Tuesday-1-28-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You get a double stack of stuff today because we
had a bunch of stuff I really wanted to get
to yesterday, and then some stuff I saw yesterday to
get to today, and they're all gonna PB and J
up for a nice new sandwich. I want to start
with something I was just reading, which is it's really
it's just crazy if you think about it. So Barry

(00:23):
Weiss wrote, wrote an article yesterday, and I'm just I'm
just gonna I'm gonna read you one paragraph. It's the
only paragraph that matters. You can go look it up.
And you're probably aware of this, even if it's passively,
but maybe you're not all right. So here here is
the paragraph. So tumultuous was the first week of Donald

(00:44):
Trump's second term, by the way I see. Then people
are getting mad at Weiss because they think she's insulting
Trump using the word. You should look up what tumultuous means.
It was tumultuous, arguably by design, by Trump design. And
then of course you have the media, you know, hissing
and spitting venoms, so it adds to the tumultuous nature
of it. So he had just used the word twice. Yes,

(01:06):
you get a grammar lesson at six oh eight. So
tumultuous was the first week of Donald Trump's second term
that people have barely noticed A week one that last Tuesday,
so one week ago from today. He repealed affirmative action
via executive order. Now, I want you to I want

(01:27):
you to flip your brain to twenty sixteen. Okay, twenty sixteen.
Trump came in. It was clear that he had a
bunch of stuff he wanted to do that Obviously, the
left was losing their crap over Yeah, so they they
slow rolled it kind of won. But yeah, he had

(01:47):
some executive orders, but he really wasn't on par with
what he just did obviously and what Biden then did.
And they started going issue by issue, and it became
very clear that if you feed you know in the
movies where it's like there's the guy, there's the hero
or whatever, and for whatever reason, there'll be like twenty

(02:08):
ninjas around him, how do the ninjas attack or how
do the bad guy, you know, the good guy he's
in the bar and he's surrounded by twenty people, how
do they choose to fight that guy? Every time without fail,
they won by one of them. That looks great in
the movies, Jackie Chan can do his stuff and you know,

(02:29):
your good guy stays the winner. But in reality, if
there's ten of you and you want to kill a guy,
you know, you gotta be a little careful for crossfire
or whatever. But you're all going at him, okay. And
that's what Trump was doing. He decided or what they
decided to do with his administration. And in this series,
they're the group attacking these things and they decided to

(02:52):
go one by one. And if you can, if you
can and sit there and think about had one of
like an issue week one repeal affirmative action, what do
you think that would have looked like between the Democrats,

(03:14):
between the never Trumpers, between the left, between the activist groups,
the universities. Obviously, because a lot of this has to
do with that, they would have lost their minds. This
would be the only story. And I don't know if
he'd be successful because he also had people around who
would kind of undermine some of these things. Well it's

(03:37):
only kind of repealed, but not really. No, he really
did it, and you really didn't see it come up
in the news cycle. Did you maybe if he read
a list, you know, there was a couple sites that
had lists of all the things, all the eos, so
you could go any click and learn about him. But

(03:57):
when it came time to select which story we're going
to be at the forefront of the news, this isn't
what they were screaming about. You didn't turn on CNN
and they had affirmative action panels. I'm sure it got
mentioned because you have a bunch of race baters over there,
as I'll prove to you. That being said, you also
didn't hear about it from the Democrats. See, this is

(04:20):
the this is the deeper news analysis here. That's even
stranger because this was such this was a golden calf
for them. Man was this was a way they thought
to go ahead and essentially buy votes within a community,
regardless of the efficacy of it, and regardless of the

(04:41):
fact that it also made people feel who did earn
their spot, who happened to be a minority, that people
would look at them and not assume they earned it.
So why would Democrats not go into full hysteria mode
over this? Because they realized this is a losing issue

(05:05):
for them. It's part of the larger losing issue. All
the DEI stuff affirmative action is clearly a plank of DEI,
and so they saw an opportunity. This is my opinion,
but I would venture to I would listen to any
of you explaining to me why I'm wrong, because there's

(05:25):
no other scenario I can think of. The reason Democrats
didn't go into full meltdown moad over this. They're one
of their golden you know, top tier priorities, is because
somebody's calculating the numbers, and they realized that the DEI
component an affirmative action largely is now a net negative

(05:47):
to them, which proves they didn't care about it in
the first place. In the same way California, who, I
don't know if you could find a group of lawmakers
who are more all in on the climate change yet
did nothing to mitigate it. If you honestly believe that,
then you should be mitigating all day every day. There's

(06:11):
a lot of truths that emerge, and the truth is
is the Democrats realized now is a time where they
can let stuff like this that will eventually end up
in the news and rekindle some of the DEI stuff,
but is hurting them in elections to go away. And
if anybody ever goes I can't believe it went away.
They can point over the like, yeah, evil Republicans did it.

(06:32):
We couldn't do anything, And you know, you're not really
at that point going to be able to go back
and figure out if they even attempted to do anything.
You can Google for it, you know how they google
memory hold stories. It happens all the time where I'm like,
didn't we have a story about four years ago? If
it was a story that made the Left look bad,
I would go on Google and I'd have a hell

(06:54):
of a time finding it. But if I go to
other you know, other search engines, I could find it,
and most people use Google and even subconsciously, I guess
you know how it works. So yeah, yeah, that's a
really good point. But it's an even better point when

(07:15):
you think it out. Why didn't they say anything because
it's a loser for them, which shows you it was
all politics it always is. They never believe this, and
also they didn't care the damage that was getting done
by it. It's evil, it's not as evil as what

(07:37):
they did with poor immigrants. That's the most evil. It's
the most evil thing that Democrats have done since slavery, okay,
And if you don't know my full it goes like this.
And admittedly I had to travel. I had to go

(08:01):
to places like Columbia, which I don't know that I'm
gonna be able to go back. I wanted to go
back to glat to pay or so I don't know
that I could right now. They're a little uh ruh
down there, which we'll we'll touch on, but you know,
I went down there, and I've been to I've been
to probably half of Central America and most of North

(08:22):
South America. And they they literally run ads. I've mentioned this.
They run ads and like you know those free newspapers,
the shopper papers, those are popular down there, Lamoticia, which
is just the new or the news basically.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Is.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
And they run ads for transit services, escort services, not
those kinds of escorts, but escorting people. Unfortunately, though sometimes
it turns into the other kind, I guess, but and
the like some of them had Joe Biden's face on them,
and had you had criminal organizations that were praying on

(09:05):
people who are uneducated, really really poor. But regardless of
your educational or financial status, the unifying thing in most
people is they want opportunity for them and their family,
and they don't even need a lot of it, but
they need enough to survive. And that's before you get

(09:27):
into the political stuff going on in some of these
countries where you basically had nik Rodwood basically as a dictator. Okay,
Honduras ain't much better. You go to Roatan if you're
a tourist, you don't go to the mainland, or you
end up like the owners of that bar and Raleigh
sitting in a prison in Honduras because the guards cut
apart at one of those fake Arizona I is tea

(09:49):
safe cans, you know that looks like a drink, but
it's where you hide your money, And because it had
insulation in it, they assumed it must be cocaine and
they kept her in a prison down there for a
couple weeks. That was a big story back in the day.
So you run ads and you tell people you're like, no, no, no,
this is your window right now. Yeah, no, if you

(10:09):
go up there, and then they see video of this stuff,
because it became the policy of the party, and even
though they would under explain the complexities of it, they
saw enough evidence that they took everything that they owned,
they beg borrow and stole, and if that wasn't enough,

(10:32):
they also agreed to things which are horrendous and if
not paid, could be deadly to criminal organizations, things like
when I get there, I will prostitute myself. That's how
you end up with what you saw on the Southern

(10:52):
border with that chick they just busted. It was running
a sex prison thing, and they said, here you go,
mister cartel or criminal organization or just all around bad guy,
here's everything that I have. Because you were convinced by
what you were seeing on the news of people who

(11:13):
look like you and sound like you sitting in midtown Manhattan,
hanging out in a hotel, hanging out on the streets
getting all the groceries man, and you looked at your
lean to your living in with no heating, no air conditioning,
no floor in some cases, and you went, it has

(11:35):
to be better than this. You gave them all your money,
and then you got to know Gallas and you found
out you weren't going to get in. That's why I
said it's okay to be sympathetic with some of this stuff,
because now you're there, you have no money, and you
may even owe because they've quote unquote rendered their service

(11:56):
and their criminals. You may owe whatever you agreed to.
That's the most evil thing they've done since slavery, because
it's clear when it's deincentivized to do that. Did you
see the guys from Columbia who were going to walk
back into Mexico and the dudes like, don't go over there, migra, migra.

(12:18):
It's talking about immigration, don't go and just's and that
video gets back as well. So if you think that
policy and politics here in the US didn't contribute to that,
and now you have people that went through everything that
I just told you who were standing, you know, a
half mile outside of our borders, destitute and they don't

(12:42):
know what to do. That's where we are. And it
also explains why countries like Honduras, whose president is now
decided is the latest leader who wants to get into
a tiff with Trump. It also is why they don't
want those folks back because they are not a net

(13:04):
positive from a financial standpoint, even with the slim quote
unquote safety nets they have, the you know, their universal
health programs, they're caa hostile programs which you're better off
going into the woods finding a leaf to rub on
you man, and now this with the affirmative action. Believe

(13:28):
in something, man or nothing at all, I believe is
the phrase, because this, this would have been your pet
project eight years ago and now you couldn't care less
six twenty hang on why like because this is one
of the one you're in the marble side and two
I don't know, there's been a lot of hatred for

(13:50):
any of the Captain America movies. I told you I
thought the one was too busy, but that was it.
So Anthony Mackie is the actor's name. I believe he is.
You know, if you saw if you've seen the trailer,
obviously they were running it during the during the football
and everything. If you look at it, he is now
Captain America but with wings and all of that stuff.

