Speaker 1: Coming up on the show. We ended up with two
Speaker 1: interviews today, and you know how much I hate you
Speaker 1: doing two interviews, but we're gonna do it just the
Speaker 1: way that it worked out. But I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: get some good info out of it. And I had
Speaker 1: to do less prep yesterday, so you know, good stuff.
Speaker 1: One is a state insurance commissioner, Mike Cosey. Oh, oh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about insurance kind of, We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about a little, you know, a few things going on
Speaker 1: as the General Assembly is trying to put everything together
Speaker 1: up there, causey had I don't know. I guess his
Speaker 1: office has some concerns about some stuff, and especially if
Speaker 1: you're on the no offense, if you're on the older
Speaker 1: end of our audience, you it may be impactful to you.
Speaker 1: So and I'm just like, then, he tried to explain
Speaker 1: it to me, and he does a good job of
Speaker 1: that in the past when I spoke to him, because
Speaker 1: it's very easy to walk out doing that. And I'm
Speaker 1: just like, Okay, well, why why why don't you explain
Speaker 1: it to everybody?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that's that's my level of lazy right there.
Speaker 1: So but basically it is it's having to do with
Speaker 1: ship funding. So if you don't know what that is,
Speaker 1: that is it's for Medicare beneficiaries.
Speaker 3: But it's like.
Speaker 1: There's a there's a lot of big changes coming, which
Speaker 1: I think fundamentally are good, but we have to talk about,
Speaker 1: uh if all of them are good. So we will
Speaker 1: go ahead and we will get into that with Mike
Speaker 1: Casey and then uh Congress and Murphy. Greg Murphy's is
Speaker 1: going to join us. So Kazy will be at seven
Speaker 1: o five and then Murphy will be at seven thirty five.
Speaker 1: It was going to be at eight oh five, but
Speaker 1: apparently there was some emergency up in DC and so
Speaker 1: they had to move it. They didn't say they didn't
Speaker 1: say why they had move it, just that they had
Speaker 1: to move it. Huh, asking Ross because Ross, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, well I don't know. No, I'm just here's
Speaker 1: here's why. I'm like, maybe they're gonna do something in DC. Right,
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to be hopeful on this news, like
Speaker 1: maybe they're going to actually take one of the three
Speaker 1: thousand things Trump's done and enshrine it actually into law.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be amazing? That'd be awesome. So I look,
Speaker 1: I hope that's what it is. What do they call
Speaker 1: the one thing, the Big Beautiful Bill, the Big by
Speaker 1: the way, if you're a fact guy named Bill, this
Speaker 1: is your news week, right, be like yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: they're talking about me.
Speaker 2: So uh.
Speaker 1: Anyway, so we'll get into that, we'll get into africaners,
Speaker 1: we'll get into the pope is black? Ross. Did you
Speaker 1: know the pope was black? You do, now, don't you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, that's some audio there, it's maybe that's
Speaker 4: something it is.
Speaker 1: It's a minute of something right there of oar. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I saw people starting in on this I and now
Speaker 1: and I'm like, all right, is he non binary too?
Speaker 1: I mean, what what else are you gonna do? You
Speaker 1: know where this reminds me of Do you remember when
Speaker 1: Barack Obama went to Ireland that insane news cycle where
Speaker 1: they're like, well, actually he's Irish, right And people are like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's got an O in front of his name, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's not how that works. I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that he doesn't have obviously family, traceable family.
Speaker 1: The thing that always creeps me about the presidents is
Speaker 1: they are always like six cousins to each other. Some
Speaker 1: some guys, some genealogical based news reporter will be like,
Speaker 1: did you know so and so is is actually uh,
Speaker 1: you know, six cousin three times removed from you know,
Speaker 1: And then if it's if it's a politician, they like
Speaker 1: they're like Abraham Lincoln, and if it's not, they're like
Speaker 1: Adolf Hitler.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 1: Those are always fun, although they kind of stopped doing
Speaker 1: those with Trump because of the slavery thing. That story.
Speaker 1: Remember when that story came out and everyone just kind
Speaker 1: of lost their mind, even though it makes super logical sense.
Speaker 1: So do you know that there's only one president of
Speaker 1: the United States who's ever served whose family whose relatives
Speaker 1: didn't in some way, shape or form participate in slavery
Speaker 1: in the New World, And that's Donald Trump. Yeah.
Speaker 4: They couldn't stand it. They're like, well, actually Obama's family
Speaker 4: owned slaves. Don't don't even get started on Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: His family, not Kamala, right, she would have been the
Speaker 1: other one. No, they also did actually actually a big
Speaker 1: plantation in Jamaica. Yeah, wow, of the biggest ones. Nah,
Speaker 1: they're big time into the slaves. Not good, Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: oh man, that's but for some reason, that's not covered,
Speaker 1: you know, like that's Jamaica. Man, is Jamaica part of
Speaker 1: the US? No, come on, that's it. They clearly give
Speaker 1: Trump that pass as well. I'm sure no, but it
Speaker 1: makes sense. They're like, no, he's literally his his, he's
Speaker 1: like third with third generation or something. So yeah, that
Speaker 1: actually that makes sense. They were here and then they
Speaker 1: were in Germany, which wasn't really you know, not to
Speaker 1: say that they you know, outside of that, they could,
Speaker 1: but they couldn't stand that stat So now we're gonna
Speaker 1: do it with the pope, and uh, of course the
Speaker 1: view is here to help us do that. So very
Speaker 1: excited to learn all about that. And speaking of immigration,
Speaker 1: the amount of well, let me just play a piece
Speaker 1: of audio. So if you don't know, fifty nine, he
Speaker 1: keeps seeing sixty thrown around, but it's fifty nine. I
Speaker 1: don't know that matters. Africanners who have spent two months
Speaker 1: being vetted, by the way, so everybody knows who everybody is, right,
Speaker 1: and many of them have already secured employment in the US. Now,
Speaker 1: I understand people got all sorts of thoughts. So a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't care if you're where you're from.
Speaker 1: They don't care. They don't care if you're from Canada
Speaker 1: and you want to move down here. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to think of the most closely associated. You know,
Speaker 1: they don't even like it if rich immigrants move in.
Speaker 1: I understand that that's a mindset here, I don't fully
Speaker 1: understand that. I think most people are just like, how
Speaker 1: about an orderly process. How about people that aren't going
Speaker 1: to be on the financial doal when they get here.
Speaker 1: How about where opportunities present to do things like this
Speaker 1: gold card that Trump's doing. Keep it in mind that
Speaker 1: the people who can afford something like that are also
Speaker 1: people who are going to make large scale investments in
Speaker 1: property probably staff right, if you're rolling at that level
Speaker 1: in the United States. And oh, by the way, we'll
Speaker 1: also pay taxes in the United States like those are.
Speaker 1: I think that's where most people are kind of in
Speaker 1: that middle ground. And by the way, they don't even
Speaker 1: necessarily have a problem with people from that quote unquote
Speaker 1: don't look like them or any of the rest of
Speaker 1: that if they feel that an orderly process, one that
Speaker 1: is bore with information and necessity. And again, everybody knowing
Speaker 1: who everybody is, doesn't necessarily have a problem with that.
Speaker 1: We're cool with that, but trying to compare fifty nine Bore,
Speaker 1: you know, descendants coming from South Africa, many of which
Speaker 1: I believe one of the thing was they wanted family units,
Speaker 1: and they wanted people who have already been impact impacted
Speaker 1: by either violent events or having essentially their livelihood taken
Speaker 1: from them. And I want you to really understand what's
Speaker 1: going on over in South Africa. I understand apartheid and
Speaker 1: all of this, and it's got a crazy history, but
Speaker 1: acting live and I saw somebody breaking this down, acting
Speaker 1: like the Bore are not native to South Africa in
Speaker 1: the sense of the formalization of the country is really disingenuous.
Speaker 1: You know, the quote unquote bore the white portion of
Speaker 1: what's settled it and by the way, it's not always white.
Speaker 1: I would just point this out too, there's some North
Speaker 1: African stuff in there. They settled what is South Africa
Speaker 1: in that area, and specifically they're around Cape Horn in
Speaker 1: like sixteen twenty. So you know, it's the same dumb argument. Essentially,
Speaker 1: it has the same pathway that the United States did,
Speaker 1: that Australia did, that Canada did, where you had people
Speaker 1: who are quote white you know, explorers or immigrants or
Speaker 1: any of the rest who came to an area where yes,
Speaker 1: you absolutely had people, you know, South Africa and those
Speaker 1: areas down there had multiple tribes there who had their
Speaker 1: own territories and it turned into a conquered situation. The
Speaker 1: difference is South Africa decided to basically reverse all of that.
Speaker 1: But to act like the boar are just people who
Speaker 1: showed up, you know, five minutes ago is not accurate.
Speaker 1: So and you see what's going on over there, and
Speaker 1: so you have fifty nine of I don't know if
Speaker 1: you saw any of the video, by the way, do
Speaker 1: you see them all walking and waving American flags? That
Speaker 1: was a nice touch because and it's not that they
Speaker 1: have to wave the American flag. It's this thing that
Speaker 1: has the chick over on MSNBC absolutely apoplectic.
Speaker 5: So the Trump administration, they're saying that essentially these white
Speaker 5: South Africans assimilate better and they're also not as as
Speaker 5: much of a security risk. That's really causing a lot
Speaker 5: of people to be appalled. Frankly, and I also tell
Speaker 5: people that there's violence that they're talking about that are
Speaker 5: dealing with these Afrikaners I've been hearing from people that
Speaker 5: say there is violence in South Africa, but it's affecting
Speaker 5: everybody of every single race.
Speaker 1: Katie, all right, yeah, let me go back to this
Speaker 1: first part of this thing you said.
Speaker 5: So the Trump administration, they're saying that essentially, these white
Speaker 5: South Africans assimilate better and they're also not as as
Speaker 5: much of a security risk.
Speaker 1: How is that wrong? Do you know why they're probably
Speaker 1: going to assimilate better? Ross, Do you think you can
Speaker 1: pick a touch one thing that maybe will help them
Speaker 1: assimilate better into US society? Being front and it is
Speaker 1: not about the fact that they're white even what what
Speaker 1: do what trait do you think they might have that
Speaker 1: would be helpful in assimilating. Uh, they speak English. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's pretty helpful, that's what you're looking for. But no,
Speaker 1: that's no, that's that's that is if when you talked
Speaker 1: about assimilation, the ability to communicate, that's gonna be It's
Speaker 1: your strongest tool in the bag, right there, Man, that's
Speaker 1: your strongest tool in the bag. For any of you
Speaker 1: who have traveled or if English is your second language,
Speaker 1: right you understand being surrounded by a bunch of people
Speaker 1: you can't communicate with and yeah, we got to google
Speaker 1: you Google Translate and all this stuff. But your day
Speaker 1: to day is hampered and hindered by that. That's why.
Speaker 1: And I know that this. I would tell anyone who
Speaker 1: moves to the US learn the language. Well, it's not
Speaker 1: the official it's all games. You're playing games. Do you
Speaker 1: want to as quickly as possible be able to communicate
Speaker 1: form bonds and friendships that are part of society and
Speaker 1: help you assimilate. May help you get a job down
Speaker 1: the road, help your kids. Yes, and if if you
Speaker 1: move somewhere else, learn the language so that you can
Speaker 1: communicate with people.
Speaker 4: It's just constantly mind numbing and mind blowing. It's like
Speaker 4: you know, you're leaving a place that you don't want
Speaker 4: to be, right, there's a reason you're coming here, and
Speaker 4: then when you come here, you're choosing not to assimilate
Speaker 4: and make your life more difficult.
Speaker 1: It makes no sense. Well, we're materializing in separate community centers.
