Thursday-11-14-2024

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
At least on the right side of the week.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
And it's gonna be as I have pointed out each
and every day, and I feel I feel like a
broken record saying it. It's what possible insanity could strike
us today and every day where I'm like, oh my gosh,
there it is. There's the there's the hand grenade rolled
into the room. We get done with the show we're doing,

(00:25):
you know, believe it or not. Ross and I have
other duties, uh than just the three hours you hear right,
You've got production and we got and then obviously show
prep for the next day, and that takes place in
the evening and and and you know, you like to disconnect,
you like to have that window.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
But it's just things are too crazy right now.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
And so like every day this week, I'm sitting there
and you know, we when we're done with the show,
maybe one of the last conversations Ross and I'll have
is you know about oh this, uh, what are they
gonna do with Tulci Gabbard? What are they gonna do
with this? And then we go and and then whatever
we were talking about, you like, yesterday was the heg
Sas stuff and everyone I'm like you're settling in for

(01:11):
a long day on Twitter watching people lose their minds
over military tattoos. All those are white supremacist tattoos. And
I'm like, uh, I think some guys at the one
hundred first or eighty second or whatever. I'm sorry, I
don't know his division, but I like, you can look
this stuff up. You can lay There's a lot of

(01:34):
stuff that rolls over and they're like, oh, he's got
Latin on that tattoo on his chest.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
And I'm like, uh, listen.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Point Dexter, who thinks you're better than everyone because you
have a Yale degree? Never mind he has Princeton and Harvard.
We'll get your degree. Got a little Latin on there?
In fact, if you if you don't want to, if
you want to avoid Latin reaching your pocket, do you
have any rectangular green things in there?

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Man covered in Latin?

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Give me that?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
So what what like that? Yesterday was supposed.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
To be the bone that the dog that is, you know,
the outrage left was gonna chew on and he's an
afterthought and I don't know, I don't know, And we'll
break it down. Man, I don't know if we're dealing
with some super duper four D chess here I have

(02:28):
went in a lot of different directions. Ross and I
had to have some conversation off the air about this yesterday, like.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
What's up with the Gates thing?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
And I wrote, Now, I did tweet about this, and
some of you were like, oh, why are you trying
to hamstring his administration? What I wrote and it said,
Gates is no somebody talked to him, and I'll be
happy to be wrong. But then the question becomes is
Gates it is the nomination Matt Gates, the Florida congressman,

(03:04):
really a nomination for attorney general because you could when
it was first announced, you could make a lot of
different arguments. Right, there's the nefarious arguments where they're like,
he's doing it because they were going to release a
report about him being a naughty boy, if you remember
they had they were accusing him of sex trafficking, among

(03:26):
other things. And the problem is the same people accusing
him of the same Russia collusion people, and you know
Donald Trump, you know, promoting all of Donald Trump's prosecutions.
So pardon me if I don't necessarily buy into the narrative.
I don't disagree that Matt Gates probably likes to party,

(03:47):
but he's a younger dude down in Florida, and you know,
if this is just about embarrassing him, that's not gonna work.
Now if you've got actual details on this stuff. Hey,
I'm all for investigations with the members of Congress being
out there, but it matters how investigations get going too.

(04:07):
So an argument could have been made that the Gates
appointment was not one where they intended to get them through,
but rather to distract from everything else. So they have
you know, they got a bone and no, and I
I think.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
I thought that that was an acceptable theory.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Then I'm sitting there and I am.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
All right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Don't worry Abouston, Paul, we'll talk about football. Maybe maybe
not so like I get that, but also why would
you do that? And then you know the answer to
that would be he's he's got somebody else he's gonna
pull out. Gates will still get a gig, but it
won't be Attorney general.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
But then and then as I.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Go throughout the day, I don't think they're gonna have
appointment hearings on a lot of these. I think there
is a strong argument to be made, and I'm not
gonna be one of these a holes on Twitter running
around telling you they know everything and oh wait till
you hear who they're gonna be the FBI director. I
can't tell you. I'm just so smart, I'm so connected.

(05:21):
I must have blocked fifty of those a holes yesterday, people,
probably including people who might listen to this show, because
I'm just done with that. The one thing that Twitter
is kind of rewarded is that behavior. I don't know

(05:42):
of a better way to do it necessarily. I'm just
saying for me, I hate that. I hate it, and
now people do it just for the monetization of it.
When when Thomas, sorry, when Thomas Massey is sitting there

(06:05):
and they try to shove a microphone in his face
as he is, you know, moving around there, Oh what
do you think of this? What do you think of that?
And he literally had this answer ready to go in
his brain. In fact, let me, I'm gonna play the
audio for you. I start to think that it's it's

(06:28):
maybe not like a distractive tool, but rather they want
to put Gates there. Don't get me wrong, Gates has
this is a dude. A lot of it's spurred on
by what he feels is his own persecution. It's like
he told him, he's like, when Trump's in. He didn't
say when he was in, but back in the day,
he said, when Trump's in, We're gonna get receipts on

(06:49):
all this stuff. We're gonna look at all of these
you know, the ways in which you pushed along these
investigations where people who are now media members like Andrew
Weissman and others who are just horrified, who at the
time were special prosecutors and were coordinating with the FBI.
And if you remember that that guy who was rewarded
with a job Weisman as a reporter now was one

(07:14):
of the chief promoters of the Russia Gate thing. And
so when you see when you see people, when you
see people flailing their arms, man, it warms my heart
with cats like that, And I look, I I don't

(07:35):
need them drug into courtrooms where they hold back a
bunch of the evidence and all the rest of us, like,
it's far more important if there's if the difference between
five people going to prison or.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
A case that is so.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Out in the open with all the details that a
judge finally says, look, we're not able to prosecute, however
it exposed is the apparatus of the quote unquote deep state,
or at the very least, people who use their positions
of power to persecute their political enemies. I am I'm
in tier two. I'd hope we could do both. But

(08:15):
if some absolute slime balls have to walk free, hopefully
their career will be ruined. But it gets us so
that we can see the scope of the rot. I
will yield on that side, and Gates has said that's
what he wants to do.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Here's my problem with Gates.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
For all of you who just assume that I'm a
secret Illuminati deep state guy. Okay, it was like three
of you, but you were very vocal. I let me
ask you a question. What do you think is the
most important appointment selection that Trump will make? What do

(08:53):
you think is the most important I And you know,
let's take vice president out of this, because that's its
own thing, right, and that's more of a campaign thing.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Not that I think Vance is. I think Vance is amazing.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
I'm just saying that really when you get in there,
because let's face the vice president sometimes they do stuff,
sometimes they don't.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
They do have some nice digs in the Georgetown area. Though,
I will say that.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
The most important especially for what Trump is hoping to
accomplish and the story of what brought him here, is
Attorney General. Does anyone want to argue that point being
the most important job, the most important job that he's
going to appoint for his attorney general. I was super
excited to hear who that was going to be. And

(09:43):
in my mind there was one parameter, and that was
I don't want somebody who's in who's in the club
now they're going to know each other. It's just it's
just the casualty of big you know, a big tent,
so to speak. And I mean in politics, at the

(10:05):
end of the day, if you're at the national level,
even if you're more state oriented, eventually you're going to
cross beams there in DC. But as a member of
Congress or a former member of Congress, you can make
the argument that it'll be easier for him to sift.
I make the argument that no matter who it is,
the Virgin Mary herself, if she did a couple terms,

(10:25):
I'm more comfortable with somebody who's not been a member
of Congress and not worked for one of the big
federal agencies, and it's.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
A certain purity test. I hear you.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
I want somebody who no favors are owed to. I don't.
And as independent as somebody can claim to be, it's
really hard. It's really hard to shoot your buddy, not
actually shoot.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Let me just be.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Clear here, but you know what I'm saying. So I
want that no holds part things. So when I heard
Matt Gates, I you know, people object.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
He's like, oh, he's he's.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Raping teens, and yeah, you know that's those are the accusations.
That's the trafficking accusation. Although I've read like two or
three ways and them trying to explain what they're accusing
him of, and I don't understand it. It smells a
lot like the Trump stuff. But we'll see, or maybe
we won't, because that's the other theory. The reason they

(11:27):
did the Gates thing is because that he can resign
and then this and then they can't release the report,
and then he can come back as congressman because he
was re elected. And admittedly I have there are very
few good sources on how this plays out on that
Floorida thing, right, you could you can trust what the
Governor's office is saying. But then, of course, because they've

(11:49):
learned nothing, every single legal pundit on you know, the
mainstream media is like, oh no, they can't, they can't,
and it'll be a constitutional crisis. And the problem is,
I can't listen to any of you because you're all
full of crap. Almost nearly everything you said, everything you

(12:12):
said when you were doing legal analysis about things having
to do with Trump is bs, provably bs and don't
tell me, well, Leticia James got the thing. Yeah, but
the majority of Americans, including Democrats in that list, think

(12:32):
that what happened up there in New York was lawfare.
The difference is that a lot of the Democrats are
cool with it. And I'm not just saying that to
it to be like, ah, this is what I think
I'm saying. We talked about on the show polling where
they went out and they found out that like fifty
three or fifty six percent of Democrats believed that those

(12:55):
prosecutions would not be happening if it was not Donald Trump.
The different almost all the like eighty percent Republicans, which
actually is weird. I'm like eighty percent really okay, Like
the majority of his political opponents. They just are cool
with it.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
A lot of them.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Very few of them are not cool with it.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
So we know all of these things, so excuse me
if I don't take your advice. So I don't know
what the Gates thing is. But then we hear this
little snippet, this little little half interview, if you will, where, Well,
here we go, Massy Is he's walking up some stairs

(13:35):
or whatever. Reporter comes over and he's like, all right,
I have a question for you, and it pertains to Gates.
Let's do this, and I want you to listen to
Massi's response, Well, hold on.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
The old button bar here to do you?

Speaker 5 (13:49):
All right?

