Thursday-5-2-2024

Episode Transcript

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I had to start my morning witha bummer, so I might do that
to you. Nothing personal, butoh my gosh, so I you know,
alarm goes off this morning, Iswear into the ether and then you
know, get up, start firstthing I do, Man, grab that

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iPad bone whatever? Just what happenedovernight? And Lord knows what everything going
on right now? Something may havehappened overnight. What other late breaking stories
from the news cycle? After whenI sent ross, prep is going on?
And I'm greeted with this. Okaysome of you, some of you

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may not have seen this, sowe'll make a game out of it.
Okay, here's the headline from wr a L News. And by the
way, this is an on wrL. They right, this is this
is a pretty straightforward story, quotingidentified people and their takes. The headline

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reads, quote it was not agood look. UNC committee discusses Interim Chancellor's
actions during pro Palestinian protests. Okay, for a moment, because remember we
were riding high baby, for amoment, I'm like, huh, you
mean the totality of everything right isnot a good because I would agree with

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that right regardless, regardless of thefrat insanity that we'll discuss and the national
spotlight that's been shown on here.You would almost prefer not You don't want
to be one of the You don'twant to be one of the campuses where
lawlessness not only is occurring, butis embraced. And as we pointed out,

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that was good. So if thecommittee met to talk about it,
what do you think was not agood look? What Ross I was to
tell you that what happened on theUNC Chapel Hill campus quote some of it
was not a good look. Whatwould you think, in your mind as

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a rational person, was not agood look? Just okay, all right?
So Ross is gonna go with thePalestinine flag going up, That's probably
not a good look. Did yousee the video of the protesters throwing their
drinks on that black police officer?Some would say in the state of North

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Carolina, when you have white collegestudents throwing food and beverage on black North
Carolinians, it has a certain familiarity. I would say that's not a good
look because if you asked, likebecause obviously you know what I'm referencing,

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and I think that if you askedevery student on every camp every person for
that matter, Hey, remember thatwoolwurst thing. Knowing what you know today,
where what side of that would yoube on. I don't think there's
a There's probably one or two,but I think that overwhelmingly everyone would reflexively

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say I'm not on the people coveringthe students and ketchup and spinning on them
camp right, every and I thinkevery single one of those those protesters would
say that, because you are ifyou're doing that, So I would say
that's not a good look, allright, So uh, ross's flag.

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I'm gonna go with the woolworst parttwo. But you would be wrong this,
by the way, this committee isthe faculty advisory committee, all right.
So these are the very folks shapingthe young minds that make their way

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over to Chapel Hill, and thisis the committee that gives voice to their
collective feelings. That's not the partthey had a problem with, all right.
So I'm gonna read this verbatim.The already ten situation at UNC escalated
Tuesday after the American flag was loweredand replaced with a Palestinian flag. Dozens

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of officers intervene to restore order.Members of the faculty committee, I think
technically it's the Faculty Executive Committee,but it's a faculty's advisory committee to leadership.
Members of the committee want interim ChancellorLee Roberts to come to the table

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to explain his decision making. Quote. All we heard was that he was
forced to deploy law enforcement, saidchu Chi Mohanti, one of the committee
members. What was it that pushedthe chancellor to make that decision. After

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protesters were clared, Roberts marched throughthe campus before saying that the American flag
will stand here as long as I'mchancellor. Now, I'm going to go
back to quote a committee member,quote, I think a lot of people
want to know if he believes thatthis is a violation of some UNC policy
by students, faculty, or anything, then they should bring that to the

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table so he can say this iswhy I did it. Some committee members
were concerned about the optics of robertsmarch through campus after officers cleared out protesters.
Member Anthony Charles. He is Charles, by the way, is a
He's a doctor, medical doctor.He teaches surgery. I believe he teaches

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the UNC School of Health, butor medical school, excuse me, And
yeah, so there we go surgicalteaches surgery, so and I point that
out because used to be that's onceyou got away from the humanities, you

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also got away from this nonsense.In a lot of instances, you get
into some of the business schools,medical things like that, things that are
a much more finite science. Butno, Charles went on to say,
it was not a good look forthe interim chancellor to be standing on the
steps of the building with armed guardsnext to him. It made the situation

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a lot worse. Remember I toldyou they don't like this dude, right,
The folks on the left student activistgroups have faculty for that matter,
Basically, anyone who is not afoeman at the mouth the moon bat.
They just can't see in that positionor at the very least, remember remember

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you had, you know, thetreatment that was bestowed upon who arguably was
somebody ideologically aligned with you know,previous leadership over there. But this guy
had the audacity to strongly be suspectedto be a Republican and they were already

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launching a campaign. He can't There'sno way this is this needs to be
the dude in charge. This isthe escalation of that. This is the
committee, in my opinion, seizingupon this to very shamefully misconstrue what was
going on. And these are supposedto be learned individuals and using it once

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again as a weapon against somebody thatthey do not feel should be there.
And there is a lot of resentmentof the you know, some of those
appointed to the board, obviously thisinterim chancellor, and basically any sort of
what they see is meddling by Republicansin this state school. So yeah,

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of course they see a problem withthis. I have a question for this
committee because I'm not going to readthe totality of what was said. Yeah,
here we go. I will readthis one quote. Let me find
Claudia Yahubi, who is one ofthe committee members, said quote, what

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we need to do is try toidentify shared values on how to move forward
and acknowledge that they may have differentvalues on protests and the use of law
enforcement. All right, so I'mrefrain you're referring to the chancellor here,
but let me approach it from thetotality of it. I don't think,

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I don't think that there is inherentlydiffering values unless you will go on the
record as to say, lawless behaviorthat is intimidating to other students is part
of your values? Uh? Yeah? Shared or concern that students associated with

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the protests will face retaliation. Sjaredthat some students suffered concussions after police moved
in. I have not seen that. I saw some people flopping like it's
Lebron in the playoffs, and Idid see some who refuse to move there,

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But I didn't even see any aggressiveentanglement. The most aggressive things that
I saw going on there they diduse was it pepper spray along those lines.
I don't know what was deployed.Something was deployed. Here we go.

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Protecting our students is our first job, and for faculty in administration,
no matter where they stand politically,I don't believe you. I think that
protecting students a very specific set ofstudents you see as your first job.
Because the vast and by the way, what happened to the protesters screaming for

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intafada are interlopers? What happened tothat? Now everyone's a student, Okay.
The vast majority of students at UNCdid not take part in this,
and I'm even accounting for the oneswho came in and held the flag as
quote taking part in it, butthe vast majority didn't. They're just sitting
there. You know. They mayeven agree, but they didn't take part

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because they realized that this is asituation that from the very start looked like
it was going to violate rules.They used like a one percent slice of
their brain to arrive at the onlylogical conclusion that this particular set of protests,

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which ran the gamut from tearing aflag down to attempting to store in
the administrative hall to assaulting police officers, wasn't going to be a good look
for their future. And then therest of the students, like that caller
we had yesterday whose daughter goes thereand is calling her dad, not for

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money, right, not for normalcollege kids stuff, but because she's like,
how do I fight the Commi's dad? Because she found herself in that
area where the flag was coming downand felt fear. And it's easy to
say, well, don't go overthere. But it's about setting a standard

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for what is permissible and not permissible, and it's in black and white.
So if you care so deeply forthe students, what about all the other
students who are sitting there staring atfinals trying to go about their business.
They don't need this distraction. Therewas a video going around yesterday that I

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got misconstrued from Columbia. I don'tknow if you saw it. There's a
bunch of students standing there with theirphones filming, and then outside you see
a line of police officers. AndI saw that going around where they were
saying because one of the girls makesa comment, let me get out of
here. It's finals something along thoselines, and people are like, look

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at the protesters saying this. Thatwas not the protesters. That was a
you'll notice none of them are wearingthe face masks. I shouldn't say none
of them. I think one ortwo of them are, but they're not.
They're not in the gear. Thoseare Those are students of Colombia in
a residence hall who are in theyou know, the the main area out

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front, looking out their window andstaring at the backs of police lines.
And it's because the police had establisheda no go area, right, so
if you're at that protest, you'renot going to come over here unless you
have a valid student ID card tobe able to get into this dormitory.
So that was not a protester showingirony to the tenth power that, in

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fact was a student, Who's going, I do we have finals? What
are we doing? I gotta getout of here. So where is the
commitment on the campus of UNC tothose students? And if it was a
bunch of here's what I would askthe committee. If you had a bunch

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of students, go to that flagpole, tear down the American flag and
put up the Gadston flag. Allright, little that comentate or or you
know, a little, a littleyou know, don't tread on me action,

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or who the hell knows, justa just a gop flag. I
promised that this committee might have differentconclusions if it was done so in the
in the same manner that this wasdone. So, yeah, I had
hope. Yesterday I told you howgreat it was to see adults adulting in

