Speaker 1: At least on the right side of the week.
Speaker 2: And it's gonna be as I have pointed out each
Speaker 2: and every day, and I feel I feel like a
Speaker 2: broken record saying it. It's what possible insanity could strike
Speaker 2: us today and every day where I'm like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: there it is. There's the there's the hand grenade rolled
Speaker 2: into the room. We get done with the show we're doing,
Speaker 2: you know, believe it or not. Ross and I have
Speaker 2: other duties, uh than just the three hours you hear right,
Speaker 2: You've got production and we got and then obviously show
Speaker 2: prep for the next day, and that takes place in
Speaker 2: the evening and and and you know, you like to disconnect,
Speaker 2: you like to have that window.
Speaker 1: But it's just things are too crazy right now.
Speaker 2: And so like every day this week, I'm sitting there
Speaker 2: and you know, we when we're done with the show,
Speaker 2: maybe one of the last conversations Ross and I'll have
Speaker 2: is you know about oh this, uh, what are they
Speaker 2: gonna do with Tulci Gabbard? What are they gonna do
Speaker 2: with this? And then we go and and then whatever
Speaker 2: we were talking about, you like, yesterday was the heg
Speaker 2: Sas stuff and everyone I'm like you're settling in for
Speaker 2: a long day on Twitter watching people lose their minds
Speaker 2: over military tattoos. All those are white supremacist tattoos. And
Speaker 2: I'm like, uh, I think some guys at the one
Speaker 2: hundred first or eighty second or whatever. I'm sorry, I
Speaker 2: don't know his division, but I like, you can look
Speaker 2: this stuff up. You can lay There's a lot of
Speaker 2: stuff that rolls over and they're like, oh, he's got
Speaker 2: Latin on that tattoo on his chest.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, uh, listen.
Speaker 2: Point Dexter, who thinks you're better than everyone because you
Speaker 2: have a Yale degree? Never mind he has Princeton and Harvard.
Speaker 2: We'll get your degree. Got a little Latin on there?
Speaker 2: In fact, if you if you don't want to, if
Speaker 2: you want to avoid Latin reaching your pocket, do you
Speaker 2: have any rectangular green things in there?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Man covered in Latin?
Speaker 3: Give me that?
Speaker 1: So what what like that? Yesterday was supposed.
Speaker 2: To be the bone that the dog that is, you know,
Speaker 2: the outrage left was gonna chew on and he's an
Speaker 2: afterthought and I don't know, I don't know, And we'll
Speaker 2: break it down. Man, I don't know if we're dealing
Speaker 2: with some super duper four D chess here I have
Speaker 2: went in a lot of different directions. Ross and I
Speaker 2: had to have some conversation off the air about this yesterday, like.
Speaker 1: What's up with the Gates thing?
Speaker 2: And I wrote, Now, I did tweet about this, and
Speaker 2: some of you were like, oh, why are you trying
Speaker 2: to hamstring his administration? What I wrote and it said,
Speaker 2: Gates is no somebody talked to him, and I'll be
Speaker 2: happy to be wrong. But then the question becomes is
Speaker 2: Gates it is the nomination Matt Gates, the Florida congressman,
Speaker 2: really a nomination for attorney general because you could when
Speaker 2: it was first announced, you could make a lot of
Speaker 2: different arguments. Right, there's the nefarious arguments where they're like,
Speaker 2: he's doing it because they were going to release a
Speaker 2: report about him being a naughty boy, if you remember
Speaker 2: they had they were accusing him of sex trafficking, among
Speaker 2: other things. And the problem is the same people accusing
Speaker 2: him of the same Russia collusion people, and you know
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, you know, promoting all of Donald Trump's prosecutions.
Speaker 2: So pardon me if I don't necessarily buy into the narrative.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree that Matt Gates probably likes to party,
Speaker 2: but he's a younger dude down in Florida, and you know,
Speaker 2: if this is just about embarrassing him, that's not gonna work.
Speaker 2: Now if you've got actual details on this stuff. Hey,
Speaker 2: I'm all for investigations with the members of Congress being
Speaker 2: out there, but it matters how investigations get going too.
Speaker 2: So an argument could have been made that the Gates
Speaker 2: appointment was not one where they intended to get them through,
Speaker 2: but rather to distract from everything else. So they have
Speaker 2: you know, they got a bone and no, and I
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: I thought that that was an acceptable theory.
Speaker 2: Then I'm sitting there and I am.
Speaker 1: All right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Don't worry Abouston, Paul, we'll talk about football. Maybe maybe
Speaker 2: not so like I get that, but also why would
Speaker 2: you do that? And then you know the answer to
Speaker 2: that would be he's he's got somebody else he's gonna
Speaker 2: pull out. Gates will still get a gig, but it
Speaker 2: won't be Attorney general.
Speaker 1: But then and then as I.
Speaker 2: Go throughout the day, I don't think they're gonna have
Speaker 2: appointment hearings on a lot of these. I think there
Speaker 2: is a strong argument to be made, and I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna be one of these a holes on Twitter running
Speaker 2: around telling you they know everything and oh wait till
Speaker 2: you hear who they're gonna be the FBI director. I
Speaker 2: can't tell you. I'm just so smart, I'm so connected.
Speaker 2: I must have blocked fifty of those a holes yesterday, people,
Speaker 2: probably including people who might listen to this show, because
Speaker 2: I'm just done with that. The one thing that Twitter
Speaker 2: is kind of rewarded is that behavior. I don't know
Speaker 2: of a better way to do it necessarily. I'm just
Speaker 2: saying for me, I hate that. I hate it, and
Speaker 2: now people do it just for the monetization of it.
Speaker 2: When when Thomas, sorry, when Thomas Massey is sitting there
Speaker 2: and they try to shove a microphone in his face
Speaker 2: as he is, you know, moving around there, Oh what
Speaker 2: do you think of this? What do you think of that?
Speaker 2: And he literally had this answer ready to go in
Speaker 2: his brain. In fact, let me, I'm gonna play the
Speaker 2: audio for you. I start to think that it's it's
Speaker 2: maybe not like a distractive tool, but rather they want
Speaker 2: to put Gates there. Don't get me wrong, Gates has
Speaker 2: this is a dude. A lot of it's spurred on
Speaker 2: by what he feels is his own persecution. It's like
Speaker 2: he told him, he's like, when Trump's in. He didn't
Speaker 2: say when he was in, but back in the day,
Speaker 2: he said, when Trump's in, We're gonna get receipts on
Speaker 2: all this stuff. We're gonna look at all of these
Speaker 2: you know, the ways in which you pushed along these
Speaker 2: investigations where people who are now media members like Andrew
Speaker 2: Weissman and others who are just horrified, who at the
Speaker 2: time were special prosecutors and were coordinating with the FBI.
Speaker 2: And if you remember that that guy who was rewarded
Speaker 2: with a job Weisman as a reporter now was one
Speaker 2: of the chief promoters of the Russia Gate thing. And
Speaker 2: so when you see when you see people, when you
Speaker 2: see people flailing their arms, man, it warms my heart
Speaker 2: with cats like that, And I look, I I don't
Speaker 2: need them drug into courtrooms where they hold back a
Speaker 2: bunch of the evidence and all the rest of us, like,
Speaker 2: it's far more important if there's if the difference between
Speaker 2: five people going to prison or.
Speaker 1: A case that is so.
Speaker 2: Out in the open with all the details that a
Speaker 2: judge finally says, look, we're not able to prosecute, however
Speaker 2: it exposed is the apparatus of the quote unquote deep state,
Speaker 2: or at the very least, people who use their positions
Speaker 2: of power to persecute their political enemies. I am I'm
Speaker 2: in tier two. I'd hope we could do both. But
Speaker 2: if some absolute slime balls have to walk free, hopefully
Speaker 2: their career will be ruined. But it gets us so
Speaker 2: that we can see the scope of the rot. I
Speaker 2: will yield on that side, and Gates has said that's
Speaker 2: what he wants to do.
Speaker 1: Here's my problem with Gates.
Speaker 2: For all of you who just assume that I'm a
Speaker 2: secret Illuminati deep state guy. Okay, it was like three
Speaker 2: of you, but you were very vocal. I let me
Speaker 2: ask you a question. What do you think is the
Speaker 2: most important appointment selection that Trump will make? What do
Speaker 2: you think is the most important I And you know,
Speaker 2: let's take vice president out of this, because that's its
Speaker 2: own thing, right, and that's more of a campaign thing.
Speaker 1: Not that I think Vance is. I think Vance is amazing.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying that really when you get in there,
Speaker 2: because let's face the vice president sometimes they do stuff,
Speaker 2: sometimes they don't.
Speaker 1: They do have some nice digs in the Georgetown area. Though,
Speaker 1: I will say that.
Speaker 2: The most important especially for what Trump is hoping to
Speaker 2: accomplish and the story of what brought him here, is
Speaker 2: Attorney General. Does anyone want to argue that point being
Speaker 2: the most important job, the most important job that he's
Speaker 2: going to appoint for his attorney general. I was super
Speaker 2: excited to hear who that was going to be. And
Speaker 2: in my mind there was one parameter, and that was
Speaker 2: I don't want somebody who's in who's in the club
Speaker 2: now they're going to know each other. It's just it's
Speaker 2: just the casualty of big you know, a big tent,
Speaker 2: so to speak. And I mean in politics, at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, if you're at the national level,
Speaker 2: even if you're more state oriented, eventually you're going to
Speaker 2: cross beams there in DC. But as a member of
Speaker 2: Congress or a former member of Congress, you can make
Speaker 2: the argument that it'll be easier for him to sift.
Speaker 2: I make the argument that no matter who it is,
Speaker 2: the Virgin Mary herself, if she did a couple terms,
Speaker 2: I'm more comfortable with somebody who's not been a member
Speaker 2: of Congress and not worked for one of the big
Speaker 2: federal agencies, and it's.
Speaker 1: A certain purity test. I hear you.
Speaker 2: I want somebody who no favors are owed to. I don't.
Speaker 2: And as independent as somebody can claim to be, it's
Speaker 2: really hard. It's really hard to shoot your buddy, not
Speaker 2: actually shoot.
Speaker 1: Let me just be.
Speaker 2: Clear here, but you know what I'm saying. So I
Speaker 2: want that no holds part things. So when I heard
Speaker 2: Matt Gates, I you know, people object.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, he's he's.
Speaker 2: Raping teens, and yeah, you know that's those are the accusations.
Speaker 2: That's the trafficking accusation. Although I've read like two or
Speaker 2: three ways and them trying to explain what they're accusing
Speaker 2: him of, and I don't understand it. It smells a
Speaker 2: lot like the Trump stuff. But we'll see, or maybe
Speaker 2: we won't, because that's the other theory. The reason they
Speaker 2: did the Gates thing is because that he can resign
Speaker 2: and then this and then they can't release the report,
Speaker 2: and then he can come back as congressman because he
Speaker 2: was re elected. And admittedly I have there are very
Speaker 2: few good sources on how this plays out on that
Speaker 2: Floorida thing, right, you could you can trust what the
Speaker 2: Governor's office is saying. But then, of course, because they've
Speaker 2: learned nothing, every single legal pundit on you know, the
Speaker 2: mainstream media is like, oh no, they can't, they can't,
Speaker 2: and it'll be a constitutional crisis. And the problem is,
Speaker 2: I can't listen to any of you because you're all
Speaker 2: full of crap. Almost nearly everything you said, everything you
Speaker 2: said when you were doing legal analysis about things having
Speaker 2: to do with Trump is bs, provably bs and don't
Speaker 2: tell me, well, Leticia James got the thing. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: the majority of Americans, including Democrats in that list, think
Speaker 2: that what happened up there in New York was lawfare.
Speaker 2: The difference is that a lot of the Democrats are
Speaker 2: cool with it. And I'm not just saying that to
Speaker 2: it to be like, ah, this is what I think
Speaker 2: I'm saying. We talked about on the show polling where
Speaker 2: they went out and they found out that like fifty
Speaker 2: three or fifty six percent of Democrats believed that those
Speaker 2: prosecutions would not be happening if it was not Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: The different almost all the like eighty percent Republicans, which
Speaker 2: actually is weird. I'm like eighty percent really okay, Like
Speaker 2: the majority of his political opponents. They just are cool
Speaker 2: with it.
Speaker 4: A lot of them.
Speaker 1: Very few of them are not cool with it.
Speaker 2: So we know all of these things, so excuse me
Speaker 2: if I don't take your advice. So I don't know
Speaker 2: what the Gates thing is. But then we hear this
Speaker 2: little snippet, this little little half interview, if you will, where, Well,
Speaker 2: here we go, Massy Is he's walking up some stairs
Speaker 2: or whatever. Reporter comes over and he's like, all right,
Speaker 2: I have a question for you, and it pertains to Gates.
Speaker 2: Let's do this, and I want you to listen to
Speaker 2: Massi's response, Well, hold on.
