Tuesday-4-9-2024

Episode Transcript

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Hm, Well, there was thepossibility we weren't going to be here because
you know, and was nigh,and it was a conspiracy to not let
Yukon win again. That was thelamest conspiracy I think I saw on Twitter.

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You know, they handled their businesspretty if you were if you were
paying enough attention to really break downhow teams were going about winning. Right
if if you're that plugged in watchingwhat Purdue did yesterday and what you know

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Yukon matched it with, you know, just say it looked like one of
those things where that looked like apretty good way to handle it, or
attempt to handle it. And basicallyit was the big dude in the middle
who likes to party I guess withhot co eds, which I'm hearing that's

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the thing among athletes in college,so look it up AnyWho. You know.
Basically, they said, all right, let big dude eat. Even
if he puts up forty and weshut down outside shooters, we win.
And that's that's basically what worked.I think he had thirty seven, Purdue

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managed one, one three pointer andthat was the end of them. So
there you go. College basketball inthe books. Now we can turn all
of our attention to his baseball andhockey man, get on with this thing.
Yeah yeah, yeah, I knowyou got NBA stuff and all that,

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but baseball hockey at least uh,at least around these parts. Although
the Twins did get slacked by theRoyals, like eleven nothing yesterday or twelve
nothing the other day, not yesterday, it was a few days ago.
So I don't know, maybe i'lluh pick up a new sport route for

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that, Like I don't know,watching uh watching the cell phones on the
view. Oh yeah, oh,we got we got that coming for you.
That's that's gonna be on the showtoday. Let's see. I saw

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something. Oh yeah, here wego. I saw said this morning that
just just hit me and and andI think it's gonna hit you too.
Wait when again, you see howblatant the corruption is? Oh? Why

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yes, it is in the stateof Illinois. And it has to do
with a what do they call herthe I've heard worst mayor in America?
But what were they calling her?Super mayor? That's right? Well were
they weren't calling her that? Shewas calling herself that. So if you

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don't know who the super mayor,Tiffany Hainard is, or have read anything
about this woman. It's bonkers.Now it's alleged, but this mayor and

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the expenditures that I again, Idon't know how you justify them. This
is not a large community in thegreater Chicago area Dalton. Honestly, I
don't even know if I could findit on a map. But I do
know that reading the stories about whatthis woman's accused of doing is is just

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crazy. Now she's going to beout the village board and then let's see
here, investigators, federal prosecutors,you name it. I have all weighed
in on this, and seemingly thereis not a lot of interest, even
though you can sit here and youcan look at the accusations against this mayor,

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like tax funded economic development trips toVegas where they just blew it out,
a series a series of SUVs,high security SUVs, which are not
something a small community is typically spendingon COVID nineteen relief funds that just didn't

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make it to where they're supposed to. There's accusations of going know bypassing the
bid process for different different jobs,and there's a couple of different ways that
people will do it. A lotof towns have a a bid requirement once

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you hit a certain dollar amount.So one of the ways that public officials
in the past, it's seen attemptto squirt skirt this is they break the
job up right, so instead ofthis job that is five thousand dollars and
maybe the threshold's twenty five hundred orwhatever, they may break it up into

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three different things and yeah, it'sit's one of the popular ways. Or
they will simply overpay the vendors.So friends will come, you know,
friends or people who are wink wink, nod, nod. They'll put in
a lower bid and then they willexercise a flex which can be built into

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these contracts or emergency spending powers thata mayor may have to sweeten the pot.
And look, there's death by athousand cuts here. And if you
read and you read about even theresolution that the tad that the village board
had to come to when they learnedof serious sexual assault allegations made against the

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former mayor while they were in Vegas, it's just there's so much going on
here, and what is it turnedinto. It's turned into if somebody says
something, they're attacking her because she'sa strong black woman who's in a position
in a power and maga country inand around Chicago can't handle it. They

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can't handle it. They can't handlethe overt racism when people are going,
where's all the town's money? Allright? So all of these allegations are
out there. Obviously the board thingsthat something's up. So what the city
needed to do is they needed tobring in an impartial investigator to get to

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the bottom of this. Remember theydid this with the Juicy smole a stuff,
right, They want to get tothe bottom of it, specifically as
it pertained to a couple of theprosecutors there, all right, So who
do you think they brought in?This is the whole reason for the long
setup, even if you just knewa little about this mayor. Who do

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you think that the yesterday the DaltonVillage Board has brought in to be the
official investigator and arbiter of whether they'remayor who is accused of being corrupt about
twenty seven different ways, if infact that is the case. And remember

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what I told you, feels veryconvenient who they brought in? So with
that, am I ross you havenot seen this story? Would you like
to guess who will be investigating themost corrupt mayor that I've heard about in
a while, allegedly. I rememberthe state of Illinois. State of Illinois

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very important. Are you guys ready, ready, ready, ready, LORI
Lightfoot, Yes, that's right,the former mayor of Chicago until she was
thrown out for not being corrupt enough. I guess right. Remember it was
the Teachers' union who ended up runningher for somebody who seems far crazier but

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is more than willing to stroke thecheck. Yes, that's right, Lightfoot,
who was an attorney prior to herterm as Chicago mayor, a former
federal prosecutor, lost her bid fora second term last year, but has
now accepted the position at her standardlegal rate of four hundred per hour.

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She wanted to do this for quoteher minimum minimum rate. And then she
will now probe Hainard and see ifanything's up. And I'm not saying that
there's a bunch of girl power picturesof them at like mayor's conferences and stuff,
but you know those exist, soh every single day. And meanwhile,

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while all of this perceived corruption,I'll let you decide whether it's actual
corruption. I tend to think thata lot of it is we'll let you,
you know, we'll let you ponderwhat that could mean for her future
and the the thoroughness and speed ofLightfoot's investigation all the while. The meltdowns

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that took place yesterday on MSNBC,CNN and online after a certain rumor started
to swirl just shows you the rankhypocrisy of all of this. We'll get
that story for you. Senator TedBudds joining us this morning. So that's
the thing that'll be at eight ohsix, So ready yourself for that.

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We have FISA stuff. We got, like I said, the freak out
and we got to get into alittle Coastguard news here and then yeah,
I'll share with you what the rumoris. We'll do that next here on
the CaCO Day radio program. Andyes, yes, yes, we did
not have the end of the worldyesterday. What we did have is traffic

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jams, people screaming at each other, people stopped on the highway, people
doing TikTok dances, and airplanes isunfortunately a thing. They were all excited.
They run some flight where they gotto see stuff. Uh and uh,
about one hundred articles this morning tellingpeople, hey, if you can't

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see anything stupid. Uh, maybeyou know you shouldn't have done the thing
yesterday. It sounds like one ofthose things where you gotta test the theory,
like what your mom said, yourface is gonna stick that way.
Some people are just I'm gonna lookat the farm. Good lights. That's
why we have these stories. Doochewith nothing you protect bisi lights, look

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up a douche nothing you protect bylies, look black a douche. Wait
how bad could some a cardboard cutoutcould out smart being right? I help
people found out him some with thetrips fall and fat tell the chapars and

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I had to be the chunk whohad no special grass father from the stonar
I wheels. I wasn't over myheadache. Kids was brought out. It
was very a please in my rasof the stream. It was like corny
a crash through the crowd. Mycordis cry through the world man most time

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her bi bis looked up like adouche with nothing to protect. My eyes
blinded by the lights. Looked uplike a douche with nothing you protect My
eyes finded by the lights, lookup like a noose with nothing you put
by blind pig of ds look uplike a douche built in Jupi jupus.

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All right, there you go.So and in fact, what was the
number I saw? During the lastAugust twenty seventeen, more than twelve hundred
people reported some sort of injury thatthey had to escalate, likely due to
staring at the sun. And ithurts. I've never steered at the sun

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and gotten hurt, but I've hadI've had the snow blindness, really bad
ones. Just you know, outthere, you don't think of it.
With the reflective power of that snowman, sometimes we'll just get you. And
we we were hunting over two days, we're doing a lot of walking,

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lot of glass ing, and bythe second day, ma'am, I just
in front of my face just burned. So I just I held it up
in the cabin the next day.But yeah, there's it's a fair amount
of folks who didn't listen. Sothere you go. You made it through
the eclipse. Unfortunately, if youwere one of these folks, who would

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you know already given your stuff awayand we're just waiting for the I guess
the comet to fly by or whatever. You're gonna be a little disappointed.
But you may not be totally outof luck yet. Yeah, if you
need a good doomsday thing to buckleinto, I gotta tell you they have

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over delivered over at CBS News.So we'll have that story for you coming
up. And it's a dues,so don't miss out, all right.
So what are MSNBC, CNN andothers flipping out over this morning? Well,
that, my friends, would bethe little rumor about who Donald Trump

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may likely pick as his attorney generalschedule really was some show prep. I
was reading part of a part ofa book that somebody had sent me.
We kind of diving into that.I'll tell you what it is once I