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what happened there. And I stillbelieve that by getting a handle on this
to the extent that you can.Sure there may be people radicals who want
to escalate it. You should seewhat's going on at UCLA. I'll give
you an update there. But ultimatelyit draws a line in the sand that
says, this is the behavior thatwon't be tolerated. And arguably that's the

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job of every adult within an organization. I mean, people will want to
act like adults right that are ina leadership position. And if you are
an instructor, I don't care ifyou're on this committee or not. You're
in a leadership position. You haveauthority and setting those guidelines for what he

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is or is not permissible is notoutside the bounds of how we do things.
And yes, you can still offera wide berth within an academic setting,
there has to be certain standards.So yeah, that's the part that
they think is a bad look.These are highly educated people. These are
folks who have the ability to failor pass your kid. That's terrifying and

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that is the real cancer here.All right, we'll be back Kcoday Radio
program. Yes, so college insanitythat obviously will continue to be featured here
on the show. I'm blown away. I shouldn't say that. Initially I
was, and I think it's justbecause my head was in the wrong place,

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right, I just I came upfor a little happy air for a
half second on the whole UNC thing. I was really enjoying watching it Will
fund Me yesterday. I'm just sosad. I didn't see it till the
end of the show, but yeah, all came cra I should back down

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to earth when I had to readthat. The Faculty Advisory Committee thinks that
it wasn't a good look to Idon't know, restore order to the campus
because it's one it's the ideological partof it, but it's also the Heckler's
veto thing right where they're like,oh, you've done it now now these

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people who were breaking the law aregoing to break the law more and it's
all your fault. I don't thinkthey needed that. I don't know if
you've noticed on the various campuses thatthere's escalation of things, right, and
on other campuses they have not escalatedat the same rate and in some cases
ceased. Florida largely in Florida,you're just not seeing this. You see

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little squirts of it during the dayand all of that. And by the
way, that's perfectly legal. Youwant to go do that instead of going
to CALC, then you're within yourrights to do it. But there's things
you can't do. And in Floridathey're just saying, look, this is
the line. If you cross it. Here's the consequences. You know,
how life is supposed to work.So that approach seems far better than what

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is devolved on UCLA's campus. Idon't know if you know this overnight police,
LAPD officers, or perhaps it wascampus police. Anyway, please at
UCLA, they went in because theencampment they were given until six pm last
night, and you got to getyour crap out of here, and a

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big swath ignored it, and theybarricaded themselves with like palettes. And what
happened was you had this incident witha Jewish female student who she got injured.
She got injured while being surrounded inthe middle of frantically moving protesters and

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ended up literally getting knocked out,and they drag her unconscious body out of
there and they took her to thehospital. I think she's a med student
too. And everyone's like, oh, the only video is here already on
the ground with crap kicked out ofher. How do you know they did
it? And I'm like, Idon't know, I kind of know.
What were you guys was at aprayer circle? Were you guys were using

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your feet? I'm unfamiliar with howthat prayer circle works. But okay,
and what happened, Well, agroup of students, some of they're being
say that they're all Jewish students.They're clearly not all Jewish students, but
people who were irritated by that,they decided they were going to go uh
melee with the protesters and police didn'tinject themselves. One dude got racked in

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the face with one of those palettesbecause he's like, I'm gonna bring him
a shield, and that got takenaway from it, and that didn't go
well. But it's a general stateof lawlessness. Students or student group or
people affinity you know, outside agitartanwhatever you want to call it. They
shouldn't be literally having a what's thewhat's the why? Kind of never remember

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this term battle royale I just thinkof the video game in a way.
Anyway, they should not be havinga battle royale in the middle of campus.
Okay, So police gave until sixlast night, and in the middle
of the night they said, allright, we're going to do this,
and they moved in and the protesterswon. They literally fought them off,

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and the police retreated and set upa perimeter outside. It's crazy. Meanwhile,
in New York, I'm telling youman. Meanwhile, in New York
you had actions by the NYPD ofboth Columbia and the City. Cooney or

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CuNi or is that what they callit? Was allege the City College of
New York right, Sorry, I'veonly ever seen it on Law and Order.
But they went in there and MayorAdams gave a little pressure. And
remember I mentioned escalation and how thingsescalate. Well, now I hope the

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Faculty Committee of UNC sees this.Well. There were two operations tonight.
One was with Keuney and one waswith Columbia University. And once I became
aware of the outside agitators who werepart of this operation, as Columbia mentioned
in their letter and their requests withthe New York City Police Department, it

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was clear we had to take appropriateactions of when our intelligence division identified those
who are professionals, well trained,one of them was married to someone that
was arrested for terrorism. We knewthese children were being exploited and they were
in danger, and would have beenirresponsible not to reply to requests from Columbia
University. And I saw people saying, well, you're not your spouse on

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some of this, but when youare a protest consultant. Yes, that's
the thing. By the way,there's a couple of big ones, both
of them women, and one ofthem was there at Columbia. There was
another video where they had brought inan instructor to train train. I guess

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to the extent that you can inhand to hand combat. So you're just
flying a drone over watching that.But when you have the you know,
the term that I like to usea nexus to terrorism, you have to
stop and ask yourself, how isit that people associated with terrorism saw what
was going on and decided that theirservices were needed. Like this is the

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insaneanity of it. You sit thereand run around in a HAMAS headband.
The logical conclusion is that a groupthat is public relations oriented might seize upon
that, and there might be somebad folks considering HAMAS is literally a terrorist

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organization. And that's not just me. That's our State Department and the United
Nations specifically part of it. Withthe UN they slice and dice a little
tighter. But so the logical conclusion, if you're walking around going I love
terrorists, that a terrorist may go, hey, how you doing, and

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by the way, not with yourbest interest in mine with their own is
highly predictable. So yes, maybeat UNC we should not be in a
position where it could get to this. Just my two cents right there,
But hey, what do I know, just just an idiot barking into the

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radio that you know can think andliterally has watched this, and all these
committee members have watched this. Theyknow what's up, they know what's up,
and they just don't care. Bythe way, did you see the
food delivery coming into Columbia yesterday?So like remember remember the quote yesterday was

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humanitarian supplies. We need humanitarian supplies, and then you see this food delivery
where they're literally pushing all of thisstuff through the fence and it's high end
sandwiches and my personal favorite, theseGerman butter cookies that are have been around
for about eighty ninety years, soif you want to do the math on

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that when that might have been popularin Germany initially they're really expensive, but
I will say this, I believethere is a whole stick of butter in
each cookie. And you know,when you're talking about your comrades dying of
thirst in a building equipped with waterfountains, as somebody put a little photo

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gallery, there's water fountains everywhere andare starving to death, and you're eating
a twenty dollars sandwich with a twentydollars box a small box of cookies.
Some are questioning, really how insaneyou are? But also very on brand

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that you would have legacy German buttercookies. And if you think I'm reading
into this, then you didn't seethe list that was floated of the protesters
needs Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're
going to get into that. Also. I didn't even get into this yesterday.
I was gonna hit Mark with ityesterday, but obviously there was some

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very serious topics with the lieutenant governor, the college stuff, and obviously the
the officers killed in Charlotte. ButI feel like I do have to address
it today. Ross. Are youfollowing the Hulk Hogan seven hundred club insanity?
I knew you would be to usethe words of the of the the

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faculty there. Do you think someof that might have quote not been a
good look or again no, it'sgood? Oh okay, all right,
all right, see if you don'tknow anything about this, here's the teaser
ready ghost voicemail. We'll leave thatthere We'll get to that and much more

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coming up here on the CaCO DayRadio program. Dude, that is going
to be a hellacious party. Ican't even imagine. I'm referring to the
what would started as a fifteen thousanddollars rager. I just realized its probably
go check to see if they takingit down yet, because that was my
prediction. If you don't know whatit is. A go fund me emerged

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yesterday and I didn't see until liketwenty minutes after the show. It was
very sad about that, and thego fund me in this case was a
I will read. I don't worry. I'm gonna read the listing because it's
it's pretty funny. But basically itwas on behalf of that the photos that

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emerged, which I are now iconic. They're everywhere of the students standing around
and they're, you know, holdingthe weight of this giant American flag that
their cohorts had torn down so theycould put the Palestinian flag up. And
a lot of the the guys picturedin that are a are part of a

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fraternity, okay, so they youknow that that goes viral. That whole
thing, just the whole incident butthen also specifically a thread that was written
by one of the students, whichwasn't it didn't give me bro all right,
so I have a derogatory term thatI'll use not just for college students.

