Thursday-8-29-2024

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
How many of you were doing one last one, last
trip a little something something for the for the kiddies,
are you know, back in the perma school? Although depending
I guess if what percent ross do you know what
percentage of students in Wake County do the year round

(00:20):
thing like you do? Is it a lot or is
that a very small minority? Oh? Really so it's a lot.
I for some reason I used to think it was
a very small percentage, and then I realized, like half
the people I know as kids are on the the
year round thing. But for those on the traditional schedule,

(00:42):
obviously race Stagic has blessed you with, you know, maybe
some beach weather, so take advantage of that. Otherwise we'll
keep trucking on because you know, that's what we do
around these parts. Coming up on the show the Worst
or Best team Building Exercise for the Office, how many

(01:07):
of you have had to suffer through one of those? Yes,
I said suffer through how many of you have had
to suffer through some sort of team building exercise? Right,
it's so prevalent, and I don't know, there's some people
who like them. Those people concern me that being said,

(01:32):
you know, it's just it's part of the It's part
of the process, right, and it's so much fun, especially
if you're an introvert and you just want to do
your damn job. That being said, this one in Colorado,
it has me asking some questions like, how does that happen?

(01:55):
How did you think this was going to turn out?
Do you have locking security on the office? Is you
know where you work there? Because I have a I
have a few questions. We'll have to get into those. Also,
CNN has a new hit piece, a new hit piece

(02:16):
on Trump asking questions. Maybe I don't know they're attributed
to him asking questions, asking questions that have offended the
Washington elite. I will share with you those questions. We
will talk about the viability of these questions. I think

(02:38):
it's a wonderful discussion point. And I may go so
far as to ask the question again, does that make
me dumb and not a you know, not somebody who
should be president? I don't know, man, I don't think so.
I gotta tell.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
You if if you guys elected me president, not that
I would run, but if I got elected president, I
would have a stupid amount of questions.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
About a lot of stuff public and private. I mean
I'm not saying cause they let you pick which book
to you know what you want to be sworn in on? Right,
you can do. You can do the Bible? What did
Trump you he'd use like Abe Lincoln's Bible, didn't he
like Obama did? And then others they've gotten sworn in

(03:34):
on the Quran, they've gotten sworn in on. You've had
some like rabid atheists who got sworn in on like
smart ass books. Has anyone ever gotten sworn in on
the Book of Secrets? Do we know? Ross? Do you
know is anyone gotten sworn in on the Book of Secrets?
Because That's what I'm going with if I had to choose,

(03:55):
I understand that you know there's a biblical thing and
something you're going to be mad, but I want that
thing immediately available to me. I want to be standing
there with the Chief Justice having just put his right
hand down and starting to turn away, and I'm going
to snatch that book and you all are going to
sit there while I read it, because you never know
when you're gonna get assassinated. Do you want to go

(04:17):
ahead and suck up that? Goodness? Man? So let me
ask you this question. What's the worst team building activity
as we get started. You've ever had to do at
your work or another place of work? What's the word?
I'm trying to think of the weirdest one we've ever
done here at the radio station. Radio is a little

(04:40):
different because a lot of our team building activities center
around promotions that we're doing already, right, So we may
have like a private listener concert from one of the
music stations in the performance studio. We may have an
event that we piggyback on. I'm trying to think if
we've ever done Have we ever done one of those

(05:01):
pure corporate things in Raleigh that I can think of? Ross,
Because you and I have worked basically the same number
of years for iHeart here well over a decade, I
don't remember anything other than, hey, we have this event
or you know, things that are literal events for the
radio station. I guess though, I guess remember the thing

(05:24):
we did in Durham where we all where everyone from
North Carolina went over. Who was the artist we saw too?
She ended up getting somewhat famous. So they did like
a little private concert for us, and then they took
all of the iHeartRadio hosts and we all met in
Durham for something and you know, went over stuff and
all the managers from North Carolina were there. It was

(05:45):
in I want to say, was it at Lincoln Theater
or not Lincoln Theater, uh, the Carolina Theater. I think
it might have been at Carolina Theater and some artists.
Who's a pop artist who's actually pretty famous. I can't
remember her name was, but it was when she was
just she was all skinny too, and now she's she
has a definitively different look. I'm not insulting her. I'm

(06:08):
just pointing out that I didn't. Somebody had to convince
me that was that, and that was pretty low key.
Although radio hosts when they hear that you're doing talk radio,
they talk to you weird.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, because you go to these things and it's all
focused towards like music radio. I remember where you're sitting there.
We're like, this has nothing to do with us, because.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
You remember the Durham thing, and then we had the
concert from the check.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
The only thing like team building exercise I can remember
before that was when I was working Angie and we
did like our program director was took us to like
a cooking thing where we had to like go and
cook was Randy. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty good because we
got food afterwards.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
That if you evolve food in any radio team building
activity and THENDS to it go better.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
And also there was free beer at the time too.
So before that, the only thing I can really remember
doing is they took us this I was working in
Salt Lake. They took us to like a military base
and we did like obstacle courses and repelling and that
kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
You know, I shouldn't say that, we kind of we
did that at Seymour Johnson. They invited us down oh
years ago, but it wasn't like a full team building thing.
It was just you know, the people on the talk station.
So we went down there and that's when we had
sweet Chrissy. Of course, you know Chrissy. You never you

(07:27):
never well you never worked with Chrissy on this state.
But she went down there and I thought that the
girl was going to die because one of the first
things they took us to was where they had the
military dogs. And don't I don't know if you know
the vibe of military dogs. One they're not your pet.

(07:47):
Two they're not even your neighbor service dog, which you
question is even a service dog, but is really really sweet.
Military dogs are kind of jerks, man, right.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
I know Chrissy when she became an intern over once
again on g christ Hall. Yeah, so I knew her,
like way back before you knew her. She was like,
she weighs like two pounds.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Yeah, and she wanted to immediately she saw these you know,
these German shepherds and various other we'll just say, military
style breeds and she starts, she starts like booking it
over to pet them, and the airman's like, yeah, you
don't want to do that, and she's like she and
you could see in her mind that there being doggies

(08:30):
that she couldn't pet was really problematic for her. And
then they put her on an M sixty laying down
and she she destroyed the interior range. So that was
it was a good day. We had fun with that.
Let's see, let us go out. Let me play with
an M four for a while. Even got to pop
some some of those chocloads out of the grenade launcher.

(08:52):
It was a good day. You know. If that builds
team fine, this story, yeah not so much. Well, uh,
we'll get into this. Do you know, you just know
this dude's ruminating in the woods making a list. But
we'll explain. Let's see, we got CNN acting stupid. You

(09:15):
can't Was it Demi Levado? No, it wasn't Demi Levade?
What is the chick's name? I you know? Only thing
I remember about her and it was actually impressed is
she wrote she wrote the song Monster for eminem That's
how she got famous, uh, with Rihanna, and I think
she wanted to record it, but she she silent the

(09:37):
company she wrote that song and then and then her
her career took out. She was good, Look, if people,
here's the thing. We don't do music radio, but if
you're musically talented, I'm impressed. I love music man, all right,
So yeah, we got the team building stuff. We'll we'll
hear your horror stories if you want. And U and
it was if it was? Was it DEI stuff? But

(10:01):
I can't tell you how much I want and simultaneously
don't want that episode of the Office with the flash
cards on the forehead that take place. Does that Does
that sound wrong? Right? Because I don't want to go
to those things anyway, But if I did have to go,

(10:22):
I wanted to be like that episode of the Office
with mister mister Black or mister Brown, the guy they
brought in and Michael Hijackson to makes them right, like
you know, like you're playing heads up poker or whatever
that game is, you put the cards on your forehead.
Except it was what a great episode of The Office.

(10:43):
Ross you guys have seen that. That's like one of
the first two.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
I think it's like the season yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So like he's Boss of the Year world, right, He's
got all.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
The awards, a cup in the trophy. Come on, Roz
has awards taped to his window. They're not spelled right
for some reason. But yeah, I'm self a little ward
tapes are right up there, and that's all Michael Scott
was trying to do, all right, So that was this
was not that Tucker Carlson doing the big troll job

(11:18):
and Matt Lower's daughter criminal genius lots to get to
six eighteen hang out anyway. So she was the same,
and I took comfort in the fact that this is
when she was first starting out. And you know, one
of the things you got to do early on in
your career is you go around and you're not just

(11:39):
doing music tours, but you're doing press stuff, and so
that means a lot of early mornings. That means going
in and sitting in on morning shows after you just
did a concert till one in the morning. It's a grind.
I can respect that. And the only thing I took
comfort in is MS Rexa, who came to do like
a three song concert. She came to Durham for a

(12:01):
room of maybe fifty radio people and do a little
mini concert for us, and she was good. I didn't
know who she was, but also I could tell she
wanted to be there less than we did, so I like,
all right, I get that. Whatever. So anyway, that's the
biggest team building event that I can remember, other than

(12:23):
kind of the meetings. It's interesting some people are see
this one. There's a couple of you who sent me
this version of it, and I feel like this goes
sideways quick. My company took us for paintball. It was
pretty fun. Shooting your coworkers is cool with paintballs. Of course,
I don't want to get canceled. That sounds like fun

(12:46):
to some people who are not thinking the thing through
the amount of politics. I think you could drum up
because right inevitably, if you work with ten people, there's
a really petty person in there, right, And so you
go to do this team building thing, and you know,

(13:08):
let's say the one you know, there's one woman or
one dude in there who just has ninety percent more
paintball shots on their body, They're going to start questioning
how everyone feels about them. I mean, let's let's face it,
if you had to make a list of your coworkers,

(13:29):
there's one you would really like to shoot with a
paintball gun. With that more so than others, maybe you
want to maybe you want to hit them all and
paint Here's the problem. Here's where paintball things go sideways.
So when I was in Minnesota, they did we did
a they built this huge, huge paintball business right with
courses they had like it looked like professional FBI shoots

(13:51):
cities right or you got. You know, it was really
well done and they and they had done a big
promotion with some of our stations, and as part of it,
I guess the company probably did some trade. So we
did a promotion out there and they had all the
radio people come out and they had one of like
the number two or number three nationally ranked paintball team

(14:15):
was there, right, So I guess if you're into paintball,
these guys are some big deals. And they were nice enough.
We were talking, but then somebody say, all right, so
we'll have the radio people versus the runner up world
champions and it didn't go well for us. But where
it went even worse is we're using like ghetto paint guns. Right,

(14:39):
Like these things they're the ones that if you show
over the course with nothing. Now granted they were new
because the place was new, but professional paintballers, the speed
that those things are coming at you is very different.
In fact, it's so different. I remember I got I go,
was behind a bus and a dude kind of crawled
up from under and got me. Whatever I did kill

(15:00):
a guy. I just want to brag on that we
got another one of these themed Kamala Harris live streams.
This time it's not white dudes or black women. It's chefs,
celebrity chefs. Let's see here, Okay, so more than one
hundred folks be part of it, sixty notable chefs and

(15:21):
food world personalities, including I don't know a bunch. I
guess I recognize some of these folks. I think one
of them's on chopped that Padma Lakshmi or whatever, I
don't know how to say her name. And then Joel
McHale's hosting it, so I guess a bunch of leftists
chefs are going to do it. Did you see yesterday

(15:44):
when they were fawning over Kamala Harris being able to
crack an egg with one hand? Is that not how
you crack an egg? I just have a question. Is
that not a skill that people have to be able
to crack an egg with one hand? I'm just asking
because I'm not bragging here. It's just literally how I
was taught to crack an egg. Hold it in one hand,

(16:07):
basically put your thumb and you're pinky up under each end,
crack it and then just flip it up anyway. So
she's doing that, and I what was amusing is the optics,
as many people picked up on, because you're like, hey,
this is going to be the first woman president. No, no,
this time, we mean it. Watch how good she is

(16:29):
in the kitchen, which I don't know. I thought that
was funny. But also she's just cracking an egg. It's okay.
That's why you're run for the presidency, so you never
have to crack an egg again. No white house chefs man, Yeah,
I wonder if that's what it is. A bunch of
these cats just want to be white house chef. Yeah.