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have an opinion and I'm done.And then basketball. So yeah, I
didn't. I didn't really deep diveinto some of the MSNBC CNN stuff,
which I just kind of, youknow, doom look at for a few
minutes in the evening. So watchingit this morning and lo and behold,
I start to see a trend.And the trend was Pundit's discussing a guy

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by the name of Kash Patel,which I don't know. You may have
heard the name before him, maybeyou haven't. The skinny is this during
the Trump administration. He served asUS National Security Council official. Specifically,
he was the senior legal advisor tothe Director of National Intelligence right, which

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is a big lawyer muckety muck position. He also was he worked with the
Secretary of Defense as chief of Staffand chief legal advisor. So that's his
background. He's forty four. Youknow, there's few other capacities, but

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look, he is for all practicalpurposes, he's a DC guy. But
he's a guy that seemingly folks likeand one that is not afraid to most
definitely be very forthcoming with what hethinks needs to happen if Republicans or in

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a position in this case through DonaldTrump to seize power back and more specifically
to fix maybe what's wrong with thedj and that terrifies, absolutely terrifies the
rumor. Mill Adam Schiff and DanGoldman both basically started this rumor in separate

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statements and concluding. Goldman actually issueda congressional statement saying that Donald Trump would
end democracy by weaponizing the Justice Departmentagainst his political enemies. Adam Shift says
he is already operating under the assumptionthat if Trump gets in there, he

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could you know he could face jailtime, and he's putting on a brave
face. He's also running for Senateand he is the scoundrel you know him
to be. But just like theinstantaneous freak out over over you know why
it really Shift was pushing this andthen Goldman came in. But how,

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how and why they're freaking out andhow and why they can't recognize the the
immense amount of irony here. Nowhere's where the problem lies. So Patel
is on Steve Bannon's podcast and inno uncertain terms when asked by Bannon,
what do you think from a legalpriority, specifically with the d o J,

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what do you think is going tobe the you know, the Trump
What are they going to be doing? What will people see who are concerned
that the government has been turned intoa weaponized attack dog for a handful of
politicians and Patel uh and they playedthe clip, but basically in it,

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Cash said that if there are ifthere are anyone out there, anyone out
there who has broken the law,who was complicit in the abuse of things
up to an including the FISA court, right if people are out there committing
state of defenses and we're in atime where the DOJ is taking a traditional
parading charge and using it to adda year of jail time at max to

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various j six defendants and giving fiftydollars fines to people who were running in,
screaming and throwing period blood during SupremeCourt hearings in the Senate, A
lot of people share his opinion,and that is what put him in a
meltdown because among those listed, Patelsaid, if you have complicit medium members

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who have broken the law, looksome of the stuff that was going on
behind the scenes with Twitter if youare a government bureaucrat or elected official.
But if you're from the government,some of those things don't look strictly legal
for you to be doing, especiallywhen it comes to, you know,

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the amount of effort that seems tohave went into at the hand of the
government to kill your First Amendment rights. But and here's the devil's advocate.
Let me throw it out to you. There are those on the right who

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don't necessarily agree that it's in theRepublican's best interest to go, hey,
you started this, we're here tofinish it. So that is going to
be the big argument breaking out.Kash Patel if he and he does have
a history of following through what hesays he's going to do. But that'll

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be the indicator the direction of theTrump administration wants to go. So yes,
MSNBC and CNN should be nervous because, unlike some, I think that
Patel has the potential to go effort. I'm going to burn this down and
uh and get something better and doso not out of from a revenge perspective,
but simply say, look, we'reusing the DOJ all in one direction,

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and it has so emboldened and empoweredpeople in DC to break the law
that this is a crisis that isout of control. But yeah, they're
they're they're freaking out over it.So uh and then people are just tweeting
back mutually assured destruction. How doyou like it? I don't know.
I wish we weren't in this positionwhere we have to go, Oh,

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the the entire DOJ apparatus may beuh stage four cancer and uh, you
know, something's got to be done, man. But I think a lot
of people are there all right,six forty one Cacoday Radio program. None
of it may matter as yesterday aboutthe time I'm sundown rolled around, right,

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not the first one with the youknow, the eclipse, but the
actual sundown. Right. You breathea sigh of relief, even though you
don't, you know, clearly understandhow time zones work, and you just
kind of wait and nothing happened,and you think, well, I'm off
the hook. Crap, I gottago to work tomorrow. I'd like you
to know that you're in luck becausethe folks over at CBS have a brand

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new thing for you to lose sleepoverand I'm excited. I hope you're excited.
Yeah, buddy, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Cicadas.
Yeah, so you get it's actuallytoo you got to freak out over
the avian flu, which is cattleavian human hybrid or something except not really

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if you read the article, butyou know, that's one thing to think
about. And number two is CBSNews warning of the coming cicada get in,
which is I guess what we're goingthrough going for. I don't know,

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do you like cicada get in orcicada lips? I think probably getting's
better. But it's not just youknow, the bugs which make a lot
of noise in the evening when you'rejust relaxing, listening off in the distance,
usually usually finding great comfort in thesound you hear, unless you raise

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crops. So but it gets farworse. According to CBS, it's not
just one brood. No, no, no, it's in fact two broods.
Yes, that's right, cicadas whospend most of their lives underground and
only emerge after thirteen or seventeen years. This year happens to be the year

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where the broods will coincide, whichmathematically shouldn't they always but whatever, I'm
not a cicada expert. Yes,this year two of the largest broods will
begin to emerge, Brood nineteen that'sgoing to be greeting us here in the
South, and Brewed thirteen, whichwill be up Illinois. Ways. However,

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the convergence with the bugs will arrivein numbers that have not been seen
in generations. And there's another problem. The cicadas, which are referred to
as zombie circadas as cicadas will beamong It'll be among the most prevalent years

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for that. And the reason they'recalled zombie cicadas is they are from a
breeding perspective, there's something wrong withthem, right, There's only one thing
they do rather than traditional cicad youknow, all the different stuff that cicadas
do. They have one overwhelming drivinggoal and it also has caused a health

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problem. All right, So thecicadas, the zombie cicadas to be zombie
cicadas and as part of this murderousbrood collective that CNN's freaking out. What
you have to know is the reasonthey refer to them as zombies is because
the only thing they want to dois, all right, you catch you

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what up putting down here? Sothey're popping out of the ground and they're
like, they're like a middle schoolboy man who things is starting to figure
stuff out. They got one thingon the brain. Yes, that's right,
We're going to be overwhelmed with sluttycicadas. And according to CBS News,

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here's the headline, hyper sexual zombiecicadas that are infected with STDs expected
to emerge this year. The hellyou say so? Yes, CBS News
hyper Sexual zombie cicadas infected with sexuallytransmitted fungal disease expected to emerge this year.

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Who had that on the twenty twentyfour Bengo card. That's what I
want to know. You know it'salready bugs that pester you are already problematic,
but ones that do so like drunkfrat dudes at closing time, there's
something that seems remarkably more more terribleabout that. So, yeah, between

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the Avian flu and you know,the the horned up cicada is get ready,
get ready for a summer of freakout. Man. They have all
this, they have all this stuffyou concern yourself with during the h you
know, once we get in thewarm season, right, you're like,

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ah, we gotta make sure italways got ticks these, you know,
for those you like to get outdoors. I gotta make sure we reapply the
sunscreen nine thousand times to the kids, and then we forget about our own
feet and then our feet burn onthe top on the first day of vacation.
That's something I did. Don't dothat. But now you got to
watch out for mobs of horny,std ridden cicadas. I'm telling you this

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is one you got. The pollensuck. For anyone who's new here.
Can you imagine this being your firstyear in North Carolina, right, and
nobody really prepared you for the forthe pollen. That's always a shock the
first one of those and they're like, oh, I made it. You
know, even though there they wentthrough all the clarity and like, no,

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I made it. This is thisis great. Made it through the
pollen. It wasn't so bad,dude. I had a friend who recently
moved to the Carolina South Carolina.Yeah, yeah, yeah, from Colorado.
It's so different because you think pinespines. I have the same thought.
We got pines everywhere out there.We don't have it doesn't happen.
He recently sent me a picture ofhis car. Yeah you know, it's

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a typical covered in pollen. Yourcar looks yellow car. Yeah yeah,
yeah. But he was in apanic. He said, what the hell
is going on? He had noidea what was going on? He goes,
what is all? Like, whatis it? I'm like, dude,
that's the pollen I was telling youabout. He didn't believe me.
It's because it seems it seems laughableif you were to describe to somebody like
the way or they think you're beingsarcastic or just exactly are you know,

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trying to scare the new guy kindof thing. Well, imagine you get
through all of that and you're like, all right, that was even worse
than what Ross said. But atleast I made it right. And now
I'm in, and now you're gettingready for summer. And then all of
a sudden in the distance, peopleare moving right, is zicata wearing garters?