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And frankly, this totally probably wouldhave fit me at this age.
But it's kind of stereotypical frat stuff. And I call them bro bros and
WU girls, right, bro brosand WU girls, And I think it's
fairly accurate. Woo girls are justa rid of bar and a bunch of
twenty sums there and every now andthen when the fuzzy navels roll around,

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whooo yeah, okay, all right, great when I was twenty obnoxious now,
but hey, if you want tohave fun, have fun. So
the thread didn't strike me as someyou know, some frat bro exaggerated frat
bro from like Revenge of the Nerds, right, struck me as somebody who

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was pretty balanced. I saw someof them also point out that they they're
not even taking an official position onthis because they don't feel that they have
enough knowledge to dig into a side, just simply their individual in the individual
overriding reason that they injected themselves.There is because it flew in the face

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of what what what they feel isproper behavior here in America, and you
know, desecrating that flag. Youcan have a variety of opinions of what
the flag symbolizes, but you're notgoing to do that, especially when it's
not your flag. And they alsorealized that it reflects on the totality of
them. So it was at thatpoint they decided to get up in there,

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and uh, that went super viral. In fact, I saw somebody,
sorry, this this go fund me, and I'm gonna read the language
of it, and and all ofa sudden, within like thirty minutes,
things just got crazy. The originalGoFundMe requested fifteen thousand dollars be raised so

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that the brothers of Pi cap ofPhi could quote throw a rager. I'm
just making sure it's still up.Oh, I cannot believe this is still
up. And they have set anew goal. They'd have to. It's

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entitled PI cap Offi men defended theirflag, throw them a rager. What
initially stated a goal of fifteen thousanddollars quickly surpassed that. I got win
of it at about the two thousanddollars mark. We you know, like
ten minutes into it, and bythe time I went back just to check
some of the comments on the postthat I'd made on social media, they
were already at like thirteen thousand.That number right now stands at three hundred

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and twenty five thousand dollars three hundredand twenty five. I don't know how
many fraternity members there are. Itprobably wouldn't pay all their tuition, but
you can have a really nice partyand probably save yourself some student loan a
headache down the road. You didn'tgo to a bad art school, so

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you're not gonna get yours forgiven,so kudos to that. But here's the
listing for this. Uh oh,they have an update says, we are
overwhelmed by your glorious patriotic Americans whovalue good beer in great times and in
contact with multiple leaders from fraternities whosemembers help defend the flag and they're given

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credit. Look at that. They'reeven giving credit to other fraternities a p
few others. That's alf epslum pieanyway, So they'll keep you updated.
But here's what the initial listing said. Quote Kami, Losers across the country
have invaded and I want to bevery clear, this is not for the

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fraternity guy talked about. Who organizedthis? All right, Kami. Losers
across the country have invaded college campusesto make dumb demands of weak university administrators.
But amidst the chaos, the screaming, the anti Semitism, the hatred
of faith and flag, stood aplatoon of American heroes, armored in vineyard

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vines and Patagonia. Probably you forgot, Peter Millar, probably should thrown that
in there. Fueled by zin andwhite clause, these triumphant brohemians protected old
glory from the unwashed Marxist horde,laughing at their shrieks and whales, and
shielding the stars and stripes from Sovietmissiles. These boys know, these men

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of unc Chapel Hill Pi cap Igive their best to America, and now
they deserve the best. Help usraise funds to throw this frat the party
they deserve, a party worthy ofthe boat shoed rolatariat. Who did this
country proud? That is crazy,man. I think I neglected to tease

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one thing at the beginning of theshow, excuse me, and that is
our conversation with Steven kent our NERDcorresponded, that'll happen one hour from now.
Okay, so and we got wegot all sorts of insanity to talk
about with him. I want tocontinue on this topic of this go fundme

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because when I initially saw it yesterdayand I tweeted out what was it along
the lines of this amazing, Igot to think that GoFundMe takes this down
because we've seen that right where therehas been very very political decisions made seemingly
with double standards on what will orwill not be allowed on go fundme and

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a couple of the others. Yousaw it with the truckers in Canada,
but she also saw it for muchmore innocuous stuff. And at the same
time, you could you could goout and there'd be fundraisers for every moon
back cause under the sun, andthat was fine. Or better example,
they you know, go fund mecame out and they'd be like, oh,
you can't raise money for you know, surrounding criminal activity and they and

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they were remember they were raising moneyfor life. Think it was it was
January sixth, fundraisers right where theywere lawyers and stuff they were doing it.
They took all those down and yetallowed for fundraisers for people who were
arrested to be LM protests, andso I didn't think this thing stood a
chance. And I am so gladto bring you this update. Remember the

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amount of money is now three hundredand twenty five thousand or something like that,
and the original goal was fifteen.So that's a hell of a party
you're talking about, all right.So here's the update from the organizer,
says quote a programming note. Wehave identified a world class event planner.

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Her name is Susan. Is thiswell, yeah, I think I know
exactly who this is. Her nameis Susan Charity Hart at work. Yeah,
because she's the beneficiary here. Itis Susan Ralston. Oh, that's
funny. She was an assistant toBush, worked in the White House.
We have identified a world class Ifit's the same person, a world class

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event planner named Susan already hard atwork who worked in the White House,
knows what that's about. So literally, the person planning this party now is
a person who was involved in planningpresidential galas. Now she worked in a
slightly different capacity. I don't knowto the totality of her duty. If
it's the person I'm thinking that itis. Yeah, you know this turn

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it, This thing's gonna turn intobrewsters millions. Right, how do you
spend three hundred and fifty thousand?I mean, I know you can you
read about those crazy uh you know, celebrity yacht parties or whatever, like
they spent three million or some ofthose Middle East parties like in Dubai and
Era, you know, the ArabEmirates folks. So everyone's running around and

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like, you can't just have alambo. You gotta have a lambo with
an eight inch lift kit and mudtires or something. Right, you got
to stand out. So when theythrow parties, it's crazy town. So
yeah, you could spend three hundredand fifty I don't know how I would.
But I also I don't like bigold parties, even though clearly the

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things that would normally annoy me aboutit, like having a clean up after
those, it all be negated becauseI got three fitty to drop on a
party. So they top tier plannersthere. And here is the part that
I'm good with. Let's see anotherfine America. I'm just gonna I'll read

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you the whole update. Another FineAmerican is Wheels Down in North Carolina,
and I working to identify all ofthe noble born Rochacho's How many puns does
this dude have anyway? Who stooddown the frumpy hordes with nothing more than
a pastel shirt and a smile.Go Fundme has dispatched a member of their

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team to work closely with us andensure your donations do as God intended to
show these guys enough fireworks to blowtheir Oakley aviators right off their face.
It was forty eight years ago thisweek the Cubs outfielder Rick Monday snatched the
American flag from that grimy from thegrimy hands of law hair Trotskyites. I

(38:01):
do remember that the videos out there, It's pretty iconic, saving it from
incineration the crowd, then giving thema standing ovation. All right, so
this thing, so, I guessthey're not gonna take it down. But
I guess what does that mean?They're gonna Every penny has to be spent
on a party? Can it gotowards tuition? I don't know what the

(38:22):
parameters are. I'm sure we willknow more. Uh, but as the
oh yeah, they gotta invite trueoh straight up. I saw John Rich
offer to play it. I thinkKid Rock, the Kid Rock way in
or somebody somebody said that, Ihave to verify that the kid Rock weighted.
I didn't. I forgot to lookit up this morning. But again,

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I don't like big parties, butI want to go. I want
to go see that. Can youimagine Kid Rock and John Rich massive party.
Gotta have gotta have fireworks, obviouslythat's a that's a given, and
you know everything else, and thenTrump rolls in on that thing, the

(39:07):
absolute pandemonium. These kids are gonnahave themselves a big old party and it'd
be crazy. And I promise thatif even if there's even a slight disruption
in the traffic flow because the formerlike if Donald Trump showed up or Kid
Rock or whoever the hell it is, all of a sudden, these same
faculty members who are you know,down for whatever, are gonna have problems.

(39:30):
Just my prediction. I guess we'llwait and see. I guess we'll
wait and see. Also, Ido feel for him, because I also
think you might get people tried tothe provocateurs, you know, roll in
there and then all of a suddenthey they get a little that little Patriot
Front vibe, right, attempting toreflect poorly on those guys who the hell

(39:52):
knows man, that's how paranoid Iam. I don't think I'm wrong either,
because remember, you know, theends justify the means, standing there
and lying, lying during a pressconference. Miss, I'm studying Marxist poetry
to get my doctorate. Lion conflatinghumanitarian aid with your need for a twenty

(40:15):
dollars high end Deli sandwich and someGerman butter cookies. German butter cookies that
been around for about as long asyour World War II relative. Interesting look,
And if you think it's not deliberate, then you don't know what's up.

(40:37):
Because there is an insane demands list, or not demands, they have
their own demands list. There isan insane request for donations list I saw
yesterday from one of the student groups. Here we go, urgent needs headlamps,

(40:57):
air soft goggles, gas masks,skater helmets. Wait, what are
you guys gearing up for? Huh? Rain ponchos, utility gloves, umbrellas,
knee pads. What are those four? I've seen your anyway meta EpiPens?

(41:19):
Uh? I hate that feature.There we go, headlamps. We're
gonna say, but here's what here'swhat's for food? Here we go.
This is this is the part thatthat that struck me. Hot food for
lunch. Important. It says veganfood, gluten free food. Ice.

