Friday-6-7-2024

Episode Transcript

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I call it an interesting collective ofstories today. Okay, obviously we got
everything, almost everything. I havea little bit of a frustration. It'll
become evident when we get into JoeBiden over in France. Okay, just

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and I don't know maybe if it'smaybe it's just because I'm in a surly
mood because I'm still, you know, recovering from not feeling well this week.
But so much meat on the bonethat you didn't have to smuggle in
a hamburger. I'll explain I'm doinga bad job setting it up, but

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I don't want to tip my handon it. Okay, So yeah,
well we'll break down what was goingon over there. But I feel like
everyone started looking at one thing andthey made that their passion, and it
kind of detracts from what the realproblem is, would be the way to

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say it. And then in therest of the stack, every just dumb
stuff, just you know, alot of really great Friday stories, little
goofy stories, interesting stuff that ain'tgoing to ruin your life, but at
the very least may make it moreinteresting today so you can share it with

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other people. We're cool with that. And then in the final hour,
beat calendar will be here, andyou know, we'll do what we do,
which is generally a mix of somestuff that's actually probably important from a
North Carolina perspective, coupled with dumbstuff. So Friday in a nutshell,

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not much of a rundown with oddities. Uh, you know that's uh,
that's how we're going to roll today. But first we got to uh.
I think that we've got to startwith the biggest upset in the history of

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sports, in the history of theworld. That is a quote I'm reading
which which took place yesterday. TheUS men's cricket team beat Pakistan or Pakistan

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or however you want to ever youwant to say it, the biggest upset
ever in the history of sports inthe history of the world. Again,
that's a quote, that's not mesaying it. So that's a thing.
Okay, it explain it to melike I'm three or maybe five. I

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don't know what's an appropriate age tooto explain that toy like five. I
read an explanation on it today becauseI was also curious that that sort of
explained it to me. Okay,good, good, good, good game
was I could do the thing whereI'm like, oh, roster cricket expert.
But no, no, no,no, hell, I mean I
kind of understand it, but it'sa blue check to sports dude. So,

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you know, a reporter guy,and he said, imagine like it's
the biggest sport in your country thateverybody in your country knows how to play
from the age of like one,Like everyone knows this, So so soccer
in a lot of prices in theworld. Not only does everybody, not
only is it the biggest sport inyour country, but your team is considered
the best players in the world.And now imagine you get beaten by guys

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who just happened to play this onthe weekend as like a hobby. Yeah,
I mean I didn't. Did youknow we had a national cricket teammate?
No idea, I mean I yes, I assume that we probably did,
just you know, just out ofsheer people are. Everybody's into something,

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right, So I and I andI know, and I've seen them
play. If you ever go tod C, you'll see us, you
know, when the when the weather'sright, you'll see guys out there in
the in the parks, around theyou know, around all of the the
attractions. You'll you'll see people playingcricket. So like I knew it.
I knew it was a bigger FOURGin sport. But you know, people

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play it around. Uh, peopleplayed around the universities. They played around
Chapel Hill and over by Duke casuallyand and so yeah, I guess I
assume, but to be any good. No, you're right, but Pakistan
is how many how many people livein Pakistan? I don't know, but
apparently they have the best players inthe world, Like they're considered the best

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players. Okay, and then wejust beat them with some dudes that were
in a bar. Was like,yeah, put me in code I one.
I don't think that's necessarily fair toall. It is not. It's
not, but comparatively speaking to youknow, the interest of what cricket is
for the country and how good ourplayers are in a national ranking, that
is what it was. We justcame in and we're like, okay,

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let's play this game, and webeat their ass. Can I This is
gonna sound really ugly American, butI don't care, especially because we got
some history with Pakistan. But itI don't know if it hits different,

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but I like it when we whipsomebody's butt at their own thing as as
a lark. Do you know whatI'm saying? This has to be like
imagine some crazy like I don't know, imagine Kazakhstan back in the day beating
Michael Jordan's dream team that just happened. That that just happened to Pakistan.

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I mean, that'd be posters comingoff walls in the US, fair or
unfair. Now, I did seesome I did see somebody who appeared to
be a Pakistan fan said, well, it's not like you guys did anything
every you know, everyone on theteam's just second generation US. And I'm
like, Aaron Jones, Uh,what was it? What was one of

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the other dude's name, Like,like, I are the dude who never
got out his name is Aaron Jones. Now, don't get me wrong,
we gotta sing a mod zimon.Uh what there was one other dude whose
names like Smith or something? Imean, Aaron Jones got bullied in Pakistan
growing up there with that, I'msure, Yeah, dude, yeah,

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yeah, you're dude named Aaron Jones. Probably a little rough come up and
all right, I don't understand allof the scoring mechanism and all of all
of that. So I will justsay I'm not gonna be able to break
down like how everything transpired, butapparently it was an ass kicking. I

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tried to learn how to play cricketover the internet, like streaming it on
twitch like the video game. Itried playing it, like learning how to
play it. And that might soundfunny, but that's literally how I learned
how play football when I was akid, like a little bit. They
they have a cricket, yeah,right. So I was like, I'm
gonna stream this. It'll be funny. It'll be like American plays cricket or
whatever. And I got a bunchof people from like England and you know,

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Middle East like watching and commenting.And so I played this game and
I streamed this game for five tosix hours. It was a pretty long
stream. At the end of thesix hours, I still had no idea
what I was doing. If youask me, how does it, I
have no idea. It's just confusing. There's a wicket and there's a You
think it's like baseball, but it'snothing like baseball. Yeah, there's They

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got some interesting terms too that I'veheard use. And I'm just saying I
don't know if I want to learnwhatever that is, but no, I've
never, never successfully learned it.So okay, all right, well,
hey, you know, congratulations andyou know we're number one, so woo

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hoo. Do our women play too? Would that be a big deal?
Again, I don't know how anyof this stuff works. Here's what I
will say. It'll be good tonot have to listen to the twenty eight
and three Patriots people. Do youknow what I'm saying, because now anytime
they bring that up, I'll justbe like twenty twenty four men's cricket team

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scoreboard or whatever they use in cricket, I don't know, and then we
just move on from there. Solook, there is there's an upside for
everybody, I guess, is thepoint that I'm making. So you gonna
play some cricket over the weekend withyour new found uh never inspiration at the
end of it, at the endof the stream, I'm like, I'm
never playing this again. Any knowledgethat I did have about this game is

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completely like, my my brain isdefragged. It's get rid of it.
Put it in the bill. Allright, Well, hey, it was
it was good for what it wasa nice little victory lap and uh,
it'll continue today because I've got waysto tie this into like nine stories,
all right. Also coming up onthe show, Yes, Florida, we'll
do the Florida thing. Goblins.We got goblins. Maybe probably not,

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but uh well we'll check the allegation. And ah China again to China.
All that more coming up hanging onGood Friday morning, six twenty two,
CaCO Day Radio program, proudly uhprobably covering are Oh that's right, greatest

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cricket team in the world ever orsomething. Oh, and I just realized
it took place in Texas, SoI suspect there's a bunch of people in
and around the Dallas area that havezero idea what the game is but are
still driving around with flags on theirtruck. Oh that's got it hurt.

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It reminds me. I remember inthe Olympics when the US curling team was
like kicking Sweden's ass or whatever itwas. I have no curling, but
I was flipping and these guys thatwere on the ice they looked like you
met like the old SNL cast sittingaround going dubb bears, like sitting there
going I'm having a heart attack.They look like that, but they're in
the ice with those brooms. Watchthat had them in studio because like the

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one team was like three dudes fromthe Midge right, and it was like
it was like every north Woods barin Minnesota, Wisconsin, and and it's
say the Olympic athletes are here,and it was great. I loved it.
I loved it. You know whatwe need to do. We need
to go. We need to weneed to now pick another random world sport,

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get some like volunteers from a tavern, and then just go dominated.
I'm thinking the Dead Goat Polo.I was just thinking the same thing from
Rambo three. Yes, I wasjust gonna say that, yes, And
that's the only training they get iswatching the movie. Is watching Rambo three?
Well, just that part we're notgonna make and watch the whole thing.
I'm calling it now complete domination goldall day, man, just one

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to all. They'd be so mad, and then, you know, we'll
do some research. We'll figure out. I'm sure there's some other sport with
some you know, like dah whocan put the coconut through the thing or
what Who the hell knows. We'regoing to number one Dream Team, baby,
dude, get Jordan out of retirement. Can you imagine? Can you

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imagine, dude's got two three peats. He's just been banging around golf in,
smoking cigars, buying progressively larger fishingboats. I mean, where he's
at is amazing right now. Butand then all of a sudden he's just
say, all right, let meput this on hold. Yeah, not
gonna golf things, not no,not not playing baseball. And then like

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he scores all the dead goat goalsor whatever the rules are. That would
be, oh, I ah,what an exciting week of sports. That
would be. You go straight fromUS Open, you know, right here,
right around the corner, and thenuh, we're just dominating the world

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sports man USA, USA, allright, eight eight eight, that's the
dream. So and it's Friday,so we can speculate with stuff like that.
Well, you know what, we'llrun it by Pete. We'll we'll
see where Pete said, I thinkhe's gonna be on a team. Let's
let's shame him. And you knowwhat, maybe next time, if you

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don't wanna, you don't want toget dominated at your own thing, don't
house a terrorist in a compound foryears. Okay, Okay, we're good,
got it, perfect, wonderful.AnyWho on the goblins saw this one,

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you know it's gonna be a goodstory. When the audio cuts the
ones like in the archive, youalready know exactly what's coming outlins. Thank
you Alex Jones with your goblins.So what's up with goblins? Well,
apparently there's a goblin infested police station. I know there's all sorts of jokes

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that people can make and little funstories, but let me give you the
let me give you the straight andnarrow. This is in Zimbabwe. Police
abandoned or cops abandoned police station afterclaims that goblins were terrorizing them at night.