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Yeah? Look, as soon asthe cicada shows up, dress like
the gimp from per you know,from pulp fiction. Are you moving right?
You're like, you know what,I'm gonna check out the Tennessee Nasal
sounds nice. Of course they'll havethem there too, but yeah, yeah,
let's cicadas show up for a keyparty. Man, you need to

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get out of there. That's allI'm saying. So you've been warned,
and I'm sure they'll harp on thisagain about the time the little pervs buzt
out all right, six forty nine, Hang on, Ted Buddle, join
us, probably on the new nationalnightmare that is the slutty cicadas with their
STDs. Excuse me, these sluttyzombie cicadas. Dude, I'm telling you

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the headlines over the last few dayson avian flu, like it's a hundred
times worse than COVID. Get ready, And then CBS yesterday with their with
their headline hyper sexual zombie cicadas infectedwith sexually transmitted fungus expected to emerge this

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year and they're freaking actors. They'relike, it's two broods. It's gonna
be the worst. And look,you know, you know how this goes.
You know how much they love freakingout about the cicadas. And don't
get me wrong, you know theycould be very damaging. I'm not going

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to I'm not going to pretend likethat's not a thing. Is from an
agricultural perspective, something that you know, folks have to deal with if you're
growing, whether it's feed crop oryou know you're a farmer and that's what
you're growing. I mean, theseare things you're concerned bound. But you
know, CBS has to hook everybody. So now rather than guy who's trying

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to figure out whether he is fieldof and then insert whatever cicadas can devastate,
now, he's got to worry thatthat they that they got some sort
of weird kink and STD. Imean, that's how you freak people out.
Man. I feel like, Ihonest, I feel like the goal
through all of this is just toachieve that weird dystopian sci fi thing where

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everyone just sits in like the youknow, it looks like a dentist chair,
and then they're just jacked into thematrix all day. I mean,
what how much I mean to befair? That look like some delicious steak?
Did it? Though? It?Did it? Really? All of
your line? Do you want?Do you want to stay out of the
matrix and struggle and eat porge allthe time? Or do you want a

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delicious steak? What it has allof the nutrients that is necessary. I
don't know if you remember Link tellingyou that, but you know, I
think Ceipher gets about that's all.I think he even admits it's not steak,
right, he knows it isn't,but it tastes it is. So
what's the difference if your if yourmind tells you your honor? I don't

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know. Well I'm staying in thereand make me a rock star. So
but all right, well that's there. I'm telling you that's the goal,
man. I have no other conclusionto draw than that. And hey,
you know it would be a lotof I think China's demonstrated it's a lot
easier to rule people when they're weldedinto their house, right, Yeah,
yeah, I mean it's a viablestrata or ros. Didn't you say you

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were going with iron masks and towersthe other day? You don't get to
do jury duty? Yeah, openthe best deal. So that's the thing
there. So imagine you know,that's everything else you got going on?
And why would you want to gooutside? Now? Was zombie cicadas with
st d s and uh if you'rethat farmer and you're looking out what you
know used to be your I don'tknow, wheat field or whatever, and

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it's gone, and now you're like, oh my gosh, the family farm,
it's been, it's done. Dothese broods? Can you imagine how
extra insulted you're gonna feel when ontheir way out, one of them is
trying to get you to sign upfor their only fans. I'm assuming that
if we got slutty cicadas, afew of them are on the of and

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some freaks somewhere is watching it.Maybe some freaking Texas because apparently they got
a few freaks down there will introduceyou to a couple. In fact,
let's do this now. This isjust awful, And what makes it even
more awful is then I saw likeinternet super lawyers. Those would be not
actual lawyers, but super sluice outthere in some way, shape or form,

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trying to find a loophole for thewife. All right, So if
you don't know this horrific story,there ain't nothing good here. But there
are some questions. So let's justlet's see where we go here, shall
we? Eas This spring couple nowlooking at prison time, charged with felonies

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after investigators say they discovered the twohad been engaging in loot and illegal acts.
It all starts here at this atbon Rayford Road, where officials with
the Montgomery County Precinct three Constable's Officesay they were dispatched back on March thirteen.
They say William King was following kidsaround inside the supermarket as he exposed

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and touched his genitals. During thecourse of the investigation, officials say they
seized William King's phone. All right, I'm gonna pause here, all right,
so you catch the gist there.The husband is he's accused of,
you know, running around in astore, showing off the goods, touching
the goods, doing so obviously whereyou know, when women are around and

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children are around. Is the accusation. Right, yeah, this guy's already
in alleged bury him under the andcompany. Right, we can agree,
all right, So God help us? What are they going to find on
this man's home found not only childpornography, but also evidence of beast reality
involving his wife. They say theyfound a video of Jolie King having sex

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with the couple's Great Dane dog.Today, they were both arrested at their
home in the Harmony subdivision Nearby.Officials say they were not only able to
rescue that abused great Dane, butalso two other dogs from the couple's home,
and say that they've prevented them fromfurther sexual exploitation. Now, I'm
all right, so and I understandpeople love dogs, got it, big

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fan of dogs, and I knowthat people are gonna be concerned and they're
probably glad to hear that part.They also put pulled kids out of there.
I mean, we just quite that. I understand that really the great
Dane that you know, part ofthis, that's the that's the that's the

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twist in all of this. Butthey also they removed children too. They
had at least one minor child,I think it was ten, and then
they had a kid who's eighteen whowas living there. He's I guess technically
not a kid, but I'm gladthey got the dogs out. But you
know, you might mention the kids. But also how do these two find
each other? How do they andand what do you do to Marmaduke?

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Right? Was Marba Duke a greatDane? I don't know, can't remember,
been a while since I was akid. But yeah, So just
remember each and every day as yougo about your business. You're just going
through life trying to do what's bestfor you and your family. Just remember

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we're surrounded by psychopaths. Okay,all right, then the better off you'll
be. Okay. Speaking of headlines, Salon has a doozy and San Francisco
this is progress, so they youknow, they just officials in San Francisco
have looked around and I think they'verealized, Man, a bunch of businesses

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that used to do business here inour community are either no longer doing business
or they're doing like a weird,slim down version of it, like the
taco bells. Remember the taco bells. They're not going to open the inside
of them. And that has membersof the public obviously clamoring to their elected

(37:29):
officials, going what are we goingto do about this? We got these
We got grocery stores leaving remember Target, Whole Foods, all of which have
closed, several stores, fast foodjoints, in and out Burger, and
pretty much every retailer of decent qualitythat was in that downtown area of San
Francisco. There used to be abig shopping district and is now a big

(37:53):
defecated on the ground district with drugssystem. And uh, I think that
this has caused for some self reflection, right, I mean, that's how
you would do this. That's thestory saying city officials are trying to figure

(38:14):
out how to solve this problem.Obviously you're going to have to look and
go what is it? What kindof environment are we creating where Target and
Whole Foods and in and Out Burgersand businesses that have been long successful.
What environment do we have where they'rethey're wanted to get out of here.

(38:35):
Well, that's what they should do, but maybe it's not what they actually
did. We'll get to that comingup here on the CaCO Day radio program.
So as you're well aware and it'snot just San Francisco, Oakland,
a lot of a lot of Oaklandin the news parts of Chicago, Baltimore.
What I see up in Philadelphia right, wasn't wasn't the gas station up

(38:59):
there was the gat what the no. Two of the chains wah wai and
then one or the other to remember, one of the others have either stopped
or withdrawn frandly in case of wahwah, they shut. I think they
shut every whah wah technically in Phillycity limits. So you have to go

(39:19):
the suburbs. Right, it's ait's just a mess. And yet we
then we have to watch these politiciansscream about, oh, well, obviously
what's going on here is racism orwhatever you know, insert whatever the charge
is, and not literally uh peoplegoing, well, wait a sec.
We have a storefront, we're losingmore money than we're making. And in

(39:40):
the world of business, that generallydoesn't mean you stay open. You have
employee concerns, your your insurance haswent up based on incidents. There's the
whole host of things. And thenimmediately if it's big companies, they're like,
they're just doing this too, youknow, bullyk consumers and it's like
or they just don't want to dealwith this is it's not making them any

(40:07):
money, it's creating a hassle.And generally these are going to be in
very very expensive areas to operate,right San Francisco, doing business in the
city of San Francisco, Chicago forthat matter, there's you're gonna make an
investment. That's why it is especiallyegregious what the San Francisco lawmakers are talking

(40:34):
about. Now. So here wego. Let's see, San Francisco lawmakers
have introduced a proposal that would requiregrocery stores in this city. So this
starts with grocery stores, but asyou'll see, with the discussion and the

(40:55):
way that they want to write this, it easily be expanded to anybody who
attempts to open a business of publicaccommodation in San Francisco. So faced with
the reality that these stores are fleeing, that hurts revenue, that hurts people.
You know, people then don't wantto go to these areas to do

(41:20):
commerce because now there's less choice andthere's whatever dangerous component led to the decision
making that all still exists and itjust cascades and rather than realizing that you've
created this environment where it's lawless.It's lawless as your behest and business owners

(41:45):
who have you know lot probably paida lot more taxes than the majority of
your constituents. Have just said enough. But rather than changing their ways and
creating once again a high quality youknow, business opportunity, city officials would