Speaker 1: The old button bar here to do you?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 2: It's early. Why am I not hearing the button bar
Speaker 2: back in my receipt? And all right? You know what,
Speaker 2: I think there's a setting on the air show.
Speaker 1: Well let me do this.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take a break. I think I know exactly
Speaker 2: what it is. You know what, ross I thought. We
Speaker 2: got the laser grid in my studio, so when I'm
Speaker 2: not there, people don't walk in and screw it the buttons.
Speaker 2: We need a laser. And I don't mean a laser
Speaker 2: like sensory. I mean the ones that like slice and
Speaker 2: dice you like in Resident Evil. So we'll check on
Speaker 2: the slice and dice machine and what I think it
Speaker 2: might be, and we'll be back here on the KCO
Speaker 2: Day radio program. They're banging out the email to day
Speaker 2: by the way, you want to be on the show,
Speaker 2: you want to talk. I'm very curious what people think
Speaker 2: of the Gates thing. This is a safe place. This
Speaker 2: is a safe space in case there's any moon bets.
Speaker 2: This is a safe space. Ross has puppies, ice cream,
Speaker 2: a rage room we called studio. You should have heard
Speaker 2: me last week when we had a minor issue in
Speaker 2: the Okay, but it wasn't a minor issue, so they
Speaker 2: can they can be either or but no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: I'm just curious. And if you want to call in
Speaker 2: and be like, ah, he's a he's a rapist, ploff,
Speaker 2: bad facelift, do whatever you can, fine whatever, But no,
Speaker 2: I'm serious because even if you hate him, do you
Speaker 2: think he's gonna be a g and whether they go
Speaker 2: through a because like, here's the deal, I don't think Gates.
Speaker 2: Can we agree that Gates doesn't get by on a
Speaker 2: full Senate vote when there's people that exist from I
Speaker 2: don't know states, like Maine and Alaska.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: The real wild card on a lot of this stuff
Speaker 2: is what does our boy in West Virginia do there?
Speaker 2: How he continues to hold on because once that cee
Speaker 2: flips is.
Speaker 1: Done, it's done.
Speaker 2: It's done. So I I don't know the answers to this,
Speaker 2: but I'm curious what you think. Why do you think
Speaker 2: Gates goes in there? Did you want somebody from outside
Speaker 2: of it? And if it's a Senate, if the if
Speaker 2: the Senate votes, I don't think he's a g If
Speaker 2: they recess, he probably is. But a lot of this
Speaker 2: is trolling of the U of the highest degree. It
Speaker 2: don't take my word for it, take a Democrat senator's
Speaker 2: word for it.
Speaker 1: Here is a feederman.
Speaker 6: I mean, it's I would describe it as god to
Speaker 6: your level trolling to just trigger a full on China syndrome.
Speaker 2: Can I just point this out and this almost nobody
Speaker 2: will understand. I know exactly why there's reverb here because
Speaker 2: you have a reporter that didn't balance their inputs. They
Speaker 2: have two inputs on a morants. Sorry, the radio guy
Speaker 2: in me is losing my mind. How do you send
Speaker 2: the guy who doesn't understand how to do that because
Speaker 2: he's probably capturing in two different.
Speaker 1: Disgusting all right, anyway, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: I mean it's I would describe it as God to
Speaker 6: your level trolley to just trigger a full on China syndrome,
Speaker 6: to own the lives in perpetuity.
Speaker 2: I don't know that a Republican pundit on Twitter could
Speaker 2: have said it better.
Speaker 1: And instead you got.
Speaker 2: To go to h you know, the Pennsylvania Uncle Fester
Speaker 2: looking dude. And here's the thing. It's not that Fetterman
Speaker 2: has good policy ideas, because that's not true.
Speaker 1: All you gotta do is look how he votes.
Speaker 2: But the thing I appreciate about Fetterman, and it's kind
Speaker 2: of part of his attitude, is he's not blind to
Speaker 2: the reality around him. In a lot of instances, it's
Speaker 2: kind of like it's I don't want to give Bill
Speaker 2: Maher too much credit because he can he'll put his
Speaker 2: hands over his eyes.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 2: But like like Fetterman record and and and by the way,
Speaker 2: all of these Democrats and Republicans and one side's doing it.
Speaker 1: They they this is.
Speaker 2: What this is what irritates me about the club up
Speaker 2: there and why I don't want somebody in ag from
Speaker 2: the club is they recognize this, but they can't help themselves.
Speaker 2: They got to hold a press conference and they got
Speaker 2: to go you know, Chuck Schumer and Nancy you got
Speaker 2: to go out. Oh, we're like your parents, we can't
Speaker 2: do this, And GOP's got to go out and it's like, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, and then whatever exaggerated thing, because it's part
Speaker 2: of the theater of the whole thing, and to me,
Speaker 2: it just irritates the crap out of me. So I
Speaker 2: can appreciate people like Fetterman who don't seem to have
Speaker 2: time for it on that side, and you know, Thomas
Speaker 2: Massey on the other side, right, but also both of
Speaker 2: them can be trolling right now. This is what is
Speaker 2: so wild about this. So I'd love to hear you
Speaker 2: weigh in. And by the way, on the retirement from Gates,
Speaker 2: that's not just speculative.
Speaker 1: Here is the speaker of the House, I.
Speaker 7: Think to us he issued his resignation letter effective immediately
Speaker 7: of Congress. That caught us by surprise a little bit.
Speaker 7: But I asked him what the reasoning was, and he said, well,
Speaker 7: you can't have too many absences. So under Florida state law,
Speaker 7: there's about an eight week period to select and fill
Speaker 7: in a vacant seat. And so by doing so today
Speaker 7: that allows me. I've already place to call to Governor
Speaker 7: DeSantis in Florida and said, let's start the clock. He's
Speaker 7: in Italy at the moment, and so we're going to
Speaker 7: talk first thing in the morning about this. And if
Speaker 7: we start the clock now, if you do the math,
Speaker 7: we may be able to fill that seat as early
Speaker 7: as January third, when we take the new oath of
Speaker 7: office for the new Congress.
Speaker 2: Right so when that's why he said there's two theories,
Speaker 2: always trying to cover up this, but also the GOP
Speaker 2: wants to be full force to hit it because remember,
Speaker 2: they wasted. The thing that killed me about both Obama
Speaker 2: and Trump is they wasted Obama's first two years when
Speaker 2: they had full control, and they kind of wasted Trump's
Speaker 2: first too year. And I don't understand why, why why
Speaker 2: a party would do that, especially after you just spend
Speaker 2: aga zillion dollars?
Speaker 1: But what why would you?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: And And the the answer is, and this is part
Speaker 2: of the gridlock of Washington. And we're gonna learn more,
Speaker 2: by the way, about some of the stuff that Doge
Speaker 2: is uncovering.
Speaker 1: Ross.
Speaker 2: Is there a point where that won't be funny and
Speaker 2: make me laugh when I say it?
Speaker 8: I me, and I still find it funny. So yeah,
Speaker 8: I hope not. I hope it has to be funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But then they get some serious thing. They're like, oh,
Speaker 2: they're paying uh, you know X number of dollars to
Speaker 2: murder kittens, right, Like, I don't want to. I don't
Speaker 2: want to inadvertently laugh when we're slashing the murder kitten fund.
Speaker 2: So for the murder squirrel fund, we got an update
Speaker 2: on that story. So what do you think?
Speaker 1: Uh is?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh, and I'm sorry I left out I oh, this
Speaker 2: would have been bad. Did you hear the most insane
Speaker 2: theory on the Gates thing?
Speaker 1: This is good? This is shed fact.
Speaker 4: You know what a.
Speaker 2: The Gates thing is a distraction, but it's a distraction
Speaker 2: from the alien testimony, and the alien testimony is a
Speaker 2: distraction from the asteroids coming to kill us right now.
Speaker 1: And Trump knows.
Speaker 2: Had you heard that one? Apparently Ross has?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: How excited were you over the alien stuff?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Like super excited? The first Ian to do it.
Speaker 8: I was like, you know, watching all the Gate stuff,
Speaker 8: and then I ran across Georgio Sukalos, and he just
Speaker 8: posted a meme that said, I don't want to tell you,
Speaker 8: you know, don't want to say I told you so,
Speaker 8: But I told you so?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Oh did you Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh dude, so I just wrote noise, just retweeted his tweet.
Speaker 4: And now that it makes more sense, right, did.
Speaker 2: You even know asteroids were coming to murderers?
Speaker 4: Had no idea?
Speaker 2: Now are the aliens here to stop that? You know,
Speaker 2: because a lot of premises of sci fi it'say, oh,
Speaker 2: we're here, even though you don't deserve it. We're gonna
Speaker 2: save you because you're our social experiment or our battle.
Speaker 8: It was Hollywood. The aliens would be here to save
Speaker 8: the planet and not the people on the planet. That
Speaker 8: is a very fair point. Yeah yeah, And then they
Speaker 8: would put Keanu.
Speaker 2: Reeves in a role that made me almost not want
Speaker 2: to watch his movies anymore.
Speaker 1: How bad was that movie?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they had Kathy Bates in it too. Was awful?
Speaker 4: Was Kathy?
Speaker 2: What was Kathy Bates?
Speaker 8: She played like some sort of government official. She might
Speaker 8: have been the president.
Speaker 1: No, she was like a scientist at like some government agency.
Speaker 2: Right, it's been so long, I'll never watch it again
Speaker 2: to confirm what the answer is. But you know that's
Speaker 2: out there, all right, So let's see here. Yeah, let
Speaker 2: me get let me do this. I was gonna play, well,
Speaker 2: we'll get into the alien audio. I want to play
Speaker 2: all of it together. All right, let's go to the phones. Uh, Ryan,
Speaker 2: what's up?
Speaker 9: I think Matt Gates is gonna have a hard time
Speaker 9: getting confirmed because did Kevin book for speaker. I think
Speaker 9: he made a lot of enemies and he got He's
Speaker 9: got a lot of people that don't like him.
Speaker 1: Every Kevin McCarthy's not the speaker man.
Speaker 9: But I mean when when with remember when that Gates
Speaker 9: I do I do after him?
Speaker 2: And he's been a bully in a China shop for
Speaker 2: a lot of the leadership.
Speaker 9: That yeah, he got Chava McCarthy kicked out of his
Speaker 9: speaker role, right, I mean he had it for like
Speaker 9: two three days and then that Gates got with his
Speaker 9: people and they said he's not right for this role.
Speaker 9: And and I think it was spiteful. And I think
Speaker 9: Chava McCarty's gonna lead a tooth against Gates just for that.
Speaker 2: I don't know anything, sir, When when the when the
Speaker 2: gamut runs from this is normal, so that the timeline
Speaker 2: works out in Florida so they can house the full
Speaker 2: Congress on January third, versus secret asteroids and aliens coming
Speaker 2: to murder us. Uh, anything that's possible in the middle
Speaker 2: of that, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: And the Republicans don't count about you know, they'll shoot
Speaker 9: the foot right out.
Speaker 1: Of gate, snatching the feet from the jaws of victory, sir.
Speaker 9: It's their thing, that's what the.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now, the other side of it is intentionally taking an
Speaker 2: L to distract from all your other w's and that's
Speaker 2: when you start getting into the four D chest stuff.
Speaker 2: And oh yeah, I'll let you figure out how you
Speaker 2: feel about that all on your own.
Speaker 1: But here's what we're gonna do now. And it hit
Speaker 1: a break?
Speaker 2: Did it come back? You guys want to talk aliens
Speaker 2: real quick? Well, we got some audio. We'll play you there.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 2: And you know what, it was also nice Nancy Mace
Speaker 2: was sharing that hearing. And you know, it's tough because
Speaker 2: a lot of like there's people that aren't going to
Speaker 2: take seriously and they think, oh, this is the search
Speaker 2: for aliens, but it's really not, I know, as weird
Speaker 2: as that it's really not. It's what it's about is
Speaker 2: a whole swath of information stories and military interactions, which
Speaker 2: is national security stuff where we don't know what it is.
Speaker 8: It could be, you know, yeah, No. Marco Rubio made
Speaker 8: this point in a while back. He said, the big
Speaker 8: thing about this is like, yeah, are the aliens, sure,
Speaker 8: but but these things are flying over our nuclear bases,
Speaker 8: where our basis, our military basis, and what the hell
Speaker 8: are they?
Speaker 4: We don't know?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And is it Russia? Is it? You know, since
Speaker 1: Russia's the thing?
Speaker 2: There?
Speaker 1: Is it China?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 1: There, they're vehicles.
Speaker 2: They fly over our bases and military installations and nuke stuff.
Speaker 1: Is they lumber?
Speaker 2: They're not quite as fast, and yet we still don't
Speaker 2: shoot them down. By the way, you think heg Seth
Speaker 2: is shooting down the Chinese SPI balloon and Trump. I
Speaker 2: think they're having a primetime special on Fox to do it.