Speaker 2 (13:50):
It's early. Why am I not hearing the button bar
back in my receipt? And all right? You know what,
I think there's a setting on the air show.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Well let me do this.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
I'm gonna take a break. I think I know exactly
what it is. You know what, ross I thought. We
got the laser grid in my studio, so when I'm
not there, people don't walk in and screw it the buttons.
We need a laser. And I don't mean a laser
like sensory. I mean the ones that like slice and
dice you like in Resident Evil. So we'll check on

(14:27):
the slice and dice machine and what I think it
might be, and we'll be back here on the KCO
Day radio program. They're banging out the email to day
by the way, you want to be on the show,
you want to talk. I'm very curious what people think
of the Gates thing. This is a safe place. This
is a safe space in case there's any moon bets.
This is a safe space. Ross has puppies, ice cream,

(14:50):
a rage room we called studio. You should have heard
me last week when we had a minor issue in
the Okay, but it wasn't a minor issue, so they
can they can be either or but no, no, no, no,
I'm just curious. And if you want to call in
and be like, ah, he's a he's a rapist, ploff,

(15:11):
bad facelift, do whatever you can, fine whatever, But no,
I'm serious because even if you hate him, do you
think he's gonna be a g and whether they go
through a because like, here's the deal, I don't think Gates.
Can we agree that Gates doesn't get by on a

(15:32):
full Senate vote when there's people that exist from I
don't know states, like Maine and Alaska.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
The real wild card on a lot of this stuff
is what does our boy in West Virginia do there?
How he continues to hold on because once that cee
flips is.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Done, it's done.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
It's done. So I I don't know the answers to this,
but I'm curious what you think. Why do you think
Gates goes in there? Did you want somebody from outside
of it? And if it's a Senate, if the if
the Senate votes, I don't think he's a g If
they recess, he probably is. But a lot of this

(16:19):
is trolling of the U of the highest degree. It
don't take my word for it, take a Democrat senator's
word for it.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Here is a feederman.

Speaker 6 (16:29):
I mean, it's I would describe it as god to
your level trolling to just trigger a full on China syndrome.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Can I just point this out and this almost nobody
will understand. I know exactly why there's reverb here because
you have a reporter that didn't balance their inputs. They
have two inputs on a morants. Sorry, the radio guy
in me is losing my mind. How do you send
the guy who doesn't understand how to do that because

(16:58):
he's probably capturing in two different.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Disgusting all right, anyway, I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (17:05):
I mean it's I would describe it as God to
your level trolley to just trigger a full on China syndrome,
to own the lives in perpetuity.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
I don't know that a Republican pundit on Twitter could
have said it better.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
And instead you got.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
To go to h you know, the Pennsylvania Uncle Fester
looking dude. And here's the thing. It's not that Fetterman
has good policy ideas, because that's not true.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
All you gotta do is look how he votes.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
But the thing I appreciate about Fetterman, and it's kind
of part of his attitude, is he's not blind to
the reality around him. In a lot of instances, it's
kind of like it's I don't want to give Bill
Maher too much credit because he can he'll put his
hands over his eyes.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
Man.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
But like like Fetterman record and and and by the way,
all of these Democrats and Republicans and one side's doing it.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
They they this is.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
What this is what irritates me about the club up
there and why I don't want somebody in ag from
the club is they recognize this, but they can't help themselves.
They got to hold a press conference and they got
to go you know, Chuck Schumer and Nancy you got
to go out. Oh, we're like your parents, we can't
do this, And GOP's got to go out and it's like, uh,
you know, and then whatever exaggerated thing, because it's part

(18:29):
of the theater of the whole thing, and to me,
it just irritates the crap out of me. So I
can appreciate people like Fetterman who don't seem to have
time for it on that side, and you know, Thomas
Massey on the other side, right, but also both of
them can be trolling right now. This is what is
so wild about this. So I'd love to hear you

(18:51):
weigh in. And by the way, on the retirement from Gates,
that's not just speculative.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
Here is the speaker of the House, I.

Speaker 7 (18:57):
Think to us he issued his resignation letter effective immediately
of Congress. That caught us by surprise a little bit.
But I asked him what the reasoning was, and he said, well,
you can't have too many absences. So under Florida state law,
there's about an eight week period to select and fill
in a vacant seat. And so by doing so today

(19:20):
that allows me. I've already place to call to Governor
DeSantis in Florida and said, let's start the clock. He's
in Italy at the moment, and so we're going to
talk first thing in the morning about this. And if
we start the clock now, if you do the math,
we may be able to fill that seat as early
as January third, when we take the new oath of
office for the new Congress.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Right so when that's why he said there's two theories,
always trying to cover up this, but also the GOP
wants to be full force to hit it because remember,
they wasted. The thing that killed me about both Obama
and Trump is they wasted Obama's first two years when
they had full control, and they kind of wasted Trump's

(19:59):
first too year. And I don't understand why, why why
a party would do that, especially after you just spend
aga zillion dollars?

Speaker 1 (20:08):
But what why would you?

Speaker 5 (20:10):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (20:10):
And And the the answer is, and this is part
of the gridlock of Washington. And we're gonna learn more,
by the way, about some of the stuff that Doge
is uncovering.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
Ross.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Is there a point where that won't be funny and
make me laugh when I say it?

Speaker 8 (20:25):
I me, and I still find it funny. So yeah,
I hope not. I hope it has to be funny.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yeah, But then they get some serious thing. They're like, oh,
they're paying uh, you know X number of dollars to
murder kittens, right, Like, I don't want to. I don't
want to inadvertently laugh when we're slashing the murder kitten fund.
So for the murder squirrel fund, we got an update
on that story. So what do you think?

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Uh is?

Speaker 9 (20:50):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Oh, and I'm sorry I left out I oh, this
would have been bad. Did you hear the most insane
theory on the Gates thing?

Speaker 1 (20:58):
This is good? This is shed fact.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
You know what a.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
The Gates thing is a distraction, but it's a distraction
from the alien testimony, and the alien testimony is a
distraction from the asteroids coming to kill us right now.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
And Trump knows.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Had you heard that one? Apparently Ross has?

Speaker 5 (21:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
How excited were you over the alien stuff?

Speaker 5 (21:28):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (21:28):
Like super excited? The first Ian to do it.

Speaker 8 (21:30):
I was like, you know, watching all the Gate stuff,
and then I ran across Georgio Sukalos, and he just
posted a meme that said, I don't want to tell you,
you know, don't want to say I told you so,
But I told you so?

Speaker 10 (21:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (21:40):
Oh did you Yeah?

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Oh dude, so I just wrote noise, just retweeted his tweet.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
And now that it makes more sense, right, did.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
You even know asteroids were coming to murderers?

Speaker 4 (21:50):
Had no idea?

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Now are the aliens here to stop that? You know,
because a lot of premises of sci fi it'say, oh,
we're here, even though you don't deserve it. We're gonna
save you because you're our social experiment or our battle.

Speaker 8 (22:02):
It was Hollywood. The aliens would be here to save
the planet and not the people on the planet. That
is a very fair point. Yeah yeah, And then they
would put Keanu.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Reeves in a role that made me almost not want
to watch his movies anymore.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
How bad was that movie?

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (22:16):
Yeah, they had Kathy Bates in it too. Was awful?
Was Kathy?

Speaker 2 (22:19):
What was Kathy Bates?

Speaker 8 (22:20):
She played like some sort of government official. She might
have been the president.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
No, she was like a scientist at like some government agency.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Right, it's been so long, I'll never watch it again
to confirm what the answer is. But you know that's
out there, all right, So let's see here. Yeah, let
me get let me do this. I was gonna play, well,
we'll get into the alien audio. I want to play
all of it together. All right, let's go to the phones. Uh, Ryan,

(22:51):
what's up?

Speaker 9 (22:53):
I think Matt Gates is gonna have a hard time
getting confirmed because did Kevin book for speaker. I think
he made a lot of enemies and he got He's
got a lot of people that don't like him.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Every Kevin McCarthy's not the speaker man.

Speaker 9 (23:10):
But I mean when when with remember when that Gates
I do I do after him?

Speaker 2 (23:17):
And he's been a bully in a China shop for
a lot of the leadership.

Speaker 9 (23:20):
That yeah, he got Chava McCarthy kicked out of his
speaker role, right, I mean he had it for like
two three days and then that Gates got with his
people and they said he's not right for this role.
And and I think it was spiteful. And I think
Chava McCarty's gonna lead a tooth against Gates just for that.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
I don't know anything, sir, When when the when the
gamut runs from this is normal, so that the timeline
works out in Florida so they can house the full
Congress on January third, versus secret asteroids and aliens coming
to murder us. Uh, anything that's possible in the middle
of that, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 9 (23:59):
And the Republicans don't count about you know, they'll shoot
the foot right out.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Of gate, snatching the feet from the jaws of victory, sir.

Speaker 9 (24:06):
It's their thing, that's what the.

Speaker 5 (24:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Now, the other side of it is intentionally taking an
L to distract from all your other w's and that's
when you start getting into the four D chest stuff.
And oh yeah, I'll let you figure out how you
feel about that all on your own.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
But here's what we're gonna do now. And it hit
a break?

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Did it come back? You guys want to talk aliens
real quick? Well, we got some audio. We'll play you there.

Speaker 10 (24:34):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
And you know what, it was also nice Nancy Mace
was sharing that hearing. And you know, it's tough because
a lot of like there's people that aren't going to
take seriously and they think, oh, this is the search
for aliens, but it's really not, I know, as weird
as that it's really not. It's what it's about is

(24:55):
a whole swath of information stories and military interactions, which
is national security stuff where we don't know what it is.

Speaker 8 (25:05):
It could be, you know, yeah, No. Marco Rubio made
this point in a while back. He said, the big
thing about this is like, yeah, are the aliens, sure,
but but these things are flying over our nuclear bases,
where our basis, our military basis, and what the hell
are they?

Speaker 4 (25:17):
We don't know?

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Yeah, And is it Russia? Is it? You know, since
Russia's the thing?

Speaker 2 (25:22):
There?

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Is it China?

Speaker 9 (25:24):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (25:25):
There, they're vehicles.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
They fly over our bases and military installations and nuke stuff.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Is they lumber?

Speaker 2 (25:32):
They're not quite as fast, and yet we still don't
shoot them down. By the way, you think heg Seth
is shooting down the Chinese SPI balloon and Trump. I
think they're having a primetime special on Fox to do it.
So we'll get into some of the testimony from yesterday
coming up here on the CaCO Day Radio program. SEC

(25:55):
deaf what sounds better deaf sec or sect deaf or
we could just use our words people, But I know
you military guys, you love abbreviations and that's okay. Some
of some of the acronyms are pretty good, not as
good as stop it be mature about this, dude. When

(26:17):
I get into some of this stuff, When I get
into some of this, you know, here's the other thing too,
Since that's a government agency. Now there's no copyright on stuff,
at least probably for that usage.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
I'm not a lawyer.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Ross, would you see if I'm a patent attorney or
copyright lawyer real quick or he's gonna look at.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
That checking it out. Nope, not okay.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
I'm getting the thumbs down, Roman Coliseum style. So with
that in mind, you know, that's why you can go
out and you can you could print all the President
Trump merch you on willet up. So if there's a
government agency, I guess that I've been like the dog.
May not although he keeps putting the dog in the
graphics he's making.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
I don't know. Probably not gonna assue you, but don't
take my word for it.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
All right, let's uh, let me do this, just a
couple of clips from yesterday's uh, excuse me, yesterday's I'm
gonna have to move this over here there now we
can run the thing under it yesterday's aliens or unidentified
aircraft or what the hell is going on hearing the

(27:33):
stuff that people are really interested in? Or two things.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
One you got aliens.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Is is data founding a bunker somewhere in Nevada with
unkempt hair and a bunch of alien bodies. And also
what are those things flying around?