(16:49):
I don't recognize most of these names. Gail Simmons, Tom Kleikio, Glicio,
I don't know. But anyway, that's the theme thing tonight.
All right, back to back to this insanity. We were
talking about team building events. I laughed, I did laugh here,

(17:10):
but also it made me just a little nervous. So
in Colorado, specifically in Chafey County, a group in this case,
let's see, I'm trying to figure out what is the
Does it say what the company is? It doesn't say

(17:34):
what the I'd be very curious what their business is like.
Is it an outdoor business where he might have had
some skills? Is it a I don't know, a candle maker?
I don't know. But a injured Colorado man weathered to
storm and survived a night alone on a mountain after
his coworkers left him behind during an office team building retreat.

(18:00):
The mayor was part of fifteen coworkers who had set
off to summit Mount Chevano. This will tell me a
lot here, hold on Mount Schevano elevation because summoning, you know,
sometimes summoning is just I'm like Jesus. And then it

(18:25):
showed me. Yeah, yeah, obviously when I search for Mount Shavano,
I want Mount Everesfects. All right, Mount Shavano. Oh you
know what, I know exactly where this is. I have
driven Okay, so it's it. It's yes, all right. So
Chavano is a very long, it's a very high mound.

(18:45):
It's fourteen thousand foot peak, but it doesn't have much
of an elevation change, and it's a it's actually other
than the oxygen part, which can get a little troubling
for people once you hit tree line. Yeah, okay, so
i'd call it an intermediate thing. You're not using a
bunch of ropes and stuff. So anyway, that's what they
were going to do. That's a hell of an office thing.

(19:07):
That's you know, that's got Colorado written all over it.
But for whatever reason, they went up there with all
fifteen of the people. They reached the summit at around
eleven thirty in the morning and on their way down, folks,
he's kind of wandered off, because again it can you

(19:27):
can get very disoriented and you don't think it is
even though you feel comfortable like minutes later at that elevation.
For some people, it just doesn't work. So anyway, so
he's dragging behind, he's not feeling well, and they kind
of left him on the summit, I know, he say,
I'm going to get some pictures. I'll be down in

(19:48):
a minute, but they didn't wait, and by the time
he started walking down, they had come by and picked
up the party. Because again, you can drive quite a
ways up this thing, and they just left him, and
so he trying to figure out because now he can't
see where the pickup point is. He's just he's in
a big boulder field. When you when you're up that high,

(20:08):
it's just rocks for as far as you can see.
It's I understand why it would be a little dishorienting.
So he then tried to descend on his own, went
off the wrong side, which is very steep, and eventually
he basically said, all right, I guess I'm I guess
I'm sleeping on the mountain, and he did, Let's see.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Can you can you imagine, like you know, your your
company takes you up there, like you said, you probably
don't want to be there anyway, and all day you're
sitting there and your managers are like, and what's important
is the team and the team we are a team,
and we need to wear.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Us at this mountain together as a team.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
And they're yelling at you the whole time. You're going
up as stupid bout it and we're a team. We'll
go team woo, synergy and production, yeah yeah, yeah yeah.
And then at the end of the day they're like,
get on the bus and they're like, where's Bob And
they're like, screw.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
The list, go yeah, Bob's nobody likes botot Bob stares
at the interns or you know what what, I don't
know what their objection.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
So they had to fail the event, right there has
to be the ultimate failure.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Well that's so this is where this is the kind
of a roundabout way where we're going here, what is okay?
So one would argue, if it's a team building event,
abandoning your team member at the top of a mountain.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
Right, leaving a coworker to die in a mountain, try.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
With okay, however, but but what are team building events
expected to produce? What is the what is the reason
for doing it? Other than to annoy me?

Speaker 3 (21:36):
Corpses on the side of a mountain?

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Okay, what else are they? That's a that's you could
call that a side effect. What's the main what's the
main reason for doing team building? Efficiency? Right? Operates more efficiently,
is more harmonious. And if you got a guy nobody

(21:59):
likes and they're willing to ditch on the top of
a mountain, maybe that's why your production is not what
it should be, right, because you got to deal with
Bob because Bob's Bob's an a hole, right right, you're
saying it was a purpose they hated Bob. I'm just
and I don't know if it's Bob, but we're going
with Bob. What if Bob's would you know? How there's
people and that you've worked with over the year, not

(22:21):
just I'm not just talking to Ross, but everybody. You know,
there's people you've worked with over the years that you
realize that them being involved in your project will make
your project harder to do. Yeah, you remember this in school?
Remember in school where they'd have you break up in groups?
How there was some kids that you they clearly were
not contributed.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
I mean, or it could be the other way. He
could be the quiet guy who always gets his job done,
that keeps his head down right, and then they're just
they forget about him.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
He could be like, he's not making him look bad
because he's actually working.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
Possibly maybe he minds his own business and he's like
they just forgot this personally. No, I'm just trying to
look at it for all sides.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Yeah, no, that's fair. Look, it could be any of
these things.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
But because the go to thing is though they must
have hated the dude, or maybe he just you know,
was a quiet dude who mind his own business.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Maybe he hates his coworkers so much he's like, I'm
gonna die on the mountain.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
That'll be better, right, It could have been great something
like that.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah, do you want to do you want to hike
up a mountain with the everyone we work with?

Speaker 3 (23:21):
I think if I want to hike, I'd rather it
be like a like an isolating sort of personal thing,
like you don't want you don't want to go up
a fourteen thousand foot mountain by yourself, because you know
what I'm not saying.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
I will oxygen hits you bad.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
I'm not saying it would, but if I wanted to hike,
I would probably want it to be like a you know,
solitude type thing.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Yeah, yeah, people know he keeps their mouth shut. Just
a couple of you just enjoying the splendor of nature,
but also be.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
Good to go in a group in case you were
attacked by bears or something. That'd be good.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Well, and then that's the other thing, right, You want
to have somebody slower than you at all times. You
know that per You know that that one girl who
wore not heels but lifts, and you're like, what are
you doing? We're growing up, We're going through a boulder field.
What do you do? And then in your mind you're like, well,

(24:08):
if a bear starts chasing us, I'm good. Right, So
you got to have that fail safe. There he was constantly.
And here's the other thing too. They had a they
I guess they had a GPS. You can coordinate GPS is.
I don't know if you guys use them for hunting
or whatnot. You're not supposed to use them for hunting

(24:29):
though in some states, so check your state. Did you
know that you can't like pinpoint other hunters. Like in Minnesota,
I don't know, honestly, I can't remember what it is
in North Carolina. In Minnesota, it's illegally use a GPS
to know where your hunting party is. I always thought
that was the dumbest thing. It's like for that, it's
it's an unfair electronic advantage. There's a there's a few

(24:52):
things you can't do that. What do you think Basically
they want to They don't want you having too much technology.
I guess to grease all the animals. But that one
always threw me off because every year in Minnesota, like
in Wyoming, we don't do drive hunts, right, so, like
like I had never experienced a drive hunt, and that's

(25:15):
you don't know what a drive hunt is. That's where
you essentially position some shooters and then you know, like
four or five people walk through a block of woods
and what you're hoping to do is by and you're
doing it not super noisily, but enough so the deer
know you're there. You want other you want the deer
to pop out the other side of the woods where
your shooters are. So uh, I think you can already

(25:37):
figure out why this sometimes goes sideways because you get
a shooter who doesn't remember, hey, let the deer get
out of the woods. If it's on the edge of
the woods. Whatever you do, don't shoot into the woods
because you'll hit one of your buddies. And every year
somebody gets shot with that. So I always thought the
GPS might be helpful there. But also, don't hunt with

(25:58):
stupid people. No, it is not stop people are sending
you know. You can't just make stuff up and send
it to me and have it be true. Okay, The
most popular team building submiting exercise in North Carolina is
not summitying Boom big Beer. Right, go to Mount Mitchell.

