just saying
Speaker 1: that it's it's I I'm fearful of where it goes. Look,
Speaker 1: am I going to go out and shoot somebody in
Speaker 1: the face? No, right, but somebody will, and I don't
Speaker 1: want that. That's That's all that. That's all that I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Somebody just send me an email says there are people
Speaker 1: listening to you right now who would put you and
Speaker 1: I in jail because of our views. Absolutely, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be them. But on the flip side,
Speaker 1: for the people who were doing criminal things within this
Speaker 1: government or the Epstein list or any of the rest,
Speaker 1: I want people in jail, but I want people in
Speaker 1: jail for actual crimes. And it adds to the frustration
Speaker 1: that we're not there yet. Jamal, I got a roll.
Speaker 1: I gotta do Weather, But I appreciate the call this morning. Okay,
Speaker 1: uh oh, we're doing this again, all right, Jeff, hang on,
Speaker 1: we'll get to your call here in the next segment
Speaker 1: raced aging from his basement. Good morning, dude, we still
Speaker 1: didn't get that fixed. What's going on?
Speaker 6: Well, it's strange because you know, as Roll says, like,
Speaker 6: he can connect to somebody else that's not me, and
Speaker 6: then I can connect to somebody else, which I just
Speaker 6: tried your cronies in Houston, so I could connect there,
Speaker 6: But so it's it's hers. Are you on k p
Speaker 6: R C or k t r H k t r
Speaker 6: H so they might err at kPr I'm not quite sure,
Speaker 6: but you can. Yeah, but I can connect there.
Speaker 4: But yeah, we'll.
Speaker 6: Figure it out and Monday we'll probably have it all
Speaker 6: fixed and everybody's going to forget about it. Yeah, thank you,
Speaker 6: thank you man. They're going to love the day today,
Speaker 6: maybe not like what's coming. I think Sunday is going
Speaker 6: to be the worst day of the weekend even painted
Speaker 6: now and the slight risk of severe storms no, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Sunday, that's selection Sunday.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Tigers, right, yeah, yeah, My Tigers almost blew it last night.
Speaker 6: Actually woke up towards the end of that game. They've
Speaker 6: good for them, and they all poor Duke too, who's
Speaker 6: their star there? Yeah, yeah, Cooper, he might be.
Speaker 1: Is he gonna be out?
Speaker 3: I know, yeah, he is good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, But the good news is is after that Sunday
Speaker 6: some great weather coming in next week. Today I'm looking
Speaker 6: real nice smit upper sixties, little fog around this morning,
Speaker 6: and then tomorrow a little drizzling fog early, then very
Speaker 6: warm at upper seventies. Maybe a showered tomorrow night. But
Speaker 6: it's Sunday. Scattered showers and thunderstorms will come in probably
Speaker 6: late morning and into the afternoon. Some of those storms
Speaker 6: could be severe, Gonna be quite windy too. Even outside
Speaker 6: of storms, winds could gus thirty five plus miles per hour.
Speaker 6: But that's fund's gonna come through my Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Speaker 6: sun shines back near sixty, Monday near seventy Tuesday, how
Speaker 6: about Wednesday back up near eighty degrees, So on a
Speaker 6: rough weather Sunday. So start thinking now about what your
Speaker 6: severe weather plant is not only wind hailed, but maybe
Speaker 6: an isolated tornado. We'll throw some heavy rain in there too.
Speaker 6: So Sunday right now is our big weather day over
Speaker 6: the next seven days, and as a magic cacy, beautiful
Speaker 6: weather back as we get into next week.
Speaker 1: All right, let me decode what Ray says on selection Sunday,
Speaker 1: sit inside, drink beer with your friends and watch.
Speaker 3: So that's what I said.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, man, enjoy right, that's our plan. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll talk in the next hour. Appreciate Okay, yep, all right,
Speaker 1: there you go, Ray stage, Mike, we'll come back. We'll
Speaker 1: get more phone calls. Pete Calender joins us at eight
Speaker 1: oh five. We'll try to talk about something productive.
Speaker 7: Hey, yeah, I just want you to know that your
Speaker 7: lecture on hate and anger, it's not falling flat. We understand,
Speaker 7: we get it. But with that said, uh, I put
Speaker 7: my anger in Pambondi's lap. Because these people that are
Speaker 7: out there burning things down, this is going to go on.
Speaker 7: There's diabolical people behind them paying them to do these things,
Speaker 7: and nobody's stopping it. Pambondy should be out there arresting people.
Speaker 7: It didn't take Merrick donand very long anything Maga was.
Speaker 7: He was on a war path and he was arresting.