Speaker 2: So we'll get into some of the testimony from yesterday
Speaker 2: coming up here on the CaCO Day Radio program. SEC
Speaker 2: deaf what sounds better deaf sec or sect deaf or
Speaker 2: we could just use our words people, But I know
Speaker 2: you military guys, you love abbreviations and that's okay. Some
Speaker 2: of some of the acronyms are pretty good, not as
Speaker 2: good as stop it be mature about this, dude. When
Speaker 2: I get into some of this stuff, When I get
Speaker 2: into some of this, you know, here's the other thing too,
Speaker 2: Since that's a government agency. Now there's no copyright on stuff,
Speaker 2: at least probably for that usage.
Speaker 1: I'm not a lawyer.
Speaker 2: Ross, would you see if I'm a patent attorney or
Speaker 2: copyright lawyer real quick or he's gonna look at.
Speaker 1: That checking it out. Nope, not okay.
Speaker 2: I'm getting the thumbs down, Roman Coliseum style. So with
Speaker 2: that in mind, you know, that's why you can go
Speaker 2: out and you can you could print all the President
Speaker 2: Trump merch you on willet up. So if there's a
Speaker 2: government agency, I guess that I've been like the dog.
Speaker 2: May not although he keeps putting the dog in the
Speaker 2: graphics he's making.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Probably not gonna assue you, but don't
Speaker 1: take my word for it.
Speaker 2: All right, let's uh, let me do this, just a
Speaker 2: couple of clips from yesterday's uh, excuse me, yesterday's I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to move this over here there now we
Speaker 2: can run the thing under it yesterday's aliens or unidentified
Speaker 2: aircraft or what the hell is going on hearing the
Speaker 2: stuff that people are really interested in? Or two things.
Speaker 1: One you got aliens.
Speaker 2: Is is data founding a bunker somewhere in Nevada with
Speaker 2: unkempt hair and a bunch of alien bodies. And also
Speaker 2: what are those things flying around?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Now, I realize it's going to be too loud. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, well let's uh, let's just go ahead and
Speaker 2: get into it, shall we.
Speaker 11: Concealing evidence about UAPs from the public, Yes, sir, yes, yes,
Speaker 11: thank you.
Speaker 3: I also want to just go down the line. I
Speaker 3: know many of you have already said this.
Speaker 11: By just for the record again, just briefly, what do
Speaker 11: you believe UAPs.
Speaker 5: Could be or are.
Speaker 3: Strong evidence that they're non human higher intelligence?
Speaker 12: I echo my colleague's commentary.
Speaker 2: All right, and let me say this too about the
Speaker 2: the the cats that are there testifying, and obviously you've
Speaker 2: got you've got a variety of people there. There's nobody
Speaker 2: there that if I saw them, I would think to myself,
Speaker 2: I'm surprised that dude's not wearing his tinfoil hat right there,
Speaker 2: like it seemed if if you didn't know what the
Speaker 2: subject was, and you weren't really listening to the words,
Speaker 2: but just the mannerisms. It sounded like any boringal congressional hearing.
Speaker 2: It's just the topics they're talking about are pretty crazy. Man.
Speaker 2: So you got this whole slate of witnesses. In fact,
Speaker 2: let me let me just fill you in on who. Well,
Speaker 2: let me let me do this. Let me get the
Speaker 2: audio of the rest of the audio here, and then
Speaker 2: we'll talk about who some of the folks are. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, because this is when it gets into the
Speaker 2: meat of it, and that is all right. We don't
Speaker 2: know what those are. But one way we could clear
Speaker 2: this up is you just tell me if you got
Speaker 2: some alien bodies or some sort of something.
Speaker 1: And then it just got crazy.
Speaker 13: Was anything described as that we have possession of bodies? Yes,
Speaker 13: yes we have. Is it multiple types of creatures.
Speaker 12: Or sorry, I couldn't answer that. I can tell you
Speaker 12: anecdotally that it was. It was discussed quite a bit
Speaker 12: when I was at the Pentagon. The problem is the
Speaker 12: supposed collection of these biological samples occurred before my time,
Speaker 12: in fact, before I was even born.
Speaker 13: And was this part of the Lucky Martin discussion or
Speaker 13: was this completely the biologist is a completely.
Speaker 12: Separate, separate yet related.
Speaker 13: Okays, has anyone made contact, sir?
Speaker 12: I'm sorry, could you specialify?
Speaker 13: Has there been any, to your knowledge, any communication with
Speaker 13: a non human life form?
Speaker 12: So the term communication is a bit of a trick
Speaker 12: word because there's verbal communication like we're having now. The
Speaker 12: problem is you also have nonverbal communication. And so I
Speaker 12: would say definitively yes, but from a nonverbal meaning. When
Speaker 12: a Russian reconnaissance aircraft comes into US airspace, we scramble
Speaker 12: two F twenty two's and we are certainly communicating intent
Speaker 12: and capability. I think the same goes with this. We
Speaker 12: have these things that are being observed over controlled US airspace,
Speaker 12: and they're not really doing a good job hiding themselves.
Speaker 12: They're making it pretty obvious they have the ability to
Speaker 12: even interfere with our nuclear equities and our nuclear readiness.
Speaker 2: And here's the thing. Is that Galadid, Yeah, Timothy Galadid.
Speaker 2: Let's see, former Navy rear admiral and was chief meteorologist
Speaker 2: for the Is it just the Navy? Yeah, he's the
Speaker 2: US Navy's chief meteorologist. So, and that's true. I mean
Speaker 2: that's how you communicate Wyoming. We use a series of lights.
Speaker 2: Ross you ever see when the aliens came to Wyoming?
Speaker 2: Oh man, that was fun when I was a kid,
Speaker 2: then we just used flashy lights. But no, you don't
Speaker 2: have to have words necessarily.
Speaker 5: Do.
Speaker 2: We have a story coming up of an amazing although
Speaker 2: not successful insurance scam out of California, And just wait
Speaker 2: till you hear the details. That'll be on its way
Speaker 2: here in just a few minutes, all right, I met.
Speaker 2: Let me just set this up real quick. So I
Speaker 2: mentioned a follow up from yesterday, And yesterday I talked
Speaker 2: about the mayor of Durham. His name is Leonardo Williams.
Speaker 2: He is he's the fresh mayor of Durham. He's got
Speaker 2: under a year. And there was a story that w
Speaker 2: r L did and in the story entitled why Durham
Speaker 2: crime is creeping into Wake County neighborhoods, it basically hit
Speaker 2: us with a.
Speaker 1: Bunch of numbers.
Speaker 2: And the numbers, I don't know that the numbers are
Speaker 2: in dispute, right, it's the nuance of how we got there.
Speaker 2: And the numbers show a double digit or in some
Speaker 2: cases triple digit increase in some Wake County communities suburb
Speaker 2: communities Morrisville and Kerry primarily affected. Apex and Holly Springs
Speaker 2: were also on the list, and then Raleigh. And what
Speaker 2: predicated a lot of this is you had a couple
Speaker 2: high profile incidents, including a what can only be described
Speaker 2: as an Old West shootout at Crabtree Valley Mall. You
Speaker 2: had how many shootings in just a few hours the
Speaker 2: other day? And people, look, when you start shooting up
Speaker 2: Crabtree or South Point, people get all crazy. I'll yield
Speaker 2: to the fact that we've had some balls around that.
Speaker 1: Literally they didn't.
Speaker 2: Necessarily make the news as much, and those malls are
Speaker 2: closed now. So when you have those numbers, like can
Speaker 2: Carry where one hundred and fifty percent increase year over
Speaker 2: a year of people who are arrested or are wanted
Speaker 2: or suspected of committing crimes in the city limits of
Speaker 2: We'll go with Carry because it's the highest number, but
Speaker 2: Morrisville's pretty high to And you find out where the
Speaker 2: people you've arrested are from, or the people that you're
Speaker 2: that you're wanting to talk to are from. Once they
Speaker 2: have your ID, and if you're already in the system,
Speaker 2: they can look to see what your address is and
Speaker 2: then of course if you get arrested, they get your
Speaker 2: address from you. And what they found is a huge
Speaker 2: increase in people whose address is in the city of Durham.
Speaker 2: So that's what predicated this article. And look, if you're
Speaker 2: going to if you want to go and find a
Speaker 2: neighborhood to commit you know, burglary, and there's lots of opportunity.
Speaker 1: There's lots of opportunity in the city of.
Speaker 2: Durham, but there's also a lot of opportunity in the
Speaker 2: city of Carry. You have a bunch of a bunch
Speaker 2: of houses that are probably have a lot of really
Speaker 2: nice stuff in them based on the socioeconomic footprint that
Speaker 2: is Carry. So I understand the temptation. I'm not a
Speaker 2: home burglar myself, but you know that seems like I
Speaker 2: can do the logic on this stuff. So with that
Speaker 2: in mind, he took umbrage with this. He didn't like that,
Speaker 2: and he tweeted the following, I'm aware and disappointed the
Speaker 2: WRL investigative story why Durham the headline? I got to
Speaker 2: reread it and the despicable angle taken at our city.
Speaker 2: Durham's story is ours to tell and we won't let
Speaker 2: it be misrepresented. Implicit bias too often divides communities. We
Speaker 2: won't allow that. In the bull City hashtag Durham is dope,
Speaker 2: which and I have agreed in on that last part, Like,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of really cool stuff over in Durham,
Speaker 2: but we're not talking about that that sweet hotel with
Speaker 2: the rooftop bar restaurant, which you should go check out.
Speaker 2: I mean this, we're not talking about when you go
Speaker 2: to DPAK to go to one of the many great
Speaker 2: shows that they have there. I saw the Book of
Speaker 2: Mormon there, loved it, and we've had events.
Speaker 1: Over the years.
Speaker 2: This is all good stuff. But what remains is Durham
Speaker 2: has issues, and a lot of them are socio economically.
Speaker 2: You know, you can just point to the socio economics
Speaker 2: of things, and I don't even know why that has
Speaker 2: to be a racial connotation. People want to make it.
Speaker 2: You tend to have higher crime where people are poorer. Now,
Speaker 2: then things divide. The difference here is the criminals are
Speaker 2: not operating well. They probably are operating in their own community,
Speaker 2: but they're also going and they're operating in other communities
Speaker 2: where you know, the biggest thing that people may deal
Speaker 2: with with criminally in a day. Is somebody jaywalked in
Speaker 2: front of him? So yeah, it gets noticed, It gets noticed.
Speaker 2: And I yesterday, I'm on the record and I tweeted,
Speaker 2: and I'll say it again.
Speaker 1: I think this.
Speaker 2: Mayor is he's either wilfully ignorant or he's dumb, because
Speaker 2: this isn't about that. This is the thing that you
Speaker 2: do here. If you're the mayor of Durham and you're
Speaker 2: the bigger city, call the mayor of Carry and maybe
Speaker 2: he did that. Maybe you should tweet that, talk about it.
Speaker 2: There's no reason why the mayor of Durham, the mayor
Speaker 2: of Carry and the mayor of Morrisville and everybody else
Speaker 2: shouldn't all want the same thing. And that's less criminal
Speaker 2: activity in their communities, all right.
Speaker 1: So that's the setup to this.
Speaker 2: The mayor did give a I think ABC eleven interview. Yeah,
Speaker 2: basically came out, yeah here we go. I no, it
Speaker 2: was Aril. He says, we're not running from our issues. Good,
Speaker 2: but like they continue to be issues. So and then
Speaker 2: at the end of the show, Paul Scott called me
Speaker 2: and I did not see him until about with about
Speaker 2: sixty seconds left, and he feels that I am throwing
Speaker 2: race where racism is being implied here incorrectly, and I
Speaker 2: told him, I said, you know what, normally we only
Speaker 2: do one call per day, but I kind of let
Speaker 2: you ste till the end, so please call me back.
Speaker 2: And with that in mind, he called back, So we'll
Speaker 2: continue this conversation. How are you doing this morning, sir.
Speaker 5: I'm doing well certainly, so.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, it's closer to Friday, man, That's all
Speaker 2: I care about. It's the weather's nice.
Speaker 1: So I think we.
Speaker 2: Can agree on all that, regardless of where we live
Speaker 2: or what we're doing. Let me ask you a question.
Speaker 2: Some people probably know who you are, Minister Paul Scott.
Speaker 2: No shots fired.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: Is that your blog I can't remember what the exact.
Speaker 10: Name is, like, yeah, that was that was That was
Speaker 10: ten years ago, that that blog no longer is this?
Speaker 2: Well, it does exist, because I went and looked and
Speaker 2: there's still articles on there accusing me of trying to
Speaker 2: start race riots and grocery stores.
Speaker 10: But with that in mind, this in the same way
Speaker 10: you just accused of mayor making a racist comment that
Speaker 10: he did not make.
Speaker 2: Well, what am I supposing I read it here? And
Speaker 2: so this is, let's go ahead and start that conversation.
Speaker 2: Implicit bias too often divides communities. What do you think
Speaker 2: he means by implicit bias.