(42:05):
require grocery store owners to provide sixmonths written notice to the Board of Supervisors,
as well as several other governmental agencies, should they be wanting to sell
clothes or limit over a certain percentagetheir staff. So if you if you
found yourself in a position where thenumbers continue not to add up, you

(42:29):
gave it the old college try butbetween the you know, the shrinkage you
know from theft UH incidents that mayhave stuck with you. If you've had
multiple armed robberies on a weekly basis. Is one store in San Francisco dealt
with they had like tour, theyhad two or three robberies every week for

(42:52):
like three or four weeks. It'sjust crazy. Rather than making that decision
now you'll be penalized, and shouldyou make this notification, you're not off
the hook. The stores would alsobe required to post notices at all entrance
and exits as a means of informingcustomers in general public, but also would

(43:19):
be tasked with an obligation to explorea replacement supermarket at the vacated location.
So if you are a if youhave a supermarket, and this doesn't just
go for Vond's or Safeway or youknow which I guess are the big ones
out there in California. It's notjust them, but you could just you
could be somebody who owns like abodega style shop. Right, What classifies

(43:45):
you as a grocery store in California'spretty broad because California wanted to do the
thing or they required all stores tohave fresh fruit, and they expanded it
to you know, quick marks andquick markets and gas stations. So yeah,
yeah, And if you want toclose your store because you're getting rob
blind and the community tried to arsenyou, you got to tell people for

(44:07):
six months, and after six monthsyou need to have somebody else willing to
step in and deal with that.Which think about that, Think about the
inherent dishonesty that would almost be requiredin that real estate transaction, you know,
because a grocery if you're wanting toopen a grocery store buying where an
old grocery store is is from acost standpoint, probably going to be your

(44:30):
best option. One, hopefully it'sit's at least in the right area to
be useful. But two, it'sgoing to be fitted out right. All
the coolers you need around the back. Everything store is neat. I don't
know what all of it is,but that's gonna make it, you know,
that's gonna make it a lucrative wayto go about what is already a

(44:52):
not very lucrative business unless you're reallygood at it because the margin is so
small. So the city of SanSan Francisco realized they had a problem.
Businesses are like bo no saying whatit used to be, or the cost
of doing businesses too much, orwe have to have everything locked up,
and then customers don't want to comehere, like because of the hassle factor.

(45:16):
And I'm feeling that I did onetwenty minute wait in a Walmart for
razor blades one time, and Iswore never again, never again. Man.
So you know, a decision ismade, and that decision has been
to close down in some cases toconsolidate, Like you had brands that did

(45:42):
have multiple stores in San Francisco andwell they may have closed, and you
know the downtown area which has turnedinto not the shopping district that used to
be. They it still limits consumeroptions because now instead of four locations,
maybe they have two. And sothat's when lawmakers had to figure out,
well, how do we deal withthis? Do you create an environment where

(46:05):
there is law and order and consumersand retailers, you know, feel that
they're able to conduct their business witha certain element of safety and satisfaction.
Do you strive for that or doyou do what San Francisco has done and
create a law that, Hey,if you want to invest, and keep
in mind, if you're somebody who'sthinking of investing, this is all information

(46:28):
that's now in your head. IfI if I commit to try to do
business in this community, in thisarea where people are screaming, food,
desert, and after six months,I'm losing my butt so thoroughly due to
all of the problems that people havehad. Now after I say I'm going

(46:49):
to shut down, the government's goingto come in and force me to not
shut down at least for six months. Who the hell are who the hell
are you to come into some mobPod grocery store where he's like, I'm
on my second mortgage. We're probablygonna lose the house, but I can't
do it anymore. And some bureaucratssay, you sell butter. Get out

(47:10):
there and sell butter now under penaltyof you know, some some ungodly trumped
up moon bat punishment. We're gonnadole out like you're a j sixer for
making us look bad. And letme a couple of this. Let me,
have you guys heard what's happened inMinneapolis. Oh man, I'm telling

(47:36):
you there are just days. Iam so glad and I like the city
of Minneapolis. I like the people. Yes, I even like ice fishing.
I love having the you know,everything that the woods of Minnesota provide.
There's a lot of rollover with NorthCarolina. That's why I love that.
But there's just something special about theBoundary waters and all its unique things.

(47:58):
In the same way that I Icould wax nostalgic on all the opportunities
North Carolina provides. I think they'refundamentally both great states, especially if you
like the outdoors. But also,man, Minneapolis was on a that was
changing, and by the time Igot out of there. It had it
had fully been served up to themoon beets, which is why I lived

(48:22):
out on out the lake Man.And I'm still on the press release and
I can't get off. I've triedto get off all the City of Minneapolis
press, so I go get them, and every day it is something more
and more insane, just absolutely givingit up. So in Minneapolis, the

(48:43):
city council, here we go,The city council recently voted in a new
wage requirement requirement which had been thetopic of discussion for quite some time and
was opposed by most consumer groups aswell as as you can imagine, representatives

(49:04):
from both Uber and Lyft. Sowhat was it the council they jumped on
this same Seattle bandwagon when they're like, ah, we need to create a
minimum for Uber and Lyft drivers,and so that's what they did. However,
the minimum, which let's see,would create a all right, here

(49:30):
we go, a minimum of fivedollars per ride. Okay, well that's
not a bunch one forty per mile. But the net result is to require
that anyone who drives for Uber Lyftcurrently averages fifteen fifty seven per hour.
So why is that important? Well, some people make a lot more than

(49:51):
that. Some people are able tomake more than that, So a lot
of people aren't. Though you knowthey drive uber lyft, they maybe they
don't drive it with the the samefervor the guy who's constantly you know,
figured out where he's got a park. Have you ever been in an uber
where the driver like has it figuredout and they like to tell you about
it, which is fine, likeout of my little conversation in there,

(50:13):
and I like, people are passionateabout stuff. And he's just like,
yeah, so if I'm from ifI'm at RTP at the airport between these
two hours and then I'm by themall during this time, and then this
time, like you know, I'mI'm pulling in a decent little money.
And good for that guy. That'ssomebody went out and said I'm gonna do
this, but I'm gonna do itbetter. But it also shouldn't be a

(50:34):
knock on people who are casual uberlyft drivers. Right there are people who
go throughout the day and they're youknow, they're out doing they're running errands,
they're doing stuff. Maybe they gota couple hours in there and the
you know, before the kids getoff school. Maybe it's uh, you
know, you got to stay athome parent or whatever. And for those
two hours they drive a little bakea little extra income. Well, now

(50:58):
you got to go through and yougot a calc during the time that they
were available, was this dollar amountreceived? And if not, Uber and
Lyft have to supplement that. Andthen the way that they supplement it is
they then build it into the pricingfor the entirety of the community there.
And it's a giant pain and largelyhas such a negative impact where they've they've
run into this that Uber and Lyftjust say no, we're not We're not

(51:22):
going to do that. There thereare things, and you could agree or
disagree, right, but there arethings that Uber and Lyft will pay and
do have additional things tacked on,bridge and tunnel stuff, and some cities
that have implemented congestion pricing, they'llbuild those in tolls things like that.

(51:44):
But when it comes to this,no, because now it's not a viable
option. So Uber and Lyft haveannounced that as of May first, which
is when the law goes into effect, they're out. That's right. In
their effort to do this and thisthing that they were told if you do
this, we will know it's notwe can't do business here because the math

(52:07):
doesn't math anymore. Now the entirecity of Minneapolis will be without the ability
to use an uber or Lyft.That's crazy to me. And you know,
taxis is taxis in Minnesota were neverthat great. But also they you
know, they had to put upwith Uber and Lyft coming in, so

(52:28):
already you have a fundamentally different playingfield. But now the companies are to
say, we're not going to doit, We're not going to do this.
And I think this is more ofa tactical political position now because then
all the cities be jumping on thecarcass. But now Minneapolis Saint Paul,
one of the twentiest largest metros inthe United States I think they're fifteenth,

(52:51):
will not have Uber and Lyft andwill be at the whim for local cab
companies, which as somebody who ona lot of time in Minnesota pre Uber
and Lyft, getting a hold ofa taxi at closing time when it's twenty
below is it's a problem. Andyou know, frankly, this probably will

(53:12):
have an impact on dui rates too, but it fits with the pattern doesn't
it right? So you got cityofficials here now they want to punish uber
lyft, figure out ways to forcethem to stick around. And in California,
if you're own a store, youmake that investment, you lose your
behind. If you try to shutsix months before six months, then there'll

(53:34):
be penalties, and I guess thegovernment will come in and force you to
sell groceries or something. And that'sthe pattern many. You have a bunch
of democratic lawmakers who long for aworld where people are forced to ply whatever
their trade is for free, underpenalty and threat. Think about what that

(53:58):
sounds like, and maybe you'll understandwhy these democratic lawmakers are such a big
fan of this ross. Can youimagine a system where basically government bureaucrats and
wealthy, wealthy muckety MUCKs literally forcepeople to provide labor to them for essentially
nothing, under penalty of some sortof punishment. Can you imagine a scenario

(54:21):
where democratic lawmakers set up a systemlike that? I can't even fathom it.
I can't e I can't either.What you know, what would you
even call something like that? Anyway? Seven forty five you ponder it race
stage iqre to give his weather twocents all right, man, Yes,

(54:43):
it was so simple once you figuredout the why. It was a really
good strategy. Let the big dudefrom Produced eat you know, feast all
day, but limit them to onethree point shot and Purdue is dead.
That worked, well A yeah,it did, they did. And what
what's it? Ben s it's abig ten's won a championship and been quite
a while, quite a while,but congrats to economy. And what's back

(55:06):
to back? Yeah? First sinceseven first since. Yeah. Now we
move on raining right now at Augusta. So the rain, yes, no,
I'm sorry, this is all right, go ahead, Okay, some
rain right now at Augusta. ButI think the rain will taper off.