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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,yeah, here we go. Uh.
Officers stationed at a police station insouthwestern Zimbabwe have reportedly abandoned it,
citing harassment nightly by goblins. Ohexcuse me, I gotta if I'm going
to read it, I gotta mightas well. You know, goblins say
it. So anyway, every night, whoever's working the overnight shift, pure

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goblin harassment. Just the worst.Nobody wants to see that. Let me
let me finish this goblin story becauseI was going somewhere, I promise goblins
right because I I admittedly when itcomes to mythical creatures, I think goblins

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I know the least about or prettyclose. Like and for those who just
joining us, a police station wasabandoned because the officers who work the overnight
say that goblins are harassing them.It's in Zimbabwe. So I don't know
what are goblins origin story? Likewhere do they come from? I'm not
ask like do they come out ofportals? Or where do they come from?

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Like vampires? Right, like thewhole the origin story is kind of
the thing people know the most aboutvampires, right what they did? Yeah,
at least they know how you becomea vampire exactly where Wolf? Same
deal Goblin? Where do goblins comefrom? M? Do you know?
I don't know? Uh? Soyou know, I I don't know.

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I don't know how to determine howscared they should be at the police station
in Zimbabwe. What was that documentaryin the eighties with the Goblin King?
Uh? David Bowie was in there, right? Yeah? Labyrinth Labyrinth?
Yeah yeah, I always conflated withthe Tom Cruise one legend legend. Yeah,

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I mean I don't once I actuallylook at it, but like for
whatever reason just in my head sincethey that movie is literally the only thing
I know about goblins. That's it. So it's not much to go on.
So do you think it's goblins?I mean, I don't, like
I'm thinking about that obviously. Idon't think it's actually goblins. Okay,
but I think there was some storya while back about I think it was

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a government agency was trying to destabilizean area and there was a myth in
the area about vampires or something,and so okay, no, no,
no, no, no, no, remember know what I'm talking about.
I know because I like I do. I literally went through the entire thing
because it's so fascinating. So justreal quick, going back to when h
under uh, when the Philippines werefirst brought into the world of democracy,

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right, okay, So, andwe wanted to control who was going to
be president in the in the US. So there was the dude we wanted
who had literally written a letter saying, Hey, if you may be president,
whatever you guys want, I'm basicallyyour puppet, and you know,
Cia loves that stuff. And thenthere was the other dude, you know,
the guy from the Mountains, theyou know, had the freedom fighters

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and all that, and they neededto like get these freedom fighters out of
the mountains because it was it wasa big problem. And the way that
they ended up doing it is theywere so paranoid about this weird mountain vampire
thing which was a local legend thatthey went and they found near where the

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where they were, and rather thanfighting the rebels, they killed one of
their centuries and then hung him withbite marks and they drained his blood so
that when the guy, I guess, when the other guys came to relieve
those guards, it looked like dudehad been, you know, vampired,
and they the rebels literally came downbecause they were they didn't want to get

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eaten by the vamp right. Sothat's where my brain went, like,
maybe this is some sort of likeCIA or leaning up where they have like
a little person division that they're dressingup like goblins that they dropped into Zimbabwe.
But then I'm like, why wouldwe want to stabilize this police department
in Zimbabwe? But maybe just becauseyou can, maybe you're bored and you're

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like, we have this new littleperson division, what can we do with
them? I know, we'll dropthem into Zimbabwe, and if you're part
of the new Little Person division,you're like, yes, finally some action.
Drop me in there, buddy,send me in coaching. You jump
out of the plane and you parachutein and now you're taking over the police
station. How high is the plane? I'm just for it to be uh

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what, I'm gonna get so muchtrouble here, all right? So,
so you think it could be likeone of those government use it or lose
it budget situations. Break Do youdon't get that money backward in the budget?
Do you right now? You mightas well use it? Do they
recruit for that? And how awkwardis that? Right? Right? So

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they you know, they're like onAmerica's campus because you're not recruiting out of
the military, so you know,you're you're you're in civilian world, and
you're like, you know that personwould make a really good spy goblin.
But then you have to go broachthat topic and you know that individual maybe
like that's interesting. Why are youtrying to recruit me for the goblin thing

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and not not her over there?But what made you come over here?
Sir? It's like it could gosideways. It's not so crazy to think
that we would do something like youlearn about these like weird crazy oh yeah,
you know CIA type things where it'slike why would like remember they had
a plan to blow up the moonor whatever it was, and it's just
something to blow it up. Theyjust wanted to make it. They wanted
big explosions to let the Russian snow. Remember they wanted to weaponize bats on

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Japan during World War Two. Yeah, we were like five minutes from Yeah,
light everything on fire. I meanI think a lot of times they're
just there and they're just like,we're bored. What can we do today?
Let's say the goblins? Yeah allright, well yeah, no,
I guess not a lot going on. I shouldn't say, and there's there's
probably a lot going on at allall times. But this is the Goblin

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Division, and so what this isa test run. That's probably what this
is. Or I mean possibly maybethey really are goblins. I've never been
Zimbabwe. I don't know. Nowyou're just being ridiculous, So all right,
look Ross believes in goblins. Everybodyjust saying goblins. It's probably the
recruiter. Maybe it's an ad,right, like maybe a Hollywood casting ad.

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Oh no, you can't because thesnow white with the with the dwarves.
Remember, oh man, they peopleare gonna be those actors. Remember
they put they wouldn't even hire them. So yeah, I think for the
CIA, at that point you realizedthat your your your casting calls, so
to speak, for goblins is probablygonna be well received. It could be

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an inside job like trying to boosttourism Goblin enthusiasts. Well, why do
people go to like say Romania,like Transylvania, Why do you go there?
They have a big hot springs thereit became vampires, Stracula or you
want to go there. Maybe they'rejust trying to be the Goblin capital of
the world and people come here andspend all their money. Yeah. No,

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the southern part of the country islike crazy hot springs and stuff,
but which I didn't know. Idid that, yes, But then the
other stuff is, you know,you want to get eaten by Dracula or
flat or whatever. I understand.So so yes that and dude, if
you ever go to like Ireland hauntedhaunted castle and church stuff is I would

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shake that out Free Town, scotOne and I've done all the one I
remember I was at the one wherelike the one of the actors was kind
of like injured by the way thatthe uh the kid. The kids reacted
to that because they have like someof them have like actors along the way
for jump scares and like it's itwas the whole thing. But you know,

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Marky and I love doing those likesort of ghost walk things. They're
fun. Yeah, yeah, we'vedone one of a few times done in
Wilmington and oh yeah so much.This is before Lincoln was born and we
got to there's a point you getto where it's like it's an old gallows
where east of the gallows, andthey talk about how like the first time
we went there, the dude islike, sometimes we come here and people
get suddenly really nauseus and sick andthey have to sit down, and that's

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because they're possessed by the people thatwere hung in the gallows. We're standing
now is this is where the gallowswas. So the second time we did
the tour, as soon as westart walking in an area, I'm like,
oh, I'm not feeling good.Oh my god, and I like
sat I'm like he's like, oh, what's going on. I'm like,
oh my god, I feel sick. I feel so cold. Did you
sit right where the gallow was?Like if they're if they it was still

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up, you'd be in a roperight. Oh yeah, the guy was
so freaked out. Dude, youreverse who knowed the tour guide. Let's
see, all right, the CIAguys trying to spend their money with goblins.
I'm I'm fully entrenched in this.A little bit of a sensey humor.
Oh that's amazing. All right,Well there you go. See look

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at that all the goblin news.Uh. Fit for your weekend. We
have it for you right here onthe cac O Day radio program. All
right, coming up, Uh,we have an update to a story that
we did out of Texas where welearned what patina was it? Patina right?