(26:21):
You can drive up the damn thing.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
I remember. I think we said my like third year
here at the cluster here, and they took us to
the boom big beer. That's the one team building event
I can remember.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
You just I asked you earlier and you didn't remember
any of that's your opinion. You were trying to figure
out you were going to leave on a mountain. I
don't think that's accurate.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (26:37):
Somebody in engineering? To the per it would be a
person in engineering. It's not sales or management.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Ohh I would want to like take a paintball gun
to Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I think I think
you know them. I think I take your I don't
want to say oh to him. Yeah, I don't want
I don't really want to. I don't feel comfortable say
it's not.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Erica, it is not Andrea. Not Nope, Alison. I wouldn't
want to leave Alison somewhere. She'd come, she'd come get you.
It would be a revenge movie. I think. All right, well,
I'm uh, I guess I'll have to keep my thinking
cap on. Uh. Here's the other thing too. If this

(27:17):
dude shoots the office, I'm gonna be dark here from him.
If this dude shoots the office up, I'm gonna be like,
that's a tragedy. But I know why that happened.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
No, what I was saying before, when he could be
a quiet guy, like this could be like the dude
with the stapler and office space, right.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yeah, yeah, or who's the dude? Remember Dane Cook does
that bit about bringing a candy bar for the crazy
quiet dude. So if there is an office shooting, he's like,
I was your friend, I brought you a candy bar. So't.
I don't know what do you think his first day
back at work was like, though.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
They probably tried to make it like super special and
they bought him a stupid cake or whatever. Yeah, but
here's a pizza gift certificate or whatever, and it's a
cake from Walmart with like your name, miss Felt, He's
gotta quit. You've got to quit at that point, No,
you part. I'm saying, after a day of them drilling
in your head how important the team is. When it
came down to it, they they made a mistake of

(28:14):
leaving a member of the team to die in the
side of the mountain. That is a failure of epic proportion. Yeah,
it really when it comes to management, that is a failure.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
And even if you're one of the employees who had
no like like there's there's got to be employees who
in their mind thought, okay, he's with a different group
or something.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
Yeah, I'm sure it was like a home Yeah, it
had to be like a home alone thing or something.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Okay. So, but if you're one of those people and
you just suffered through this team building thing, right and
you're just like, oh, I'm so glad it's over. I
hate these things. Because of the epic failure. Of course
you're going to have to do another one of these.
So now you're right, it's gonna be like we're going
cliff diving. We're really going to build it and build

(28:58):
a team. Now they're gonna do it in somebody's yard
with everyone lojacked right there. You're not screwing around here.
You're not going cliff diving in Mexico, right, Okay, that's
not that's not happening. You're gonna you're gonna do something.
You're gonna go to an amusement park, a very small
one where you keep an eye on everybody.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
You're gonna go a bune of jumping. Last one to
go is Bob.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Oh wait, A said, I mean you could say have
him go first. I guess I don't know. That's so bad?
All right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seven four you want to go ahead and get into that.
But yeah, worst team building exercise hands down right there. Oh,

(29:45):
actually no, it's not the worst. The worst one. The
worst team building next iys I ever heard of was
on the uh it was on that plane. It was
on a plane that crashed in New York years ago.
I want to say Crashing Queens. You remember that plane
where like the tailfin like ripped off or sheared off

(30:07):
because they did too steep of a turn. I remember
the thing. One of the stories that struck me about
that is on the plane they had like forty people
from I think it's that plane. They had like forty
people who were on this team. They were on a
team building a trip to like some ranch somewhere out,
you know, some dude ranch that does these things. And

(30:28):
I just remember thinking, and this sounds so dark, like
how many of the people on that plane didn't want
to go on this thing anyway? Right, because there's always
going to be part of your office, Like this is
such a waste of my time. I didn't sign up
for this. And now you're up there, you slogged to

(30:50):
the airport, you got on this fly. I remember it
was in the morning, you get on this flight. I
don't even want to go to New Mexico to this
creepy you know ranch, or we're gonna have to sit
around a fire and talk about our feelings. This is
I just signed up to work. And then you're like
what else could go wrong? And then you know the
tail rips off your plane. So but this is this

(31:12):
is up there. So there's that all right, six fifty
one CaCO Day radio program.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
Hang on, okay, good morning, Casey.

Speaker 5 (31:18):
I love the show. Listen to it every weekday, all day,
all the time you're on. But uh, anyhow, I was
working for a company back in the eighties and they
got together this uh white water.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Rafting trip, oh, dear man, and they kept see it.

Speaker 5 (31:32):
Oh, they kept trying to get me to get me
if said, na, thinking I gotta spend all day with
you A holes already I'm sure, said don't want to
go out to the woods.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Yeah, yeah, what if the biggest a hole fell in
the water, sir?

Speaker 5 (31:44):
You know it was well, hey, a few a few
of them did, trust me. But anyhow, it rained like
crazy the day before they win. They still kept saying, oh, man,
well it's gonna be great. Come on, we got a
place for it. Come on, I said. Nah. They got
back and there were hot stories I'm sure, like freaking yeah, freaking.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
Deliverance talking about this just for all the different angles.
So I was mentioning in Colorado that some company did
a team building event where they went and hiked up
a mountain because that's what you do in Colorado, which
is fine if you want to do that. But one
of the people there literally got abandoned on the mountain

(32:25):
and then the search and rescue had to come find him,
and then ice, freezing rain moved in and so it celled.
The cell tower wasn't working, he was bouncing off of
and he survived. But I got like the office dynamics
have to be totally screwed up now. So somebody sent
me an email said, hey, guys, let's see twenty years

(32:45):
ago and I lived in Florida. I've lived here fifteen year. Okay,
so you lived in North Carolina fifteen Well, thank you
for the introductory info, sir. Well here, let me just
reader's digestic for you. So this dude's company in Tampa
decided that they were going to go swim him with
sharks and nobody would get in the cage. And then
the boss got in the cage, and after about two

(33:06):
minutes he freaked out and they literally had to drag
him out of the cage, and then nobody would get
in the cage. Who thought that was a good ross.
You want to go you want to go shark diving
with sharks in a cage for a team building event.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
That is the dumbest idea I've ever heard.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
And I love that the boss is now seen as
a coward.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
Right yeah, yeah, he's gonna have your boss shrieking, you
know what I mean, just coming out.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Of the cage, shark like, Oh you want me to
you want me to stay late? Huh? Is that true?

Speaker 3 (33:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (33:39):
I do.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
What about if I have this shark mask on? Aha? Yeah,
so I'm sorry you had to put you know what, sir?
That Actually I'm not sorry because that sounds like an
amazing experience because now you get to tell some jackass
on the radio that, twenty years later.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Just knocking on the door when he's in his office
doing the land shark thing, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Oh? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, all right, Ross, I've
got us a team building event. We're going to take
us submersible to see the recor of the Titanic Ian.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
It depends what kind of a console controller are we using?

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Video games?

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Right?

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yeah? Yeah, okay, you get to drive, so it'll be amazing.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Well, anybody who knows the Twitch channel knows I'm really
good at driving in games.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
So yeah, no, I've seen you pilot a horse. Yeah,
it's very very skilled what you do there. All right,
so we got that going. Ross needs it because the
poor guy has since we're talking about teamwork, this is
so appropriate. The poor guy had to dub in Kamala
audio this morning, and you know how he feels about that.

(34:38):
But man, it is so on point. Let's let's listen
to Kamala talk about teamwork in the standard word salad
that we're all going to see coming up on the
tenth of September.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
You are leaders by the very fact that you all
are here in.

Speaker 5 (34:58):
Doing what you do this club.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
Doing as one big team, understanding all the different parts
that to.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Create a team.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Is there anything of substance in what she says? It's
like it's like somebody please ask her, Hey, could you
explain very generically how you formulate a team in a
school setting? And then she's using it as the motivational
speech for these folks.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
You know, teamwork, make the work. If you dream it,
you can achieve it, and most importantly, if you ain't
first your last.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
Yeah, that's true. Did she say that? I seem to
think that was somebody else anyway? How what was the
other thing she said, if you ain't rubbing, you ain't racing.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
Right, he was right. That was the part that right
was right after that part?

Speaker 4 (35:56):
Right?

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
And then she left them all on the mountain to die.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
I mean, is it any different than what we've seen
this administration?

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Do?

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Nope?

Speaker 1 (36:07):
If I just oh, you're not a w NBA player, No,
you can stay in the gulag. That'll be fine.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
Listen. The most important thing to remember it's we are
a team, right, we are the country. We are a team.
Would you say if you're in Afghanistan?

Speaker 1 (36:23):
Yeah? I was just gonna say, weren't they part of
a team? Those thirteen service members? I feel like they
were part of a team. Dude. Do you know they're
on like day three of the Arlington freak out? So
if you guys don't know, I basically I was gonna
ignore this story because it's just so annoying. So Trump's
over at Arlington, right. You probably saw just a little

(36:45):
snippet of the ceremony that was going on there. Trump's
standing there. There's a moment where he kind of when
he walks up next to one of the guards of
the Tomb of the Unknown. If you've never been. By
the way, have you ever been russ You ever been
to Arlington? You go to the Tomb of the unknow not,
but I've wanted to. Yeah, it's it's that you go
to Arlington. Obviously, there's three things you're gonna see that'll

(37:07):
stand out. One the uniformity of it. Right, Visually, it's
I don't want to say stunning because of what it is,
but it is, right, it's visually very stunning. Now the
fourth part for me kind of is the nerd stuff
like Roberty Lee's Farm and all that. But then you
have the Eternal Flame, which inevitably, at any moment you

(37:28):
go buy the JFK Eternal Flame. Within twenty feet there's
a group of third children talking about how they're gonna
put it out. I don't know why. Like the two
times I've been there, there's been some kids within my earshots.
They're like, no, you go smother it, and I'm just like, yeah, yeah,
that's gonna go well for you. They didn't do it.
And then you go over to the Tomb of the

(37:50):
Unknown Soldier and you pick your spot and you sit
down and you shut up. Now you may hear noises
from people taking pictures and all of that, and they've
adjusted to it. My favorite some of my favorite videos
online though, are people getting sideways with the beef eaters
or the Tomb of the Unknown soldier guards, right, the

(38:14):
quietest people, right, you'll never hear from them, just just
dedicated to what they're doing. And I don't know why,
watching them go from zero to twelve yeah on videos
crazy to me. I've never seen it in person. So
then you just sit and you just watch it, and
you watch the whole SAH ceremonies, right, not the right word,
but you watch the whole thing there at the Tomb

(38:37):
of the Unknown, and if you're a human who can
you know, process thoughts and has some emotions, it's pretty
it's a pretty emotional place, man. So when you're doing
a bigger event there as was going on, and specifically

(38:59):
it's on honoring not just you know, generically service members,
but very specifically Medal of Honor recipients, some four hundred
Medal of Honor recipients. That's what the ceremony was was about.
And Trump shows up and you say, it's just a

(39:22):
photo op, and you don't process the scene any further
than that. Your garbage from a media standpoint, Here's a
couple thoughts. One, who is more appropriate to show up
than one of the what five is or how many
living presidents are there?

Speaker 3 (39:39):
Five?

