Wednesday-1-29-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It was even though you know, we're over a week
into the new administration, yesterday was it was like it
was the first day. It was just insane. And it
because everyone was doing the thing that they do, right,
so Trump's doing the thing, you know, He's doing the
things he said he was gonna do when he was
running in the h and I keep using the term,

(00:24):
but there's no other way to say it. It's, you know,
it's the drinking from the fire hose method of governing,
and the media has got to try to keep up.
And it caused that situation I told you about yesterday,
where like the he repealed affirmative action and nobody really
covered it very much. And eight years ago, that would

(00:48):
have been an insane thing in the in the news cycle,
like everyone would have been freaking out. It would have
had all the gas. They would have pointed out that
it's almost Black History Month and that's by design, and
then leave out the context that this is when we
put a new president in the whole thing would have
been backcraped, crazy and nothing. So yesterday the media finally

(01:15):
able to coalesce around a narrative. The narrative is Trump
just shut off all the government all the people will starve,
all the old people will die. There's gonna be no medicaid.
There's gonna be no medicare. There's gonna be no food stamps.
There's gonna be no police. I don't even have time

(01:35):
to list all the things, even though I was able
to when I started seeing these, I was able to
go and look at the statements and the order, and
it specifically did not, I repeat, did not affect those programs.
What it did affect, and it is a pause, I

(01:57):
would point out, is all the this other ancillary stuff,
all this these crazy stories that come up from time
to time or annually get put in that book of
government waste that a couple senators like to put out,
and you know, things like rubbers for Gaza and which

(02:20):
that whole thing is crazy. Russo made a bunch of
pictures this morning. Apparently he too was looking at that.
If you don't know what it is, wait for it.
We'll get to it, because I don't even know what
to think. They're also, man, you want a rabbit hole?
Do you remember the story here from inauguration day in Vermont,

(02:43):
right up by the Canadian border, where a US Border
Patrol agent was shot and killed. Do you know who
they claim did it and who you're dealing with there,
because that was a weird story, right, Like a lot
of people probably maybe they saw the name or something,

(03:07):
but they didn't really understand what was going on there
and why a border patrol age. Maybe they thought they
were apprehending people coming to It's far crazier than that.
The the suspects here, let me read this. It's a couple, okay,

(03:28):
but it's more than a couple. They are like Montana
militia style, but it's a cult of of trans militia.
It's it's crazy. I told you it's crazy. And federal
law enforcement have been actually surveilling Felix Ophilia Backolt and

(03:54):
Theresa Milo young Blood who goes by They literally in
the press release here they have the pronouns z zemzers.
Is that for both Okay, it's both of them. The
reason that law enforcement decided to go ahead and roll

(04:16):
up on them that day is the couple had gone
to a motel in Lyndonville, Vermont, and the people at
the hotel said something, saw something, said something. But also
they were being surveilled, so in whatever capacity they were
being surveilled. Law enforcement saw what Motel staff saw, and

(04:37):
that was them dressing up in a bunch of black
tactical clothing, which isn't inherently illegal, but a crap ton
of weapons, which also isn't necessarily illegal. And then also
they had some sort of protective equipment, so I'm assuming
that means ves, perhaps a shield of some sort. I

(04:59):
don't know. So what do they do. They pulled them over,
They're like, what's you know, let's let's see what's going on.
And it was at that point they just decided they
were going to shoot the police officer, also Backholt, the

(05:19):
oh Felix Bachholt was killed and young Blood was injured
and survived. So anyway, this thing, the more you dig
into this thing, it just gets crazier and crazier, like
the cult status, which I don't like, what does that

(05:40):
even mean? They don't do a very good job of
outlining it. But but yeah, that's what was going on
up there, man. According to federal law enforcement. There's a
bunch of photos and then like, uh, finally some journalists
decided to dig into this, and and when you do,
and they start talking like people in Berkeley in this

(06:02):
this one article I was looking at. Yeah, Jessica Taylor,
a Berkeley, California women who actually had been friends I
think with one of them, confirmed that they went a
little off the deep end there. So what's crazy, though,
is have you seen anyone really covering it? The person

(06:25):
who's covering this whose article I'm reading is Andy No.
You know, the dude who who Antifa hates more than
anything on earth? All right, so here we go. According
to according to Andy Knows reporting, Ophelia, the one who
ended up losing their life in the the shootout with police,