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Patina is the stuff that's on antiques. Yeah, yes, stuff you
don't want to take off because ittakes away the value. If I learned
how different pawn stars that's it.Because people come in and they're like,
oh, I had this ancient knifefrom you've lad the impale or whatever,
and you're, yeah, I cleanedit all off so I could sell it.
And they're like, dude, youjust screwed yourself over so worth like
nothing now. But we'll remind youwhat we learned here. What it was

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a couple of months ago when thestory first broke we got we got an
update to it where we all learnedwhere the petina comes from, or at
least it's a theory, might comefrom goblins. Don't know, but we'll
let you be the judge. Anduh, the the the parade saga in
the city of Raleigh continues, anduh, it's just it just the absurdity

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of all of this and that itlikely will end up exactly as it was
and it could have been without governmentego having to involve themselves. It's just
so it's so frustrating and depressing whenit all finally pans out. Plus,
we'll talk about the President's visit toNormandy coming up next here on the CaCO

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Day Radio program. Coming up onthe show Reminder eighth five Pete Calender,
he'll join us and lots we gotoodles to get into. Okay, and
I'll probably put more a little moreof the Normandy discussion there, but I
do have to hit the highlights.But first I have to say this,
and it's there's there's like a weird. I'm gonna make it. I'll even

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make a reference here that Ross willenjoy. There's like this weird bored style
organism of Twitter accounts that all dothe same thing and then all like feast
upon each other right where they allthey all have the same content, they

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all immediately post it. They allhave the same take, they're cross linked.
They post, they'll post links totheir own stuff within the comments of
other other people's posts that have thesame content. And it's a lot of
like big conservative pundit accounts that havethis is how they've transitioned to monetization.

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And it's dumb. And I findmyself unfollowing accounts that I previously had followed
because they would they would post stuffup. But now none of it's useful,
none of it's none of it's uniqueand interesting. It's just bad.
Yeah, I've noticed that too,and it annoys me. It's so it's
so annoying because when news breaks,I tend to do this thing, which

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is the you do too, Ithink, where it's the exact opposite of
what they want you to do.Now, So a new story story will
break and they want you to postsome immediately or talk about it or have
a take or tell people what's goingon. But a lot of the times,
right you don't know, and youneed to sit back and wait and
form an opinion that's actually based onwhat's happening and not just the immediacy of

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the time. Or I find myselfposting things to clarify because I recognize,
here's the thing. Joe Biden didn'talmost poop himself yesterday. Okay, did
you watch the video that is roughlyeven just two seconds longer of what was
going on with him in that weirdkind of lean back squat position. What

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was going on there is dude startsto sit down because he's because and this
is the deal, there is literalcognitive stuff going on there, or he
got confused with it. There's otherstuff to talk about. He did that
half getting ready to sit thing wherehis wife went it's not time to sit
yet. And if you watched anyvideo that was longer than the one that

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was shared by all of those accounts, just to everyone making poop jokes all
that, perhaps you'd realize how dumbthat was. Okay, and it ignores
the bigger problems, is the pointthat I make. I saw all of
the posts yesterday about that, Isay, poop in his pants. And
you know, I'm not a fanof Joe Biden at all, worst president

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in my lifetime. Can't stand theman. I think he's evil. But
I'm seeing all the posts. ButI didn't actually watch the video until this
morning, loading it right, andnow I'm hearing the sound and it's in
context, and I'm seeing what's goingon in the music fades. And as
the music fades, he goes tosit down, but then it's not over
because there's a big pause between themusic fading and the guy talking yeah,
And I'm like, he's looking fora chair or he's looking for some way

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to sit down or something, butI don't he's doing the thing that you've
done at church and your wife sitsyou on the shoulder for now. Does
that detract from the fact that helike his interaction with McCrone, the way
that he exits a stage at amoment's notice, Like it's that there's so

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much there there. Yeah, thedude is gone, Like you can see
the interactions between him and macrone,and it's just like or him getting out
of the yeah, you know,the car and looking away and he's he's
gone. It's sad man, it'selder abuse. But like for every one
of those accounts and every one ofthose folks and the and they'll justify and
they go, well, look thisis what they did. You're absolutely right.

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It is what they did to Trumpone thousand percent. But you know
what, now, I don't buynow when you post stuff, I don't
buy what you're saying. I'm done. I'm going to or I'm going to
automatically assume there's a longer video.And you know what, it wasn't easy
finding a video that was just threeseconds longer that clearly showed that in context,

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not when the flurry of everything thatwas coming out, And it frustrated
me so much because I gotta I'vegot enough stuff that I'm fishing through and
trying to put together so that itcan be on the show. And I
want to understand it and make surethat we have you know, audio that
we can we can utilize and andand now I'm I have to dig through

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this because people who would tell youthat they are a fairer arbiter of information
than you know that the CNN maggotsare are squandering it. So they can
make poop jokes once a month.It's it's baffling to me, absolutely baffling.

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But to Ross's point, when he'sdealing with macrons and he's randomly telling
him that his advanced team says hehas to leave first, and and don't
even get me wrong, there's alsosomething about literally ditching your allies on the

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beaches of Normandy. But you canmake all these intellectual or fun, little
history nerd kind of pun jokes,but the reality was everything looked awkward over
there yesterday. There were dudes thatare over one hundred years old. They
were actually on that beach right,yes, yes, yes, who were
where they needed to be when theyneeded to be. We're having conversations coherently

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doing interviews caz O Day radio program. Ross and I just banging through important
Goblin news this morning. See importantGoblin news. Cricket, yes, the
sport. No, we still don'tknow how to play it, but apparently

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we stuck it right in Pakistan's faceyesterday, so a lot of people very
excited about that. And uh ohyeah, the president was over in Normandy
trying to run away from the Frenchpresident, getting getting down onto the lower

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beach road there where if you evergo to visit any of that area,
remember it was the the the landing. The beaches that that the Allies decided
to take were more than just theones that the US was involved with,
the Canadians, the Brits, anyof it. There was a whole host

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of beaches, a whole host offascinating interesting stories that frankly, I saw
one of those men on the streetthings where they were asking people under the
age basically college age, what whatD Day was? And oh boy,
so you know that exists out there, and I'm so glad that we see

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it highlighted. Obviously extra extra highlightthis time around, because we love numeracle,
we love round numbers when celebrating anniversaries, so that's fine. Unfortunately,
I'm sitting there and I'm trying toget a scope of, you know,
everything that's going on, how thisevent go. There's a lot, a

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lot of pageant, a lot ofceremony. Sometimes it's the President, sometimes
it's first Ladies. Sometimes it's thisweird Camilla, you know, yes,
that Camilla and the French First Ladytry wanting to hold hands but not wanting
to hold hands, and some weirdthings like there's there's all there's the there's

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the reason that you're there, andthen there's all the ancillary stuff that happens
and instead, well, I'm tryingto digest little bits that are going on.
Everything is just Biden pooped himself andI don't know, I just kind
of lost my crap yesterday, nopun intended, but I understand it's there,
so uh, with that in mind, was it a good look?

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No? No, And there's thingsthat are just unnecessary to have him do.
That's the other part of this.It's like some of its unforced air
stuff. I don't know, maybethe big maybe it's like a big reverse
psychological thing. So now I'm moreupset with the fact that Twitter is,

(34:34):
uh the the former news accounts onTwitter have become echo chambers and they're all
fine with that. And then Idon't know, maybe I spend less time
breaking down what matters, but Ididn't because that's where we went first.
And I would encourage you to lookat it and ask yourself if if that's
the best look for the US,And then remember that anything that was said

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by Donald Trump over there turned intothe Atlantic story. Remember right, it
was during Trump's visit and the cancelationof one event that was it was supposed
to be an outdoor event, andthen obviously it was gonna pour it.