Speaker 1: Everything and everyone. Let me ask you a question, just
Speaker 1: because I'm a little short on time and I want
Speaker 1: to have this conversation with you. You would agree, though,
Speaker 1: that it has to be something jurisdictionally that Pam, like,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't if something is a state crime, the like
Speaker 1: you don't do what the other side did, right, So
Speaker 1: a lot of this also falls on local law enforcement,
Speaker 1: local prosecutors, because what you're asking for is an outsize
Speaker 1: fed at that point to come in and try to
Speaker 1: put charges. Now, a lot of this, I agree with you,
Speaker 1: there's cross over there, but some of this there's not.
Speaker 1: It is clearly state crimes. And I don't know that
Speaker 1: it falls on Pam Bondy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're felonies. They're committing felonies.
Speaker 1: That I got that, but it doesn't mean it's her lap. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well there's Look, there's a lot to be irritated with.
Speaker 1: And and by the way, I'm not sitting there trying
Speaker 1: to lecture and have you all get it. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to be honest about how I feel, so you don't
Speaker 1: have to take anything away from it. I'm just explaining
Speaker 1: to you why, in the back of mind, we could
Speaker 1: all argue.
Speaker 7: That what Merrick Gollan did was really wasn't in his jurisdiction,
Speaker 7: was out of.
Speaker 1: I'm agreeing with you, sir, I absolutely, Jeff, I agree
Speaker 1: with you one hundred percent. I'm just saying that I
Speaker 1: don't want Republicans to do that. But I don't know
Speaker 1: what the answer is. So I'm just that's the answer.
Speaker 3: It's time.
Speaker 7: We gotta we gotta play their game.
Speaker 9: Wise we lose.
Speaker 1: You're already we lose. All right? Yeah, all right, thank
Speaker 1: you for the call there, Jeff. Yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I I hear you. And this is what I battle with.
Speaker 1: Maybe something stronger, I don't know. Let's just get this
Speaker 1: thing rolling. Oh no, I got to talk to Pete
Speaker 1: and then do another hour of radio and we'll welcome
Speaker 1: in our radio buddy to the South Pete calendar Middays
Speaker 1: WBT and you can hear him on the iHeart Radio app.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Pete? How you doing?
Speaker 3: Good morning? How are you so?
Speaker 1: How crazy has this week been?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: Eh? So, I had an idea boot Peteza Nazi.
Speaker 1: Boo boo, Pete boo, Pete. I'm sorry, go ahead, talk sir.
Speaker 2: You suck, Pete.
Speaker 1: You sucked, Pete boom. Sorry. I thought I was gonna
Speaker 1: chuck Edwards Town Halls. I got a little confirmed. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Peteza Nazi, super Nazi. Yeah, is that is
Speaker 1: that how we came?
Speaker 3: I had an idea. I had an idea.
Speaker 1: I don't like the idea. Yeah, that's you know who
Speaker 1: else had ideas? Hitler, You're literally oh Mane, we just
Speaker 1: owned you. Yeah, dude, I'm having I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: I had a little bit of an existential crisis this morning, Pete,
Speaker 1: because I try not to hate. I have to be angry,
Speaker 1: but I try not to hate. Yeah, and I find
Speaker 1: myself hating right now. And I heard that in that
Speaker 1: audio from the town hall talk me off the ledge
Speaker 1: bro we'll stop booing you.
Speaker 3: Well, no, actually I was. My idea was that I
Speaker 3: was going to boo you.
Speaker 1: Oh well, you should see.
Speaker 3: I was fixing to come on and just shout you
Speaker 3: down every time you attempt to speak.
Speaker 1: Ah, I see, well, uh, and then.
Speaker 3: Demand that you listen to me. You have to listen
Speaker 3: to me. So this is I think I decoded this.
Speaker 3: I cracked the code a couple of years ago on this.
Speaker 3: So you hear all the time in these types of
Speaker 3: like you heard at the this Ashville protest where like
Speaker 3: you know, Chuck Edwards has a town hall by the way,
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely, the thousand people that showed up in
Speaker 3: Deep Blue Moon, that left wing Ashville. They all show
Speaker 3: up with their signs and their chants and screeching and such,
Speaker 3: and they are screaming at him. Listen to us, listen,
Speaker 3: listen to us. They keep saying, listen. And there's a difference.
Speaker 3: And this is what I mean. I feel like I
Speaker 3: cracked the code on this. So tell me what do
Speaker 3: you think There is a difference when a parent tells
Speaker 3: a child listen to me, and when I am having
Speaker 3: a discussion with an equal adult to adult and I'm saying, oh,
Speaker 3: you know, listen to what I'm saying here, Joe, you
Speaker 3: should listen to this, right, absolutely, yeah, right in the
Speaker 3: in the relationship dynamic between parent and child, the parent
Speaker 3: saying listen to me means what it means obey me.
Speaker 3: It means I'm telling you.
Speaker 4: To do this.
Speaker 3: You need to hear what I am saying and then
Speaker 3: follow what I am telling you to do this.
Speaker 1: I'll take you out as my mom exactly.
Speaker 3: Well are you quoting Bill Cosby?
Speaker 1: No, I'm quoting my mother.