Speaker 5 (27:52):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Now, I realize it's going to be too loud. Okay,
all right, well let's uh, let's just go ahead and
get into it, shall we.

Speaker 11 (28:00):
Concealing evidence about UAPs from the public, Yes, sir, yes, yes,
thank you.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
I also want to just go down the line. I
know many of you have already said this.

Speaker 11 (28:14):
By just for the record again, just briefly, what do
you believe UAPs.

Speaker 5 (28:20):
Could be or are.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
Strong evidence that they're non human higher intelligence?

Speaker 12 (28:28):
I echo my colleague's commentary.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
All right, and let me say this too about the
the the cats that are there testifying, and obviously you've
got you've got a variety of people there. There's nobody
there that if I saw them, I would think to myself,
I'm surprised that dude's not wearing his tinfoil hat right there,
like it seemed if if you didn't know what the

(28:55):
subject was, and you weren't really listening to the words,
but just the mannerisms. It sounded like any boringal congressional hearing.
It's just the topics they're talking about are pretty crazy. Man.
So you got this whole slate of witnesses. In fact,
let me let me just fill you in on who. Well,

(29:15):
let me let me do this. Let me get the
audio of the rest of the audio here, and then
we'll talk about who some of the folks are. Okay,
all right, because this is when it gets into the
meat of it, and that is all right. We don't
know what those are. But one way we could clear
this up is you just tell me if you got
some alien bodies or some sort of something.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
And then it just got crazy.

Speaker 13 (29:36):
Was anything described as that we have possession of bodies? Yes,
yes we have. Is it multiple types of creatures.

Speaker 12 (29:43):
Or sorry, I couldn't answer that. I can tell you
anecdotally that it was. It was discussed quite a bit
when I was at the Pentagon. The problem is the
supposed collection of these biological samples occurred before my time,
in fact, before I was even born.

Speaker 13 (29:56):
And was this part of the Lucky Martin discussion or
was this completely the biologist is a completely.

Speaker 12 (30:02):
Separate, separate yet related.

Speaker 13 (30:05):
Okays, has anyone made contact, sir?

Speaker 12 (30:10):
I'm sorry, could you specialify?

Speaker 13 (30:11):
Has there been any, to your knowledge, any communication with
a non human life form?

Speaker 12 (30:17):
So the term communication is a bit of a trick
word because there's verbal communication like we're having now. The
problem is you also have nonverbal communication. And so I
would say definitively yes, but from a nonverbal meaning. When
a Russian reconnaissance aircraft comes into US airspace, we scramble
two F twenty two's and we are certainly communicating intent
and capability. I think the same goes with this. We

(30:39):
have these things that are being observed over controlled US airspace,
and they're not really doing a good job hiding themselves.
They're making it pretty obvious they have the ability to
even interfere with our nuclear equities and our nuclear readiness.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
And here's the thing. Is that Galadid, Yeah, Timothy Galadid.
Let's see, former Navy rear admiral and was chief meteorologist
for the Is it just the Navy? Yeah, he's the
US Navy's chief meteorologist. So, and that's true. I mean
that's how you communicate Wyoming. We use a series of lights.

(31:13):
Ross you ever see when the aliens came to Wyoming?
Oh man, that was fun when I was a kid,
then we just used flashy lights. But no, you don't
have to have words necessarily.

Speaker 5 (31:22):
Do.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
We have a story coming up of an amazing although
not successful insurance scam out of California, And just wait
till you hear the details. That'll be on its way
here in just a few minutes, all right, I met.
Let me just set this up real quick. So I
mentioned a follow up from yesterday, And yesterday I talked
about the mayor of Durham. His name is Leonardo Williams.

(31:47):
He is he's the fresh mayor of Durham. He's got
under a year. And there was a story that w
r L did and in the story entitled why Durham
crime is creeping into Wake County neighborhoods, it basically hit
us with a.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Bunch of numbers.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
And the numbers, I don't know that the numbers are
in dispute, right, it's the nuance of how we got there.
And the numbers show a double digit or in some
cases triple digit increase in some Wake County communities suburb
communities Morrisville and Kerry primarily affected. Apex and Holly Springs

(32:30):
were also on the list, and then Raleigh. And what
predicated a lot of this is you had a couple
high profile incidents, including a what can only be described
as an Old West shootout at Crabtree Valley Mall. You
had how many shootings in just a few hours the
other day? And people, look, when you start shooting up

(32:51):
Crabtree or South Point, people get all crazy. I'll yield
to the fact that we've had some balls around that.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Literally they didn't.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Necessarily make the news as much, and those malls are
closed now. So when you have those numbers, like can
Carry where one hundred and fifty percent increase year over
a year of people who are arrested or are wanted
or suspected of committing crimes in the city limits of

(33:23):
We'll go with Carry because it's the highest number, but
Morrisville's pretty high to And you find out where the
people you've arrested are from, or the people that you're
that you're wanting to talk to are from. Once they
have your ID, and if you're already in the system,
they can look to see what your address is and
then of course if you get arrested, they get your
address from you. And what they found is a huge

(33:46):
increase in people whose address is in the city of Durham.
So that's what predicated this article. And look, if you're
going to if you want to go and find a
neighborhood to commit you know, burglary, and there's lots of opportunity.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
There's lots of opportunity in the city of.

Speaker 2 (34:04):
Durham, but there's also a lot of opportunity in the
city of Carry. You have a bunch of a bunch
of houses that are probably have a lot of really
nice stuff in them based on the socioeconomic footprint that
is Carry. So I understand the temptation. I'm not a

(34:24):
home burglar myself, but you know that seems like I
can do the logic on this stuff. So with that
in mind, he took umbrage with this. He didn't like that,
and he tweeted the following, I'm aware and disappointed the
WRL investigative story why Durham the headline? I got to
reread it and the despicable angle taken at our city.

(34:48):
Durham's story is ours to tell and we won't let
it be misrepresented. Implicit bias too often divides communities. We
won't allow that. In the bull City hashtag Durham is dope,
which and I have agreed in on that last part, Like,
there's a lot of really cool stuff over in Durham,

(35:09):
but we're not talking about that that sweet hotel with
the rooftop bar restaurant, which you should go check out.
I mean this, we're not talking about when you go
to DPAK to go to one of the many great
shows that they have there. I saw the Book of
Mormon there, loved it, and we've had events.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
Over the years.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
This is all good stuff. But what remains is Durham
has issues, and a lot of them are socio economically.
You know, you can just point to the socio economics
of things, and I don't even know why that has
to be a racial connotation. People want to make it.
You tend to have higher crime where people are poorer. Now,
then things divide. The difference here is the criminals are

(35:51):
not operating well. They probably are operating in their own community,
but they're also going and they're operating in other communities
where you know, the biggest thing that people may deal
with with criminally in a day. Is somebody jaywalked in
front of him? So yeah, it gets noticed, It gets noticed.
And I yesterday, I'm on the record and I tweeted,

(36:11):
and I'll say it again.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
I think this.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
Mayor is he's either wilfully ignorant or he's dumb, because
this isn't about that. This is the thing that you
do here. If you're the mayor of Durham and you're
the bigger city, call the mayor of Carry and maybe
he did that. Maybe you should tweet that, talk about it.
There's no reason why the mayor of Durham, the mayor
of Carry and the mayor of Morrisville and everybody else

(36:35):
shouldn't all want the same thing. And that's less criminal
activity in their communities, all right.

Speaker 1 (36:40):
So that's the setup to this.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
The mayor did give a I think ABC eleven interview. Yeah,
basically came out, yeah here we go. I no, it
was Aril. He says, we're not running from our issues. Good,
but like they continue to be issues. So and then
at the end of the show, Paul Scott called me

(37:04):
and I did not see him until about with about
sixty seconds left, and he feels that I am throwing
race where racism is being implied here incorrectly, and I
told him, I said, you know what, normally we only
do one call per day, but I kind of let
you ste till the end, so please call me back.
And with that in mind, he called back, So we'll

(37:24):
continue this conversation. How are you doing this morning, sir.

Speaker 5 (37:27):
I'm doing well certainly, so.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Uh, you know, it's closer to Friday, man, That's all
I care about. It's the weather's nice.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
So I think we.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Can agree on all that, regardless of where we live
or what we're doing. Let me ask you a question.
Some people probably know who you are, Minister Paul Scott.
No shots fired.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
I think.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Is that your blog I can't remember what the exact.

Speaker 10 (37:45):
Name is, like, yeah, that was that was That was
ten years ago, that that blog no longer is this?

Speaker 2 (37:52):
Well, it does exist, because I went and looked and
there's still articles on there accusing me of trying to
start race riots and grocery stores.

Speaker 10 (37:59):
But with that in mind, this in the same way
you just accused of mayor making a racist comment that
he did not make.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
Well, what am I supposing I read it here? And
so this is, let's go ahead and start that conversation.
Implicit bias too often divides communities. What do you think
he means by implicit bias.

Speaker 5 (38:18):
Classism?

Speaker 10 (38:21):
There is nothing nothing racial besides quick bait journalism about
that statement. He's clearly talking about classism.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
You don't think he says implicit bias, which is uh,
And I'm gonna I'll let you finish. I just want
to clarify why I think it is, and you can
tell me why I'm wrong. When when I hear implicit bias,
I almost exclusively hear it when you're dealing with crime
stuff in the way in which uh, criminal justice is.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
Applied to individuals, So it could be implicit.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
They just had a story in Fayeville where they said
that there is implicit bias at work because more black
motorism are are.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Stopped for speeding.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Right, So that is that is, that is how we
talk about That's the code words we use when we're
talking about racism within policing. And this is you would
agree this is a policing issue that we need to worry.