Speaker 5: Classism?
Speaker 10: There is nothing nothing racial besides quick bait journalism about
Speaker 10: that statement. He's clearly talking about classism.
Speaker 2: You don't think he says implicit bias, which is uh,
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna I'll let you finish. I just want
Speaker 2: to clarify why I think it is, and you can
Speaker 2: tell me why I'm wrong. When when I hear implicit bias,
Speaker 2: I almost exclusively hear it when you're dealing with crime
Speaker 2: stuff in the way in which uh, criminal justice is.
Speaker 1: Applied to individuals, So it could be implicit.
Speaker 2: They just had a story in Fayeville where they said
Speaker 2: that there is implicit bias at work because more black
Speaker 2: motorism are are.
Speaker 1: Stopped for speeding.
Speaker 2: Right, So that is that is, that is how we
Speaker 2: talk about That's the code words we use when we're
Speaker 2: talking about racism within policing. And this is you would
Speaker 2: agree this is a policing issue that we need to worry.
Speaker 10: But I would think what's hypocritical is saying talking about
Speaker 10: implicit bias. That's an interpretation. That's your interpretation, the same
Speaker 10: way you interpreted what the mayor said. It's the same
Speaker 10: way the mayor interpreted what w r L said its interpretation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, help me out here because I because I
Speaker 2: don't understand why the mayor even has time for that.
Speaker 2: I don't know why he responds to it, because I mean,
Speaker 2: I understand it's the Mayor of Durham. But like his response,
Speaker 2: it's numbers. I mean you you don't disagree that the
Speaker 2: numbers are accurate? Right?
Speaker 10: Hey, he doesn't disagree either, He just disagrees with the context.
Speaker 10: He was very clear. I don't know how much of
Speaker 10: the interview you saw, Yes.
Speaker 1: I will actually haven't.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I was actually in the w tv D version.
Speaker 10: I'm in that one. But as far as the mayor,
Speaker 10: he was very clear that Durham isn't running a ducking
Speaker 10: uh these issues And I had a conversation with the mayor,
Speaker 10: a brief conversation with the mayor right after the press conference,
Speaker 10: and he had a message for you. He said that
Speaker 10: if you want to talk to him, call him.
Speaker 2: Well, will you know what? Uh, Well, you can tell him,
Speaker 2: but he'll hear from us. I'm going to have Ross
Speaker 2: schedule an interview with him, okay, and uh and and
Speaker 2: we'll have this convers.
Speaker 5: From his his mouth to my ears, he.
Speaker 10: Said he he will be he said, if you want
Speaker 10: to talk about him, talk talk to him.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: So, just to be clear, we have reached out Durham
Speaker 2: City officials himself included, and you know, prior to his
Speaker 2: current position, and in every instance, with the exception of
Speaker 2: inquiries to the police department, we have been ignored.
Speaker 1: We don't return our calls. So if he wants to change.
Speaker 2: That yesterday right right, No, no, no, I'm not. You don't
Speaker 2: work for the mayor. I understand that I'm not putting
Speaker 2: it on you, and I look for it, you know,
Speaker 2: because here's let me ask you this, let me let
Speaker 2: me let me hit some positive in here s what
Speaker 2: do what do you think is the best thing Durham
Speaker 2: has going for it right now that people don't appreciate
Speaker 2: or should know about, because obviously Durham's your jam man.
Speaker 1: Uh, every you.
Speaker 2: Know this is this is this is where you live,
Speaker 2: this is what you promote, and this is what you
Speaker 2: took the time to call and say that you felt
Speaker 2: I was misrepresenting. So of the other thing you know,
Speaker 2: outside of the d pack and going to the ballpark
Speaker 2: and the great restaurants, what does Durham have going for
Speaker 2: it that people should know who tend to have a
Speaker 2: negative opinion help.
Speaker 1: Me out here.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 10: The thing that people should know is there is a
Speaker 10: core group of activists across the city of all races,
Speaker 10: all ethnicity, ethnicities, all identities, who are striving every day
Speaker 10: to make this city better. And it doesn't make w
Speaker 10: r L. It doesn't make probably your station because what
Speaker 10: is interesting about mentorship programs? What is interested about people
Speaker 10: giving out books in the community. Because we are driven
Speaker 10: our catering to certain markets, I think you will agree
Speaker 10: to that. And there is a strong market in this
Speaker 10: area that just wants to beast DRM and I think
Speaker 10: that your show included and that w r a L
Speaker 10: story caters to that group that no matter what happens
Speaker 10: in Durham, there is a core there's a large segment
Speaker 10: of this community outside of Durham. It's going to bast
Speaker 10: Durham regardless. I don't and they're used very excuses with
Speaker 10: Durham's Democrat. Durham is blue whatever it is blue, I
Speaker 10: mean again, right, but I think that is people. Radio
Speaker 10: stations and in some cases television stations catered to that
Speaker 10: crowd that just hates Duham and that uh headline from
Speaker 10: w r L that was carried into that crowd in
Speaker 10: my opinion.
Speaker 2: But those are true numbers. And then, and here's the
Speaker 2: thing I understand. The You know, when somebody, when some
Speaker 2: guy from Canada is like us should do this, it's
Speaker 2: easy to tell him, hey, can I stick to your
Speaker 2: own politics all the rest, And with Durham that would
Speaker 2: be one thing. But the stories that I tend to
Speaker 2: leave lean in on is and it enrages me, and
Speaker 2: I would hope it enrages you too, that a six
Speaker 2: year old boy can't think he's going out for a
Speaker 2: snow comb but because mom dras an suv that kind
Speaker 2: of looks like this other dude's suv, that some failed
Speaker 2: rapper is going to shoot him in the head, right,
Speaker 2: And so that's me, that's me, I understand. But I'm
Speaker 2: giving you an example of where it where it ends
Speaker 2: up outside of Durham in the media and people have
Speaker 2: visceral reactions. The difference here is the the stuff is
Speaker 2: not just happening in Durham. It's happening in Kerry. It's
Speaker 2: happening in Morrisville, Apex, Holly Springs. So this isn't just
Speaker 2: a Durham problem. This is a Wake County problem with
Speaker 2: these communities. So why is it inappropriate that people Again,
Speaker 2: people are probably gonna have a negative reaction to one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty percent uptick in people coming from another
Speaker 2: community to rob their houses.
Speaker 10: But I want to say, for the record, this is
Speaker 10: the first time that there's been a shooting incident or
Speaker 10: fighting incident at Crabtree that had nothing to do with Durham.
Speaker 10: And as far as recent news, I have not heard
Speaker 10: anybody say they're scared to drive the Raleigh because there's
Speaker 10: a snipe. They might get shot by a sniper. So
Speaker 10: a lot of.
Speaker 1: I'm not scared to drive to Durham.
Speaker 10: My point is, yeah, My point is after the sniper
Speaker 10: incident on forty last week, people in Durham want saying, well,
Speaker 10: I'm scared to go to Raleigh because there's a sniper
Speaker 10: on the loose. But again, there is a segment that
Speaker 10: if you start talking about the activists like myself and Durham,
Speaker 10: who is striving every day to make Durham better, I
Speaker 10: think you would I would both agree. You would lose
Speaker 10: fifty at least of your audience who tune in to
Speaker 10: hear negative things about Durham.
Speaker 2: No, they're not audiences. And my audiences in take my ball,
Speaker 2: go home and go over to Bluesky. They may debate
Speaker 2: you and argue with you, and I would I would
Speaker 2: ask this question of you, Paul, or do you what
Speaker 2: progress have you guys made over there? Because I remember
Speaker 2: I read an article where you were wanting, uh, correct
Speaker 2: me if I'm wrong. Was it you wanted crosswalks painted
Speaker 2: with was it like tempty cloth colors or something? Because
Speaker 2: you thought and yeah, like did that help? Did that
Speaker 2: stop some of the stuff? I got about a minute.
Speaker 2: And I'm just I'm just saying that if we don't
Speaker 2: think there's a problem, then maybe we need better ideas.
Speaker 2: And I think policing is it.
Speaker 10: Because of political bureaucracy that never happened. But if you
Speaker 10: read the other articles about me giving out books in
Speaker 10: the community, going into these neighborhoods, doing political education, talking
Speaker 10: to the youth, and given impromptu history lessons on my
Speaker 10: own dime, that your effort.
Speaker 2: We're not questioning your effort. I'm questioning whether it's getting
Speaker 2: results is where I'm at, and I think it's giving
Speaker 2: a growth well the but if I look at Durham,
Speaker 2: it's not.
Speaker 1: So it's not.
Speaker 10: I mean, I'm just try I'm one person, try to
Speaker 10: save one person. Like I said on the news last night,
Speaker 10: the only thing important to me is that five year
Speaker 10: old child, that little girl that runs up to me
Speaker 10: at least two or three times a week, that says,
Speaker 10: where's my book? Nothing else matters. Your opinion doesn't matter.
Speaker 10: The mayor's opinion doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: Paul, Paul, I gotta Paul, I gotta put you on hold.
Speaker 2: I got a hard break, so hang on and we'll
Speaker 2: continue this next. It would it be fair to refer
Speaker 2: to you as activists, Minister Paul Scott, I just want
Speaker 2: to make sure that that is a fairmonic.
Speaker 5: You can call me anything you want to.
Speaker 2: Casey, well, I wouldn't do that, you know, even if
Speaker 2: you I'm not gonna be that guy.
Speaker 1: So uh.
Speaker 2: But but here's where, here's where I wanted to This
Speaker 2: is what I want to talk about. I think that
Speaker 2: there's it is my opinion and you and I disagree
Speaker 2: with this, and I we're gonna we're gonna try get
Speaker 2: the mayor on and I'll talk to him about it.
Speaker 2: I think ninety nine point nine percent of the time
Speaker 2: when we use the term implicit bias and or I
Speaker 2: watch the Deal with It press conferences right where something's
Speaker 2: happened and then city leadership and Durham has to talk
Speaker 2: about it. Is there is identity politics at play and
Speaker 2: when the bigger thing that I'm trying to determine is
Speaker 2: two things.
Speaker 1: One is it helping?
Speaker 2: And to answer that, and I'm curious your answer, I
Speaker 2: just want to hit people with a few numbers. One
Speaker 2: in the seventy two hours, a couple over a seventy
Speaker 2: two hour span here earlier this week, five shootings happened,
Speaker 2: three were dead, five injured in Durham. If you look
Speaker 2: at the crime numbers year over year, and let's just
Speaker 2: take this year from last year, it's it's not even close.
Speaker 2: Person shot is up forty four percent. The number of
Speaker 2: shooting incidents is down, so we'll say at least they're
Speaker 2: getting in some trigger time at the range and more accurate,
Speaker 2: but the fatalities are up seventeen percent. It is undeniable
Speaker 2: that within the bull city there is there is an increase.
Speaker 2: But what is Also undeniable is the vast majority of
Speaker 2: not just the people who commit it, to commit these
Speaker 2: shootings and murders in Durham outsize. The population percentage are minorities,
Speaker 2: but the victims are almost exclusively. And so when I
Speaker 2: sit here and I have genuine concern on why things
Speaker 2: aren't getting better, it's because I don't care where you live.
Speaker 2: I want your life in America to be easier. That's
Speaker 2: why I do this. And part of being easy could
Speaker 2: be lower taxes for some people and not getting shot
Speaker 2: while you're out front with your family.
Speaker 1: And that's all that I want.
Speaker 2: And I feel like that's probably what you want too,
Speaker 2: and you don't want people to have.
Speaker 1: To worry about things.
Speaker 2: So why is it when I then talk to Durham
Speaker 2: city leaders, or even when I'm sitting here talking to you,
Speaker 2: I feel like I care more about your community than
Speaker 2: you do.
Speaker 10: And I think that using me as an example is
Speaker 10: documentedly wrong. You can google my activist working Durham over
Speaker 10: the last I think they.
Speaker 2: Can talk to you, and you're on the air with me.
Speaker 2: That's why I mean, I'm so you tell me why
Speaker 2: I'm wrong. That's why we're having this conversation. But I'm
Speaker 2: using you because you're the person.
Speaker 5: That's what I do.
Speaker 10: Yeah, right before, I would like, this is what I
Speaker 10: was saying, because you're talking director and me, and you
Speaker 10: included me in that conversation. You can google.
Speaker 5: Paul Scott Durham and see what I'm do in the community.
Speaker 10: I'm not a person who's sitting on the sideline making
Speaker 10: excuses just complain. I'm out there in the community six
Speaker 10: days a week at least, trying to make a difference
Speaker 10: without government funds, without government even acknowledgement of our local government.
Speaker 10: So that's the perspective I'm coming from.
Speaker 2: That you're the mayor.
Speaker 1: You just you know the mayor.
Speaker 2: You just you just told me just talk to them,
Speaker 2: so like you're more impactful than you think, sir, don't don't.