Speaker 3: So okay, all right. And so I think, like all
Speaker 3: this time, or for a long time, I heard what
Speaker 3: their demand of you know, listen to what we're saying,
Speaker 3: and you need to listen to the people and listen
Speaker 3: to us. And when I finally realized, oh no, it's
Speaker 3: not that they want to be heard, because I hear them.
Speaker 3: I have heard your arguments, whatever you want to pass
Speaker 3: for those But like I've heard your demands, I've heard
Speaker 3: your screeching and you're screaming from the Moral Monday Movement
Speaker 3: and beyond. Like I've heard your position, I just don't agree.
Speaker 3: I don't agree with you. And so they keep saying
Speaker 3: I have to listen to them, and I feel like,
Speaker 3: you know what, I think they're telling me. I have
Speaker 3: to surrender and obey them. And that's what's really driving
Speaker 3: the anger, is that, Yeah, sure you.
Speaker 1: Because I've seen you on Twitter. If that person said
Speaker 1: I'm happy to discuss this with you, you would have
Speaker 1: a conversation with them. Oh yeah, right, you would to
Speaker 1: just sit there and scream at them or any of
Speaker 1: the rank. I mean, you may not walk away convinced,
Speaker 1: but you'll have that discussion. They clearly don't want to
Speaker 1: have that discussion with Chuck Edwards or anybody.
Speaker 3: Right right, And you uh to be completely transparent here,
Speaker 3: Casey will mock me for engaging in those types of
Speaker 3: Twitter back and forth. Sometimes he'll say, why he wasting
Speaker 3: your you.
Speaker 1: For doing it? I just don't understand why you because
Speaker 1: it's just not going to go anywhere, right right. I
Speaker 1: would never mock you, by the way, I would never
Speaker 1: mock you. If you're having a conversation where on Twitter,
Speaker 1: where the back and forth is substantive. That's fair, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's fair.
Speaker 1: But like the lunatics you choose to argue with, I'm
Speaker 1: just like, I'm worried about your mental health. Really, Oh no, oh,
Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 3: Look, as I heard the award winning actor Nick Sercy explain,
Speaker 3: does a does a cat hate the ball of yarn? No,
Speaker 3: it's play with it now, So yeah, no, I enjoy
Speaker 3: doing it. And here's the other thing. And this is
Speaker 3: really like fundamental to my entire approach at all of
Speaker 3: this stuff, which is that unchallenged ideas are easy to hold.
Speaker 3: A lot of people have opinions about things that they
Speaker 3: have not thought through. They just have a bumper sticker
Speaker 3: slogan that they screen out and they just know what
Speaker 3: the position that they're supposed to take. And when you
Speaker 3: actually engage in a conversation. It makes It should make
Speaker 3: their arguments stronger, right if they're good arguments, but it
Speaker 3: also should identify weaknesses and not just their argument, but
Speaker 3: my own, so I can then hone my argument. I
Speaker 3: can make it a better case. And a lot of
Speaker 3: people on the left, because they are protected through Democrat
Speaker 3: privilege by the media, they never have to argue these positions.
Speaker 3: They show up at town halls with signs, screen cuss
Speaker 3: words at elected officials while demanding that they listen to us, like, dude,
Speaker 3: we already heard you through the vote. You can disagree
Speaker 3: with the stuff that they're doing now, but people voted.
Speaker 3: You lost, These people won. They're going to be trying
Speaker 3: to do something that you don't like. I understand you
Speaker 3: don't like it, but you didn't win.
Speaker 1: Where do you think this ends up? I, as I said,
Speaker 1: I've always had the ability, because you have to in
Speaker 1: this job, to let a lot of it just roll
Speaker 1: off your back, right, because if not, you go crazy
Speaker 1: doing this Based on some of the emails and some
Speaker 1: of the stuff that we get. That being said, I
Speaker 1: find it harder and harder I find myself. I was
Speaker 1: talking about this on the radio and earlier, and it
Speaker 1: was more. It's more existential than anything. I find myself
Speaker 1: not angry. I find myself more frequently hating, and that's
Speaker 1: not healthy and maybe that's the goal there. But it like,
Speaker 1: what's going on with these judges right now? This the
Speaker 1: audacity of this judge the other day to tell Pete
Speaker 1: Hegseth he's got to essentially write an apology note because
Speaker 1: she can channel what a previous defense secretary thinks like.
Speaker 1: And then nothing gets done and it just drives me, baddie.
Speaker 1: What was the one yesterday? What was the lunatic yesterday?
Speaker 1: I have it hero, Sorry, I haven't hear my stack.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: There's been so many of these rulings by.
Speaker 1: These Yeah, it doesn't even matter. It's just something stupid yesterday.