(14:12):
All right, And we've talked about this on the air.
Ross is in the camp that Steve Rogers is Captain America. Okay,
So there there will be people who are in that
camp are not going to be excited because it is
a transition to the character. It's not a swap per
se right, where they just pretend that that's Steve Rogers.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
Now right, it's understand this cannon, I just don't like it,
so yeah, I'm going to pass on it.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
That's fine, yeah all right. So uh so at that
point you have that, you also have the death to
Jews crowd, who's mad because one of the characters is
an IDF soldier and is not immediately murdered or something.
I don't know, but that should be the only stuff
working against you, because for the most part, Captain America

(14:59):
movies have have been at least popcorn entertainment kind of
you know, they've done really well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So why so he's at a comic con and he said, what.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah, I was gonna get the audio for Steven on Thursday.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah. Yeah, we'll talk about it then. So no, rush,
let's just let's just yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
So he's got like some sort of press junk it
and he said, you know, in his in his opinion,
Captain America doesn't really represent America.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
I'm sorry, what's the name of the character Captain America? Oh,
I see, I see, I am part of a veteran,
do we know in the movie, Yes, I mean just
Captain America, the character he is. Oh well, okayd he
was he just was he a peacetime veteran not to
I'm not trying to draw divisions here. Or did he
get did he gets shot at a few times? Okay?

(15:52):
Was it like a big enemy or do we know?

Speaker 3 (15:54):
I'm not seeing this piece of crap movie. There's no way.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
What do you talk? Why? Why? Why the unforced air there?

Speaker 3 (16:00):
I mean, I'm an old fogie here like this crowd
is captain at sake to Miles Morales is Miles Morales crowd,
and it's I just can't, I can't do it.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Got it? Those are the fun nerd fights on this, Yeah, right,
nobody's They're just like, this isn't for me.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
And if you disagree, it's fine. Yes, I'm just not
going to see it because I'm old. Get off.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
I was on the here's where I was. I would
have seen it. I don't know. I wouldn't go to
a theater to see it, but as soon as it
popped up it probably would have got me to do
like the month of Disney plus or whatever or where
maybe it went somewhere else first. I don't know, but
I probably would have seen it just because every other
not every other movie, Like I remember I mentioned I
want to go to the movies last week, and at

(16:40):
this theater, it's got like nine million screens. I couldn't
find a single movie I wanted to see that, A
single one I would have. I would rather sit in
my hotel room when I was because I was over
in Greensboro broadcasting. Probably sit in my hotel room, then
go because I had that afternoon free, then go pay.

(17:02):
You know, I wasn't gonna break me just for that
entertainment because it was so bad, so I would I
would have probably seen this in some capacity. And now
if the only way I'll see it now is if
it's on in a room I walk in, and it
would be rude to turn it off. I don't understand
these cats, man. That's why you got to make your

(17:24):
own fun. That's why you gotta go to like bourbon
tastings and stuff. See that won't let you down. And
it didn't. Like I said, we had, we had two
hundred and twenty people ticket to show up there. I
want to share just a couple of things. I met
some listeners, obviously a couple couple, a couple of you.
I knew you've come to other events, but a lot
of new faces there love that I ended up. I

(17:47):
really wasn't supposed to MC, but it kind of worked
out with the way that it was going on, and
I just I want to There was one person, all right,
it's gonna get dusty in this room. Okay, I'm just
warning you. It's gonna get dusty. But there's a couple
things that happen when you do this job. One, the

(18:09):
amount of people who sing the iHeartRadio theme to me
at gas stations if I'm wearing any logos or I'm
driving on the station vehicles is wild. In the Triad.
I don't know why. In the Tryad they do it
so much. Pop into his sheets, ladies checking me out,
and I had to we have a pullover jacket because
you know, it's a billion degrees blow zero last week,
and she's just like, I Heart Radio. Like that's one thing.

(18:32):
But the other thing is people share stuff with you,
sometimes to the point of uncomfortability. You all need some filters,
but sometimes they share stuff with you, and you kind
of you realize that you're going to be part of that,
and so you have a responsibility. Like I joke about everything,
but you can't joke about everything. And this very nice

(18:53):
woman was at the event, and the manager of the
hotel said, hey, she she'd He gave me a little
rundown of what they had been talking about because she's
seated next to one of the managers there. You know,
it's a standard ballroom set up with the you know,
the tables. Everybody grab a seat, a couple reserved at
the front for the people speaking. And I didn't ask

(19:14):
her if i'd use her name, so I won't. And
here's what had happened. So her husband loved these things,
love the bourbon tastings, the you know, those kinds of events,
and so when he heard the tickets were available, he's like, honey,
we're going, and so he bought tickets and then he died.

(19:39):
And she made the decision because this was one of,
you know, one of their favorite things to do, to
go to things, not necessarily the bourbon tasting component, but
just you know, do fun little stuff. They were getting
to that age, you know, the kids are out of
the house, you're doing the thing, go out and have
some fun. And he unexpectedly passed away. And he loved
cars and motorcycles, and so did she, and we talked

(20:00):
about it for you know, four or five minutes, just
because I kept having to go up and host and
and so we got to toast her husband at this thing.
And it was really dusty in that room too. Just
a lot of amazing people down there. And again the
the folks who hosted us the hotel is I mean,

(20:22):
that is really impressive. And you know, and I will
say this, they gave me. They did give me a
little room upgrade. But they but the pictures and I
posted them on the Twitter. If you scroll back through Friday,
that's the shot from the balcony of the room looking
out over the water there looking out over the tiki bar.
They have like a floating tiki bar which was covered

(20:43):
in snow, which was kind of kind of funny actually
because it's a tiki bar, it should be covered in snow.
And just big wrap round patio. They have the guy
who owns the hotel, which, by the way, I found
out he's from Wyoming. He's the only like like five
of us, five of us that I've ever met in
North Carolina. For Wyoming. He has he bought one of

(21:07):
those old wood in like let's say it's a fairy
it's a tax like a water taxi but it's all
the polished wood and it sits in front. I mean,
it's just what a great place. And thank you to
everyone who came out for them, because if you, I know,
I had a great time, and yes, spirits were consumed,
and they had really good spirits. I think I posted

(21:30):
a picture of one of them there. It's this. It's
a new brand. It's like a a mom and pop
startup called Wilderness and it's a heavy Rye and I
like ryeber. I like Rye whiskeys too, especially if I'm
gonna mix something, you know, bourbons rye whiskies, but to
get more of a bourbony taste with more Rye in it.

(21:54):
I really enjoyed that. So that's also what that stuff's about.
So you know, find a new stuff, getting with folks,
trying to get sure if you ever do the whiskey
booklets or you got to taste all of them, get
a stamped. They're really into that. And they had some
dudes who had completed like the big book there, which
is not easy. So they're getting their challenge coins and
some stuff with that. It's just it's a good it's

(22:16):
its own little culture too, and so I really appreciate,
because I've got to tell you, with all that snow
that came through, I was really nervous that we were
going to be able to fill that room. And I
think they said they probably could do. They can expand
one side of it, and they think they can maybe
get twenty five more in there. But this thing's already

(22:37):
brimming at peak, and they think if there wouldn't have
been snow, it probably would have. So again, thank you
didn't see Boston Paul down there though, missed out on
a good time or Boston Paul did? Yeah, go ahead,
Boston Paul. Yeah, you're on the air.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
Brother, Well it took you two days to recover from
one night of drinking. No, are you kidding me? Getting
old man?

Speaker 1 (23:04):
Dude. Yeah, there was a litany of both technical and
travel and also dude, it.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
Was Hey, I can't believe how many people are so
infatuated over the snow on the beach. I mean, I
grew up with it. There's nothing, there's not what's the
big deal?

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Oh really, you're going to pull the New Yorker Wow
back where I was. Do you want to do that?
I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna refer you to the
new committee chair who gets to vet everyone who moves
into North Carolina. I found a dude.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
One other thing, did you see Milania out there in California?

Speaker 5 (23:41):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (23:42):
This does she not look like the professional Secret Service
agent protecting the president?

Speaker 2 (23:48):
All what?

Speaker 1 (23:48):
She got an edge time around. Look, she had an
edge on the inaguration with that hat. She's got an
edge around. I wouldn't mess with it.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah, did you see do you think she had double
RUSI's under there on a swing?

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Is that would that be allowed? I suppose it would
be allowed, right, of course it would be.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
She's the first lady. She can do whatever she wants.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah, but she's not the president.

Speaker 4 (24:10):
Yeah yeah, yeah, so he you know, he needs protection,
so she took over. She's top dog.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
Well again she she I don't want to stay scary
because people will misconstrue that. But she's got an edge
to her this time around. And you know what, that's
because the moonbats radicalized this woman. She Remember, she was
content to do nothing, and then the first time she
did something, she decorated the White House and it looked amazing, right,

(24:39):
it was, you know, it looked amazing. And they're just
like oh my gosh, she's destroyed it. And then you
remember that weird Broadway dance number the Bidens did the
first year and everybody's like, this is amazing and it
looked like garbage, like that's where it started. And then
they're digging through a panty drawer and and it's all
in man, so, oh yeah, it is on. I'm here

(25:00):
for it.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
So I can't wait for the Vogue and all of
them asks to be for her to be on their cover,
and she says no.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
I hope she does or she doesn't. And then she
wears a dress with some hidden meaning that they only
explained after they printed, where she's making fun of whin
tour or whoever the publisher is. So we'll see.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
I was not.