Speaker 1 (39:39):
Right? If you're one of the five people walking the
face of the earth who has awarded a medal of honor,
I feel like you've earned a place there, Like that's
an event you can go to. And the bigger question
I would ask is why is he the only living

(40:00):
president there? This is a it's a big ceremony that
they're doing there.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
Well, Biden can't go because he's busy on the beach, right.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
Well, don't it be fair when this was going on,
he was busy and senting as California.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
But yeah, they can't go him and as vice president
by the way, it's the candidate running right now, Kamala Harris. Yeah,
they can't go because it's a reminder of their failure.
It's their failure, it absolutely is. But do you think
that for a moment they let that bother them. I
don't think it bothered. I don't think it bothers them.
But I think from a campaign point of view, like

(40:35):
they can't do it, which is disgusting.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
Yeah, and it's specifically about Medal of Honor winners, which
has Biden. I'm assuming Biden's done Medal of honor. He
almost had to have. I'm sure he did, but that's
what the event is like. Biden could literally I I
don't know if he did a living Medal of Honor
rey ship, but I know Trump did, and I do
know that some of the other video that people there

(41:00):
is Trump sitting there and spending time like rehashing and
reminiscing with the family and service members that he gave
Medal of honor that he made Medal of Honor recipients
during his presidency, and it's clear that he remembers them,
he remembers conversations like there's nothing inappropriate about him being there,
and nobody's wondering. I mean, Ross is probably right, but

(41:23):
nobody's wondering, where where's the where's the current dude, dude
a medal of that watching the tomb of the unknown
soldier in this This is this is pete Biden, Like,
this is event that is tailored for him. All you
gotta do is just sit there and not move and
not say anything. You could bring your beach chair, dude,

(41:46):
you don't have to. Nobody's expecting you to do anything.
You don't have to go up and and and create
an audio moment for me. You just have to see.
You have two jobs. Sit there and don't look at
your watch the whole time. In fact, if you get
Biden to one of these, they should probably sir, why
don't you take your watch off right, just to remove temptation,

(42:08):
because you can write it as bold and big on
his little cheek cards as you want. Dude, it'll probably
still look at his watch, so don't make sure there's
no watch there. Then can then if he does look
at his wrist and people go, that's weird. It looks
like he's looking at his watch, you can lie and
say there was a mosquito or something. I don't know,
but yeah, they're still still chewing on this insanity, which, yeah,

(42:32):
I had forgotten how you got to drag these things
out when you're in the heat of the candidacy, right,
So now that you're in it, you got to make
sure it lasts as many days as as possible. All Right,
Coming up on the show here at seven seventeen, we'll
get to the Matt Lauer story. We have other states

(42:53):
now that are wanting to jump on the Minnesota bandwagon.
Oh dear God, if they can, you imagine if they
try to do this in North Carolina. Man, the South
is a little touch here. I'm talking about reinventing state flags,
which some people find very exciting, others find rather insulting.

(43:14):
And we haven't really had to talk about it for
a while until Minnesota did this thing. I think the
last one was what they were trying to get Mississippi
to change theirs because stars and bars or something. But yeah,
we'll get into the details there and I'm sure it'll
be super woke. How long do you think it is
ross before one of the states their flag has some
sort of rainbow in it? I'm serious? How long do

(43:38):
you think it is before one of these states includes
a rainbow in some way, shape or form?

Speaker 3 (43:43):
And the serious question does Hawaii already have one?

Speaker 1 (43:50):
You know what Hawaii may because I know.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
Their license plates have the rainbow.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
Right, Yeah, that's true, But it doesn't count if it's
not done and stated to be done for LGBT purposes.
Because that's the reason you go ahead and do it right,
You do it so you can be like and we're
so inclusive and I think what you'll end up with
is you'll end up with a flag that kind of
looks like the current LGBT flag where it's everything. No,

(44:18):
the the Hawaii state flag is crazy, not that. Wow, dude,
google the Hawaii state flag and tell me why they're
a state. Go ahead, I'll wait. I want you to
lay eyes on this thing independent of me, and tell
me why they're a state and not listed as traders.

(44:38):
I had never seen that.

Speaker 3 (44:39):
Wow, how is this even possible?

Speaker 1 (44:41):
How is what does that look like? In the top
corner that is the British flag? Yeah, that is those
like the British. So it's red, white and blue stripes.
Not the same as what you would see in American flag. No, no,
but it's red, white and blue right in the corner
where the stars would be. It's a British it is,
and it is exactly the flag of the United Kingdom,

(45:05):
the red Cross of Saint George, exactly what your is
where if you think of an American flag where the
stars are, that's what That's what Hawaii has.

Speaker 4 (45:15):
Well.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
If you want to be British so bad, you want
to be British so bad, then go ahead and have
at it. It's the only US state flag to feature
a foreign country's national flag, that of the UK's Union Jack,
which commemorates the British Royal Navy's historic relations with the
Kingdom of Hawaii. Okay, well not the kingdom anymore, and

(45:40):
the particularly pro British sentiment of the first ruler, King Kamanahamahamaha. Ross.
Do you think King Kammahamahamaha was a good king if
you know historically the I'm not.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
I would say he's probably one of my top Hawaiian kings.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
King Kamahamahamaha Tom three ha top three. Okay, that's fair.
I know they had the one queen that everyone was
a big fan of. That's a. That's a. That's the
extent that I know. Uh uh Hawaiian royalty. I think
they still have the royalty there in Hawaii. Somebody, somebody
used to live in Hawaii was telling me that, and

(46:30):
they also told me that Native Hawaiians walk around and
just openly are super racist to white people, so which
I thought, well, that's fun. That's a nice little twist.
And now I find out you got the Union Jack
on your flag. What are you even doing? I know,
it's not gonna look right. But I'm sorry, we're gonna
have to We're gonna have to dial this back to
forty nine stars. Man, I know what you're saying. Well, strategically, obviously,

(46:54):
the US would never do that because military needs and
blah blah blah blah. They got a union jack there,
they got a union jack there, and you just wait
till some of these flags bastardization start. I'm telling you,
Illinois wants to be next to go ahead and do this,
So we'll get into that. And even CNN, speaking of Kamala,

(47:15):
was not a fan of the the whole setup where
the Harris campaign finally doing an interview and they got
to bring Tim Walls to it. She's got to bring
and and uh, it's actually funny. I'll give him credit
for it. I think it was Scott jennings on there.
He makes a good point. But again it's the optics

(47:37):
of it. Like, you know, I made a joke about
her cracking an egg, and you got a woman president.
You're like, look how good she is in the kitchen.
That's that's that's more of me being tongue in cheek.
The fact that she can't sit for an interview without
a dude, especially when in an era of man'splaining. Right,

(47:58):
when man's plaining is thing, I don't know, it's just
super weak sauce. It's like that our listener's boss who
went in the shark cage because nobody else would and
had his man card pulled three minutes later. Right, that's
how people perceive that. A lot of people. I don't know,
there's a bunch of stupid sheep. Maybe they don't. Anyway,

(48:19):
we'll take a break, be right back. Hang on by
the new moonbat in charge who has announced a new initiative.
Are you ready for this? A new smoking band confirmed
by Starmer. That's the PM. So now you can't smoke inside.
I'll tell you what, man. It was kind of interesting

(48:40):
because it happened to be years and years ago. I
took a trip to was my second or third trip
to Ireland, and I literally arrived on the same day
that they made smoking inside illegal in Ireland. And so
I'm doing like pub crawls in everyone is extras early

(49:01):
because they never had to deal with that they could
smoke inside Irish pubs, man, and so now, and it
happened to be during World Cup too, and I remember thinking,
what a horrible day to do this. And so now
everyone's already you know, drunk and all ginned up over soccer,
but now they're also having nicotine fits. So whole thing

(49:25):
was weird. But you could still go and just like
in North Carolina and just like other player I remember,
and you know what, it was funny because my first
when I first moved to North Carolina was right when
North Carolina bands smoking inside bars. So literally, if you
want me to move somewhere and you're an anti smoking group,
you should pay me. That being said, you know, people adapted,

(49:47):
and so if you go to a if you go
to a pub or a restaurant, even those kinds of places,
even before COVID, many were creating outdoor spaces so you
can go and you could light up. Right, those of
you who I'm trying to think, you know, some of
the big steakhouses have them, right. What was what was

(50:12):
the one in uh oh Rais and Carry. If you
go to Raise and Carry, he's got a hole. He
built a whole patio out back because the guy loves
cigars who runs it. I like cigars, and occasionally when
I go there, I end up smoking a cigar with
Ray and he had to create a whole patio area
there and that works for him. So in the UK,

(50:34):
because they got to be doing something, they just said
there'll be no more of that. So basically you will
not be allowed to smoke inside any building save your
private home. It's unclear how will impact. You know, cigar
places may have a cigar lounge or hookah shops for
that matter. Hookah bars are probably out and they will now,

(50:57):
which is already banned. But now you can also smoke
outside adjacent to any quote public pavement, so that would
be sidewalk any of that. And it's not just where
you're standing, it's if the business is adjacent. So if
the front of the business fronts a sidewalk or a

(51:19):
public road, you can't even have a smoking area if
you have a backyard there. And the reason I'm telling
you this is not because I think some of you
smokers are going to visit the UK and be upset.
It's the justification for this is the one they always
roll out where the government, we pay for your health care,
will do whatever we want and then they can do

(51:41):
it without having to go and get Parliament's approval. Because
they have things that allow them to act quickly in
the public health or public interest, many of which were
exploited during COVID. And so in the article they say
it's going to save the national health system twenty eight
billion dollars, which is a number that will never be realized.

(52:03):
It's just a number they're throwing out and and we'll
go ahead and do that. So now you have some
saying that's literally the end of pubs. I'm I'm trying
to think of your go to bar right where you
know you may meet up with your buddies on Friday
night and have a few drinks, especially if you get
into a more rule environment. I can't think of a

(52:27):
bar where you know, a quarter of the patrons and
I'm talking I don't want to say dive bar, but
I'm talking more neighborhood bars. Let me just give you
some examples. So, well, I just saw they're closing the Goat.
For those of you who have some time in Raleigh
or went to NC State, you know that part. They're

(52:48):
having to close that thing. But yeah, you couldn't go
to the Goat and there's not ten people standing out
front smoking. So if those ten people can't go and
be able to smoke, and they want to tip back
a few beers in the afternoon. Why don't you have
a job. They're not going to go there, you know,

(53:08):
and then pick You don't pick any bar for that matter,
both Triad Triangle, out state North Carolina, anywhere. That's just
human nature. So anyway, Yeah, they want to go ahead
and do that, and they're probably going to do that.
So oh and also, you couldn't smoke in and around stadiums.

(53:28):
Is that what you want soccer hooligans who were jones
in for a cigarette? Because that's what you're gonna get.
But whatever, nobody listens to me. All right, let's uh,
let's flip back to this. So in addition to in
addition to Trump making a doing a photo op at
Arlington by merely attending the ceremony, that he's probably one

(53:51):
of five people short of the recipients of the Medal
of Honor, that it's most appropriate to be there. Somebody
who's literally hung one of those around a service member's
neck probably a probably a good get. Also, there is
the General McMaster scandal. A new book by General H. R.