Speaker 1: And it's and oh it was you got to rehire
Speaker 1: all the provision employees. Yeah, that's what it was. And
Speaker 1: it's like I sit there and I'm like, this is
Speaker 1: the kind of stuff that unravels a system that's not perfect,
Speaker 1: but is damn sure better than almost anywhere in the world,
Speaker 1: likely everywhere in the world, right and and they're willing
Speaker 1: to do it. Chuck Schumer is willing to shut the
Speaker 1: government down, Jasmine Crockett says, so they stop firing people
Speaker 1: because she's dumb and she doesn't realize that Elon will
Speaker 1: be cataloged as an essential employee and he'll keep doing
Speaker 1: what he's doing. And I just asked myself, what's going
Speaker 1: to be the breaking point here where there's a correction? Right,
Speaker 1: we talk about corrections in the stock market, where's the
Speaker 1: correction within the rule of law? Where do you think
Speaker 1: that actually emerges? Because they're damn sure better be one.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that's what we're seeing. It just it
Speaker 3: takes a while, you know what I And I have
Speaker 3: cautioned my audience as well and people that I know,
Speaker 3: you know in real life, I say, you know, just
Speaker 3: give it a minute, because in our twenty four to
Speaker 3: seven constant news cycle that we're in, people tend to
Speaker 3: react immediately and then move on and it just generates
Speaker 3: more and more anger and outrage and the like. And
Speaker 3: what we don't know is like what it's going to
Speaker 3: look like in another week. Right, so we get the rulings,
Speaker 3: we see this for what it is. This is the fight,
Speaker 3: by the way, like this is this is the fight
Speaker 3: that people on the right have been itching to have
Speaker 3: as long as they have somebody that they could, you know,
Speaker 3: march into battle with. And and Trump is that person,
Speaker 3: for all of his flaws, and uh, I am wary
Speaker 3: of him as well as the leader of this fight.
Speaker 3: But he is taking this fight on to the left.
Speaker 3: And that's why they are behaving the way they are behaving.
Speaker 3: You are talking about dismantling a you know, multi billion,
Speaker 3: maybe trillion dollar operation that funnels money from taxpayers into
Speaker 3: the pockets of leftist causes, organizations, individuals, and it's a
Speaker 3: it's this massive money laundering operation. Of course, they are
Speaker 3: going to react like the dog that got hit. So
Speaker 3: we should expect that, and that should mean no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: I fully expect as I expect the unwashed masses of
Speaker 1: Asheville to assemble, right, I get that. But what I
Speaker 1: don't expect is fifty some federal judges who just decided
Speaker 1: their activists and they like, they're not even pretending, they're
Speaker 1: not even pretending. And so what I sit there and
Speaker 1: I look at it, because here's here's my thing. It's
Speaker 1: it's one. It absolutely bastardizes what is supposed to be
Speaker 1: checks and balances, and really, the federal judiciary. But also
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people on the right who
Speaker 1: aren't of the opinion that it necessarily they think it's bad,
Speaker 1: but they just kind of wish they were the ones
Speaker 1: doing it. And then you go down the rabbit hole
Speaker 1: like you did with you know where they decided that
Speaker 1: they don't need sixty votes for judges anymore, and then
Speaker 1: the Republicans said, oh, I guess that means the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court too, right, It's this. I'm a slippery slope guy,
Speaker 1: you know this, Pete.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I am too. I agree. This is my concern too.
Speaker 3: This is why I caution people with regard to Donald
Speaker 3: Trump eight years ago, was like, I get it. You
Speaker 3: want to hire like you're you're fighting monsters all the time,
Speaker 3: and eventually you're you say, you know what, I'm just
Speaker 3: going to go ahead and hire my own monster to
Speaker 3: fight their monsters. And the problem with that is that
Speaker 3: you end up with just a lot more monsters. Right,
Speaker 3: that's the slippery slope, and that's a concern absolutely. But
Speaker 3: you know, on the other hand, I would prefer to
Speaker 3: know who all of these people are. I have referred
Speaker 3: to judges for years as lawyers with a wardrobe change
Speaker 3: just because they get on the bench doesn't mean they
Speaker 3: are now impartial arbiters of the law that has not
Speaker 3: been I mean, it all depends on what judge you get,
Speaker 3: what venue they're in, what their politics are. So like
Speaker 3: it's almost like, you know, the good old days weren't
Speaker 3: always good. Just because people weren't aware of this kind
Speaker 3: of judicial activism before, it doesn't mean it was happening.
Speaker 3: It's now so blatant and in our face. And like again,
Speaker 3: these are leftists, and they're trying to argue positions that
Speaker 3: are illogical, that don't make sense legally, and so I
Speaker 3: would be I would have a hard time making these
Speaker 3: arguments too, which is why some of their rulings sound
Speaker 3: like gibberish. It's because they're trying to write in defense
Speaker 3: of an indefensible position.