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However, and then in bold capsthey have the nose do not donate you're
ready coffee, packaged food, bananasif you don't know the bananas thing.
One of the member or one ofthe protesters is allergic to bananas. So
counter protesters have been standing on theirside the line eating bananas. No no

(42:04):
bagels? All right, I thinkI know the end. What's wrong with
the bagels? I mean, thisis this is from Colombia. You're in
New York City. What's wrong withthe bagels? Why? Why is that
on the list? Do New Yorkersnot enjoy a delicious bagel? You don't

(42:24):
even have to You don't have tobe from New York. Hell, if
you live in the Triangle. Nowwait, hold on, Ross has a
theory here? What is what isthat, sir? That there might be
a Jewish connection with I mean,yeah, possibly, I mean if they
want to make one, well,how come Matza ball soups? Done?
On there? They want hot foodbringing matsa ball soup or something or mana,

(42:49):
although they wouldn't get that. Soyeah, this is how this is
how dumb all of this is.No bagels to Jewish that's the only reason.
I mean, yeah, that's absolutelyhorrible. That's the only reason that
that's on there. If you needif you know, if you're still on
the fence somehow in this issue andyou're like, man, which side should
I be on? Yeah? Yeah, it's probably you want to be on
the side that's gonna eat bagels.Like if you're the point where you're like,

(43:14):
I'm not gonna eat bagels because thereyou know jew bagels, kid,
right right, you're on the wrongside of history there, buddy, hold
on, hold on, can Iyou know I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna
do the Kleinfelters thing, Like withthe trans argument, they're like, what
about all the people with this?And you'd be like, oh, you
mean this thing that wouldn't even accountfor one half of one percent? Okay,

(43:35):
what if instead of eating the evilbagel, you threw it at a
minority during your protest? All right, so it was like a super old
bagel because you wouldn't want to throw. No, no, so it's like
a rock, it's like a stone. Well, I mean that would be
I'd be one way to uh.I mean that probably would be preferred if

(43:57):
you're gonna weaponize them. But let'sjust say any old bagel and and your
drink. And let's say I don'tknow, you're a white college student and
you're throwing that on minority police officerand he used the bagel that way rather
than consuming it. Like is thata loophole? I don't know. But
you don't write no bagels on thereif that's not a Jewish rest reference,

(44:19):
because I can I can't in mybrain come up with any other reason for
them. No nuts, what else? I don't know, Yeah, basically,
but yeah, the bagels thing justlike what what now? I want
a breakfast bagel? Sausage on that? Or oh? Or no, what's

(44:45):
the the spicy cap cola? Youever have that fried up? And then
put on a breakfast bagel with someeg? Oh, what is the what's
the bagel place? On? Fallsof the New York bagel? I think
they have one? They have onetoo down south there? Ah, they
do not, They do not advertise, and the line will be long if

(45:07):
it's weekend. But I could eatthose every morning, but not if I
was a protester, apparently, allright, eight eight eight nine three four
seven eight seven four. So hyeah, We're just we're surrounded by insanity,
and so much insanity that I haven'treally had a chance to dip into
this, but I feel like wehave to. So Hulk Hogan is getting

(45:35):
some attention following an interview he didwith the seven hundred Club. Okay,
all right, look, I don'tknow. I don't know that you know
the faith Hulk Hogan's faith journey.I don't know all of that. I
know obviously, you know there thereis a certain complexity to somebody who is

(45:55):
a very public person but also hasfound himself controversy within his own sport,
controversy with the whole bubble, thelove sponge stuff and that. Like,
there's a lot to unpack there.But okay, I don't know where he's
at on his journey of faith.But let's hear what the Holkster has to

(46:15):
say. And he says some stuff. One, he's got some new merch.
We'll talk about that in a moment, but it's this part right here.
I was trying to extract it fromthis longer. I'll just read it
to you. It's not that long, and I will not do it in

(46:37):
a Hogan voice because it'll it won'tsound good. All right, So during
the interview, and I'm quoting verbatimhere, PAULK. Hogan talked about the
death of Roddy Piper, and specificallya voice message he received two days after
Roddy Piper died. Rowdy Roddy Piper, all right, two days after his

(47:00):
death, Hulk Hogan told the sevenhundred Club quote. It was a voice
message that came in two days afterhe died, and it goes, I'm
just loving you, my brother,just walking with Jesus, walking with Jesus
and loving you, my brother.You got a ghost voicemail from Roddy Piper.

(47:30):
Some people are questioning that, somepeople that Rowdy Roddy Piper called Hulk
Hogan from heaven. No, Imean I got a voicemail from the Iron
chic when after you passed, afteryou passed away, Oh wow, he

(47:52):
called Hulk Hogan a jabbroni and hehung up the phone. From beyond the
gray, from beyond, so holdon the iron cheeks in heaven. For
this or I'm not judge. I'mjudge. I'm just trying to I want
to understand the parameters here. Yeah, you know he didn't make that clear.
He just made the Japroni thing.Okay, all right. My buddy's

(48:13):
wife has one of the funniest takeson all of this insanity. And you
know, this is this is why, this is one of the things I
do love about doing this right,because people see things through a different lens,
a different thoughts on it, andsometimes it annoys you because it's opposed

(48:34):
to your position. Sometimes it's justfun to have the debate, and other
times it's kind of fascinating to seehow people's brains work. And it was
it was predicated on did you seethe Megan Kelly clip where she kind of
voiced what I think we've said onthe show before and others it's like why
are none of them hot? Andthen the the comments yesterday where the guy

(48:58):
and that's the man on the streets, like, you know, the only
reason they're doing this because they don'tget invited to the frat parties and nobody
left sex with them. That wasa college professor who said that during an
interview the other day and it kindof came full circle, and it was
to explain why there is this gravitationof these uh, these liberal white women

(49:20):
to so embrace what is going tobe a culture in practice that would be
as almost almost as completely opposed tothe role that they feel women have in
society, and why they would embracethat. Why would you if you count

(49:42):
yourself amongst a you know, somesort of feminist freedom fighter, would you
think that you would be able tomaintain that attitude if you lived in Palestine?
I don't. That's this is oror I Ran. Did you see
these did you see the fire Iranianwomen doing a TikTok dance? Except this

(50:04):
one's finally one that's not annoying becausethey're doing it because a fourteen year old
showed her hair and was beaten todeath. So these five women decided to
do, you know, their clotheslike they look like you would see an
American woman walking around, but obviouslyfar outside the bounds of what the morality

(50:25):
police in Iran would allow, aswell as big segment of society that does
the you know, the murder andon behalf of the state. That's that's
just that's that's who you want tocozy up to. Only her theory was
this, and I can't remember what'sthe what's the is the kerfuff? What
was called it? A kerfuffle?Whatever the next scarf thing is like?

(50:50):
She said that. Her theory wasthat the reason that you have all of
these white women doing that is notfor not because they are immune from social
press, but because it is fashionable. And when she said, the outfit
is fashionable, including that scarf,and these are women who won't admit it,

(51:13):
but they're literally chasing trends within theirmetropolitan area. And you can't just
show up with one without because thenyou look like you're a follower. So
you have to be amongst the trendsetters to pull the look off. I
can't explain all the stuff she said. I was dying, man, I'm
like, so it all comes downto women mad at other women over fashion.

(51:37):
Not my take, but one thatI thought was was pretty funny.
So I throw that out to you. I told her she should call the
show and explain it. She didn'twant to do it cause she she has
all the fashion terms down. Idon't. I didn't even I didn't even
know what was that movie with MerylStreep Slow the Fashion One and Anne Hathaway,

(52:01):
Like, I didn't even watch thatthing. I just know it exists.
So my level of high end fashionis unfortunately not where it should be.
That's gonna be one of the weakpoints here on the show. All
right, let me get over tothis. Oh yeah, I'm sorry.

(52:21):
I did the I did the Hoganthing, and I read the quote and
I forgot he has merched too,and that has people upset. Help me
out here because I haven't seen ityet. So he's selling in his merch
story. It's like a John youknow, three sixteen on the front,
but on the sleeves it says HulkCogan, So that looks like he's profiting.
And he has another one I sawwhere just on the front of the
shirt it's in the hul Cogan yellowa crucifix. So imagine the crucifix,

(52:46):
imagine the cross in the shirt,and then on the you know where Jesus's
arms would be, right, drawedtwo vertical lines there. That's the design.
So it looks like two h's onthe cross. Ah. Some are
saying sort of blasphemous profiting that way. Here's here's I have some thoughts,

(53:08):
and the first on the first Tshirt, my thought is oz Steve Austin.
You get what I'm driving at.Oh yeah, of course, okay
Austin three six like yeah, Ithink once you put your imagery or name
on, it's on the cross.It's part of the cross design. It's

(53:30):
a crucifix with two vertical lines wherethe arms would be, so it forms
like two h's on the cross.You know that, you know that,
you know the worst part of thatis too is people people can be mad
at him for religious uh you know, idolatry or blasphemy, but also what
you know what h H is rightanytime? Yeah, even though they're his

(53:50):
initials. That's a white supremacist code. Remember we learned that that's on the
list of white supremacist code because itmeans Hyle Hitler. So Paul I forgot
all about that. Yeah yeah,and he can be like, well,
it's uh, oh Cogan. Imean it's obvious, and you would make
the mistake that obvious means obvious.By the way, when I am literally

(54:15):
doing sorry this is listen, payattention people people sending me an email mad
that I said Palestine, I'm wasdoing a character of one of these moonbat
women. Do you understand that?So you're arguing with something that doesn't exist.