Speaker 10 (39:20):
But I would think what's hypocritical is saying talking about
implicit bias. That's an interpretation. That's your interpretation, the same
way you interpreted what the mayor said. It's the same
way the mayor interpreted what w r L said its interpretation.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
Yeah, well, help me out here because I because I
don't understand why the mayor even has time for that.
I don't know why he responds to it, because I mean,
I understand it's the Mayor of Durham. But like his response,
it's numbers. I mean you you don't disagree that the
numbers are accurate? Right?

Speaker 10 (39:55):
Hey, he doesn't disagree either, He just disagrees with the context.
He was very clear. I don't know how much of
the interview you saw, Yes.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
I will actually haven't.

Speaker 10 (40:09):
Yeah, yeah, I was actually in the w tv D version.
I'm in that one. But as far as the mayor,
he was very clear that Durham isn't running a ducking
uh these issues And I had a conversation with the mayor,
a brief conversation with the mayor right after the press conference,

(40:30):
and he had a message for you. He said that
if you want to talk to him, call him.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
Well, will you know what? Uh, Well, you can tell him,
but he'll hear from us. I'm going to have Ross
schedule an interview with him, okay, and uh and and
we'll have this convers.

Speaker 5 (40:46):
From his his mouth to my ears, he.

Speaker 10 (40:48):
Said he he will be he said, if you want
to talk about him, talk talk to him.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Well.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
So, just to be clear, we have reached out Durham
City officials himself included, and you know, prior to his
current position, and in every instance, with the exception of
inquiries to the police department, we have been ignored.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
We don't return our calls. So if he wants to change.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
That yesterday right right, No, no, no, I'm not. You don't
work for the mayor. I understand that I'm not putting
it on you, and I look for it, you know,
because here's let me ask you this, let me let
me let me hit some positive in here s what
do what do you think is the best thing Durham
has going for it right now that people don't appreciate

(41:35):
or should know about, because obviously Durham's your jam man.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
Uh, every you.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Know this is this is this is where you live,
this is what you promote, and this is what you
took the time to call and say that you felt
I was misrepresenting. So of the other thing you know,
outside of the d pack and going to the ballpark
and the great restaurants, what does Durham have going for
it that people should know who tend to have a
negative opinion help.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Me out here.

Speaker 5 (42:01):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (42:02):
The thing that people should know is there is a
core group of activists across the city of all races,
all ethnicity, ethnicities, all identities, who are striving every day
to make this city better. And it doesn't make w

(42:24):
r L. It doesn't make probably your station because what
is interesting about mentorship programs? What is interested about people
giving out books in the community. Because we are driven
our catering to certain markets, I think you will agree
to that. And there is a strong market in this
area that just wants to beast DRM and I think

(42:47):
that your show included and that w r a L
story caters to that group that no matter what happens
in Durham, there is a core there's a large segment
of this community outside of Durham. It's going to bast
Durham regardless. I don't and they're used very excuses with
Durham's Democrat. Durham is blue whatever it is blue, I

(43:13):
mean again, right, but I think that is people. Radio
stations and in some cases television stations catered to that
crowd that just hates Duham and that uh headline from
w r L that was carried into that crowd in
my opinion.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
But those are true numbers. And then, and here's the
thing I understand. The You know, when somebody, when some
guy from Canada is like us should do this, it's
easy to tell him, hey, can I stick to your
own politics all the rest, And with Durham that would
be one thing. But the stories that I tend to
leave lean in on is and it enrages me, and

(43:53):
I would hope it enrages you too, that a six
year old boy can't think he's going out for a
snow comb but because mom dras an suv that kind
of looks like this other dude's suv, that some failed
rapper is going to shoot him in the head, right,
And so that's me, that's me, I understand. But I'm
giving you an example of where it where it ends

(44:14):
up outside of Durham in the media and people have
visceral reactions. The difference here is the the stuff is
not just happening in Durham. It's happening in Kerry. It's
happening in Morrisville, Apex, Holly Springs. So this isn't just
a Durham problem. This is a Wake County problem with
these communities. So why is it inappropriate that people Again,

(44:38):
people are probably gonna have a negative reaction to one
hundred and fifty percent uptick in people coming from another
community to rob their houses.

Speaker 10 (44:47):
But I want to say, for the record, this is
the first time that there's been a shooting incident or
fighting incident at Crabtree that had nothing to do with Durham.
And as far as recent news, I have not heard
anybody say they're scared to drive the Raleigh because there's
a snipe. They might get shot by a sniper. So

(45:08):
a lot of.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
I'm not scared to drive to Durham.

Speaker 10 (45:14):
My point is, yeah, My point is after the sniper
incident on forty last week, people in Durham want saying, well,
I'm scared to go to Raleigh because there's a sniper
on the loose. But again, there is a segment that
if you start talking about the activists like myself and Durham,

(45:36):
who is striving every day to make Durham better, I
think you would I would both agree. You would lose
fifty at least of your audience who tune in to
hear negative things about Durham.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
No, they're not audiences. And my audiences in take my ball,
go home and go over to Bluesky. They may debate
you and argue with you, and I would I would
ask this question of you, Paul, or do you what
progress have you guys made over there? Because I remember
I read an article where you were wanting, uh, correct
me if I'm wrong. Was it you wanted crosswalks painted

(46:12):
with was it like tempty cloth colors or something? Because
you thought and yeah, like did that help? Did that
stop some of the stuff? I got about a minute.
And I'm just I'm just saying that if we don't
think there's a problem, then maybe we need better ideas.
And I think policing is it.

Speaker 10 (46:30):
Because of political bureaucracy that never happened. But if you
read the other articles about me giving out books in
the community, going into these neighborhoods, doing political education, talking
to the youth, and given impromptu history lessons on my
own dime, that your effort.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
We're not questioning your effort. I'm questioning whether it's getting
results is where I'm at, and I think it's giving
a growth well the but if I look at Durham,
it's not.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
So it's not.

Speaker 10 (47:05):
I mean, I'm just try I'm one person, try to
save one person. Like I said on the news last night,
the only thing important to me is that five year
old child, that little girl that runs up to me
at least two or three times a week, that says,
where's my book? Nothing else matters. Your opinion doesn't matter.
The mayor's opinion doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Paul, Paul, I gotta Paul, I gotta put you on hold.
I got a hard break, so hang on and we'll
continue this next. It would it be fair to refer
to you as activists, Minister Paul Scott, I just want
to make sure that that is a fairmonic.

Speaker 5 (47:40):
You can call me anything you want to.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Casey, well, I wouldn't do that, you know, even if
you I'm not gonna be that guy.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
So uh.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
But but here's where, here's where I wanted to This
is what I want to talk about. I think that
there's it is my opinion and you and I disagree
with this, and I we're gonna we're gonna try get
the mayor on and I'll talk to him about it.
I think ninety nine point nine percent of the time
when we use the term implicit bias and or I

(48:10):
watch the Deal with It press conferences right where something's
happened and then city leadership and Durham has to talk
about it. Is there is identity politics at play and
when the bigger thing that I'm trying to determine is
two things.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
One is it helping?

Speaker 2 (48:29):
And to answer that, and I'm curious your answer, I
just want to hit people with a few numbers. One
in the seventy two hours, a couple over a seventy
two hour span here earlier this week, five shootings happened,
three were dead, five injured in Durham. If you look
at the crime numbers year over year, and let's just
take this year from last year, it's it's not even close.

(48:53):
Person shot is up forty four percent. The number of
shooting incidents is down, so we'll say at least they're
getting in some trigger time at the range and more accurate,
but the fatalities are up seventeen percent. It is undeniable
that within the bull city there is there is an increase.
But what is Also undeniable is the vast majority of

(49:15):
not just the people who commit it, to commit these
shootings and murders in Durham outsize. The population percentage are minorities,
but the victims are almost exclusively. And so when I
sit here and I have genuine concern on why things
aren't getting better, it's because I don't care where you live.

(49:38):
I want your life in America to be easier. That's
why I do this. And part of being easy could
be lower taxes for some people and not getting shot
while you're out front with your family.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
And that's all that I want.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
And I feel like that's probably what you want too,
and you don't want people to have.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
To worry about things.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
So why is it when I then talk to Durham
city leaders, or even when I'm sitting here talking to you,
I feel like I care more about your community than
you do.

Speaker 10 (50:05):
And I think that using me as an example is
documentedly wrong. You can google my activist working Durham over
the last I think they.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
Can talk to you, and you're on the air with me.
That's why I mean, I'm so you tell me why
I'm wrong. That's why we're having this conversation. But I'm
using you because you're the person.

Speaker 5 (50:23):
That's what I do.

Speaker 10 (50:24):
Yeah, right before, I would like, this is what I
was saying, because you're talking director and me, and you
included me in that conversation. You can google.

Speaker 5 (50:36):
Paul Scott Durham and see what I'm do in the community.

Speaker 10 (50:39):
I'm not a person who's sitting on the sideline making
excuses just complain. I'm out there in the community six
days a week at least, trying to make a difference
without government funds, without government even acknowledgement of our local government.
So that's the perspective I'm coming from.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
That you're the mayor.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
You just you know the mayor.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
You just you just told me just talk to them,
so like you're more impactful than you think, sir, don't don't.
What all that I want is to know what is
the city of Durham And I know you don't control
the purse strings. What is it that they're going to
do that's finally going to break through? And I'm not
talking about the you know, the things that you do
on a personal basis. That's one of those where if

(51:24):
you get a thousand of you and you're all doing that,
I think that's a difference maker. But the reality is
it's not made a difference, you know, whether it's discussions
about crosswalks, bragging about the number of gun free zone
signs they put up by the old tobacco district there,
like what is Durham doing because we keep dodging the
issue and the issue and the solution. In my opinion,

(51:45):
and I'll let you have the last word on this,
is you need to more aggressively lock people up who
would terrorize communities. And I'll bet if you go to
McDougal and talk to people off the record, they would
probably agree because they don't want to be terrorized.

Speaker 10 (52:03):
So I would say that I can only speak from
the I can't speak for the mayor. I can't speak
for the community, the politicians. I can only speak from
a grassroots community acts this point.

Speaker 5 (52:15):
Of view, everybody get involved in.

Speaker 10 (52:18):
Some kind of way, get involved in making the community better.
But I would leave you with this challenge unless you
have a follow up.

Speaker 5 (52:25):
If you go on YouTube.