(54:14):
McMaster is gives a blistering account of the Trump White
House the book At War with Ourselves. My tour of
duty in the Trump White House, he said, was the
most challenging tour as a soldier. I don't know McMaster's
service record, and I'm not going to I'm not going

(54:36):
to sit here and dig in on that. But and
I understand it can be stressful. It's what do you
think is more stressed? Ross? What would you rather do?
Serve four years for Joe Biden? Right? Well, we'll go there,
right in some sort of advisory role where you get
to watch you get to watch the dogs eat the
al Qaeda dude from the situation room because you're high

(54:58):
up enough, or kicking doors in cobble. Which one would
you prefer? Clearing houses and cobble or sitting in the
situation room watching some terrorists get mauled by service doors?

Speaker 3 (55:13):
Do you think about it? Pick the White House?

Speaker 1 (55:15):
Oh, you're gonna go to the White House, Okay, I
mean they had some nice doors and not anymore. We
blew them all up. But yeah, yes, I don't know.
But i'd also I don't know McMaster's service record. I
do know this though, the section where he's talking about
outlandish questions the holy crap man. All right. So, in

(55:39):
his blistering inside account of his time the Trump White House,
McMaster describes meetings in the Oval office as well. He
wasn't a fan of him. He said that he would
often flatter the president by saying stuff like, your instincts
are always right, and no one has ever treated you
so badly by the press. You mean, somebody in and

(56:00):
the White House kissed the President's ass. I am shocked
at that's a thing. But then he goes on to
documents some of the quote outlandish things Trump would say,
like why don't we just bomb the drugs? Referring to
some of the large storage and production facilities in Mexico.
All right, I understand why we don't go in there

(56:21):
dropping moabs, But what's wrong with that question? What's wrong
with that question? Wouldn't that make a difference? And by
the way, before you say no, it wouldn't make a difference,
I would point out to you that it was the
policy of the Colombian government when they finally kicked into
high gear against Escobar, where they would go and they'd

(56:43):
find these clandestine facilities, and you know what they do,
They would either bomb it or they would just go
in and murder everybody. And you know what, it seriously
impacted the ability to produce cocaine, So arguably that was
pretty effective. All right, So maybe that's that's not a
fair question. How about this? Why don't we take out

(57:03):
the whole North Korean Army during one of their missile parades?

Speaker 3 (57:09):
I mean, I mean, literally, all you'd have to do
is target the missiles.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
Right, yeah, yeah, you just hit one. It probably would
just chain react. Man, I suspect the text.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
And anybody who's played video games knows this.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
Oh that's a good point. Yeah yeah, yeah, so, I
mean the learning's been there this whole time. Wait, which
video game? If you target one missile blows like every
single one of them? Oh that's right, it is all
of them. Yeah. Yeah. You don't want to be sitting
near an ammunition shed in some of these some of
these games?

Speaker 5 (57:37):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (57:38):
Is that forty chess? Or is that a stupid question?
I mean I understand the associated you know, the political
and all of that, but if you just wiped out
their whole army. Now, the reason you don't is because
they probably don't have the wobbly nuke there and God
only knows what they do with it, but it would
be pretty effective because they do like to get them

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all together for a big old missile parade. Who doesn't
love a missile parade? By the way, But to Ross's point,
you take a sniper rifle hit one of those missiles,
they all explode. But don't ask me, ask Capcom. They're
the one who convinced me of this. All right, raced
Agic from the Weather Channel. He's here to tell you
whether it's a good day for a missile parade.

Speaker 6 (58:20):
Yeah, yeah, but it's gonna be hot.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
Why don't we have missile parades? Man?

Speaker 6 (58:28):
Well, I mean you're.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
Telling me you wouldn't want to see some of the
super cool stuff the military keeps there.

Speaker 4 (58:33):
You know.

Speaker 6 (58:33):
Absolutely.

Speaker 7 (58:34):
I used to love when I was on the New
York State Thruway and you would see the caravans and
I mean it wasn't like missiles or anything, but you'd
see them transporting you know, tanks and even the cover.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
In Wyoming they drive nukes around. Yeah, like literally my childhood,
once or twice a year I would see a cover
truck with obvious it's obviously got a new kind of
and they got a whole caravan and they were driving
because you know, we got all those silos in Montana
and Wyoming and the main the main base there is Warren,

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which is down in Cheyenne where basically they control all
those silos, and so they'll be like you be on
the interstate and you're passing a nuke and it's just okay.

Speaker 6 (59:21):
That's gotta be sis it.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
I mean, it's kind of cool, man, because you're a kid.
You're like, oh my gosh, there's a there's a big
old ICBM under there. That's amazing, right, Yeah, but the
nobody's in Wyoming, so I don't have to worry about
getting highjacked. They can see it forever. So anyway, oh yeah,
missile parade it's North Carolina would be killing it. Man.
We got so you know, we got cool.

Speaker 6 (59:41):
Stuff here, cool stuff.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
I got a topsle. You can see the osprey's. You
can see those with the rotors that turn it tree
like a helicopter and up and then occasionally they stay
in the air too. So they've had some issues. Anyway,
what's going on today, sir ah?

Speaker 5 (59:55):
Hot?

Speaker 7 (59:56):
And yeah, got a heat advisory for the most of
the tr angle now and east try it no because
the differences and temperatures are, you know, between the low
nineties and then the up nineties. So upper nineties for
the triangle. Probably not a record, but he didn't see's
close to one o five. Thus the heat advisory. Uh,
try it. Probably low nineties as we were yesterday ninety

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seven and Raleigh ninety two at to try it. So
about a three to five degrees split. Lots of sunshine though,
but later today there may be an isolated shower thunder
shower trying to pop up. And I say that because
NC State tonight one of many games of the one
that's a little bit more impactful for us, all Wakes
playing too, so there could be a shower.

Speaker 6 (01:00:40):
I really don't think.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
What do you mean for us? What do you mean
for us? You said that Now you're talking about Clemson.
You're talking about Clemson.

Speaker 6 (01:00:49):
Listen. I wasn't even going to bring it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Up, you, you absolute homer. How does this impact Clemson
standings in the AC? See, that's what you meant.

Speaker 6 (01:01:01):
That's not really what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
I mean I have friends. I have friends drinking already
for the NC State game.

Speaker 6 (01:01:07):
Okay, I can imagine.

Speaker 7 (01:01:08):
Well, our tailgate Saturday starts at eight, So I guess
that's not bad.

Speaker 1 (01:01:14):
And we five, we only have five hours. It's so stupid.

Speaker 6 (01:01:17):
Hell, I ain't got much. I got a noon kick off.

Speaker 7 (01:01:19):
I've got to gather thirteen people, most of them college kids,
and try to get them down there with us. So
that'll be fun anyway, changes coming though Friday, Saturday through
the holiday weekend. We'll start to see scattered showers thunderstorms
and probably stay in the upper eighties to low nineties
until about Labor Day when we go to the mid
to upper eighties and a little cool down coming Next
week should have some much cooler temperatures, maybe only in

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the seventies starting about Tuesday and maybe for the rest
of the week, So expect some scattered rain over the
upcoming weekend. Rain chance is best Sunday, but there'll be
plenty of dry hours too, so don't think it's going
to be a watch out.

Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
Okay, all right, better not better? Nine? All right, let's
get back to your Clemson stuff. And we're talking in
our sir.

Speaker 6 (01:02:00):
Cooking for tailgating already started.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
What are you making? What are you making?

Speaker 7 (01:02:05):
Well, right now, it's not really for the tailgate. Homemade
spaghetti sauce and meatballs. Got that going make steal some
of that and then the other stuff we're buying.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
So okay, you do the big bowbox? Do you have
that down in Atlanta?

Speaker 6 (01:02:18):
The bow box? What's that?

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
Well?

Speaker 6 (01:02:20):
But sorry, bo Jangles?

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, you got Bojungles down there, don't you?

Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
Yep?

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
We do? Okay, all right, very good, all right, thank you, sir.
We'll chat an hour man. But he didn't know what
a bowbox was. For a moment. I don't know what
we were gonna do, all right, Uh, what was I
just gonna say? Oh, look at it? Ross? I just
got an email said, hey, do you guys know I
used to drive that truck referring to the one with

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the nuke. Dude, if you're driving that, do you know
what that that thing's worth? I don't think I've seen
a movie, even from the nineties, where you couldn't sell
that thing for at least one mill Sorry?

Speaker 3 (01:03:01):
Can I'm composing a tweet about the Hayes for share
for red barrel Parade? What the Hayes for share of
red barrel Parade?

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
Dare I ask? Man?

Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
You really don't know anything about video games? Do you
dare I ask in a game, when when you see
a red barrel, you shoot that thing and it blows,
That's the only reason it's there is to shoot it blow.

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
Yeah. Yeah, it's like the Tanner, right, the Tannerite target. Yeah,
but what like, what, how do you do a parade?
Because the only way those are cool is if they're blowing.
Oh my god, the kids? All right, Well, I would
ask that you make it more accurate because I was
reviewing some of your tweets this morning. Yeah, and I
feel like I feel like there might be some erroneous information.

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
I'm I'm a team player.

Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
Yeah. Yeah, we're gonna go on a mountain quest and
then we'll take a break and then maybe we'll both
be back next Hang on, why don't we bomb the drugs? Apparently,
questions asked by Trump. I mean, maybe you don't bomb
the drug but taking out a facility in concert with

(01:04:06):
Mexico to be cooperative is not outside the bounds. And
the missile prey thing is because you don't know what
the little runt's gonna do. But still, what happened to
there's no stupid questions. It's not telling people to shoot
into a hurricane. You all came up with that on

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your own. Hell, Florida's got to tell people not to anyway.
And then I was just so offended. I was closing
the wiki on the Hawaiian flag that I looked up
because I wanted to see it, and then we found
out it's got literally the Union Jack on it, which,
by the way, you're just hedging your bets is all
you're doing, which is just cowardice. Throw in or don't right,

(01:04:51):
they're sitting there in case, I don't know, the British
get a wild hair and take it back and then
they can be like, no, we didn't know, we didn't
like the colonial lists anyway. I mean, we're gonna we
come in our media and nerd and whatnot. Correspondent Stephen Kent,
who joins us this morning. Stephen, how you doing today?
Are you okay?

Speaker 4 (01:05:11):
I'm doing well?

Speaker 6 (01:05:11):
Case?

Speaker 4 (01:05:12):
Are you okay?

Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
I mean, I'm not the I'm not a weed freaking
out over a pirating site getting shut down yesterday. But
the anime kids were, they were not happy yesterday.

Speaker 4 (01:05:23):
So they're fragile.

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
Yeah, there's them. Are you into the anime? Do you
do the anime?

Speaker 4 (01:05:30):
I don't do the anime but I do occasionally stumble
into an anime that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
I like, Okay, all right, what's the other thing that's
not anime that I accidentally said one time that's for adults.

Speaker 4 (01:05:42):
See, don't make me say it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
I can't remember what it is. Could you tell me?

Speaker 4 (01:05:49):
Are you talking about him? Tai Casey on the radio?

Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
I can't believe you know that stuff?

Speaker 6 (01:05:54):
Ross?

Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
Did you jump that? Did you dump that? All right?
You have to jump that? No, but seriously, but seriously,
there was There's nothing worse than an entire internet filled
with butt herd weeds, which, uh, weeds is just somebody
into anime and Japanese stuff. But anyways, so yeah, I
couldn't figure out what they were freaking out about yesterday
with their weird memes and stuff. And then I researched

(01:06:17):
it and I'm like, oh, they shut down their napster?
Is that basically what happened? What's going on with that?

Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
Well, you know, server failures happen all the time, and
the anime community tends to believe that they are under
siege from the alt right, so this is sort of
one of their all the news where they where they
always believe that they are being attacked by their enemies
on alternate websites. So I don't know where the anime
kids hang out necessarily on the online, but they believe

(01:06:46):
that all their enemies are on Reddit, and if something
bad happens in their forums the archives, they usually tend
to believe it was the fascists who attack them.

Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
So but basically, basically, these were file sharing sites for animes,
almost impossible to find in the US, just classic one.
So some people who had copies put them up there
and they were all sharing them and obviously that is
copyright stuff. So but yeah, that's what that freak out was.
If anybody didn't know what was going on. No, you're

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busy in the nerd hierarchy playing the new Star Wars game, right.

Speaker 4 (01:07:21):
I have gotten the crack into it yet, so that
one hundred and nine dollars for the three days of
early access, so they finally tapped into it yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:07:30):
Who pay, I mean, obviously people pay it the video game.
I'm glad I'm not more into video games because you
guys are getting rocked man.

Speaker 4 (01:07:40):
You know, it is what it is. Video games are
expensive to make these days, with the kind of design
that they have. The open world aspect, you actually got
to pay some of that back. This isn't the days
of Mortal Kombat where you go get a game for
twenty five bucks. So I kind of reject that the
pricing wars thing. I do think that there's a bit

(01:08:03):
of a problem with game pricing when it comes to
season passes, and gamers know all about this, and basically
they end up buying an incomplete game that the developers
are then updating quarter to quarter, and that I think
is a little bit of an issue. But you know,
these games are worth this much money for the amount

(01:08:24):
of game time and play that you get out of.

Speaker 1 (01:08:26):
Them, right, But when they don't go well, you get
what's happening in Japan. Did you see the announcement with
the PlayStation stuff over there.

Speaker 4 (01:08:34):
New Bugs?

Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
No, So they announced it in Japan. They're going to
be raising the price of PlayStation five ninety bucks because
of the game they put out that flop so badly
that Sony Pooh, I'm trying to remember the name of
the game. I guess they lost two hundred million on
the game, and so they're they're literally just gonna the

(01:08:56):
way they're gonna offset is just charge people more for
the for the for the actual system.

Speaker 4 (01:09:02):
It's a bit of a death spiral, isn't it. You
know they put out for the games.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
Yeah, yeah, these are death spirals for all these entertainment companies.

Speaker 4 (01:09:12):
They keep putting out product that people don't want, and
they sort of just expect people to take it. You know,
it's just like, thank you, sir, may I have another?
And then they have to jack up the prices on
the consoles, and then the prices go up, and then
people don't want to buy that either. You know, these
are the video game industry in by by and large,

(01:09:33):
is in trouble. They have not been able to adapt
to gamer preferences and keep up with their actual audience.
Their audience is aging, their priorities are changing, and they've
not been able to figure out a new model that
works for people, which is why you've ended up sort
of in this space of having tiered gaming prices. We
talked about this a couple of months ago in regards

(01:09:54):
to the new Star Wars Outlaws game. But the tiered
pricing model has come about because they're trying to figure
out how they can get people to pay for these games.
But it seems that people still want the days where
games were, you know, thirty forty bucks and that was all.

Speaker 1 (01:10:12):
I don't have to pay, dude, they don't have to
be thirty forty bucks, like the you know, Diablo is
really the only franchise that I've bought every version of it,
and they've done things over the years to make me
never want to do it. When they when they released
Diablo Diablo three, which took twelve years, by the way,
for them to actually get to When at first released,

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they had an auction house or real money auction house,
and everyone knew that it was going to be a disaster,
but they were so greedy they couldn't help themselves. And
of course it turned into people duping items and selling
them for real money and like Chinese hackers getting in there,
and the whole thing was a mess. So it's like

(01:10:54):
the hair brain schemes they come up to build more
money out of you, when in reality, if you told
me I would have a what's the term the use
triple A games, I guess for the big.

Speaker 4 (01:11:04):
Ones, Yeah, Triple A Triple A titles.

Speaker 1 (01:11:07):
Yeah. So if you if you're going to release something
like that like the Oblo for right, which that that
whole mess where they wanted to do mobile first, and
it was a very amusing blizz con. If you're going
to do that, really, even if you if you want
me to pay seventy eighty dollars for a very expansive game,
I understand that. But you can't keep delivering ones that
are incomplete or broken? What was what was the one

(01:11:29):
I'm thinking of that was so Cyberpunk? Right, the new
Cyberpunk that came out a few years ago was unplayable
when they delivered it. I guess now it's fine, but
you know.

Speaker 4 (01:11:39):
Yeah, and they're they're already running into this. Yeah, yeah,
they're already running into this a little bit with the
new launch of Star Wars Outlaws, which comes out tomorrow.
Ladies and Gentlemen of a Galaxy Far far away, you know,
so this sort of open, open world, expansive game where
unfortunately you are forced to pick the character that you're

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going to play throughout the game. This you know, this
game comes out tomorrow and it's already kind of running
into a bunch of bugs and glitches. It is not unplayable,
and it is apparently, you know, considered to be a
beautiful game by everybody who's played it. I thought it's lovely,
but it is still not feeling like a complete piece
of work. It is riddled with glitches. And this is

(01:12:23):
just sort of the way that the game market has become.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
Yeah, you know, did you did you hear about the
day one patch issue? No, So people bought this game.
There were two you could buy it for one of.

Speaker 1 (01:12:34):
You can buy it three days ago, right, three days.

Speaker 3 (01:12:37):
One nine one thirty. So people paid one hundred and
thirty dollars for this game and they played it for
two or three days. You've been seeing streamers on Twitch
streaming it, right because they had, like you know, no
keys and stuff to play it. But then yesterday ubistuff
came out with a patch, a day one patch, and
they put the patch in and everyone's progress they could
not they could not load their safe games after paying
one hundred and thirty dollars for the game.

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
This is what I'm talking about, Steven mm.

Speaker 4 (01:13:03):
Yeah, but you know, at the end of the day,
I just want to travel. I just want to walk
around to have to mean, man, that's that's like me
and other gamers, particularly Star Wars fans, that's all we want.
We just want to walk around moss Isley and show
off how well we know the layout.

Speaker 1 (01:13:16):
Of the city.

Speaker 4 (01:13:17):
I will tell you.

Speaker 1 (01:13:18):
I just want to say, like the thing you've said ever,
really it's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (01:13:24):
It's beautiful, Casey, that city that they have built in
this game Star Wars Outlaws. It is block for block building,
for building accurate to everything that you see in Star
Wars episode four and episode one. If you know the
landmarks of the city, you can find the moss Iley Cantina.
Everybody raw, this is this is very important. You got

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to look for the tower and the tower and the
crash ship that you see in episode four a New
Hope for Star Wars. And if you spot that landmark,
you can then remember which way Luke and Obi Wan
went through the downtown streets of moss Sisley and boom,
you'll find the Massizley canteena Casey, it's a magical, magical experience.

Speaker 6 (01:14:07):
I would pay two hundred.

Speaker 4 (01:14:08):
Dollars for that. Uh, and they did it, so you know.
Star Wars out laggeriod.

Speaker 1 (01:14:14):
Are you hearing yourself right now? I mean, do you
hear what's coming out of your mouth? Ah? Are you
calling me a weeb? No? Oh no, I was trying
to get my audio dropped to work. Ross, do we
have the button mark and have the button bar? Please?
Thank you, thank you, I got that just for you.

Speaker 4 (01:14:33):
Steep cuts, steep cuts, well, no, and.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
I got we got those ones. And we have the
long runs. Yeah, so we have.

Speaker 6 (01:14:43):
You're bullying.

Speaker 1 (01:14:44):
You're bullying, man, No, no, no, no, no, you know why
because nerd is is not nerd in the nineties is
different than nerd now, right it's.

Speaker 4 (01:14:54):
Mountain nerds run run the world.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
Man, Yeah, that and finance guys. So, speaking of the
nineties nostalgia, Ross was telling me, you're all excited for
Lincoln Park reunion. You know that's not possible, right.

Speaker 4 (01:15:08):
Well, it is possible, So Lincoln Park is probably next
next to start next to well, they could actually do that.
They floated the idea of actually going the hologram route
a couple of years ago. But right now Lincoln Park
is teasing. Well, we think it's going to be a reunion.
So they've got a countdown timer that goes all the

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way to December on their website and their social media.
They have been re releasing some of their top albums
Mediora Hybrid Theory, and they have been sort of slowly
putting themselves back onto the top of the rock charts,
and so now we've got a December one countdown going on.
We don't know what it's going to be, but if

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you're a big Lincoln Park fan, you might remember the
deep cut of My December from the early Hybrid Theory
demos that did not make it onto the actual album itself.
There's a big chance they could actually get back together
and hit the road with some kind of new singer
or new singer, or no new singer at all. After all,
we lost Chester Bennington, the singer of Lincoln Park, about

(01:16:12):
eight years ago, and they have been slowly building up
towards getting back out on the road.

Speaker 1 (01:16:19):
I will say this, it was one of the better
concerts I've seen. I went back back when they first
and I was working the concert, so I got to
literally stand backstage and watch that thing go down. And yeah,
So Bennington died in what twenty seventeen, so it's been
a while, and then they've had other lead singers. Didn't
he leave and go do another band for a while too.
I can't even remember what the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (01:16:40):
So he never left, but he had some side projects
he had a band called Dead by Sunrise with the
guys from a band called Julian Kay. It was kind
of electro pop depeche Mode type music. And then he
also went over and became the singer of Stone Temple Pilots,
right and so yeah, so he was doubling with Stone
Temple Pilot. But what a lot of people who love

(01:17:01):
Lincoln Park don't know is that Mike Schanoda, the rapper
of that band who does all the rap parts, he
is the principal writer and songwriter behind that band. Chester Bennington,
you know, he was great. He made the band iconic,
but he was just the face of the band. And
so the question for them, like with Alison Chains and

(01:17:22):
they lost Lane Staley, is can they continue with the
brain of the band now being the front You know
Cantrell the guitarist for Alison Chains, he was the guy
who wrote everything, but Lane's Lane Staley was the face
of the band. And I think Lincoln Park can actually
pull that off. But the big question mark that we

(01:17:44):
have is that they have been teasing that they want
to replace Chester Bennington with a female vocalist.