(55:30):
We'll get a break, but Ithink by Thursday we'll have more rain back.
But once it clears out and we'llget into Friday, Saturday, Sunday
should be some beautiful weather. Sowe'll see about first round I believe starts
Thursday, and that rain hopefully notimpacting too much more than maybe the first
round, so hopefully you get outof that. Yeah, some of that

(55:50):
rain heading in our direction and someshowers. Now, oh, I kind
of like the music was closed sesstalking about Augusta anymore. There are rules
about all this moving towards Sandford andmaybe faye Ville in the next hour.
So that's got a little batch ofshowers up or showers back to the west
of that, and I think we'llget some This big massive rain should weaken

(56:10):
a bit as it approaches low tomid seventies today, then'll break tonight,
a few showers, Tomorrow mid upperseventies, and then it's Thursday, Thursday
night that we'll see showers thunderstorms increasein intensity and coverage. Gonn have some
heavy rain. Hold I want toquote myself, I don't think we're under
a severe risk. I think Ilooked and we were going to stay out

(56:32):
of Yeah, well we'll stay forthe most part out of the sphere weather
risk slight risk maybe for a coupleof stronger storms. But I'm hoping that
even that line will weaken as we'llhave a sphere weather outbreak today in northeast
Texas and then through parts of theSouth and again tomorrow and tomorrow night.
But hopefully as that line gets inour area, it does weaken as we

(56:52):
approach Thursday, so hopefully we'll getthe rain out of here too. But
as I said, looks damp atleast for a part of Thursday for the
Masters and then for us here too, eventually getting some beautiful weather. We
get past Thursday Thursday night, itis going to be great for Friday,
probably through Monday with a warming trendtoo. Alrighty, hey, can you

(57:14):
promise me something there? Yeah?Go ahead. Can you not be one
of these people that's gonna lose theircrap over the cicadas? Have you seen
sitters or headlines? Have you seenthe eclipse? No? No, no,
no, Now we're on to thecicadas. Oh, we're moving on.
Okay, right, you know nowwe're onto that CBS. This is
CBS News. Is actual headline.You're ready, hyper sexual zombie cicadas that

(57:37):
are infected with sexually transmitted fungus expectedto emerge this year. Boy, because
this is a kind of crap.Now, I'm not knocking on you guys,
but this is the kind of ancillarystuff that the Weather Channel kind of
pick up because it's weather, butit's not really weather, and I just
CBS News. I mean, howdo you get more doomsday than a bunch
of slutty cicadas with sps chasing afteryou. Well, listen, you can

(57:59):
knock on them. I do itall the time. Yeah, so could
you not? Can you not bepart of the CBS problem here A,
I'm gonna put a note in.I'll make sure that. All right,
Well, they don't want the BRDflu man, everyone's losing their damn minds.
All right, thank you, sirappreciated. Seven forty nine. Oh
what if the cicadas, while gettingthe whatever or transmitting whatever STD they have,

(58:21):
are instead they get the Avian cowcrossover human flu thing. I'm telling
you the journals would love it,all right, seven forty nine Cacoday Radio
program, Hang on, seven fiftyfour KCO Day Radio program, And all

(58:43):
right, prepare yourself to be shook. Everybody in a seated position. Make
sure you got your balance, ross, you're gonna all right, Please prone
yourself. Make sure everything's yeah,no, dug a giant hole. That
sounds safer, Yeah, absolutely,and not like the first part of that
horrible story with the kids at thebeach view last week. All right,

(59:06):
So do you know who and AlexanderDemadenko I would say he is, but
was mister Damidenko is a not afan of Vladimir Putin. In fact,
Demadenko a Russian man who is hasbeen described and I'm not the one labeling

(59:29):
this as the Russian shindler, andI'll explain why. But basically, a
man who reportedly since twenty twenty two, even though he had been in the
good graces of Putin and the Kremlin, was found the invasion of Ukraine problematic

(59:50):
and set out to help hundreds ofUkrainians in Russia return home. So basically,
these were Ukrainians that were living inRussia upper And you know, when
this first started, one of thethings that Putin's crews were doing as they
were going, and they were wantingto get a hold of all of them,
claiming that, you know, spiesand whatnot, but also just to

(01:00:12):
have the leverage. Well, theactivists who set out and openly pushed back
on Putin had a little had alittle whoopsie yesterday, all right. So
here's the series of events. Sobasically, demon deenco is out there.
He is he it's known what he'sdoing. He's I don't know if he's

(01:00:35):
quite oligarch, but dude's got somegot some bread and was openly like this
is wrong. We're not going todo this and that that put him on
the radar of the Kremlin. Well, lo and behold here, just a
few weeks ago he was caught attemptingto literally help cross back into Ukraine a

(01:00:59):
bunch of Ukrainians who had been stuckin Russia. All right, so they
take him into custody. He reportedlyserved ten days, was released with a
judge saying, you know, thesecharges seem a little trumped up here.
I don't know what's up. Andhe received a phone call saying, if
you wonder if you leave the country, it's going to be worse, following

(01:01:19):
which officers with the FSB showed upthat night and lo and behold, when
they searched his house, the dudehad hand grenades everywhere. Now he says,
he doesn't have any hand grenades inthe Russian military hand grenades and it
was a plot, but now it'stoo late. He was then immediately returned
to prison. They then changed thejudge, but unfortunately he will not face

(01:01:43):
his day in court. After anauthority say as, he was returned back
to the gulag. Unfortunately, hewas in an elevated cell and fell to
his death. Magic Series of events. Yeah, it's bad. Now,
Like whenever you hear you know,as an American, right at least for

(01:02:06):
myself, whenever I hear a randomRussian name that I've never heard of before,
but you say it's a story.I just assumed they fell out a
window. Yeah, well, Idon't know if it was a window.
Maybe been a roof here, SoI guess our boots on the ground there,
You know him as a senator TedBudd He joins us this morning,
How you doing, sir? Doinggreat? I I is it though,

(01:02:29):
because now I just realized I useda turn of speech that has military over
overtones, So now you probably don'twant to be associated with me. They're
coming after me. So oh,boots on the ground, man, dude,
We're gonna the level of crazy gaslighting that that is going on up
there, and I'm gonna get toit here in just a minute. With

(01:02:49):
Adam Shift's little thing yesterday. LikeI don't I don't know how you work
through I Like, I don't knowhow somebody expects you to work with somebody
like that, as bad as thatsounds. And I know from time to
time, like you know, somelawmakers who may spit fire on the floor
of the House or the Senate willalso find themselves doing lunch, which is

(01:03:14):
a thing that people have to wraptheir head around. But watching the freak
out over Cash Pattel, watching theidea that he may be one of the
attorney general picks for Trump maybe andwhat he feels needs to happen with the
DOJ created a lot of consternation onMSNBC and CNN last night because they claim

(01:03:35):
Republicans when a weaponize the DOJ.But also it has me sitting there going,
look, weaponizing the DJ is wrong. I don't care who does it,
and then callers calling in and tellingme I'm a coward for not going,
Hey, they started it, let'sfinish it. So I'm just curious
where your head's at because none ofthis, none of this sounds good,
but some of it sounds satisfying.Senator No. You know, you look

(01:03:59):
at see it in MSNBC, andthat's a great litmus test to know if
they're fired up about something, ifthey're going apoplectic, we're probably doing the
right thing. So, I mean, you don't want to definitely take their
opinions, but if we're for pissingthem off, then we're probably in a
good place. But generally, whetherit's the DEM's being upset about DJ and
these claims and weaponization, whatever they'reclaiming we're doing, that's actually what they're

(01:04:24):
doing right now. I mean thewhole gas lighting, the weaponization of government,
all that stuff. Look, that'swhat they've been doing for decades,
and finally people are waking up toit, and they're trying to scramble for
a response because they realize whether it'sa red state or whether it's a blue
state or blue cities, people areticked off. And I think the big
reconing is coming in November. Yeah, and here's where I get cynical on

(01:04:45):
this, Like, strategically, ifi'm you, or not just you,
but I'm a Republican elected official upthere, the last thing I want to
do is solve this thing before November. That's how cynical I am on all
of this stuff. So like,yeah, look, I get the politics
of that. You want the problemto be out there so that people are
ticked and they go to the poll. But look, that's not why they

(01:05:06):
sent me here. Look I getthat they sent me here to fix it
yesterday, and so we got toI mean, we're working on the border
now, we're trying to solve youknow, give Israel what they need.
Now, these aren't problems that youwant to just linger out there. So
people show up at the polls.Now, whether Biden who is Look,
he's got Schumer in charge of theSenate, he's got the administration, he

(01:05:28):
is the president. So that's twoout of three. You got a very
thin majority in the House. Sothese problems are very likely. I mean,
just looking at the numbers, they'regoing to be there. But we
have to fight no matter how manynumbers we have, whether we're in the
majority, whether we're in the minority. You have to do the right thing
that people sent you to Washington for. Let me ask you two questions on
that front. Do you think inyour opinion, and maybe you just have

(01:05:51):
to best guess, because obviously there'sprocessor's due process, do you, as
a sitting member of the US Senate, do you think that there are people
within the DOJ, within the swamp, if you will, that have committed
things that rise to criminal levels andcontinue to I guess currently be unpunished.