(54:37):
Make better use of your time thismorning, follow along or wait for
the podcast. You can slow thespeed down or speed it up. These
are constitutional republic emails. So you'regiving me permission to speed up the podcast?

(54:59):
Where because that'd be funny? YouI'm gonna speed it up by like
ten Not you, I mean peoplewho would go on the iHeart radio app
and listen to it. You can. Ah, that's a shame, because
it'd be fun. Why would youdo that? I don't be fun,
do you do? You want todeal with the hell that would be the
inbox? I just ignore it anyway, he would, But I would.

(55:20):
I would like a chipmunk version ofthe podcast, or a really uh like
a nine hour version? Why isthe podcast nine hours? This morning?
And then you do youse something?Andre? Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Man uh AnyWho? All right,let's let's race here. I got
a pivot on this. Man racedagic from the Weather Channel joining us and

(55:45):
man, oh mine, what aday? What a day? Dude?
Did you see that bear? Didyou see that bear? Oh? How
do you not know about this,dude, But should I live a sheltered
life? Okay? So a bearname bears name is Juniper. Okay,

(56:06):
and Juniper lives at the Woodland ParkZoo in Seattle, right all right?
And uh, you know, Idon't know if you know this. Bears
are omnivores, but they're really theopportunistic, Like they don't just eat meat
and vegetables, they eat anything.It's crazy with a bear will in jest

(56:27):
and so bears just chilling in itsenclosure and then uh well, let's let
me just play some audio and thenI'll fill in the black. Hey man,
Oh no, okay, we can'twatch this, Hey buddy, can
you leave them alone? Can wenot? She's negotiating with the bear.

(56:52):
It's not nice. But by theway, by the way, you know
it's a bunch of moms there becausethey're using formal names in a scolding manner
and it's every mom other all right. So what did what what did Juniper
do? Uh? A mama duckand her ducklings. I guess saw the

(57:15):
barren closure. It has a giantlike pond in it, and they're like
that looks like a nice lake andJuniper is like those look like chicken nuts.
I and by the way, I'musing the quote from the story because
Juniper collects the ducklings and starts anddoes what nature does, but like drags
them over right against the glass whereeveryone is and just one by one like

(57:42):
quote. There is the quote inthe story like nuggets, man, and
some people are freaking out. Iironically, it doesn't look like the kids
were that phase by it, whichis crazy. I guess, well,
I believe that. Yeah, that'swhat that's what That's what happened, ye
man, Yeah, yeah, well, I appreciate that. It's well,
let's think I'll put off lunch fora little while but help people with their

(58:06):
diets, right exactly exactly. Butthe people upset, you know what,
go to Yellowstone and uh just standaround covered in uh honey for about ten
minutes and try to negotiate with thebaron. Let me know how it goes
anyway. I'm sorry, you goright ahead. Yeah, yeah, I
was gonna say. It's pretty decent. Next couple of days do have some

(58:28):
problems visibility wise to the east thetriangle leven just east, there are some
lower visibilities around Smithfield. That's southeastof Raleigh, and also as you get
near Franklin County at the airport twomile visibility quarter mile in Smithfield, and
then further east down there Rocky Mountsabout quarter mile there is a dead fog
advisory to go east. It doesn'tlook as good as you go west.

(58:50):
We got ten plus mile visibility andit looks great. Most of us basking
in the sunshine of the warmth againtoday, mid upper eighties. Tonight clear
in the sixties. Tomorrow near ninefor the Triangle. Try it mid up
for eighties. And then as wego through the weekend and some showers around.
Maybe a few thunderstorms on Saturday,and showers are likely Sunday afternoon,
and that will keep temperatures in loweighties. So two bar drive warmth even

(59:13):
hot days for this time of year. For the weekend looks a little bit
damp. Okay, all right,man, I appreciate it. Sorry about
the duck thing night, but ifI have to know, no, no
problem, I can bear it.Really see yeah, sorry, no,
no, nope, that's not okay. Speaking of not okay, there are
some people that are not pleased witha pastor, and I kind of understand

(59:44):
why I will explain coming up next. Hang on, all right, you
know what, here's what I'm justI don't I do not have the energy.
Why do you say Palestine? Andwe're of a lot of nuances.
You're you're not aware of a lotof nuances you have. You have demonstrated
the inability to comprehend the conversation thatwas just going on. I am,

(01:00:08):
in that conversation pretending to be oneof these insane, insufferable Marxist poetry white
women, justifying why I would feelthat my super girl boss attitude would even

(01:00:29):
remotely comport over in what I wouldaffectionately refer to as Palestine, because again,
it's through that lens, in thesame way that her doctorate is through
the lens of Marxism. And itis a it is a way to be
sarcastic and mocking to obvious insanity.Okay, so and now let's see,

(01:00:57):
now I just blocked your emails.Well you just go to my junk folder
now, Yeah, now I'm inthat kind of mood though. Pay attention
to people. Here. Here's somethingto pay attention to. Do you know
who Pastor John MacArthur is the big, big, big church out in California.

(01:01:19):
But I think most people probably knowhim if they watch any of the
Christian radio or television program I goeslisten to. He hosts a program called
Grace to You, and he's doingsome event and they were talking about what
I think is a very valid topicand I think an interesting one through the
lens of faith and religion, andthat is the pharmaceutical industry. Mental health

(01:01:42):
issues, especially mental health issues surroundingkids, mental health issues surrounding the way
in which we treat soldiers, andare we doing the right thing or are
we being led around by a farmbig pharma who just want there, let's
just have a pill for it.Everything's got to have a pill for it.

(01:02:07):
That's a reasonable discussion because there's alot there. You know, what,
why why are our gis different todayfrom a PTSD perspective than perhaps GI's
in World War Two? And youknow, there's a lot that says that
they aren't that you know, peoplejust they were more they would bottle stuff
up. But there's also the ideawhere you have this you had this time

(01:02:31):
to decompress, especially if you werereturning via ship, and so you know,
you spend in three weeks or whateveron in the open ocean around a
bunch of other people that just sawthe same horribleness you did. You talk
about it or you don't, oryou commiserate or you or you learn to
deal with it. There's these areall very valid discussions. This though from

(01:02:52):
MacArthur. People are pod and Iabsolutely get it. There's two cuts here.
I'm gonna play the in order,but the first one is really where
this thing kicked off and oh whyis this thing being crazy? Now?

(01:03:15):
There we go? All right,so here we go, fire away,
mister pastor, sir, there's nosuch thing as PTSD. There's no such
thing as OCD. There's no suchthing as ADHD. Okay, that's that's
a that's a big statement there,And I feel like you have to take
these one at a time. Iagree, because there's like there's like an

(01:03:37):
affliction for everything. Some of themare just ridiculous to the point where we
talk about them here, and ifyou want to think that, that's you're
welcome to think that. But let'stake them one at a time, because
I think where most people are stickingon this is the PTSD, Because now
this isn't a debate about whether we'retoo quick to go to pharmaceuticals and maybe
there's better alternatives. You're just straightup saying it's not a thing. Maybe,

(01:04:02):
but maybe I'm misconstrained it. I'mgonna let's play the all of it
audio, so I'm not accused ofmisconstruing it. Those those are noble lies.
Two basically give the excuse two inthe end of the day to medicate

(01:04:26):
people, and Big Farm is incharge of a lot of that. All
right. So again the assertion,because he's now clarified and he's still on
this is not that PTSD maybe beingimproperly treated, but that it's not real.
What this Isn't this dude doesn't Hehas one of the big study bibles,

(01:04:54):
is his, the Protestant Bible andMacArthur Bible or whatever that's out there.
A lot of people use it.But you're getting over into like faith
healing stuff here. Man. It'sbeen a heavy week from a news perspective,
some uplifting, most of it not, and frankly just haven't been able

(01:05:14):
to do a lot of deviations.So I'm very excited to welcome in Stephen
Kent, our official NERD correspondent anddistraction from all the horribleness, although occasionally
where politics does overrun entertainment, we'llget into it. How you doing,
Steven, I'm doing great. Itis my life goal to distract you case
you deserve it. Me. Youneed the audio to distract the audience because

