Monday-7-29-2024

Episode Transcript

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So happy that we have the Olympicsto talk about, even though there's politics
and everything in it. And andagain we're not talking about I mean,
some of it will talk about forthe right reason. There's some good stuff
there, but nah, for themost part, like what the holy hell
was going on? And I usethat exact phrasing for the exact reason that

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I too, happened to catch aglance of the opening ceremonies and was incredibly
confused, and then we started gettinglied to. And at that point I'm
just popping that mic. Sorry,I like adjusted the cut. I have

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like a soft cover on my mic, and it finally gave out. I'm
gonna have to go get my otherlittle, uh little thing for it.
So I apologize for that. Butso the the the opening ceremonies, which
by the way, were what likethree hours or something. Now I get

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it, especially because it's Paris,they're gonna feel the necessity to flex their
artistic muscle. So like the MarieAntoinette thing, Okay, well we'll start
there. It was this weird panshot, right and you had you had

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like this red back glow, andyou know what looked like Marie Antoinette holding
her head. If that was theif that, I didn't even mind that,
Okay, whatever, it's Paris.That's the thing. French Revolution got
it. I don't know if youknow, but when we've had opening ceremonies,
including the ones in Atlanta, wellnot the not the bombing part,

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but you know, there was athere was a definitive nod to the American
Revolution there, okay, because Isaw people were posting like screenshots of previous
opening ceremonies in Russia and the USand Brazil. And but what we watched

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on Friday quickly devolve from that intoand you'd have to convince me otherwise into
a blatant screw you from a religiousperspective. And and and that question was

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answered when what they purport is Dionysus, which, by the way, I
want you to do something this morning, if you've never done it, I
want you to knowing the image.I want you to all up the famous
Feast of Dionysus painting, because that'swhat we were told they were attempting to

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go for with the long table fullof drag queens. And then I want
you to look at that painting.Okay, it's easy to search it up.
You can even search it on Googlebecause it doesn't have Trump's name in
it. And so go and justbe like, all right, I'm gonna
do it right now, Beast ofDionysus. All right, all right,

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Beast of Dionysus. And you cango look at the painting. Yeah yeah,
yeah, no, you get yougo look at it. It is
not remotely that. And then Iwant you to call up and maybe you
have this image in your head,the Last Supper, and then I want

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you to look at any screen shot, any wide shot of what was going
on at that table, and youtell me, because again we live in
this post truth world where you justsay it and then one hundred thousand idiots
on Twitter will be like going intothe community notes, no, it was

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actually this, and then the giantblue dress Jesus with the halo literally uh
tweeted or excuse me, instagramed,let me get this, let me get
this correct, instagrammed gay New Testamentand referred to herself as her himself or

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what I didn't I don't even know, as God or as Jesus. Excuse
me, but sure, no,it's the Feast of Dionysus. So you
know, for an event that's nowgoing to run for weeks. You decided
to start it off by insulting abunch of people, and they issued in

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a issued in a ology but notreally, I don't know, And then
I saw you know again, uh, the the trolling was heavy. We
kind of got into the trolling onthe show account because uh I uh I
did yesterday point out that the predictivesearch may have been leaving some stuff out

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when you start typing in attempted assassinationof and I and I, you know,
I had hordes of disingenuous intellectually didus dishonest folks going you don't understand
how algorithms work. Yeah, no, I kind of do. And even
if you don't, it's it's prettyeasy to get there. And we'll we'll

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touch on that in a moment.All right, So do you have a
chance this morning to stare at thefeast of Dionysus painting and the Last Supper
and and then what we were presentedwith during the opening ceremonies. You tell
me, okay, you ross you'rean independent arbiter. I haven't told you

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were doing this test. I wouldlike you to Akham's rasor this thing,
and you tell me, Feast ofDionysus, Last Supper. What do you
think the artistic director was going forwith that particular piece of imagery. If
you had to bet, you're you'renot an art expert. I'm not an

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art expert. Best guess Beast ofDionysus or Last Supper. All right,
so he's reviewing that your reviewed.You tell me, well, we get
a statement from the Olympics and they'relike, well, you know, we
really, oh so sorry. Didn'tmean to offend every every Christian on the

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planet. Didn't mean to do that, you know, was misinterpreted. The
absolute gas lighting on this stuff isjust legendary. And so what does it
cause, Well, it causes folksto go ahead and not want to watch
the Olympics. And that's too bad. A lot of people all across the

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world, but especially our athletes herein the United States and both the Olympics
and the Paralympics, who will puta lot of work into their craft,
their skill so they can go outand we can own one hundred and ninety
some other countries. Plus we alsothere's also a refugee team. Did you

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know that? I did not knowthat? And then the there's a Palestinian
team and only one person there isactually either from or living in quote unquote
Palestine. The rest live elsewhere,including one who lives in the US and

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was born in Illinois. But youknow, you get some of that where
folks are not wanting or or notable to qualify, maybe on the US
team who do that, or youget ones who want to get to payday,
like the ah what was the iceRemember the ice skating chick in the

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Winter Olympics who decided to go beChina's puppet and unfortunately fame and riches didn't
follow because she choked during the Olympics. But that was a calculated thing,
likely would have been on the USteam, decided to compete for China because
her mom or one side of herfamily is from China. The whole thing

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was wild, and yet we're allsupposed to pretend that that wasn't that wasn't
the attent. So we got thatstory this morning. That's gonna be in
the stack and uh, and thenof course we got all the you know,
the general insanity of more election stuff. We'll figure out how climate change

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and feces is impacting the Olympics apparentlyso, so I've compared the two photos.
Now, all right, all right, usually hours of deduction. But
well, because I've seen the LastSupper obviously, but I've never seen anything
about the what is the Dionysus?It's so very famous painting. I would

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say without the weird blue guy thatlooks like a weird smurf, yeah,
smurf thing, I would probably sayLast Supper, but if you throw a
smurf guy in there, it couldbe the feast. I don't know,
so you I do know the biggirl that was in the center there,
she's come out and said that shewas told that she was Olympic Jesus yeah,
and gay New Testament Yeah yeah,yeah, yeah, So that's weird.

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I don't know what it is.I do know that it was enough
to make me be like, well, I wasn't going to pay attention before,
and now I'm definitely not going topay attention. I was talking to
the dude that works at the frontdesk at the Planet Fitness today at the
gym, and you know, theOlympics were on the TV there. They
were showing some of the gymnasts andI said, just making conversation, I
said, remember when the Olympics werethis huge thing, like in the nineties
and eighties, Like, dude,we would watch it. We were glued

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to our televisions. In my family, it was a big family event.
We'd get together. You still remember, I don't remember her name. It
was a Carrie Strug. Carrie Strug, the gymnasts who who literally broke her
ankle, right, he carried offafter getting the gold bad right, and
he mentioned that we couldn't remember hername, but he was like, you
know, remember she she had theankle and she she stuck the landing and

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she run that dude's arms, likethe big guy with the mustache, and
you know, yeah, the Russiandude who basically came he left the USSR
to come over and basically him andhis wife were the Olympic gurus the gymnastics
for years. My ex, uhthe X, I dated for a long
time. She was a college gymnastand she actually coached, so I know

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way more about women's gymnastics than youwould ever know. But yeah, that
dude was famous. Carrie Strug wasfan. I'm telling you. We used
to be glued to our televisions.It was a big event. And now
in this once again. The guythe gym said before even I could bring
it up, he said, Nowthey had this weird opening ceremony where I'm
like, what is going on?And then everyone has to make a political

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and Lebron James isn't standing during theanthem, yet they had him coming in
a carrying like the flag in thein the in the d day boat or
whatever it was, the DA Yeah. The landing was then stand like,
what are you doing? Dude?Let me ask you this, all right,
would you I will? I wouldexpect because it's it's Paris that they're

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gonna be weird, super weird.Yeah, okay, which is fine.
Again the Marie Antoinette thing, Isaw some people were mad about that.
I no, I thought that wasfine. That's right what I would expect.
Yeah, because they're trying to sayit's like a demonic symbolism. Yeah
I'm not. I'm not here forit. What was the with the Marines
when that's just a thing I understand. But the problem is you couple that

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with everything else, you know,gay New Testament, Olympic Jesus. Some
people, uh, you had thehorse right, the Pale Rider, Yeah,
and the fourth Horsemen of the apocalypsewhatever coming in. Yeah, is
that bad? I mean, likeI said, I'm just looking at it
briefly. I was. I tooka lot of time off this weekend from

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social media. This weekend did feellike a regular weekend. Last Friday,
we retire, We were we hada lot going off at the Hayes compound.
We have a lot of stuff goingaround the house and stuff or getting
ready for obviously from the in laws. Oh but but all ont aside,
it was still a nice, RESTfulI guess it's RESTful as relevant compared to
the past two weeks. It wasa nice weekend. Tried to want paid

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some attention to the Olympics, butonce I see like blue Smurf, nymph
man or whatever is on the tableand uh, you know, obese Olympic
Jesus woman as and then I'm out. I'm out. Don't you don't like
pedophile smurf? I don't care.Yeah, I'm out. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, which is which which Ihate because because it used to be

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a thing. It used to bea thing, and people have put a
crap ton of work. I thinkSimone Biles is amazing, right again,
it's incredible. Yeah, I knowthat people got into the whole Uh remember
where she kind of dipped out onsomething like question or work. She's no,
yeah, they did question the factthat she's a human being, and
people get anxious and then it's psychological. Yeah. Yeah. She said I

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wouldn't be able to win right now, Let's let somebody else go in there.
And then she came back and andkicked everybody's ass. So like I
hated for her, I hated foreverybody else who include we got many North
Carolina athletes that are out there competing. I hate it for them because,
you know, a lot of thesesports, a lot of these events,

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this is the only notoriety you get, right if you're being bust your ass.
I mean, you've dedicated your lifeto this, yes, and you're,
but you're also you're in a sportthat doesn't draw big crowds. You're
you're probably you know, most ofthese athletes don't survive or wouldn't survive outside
of the stipend and the end,which, by the way, they have

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to raise money. I don't knowif you I don't know if you know
this, and if you're some ownbiles, that's a lot easier. But
if if you're like in one ofthe shooting events, you got to grind.
I've known a couple people just overthe years because I was doing the
hunting and fishing stuff too. Iused to do a show in Minnesota.
It was syndicated, and uh,you know, so we talk shooting,

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we talk all this stuff, andyou know, these are they got to
go out and raise money for forfor like going to the Olympics and stuff.
So talking to some of the Olympichopefuls, I mean, they're doing
it because it's their passion, man, And we got all sorts of stuff,
and yet you decide to kick itoff with the thing that tells the

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dude at Planet Fitness talking with Rossthis morning because he's there getting his gains
on a Monday, which God blessyou man, where you just like,
I'm out out. Plus they madethe female beach volleyball players put on pants.
It's crap. Do you see thethe swimmer retired at the Olympics.