(35:22):
They were gonna pour rain, andTrump did not take part in one event
out of like eighteen and then hehated the troops, and then the Atlantic
piece came out where he was tellingeveryone I was there that they're losers and
suckers. And then that's where weget that. And of course there's nobody's
ever on the record as being thesource on that. It's anonymous. Even

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though the writer said that he would, he would, you know, have
receipts. No receipts ever emerged.But it became one of the off repeated
talking points the good people on bothsides suckers and losers, if if if
they're willing to do that level ofanalysis and really hit Jobbery over there,

(36:08):
and the conservative pundits on Twitter thinkit's funny that it's it's far funnier in
a serious manner. I just wantto point this as one thing. If
you want to make a meme,and it's clear you all, you know,
oh, shouldn't trust a fart,you know, something like that,
right, But that's not what wasgoing on. People were serious, and

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then when you're serious, you're notserious because you're not serious about the things
that are important that stick, thatthat will resonate with people, because within
a half second, if people researchthat video more, they lose. You
lose all your credibility. Not thatthe dude who wrote the article in The

(36:52):
Atlantic with that had credibility, butwithin the sphere he's hoping to influence,
he did, and it was influentialenough that now every lawmaker in wanting to
insult Donald Trump on the military frontbecause there, you know, their records
sucks so much. That's their goto. All Right, I promise I'm

(37:15):
done ranting about that, but youget it, You get where the frustration
lies. All right, let mepivot over some other stuff and I'll lose
my mind on that for a while. Okay, all right, very good.
So a long road to apparently getwhere we're going to be going with

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this. I'm referring, of course, to the parade rules in the city
of Raleigh, right, so jumpback with me. Twenty twenty two Raleigh
Christmas Parade. Eleven year old HaleyBrooks was struck and killed by a truck
while dancing, as you know,in the parade. Following her death,

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the city of Raleigh moved to cancelfuture parades, and it was almost immediately
by her parents, an issue thatbecame a passion project, and understandably so.

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Where the family in their grieving,they took their time there, but
also they wanted to get proactive,and to do that they worked with lawmakers.
They worked with folks at the GeneralAssembly, and what they attempted to
do was to craft a bill thathad some parameters that if you wanted to

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have a parade, these are therequirements you had to meet. And then
those parameters, cities could utilize themfor permitting purposes, maybe throwing some of
their own stuff they wanted to,but there would be more stringent safety records,
the age of drivers in parade settings, the age of vehicles, you

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know, the mechanical checks, insurance, liability, all of this stuff.
And I remember we went through thelist. Seem mostly pretty reasonable. Some
of it I would need explain tome because of the technical side of it.
But the point was, like thiswas this was taking this tragedy and

(39:31):
attempting to do something with it,and then all of a sudden we get
this weird. Nah, we're justgonna not let you do parades, or
then we'll let you do them.But you can't have vehicles and stuff in
the parades, which obviously is youknow, you have vehicles to pull,

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floats to pull, some large equipment, some pieces of equipment like old fire
trucks and stuff, right are hallmarksof parades. And it was it was
presented in a manner, and Ithink this is important to remember. It
was presented in a manner, andwe immediately called it out here on the
show that the cancelation of the RaleighChristmas Parade was somehow what the family wanted,

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and it clearly wasn't, and itwas. It was one of these
scumbaggiest things you could do as apolitician is to take your unpopular position.
One I still cannot wrap my headaround you wanting to make right where you're
just like, hey, you knowwhat, maybe tomorrow let's cancel Christmas parade.

(40:43):
Huh yeah, yeah, they'll lovethat. But to take an unpopular
position like that, an attempt tohang it on the family of a dead
eleven year old girl, was horrificand I and we called it out,
and we called it out so muchthat it became obvious that they were responding

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to that. The mayor of Raleighwas responding to that because I hope she
heard about it from everybody. Yo, I can't believe you just did that.
You need to say something. Sothen they tried to soft pedal it,
and then they came up with thiswhole no vehicles, We're gonna slow
roll this, and the whole thingwas baffling and frustrating and scummy and nasty

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and not at all what Christmas issupposed to be about, whether you celebrated
from the religious perspective of the nonreligious. It ain't it, chief,
And we've expended a lot of energyon this for it to now end up
here. Vehicles may be allowed againin the Raleigh Christmas Parade and other Raleigh

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parades. Remember the Veterans Parade wasimpacted, and there was one other they
were permitting. I can't remember whatit was, but so it's not just
a Christmas parade. But vehicles maybe allowed again in the Raleigh Christmas Parade,
according to recommendations by city staff.Oh that was the other folks they
tried to blame too. Sorry,I got to move forward or I'll just

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backtrack into infinity with these people.Let's see here. On Thursday, a
city spokesman for Let's See City spokesmansaid that special Events staff met with parade
organizers to review the city's protocol surroundingmotor rise parades. Oh okay. Among

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the new recommendations that will be sharedwith the city council next week, staff
will recommend allowing vehicles to return tothe events. The recommendations would come with
safety checks within thirty days of theevent, assessments of the vehicles, breaks,
tires, lights, horn, themissions, registration, you name it

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here. Let me save you theread. Ninety nine point nine percent of
what I'm reading here are exactly exactlywhat the family was looking for. But
also we're specifically included in the RaleighChristmas Parade proposal that was eighty six,

(43:25):
right, So the parade organizers themselvessuggested they implement this stuff. So now
here we are a year later andyour overlords within the city, you're going
to go, hey, you knowwhat, we looked at it, and
here's what we think we should youknow, should happen. Because this is

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what we do. We're so goodat this. We got all the answers,
and here is exactly the thing thateveryone said they wanted to do,
and we said it and canceled theparade over like that is what is so
frustrating about this. This all,this is, this is all exactly how

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it would be if that proposal hadjust been accepted. Everybody went about their
business with the new parameters, thenew safety stuff. They never would have
missed the parade. There never wouldhave been this controversy. And it's it.
It is a capper to one ofthe dumbest non issues that became an

(44:30):
issue I've ever seen in the inthe world of unforced airs and unnecessary bureaucratic
hold ups. And that is exactlywhat this is looking like it'll be.
And it is exactly as I predicted. I said, this is where we'd
end up. This is where we'regoing to end up and to this day,

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and I just I have to knowwhatever it is, I have to
know what was the goal was?What were you wanting to accomplish? Mayor
and council members And yeah, that'sright, you council members who sat there
too and did nothing. What wasthe goal here? To irritate as many

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people as possible? And then accomplishnothing. I so what was it?
Because some people speculate it was thisweird crackdown that we saw in some cities
where they just didn't like Christmas parades. They wanted holiday or seasoned greetings or
you know, one of these othersofter words that they use in many cases,

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like in the city of raleighs tochange something that has been called something
for eighty years and is clearly notreligious, core religious thing. If you've
ever been to the Christmas parade,no, you know what it was.
It was a flex that's my guess. It was a flex. Hey,

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we're the ones in charge. We'regonna do what we're gonna do. What
do you think of that? Whichis the pettiest of reasons, If in
fact that's what it was. Iguess the timeline they're gonna present it next
week, and if approved within thecurrent timeline, then it should allow parades,

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the current crop of veterans and Christmasand others to go ahead and get
their certification and get working on theirrespective parades. But not before we did
all this dumb We did all thisdumbness. I don't know why we we're
gonna do all this and come outexactly the same. It is. It

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is just the dumbest stuff on theplanet. All right, coming up,
we got to we got to updateyou on the story out of Texas.
If you guys like antiquing, you'renot gonna want to miss this, okay.
And a streamer is in a littlebit of hot water for I don't

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know something I think the founding fathersprobably could have envisioned. We'll give you
that story, and Pete Calender joinsus at eight oh five phone number eight
eight eight nine three four seven eightseven four. Hang on to that and
we'll be back here on the CaCODay Radio program. Ross's right, do
the live the live read right thepromo copy? Okay, all right,

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I just want to make normal becausenormally we don't do the do the live
read here. Let me go aheadand do this all right, Sorry,
but hey, we got to paythe bills to so eighty years ago today,
thousands of Americans fought to protect democracyon the shores of Normandy. But

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this November, all you have todo is tune in to the Haze for
Sheriff Twitch Channel today's sponsor. Therewe go. So did that feel scummy?
Because that should have felt scummy.See what happened there is somebody took
what happened eighty years ago and isarguably one of the most important historical events

(48:37):
that feeds into the current status makeup, geo political setup of the world in
which we live. Okay, right, things could be so fundamentally different if
not for the just the the insanityof it. Your copy would be in

(49:01):
German, yes, yes, itwould. You know, it would be
man in high Castle esque at thevery least, might be in Japanese.
I'm just saying so, don't know. And and this whole exercise is not
to promote Ross's twitch channel. Hewould never use what happened in Normandy to

(49:27):
do that. It is to highlightthe absurdity of Hillary Clinton doing that yesterday.
And she wasn't the only one.Now. Actually, what she wrote
is eighty years ago today, thousandsof brave Americans fought to protect democracy on
the shores of Normandy this November.All we have to do is vote.