Speaker 2: What all that I want is to know what is
Speaker 2: the city of Durham And I know you don't control
Speaker 2: the purse strings. What is it that they're going to
Speaker 2: do that's finally going to break through? And I'm not
Speaker 2: talking about the you know, the things that you do
Speaker 2: on a personal basis. That's one of those where if
Speaker 2: you get a thousand of you and you're all doing that,
Speaker 2: I think that's a difference maker. But the reality is
Speaker 2: it's not made a difference, you know, whether it's discussions
Speaker 2: about crosswalks, bragging about the number of gun free zone
Speaker 2: signs they put up by the old tobacco district there,
Speaker 2: like what is Durham doing because we keep dodging the
Speaker 2: issue and the issue and the solution. In my opinion,
Speaker 2: and I'll let you have the last word on this,
Speaker 2: is you need to more aggressively lock people up who
Speaker 2: would terrorize communities. And I'll bet if you go to
Speaker 2: McDougal and talk to people off the record, they would
Speaker 2: probably agree because they don't want to be terrorized.
Speaker 10: So I would say that I can only speak from
Speaker 10: the I can't speak for the mayor. I can't speak
Speaker 10: for the community, the politicians. I can only speak from
Speaker 10: a grassroots community acts this point.
Speaker 5: Of view, everybody get involved in.
Speaker 10: Some kind of way, get involved in making the community better.
Speaker 10: But I would leave you with this challenge unless you
Speaker 10: have a follow up.
Speaker 5: If you go on YouTube.
Speaker 10: And you search in the YouTube Worthhoods in Raleigh and
Speaker 10: also search Worsehoods and Durham, the videos are basically the same.
Speaker 2: No question, no question, But the numbers on a per
Speaker 2: capita or even a total are not It's not even close,
Speaker 2: and Raleigh has more people. I'm not trying to pick
Speaker 2: the cities against each other. I don't want it happening anywhere.
Speaker 2: But I want you just to answer my question, which
Speaker 2: you kind of didn't answer. What would if you're you're
Speaker 2: you're the king. Okay, we just made you the king,
Speaker 2: so you can do what everyonet? What does the City
Speaker 2: of Durham need to do if if if funds aren't
Speaker 2: an issue, and and and does it involve actually incarcerating
Speaker 2: more people, because that's what a lot of people seem
Speaker 2: to think. And if not, why So that would be
Speaker 2: my final question.
Speaker 1: I'm curious you're answering, Okay.
Speaker 10: My final answer is if I was critical of Durham politics,
Speaker 10: I would say they need to listen to not to
Speaker 10: the politician, not to the grant money mafia, those who
Speaker 10: make millions of dollars.
Speaker 14: Everywhere there every money, there's the problem to be to
Speaker 14: be held accountable for every penny, and to listen to
Speaker 14: the everyday people that are in the streets, in the communities, talking.
Speaker 10: To the youth and see this in the echo chamber,
Speaker 10: only listening to the nonprofits and the other people.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 2: But then again, and my question is, and I'll just
Speaker 2: ask a point, Mike, do more people in Durham need
Speaker 2: to be incarcerated?
Speaker 10: I think anybody in the United States who's committing the
Speaker 10: crime and has been proven guilty needs to be incarcerated.
Speaker 1: Okay, so we quibble over the bail and all that.
Speaker 2: That's but look, I honestly, it's really hard for a
Speaker 2: guy to kill you when he's in Florence, Colorado, supermans.
Speaker 2: That's all that I'm saying, and it's I understand, But
Speaker 2: I also understand it's not as simplistic as that.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: I have family who's gone through criminal justice system, through
Speaker 2: addiction and things like that. I recognize where the flaws are,
Speaker 2: and I recognize you can't treat things all the same.
Speaker 2: But if we're going to start off at some point
Speaker 2: one of the easiest ways before you start trimming around
Speaker 2: the edges with the work that you're doing, talking about,
Speaker 2: you know, bringing books to kids and things like that,
Speaker 2: so that they don't go down that path. It's it's
Speaker 2: got to be the totality of things. Would you agree,
Speaker 2: It's got to be a lot of things to solve
Speaker 2: the problems of Raleigh, Greensboro, wherever it is.
Speaker 15: And I agree, okay, And I will say for context,
Speaker 15: just for a balanced discussion that disagreeing or like the
Speaker 15: mayor said yesterday that running from the issue.
Speaker 10: I would just say for a balanced conversation, read a
Speaker 10: book like Michelle Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow, and
Speaker 10: that will give a balanced conversation. Two things can be
Speaker 10: correct at the same time, so we can both be
Speaker 10: correct on certain aspects at the same time. It doesn't
Speaker 10: have to be an either or yeah, no.
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not on the ground.
Speaker 2: Because only somebody who's just like your interaction with that
Speaker 2: little girl or I'm sorry, I just bought my microphone
Speaker 2: or anybody else like that personal interaction, you're able to
Speaker 2: evaluate whether you think it's making a difference. I have
Speaker 2: no way to talk about that, but I can look
Speaker 2: at the hard numbers, and I think that's why people
Speaker 2: were concerned, and that's why we had the conversation.
Speaker 1: So Paul I got a roll of it. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much.
Speaker 5: Okay, thank you all right.
Speaker 2: Uh so there you go. You want to weigh in
Speaker 2: on that, Uh, we'll get into some things here. In
Speaker 2: the next segment, also, Steven Kent will be joining us,
Speaker 2: and we got a bunch of Hollywood stuff that will
Speaker 2: be from eight o five story Ada at oh five.
Speaker 2: So we'll bang out calls in a moment, but first
Speaker 2: let's bang out some weather from raced Age. Dude, you guys,
Speaker 2: you're one of your one of your guys was in
Speaker 2: the alien hearing yesterday, really, Congress, Yeah, he was the
Speaker 2: chief former chief meteorologist of the Navy.
Speaker 16: Oh yeah, uh a meteorologist, not a weather channel person.
Speaker 2: No, No, he's a meteorologist for the US Navy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 16: I thought you meant one if you want to you
Speaker 16: want to go, that was the wan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of pressure considering your prognosticating weather forecast
Speaker 2: for our entire fleets.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you don't want to get that wrong, No,
Speaker 1: you certainly.
Speaker 16: What I meant to say was yeah, Yeah, it's one
Speaker 16: of those things where like if you're if you're wrong,
Speaker 16: everybody's kind of like laugh at you.
Speaker 4: But that's yeah.
Speaker 2: Not like when you're playing with your kids.
Speaker 5: So yeah, you're.
Speaker 16: Probably gonna be yeah right, anybody be ordering the code
Speaker 16: red right.
Speaker 2: Hey man? Yeah, you know trust the process, so exactly
Speaker 2: all right, let's truss the weather process and yeah, or
Speaker 2: find it so it makes us happy.
Speaker 16: Yeah, kind of yucky out there, but I will emphasize
Speaker 16: needing the rainfall, even back in the hardest hit areas
Speaker 16: from Helene getting rained this morning. Other there's no flood advisories,
Speaker 16: no flood warnings, no flood watches. But I do see
Speaker 16: some yellow, a little yellow come through Chatham County, come
Speaker 16: across the Triangle and the Triad going through Greensboro, heading
Speaker 16: into uh, places like Liberty and maybe even places like
Speaker 16: let's see Pittsburgh. You're also getting some heavier rain in
Speaker 16: around there. And as I said, it all extends back
Speaker 16: towards the west, where the rain's starting to taper off,
Speaker 16: back into parts of central North Georgia, and all of
Speaker 16: our weather is coming from that southwest direction. So in
Speaker 16: it today with the rain in the fifties tonight, the
Speaker 16: rainal taper off probably early. There's still a chance for
Speaker 16: a shower tomorrow, but then we'll go into a dryer
Speaker 16: period with some sun and the gusty breeze near sixty tomorrow.
Speaker 16: Weekend looks real nice even into early next week. Another
Speaker 16: warming trend mid upper sixties over the weekend, maybe seventy
Speaker 16: for some of us for Monday, Tuesday and even Wednesday,
Speaker 16: and then later in that we'll see casey if we
Speaker 16: do get a cool down later next week, especially into
Speaker 16: Thanksgiving week, where it looks like at least the northern
Speaker 16: tier of the US is finally going to see some
Speaker 16: Arctic air come south. I mean, come on, it's the
Speaker 16: middle of November. We'll see how far south that colder
Speaker 16: air mass gets. Plenty more to talk about that. Yeah,
Speaker 16: I'm just absolutely horrible person.
Speaker 1: Sometimes.
Speaker 16: Listen, last year I went up north.
Speaker 1: And now, no, this is actually makes it worse. Why
Speaker 1: would you admit this?
Speaker 2: Just so everyone knows mister Stagey here loves sledding and
Speaker 2: the big boy sledden on the snowmobiles when he goes
Speaker 2: to uh, I don't know, Hudson, Wisconsin or upstate. Now
Speaker 2: you've done Hudson, right, No, not that just up.
Speaker 5: By.
Speaker 1: Oh that's it.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I've got goals.
Speaker 2: That some of the your kids not to have to
Speaker 2: go to school, right and uh and you're hard to
Speaker 2: maybe slide into a ditch so that he can.
Speaker 16: None of this work from home stuff on snow days.
Speaker 16: It doesn't make it a snow day.
Speaker 2: I don't like it, so you.
Speaker 1: Can get it seven hundred out seven.
Speaker 2: No, you're right, I'm.
Speaker 1: Sure fifty yeah, and I believe it or not.
Speaker 16: Two years ago when there was snow, I was on
Speaker 16: a brand new one because my buddy, my cousin's buddies
Speaker 16: brother just they both got two brand new ones and
Speaker 16: they put me on the new one. So that's fine
Speaker 16: with me.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Well, well we'll chat next hour. Appreciate it,
Speaker 2: all right, So Rod come on the air. Ros So
Speaker 2: that line one that's all confirmed with Rock and Roll. Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, So the Mayor of Durham, Leonardo Williams, we're
Speaker 2: gonna chat with him, coming up.
Speaker 1: We just got a few men. We may move some stuff.
Speaker 1: We'll figure it out.
Speaker 2: We'll do that next hang on, we I don't even
Speaker 2: have to schedule. The Mayor of Durham, Leonardo Williams, joining
Speaker 2: us this morning. How are you doing today, sir? You're
Speaker 2: all right, all right, all right, you are obviously folks.
Speaker 2: I heard probably let you know we're talking about this.
Speaker 2: So let me let me go ahead and start here
Speaker 2: on your tweets. So I was just talking with Paul,
Speaker 2: and Paul says that when you use implicit bias in
Speaker 2: that tweet, it doesn't have racial connotations. Explain that to me,
Speaker 2: because I that's where I hear it utilized. And as
Speaker 2: you know, race is a big discussion topic, not just
Speaker 2: in Durham but in America right now. So help me
Speaker 2: to understand what it was you were implying when you
Speaker 2: used implicit bias.
Speaker 4: Please.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, you know, when you use amplicit bius, it
Speaker 5: means that you are you are sort of having a
Speaker 5: concrete perspective, and that could be either race, or it
Speaker 5: could be tie. It could be you know, of a
Speaker 5: certain group of people, it could be a certain demographic
Speaker 5: U and that that So what I'm really referred to
Speaker 5: is the perspective in which the reporting or the subject
Speaker 5: matter is being angled at.
Speaker 2: The crazy thing to me is if you told me
Speaker 2: a TV station wrote an article like that, Ari would
Speaker 2: be the last one I would assume for two reasons. One,
Speaker 2: people tend to think that they're they're they're a little
Speaker 2: more liberal, but also they have the parent company has
Speaker 2: a significant invested financial interest in your city, sir, So
Speaker 2: why do you think Aril did that? And do you
Speaker 2: disagree with the numbers.
Speaker 5: No, I think that's the main point here. It's not
Speaker 5: really about the numbers, it's about the approach to the numbers.
Speaker 5: You know, I wouldn't have said anything. Of all people,
Speaker 5: I'm the last one to get involved with h You're
Speaker 5: talking about a news story. But when you do it
Speaker 5: address analysis from only Durham or people who have a
Speaker 5: Durham resident a Dorham address, that's one thing, you know,
Speaker 5: and that's what they did. But if you know the
Speaker 5: address analysis and do it up the entire timegle you know,
Speaker 5: tell me about crime from people who are committee crime
Speaker 5: and Durham, from from Raleigh or from Greensboro.
Speaker 2: I'm curious though. No, no, no, no, that's a that's a
Speaker 2: totally fair point. So what is what is? What have
Speaker 2: you seen from Raleigh residents coming to Durham. Has there
Speaker 2: been one hundred and fifty percent uptick?
Speaker 5: No? And I'm not looking at that. That's what the
Speaker 5: question is. Why is the crime happening where it is?