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At the Olympic from Germany or something. I don't want her to win,
but hello, so so anyway,yes, yeah, it's it absolutely decimates
the the enthusiasm that we feel.Why were why was everything so much better

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in the nineties or is it justbecause that's the era you and I look
back with fondness on right, wetalked about the Dream Team, which is
Olympic adjacent, but it's like,I feel like professional sports well, actually
no, I don't know if youfondly remember the nineties from a professional sports
standpoint, as they likely caused yougreat frustration. But oh crap, all

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right, look at that, Ijust went over. All right, we
got to take a break. Hangon, we'll be back, obviously for
something that huge. With that manypeople like they have their own committee there,
and then the IOC has its committee, right, you have the local
committee of the IOC. And Ipromise as much as these folks love bureaucracy
with generally who's involved there the factthat nobody at any point when they were

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going over like sketches or practice,right, they had to practice. All
of that went you know, youknow that looks a little like the uh
last Supper there. Maybe we shouldn'tdo that blue Smurf, Like if you'd
have just done weird Peto Smurf,dude, I don't know, maybe still

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would be weird. What was theother? Oh, the other thing was
did one of the dancers literally havehis We'll go with twigs, twig and
berries if you understand the reference thesports car reference there did were his berries
hanging out of his short shorts.Because I saw that image getting posted around,

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I didn't, uh, Ross,what do you think? Okham's raising
this thing again? They're gonna Okham'sto raisor Ramona. Yeah, but they
were debating like which part of themanhood it was? Yeah, the theory
was berries, twig or tear into. It's definitely not tear but did you
do some research? We should Isaw the photo. The fact is we

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should not be having this debate atall, Like this shouldn't be like something
that happens after the opening ceremony.We should be like, hey, like
you said, hey, what's upwith that blue smurf nymph? Elf guy?
Yeah? Or hey, what's upwith all those mines that were there?
That was weird? Or is itthough? Like Paris? Right?
Yeah, this is what I'm saying. It should be like typical weird France
stuff and people should be having funwith it. Yeah, and like one

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or two people should be offended whatever, Like if you'd have just done the
horse right without all the other religiousimagery. I'd be like, it's a
laser light show basically. So,I don't know, man, I would
like prefer my opening ceremonies not tohave something that looks like a dark Soul's
boss in it, you know whatI mean? Or all dark Souls bosses

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all at once and get a cagematch, or so, I don't know.
Whatever, you know, make itinteresting to your point. I also
believe that Hell and his Cell shouldbe an Olympic event. Okay, fair
enough? Breakdancing is that's right?August ninth, They're gonna kick off the
breakdancing. I bet they don't saveone rec center? What do you think

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none? I'm gonna say zero.If they use their powers for good,
they probably could. But yeah,he said, the Olympic committee is sort
of like FIFA whatever it's it's corrupt. Did you hear how the scoring works
on that fake of it? No? All right, so it's it's just
like it's like a rap battle,right they just all right? What was
his name in eight mile? OhRabbit? Right? Yeah, rab rabbit,

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Papa Doc, Yeah, Papa DocRabbit. You're up right, except
they'll break dance off at each otherback and forth, back and forth,
move for move, there's no points, it'll just be after the judges who
they liked more. This sounds completelyfair. Is there a giant boombox?
If there's not like a like ayou know, like the size of a

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car one there just for the aesthetics, you've really let me down. So
I don't know, man, Idon't know. But those were the Those
were the little intricacies and the thingsthat people make jokes about. But it
wasn't some seething hatred for what theywere seeing. But when you just crap
on people out of the game andthen try to pretend like you didn't understand

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what was going on. Like evenin the apology they were talking about how
they're wanting to focus on inclusivity,Well, you're giving away the game between
that and the Instagram thing. Andthe inclusivity for you was to tell a
bunch of people who are religious thatyou're gonna stick, you know, drag
queens in there, or you're goingto do this because they need to understand

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that this is inclusivity. And theother thing is too like if it was
the way you chose to include thatright again, it's it's they're French.
I expect that it's gonna be weirdand so like if you had drag queens
doing something else, like, youcan still send your message, but you

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can't go there. And I noticedthere wasn't And I'm not the first person
to think of this. I noticedthere wasn't a drag queen Mohammed. I
think the and why don't you dothat in Paris? I'm sure to be
fine. I'm surely, I'm sureit'll be fine. You can call it
drag queen Charlie epdo right to youknow, have a little fun with it,

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so you can, I guess,plausibly deny it when your city's being
burned to the ground. I mean, once again, I'm starting to think
that maybe the burning of Notre Damewasn't a wasn't an accident, you know
what I mean? Whoa? Whoa? Is your conspiracy? Wow? Look
at you? Your ross is makingstuff up that seems kind of logical.

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I've been there, man, people, if you don't know this too,
it's it's, it's it's on itsown island thing. It's it's and it's
amazing or it was, and Ihope that it is. Again. I
obviously I haven't been there since sincethat happened. What are they blame it

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on some dude with a cigarette.I think that's what they blamed it on,
right, some worker with a cigaretteor something. But I remember reading
how that didn't really track. SoI don't know, man, I just
I don't understand it, except forthe need of people too, you know,

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crap on people that they don't agreewith. And this is this goes
back to our little nineties discussion wewere having. And it could be just
nostalgia, and it doesn't mean thateverything was perfect. But I've heard it
referred to as the Fresh Prince era. Right, So I can't remember who

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was on Twitter calls at that,but but they but they weren't talking about,
you know, their love of WillSmith. They were talking about how
all of the things that are justthe worst parts of the political correctness stuff,

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the the pitting of individuals against eachother, were we were softening.
Right. You never had a largerunforced contingent of primarily black primetime television shows
than you did in the nineties onthe networks, not even today. I've

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said, uh, you know what, I could pull these numbers up.
I remember reading this when you look, and and they weren't and and they
were there, and they were popular. And it wasn't just black, it
was it was Hispanic. You havea lot of Asian shows now, you
had a few then, and andpeople watched it. Regardless how many of

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you watched Bernie mac show, itwas great they had. You had Bernie
Mack, you had Living Pez,George Lopez, you had Martin, you
had all these shows. Yes,yes, I mean when you watched them
then it was it was pre internet, so we had a lot more freedom
than we did now, especially ifyou're growing up, you're like a teen
or whatever. Right, your bossescouldn't get to you after hours. Right,

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So you had a typical nine tofive, which is can you even
imagine that now? Amazing? Right? Uh, pre nine to eleven.
So you didn't have any of thisstuff that we have in regards to that
anymore. Just a simpler, bettertime. And it seemed like everything was
really better. And the narrative wouldbe it was for you because you you
have white privilege. And but andagain this is not denial that people weren't

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still out doing stuff, you know, being pieces of crap to each other
and racist in some instances or sexistor whatever it is. It's not a
denial of that, it's that weseem to be working through a lot of
that. And you mentioned the politicallyand correct that like everything wasn't as it
is now in regards to political correctness. The first time I remember hearing that,

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I think Bill Maher had this showwhere the political politically incorrect. Yeah,
that's the first time I remember hearingit. Early. Now it's so
common, like everybody knows and everybodyis, you know, triggered by everything,
and there's microaggressions and everything. It'sgrown from that. But I mean
it was it was before. Imean it just seemed simpler. Yeah,
yeah, and and now we're inthis uh DEI hell and uh no drag

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queen vishnu or but no, no, no, no, I hear you,
I hear you by that dude.That dude seems smug. When I
saw him being interviewed, I don'tspeak French, I don't know which which
dude, the artistic director's young guy. He seemed like a smug I'm going
to show them. I'm gonna takemy opportunity. Dude who is just cheesed

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on religious people. That's the vibeI, God, no, I get
proud of himself. I seem proudof himself, the same vibe as that
chick that's in charge of the accoladeon Star Wars, Like, Yeah,
they're doing this stuff on purpose topush people's buttons. They want to make
you upset. I'm going to thepot, and you do it at the
detriment of people have worked their assoff to get there. And by the

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way, that's not to say maybehe hasn't worked his ass off. I
don't know, but you have thisopportunity. And if you're used to producing
things for the theater crowd, right, if you're used to producing things in
New York's theater district, you havea lot more flexibility because, like so
much in entertainment, we try togauge things, like the FCC will gauge

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things that I say, based onthe standards of the audience that I broadcast
to. It's a very weird wordingand I'm not even wording it correctly,
but it basically community the community standards, okay, and it's community standards,
by the way, or something thatis that is present in law, not
just FCC regulations. And so ifyou're used to producing for that crowd.