Speaker 1: Is what happens. When you have the scale that we have,
Speaker 1: it's a lot harder to go. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: learn English if there's five people around that you know
Speaker 1: who speak whatever your language is. It's a hell of
Speaker 1: a lot harder if nineteen twenty million other people primarily
Speaker 1: speak the language, and then who tend to block and
Speaker 1: live together. Like every community listening right now has a
Speaker 1: part of town that's known as a not in a
Speaker 1: derogatory way. Necessarily, it's because we tend to coalesce around
Speaker 1: people that look like us and are like us. So
Speaker 1: you guys go north to the radio station and Raleigh
Speaker 1: here and where that Walmart is, and where all those
Speaker 1: shops where you got all the international food. There's like
Speaker 1: three Hispanic grocery stores. There's a lot more traditional Latin
Speaker 1: American country food places where you're gonna get the tripe,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get the menudo, you're gonna get all the
Speaker 1: stuff that most people don't go to your chain Mexican
Speaker 1: restaurant to get. There are financial institutions that cater to
Speaker 1: people who are who have family back in other parts
Speaker 1: of the world for the purpose of sending money. It
Speaker 1: documents all kinds of stuff, and so people coalesce around
Speaker 1: with that. It's a hell of a lot harder to
Speaker 1: do that if there's not twenty million to choose from
Speaker 1: in a country this size, So it hampers that ability,
Speaker 1: but learn the language, and the second thing is less
Speaker 1: of a security risk. I believe they're saying that because
Speaker 1: they spent two months vetting them rather than them walking in,
Speaker 1: handing them some sort of court date they're never going
Speaker 1: to show up, and then relocating them on our dime
Speaker 1: to the internal part of the US and putting them
Speaker 1: up in hotels and stuff.
Speaker 4: I mean, and there does seem to be over there
Speaker 4: is specific race of people that are being hunted down
Speaker 4: because of their race, and they're laying stolen and taken away.
Speaker 1: They're just songs about me.
Speaker 4: There's a word for that some people, and it's very
Speaker 4: popular among the younger kids now when it comes to
Speaker 4: a certain part.
Speaker 1: Of the most dangerous game, that.
Speaker 4: Would be genocide, right, they like using that word now. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and some would say yeah, so someone say that's sort
Speaker 4: of what what that is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I think the problem is is they'll push
Speaker 1: back and go, well, they're not really putting up real
Speaker 1: numbers yet, And I'm like, so, I have a thought,
Speaker 1: maybe if we think something is headed a little genocide,
Speaker 1: we don't wait for them to put up real numbers
Speaker 1: like Aba andle. They're putting up real numbers no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4: I mean I think that's the main complaint that a
Speaker 4: lot of people have that still have some brain cells left,
Speaker 4: where it's like, if you're here, you're coming here for
Speaker 4: a reason, you should want to assimilate. Now, listen, you
Speaker 4: can be proud of where you came from. We have
Speaker 4: sat Patrick's, We love that in this country. That's fine, right,
Speaker 4: but you are now an American, which means you should
Speaker 4: be appre Not only is the people that come over
Speaker 4: here and then refuse to learn the language or assimilate,
Speaker 4: but then they complain about the country, like where did
Speaker 4: you just come from? Why did you come here? Shut up, assimilate,
Speaker 4: appreciate what you have because it's pretty damn awesome here.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do we play the audio of the guy who's upset
Speaker 1: because they want eating. They you can't put up in
Speaker 1: closed beach enclosures because you know, people put up big tents.
Speaker 1: And they were really upset because when their Muslim wives
Speaker 1: come onto the beach, they can't be seen to be
Speaker 1: eating and then they have to leave. And so they
Speaker 1: want to be able to put up like eating tents
Speaker 1: so the women can't because no men can watch the
Speaker 1: women eat or something and I'm like, is you want
Speaker 1: to ruin everybody's beach for that? But I can't have one,
Speaker 1: so I don't. My Irish skin doesn't burst into flames
Speaker 1: the moment the sun hits it. What are we doing here?
Speaker 1: This is a no brainer. Fifty nine people who already
Speaker 1: speak English, many of a secured employment, who did a
Speaker 1: two month vetting process. All you're doing is highlighting what's
Speaker 1: going on in South Africa. Congrats. We'll be back from
Speaker 1: phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
Speaker 1: seven four if you want to opine on any of
Speaker 1: the stuff we're chatting about, which I will include a
Speaker 1: lot of fun audio to interviews and even a lightsaber attack. So,
Speaker 1: although not really, I feel like you should not be
Speaker 1: able to use the language and a headline Nebraska and
Speaker 1: jailed for lightsaber attacks if we're not using an actual lightsaber,
Speaker 1: because if not, it's just it's a kid's.
Speaker 4: Toy at that point, Rightly, if somebody is arrested for that, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, an actual lightsaber attack, I would hope somebody
Speaker 4: from like the Department of Defense or somebody would quickly
Speaker 4: get that person in a cell or somebody and figure
Speaker 4: out where you got that technology. For wow, really yeah,
Speaker 4: immediately what if they're.
Speaker 1: Just an inventor and now they're all cheesed because they
Speaker 1: invented a lightsaber and you threw them in, going well, congrats,
Speaker 1: now you work for the government. Okay, so we'll put
Speaker 1: them in New Mexico or whatever they're and good fire,
Speaker 1: no like that, what's just the like uh data and
Speaker 1: yeah Brett Brett Spinder, Yeah, yeah, Brett Speiner and they
Speaker 1: just keep under area fifty one there. Yeah to rask
Speaker 1: a man behind bars after a pair of felony charges
Speaker 1: for allegedly striking a female neighbor and the woman's seven
Speaker 1: year old daughter with a Star Wars lightsaber, except they
Speaker 1: didn't if it was a Star Wars lightsaber right uh ross,
Speaker 1: after you're seeing that scene that you sent me in
Speaker 1: and or with the lightsaber like spinny wheel things on
Speaker 1: the ship, which we're our nerd correspondence says they're not lightsabers,
Speaker 1: like yeah, whatever, he's in denial. Tell me somebody's rocking
Speaker 1: those things. Man, you should get some for your for
Speaker 1: your rail dude, that'd be great, and then you can
Speaker 1: cut toll boost down when they start tolling Capitol Boulevard
Speaker 1: up by your house. So would that even affect.
Speaker 4: You, by the way the proposal, it would not, because
Speaker 4: I never i've down Capitol Boulevard. I avoid it like
Speaker 4: the plague. However it might affect my commune. Well, it's
Speaker 4: not gonna affect my commute because my commute at three
Speaker 4: thirty in the morning, and then after the show, I'm
Speaker 4: going the opposite way, so it'll be fine. But I
Speaker 4: always go like the long way down like falls of
Speaker 4: news in Atlantic and stuff.
Speaker 1: So with the with the new falls of news.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, so I imagine like people might actually stop going
Speaker 4: to Capitol and start going my way instead, so it
Speaker 4: might be more congested, but once again, it's three thirty
Speaker 4: in the morning, so I'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 1: That's the one thing about doing the morning radio, all
Speaker 1: the traffic reports. In your mind, you're always like, what
Speaker 1: what traffic? I've never seen no traffic, what are you
Speaker 1: talking about? But uh yeah, man, they want to toll
Speaker 1: it now they're talking about tolling. And by the way,
Speaker 1: it would be five forty north up to what was
Speaker 1: it ninety five, just kind of your guys's main cut
Speaker 1: off up there in the wake forest, the cartel capital
Speaker 1: of North Carolina. How do you like that one? By
Speaker 1: the way, since you guys had a cartel kidnapping there,
Speaker 1: technically you you were there where they held them the
Speaker 1: kidnapping occurred. But I gotta think of something, so we'll
Speaker 1: go with that. So basically it's that which is an
Speaker 1: awful road to try to drive during rush hour. I
Speaker 1: get it. I've made the mistake over the years of
Speaker 1: being like I'm gonna head I gotta head up to
Speaker 1: Wake Forest and it's five o'clock. What's the worst that
Speaker 1: could happen? And then just trying to go up Capital
Speaker 1: Boulevard and it's just like, oh man, oh this sucks.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I've always like, for some reason, like I don't like
Speaker 4: five forty. It gives me bad vibes. There's no explanation.
Speaker 4: It's completely irrational. But Marky will tell you like every
Speaker 4: time we have to get on five forty to go somewhere,
Speaker 4: like I hate this road.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's something. That's the thing. How do you go
Speaker 1: to how if you were going over to Durham, Well,
Speaker 1: I guess you'd go up to ninety eight and go
Speaker 1: Why would I go to Durham?
Speaker 3: Why would I?
Speaker 1: Why would I leave, I go to Wake Forest and
Speaker 1: the work. That's where I go. Let's just say that
Speaker 1: there's free lightsabers, they're real, and have to drive to
Speaker 1: Durham to get one. Okay, I will go down the
Speaker 1: long like ninety eight to Durham from Wake. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that would make more sense. I but like, you know,
Speaker 1: five forty if you got to go to the beach,
Speaker 1: would be unavoidable, right.
Speaker 4: Uh no, Well, I mean then you could drive down
Speaker 4: Capitol all the way to right here in Highwoods and
Speaker 4: take you know, four Ford, the belt line whatever.
Speaker 1: I mean, you could. But that's what we that's what
Speaker 1: that's what we tend to do. I got you, all right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, you're right, there's no reason try five forty.
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying there isn't a reason. I'm saying
Speaker 4: I don't like it. I don't know what if you
Speaker 4: had to go.
Speaker 1: To Briar Creek, I guess then then yeah, So I
Speaker 1: don't know. There's some roads you just avoid. I'll tell you.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you. Yeah, the road that is very useful
Speaker 1: whenever I'm over in Greensboro, But every time I get
Speaker 1: on it, I want to like, I want to pit maneuver.
Speaker 1: Everybody is wind over during rush hour, which is kind
Speaker 1: of I don't know if you're familiar with it ross
Speaker 1: very much, but it's kind of a highway, but it's
Speaker 1: kind of not a highway. It's like a road basically.
Speaker 1: And but if you get over by like we're Greenbrier
Speaker 1: or not Greenbrier, h Green Valley Grill and and the
Speaker 1: hotel over there, and or if you're coming you know,
Speaker 1: to go further, like take it over towards high Point
Speaker 1: or whatever. It can be rather contentious and not much fun.
Speaker 1: But there's not really a great way to avoid it.
Speaker 1: Five forty right, there's a lot of work work around there.
Speaker 1: But now if they put Capital Boulevard northward, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just weird, man, But that is something they're talking about,
Speaker 1: you know what it is.
Speaker 4: I think I had like a flat once in five
Speaker 4: forty and ever since then, I'm like, it's just bad
Speaker 4: like association.
Speaker 1: It's like bad vibes. You had a British apartment on
Speaker 1: five forty. It's irrational, no idea, why okay, no, man,
Speaker 1: you just it's like, uh, you know, it's like a
Speaker 1: dog got hit by somebody one time and now they
Speaker 1: can now around them.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know if you know this, but
Speaker 4: I'm a real superstitious person. No, yeah, come on, what
Speaker 4: so yeah, I mean it's just how I am.
Speaker 1: Like, Yeah, I'm not going on that road. It's bad,
Speaker 1: it's bad news. But you have a doll that has
Speaker 1: a demon in it now and it doesn't have a
Speaker 1: deem and it brings me joy, And don't you steal
Speaker 1: that from me. I don't know why.
Speaker 4: That's like your thing where like if somebody has joy,
Speaker 4: you're like, I need to take it away.
Speaker 1: Because I heard it. I think you see you have
Speaker 1: no joy in your life. I heard it. I heard
Speaker 1: I saw the video you posted of the doll. Because
Speaker 1: it's how old what you know, probably what thirty years
Speaker 1: old or something? I mean yeah, probably a little bit
Speaker 1: younger than us. Yeah, and you pull the pull string
Speaker 1: and it works still kind of kind of sort of
Speaker 1: maybe do we have any do we have any of
Speaker 1: that audio? Nope? Okay, well you posted if you if
Speaker 1: you go to Ross's twitter or can you post it
Speaker 1: a video of it. I'm just saying it. It it
Speaker 1: the It sounds less earnest and uh more uh Annabelle
Speaker 1: at the moment, but that's but the fact that it
Speaker 1: works and it's that old is actually quite impressive. Is
Speaker 1: there a visible battery day?
Speaker 4: It looks really good too. And I think there's something
Speaker 4: wrong with the with the lips on it. I think
Speaker 4: the lips were originally like red, but it's so old
Speaker 4: now that like they've they've come off. So because the lip,
Speaker 4: the lips sort of look like whiter than the rest
Speaker 4: of the face on the earnest doll, like or maybe
Speaker 4: he has some sort of disease. I don't know, I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe so, Uh, there is a possibility I was just
Speaker 1: talking to say, there's a possibility that, uh, at the
Speaker 1: end of the year and we take all the time off,
Speaker 1: then I might go to Vegas or something for like
Speaker 1: bowl stuff. This is literally early discussion. I you got
Speaker 1: to take that thing to Rick bro Come on, man,
Speaker 1: that'll do on that. That's one of my favorite things
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not saying actually sell it, but get it
Speaker 1: all or take it to antique road.