(01:05:36):
if not, all they see islunatics burning stuff on campuses and you know,
all the other horribleness of the day. Although that can be amusing about
the time the hats and bats comein, but how dare you say that
they are liberating buildings? They are, and they're liberating expensive Deli sandwiches,
German butter cookies, but not bagels, according to their own list of demands,

(01:06:00):
So you know, it's wild andpoorly I was harassing yet. I
remember I was harassing you on Twitterabout yesterday. What was it? A
some Star Wars thing that you hadposted and I couldn't just like Hani and
I had to drag politics in it. So I kind of feel bad for
that. Oh this was you were. You were on my case about Palestinian

(01:06:21):
Palestinian protesters taking over the Jedi temple. That's liberating that building. You posted
a meme there and my question waswe could settle all of this because now
we're talking about, you know,the Star Wars integrated timeline here, it
would be very helpful to be ableto go back to long long ago and

(01:06:44):
far away and maybe determine, youknow, who was first. And I
put you on the spot asking youto check the cannon map of it,
and you deflected. I saw youdeflect on that. I did. Yeah,
I didn't take a position, andthen I galaxy far far away in
the complicated place, and then Iasked who shot first? And you didn't
take the bait. So can youimagine Grito is in fact to blame for

(01:07:12):
all of the unrest in the MiddleEast? I think he certainly is the
first break in the time space continuum. When George Lucas redid Grito shooting first,
shooting first, I think that's whenour culture broke. But you know,
that's all nonsense stuff and I needto get to the important stuff.

(01:07:34):
You can stay in these X menschool, what all right? Tell me
about this? This is great,This is this is pretty exciting. The
nerds are going to have their moment. So up in Westchester, New York,
Airbnb is rolling out its new Iconsseries where they're going to have you

(01:07:56):
know about ten really really high endand crazy experiential airbmbs, and you are
able to stay in the X Menninety seven animated mansion. They basically bought
a mansion and then repainted it tolook two D on the inside, make
it look like a cartoon, andthe entire building is filled with everything from

(01:08:19):
the X Men's briefing room to Wolverine'sgym to Cyclops's bedroom. Like it's just
all sorts of total insanity. Andyou can stay there in Westchester, New
York. I don't know the pricetag, but I bet it ain't cheap.
No, I'm sure it's not.If it has a roof in Westchester,

(01:08:42):
it's probably gonna cost you. Sothat got me thinking. Ross and
I were talking off the air,if given the opportunity, which base layer
iconic thing, which would you choose, both on the good guy side and
the bad guys side, if youhad to choose, And I'll ask you
first, and then we'll get somefrom from any ip, any ip that

(01:09:08):
you know. Yeah, I definitelywould like to stay in the Separatist control
room on Moustafar, where Anakin slaughterto all of the bad guys. At
the end of episode three, Ithink that would be a really cool bungalow
area to have some hammocks. SoI was thinking maybe I could stay there
as a summer getaway experience. Thatwould be pretty neat for good guys.

(01:09:33):
For good guys. Uh, youknow, I would probably still like to
stay in SpongeBob's house. That wouldbe pretty cool. That's got a nice
slide on the inside, and youknow a lot of time spent watching SpongeBob
and that weird like triple quadruple stackedmattress that he has. So I'll stand
the pineapple. I feel like you'rewrong anyway, Ross what is yours?

(01:09:55):
Before I tell you the correct answers? Because Stephen like literally just stole all
my answers. So I'm going haveto go the board cube in pee Wee's
playhouse? Good Peewee or pee Weewants to go to the movies? Pee
Wee p G p G pee Wee. Oh, okay, guy talking to
the chair. Okay, all right, so you went with that. I

(01:10:17):
think, I I know it's uh, it sounds I will you gotta go
a Wayne manor in the back caveman on the good guy side, right,
all those toys at the ready andthen on the on the backside,
Uh, snake Mountain. Maybe thatlooked like a cool place, right you
could really what about classic classic Jumanjionce taken over by the animal looking out

(01:10:42):
of them? M. I don'tknow, man, that'd be pretty cool.
Your foot was a little breakup onyour phone there for a moment.
Sorright, So we'll we'll truck throughit. But that's actually a thing you
can do. So yeah. Ohand now I got Ross's attention real quick.
So Ross has finally also seen theNew Roadhouse and he didn't he didn't
have his positive experience. Did wetalk about this on the air, No,

(01:11:03):
we didn't. I thought it wasa good movie up until, like
you know, connorm I would say, before Connor McGregor came into that movie,
I would I was giving it likea seven or an eight. It
was. It was believable. It'sgreat. He comes in and that movie
takes a nose dive. He's cringey, and it just goes from like he
goes from being like Jake Gillenhoal goesfrom being a bouncer to like John Wick
making car bombs and stuff, andthe movie plummets to like A three or

(01:11:25):
A four. Connor McGregor is bad. Did you see the movie there?
No, I can't watch it becausemy wife has been planning to leave me
for at least fifteen years for JakeKillenhall, and I can't do it.
Well, I you sh'll have tostare at Connor McGregor's naked butt the whole
time. So maybe she'll change hertune. You can point her in a

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different direction. Yeah, he's hardto watch that. He's hard to listen,
to speak and watch walk I guesswould be the uh. I don't
understand. I don't understand what accentwas he trying to do in that movie.
I think he was trying. Ithink somebody coached him too to be
UH so that you could understand him, which has been a problem in audio

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cuts of Connor McGregor in the past. Have you ever seen a commercial for
his whiskey? I don't know whathe's selling, so I think that that,
for whatever reason, I feel likethat's maybe a vocal coach so they
could understand I guess. Man.Now in the world of movies, though,
the one I haven't seen that,I guess you have. And UH

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is civil War? Right? Andthis is a twenty four studios who I
like their stuff. Man, theyget a lot. That's from the indie
studio standpoint. They put out alot of good stuff. And but you
know, this is a this isgonna be a touchy subject. It reminds
me of that movie where they werethe Hunt or whatever and the room We're
gonna boycott this. And then Iwatched it and I thought, no,

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I mean, frankly, one theLiberals are the bad guys in that movie,
if you really hung up on it. But I also don't think it
was unfair to either side. Ijust think it was a it was a
horror movie. So Civil War.I saw the trailer where it looked like
a bunch of country country dudes,former military or one of the military guys,

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are standing around trying to decide ifthey're going quote, are you the
right kind of American? Right?And I'm looking at it, going this
looks like it's going to be ahit piece, right, Hey is it?
What say you? It's really not. And I would recommend that everybody
goes see Civil War. This moviegot a really bad shake right out of
the gate, and it's because weare in a moment of incredible division and

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tension and suspicion of our neighbors ofdifferent political stripes in this country, which
is why there's a market for thismovie at all. But this movie doesn't
address that. It's simply a reflectionof this divisive time that we have.
The movie begins with the war inaction. In fact, it's in its
final, its final weeks, likethe war is almost over, and this

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is the way the movie begins,and we never find out why it started.
We never find out any belief systemsof either sides of the war.
There is no explanation for what thisfight is about or the clash of values,
and so right out of the gate, you have nobody feeling like they're
getting the finger pointed at them inAmerica's culture war. Hollywood is very bad

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at writing scripts that don't sort ofwink wink, nod nod at things in
the news headlines, and this moviejust doesn't do that. It gives you
a civil war and you're following aseries a group of photo journalists who are
just documenting and taking photos of whatthey're seeing in between New York, West

(01:14:41):
Virginia, Northern Virginia, and Washington, DC. And it's a beautiful,
dark and really really entertaining movie.So yeah, that was going to be
my thing. How heavily do theylean into, I guess, the stereotypes
of the two sides, or isthere some crossover that you don't see?
So there are no stereotypes of eithersides. Conservative liberal, you know,

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left wing? Right wing is adead thing in this movie. It doesn't
it doesn't exist. You're dealing withlate stage civil war where this has been
going on for X many years andnobody knows why the fight began in the
first place anymore, which is prettymuch how these things always go. At
certain points in war and violence,people look in the mirror and they're like,

(01:15:28):
I don't even know why we weredoing this in the first place.
So this is the last weeks ofthe war. And the only thing that
maybe got a lot of flak rightout of the gate with this movie was
the fact that the movie stars journalists, because journalists are, you know,
to the right, the enemy ofthe American people. But I think it's
worth noting that we're not talking aboutcolumnists for the New York Times. We're

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talking about war photo journalists, likethe kind of people who spend most of
their careers in Africa, Bosnia andyou know, Eastern Europe keep documenting humanitarian
disasters like that's who these characters are. And what we get to see is
kind of how photo journalism and takingpictures of horrible things works. You know,

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how how can you stand and watcha genocide occur or executions occur and
just take pictures of it? Thatis literally people's jobs at certain news outlets
and national geographic They're just meant tobe flies on the wall. And that's
a really really cool aspect to workinto this movie, and it's not sort
of like righteous, pious journalists ona mission of truth. I went to