(06:53):
was connected to a violent trans militant cell or cult
centered around a person known as Zizz, which was both
their pronouns and apparently their cult name. Court filing suggests
the armed trans duo involved in the attack was connected

(07:15):
to the Ziz cult and they the reason that they
were surveilling them was more so, it wasn't just a
stockpile of weapons. They were suspected in three homicides across
the US, but they did not have enough to go
in and arrest them. I'm sorry I'm skimming this because

(07:37):
I literally just saw. I was only able to read
about half of it before the show started. Here we go.
All right, So three murders and also the attempted murder
of an eighty two year old man Curty. Eighty two

(07:59):
year old artist lind of Vallejo, California, survived an assassination
attempt on his life when members of the ziz Trans
terror group impaled him with a sword, took one of
his eyes out. After the he was their landlord. He

(08:19):
he was evicting them because you know, they decided they
were going to go ahead and not pay any money
for the place. And at the time he actually thankfully
had a firearm and he took out one of the
cult members. This this thing is just wild. Man. It

(08:42):
impaled him with a sword as in a ritualistic fashion.
How he was able to get a shot off, I
don't know, all right, So the the Yeah, a cult
member by the name of amer Emma Borhanian was killed
at the time. Oh wow. The Texas House lg who

(09:06):
it was a Texas resident. The Texas House LGBTQ Caucus
honored Borhanian even though he died in the process of
trying to murder the eighty two year old ritualistically with
a sword and in fact it GoFundMe raised tens of
thousands of dollars for Bohanian's family. I'm not gonna be

(09:27):
able to get to all of this. Here's what I'm
gonna do this. There is a giant thread that no
put together. I am retweeting it right now. All right,
so it is reposted. If you go to at CAC
on the radio on Twitter, you can you can go
down this rabbit hole will I'm going to continue to
do it during breaks. But that's about as far as

(09:48):
I got. So the crazy's not over, man. You know,
some dude literally yesterday went to the mall with molotov
cocktails to go kill the new Treasury Secord Jerry, right,
Which that's an instant hate crime, right because he's gay,
isn't That's how it works, right, just wondering because I

(10:11):
I was, I was reliably informed. That's how that's how
this works. So and in fact, the suspect in that case,
according to authorities, initially was going to kill Pete hegg
Seth and then for whatever reason, uh did the old
switcheroo over to to actually know hold on, let me uh,

(10:34):
let me read this. Yeah, so it was gonna go, yeah,
it was gonna go kill Pete hegg Seth and I
don't know. I guess that didn't work out. Then was
gonna go kill Mike Johnson and then decided to kill
Treasury Secretary Scott Descent that according to NBC News, by
the way, before any of you, oh, you don't know

(10:56):
he's gonna do, well, that's what they're reporting. So and
if those are the people you trust, there you go, yeah,
I think you got to go instan hate crime. I
gotta think I gotta think the Justice Department is going
to go throw everything they add. The question will be
a kind of judge do they get if they get
some moon bad judge? And I don't even know how

(11:16):
that rolls out. So there you go a little fun
and for volity to start your day. There is another
thing we're gonna have to do. I'm gonna have to
issue a correction on a story that we did yesterday,
because you know, that's what we do. And when when
you're wrong about something you need to be forthright, you
generally need to do it around the same time or

(11:37):
in the same manner like This is always the criticism
of newspapers, you know, especially during the first Trump uh presidency,
where they would write something and they would it would
be splashed on the front page and it would be
incredibly wrong. And then, you know, like two weeks of
feet dragon later, they put it in you know, second

(12:00):
for six or something of the paper and everybody knew
what was up. No, you got to do it in
the same manner that you did it, so that you
make sure that you're correcting this in front of people.
And I messed up yesterday on the story of the
of the lift driver that was fired. Now, if you

(12:20):
don't remember this story, there was a woman, a rather
large woman, who was videoing this this whole situation where
she had called a lift and the lift driver refused

(12:41):
to let her in the car she called a regular lift,
and I pointed out that she was six hundred pounds.
Well we know more today. One she's a rapper from Detroit,
which I did not know, So I apologize for leaving