Speaker 4 (25:22):
She looked like the top ducks. He could serve agents
this week, all.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Right, boss to Paul, have a good one. Stand back
between the lanes. All right, thank you, there you go.
Good advice for everybody. All right, So I mentioned the ambassador.
This dude, this is This video is hilarious for a
couple of reasons. One, obviously, the dude's delivery, but that's
how he talks, that's his delivery. And then somebody in

(25:48):
the comments wrote, the auto captions have to be absolutely
and so I turned them on because i't usually have
them on Twitter, and they're not wrong. Trying to figure out,
you know, automatically what this dude's saying, but he very
succinctly puts into words what many people have sent an
email or commented on over the years. When you know,

(26:09):
people like Boston Paul are like Dah beachnow Man, except
Boston Paul's joking. Most people aren't. So we'll share that
with you coming up here on the cacoday radio program
Body positive influencer, fat influencer. I've heard them refer to
like that chick who harasses the airlines decided to go

(26:33):
ahead and order herself a lift, a standard lift. So
you know how it works. You got all these different
choices depending on where you are. There's even more choices,
like if you're in a big, big city, like if
you go to DC or New York, it's like fifty
different variations of this stuff. But the standard ones, if

(26:55):
you go to a Lyft or Uber, they're basically the same.
Right you have economy or the regular you have. Sometimes
you can get like upgrade a slight like a premium car,
but not a black because blacks where you get into
the real you know, limo feel to it or big
suv feel to it. And then you have Uber XL. Right,

(27:16):
so if you're going to the airport it's a family
of four with luggage, you want to order an XCEL
or if you're like me and they have the more
leg room, I can't reme with the cly. I suppose
you just open Uber on my phone. Here, what that
class is, I'll tend to lean into that. Yeah, here

(27:37):
we go. Yeah, they have Uber x is the regular.
They have Uber XL. I'm just looking at the different
choices here, Uber XL. They don't have oh that comfort. Yeah,
that's what they call it here. It is comfort, and
actually it's my default because the last one I use
was comfort, and I like it because you get more
leg room. And you know, if you're like me and
you're six foot are over, I'll pay the extra dollar

(28:01):
and a half or whatever it is if it's if
it's the amount of right there, and then you got black.
They have Uber pets is a category I don't know.
Is that that must be? I hadn't seen that. So
those are people like you and your dog got to
go to the vet. You don't have a car, and
you're gonna do the uber thing. Great, all right, you
got decisions, and you use those decisions responsibly. So this

(28:22):
woman orders the standard small car and then she shows
up two or the guy shows up. She's filming, right,
she's got the phone. It looks like she's holding the
phone in her hand at waste level. And ironically you
never see her. You just see this kind of upward
angle through the window and partially you see the face

(28:45):
of the of the woman and she is she's mad
because the driver says, no, I'm sorry, I can't ma'am.
And again what he should have said is there's I
don't know how you're gonna get a seatbelt, and at
that point he's got it out. All right, there do

(29:06):
this just so yeah, just so you know here, all right,
I'm gonna send this woman's photo to Ross. He has
not seen it on its way to your phone. Might
take a little extra time. It's a big I'm sure
it's digitally big. They fired him, he he he, and

(29:31):
they I think they got mad him for suggesting that
she should have called an excel. She's like and he's
driving one of the small he's only one of the
very smallest older Mercedes, you know, like entry level Mercedes.
The back seats on those things are really tiny.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
Like, so this guy drives up and she's standing there.
What is he supposed to do because.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
You're seeing a photo and I'm gonna retweet the tweet
with her photo in it, So like if you.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Can't fit in the car, what is he supposed to do?

Speaker 1 (30:01):
Well? Yeah, well, she claims in the thing, I didn't
send it to you because we got enough audio. But
she claims in the thing, I just reposted the photo
there at Casey on the radio. She claims that her
friend has a Mercedes and she's able to fit in it.
I I don't know about that.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
The the Trump administration handled that North Carolina visit on Friday.
In fact, Pete Kellner and I don't really text a
lot because he has he has an Android, right, and
so like as soon as I want to send him
a picture or something halftime, it screws up. But him
and I were actually chatting about it, and like there

(30:46):
there were there there were a few of these things.
But here's what I wrote him. I said, letting the
people actually affected speak during the press conferences is masterclass.
And here's the thing. I don't just that for Trump,
but you have to do it right. So if if
you're gonna bring up regular people, but those regular people

(31:08):
are campaign workers, NGO folks or you know, activists, right, activists,
If they're activists, they're not regular people. Democrats do this
all the time. Republicans do it sometimes, and Democrats used
to be better at not doing it all the time.
And now it's like, let's bring up this woman and

(31:30):
then you find you know, talk on immigration, right, Oh,
it's very hard. And then you find out that she's
worked for Larraza for ten years and and people see
that stuff and they go, oh, well whatever. But so
they go up there and they were smart enough to
not just have Trump talk. Obviously, the fact that he's
showing up and he's saying things like, well, I guess

(31:53):
we're gonna bypass FEMA and directly give you guys the money.
When all of a sudden, the Army of engineers is
everywhere every I kept. I have so many posts on
social media this weekend with pictures of army corps in
there hoping to clean up. Remember, people are being told
not to clean up their own waterways that may run

(32:15):
through their property. So when they're told that and yet
it doesn't nothing's happening, people are mad. So now you
got the Army Corps in there, they're doing this stuff.
Obviously they're going to do they have the equipment and
access to you know, be able to do that rather quickly.
But like people start feeling hopeful again. And then you

(32:39):
put them on stage, the people who are not campaign workers,
people who are not activists themselves, people who are just people.
And let me tell you it's very very effective.

Speaker 6 (32:52):
I've been fighting with femas since day one. Our community
there's like thirty two homes. We don't have a ride
in a bridge or drive them our neighbor's property. You know.
I went to EMS and I said, look, my concern
is if we have a fire or we have an
emergency out here, you'ren't going to get to us. You
can't get those big trucks up here. And I've called

(33:14):
and called and called FEMA, and you know, I said,
it's this happened on September twenty seventh, that's four months ago.
Well for us, today is still September twenty seventh. You know,
we haven't had help. And so when I talked to FEMA,
I'll explaining the road and the bridge, and they send
me a letter that tells me to basically fix it

(33:36):
and send in my receipts and they'll refund me some money.
I'm only going to have a road and bridge that honestly,
the bridge itself is probably going to be three hundred
thousand dollars in the road could be close to that also,
because we have to have the community has to have
big boulders brought in. We're not a rich community. We
can't fix it ourselves.

Speaker 5 (33:56):
You know. It's just.

Speaker 6 (33:57):
And as far as like house repairs, I'm still pending.
I can't get money from FEMA until I fix the
road and bridge and send in my proof that it's
fixed and everything. It's just it's been a nightmare and
I totally feel like that we have been forgotten. If
it had not been for our fellow American citizens who

(34:20):
stepped up to help us, I don't know what we
would have done.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
I know that's a long cut, that's a minute, minute
and a half of audio, but you hear all of
the compounding problems, and it's these these weird catch twenty
two's like where she said, I can't get there's no
way we could get ems services or fire services back here.

(34:44):
So I call FEMA, and FEMA says, we got to
fix you. Gotta fix the road first and then we'll
certify something something will reimburse you for it. But she
can't get trucks in to fix the road, let alone
carry the cost of something like that, and so she's
just she's in a doom loop at that point? What

(35:04):
do you do? And people, I'm sure some did, but
a lot of people are the verge of given up.
They would have forcibly moved, sold their land for whatever
they could get, which would probably be a pittance, and
and just I'm not going to deal with this. I'm out.
And I know some people go, oh, well, that's the plan,
so they could buy the lithium. That's not what I'm

(35:25):
talking about. I'm talking about is just humans reaching their
breaking point and this stuff and Trump can talk about it,
but it's far more powerful for this woman to stand
up there and do it. And the sad thing is
I saw very few uses of those people's testimonies, Like
it's like a church, they're testifying a church there. It's

(35:48):
I saw very few uses of that with some of
the more mainstream media, which is very unfortunate. Some of
them did, and that's good and they should because people
can relate to that something is broken. So if you
are I don't know, let's say, hypothetically you're Josh Stein. Okay,
not hypothetically, and they're going to stick a camera in

(36:09):
your face on this issue when this when the president's
here saying this stuff and people, the citizens out there
are on the stage on video saying this stuff. Shut
up or go hey, I'm just I'm so glad that
we're here again. I gave Stein credit because his office
did aid in the hotel thing, which never should have happened.

(36:33):
But what are you doing here? Is Josh Stein doing
a little quick interview literally while this is going on.

Speaker 7 (36:41):
Well, the President came here a couple of times, the
FEMA director Factory who lived here.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
I know that those folks worked hard.

Speaker 7 (36:48):
That doesn't mean we can't be frustrated with some things
that happened, because it never goes as quickly or as
well as we wanted to. But it's all about what
can we do today going forward. I've been governor for
about three weeks now. This is my fifth trip to
Western North Carolina. This is a top priority of mine.
I want the western people Western Carolina Carolina to know

(37:09):
they will not be forgotten.

Speaker 8 (37:10):
Do you have a message for you?

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Will here?

Speaker 7 (37:12):
They will not be forgotten. The people West North Carolina,
you won't be forgotten. I've been here now five times
since I was sworn in. This is the first destination
of the president since he was sworn in. I think
folks here should know they are a priority for both
the federal and state government.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
So the FEMA director practically lived there, taught. Why didn't
you talk about what was successful? Because I don't know
what it is? And this isn't me ragging on all
FEMA employees, it's not. Most of these issues are issues
with the structure of the organization, the fact that it's
a governmental organization. Yes, people, except that there's going to

(37:48):
be certain things that are frustrating because it's a frustrating
it's a disaster, right, nothing smooth.