Speaker 5: And you know, the chrime that's happening is not a
Speaker 5: reflection of the city itself or the community itself. It's
Speaker 5: a reflection of the indivisual now, of course there are
Speaker 5: there are There are long historical reasons why, you know,
Speaker 5: certain communities are experiencing more of these activities than others,
Speaker 5: and we can go down a long rabbit hole of
Speaker 5: why that is what it is, you know, from federal
Speaker 5: government policy to public housing, the philotophosle.
Speaker 2: I hear you know this, and here's what I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I'm going to cut you.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to pose you.
Speaker 5: You have to take a holistic approach to it.
Speaker 1: I want to.
Speaker 2: I'm only pausing you because I want to make sure
Speaker 2: that because I have this segment, I have a minute
Speaker 2: and a half, I want to make sure that you'll
Speaker 2: be willing to hang over so that we can have
Speaker 2: about a ten minute conversation in addition to this at
Speaker 2: the top.
Speaker 1: Of the hour, because I don't want to leave.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of questions and like legitimate, genuine,
Speaker 2: honest questions and uh and I'm so glad that you
Speaker 2: called in, so you'll do that. Okay, wonderful, I saw
Speaker 2: have a minute and a half here. I disagree that
Speaker 2: it's not the crime that you see, especially the way
Speaker 2: it's perceived the media. I understand the media is going
Speaker 2: to do some of that, but the facts and the
Speaker 2: numbers of the facts. Five people were shot in seventy
Speaker 2: two hours, three of them are killed. We don't disagree
Speaker 2: with that. And to say that it's the individual is
Speaker 2: half true. But also the city, yourself and your police
Speaker 2: department are tasked with dealing with that, so there is
Speaker 2: a community aspect to it. It may not be the
Speaker 2: individual members, but rather those elected, such as yourself. You
Speaker 2: wouldn't disagree with that that you ever seen.
Speaker 5: We're we're not denying that at all. I'm not down that.
Speaker 5: I am not denying that at all, not at all.
Speaker 2: We are all wrapped up and what it's I think
Speaker 2: it's an important topic and I'm glad we're having this conversation.
Speaker 2: And that is Durham specifically the focus of a wr
Speaker 2: L article where they talked about numbers of people arrested
Speaker 2: in adjacent communities who reside in Durham and the year
Speaker 2: over your increase and the city of Kerry was really
Speaker 2: kind of the big one they focused on, and it
Speaker 2: saw a one hundred and fifty percent year over your increase.
Speaker 2: Morrisville as well. And we've now got a chance to
Speaker 2: and he's on hold, let me bring him up here.
Speaker 2: The Mayor of Durham, Leonardo Williams, joins us. Let me
Speaker 2: ask you a question. When you saw that article come out, mayor,
Speaker 2: did you call the Kerry mayor or the Morrisville mayor,
Speaker 2: like I want to Here's what I want to. I
Speaker 2: want to know you guys recognize this is an issue
Speaker 2: and you're you're trying to work together, and I hope
Speaker 2: you did that.
Speaker 1: Did you do that?
Speaker 5: Oh? Absolutely? Absolutely? Listen, we talked actually pretty often. How
Speaker 5: do you think we got one point three billion dollars
Speaker 5: of the triangle. We did that collectively, So yeah, we
Speaker 5: have a regulationship.
Speaker 2: Okay, And uh, how did that conversation go on this issue,
Speaker 2: because I mean what wow?
Speaker 5: Well, I specifically spoke with the Lawley manor. We sleep
Speaker 5: all the time. When the first when the story first
Speaker 5: came out, I only saw the headline in the teether,
Speaker 5: and you know it was it was Waite County in general,
Speaker 5: so I didn't know what specific area it was speaking
Speaker 5: up and I knew of to find out. Okay, this
Speaker 5: is probably going to be an issue. I can I
Speaker 5: don't see you know, other I don't see the triangle
Speaker 5: looked at as a whole and that was that was
Speaker 5: part of an issue.
Speaker 2: No, that's fair. I see it as an opportunity. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's horrible stuff that we're talking about. Well, yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean I see it as an opportunity. And when I
Speaker 2: feel that it came across that you were rejecting the premise,
Speaker 2: and I'll take you at your word if that's not
Speaker 2: the case. But I want to understand two things. One
Speaker 2: do you think when people say things like, oh, here's
Speaker 2: like if you offer somebody tickets to show a dpak,
Speaker 2: which is an amazing facility. I can't say that enough.
Speaker 2: We've done many things over there, you know, the attitude
Speaker 2: where people go, yeah, but I don't want to. I
Speaker 2: don't want to go to.
Speaker 1: Durham at night.
Speaker 2: Do you think that that's born from racism or do
Speaker 2: you think that that's people looking at numbers and going eh,
Speaker 2: maybe not. But where do you think that comes from?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it could be either. Ord I'm the last one
Speaker 5: to jump to racism. I think that you know, we
Speaker 5: definitely can't ignore that racism exists. But that's not my
Speaker 5: that's not the basis of what I'm you know, the
Speaker 5: angler that I'm taking for me. It was it was,
Speaker 5: you know, the numbers dollar true, the numbers dollar what
Speaker 5: they are, but also there's more.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I totally agree with you. I totally
Speaker 1: agree with you.
Speaker 2: And the thing that and I mean this honestly, and
Speaker 2: I brought it up with Paul. The thing that will
Speaker 2: stick in my mind of Durham stories and don't get
Speaker 2: me wrong, Raleigh's cut there is great we broadcast in Greensboro,
Speaker 2: Winston Salem as well, high point we're rolling to try
Speaker 2: it is the thing that sticks out to me in
Speaker 2: Durham from a from a bad standpoint.
Speaker 1: I got a lot of good thoughts.
Speaker 2: But the bad thing is that young that that little
Speaker 2: boy thought he was going to go get a snow
Speaker 2: cone and instead he got a bullet, okay, And and
Speaker 2: stories like that, And then I see people at McDougall
Speaker 2: getting you know, people's grandmother getting interviewed and she's scared
Speaker 2: to talk to the reporter even though she's living in
Speaker 2: a situation that socioeconomically she can't pull herself out of.
Speaker 2: So yeah, my heart goes out to that. And so
Speaker 2: my question is obviously you're new the number, you're over
Speaker 2: your numbers, you're not on you although you were on
Speaker 2: the council. What are you doing to make sure that
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five this conversation goes differently.
Speaker 5: So before I just want to just really quickly, as
Speaker 5: I'm answered your question, just make sure we're careful with
Speaker 5: the framing because it gives a false houk to the
Speaker 5: community that Okay, the mayor is going to say something
Speaker 5: in the econm is going to stop. I know you're
Speaker 5: not exagerating.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, but if you did, I think you
Speaker 2: would have. Yeah, if you could just say something, you would.
Speaker 5: Absolutely absolutely So.
Speaker 17: So what I want to say is, you know there
Speaker 17: is no in America where we enjoy the luxury of
Speaker 17: free speech, and you know we have the ability to do.
Speaker 5: What we want for the most part, there is no
Speaker 5: way possible I'm going to be able to control the
Speaker 5: individual acts of an individual. And I think we all
Speaker 5: can agree on that. And let me tell you, let
Speaker 5: me be the first to say, any person that is
Speaker 5: doing anything at my city that is trying to harm someone,
Speaker 5: we are I'm it for you, all right. We have
Speaker 5: one of the dost law enforcements out there. So that's
Speaker 5: we all understand that we don't want folks doing hurt,
Speaker 5: and I am not going to make any excuse for
Speaker 5: any criminal or any bad actor. I'm coming for you
Speaker 5: and I want you to just in badly an you
Speaker 5: want anyone else. So that's one thing. But what I
Speaker 5: can control is how we respond to these things and
Speaker 5: how proactive we can be in policy. Now. I don't
Speaker 5: want to choose Duram like this the dictatorship either, because
Speaker 5: I have this is Nortona defiance strong mayors. We have
Speaker 5: council manager systems, so I have to work with the
Speaker 5: body of people to create policy that is responsive or
Speaker 5: in the best interest of the overall people. We have
Speaker 5: different perspectives on that. For example, we had shock Father,
Speaker 5: we voted it down. I got to up vote it
Speaker 5: all thought that was gont think we needed to steffire
Speaker 5: that was going to be that. Yeah, I am pissed
Speaker 5: off to this day about that, you know, because the
Speaker 5: residus number one response was more public safety, so that
Speaker 5: was an issue and where at me, I'll say, you
Speaker 5: know what, I gotta voted. You know, I'm disappointed about it,
Speaker 5: but I'm not going to stop. I'm not going to
Speaker 5: give us, you know, So so what I can say is,
Speaker 5: you know, I can control creating a fund that invests
Speaker 5: into organizations that are saving kids, because we have thousands
Speaker 5: that we're saving from these streets, but we do have
Speaker 5: some that are in trenchs in an environment that is
Speaker 5: so unfortunate. And me those things already on our control,
Speaker 5: like the federal housing. You know, they underfund federal housing,
Speaker 5: their housing abilities that every single community deals with. That
Speaker 5: probably helping you, but people don't go to live on
Speaker 5: as you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not implying that you face challenges, and arguably
Speaker 2: you face more because you have a higher percentage of
Speaker 2: folks that are dipping into those products. So with that
Speaker 2: in mind, though, when the numbers go in one direction
Speaker 2: or the other, and for many many many years, uh,
Speaker 2: when we have about just a couple of minutes left,
Speaker 2: so and I'll let you have the last word after this.
Speaker 2: But for many years, these programs have been going They've
Speaker 2: been going on since I've been broadcasting in the Triangle,
Speaker 2: which is you know, twelve years, thirteen years almost, and
Speaker 2: I lived in Minneapolis where in the fourth Ward in
Speaker 2: North Minneapolis, all of these same issues presented, and all
Speaker 2: of these save programs, and until they got in Hennepin County,
Speaker 2: in Minnesota when they finally got a little tough front crime.
Speaker 2: Although they've gone in a different direction now, they started
Speaker 2: to see real progress there. So do you think that
Speaker 2: there's more incarcerating, arresting that needs to happen in addition
Speaker 2: to education.
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 5: I think that, You know, we had different segments of
Speaker 5: the government and everyone has to pour their way. You know,
Speaker 5: I'm the mayor of the city, but I have to
Speaker 5: work with my calcul I have to work with the
Speaker 5: county commissioners, the school board, the DA, the judges, the court,
Speaker 5: the jail, the police, the share off. Everyone has to
Speaker 5: pour their weight and we have to work in tandem.
Speaker 5: You know, I want to be very clear, I'm not
Speaker 5: running from our issues. How we tell the story abound
Speaker 5: our issues is what I an issue with, so.
Speaker 1: Coming on the show, we appreciate it, sir, I really do.
Speaker 5: I would never run from a conversation and I've never
Speaker 5: run from the truth. But also we'll always tell the
Speaker 5: full story. Those numbers that were reported are actually accurate.
Speaker 5: I've never said they were not. You know, but to
Speaker 5: only look at Durham, you know that that's wish you
Speaker 5: and I asked the question. I said, well, did we
Speaker 5: ask why the chrome is happening where it is? Is
Speaker 5: that something we need to look at. Did we look
Speaker 5: at how much chrome was coming into Durha from other places?
Speaker 5: And none of that was looked at only Durham Sawait County.
Speaker 5: And I said, we got to tell you have to
Speaker 5: tell the full story because the reputation matters. Reputation hands
Speaker 5: values and uh. Interestingly enough, rent Cafe, a national research organization,
Speaker 5: named Durham the forty first liverpool city in the nation
Speaker 5: and the number one most livable city in North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Guys, you guys have amazing Look. I almost I'm going
Speaker 1: to tell you something. I almost. I was almost living
Speaker 1: in your city.
Speaker 2: I was two seconds away from taking a condo on
Speaker 2: Chapel Hill Street there.
Speaker 1: I love, love the place.
Speaker 5: It's a beautiful place to be.
Speaker 17: Yeah, but we shared those issues like other places too,
Speaker 17: you know.
Speaker 5: And it's unfortunately because we do have a higher concentration.
Speaker 5: H I served certain demograph lets that that are in
Speaker 5: certain you know, situation. Uh, but that doesn't mean that
Speaker 5: that's what they fine in our city, you know. And
Speaker 5: that's what as the mayor of the city, I want
Speaker 5: to speak up, you know, on behalf of the community
Speaker 5: and the half of micos here to say we would
Speaker 5: not let our challenges defind us, but more so, we
Speaker 5: would tell our full story. And that's why people were
Speaker 5: truly appreciated. I don't rest in those competitions that are
Speaker 5: out refrom the truth. I just make sure we tell
Speaker 5: the whole story, all right.
Speaker 2: And by the way, and I mean there's slightly tongue
Speaker 2: in cheek. If you get a rash to carry soccerman's
Speaker 2: coming to Durham to do carjackings out of their Lincoln Navigators,
Speaker 2: you let me know because I just I want to
Speaker 2: see what that looks like. And and but but on
Speaker 2: a serious note, I really appreciate you calling, and I
Speaker 2: want to I'm gonna put you on hold. I want
Speaker 2: to make sure that we have We're not going to
Speaker 2: harass you. But I want a contact info and when
Speaker 2: stuff comes up, I will call you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we'll talk about it.