Speaker 1: I agree with you, but the problem is then you
Speaker 1: have people who go, well, what we need is we
Speaker 1: need the judges not to have the ability to ever
Speaker 1: question what the executive branch is doing. Right, No, that's
Speaker 1: not right. There's a right. Checks and balances are a
Speaker 1: legitimate function and of our government. Right, it's one of
Speaker 1: the things that our founding fathers spent a crap ton
Speaker 1: of time on right. This is why our government is
Speaker 1: so unique. There's nothing like it on earth. And I believe,
Speaker 1: and maybe you believe a lot of people believe. It's
Speaker 1: Probably it's not perfect, but it's better than you know,
Speaker 1: better than communism or you know, starving four million people
Speaker 1: to death. So how do you course correct on the
Speaker 1: judiciary without removing something because you know they get Gavin
Speaker 1: news Let's say Gavin Newsom's the next president. He does
Speaker 1: something insane, even though he's pretending to be a right
Speaker 1: winger right now. But you have to have the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court have the ability to do checks and balances. So
Speaker 1: you've got to be very careful how you put it
Speaker 1: back on this stuff.
Speaker 3: Well, and this is where the Roberts Court, the Supreme
Speaker 3: Court is going to have to do something. They're going
Speaker 3: to have to draw a line in the sand. At
Speaker 3: some point they refuse to do so a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks ago on some lower court, district court, you know,
Speaker 3: level ruling. But just this concept that a single judge
Speaker 3: that's been selected through venue shopping basically gets to set
Speaker 3: policy and override entire swaths of the federal government with
Speaker 3: temporary restraining orders. This is a bastardization of the of
Speaker 3: the law. And if and remember these courts are designed,
Speaker 3: the lower courts are supposed to just kind of uh,
Speaker 3: take care of a lot of the cases at a
Speaker 3: lower level, so everything doesn't all go up to the
Speaker 3: Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: So if you are, if you are based and by
Speaker 1: the way, based on the Upper Court's previous rulings exactly.
Speaker 3: And so if you have lower courts that are now
Speaker 3: just freelancing out there making stuff up, then that's on
Speaker 3: the US Supreme Court to police its own and if
Speaker 3: they are unwilling to do so, then I think you
Speaker 3: do start looking at mechanisms like impeaching judges and that
Speaker 3: sort of thing. But again, like you said, it opens
Speaker 3: a can of worms where we're asking people to basically
Speaker 3: follow their oaths and the law, and when you have
Speaker 3: people that refuse to do so, there is an argument
Speaker 3: to be made that you have to drop the hammer
Speaker 3: on them, and you've got to make an example. It's
Speaker 3: like the Tesla fire bombings and stuff, right like until
Speaker 3: you start test oh yeah, right right, yeah, You've got
Speaker 3: to start charging people. You've got to start throwing the
Speaker 3: books at people, because otherwise there's no disincentive, and the
Speaker 3: high trust society that we have all grown up in
Speaker 3: is gone and probably gone forever. So that's what that's
Speaker 3: my main concern is that we we we move towards
Speaker 3: a society that is no longer a high trust society,
Speaker 3: and then all of the economics start breaking down from there.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't I don't know that anyone, especially I
Speaker 1: guess on the right trusts federal judges right now. And
Speaker 1: the fact is there's thousands of them right yeah, between
Speaker 1: the districts and the actual appointed judges there at the
Speaker 1: federal level. So it's like you're you're, you are. They
Speaker 1: are effectively decimating and I like the way that you
Speaker 1: put it. They're they're decimating the very trust that we
Speaker 1: have in a portion of our government. Unfortunately, we're out
Speaker 1: of time and I got like nine other things I
Speaker 1: want to get to. But yeah, that's where it has
Speaker 1: to end. It's okay, I need all right, man? You
Speaker 1: want to beer?
Speaker 7: Ye?
Speaker 3: Happy pie Day? By the way, Yeah, I have fun.
Speaker 1: On Saint Patty's too. By the way. We'll talk to
Speaker 1: you next week, brother, AhR buddy, and we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Hang on what he said anything? Some guy just came in.
Speaker 1: He's like all your poor ross had to put all
Speaker 1: the stuff up on his counter and he can't even
Speaker 1: see his toys, no action figures. Excuse me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I feel like I'm in a foxhole. Everything's
Speaker 2: up on the counters and stuff like old boxes.
Speaker 1: Your studio, my studio, everything had to come off to
Speaker 1: some guy just came and like everything off the ground.
Speaker 2: So and the thing of it is like none of
Speaker 2: it is really mine, Like it's all like your old
Speaker 2: boxes and stuff from stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I stuff in there like I moved in there. Well,
Speaker 1: the fridge is the fridge isn't even mine it like
Speaker 1: it like that things I've never used that. It's not
Speaker 1: my fridge. So you can take it home.
Speaker 2: I would not. That's been here for over a decade.
Speaker 6: There.
Speaker 2: You'd get some disease eating out of that thing. It's
Speaker 2: not going to happen.