(49:50):
I e. Hey, you knowyour grandfather and his seventeen year old buddies.
All they had to do is tryto storm those pill boxes on the
beach of Omaha and uh and andmany didn't even make it to the beach
because they they exited the landing crafttrying to dive away from the hail of
bullets, and the equipment that theywere wearing even drug them down, as

(50:15):
as the rest. We were cutthrough and in one of the bloodiest days
of fighting in modern war. Butall you gotta do is just don't vote
for Trump Man. And then toput that out on on on the anniversary,
just the goal, and then toturn the comments off on top of

(50:37):
it. Oh, it'll make it, just make your head explode every day
with something new, And maybe that'sthe goal. Maybe they've determined the only
way that they're going to salvage thisis to make us all be that dude
on stage and the movie Scanners.Well, what I mean, what's the

(50:57):
what's the other alternative day? Watchingthat yesterday? And I know that this
turns into a tired conversation, butevery day I am more and more convinced
there is zero chance that we seeJoe Biden and Donald Trump on a debate
stage, and there is quickly approachinga zero percent chance that Joe Biden is

(51:22):
the Democrat nominee on the ballot inNovember. You're gonna have to help me
out here how we're going to getthere. And that's a problem. That's
a problem for Republicans. You know, a lot of people think they're gonna,
you know, stick try to geta Michelle Obama on there, and

(51:45):
that's a thing that could happen,and that's h you know, and maybe
it's too far gone for that towork, but that could alleviate some folks.
But every day are more convinced thatat least one, if not both
of those things are are are true. The debate stuff. I still there's

(52:07):
no way I see that happening.And maybe I'm wrong. It's fine.
I'm not always right. The debateshappen, they're going to have to have
them so jacked up on uppers,Dude, I have to come in with
an IV. Yeah, but itwould be to the point where it would
be so obvious that it's now injurious. I mean it was obvious during the

(52:27):
State of the Union, though,it was, but there was enough side
you know, there's enough side stuffgoing on. You know, people with
the with their fake balloons they're carryingaround and screaming stuff. And you're right,
especially if they want it to bethe way they have it set up
and no audience, no audience,and you're it. You're the only show

(52:51):
in town on the debate stage.I don't get it. If anything,
you'd want to hold that thing inthe middle of you know, like a
soccer riot, right, because you'dbe like, well, look, he
was distracted by the soccer rioters,right, So you know you can't you
can't judge what was going on,but you're you're eliminating all the other side

(53:12):
stuff. Hey, the only thingyou're going to be left with is,
holy hell, that guy's in chargeof something absolutely wild. Speaking of wild,
how many of you, especially thistime of the year, right when
we're back in the you know,the traditional North Carolina bust out, do
something for the weekend, go tothe beach, go to the mountains.

(53:34):
Kind of season. Great season aroundNorth Carolina, so many cool places to
explore. How many of you likedto antique? Well, guy down in
Texas, who also was a kiltenthusiast, found himself at the center of
a story we talked about when itinitially happened. Here was the allegation.

(53:59):
Basically, a dude in a kilt, big dude too. He's like six
' six six' seven, thisis in Houston, rolled into a couple
of different antique stores and uh,according to well, store clerks proceeded to
grab various small antiques and smuggle themor shoplift them, or attempt to.

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And he didn't have pockets on thekilt, I say, like a Duffel
bag or some He did not havea duffel bag. In fact, he
was one of the very slightly dressedhere support backpacks or some. No,
he's clearly clearly not wearing a backgroundlike a plastic bag like from Target or
whatever. I don't know what wasunder his kilt. I just know stuff
was disappearing there. Ah and uh. When confronted, explained to the explaining

(54:58):
of the officers, he did notknow how a hold on. Let me
give you the list. An antiquebottle opener, a tobacco tent can.
What else did he have here?Was it a small it's like a small
vase looking thing, a makeup brushkit all ended up basically in his prison

(55:19):
wallet. Everything is bigger in Texas, yes, including the storage space and
an antique bottle opener. How manysharp edges are on that? So?
Yeah, according to police, vestthat's the guy's name, visited one store
and where he acquired the makeup brushkit and the small vase, put them

(55:42):
there, and then I guess therewas a second there's a couple of these
little antique stores right next to eachother. Then went to the next store,
and that's where he acquired the tobaccotent can, the antique bottle opener.
Toerty say, he placed them directlyinto his storage unit underneath the green
kilt. However, then returned theitems to the shelf. And don't know

(56:07):
if it's because he thought, Oh, I wonder if they saw me do
that. But according to these storefolks, the items were tainted and I
had to be disposed of. Andthen I and then that was the day
we figured out that that was whatBettina was. Maybe because I don't know.

(56:28):
I've watched The American Pickers a coupletimes. They used the term antiques
road show. They loved the term. So, dear God, I hope
that's not what it actually is.Well, here's your update. Apparently he
did steal them. Yes, yes, he's now decided to plead and said
that he did in fact put theitems there, but did not intend to

(56:51):
steal them, just try them out. I guess I don't know. Is
that like, is that like eatinga grape in the produce section? Just
one, just because you want tosee how the grapes taste. But technically
it's stealing. I don't know.But that's good because there's too many of
these stories where people are like,oh, no, I don't know how

(57:15):
the and then insert whatever horrific objectit is, I don't know how that
got there. Well, it turnsout that sometimes they do, in fact
know how it got there. Soyeah, by the way, dudes rich
too, which is kind of crazyin this story. So this is this

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is not him stealing defeat his family. This is his jam, which what
must his wife think? Right,he's getting ready to leave, He's wearing
that kilt. It's clear there's nothingunderneath. Wife's like, what are you
doing? He's like, I'm goingantiquing, Like she has to assume he's
cheating on her, right, buthe wasn't. Well, unless you consider

(58:00):
an seek can openers something you cancheat with. So there you go.
Update to that fun story seven fortyfive. Let's get an update to your
weather. Jeff maher here, Hey, Jeff's what's going on today? Sir,
looking good, looking good. Asfar as the weekend forecast, I
know you're happy to hear that.So yeah, it usually Ray screws it

(58:20):
up with rain. Well, we'regetting rain, should be we should hold
off until Sunday night. So Ithink most of the weekend's going to shape
up to be very nice if youhave some outdoor activities lined up, and
certainly nice today as you make yourway out drive this morning. A Sunday
afternoon, eventually up to eighty ninefor the high with a light reason from
the west and clear overnight as wedrop to sixty three around eighty seven for
a high. Tomorrow will be anotherSunday afternoon, a Sunday, breezy Sunday

(58:43):
with a high climbing in the lownineties. Then a few showers and thunderstorms
may develop on Sunday night before dryerweather into Monday afternoon. Okay, all
right, we'll talk one more timein an hour, sir, Thank you,
you got all right? There yougo. Jeff Maher from the Weather
Channel. Reminder, Pete calendar,he's coming up. He'll join us in
about twenty minutes. In the interim, I got a couple quick stories.

(59:06):
We got to chat about, includinga oh mission impossible reference. Don't want
to miss it. It's next hangon. Yeah, we got Pete calender,
he'll calender, he'll kick off thenext hour with us. But first,
a couple of other things I gotto tell you about how bad is
it getting in Oakland? Well,let me give you a little backstory and

(59:29):
then i'll give you the current story. So we had about a month ago.
Two months ago, you had rememberthe in and out burger that closed.
They made the decision we're done.It was the first time they had
literally closed an in and out burger. It was a big deal. And

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the reason was people were getting robbedat the drive through every time they went
to the drive through, so peoplewould go, they'd want to get a
burger. They ended up closing theinside of the restaurant first, right because
they were, you know, robbingthe restaurant. And then they made it

(01:00:15):
purely a drive through. So whatdid thieves do? They just waited for
folks who are now because you're you'rekind of encumbered in most drive throughs,
right once you've you know, youknow a lot of drive throughs. Once
you've made that turn into the orderwindow between there and getting out. A
lot of times you're not in aposition to be able to get your vehicle

(01:00:35):
out, especially if they got oneof those uh like the like the McDonald's,
Uh the McDonald's closest to my househas Once you've made that turn,
they have like a they have aconcrete wall on the right side of you
as well, So you got thebuilding and the windows on the left,
but they have it on the rightas well, And it's just because of

(01:00:58):
the way it butts up on theproperty line there. I remember, once
you're in that, you're in there. I used to drive like a piece
of crap car and it was alwaysterrified that it would die in the drive
It like the drive what do youdo? Then? No, you just
you get out. You literally likemy car is dead and everyone still hates
you, right, and you stillgot to deal with it. So so
thieves saw this and they were justlike we got them, and then they

(01:01:20):
would just rob people in the drivethrough. So in an outside we're done
right, okay. And then aweek after they closed, middle of the
day, a news crew showed upto do a story about that because now
they had the information as to whythey closed it and they're they're literally setting
up and what do you think happened? They robbed the news crew, Of
course they did, and they beatthe crap out of two of them.