(01:06:12):
Do you believe that in your heartof hearts, do you think that there
are people that frankly should face ajury. Well, let's look at the
law of large numbers. I mean, these are big organizations, way bigger
than they should be, so it'scriminal in the size that they are,
so they need to not be asbig. They got departments that don't even
need to exist. I'm not sayingget rid of the DOJ, but I'm
saying it needs a good thinning andreorganization. So when you have a law

(01:06:36):
of large numbers and that many peoplethe answers, absolutely are there going to
be people there that have done thingswrong for sure, Like those who are
on the judiciary committees can probably namenames. I'm not on that committee,
but I know there are major problemsin people that they think that they are
doing the right thing when they wakeup, but by golly, because of

(01:06:56):
complete wrong world views that they've adoptedfor probably decades of their lives, they're
just wrong. And it's probably illegaland unconstitutional as well. And you know,
the apparatus for that, as we'veseen in some instances with may Orcus,
is an impeachment process. I wonderif we other than like in a
sporting way, like your team scoreda touchdown, kind of raw raw.

(01:07:17):
I don't know that people take thatprocess seriously anymore. And that's also partially
due to what we saw with Trump. So let's talk about that effort with
may Orcus. So there's others outthere. What's going on with what did
I who? The Attorney General isnot turning over some documents to a committee
where where well yeah, with this, yeah, I'd said, let's go

(01:07:40):
back to the may Orcus thing.We haven't scored a touchdown, but we
have been given the ball. Andthat's what happens right now. It's sort
of halftime right now, it hasbeen halftime for two months. The House
is handing over the ball to ustomorrow when these articles of impeachment gets sent
over, what you're going to You'regoing to try to see Schumer grab the
ball and then run it up inthe stands and out into the parking lot.

(01:08:00):
He's going to try to table themotion, not even have a trial
at all. There's been about eighteento twenty one articles of impeachment that have
been sent over in the history ofour country. All of them have resulted
in some form of a trial.They've never been tabled before. And he's
going to try to do something neverhappened in our nearly two hundred and fifty
years of history and not even havea trial. And we'll see what happens

(01:08:21):
Wednesday. So we're going to doevery motion we can to make sure that
we have a trial. Will wewin, Will all Republicans, Will the
Murkowskis stick together, will the Romneys? I have no idea, but there's
a great case that he Look,he has falsely testified to Congress that the
border is secure, and he haswilfully and systemically refused to comply with current
law. I mean, that's thecurrent charges of the impeachment, and there's

(01:08:45):
tons of detail under that. Sowe need to get this to trial and
see if we can actually score atouchdown for the American people. But the
process correct me. If I'm Ryanand you know me, I'm just so
negative and I just bring it,you'd probably bring you down when you're here.
But I guess work in case,because you're still you still got a
show in a great audience. Yeah, well that's because they can't figure out
how to fire me or something.But no, but like, okay,

(01:09:09):
so you purge me orcus I justassumed that. Then they put some other
dumpster fire in there, like doesdo you think if the unexpected happens and
somehow you get the Senate vote.I mean, it's not probably not going
to happen with the math, butat the very least, do you think
that if he is pushed out ofthere, even if it's just through resignation,

(01:09:29):
that the Biden administration puts a moreserious person in there recognizing the crisis,
or they double down on the it'sall your fault. Just from what
I've seen over the past three anda half years, they double down.
I really think like their worldview doesnot allow him to solve the problems that
the American people are asking us tosolve. Whether it's energy problem, you
know, or gas at the pump, whether it's grocery stores. All they

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want to do is put in morelaws, more mandates to solve these problems,
and that's not what we need.He needs less government, not more
to solve these problems. But whenit comes to enforcement of existing laws,
they don't want to do that unlessit just hurts the American people. So
I just think that their worldview doesnot allow them to solve this problem at

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the border or whether it's at thegas pop. I mean, it's complete
dysfunction up there for things that workfor America. Well, obviously they have
an opposition of the gas pump prices. That's why they just decided not to
refill the oil reserve. So Imean it's it's like, okay, so
you recognize there is a problem whenit's you're pumping your tank, so to
speak, but not us all right. Second question, Senator I said I

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had two. Do you think,and this will be a crossover, do
you think that there were individuals whoabuse the PISA process? And I think
the biggest example in most people's mindsis where one Yahoo News article based on
one dots the two were independently treatedas double sourcing for the purpose of issuing

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PISA warrants on Trump officials within thecampaign. Do you believe that people did
abuse it and that something needs tobe done prosecutorial or from a law change
standpoint? Where do you stand onFIZA with now this renewal being in the
news. So the bottom line foryour question is absolutely it has been abused

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and it is a good tool.That's why I mean, I think you
mentioned baby with the bathwater. Youdon't want to throw it all out.
It is a good tool that hasunfortunately been abused. I mean, they've
used a hammer to hit the wrongthing, are the wrong people, and
they've you know, what we needare safeguards, the safeguards at seven or
two to protect innocent Americans. Weneed to use it to counter our enemies

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abroad. We've used it to helpstop terrorist attacks in the United States.
We've used it to stop peel pressescoming in and fentanyl precursors and chemicals coming
from China to Mexico. But atthe same time, it's you know,
and we use it to gather intelligenceon China, Russia, and the Mexican
drug cartels. But I've got hugeconcerns about uses of seven or two by
the FBI, and it has gotto be reformed. That's why you just

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don't want to rubber stamp it asit is. You need to bring it
up and we need to start amendingit with things that solve the problems that
we've had over the last several yearsof abuses. Okay, And like I
agree with you, and I thinkthat there are others who share that opinion.
But it looks very business as usualwith what's going on at least on

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the House side. Is there goingto be an opportunity for you guys to
make some waves at the Senate sidesaying, hey, you can't just put
this in as is, we needto fix it, or or how does
how does the process work? Well, let's look at the you know,
back to the numbers game. You'vegot a one vote majority giver or take
in the House. Out of abody of four point thirty five, it
takes two to eighteen to have amajority, and you've barely got that.

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The great thing about US Republicans isthat we're very independent. The horrible thing
about US Republicans sometimes we're way tooindependent, so we don't always stick together.
So you're going to have some straying, and I think this doesn't cut
clean the around party lines. You'vegot some privacy advocates on the Democrat side,
and you've got a lot of privacyadvocates on the Republican side. So

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I think we're going to see somereforms. And then you've got people that
want to completely throw it out.I don't think that's workable to throw it
out. What you don't want todo is put Mike Johnson in jeopardy as
he navigates through some very precarious politicaltimes right now. So I think we're
going to see it come up becauseit expires on the eighteenth or nineteenth of

(01:13:29):
this month, So we've got todeal with it this week or next,
and then I think you're going tosee some of those amendments get worked through
over here in the Senate. Soit remains to be seen. But I
don't think it's going to be rubberstamped as it is. I think that's
unworkable. Now. Obviously, yesterdayyou had the eclipse. I don't know
were you in DC, were youin North Carolina? I was on an

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airplane on like row fifteen in theaisle, you know, so it didn't
have much of a view. Ohokay, but is that a that's an
exit row, wasn't it. Yeah? I don't think it was on this
plane. Yeah, you know,if that door had popped off, I
would have had a really good view. I mean, yeah, that or

(01:14:09):
it you know that or the enginecover so everyone's glued against the windows like
on the Southwest flight. You know. Let me ask anyway, Yeah,
let me ask you a question actually, because I think this this does cross
over some of your committee stuff Ihad. Let me let me say this,
I have an affinity for Boeing.My grandfather worked for Boeing on my

(01:14:30):
mother's side, and you know wehe was I remember as a kid he
used to get me like the littlemodels and stuff from both I was super
excited about it. So I havethat affinity just from a family standpoint.
But I can't help but you know, watch what's going on with all of
this stuff post Alaska Airlines flight.They didn't put bolts in. It wasn't

(01:14:51):
even in the safety manual, thisthing that apparently was violated. And I'm
sitting there looking at it, andI have to ask myself, because I've
been in this business enough. Isthis the summer of the Shark where you
know, at the end the youwould have thought Jaws ran rampant, but
in reality it was the same number. Because some aviation officials say, look,

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this is these things happen. Andanyone who fliving on a flight where
the front tires blew out and theyfifty to fifty we were going to land
on a stick, right, andso we were doing the whole brace brace.
So is this being elevated by themedia or do we have really big
problems with Boeing that might need Godforbid government to stick their nose in it.