(13:02):
that out. I didn't know she was famous. Also, when
I said that type TUPAC was six hundred pounds, she's
only five hundred pounds according to her own attorney. Now
you're probably wondering why Rose Malone has an attorney, and

(13:26):
the reason is is because she's not just concerned with
getting the lift driver fired. No, No, heaviest d is
filing a lawsuit ensuing Lyft for a lot of money.
And it was at this point I realized that triple

(13:47):
exhibit here was this is a shakedown and probably a
publicity stunt in my opinion. Okay, it's like it's too
instant coordinated. The video was running. She probably had encountered
something like this before and thought to herself, you know what,

(14:07):
I'm gonna do this and when they show up, I'll
be filming, so I have all the evidence and then
we can go We can go ahead and and make
some money. But I had to correct it. So when
I said yesterday that da Belly was six hundred pounds,
what I meant to say, according to her attorney, says,

(14:29):
I don't want to get sued because it's clear that
Lardie b heres after some money. She's only five hundred
pounds and not six hundred and is a rapper, so
you know, are bad or by bad ross. I don't

(14:51):
hang Ross into this in case the lawsuit comes. But
that was that was my bad. So if asap Rocky
Road here's this, I'm sorry you're still in my opinion
doing a shakedown and this was coordinated and it's it's
been and you literally cost this dude his or at
least part of his livelihood. And Lyft should be ashamed

(15:13):
of themselves because they know. Look, their lawyers are sitting
in the back and they understand that heaviest d is
shaking them down. So if like they realize it, then
maybe Lyft should uh fix this and not let Jacola win. Okay,

(15:35):
all right, we got that. I know what you say.
You say, Casey, is there no parody with a little
in front? And I would say little Plump would work too,
or John in the east Side boys, little John, We'll
be back phone number eight eight eight nine three four
seven eight seven four. Wait where do we want to start? Well, well, Ross,

(16:00):
I think you put it very succinctly just a moment
ago when we were chatting. It's pretty clear to people
with eyes and the ability to reason that whatever you
give Hamas, no matter how benign or non weapony, it
is seemingly their first thing is to sit in a

(16:21):
room with the think tank and go, how can we
weaponize this to kill Jews? Case in point, prophylactics man,
this story, Oh, my this story because at first, if
you're just hearing about it and it's not a news story,

(16:43):
but when you first hear about it, the outrage lies
with the idea, well, let's go ahead and actually hear
from the new White House Press Secretary, Miss Levitt, who
I thought did a great job yesterday. Is we got
a bunch of cuts from her. Yesterday was her first
one and she's standing up there. There was there was

(17:04):
a couple little jitters at the beginning. I think I
would have been far worse. This isn't even a criticism
because now you're there. Now, if you're in the world
of pr and communications, you are in the number one
job in the world. If there's anything bigger than that,
I don't know what it is. And you're staring and

(17:26):
and you're staring at a room full of people who
the majority of which hate you, and over however long
your tenure is, we'll spend every waking moment trying to
get you, trying to confuse you, trying to catch you
off guard. And what I was really impressed with is
this isn't a knock on mcanany Levitt didn't have a

(17:49):
binder in front of her, and yet as you'll come
to find out if you play these cuts. She knew
all of her stuff, and she knew everybody's name. She
knew everybody's name, which means she studied that chart. Now
granted she's she's been in it, so she knows a

(18:10):
lot of these folks. But she doesn't know everybody in
that room. But she knew everybody in that room, and
she knew all the information top of her head. That's
wildly impressive. Think about how it is for Russ. Name
all of our salespeople. Go ahead, name all we have.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
We have salespeople.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
This is my point.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
There's Tim, who had been with the company forever, good
old Tim. Yeah, there's John.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
There's even a Johnny Greens.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Think we have a Jeff?