Speaker 4: I can't explain to you. And Marky sent me the
Speaker 4: picture of it immediately. The thing brings me so much joy.
Speaker 4: I'm like, this thing is one of the greatest.
Speaker 1: I think it's awesome. Dude, I think it's awesome. I
Speaker 1: just think I think it'd be really funny if you
Speaker 1: should forget Rick's pond. Like if they did the antique
Speaker 1: road show with the stodgy British people and you showed
Speaker 1: up with that thing, right, some ladies got a ming
Speaker 1: vase in front of you. Another guy's waiting with a faberge.
Speaker 4: A A you're I'm just gonna push him aside, take
Speaker 4: the egg, throw it on the ground because it's garbage,
Speaker 4: and show my rest doll and.
Speaker 1: Then put it in front of the British professor. Do
Speaker 1: they're like, ah, check this thing out. Why are the
Speaker 1: lights all flashing? It's because it's a it's a d
Speaker 1: rude party. You didn't know that today it's it's a
Speaker 1: it's a big techno party. All the lights are flashing.
Speaker 1: I mean that's do you not do? Do you not wanna?
Speaker 1: You not want to hear sandstorm? Come on?
Speaker 4: And I would prefer all the power to stay on. Yes,
Speaker 4: stay you know it.
Speaker 1: Is my my ernest dollar knows you're messing with it,
Speaker 1: and it's this is what you get. Isn't that weird? Huh?
Speaker 1: Isn't that weird that the thing that happens in all
Speaker 1: the movies when the demon's presence becomes known, just well,
Speaker 1: now it happens to happen. It's okay because it's on
Speaker 1: my side. Yes, okay, all right, but if I was you,
Speaker 1: i'd be I'd be concerned. Well and all so I
Speaker 1: put a big salt circle around ross there, so and
Speaker 1: the dolls everything will be fine. Did you get all
Speaker 1: these chicken talents? It's uh, well, I mean, we have
Speaker 1: a lot of chicken production in North Carolina. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be lots of different places. Five hundred chicken talents. I
Speaker 1: got them from South Africa where they just had to
Speaker 1: close their largest chicken manufacturer. Did you did you hear
Speaker 1: about that? This is an actual story because the chicken
Speaker 1: farm which was seized by the government had three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand chickens on it and they forgot to
Speaker 1: feed them, so they had all turned cannibal as you know,
Speaker 1: as animals who eat whatever will do. So they then
Speaker 1: had to euthanize. I think there was a million chickens.
Speaker 1: Most of them ended up dying, and the three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty thousand that were left, they just had to
Speaker 1: kill all of them. So it's an old I got
Speaker 1: talons for days, bro, that's.
Speaker 4: An old X Files episode from season one, Chaco's Chicken
Speaker 4: in Arkansas. They go down there and like the chickens
Speaker 4: are like, they eat the chickens. Yeah, chickens, and then
Speaker 4: they eat the chicken. No, they're eating their feet. They're
Speaker 4: sacrificing people in the town. Chickens are eating the feed
Speaker 4: that has people in it. People eat the chickens and
Speaker 4: they get like this this neurological disease I mean, which.
Speaker 1: Is a real thing, by the way, you can get
Speaker 1: eating human remains can can cause a neurological reaction in humans.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I remember that episode absolutely. So anyway, yeah,
Speaker 1: they just kind of forgot. So there's all the chicken
Speaker 1: towns you could ever want, so and they're probably equally cursed.
Speaker 1: So all right, six forty five. A random thing, Oh
Speaker 1: I mentioned the pope is now the ladies over at
Speaker 1: the view are a big fan. Do you want to hear?
Speaker 1: Why you want to hear? Why you want to hear? Why?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Okay, here we go.
Speaker 8: One other thing that's also very interesting to me because
Speaker 8: President Trump, as you remember, called Haiti a certain type
Speaker 8: of country. As it turns out, our new American pope
Speaker 8: has Haitian and black roots, So we actually.
Speaker 6: Have a black coach apparent.
Speaker 8: Really, it's like Chef's kiss for me. So apparently, both
Speaker 8: of his maternal grandparents are described as black, Haitian or
Speaker 8: mulatto in several census documents and on their marriage license.
Speaker 8: His birth the grandfather's birth place is Haiti listed is Haiti.
Speaker 8: Her birthplace is listed as born in New Orleans. They
Speaker 8: were identified as people of color, but in nineteen twenty,
Speaker 8: when they migrated to Chicago, the census reflected their race
Speaker 8: as white. Everything I'm loving, I'm enjoying it.
Speaker 1: There's like this picture of him. She got that thing
Speaker 1: she added at the end, by the way, where and
Speaker 1: then they moved to Chicago and they were listed as
Speaker 1: white in the census, which, by the way, I don't
Speaker 1: know all this stuff there and believe it or not,
Speaker 1: and she has to know this has Haiti is the
Speaker 1: result of a slave revolt the Chrown, I say, the
Speaker 1: current function of government, and that's not a judgment, think
Speaker 1: that's the reality of it. However, there were a lot
Speaker 1: of white people prior to that, and even post that
Speaker 1: that lived there or were intermixed, and Haiti started escalating
Speaker 1: how black you had to be to not be on
Speaker 1: the wrong end of whatever government was there, and so
Speaker 1: you had a lot of people including it sounds like
Speaker 1: the pope's family who left because it was the same
Speaker 1: game that was played in the South with percentage of
Speaker 1: stuff for the purpose of marriage. Right, are you this percentage? Right?
Speaker 1: And like she she has to know this, like I
Speaker 1: don't care. I'm not I don't care what the pope's
Speaker 1: descendants are. But until you literally read that article, not
Speaker 1: a single person went, oh, that dude's probably mixed right now.
Speaker 4: But I think she brings up a very valid point,
Speaker 4: which is, you know, this is sonny from the view,
Speaker 4: and her point is very valid. And that point is,
Speaker 4: you know, the Pope was a bad person because he
Speaker 4: was white, but then once she learned that he was black,
Speaker 4: suddenly the pope is a great person. And some people
Speaker 4: would say that it's judging people by their race and
Speaker 4: being a horrible racist.
Speaker 1: Oh no, because she is Oh no on a donkey
Speaker 1: in Peru.
Speaker 9: That I mean, I just he's bringing me so much joy.
Speaker 4: No, the adacity of this woman to say that, like
Speaker 4: I wasn't a fan of the pope, but guys, I
Speaker 4: found out he's black, so now he's cool.
Speaker 1: But before he wrote a donkey in Peru, right, which
Speaker 1: is if you guys, go vacation in Peru is a
Speaker 1: thing that you can sign up to do. It's a
Speaker 1: thing if you want to go see because there's I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know this, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: like old stuff to go see in Peru that's kind
Speaker 1: of famous.
Speaker 4: There's also, like you like a lot of old biblical
Speaker 4: stuff though about you know, people on donkeys.
Speaker 1: Well, I've never heard something like that. That something Oh wow,
Speaker 1: and being you know, is he a little what a coincidence?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Kind of religious?
Speaker 2: Right is.
Speaker 1: Does she realize that, by the way, that one of
Speaker 1: the top contenders for pope is literally the the blackest
Speaker 1: cardinal of the College of Cardinals, the guy from Ghana
Speaker 1: who and and and I didn't I'd never read anything
Speaker 1: where anyone had a problem with him potentially sending to
Speaker 1: be No. People love that guy. So it's like like
Speaker 1: nobody cared. Nobody cared, And now it's like that's how
Speaker 1: you're judging this thing. It's it's it's wild and it's.
Speaker 4: Gross and yes, yes, the fact that the crowd there
Speaker 4: in front of the taping is this clapping like seals for.
Speaker 1: This is gone. Can you imagine like they be booing,
Speaker 1: they should be throwing tomatoes or something at her for
Speaker 1: being so horribly racist, Like what you just said is
Speaker 1: horribly racist. Now wait, what I just said is what
Speaker 1: did I say that was racist? Not you? Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm like, I don't know, man. I remember
Speaker 1: there was conversation prior where they were talking where I
Speaker 1: saw I can't remember if it was Sonny or somebody
Speaker 1: they were talking about have there ever been a black pope?
Speaker 1: And whoever it was was like, yeah, there's been three
Speaker 1: black popes and I'm like, no, it's not. It's not. Therefore,
Speaker 1: there were people from North Africa. But North Africa at
Speaker 1: the time of the that we're talking about these popes
Speaker 1: was basically colonized and settled by the European countries. They
Speaker 1: just happened to be from there. And so it's like,
Speaker 1: is can this be the thing where we don't have
Speaker 1: to do this? But apparently it can't be the thing
Speaker 1: where we don't have to do this because we're doing
Speaker 1: it every single time. Boston, Paul though he's here and uh,
Speaker 1: he's really into tolls. What's up, Boston, Paul May.
Speaker 7: We talked about this years ago, how bad this was
Speaker 7: a bad idea. This is because once they told one
Speaker 7: road they want to toll everything, bridges, and how much
Speaker 7: you will start to cost you, Like.
Speaker 1: We talked about, they go right.
Speaker 7: See the mass Turnpike was supposed to go away in
Speaker 7: the early eighties. Not did it not only not go away,
Speaker 7: but the tolls are probably about triple now from what
Speaker 7: they were.
Speaker 6: So yeah, a bad idea.
Speaker 2: And they started that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the what's I think they should toll the
Speaker 1: road in front of your house. That would be good. Huh.
Speaker 7: And I agree with that, But I'm the toll collector.
Speaker 1: Cash on No, No, you're the cash, You're the you're
Speaker 1: the the ox getting gord there. So I told you
Speaker 1: we got a two for coming up today. And actually
Speaker 1: they're going to kind of be back to back. We'll
Speaker 1: start here in state politics and with surtch mission of
Speaker 1: Mike Cosey and then excuse me, a little hiccup thing there,
Speaker 1: and we'll chat with Mike here right now, welcome him in,
Speaker 1: and then Greg Murphy Congressman joins us at seven thirty five, Commissioner,
Speaker 1: how you doing this morning?
Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie. I'm great. How are you?
Speaker 1: You are way too energetic for seven oh seven am,
Speaker 1: But that's okay. So you're gonna hit the ground running
Speaker 1: over there. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna lie to you, Mike.
Speaker 1: And I think I think you and I have met
Speaker 1: a couple of times in person. I can't remember if
Speaker 1: I said it, and I don't mean it in an
Speaker 1: insulting way. I have no idea what you guys do
Speaker 1: over there at the as Commissioner of insurance half the time.
Speaker 1: And I bet if you explained it to me, I
Speaker 1: to some people, we kind of get you start your
Speaker 1: mind starts wandering because you get into minutia numbers. But
Speaker 1: you always had a passion for it. So I when
Speaker 1: I saw this, and I saw that there is some
Speaker 1: disagreement with some of the changes that the legislature may
Speaker 1: make here in North Carolina, and we kind of have
Speaker 1: this doge mindset, you would raise some concerns and I thought,
Speaker 1: rather than me trying to explain it, we'll let you
Speaker 1: try to explain it. So what's going on? What is
Speaker 1: it legislatively that you have concern and why is it
Speaker 1: financially justifiable at a time when people are looking at
Speaker 1: what Doze is uncovering and wondering maybe we should trim
Speaker 1: the fat here in North Carolina. So walk me through
Speaker 1: what is going on here?
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Casey, and you're not alone. There's majority
Speaker 2: of people in North Carolina do not realize all the
Speaker 2: things that are regulated by the Department of Insurance. But
Speaker 2: nobody's a bigger fan of cutting waste, fraud and abuse
Speaker 2: than I am. But what concerned me was when the
Speaker 2: Senate budget is Senate Bill two five seven was there,
Speaker 2: and again it's just a proposed budget, but it's still
Speaker 2: concern that they were proposing to cut, not add any
Speaker 2: positions which we serve a growing population with the third
Speaker 2: fastest state in the nation, we're one of the fastest
Speaker 2: states for retirees moving here all across North Carolina. And
Speaker 2: one of the best programs we have was started back
Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty six under Insurance Commissioner Jim wrong As
Speaker 2: the Seniors Health Insurance Information Program is commonly referred to
Speaker 2: as the SHIP program, and we cover the whole state.
Speaker 2: We have over eight hundred volunteers in every one of
Speaker 2: the one hundred counties. We have somebody at senior centers
Speaker 2: helping people that need help with Medicare. And they're not
Speaker 2: all seniors. We have over a quarter million people that
Speaker 2: are disabled. There is about two hundred and eighty six
Speaker 2: thousand folks that are younger people that are dis that
Speaker 2: depend on Medicare. And say, what the SHIP program does.