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That's not who you're producing for.You're producing for the world. And the
majority of people in the world arereligious, even if you're not, and
so you don't have to throw areligious homage in there. You should because
Paris has a lot of very interestingreligious history. The aforementioned church, the

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conspiracy Ross is on that, youknow, that's kind of a big deal.
But more than that, you gotso much to play off of though,
Dude, the whole Catacomb's thing,right, And once again, it's
not the weirdness of it. Weexpect weirdness from France, Like that's what
I expected it to be. Andjust as when they had the Olympics in
Beijing, right, if you werelike, hey, Ross, what's the
opening ceremony for Beijing going to be, I'd be like, well, it's

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the it's the Chinese people, right, they're communist government. I assume it's
going to be some sort of adisplay of how they're all choreographed. And
remember that big drum banging session,remember that where they were now and it
was amazing, And that's exactly whatI would picture it would to be,
right, And yeah, in Paris, I mean, pop around to some
of the most iconic locations in Franceor in Paris, and there's so many,

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right, there's so many. Ifyou ever go, if you ever
go over there, I hate tosay I would not. I wouldn't tell
you to go to Paris, asbad as that sounds. And I enjoyed,
but it was it was quite awhile ago that I went. But
you were already I already kind offelt like a bunch of people didn't want
tourists there, which is a vibeyou get. But I was far more

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entertained over in Normandy and Champagne,and could I travel all basically Paris and
then you go to Versailles and thenboom you pop out to the Atlantic coast
there and the two days in Parisversus the five days elsewhere, it wasn't
even close. Wasn't even close.But I nerd it out for two days.

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Right, stroll along the river,check out the shot. Are you
getting overcharged? Yes? Are yougetting a slice of Paris less and less?
So now go to the louver.Don't throw soup on stuff, appreciate
it. Look at that Try thatglass pyramid and at you know, and
go eh, that looks way differentin person. Even if you've seen the

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the Tom Hanks movie and go checkthat out. Go to the Arc de
Trompe, go check it out.Stroll along the shopping street there. I
can't pronounce it, so I'm notgonna try, but you know, the
one, the lase whatever, godo all that stuff. Go check that
out. And if I want togo check that out and the world recognizes

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you for that, lean into it, just as you did with the Marie
Antoinette stuff, the Bastille stuff,and be weird, be euro weird.
Do they think we're weird even thoughthey literally can't get enough of our media?
And then do that. But withthat Instagram post and the smugness of

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that guy's interview, that was theywere sitting in a room, probably smoking
the cigarettes with those stupid holders pinkyout, drinking some I don't know,
French wine and laughing about how thiswill show them. And you can't convince
me otherwise based on those posts thatI've seen, All right, are you

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gonna you're gonna watch the Olympics?I guess selectively, I just depending on
how you watch it. They gotit on a bunch of different channels.
If you go to the Uh,the peacock What is the app? What's
the NBC's the peacock cap. Yeah, they have about nine thousand different ways
you can watch it. You cango event by event. And people have

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traditions. Again, you talked aboutin your household how you guys would watch
stuff. People have traditions. Theywant to watch this stuff. I want
to watch the track and field stuff. I like that a little wild man.
I'm not much of a swimming guy, but if that's your thing,
absolutely, If gymnastics is your thing, as it was, Uh, my

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sisters loved watching the gymnastics. Idon't know if I want to watch the
men's basketball though. But you know, this is this is what you decide
to do with your time. Here'ssomething else maybe you could have done with
it. Why don't if you wantto make statements, why don't you make

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a statement about what's going on inVenezuela. That's absolutely insane if you're not
following that. Once again, thecommie runt dictator there has claimed victory,
even though it was abundantly clear toanyone watching this that he was getting absolutely

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trounced. And there's there's literally selfiephotos that got posted from one of the
campaign centers where they're all wearing theirjackets, right, because he's got a
he's got a he's got like auniform where they're all wearing that and they're
smiling for the selfie and it kindof looks like that that selfie from the
oscars with Degenerous and all them.Right, they're just all But the problem

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is they have monitors in front ofthem that show him getting his butt handed
to him in each of the littledistricts. Yeah, it's his own staff
there, and now you've got toworry it. I'm now you've got to
be worried about their lives. Theytweeted out that photo and you can see
the pie charts and he's getting decimated. You know what, I don't care.
Thirty percent of people are on thewinning team and are willing to subjugate

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seventy percent of their countrymen because that'swhat they actually and take that for what
it's worth. That is what outsideexperts believe is the actual margin. Yeah,
where he got thirty percent of thevote. The dude who's never been
a politician, he was an ambassawho basically got drafted into this because he's
probably gonna have to move. Itprobably got seventy percent of the vote.

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And I don't know if I mentionedit. So I had the opportunity when
I was traveling to meet somebody fromVenezuela. Oh yeah, all right,
hold on, sorry, I'm solate on breaks. Let's take a break.
We'll be right back. Is itagain. It's not that it's all
negative. It's that I don't understandwhy you would decide to open it with
what is a very obvious fu AndI one hundred percent believed that it was

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intentional. And I you know,everyone involves got some hang ups, they
have some religious relative they don't like. I don't know what it is whether
you would choose to insult that thendetract from the ability to enjoy all the
little micro stories and things that happenat the Olympics, Like let me give
you some examples. Do you knowdo you know the first medal that the

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US won, It was a silvermedal, all right, and it was
the synchronous diving, right, soyou got the two side by side boom
boom boom. Yeah, it's veryartistic in nature, and we won the
silver medal. Do you know thename of the team Cook and Bacon,
that's what they call themselves, andthey have like bacon stuff and they wearing

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Bacon shirts and that's because one ofthem is named Cook and the other one's
name Bacon. And they have alot of fun with it. And what
is a more American team than Cookand Bacon? Can we agree? Okay?
Just you know, they're not majorstories, but their fun stuff.
You would not know who those twogirls are, who've worked their ass off

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since high school where they were friends, if not for the Olympics and getting
that medal and of course having youknow, an affinity for bacon, which
they obviously clearly probably don't because asthey're Olympic athletes, but they probably sneak
some. And that's great and youwant those stories. And you've now precluded

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a bunch of people. If Ididn't tell you about it, you wouldn't
know that. But I got todive through all of this. Bob the
cap Catcher, some of you sentme this story. Do you know what
that is? So this is awomen's swimming event. They've got the women
on the pedestals or whatever you know, waiting to go, and one of
the judges notices something in the waterand it's one of the you know,

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the speedo caps. They pull overtheir hair and it I guess, I
don't know if it was previously inthere or it fell off, whatever,
but now it's in the pool.It's you know, about eight feet out
and it's sinking down. And sothey tell the women to dismount and they
call in I guess, the crew, and this dude strolls out. He's,

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you know, middle aged looking dude. He's got a little millk pattern
baldness, he's got a little bitof a gut on him, and he's
wearing tight floral speedos. I said, ross the story, he'll tweet it
out. You could go look atit. And this dude dives in there
grabs that thing, and the commentatorsare like, who is that guy?

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And everyone's cheering as he holds itup, you know, like I am
victorious. Right. It's a funnymoment. It's a funny, silly moment
that you and your family sitting onthe couch watching would probably find memorable because
your kids would relate to it.Why are they cheering for him? And
then the commentators are like, whatdo we call him? And one of
the guys goes. We'll call himthe cap catcher, Bob, the cap

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Catcher. Again, it's a dumblittle thing, but it's one of these
little mini stories that people are goingto miss out on because they chose to
do this, and I hate that. I hate that for cooking bacon Bob.
I'm sure that's not his real name. And you know the amount of

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confidence it takes to where the hospedo'sman. But he's just out there doing
his thing. I bet he's afun dude too, right, because he's
hamming it up out there. He'sclearly not the angry people that put together
that opening ceremonies or our own athleteswho were literally gifted one of the highest

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profile jobs during the Olympic opening ceremoniesand representing your country. It can't be
bothered to stand the anthem and itjust it just turns people off. So
well, look, I'll continue totry to bring you some of the fun

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stories, but a lot of peoplearen't gonna be catching this in real time.
They're gonna be bogged down with whatyou know, what they what They
sat there with their kids to watchand then probably at some point had to
go all right, let's let's seeif something else is on when we're trying
to determine if a guy's testicles arehanging out of his clothes or Peto smurfs

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up there, or the Last Supperis being recreated, and it's very obvious.
So there's that, all right.Let me get back to the Venezuela
thing. So I met somebody whenI was traveling and instantly like this guy.

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Okay, instantly like this dude,this was when I was in April?
Was it last I tried? Ican't remember the dates I trut whatever.
So if you remember, I decidedI was going to go to a
place called Guatapei, which is outsideMagazine, which is just really really cool
natural formation. It's an old volcanoand it's now become a lake and there's

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a huge magma spire still in themiddle, and it's got like seven hundred
stairs get the top. There isa bar up top, and then there's
like a little halfway points for youto catch your because you're like, ah,
seven hundred stares, that's nothing.Yeah, And then I went from
there to Ecuador, and then Iwent to Galapago's Silence. Great trip.
I had so much fun. Ifyou scroll back in the timeline. I
posted pictures of some fun stuff.It's okay, but when I was in,

(39:15):
when I was gonna out to pay, it is very touristy, right
obviously for what it is, it'sit's gorgeous. And I did the little
cop out part for a while becauseI'm like, there's a lot of stairs
and they have like a little restaurantthing there, and then they have something

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that's attached back of the hotel thatI stayed in, where I actually ran
into this dude again, and I, you know, I started talking to
him because he speaks very good Englishand my Spanish is not great, although
I can read Spanish really well,which is weird because I can barely speak
it. But it actually allowed meto really deep dive some of the tweets

(39:58):
that I was seeing coming out aboutthe Ventelan election. This guy's from Venezuela.
He's a dentist, and he's andhe is. He is not just
a Venezuelan dentist. He received abunch of his schooling in the US.
He was very fortunate because his parents, both of his parents were successful dentists
in Venezuela were and so that affordedhim the ability obviously to follow in that

(40:22):
path. And I want to sayhe's forty early forties something like that.
And so we got to talking,and I'm naturally curious about stuff, and
he had mentioned that he's actually Venezuelan, he's not Colombian, and so I