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I went to the National the Associationof Journalists. I'm trying to remember what,
just because it happened to be inMinneapolis when I was working up there,
and I actually went, and Iremember one of the most fascinating seminars
that I went to was the workphotographer Ducer, and they had a guy,
one of the guys there, whowas in Vietnam and took a couple

(01:16:59):
pretty kin of pictures I can't rememberexactly, and listening to those dudes was
more fascinating than almost anything I heardthere because they were literally talking about that,
So that's a that's an interesting littleange I was not aware of having
just seen the trailer there. Butif you forgot the other thing, people
are naturally untrusting of Hollywood, andthat's their own fault, right, So

(01:17:23):
absolutely, I mean they kind ofmade this bed and people don't trust the
movies that they make or the storiesthey're telling. But A twenty four,
like if you do like you said, you followed A twenty four In their
horror movies, there are a reallygood and interesting movie studio and I think
Hereditary was that's crazy, ye crazy, Hereditary, Midsomar and that movie x

(01:17:47):
IF. They just do a lotof really good art house style movies with
big budgets. So I just wouldreally recommend people go see this movie.
I haven't seen anything quite like itin a long time. Let me,
speaking of movies, this is whypeople don't trust Hollywood. I want to
read you two headlines and these areliterally posted right next to each other,

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so they were both written yesterday postedto the internet. Okay. Headline number
one. Avengers Endgame director blames declineof MCU on shorter attention spans. The
next generation is looking for ways totell their own stories that service their own
sort of collective ADHD. Al Right, So that's one headline, So this

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is the this week. We're blamingit on attention spans and not the obvious.
And then the other headline directly nextto it is quote. Despite audiences
growing tired of quote girl boss stories, Marvel Studios still wants upcoming X Men
reboot to focus on female mutants.How do those exist next to each other?

(01:18:59):
Because you know, Hollywood is notnecessarily well, it's not a hive
mind. Like when we talk aboutHollywood, just like when we talk about
mainstream media. You know, it'snot like three or four people who sit
together and just like call the shots. We're talking about an industry of a
bunch of different people with competing goalsand movie movie executive but it's one ideology

(01:19:27):
usually. Yeah, But I justyou know again, I see, like
hear in this interview with the ingame directors, in game directors with the
Russo brothers, like they they arethe creators who are trying to you know,
make movies, and I'm sorry theRusso brothers, and they're always up
against the executives, the boardroom peoplewho are trying to put their thumb on

(01:19:49):
the pulse of the culture and determinewhat's going to sell. And I think
that those two forces are always inconflict. They always have been. And
the Russo's are not like there isa collective ADHD in the culture, but
they participate in it by making moviesfor studios like Marvel that kind of dumb
everything down and make people want thingsto be shorter. The longest one they

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made, the longest one of theMarvel true it's true attention spans and they
were and by the way, wasvery good. I don't people loved Endgame.
I think it's great. It's yeah, and then we're onto this and
they're like, all right, we'regonna girl boss the X Men. Yeah.
But it's not just that it wasa long movie. It was a
long march to the movie. Itwas a four I mean, it was

(01:20:35):
a five to six year campaign ofmovies to get to Endgame and have it
all make sense in a completely cohesiveway. It was a it was a
master class in ten years of planningby a movie studio. So this this
little thing about it being ADHD,I'm not really sure that that is true.

(01:20:57):
What has changed since Endgame is everythingbeing television and episodic series. So
Marvel and Star Wars have gone theroute of television since Endgame came out,
and you could argue that that catersmore to the short form, thirty to
forty minute episodes with multiple, multipleseasons kind of storytelling that is reflective of

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people with short attention spans. Well, and yeah, that of course you
just that's another point too. Whenyou create, the only way that you
can stay fully immersed in it isyou have to watch nine different series between
the movies. Don't bitch about it, exaustly fans. All right, I
got forty five seconds. How insufferableand close to divorce? Will you be
on Saturday, May the fourth?You're going to be one of those guys.

(01:21:44):
Yeah, you know. We aredressing up and going to the Phantom
Menace. I'm pretty excited to gosee episode one in theaters because truth be
told, Casey, I don't reallyremember my experience when I was ten years
old seeing that movie. So I'mexcited to go see that with my daughter,
and we're all going to dress upand have a good time. But
I will be a little bit manic, so I hope everybody praise for my

(01:22:05):
family. All right, well,live long and prosper if I could conflate
those two and we'll talk next week. Okay, thanks Cassie, you made
the force be with you. Uhhuh uh huh. All right, we'll
be back hang on. And Ididn't realize this. So apparently in the
EU you can food companies have additionalleeway to include and not disclose in easy

(01:22:33):
to understand terms, the utilization ofbug parts in food. Now, I
will say this to some extent inthe US, there are some of the
dies are actually uh from there.And again just because you you're eating a
bug part, it doesn't necessarily posea health risk. But it's the idea

(01:22:55):
where there's kind of a little secretivenature of what they allow over there.
And and in Germany, some appdeveloper created an app so that if you're
in a grocery store, you canscan the food and it will tell you
if it's bug parts in there andnot just you know that old white you
know the old legend if you madea can of chili, there's seven drops

(01:23:16):
of rat boop. But everyone,right, remember that one people used to
tell Like in this case, it'llliterally tell you Hey, this super scientific
name that's actually like beetle butts orsomething. I don't know exactly what they
use. So at least you're aninformed consumer because chances are, especially with
the amount of dies that are evenutilized in the US, you've consumed products

(01:23:39):
that did include bug parts. However, you should if you want to research
that, that should be easy tofind. But now some guy had to
build an app and you see thesepeople just walking around a grocery store.
That is crazy to me, man, And I keep getting told there nobody's
telling you to eat bugs. Well, I guess that's technically a true state.

(01:24:00):
And if they just slip it inthere on the sly So there's that.
How did we get here? Man? How did we get to this
point where some guy has to developan app so that he can know if
he's eating you know, cockroach wingsor whatever ross. You like wings?
Right, what's uh what's the differencewings or wings? Right? Yeah,

(01:24:23):
wings are wings. To put enoughsauce on it, it'll be fine.
Oh what is this? What's makingthat? Yeah? Yeah, people are
peop they're seeing some holes in theUh this this X men thing? Somebody
did send me an email on thishold on this, or maybe they tweeted

(01:24:48):
it. They're like, uh oh, yeah, what is Jubilee gonna be
pan sexual? On her path toHere we Go? They sat the marketing
and conflated high ticket sales with widespreadacceptance. I think most I think that
I will say that into the Endgame, I think it's not a farce that

(01:25:10):
there was widespread acceptance. I didn'tsee a lot of beefs, right.
I mean, people obviously thought somemovies were better than others. But I
don't think in that first phase ofMarvel this was particularly an issue that was
raised, right or or am Ijust it's got so bad that I miss
I'm not remembering it correctly. Iremember people mocking the that scene in in

(01:25:36):
Endgame where all of a sudden,all the female superheroes are standing there looking
swoll. But I don't think anyonehated the movie for it, unless I'm
wrong and I but no, Ithink that really a lot of this stuff
was when we was well after thathow we got here? So anyway,

(01:25:56):
let's see, they will find away to screw this up. Watch The
Next X Men followed Jubilee as shefinds herself and becomes a non binary free.
You know, maybe I don't know, Like I don't even know who's
playing. They have like nine differentactresses that have played that character, so
I doubt it's It was a LanaCondor, which, by the way,

(01:26:16):
that's not her name was. Theirscreen name is Lana Condor and her name
is something dong. I realized whyshe changed it, so anyway, but
I you know, that's fine,that's gonna be the storyline whatever. I'll
probably wait until everyone else is waitin all right eight eight eight nine three

(01:26:40):
four seven eight seven four all right, few things we got to fit in
here. Dude, I thought Ithought the Onion was dead. I was
so wrong. Now it's dead.Now it's dead. And the Onion got
a little WOKEI woke kind of gotaway from there. We'll roast anybody for
anything, and that's what really allowedBabylon B to catch on, because old

(01:27:02):
school Onion is good stuff. It'sa lot of stuff, but a lot
of it's good stuff. You know, the the newscaster bits that they used
to do. Ross did you getin any of the Onion like kind of
regular series or any of the orthe Onion. I mean, they used
to be funny. Did you knowthe ones where they have like the news

(01:27:23):
panel ones and they're like, myfavorite one is they're like are they were
talking about Rock of Love and they'relike our TV hores teaching our nations whores
how to not be good whores?Right, And it's just this straight read
like where they're arguing, like they'redebating Middle East policy. It was good
stuff and then it wasn't They newteredit? College humor got newter too,

(01:27:46):
But Onion was really like, ohI used to check in all the time
with the onion to laugh. Probablyover like a decade ago. Remember the
one where they have the new executionmethod. They had Ripper offer you the
pless you do look fine? Yeah, very quick twist up. It's like

(01:28:09):
opening a bottle coat. Yeah you'refine. Well, believe it or not.
The onion, I swear to yougot bought by Ben Collins from NBC
News who was a moonbat at histime at NBC News and decide who's gonna
buy the onion and it shows theyare. This is the level of humor

(01:28:33):
you ready. This is on thecollege protest quote. These kids should be
in school instead of protesting, saypeople. So tantalizingly close to getting the
point. Uh Russ's supposed to laugh, So that's it's a got a laugh
the joke. I'm sorry, I'mI fell asleep. I'm sure it was

(01:28:58):
super funny what happened. Uh thesekids should be in school instead of protesting,
say people so tantalizingly close to gettingthe point. You can just picture
the author of this, right youcan? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
pretty proud of themselves, you think. Dude. They went and like one

(01:29:19):
of the other one was they're like, send us a dollar or will disappear
forever, and like people were sendinglike one penny app you know, like
pictures of not sending them a dollar. And that was the majority of the
reaction. So they got a wokejournalist to get run from woke journalism,

(01:29:40):
and who bought the onion? Whohas less sense of humor than a woke
journalist. I implore you to findthat person. So if it wasn't dead
before, that thing is absolute toastnow. And there's some other example.
I'm not gonna read all of it. You can do your research there.
But let's do this. Let's talkweather with Race Agic from the Weather Channeling.