Speaker 2: It provides so undiased, inaccurate, one on one counseling at
Speaker 2: no charge, and we help.
Speaker 1: People you mean by counseling, because I want to lay
Speaker 1: this very clearly out because too often with insurance, especially
Speaker 1: like what's the term for our pharmaceutical insurance? I know
Speaker 1: this really is your thing, but like, what do they
Speaker 1: call them? The managers that are now a lot of
Speaker 1: people are thinking what you're describing as some sort of
Speaker 1: middlemen in the process. And since you're talking about government
Speaker 1: funded insurance it I've seen people react and call it
Speaker 1: double dipping. So what are they doing? How do you
Speaker 1: know that they're unbiased and financially why is it not
Speaker 1: double dipping and impactful for people?
Speaker 2: Well, what we're trying to do is help people that
Speaker 2: have an issue and you know, Medicare is regulated by
Speaker 2: the several government, by the Centers for Medicare and Medicare.
Speaker 2: And I'll give you one example. We had a lady
Speaker 2: that was charged some sort of fees. She didn't know
Speaker 2: what they were for, but it was well over one
Speaker 2: thousand dollars in fees that she couldn't get any help
Speaker 2: from the federal government. That she was stuck in the middle,
Speaker 2: and for four years she fought this battle. She contacted
Speaker 2: the ship program and one of our counselors got in
Speaker 2: touch with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and got her
Speaker 2: money back in short order. And in another case, we
Speaker 2: had a senior that had about ten different prescriptions and
Speaker 2: the prescriptions were paid for by insurance all but two,
Speaker 2: and the two prescriptions that weren't paid for were very costly.
Speaker 2: One was over two thousand dollars, the other was over
Speaker 2: four thousand. And by the way, I'm glad President Trump
Speaker 2: did what he did yesterday that rain sort of level
Speaker 2: the play and feel on those high priced drugs. But anyway,
Speaker 2: we were able to save this lady over seven thousand
Speaker 2: dollars and get those covered. So every year in open
Speaker 2: enrollment from October to December. We have so many people,
Speaker 2: like you said, nobody understands Medicare. There's over one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty three different Medicare advantage plans just here in
Speaker 2: North Carolina, and there's eighteen prescription drug programs, and there's
Speaker 2: over forty five companies license to sell Medicare supplement policy.
Speaker 2: So there's no way that any person's going to understand
Speaker 2: all the details. And that's where we come in. We're
Speaker 2: giving information at no charge. And usually if somebody's given information,
Speaker 2: they're working for an insurance company trying to sell you
Speaker 2: a take for a policy, so they're going to push
Speaker 2: you toward that policy.
Speaker 1: Well, they had no charge. This is where I want
Speaker 1: to get because this is what people's objection will be
Speaker 1: because you painted a scenario, Mic, and I agree with
Speaker 1: you it is. It is complex, But wouldn't the ultimate
Speaker 1: goal be that's that at the federal level they clean
Speaker 1: it up so it's not this dumpster fire every time
Speaker 1: you interact with it. And when you say no cost,
Speaker 1: there is inherently a cost. So how does this get
Speaker 1: funded in the state, because clearly the Senate's talking about
Speaker 1: removing it.
Speaker 2: It's funded through through the federal government funds a little
Speaker 2: over a million dollars to North Carolina to cover the
Speaker 2: ship program. Now that's that's not enough to cover the program.
Speaker 2: So the Department of Insurance, for those that don't know,
Speaker 2: is a self funded agency. We're a money generating machine
Speaker 2: for the stake. We bring in one hundred We bring
Speaker 2: in close to a billion dollars over nine hundred million
Speaker 2: dollar a year that we turn over to the general fund.
Speaker 2: So any money that's appropriated by the legislature for our budget, say,
Speaker 2: is we.
Speaker 1: We reimer general fund instance.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I wanted to get out there because
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that. And I happened to read some
Speaker 1: stuff because I had, I had somebody in your office
Speaker 1: and send this over so I more firmly understood it.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if this people may not not
Speaker 1: know this, how many how many people work at the
Speaker 1: Department of Insurance, not talking volunteers, not talking specialty programmed people.
Speaker 1: How many core employees do you have over there that
Speaker 1: is that are able to then generate the billion in
Speaker 1: the revenue.
Speaker 2: Well, specifically for the Department of Insurance, we have over
Speaker 2: four hundred and thirty five and then we also have
Speaker 2: the Industrial Commission that was moved under the Department of
Speaker 2: Insurance when I first took office in twenty seventeen, and
Speaker 2: it has one hundred and forty five employees. But the
Speaker 2: Industrial Commission, they're appointed by the governor. We do all
Speaker 2: of their support work and we pay a lot of
Speaker 2: their support, but that's something that the legislature requested that
Speaker 2: we have to do. And then for seven years I
Speaker 2: was State Fire Marshal over the Office of State Fire Marshal.
Speaker 2: That was changed in twenty twenty four. So we have
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty five employees under the Office of
Speaker 2: State Fire Marshal that we do all of their support
Speaker 2: work and pay the bills and write the grant checks,
Speaker 2: but I don't have any oversight over what they spend
Speaker 2: and that type thing. So there's a number of things
Speaker 2: that are concerning, but all totally. If you take all
Speaker 2: of those things that we oversee together, it's over six
Speaker 2: hundred employees and that tails into comparison to the number
Speaker 2: of licensed agents, insurance agents and brokers across the state,
Speaker 2: probably half a million licenses from out of state volks
Speaker 2: and in state volts. And we oversee bail bond regulation
Speaker 2: that nobody really realizes that over two thousand bail bondsmen
Speaker 2: in North Carolina. And then one of the biggest things
Speaker 2: we do is help consumers. I mean, I'm sure none
Speaker 2: of your listeners ever have insurance flames problems, but we
Speaker 2: get calls every day from people that are having trouble
Speaker 2: with insurance companies paying acclaim in a timely manner or
Speaker 2: paying the right amount. So you can go to a
Speaker 2: website INCDI dot gov. There's a little button you can
Speaker 2: file your own complaint or call us and we'll help
Speaker 2: you and our folks get results, and they're on the
Speaker 2: phones Monday through Friday eight to five just to help consumers,
Speaker 2: and we generally can get you a higher settlement than
Speaker 2: you can on your own, and that's what people like
Speaker 2: so much about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but on this yeah, I'm sorry. Let's go ahead finish,
Speaker 1: and then I have one last question for you.
Speaker 2: So I'm just going to say, on this proposed Senate
Speaker 2: budget that came out, they want to cut the whole program.
Speaker 2: We have twenty six total employees. Eleven of those employees
Speaker 2: are funded by us at the state level, and for
Speaker 2: whatever reason, the Senate thinks we need to eliminate those
Speaker 2: eleven positions, and they're also trying to eliminate eight other
Speaker 2: key full time positions at the Department of Assurance that
Speaker 2: are actuary financial folks. That would really harm the people
Speaker 2: of North Carolina and it would limit our public service.
Speaker 2: So far of the House has not taken that up.
Speaker 2: We were hopeful that, you know, we can prevent these cuts,
Speaker 2: but I just I just want to say that cuts
Speaker 2: are not always a good thing. Sometimes they are, but
Speaker 2: in this case, it would be harmful to the people
Speaker 2: of Don't Carolina by V.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you sit there and you look at
Speaker 1: what's going on with other like the d m V
Speaker 1: is a disaster. I bet you're so happy you're not
Speaker 1: in charge of that, and and so I just want
Speaker 1: to make sure as we're going through I look, I
Speaker 1: think that there's fat to trim and I think there's
Speaker 1: probably a lot of people in management positions who I
Speaker 1: don't know what the hell they do, and neither do they.
Speaker 1: That being said, when you get into things that derive revenue,
Speaker 1: then you know, maybe that should be a bigger discussion.
Speaker 1: I would tend to agree with you there, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. So what what we're talking about. Just to
Speaker 1: be clear with this ship program is essentially the state
Speaker 1: is at least partially having to fund customer support for
Speaker 1: the for federal program, which is insane to me and
Speaker 1: probably a little insane to you, But that's the reality
Speaker 1: that we live in. Is that that would be a
Speaker 1: correct way to sum this up, right.
Speaker 2: Well, it's it's actually paid for by what's called the
Speaker 2: insurance regulatory fun and the insurance regulatory fun is made
Speaker 2: up every time you pay a premium dollar, two and
Speaker 2: a half percent of that premium dollar goes to the
Speaker 2: state in the form of what's called a state premium tax.
Speaker 2: A lot of people don't realize that, but that's what that's.
Speaker 1: That's still a tax, Mike so hard, that's still a tax.
Speaker 1: That's still just when one of the Death by a
Speaker 1: thousand cuts that people are getting out of government. Which
Speaker 1: is why I wanted you to come on and explain this,
Speaker 1: because it's really easy for everyone to be upset if
Speaker 1: their ox is getting gord. I just I think people
Speaker 1: should be able to make a coherent argument as to
Speaker 1: why this particular ox shouldn't be gored, and I was
Speaker 1: when I read this, I went, well that does kind
Speaker 1: of make sense because it's a revenue driver and for
Speaker 1: the purpose that it serves. So but anyway, so not
Speaker 1: in the House, is in the Senate. If the if
Speaker 1: last question, if they came to you and and they
Speaker 1: came to everyone else in your position and said, hey, look,
Speaker 1: we're not going to we're not going to go through
Speaker 1: line by line and look at this, but we're going
Speaker 1: to need everybody to make five percent and cuts. Is
Speaker 1: that something your department could do. I don't know what
Speaker 1: their stated goal is at the state level, but let's
Speaker 1: say it's five percent, Well it for that methodology versus.
Speaker 2: This and the case of the Department of Insurance, it
Speaker 2: would be very it be on the verge of devastating
Speaker 2: because we're we're so underfunded right now. If yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: not there's there's places that that could happen. But there's
Speaker 2: certain agencies that all underfunded and need better funding in
Speaker 2: order to help the people. If the people want to
Speaker 2: have if you want to provide those services. If you
Speaker 2: don't want to provide those services, then you don't even.
Speaker 1: Have to have it right and the services as we
Speaker 1: just described here is essentially working through insurance claims and
Speaker 1: working through Medicare Medicaid. Last question, Mike, if I can
Speaker 1: just make it really uncomfortable for you the next Council
Speaker 1: of state who is living high on the hog in
Speaker 1: North Carolina right now. You've been at this a very
Speaker 1: long time. I know, you know, you probably have some
Speaker 1: opinions you can choose to. Where where should they be
Speaker 1: looking for cuts if that's what they want to do
Speaker 1: in North Carolina? Where are we wasting money?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I'm sure there's We've seen it a lot.
Speaker 2: I mean we've seen it over the years from different
Speaker 2: audits that have taken place where we've had employees in
Speaker 2: certain not only in state government, several government, but in
Speaker 2: the private sector too, where you have employees that have
Speaker 2: the dazzled money. And one of the big things we
Speaker 2: do at this Apartment of Insurance is we really go
Speaker 2: after insurance fraud. That's every dollar you pay for insurance,
Speaker 2: about twenty cents is going just to cover the fraud.
Speaker 2: So there's fraud in all walks of life, whether it's
Speaker 2: public service or private industry. I'm on my way now
Speaker 2: to Ohio to a fraud conference to speak about fraud,
Speaker 2: waste and abuse.
Speaker 1: Well, Mike and I'm sure I got to cut you
Speaker 1: out here. I got thirty seconds. I will warn you
Speaker 1: to be careful when you're in Ohio because there are
Speaker 1: people driving around with monkeys with meth pipes up there.
Speaker 2: So I'll be I'll be on the lookout. So thanks
Speaker 2: for the warning, Casey.
Speaker 1: All right, Mike, I got to let you go them
Speaker 1: up against the clock with thank you.
Speaker 2: You'll talk later. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Cation do appreciate it. All right, there you go, make
Speaker 1: all right? Sure, yeah, bye bye. Assurance commissioner and potential
Speaker 1: victim of meth monkeys. He's not careful, so all right,
Speaker 1: we'll be back.
Speaker 3: Hang on.
Speaker 1: In Washington, they're talking about the big beautiful, one big
Speaker 1: beautiful bill, which is one hundred percent Trump stuff there,
Speaker 1: and one of those who will get to vote on
Speaker 1: big beautiful said bill and hopefully some other stuff is
Speaker 1: Congressman Greg Burfew joins us. Now, good morning, sir. How
Speaker 1: are you all well, Cathie?