(40:43):
was like, oh, okay,And I broached the topic very quietly because
there are a lot One thing younotice when you get to Colombia is it's
full of Venezuelans for obvious reasons,but you know, you can tell people
in South America really like wearing flags, colors and stuff, kind of like
Texans. But anyway, and westarted talking about it, and basically they

(41:05):
didn't fall in line with Chavez,and that was not good. So I
wait, hold on, it's arefreshment center Boston. Paul is very upset.
The halfway point doesn't have a bar. It's a refreshment center and the
hotels will put stuff over there soyou can actually have beer and stuff if
you want so kind of but notreally. So he's hauling this stuff over

(41:30):
and and and he just he justtells me the story and it's wild and
it's it is the slow degradation ofpeople who wouldn't fall in line, people
who vote, who vocally objected tosome of the changes, especially within that
field, who found themselves on theouts. And at that point you're not

(41:54):
allowed to avail yourself of some ofthe government funded health insurance, which is
still even if you're doing a lotof private stuff is a necessity. And
eventually they had to shut it down, and then somebody arsened the building.
Even after they had shut it down, they arsened the building. And it

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was at that point his family literallyhad to move. And I'm not going
to tell you where they moved.I can't believe he told me, but
basically out of Caracas to another partof the country. And he made the
decision to go to Columbia. Theproblem was when Colombia's deal with taking in
folks, even folks with educations,is they didn't the upper crust of Columbia

(42:39):
had some concerns that you could floodthe market with professionals and that would be
bad for Colombian professionals, which Iguess is understandable. So he's not allowed
to he's not allowed to practice dentistryin Columbia. So the guy works as
a porter for a hotel, andhe uses that money, that which you

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don't make a lot of money inColombia. He uses that money to attempt
to support his family when he goesback to visit his family. Because he
was shown as somebody who left anddidn't leave in the proper way, he
doesn't use He uses a fake passport, which you can go by. Because
Venezuela is so corrupt, they'll sellblanks for it into Colombia and people will

(43:20):
sell them. I could have gottenone, and he has. He sits
on a bus for like sixteen hoursto do it, and he goes on
the regular bring supplies or money orwhatever he needs to this formally very successful
family who had everything taken from himbecause they wouldn't fall in line. And
now a guy who's probably smarter thanbe's, a sharp dude, is sitting

(43:45):
there is moving luggage and stuff becausehe has to, because that is what
communism wrought there. And as youcan imagine watching for the third time,
what has happened I guess technically secondtime he was gifted the first term.
What is happening now once again inVenezuela where it is clearly corrupt and you

(44:06):
can take a head count based onthe countries that are willing to recognize the
results. Basically Cuba, Nicaragua.I'm trying to think of the Latin American
countries, all all dictators themselves whohave Chavez is bad or not shaves Maduro's
back because they themselves may need himif they ever get ousted or attempted to

(44:28):
be ousted. And you watch whatcommunism has rot and you watch his personal
reaction to it. I don't carewhat's going on in your life. Holy
hell, I remember feeling I rememberfeeling bad. I mean, just like
I. You know, there's noproblem. I can tell you that outpaces

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what's happening with you. And youknow the narrative is, while those are
true Venezuelans, they left you.You are sit in their business. You
are in their business and ran generationalpeople out of a profession that is very
necessary because they wouldn't get on board, they wouldn't make contributions to you.

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They spoke out against it. Iguess his mom did. Just wild man,
just absolutely wild and uh, we'reyou know, the the the one
of the main oversight board. They'reall lackeys for this dude. International observers
are not granted the access they need, and that's another six year term.

(45:36):
The only out for these folks unlessthey're willing to do something, and that's
could be difficult. Although even thoughthey did confiscate a lot of their weapons,
apparently there's a lot of weapons tobe had when you go into the
favelas because they're flowing it over fromColumbia, barrios, basically the ghettos,
and that's not even a fair word, but the forced living conditions of the

(46:00):
majority of Venezuelans who did go voteand it didn't change anything. And once
you're so deep down that hole andthey've got your guns and the military isn't
gonna what do you do? Hecontinues to check luggage and all drinks around
And I guess, hope all ofthe things that have come to pass in

(46:25):
Venezuela, if you just give ita rudimentary look, are exactly what they
predicted what happened with Trump. Andyet the people posing for photos with Maduro
and Chavez and shaking hands, orthe people like Sean Penn and some of
the you know who else was there. Danny Glover was a big, big
friends with Chavez down there these absoluteidiots who all think that it would be

(46:50):
so great if we just had communismbecause they know they would be among the
select few to be the beneficiaries.Letting folks like that drive public opinion is
dangerous and everyone should look at what'sgoing on in Venezuela right now. And
I don't know how this is goingto pan out, but I know that
dude to challenge him probably is gonnalive in Venezuela for very long unless something

(47:13):
amazing happens. And I don't knowthat my buddy's gonna go back except under
an assume fake passport so we canget in out of the country, and
he has to do it by busbecause that doesn't work with air travel.
Meanwhile, he's he's literally was trainedin America. Just wild, just absolutely

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wild. Ross. You have likea twitch buddy, right you were saying,
Am I telling lies here or hasthis been the No? I know
him over Twitter. He's a bighe runs a big Buffalo Bill's fan account,
and he's from Venezuela. He isan autistic child. And I tggle
about a lot about you know,obviously football, but also politics in Venezuela.
And yeah, I mean they can'tvote themselves out of this. No,

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you're not gonna You're not You're you'reat that that point in overturn.
You can vot it in, butyou can't vote it out. And now
you've got them the Maduro they're floatinglike a Hillary Clinton type Russian hoax thing,
saying, oh, well, theproblems were election interference from right.
Yeah, he called him a dictator. So if you if you listened to
Maduro's speech that he gave last night, put the subtitles on, I'll tell

(48:19):
you what he said. He challengedhim to a fight too, and then
he made fun of his face forlike three minutes. It's just that,
don't get me wrong. Do Ithink Donald Trump it makes a uh I
would say something crazy as somebody calledhim a dictator. Yeah, but he
didn't destroy a country and continue todo so and send the milla. Did

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you see the military running into thepolling sites. Yeah, I don't know
they're a military, but they're goingin there and they just like violently taking
out the battle boxes and like bringingthem out into the street. Yeah.
So what they want is they wantthe computers and the tallies and and so
that it becomes a race to geta hold of them. Thirty they were
able to get I think thirty percentthe opposition, but there's seventy They actually

(49:01):
could be as high as eighty percent. The Meduro's people are just holding on
to and they're letting their friends atthe Oversight Board see it, but they
won't release it to everybody. That'sweird, and even international observers like that's
weird. But nobody's willing to callthis out, so you know, and
you go in and you sanction themand and you know, all it just

(49:24):
trickles down to the lowest among them. Meanwhile, Maduro's at the what's that
idiot chef who's got like the fifteenhundred dollars stakes? He puts gold leaf
on and does the little uh flipsthe salt salt was it Salt Bay or
whatever. So if you go toone of his restaurants and they're not just
in London, they have they haven'tquite a few. I think they have

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one in Miami. Actually, yeah, so it's crazy. All right,
we'll take a break. Hang onfiles story today, and it has to
do with the Senator from Arizona,Mark Kelly, and they're obviously they're getting
looked at much more thoroughly, rightnow, because Kelly, like Cooper,

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like uh well, Shapiro and othersare you know, purportedly the VP shortlists.
Right, So anyway, uh,Mark Kelly is a former astronaut,
so the fact that he might havebusiness interests in the aviation industry, that
is not surprising, right, There'sa lot of former astronauts and assa engineers

(50:30):
to go private sector, and ifonly, if only to be the face
of it. I mean, let'syou know, when he's not when he
was not punching trolls. It's avery high profile walked on the Moon astronauts,
I had a lot of aviation stuffwhere they were kind of the face
of it. So it's not unexpected. However, this particular business venture,

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let me read the uh this NewYork Times actually included one paragraph because this
whole thing busted out, all right, So the company is called Worldview.
Here's what the New York Times wrote. Mister Kelly has also not faced the
harsh spotlight of a national campaign andhas potential political liabilities like his high altitude

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surveillance balloon company he helped found fundedby Chinese venture capital. That seems kind
of problematic. Well yeah, wait, you can't. You can't use the
what is probably Chinese government money andflows through venture capitalists to start a spy
balloon company. I mean, thoseChinese spy balloons are so hot right now,

(51:50):
they are, man, Yeah,well you saw that. You saw
the free pub they got last year, right right, put them on the
map right there. How do yousay yes to this? Or if you
want to look, here's the thing. If if Mark Kelly was making spy
balloons, just don't take the Chineseventure capital what are you doing? How

(52:13):
do you sit on that shark tankcouch and go yeah? Absolutely, But
my product is a it's a signaljam or and a portable EMP. It's
great around you know, farmland.And also I would say, I don't
know substations or power stations. It'sgot an American flag on it. Okay,
will you faster? Yeah? Youwant to go kill bores or shut

(52:36):
off the power or just boom.I don't know, man, I'm working
on this thing. They're called weakerrestraints. Now, hear me out.
So you know how when you're makingpeople work sixteen hours a day for nothing?
Oh yeah, sure, yeah,right all right? And then sometimes
it might get exhausted or dehydra andthen they just fall over it right holds
them in place so that they canproperly pick the cot and stop. Yeah,

(53:01):
I'm I'm already invested in suicide nets. I feel like in the side
of cliffs outside the factory. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel like
we're in They're in the same spherehere, and uh, you know,
it might make sense if you knowwhen we're when we're talking. Look,
do we need to send two salespeopleto deskpot regimes who want to abuse human

(53:22):
rights? Or do we want tosend one salesperson to have a whole catalog
for them? Which brings brings meto my cattle prods repurposing business. Obviously
we've got a lot of cattle prodsin Wyoming, but they you know,
they have other uses. How doyou say yes to a Chinese spy balloon,
venture capital Chinese company startup? Howhow potential political liabilities? I don't

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know. Did you just recoil whenyou heard that? Because I did.
Oh, the company or the investmentventure capital firm known as ten cents,
and I've told you about ten cents. If you don't know about ten cent,
ten Cent is the largest tech companyin China. And you have to

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understand the ten Cents app. Thinkabout the apps that are most popular,
social media, banking, it allthe Google stuff, basically basically everything of
like if you pick the top twentyapps in the US, the ten Cent

(54:29):
app does all of it. Andin fact, it is the only way
to bank and it's going to beit's only way to mobile bank in China
with very few exceptions, and whichis great if you want to keep an
eye on what everybody's doing. Andit also will be utilized for voting,
and they are working on the socialcredit system to be run through the app,

(54:52):
and it currently in beta. Providesthat that's the venture capital firm.
Everybody knows that that is the Chinesegovernment. Everybody right, because they can
monitor everything. They can monitor allyour web browsing because it's done through that
app. They can monitor who you'recommunicating with on the few social media stuff

(55:15):
that you can touch, how yourbanking's going, and and it can see
all of that. It is theultimate spy tool by the Chinese government.
Convince me I'm wrong, but inmy opinion, that's exact. This is
exactly what you design whereas here inthe US they said they have to go
out and individually capture all of thisinformation so they can monitor your life.