Speaker 5 (37:58):
But what.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Are you talking about, Governor? What did FEMA do well?
And the fact that you couldn't point a single thing
out other than the occupancy of a really nice hotel room,
over in Cherokee by the FEMA director. Some of those
rooms are very nice, you know, I know, pound sand
on this stuff. What was the win? What was the

(38:22):
wind where everybody got together as a community to stand
in line for propane? Oh, they were bonding. That's good, okay.
Or when they built that tiny home community was zero
percent crime rate? That was carbon neutral at the Hickory
Airport because nobody could live in them. Is that what
you mean? Because I know you like the green stuff.

(38:44):
How about remember the guys in the helicopter went and
rescued half of a family, and then when they tried
to go rescue the other half, they're like, nah, you
can't do that. Well, you know what, you know, what's
a loud to annoy and ross? You ever had a
helicopter fly over you? That's noise and stuff. Not the
black ones that follow us around, but like you know,
the old school ones. Hurts your ears. Man, who wants

(39:06):
that flying over where their house used to be and
their tent is now nobody? And the fact that you
had FEMA management out there who was trying to speed
the process up, but the way they went about it
is to skip homes with Trump signs according to that
woman who was fired for it, So you must believe
there's some veracity to it. And we saw the we

(39:26):
saw the receipts helped me out here, but I want
to be fair. So here's what we're going to do.
A woman we've had on the show several times, obviously,
this is her, this is her thing. She has been
at the forefront of what's going on out there in
western North Carolina, Cassie Clark. I wanted her to come

(39:50):
on to talk about the FEMA wins and the Trump
visit and Governor Governor Stein, Governor Barbecue as I called him.
I think in the one tweet I can't side. I
keep going back and forth with Governor short round short Stack.
Somebody suggested or Barbecue because he loves taking pictures of
him meeting barbecue. And it was funny as I was
driving to and from Beaufort for that event. You go by,

(40:13):
you go by Wilbur's there, right, you go by where
you go and uh, you had the big sign there
and it's you know, if you're if you're if there's
a barbecue trail, which there is, Wilburs is upon it
and Josh Stein love posting photos of him meeting at Wilbur's. Man,
I'm not knocking on Wilbur's at all. I just want
to be very clear. And then I wanted Wilburs. So
what I was gonna say is I almost stopped, but

(40:35):
I was on a little bit of a time crunch.
So Wilburs should pay just Stein Marketing or advertise with us.
You can send Ross and I free barbecue too. We
will be okay. So yeah, well we'll chat with Cassie
that's coming up at eight oh five. But let me
move on to this I mentioned I saw this video

(40:56):
of this guy who, honestly, I think I think he
needs to be the North Carolina borders are. Man, do
you want to come to North Carolina? You gotta you
gotta sit on the porch and drink some shine with
this dude for an hour and then he'll render a decision.
Because I'm laughing my butt off the whole time.

Speaker 9 (41:15):
I've seen a video today about this, Uh the New
York try to explain why uh they be complaining when
they moved outside, didn't want specify by North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
By the way, listening to him, what do you which
county do you think he's from, because I don't know.
I didn't say in the video. What are we picking up?
We think of down east? Probably huh uh? How down
east like South Carolina, border down or like Dupelin. That's

(41:46):
a that'll be a fun thought exercise.

Speaker 9 (41:48):
And I found the explanation for the complaints, uh, quite
intriguing because they bull who me, y'all let me tell
you about it. So you know some of the complaint well,
you know, talking about why thank you close up so early?
And wyat things so far away?

Speaker 7 (42:04):
Uh.

Speaker 9 (42:04):
I can't speak for them city folk in Greensboro, Rider, Charlotte, whatnot.
But around here where I'm from, the Rue, North Carolina,
that's where it's always been, where it's always been. Know that, man,
I'm good with it. No we having to go to
twenty mile to go to the store, especially when I
was younger, Grandma sold were going to town.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
That was the turn.

Speaker 9 (42:25):
We're going to town.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
Oh shoot, I gotta thrown some shoes. Now we're going
to go on to town.

Speaker 9 (42:29):
That's where it was talking about why we ain't got
no bow daggers Boa daggers. I mean, the name is selspy.
You just ask your own question. We need Bowdagga's for
a crime, and then it we got some of the
best hole in the wall restaurants in these gas stations,
some of the best bidders in the county. Every We
don't need none of that.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
We got our own version of bow Daggers. Enjoy that
find you want, you gonna enjoy it. I love this
guy man because you know what, here's the thing. Obviously,
his delivery with the accent, you know, that's gonna catch
a lot of people. He's drinking moonshine, he's gotta you know,
he's got a mason jar in his hand with some
sort of liquid in it, and he's just wrapping on

(43:09):
his porch. You know, just hey, and he and but
he very succinctly identifies a lot of the frustrations people
feel like. Don't get me wrong, if you live in
any state and people from another place come in and
they try to challenge what you consider a norm people,
you know, that irritates folks, maybe not to the extent
to oversay something, but they're like, well, you got to

(43:31):
mess with a good thing. That's why we live here.
That's even outside of the political stuff. So I think
he does a very good job and I love the
way he pronounces bodega, oh deega? What is that? But
he ain't done how.

Speaker 9 (43:46):
They talk about the agrissy. You know how we speak
egg by that we nod the cap, say what's up?

Speaker 7 (43:50):
Head?

Speaker 1 (43:51):
And how they do?

Speaker 9 (43:52):
But it's saying like when they like something, they aggressive
with it. They're gonna talk jump about it.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Now.

Speaker 7 (43:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (43:58):
About all that right here while I'm from you got
some an on your chest, he better bring it to
the door. Yeah, you know, time out, God. We say
we like something, we like it, we say what we mean,
mean what we say. That's the cold down here, shoot,
and what really burned my butter beans?

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Once you time out?

Speaker 3 (44:16):
We behind?

Speaker 9 (44:17):
Now we ain't behind, just a slow pace, I reckon.
That's why you moved down here for that slower pace.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 9 (44:23):
Why we still speak deadboy, we still sit down, sit
on the poach rapper taste. You know what I'm saying.
I spend more time outside.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
On my post I do in my own house. It's
just that's how it is speaking to people. That's how
we roll. While we ain't got a good pizza.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
Now pizzas pizza? No, you know to me piece.

Speaker 9 (44:43):
Of something that you eat. We ain't gotten now, Like
I said before, we interested in some bills on time,
I get a fish fried pig, pig.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 9 (44:52):
There's some good eating right there.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
So his response to New Yorker is, pizza is what
you eat when you ain't got nothing, which has got
to be a daggered through the heart. But then he
talks about some really delicious stuff. All right, one more
real quick clip here.

Speaker 9 (45:07):
You know I ain't got no pride with no Yankee,
nobody had moved, no care line, no prime in town.
Long the understand, don't try to tying no caroline in
New York en finna had it and enjoin, no CareLine
for all this natural beauty and glory, love my state
and laws.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
You're good with that.

Speaker 9 (45:23):
I'm good with you.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
Now you have a good day.

Speaker 9 (45:25):
I'm finishing out here. Oh cram, they're good all right,
now that we're good.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
I'm serious. Just that's the interview process. And as one
of the commenters on Twitter pointed out, uh, if if
you haven't turned on the auto captions, I don't have
them on ever. But if they're not on, turning on
for this video and then listen to them and watch
the poor algorithm or the computer try to put words

(45:53):
on the screen. It's really funny. But he's not wrong.
He not wrong, So kudos to that. Yeah, let's let's
get that video around, right. I got Duplin Guesses, two,
Joco Guesses, a lot of Johnson County Edge comunt. Oh wait,
hold on, well, hang on, Ed, I'm gonna grab your

(46:15):
call if you want to hold through the break, but
we got to take one. We'll be back CaCO Day
Radio program. Problem with the influencer is like influencers who
just like you know, whose whole thing is just getting
makeup on and talking tea or whatever. They I'm so
not into it, so I don't know all the words.
But but no, she is promoting all things North Carolina

(46:38):
and obviously was one of the folks who gained a
lot of attention because she was doing a very good
job during everything that was unfolding in western North Carolina
presenting perspectives and I'm not talking about you know where
people were posting videos clearly for clicks and all of that.
I thought she was more measured than a lot, which

(46:59):
is why I invited her on the show in the
first place, because if there was an allegation, she was willing,
You're literally gonna drive there and figure it out, which
used to be reporters who do that, but now you're
the You are the media, as Elon says, So I'm
really curious to hear the reaction from all the folks

(47:21):
up there, which she no doubt talks to on the
regular and you know, her family's up there, and and
really really how everyone's feeling after Trump's visit. So we'll
get into that, and yeah, we'll talk a little of
the Josh Stein stuff. Plus I think she should she
should talk to this guy's audio. We're just playing who
I think very succinctly and in a pure country North

(47:44):
Carolina accent. Really pointed out the frustrations as he was interacting,
I guess with somebody from New York who was complaining
about a bunch of stuff. No bodega's, the pizza sucks,
you name it. Then we're trying to figure out where
he's from. All right, Ed's got a guess ed, what's up.

Speaker 5 (48:01):
Hey, Casey, good morning.

Speaker 4 (48:03):
I'm gonna I'm gonna touch on this.

Speaker 5 (48:05):
Guy with with the you know, talking about New Yorker's
coming down. I'm gonna I'm gonna place my wage on
Edgecombe County. The reason being is just because I deliver
a lot. Well, I used to deliver a lot anyway,
all over eastern North Carolina, and I probably my first
bet would be Edgecombe.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
And he's probably found out where he's from during the
break somebody sent me, but I still thought it was Wood.
So do you want to hear you want the big reveal?