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Oh is that JT's name? Is that who he's in programming? Okay,
this is my point. Right, you probably don't even know
everyone you work with, if you have more than five
people at your company, if anybody's new, because look, here's
the deal. How many of you work in the thing

(19:06):
where you got to give it about six months to
see if you'll decide to remember their name. It's for
everyone's own good because you know, breakups are hard to do,
and and you know, selling radio can be a tough job.
Some people excel immediately at it and some don't. Some people,
you know, just doesn't work out. So so watching her

(19:29):
go through that room and know everybody that was that
was very impressive. But let's get to the let's get
to the rubbers, shall we.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Just during this pause a Doge and Omb have actually
found that there was thirty seven million dollars that was
about to go out the door to the World Health Organization,
which is an organization as you all know, that President Trump,
with the swipe of his pen in that executive order,
is no longer wants the United States to be a
part of so that wouldn't be in line with the
president's agenda. Doj and Omb also found that there was

(20:02):
about to be fifty million taxpayer dollars that went out
the door to fund condoms in Gaza. That is a
preposterous waste of taxpayer money. So that's what this pause
is focused on, being good stewards.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
Of tax dollar.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
So you what you first think is that's just misguided
health blah blah blah whatever, But it doesn't account for
the reality on the ground because rather than using the
prophylactics to avoid making New Hamas members, which in that
at that point you could at least attempt to argue

(20:36):
to me, it's an investment. That's not what they were
using them for. No, no, no, they were turning them
into flaming aerial Molotov cocktails and floating them into Israel,
which is which is really ingenious actually, right because obviously

(20:57):
the iron dome there is is look for missiles and stuff,
like they're not looking for hundreds of flaming condoms.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Like they remind me of like I had this buddy, right,
I think we all had that one buddy who when
we were younger, they could turn anything into a bong. Yeah,
Like whatever you give them, they're like, I'm going to
turn that into a bom gonna smoke out of that thing.
Whatever you send over there, whatever it is, they're be like,
how can we use this to kill Jews?

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah? And and and it's like, you know, it's one
of those things where they like they bust some dude
who's run who's like really really good at business, running
a drug empire, and it's like, bro, you're so good
at business, like you could be legit. What are you
doing so. Like, if if you're able to literally mastercraft
anything they send you so you can kill Jews, you

(21:43):
probably should start a tech startup or something, right, but
not one that makes things to kill Jews. One that
makes people's lives better. I don't know, just a thought,
because you're good at tinkering.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, but then they couldn't killed Jews.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
I understand that, and that is the rub for them.
I understand that. But you know, maybe they make some
money and then donate it to people to kill Jews.
I don't know, there's not a you know, there's a
all right, so, and I'm looking at pictures of these things,
so you're going all the way, are they filling the causs? No,

(22:18):
they're using the condoms essentially as balloons, and then under
them you have the you know, the little bomby explodey thing.
I'm very technical, so you may not be able to
keep up. But yeah, this headline flaming condoms newest threat
to Southern Israel.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
And after I've seen I saw elon Musk post this
last night. After reading the headline and seeing that it
was from the Jerusalem Post, I'm like, I remember us
talking about this during COVID because it was in twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
It was in twenty twenty when the Jerusalem Post did it.
So that's the other thing too, So they've no let's
say that they found out only on the day this
article was published, which I don't believe, right, because obviously
our intelligen is co mingled with with with Israel because
they're they're one of the eyes. Let's say. But let's
say the US government only found out when the Jerusalem

(23:11):
Post ran this article in twenty twenty, how is there
still a budget to send all of these condoms five
years later, or even if it was the end of
the year four years later, because you're like, well, why
I didn't use them in the in the budoir They
used them to as to kill the Jews or attempt

(23:35):
to Here we go. Jerusalem Post reported in twenty twenty
the scores of condoms were being used to create ied
carrying balloons that wins would carry into southern Israel, which
would cause you know, school yards, farmers, basically anyone who's
outside at that point, you know how they do the alarms.
Everybody runs to stuff. Well they see these things coming

(23:56):
over and it shuts down whatever's going on, and they
knew about it, and they still had a byline in there.
The unraveling, the absolute unraveling of all of these programs,
all of these non governmental organizations. I posted this yesterday
and I saw others have arrived at the same conclusion.

(24:18):
It's it's it's it's very clear because there's so much
of this, and there's all these little one off organizations
that all do really kind of weird stuff that all
were funded, all were getting money, and uh the term
to best describe it is moonbat basic income minimum basic income. Right.

(24:41):
So if if you are an absolute soldier for the woke,
all this wokeism, and you went you got a garbage
degree right in uh I one of the one of
the non traditional humanities, and you're you're you're an activist.

(25:01):
They made sure you weren't without a job, man, you
would have some basically no show thing working for this
non governmental organization which somehow got a contract to go ahead.
And we'll get into some of the lists here, but
just do stuff that no taxpayer really wants to pay for.