Speaker 3: I hope you are, Yes.
Speaker 1: Sir, are you pumped about one big beautiful bill.
Speaker 6: As pumped as that condet? Well, I'm on ways and
Speaker 6: means and so we cover tax, trade and healthcare, and
Speaker 6: today we're going to do what they call the markup
Speaker 6: on our tax provisions for the big beautiful bill, and
Speaker 6: there's over two hundred, I think, two hundred and twenty provisions.
Speaker 6: And we'll start about two o'clock this afternoon and probably
Speaker 6: go straight through the night till about two o'clock tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Tomorrow afternoon, it'll be it'll be a big time, beautiful time.
Speaker 1: What kind of gamesmanship happens in that? If I could
Speaker 1: just get a little well insight, because oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm always looking for an angle up at your work there.
Speaker 6: So yeah, you know. And the craziest thing I was
Speaker 6: talking with the buddy of mine this morning about this
Speaker 6: that I think the worst thing that ever happened to
Speaker 6: politics is all the thousands and thousands of cameras everywhere.
Speaker 6: So you've got some people who are here to just
Speaker 6: play to the cameras rather than do the real work.
Speaker 6: But today were like each each provision. I told you
Speaker 6: there were a couple of hundred provisions each provision. My
Speaker 6: colleagues on the other side of the aisle will probably
Speaker 6: put in anywhere from ten to fifteen to twenty amendments,
Speaker 6: So we have to debate each of these amendments separately
Speaker 6: before we ever talked about the main provisions, and usually
Speaker 6: the amendments have nothing to do with the bill, and
Speaker 6: it's just other's some other nonsense. It's just a delay time.
Speaker 6: But you know, I used to be a surgeon, full
Speaker 6: time transplant surgeon and urologist. I can say it all
Speaker 6: nights and I can just keep on moving, so I
Speaker 6: don't doesn't scare me.
Speaker 1: Is this the way that you like to do it? Though?
Speaker 1: I mean, what is this bill? Four hundred pages before
Speaker 1: you before they start adding stuff to it? It's four
Speaker 1: hunderd pages. There's a thousand things in this. A lot
Speaker 1: of people hate these because two things. One stuff gets
Speaker 1: buried in there, and the other thing is there will
Speaker 1: be a provision in the bill that's like, let's make
Speaker 1: you know, let's do let's do this great thing. And
Speaker 1: then another provision in a bill will be like, but
Speaker 1: then we have to murder puppies. Somebody will vote for it.
Speaker 1: They'll be like, why would my opponent vote to murder puppies?
Speaker 1: Like this is, well, this is how you get all
Speaker 1: of this stuff, so why is this.
Speaker 2: Well, this is a little different. This is a little different.
Speaker 6: This is called reconciliation process. And this only occurs when
Speaker 6: the same party is in the House, the Senate, and
Speaker 6: the White House, and they're all in concert to push
Speaker 6: together other a bill that normally would require sixty votes
Speaker 6: in the Senate, they're fifty three Republicans now and only
Speaker 6: requires a simple majority.
Speaker 1: And all of these provisions spending, right, Is that what
Speaker 1: triggers it? Or am I confused?
Speaker 6: Well, now, it's it's just to try to bring the budget.
Speaker 6: You know, we're crashing. We are crashing towards a sovereign
Speaker 6: debt crisis. And the whole purpose of this thing is
Speaker 6: to try to continue some of the really pro business,
Speaker 6: pro growth tax cuts that were done in twenty seventeen,
Speaker 6: but also shore up so many of our other other
Speaker 6: good programs, get rid of nonsense programs.
Speaker 3: We're getting rid of the.
Speaker 6: Ev tax credit, which tooth be told was only there
Speaker 6: to help rich people by tesils, and you.
Speaker 1: Guys, if you guys get rid of the start stop
Speaker 1: button too, I will consider your Congress's success. And I
Speaker 1: saw that the lead want to.
Speaker 2: Move on that.
Speaker 6: I love it. So it's a little different process. You know,
Speaker 6: when Pelosi was in charge, we got a big bill
Speaker 6: at two am, never been debated, so none of it
Speaker 6: ever went through committee at all these we're going all
Speaker 6: these through things through committee. The Democrats, the opposition party,
Speaker 6: is seeing everything. So she would drop a fifteen hundred
Speaker 6: page bill at two am and then we would vote
Speaker 6: on it at four am. No, no, no, this is
Speaker 6: weeks and weeks and weeks of work, if not months,
Speaker 6: really of hard work and really being put into the
Speaker 6: you know, the tumbler if it will, by both parties.
Speaker 6: So there's not any surprises. They're not things that are
Speaker 6: going to be in there that people don't know about.
Speaker 6: It's very, very straightforward. This is the way government is
Speaker 6: supposed to work.
Speaker 1: No tax on tips, no tax on overtime they are there,
Speaker 1: no tax on auto loan interest. But the one that
Speaker 1: might be contentious is the end to taxes on social
Speaker 1: security for seniors. You know, obviously got a lot of seniors,
Speaker 1: You get a lot of retirees along the coast, which
Speaker 1: you represent a whole chunk of Yeah, and also veterans, right,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people over the years have questioned
Speaker 1: why veterans or seniors pay taxes on you know, pensions
Speaker 1: essentially pension or social security depending on what it is.
Speaker 1: And you're shock full of both. So you what, here's
Speaker 1: your advocacy in this direction. What are you wanting to see?
Speaker 6: So I'll let me bring up those four things real quick.
Speaker 6: So no tax on tips. I'm not a huge fan
Speaker 6: of another president had a big initiative of I don't
Speaker 6: see it as usually pro growth. I think there's going
Speaker 6: to be some real people that are trying to make
Speaker 6: make a good run at having done fraudulently. It's not
Speaker 6: like to me, people who get cash tips now are
Speaker 6: going to say, oh great, I didn't pay tax on
Speaker 6: them before, but I'm going to report them now. So
Speaker 6: I won't get text as far as income text, but
Speaker 6: I'll still get the fight attacks. I'll still get the
Speaker 6: medicare text. I also don't want to you know, your
Speaker 6: electrician to come in and say, all right, well your
Speaker 6: bill is two hundred dollars, but only twenty percent is
Speaker 6: the bill one hundred and eighty dollars is your tip?
Speaker 6: And so there's gonna be ways to work around that.
Speaker 6: There are also gonna be some income limits on this.
Speaker 6: The no tax on overtime. The devil is always in
Speaker 6: the details. Are employer is going to say, hey, I
Speaker 6: really want to recruit people and retain people. The work
Speaker 6: week now is down to thirty two hours, and I'll
Speaker 6: pay you.
Speaker 1: Overtime for ye obomba.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah. So we have to be very very very judicious
Speaker 6: in what we're doing. And so going back to the
Speaker 6: no tax on soci Security, you can't do that anything
Speaker 6: with Social Security in reconciliation. But what we can do
Speaker 6: is we're going to lower the tax rate on seniors
Speaker 6: who make under seventy five thousand dollars basically to nothing
Speaker 6: and move it up otherwise. And so it's a help
Speaker 6: for the seniors. You know, social Security not be taxed,
Speaker 6: and then it was tax and now we're trying to
Speaker 6: really cut back and help our seniors out.
Speaker 1: Okay, just a couple of quick things for a congressman
Speaker 1: is going come up against the clock and in the
Speaker 1: medical background, U there is a another radio outlet one
Speaker 1: that you fund, mister congressman. So I'm sure you can
Speaker 1: figure out who it is who I swear to you
Speaker 1: is running a piece this morning. I've heard part of it.
Speaker 1: I haven't had a chance because I've been on the
Speaker 1: air talking about the downside of cheaper prescription medication, and
Speaker 1: I'm just like anything Trump wants obviously it's a national crisis.
Speaker 1: Was that impactful what he did the other day? And
Speaker 1: then my follow up is, if it is, and you
Speaker 1: like some of the things he's unilaterally doing, what are
Speaker 1: you guys doing to enshrine this stuff into quasi permanency
Speaker 1: at least because Coy Yeah, codify it so does.
Speaker 6: To me, because yeah, just because he puts an executive
Speaker 6: order out, that thing runs out as soon as he's
Speaker 6: no longer the executive.
Speaker 2: We have to cutify, we have to put it in law.
Speaker 6: So I think people need to understand why drugs cost
Speaker 6: so much these days. Number One, America leads the world
Speaker 6: in innovation and research, and this is where we do it.
Speaker 6: Number two, the most favored nations, all the other nations
Speaker 6: where we send drugs really really really undercut the ability
Speaker 6: for pharmaceutical companies to actually make money over there. So
Speaker 6: guess what it all happens over here. But if people
Speaker 6: really understood what's going on in healthcare, the pharmacy benefit managers,
Speaker 6: which are these institutions run by health insurance companies who
Speaker 6: double triple dip in basically extorting pharmaceutical companies and then
Speaker 6: extorting pharmacies, especially independent pharmacies. They are one of the
Speaker 6: real drivers of high drug costs. I personally would get
Speaker 6: rid of direct consumer advertising this afternoon. I think we
Speaker 6: would cut ten percent off our bill, not only in
Speaker 6: the cost of but it is to insurance companies, but
Speaker 6: also how it drives utilization. So those three things are
Speaker 6: really the keys to lowering our drug prices.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: The last thing I want us to do is all
Speaker 6: of a sudden, have China be the innovator of drugs
Speaker 6: in the world. We saw how well their vaccine work,
Speaker 6: and so there is a balance to do.
Speaker 2: This part of it.
Speaker 6: I'm on board with the other part I'm not on
Speaker 6: board with. I've lived in medicine thirty five years, from
Speaker 6: the bedside to you know, being chief of staff of
Speaker 6: a thousand bed hospital and non hospital system, to the
Speaker 6: other stuff in the state. Senior chare health policy in
Speaker 6: the House in the state, and so I think, I
Speaker 6: kind of live this world and I know this world.
Speaker 6: I want us to use more of scalpels than sledgehammers
Speaker 6: in these really, really really complex complex areas.
Speaker 1: All right, last question, you cool with letting getting that
Speaker 1: plane from Dubai. I mean, I like to see purity concerns,
Speaker 1: But ABC News is twisting it like they're just giving
Speaker 1: it to Trump. That being said, it is it does
Speaker 1: provide the kind, you know, the idea that maybe they
Speaker 1: would have some outsized influence.
Speaker 6: So what do you think, Yeah, I need to see
Speaker 6: the details on that, because the optics are of concern.
Speaker 6: I would absolutely admit that. Is this air Force one?
Speaker 6: Is it going to be passed down to the next president?
Speaker 6: Are we going to basically can you basically tear it
Speaker 6: apart and make sure there aren't any bugs or anything
Speaker 6: on it? Because guess what, you can't trust people on
Speaker 6: the other side of the world all the time. So
Speaker 6: let's see the devil's in the details.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right. His argument is they're giving me a
Speaker 1: free plane. They're giving us a free plane so that
Speaker 1: I have to spend money. And I understand the business
Speaker 1: mindset there, but interesting stuff, all right, Congressman Greg Murphy,
Speaker 1: do appreciate it, sir, Have yourself a good one and
Speaker 1: have fun. Not sleeping later for a long time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, buddy, I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: Rah. Yeah, all right, Hey, great, there you go. Thanks
Speaker 2: for having.
Speaker 1: Murphy hanging out with us. Let's get Oh, look at
Speaker 1: who look, who's back. Oh, good morning for the weather
Speaker 1: chat a long time. Don what's going on?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Not much, man, how are you?
Speaker 1: You guys went and got a receiver while I was gone,
Speaker 1: and oh man, it's just.
Speaker 10: Busy, busy, more more trouble, more trouble.
Speaker 1: Right, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I don't know. Pickens is kind of.
Speaker 6: He was.
Speaker 10: He was trouble at Georgia. He was as yeah, yeah,
Speaker 10: I know, I know.
Speaker 1: I guess the year, you know, as.
Speaker 3: To what he was going to be so and now
Speaker 3: they're treating him. So what's that?
Speaker 1: I just love that. Yesterday my buddy, who was an
Speaker 1: insane Eagles fan, had like it was in about of
Speaker 1: depression because he's not. He goes, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: get a moment of rest because you saw what he
Speaker 1: opened the first NFL game Thursday night, Thursday night, September fourth, Eagles,
Speaker 1: cowgirl boys, excuse me, and you all hate each other?