Speaker 1 (01:17:52):
Yeah, so, which I'm not opposed to if it sounds good,
but I don't know that. I don't know their song.
They are big hits that people can remember through a
female voot who feels weird to me. So I think
it would rest on new music.

Speaker 4 (01:18:09):
Yeah, I think I think you might be right. But
I will make one one case in defense at that.
First of all, when a band, you know, in this
era where everyone's always like, oh, we need to you know,
recruit a woman of color or you know, replace this
person with a woman, it sounds like you're talking about
like DEI approach to music, right, We want you just
to we want you to pick the vocalist that is great,

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and it brings credit to Chester Bennington and Lincoln Park.
But I actually do think that Chester Bennington the range
would be most served by a female vocalist who can
also scream and do the gravelly parts of Lincoln Park.

Speaker 5 (01:18:45):
Of course.

Speaker 4 (01:18:48):
That would be a little bit of a mess, but uh,
you know, like, listen to a band. There's a heavy
metal band called spirit Box. Just beautiful angelic vocals, kind
of like Evanescence, but also that girl can just shred
amazing scream o vocals, and that's the kind of thing
that they need to bring to Lincoln Park, I think

(01:19:09):
as well, you know, or they could go the route Casey,
of actually having fill ins where they go on a
tour and they bring in famous, famous stars, yeah, to
step in and sing those parts. I think that'd be
really cool.

Speaker 1 (01:19:22):
What do your kids think of Lincoln Park? Are you
trying to get them on it? Or one?

Speaker 4 (01:19:27):
So my daughter, will, you know, nose every Lincoln Park
song off the top of her head, because that's subjector
to it. She's thirteen, but she told me yesterday she
thought Lincoln Park was an eighties band and that is
unfortunate and hurt my feeling is a great deal.

Speaker 1 (01:19:45):
How long is she ground it?

Speaker 4 (01:19:47):
Well, I can't ground her if I'm dead from depression, Casey.

Speaker 1 (01:19:51):
So now put it into perpetuity. You know they really
heard me? Yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead. I just said
to tell you. We got about a minute, but I
want to hear the now.

Speaker 4 (01:20:00):
I was playing numb and macar the other day and
my daughter thirteen and her little friend where we're like, oh, yeah,
numb Man, isn't this like in the eighties?

Speaker 1 (01:20:10):
Just cuts like a knife? Man, just cuts like a knife.
And I'm sure it wasn't intentional, right, absolutely.

Speaker 4 (01:20:18):
It was not intentional. They just don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:20:20):
You know, we are of the era of kind of
like they felt in the sixties, man, where it's just like,
I'm thinking about the number of bands that I enjoyed
where the dude's dead now, Lincoln Parks, Sublime. I was
a huge Sublime fan. I actually get to see Sublime,
although I didn't get see a whole concert because the
dude was so messed up. They stopped about two thirds
of the way, which obviously we saw how that played out.

(01:20:42):
But all right, well, I'm sorry you got your feelings
hurt for your now ground at thirteen year old, but
sheilan grounding her for a year will help her in
the long run. So we gave, we give permission, and
we'll talk to you next week, sir see akac All right,
there you go. Eighties banned. That's great, all right, eight
twenty twenty three, Cacoda Radio program, Hang on, name of it?

(01:21:06):
I had, I had not heard of this. The name
of the game is the name of the game is
a dustboard.

Speaker 3 (01:21:12):
I'm sure called. People are calling it dust beIN though
it is. They're saying the most woke game ever made.
And what makes it worse was. It's a it's a
project that was like produced by government funding, the USA
and me, the United States and the EU. Yeah, like
the US gave like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
to it to help develop this game. So taxpayer money,
I'm not sure the money. You go around and you

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destroy racism and fascism, Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:21:38):
Do you do that through healthy conversation?

Speaker 3 (01:21:41):
It do?

Speaker 1 (01:21:41):
It is bad like you going to it by burning
shopping district.

Speaker 3 (01:21:46):
You've got to research some of it because it is
some of the craziest videos you've ever seen.

Speaker 1 (01:21:49):
Like it's just I think it's these screen caps that
ross scent and it's like, so some of your powers
maybe I'm interpreting this correctly, So some of your hours
are things like canceling.

Speaker 3 (01:22:03):
Yeah. No, it's like a skill tree in any other
game where you can learn to unlock different powers.

Speaker 1 (01:22:07):
You can cancel. So it says, all right, you've learned
how to cancel. Cancel will allow us to isolate people
from our friends and compatriots in battle. This could be
a useful tool. You can learn how to bully, you
can learn how to normalize too.

Speaker 3 (01:22:22):
Get read the caption for normalized. It's crazy all right.

Speaker 1 (01:22:24):
Normalize gives us the ability to make people think certain
behaviors or feelings are normal, but I'm not sure it'll
do much for us in a fight. That's a hell
of an admission, right.

Speaker 3 (01:22:35):
The whole game is they're saying everything out loud.

Speaker 1 (01:22:37):
It's crazy, and so we the taxpayers, paid for this,
and then you still have to pay for it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:44):
Yeah, that's why I won't stream it. I'm not going
to pay for it. I'm totally in the boycott bandwagon.
I don't want to give them any money.

Speaker 1 (01:22:51):
What if I got you a copy, would you stream it?

Speaker 3 (01:22:54):
Probably would? Same with Star Wars. I don't want to
download Star Wars Outlaws either for the same because it's
because it's I mean, I know Stephen has his opinion,
I have mine. There's a lot. It's just the whole
thing is just woke as can be and it's gross.
You remember, the character is just like they can't it's
ol be softime as this thing now where like they
don't want to make a a an attractive female protagonist.

(01:23:18):
It's impossible. They can't do it right right, Yeah, Like
every female protagonist now looks like a dude. When you
see the voice actress and the motion caption actors for
this game, for the protagonists in Star Wars Outlaws. She's
a beautiful, gorgeous woman, and they and they made her
look like Rocky Dennis.

Speaker 1 (01:23:34):
Oh, Like, this isn't the one who got turned into
a monster.

Speaker 3 (01:23:39):
It's like the chin as big as the galaxy. It's
just for some reason, they can't they can't do it.
They can't make an attractive female.

Speaker 1 (01:23:47):
So instead of looking for the tower to find the Cantena,
you look for her chin. I'm trying to remember Steven
giving us directions like I'll ever use them, Okay, all right, Yeah,
I don't even know if I I just because I
remember that one time, Remember that one time you really
wanted that steamy Antifa romance novel and you wouldn't shut
up about it, So I bought it for you, and

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then we did a whole show where you just read
it out loud.

Speaker 3 (01:24:11):
On the air.

Speaker 1 (01:24:11):
What was the name of that, my Antifa lover?

Speaker 3 (01:24:13):
Ah, it's a long time ago.

Speaker 1 (01:24:15):
Yeah, Yeah, that was good time though. So, oh that
was a good day.

Speaker 3 (01:24:19):
I don't think I could get through this game because
I've been watching videos of it and stuff, and it's
just dude, it's so insufferable. It's bad because there's enough
woke garbage in video games, but they kind of like
try to keep it, like, Hey, this isn't what we're doing,
but it's what we're doing. And this is just right
in your face.

Speaker 1 (01:24:33):
What is on her shirt? I thought it was Chae
Gavera for a moment, and then I'm like, no, it
looks like I don't know, I don't know what the
hell's going on there. Yeah, this thing looks super woke.
Yeah you can. So your powers are bullying, normalizing, and canceling.

(01:24:55):
H And they spent how much money two hundred and
fifty thousand in the US government put in taxpayer money
and that's not even counting with the EU put in there.
I don't know. Man tweeted out so people can see.
Speaking of Twitter, let's talk about Twitter for a moment.
I happen to be reviewing the old Twitter, and I

(01:25:16):
earlier I was telling Ross, Hey, we got these two
parties coming up on let's see week and a half,
So the tenth and the twelfth, right, So I'm gonna
do so not next week, but the week after. I'm
gonna do the first half of the week at the
Greensboro still Actually I'm gonna be in Greensborough most of

(01:25:37):
the week, but and we're gonna be doing a listener event. Now,
the two events are slightly different, and I this is
how sales and promotions did it. I we don't ros
and I really don't control once you get into the
planning part of this. But they are gonna have be
two different experiences because the the Tryad party is free,

(01:26:01):
but you do have to register, and I asked Ross
to tweet out a link to that, and so if
you go to our Twitter account at Casey on the Radio,
you'll find that there and you can register for that
because there is we do have a cap as to
how many people can come. There will be a little
bourbon tasting thing, you got to be twenty one, all
that kind of stuff. So that's that's the Triad party.

(01:26:25):
That is on a Tuesday, but it's early and then
we got the debate that night, so you know, we'll
get a little pregame for that. You're gonna want some
bourbon probably or if you even if you don't drink,
show up, just meet and greet thing. It's at the
chop House on the Airport Highway there, all right, So

(01:26:46):
that's Party one, and then on Thursday is the Triangle Party,
and of course they came up with a name for it,
Stewart's Glass Bourbon. That's gonna have a more, a much
bigger bourbon component. So because of that, there is a
ticket cost to that, but it's at a cool venue.
It's going to be a lot of different bourbons, a

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whole bunch of stuff going on, so that too, you're
gonna have to register. And again the Triangle one does
have a cost associated with it, but it's a much
more extensive bourbon thing. So but it's also a chance
just to get together and talk about the debate that
was had been on Tuesday and which I'm sure we'll
still be fresh in people's minds. However, what the two

(01:27:30):
do have in common is neither of them are in
any way, shape or form a celebration of my birthday.
Why did you write that on there? People are going
to come to this thing and wish me happy birthday,
and it's not it's not even close to my birthday.

Speaker 3 (01:27:46):
Looking forward to celebrating your birthday. We've been looking forward
to this for a long time.

Speaker 1 (01:27:49):
When you write that people believe that, and then they
say it, and then I have to have fifty awkward
conversations about it not being my perth wor day and
a cake not having a cake. We're having bourbon.

Speaker 3 (01:28:01):
We've booked a magician.

Speaker 1 (01:28:03):
Which is fine if it was my birthday and a
clown and a clown. We don't have a clown? Is
it Doink? If it's Doink, I'm excited.

Speaker 3 (01:28:14):
Who told him it was Donk?

Speaker 1 (01:28:16):
You did yesterday? I think, or you brought it?