Speaker 1: No, you'd end up like the dudes who were doing
Speaker 1: body shops off the porn chick down in cant Coon.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 1: I just don't want to touch that.
Speaker 2: I'm just surrounded by stuff now. So it's like, you know,
Speaker 2: what kind of carpet do you want?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 7: Like?
Speaker 1: So I'm like sun I could be nice to walk
Speaker 1: around without shoes on.
Speaker 2: And yeah, so I had to like take stuff off
Speaker 2: the bookshelves and the cases and stuff and all that
Speaker 2: kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: And you can Ross has a lot of stuff stuff,
Speaker 1: but it's like properly placed, whereas I have like a
Speaker 1: pile of just box boxes and bags that have just
Speaker 1: accumulated over the years. So but it's a lot easier
Speaker 1: to move it around. Ross has uh what's the word
Speaker 1: I'm where. I'm uh, you have a fung shway in
Speaker 1: your studio, like Trunk's got a place.
Speaker 2: Right exactly right right. But I'm excited they're replacing the
Speaker 2: carpet because this carpet, I mean it's been in this
Speaker 2: studio since what nineteen eighty or something, So I don't
Speaker 2: even want to know what's in the Like it's one
Speaker 2: of those dateline specials where they take to like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't even go to.
Speaker 1: The comfort in They're like, oh, let's look at the room.
Speaker 1: So it's just like oh my god. Uh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: People, because it used to be a different format. It's
Speaker 2: been like two or three different formats. See, like the
Speaker 2: story like one time Frankie Goes to Hollywood was in
Speaker 2: there and you won't believe what happened, like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well what was it? What was rooster of
Speaker 1: the country in there? And yeah, Ross, specifically Ross's studio
Speaker 1: has been Yeah, it's still got to be back. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine putting a black light on that studio down
Speaker 1: the hall, you know the one please d Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: no way yeah, oh all right, so anyway, new carpet. Well,
Speaker 1: and then nobody tells us anything. Just the conversation with
Speaker 1: Ross and I were having off the air, Yeah, somebody's
Speaker 1: the guy.
Speaker 2: He said, can you know they're replacing, like the entire
Speaker 2: building is crazy And they said, so are we going
Speaker 2: to be getting a new board? He said no. And
Speaker 2: when they asked us back in the day, like I
Speaker 2: think it was Trevor Matt and engineering, somebody asked like,
Speaker 2: do you want a new board? And I was being
Speaker 2: sarcastic and I said no, But apparently they thought it
Speaker 2: was being like for real, which is too.
Speaker 1: I just want to be clear. Ross has the oldest
Speaker 1: possible digital board because it's the first digital board ever
Speaker 1: invented for radio. You know, yeah, you're not kidding, I'm
Speaker 1: not kidding. It is literally the first digital non analog
Speaker 1: board that was ever produced for radio studios, and Ross
Speaker 1: happens to have one in his in his studio. The
Speaker 1: one in my studio is not much younger, but the
Speaker 1: one in yours is literally as old as possible for
Speaker 1: a digital board. So they asked him and he's like, nah,
Speaker 1: it's fine, but you didn't. But he was being sarcastic.
Speaker 2: But I was being sarcastic, but kind of because at
Speaker 2: the same point, I hate change, right, and I left
Speaker 2: my older board, Like it's like a piano you learn
Speaker 2: to play, right. Yeah, at the same point, I want
Speaker 2: them to offer me a new board. Does that make sense?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, dude, one of those wheats. Because what's
Speaker 1: crazy is when I worked in Minneapolis, I had a
Speaker 1: new wheatstone board and this is a little inside baseball
Speaker 1: but basically it's automated, so like even the slides, the
Speaker 1: little dials move on their own, and like it was spoiled.
Speaker 1: So when I first came to Raleigh, I actually worked
Speaker 1: in your studio for the first few months before they
Speaker 1: got the other studio done, and it was like it
Speaker 1: was like having a nice new modern car and then
Speaker 1: you just somebody gave you a model t if it
Speaker 1: was crazy.
Speaker 2: As an introvert, I feel like I don't want to
Speaker 2: go to the thing, but I want to be invited
Speaker 2: to the thing, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1: It's a sent No, it's like it's like those you
Speaker 1: know those couples where they're like, no, don't get me
Speaker 1: anything for Christmas, but really they want something for Christmas?
Speaker 1: Would that be fair?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 2: Well, the thing when they asked me, I was just
Speaker 2: being my sarcastic self, so it was like, no, of
Speaker 2: course I don't want a new board, and they were like,
Speaker 2: apparently gonna work in my sarcasm.
Speaker 1: H I don't know, it's bad. Probably too late now,
Speaker 1: so it is. Yeah, all right, well it's a new carpet,
Speaker 1: So I got that going for you. All right, let's
Speaker 1: see here.
Speaker 7: I have.