Speaker 5: Okay, please do please do I welcome it. I got
Speaker 5: a call from some of your listeners this morning. I oh, well,
Speaker 5: you know, let me get on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's respond that's all I can. I will tell
Speaker 1: you that.
Speaker 2: Every other person in in Durham government over the years,
Speaker 2: with the exception of the former police chief ten years
Speaker 2: ago whose name escapes me, we never get callback, so
Speaker 2: I'm glad we did. I'm gonna throw you on hold, sir,
Speaker 2: appreciate your time, Okay, all right, yeah, there we go.
Speaker 2: All right, that is the mayor of Durham, Leonardo Williams.
Speaker 2: We're gonna chat with Stephen Kent coming up. I know
Speaker 2: there's some of you on hold right now who want
Speaker 2: to talk about what we just talked about, and if
Speaker 2: you hold, I promise we'll get to your calls before
Speaker 2: the end of the show. But right now, we got
Speaker 2: to take a break. KCODA Radio Programs even Ken here momentarily,
Speaker 2: our nerd corresponding, because we got a whole host of
Speaker 2: things we're gonna go over.
Speaker 1: We're going to chat with him.
Speaker 2: We just got we got a few minutes in this segment,
Speaker 2: and then we'll segment three. There's four segments, all right,
Speaker 2: so segment three will continue, and then we got a
Speaker 2: couple of callers hanging. If they hang on, I promised
Speaker 2: I would get to both of you before the end
Speaker 2: of the show. So it's just kind of a weird
Speaker 2: day around here. But that's how we do things, all right?
Speaker 1: Stephen Kent? How you doing this morning, sir? What's going on?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 3: I just got the call a little bit ago that
Speaker 3: I will be joining the Trump administration as the Secretary
Speaker 3: of Entertainment Agriculture, which is very exciting, first time position
Speaker 3: for anyone in the administration.
Speaker 2: Entertainment. What did it would do when you saw the
Speaker 2: Doge thing? What went through your head?
Speaker 3: You know, we live in a very serious country and
Speaker 3: these are very serious times, so we need a Doge department.
Speaker 3: How could you be against that?
Speaker 2: I didn't say I was against her four, but it
Speaker 2: obviously hits different when it's a presidential cabinet getting put
Speaker 2: in together and we're putting out memes.
Speaker 1: So I again, people.
Speaker 2: Are going to look half the country's going to hate it.
Speaker 2: Half I'm probably going to love it. The question is,
Speaker 2: do you think that they'll be able to accomplish what
Speaker 2: is one of the heaviest lifts I've ever heard promised?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, the amount of the amount of kind
Speaker 3: of glut that they're going to need to cut from
Speaker 3: the federal government is going to be unprecedented. But I
Speaker 3: actually do think these two guys are just wily enough
Speaker 3: to do it. I'm pretty optimistic about what we're going
Speaker 3: to see happen here, and they did answer one question
Speaker 3: I had, which is, wait, so we're going to shrink
Speaker 3: the size of the federal government by creating a new agency.
Speaker 3: But I guess what's going to happen is the Doze
Speaker 3: Department is going to expire in twenty twenty six as
Speaker 3: an outside of government entity. So we're not adding to
Speaker 3: the problem, which is good.
Speaker 2: Well, it doesn't mean they can't find a way to
Speaker 2: screw it up and snatch a defeat from the jaws
Speaker 2: of victory, as we say round these parts. An I
Speaker 2: don't want to spend too much time as we've got
Speaker 2: a bunch of stuff to get to. You're looking at
Speaker 2: the appointments coming down, any anything that you found really
Speaker 2: surprising or something you're like, yeah, yeah, that's probably probably
Speaker 2: a good thing. And we haven't even gotten into the
Speaker 2: agencies that really oversee a lot of the entertainment industry
Speaker 2: that we that we look at, and as you know,
Speaker 2: the Trump administration has a very low opinion of the
Speaker 2: news media, So please speak on both of those.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: So probably the one that I was most surprised well
Speaker 3: there's Matt Gates. Okay, So Matt Gates as Attorney General
Speaker 3: is really out of left field, and I have liked
Speaker 3: almost every appointment that has been made so far for
Speaker 3: the upcoming administration. I have concerns about Matt Gates's ability
Speaker 3: to execute in a serious way on everything that the
Speaker 3: Trump administration is going to need to do to be
Speaker 3: effective and win the legal battles that are inevitably going
Speaker 3: to come their way. On everything that they want to do,
Speaker 3: from immigration enforcement deportations to taking on the college universities
Speaker 3: and sticking uh it to them on discriminate discriminatory practices,
Speaker 3: and watching Title nine across the country, They're going to
Speaker 3: need a really good agree.
Speaker 2: It's the most important appointment. I think it's as my
Speaker 2: other and vice president. We can debate, but that's that's
Speaker 2: a that's a more of a campaign thing. Really, this
Speaker 2: is the most important appointment. A g Right, you would agree.
Speaker 3: I would say I would say Secretary of State and
Speaker 3: AG are the two most important.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, I think with that, but I think
Speaker 2: with the AG. The difference with Secretary is that you're
Speaker 2: gonna have people fighting you every step of the way
Speaker 2: because it's how we do politics. But they're going to
Speaker 2: be fighting for their own personal lives. Do you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying when you get into the ag stuff,
Speaker 2: Because let's face it, there's some the government's too big
Speaker 2: for there not to be criminals in there. It's just
Speaker 2: a discussion of how many and where they are.
Speaker 5: No, absolutely, So that's one I think.
Speaker 3: The other one that I was pretty surprised by was
Speaker 3: Christy malm as Homeland secretary. Homeland Security secretary. You know,
Speaker 3: Percy competent. It's it's surprising though he's a perfectly competent person.
Speaker 3: She's run South Dakota incredibly well, but she just really
Speaker 3: took that pr hit in the past year.
Speaker 5: No dog executions.
Speaker 1: Do you know that strays are a big issue down
Speaker 1: on the border, right?
Speaker 5: I know, I know all about it. She's gonna she's
Speaker 5: gonna do a great job.
Speaker 3: And yeah, if anybody trying to stand up against her,
Speaker 3: she'll drag them to the gravel pit.
Speaker 2: And I just want to be clear when I say strays,
Speaker 2: I mean actual dogs.
Speaker 4: You you people?
Speaker 2: No, No, I'm talking like it is an actual problem.
Speaker 2: It's actually an actual problem in a lot of places
Speaker 2: in Latin America.
Speaker 1: But it's along the Mexican border.
Speaker 2: It's especially on the California side, like they haven't come
Speaker 2: and popping through that fence. I just I only know
Speaker 2: this because I lived in California for school, and I
Speaker 2: remember thinking, Oh, they didn't build the planks wide enough
Speaker 2: down in San Diego, and the dogs get through. And
Speaker 2: it's we're chatting with Stephen Kent though, and uh, since
Speaker 2: he has our official NERD correspondent, let's go ahead and
Speaker 2: get into a few things. All right, let's talk about
Speaker 2: if you guys don't know Rachel Ziggler, is you do?
Speaker 2: She is Disney's snow white who made a little news
Speaker 2: when she essentially crapped on the source material and it
Speaker 2: went all through the identity politics and it didn't play well.
Speaker 2: And so I thought that at the very least she
Speaker 2: just shut up now, or at the very least about
Speaker 2: that stuff. And no, she did not. She has lost
Speaker 2: her crap. She joins the long line of other celebrities
Speaker 2: who are probably just going to go scream into the
Speaker 2: echo chamber that is Blue Sky. But it's more than
Speaker 2: just them. It's news agencies and outlets too. Man Like,
Speaker 2: let's let's combine those two one do you think Disney
Speaker 2: told her not to do that or they just like whatever.
Speaker 2: Even though that movie opens what early next spring, it's
Speaker 2: not even out yet, And what do you think of
Speaker 2: all these celebrities pulling the ripcord man.
Speaker 3: I'm still not convinced that this snow White movie from
Speaker 3: Disney is ever actually going to come out, and when
Speaker 3: it does, they'll probably rush it to Disney Plus and
Speaker 3: try to act like it never happened. But you know,
Speaker 3: Rachel Ziggler, who is a relatively unsuccessful actress activists posing
Speaker 3: as somebody who's going to be famous one day, she
Speaker 3: is kind of just clowning herself on Instagram here. I mean,
Speaker 3: what she is talking about here is all this peace
Speaker 3: and love and kumbayav that's going to be destroyed by
Speaker 3: four years of a Trump administration.
Speaker 10: And then she.
Speaker 3: Concludes this message on Instagram talking about how afraid people
Speaker 3: are and how we need a country with less hate
Speaker 3: by saying that she wishes seventy five million people in
Speaker 3: the country never find peace. This is the kind of
Speaker 3: about face that you expect from these people. As they
Speaker 3: head on over to Blue Sky with Jamie Lee Curtis
Speaker 3: and Don Lennon and Bette Midler and apparently the Guardian
Speaker 3: from the UK is just leaving Twitter altogether.
Speaker 5: Well, but you know what, they'll always come back.
Speaker 2: One of our TV stations did they have a half
Speaker 2: million followers on Twitter and they just they're out. They're
Speaker 2: out now. A lot of the reporters are still on Twitter.
Speaker 2: They're out a half million followers. That's nothing to sneeze
Speaker 2: at as somebody who lives, you know, in the internet
Speaker 2: to monetization world, such as yourself, right, that's.
Speaker 1: That at the very least, you got to respect the
Speaker 1: walk away there.
Speaker 2: But also doesn't it just turn into the left parlor
Speaker 2: at this point and maybe they're okay with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is why I really believe that most of
Speaker 3: these people will be back. I also tried exiting Twitter
Speaker 3: at one point for an alternative platform. I went and
Speaker 3: tried that god forsaken.
Speaker 5: Place known as parlor.
Speaker 3: When you get into an echo chamber environment where everybody
Speaker 3: is fleeing for ideological reasons and coming there, whether it's
Speaker 3: a conservative or a progressive outlet, it's actually just really
Speaker 3: exhausting agreeing with everybody all day. The quality of the
Speaker 3: content and the disagreement is lame and boring. And I
Speaker 3: think most of these people will get bored when they
Speaker 3: get on there and they all discuss how great socialism
Speaker 3: is and there's nobody that actually be mad at.
Speaker 5: They'll come back.
Speaker 2: They always do well and and uh, and it goes
Speaker 2: to and it goes to a uh. To your point,
Speaker 2: that is exactly the thing that is the most is
Speaker 2: one of the most boring things to me. And that
Speaker 2: was the problem I had with Parlor. You post something
Speaker 2: and it's nothing but likes. I like it on Twitter
Speaker 2: when people push back, although it happens less. The reason
Speaker 2: we're going a little later with you today is because
Speaker 2: we were talking to the mayor and and UH, an
Speaker 2: activist who felt that I was misrepresenting what's going on
Speaker 2: in the city of Durham. I welcome those conversations. I
Speaker 2: love those, and I think that we've gotten so far
Speaker 2: away from that on both sides that it's I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they come back, like is it
Speaker 2: worth Bett Middler's time? If she because that's I don't
Speaker 2: think it dawns upon her.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think it does either. And at the
Speaker 3: end of the day, these are truly and deeply irrelevant
Speaker 3: people who are only kept in the mainstream conversation by
Speaker 3: legacy news outlets who act like they are still important
Speaker 3: in American culture, and they're not.
Speaker 5: They just aren't.
Speaker 3: You know, we're We talked last week on the show
Speaker 3: about the numbers, the difference and statistics between the average
Speaker 3: download of a Theo Vaughn or Joe Rogan episode versus
Speaker 3: prime time on CNN. You know, these are not competitive
Speaker 3: and serious people. So yeah, I don't think the world
Speaker 3: will miss that Midler. And nobody knows who Rachel Zegler
Speaker 3: is anyways.
Speaker 2: Finally, and I'm gonna I didn't throw this to you
Speaker 2: or maybe Ross forded it to you, So we got
Speaker 2: to talk to Harry Potter TV Show real quick. And
Speaker 2: this is this is part of a bigger thing. But
Speaker 2: we're a little tripped on time here. I gn IGN,
Speaker 2: which I don't they write about video games and stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm really in pop culture entertainment stuff, basically nerd stuff.
Speaker 2: Isn't that IGNU?
Speaker 3: That would be IGN unless they are waging war on
Speaker 3: jk Rowling, which is their other pastime.
Speaker 1: This is the this is their tweet.
Speaker 2: Jk Rowling has been posting anti transgender rhetoric on X
Speaker 2: since twenty twenty will be involved in the new Harry
Speaker 2: Potter TV show with HBO and Max Content. Blah blah
Speaker 2: blah bla. All right, So anyway, so their beef is
Speaker 2: that the person who created everything, Harry Potter, is going
Speaker 2: to advise and maybe have some control over a TV
Speaker 2: series about her product that she created out.