(01:15:32):
Yeah, I think it's some ofboth. One, it's a recency
effect. It is newsworthy, andyou know, you don't hear about all
the planes that made it safely,and you just hear about the ones with
problems. And so I think itis you know, you don't hear about
all the people that swam safely onthe beach. You hear about the ones
that you know, I had ashark incident somewhere around our country of three
hundred and some million people. SoI think there is some of that.

(01:15:53):
That's a cognitive bias. That's therecency effect. So I think we're we're
hearing a lot more of these andthat's whether they're large or small. You're
going to hear about anything regarding anairplane right now, and there's millions of
miles flown in relatively short periods oftimes, thousands of lights every day.
But when you do hear about something, you're it's definitely front of mind right

(01:16:15):
now. But I think there's butalso, look, I don't want to
be dismissive. There are some problemsin there that have accumulated over the years,
and they got very very complex supplychains. For instance, in Kinston,
North Carolina, there's a great company, spirit Eraw that makes actually the
air bus fuselage and so that getsshipped, you know, around the world

(01:16:36):
and so these but Spirit Air Arrowin a different place, in a different
factory actually makes fuselages for Boeing.That was Spirit Arrow was related to the
Alaskan Airways. But somewhere in thatchain you got to figure out who's responsible.
But it's not like it's a bigfactory. Then all of it is
done in one place, but ultimately, when Boeing delivers the plane, they're

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responsible for it, and then whenthe Laska Airline takes it or whatever airline,
they're responsible for it at that point. And ultimately it comes up responsible
for the pilot and command that it'sa safe aircraft. So there's a lot
of responsibility at different periods of time, including in the manufacturing process. But
they will work this out. ButI would say, let's be cognitive of
our own minds and how we lookat recent incidents like this, and it's

(01:17:24):
marks you know, it's safe,and it's probably safer than going on a
ride at the fair. Yeah,well, I mean, obviously we've got
history here in North Carolina. Allright, minute and a half. Last
question. This is an actual headlineSenator from CBS News hyper sexual zombie cicadas
infected with sexually transmitted fungus expected toemerge. So they're full freak out on

(01:17:45):
that. You couple it with theAvian cow crossover human discussion, and people
start getting the you know, thegoosebumps up, like, oh man,
like are we going to have healthexperts? Are we going to do the
COVID thing all again? How doyou and sure that even if there is
some concerns out there that you guysdon't lose your mind again as a government,
not just you specifically, but howdo we not do this all over

(01:18:08):
again when they've got two different thingsthey're freaking out over one minute go ahead
for Yeah, First of all,you don't want a government grant or a
college study on this funded by UStaxpayers. That sounds like something that they
would do. The other is,you want to win the majorities in the
House, get a bigger majority.You want to win the majority in the
Senate. You want the president andhis administration. That way, you're at
the president's administration. You don't haveyou don't have bad ideas getting into regulation.

(01:18:32):
If you have the Senate and youhave the House, you can surface
the hearings of bad ideas and exposethese things. And that's why it's so
important to have the House and tohave the Senate majorities, so that you
can expose the bad ideas of theleft and hold government accountable. Well we'll
see, but if they're going totry to lock us down with slutty cicadas,
I'm going to lose my mind.So Senator, I appreciate it.

(01:18:54):
Thank you very much. Sand We'lltalk soon. Okay, great, thanks,
Watch out for the cicadas. Man. All right, we got to
go to break. We'll be rightback. Hang on KCO Day radio program.
Wait hold on, let me readthis email from Alexandra, who listens
to the show. Says, Hey, I like the show, even like
the silliness, but I don't understandit when you're interviewing somebody with a h

(01:19:19):
I don't know what you mean bythat man, basically somebody who's a muckety
muck. But because it's how wedo things around here, and sometimes it
can be a little disarming too.When you're also talking about a serious thing.
So I'm assuming you're referencing the cicadas. And here's the deal. While

(01:19:40):
the CBS news headline is peak stupid, hyper sexual zombie cicadas, their infected
was actually transmitted fungus, right,Like that's a well, maybe technically accurate,
it's just it's also crazy dumb.And then you couple that with some
of the discussions that I've seen withavian avian flu concerns, and this year's

(01:20:04):
batch could be one hundred times worsethan COVID. And I asked these things
not I asked these things not purelyjust to be able to crack jokes on
CBS's headline, but if you listento the substance of the question, more
so on the avian flu side.But I have not, and I don't

(01:20:26):
think many people have have heard asatisfactory explanation, promise, apology comments on
things we've learned that I feel thateven today's crop of politicians wouldn't probably do
a lot of the same stuff theydid during COVID. So yeah, that's

(01:20:50):
why I'm asking it. That's whywe're asking it like that. And if
you don't think that there are peoplewho are salivating to be able to just
remember, these are folks who runaround most days going, man, you
know, if we just got thissocialism right in the minds of some of
the true control freaks during this whowhose ego won't allow them to admit that

(01:21:16):
they screwed up, even when wewere adjusting juvenile COVID numbers yesterday, even
when the learning loss of kids andthe actual safety within a school setting,
while all of these things proved tomove in the direction of people who were

(01:21:36):
critical with the decision the governments weremaking. Many of these leaders will never
admit that they were wrong, orthe very least they'll know they're wrong,
but will also bow to pressures fromspecial interest groups. And by the way,
that's on both sides. So yeah, I'm gonna ask that question.
And you know, one of thethings that the Senator said is he said,

(01:21:59):
you know, we have to presidentthere is not going to do this
well. And I hope that's becauseTrump learned, because Trump was not immune.
Remember he was the one who stoodup there with the you know,
the two weeks or fifteen days toslow the spread. So yeah, yeah,
I'm gonna ask that stuff. Okay, but I look, your email

(01:22:24):
wasn't nasty, but understand the methodto my madness. Also, you know,
the CNN thing's so stupid, everyoneshould know about it, so I
just thought i'd pass it along,all right, anyway eight eight eight nine
three four seven eight seven four Allright, let me get over to this.

(01:22:47):
Yeah, a couple Oregon stories.So you probably know by now that
the one point three billion dollar jackpod, which was a a single ticket was
sold in Portland, orgon the singleticket match in all six numbers, along

(01:23:10):
with the you know, the powerballobviously one point three two six. I
don't know what that is if youtake the payout and everything, but it's
a crap ton of money. Buthere's the headline. A mystery power ball
player in Oregon who won the staggeringjackpot is still yet to come forward.
Now, they got a year todo it. And when you're talking about
money that big, if you're doingthis responsibly, we shouldn't see your face

(01:23:39):
for a little while. You gotto get you got to get stuff in
order, right, You got toget you pretty much. You got to
protect yourself, right because the momentit's announced, everyone you've ever known,
everyone you've ever walked past on thestreets is going to be up in your
grill and people. And they're alsovery very high, high level scammers.

(01:24:00):
You know, these are these arethe folks that they wait for in the
newspaper to try to stick their nosein. So yeah, but also I
didn't realize it was Portland. Justwhen I heard it was in North Carolina,
I didn't care. So so okay, I what moon bat do you
think won this thing? That's mybig That's what I'm more worried about.

(01:24:25):
Like, can you imagine they're gonnaidiot but I'm sorry you then they're gonna
invest in like a like a superduper high tech jazz chopped area. That's
what I'm like, dude, That'swhat I'm sitting there, Like, what
if one of these Antifa idiots won, right, and they're like sure,
yeah, yeah, we're gonna dothis, but we have a force field
because you know, they got alittle bit of a budget to work with.
Surely they would give them money away. Sure do you do you think?

(01:24:47):
I mean, surely if the communistwon the billion dollar jackpot, they'd
give it away to the people,right, sure? Can you can you
imagine the level of dumb assy thatthree quarters of a billion or what this
thing is post taxes. Remember whenthey were trying to build the garden with
the dirt on the gard they justput down the cardboard in the concrete and

(01:25:09):
they poured like one level of dirton it. And yeah, yeah,
I remember, I believe we hadand remember it was it was a non
whites garden, right, don't forgetYeah, you're right, yeah, yeah,
yeah, so yeah, he canhave all the racist gardens they want
now they can. Can you imaginethe Portland police show up and it's like
they're trying to take the courthouse again. They're like, oh, not this

(01:25:30):
crap again. They show up andit's just them and then Blackwater standing there.
Oh my gosh. They hired mercenaries, right, all right, Antifa
but with the A team. Huhdude, that can you imagine? That'd
be the saddest thing ever if thatvan went to Antifa. Be so sad.