Speaker 10 (48:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (48:35):
Man, yeah, all right, you ready. Uh, he's near Newburgh,
so I guess Craven would be Craven County, all right,
Well on the track of all the way, Yeah, absolutely, no,
that tracks. There's a big survey north Raleigh all the
way down to just maybe a few miles from the
coast that he could have been in, then down to

(48:56):
the South Carolina border. But yeah, that tracks man, Craven County.

Speaker 5 (48:59):
Yeah, eastern North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
Yeah. Oh yeah, so all right, appreciate Ye're appreciate that
as well. That's cool, man, It's just again turn on
the auto captions. I don't know why I find that
so funny, but I do. I do, all right. Few
other things, A couple of things we can't get to yesterday,
but I feel still need to come your way. Uh well,

(49:27):
let's start here. By now, you've probably seen the Advance interview.
He is so good in interviews, even if you don't
agree with him, He's very good. But it's harder for
a Republican to be good in an interview with most
of the mainstream outlets because not all interviews are created equal.
Usually you got to run in there on the defense.

(49:48):
And what I think Vance is very good at doing.
Trump just lobs grenades. That's his thing. Vance strategically lobs grenades,
and he kind of gets you to play the pin
before he throws it at you, which is not easy
to do. Setting up somebody like if I can somebody
calls and screaming at me, and I can figure out

(50:10):
in the middle of the conversation how to set them
up with their own logical fallacy. That makes my day.
It's not easy to do. Van's as cool as a
cucumber doing it, man is.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
Then there was record oil and gas production.

Speaker 8 (50:23):
Many terrible things to lead to an increase in prices.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
I agree, markret no, but all.

Speaker 6 (50:27):
The things you experience at the grocery store are what
people touch and field. This week you were talking about
bacon on the campaign trail.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
Of course, of course those.

Speaker 6 (50:35):
Things, when do consumers actually get to touch and feel
a difference in their lives?

Speaker 8 (50:39):
Well, Margaret, how does bacon get to the grocery store.
It comes on trucks that are fueled by diesel fuel.
If the diesel is way too expensive, the bacon's going
to become more expensive. How do we grow the bacon?
Our farmers need energy to produce it. So if we
lower energy prices, we are going to see lower prices
for consumers.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
And that is what we're trying to fight for. Because
there was this whole narrative over the weekend like why
are eggs cheap? Yeah, why aren't they? Elie Crystal or
whatever his name is over on MSNBC this garbage tried
to tell y'all.

Speaker 11 (51:07):
I mean, Ali I wrote specifically about this issue what
he was going to do to the Department of Justice
multiple times during the election cycle, because, as you pointed
out in your open, this was all written down. So
I don't like the shock and awe version of this
because if you've been paying attention, they wrote it down,
They told you exactly what they were going to do,

(51:27):
and exactly how you were going to do it, and
a majority of white people voted for this. This is
the disgusting version of America that people want. And oh,
by the way, eggs are still more expensive, so you
even get that great job white.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
Folks, it's just yeah, great job, white folks. I can't yes.
And by the way, you don't have to call let
me say it for you. I can't imagine that said opposite.
Can you imagine some white analysts? Yeah, and Crystal likes
I know he does like some white things because his

(52:02):
hair is crazy. He's got he's the dude with the
big white beakman looking thing. I don't know what was
the what was the muppet? The science Muppet. Yeah, he's
that dude. He's got that hairdo. But I can't imagine.
So I can't imagine Scott Jennings going thank you, black
folks and surrounded all negative a negative, negatively, and him

(52:26):
still having a job at CNN. But let's talk about
some of those folks that Trump's gotten in there. You
see Pete Hegseth. All right, So yesterday he is he's
getting ready to get on a plane or whatever. So
it's one of those tarmac interviews, and it's you don't
even have to direct it. You just normalize it, which

(52:48):
is what what has been the the strategy for for
so many Democrat things over over the years, where you normalize,
like you you don't say illegal immigrant anymore, it's undocumented traveler,
undocumented immigrant. And then you normalize it by just doing it.
That's what Heckseeth is doing.

Speaker 12 (53:08):
But then I'm here, I'm thinking about the guys.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
See if he can figure out what I'm talking about, but.

Speaker 12 (53:11):
That I'm here, I'm thinking about the guys and gals
in Guam, in Germany and Fort Benning and Fort Bragg
on missile defense sites and aircraft carriers.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
And there's two things. Because obviously your ear is going
to pick up on the brag thing. Betting's the thing too,
But also he said guys and gals, and the last
Secretary of Defense would have simply said soldiers. Even though soldiers,
then you get marines and airmen and if you want
to start breaking it down but probably not could use airman.

(53:47):
So he's just like, now we're going back to this
because this is normal and it just flows there. And
and after we did, I'm not going to plan all
the rest there, but there was another cut and they
went on to the next thing. The media just fell
in line, whereas I expected want of them to scream
at them, and they just didn't. And that's because our

(54:09):
military is awesome, you know why. Because our military's not
out chasing Wales. There's crazy story here. Are you ready
for this? Real quick? Raced Aga will like this too
if he's there. So the UK's Royal nay, hey, ray
are you there? Yeah, we're here, all right? You love

(54:30):
this all right, UK's Royal Navy went code read launched
a frantic search for two phantom Russian subs off the
coast who they thought were out there attempting to Basically,
they thought the Russian subs were trying to record them
so that they could have a better understanding of what

(54:50):
British submarines sound like, right, because they have a huge
sub base up in Scotland there, so they're hanging out
off of that. So they think that there's phantom Russian subs.
They're freaking out because they're not pinging him on radar. Uh,
they're pinging them on sonar, but not some of their
other detection devices. And so they went full to the
wall what do you think it turned out to be.

(55:14):
Take a guess out, not a Russian sub farting whale,
you're oh, okay, yeah, that was my first guess. Yeah, yeah,
the hunt for red fart Tober, which by the way,
is good, but I think dos Boof is better. So
maybe I should have been consultant and others who fell
on that side. But uh yeah, yeah, they went full

(55:36):
uh they went full uh uh hunt for red October
and it was a it was a bailing whale with
indigestion or something. Okay, yeah, so yes, that was my
second guess. Unless the Russians have remember they trained that
Beluga whales, so maybe that is an operative right with
the gas, So we don't know.

Speaker 13 (55:56):
It's different, certainly not the answer I would have been
looking for.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
Uh. I gotta tell you, my man. I got to
go down to Newbern and Beaufort specifically, but that area
down there at the coast, and I had I actually
left from Greensboro, so I started, well, I technically I
left from a high point, So I started in a
high point, drove down there about four hours, and the
whole time I'm like, ah, this is fine, this is wait,

(56:20):
what is that? What is that, And I'm like, am
I getting near a ski area? What the hell is
going on?

Speaker 13 (56:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (56:26):
I did not realize how much snow they got down there.
They did and it's you know, it's still The roads
were fine. I just want to say that there was
not a problem on any of the roads, but any
of the side of the roads, on the south side
of the road where they have the big trees, that's
probably all still there because it's not getting in the
direct sun. Man. All right, yeah, let's fix this. Let's
let's clean it up where we are for everybody.

Speaker 13 (56:46):
Okay, Yeah, I mean beautiful week You take out Friday
and right into the upcoming weekend, it's gonna be great
daytime highs and the low mid fifties today, the sixties tomorrow,
maybe back to the mid upper fifties on Thursday. Then
showers Friday, and then Saturday and Sunday. Look a pretty
good lot of sunshine around every day except except Friday

(57:08):
when those showers will come in, and then the overnight
lowsly you can be decent too, staying above freezing. After
this morning load of mid thirties lo to mid thirties,
then the forties by the weekend. And we even got
a shot, especially as we get around the triangle and
points south at east where some of that snow may
still be lurking of maybe a sixty eight tomorrow afternoon,
same thing Friday. Yeah, so you know, maybe break out

(57:31):
the sticks, you know, you can get out there. And
even over the weekend we got a shot at sixty
degrees both days, probably back into the fifties, and then
Monday warm too. As the patterns changed, so we've gone
from more of a continental polar flow to more of
a maritime influence on the Pacific, so more of a
flatter west east kind of thing, and that's going to
bring the mild their temperatures in or not later in

(57:53):
the Weekstorm Prediction Center has severe weather not here the
frontal week before it gets here, but severe weather potentially
for parts of Louisiana, Texas that got six plus inches
of snow last week. So we went from winter the spring,
all within the course of seven days.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
So pretty amazing. That's what we do. That's what happens. Yeah,
all right, talk to you soon, sir, Thank you, I
appreciate it, and we'll be right back. Hang on, So
Trump putangling with I mean, what a busy weekend for
this guy. Obviously, he reiterated the Panama stuff. And then
I hope you saw the reporting of the conversation with

(58:31):
Denmark's president or do they call it president prime minister?
It doesn't matter. And of course the media is doing
what the media is doing, and also the Europeans are
doing what the Europeans are doing, because they're like, the
phone call was shocking, it was terrified. Terrifying is the
word they use, shocking, terrifying in just because Denmark is

(58:55):
Greenland is a protectorate of it anyway, it's it's it's
one of their playthings. But to describe it as and
to you know, to further ramp this up, really, was
it terrifying? Can we hear it? The I don't. I'm
assuming the conversation was had in English. She speaks English.