(25:22):
That's what they're going after right now. They're going to
go one by one through these during the pause and
go no not doing this, No, we're not doing this,
and people who are arguing that that's not within the
purview of the executive branch aren't necessarily accurate as not
as we understand it. And I can prove this because

(25:45):
California got sued for taking dollars and adopting the broadest
definition for viable use. And it was and it went
all the way up to the night was Night Circuit
whatever the one over there in California is. And of
course they're like, no, look if it had the word
green in it, and even if it said green port stuff,

(26:07):
this is what the lawsuit was about. It's still only
you could earmark basically all the money for green stuff
because somebody put in there that this is to promote
green projects. So now you're getting the It wasn't meant
that way. It was meant to do things like maybe
open some additional shipping some you know, they get some
crane so you can unload ships faster, because we were

(26:30):
having all these supply chain issues. And they just said no,
and so they took the money and they didn't expand
any of the capacity. They just swapped out you know,
old style fossil fuel trucks for green trucks which then
plug in to power that's created through fossil fuels. Sheer
insanity man, So no, not necessarily, and if it needs

(26:53):
to be changed at the congressional level, Congress can do this,
and it's not. If it's not new spending, they don't
need sixty votes in the Senate, and the House is
a simple majority there as would be the Senate. So
they're saying one thing which could be partially accurate, but

(27:15):
also quickly overcome, so long as they can rally it,
because if they want to go one by one, it
will take a very long time. So what likely will
happen is they'll cut or redirect funds to of these
insane things, which are nothing more than welfare for moon
bats that they can call on immediately, right they can

(27:37):
get them. These are the experts that sign things. These
are their soldiers, and they can go through and really
try to weaponize this. But what they're going to be
staring at if there actually has to be legislation, is
a list of programs like the one with the condoms,

(27:57):
and then they're going to have to go out and
defend them, and they will misconstrue what they are. They'll
say that they're trying to get. They're trying to they're
taking away STD prevention is how they'll word that one.
And then you know, Johnny doesn't pay attention, sitting there
on his couch with his idiot wife going, can you
believe that the Republicans want people to get the aids?

(28:19):
They're evil? Mark my words, that's the path we're on.
So I have seen steely resolve thus far within the
new administration, and that's what it's gonna take, because they're
going to accuse you of everything from trying to kill
Nana to uh wanting babies to get cancer? Right, remember that,
you remember that with the Continuing Resolution, even though there

(28:44):
had been a standalone bill to fund infant cancer research
that Democrats would not allow, they didn't allow out of
a committee, and then when it was in this omnibus
bill with everything else, then they're like, do you see
that they want to they want babies to die of cancer.
And then that same idiot on his couch, oh, let

(29:04):
me send you ten dollars only to have Act Blues
say I donated seven hundred times ten thousand dollars. That's
another scan. All of this is absolutely scandalous and That's
why they're gonna fight so hard, because this is the fallback.
This is your reward for being a good soldier, going out,

(29:25):
gluing yourself to stuff when necessary, showing up every now
and then one of you flips out, hides in the
bushes to shoot Trump and your whole racket. If they
are successful, here is done. You're all out of a job.
This is literally what Barack. Remember when Barack Obama said

(29:47):
that Isis's problem was they didn't have jobs, he wasn't
a thousand percent wrong, right, Because if you're when the
terrorist organizations lean heavily into the hopelessness, because it's you
can tell people that the reason they're poor and the
reason that they don't have opportunity is not because the

(30:09):
leaders of Hamas are stealing all of it and living
in giant London mansions or in Qatar. Before they throw
them out, they tell them it's because the Jews did it,
or the US did it, or the West did it,
or whoever it is. And it's easier to weaponize those people.
So you're about to have a bunch of the hardest

(30:29):
core leftist activists who's who just had this spigot turned
off the money ain't flowing no more, and frankly, their
ideology and the things that they were advocating for have
fallen out of style with Americans. Ten years ago, a
third of the country supported mass deportations. The number now

(30:51):
in every single poll I've seen is over fifty percent,
and the majority are in the high fifties low sixties.
Is done. And so much of this money also is
attached to a lot of these These the immigration, migration,
illegal immigration, you name it, organizations whose sole thing was