Speaker 1: I have beat my brain in trying to figure out
Speaker 1: how to do one of these stories, and I just
Speaker 1: don't think I'm gonna be able to do it. It's
Speaker 1: just so crazy. Oh, let me mention this though. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm so angry at Moonbats, not not hate, just anger. Okay,
Speaker 1: since that's the theme of the show. So do you
Speaker 1: remember literally years ago when BUCkies wanted to put a
Speaker 1: BUCkies in out on forty, going out just past the split.
Speaker 1: And but technically it was in you know, it was
Speaker 1: under the purview of the Chapel Hill mafia there, right,
Speaker 1: and they objected to it because it had gas pumps
Speaker 1: or something. Right, It's just pure eco lunacy. And as
Speaker 1: a result it took a while for BUCkies to figure
Speaker 1: out where they were going to put one. Well, eventually
Speaker 1: they were able to get outside the county and into
Speaker 1: a more reasonable county in the form of elements. They're
Speaker 1: in Memin and so they're going forward this Now it
Speaker 1: looks like they're not going to open the BUCkies till
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven. What are we doing?
Speaker 2: This is turning into like the JFK files or the
Speaker 2: Epstein files. Yes, do you think you're pushing it along?
Speaker 2: Teasing us, Come on, let's do this.
Speaker 1: Mevin Mayor ed hooks as BUCkies could open by twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: I'm not blaming the Mayor, by the way, because again
Speaker 1: they were the second suitor. They were gonna put this
Speaker 1: thing not in Alemance. But but then the moonbats got
Speaker 1: into it and they're like, oh, we don't want gas
Speaker 1: pumps or something. It was literally like oh, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to put gas. They're gonna have to put gas
Speaker 1: tanks in the ground. Yeah, that's what gas stations do.
Speaker 1: You absolute loan. But also, like gas is a small
Speaker 1: sliver of what people want from BUCkies. We need to
Speaker 1: make this happen. And now it's gonna be twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I just saw Mayor Hooks said that the
Speaker 1: project starts in the summer. It'd be about eighteen months,
Speaker 1: so early twenty twenty seven. I thought that thing was
Speaker 1: going to be in so much sooner. I was so
Speaker 1: disappointed to see that. Ah, what if they do You
Speaker 1: think we could get them to relocate the studios to
Speaker 1: inside the BUCkies. That'd be amazing, wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I mean, they have nicer bathrooms than us.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's that's not even difficult. Even though they did that.
Speaker 1: The bathrooms are one of the things they actually did
Speaker 1: upgrade what about four years ago, five years ago, so
Speaker 1: they're not as bad as they used to be. But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, nadio studio in the BUCkies.
Speaker 2: You put in the automatic fleshing thing the toilets, and
Speaker 2: they hate the automatic fleshing it with a sensor because
Speaker 2: you're trying to go to the bathroom and then I
Speaker 2: just obviously you SCC details and stuff, but you're trying
Speaker 2: to like do your business and it just keeps flushing.
Speaker 2: I'm not done yet. And then they put those in
Speaker 2: to save water.
Speaker 1: I know, we it's it doesn't make any sense, doesn't
Speaker 1: make any sense at all. They're better than they used
Speaker 1: to be. They adjusted something because when they first put
Speaker 1: them in, you could like walk down the hall and
Speaker 1: just hear flushing even though nobody was in there. It
Speaker 1: was so bad, right, they did it, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: we're saving water, We're saving the planet, like so many
Speaker 1: of these things. Right, they're like, oh, I bought an
Speaker 1: electric car, Really, where's the electricity come from?
Speaker 2: And the other thing the problem in there too. I'm
Speaker 2: just the problems in that bathroom man or they have
Speaker 2: the censored faucets that you know, they give you water
Speaker 2: when you move your hand in front of it, and
Speaker 2: it doesn't work. You're moving your hand in front of
Speaker 2: it like you're John Cena doing the face thing, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, You're like right, moving my hand.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And then I saw John.
Speaker 1: I saw an interview with John Cena. I had never
Speaker 1: seen this do you know do you know why he
Speaker 1: did why he did that thing?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do know the origin story.
Speaker 1: Yes it was. It was a fifty cent right, I
Speaker 1: dare it was. Somebody dared him to do it. So
Speaker 1: he did it as a joke and people liked it,
Speaker 1: and he goes, now I've done it for eighteen yeah.
Speaker 2: Cause he it's not his original idea. It was another
Speaker 2: like hip hop guy's idea that we used to do
Speaker 2: in the videos and see it took it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well they know the guy dared him to
Speaker 1: do it. Literally, on one of the the they were
Speaker 1: like before the thing, he's like, hey, you should do
Speaker 1: this thing at the thing or you know, WrestleMania or
Speaker 1: whatever it was, and he's so he did it, and
Speaker 1: then everyone's like, that's amazing, and then he's been doing
Speaker 1: it since then. So all right, uh sorry, today's show
Speaker 1: is literally just ross and I gripe it about stuff.