Speaker 10 (52:28):
And you search in the YouTube Worthhoods in Raleigh and
also search Worsehoods and Durham, the videos are basically the same.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
No question, no question, But the numbers on a per
capita or even a total are not It's not even close,
and Raleigh has more people. I'm not trying to pick
the cities against each other. I don't want it happening anywhere.
But I want you just to answer my question, which
you kind of didn't answer. What would if you're you're
you're the king. Okay, we just made you the king,

(53:02):
so you can do what everyonet? What does the City
of Durham need to do if if if funds aren't
an issue, and and and does it involve actually incarcerating
more people, because that's what a lot of people seem
to think. And if not, why So that would be
my final question.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
I'm curious you're answering, Okay.

Speaker 10 (53:22):
My final answer is if I was critical of Durham politics,
I would say they need to listen to not to
the politician, not to the grant money mafia, those who
make millions of dollars.

Speaker 14 (53:36):
Everywhere there every money, there's the problem to be to
be held accountable for every penny, and to listen to
the everyday people that are in the streets, in the communities, talking.

Speaker 10 (53:50):
To the youth and see this in the echo chamber,
only listening to the nonprofits and the other people.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
Okay, that's fair.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
But then again, and my question is, and I'll just
ask a point, Mike, do more people in Durham need
to be incarcerated?

Speaker 10 (54:10):
I think anybody in the United States who's committing the
crime and has been proven guilty needs to be incarcerated.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
Okay, so we quibble over the bail and all that.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
That's but look, I honestly, it's really hard for a
guy to kill you when he's in Florence, Colorado, supermans.
That's all that I'm saying, and it's I understand, But
I also understand it's not as simplistic as that.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
Right.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
I have family who's gone through criminal justice system, through
addiction and things like that. I recognize where the flaws are,
and I recognize you can't treat things all the same.
But if we're going to start off at some point
one of the easiest ways before you start trimming around
the edges with the work that you're doing, talking about,
you know, bringing books to kids and things like that,
so that they don't go down that path. It's it's

(54:54):
got to be the totality of things. Would you agree,
It's got to be a lot of things to solve
the problems of Raleigh, Greensboro, wherever it is.

Speaker 15 (55:03):
And I agree, okay, And I will say for context,
just for a balanced discussion that disagreeing or like the
mayor said yesterday that running from the issue.

Speaker 10 (55:15):
I would just say for a balanced conversation, read a
book like Michelle Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow, and
that will give a balanced conversation. Two things can be
correct at the same time, so we can both be
correct on certain aspects at the same time. It doesn't
have to be an either or yeah, no.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
I'm not on the ground.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
Because only somebody who's just like your interaction with that
little girl or I'm sorry, I just bought my microphone
or anybody else like that personal interaction, you're able to
evaluate whether you think it's making a difference. I have
no way to talk about that, but I can look
at the hard numbers, and I think that's why people
were concerned, and that's why we had the conversation.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
So Paul I got a roll of it. Thank you
very much.

Speaker 5 (56:00):
Okay, thank you all right.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
Uh so there you go. You want to weigh in
on that, Uh, we'll get into some things here. In
the next segment, also, Steven Kent will be joining us,
and we got a bunch of Hollywood stuff that will
be from eight o five story Ada at oh five.
So we'll bang out calls in a moment, but first
let's bang out some weather from raced Age. Dude, you guys,
you're one of your one of your guys was in

(56:23):
the alien hearing yesterday, really, Congress, Yeah, he was the
chief former chief meteorologist of the Navy.

Speaker 16 (56:30):
Oh yeah, uh a meteorologist, not a weather channel person.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
No, No, he's a meteorologist for the US Navy.

Speaker 4 (56:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (56:40):
I thought you meant one if you want to you
want to go, that was the wan.

Speaker 1 (56:45):
Yeah, well I don't know.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
That's a lot of pressure considering your prognosticating weather forecast
for our entire fleets.

Speaker 1 (56:51):
So yeah, you don't want to get that wrong, No,
you certainly.

Speaker 16 (56:56):
What I meant to say was yeah, Yeah, it's one
of those things where like if you're if you're wrong,
everybody's kind of like laugh at you.

Speaker 4 (57:04):
But that's yeah.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
Not like when you're playing with your kids.

Speaker 5 (57:08):
So yeah, you're.

Speaker 16 (57:09):
Probably gonna be yeah right, anybody be ordering the code
red right.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
Hey man? Yeah, you know trust the process, so exactly
all right, let's truss the weather process and yeah, or
find it so it makes us happy.

Speaker 16 (57:23):
Yeah, kind of yucky out there, but I will emphasize
needing the rainfall, even back in the hardest hit areas
from Helene getting rained this morning. Other there's no flood advisories,
no flood warnings, no flood watches. But I do see
some yellow, a little yellow come through Chatham County, come
across the Triangle and the Triad going through Greensboro, heading
into uh, places like Liberty and maybe even places like

(57:47):
let's see Pittsburgh. You're also getting some heavier rain in
around there. And as I said, it all extends back
towards the west, where the rain's starting to taper off,
back into parts of central North Georgia, and all of
our weather is coming from that southwest direction. So in
it today with the rain in the fifties tonight, the
rainal taper off probably early. There's still a chance for
a shower tomorrow, but then we'll go into a dryer
period with some sun and the gusty breeze near sixty tomorrow.

(58:10):
Weekend looks real nice even into early next week. Another
warming trend mid upper sixties over the weekend, maybe seventy
for some of us for Monday, Tuesday and even Wednesday,
and then later in that we'll see casey if we
do get a cool down later next week, especially into
Thanksgiving week, where it looks like at least the northern
tier of the US is finally going to see some
Arctic air come south. I mean, come on, it's the

(58:31):
middle of November. We'll see how far south that colder
air mass gets. Plenty more to talk about that. Yeah,
I'm just absolutely horrible person.

Speaker 1 (58:41):
Sometimes.

Speaker 16 (58:41):
Listen, last year I went up north.

Speaker 1 (58:45):
And now, no, this is actually makes it worse. Why
would you admit this?

Speaker 2 (58:50):
Just so everyone knows mister Stagey here loves sledding and
the big boy sledden on the snowmobiles when he goes
to uh, I don't know, Hudson, Wisconsin or upstate. Now
you've done Hudson, right, No, not that just up.

Speaker 5 (59:08):
By.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
Oh that's it.

Speaker 16 (59:09):
Yeah, I've got goals.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
That some of the your kids not to have to
go to school, right and uh and you're hard to
maybe slide into a ditch so that he can.

Speaker 16 (59:18):
None of this work from home stuff on snow days.
It doesn't make it a snow day.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
I don't like it, so you.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
Can get it seven hundred out seven.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
No, you're right, I'm.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
Sure fifty yeah, and I believe it or not.

Speaker 16 (59:30):
Two years ago when there was snow, I was on
a brand new one because my buddy, my cousin's buddies
brother just they both got two brand new ones and
they put me on the new one. So that's fine
with me.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
Okay, all right, Well, well we'll chat next hour. Appreciate it,
all right, So Rod come on the air. Ros So
that line one that's all confirmed with Rock and Roll. Okay,
all right, So the Mayor of Durham, Leonardo Williams, we're
gonna chat with him, coming up.

Speaker 1 (59:54):
We just got a few men. We may move some stuff.
We'll figure it out.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
We'll do that next hang on, we I don't even
have to schedule. The Mayor of Durham, Leonardo Williams, joining
us this morning. How are you doing today, sir? You're
all right, all right, all right, you are obviously folks.
I heard probably let you know we're talking about this.
So let me let me go ahead and start here

(01:00:19):
on your tweets. So I was just talking with Paul,
and Paul says that when you use implicit bias in
that tweet, it doesn't have racial connotations. Explain that to me,
because I that's where I hear it utilized. And as
you know, race is a big discussion topic, not just
in Durham but in America right now. So help me

(01:00:40):
to understand what it was you were implying when you
used implicit bias.

Speaker 4 (01:00:44):
Please.

Speaker 5 (01:00:46):
Yeah, Well, you know, when you use amplicit bius, it
means that you are you are sort of having a
concrete perspective, and that could be either race, or it
could be tie. It could be you know, of a
certain group of people, it could be a certain demographic
U and that that So what I'm really referred to

(01:01:08):
is the perspective in which the reporting or the subject
matter is being angled at.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
The crazy thing to me is if you told me
a TV station wrote an article like that, Ari would
be the last one I would assume for two reasons. One,
people tend to think that they're they're they're a little
more liberal, but also they have the parent company has
a significant invested financial interest in your city, sir, So
why do you think Aril did that? And do you

(01:01:38):
disagree with the numbers.

Speaker 5 (01:01:42):
No, I think that's the main point here. It's not
really about the numbers, it's about the approach to the numbers.
You know, I wouldn't have said anything. Of all people,
I'm the last one to get involved with h You're
talking about a news story. But when you do it
address analysis from only Durham or people who have a

(01:02:04):
Durham resident a Dorham address, that's one thing, you know,
and that's what they did. But if you know the
address analysis and do it up the entire timegle you know,
tell me about crime from people who are committee crime
and Durham, from from Raleigh or from Greensboro.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
I'm curious though. No, no, no, no, that's a that's a
totally fair point. So what is what is? What have
you seen from Raleigh residents coming to Durham. Has there
been one hundred and fifty percent uptick?

Speaker 5 (01:02:33):
No? And I'm not looking at that. That's what the
question is. Why is the crime happening where it is?
And you know, the chrime that's happening is not a
reflection of the city itself or the community itself. It's
a reflection of the indivisual now, of course there are
there are There are long historical reasons why, you know,
certain communities are experiencing more of these activities than others,

(01:02:57):
and we can go down a long rabbit hole of
why that is what it is, you know, from federal
government policy to public housing, the philotophosle.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
I hear you know this, and here's what I'm sorry,
I'm going to cut you.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
I'm just going to pose you.

Speaker 5 (01:03:10):
You have to take a holistic approach to it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
I want to.

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
I'm only pausing you because I want to make sure
that because I have this segment, I have a minute
and a half, I want to make sure that you'll
be willing to hang over so that we can have
about a ten minute conversation in addition to this at
the top.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
Of the hour, because I don't want to leave.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
I have a lot of questions and like legitimate, genuine,
honest questions and uh and I'm so glad that you
called in, so you'll do that. Okay, wonderful, I saw
have a minute and a half here. I disagree that
it's not the crime that you see, especially the way
it's perceived the media. I understand the media is going
to do some of that, but the facts and the

(01:03:45):
numbers of the facts. Five people were shot in seventy
two hours, three of them are killed. We don't disagree
with that. And to say that it's the individual is
half true. But also the city, yourself and your police
department are tasked with dealing with that, so there is
a community aspect to it. It may not be the
individual members, but rather those elected, such as yourself. You

(01:04:07):
wouldn't disagree with that that you ever seen.