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That's who invested. And to saythat New York Times says has close ties
to the Chinese Communist Party, Yes, because in China and you can look
this up even though they'll sit thereand deny it in our own news media.
You can't do business like this.You can't do tech business without committing

(56:02):
to certain things that you will provideto the government upon request. And if
you don't play, you disappear.That's why had Chinese billionaire disappeared what a
couple of years ago. Dude didn'twant to play games. Meanwhile, you're
just say you're too busy ordering yourTMU stuff and you know, ignoring all

(56:25):
of this garbage, ignoring what's goingon in Venezuela. Well, not you,
because you obviously had some intellectual curiosity, but ignoring what's going on in
Venezuela and China and what they continueto do. And this guy is a
city and US senator and he's like, yeah, absolutely, yeah, let's
do business. He should know mostof all. And even though admittedly this

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dates back to twenty twelve when heco founded it. He took other rounds
of investment about every two to threeyears, allowing this venture, this Chinese
venture capital firm, to get alarger and larger steak in his company.

(57:08):
In fact, about sixty five percentof the company is not owned by Kelly,
primarily owned by Chinese venture capital,and roughly the same percentage last year
when you look at their disclosures,was work that was done for defense related

(57:30):
contracts. Let me ask you aquestion. Who's buying spy balloons? Is
it? Is it the general ross? Have you ever bought a spy balloon?

(57:51):
A few of them? Yeah?Okay, you're not the that would
explain some stuff. Rossell just textsme randomly. He's like, that's an
red shirt you're wearing. I shouldhave known it is beautiful, Yeah,
very slimming. Yeah yeah, yeah, I appreciate that. But no,
no regular person's buying spy balloons.I don't even know that. Maybe like

(58:15):
if you're a golf broadcaster, butthen you just use drones. Nobody's buying
spy balloons. Absolute absurdity. It'sjust like, yeah, it's my business.
This is wild man, all right. Eight eight eight nine three four
seven eight seven four. I'm sorry, I just got so much stuff I
want to fit in today, Jamal, Let's grab your call real quick.

(58:37):
Got a couple of minutes. What'sup, hey, case You know what
hearing you describe what you're the gentlemandown there at the hotel in Columbia about
what's going on in Venezuela. Lookthat's going on here in America. We've
already had experiences like this. Rememberthe cake shop that didn't want to bake
the cake, or the gay couplecollar. What did the government do?

(59:00):
Government went otter them. The governmentliterally went out for them, took everything
for them to kept putting them incourt so much to whether they had the
quitting them insiness. They literally stoppedbecause they couldn't deal with it. Look
what happens here in America if youhave wrong things, they will literally shut
you down. And people say,well, that's just you know, the

(59:20):
customers. Nobody should have political discrimination. Look what goes on Casey today?
Look at today. Some of thethings you talked about when you first got
on the air, You can't talkabout the same things now because if you
do, oh, they're gonna callup in there and say oh this big
thing, Casey, he said this, Well he needs to be taken off

(59:42):
the air. And possibly if theright people get offended. Who knows if
our Heart Radio or say well no, we're gonna keep KC O day.
Look what happen during the George Floydriots. Perfect example. You if you
would have went out there and saidthis fentanyl crackhead, Saint George Florida,
the spenting on methhalt Baptist church.If you if somebody went out there and

(01:00:04):
said that, people was really firedfor pointing that out about George Floyd,
fired from the job, thrown outbecause people get got offended. So,
yes, it's horrible talking about what'sgoing on in Beninsuada. But you know
what, Casey, hearing you talkabout it on the radio and look at
some of the current conditions. Lookwhat's going on with Mark Robinson right now

(01:00:28):
and what the goverment is trying todo to him and his family. Well,
you know what report on we reportedit. They are deep diving their
financials. But let me say butlet me say this, even if it
was from a human error perspective,it does appear that some of the stuff
that was filed. But This speaksto the complexity of government was not it

(01:00:50):
was either not accurate or put itis basically mislabeled, right, So it
doesn't show necessarily that it was nefarious. But when you couple that with the
deep dive that's going on, andthen you also look at the sheer volume
of COVID dollars that disappeared into thesefake company black holes, you have to

(01:01:10):
ask yourself, where's the vigor inboth categories. I appreciate the call jam
all seven forty six race stagic hereto try again on a Monday. What's
going on? Man? Yeah?That much? How are you? I
don't know. I mean it's Monday. I feel a lot better than I
did Friday. Man, I was, but I you know, I took

(01:01:31):
the weekend and not do crap.Yeah it was great. Yeah, isn't
it nice? And you know what, if you want to give me some
napping weather, you fire away,sir, because I got it. Man,
suck at the end of the week. So yeah, yeah, it's
gonna get hotter. That's gonna bethe bigger change coming. Not much change
in the short term. Rain alreadythis morning showing up on radar, pushing
through Greensboro. It's basically coming eastand getting into Alemance County, Chatham County

(01:01:54):
as we speak, coming across thetrigle here. Shortly the showers imbedd at
thunder. What we'll do again,scattered shower thunderstorms today, how to keep
temperatures in the lower eighties. Samething tomorrow, as we'll have a few
shower thunder showers around. Now.The change is going to be is that
the coverage will be better today.There may be some downpours and some localized
flooding again in spots. Tomorrow willbe mid to late afternoons, so most

(01:02:16):
of tomorrow actually should be dry witha cloud sun mix. Wednesday, some
shower thunder showers around. But herecomes the heat again. We're back in
the low to mid nineties. Withthe heat and disease will start to push
one hundred Thursday Friday, very smallchances of rain. Mid and upper nineties
coming back with the humidity again,it'll start feeling over one hundred, so
little day up here to start theweek. Then the humidity and the temperature

(01:02:38):
start taking over it again with theridge with the heat to the west of
us starts coming east. All right, you got a calendar in front of
you, by the way, youknow I don't, but I know my
dates kind of. Okay, youknow what Thursday is. Thursday is the
first of August. Yeah, it'scalled It's the Stop this crap Day.
Okayliday, all right, we'll doit, all right, you can't make

(01:03:00):
it feel like one hundred and five. Talk to the rest of the meteorologists,
vote or whatever you guys do andget back to me. Okay,
I'm out of man. All right, look at that. He's gonna go
figure this out. All right,we're gonna we got some we gotta play
some audio from the from the Olympicsinsanity, and we'll give you a chance
to weigh in on that. Also, what's the craziest thing you've ever done
for internet clout? Because this mightbe one of them. We'll get into

(01:03:22):
it coming up. Bang on.Uh just wild times, not as wild
as when you feasted your eyes uponthat opening ceremony on Friday. Look,
I hate what they've decided to dowith this, but once again, it
is the same thing. Some obviouslybitter people, and you can't convince me

(01:03:43):
otherwise. Some obviously bitter people lookedat an opportunity to put a big middle
finger up at Christians and see andtook it and then tried to gaslight you
on this about oh no, that'snot the Last Supper, even though it's
clearly the last up for that's thefeast of Dionysus. And they are betting
on the fact that you wouldn't takefive seconds to google what that painting is

(01:04:08):
a betrothal you did that, well, whatever, google it and see what
it looks like, see what theLast Supper looks like, and then use
the thinking part of your brain toockham raizor ramone before you get yelled at
the thing and you tell me it'sclearly that. Oh and the the big
Chicken Blue refers to herself as whatwas it? Olympic Jesus and put an

(01:04:34):
Instagram post out calling it the gayNew Testament perform a costumes. By the
way, as you'll warn you,it's weird, but I expect it to

(01:04:56):
be weird. It's a European thing, and I don't even necessarily usually mean
that in a negative way. I'mjust like, you know, kind of
weird. You ever go to Italyor France, you know the vibe I'm
talking about it. But it's alsoweird because it's you're not used to it,
but you expect that. And Ididn't mind the Marie Antoinat holding the

(01:05:17):
head and the laser lights and allthat. But you couple that with the
pale horse thing and a debate overwhether a dude's testicles are hanging out of
his leotard and how many families wentno, And then when Peto Smurf,
dude, let me translate, Ohno, it's gargamel. Oh no,

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where's the kids? All right?What right? I say? He's laying
on the table in front of OlympicJesus. Yeah, a feast of dionysis.
We're all just gonna sit at thislong table, the whole thing,
man. And look, I didn'teven mind the music stuff, that image

(01:06:08):
representing Marie Antoinette that you saw there. Yes, that sorry section. It
is called liberty exploring the Paris Politicaland personal emancipation over time. All right,
whatever gets some Ramstein. I don'tknow who that is, but you