(59:16):
I've because when she was responding she and it and
it was very good English. So I I like, can
we hear it and judge for ourselves if it was terrifying?
And then from there and then Panama got mad again,
then Colombia I'm trying to remember order of operation here,
and then Colombia, and the Columbia thing is crazy, I

(59:38):
will tell you this as somebody who got to travel
to Colombia, was that last year I went to go
what to Pay and then I went to Glopago. Anyway,
I really enjoyed myself down there, and I thought the look,
if you're stupid, don't go to Columbia. If you got
a brain on your head and you understand that there
are things and places that you should go, there are
probably places you should not go, and also the things

(01:00:00):
you should not say.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
Like.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
I found it really fascinating talking to people my age
or above in metazine because there are the thing that
they hate more than anything in Metazine is Pablo Escobar.
And you really quickly learn why because as you walk

(01:00:21):
around the city and you go it doesn't matter where
you go. You can go to Publato where they have
a lot of good restaurants. Don't go near there. There's
a lot of bad stuff right near there where a
lot of like and as a result, you have a
lot of tourists, a lot of money. You also have
a lot of crime, prostitution, things like that, and Columbia
deals with that to the extent that they can. So
areas like Publato, where my hotel was is kind of

(01:00:46):
on the other side of town in a place called
lorelis On and that's a great bar restaurant district, great hotels,
and I enjoyed it. And I was only there for
a couple of days. And then want to pay, which
is this volcano lake thing, which is amazing, and they
have these stairs you walk to the top of the
caldera and it's really cool and and everyone was very chill.

(01:01:12):
Well everyone's not real chill right now. But also there
is a reckoning that Americans voted for, and that reckoning
is this this illegal immigration stuff. I know, I know,
I just ran out of people, like I'll explain what
like ten people have emailed me here in a moment,

(01:01:33):
I knew it was gonna happen, and I'm sorry. I
just wanted to move on to this. But so like
Columbia basically refused a military it's it's a little there's
a little complexity to it because refused is a strong word.
But acted normal is not what they did either. Basically,

(01:01:53):
they they tried to get the rule book out and
do stuff and then they flat refused. Honduras was kind
of the same. I'll get to that in a moment,
and so he said, fine, we're just gonna tear if
your stuff. And for five minutes, the president of Pietro
I think is his name, He's like, fine, we're gonna
tear if your stuff. And then I guess somebody must
have run the numbers and realized, what do you think

(01:02:16):
we buy from Columbia? And don't say cocaine, I mean,
what do we buy legally from Colombia that we decimated
our own industry through a trade agreement that Bush W
Bush put in flowers? Columbia produces amazing, which is why
when you fly into Colombia and you look down in
the field, it's amazing. If it's the right time of

(01:02:37):
the year, and it was for me. She doesn't really
do politics. It's gonna be unavoidable in this discussion because
it is the reason we're having it. The Trump visit
to North Carolina's first official visit in the United States
to anywhere was us and it was incredible to watch

(01:02:59):
not just Trump, not just what he said about FEMA
and how money's gonna work, but also watching people who
are not activists, who are not people who ever saw
themselves standing on the stage with the President testifying to
get up there and really talk about the difference there scene,
So I wanted to dig further into that. You've seen
her on Twitter at Dogwood Blooms. Is her handle. It's

(01:03:22):
Cassie Clark, who joins us this morning, who has instructed
my producer that she is to be referred to as
the Queen or her majesty. You know, we had a
problem about two hundred and fifty years ago with people
demanding that. But I'll give you the pass. How are
you doing this morning, Cassie?

Speaker 5 (01:03:41):
I'm good.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
How are you, Kasey?

Speaker 1 (01:03:43):
Oh, you know, just doing my thing. But I'm watching
the video from Trump up there and this woman, there's
this woman on the stage, one of several to be
able to talk with Trump. And again, I know, I
know you try to avoid politics. It's unavoidable when the
president visits. But let's talk about the impact it has
on North Carolina. What do you think the impact will

(01:04:04):
be on the effort to rebuild western North Carolina? Based
on what you heard?

Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
I feel like Western North Carolina was ignored, right, I mean,
from the time the storm hit all the way up
until Trump made it into office. I feel like the
major news networks ignored us I feel like most of
the news that was coming out was being released by
people like me, Matt van Swall, Sean Hendrix. And how

(01:04:31):
sad is that that you have to go to x
to find out what's going on on the ground. And
Trump got into office and all of a sudden that changed.
All of a sudden were in the spotlight, and you know,
I can't remember who said it, but there was one
hundred percent right. Trump didn't just come and give a speech.
He handed his microphone to western North Carolinians. I mean,

(01:04:55):
I think that that was just one of the most
beautiful things I've ever seen. It was perfect.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
Yeah, And I saw people because people are cynical, and
they said, well he did it, you know, because you
know for politics, Well here's the thing. Who cares if
you even if you think that, what is the impact
going to be? And the impact is that woman that
we played audio from, I'm just going to play a
little snippets. You know which one I'm referring to.

Speaker 6 (01:05:20):
I've been fatten with femas since day one. Our community
there's like thirty two homes.

Speaker 1 (01:05:26):
So she describes a she describes a situation where these
homes are rule as many homes are in western North
Carolina and specifically their road, which is a I would
describe it as a weather road. I don't know if
we use the term as much, but you know a
road that requires maintenance. A lot of the maintenance is
done by the locals. We did it as a kid

(01:05:47):
growing up for ranch roads, and it's gone or it's
impassable where ems or fire couldn't get up there, as
well as a lot of heavy equipment and FEMA she called,
and this is the doom loop. These people find them
in said, hey, we need to fix this. There's thirty
two of us back here, and if something happened somebody
has a heart attack there, they're not going to make it.

(01:06:09):
And they're like, well, rebuild the road. We'll pay you what.
And also you can't get the trucks in there to
rebuild the road. And so the average citizen who's never
had to deal with this, I wouldn't know how to
deal with this, is sitting there and the answer for
some is to throw their hands up and move. And
so how many of these stories have you heard?

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
Countless? I mean literally countless. So when the storm hit,
immediately started sharing places that people could donate highlighting organizations
that were going to be on the ground, and from
there it just kind of grew and so it was
like every day there would be anywhere from ten to

(01:06:54):
fifty dms coming straight to me with people who needed help.
And how heartbreaking is it to hear the same story
over and over again. Our roads washed out, our bridge
is gone, our home is gone. We can't get a
hold of FEMA. I don't know what to do. Can
you tell me who to contact? Like, I've heard it

(01:07:15):
so many times that it made my head spin, and
so to see things actually moving now is amazing. And
I'm not an overly political person. I mean, anybody who
followed me prior to Hurricane Helen obviously knows that. And
I've seen people flip sides because of Hurricane Heleen. I mean,

(01:07:37):
this is a big deal here in North Carolina, and
I've also seen a lot of people downplay it. I
actually saw video this morning of someone driving through Swana
Noah and saying that nothing was being done, and they
drove through the best areas in Swana Noah. They didn't
even show the worst road. So I mean, this just

(01:07:58):
goes to show how one person can make it seem
like things are so much better than what they actually are.

Speaker 1 (01:08:06):
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. One of our emailers, Josh, it looks
like they're a construction group, he said, we have been
helping rebuild, donating time and equipment, struggling to get it done.
These things are very expensive to repair. If it wasn't
for private donations, he estimates that half of what's been
done wouldn't have been done. Would you say that's a
fair assessment?

Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
Oh? Absolutely, absolutely. Whenever the hotel voucher started expiring, Mercy
Ory once stood up and spent thousands of dollars to
pay for hotel rooms for people who were about to
get kicked out from FEMA.

Speaker 1 (01:08:43):
In the middle of a snowstorm on my dad. Yes, yeah, yeah.
So let's talk Army Corps of engineers. I saw a
lot of posts yesterday or over the weekend that has
there been a big influx of actual government I mean
that's Army Corps. US Army Corps has that or what
should I believe?

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
So I have Now I'm not on the ground in
western North Carolina right now, but from the news that
I am getting in from people that I am trusting,
they're telling me that all of a sudden, they're seeing
them everywhere. And I think that's incredible because I've visited twice.
Both times I didn't see much going on. And to

(01:09:24):
hear that now you're spotting them in the roads and
that work is getting done, that's a godsend.

Speaker 1 (01:09:32):
Yeah, And I did some research. Apparently prior to inauguration day,
the president would have still had that ability. I don't
know if you knew.

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
This, So that's something that I heard, that all of
these things could have been done beforehand. And how sad
is that? How sad is it that they knew they
could do things that they failed to do.

Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
Do you like the idea of the abolition of FEMA
we get into political because it would then there still
has to be somebody to administrate this, right, so even
if you do it at the state level, then you're beholden.
But arguably the closer the politics are to home, the
easier the influences. Why do you think do you think
that that's a good idea? Because I saw Josh Stein

(01:10:18):
sitting there talking about well here, let me play the audio,
and then I'm curious your response.

Speaker 7 (01:10:23):
Well, the president came here a couple of times. The
FEMA director factory who lived here. I know that those
folks worked hard. That doesn't mean we can't be frustrated
with some things that happened, because it never goes as
quickly or as well as we wanted to.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
Now, some people interpret that is Stein not having any
firm understanding of what FEMA did and how people feel
about it. I don't care if the FEMA director spent
a bunch of time at the casino and Cherokee. I
want results. So what do you think all that?

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
So I'm not sure how I feel about getting rid
of FEMA entirely. And here is why. Because the state
was in charge of nc r R, which was in
charge of eastern North Carolina following Lawrence and Matthew. And
we still have families in eastern North Carolina who may

(01:11:17):
never receive the help that they were promised. So is
it going to be any better for the state of
North Carolina with the State of North Carolina in charge
of disaster relief? I'm not sure so. And see, this
is why I hate politics, because it's almost like, no
matter which way you go, this is the.