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So just h all right, Sonew problem. Also, the City of
Oakland, like any other city,you gotta you gotta, you gotta take
care of the roads. That involves, you know, stripping them down,
repaving them, fixing potholes, doingall the stuff. Well, now,
contractors in East Oakland say they're done. In fact, several paving projects which

(01:02:07):
are already underway, sit abandoned afterCruise decided it wasn't financially worth it,
even though they had contracted with thecity. Contractor and worker union reps saying
the city is not doing enough toprovide a safe working environment because their road
crews keep getting robbed while they're repavingthe roads. So they just walked and

(01:02:37):
there's a whole lot more there.But that's you know, that's the gist
that you need right there. Andnow they're in negotiations to try to figure
out, well, what are wegoing to do? I don't know,
maybe there's you know, where they'reworking. Maybe you have a few cops
over there that do something or areenabled to do something I should say,

(01:03:01):
I don't even want to put iton the patrol officers. You've scared off
construction workers and if they're not beingrobbed. One crew has currently had to
stop work twice due to drive bysthat took place within the construction zone,

(01:03:24):
which is pretty crazy. You dosix over in a construction zone in North
Carolina, they'll damn near take yourlicense. Oakland, you could do a
drive by wild times man, Andspeaking of wild times, is anything real?
In China? Fresh off faking redpandas a few other things, it's

(01:03:45):
now come to light that the tallestwaterfall under interrupted waterfall in China called judent
Thai Mountain, which was said tobe a one thousand foot drops and foot
high. In fact, the photosare crazy cool looking. I mean,
it's just absolutely beautiful. If you'reinto waterfalls, it's a it's a very

(01:04:06):
nice looking one. Well, somebodyclimbed it, you're not supposed to,
and they determined that it is notin fact a natural waterfall. It's a
pipe that is installed one thousand feetup a cliff side that they just pump

(01:04:29):
water through to create a tourist attraction. To digest the week. That was
we welcome in our radio buddy tothe South Pete calendar Middays WBT Pete.
How you doing, buddy? Hey, I'm doing all right. How are
you, Kasey? I'm pretty good. You know, I have my little
roundabout of North Carolina TV stations andnewspapers. I'm sure you do too,

(01:04:50):
where you just kind of check onthe regular, make sure you got all
the news for your show. Right. Yeah, And I'm noticing something down
the Shark Way. I feel likeI nagged in on this. Can we
come down and I'll what we'll dois you get a station vehicle. I'll
get a station vehicle. And Iwant to what a station one of your

(01:05:13):
one of your station vehicles. Youguys have station vehicles there at your radio
station that you use for like promotionsand appearance and stuff. Yeah, we'll
say sure, okay, yeah,we'll go with yes. Well, I
don't this is this is the easypart. Well, well it's difficult because
as a you know, a newstalk station, I can tell you we

(01:05:35):
we we did have two vehicles thatwere news gathering vehicles. I used to
drive them when I was a reportertwenty years ago. Right, they don't
run anymore. No, they don'trun anymore. All right, Well,
promotions may have one. I don'tknow. Oh right, I think they've
got like one van for all ofthe stations. Van's gonna be great.

(01:05:56):
All right, Okay, here's thedeal. Grab whatever you want. I
want to I didn't know you coulddo this in the city of Charlotte.
I'm really I want to take overan intersection and just do downuts. So
yeah, that's a thing. Huh. Apparently so well, a couple of
years if it well, maybe nowlike five or six, maybe ten.
How to remember it used to becruising. People used to get in their

(01:06:20):
cars and yeah they would they woulddrive really really really slowly through the center
of uptown Charlotte. And apparently thathas now been replaced with the quote unquote
takeovers, where a whole bunch ofpeople coordinate on social media. They gather
usually a very large intersection, youknow, in the horror of uptown,

(01:06:43):
when you've got like three or fourlanes coming in in each direction, so
it's a really fat, wide intersection, and then they just start doing burnouts
they call them, you know,where they squeal their tires and burn rubber,
and then they doughnuts all over theplace. Although there is I saw
that down in Florida, there isa real risk. I mean not aside

(01:07:03):
from like the you know injuring peopleor you know, destroying public property or
anything like that or wrecking your cars. All that's not a problem. The
real issue, though, is downin Florida they had a rainbow painted on
the crosswalk for ye evil young personin a black pick them up truck.

(01:07:25):
Yeah, yeah, I saw that. Yeah, they did the burnouts on
the on the rainbow on the intersectionon the road. I mean, yes,
it's road in the thoroughfare, right, so they and but they did,
but they did it on top ofthe painted rainbow. And which by

(01:07:46):
the way, I object to theidea that that's a mural. It's not
a mural. It's just paint righton the road. It's just especially yeah,
it's just it's just like a seriesof lines. They're just different colors,
just like a crosswalk has lines,right, but they're just different colors.
So whatever, and not a mule. So they did the burnouts and
now they're like wanted on like felony, hate crime charges or something down in

(01:08:08):
Florida. So we don't have thatlaw as I understand it here in North
Carolina. But I thought that thatcould be a solution for the city and
the police who are trying to crackdown on this kind of behavior. And
if we just painted every single intersectionwith some sort of you know, appropriate
intersectionality logo, then you raise theyou raise the punishments. You know.

(01:08:35):
Well, can I, oh,I hate to do this. Can I
point out a little flaw on yourlogic? I mean, is there one
a right? Well, you tellme. Let me. Let me offer
it up. What I'm seeing whenit comes to these takeovers, which by
the way, I've seen quite afew of them where people like to play

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tag with cars. I assume that'swhat they're doing. Yeah they're cars.
Yeahs back end of the car slidesaround and just slams a dude into uh
next Wednesday. I've noticed they don'twant to break those up or they wouldn't
last for hours, right, wouldn'tthat be the case? So if you

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already for whatever reason, and it'snot just in the city of Charlotte,
but like you see these takeovers inplaces, and these they go on for
a long time. Right, there'sa hundred plus people in some instances,
the ones in like Stockton, Oaklandarea are bonkers. And if you,

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for whatever reason don't want to goin there and actually make a rest and
enforce the law and stop people fromdoing that, then adding an extra piece
in there almost seems like overkilled.Do you know what I'm saying? If
if, if you don't want tobust in the first place, it doesn't
it doesn't. It doesn't matter howmany laws you don't charge them with,
is the point that I'm making.If you don't charge them, well that's

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fair. But so state the statelawmakers made and made an adjustment that the
Charlotte Mecklenburg Police asked for, whichwas now they can take your car and
so asset forfeiture, like hello,these are you know these are hot rods.
I'm thinking now they want to takethe cars. This might incentivize more

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Charlotte. Yeah. Well, CharlotteMecklbert police they they have made this a
priority targeting this kind of behavior.They really have. They've been trying to
crack down on it. Unfortunately,these things they pop up very quickly and
they're very far away from police headquarters, like three or four blocks, so
they can't ever get there in time. And so they they've said they've made

(01:10:50):
a priority and they have made somearrest although no can I think there was
one guy who pleaded guilty so farall of the others either want to quittle
or the DA's drop the charges.And and that's you know, that's the
DNA side of the equation. Whatif they had faster cars to get from
the police station to where it's goingon, you know, three or four

(01:11:14):
blocks away, right, speeding upresponse time. I don't know anytime.
I but here's a problem. AnytimeI hear asset forfeiture, I I get
a little cringey. Man, Sono, I do too. But like
that's an incentive, you know forstepped up enforcement, is that you guys
in the department could now get awhole bunch of sweet rides, you know,

(01:11:35):
so that might that might prompt more, you know, more crackdown behavior.
But here's what trigger though, Whattriggers what? Well? What what
if you let's say you're running lateto your show or whatever, and you
do a little uh, you know, you get a little loose in the
corner coming into work, and thecop just really wants to stick it to

(01:11:57):
you. I mean feasibly could hebe like, you know, technically you're
doing this and now your vehicle's mine. Right, This is where I get
nervous on the asset, profrac Yeah, No, I think there's got to
be some some there's got to belike video. Well, first off,
nobody's really getting convicted of it,so there's that. But the other is
that, uh there. I thinkyou've got to have some other elements at
play, you know, in thetrial, you would have to have some

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elements there, like a mob ofpeople that all descended on an intersection at
the same time, videotaping and sothere's you know, video evidence of you
just you know, spinning around incircles for a good thirty to forty five
seconds that kind of thing. Whatabout the ones that are not on the
city streets, that are doing itin the damn interstate m because that's a