(01:30:06):
They were Okay, casey a areyou I'm just I'm mourning the loss
of the onion because the guy whobought it thinks he's funny and he's not
funny. Yeah, so the onionwent away or you're just stopping. Oh
no, no, the onion ishere and the new leadership we were reviewing
some of their quote humorous headlines andthey're not so Yeah. I guess you

(01:30:30):
know humor. You can't have humoranymore. No, yeah, anymore.
So keep a straight read on theweather, don't you dare? No,
we won't dev eight records, probablynot, but close to ninety, especially
for the Triangle today, where therecord is ninety two degrees. Yesterday eighty
six was the high. And inthe Triad yesterday, why not. We'll

(01:30:53):
cater to everyone here. Today numberswere low, eighties eighty three. Today's
records ninety one, probably be heyfive eighty six. There, so a
beautiful day. Most of the fognow's going away. Last hour talked about
visibilities to the east of us downto quarter tomorrow. They're quickly now have
gone up. You've got to gopretty far east down to run into the
fog. As we go through themorning, we'll continue to see more of

(01:31:15):
the way of sunshine this afternoon.Those mile temperatures plenty of it. We'll
start to get some changes those wego through the coming days, not quite
yet, as we go through tonightand tomorrow, still warm night tonight,
as we drop back into the sixties. Tomorrow we're up into the mid number
eighties again they hit ninety and thenover the weekend that's when the change comes
in with scattered showers and butderstorms.So have an indoor plan, especially on

(01:31:39):
Saturday. The best chance of thundershell if you're going to be out and
about here, thunders is going tobe lightning, going to want to get
under cover, certainly, not goingto see any severe weather doesn't look like
or if you've been paying attention tothe weather, nothing like we're seeing in
parts of Texas right now. Whereyou know, we've got a couple of
colleges closed in Walker County and noexactly where that is, but there's water

(01:32:00):
rescues and there's basically roads closed andjust about the entire county shut down.
So there's some big problems the northnortheast of Yeah, north northeast of Houston
and around Waco, A lot ofrain come down the short period of time,
so they're like evacuated the campuses andstuff. I do know we've got

(01:32:21):
at least one campus closed. Theremay be a couple of others. Yeah,
it's been been a little tough here, hold on, I forget which
one it is. But I'm notasking for pure purposes. I just feel
like, if you lunatic college protestersare listening, there's a free place.
There's it's all yours that you allhead on down, have run, bring

(01:32:42):
your water wings or whatever version ofthat is right. All right, man,
thank you for helping plan that.Appreciate it. Yeah, look at
that. You got a whole campusto yourself. It's underwater and probably snake
swimming around and stuff, but yourfreedom fighters make it work. Okay,
And then we'll come back chat withJeff Bellinger while you're buying your ticket see

(01:33:03):
in a few minutes. Well,Morty Casey stocks were mixed yesterday, only
the Dow finished higher, but futuresare looking good right across the board.
This morning, Dow futures are uptwo hundred and twenty eight points. Employers
have cut back on hiring, Challenger, Gray and Christmas reporting this morning that
companies announced plans to add fewer thanten thousand workers in April. The number

(01:33:26):
of planned hires for the first fourmonths this year was the smallest since the
same period in twenty sixteen. Challengeralso notes there was a drop last month
in the number of planned layoffs.Labor Department reports there was no change last
week and the number of new claimsfor unemployment benefits nationwide. We get the
agency's full April employment report tomorrow.Federal Reserve left the cost of borrowing unchanged,

(01:33:50):
acknowledging yesterday. There's been a recentincrease in inflationary pressures shared Jerome Powell
told reporters he does not expect interestrates to move higher, but rates will
likely stay right where they are fora longer period. He did not rule
out radcots later in the year.Apple highlights the list of companies scheduled to

(01:34:11):
post quarterly results today. The Iphonemakerreports after the market's close, Universal Music
and TikTok have buried the hatchet.Universal has signed a new licensing agreement with
TikTok. The label had removed itsmusic from the video app back in January
because the two sides could not agreeon a deal. Back at that time.
The monthly housing report from realtor dotcom says the average income requirement for

(01:34:34):
US household to buy a median pricedhome is one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars
a year, nearly six thousand dollarsmore than a year ago. Of course,
actual income needed berries market to market. In the Raleigh carry market,
it's one hundred thirteen one thousand dollarsa year. And the case. United
Health is continuing to investigate how hackerswere able to penetrate its computer systems.

(01:34:59):
We're learning more about the devastating impactof that cyber attack on the company.
United Health CEO Andrew Whittie told theSenate Finance Committee that hackers may have gained
access to health and personal data onabout one third of the American people.
Casey, oh good, Yeah,that's one wonderful there. We'll do that
again. Hey, I got aquestion for you that's not on that.

(01:35:20):
Did you see the Airbnb story.Airbnb has added ten kind of fantastical listings.
So like, let me give youan example in the movie X Men,
where the kid the university where theX Men kids go, that house
that you can stay in that nowat Airbnb. So the question we're asking
everybody is what movie Abode or layeror whatever would Jeff want to stay in?

(01:35:45):
People, Oh, don't it beMarvel, It could be any any
ip. What do you think?Oh? Possibly the Home Alone House before
it was destroyed by the intruders.I want to be fair and call can
destroyed it on the intruder's face.So I guess maybe that. Okay,
all right, Home Alone House.We'll put you down for that, thanks,

(01:36:08):
Jeff. Okay, take care,all right? Yeah yeah, I
mean it is a nice house andit does have a hell of a security
system. But like, I wantto dream. But you know what,
Ross, I've changed mine. Youknow what I want? I want the
palace at Sparta in three hundred.So I have a hole to kick people

(01:36:28):
in to annoy me. We'll callit, Dude, having a pit would
be amazing. We'll call it thea hole hole. Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah, all right, I'm switchingto that, I said back.
I mean, the man the backcave is pretty bad. Rightly, somebody
doesn't read the note for no solicitorsright in the pits, it's right there.
How about how long have you hada note on your door not to
knock right five six years. Yeah, and uh has that one hundred percent

(01:36:53):
been honored that boom boom, boomboom. We want to change your kit
into the pit, Spartan kick rightinto the pit. They they you're open
the door for a moment, theythink that they're gonna be able to sell
something, and then boom, footto the chest and down you go.
I would also take the Temple ofDoom, same concept, more theatrical.

(01:37:15):
So yeah, it's tough to decide. It's really tough to decide. Oh
and in our God, bless thiswoman. If only setting a bar so
low that whoever comes to the WhiteHouse spokesperson job after will never be able
to they will always be better.I want you to listen to Jean Pierre

(01:37:41):
being asked about the idea. Youknow, they talk about avian flu and
cattle and all, you know,and this is concerns that people have.
Even if you think it's overblown andit's a tool to seize control or whatever,
it's still a thing out there.And so she's asked about this,
and I want you to listen toher insane response because she speaks on behalf
of the White House and the questionis on behalf of the American people.

(01:38:04):
Okay, here we go. Bringwhat's your current assessment of the risk to
the US milk meats fly from theirfood? I got get cattle. Yeah,
so I know that the Apartment ofAgriculture has been on top of this.
I know that they are not seeingany any concerns to to milk or

(01:38:26):
any of the cattle or the meator meat that we're being that we're consuming.
Why I don't consume a meat,but some of you, all of
you out there, why do why? Why? So so you don't care?
I mean you started, Okay,I don't consume meat. So what
does that mean? So if thereis, like, if there's super super
duper covid avian ebola in there,what you're gonna be like? Ah,

(01:38:51):
I didn't get it because I amvegan.