Speaker 5 (01:04:10):
We're we're not denying that at all. I'm not down that.
I am not denying that at all, not at all.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
We are all wrapped up and what it's I think
it's an important topic and I'm glad we're having this conversation.
And that is Durham specifically the focus of a wr
L article where they talked about numbers of people arrested
in adjacent communities who reside in Durham and the year
over your increase and the city of Kerry was really
kind of the big one they focused on, and it

(01:04:38):
saw a one hundred and fifty percent year over your increase.
Morrisville as well. And we've now got a chance to
and he's on hold, let me bring him up here.
The Mayor of Durham, Leonardo Williams, joins us. Let me
ask you a question. When you saw that article come out, mayor,
did you call the Kerry mayor or the Morrisville mayor,

(01:04:59):
like I want to Here's what I want to. I
want to know you guys recognize this is an issue
and you're you're trying to work together, and I hope
you did that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
Did you do that?

Speaker 5 (01:05:09):
Oh? Absolutely? Absolutely? Listen, we talked actually pretty often. How
do you think we got one point three billion dollars
of the triangle. We did that collectively, So yeah, we
have a regulationship.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
Okay, And uh, how did that conversation go on this issue,
because I mean what wow?

Speaker 5 (01:05:28):
Well, I specifically spoke with the Lawley manor. We sleep
all the time. When the first when the story first
came out, I only saw the headline in the teether,
and you know it was it was Waite County in general,
so I didn't know what specific area it was speaking
up and I knew of to find out. Okay, this

(01:05:50):
is probably going to be an issue. I can I
don't see you know, other I don't see the triangle
looked at as a whole and that was that was
part of an issue.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
No, that's fair. I see it as an opportunity. I mean,
it's horrible stuff that we're talking about. Well, yeah, I
mean I see it as an opportunity. And when I
feel that it came across that you were rejecting the premise,
and I'll take you at your word if that's not
the case. But I want to understand two things. One
do you think when people say things like, oh, here's

(01:06:20):
like if you offer somebody tickets to show a dpak,
which is an amazing facility. I can't say that enough.
We've done many things over there, you know, the attitude
where people go, yeah, but I don't want to. I
don't want to go to.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
Durham at night.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
Do you think that that's born from racism or do
you think that that's people looking at numbers and going eh,
maybe not. But where do you think that comes from?

Speaker 10 (01:06:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:06:44):
Yeah, it could be either. Ord I'm the last one
to jump to racism. I think that you know, we
definitely can't ignore that racism exists. But that's not my
that's not the basis of what I'm you know, the
angler that I'm taking for me. It was it was,
you know, the numbers dollar true, the numbers dollar what
they are, but also there's more.

Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
No, no, no, I totally agree with you. I totally
agree with you.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
And the thing that and I mean this honestly, and
I brought it up with Paul. The thing that will
stick in my mind of Durham stories and don't get
me wrong, Raleigh's cut there is great we broadcast in Greensboro,
Winston Salem as well, high point we're rolling to try
it is the thing that sticks out to me in
Durham from a from a bad standpoint.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
I got a lot of good thoughts.

Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
But the bad thing is that young that that little
boy thought he was going to go get a snow
cone and instead he got a bullet, okay, And and
stories like that, And then I see people at McDougall
getting you know, people's grandmother getting interviewed and she's scared
to talk to the reporter even though she's living in
a situation that socioeconomically she can't pull herself out of.

(01:07:54):
So yeah, my heart goes out to that. And so
my question is obviously you're new the number, you're over
your numbers, you're not on you although you were on
the council. What are you doing to make sure that
in twenty twenty five this conversation goes differently.

Speaker 5 (01:08:11):
So before I just want to just really quickly, as
I'm answered your question, just make sure we're careful with
the framing because it gives a false houk to the
community that Okay, the mayor is going to say something
in the econm is going to stop. I know you're
not exagerating.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
No, no, no, but if you did, I think you
would have. Yeah, if you could just say something, you would.

Speaker 5 (01:08:30):
Absolutely absolutely So.

Speaker 17 (01:08:31):
So what I want to say is, you know there
is no in America where we enjoy the luxury of
free speech, and you know we have the ability to do.

Speaker 5 (01:08:42):
What we want for the most part, there is no
way possible I'm going to be able to control the
individual acts of an individual. And I think we all
can agree on that. And let me tell you, let
me be the first to say, any person that is
doing anything at my city that is trying to harm someone,
we are I'm it for you, all right. We have
one of the dost law enforcements out there. So that's

(01:09:05):
we all understand that we don't want folks doing hurt,
and I am not going to make any excuse for
any criminal or any bad actor. I'm coming for you
and I want you to just in badly an you
want anyone else. So that's one thing. But what I
can control is how we respond to these things and
how proactive we can be in policy. Now. I don't
want to choose Duram like this the dictatorship either, because

(01:09:25):
I have this is Nortona defiance strong mayors. We have
council manager systems, so I have to work with the
body of people to create policy that is responsive or
in the best interest of the overall people. We have
different perspectives on that. For example, we had shock Father,
we voted it down. I got to up vote it
all thought that was gont think we needed to steffire

(01:09:48):
that was going to be that. Yeah, I am pissed
off to this day about that, you know, because the
residus number one response was more public safety, so that
was an issue and where at me, I'll say, you
know what, I gotta voted. You know, I'm disappointed about it,
but I'm not going to stop. I'm not going to
give us, you know, So so what I can say is,

(01:10:11):
you know, I can control creating a fund that invests
into organizations that are saving kids, because we have thousands
that we're saving from these streets, but we do have
some that are in trenchs in an environment that is
so unfortunate. And me those things already on our control,
like the federal housing. You know, they underfund federal housing,

(01:10:31):
their housing abilities that every single community deals with. That
probably helping you, but people don't go to live on
as you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
Yeah, I'm not implying that you face challenges, and arguably
you face more because you have a higher percentage of
folks that are dipping into those products. So with that
in mind, though, when the numbers go in one direction
or the other, and for many many many years, uh,
when we have about just a couple of minutes left,
so and I'll let you have the last word after this.
But for many years, these programs have been going They've

(01:11:02):
been going on since I've been broadcasting in the Triangle,
which is you know, twelve years, thirteen years almost, and
I lived in Minneapolis where in the fourth Ward in
North Minneapolis, all of these same issues presented, and all
of these save programs, and until they got in Hennepin County,
in Minnesota when they finally got a little tough front crime.

(01:11:22):
Although they've gone in a different direction now, they started
to see real progress there. So do you think that
there's more incarcerating, arresting that needs to happen in addition
to education.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
What do you think?

Speaker 5 (01:11:36):
I think that, You know, we had different segments of
the government and everyone has to pour their way. You know,
I'm the mayor of the city, but I have to
work with my calcul I have to work with the
county commissioners, the school board, the DA, the judges, the court,
the jail, the police, the share off. Everyone has to
pour their weight and we have to work in tandem.
You know, I want to be very clear, I'm not

(01:11:56):
running from our issues. How we tell the story abound
our issues is what I an issue with, so.

Speaker 1 (01:12:02):
Coming on the show, we appreciate it, sir, I really do.

Speaker 5 (01:12:06):
I would never run from a conversation and I've never
run from the truth. But also we'll always tell the
full story. Those numbers that were reported are actually accurate.
I've never said they were not. You know, but to
only look at Durham, you know that that's wish you
and I asked the question. I said, well, did we
ask why the chrome is happening where it is? Is
that something we need to look at. Did we look

(01:12:26):
at how much chrome was coming into Durha from other places?
And none of that was looked at only Durham Sawait County.
And I said, we got to tell you have to
tell the full story because the reputation matters. Reputation hands
values and uh. Interestingly enough, rent Cafe, a national research organization,
named Durham the forty first liverpool city in the nation

(01:12:48):
and the number one most livable city in North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
Guys, you guys have amazing Look. I almost I'm going
to tell you something. I almost. I was almost living
in your city.

Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
I was two seconds away from taking a condo on
Chapel Hill Street there.

Speaker 1 (01:13:03):
I love, love the place.

Speaker 5 (01:13:04):
It's a beautiful place to be.

Speaker 17 (01:13:06):
Yeah, but we shared those issues like other places too,
you know.

Speaker 5 (01:13:10):
And it's unfortunately because we do have a higher concentration.
H I served certain demograph lets that that are in
certain you know, situation. Uh, but that doesn't mean that
that's what they fine in our city, you know. And
that's what as the mayor of the city, I want
to speak up, you know, on behalf of the community
and the half of micos here to say we would

(01:13:32):
not let our challenges defind us, but more so, we
would tell our full story. And that's why people were
truly appreciated. I don't rest in those competitions that are
out refrom the truth. I just make sure we tell
the whole story, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:13:44):
And by the way, and I mean there's slightly tongue
in cheek. If you get a rash to carry soccerman's
coming to Durham to do carjackings out of their Lincoln Navigators,
you let me know because I just I want to
see what that looks like. And and but but on
a serious note, I really appreciate you calling, and I
want to I'm gonna put you on hold. I want
to make sure that we have We're not going to
harass you. But I want a contact info and when

(01:14:06):
stuff comes up, I will call you.

Speaker 1 (01:14:08):
Yeah, and we'll talk about it.

Speaker 5 (01:14:09):
Okay, please do please do I welcome it. I got
a call from some of your listeners this morning. I oh, well,
you know, let me get on.

Speaker 1 (01:14:17):
Yeah, that's respond that's all I can. I will tell
you that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
Every other person in in Durham government over the years,
with the exception of the former police chief ten years
ago whose name escapes me, we never get callback, so
I'm glad we did. I'm gonna throw you on hold, sir,
appreciate your time, Okay, all right, yeah, there we go.
All right, that is the mayor of Durham, Leonardo Williams.
We're gonna chat with Stephen Kent coming up. I know

(01:14:41):
there's some of you on hold right now who want
to talk about what we just talked about, and if
you hold, I promise we'll get to your calls before
the end of the show. But right now, we got
to take a break. KCODA Radio Programs even Ken here momentarily,
our nerd corresponding, because we got a whole host of
things we're gonna go over.

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
We're going to chat with him.

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
We just got we got a few minutes in this segment,
and then we'll segment three. There's four segments, all right,
so segment three will continue, and then we got a
couple of callers hanging. If they hang on, I promised
I would get to both of you before the end
of the show. So it's just kind of a weird
day around here. But that's how we do things, all right?