Speaker 1 (01:11:37):
Issue people's life. You know, it is politics, And I'm
with you. I understand and Honestly, that's why I asked
you on the show because I thought that you did
a very good job of you know, there was a
lot of stuff that was coming out that wasn't true,
whether it was intentional or just people dealing with stuff,
and I thought that you did a good job of
filtering through that because you know, all it takes is
one story that's clearly hyped and wrong for people to

(01:12:00):
dismiss what's going on. And oh yeah, believe you understand that.
So this it is. It is the intersection of life
and politics. It's not just politics to do politics. It's
politics to not freeze to death or to retain your
business or your way of life. And so I think
it really transcends.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
And there was a lot of issues. I mean, there
was the baby story, and I'm sure most people have
seen this on social media because it keeps reviving itself,
stories of a small toddler freezing and not making it
and that I find that soul of senses because I'm
from western North Carolina and I know my people very well,

(01:12:44):
and I know that they are working so hard to
take care of each other, and the idea that that's
not something that would be in the news that that's
not something that every Western North Carolinian wouldn't be screaming
about is offensive.

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
You know, yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
It's not going to be someone sitting on their couchs
in you know, California or Massachusetts or Maine making a
video revealing that kind of information. It's going to be
groups of hillbilly's raging if something like that were to happen,
and trying to put down these types of lies takes

(01:13:23):
away from the real things that are happening. And so
I've done my best to step up and say, hey,
that's not true. But yeah, I mean that's become a
major concern in western North Carolina, is all the grifting
and lying and people trying to get popular, get clicks
off of the misery of others.

Speaker 1 (01:13:39):
Yeah, you forgot Florida grifters on your list there?

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
Oh yeah he was.

Speaker 1 (01:13:43):
I don't want to give that guy any outs in
the air with his name, but the amount that dude
has nine lives, I keep seeing him try to revive stuff.
Yeah see, all right, we'll leave it there. I'm just saying, look,
if if people do and they should, right, don't think
it's over. They were out saw an estimate, And you

(01:14:05):
tell me if you've heard this that the Lake Loure
area that they were being told by the state that it'll
probably be like two years before they're back to normal.
Does that track with what you're hearing? Can you imagine
two years of people not people from North Carolina even necessarily,
but people who want to come experience North Carolina and
pretend they're in footloose and put baby in the corner,
like two years. Is that you're understanding how long this

(01:14:28):
is going to take?

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
I think that that's a hopeful estimate. I think it's
going to be longer than that before Western North Carolina
is fully on its feet. Some of the things that
I saw when I was back home blew my mind.
It literally looked like bombs went off in creaks. You know.
There were mobile homes that were literally look like they
were crushed like tin cans. And if it's cleaned up

(01:14:55):
in two years, I will be on money praising Jesus
because it's going to take a lot and a whole
lot more than what we have seen so far.

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
Is is there truth to I heard some people complaining
that they're you know, they're trying to get ahead and
clean waterways that may run through their property, so you
know cricks, creeks, and even rivers, and they're being told
not to. And we heard a story in California where
they were not letting people go into the palisades and
try to start clearing their property. Is there a legitimate

(01:15:26):
reason for that? Is that happening? Because you know those creeks,
especially in an agricultural setting, you still need them in
many instances. So what do you know about that?

Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
So I actually heard about that yesterday. To my knowledge,
it is true. I actually need to do some research
on that, and I'm planning on reaching out to some
of our representatives to find out what's going on with it,
because I can see no other reason that the waterways
still look like they do.

Speaker 1 (01:15:58):
I see, yeah, yeah, you see. I saw a picture
there's a washer dryer set sit in this one creek
and the lady was saying they were told she can't
move it, and that they were if there's some scientific
reason where they got a test And I'm like, well,
I don't know, maybe if you pull it out it'll
test cleaner. I'm not a scientist, but that just seems
logical to me.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
Yeah, I don't know how that works. What I do
know is is that on my last trip home, I
saw numerous vehicles in the river, and so of course
there's oil and gas in those, there's ana freeze in those.
You cannot tell me that it is safe to leave
overturned vehicles in the middle.

Speaker 5 (01:16:36):
Of a river.

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
No, No, A thousand, thousand percent right there, for all
the reasons. And this is literally something that we dealt
with one time when I was a kid, where they
had we had a really really bad windstorm and a
five hundred doallon fuel tank, not on our property, but
a property that was thankfully downstream. I went and it

(01:16:58):
was it was absolutely and you know what, Literally the
day after. The only reason I knew about is because
I went over and brought one of our tractors too,
and we tugged all of this stuff out and it's
just running out the whole time. So it's it's very bad.
Give me a We talked about a lot of depressing stuff.
What's what Give me a happy story? Where you know,

(01:17:20):
people cannot feel down in the mouth leaving this interview today,
because through the work of locals, through the work of
even outside charities like Mercury one that you mentioned, which
is what that's Glenn Beck's right, what what what have
you seen that is ahead of schedule where people are
really making because a lot of local local government's going

(01:17:41):
to impact this as well. So tell me something positive
you've seen, Cassie.

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
So, on my first trip home, I came up and
I was expecting complete devastation. And my hometown sits I'm
from Canton and it sits in a valley on the
Pigeon River, and so I thought I was going to
go home and find that it was just gone. And
on my very first trip, so this is what a

(01:18:07):
week after the storm.

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
About thirty seconds. I'm just warning you.

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
So, Okay, I come in and my hometown looked great.
It looked great. I'm so proud of Heywood County. And
there are other areas that pulled through that great too,
And so I think that there's a lot of resilience
and I think that we're going to make it through
this better than ever.

Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
And I think if if we all have our favorite
places in North Carolina, and I think if where we
travel to maybe we don't live, and if there's a
favorite place up in the mountains, you have and you
have a little time or money and you want to
turn your attention to that. I think it's a good
thing we all could do at Dogwood Blooms. Yeah, at
Dogwood Blooms. On Twitter, that is Cassie Clark, who thinks

(01:18:49):
she's royalty. Thank you, Cassie, thank you. All right, we'll
be right back hanging the dudes over at Ben and
Jerry's ice cream kill me. And I don't know why
they keep putting a core in the crotch punching machine,
but let's do this. So Ben and Jerry's is very
upset because the company that owns Ben and Jerry's, who

(01:19:11):
are not the guys who started Ben and Jerry's, but
rather a big conglomerate known as Unilever. I'm sure you're
familiar with them. They are upset because they feel that
Unilever has barred Ben and Jerry's from issuing what was
going to be like a really woke anti Trump message.

(01:19:33):
So while there's still is involvement there because of this
sales agreement, because here's the deal. When the company buys
something and you sell your thing, but your thing has
your name on it, maybe you're still the spokesman for it.
Any of the rest the company is buying it is
going to have conditions. I have conditions, right. My name

(01:19:54):
is Casey O.

Speaker 5 (01:19:55):
Day.

Speaker 1 (01:19:56):
The show is called that my company owns the show.
Oh that's how that works. And that's just that's just
how that's how entertainment, not just entertainment, that's how things
like this work. And so in I can't go out
and openly disparage my company. I can't do things. We
have morality clauses. We have all of these things which

(01:20:18):
are standard. So it's not like Ben and my point
is Ben and Jerry didn't get tricked into this. Do
you know what I mean? What they availed themselves of
was capitalism. They started a company and it's a I
understand their woke and green and all that. Their ice
cream isn't bad, it's it's it's high quality ice cream.

(01:20:42):
And and so the other thing is too to make
ice cream like that, uh Russ never talking off the air,
it's it's one of the it's gotta be one of
the least green products available. You got a macadamia try
in your yard? No you don't. You know why because
they come from the Indian Ocean where they import a

(01:21:04):
lot of Macadamians from not not purely, but Matta Gascar
grows a crap ton Indonesia as well. That's the other
side of the world, bro. And how many of their
flavors have Macadamian They're probably a bunch. And that's just
getting started. Vanilla also comes from the other side of
the world. Real vanilla if you want, you know the

(01:21:25):
mass growing of it. So you're in the ice cream biz.
And then there's the part where you have a product
from the moment you start making it has to be
refrigerated or in some state of transformation that is utilizing
big machines that require a lot of energy all the rest.
And then when the when the time was ripe and

(01:21:47):
you could get the maxim amount of money, you turn
to a company. I'm not knocking on Unilever, but do
you turn to a worldwide conglomerate which makes products all
over the world and then ship some of all the
other parts of the world. And also as a chemical component.
You want to get into that so that they would

(01:22:08):
pay you an ungodly sum of money. And now you're
mad that you can't do something the company thinks would
harm their brand. Go take your money, go buy your
six houses and be a hypocrite. You know, I'll lave
Bernie Sanders and shut up man to ice cream.

Speaker 3 (01:22:25):
Not gonna lie.

Speaker 1 (01:22:25):
We get this one a lot.

Speaker 14 (01:22:27):
Yeah, we're in the ice cream business, but we've always
been about much more than just ice cream. We use
our power, our privilege, our platform, on our relationship with
our fans to advocate for progressive social change. So now
we're not just going to stick to ice cream.

Speaker 15 (01:22:39):
And we're never going to stop trying to dismantle white
supremacy and the climate crisis or fight for our democracy.

Speaker 14 (01:22:44):
I know we're not going to stop fighting laws that
restrict trans writes, ban books.

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
And I'm gonna pause this real quick. If you folded
your company up, if you folded your company and you
were not producing ice cream anym, not shipping, not refrigerating,
not the trucks that deliver it, if you were not
doing any of that, you could have the impact from
a client. You could have the maximum impact on the

(01:23:13):
climate stuff because you would just cease to exist all
And I understand there's other companies that may come in
and because people want ice cream, right, and it may
expand the market share for Hoggin DAWs or one of
the other premium brands. Fine, but if you morally feel
that you have to do that, quit, just stop and

(01:23:35):
again you sold out to one of the largest consumer
products companies in the world. Man well back abortion.