(01:06:30):
know, whatever, do your thing. I don't again, be weird,
but don't be wildly insulting and thenissue bs apologies that are clearly not truthful.
Kelly, there was never an intentionto show disrespect to any religious group.
Brain's fired up enough because I'm tryingto figure this out. I can't

(01:06:50):
believe I missed this over the weekend. So so Robert Downey Junior as Tony
Stark is now Doc your Doom.I mean that's the theory. Yes,
Okay, he was unveiled at ComicCon in California, right that. Uh,
Robert Donna Junior is gonna diego yahSanduel Yeah, is going to be

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playing Doctor Doom. And people arelike, well, how can that be
because you know he can't be Victorvon Doom, which was the character.
So that the theory is that you'regoing to have an alternate universe multiverse because
of everything that's happened in the MCUwith Kang and with the ant Man,
with the Infinity War and traveling backin time and Branches and issue and low

(01:07:31):
key rate all this kind of stuff. So in a different timeline, in
different universe, you had Robert DunnellJr. As Tony Stark, who you
instead of using his his intelligence forgood, used it for bad and became
Doctor Doom. And now he's comingover to a different universe where there's Tony
Stark. But now that Tony Starkdied at the end of Infinity War,

(01:07:53):
so Tony Stark who is endgame?Basically, it would be the Tony Stark
not kidnapped, right, because thatwas the ampetus for change because he was
he was the weapons manufacturer. Maybemaybe he was kidnapped and maybe he just
you know, pushed him over theedge and became super bad. You don't
know, Okay, all right,I'll watch that. I'll see because you

(01:08:14):
know why, because I think RobertDowney Junior has done a very good job
of that role. I've enjoyed hischaracter throughout. Tell you when he unveiled
himself at Comic Con because they werelike, you know, they had a
bunch of Doctor Dooms on stage,yes, and they're like only one person
could play this role. And theguy walks up and takes up the mask
and you know shows this they losttheir minds. Yeah, yeah, but

(01:08:35):
you've got like the super super supercomic book nerves. Oh dad, are
like, you know, Victor vonDoom is Doctor Doom. And now they're
pissed off because like Tony Stark isgoing to be Doctor Doom. So you
know, you can never make everybodyhappy, right, But these are the
same. A lot of these catsare the same. People will tell me
to shut up because you know andthen you know insert whatever Hollywood change was

(01:08:59):
done to a classic characters. Soright, and these are the So there's
gonna be two new Avenger movies andthey're gonna be directed by the Russo Brothers,
which did Infinity War and and wellthis is Marvel koping you would agree.
We got to get back to thestuff. This is this is a
hail Mary. This is you know, like look at look at do you

(01:09:21):
love us again? Do you loveus? Tony Star? But he's talking
to and completely and understand that.But still I'm kind of excited because if
it was up to me, Iwould just be like, hey, guess
what all that stuff we did inthe last phase that didn't happen? It
was a Steve Rodgers Captain America gainsYeah, yeah, with the except you

(01:09:44):
can keep Guardians of the Galaxy.But other than that, everything else canceled.
But I woke up on Sunday andthat was the news. I saw,
like him like taking the mask off, and I was super excited.
I was like, this is kindof cool. Do you think in the
alternative universe, they're technologically advanced thatthe air conditionings work. How does your
kids school not have they don't haveAC this morning or something. He went
back to school today. It's thosefirst day back, and we got notifications.

(01:10:08):
He's on year round. For peoplewondering, Yeah, and they got
notifications last week that the kids thatwere currently in school. I don't know
if because there's like different tracks sometimeseven for me, like the year right,
or maybe they were talking about kidsin summer school. I don't know,
but they they didn't have to goin on Friday, and they left
early on Thursday because they said theair conditioning didn't work. And now it's

(01:10:30):
back up. They have it sortof kind of running and they're gonna have
new air conditioning installed. Mark.He said, the big truck, the
big giant truck, and it lookslike a funhouse or something with these like
you know, like the what arethey called, like the uh what do
they call it? I mean,I'm obviously not in hv HVAC the portable

(01:10:51):
you know, the silver things thatgo from the air strangers. No,
not the air handler, the partthat goes from the air handler to the
vents in your house. Oh ducks, ducks, the portable ducks. Yeah
right, yeah, Like they haveall these ginormous portable ducks leading from this
giant, ginormous, huge truck intothe school. Yeah, they do.

(01:11:14):
When they needed to cool down atthe US Open for the big media tent,
they have those trucks that show upand it's how they ace these huge,
like tended enclosed areas, so Iam familiar with them. They also
have the best porta potties you've everseen. It's like a five star hotel
inside these things. Dude, I'mtelling you, ever seen the porta potties
that show up in like a whitetrail. These are the ones that'd be

(01:11:36):
like in Hollywood, right for thestars, right for the elites. Yeah,
oh dude. And there's like there'slike, you know, music playing
right, and they've got like,you know, they got like a bidet
in there for no reason. There'sthis show. It's just crazy. So
anyway, now I'm familiar with those. Have we tried to sell the school

(01:11:57):
are portable air conditioners because we currentlyhave roll around the floor of the building
and this is the same sort ofthing. Ginormous square units, like there's
like four or five or six ofthem, and they're like they have the
same thing, like the the airhose, flexible hose that goes up to
the duct. Yeah, yeah,they wouldn't miss one of those result to
the school judging man. All right, So that's obviously with the weather that

(01:12:21):
race stags decided. I'm very confused. I really thought that maybe I just
dreamt this up. But during COVID, what weren't like the schools given a
lot of money for air conditioning.I was supposed to put new air conditioning
units into all the schools and thatwas part of the money because they were,
you know about installation. Some ofit was not a new AC units,
but it was scrubber units, sobasically like Hepa filter systems. So

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yeah, because they were super concernedabout ventilation. Correct, Yeah, they
were Hepa filter systems. And uhthey were literally a demand by many of
the teachers unions who were refusing tocome back that if they didn't do it.
So when they did the big allocation, the two big allocations of COVID,
one big chunk of that was money'sfor schools. And you can follow

(01:13:10):
a series of stories where they haveclearly decided that what was the intent for
that money, and they're just repurposingit on stuff. Some of it's the
repurpose it on DEI stuff. Andthey would make these fake arguments like,
well, the reason that we needto use this money to pay you know,
Kenji whatever his name is, tocome in for seventy five thousand and

(01:13:31):
speak to us about our privilege isbecause it'll help grow camaraderie and understanding to
help us pull through COVID like events. It's all garbage. It's all just
an absolute waste of taxpayer money.That is that was wildly abused. Now,
did some schools probably put hepaphilter good? Yes? Probably. I still
don't think that everyone need to bepaying for it, but holy hell,

(01:13:57):
a bunch of schools apparently didn't.That's a little weird. You know what.
I'm gonna look this up during thenext break. I want to know
how much how much Wake County schoolsgot for COVID dollars for that purpose.
I'll bet the number is dumb.Yeah, because I swear I remember that
being like a big thing. Yeahyeah, yeah, yeah, because it
was like it was the stop itwas the final stop gap for a lot

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of teachers. Who didn't want tocome back. They wouldn't cut for teachers
unions like Chicago, Los Angeles onesthat were the route there. It was
like it was one of the toptier demands. They wanted the they wanted
the air exchangers changed, they wantedhepe filter's, you name it. And
it was a big portion of thetrillions of dollars that was literally spent.

(01:14:39):
So I'll see if I can findthat number. But you know, we're
talking about government efficiency. You wantsomething wild from a government efficiency standpoint.
ABC News ABC News UH interviewed themembers of the swat team. They're in
Butler, Pa. Right. Howhow did this go so wrong? Was

(01:14:59):
how nobody think that maybe we shouldthe building? If you remember, the
Secret Service director on her cowardly wayout, indicated that the local law enforcement
was actually inside of the building,and they may well have been some of
them. It looks like some ofthe sheriff's folks might have been in there.
But the job to secure these positions, she then tried to say,

(01:15:21):
was THEIRS an operational command sits underthe Secret Service. Okay, let's be
abundantly clear here in the pecking orderto say every one of those cop movies
you ever see where the FBI showsup the local cops like, I don't
want to work with you, andthen somebody has to assert control. Secret
Service has operational control for these events, and not just within the security perimeter,

(01:15:45):
but with any law enforcement that iscoordinating outside of it at the behest
of the Secret Service. Again,it's not inappropriate to have local law enforcement
to keep down the number of SecretService members except in key roles. If
you have operational command, it's goingto be imperative, and in a sniper
team position or a swat team position, you having constant communication and being able

(01:16:12):
to sometimes make the call as towhether you breach, whether you fire on
somebody. Right, do we knowif that he is actually trying to shoot
somebody? Do we have does somebodyhave eyes on this? Right? It
has to be run through somebody who'sultimately responsible. And it wasn't just that
they got glad handed when the SecretService showed up. No, what they
told local swat told ABC is insane. You're supposed to get a face to

(01:16:38):
face briefing with the Secret Service sniperswhenever they arrived, and that never happened.
So I think that that was probablya pivotal point where I started thinking
things were wrong because that never happenedand we had no communication with the Secret
Service. You had no communication withthe Secret Service at all on that Saturday,
not until after the shooting, andby then it's too late. What

(01:17:02):
how does that happen? I'm noteven in law enforcement, and I know
these cats get together. Where's BostonPaul when he's actually of use? Because
he sent me a picture of himstanding next to a president once get it,
sober him up and get him onthe phone for me. Eight eight
eight nine three four seven eight sevenfour. All right, I want to

(01:17:25):
know when you were in a locallaw enforcement capacity and Secret Service rolls in
with a protect ee and you guysare obviously part of the detail. Do
they just not tell you anything ordo you guys have a conversation. I'm
curious, So throw some water onhis face. Let me grab a call
while we're mating, Anthony, what'sup? Oh? I was just gonna