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
Stephen Kent? How you doing this morning, sir? What's going on?

Speaker 5 (01:15:21):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:15:21):
I just got the call a little bit ago that
I will be joining the Trump administration as the Secretary
of Entertainment Agriculture, which is very exciting, first time position
for anyone in the administration.

Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
Entertainment. What did it would do when you saw the
Doge thing? What went through your head?

Speaker 3 (01:15:40):
You know, we live in a very serious country and
these are very serious times, so we need a Doge department.
How could you be against that?

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
I didn't say I was against her four, but it
obviously hits different when it's a presidential cabinet getting put
in together and we're putting out memes.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
So I again, people.

Speaker 2 (01:16:01):
Are going to look half the country's going to hate it.
Half I'm probably going to love it. The question is,
do you think that they'll be able to accomplish what
is one of the heaviest lifts I've ever heard promised?

Speaker 3 (01:16:12):
Yeah, I mean, the amount of the amount of kind
of glut that they're going to need to cut from
the federal government is going to be unprecedented. But I
actually do think these two guys are just wily enough
to do it. I'm pretty optimistic about what we're going
to see happen here, and they did answer one question
I had, which is, wait, so we're going to shrink
the size of the federal government by creating a new agency.

(01:16:34):
But I guess what's going to happen is the Doze
Department is going to expire in twenty twenty six as
an outside of government entity. So we're not adding to
the problem, which is good.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
Well, it doesn't mean they can't find a way to
screw it up and snatch a defeat from the jaws
of victory, as we say round these parts. An I
don't want to spend too much time as we've got
a bunch of stuff to get to. You're looking at
the appointments coming down, any anything that you found really
surprising or something you're like, yeah, yeah, that's probably probably
a good thing. And we haven't even gotten into the

(01:17:07):
agencies that really oversee a lot of the entertainment industry
that we that we look at, and as you know,
the Trump administration has a very low opinion of the
news media, So please speak on both of those.

Speaker 5 (01:17:21):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:17:22):
So probably the one that I was most surprised well
there's Matt Gates. Okay, So Matt Gates as Attorney General
is really out of left field, and I have liked
almost every appointment that has been made so far for
the upcoming administration. I have concerns about Matt Gates's ability
to execute in a serious way on everything that the

(01:17:45):
Trump administration is going to need to do to be
effective and win the legal battles that are inevitably going
to come their way. On everything that they want to do,
from immigration enforcement deportations to taking on the college universities
and sticking uh it to them on discriminate discriminatory practices,
and watching Title nine across the country, They're going to

(01:18:06):
need a really good agree.

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
It's the most important appointment. I think it's as my
other and vice president. We can debate, but that's that's
a that's a more of a campaign thing. Really, this
is the most important appointment. A g Right, you would agree.

Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
I would say I would say Secretary of State and
AG are the two most important.

Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I think with that, but I think
with the AG. The difference with Secretary is that you're
gonna have people fighting you every step of the way
because it's how we do politics. But they're going to
be fighting for their own personal lives. Do you know
what I'm saying when you get into the ag stuff,
Because let's face it, there's some the government's too big
for there not to be criminals in there. It's just
a discussion of how many and where they are.

Speaker 5 (01:18:49):
No, absolutely, So that's one I think.

Speaker 3 (01:18:52):
The other one that I was pretty surprised by was
Christy malm as Homeland secretary. Homeland Security secretary. You know,
Percy competent. It's it's surprising though he's a perfectly competent person.
She's run South Dakota incredibly well, but she just really
took that pr hit in the past year.

Speaker 5 (01:19:10):
No dog executions.

Speaker 1 (01:19:13):
Do you know that strays are a big issue down
on the border, right?

Speaker 5 (01:19:17):
I know, I know all about it. She's gonna she's
gonna do a great job.

Speaker 3 (01:19:21):
And yeah, if anybody trying to stand up against her,
she'll drag them to the gravel pit.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
And I just want to be clear when I say strays,
I mean actual dogs.

Speaker 4 (01:19:30):
You you people?

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
No, No, I'm talking like it is an actual problem.
It's actually an actual problem in a lot of places
in Latin America.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
But it's along the Mexican border.

Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
It's especially on the California side, like they haven't come
and popping through that fence. I just I only know
this because I lived in California for school, and I
remember thinking, Oh, they didn't build the planks wide enough
down in San Diego, and the dogs get through. And
it's we're chatting with Stephen Kent though, and uh, since
he has our official NERD correspondent, let's go ahead and

(01:20:01):
get into a few things. All right, let's talk about
if you guys don't know Rachel Ziggler, is you do?
She is Disney's snow white who made a little news
when she essentially crapped on the source material and it
went all through the identity politics and it didn't play well.

(01:20:21):
And so I thought that at the very least she
just shut up now, or at the very least about
that stuff. And no, she did not. She has lost
her crap. She joins the long line of other celebrities
who are probably just going to go scream into the
echo chamber that is Blue Sky. But it's more than
just them. It's news agencies and outlets too. Man Like,

(01:20:42):
let's let's combine those two one do you think Disney
told her not to do that or they just like whatever.
Even though that movie opens what early next spring, it's
not even out yet, And what do you think of
all these celebrities pulling the ripcord man.

Speaker 3 (01:20:55):
I'm still not convinced that this snow White movie from
Disney is ever actually going to come out, and when
it does, they'll probably rush it to Disney Plus and
try to act like it never happened. But you know,
Rachel Ziggler, who is a relatively unsuccessful actress activists posing
as somebody who's going to be famous one day, she
is kind of just clowning herself on Instagram here. I mean,

(01:21:18):
what she is talking about here is all this peace
and love and kumbayav that's going to be destroyed by
four years of a Trump administration.

Speaker 10 (01:21:25):
And then she.

Speaker 3 (01:21:25):
Concludes this message on Instagram talking about how afraid people
are and how we need a country with less hate
by saying that she wishes seventy five million people in
the country never find peace. This is the kind of
about face that you expect from these people. As they
head on over to Blue Sky with Jamie Lee Curtis
and Don Lennon and Bette Midler and apparently the Guardian

(01:21:46):
from the UK is just leaving Twitter altogether.

Speaker 5 (01:21:49):
Well, but you know what, they'll always come back.

Speaker 2 (01:21:52):
One of our TV stations did they have a half
million followers on Twitter and they just they're out. They're
out now. A lot of the reporters are still on Twitter.
They're out a half million followers. That's nothing to sneeze
at as somebody who lives, you know, in the internet
to monetization world, such as yourself, right, that's.

Speaker 1 (01:22:10):
That at the very least, you got to respect the
walk away there.

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
But also doesn't it just turn into the left parlor
at this point and maybe they're okay with it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:20):
Yeah, this is why I really believe that most of
these people will be back. I also tried exiting Twitter
at one point for an alternative platform. I went and
tried that god forsaken.

Speaker 5 (01:22:31):
Place known as parlor.

Speaker 3 (01:22:33):
When you get into an echo chamber environment where everybody
is fleeing for ideological reasons and coming there, whether it's
a conservative or a progressive outlet, it's actually just really
exhausting agreeing with everybody all day. The quality of the
content and the disagreement is lame and boring. And I

(01:22:53):
think most of these people will get bored when they
get on there and they all discuss how great socialism
is and there's nobody that actually be mad at.

Speaker 5 (01:23:01):
They'll come back.

Speaker 2 (01:23:02):
They always do well and and uh, and it goes
to and it goes to a uh. To your point,
that is exactly the thing that is the most is
one of the most boring things to me. And that
was the problem I had with Parlor. You post something
and it's nothing but likes. I like it on Twitter
when people push back, although it happens less. The reason
we're going a little later with you today is because

(01:23:24):
we were talking to the mayor and and UH, an
activist who felt that I was misrepresenting what's going on
in the city of Durham. I welcome those conversations. I
love those, and I think that we've gotten so far
away from that on both sides that it's I don't know.
I don't know if they come back, like is it
worth Bett Middler's time? If she because that's I don't

(01:23:47):
think it dawns upon her.

Speaker 3 (01:23:50):
No, I don't think it does either. And at the
end of the day, these are truly and deeply irrelevant
people who are only kept in the mainstream conversation by
legacy news outlets who act like they are still important
in American culture, and they're not.

Speaker 5 (01:24:06):
They just aren't.

Speaker 3 (01:24:08):
You know, we're We talked last week on the show
about the numbers, the difference and statistics between the average
download of a Theo Vaughn or Joe Rogan episode versus
prime time on CNN. You know, these are not competitive
and serious people. So yeah, I don't think the world
will miss that Midler. And nobody knows who Rachel Zegler

(01:24:29):
is anyways.

Speaker 2 (01:24:31):
Finally, and I'm gonna I didn't throw this to you
or maybe Ross forded it to you, So we got
to talk to Harry Potter TV Show real quick. And
this is this is part of a bigger thing. But
we're a little tripped on time here. I gn IGN,
which I don't they write about video games and stuff.
I'm really in pop culture entertainment stuff, basically nerd stuff.

(01:24:52):
Isn't that IGNU?

Speaker 3 (01:24:54):
That would be IGN unless they are waging war on
jk Rowling, which is their other pastime.

Speaker 1 (01:25:00):
This is the this is their tweet.

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
Jk Rowling has been posting anti transgender rhetoric on X
since twenty twenty will be involved in the new Harry
Potter TV show with HBO and Max Content. Blah blah
blah bla. All right, So anyway, so their beef is
that the person who created everything, Harry Potter, is going
to advise and maybe have some control over a TV

(01:25:24):
series about her product that she created out.

Speaker 1 (01:25:27):
Of thin air? Am I reading that right?

Speaker 2 (01:25:30):
And Potter and wouldn't you want her involved?

Speaker 9 (01:25:34):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:25:34):
What do I know?

Speaker 5 (01:25:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:25:36):
You know, the whole Harry Potter situation is just a
complete catastrophe. Most people who are just fans of Harry
Potter have no interest or awareness of what goes on
in these very oddline discussions about JK Rowling and her
views that such as bat women exist and that they are,
you know, not something that can just be created out

(01:25:58):
of been air.

Speaker 5 (01:26:00):
Know, I know, I really believe that.

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
I really believe that, and I don't. I don't think
most people who follow this stuff are super aware.

Speaker 5 (01:26:07):
Of these debates.