Speaker 1: So yeah, ye, perfect, yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, So as all of us Cowboy fans in my
Speaker 10: family have been texting, well great to start the season.
Speaker 3: Oh and one maybe next year.
Speaker 1: Come on, no, no, no, you guys can upset the
Speaker 1: apple cart and each other. The two biggest fan bases
Speaker 1: in my friend group outside of the Panthers are Cowboys
Speaker 1: and Eagles family. So whenever they're playing each other, I
Speaker 1: just sit back and just the popcorn. You just watch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh, it should be fun. And you know
Speaker 3: I mentioned this last year.
Speaker 10: I've got so I kind of got a little bit
Speaker 10: now rooting for Eagles just because of uh Trotier and
Speaker 10: Chipley now.
Speaker 3: With the Eagles. But you know, we got MafA now,
Speaker 3: so we'll see if MafA makes the team, if he
Speaker 3: makes any impact.
Speaker 1: So I heard it him is gonna have six primetime
Speaker 1: games and they play in Buffalo.
Speaker 10: Did you know we're gonna We're gonna try all that again.
Speaker 3: Maybe this is our year, you know, maybe get over.
Speaker 1: The Ross is suspic he is uh superstitious that if
Speaker 1: they can't play at their normal time.
Speaker 3: It's oh so if it's not a one o'clock.
Speaker 1: It's not so it's personally an attack, that's what it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right this year? Yeah, yeah, I wish I.
Speaker 1: Wish we didn't have weather to talk about what we did?
Speaker 1: Is is there confirmation on Edgecombe County having a tornado?
Speaker 1: Did I see that?
Speaker 10: I believe there was. I know there was a warning
Speaker 10: earlier this morning. Is that the one you were talking about,
Speaker 10: where the one from Yeah, you had a warning, they
Speaker 10: wouldn't confirm it. Yeah, edge Comb, Yeah this is from yesterday.
Speaker 10: I know there was a warning this morning too, but
Speaker 10: Edgecomb did confirm your school sense of confirmed by by radar.
Speaker 10: So yeah, they'll go out and put a rating on
Speaker 10: it after they get a chance to go and look
Speaker 10: at it. But now the rain is a bigger threat
Speaker 10: through our stronger storms. A lot of it today in
Speaker 10: east out toward the outer banks. Heavy rain coming through Greenville,
Speaker 10: North Carolina right now, and up toward and heading north
Speaker 10: toward Hobgood and Scotland Neck in that direction. Some stronger
Speaker 10: storms too, might get warnings on those. There might be
Speaker 10: a little rotation in some of those storms. But I
Speaker 10: think it's all gonna stay east of ninety five, although
Speaker 10: many of us still in a flood watch from about
Speaker 10: the triangle east, more widely scattered stuff triangle back toward
Speaker 10: the west end of the triad today and tomorrow. I
Speaker 10: think toward the end of the week, CA see less
Speaker 10: of a chance of rain, still not zero, but might
Speaker 10: get a little warmer, might get a little more closer
Speaker 10: to the mid upper eighties, maybe ninety degrees, rather than
Speaker 10: these rain kind of cooled upper seventies, low eighties, which
Speaker 10: we'll have the next couple of days.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, do appreciate it, sir. We'll chat again
Speaker 1: in an hour.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 1: Coming up on the show, people are really upset at McDonald's,
Speaker 1: and not for the normal stuff like oh, the ice
Speaker 1: cream machine's not working, or my order was wrong, right, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: the racism or something or agism or it's all the
Speaker 1: isms and we'll explain next. Hang on. Oh man, some
Speaker 1: people are so weird weird with weird, weird weird that
Speaker 1: they think we don't see through all of this stuff.
Speaker 1: But before I get to that, I just wanted to
Speaker 1: mention this McDonald's story because it seemed like a really
Speaker 1: like a non story to me, seems like a non story.
Speaker 1: I wasn't I wasn't surprised. Depending on where you go,
Speaker 1: and you know, you go to New York, or you
Speaker 1: go to small town in Ohio or wherever there is
Speaker 1: already going to be San Francisco, there's going to be
Speaker 1: two varying degrees a level of security that may present
Speaker 1: at a fast food restaurant, at a big box retailer,
Speaker 1: the pharmacy, right right, Some stores you go into literally
Speaker 1: everything is locked in a glass case. But you can
Speaker 1: go to another version of that store in another community
Speaker 1: and it's not all locked up up. And for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: the media can't just the only thing that they can
Speaker 1: try to filter that through is race, right, They just like,
Speaker 1: why is it We looked at this store in this
Speaker 1: community which has a fifty percent, you know, a non
Speaker 1: white population, and then we went to this community and
Speaker 1: you know, Amish Country, Pennsylvania that has a ten percent
Speaker 1: non white population, And therefore, because the level of accessibility
Speaker 1: for the products are different, it must be inherently about race,
Speaker 1: which is really really lazy. You think an employer wants
Speaker 1: to create an employer, a company, a business owner wants
Speaker 1: to create a scenario where they're likely going to sell
Speaker 1: less product. You think that's something that they strive to do.
Speaker 1: Because I don't know about you, but I can speak
Speaker 1: from experience. Do you know many things I haven't bought
Speaker 1: because they're locked up? And I just I don't have
Speaker 1: the time. Ross you ever not bought something because it's
Speaker 1: locked up behind a glass case and you just thought
Speaker 1: you're not gonna find somebody and deal with that. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: all the time, all the time, and it gets so
Speaker 1: bad at some point where you go, Now, I'm not
Speaker 1: even going to that store, because I know if I
Speaker 1: got like I know, if I go to the Walmart
Speaker 1: right near the station, if I go into that Walmart
Speaker 1: and I want razor blades, because I made this mistake
Speaker 1: one time went up there, I'm like, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: some razor blades. It was I had some time, so
Speaker 1: I followed it through to see what happened. I went
Speaker 1: on a fetch quest like in a video game for
Speaker 1: a half hour, trying to find somebody to open this
Speaker 1: crappy piece of plastic, which, by the way, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that I could have broke open in two seconds
Speaker 1: with a quick pull in my hand so that I
Speaker 1: could pay you and have seen amount of money for
Speaker 1: something that is wildly overpriced. You know what, I will never,
Speaker 1: in my mind go if I need razors, thing to
Speaker 1: do again, go to Walmart, or at least that Walmart.
Speaker 4: There's two things I don't mess with. It's the stuff
Speaker 4: behind the plastic shielding container, and also it's the gas
Speaker 4: pump that tells me to go see the cashier.
Speaker 1: Oh, that could happen. I'm going to it. I'm just
Speaker 1: going to a different gas station or a different pump.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And so now because I know that at that Walmart,
Speaker 1: I'm not picking on that Walmart necessarily because it's damn
Speaker 1: near everyone around the North Carolina I've been in. But
Speaker 1: I just so now I'm not going to go there
Speaker 1: if I need that, Whereas in the past if I
Speaker 1: needed to pick up a couple things. It's never a
Speaker 1: couple things, is it. You go in there and you're like,
Speaker 1: all right, I got the razor blades and the ibuprof
Speaker 1: and I wanted and why do I have a thing
Speaker 1: of chocolate Halloween candy chocolate that's fifty percent off? And
Speaker 1: I bought some juice, and then they had this thing
Speaker 1: over here, and I need beef jerky because we all
Speaker 1: need beef jerky. And now I just spend fifty dollars
Speaker 1: at your store. So nobody's setting out to create a
Speaker 1: scenario where it's less successible unless they have to, and
Speaker 1: they're sure as hell not doing it as a major
Speaker 1: conglomerate so that they can essentially be clan members. Yet
Speaker 1: that's what people are alleging up in Virginia over this McDonald.
Speaker 9: This video obtained by News for shows the melee inside
Speaker 9: of this Fairfax County McDonald's last week. The location is
Speaker 9: right down the street from Thomas Edison High School in
Speaker 9: the Franconia neighborhood.
Speaker 1: These kids are off the chain.
Speaker 11: They had no respect, no discipline, and it seem like
Speaker 11: how they acted their parents allowed.
Speaker 1: Them to add well, by the way, that woman obviously
Speaker 1: clearly an evil, white racist woman, no doubt. Oh man,
Speaker 1: When you watch the video, you're like, Wow, that is
Speaker 1: the whitest racist woman ever ever. And she's like, nah,
Speaker 1: this is a problem. This is a problem.
Speaker 9: Inside tell us, young people, including some from Thomas Edison,
Speaker 9: can be seen fighting, heard cursing, and standing on tables
Speaker 9: in the video. Managers of the McDonald's say those actions
Speaker 9: and other similar incidents led to a new policy and
Speaker 9: this sign on the front door on Monday, reading quote,
Speaker 9: due to repeated incidents of student violence, the location is
Speaker 9: temporarily closed for dinah and service to anyone under twenty
Speaker 9: one years of age.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, right, malls a lot of places doing this,
Speaker 1: and again it's not just a racial component thing. But
Speaker 1: because in this particular area, that high school is a
Speaker 1: predominant well I don't know if it's predominantly black, but
Speaker 1: it's predominantly a minority high school. Their their assumption is
Speaker 1: this is kids have acted like a holes in businesses
Speaker 1: from the dawn of time, regardless of skin color. The
Speaker 1: thing the difference is in some areas it is so compound,
Speaker 1: it's so rampant, and the incidents have been so so
Speaker 1: atrocious that the company then has to think about it
Speaker 1: outside of the realm of just being a nuisance, but
Speaker 1: being a potential liability, right because if somebody comes in
Speaker 1: there and and an altercation breaks out and you have
Speaker 1: one of those giant fifty person melees, there's lawyers lining
Speaker 1: up to sue McDonald's for not providing security. Fast food
Speaker 1: restaurants have been provided who have have been sued for
Speaker 1: not providing security and have lost because they inherently should
Speaker 1: have known that this was dangerous. Why do you think
Speaker 1: when you go there's some late night eating options, right, Like,
Speaker 1: I hop and I don't know if waffle houses are
Speaker 1: doing it? Yeah, how many videos you've seen over at
Speaker 1: a waffle house? They just had another crazy one the
Speaker 1: other day. But like you go to like the Iye
Speaker 1: hoop on Capitol has a security guard in it. I
Speaker 1: don't know if they still do, but I remember eating
Speaker 1: there one time before the show and I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: what's been happening in here? Man got a security guard
Speaker 1: in there. So the McDonald's is sitting there and they're
Speaker 1: having to decide whether they stay, whether they literally stay
Speaker 1: in business, or if they can mitigate it so that
Speaker 1: they can still serve customers there. That's all that they're
Speaker 1: trying to do. Man, McDonald's doesn't give too It's somebody,
Speaker 1: some higher up who made this call in concert. I'm
Speaker 1: sure with whoever the franchise he is, who probably had
Speaker 1: to get this cleared through McDonald's corporate right. It's not
Speaker 1: the first phone call they've had about this stuff.
Speaker 11: Ye'ah smoking, y'all, drinking, y'all customer, come.
Speaker 1: On, y'o Like, come on.
Speaker 9: Stacy says she along with her grandkids stop by the
Speaker 9: Golden Arches location in the past and saw a group
Speaker 9: of young people disrupting other customers inside. She says she's
Speaker 9: okay with the new rule.
Speaker 11: I understand where they coming from because that's turning customers away.
Speaker 11: If you hear you acting up, they losing a business.
Speaker 9: Management says adult age twenty one and up can still
Speaker 9: enjoy their Big Max and Happy meals inside. It may
Speaker 9: be asked to show their ID to get service. Customers
Speaker 9: need to bring the doorbell and a team member will
Speaker 9: let you inside.
Speaker 1: This McDonald's. I would have never expected it.
Speaker 9: Other customers like Bridget say she hopes young people understand
Speaker 9: that their actions have consequences.
Speaker 5: The company is to be a safe establishment for families
Speaker 5: to enjoy their foods.
Speaker 1: Young people.
Speaker 5: We can't just you know, we want to take that
Speaker 5: energy and redirect it.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I will say this too, what
Speaker 1: an exceptionally I think balanced piece of local media reporting
Speaker 1: who clearly hadn't jumped on this train of their doing
Speaker 1: it because but social media is on that train and
Speaker 1: it's just going to keep getting worse. Did you see
Speaker 1: the number of melees that we had on Mother's Day
Speaker 1: just in North Carolina? So so two people are under
Speaker 1: arrest because somebody wanted to shoot up Big EDGs. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say that because it's Big Eggs restaurant. Who have
Speaker 1: you been to Big Eggs? Who's shooting anybody at Big Eggs.