Speaker 3 (01:28:20):
Definitely not Doink?

Speaker 1 (01:28:21):
Okay, all right? Who what was the Who was the
clown on MTV? Remember that dude back in the day?

Speaker 2 (01:28:28):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:28:28):
That guy beals a bozo?

Speaker 1 (01:28:30):
No, no, no, what was the guy? He could never
operate in the current environment. He was so he was
so over the top. It's hilarious going back and looking
at that stuff. And his whole stick was hold on,
his whole stick was just how disgusting and degenerate. Yucko.

(01:28:52):
Remember Yuko the clown, That's what it was. Yucko.

Speaker 3 (01:28:55):
Just to clarify too, you don't have to bring gifts. Well,
let's not get crazy. Remember that time you got snake chuck? Right,
you should probably bring gifts, so.

Speaker 1 (01:29:05):
But not for Ross because he's not gonna be there,
so Ross doesn't need any gifts, and I'm not hauling
gifts for Ross. I got. I had to do that
at the friend Happy Birthday, very and masculine. It's not
my day either, but we do have links to both events.
You want to get registered, I expect you to be there,

(01:29:26):
even if you just pop in for a little while
and meet some of the other listeners. That'll be okay,
all right, eight forty three k O Day Radio program.
All right, handled that business. Let's handle I got to
play this piece of audio for your you know what.
We'll get into the CNN stuff here in just a moment.

(01:29:46):
Let's do is is Ray ready, Let's do a race agent.
We'll do the audio at the end. I gotta, I
gotta show this CNN stuff. How you doing, sir?

Speaker 4 (01:29:53):
Good?

Speaker 1 (01:29:53):
Good good?

Speaker 6 (01:29:54):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (01:29:55):
I'm pretty good? Just uh, just trying to correct some
some inaccurate information that was on the social media. Whenever.
Now that what's going.

Speaker 7 (01:30:05):
On never happened, you should try being in my feel
of work. You should talk about inaccurate information.

Speaker 1 (01:30:12):
Dude. I would intentionally you tell you if I had
access to the weather Channel account. I would I would
tweet out things like Omaha, Nebraska, fire NATO's from ten
to three today because I want look, then everyone's talking
about the weather, sure, right, because they're like, oh my god,
fire NATO's that sounds horrible. Yeah, and if it doesn't happen,

(01:30:33):
then they're relieved if fire Nato didn't eat their house.
So win, win, win, and you get the clicks, so
people be sharing the hell out there.

Speaker 6 (01:30:40):
You're welcome, break that down, fire Nato.

Speaker 1 (01:30:43):
Yeah, yeah, got it all right.

Speaker 7 (01:30:46):
So everybody probably now or by now, after we've had
this week, is probably looking for a break and it's coming.
Won't be today though, Heat advisory triangle it looks like east.

Speaker 6 (01:30:58):
They're mostly east.

Speaker 7 (01:31:00):
Try it no temperatures between probably ninety four ninety eight,
with the hottest in and around Raleigh heat in X
two one oh five. That's why they got the heat
advisory there. And then we'll start seeing isolated showers, thundershowers
try to pop late afternoon or evening. I really don't
think there's going to be much rain, if any at all,
but it's there. You'll see the clouds a build and
be like, I wonder if it's going to rain, probably not,

(01:31:21):
but small chance. Tomorrow afternoon a little better chance of
scattered storms that'll keep us near ninety, and the same
for the holiday weekend. Scattered showers, thunder showers, most of
them are going to be during the afternoon, so typical
summertime weather. We'll still stay in the upper eighties, low
nineties until Labor Day, when we'll be in the mid
upper eighties and into next week. Looks like some drier
air after Monday, starting to commit or trying to get

(01:31:42):
in near with hies, maybe only in the seventies, and
the lows in some spots could be down into the
fifties a low sixties. So it looks like some real
pleasant air starting to move back in here, and maybe
a longer term trend, at least for a few days.

Speaker 6 (01:31:54):
We'll jump into the tropics.

Speaker 7 (01:31:55):
The wave that had a twenty percent chance of developing
churning in the Central Atlantic now has a chance of
developing in the next seven days, So casey, when we're
back here next Tuesday, we'll probably chat.

Speaker 6 (01:32:08):
More about that if it does develop into something.

Speaker 1 (01:32:10):
I like where you're going with this, though, appreciate that,
all right, that's some good tomorrow. Why wouldn't I be
here tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (01:32:19):
It's a holiday weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:32:20):
It's not a four day weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:32:22):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:32:22):
It's just so weird. Like I got and then like
management asked me the other day, if we're going to
be here Monday?

Speaker 3 (01:32:27):
Wait, so we have tomorrow off?

Speaker 1 (01:32:29):
Now? See this is see what you just started. Now
I got to deal with it.

Speaker 6 (01:32:34):
I thought you'd be asking me, are you going to
be here tomorrow? But I will be here.

Speaker 3 (01:32:37):
No, We're gonna be It's a good point. Why don't
we have tomorrow off?

Speaker 1 (01:32:39):
It's not don't know this? Guys got the tweet about
my party, right busy.

Speaker 3 (01:32:45):
I've been busy working on your birthday and I wasn't
aware we had tomorrow birthday.

Speaker 1 (01:32:49):
Whatever.

Speaker 7 (01:32:49):
That is all right, ken boone is only one text
away and I could call him up.

Speaker 6 (01:32:54):
It'll be more than willing to come in tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:32:56):
So are we here? At least he likes talking to us,
That's right. I'm not saying all your guys do.

Speaker 3 (01:33:03):
So yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:33:04):
Anyway, all right, we got a roll. Thank you. Jeff
Bellinger coming up next.

Speaker 8 (01:33:09):
Hang on, O, good morning, Casey. You look at how
the economy performed in the spring, just released this morning,
and this suggests the economy was doing a bit better
than previously estimated. The government says the gross domestic product
expanded at a three percent annual rate in the second quarter.
The prior estimate was two point eight percent. We'll get
one more look at these numbers about a month from now.

(01:33:32):
Another report from Washington says new claims for unemployment benefits
fell back by two thousand to two hundred and thirty
one thousand last week. And we've got to talk about
Nvidia and Video released its much anticipated quarterly results after
the markets closed yesterday. If almost any other company reported
a similar performance, investors would have likely penic static. The

(01:33:53):
chip maker sales and earnings more than doubled, but the
expectations for Nvidia were so high that investors we're disappointed.
The company said there are some issues holding up the
release of its next generation chip, called Blackwell and Video
shares fell, and after hours trading they are a bit
lower this morning, but the futures overall look good. The
S and P futures are up nineteen points, Nasdaq futures

(01:34:16):
or up sixty four. The Dow futures are up two
hundred and eighty seven. Points, A Big Lots is reportedly
considering filing for bankruptcy. Sales for the discount chain have
been trending lower for years now. Sources say a Chapter
eleven filing is just one possibility. A Big Lots said
to be looking for investors so it can avoid bankruptcy.
Electric vehicle sales still a tough sell here in the US.

(01:34:38):
JD Power cut its EV sales forecast, now estimating battery
powered cars will account for just nine percent of total
sales this year. In case, Human Mobile Devices is teamed
up with Mattel on a Barbie themed flip phone. The
pink phone greets the user with a high Barbie voice
message when it's turned on. Parental concerns may be east

(01:35:00):
some though. This phone can make calls and send text messages,
but it cannot access the Internet. Social media apps can't
be installed. The phone will be available here in the
US in October.

Speaker 1 (01:35:11):
Casey oh boy, I'm rushing right out for one of those. Actually,
I would like that because if you can't access the Internet,
they can't make me work with the thing. So maybe
that's where you go. All right, you'll be here tomorrow.

Speaker 8 (01:35:22):
Right, I will be yes off on Monday, but here tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:35:25):
Yeah, okay. Our weather guy is like, are you guys
even here tomorrow? And I'm like, did we miss another holiday?
So yeah, we'll be here tomorrow. All right, We'll talk
to you yeah ago. Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg News. What is uh?
This is embarrassing?

Speaker 6 (01:35:39):
Ross.

Speaker 1 (01:35:39):
I just realized I've never been in a big lots?
What is What do they sell?

Speaker 3 (01:35:43):
I just racking my brain. They've got furniture, They've got tables.
They just assume it's like overflow, you know, a little
bit of everything. Yeah, they've got groceries, they got toys,
they got stuff for the holidays, like the Core and
stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (01:35:56):
I just it's so weird. I just was racking. I
just realized, I don't think I've ever staid foot in
a big lot. So is it a membership thing or
it is not? Oh okay, well maybe I should go
to a big lots. There we go, all right, real quick, CNN,
what are they concerned about? Well, let's just say that
this panel was way too excited about Tim Walls. This
LoveFest is great, but it's a good thing. The dudes

(01:36:18):
were sitting down. If you catch madriff, listen to this
over what a regular guy Tim Walls is.

Speaker 9 (01:36:24):
In the battle for younger voters, both the Harris and
Trump campaigns have turned to social media influencers to try
to bring in new voters. Here is the latest instance.
This is Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walls mehein all right.

Speaker 1 (01:36:38):
Now, I just real quick. So you heard it set up.
He is sitting there and he's trying to reach essentially
new voters, right, really young. That's why you go on
these a lot of these podcasts and you go with
these young influencers. So understand what he's talking about here
in a moment. How weird it is to use the
word of the day to bring up on that particular

(01:36:59):
thing on.

Speaker 9 (01:37:00):
The popular TikTok show Subway takes.

Speaker 6 (01:37:06):
So what's your take?

Speaker 8 (01:37:06):
My take is the most neglected part of home ownership
is the gutters.

Speaker 4 (01:37:11):
It's personal for me.

Speaker 1 (01:37:12):
One hundred percent agree.

Speaker 3 (01:37:13):
I've had problems with gutters.

Speaker 8 (01:37:14):
Before you get your basement wet, you get ash dams
caused a lot of problems.

Speaker 1 (01:37:18):
How often do you like looking at gutters?

Speaker 8 (01:37:19):
I look quite often, surprisingly because I can't judge it,
you know, I try not to be judgmental on people
but when I see a well tended gutter, it says
a lot about somebody.

Speaker 4 (01:37:28):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:37:30):
Listen to.

Speaker 3 (01:37:35):
And it gives me a little bit PTSD.

Speaker 8 (01:37:36):
I remember as a child, my father would make me
take a forty foot ladder and walk up and pull
the Oh, we.

Speaker 9 (01:37:40):
Didn't even play the part where they get to the ladders. Guys,
can you pull that up? I'm probably asking them too
much of the control on, but continue would.

Speaker 8 (01:37:46):
I would have to get the leaves out of our
gutters at our home, and we had a we had
a sloping backyard.