Speaker 3 (01:26:08):
But the entertainment journalists who are incredibly politically radical, all
they do is obsessed about J. K Rawlling's involvement in
her own intellectual property. I don't think that they've bought
this away from her entirely, Like she is not George Lucas,
She's hasn't given up Harry Potter. It still belongs to her.

Speaker 2 (01:26:25):
Yeah, So you think their beef is they are not
in a position to totally destroy it, because that's right.

Speaker 5 (01:26:32):
I think that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:26:33):
I mean, if you think about the way that these
people think about issues, I think that they were hoping
to get a chance to remake Harry Potter and transgressively
fill it with trans propaganda from top to bottom, so
that JK. Rowling would you know, be utterly owned and destroyed.
So the fact that she's going to be involved in
it is sort of a hedge against that, and I

(01:26:55):
think that's what they're actually mad at.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
Finally, I was up in your fair Burg this this weekend,
and you need to do a welfare check on some
of the folks they're in the DC area because they
are not doing well.

Speaker 1 (01:27:08):
Conversations.

Speaker 2 (01:27:09):
Man, Oh you're in Pinehurst today, cool, I think there'll
be a little more bane.

Speaker 1 (01:27:15):
But I'm just telling you. I was up in DC, man,
and that's like I was sitting.

Speaker 2 (01:27:18):
I was sitting at the Dulles uh or coming in
a dollis and then when I was leaving. But yeah,
there's a lot of people really really really getting their
resumes in order. So is that your general feeling as
you head to the suburbs like where you're from.

Speaker 5 (01:27:33):
Yeah, it's a busy time.

Speaker 3 (01:27:34):
And you know, out in the suburbs of northern Virginia,
most everybody works for the Pentagon or the FBI or
some other uh you know, bureaucratic agency, and so everybody's
just everybody's just getting their ducks in a row on
what their next four years are going to look like
or if they're going to retire early.

Speaker 1 (01:27:51):
All Right, Hey, I got a roll. We'll we'll we'll.

Speaker 2 (01:27:54):
Do our regular time next week. Oh and then we're
creeping up on Thanksgiving, so definitely won't be doing that day.

Speaker 1 (01:27:59):
All right, appreciate it her? All right, Okay, yeah, there
you go. Stephen kunt Casey Oday Radio Program.

Speaker 2 (01:28:05):
All right, let me let me go ahead, and we're
gonna I said, we get these calls, so everyone, I'm
gonna give you both just a couple of minutes just
FYI are on that, but we were gonna make the time,
and we'll start with Sarah. Sarah, go right ahead, Hello, Sarah.
That is That is exactly what I thought would happen.
I tell Sarah she's welcome to hold if you can

(01:28:26):
get a hold of her, and I will hit her
in the last segment, but I think she might have
hung up. All right, Jamal, real quick, what's up?

Speaker 5 (01:28:33):
You know what case?

Speaker 9 (01:28:34):
The whole Durham conversation is what's wrong with Durham. All
you heard was excuses and excuses and excuses and excuses.
People need to face the fact there's a cultural problem
in Durham. This ain't Jim Close. Segregation is stopping Durham.
This ain't evil white folks this doing this and Durham
this is black folk. This is black folk doing his

(01:28:55):
shooting killing. This is black folk dying in the street.
I said it long time though. You have people in
Durham that are ePower that has no problem with this
going on because they don't want to change what's going
on because if they changed it, their constituents wouldn't vote

(01:29:15):
the men.

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
Okay, they wouldn't voting. You listen to the interview with
the mayor and just full disclosure. Didn't you ran for mayor?

Speaker 5 (01:29:23):
Right?

Speaker 9 (01:29:25):
Yes? I did against Yes, I did against it, laying
on them and I told he laying. I told people,
then you cannot keep believing you can wrap your arm
around criminals and bad behavior. As a Republican case, I
have to admit Bill Clinton in the nineteen ninety fourth
Crime Bill that Joe Biden helped push, saved black lives.

(01:29:50):
It allowed black folkus to grow up in areas that
was once ruled by the gang bangers and the drug dealers.
Hen take black men home. It took drug dealers, it
took gang bangles, it took criminals off the street, and
it made the black community better. These people got out

(01:30:12):
Star Crime bull Room on racism. And then people say, well,
you know there, you're.

Speaker 5 (01:30:18):
Rocked my son up.

Speaker 9 (01:30:19):
Your son was sitting up here knocking people over their
head because they came up five dollars short on twenty
dollars worth of crime. So if it's not no changing, durm,
why because they don't want it to change. They want
things this false equivalent equivalency that racism and white is
doing the problem. It's not until you get a district

(01:30:42):
attorney and a sheriff that's willing to enforce the law,
and the sheriff enforce it, the DA convicts it until
you get that, and I'm gonna wrap it up to case.
I'm from Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Okay, and Rocky Mount,
North Carolina. Rocky Mount is split between Nash and Edgecombe County.

(01:31:03):
Everybody knows you do it foolishness in edge Combe County.
You don't blanket over Nash County. Literally, Rocky Mount is
split between the railroad tracks, and you know not to
do it over in Nash County. Why because they will
lock you up. Yes, Nash County predominantly white and conservative,

(01:31:24):
but you got all your little bit Democrats predominantly black
Edgecombe County and they shooting, fighting and doing everything jam
but not in Nash County.

Speaker 2 (01:31:33):
I appreciate you holding so long today. It's been a
weird day. I got to roll though, because I gotta
get to weather. But thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (01:31:38):
Okay, Okay, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:31:42):
Race Agic from the Weather Channel.

Speaker 16 (01:31:43):
Ray, what's happening on man that morning, Casey, believe it
or not, though we do need the rainfall. Mentioned this
a couple of times, how we've kind of gone from
feast to famine on the rain since Helena. Now, generous
rain totals continue to push in as the radar show
and the rain showers out. You have the Tryad and
back near ash and some of the hardest hit areas
from Helene. No flooding expected, but maybe up to an

(01:32:04):
inch of rain in some spots before we ended. As
we head on through later today and tonight, pockets of
modern heavy rain, and eventually we'll get the low out
and we'll have some better weather coming in, maybe a
shower left over early tomorrow, back in the sunshine, a
sixty good looking weekend, back in the sixties, maybe seventy
degrees by Monday, Tuesday and even Wednesday, with dry weather continuing.
Still looking at maybe later next week getting a little

(01:32:26):
bit cooler and into Thanksgiving week, maybe some cooler weather
coming in. I think we're done, maybe with the seventies
after about Wednesday Thursday of next week. But we'll see.
As a longer range guide, it's certainly got a little
bit more tricky than the short term. So old out casey.
Looks like a rainy day today, good day to take
a nap. After that, looks like we'll be in pretty
good shape after very early tomorrow morning.

Speaker 2 (01:32:47):
Okay, all right, we'll keep it in the seventies. We'll
be back Jeff Bellinger. Next, Jeff, what's happening?

Speaker 18 (01:32:52):
Good morning, Casey. New data from Washington suggests inflation is
still headed in the right direction and the job market
remains strong. The Producer Price Index, this is the government's
gauge of wholesale inflation, was up two tenths percent last month.
The PPI was up two point four percent year over year.
The Labor Department says the number of workers filing new

(01:33:13):
claims for unemployment benefits fell by four thousand last week.
Investors are anxious now to hear what Fed chaired your
own Powell We'll have to say about inflation and jobs.
He'll be speaking later today in Dallas. Household debt hit
a record high nearly eighteen trillion dollars in.

Speaker 4 (01:33:28):
The third quarter.

Speaker 18 (01:33:29):
The New York Fed says mortgages, auto loans, credit card balances,
and student loans all increased. Total household income rose more
than debt, but many young consumers and low wage workers
are feeling some financial stress. Amazon dot Com has a
new online storefront. It's called Hall, designed to compete with
the discount site Timu. Shoppers who aren't in a hurry

(01:33:51):
to receive their orders can get rock bottom prices. A
flat four dollars shipping fee will be waived on orders
of twenty five dollars or more. Customers get their deliveries
in a week or two. The quarter pound burghers at
McDonald's are being served with slivered onions once again. An
e coli outbreak among customers of the fast food chain
was traced to the onions. McDonald's has a new onion supplier,

(01:34:14):
and the Food and Drug Administration confirms there's no further
danger in casey. Some of us spends so much time
making connections online that our in person skills have gotten rusty,
and that may be especially true when it comes to dating.
Wall Street Journal says many singles have become so dependent
on matchmaking sites they don't know how to meet in

(01:34:34):
real life. There is a movement to change that. It's
IRL in real life is back, and of course it's
being spread via social media online.

Speaker 10 (01:34:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:34:45):
I saw this stat the other day and it was
every other way of meeting people is under ten percent,
and then it's just this red line going straight to
the sky for internet.

Speaker 5 (01:34:54):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:34:55):
I on Internet date man, I'm thinking of joining the
priesthood pas, But do you know what missing from it
that church.

Speaker 18 (01:35:02):
Yeah, this is true.

Speaker 1 (01:35:04):
It's not even on the list anymore. So all right,
well we got to roll.

Speaker 2 (01:35:06):
Thank you appreciate it. Okay tomorrow yep, yep, all right,
And two quick things for you get out of here.
An individual decide is is going to be charged with
insurance fraud and actually it may be up to five
individuals after cameras captured what looked like a bear and
arrowhead California Lake Arrowhead above La There it's a beautiful

(01:35:28):
area and they do have a lot of bear issues,
basically vandalyzing cars, and then they were using it for
insurance payments. It's a dude in a bear suit. And
and what's worse when you look at the bear suit
is it's not just a bear suit like on its own.
The bear suit that they bought is has clothes on

(01:35:50):
as bears do. It's how they get you. Actually they
wear the clothes and then they sneak in there. It's hilarious.
We'll retweet it for you. And finally, Guardian one of
the out that's making their way to a blue sky.
And I saw somebody put together some of the best
Guardian headlines from the last couple of years. And these
are amazing. You ready, I'm gonna do as many as
I can. Is it okay for scientists to weep over

(01:36:14):
climate change?

Speaker 1 (01:36:17):
You'll love this one.

Speaker 2 (01:36:18):
Barbecue is an American tradition of enslaved Africans and Native Americans.
Stop at white people, and good luck with that, oh,
Rossell like this one. No reason to debate guacamole. It's
already gentrified beyond good taste. Ross is not a fan
of the guacamole, so maybe he was onto something. My

(01:36:39):
toddler is vegan. Help, what's the problem. Don't you pick
what you feed your toddler? I mean, to some extent,
they're gonna weigh in on it.