(31:14):
to advocate. These are the folks who were printing guides
and arming people with literally what to say. They don't
even speak the language, and they were arming them with, say,
telling I fear for my safety because and then you pick,
you know, pick one of the reasons. And at that point,
oh well, if you fear for your safety, here you go,

(31:36):
well what are you talking about? Those are the groups
that we're talking about. These are the groups that were
moving them around the country, making it that much harder,
under the cover of oh, we're just you know, we're
being helpful, and yeah, there's some religious organizations tied into
this stuff. It's gonna get messy. But what do you think,
what do you think a million unemployed, hardcore, pink haired,

(32:01):
bull ring in the nose leftists. And I understand that
I'm generalizing. I'm stereotyping here, but am I, what do
you think they're gonna do? You don't think they're gonna
throw on some ANTIFA gear and h and fire away
because now it's not government money necessarily, it's a bunch
of rich lunatics who fund this stuff. I don't want

(32:24):
to be that guy. But if they're successful in purging
a lot of this, then there's going to be violence,
and I don't celebrate that. But am I go ahead
explain to me how my logic is wrong. This is
the realization I sat there and pondered and thought about

(32:47):
yesterday and then I'm like, damn it. And then I
went and made myself some dinner, and I'm thinking, I'm like,
they're gonna the mostly peaceful summer if they're successful and
fast tracking this, where are those people gonna go? If
not to the streets to attack people? So some scary
times could be out there, and I don't want it,

(33:09):
not for a minute. But it's also not Republican's fault.
Some of it mightea is I'm sure there's some NGOs
in there that are purely on them. But no, no, no, no,
this is what Democrats have wrought, much as I explained
with illegal immigration yesterday. This is dangerous stuff and it's
there doing. We'll be back. Oh number eight eight eight

(33:29):
nine three four seven eight seven four coming up on
this show. Oh that's interesting, huh, weirdness there. So Ross,
I was typing into Google NC auditor because I always
had I go and make I want to check a

(33:51):
bio if we have a guest coming up, because the
new state auditor is coming on. Do you know? Would
you do this? Will you pop Google open on your
computer please? I want you to type NC space au
I've gotten that far, and tell me what your predictive
search results say, the ones that where the little thing
drops down and you can click so you don't have
to finish typing. So I'm typing to get Bullock our

(34:17):
state auditors bio, just so I have it in front
of me because he's going to be joining us at
eight oh five. So as I start typing this, it
gives me NC auditor, which is good. That's what I'm
going to type. And then on the predictive it has
Beth Wood. Okay, she was auditor for a long time.
She's probably in there NC Auto Repair. I guess you

(34:39):
could go there and then it says NC Auditor Jessica Holmes.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
Now mine is completely different.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Okay, all right, because here's the thing. All right, so
does it have Bullock in there?

Speaker 2 (34:51):
No, it goes NC State Auditor candidates, race, election, salary jobs, engineering.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Okay, that's weird, interesting, Okay. Anyway, Yeah, so that's my
long way of saying that Dave Bullack will join us. Now,
why am I having Davon so we can talk auditing
or monster trucking the cars with state cars? No? No, no,
although jokes will probably be made. Bullock is one of
two Council of State office holders who decided to purge

(35:20):
openly announce the purging of DEI from his office. So
what does that mean? I don't know what it means.
I mean, obviously the otter's office isn't gigantic, but what
does that look like? And also what do you do
when people are trying to actively skirt stuff. I'm sure

(35:42):
you've seen all of these side by side photos that
have emerged where it's like where the title is, you know,
a vice president of a diversity, Equity and Inclusion and
then all of a sudden last week their title on
the government website is just some generic thing which really
doesn't mean anything where they're clearly trying to hide what

(36:05):
they do. So and by the way, as they get busted,
they'll get purged. And if you're mad, I don't know
if you saw what Trump did, dude, I'm sorry. This
is this is funny. And I know people like, oh,
these are people's lives. I understand that, but who knows
better than anyone what the actual the ability to do

(36:32):
For those of us who work in the private sector,
Our staffing looks nothing like it looked like five years ago,
ten years ago, fifteen years ago, unless I guess you're
in a startup that's rapidly growing. But even in those cases,
look at what look at what Elon Musk did with Twitter.
He has what twenty five percent of the original workforce.