Speaker 1: So but you know what, it's cathartic and every now
Speaker 1: and then you need it. And another thing and another thing.
Speaker 1: Ray Stagic from the Weather Channel. Do you have anything
Speaker 1: you want to complain about about your your place of employment?
Speaker 1: Because that's what we're doing today so oh no, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just went and clicked it and then it went away.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, maybe he's maybe it's us. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: maybe it's us he's complaining about. Can you see if
Speaker 1: he did he get connected on the comras? Oh he's not. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, well I'm gonna stall for time here and
Speaker 1: another What was the other thing you wanted to mention?
Speaker 1: Why are the elevators always ripped a part too? Now
Speaker 1: have you noticed that every elevator is like in moving modes,
Speaker 1: so they get all the pads and everything in there.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm just looking for stuff too, I complain
Speaker 1: about now, all right, there he is, all right, We're
Speaker 1: just what is going on?
Speaker 6: Man? Just thumb aggravated. That's okay, It's okay. It's Friday.
Speaker 1: Wait no, no, no, we're today. Our show is just
Speaker 1: us complaining to me.
Speaker 2: I know that that fits into the team perfectly, right, Okay.
Speaker 1: So a beef, but it's got to be like a
Speaker 1: weird beef about your place of employment like this, because
Speaker 1: somebody just walked into the studios and said, hey, everything
Speaker 1: off the ground. We're replacing the carpet, and nobody nobody
Speaker 1: tells us anything.
Speaker 6: So well, yeah, well that happens all the time. I
Speaker 6: just remember the old saying about broadcasting it is not
Speaker 6: synonymous with communication.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a lot. I'm like, we're in the communications
Speaker 1: business really.
Speaker 6: Or supposed to be. Anyway, I walk into a bunch
Speaker 6: of landmines when I come into the real office, you know,
Speaker 6: the actual weather channel build.
Speaker 1: Idea, we should have them put land mines in when
Speaker 1: they pay.
Speaker 6: I mean there's a there's a ton of They got
Speaker 6: the new project we're working on right now, and you
Speaker 6: got this piece of it, and then you know, everything
Speaker 6: is supposed to be better. Right when you come into
Speaker 6: the in a real building.
Speaker 2: It's like bad news land mindes good news. You might
Speaker 2: not have to work.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's true too.
Speaker 1: Oh what what's gone? I guess you could.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but yeah, I was going to try another thing.
Speaker 6: I'm like, well, let me try the other browser. Maybe
Speaker 6: that could be the problem. And I don't know. Now
Speaker 6: you know what it is now I don't.
Speaker 1: It's the universe aligned against you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what it is. It's strange. They get a
Speaker 6: little beep like it's connecting, and then it shows that
Speaker 6: it's whatever. Anyway, good connection for weather, you know, great
Speaker 6: couple of days coming up. Do want to give everybody
Speaker 6: and heads up for the weekend. Tail end of the weekend,
Speaker 6: Sundays are day for severe storms, so on our guard
Speaker 6: run the slight risk, which is one of the lower
Speaker 6: risk assessments from the Weather Service. But that doesn't mean
Speaker 6: the danger isn't there for winds to sixty and hail
Speaker 6: and maybe some isolated tornadoes. I mean, the last severe
Speaker 6: weather event we had where we had some tornadoes was
Speaker 6: also Cyrus Day. So the level doesn't necessarily the chance.
Speaker 6: It just means that maybe not as widespread from what's
Speaker 6: going to be the potential being a bigger severe weather
Speaker 6: maybe even a tornado outbreak starting this afternoon, overnight tonight
Speaker 6: into tomorrow and tomorrow night across the Midwest and eventually
Speaker 6: the South. So luckily those storms a weekend, but a
Speaker 6: few beautiful days coming up will get Today plenty of
Speaker 6: sunshine with some clouds, a little patche fog early been
Speaker 6: upper sixties fifty tonight Tomorrow at upper seventies, maybe a
Speaker 6: drizzle round in the morning, and then it's Sunday with
Speaker 6: the storms in and then we'll clay out some beautiful
Speaker 6: weather next week Monday back close to sixty degrees and
Speaker 6: then seventy and then eighty degree temperatures coming back Tuesday Wednesday.
Speaker 6: Down in the forties at night might sum up for
Speaker 6: thirties early Tuesday morning, casey. But after that looks like
Speaker 6: a modifying trend. So our storm chance Sunday, other than
Speaker 6: that early next week looks real nice. Let's see Monday,
Speaker 6: Saint Patrick, stay excuse me, So there are some parties.
Speaker 6: If there's parties going on this weekend, especially if you've
Speaker 6: got events on Sunday, be aware of the severe weather threat, right,
Speaker 6: and uh.
Speaker 1: Good on you guys trying to sign Cooper Cup. But
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that Monday.
Speaker 6: If yeah, we'll talk yea, hopefully in a better circumstances