Speaker 1: The only thing you should take away from Big EDGs
Speaker 1: is if you get and I recommend the smoke sausage
Speaker 1: with the oh yeah, I really like that. That that
Speaker 1: smoke sausage that they have there Big Old Breakfast. They're heartburn.
Speaker 1: That should be your takeaway from Big Ads. It's so
Speaker 1: good though. I love me some Big Ads man. And
Speaker 1: I don't even have to go downtown because I got
Speaker 1: the one at quel Holo now, except it's closed for
Speaker 1: a couple of days because people could not get in
Speaker 1: a gunfight. And then the g ced the Golden Corral
Speaker 1: in Greensboro, there's a there's like three women going full
Speaker 1: battle royale in the little entry you know the door
Speaker 1: the first story, come in and there's that little pause
Speaker 1: area and then you go in the main one. Actually
Speaker 1: walk into the restaurant. They're having a they're having a
Speaker 1: full on battle royale cage match in that thing, and
Speaker 1: it looks like there's old mom, middle mom, and a
Speaker 1: young mom and I don't know who's winning. Also, it's
Speaker 1: sometimes hard to tell which is which because it's just
Speaker 1: it's just crazy. There's video I retweeted at Casey on
Speaker 1: the radio. How do you not go? What are you
Speaker 1: beating each other up at Golden Corral? Over? Is there
Speaker 1: an acceptable moment at Golden Corral to strike another patron?
Speaker 1: I mean, think about the stuff that people do at
Speaker 1: a buffet, thing like that, their kids sticking their nasty
Speaker 1: fingers and chocolate water fountains and stuff. And still you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be hitting people. But now they're going and it's
Speaker 1: in its mother's day. This is how you get This
Speaker 1: is how you end up with a door bell at McDonald's, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, the team member probably wants less to
Speaker 1: deal with it than you. I want to come back
Speaker 1: from the counter. I'm not, but I kind of am.
Speaker 1: People will work overnight at McDonald's. They're not necessarily the
Speaker 1: most outgoing individuals, and that's okay. I don't want to
Speaker 1: deal with people who are drunk at two or three
Speaker 1: in the morning. Like I understand why they gird their
Speaker 1: loins when the bars closed and people come in. That
Speaker 1: being said, like this is this is inevitable when you
Speaker 1: keep having problems, all right, eight eight eight nine three
Speaker 1: four seven eight seven four If you want to, I
Speaker 1: get on the show. So yes, McDonald's with a doorbell
Speaker 1: has offended people. And uh and I got to watch
Speaker 1: fight videos from like Big Ads, which I love eating
Speaker 1: the Big Ads. And Golden Corral is good too. Ross
Speaker 1: you guys, You guys got a Golden Corral up by
Speaker 1: your house. It's big and fancy and new. Right, No, no, wait,
Speaker 1: which one did you have the We had one. It
Speaker 1: closed during COVID. Oh it never reopened. I thought it
Speaker 1: reopened up there. Oh oh no, I'm sorry man, Well,
Speaker 1: we need to get a petition or something. Do you
Speaker 1: have any buffet over up there now? Other than that,
Speaker 1: there's probably like a Chinese buffet. Oh no, all right, Well,
Speaker 1: when they put that toll road in, I'm sure that'll
Speaker 1: help spring it forward, all right, eight to eighteen? Hang on,
Speaker 1: So the age thing isn't working out, So now we're
Speaker 1: onto the toilet paper shortage. By the way, as long
Speaker 1: as newspapers keep printing, there's never a toilet paper shortage,
Speaker 1: not in this country, not at all. It's not just
Speaker 1: for your pets. Although if it was for your pets,
Speaker 1: fifty six percent of you or crazy man, I saw
Speaker 1: this stat. Are you ready for this? Fifty six percent
Speaker 1: of pet owners would cut their own live short to
Speaker 1: extend their pets. Really, you think that cat is just
Speaker 1: sitting around to eat you. If you ever slip and
Speaker 1: fall in the tub and can't hit your life alert
Speaker 1: fast enough, you think that cat would give few years
Speaker 1: of its life. And they got nine of them. Who's
Speaker 1: doing that?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 1: They say stuff like this, but I don't believe them.
Speaker 1: Right if you if you're to sit there, there's a
Speaker 1: little machine where you're attached to it, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's like the thing in the pit of despair, right,
Speaker 1: and you get the little head thing on right, and
Speaker 1: they're like, all right, we're gonna take five years off
Speaker 1: your life and we're gonna give it to the uh
Speaker 1: to you know, fighto over there or mister plastic eater cat.
Speaker 1: And then they're like, all right, you ready to do this.
Speaker 1: Everyone's like yeah, I would totally do that, would you.
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: And they say the same thing like, listen, I understand
Speaker 1: you love your pets.
Speaker 12: We do.
Speaker 4: We love our cats. But people are like, oh, they're
Speaker 4: like our children. Well, if there was the ultimate test,
Speaker 4: and Heaven forbid, you wouldn't want it. But your house
Speaker 4: is on fire and your kid is in there, and
Speaker 4: your pet is in there, and you can only rescue one.
Speaker 4: Which one are you picking?
Speaker 1: Does the does the dog fetch beers from the fridge?
Speaker 6: For me?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's like, what was that mccaullay culkin
Speaker 1: movie where the final scene is the good son?
Speaker 12: Right?
Speaker 1: Do you remember that movie?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Oh, so they had this mccau when he was still
Speaker 1: somewhat young and not you know, I had not gone
Speaker 1: full older mccaullay Culkin, except he was Kevin McAllister, but
Speaker 1: like satanic Kevin McAllister.
Speaker 4: Oh, I think I might remember that. I kind of
Speaker 4: like tuned out of McCauley culkin movies after he was
Speaker 4: murdered by the bees.
Speaker 1: He was Wow, spoiler alert. Come on, don I'm not
Speaker 1: risking that again.
Speaker 4: You're watching like a random mccaullay culkin movie years later,
Speaker 4: and it's like he's sitting there and murdered by moss
Speaker 4: or something stupid, like, I'm not taking a chance on
Speaker 4: that again.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, but what would you say, is a more
Speaker 1: formidable adversary the wet bandits or bees pribe bees? Yeah,
Speaker 1: sounds like it. No, so in this movie, I can't
Speaker 1: remember if I think he's the actual son of the woman,
Speaker 1: and I can't remember the other kid comes from, like
Speaker 1: is it a opted kid or whatever, But Macaulay Culkin's
Speaker 1: just evil. And then the climactic scene is she's got
Speaker 1: her hands, she's got to reach for one. They're both
Speaker 1: hanging off a cliff. So it kind of a Sophie's
Speaker 1: choice thing, but there's not really a choice. You're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: let that little bastard die. He's just gonna get killed
Speaker 1: by bees in a few minutes. Anyway, So you probably
Speaker 1: heard this too. There are people concerned that AI, and
Speaker 1: there are already people like this that exist. I remember
Speaker 1: doing a story that if the the better it gets,
Speaker 1: the more likely that people may start to give it,
Speaker 1: to deify it, treat it as some sort of deity,
Speaker 1: which I guess I can understand how people get there, right, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, there's some you go back far enough,
Speaker 1: there's there's all sorts of people just randomly deciding that
Speaker 1: something's something they're gonna worship. AI is just a little
Speaker 1: more inactive. I heard golden calves are popular. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it was uh something I heard, But in this case,
Speaker 1: like I've seen that, and that isn't actual concern because
Speaker 1: people are sheep man, You're like, you don't have to
Speaker 1: be an AI that just figured out how to not
Speaker 1: like deny the Holocaust with you're random programming to influence people.
Speaker 1: Some of those conversations are downright creepy. Why do I
Speaker 1: point this out? Okay, I point this out because one
Speaker 1: of the people are using AI as fortune telling machines now,
Speaker 1: which is which is a very interesting thing actually, because
Speaker 1: if you ask an AI a AI fortune teller thing,
Speaker 1: whatever you'd call it, I don't I don't know what
Speaker 1: you'd call it be I guess you could just resurrect
Speaker 1: Miss Cleo for it, right, and you ask it a
Speaker 1: question to like, hey, uh, what do you think do
Speaker 1: you think that my relationship will be successful with this person? Like,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of love questions you generally
Speaker 1: see in a movie when so I've never been to
Speaker 1: a fort. Has you ever been to a fortune teller?
Speaker 1: You're even just for to see how that goes, like
Speaker 1: an affair or something. I was always creeped out by it,
Speaker 1: so I never have, like the tarot cards and stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't know. My mom thought this Smurfs were satanic,
Speaker 1: so we couldn't watch it. So tarot cards was out,
Speaker 1: Oigi boards out, man, and there's a lot of discussion
Speaker 1: about using tarot cards and Ouigi boards as spiritually opening
Speaker 1: yourself up. So that's a whole nother discussion. So, uh,
Speaker 1: there's a story about Greek fortune, a lady who's Greek,
Speaker 1: who is just one example of people that are using
Speaker 1: chat GPT to tell their fortunes. What a what a
Speaker 1: crazy tool you could manipulate by the way right there, Like,
Speaker 1: what's somebody asking like if it was wholescale large enough,
Speaker 1: you can manipulate currency with that. If I just could
Speaker 1: put on my you know, my doctor evil had for
Speaker 1: a moment and chat GPT told him or that her
Speaker 1: husband was cheating, and so she just divorced them. She
Speaker 1: filed for divorce. You know it read the coffee grounds, right,
Speaker 1: it read the coffee grounds. Yes, correct. They posted a
Speaker 1: photo of coffee grounds and used it to read her
Speaker 1: future surrounding her husband's whether he was being faithful or not.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he was or he wasn't, but
Speaker 1: it seemed like once chat GPT said nope, that's what
Speaker 1: the coffee grounds say, they signed off on it. But
Speaker 1: here's the thing. A chat GPT. Also if it has
Speaker 1: a you know, if it has enough information not about
Speaker 1: the coffee grounds anymore, maybe chat GPT and I don't
Speaker 1: know in this scenario, could find photos or messages that
Speaker 1: are online that it had access to that maybe the
Speaker 1: wife didn't find because the mistress posted some stuff on
Speaker 1: Facebook thinking she was being because the wife's blocked. Right, well,
Speaker 1: is chat GPT telling your future at that point, or
Speaker 1: you know, asking for the psychic intervention or is it
Speaker 1: using available data points to arrive at it. What's crazy
Speaker 1: about this is it's reading coffee.
Speaker 4: Grounds, right, So if you program it to be like,
Speaker 4: you know, read tarot cards or read proms or something,
Speaker 4: I mean that's not exactly science. Yeah, whatever you you
Speaker 4: you load into it, it's going to be like all right,
Speaker 4: well I'm going to produce an answer for that. So
Speaker 4: maybe it is an expert quote reading coffee grounds. But
Speaker 4: to the voice, she just printed out, like you know,
Speaker 4: she she got the results, printed out the divorce papers
Speaker 4: and served them.
Speaker 1: She's like, yeah, we're getting divorced. Yeah, story, that's nuts.
Speaker 1: That's just crazy, man. I feel like she wanted a divorce, right,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking the relationship probably wasn't that great to begin with, right, right,
Speaker 1: But also you get this scenario that I laid out
Speaker 1: where you ask chat cheepage, is my husband cheating on me?
Speaker 1: And and you do it from a psychic standpoint. But
Speaker 1: but it's able to see social media accounts that the
Speaker 1: wife may be blocked on and then put two and
Speaker 1: two together because it can you know, you know, start
Speaker 1: to process that information. So in a way it kind
Speaker 1: of provides you an answer which is seemingly accurate. But
Speaker 1: the coffee grounds thing was a whole twist. This is like, uh,
Speaker 1: this is ros you ever talked to a woman before
Speaker 1: you were married? And uh, and the the astrology thing
Speaker 1: came up. Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I've known people that were like super into astrology
Speaker 4: and I'm like, I'm not, I guess.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but have you seen people that allow it to
Speaker 1: make it as Yeah?
Speaker 6: I have?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I said, I dated a witch when I was
Speaker 4: at ome was She was a straight up witch. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and she worked in like the witch store in the
Speaker 4: mall there.
Speaker 2: Was this was what.
Speaker 1: It was like a weird witch store. I don't even
Speaker 1: remember what it was clear what mall was this?