(36:55):
It's some crazy low number, between thirty and twenty percent,
And there's eighty twenty rule. I'm not if you've ever
heard of this, and it really goes to twenty percent
of the people are going to do about eighty percent
of the eighty percent of the work. It's I'm probably
misdescribing it, but basically, you get yourself into a big,

(37:16):
bloated corporation and especially a bloated governmental organization, and it's
it's very clear that you can trim some of that fat.
You can trim some of that fat. And there's countless
stories where you know, people who who have worked there say,
you know what was crazy is we could have we

(37:37):
could we could do this thing with half the staff
here because we're literally told by our bosses to work
slower or they create intentional slowdowns. So there's never really
the highest of expectations. And if you ever get put
in a position where you need to up your productivity,
let's say your goals are five percent, it's easy to

(38:00):
do that because you have artificially low numbers. What is this.

Speaker 5 (38:09):
All?

Speaker 4 (38:09):
Right?

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Hang on, so I'll deal with this in a moment.
So what Trump did yesterday going around is he offered buyouts.
So if you're sitting there and you realize you work
in a department where not much is accomplished, or you

(38:33):
don't like who's in charge now, or any of the rest,
rather than just getting fired or sidelined or whatever, it
is they're offering a buyout. Now, the buyouts are different
depending on what you do, length a variety of things.
And all you have to do, and this is what
made me laugh, open up your email of your government

(38:53):
account and send to that. There's an HR address for
the federal government and just you don't have to write
anything in the body of the email. You can just
write the word resign and the butt. Okay, So this
is what Ross is literally emailing me. It says free
day off today in the subject line, and then he

(39:18):
added the emphasis thing the stupid Now it's on my
iPhone and it's the thing where the word shows up
and then it goes big free hard. But you can't
will you can't will this into exist. What are you
a TikToker? Where you're what is it the word they
use manifest? You manifest? You're not manifesting stuff in a

(39:41):
single line and sending it to me doesn't do any good.
You got to send it to Bob Pittman or Travor
or you know one of the people.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Who have pull man.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
It's legal now, it's not in the Are you a
federal government worker? Are you a federal You can't write
resign today back to tomorrow. That doesn't that's not how
resigning works either.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Oh I'm not I'm not a lawyer.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
I know you're not a lawyer, but I at.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
One point did consider becoming a pair of legal, which
I believe is more powerful than a lawyer.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
Did you was this roughly when you were working evening
so you had to watch TV during the middle of
the day when they have all the divrye commercials. Okay,
almost got you? Did that?

Speaker 2 (40:37):
A paradonnist is like a super dentist, a pairalegal.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
No no, no, no, no no no. Those are a
lawyer and a dnnist that are in a wheelchair. So
he obviously doesn't know what words mean. So I can
just say this, I'm gonna turn that off. There we go.
Let me know, by the way, if any of that

(41:01):
pants out, so I can send my own demands. Okay,
would SAYE, I can see s type is. I don't
know what it is. I'm going to close this down.
H So anyway, yeah, if you're so, if you're a
federal employee, always making the word go big again, by
the way, I could for much just a moment. If

(41:25):
if Ross's goal was to distract he's just accomplished this.
Whoever designed the new emphasis way that the iPhone works
with the messaging system where if you just hold the
button for a split second too long and move your
finger to the right, it takes everything you just wrote
and adds the emphasis whatever it is to choose from.

(41:45):
So you have to delete all of it. And the
person who redesigned the photo apps, which I don't have
a lot of photos. I don't really take photos, but
I have a lot of screenshots that I use for
Twitter posts and stuff. Resign. Send an email to Tim
Cook and yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
Yeah, dude, the the the the photos app is so bad.
It's so bad.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
I only need two things, and I need the screenshot
I just took right because I take it and I
may want to edit it so I can pop it
into the Twitter and then my memes folder, and I have,
I mean really every that's almost everything on my phone
is stupid memes. There's a there are some photos that
I've obviously taken for myself. Most of its social media stuff,

(42:28):
and it's not me. It's not like your wife's cell phone,
which is her in front of everything while you take it. Okay,
I'm not talking about Ross's wife and Joe. Maybe that is.
But does your wife have a lot more photos than
you should? Probably done tons of them? Yes, yeah, okay,
all right, so now you've made it. If I want
to go to my meme folder, you know how far
I got to scroll on that damn thing, And it