(01:25:51):
Yeah. The last time I sawan Antifa van, and I'm at
an anarchist van was in Minneapolis andthey cracked it open right ahead of the
RNC and it was filled with hundredsof poop and pea bombs I'm just saying
they're gonna have upgraded equipment this time. But you know, if you still
want to go with the van,more power to you. Yeah. I
can't even imagine what a bunch ofthese idiots would use that money for it,

(01:26:15):
But I'm sure it's not good.I did check. It wasn't my
sister either, So all right,here we go. The current cash value
six hundred and twenty one million,yeah, or one point three three over
twenty nine years. If it wasyour sister, do you think she'd give
you some of the money. Iwouldn't ask her for any of those.
I don't think he would. Butdo you think she'd out of the kindness

(01:26:38):
of her own heart, which wouldbe like, hey here, here,
dude, have some money. Ithink if if it was that that sister,
I think that Yeah, I thinkshe probably would. But she's she
never struck. She's not a particularlygreedy person, which is you know,
she's I've always liked that about her. But so she would always do things

(01:27:00):
like she would give away presents andstuff when she was a kid. So
I think that sister would be like, here's a million dollars for all of
you, Because I think we've allthought about that. I know I have.
I've processed that. I've thought aboutthat information. Like if I won
the power Ball, who would Igive money too? Like I have a
list of people, and I knowI would give me, and I would
give you, give you. Iwould too, I'd pay off your mortgage.
I would. I would give youa bunch of money, a lot
of money, and you never haveto work again. I would do the

(01:27:23):
same thing for my sisters, mymom obviously, yeah, I got I
would I bulldoze Michael's house and thenbuy him a new one. I would
get Linko on those drum sets withheadphones, soy yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah for sure. Yeah, I you know, but it
wasn't her. But what if shedidn't, though? Would you would you
feel? Would you would leave aparty? You be upset? Like I

(01:27:45):
can't believe this sort of a youknow, not really, I you know,
I haven't got into all the detailsof everything, you know, everything
that's ever been a family thing forme. But there was as we were
reorganizing the ranch ownership, because it'scomplex when you're in a test and all
of that, there was there wasan opportunity where I was kind of surprised

(01:28:10):
that a family member was being howthey were. But I just acquiesced because
I don't want the hassle because itwasn't about the money. And I was
over in like two seconds. SoI don't know. But I know some
like blood feuds can form, sobut I I until you're presented with it,
I don't know. I'll tell youwhat. She wouldn't blow the money.
She literally is like she was.She is a financial muckety muck for

(01:28:33):
a chain, a hotel chain upin the north Northwest, and she's always
she's always been very fiscally responsible.I don't even know she'd spend it all.
I would give a bunch away too. My mom's the same way.
There's no way she'd she'd move outof Schnenectady. She'd she'd stay in the
same house. She wouldn't move.And she'd be like, well, at
least I can order pizza when Iwant one, now, I guarantee you

(01:28:56):
That's what she would say. IfI'm hungry, that's great. And and
if she sees any any Yankees playersflip their bats, she can afford a
billboard to shame them. So allright, do what you're gonna do all
right, race st agent from theWeather Channel, just trying to figure out
who in the Oregon won the giantpower ball, and then I had this
horrible thought that it might be oneof those Antifa people, and I was

(01:29:19):
just like, can you imagine thedamage they could do with seven hundred mil
cash? Right, They're gonna getthat a lot of money. Man.
They're like, oh, we broughtin the fresh four in legion stand back,
So all right, all right,let's do this thing, because we
got to deal with the little crapbefore we get to the good stuff.
But the good stuff beings massives laterthis week. So yeah, and today

(01:29:42):
we'll see some showers already seen somearound the try it start to roll east
toward the triangle, So a fewshowers around today, No widespread rain,
just kind of a nuisance mid seventiesif you get showers at the right time,
may not hit seventy five, butmost of us in that range.
Tonight cloudy fifty nine, tomorrow slightchance of showers again near eighty, and
then tomorrow night the Thursday, theshower chance will start ramping up, especially

(01:30:03):
Thursday afternoon Thursday night, where wemay start seeing some heavier rainfall come in,
and then by Friday, Saturday andSunday some beautiful weather which is gonna
linger it the Monday. We're gonnaget back up near eighty degrees by the
end of the weekend early next week. So we get through today tomorrow,
which there won't be a lot ofrain, and especially Thursday and Thursday night,

(01:30:24):
we're gonna have a real nice runcoming on up for the Masters.
If you are so inclined. Itlooks like the first round may be hampered
by areas of rain and thunderstorms.There'll be one rounds Thursday morning, maybe
a break, and then another roundprobably coming in in the afternoon, and
then by Friday and the weekend itshould be beautiful. All right, Thank
you, sir, have a goodone, and we'll come back with Jeff

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Bellinser next hang on. Good morning, casey. Major averages ended yesterday's session
on Wall Street within tiny fractions ofa percent where they started the day.
Right now, it looks like wecould start out higher this morning. Now.
Futures are up four twenty four points. Tesla shares were among the winners
yesterday. They were up five percentafter Elon Musk promised to unveil a Tesla

(01:31:08):
Robotaxi. This summer. General MotorsCrewis division will resume testing of its robotaxis.
Sources say the vehicles will hit thestreets with safety drivers in Phoenix.
Economists were surprised this morning by thelatest reading on small business optimism. The
National Federation of Independent Business reports businessoperators were in a funk. Last month,

(01:31:29):
optimism dropped to a more than elevenyear low. Apple's fighting last year's
International Trade Commission decision that forced itto end US sales of certain Apple watches.
The company claims the ITC overstepped itsauthority when it ruled that Apple watches
with oxygen saturation monitors violated a patentowned by the medical device maker Massimo.

(01:31:50):
Sales of the watches have resumed afterApple disabled that monitoring feature best Bias,
deploying artificial intelligence to streamlines operations.The company says new tools will be able
to assist customers with order deliveries andscheduling, and also helped store and call
center workers to do their jobs.Schools may do a good job with reading,

(01:32:12):
writing, and arithmetic, but amajority of middle income Americans give schools
an f when it comes to finances. Two thirds of the people surveyed by
Primerica feel they were not taught enoughabout how they would manage their personal finances
as adults and Casey A Customers ata chicken restaurant New York City are waited
on by cashiers who are based inthe Philippines. The founder of a tech

(01:32:35):
company who dined at the restaurant toldFortune, a friendly cashier appears on the
screen, stands by while he placeshis order at a kiosk, and then
controls the restaurant's point of sale systemremotely. Rather interesting. I thought,
Casey's the what's the name of therestaurant? I had it here, I
didn't put it in if I can. I don't know if I can find

(01:32:57):
it. Because the Philippines has achain that they started opening some here in
the US. It's kind of likethere McDonald's. I can't remember the name
of it. I remember it wasn'tgood because they have it elsewhere I've eaten.
I've actually eaten in one of them, but like they it has chicken
and then spaghetti and then burgers.Oh, like it has everything. But
I don't know if it's that.Yeah. This was described as a Japanese

(01:33:19):
fried chicken restaurant that I can't locateit in my fe all right, no,
probably I'm problem. All right,Well, there you go, Thank
you much, Jeffrey, have agood day. All right, There you
go. Jeff Bellinger from Bloomberg News. You know, I saw this story
and now that I actually started inmy brain processing it. What's the big

(01:33:39):
deal? All right? So speakingof we're just in Oregon, let me
stay there. Environmentalists are raising thealarm after a truck with the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife. It's ait's what's called a release truck. So
it looks like you know, itlooks like a gas truck or a milk
you know, or something and hauland liquid you see on the road.

(01:34:00):
But instead of that in there isfish, right, so trout, salmon,
all of that. If you've everseen how they do the restocking,
the big restocking, it's pretty amazing. One of the one of the big
fish farms in the US is actuallynear where I grew up in Wyoming.
And I'm not saying me and mybuddy's snuck in there to fish, but

(01:34:21):
the fishing is really good, Sodon't do that. But you know,
the watching the they do the troutstocking through Montana, Wyoming, Utah.
Pretty amazing, all right, Sowhy am I bringing it up? So
the truck turn went sideways on asharp corner, overturned, rolling down an

(01:34:41):
embankment, and losing its entire loadof one hundred and two thousand chinook salmon,
which they only have so many towork with, and it is so
important they get them to where theyneed to or it could quote spell disaster
for the salmon population. All right, So here here's the twist. Here's
why I'm telling you. The truckflipped over and loads spilled into looking Glass

(01:35:09):
Creek, which is a tributary ofwhat is it the Ronde River, I
can't remember the name of the middle, but it all goes into the Snake
River, which is the which isthe friggin river they were stalking. So
I'm sorry. Was there an accidentthat could threaten the salmon population or the

(01:35:30):
fact that you dumped him into thewater which connects to the water you wanted
to dump him in and they allswam away, well most of them.
They did lose some they just didn'tmake it into the water, but the
majority of them made it in I'dsay that you found, I'd say that
you were. You get a goldstar. You're the most efficient workers, sir