Speaker 10 (01:23:41):
Protections, caring about that stuff, doing something about it, as
supporting communities who've been directly impacted by it as part
of our DNA, and it has been since we opened
up our first scoop shop in Burlington, Vermont, back in
nineteen seventy eight.

Speaker 14 (01:23:54):
Ben and Jerry were two best friends who love making
ice cream, but for them, the only reason to be
in business. To do business different whether.

Speaker 15 (01:24:01):
We're working with activists in Saint Louis to close a
racist and inhumane jail, or working to restore the right
to vote for people who are formally incarcerated in Florida,
or turning up a delicious new flavor and support of
refugee rights in the UK. Being an activist company is
who we are.

Speaker 14 (01:24:16):
And we know our fans wouldn't want it any other
way because while we love making the best possible ice
cream in the best possible way, the world needs more
than just great ice cream.

Speaker 15 (01:24:25):
We don't pretend to always know the answers, but we
partner with and take the lead from activists and allies
who do, and we hope you'll join us in taking action.

Speaker 14 (01:24:33):
To support them.

Speaker 1 (01:24:35):
Yeah. No, you sound like you think you know all
the answers. And again I'm telling you, if these are
things you're concerned about, I have just given you a
concrete way to have the maximum impact on the climb.
Now here's what they'll tell you. And then this is
always the rub, right, but if we shut down, we
wouldn't be able to influence or fund all this other stuff.

(01:24:57):
And it's like, well, but the thing that you think
is going to kill us every ten years, in the
next ten years, you could have the most immediate impact
on And if we're all dead and you think we're
all gonna be dead here in ten years, then none
of the other stuff matters. Doesn't matter. If a jail's racist,
there's nobody in it because we're all dead, And then

(01:25:18):
the cockroaches can live there. You know, whatever survives done refugees,
You can't be a refugee if you're dead. I looked
it up. I did some research. Doesn't count. So yeah,
it's just like why they keep deciding to go ahead
and get in this. Why anyone is we talked about

(01:25:39):
earlier the Captain America thing. We'll get into more of
that on Thursday. But the actor playing the new Captain America.
So there's Captain America, but you know the thing he
doesn't represent is America. Why why are you doing that?
I have a problem with actor Anthony Mackie. I tend
to enjoy whenever I see him in something. I'm just

(01:26:00):
like the why Selena Gomez who posted this and then
immediately deleted it because even her fans were lighting her up.

Speaker 7 (01:26:10):
Only people are getting attacked.

Speaker 13 (01:26:13):
The children don't understand.

Speaker 1 (01:26:20):
I understand that one of the people on day one
that was arrested, that lunatic in Boston, who's uh hold
on Ross, I got it. You don't even have to
do it right here, that lunatic in Boston. We played
the audio of where he's uh, you know, screw Trump,
and uh, I thought I had it anyway, you know,

(01:26:45):
the you know the guy, he's just lunatic. Hees thanking
Obama and thanking Biden like it wasn't him. But on
the same day they rep you're you're worried about children?
One of the dudes raped a baby. What are you
crying about. I'm so sorry.

Speaker 7 (01:27:03):
I wish I could do something that it can't.

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
I don't know what to do. I'll try every there. Well,
there are things you could do. You could financially assist
people who wanted to come here so that they could
avail themselves of the finance. You know, the financial opportunities here.

(01:27:27):
You could do that. And by the way, I'm not
I would never criticize you for that. If you want
to do that with your money, and that's you, and
that's something you want to do or you want to
you want to flex. But what you're arguing for right
now is what people don't want. I text I. I
tweeted this on on Friday. It was after the show,
but on Friday, I want to go get some food.

(01:27:47):
I'm like, I want to go get some Mexican food.
And there's in high Point on the south end of
the city. There's a little restaurant called Meet Takaria and
I've eaten there a couple of times for lunch because's
right now of the station. But I wanted Mexican food
and they make Honduran food primarily, and so I asked
the girl who's always there. I'm like, he's a good

(01:28:08):
Mexican restaurant. And she recommended a place called a Kias
Mexico a Kias Mexico and which just means here is Mexico.
And I went over there. That place was amazing. The
food was so this is not a paid anything. I've
changed full price. And they also tricked me into doing
a tequila shop. But what are you gonna do? So

(01:28:29):
I go over there. It's loaded. It's loaded with white
people and black people and brown people, and the staff
there is primarily Hispanic. The bartender I believe it is
from Venezuela legally here, I might point out, and really
good English for only being here about I think four
or five years, she said, she so she and and

(01:28:52):
so I'm talking to her. There's a male bartender. There's
like four or five people. There's you know a couple
of guys who I think we're from Mexico initially. Anyway,
you know what, they were all sitting there. I did
not broach. I didn't bring any of this up. They
got TVs there and they're showing Trump and he's doing
because he's doing the North Carolinavism. They're showing him on
there they're having a conversation about the dirt bags who

(01:29:17):
were part of the initial raids. Do you know why?
Because and I can't speak for everyone in the restaurant,
nobody was running around looking nervous. They seem to be
fully staffed. And I'm listening now to patrons, and they're
speaking in Spanish, which I'm a much better at understanding
than speaking. If you hear me the way I just
pronounced the name of the restaurant, but they're also speaking

(01:29:37):
in English too, because there's a woman who's there with
him who looked to be a white lady and not Latina.
And then we all just started talking about it, and
they're just like, because you know why, Because just like
I talked about earlier, with people who are a minority,
who make their way, who get into a college camp

(01:29:59):
is not with affirmative action. Always wondering if people are
thinking they got there from affirmative action. People come to
this country legally and not even just from Latin America,
but that's the forefront of it. They don't you think
they want to walk around with people assuming that they
might be here illegally, because it's so top of mind,
because they're seeing these stories like what happened to Lake

(01:30:20):
and Riley and others because they're doing roundups in certain places,
in certain cities that the Trump administration has targeted. Many
of those cities were sanctuary cities, so it's easy pickings
and they're grabbing the worst of the worst. And those
are the very same people who have a higher likelihood
of living in communities because we tend to group together.

(01:30:42):
So that's why there's Chinatown, or there's the part of
town where whatever town you live in, if it's of
decent size, you know where the Latin grocery store is,
and people tend to live around that. So the likelihood
that some of these dirtbags live in their own community
could be harming their families and their kids. They're aware
of that. So don't give me this garbage. Eight forty seven.

(01:31:04):
Let's get weather. Oh look at that, I short shrifted him,
all right, sir? Can you give me an anpid firey?

Speaker 5 (01:31:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (01:31:10):
Fifties today, sixties tomorrow, fifties Thursday. Some of us may
get into the mid sixties tomorrow. Lots of sunshine around
even the overnight lows will be in the low to
mid thirties. So not a terrible run here before the
showers get here probably Friday afternoon, but still well into
the sixties, and we're back to the mid upper fifties
with sunshine over the weekend. So the book ends good Saturday,

(01:31:31):
Sunday and also Thursday, Wednesday and today. The middle there
kind of the heart of the stories where the showers
are going to be. Most of them actually come while
you're sleeping Friday night. But one to eighty from last week,
case looks pretty good most of this week.

Speaker 1 (01:31:44):
Yeah, I don't sleep. I'm like a robot man. So yeah,
thank you, appreciate it. All right, we'll come back with
Jeff Bellinger. Hang on, well, good morning, Casey.

Speaker 16 (01:31:53):
The emergence of an artificial intelligence startup called deep Seek
triggered a tech sell off on Wall Street investors fear
of the Chinese company could become a threat to the
AI boom. Here in the US, The Nasdaq fell three
percent yesterday, the S and P five hundred fell one
and a half percent, while the blue chips posted games.
The Dow closed two thirds of a percent higher. Now

(01:32:15):
we turn that around today, S and P futures are
up six points and the Nasdaq futures are up thirty five,
while the Dow futures.

Speaker 1 (01:32:22):
Are down fifty nine.

Speaker 16 (01:32:24):
Today is day one of the Federal Reserve's Today policy
meeting that just got under way in Washington about a
half hour ago. Scott Beissent can get to work as
Treasury Secretary today. He was confirmed by the Senate late yesterday.
Pete Hegseth shocked the defense industry and his first day
is Defense Secretary. Sources say he ordered a halt to
new army contracts and solicitations for new programs. Hag Seth

(01:32:48):
wants to do a review checking the programs for, among
other things, any clauses pertaining to diversity, equity and inclusion.
Attorneys general from nineteen states urging Costco ho Sale to
rethink its diversity policies. Costco is among just a few
companies to defend the practices. The ags A diversity equity

(01:33:08):
and inclusion efforts go against the twenty twenty three Supreme
Court ruling against affirmative action. Microsoft is reportedly among the
companies interested in buying TikTok from its Chinese parent company.
That is, according to President Trump. The restaurant Business newsletter
is advising restaurant tours to be prepared for the possibility

(01:33:29):
of visits from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement known as ICE.
Officials and owners are being told to make sure they
are compliant with all documentation requirements and to have up
to date files for all of their workers and Casey.
Honda has an ambitious goal by twenty thirty. It wants
every other two wheeler sold around the world to.

Speaker 3 (01:33:50):
Be a Honda.

Speaker 16 (01:33:50):
This includes motorcycles and electric bikes.

Speaker 1 (01:33:53):
Casey, Okay, all right, Jeff, thank you, appreciate it, sir,
go on, all right, have a good day.

Speaker 16 (01:33:58):
I'll talk to you tomorrow.