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, the one and there was one in Omaha
Speaker 4: and it was like this little like corner store you'd
Speaker 4: walk in into. Just imagine what you think would be
Speaker 4: in like a witch store. Like it had like books
Speaker 4: of spells and yeah, lots of different witch ca Yeah,
Speaker 4: lots of different candles and stupid crystals and stones and
Speaker 4: you know, like you know, you know, I don't know spiders,
Speaker 4: I don't know what the hell they sold, but you
Speaker 4: know it's like a witch store. That's what I'm sure
Speaker 4: it's not. There's no way it's still in business.
Speaker 1: Wait, so how did you meet her? Were you in
Speaker 1: the witch store?
Speaker 4: Rich part time at the radio station. She was actually
Speaker 4: the producer for the talk show there, and I worked
Speaker 4: next door doing nights in the top forty station.
Speaker 1: We can have a witch produced this show. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: want to get rid of you, but like.
Speaker 4: I don't know that's that could be bad, dude, because
Speaker 4: like you piss them off, they're going to curse you.
Speaker 1: Well, I was just going to ask how did your
Speaker 1: relationship end? Not well? Not well, did you get like
Speaker 1: you're crazy because you're you're a witch? I mean, were
Speaker 1: you a little nervous after you? Remember these looted? There
Speaker 1: were casting spells on Trump every election?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they said they're going to the witches were trying
Speaker 4: to curse Trump, and they were saying their curses were
Speaker 4: bouncing back, and the theory was Trump was using stronger witches.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which, hey, that's what you do, man, that's a
Speaker 1: that's business, right, They got attorneys, You get better attorneys, right,
Speaker 1: you got they got somebody as ruthless as deals. You
Speaker 1: get your own ruthless deals. Got they got witches coming
Speaker 1: after you.
Speaker 2: I do it.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 1: I don't want to look up the audio because we're
Speaker 1: total I remember that. I remember because somebody was like
Speaker 1: frantic on social media updating pointing out that the they're
Speaker 1: they're the juju's bouncing back because Trump's got stronger witches.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was a fun story to cover right there, man.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Yeah, I don't know if I would ask
Speaker 1: chat GTP if your spouse is cheating on you by
Speaker 1: interpreting coffee grounds and then immediately go file divorce papers,
Speaker 1: which chat GTP can create for you too. So I
Speaker 1: guess a one stop destruction of the family unit.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 1: But some people are really really into this stuff, So
Speaker 1: I don't know. We got raced agic round and I
Speaker 1: got some questions for that man got some questions for
Speaker 1: some very important stuff. All right, let me know when
Speaker 1: he's ready, because let's play while we wait for him.
Speaker 1: I found the old witch's audio. Fo yeah, okay, amazing
Speaker 1: is on my button bar, hanging hang on, hang out,
Speaker 1: that flipped over to something else. All right, hold on,
Speaker 1: witch audio, let's do this thing.
Speaker 12: Here we go, friends, and a special hello to all
Speaker 12: the witches out there that are doing magical work to
Speaker 12: protect protesters and you know X white supremacy. A word
Speaker 12: of warning, so I mentioned in one of my videos
Speaker 12: last night that you're kidding yourself if you don't think
Speaker 12: that the other side has people doing magical work for them,
Speaker 12: because a lot of people that have been doing spell
Speaker 12: work have felt pushback. I got my ass handed to
Speaker 12: me last night. So as you can see, all the
Speaker 12: candles are burning pretty well. Now that doesn't really have
Speaker 12: much bearing on the spell. But when I did these two,
Speaker 12: this one was for protection and then this one was
Speaker 12: for a call for change and road opening. Both of those,
Speaker 12: when I did the energy release and I lit the candle,
Speaker 12: they landed super well. But when I did this one,
Speaker 12: which is the hex for the guilty parties, it was
Speaker 12: like running headlong into a brick wall. I instantly got
Speaker 12: slapped at the migraine, and I woke up this morning
Speaker 12: feeling like I'd been hit by a car. Whoever is
Speaker 12: doing this work for the other side, it is a
Speaker 12: group of people that are very powerful, practicing magic that's
Speaker 12: very old.
Speaker 1: Be careful. Yeah, so yeah, all right, let me grab
Speaker 1: a quick call Steve. I got about a minute. What's up, hello, Steve.
Speaker 13: Race Hey, good, good afternoon or good morning fellas. Yeah,
Speaker 13: all of a sudden civilized behavior in Riley at the restaurants.
Speaker 13: They might want to adopt what I saw in Memphis
Speaker 13: at a barbecue place. Oh the wait step open carry.
Speaker 13: They had big old forty fives. I'll yeah, everybody mind
Speaker 13: their p's and ques.
Speaker 1: I bet that was some good barbecue too, wasn't it.
Speaker 13: Yeah, the barbecues overrated.
Speaker 1: Well I'm not talking about competitively, I'm talking about within
Speaker 1: the Memphis division of barbecue. If you're willing to full,
Speaker 1: if you're willing to go full militia and in your
Speaker 1: own restaurant and people are still willing to go there,
Speaker 1: you probably got some pretty good barbecue, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 13: You got to fight it, to fight yeah, that's about
Speaker 13: two cents.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for the call there, sir. Look, sometimes some
Speaker 1: places are a little rougher than others. All right, mister
Speaker 1: ray st agent, he knows those places. He used to so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we know it, right, Yeah, I had some
Speaker 3: good barbecue this week.
Speaker 1: Actually, well, do you want to start a fight? Where
Speaker 1: did you have good barbecue?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: No, I don't want to start a fight smoking pig?
Speaker 1: Where is that?
Speaker 3: Pretty good?
Speaker 10: In Clemson Penalty, South Carolina, there's a fewer bustard style.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I did have.
Speaker 10: I mixed it up when with the hot and I
Speaker 10: did a little mustard style thinking of you.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm not right, bro Hey, very important, yeah, very important.
Speaker 1: Thursday PGA Championship yep. Well hollow Charlotte, Charlotte, yep. So
Speaker 1: don't stood this up for those you know in the
Speaker 1: audience or wherever they might want to go down and
Speaker 1: spend a day in one of the boxes drinking some beer. Okay,
Speaker 1: don't screw this up.
Speaker 10: B Yeah, Well, there's been a bunch of heavy rain.
Speaker 10: Didn't let anybody on the golf course yesterday.
Speaker 3: Today they will.
Speaker 10: But still showers, thundershowers scattered around. I really think later
Speaker 10: in the week, it's going to be a better fore kiss,
Speaker 10: I'm not gonna say zero chance of rain, but certainly
Speaker 10: not like we're seeing now to the east of the
Speaker 10: triangle with some heavy rain flood watch. But that's all
Speaker 10: pulling away too, So I think scattered stuff here today,
Speaker 10: temperatures mid upper seventies, Tomorrow more the same, and then
Speaker 10: Thursday Friday less if a chance of rain and temperatures
Speaker 10: go up to the mid to upper eighties. So I
Speaker 10: really think rain chance is less for Thursday, Friday and
Speaker 10: even into the upcoming weekend for golf over and Charlotte too,
Speaker 10: So it becomes the scattered stuff over the next several days.
Speaker 10: I mean, it's not gonna rain, may not get a
Speaker 10: downpour or strong storm, but I do think the trend
Speaker 10: will before less coverage, meaning like we're seeing this morning,
Speaker 10: got this big batch of rain raining for hours to
Speaker 10: our east and out near the outer banks. But I
Speaker 10: don't think we're gonna see that. It'll be more scattered
Speaker 10: stuff at the rain, it'll be over with and then
Speaker 10: you'll be able to get back outside unless it rains again.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, that's like I said, I'm just giving you time
Speaker 1: to work on it so now that you're yep at it, Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you, we'll do We'll come back with Jeff Bellinger decks.
Speaker 14: Bogod morning, Casey. This report, by the way, sponsored by
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Speaker 14: as much as expected last month. The government just reported
Speaker 14: the Consumer Price Index, which tracks retail level inflation, was
Speaker 14: up two tenths percent in April. The core CPI was
Speaker 14: also up two tenths percent. That omits volatile food and
Speaker 14: energy costs. The year over year jump in the CPI
Speaker 14: was two point three percent. That was the smallest since
Speaker 14: February of twenty twenty one. Stock market futures mix this morning,
Speaker 14: S and P and n ASDAC futures modestly higher. Now
Speaker 14: futures are down one hundred and sixty four points after
Speaker 14: the big rally we saw yesterday. The nation has a
Speaker 14: severe shortage of air traffic controllers. Recruiting is tougher than
Speaker 14: it's ever been. Controllers don't need college degrees and the
Speaker 14: pay can run well into six figures, but the job
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Speaker 14: are even accepted into the training program, and a third
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Speaker 14: high stressed job can lead to burnout and controllers leaving
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Speaker 14: the help wanted signs. The fast food company and its
Speaker 14: franchises looking to hire about three hundred seventy five thousand
Speaker 14: workers this summer. It is McDonald's biggest hiring spree in years.
Speaker 14: The company says these jobs being offered are not intended
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Speaker 14: twenty five percent lighter than the S twenty five Ultra.
Speaker 14: This new device is priced at one thousand, ninety nine dollars.
Speaker 14: It will be available May thirtieth. It's going to be
Speaker 14: a few months before we see a thin version of
Speaker 14: Apple's iPhone seventeen on the market. And Case, the world's
Speaker 14: biggest cinema chain looking to fill some theater seats at midweek.
Speaker 14: AMC Entertainment will slash its movie ticket prices in half
Speaker 14: every Wednesday, and that begins July ninth.
Speaker 1: Casey Okay is that for all shows or just during
Speaker 1: the day when everyone's at work.
Speaker 14: No, I believe that is all day Wednesday.
Speaker 3: All right, well there you go.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you much, Jeff. Do appreciate it having
Speaker 1: it give you a chance to go see Cinners? Maybe
Speaker 1: I do want to see it. I love those kind
Speaker 1: of movies, so but I will, all right, all right,
Speaker 1: thank you, Jeff. Yep, all right.
Speaker 4: So I went to Google, oh no, because I wasn't
Speaker 4: going crazy, and it put in Omaha witch Store and
Speaker 4: next Millennium Books and Gifts. Uh, they have an array
Speaker 4: of crystals, oils, books, tear cards, and more, the Conjure Shop,
Speaker 4: Solstice in the Veil, and Magical. They have four witch
Speaker 4: shops in Omaha?
Speaker 1: WHOA, what's going on in Omaha? They have four? Do
Speaker 1: they have four witch shops in the triad or triangle combined?
Speaker 3: Even?
Speaker 1: I don't even I'm sure there's a witch store somewhere
Speaker 1: I just was, but four of them in Omaha, and
Speaker 1: Omaha is not nearly as large as a triad or triangle?
Speaker 1: Are there that many witches that they need? By the way,
Speaker 1: if you run a witch store and you have three
Speaker 1: other competitors, I'm assuming, I'm assuming all you're doing all
Speaker 1: day is cursing your competitors. You know you have to, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you want to, you know, if you're a good
Speaker 1: business owner. Yeah. How'd you not pick up on the
Speaker 1: fact that chick was a witch? I didn't know. I
Speaker 1: mean was young and dumb and hey, girls, thought.
Speaker 4: Was a fellow radio person, you know, co worker. But
Speaker 4: it was very apparent upon entering their apartment. I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 4: you're insane, you're a witch, but we're here, so what
Speaker 4: does that mean? Anyway, it didn't work out because she
Speaker 4: was a witch.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, but after the breakup everything was fine, right,
Speaker 1: Maybe it broke out and boils. You didn't You didn't
Speaker 1: have like sharp pains and parts of your body over over?
Speaker 1: Why do you have a doll of it? Like there's
Speaker 1: pins going into me?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I wonder if that urns doll you have with the
Speaker 1: demon voice. It's not it's not demonic. It does, but
Speaker 1: it sounds so like if he was still alive, because
Speaker 1: it maybe it's a voodoo doll. Well where did your
Speaker 1: wife acquire? What state? Uh, Louisiana? Oh wow, m do
Speaker 1: you think they have any witch or voodoo stores in Louisiana?
Speaker 1: Can we check.
Speaker 4: I'm bringing you in tomorrow just because i know I'm
Speaker 4: gonna be safe, but hopefully it'll curse you.
Speaker 1: Okay, whatever, whatever, no, no, no, no, it's what. It's
Speaker 1: immensely cool. But to the the way that the audio
Speaker 1: works now because it's sold is a little disconcerting. Ernest
Speaker 1: goes to the radio station, can't wait.