Speaker 1: Of thin air? Am I reading that right?
Speaker 2: And Potter and wouldn't you want her involved?
Speaker 9: Well?
Speaker 4: What do I know?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You know, the whole Harry Potter situation is just a
Speaker 3: complete catastrophe. Most people who are just fans of Harry
Speaker 3: Potter have no interest or awareness of what goes on
Speaker 3: in these very oddline discussions about JK Rowling and her
Speaker 3: views that such as bat women exist and that they are,
Speaker 3: you know, not something that can just be created out
Speaker 3: of been air.
Speaker 5: Know, I know, I really believe that.
Speaker 3: I really believe that, and I don't. I don't think
Speaker 3: most people who follow this stuff are super aware.
Speaker 5: Of these debates.
Speaker 3: But the entertainment journalists who are incredibly politically radical, all
Speaker 3: they do is obsessed about J. K Rawlling's involvement in
Speaker 3: her own intellectual property. I don't think that they've bought
Speaker 3: this away from her entirely, Like she is not George Lucas,
Speaker 3: She's hasn't given up Harry Potter. It still belongs to her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you think their beef is they are not
Speaker 2: in a position to totally destroy it, because that's right.
Speaker 5: I think that's right.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you think about the way that these
Speaker 3: people think about issues, I think that they were hoping
Speaker 3: to get a chance to remake Harry Potter and transgressively
Speaker 3: fill it with trans propaganda from top to bottom, so
Speaker 3: that JK. Rowling would you know, be utterly owned and destroyed.
Speaker 3: So the fact that she's going to be involved in
Speaker 3: it is sort of a hedge against that, and I
Speaker 3: think that's what they're actually mad at.
Speaker 2: Finally, I was up in your fair Burg this this weekend,
Speaker 2: and you need to do a welfare check on some
Speaker 2: of the folks they're in the DC area because they
Speaker 2: are not doing well.
Speaker 1: Conversations.
Speaker 2: Man, Oh you're in Pinehurst today, cool, I think there'll
Speaker 2: be a little more bane.
Speaker 1: But I'm just telling you. I was up in DC, man,
Speaker 1: and that's like I was sitting.
Speaker 2: I was sitting at the Dulles uh or coming in
Speaker 2: a dollis and then when I was leaving. But yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of people really really really getting their
Speaker 2: resumes in order. So is that your general feeling as
Speaker 2: you head to the suburbs like where you're from.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a busy time.
Speaker 3: And you know, out in the suburbs of northern Virginia,
Speaker 3: most everybody works for the Pentagon or the FBI or
Speaker 3: some other uh you know, bureaucratic agency, and so everybody's
Speaker 3: just everybody's just getting their ducks in a row on
Speaker 3: what their next four years are going to look like
Speaker 3: or if they're going to retire early.
Speaker 1: All Right, Hey, I got a roll. We'll we'll we'll.
Speaker 2: Do our regular time next week. Oh and then we're
Speaker 2: creeping up on Thanksgiving, so definitely won't be doing that day.
Speaker 1: All right, appreciate it her? All right, Okay, yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go. Stephen kunt Casey Oday Radio Program.
Speaker 2: All right, let me let me go ahead, and we're
Speaker 2: gonna I said, we get these calls, so everyone, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna give you both just a couple of minutes just
Speaker 2: FYI are on that, but we were gonna make the time,
Speaker 2: and we'll start with Sarah. Sarah, go right ahead, Hello, Sarah.
Speaker 2: That is That is exactly what I thought would happen.
Speaker 2: I tell Sarah she's welcome to hold if you can
Speaker 2: get a hold of her, and I will hit her
Speaker 2: in the last segment, but I think she might have
Speaker 2: hung up. All right, Jamal, real quick, what's up?
Speaker 5: You know what case?
Speaker 9: The whole Durham conversation is what's wrong with Durham. All
Speaker 9: you heard was excuses and excuses and excuses and excuses.
Speaker 9: People need to face the fact there's a cultural problem
Speaker 9: in Durham. This ain't Jim Close. Segregation is stopping Durham.
Speaker 9: This ain't evil white folks this doing this and Durham
Speaker 9: this is black folk. This is black folk doing his
Speaker 9: shooting killing. This is black folk dying in the street.
Speaker 9: I said it long time though. You have people in
Speaker 9: Durham that are ePower that has no problem with this
Speaker 9: going on because they don't want to change what's going
Speaker 9: on because if they changed it, their constituents wouldn't vote
Speaker 9: the men.
Speaker 2: Okay, they wouldn't voting. You listen to the interview with
Speaker 2: the mayor and just full disclosure. Didn't you ran for mayor?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 9: Yes? I did against Yes, I did against it, laying
Speaker 9: on them and I told he laying. I told people,
Speaker 9: then you cannot keep believing you can wrap your arm
Speaker 9: around criminals and bad behavior. As a Republican case, I
Speaker 9: have to admit Bill Clinton in the nineteen ninety fourth
Speaker 9: Crime Bill that Joe Biden helped push, saved black lives.
Speaker 9: It allowed black folkus to grow up in areas that
Speaker 9: was once ruled by the gang bangers and the drug dealers.
Speaker 9: Hen take black men home. It took drug dealers, it
Speaker 9: took gang bangles, it took criminals off the street, and
Speaker 9: it made the black community better. These people got out
Speaker 9: Star Crime bull Room on racism. And then people say, well,
Speaker 9: you know there, you're.
Speaker 5: Rocked my son up.
Speaker 9: Your son was sitting up here knocking people over their
Speaker 9: head because they came up five dollars short on twenty
Speaker 9: dollars worth of crime. So if it's not no changing, durm,
Speaker 9: why because they don't want it to change. They want
Speaker 9: things this false equivalent equivalency that racism and white is
Speaker 9: doing the problem. It's not until you get a district
Speaker 9: attorney and a sheriff that's willing to enforce the law,
Speaker 9: and the sheriff enforce it, the DA convicts it until
Speaker 9: you get that, and I'm gonna wrap it up to case.
Speaker 9: I'm from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Okay, and Rocky Mount,
Speaker 9: North Carolina. Rocky Mount is split between Nash and Edgecombe County.
Speaker 9: Everybody knows you do it foolishness in edge Combe County.
Speaker 9: You don't blanket over Nash County. Literally, Rocky Mount is
Speaker 9: split between the railroad tracks, and you know not to
Speaker 9: do it over in Nash County. Why because they will
Speaker 9: lock you up. Yes, Nash County predominantly white and conservative,
Speaker 9: but you got all your little bit Democrats predominantly black
Speaker 9: Edgecombe County and they shooting, fighting and doing everything jam
Speaker 9: but not in Nash County.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you holding so long today. It's been a
Speaker 2: weird day. I got to roll though, because I gotta
Speaker 2: get to weather. But thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1: Race Agic from the Weather Channel.
Speaker 16: Ray, what's happening on man that morning, Casey, believe it
Speaker 16: or not, though we do need the rainfall. Mentioned this
Speaker 16: a couple of times, how we've kind of gone from
Speaker 16: feast to famine on the rain since Helena. Now, generous
Speaker 16: rain totals continue to push in as the radar show
Speaker 16: and the rain showers out. You have the Tryad and
Speaker 16: back near ash and some of the hardest hit areas
Speaker 16: from Helene. No flooding expected, but maybe up to an
Speaker 16: inch of rain in some spots before we ended. As
Speaker 16: we head on through later today and tonight, pockets of
Speaker 16: modern heavy rain, and eventually we'll get the low out
Speaker 16: and we'll have some better weather coming in, maybe a
Speaker 16: shower left over early tomorrow, back in the sunshine, a
Speaker 16: sixty good looking weekend, back in the sixties, maybe seventy
Speaker 16: degrees by Monday, Tuesday and even Wednesday, with dry weather continuing.
Speaker 16: Still looking at maybe later next week getting a little
Speaker 16: bit cooler and into Thanksgiving week, maybe some cooler weather
Speaker 16: coming in. I think we're done, maybe with the seventies
Speaker 16: after about Wednesday Thursday of next week. But we'll see.
Speaker 16: As a longer range guide, it's certainly got a little
Speaker 16: bit more tricky than the short term. So old out casey.
Speaker 16: Looks like a rainy day today, good day to take
Speaker 16: a nap. After that, looks like we'll be in pretty
Speaker 16: good shape after very early tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, we'll keep it in the seventies. We'll
Speaker 2: be back Jeff Bellinger. Next, Jeff, what's happening?
Speaker 18: Good morning, Casey. New data from Washington suggests inflation is
Speaker 18: still headed in the right direction and the job market
Speaker 18: remains strong. The Producer Price Index, this is the government's
Speaker 18: gauge of wholesale inflation, was up two tenths percent last month.
Speaker 18: The PPI was up two point four percent year over year.
Speaker 18: The Labor Department says the number of workers filing new
Speaker 18: claims for unemployment benefits fell by four thousand last week.
Speaker 18: Investors are anxious now to hear what Fed chaired your
Speaker 18: own Powell We'll have to say about inflation and jobs.
Speaker 18: He'll be speaking later today in Dallas. Household debt hit
Speaker 18: a record high nearly eighteen trillion dollars in.
Speaker 4: The third quarter.
Speaker 18: The New York Fed says mortgages, auto loans, credit card balances,
Speaker 18: and student loans all increased. Total household income rose more
Speaker 18: than debt, but many young consumers and low wage workers
Speaker 18: are feeling some financial stress. Amazon dot Com has a
Speaker 18: new online storefront. It's called Hall, designed to compete with
Speaker 18: the discount site Timu. Shoppers who aren't in a hurry
Speaker 18: to receive their orders can get rock bottom prices. A
Speaker 18: flat four dollars shipping fee will be waived on orders
Speaker 18: of twenty five dollars or more. Customers get their deliveries
Speaker 18: in a week or two. The quarter pound burghers at
Speaker 18: McDonald's are being served with slivered onions once again. An
Speaker 18: e coli outbreak among customers of the fast food chain
Speaker 18: was traced to the onions. McDonald's has a new onion supplier,
Speaker 18: and the Food and Drug Administration confirms there's no further
Speaker 18: danger in casey. Some of us spends so much time
Speaker 18: making connections online that our in person skills have gotten rusty,
Speaker 18: and that may be especially true when it comes to dating.
Speaker 18: Wall Street Journal says many singles have become so dependent
Speaker 18: on matchmaking sites they don't know how to meet in
Speaker 18: real life. There is a movement to change that. It's
Speaker 18: IRL in real life is back, and of course it's
Speaker 18: being spread via social media online.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I saw this stat the other day and it was
Speaker 2: every other way of meeting people is under ten percent,
Speaker 2: and then it's just this red line going straight to
Speaker 2: the sky for internet.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 2: I on Internet date man, I'm thinking of joining the
Speaker 2: priesthood pas, But do you know what missing from it
Speaker 2: that church.
Speaker 18: Yeah, this is true.
Speaker 1: It's not even on the list anymore. So all right,
Speaker 1: well we got to roll.
Speaker 2: Thank you appreciate it. Okay tomorrow yep, yep, all right,
Speaker 2: And two quick things for you get out of here.
Speaker 2: An individual decide is is going to be charged with
Speaker 2: insurance fraud and actually it may be up to five
Speaker 2: individuals after cameras captured what looked like a bear and
Speaker 2: arrowhead California Lake Arrowhead above La There it's a beautiful
Speaker 2: area and they do have a lot of bear issues,
Speaker 2: basically vandalyzing cars, and then they were using it for
Speaker 2: insurance payments. It's a dude in a bear suit. And
Speaker 2: and what's worse when you look at the bear suit
Speaker 2: is it's not just a bear suit like on its own.
Speaker 2: The bear suit that they bought is has clothes on
Speaker 2: as bears do. It's how they get you. Actually they
Speaker 2: wear the clothes and then they sneak in there. It's hilarious.
Speaker 2: We'll retweet it for you. And finally, Guardian one of
Speaker 2: the out that's making their way to a blue sky.
Speaker 2: And I saw somebody put together some of the best
Speaker 2: Guardian headlines from the last couple of years. And these
Speaker 2: are amazing. You ready, I'm gonna do as many as
Speaker 2: I can. Is it okay for scientists to weep over
Speaker 2: climate change?
Speaker 1: You'll love this one.
Speaker 2: Barbecue is an American tradition of enslaved Africans and Native Americans.
Speaker 2: Stop at white people, and good luck with that, oh,
Speaker 2: Rossell like this one. No reason to debate guacamole. It's
Speaker 2: already gentrified beyond good taste. Ross is not a fan
Speaker 2: of the guacamole, so maybe he was onto something. My
Speaker 2: toddler is vegan. Help, what's the problem. Don't you pick
Speaker 2: what you feed your toddler? I mean, to some extent,
Speaker 2: they're gonna weigh in on it.