(01:17:46):
say that the schools they during theCOVID and stuff, I do a tracy.
Yeah, they put a higher MERDIrating on their filters, which unfortunately
makes them clog up faster. Andalso it did GV lights and things like
that. Oh, that's the stuff. Here's the thing. That's the stuff.
That's the stuff they said they weregoing to do. And if they

(01:18:09):
did do that, then fine.But some of the stuff they spent this
money on is crazy. And itdoesn't explain why Ross's kids school has to
have a porta AC truck right now. Well, and that's the thing that
I was telling Ross. There's oneschool in particular, I want to say
the name, but it's been therefor several years now. It's a charter
school that the units were designed inCanada, and so the school's hot in

(01:18:32):
the summer because they're designed for eightydegree outside ambient temperature, and schools have
to have the same amount of airchanges, so they're pulling in outside air.
So you know, you're pulling inninety five percent humidity on a unit
that is only designed for eighty degreeoutside air. Well Sir, Now,
hold on, Anthony, who couldhave predicted it would get higher than eighty

(01:18:55):
degrees out here in North Carolina?Nobody? What do you? I can't
go that man. That's because theyspend money on bamas instead of what they
need to spend it all how much, how much where you hide all your
money like Pablo Escobar. This timeof the year, you guys just got
to be raking it in he's buriedor what my company does. Yeah,

(01:19:16):
okay, all right, get aholdof just all right, thanks for the
call. I just assume everyone whoworks in h in Ac this time of
the year is just it's you eversee the South Park where all of the
guy the handyman we're driving around andlike rolls royces and stuff because nobody knew
how to fix anything anymore. It'swild, all right, it's being a

(01:19:36):
while. Here's Boston, Paul,semi sober, Boston, Paul, what's
going on? You know, Igot things I gotta do. Man,
what's up? You don't got Youdon't got anything to do now except send
me pervy weather picks, which you'rediving gonna get into it. So why
you send me a photo one timetrying to pretend like you did stuff and

(01:19:56):
you were standing on the presidential detail. I can't remember which president it was,
Yes, Clinton a few times.Clinton was on a detail him a
few times. Yeah, yeah,coming in to hit on some of them
Southie chicks. Anyway, So likeI'm assuming you guys talked to the Secret
Service, and they would tell youthere's a calm center. You know that.

(01:20:19):
You know, of course, youknow all our radios don't we don't
all have the same frequency, Soyou would have a com center where people
with every agency, every radio includinge MS and fire and it's all community.
It's done the right way. Butlike him that time I was walking
with him, he deviated from fromwhere where he's supposed to go, and

(01:20:41):
that that drives him over the edge. Did he go into McDonald's and eat
everybody's food? No? No,no. And then you were asking one
time about what that team is calledthere this night, the team that's the
cat team, And I think theyonly had one of those down there where
he were Yeah Trump, Yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah. I just

(01:21:05):
I can't imagine these dudes are sittingaround and they're a sniper swat team with
a sniper and they have to makethe call maybe to shoot somebody, and
there they don't even know who toask. That's insane to me. Yeah,
I don't know what happened. Therewas big time, big time failure
and communications. But I can tellyou some other stuff where I can't tell

(01:21:27):
you how. Yeah, all rightbefore you get busted. Look at that,
he's got secrets. All right,Oh, I want to take this
call. All right, Dave,I got a minute, a minute and
a half. Hurry up, Casey, this is who repos to tell me

(01:21:51):
another's order with the Chinese Tropo Adventure. Yeah, so he now fast,
we use what's called aero spots,which is essentially a SI balloon. So
we tell them and they go upabove the base and they yeah, I've
seen them base. Yeah, nevermake it any better, but yeah,

(01:22:12):
I just wanted a comment on thatwhen you were kind of trying to figure
out what the SPA ballooms would beused with Governor. Well, look,
I was being slightly facetious. Iwas being slightly facetious, and Dave,
I appreciate the call. The pointis, and I say, I got
some really disingenuous emailer. They're like, oh, you know, you can't
prove you're selling them to the It'snot about the actual balloons they're producing.

(01:22:33):
You have to understand that the reasonthat Chinese investment companies get in with these
tech companies is they want the intellectualproperty right. They want Kelly and their
rocket scientists and everybody to go aheadand do the work and create and innovate
and all of that. Meanwhile theyget a whold they photocopy the plans and

(01:22:54):
you're off and running. Man,all right, it is a twenty three.
I'm gonna actually hit a brake ontime. We'll come back. We
get more calls and lots more stories, including the worst YouTuber of the week.
We'll explain case O Day radio program. This is why I am so
upset with what they chose to dowith the opening of the Olympics, because
you have turned these you have turnedpeople off something that should be a good

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thing, something that should allow athleteswho train their whole lives but get really
no recognition because of the sports they'rein are not the ones they get the
big TV deals, all of that, you know, and and instead you
have these petty decisions, these hatefuldecisions that go and color the whole thing.

(01:23:39):
Did you see the women's the women'sbasketball coach who was talking about why
Caitlin Clark's not there, and it'sobvious it's because f her, right,
But then you go look at theopening ceremonies and the like, hey,
look at this last supper thing withthe new the gay Jesus or the gay

(01:24:02):
New Testament and all this stuff,and it's just like, why do that?
And by the way, nobody wouldcare if everybody up there was gay
that was recreating a painting. It'sthat you chose to go over the top
drag queens because you know that thatis a big thing right now, and
then lie about it, and thenthese stories get buried that deserve us to

(01:24:23):
talk about. And even if Italk about it on the radio, chances
are people are now not gonna watchit live. I told you about the
first metal one was cooking Bacon.I think that's funny. It's the girl's
name is Cook. The other girl'sname is Bacon. They've been friends since
high school and they just want thesilver medal in synchronous diving, and they
play up the whole bacon thing.It's a dumb little thing, but it's

(01:24:45):
funny. I would know. Youwouldn't know anything about them unless you're in
the sport Women's wat And I toldyou it. Literally, excuse me,
Ross, we need a trillion dollarswith new HEPA filters. Get on it.
Don't worry, we'll spend it onother stuff. So you see these
little stories and like it's robbing opportunitiesbecause people had to make a screw you

(01:25:11):
point and it's just so bothersome.Let me let me, let me give
you another one. So I toldyou that the athletes, many of the
athletes are not as fortunate as likeSimone Bios, who I who I think
is great by the way, butyou know, they don't have the financial
opportunities that a higher profile sport necessarilydoes. So you have Olympic athletes that

(01:25:34):
are working second jobs and having togo around in fundraise like your kid's little
league team unless they can get abenefactor. And the US women's water polo
team has won three straight gold medals. They're going for their fourth right now.
That's pretty impressive. But they wereall working second jobs. And one

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of the individuals with the team actuallyknew somebody who's got a little bit of
money explain what was going on,and this dude stepped forward and he is
the benefactor now to fund this sothat they can concentrate on training, so
they can go back and get usfor our fourth gold medal, so we
can go in your face other countries. Whatever. I'm petty, it's flavor

(01:26:24):
flav that's amazing because on the sidelinesof the women's water polo behind the bench
screaming because he's paying for them tobe able to go ahead. And yes,
it's an unfair advantage. It's likesteroids there, you think, so
before each other at the pool,you have like flavor flavor with the clock

(01:26:44):
screaming everybody. Yeah, man,yeah, yeah, girl, I guess
you'd have to change it. Butyeah, totally. It didn't look like
his uh his romance worked out fromhis reality shows. So weird. But
anyway, he's so he's turned hisattention to this. First off, he
should have never chosen Hoops. Itwas a big mistake. He should have
went with New York. Wait,I'm sorry. You know their names?

(01:27:05):
Yeah, dude, no, no. I was like one hundred in Atlanta,
and I remember when that show cameon. It was like two thousand
and five or whatever, two thousandand six, and I was at a
hot score I was dating. Wasfascinated with it. I I literally couldn't
sit in the room while that thingwas on. I was at a house
party and somebody was watching it andthe sparroom we were going to watch this.
It was like this show was amazing. This is good. I said,

(01:27:26):
this is gonna be this was likethe first show, like, this
is gonna be a huge show.And I texted my boss at the time
and I'm like, I want tointerview Flavor Flave. He was like,
what are you talking about? Like, I'm ne I need Flavor Flave.
I want to do it. Yeah, And I saw him at at the
station meeting on like Tuesday whatever,after the weekend, and he had assumed
I was like stupid drunk dude,which I was, but just He's like

(01:27:47):
why because he had he had noidea about the show. I'd never heard
the show. I got him onthe show, and then long story short,
got to interview Flavor Flave. Butthe show was a big deal,
right, he was huge And thenthey did who is It Brett Michaels another
one which I had to suffer forlove Yep. Yeah, probably should have
broke up with her earlier. Listen, knowing what I know now, anyway,

(01:28:09):
go ahead, completely unfair advantage.I love Yeah, I love it.
Flavor Flav hype man behind it andI love I love it too that
if you're from some country you gotno English and you have no bead on
like you're the Mongolian team, andlike you're not consuming a lot of US
media, which is one of thelower consumption rates among countries. All you
see is an insane dude in anAmerica jersey wearing a hoodie with a giant

(01:28:34):
clock around his neck, screaming,and you got to be like, what
the hell is that? That's?Oh? I love it. I love
it so I I love it,and I hate the part where this is,
uh, this is screwing over people'sability just to enjoy a thing that
we used to enjoy, that weused to embrace. Uh. First we

(01:28:58):
first started the show, first singRoss brought up was Kerrie strugg Absolutely that
moment that Wheaties box, Are youkiddy me? And it was moments like
that Jackie Joyner curse. I understandthat there was some stuff, you know
later on with you know, someof the some of the doping stuff,
but like, it didn't matter whoyou are or where you came from.