(01:12:45):
thing, that's literally a thing that'shappening. Yeah, So I think maybe
the answer here is more drag strips. If we were just like when I
was growing up, and not evenwhen I was a kid, but when
I was older, there were dragstrips all over the place, and people
would race on the drag strips.They would go down there and race cars
and stuff. So maybe we domore of those, but I don't know,

(01:13:08):
I don't know if you ever stoppedthis kind of behavior as long as
you've got uh, you know,particularly young men that are able to get
souped up cars, and young menhave been able to do that since the
car was invented. And so,I mean, I remember I grew up
on Long Island. There's a roadcalled Deer Park Avenue or the DPA whatever,

(01:13:29):
and people would race on certain stretchesof this road because it was long,
flat, straight and uh two laneswide and so and there was for
some reason, I don't know whodid it, but there was a line
painted right across part of the road, and so you would see all these
burnt you know, these you know, peel out marks, all these burnt
rubber right around that line, andpeople would race from that line all the

(01:13:50):
way to a stop stop light aboutyou know, a mile or so up
the road. Yeah, we had, we had. It was called the
pipes for us. It was justout of town and it is these two
massive the the pipes actually transport greenoil. They're part of a larger pipeline
system but here where that was.They actually go above the road and they

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are exactly three quarters of a mileapart, and so if somebody wanted to
race, they go go to thepipes, Like like, I get that,
but you took it out of townkind of things. So I I
don't know, man, just crazy, But no, it didn't. There
was some incidents anyway, can Ican? I want to your your guys

(01:14:34):
on the Twitter a lot, andI kind of lost my stuff yesterday.
I'm getting I hate new Twitter.Why. I hate you know why because
you have this this cabal of allof these the formerly were like pundits,

(01:14:55):
right, you know, there wereTwitter pundits that were on there. I
don't want to say they were therefor the love of the game, but
there there would be uniqueness in somevariety. And now because of the way
that you know, people want tomonetize and I understand that, it's it's
just it's the the echo chamber inthe realm of breaking news is so thick,

(01:15:18):
and it's so hard to kind oflike manage your way out of there
to try to find more unique stuff. Case in point, yesterday, I'm
sitting down and I'm like, Iwant to go through and I want to
see all of the little elements ofthe Normandy visit so I can figure out
what I want to talk about onthe show, what we want to pull
audio from. And I can't becauseeverybody who everybody wants to make Biden poop

(01:15:45):
jokes okay, and the and thatthe problem is is if you watch a
version of the video that's not theone that was reposted by the same conservative
pundits a thousand times within like twominutes yesterday, you would term and that
Joe Biden, clearly, while stillbeing incredibly confused, did the thing that

(01:16:06):
you've done or I've done where yougo to sit down and your spouse is
like, yeah, it's not timeto sit yet, right, he did
that thing. That thing is notthe thing. The thing is him with,
you know, running away from McCroneand like all the weirdness that was
there and it all gets buried bystupid Biden poop stuff. And I don't

(01:16:30):
know why it irritates me so much, but I don't feel it's as good
of an environment for finding at leastnuanced differences and stories. Don't get me
wrong, it's far better on thecensorship side, But don't I don't know.
There's just something about it that SAPsmy soul and my time. What
do you think? So I gottatell you I have largely been unaffected by

(01:16:58):
all of the changes and the censorshipand all of that. And I've been
on Twitter since two thousand and nine. Yeah, I have been largely unaffected
because I utilize a function that Twitterhas available called lists. And if you
create lists, then you get tomask a lot of the garbage that you're

(01:17:19):
talking about. So for and bythe way, you can subscribe to my
list for free. You just youlook at my profile and they'll say lists
or whatever. You click on thatand you'll see the lists I've created that
are at least for public view.And one of the lists I have is
called Influence. And there's only aboutone hundred twenty or so people that are
on that list and ross me andwho else, Yeah, a bunch of

(01:17:46):
other people. Totally, You're onthe list, I'm sure. And so
those are the And so then Ihave tweet deck, right, which is
right, And so I can stackup these different columns and so I've got
one for notifications, but more importantto that, have one for that that
influenced list. So that one's alwaysmoving North Carolina politics hashtag. Right,

(01:18:10):
I have a list for that,So that's created in uh in the tweet
deck, and so I see whatI want to see, and now it's
on me to uh populate my listswith enough of a broad stroke of enough
people that I'm getting sort of anaccurate read on what's occurring. So that's
how I and that that that drivesa lot of UH of how I go

(01:18:32):
about starting research on a particular story. Because I saw, yes, I
saw the poop jokes, but Ionly saw a couple of them. But
I knew when I saw a coupleof them, I knew, like,
this is obviously all over the placeamong the cat turn brigade. You know,
I have no doubt that this iswhat everybody is focusing on, even
though it's very clear. Like yousaid, he goes to sit down because
he knew he had to sit down, but he was a little early.

(01:18:55):
And then Jill, sorry doctor Jill. Yeah, she does the thing where
like you scratch the top of yourlip under your nose to kind of map
the fact that you're telling him,hey, don't sit down right now,
And so she does that and hekind of freezes, and then he stands
up a little bit, and thenhe goes to sit down again, then
he freezes, and then he finallysits down. So he was corrected.

(01:19:18):
He had to sit down, hejust didn't know exactly when. To me,
the more troubling video with him gettingout of the suv, yes,
yes, that was disturbing. Andanybody who has worked around people who are
in cognitive decline, they've seen that. They have absolutely seen that behavior,
and that's concerning. I saw people. We got just less than a minute,

(01:19:39):
but I saw people say what hewas responding to the mood of what
he was looking at. And Ihave been exactly where he is, and
it is powerful, right go inand visiting Normandy and all the stuff around.
It is incredible. That wasn't it? Whatever that was was not I

(01:20:00):
was. I was rendered speechless attimes and it didn't look like that.
Twice I got about fifteen seconds.I'm sorry to pinch you on this,
but it's uh, it's very frustrating. It's frustrating. Yeah, it's frustrating,
and I don't still do this day. I don't know how a debate's
gonna happen, but we can parsethat next week. All right, Pete,
thank you very much, sir,Yeah, sir, have a great

(01:20:21):
weekend, and Charlotte to the burnoutsession. Yeah yeah, yeah, it'll
be fun. All right, Hangon, everybody, we will be right
back. The flame thrower wielding robotmurder Dog. Yeah, yes, right,
we know what we're talking about.Obviously. These are discussions that we've
had on this show before. Itdoesn't always have a flamethrower. Sometimes it

(01:20:44):
has like an oozy and sometimes it'sjust gonna hunt you down. They had
the one with like with a blendermouth on it. All right, anyway,
but the flame thrower, the whatis the actual name of it?
Here we go throw flame therminator,the very first robot flame thrower Murder Dog

(01:21:15):
is now on sale in the US. You can own one, that's right
by the way. It is marketedas and I just want to be clear
here and licensed as a agricultural managementtool and a wildlife control tool. So

(01:21:35):
it's just it's a farm and implementis all that it is, which you
know, it's it's yes kind ofyou know. Controlled burns are a are
a tool within the agricultural world.That is true. So I mean I
can't argue, true, but Idon't know if that's what dudes are buying

(01:21:58):
this for. How much is it? Anyway? How much is I need
to know? Why do you need? Very important? Okay, I have
to admit I was a little surprised. Was a little surprised. First,
let me tell you what it comeswith, and then I'll tell you how
much it is. It's quadruped,so you know, four legs, and
it produces a thirty foot flame andis completely smartphone controllable roughly one hour of

(01:22:30):
battery life, has light our mappingonboard camera which is then fed back to
the app as part of your smartdevice. There, and I can do
a hell of a lot of agriculturalmanagement work or wildlife control work, all
for the low low price of ninethousand, four hundred and twenty dollars.

(01:22:53):
What was it, nine thousand,four hundred and twenty dollars, four hundred
and twenty what do you all?Right? So you know how he had
the Hayes for Shriff Lambeau for thechildren Fund. Yes, yes, yeah,
we had five hundred and sixty fivedollars in that account. Wait I
have now I've now divested the Hayesfor shriff Lambeau for the Children Fund into

(01:23:15):
the Hayes for share of flamethrower robotdog for the Children Fund. It's it's
so excited. It's it's to protectthe children. It's not one of the
listed reasons here. It's probably alicensing thing. You can't say, should
I put flame on on the thegraphic? Should I put the flamethrower robodog

(01:23:38):
or robot dog? Well, technicallyit's called throw flame therminator is the name.
I think if somebody were to stumbleacross the graphic, they really wouldn't
understand what that is. Whereas ifthey see flamethrower robot dog, it's understandable
what that is, right, yeah, or flamethrower wielding robot dog or something.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, I'm just I'm let people know

(01:24:00):
what the actual name of it isbecause if it's on sale and that's a
legit one, China's already got oneon sale, I'm sure with some knockoff
names. I just want to bevery clear. I'm I need to go
back to why is why is therefive hundred and sixty dollars of donated money
in a Lambou fund when there wasnever going to be a lambo. Maybe

(01:24:23):
not for you, but for someof us there were there was a dream,
right, we were contributing to thatdream. I see okay, and
now the dream is the kids wantto see you what light? Intruders on
fire? I mean, what's thewhat is the where's the joy? Because

(01:24:44):
that was what the lambo was aboutwith joy. So they'd see it drive
by and be like, wow,dreams come true for him, right,
So they's come true for me becausehe is a lambo. Say no.
They will see it parading through theneighborhood and they'll be like, I'm safe
as it burns the spiders the Kylewas talking about on the news that parachute
fifty feet onto your face. That'swhy you need Or they'll be walking down

(01:25:05):
the street and they'll see it,you know, like they'll be looking around
like, oh, look at allthe houses and look at my porch and
be like, look at the flamingwhat is it? Yeah? Throw a
robot dog not going near that house. After you use it to lay waste
your enemies, you can use itto roast marshmallows, which I don't know
if you know this. Kids,kids lovesmores. Oh, my gosh.

(01:25:27):
Yeah, the URI, the UI, the guy, the better. Well,
I'm happy that you are contributing tothe marketing and the think tank of
this endeavor. Are you going torun? Are you going to talk to
your wife before you go spend tenI'm not spending anything anything. I'm taking

(01:25:49):
donations though. Es I feel likelike one day I'm going to get all
the subpoenas, just all of them, and they're gonna ask me to remember
so many things over the course ofso many years. I'm not going to
be able to come up with allof it. So it'll be no more
lambo for the kids. It'll lanethrow murder by the finale, like the

(01:26:11):
Seinfeld finale. Were they just goingover all of its crimes? I guess
yes. I are you a littlesurprised. It's like the fact that it
was under ten K I was actuallylike, oh, yeah, completely.
I thought the number one was gonnabe like super out there. Yeah yeah,
And that's you know, that's that'sfirst year. You get some competition
in there, right, you geta few more of these, uh,

(01:26:34):
you know, being sold annually,so your production costs come down. It's
it's impressive and you can use itto light campfires in space if you're a
four hundred pound Jedi or whatever?What is go? What the hell did
you send me the other day?Yesterday? By the way, Pah,

(01:26:57):
it was a post a screenshot Isaw of a new I guess character in
the Acolyte. That's one of thenewest Jedi. That is an act.
That's I thought that was a joke. It's from the show. There's really
a Jedi, morbidly obese Jedi,and it's not it's not a hut you

(01:27:18):
like the job like job but no, no, no, no, it's
just it's just a fat kid fromCanarsi or whatever that is supposed to be
Ah or Miss Alabama or what.I don't know what the hell is going
on. So all right, wellthere, I just want to I just
wanted to share the good news.And now we're into morbidly obese Jedi.

(01:27:41):
Can they still fly around with easelike we learned Yoda could? And the
weird second update movie was that alittle That was a little jarring watching him
flip around to the rate that hedid. But also that makes sense.
I don't know if I'm buying Butterbeandoing it, but I don't know.
I guess if you're filled with theforce, you can and and canoli or

(01:28:05):
whatever. So all right, soyou got that, well you know what,
ross this is gonna shoot holes inuh you being able to recreate this.
YouTuber alex Choi is facing federal chargesafter uploading the video showing two women
shooting fireworks out of a helicopter ata lambo. Well, it's a good

(01:28:30):
thing I got out of that charity. See, I am always ahead of
the curve here, man, immediategoing, you know, but this is
flaming flame. Throw a robot dog. This is where it's at for the
children. I don't know. Man, if you asked me, hey,
you want to come shoot? Youever shot something out of a helicopter?
Do you do? You honestly thinkI've ever been in a helicopter. Dude,

(01:28:51):
you need to shoot. You needto shoot a gun out of a
helicopter. I'm sure it would befun if I could. If I could
make it in the air without throwingup within like twenty seconds, I'm sure
would be fun. I'm not goingup into a helicopter up. Well that's
the thing too. So now theguy's charged here and it's just like well,
what you know, what what what'sif it's his helicopter and his lambeau

(01:29:15):
and his fireworks and you know,his two women friends. Oh, then
shall not be infringed, right,So what what are we even doing here?
Do you do you think? Doyou think the founding fathers wouldn't want
you to have her Wolf? Idon't think that's true. I think if
you got I think if you gotthem together and got done explaining all the

(01:29:39):
stuff Airwolf can do, they're gonnabe mighty impressed. But uh no,
I think they'd be cool with it. Plus they're shooting fireworks. Uh and
uh let's see here, yeah yeahyeah. The complaint uh and the arrest
weren't, which was issued just acouple of days ago, is based on

(01:29:59):
quote, the causing the placement ofan explosive or incendiary device on an aircraft.
So all of that insane, thatinsane vision that I just laid out
for you. What they're hitting themwith is bringing explosives onto an aircraft,
I e. The fireworks that werethen launched out of the helicopter at the

(01:30:21):
Lambeau. So you know, whydon't you do this kind of stuff on
your Twitch channel? Ross? Hmmm, I'm just you know, the bar
keeps going up and up. Man, it's hard to keep up, but
we can keep up with the weather. Jeff Barr from the Weather Channel,

(01:30:43):
he'll help us. What red bloodedAmerican doesn't want to shoot fireworks out of
a helicopter at a Lambeau? Right? Just once in life? Come on?
Yeah? I mean that. Yeahthat. I wonder if it's kind
of hard to hit to the lambeau, you know, out of the helicopter.
I think it would be here.It's your moving target. Trying to
hit a moving target. I don'tknow if you do much shooting, but

(01:31:05):
that's now you got two really hardthings to do. Yeah, crazy towns,
but I'm willing to give it atry. So is it good weather
to do that? Yeah? Absolutely, some good weather for that or anything
else that you may have lined upfor the weekend. It's going to be
dry. The next chance the rainwill be on Sunday evening, So the
bulk of the weekend shaping it throughvery nice. Today's sunny high warming to

(01:31:26):
eighty nine, a light breeze outof the west, and then clear tonight
with a low of sixty three.We should hit eighty seven with more sunshine
tomorrow, and then on Sunday we'llbe sunny and hotter with some gusty winds
out of the west at a hindand low nineties. Theead a few showers
and thunderstorms to develop on Sunday nightbefore clearing takes place into Monday, with
a high to eighty seven degrees.All right, have a good weekend,
sir, appreciate it. You gotit a good one. All right,

(01:31:47):
there you go, Jeff Barr fromthe Weather Channel. We come back,
Jeff Bellinger. Oh all right,boy, I got nine different directions as
we could take it with a well, you know what. Stick around.
You'll find out which direction I gonext. I am okay, say good
morning. The job market was muchstronger than expected last month. The Labor

(01:32:11):
Department reports two hundred seventy two thousandworkers were added to payrolls in May.
The nation's unemployment rate ticked up tofour percent. It was a three point
nine percent in April. Average hourlyearnings were up four tens percent, and
we're up four point one percent fromMay of last year. All of the
numbers higher than expected, and economistssay this report likely pushes off the first

(01:32:32):
interest rate cut by the Fed.Futures are lower across the board right now.
S and P futures down twenty fourpoints. Nasdaq futures are down seventy
three, the Dow futures down onehundred and forty two. Strategists the Bank
of America are not anxious for theFederal Reserve to start cutting interest rates.
Many investors have said a round ofrate cuts would begin or could begin,

(01:32:55):
before there is significant harm to economicgrowth. The thinking at b of A
is that a cut would be thefirst hint of trouble for the economy,
and it could increase the chances ofa hard landing. Apple has developed a
new app called Passwords. Sources saythe app will make it easier for customers
to log into websites and software.The app will be unveiled Monday at Apple's

(01:33:15):
Worldwide Developers Conference, and it willreportedly be included in an upcoming operating system
update. And Casey, the commissionerof the National Basketball Association, says the
league is considering expanding Adam Silver saysleague officials will turn their attention to the
possibility of adding teams once they completenew deals for TV rights. Casey all

(01:33:39):
right, Hey, Jeff do youhear? The good news is a robot
dog with the flamethrower is now licensedas an agricultural tool, and you can
purchase it here in the US forjust under ninety five hundred bucks. Wow,
I'll start saving up case you.Yeah, as soon as I figure

(01:34:00):
out what I'm going to use itfor. But agricultural purposes, agricult Okay,
okay, okay. Thank you fortake care. You do the same take care