(01:29:19):
We were just like, let's saywe're America. Let's go out and dominate
man, And you don't have tobe a jerk about it with me or
I'm like, yeah, do avictory dancer to fad it, but like
just just going. Do you rememberhow good it felt to watch the US
and Russia medals back in the day? Count? Do you remember how good
that felt watching those numbers tally?And it was you know, it was

(01:29:43):
the Cold War esque era, eventhough it was post you know, the
well some of it wasn't, butthe disillusion of the USSR but watching US
go against Russia and that pride youfelt when we dominated the metal count didn't
matter what the sport was either,No, it could be cricket. Nobody
cared. We're just like, yeah, suck it, Ruskies. Because it

(01:30:06):
was the attitude at the time.I for some reason I wanted to It
was even like figure skating. Iremember watching it, like I said,
it's a big event or household wewould sit down and watch it. And
I think at the time, Idon't know. I was she remember Exana
Bayoulee? Was she she was fromRussia? Right, wasn't that or was
she not? I can't remember.She was going against Nancy Kerrigan and the
Tanya Harding stuff back in the day. Yeah it's a big man. You

(01:30:29):
wanted to kick their ass. Yeah. Winter Olympics was much closer than Summer
Olympics. But so when we whenwe did, it was amazing. Some
of the greatest moments. You guysknow her Brooks was you probably do.
You probably don't if you spend anytime living in the Twin Cities. I
got statues of the dude everywhere wholiterally uh has one of the best Olympics

(01:30:51):
stories ever and died on black eyesdriving by the exit of my house one
time. It was literally on theradio when it happened, and like it
period of morning. Herb Brooks wasthe guy who organized the US men's hockey
team who went over and beat Canadaand Russia. That was crazy. I

(01:31:13):
personally know a guy by the nameof Rulan Gardner. You may have heard
his name. He was a wrestleron Afton, Wyoming. In fact,
Bubba Daniel Vasco kid I went tohigh school with, had to wrestle his
weight class. And even though RulanGardner went on to be a Roman greco
versus you know the traditional wrestling,he just kicked everybody's butt. It was

(01:31:35):
crazy. This dude stuck his handinto a snow machine one time, came
off with three less fingers, didn'teven notice. You know what he did
do. He went over and beatthe Russians for the first time, and
that wasn't that long ago. Theyhad never been beaten in that particular event
in modern history. And he wentover and won. And you love these

(01:32:00):
stories, and yet you got towalk in on the insanity that was that
opening ceremony where parents literally had toturn it off because their kids were watching.
How does that? How does thatcomport with your childhood memory of the
Olympics, Ray Stagic from the WeatherChannel? Remember remember Kerrie Strugg the gymnas
who literally had to be carried offby heer coach after I win the the

(01:32:24):
wheaties boxes, the how did weget here? Did you watch any of
the opening Sorry I shouldn't drag youinto this, but you understand why people
are upset right with the opening ceremony? Okay, I do. I didn't
watch it, but from what I'vegathered, I've gathered, yeah, and
I I mean you and I probablygrew up. I can remember where I
was. I was in Lake georgeaNew York when we won the the hockey

(01:32:46):
thing, yes her, the Miracleon ice, Miracle on ice, yep.
I was snowmobiling in Lake Georgia,and I remember watching that. Of
course, of course I was whatwhat else thought I would be doing?
Right? And that was in wasthat in Lake Placid? That No,
Lake George is south of like no, no, no, no, yeah,
I think they were yeah, soyeah, wild, I want that.

(01:33:09):
Do you know who? Do youknow who's funding the women's water polo
team. People don't realize that theseathletes have to like fundraise to do all.
Yeah, and so he benefactors steppedforward. So on the sidelines for
the women's water polo funding the teamthis year is Flavor. Flav Oh nice,
that's amazing. That's our man,Flavor. He was made for this.

(01:33:32):
I will say, though, I'mstill looking forward to the breaking just
to see how the break dancing isgonna go. You gotta wait till August
and ninth. You see the scoring. There's not even points. They basically
they're going to battle individually and thethree judges will go yeah, I like
that one. I like that.There's nothing wrong with that. That's my
kind of score. They're not goingto save a single rec center, don't

(01:33:54):
even start all right anyway, goodstuff, all right, stuff, Yeah,
Monday morning, seeing the next areaof rain come through and just get
ready over the next probably hour totwo hours, come right across the triangle.
Right now, it's between Greensboro,Raleigh, and Sanford, and so
if you're in Sanford or Fayettevil,you're next, same thing for Raleigh and

(01:34:14):
Durham, and another batch back behindthat. After a little bit of a
break, you get the picture alot of clouds and these areas of showers
and embedded rumbles a thunder which couldproduce some downpours at times. And after
we get these couple of batches throughmidday early afternoon, you make it a
break. But the storms will probablycome back later today and probably more the
same tomorrow, low eighties maybe tothe middle eighties, and a triangle tomorrow,
and then the ninety plus starts probablyWednesday, with less rain but still

(01:34:39):
some and same thing Thursday. Friday, could even be pushing, especially around
Raleigh, into the upper nineties withthe heat and decease going back over one
hundred, So we'll lose at leastthe coverage on the rainfall won't be zero
mid weekend beyond, but we're gonnasee tempatures go up. So we came
back that high heat. We kindof kept the commidity over the past few
days, and we'll keep that too, so I got to push the heat
in decks up in the tropic.There is an area of the hurricane center

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over the Central Atlantic has a fiftypercent chance of developing in seven days,
and some of the guidance does bringit close to the southeast coast next week,
so I have to keep an eyeon that too. Okay, all
right, thank you sir, appreciateit. Have a good one and we'll
come back. Mike, if youhang on, I will get to your
call before the end. We getthe YouTube thing as well, and wait
till if you haven't seen it,go check out our Twitter. Casey on

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the radio. The New York magazinehas fallen right in line on the Harris
stuff and it's it's stomach churning.We'll be back. Hang on, well,
good morning, Casey. Stocks endedlast week with a rally, and
the future suggests we'll start out higherthis morning. Futures higher right across the
board now. Futures are up onehundred and eighty one points. The Federal

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Reserves Policy meeting and the July employmentreport highlight the economic calendar this week,
and this is going to be abig week for earnings from big tech.
Microsoft to schedule to release quarterly resultstomorrow. Meta platforms Apple and Amazon report
over the next two days, McDonald'scustomers cut back in the spring. The
fast food chain posted its first salesdecline since twenty twenty, A key metric

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used to track restaurant business that's comparablestore sales were down one percent from a
year earlier. Analysts were expecting amodest decline. Apple's been working on some
artificial intelligence features for its devices,but they're not going to be ready for
release as early as originally expected.Bloomberg's Mark German reports they'll miss the initial

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launch of software overhauls for the iPhoneand iPad Ai will be part of the
software updates that Apple plans to rollout later in the fall. Most people
who went to the movies over theweekend went to see Deadpool and Wolverine.
That Walt Disney release took in twohundred five million dollars. It was the
biggest opening weekend for any film sofar this year, and the best ever

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opening for a movie with an Rrating. And never too early to plan
for Halloween, Casey Halloween merchandise goeson sale today at Disneystore dot Com.
Disney's twenty twenty four Halloween Shop includeshundreds of costumes and accessories. Casey,
all right, hey, we weretalking earlier about uh our, like how

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Ross and I used to work musicradio, and he was talking about an
interviewing flavor Flake. Did you everdo anything other than talk? Oh?
Yeah, I started My first almostfive years in the business were with radio
or with music radio. Oh really? Would did you go by Jeff Bellinger?
Do you have like a cool name? No? I used my use
my name or just the initials JBoccasionally because I started in my hometown a

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small radio station and wanted people toknow who I was. Yeah, as
did I Buffalo Wilie Man. Allright, cool, cool, Thank you,
Jeff, appreciate it. Okay,take care? All right, there
we go. All right, Rosssaid that to the notes. We're solving
a mystery. If you already hearFriday, you know Thursday, you don't

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understand? All right? Anyway,eight fifty five, let me let me
do this. Grab Mike's call.We're talking about how the local SWA and
the sniper team didn't even meet withSecret Service that day's wild all right,
Mike, go ahead. AKC.Just want to say, first of all,
I enjoy your show, and Hayesfor Sheriff number two number three.

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I was in law enforcement and BarackObama come to the jurisdiction that I was
in, and we had incident commandsset up, and both CIA officials and
our local officials were in that mobilecommand and basically they would just relay our
COMPM yes, yes, I'm sorry. And the second of all the caveat

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to this is is I would havethe FBI call and talk to me on
when I was at the sheriff's office, and you know, they would tell
us that they were coming into ourcounty to serve a warrant and I would
ask them how could we help,and they would say, just stay out
of the way. And then Iworked at DNC in Charlotte and they also
had an incident command and my jobwas to write on the bus that the

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delegates were taken to the arena ownedand I could not get off that bus
or it was thing dirty. Andwe had colms too, So the fact
that there was no comms is justbeyond the pail for me. Yeah,
it's wild. People are not sayingyeah, I'm sorry, go ahead.
I'm not saying that there was anefarious act that happened in Butler, PA.
But there's a one appearance that therewas. The incompetence rate is overwhelming,

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regardless of how you figure you gotthere, and people don't realize,
especially because I've been to the rnc'sthe amount of different law enforcement entities from
all over the state and country thatare literally invited and all play a part
in it. Right, you'll seedepartments and thanks for the call there,
Mike, sheriffs and folks from allover the place. It's wild. Speaking

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of wild, you know what,I'm gonna bump this story tomorrow because I
got to get it the the YouTubething. I never got to the YouTube
thing, so so I'll take thelast minute. Rossie like your new couch.
Ross got a new couch, Sohe was Brad, I'm going home
and getting right on it. Yes, it was a struggle man, even
to come in today, was it. Yeah, maybe we should have the

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company buy you a duplicate for yourstudio or with that, No, I
would I would compromise, ye,