(42:49):
used to be I just hit the drop down and boom,
there it is, and I put a little asterisk in
front of it so it would populate first on the thing.
Now it's all the way at the bottom. Who are you? What? What? What? Demon?
Maybe it's the Ouiji board demon from the story we
coming up? Who decided to do that? Send Tim Cook
an email resign or I'm gonna have elon fire you

(43:11):
into the sun. Okay? So annoying? All right? Eight eight
eight nine three four seven eight seven four. So there's
so much craziness. Tell you what, Let's do this. We'll
do a rundown of the first White House press briefing
with a new press officer, Ms. Levitt. I thought it

(43:34):
went great. There's a lot of interesting stuff. We got
drones and press credentials, all sorts of goodies. And I
think this woman who appears to be insane, although I
have seen people who are very much on the religious
side that this may be. I think her husband is
just a genius. Videos making the rounds, you know, some

(43:56):
of them political, some of them not, some of them
just like Carnival sideshow. That's the thing, like the side
shows of the twenties with the people with the deformed
whatever or the beard or you name it, like that
didn't go away. That's just it's just digital. Now. That's

(44:17):
what we get on the internet for some people, just
swimming it all day and I guess maybe it makes
them feel better whatever. So that being said right now,
and then I get drug over. So I saw this
one going around to this lady with a pile of
notebooks and a Ouiji board and I'm like, I am

(44:37):
clicking on this. She looks backcrap crazy, And then I
started watching it. I'm a play some for you will
retweet it so you can stare in awe on your own.
But here we go.

Speaker 4 (44:50):
The state of the world right now. I feel compelled
to share with TikTok something I don't talk about very often,
that because it makes me sound insane and I don't
know if it's real or not or what it is.
But basically since twenty thirteen, me and my husband have
essentially been talking to some thing on a Ouiji board.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
All right, and I want to point out my first
initial thought, and Ross you can tell me what you think.
My first thing is. I just assume this is going
to be all a setup, right, all fake. But like
if it is, the amount of work they put into
those notebooks and stuff, and she doesn't sound like she's
act I don't even know how to describe it. So again,

(45:33):
I don't know. It could be all fake. The Internet's
full of that crap. But also I have another theory,
so let's continue. Oh and it's about the end of
the world, so you're gonna want to pay attention.

Speaker 4 (45:43):
Goes by the name of seven, who has been telling
us that the world is going to end May twenty seven,
twenty twenty five. And I have pages and pages and
pages of our correspondence with this thing, like pages and
pages and pages, and I have it here raw, just
what I've written down, and I have it on Google

(46:03):
docs and Google docs. It comes out to like eighty
some pages.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
Okay, a couple things when the Google docs could be
a I generate Again, I try to poke holes in
this stuff. And I know what you're saying. That sounds crazy,
but is she any less crazy than those weird scientists
with their doomsday clock that we had to see yesterday.
Ross Alcohut went away eighty nine seconds, right.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
And the people are so annoying, and they're also annoying.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
There's always every picture they post every year, are is
the picture of the most boring people you've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
But it's there super imaginary, made up clock based on
nothing to scare people. And it's just like, oh, well
there's a Republican in office now, so oh you gotta
be afraid. And we pushed the clock up ten seconds now,
but like if Biden gets in there, like, whoa, we're
going to push the clock back a ten seconds? Come on?

Speaker 1 (46:49):
Yeah, And especially like here's how you know that their
whole their algorithm is broken. You know, this guy this
first four years was the last president in moder in
history to not start a conflict. So arguably, arguably your
clock should go back. So we know it's busted. Ross
wants his own clock to scare people too, so don't

(47:11):
let him fool you. So he's been making predictions. But anyway,
so is that clock any more accurate than this Chickswuiji board.
I don't know. Let's find out.

Speaker 4 (47:19):
And I should purpose this by saying, hold.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
On, I am I not hearing audio there, hang on.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
And I should purpose this by saying, well, that's.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Great, it's plait.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
It's plain last night, I don't have any return on
my button bar there.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Yeah, there's no reason for that, all right. So I
think Casey's feed just completely died. He's staring at me
here through the we have like a George Zimmerman short
of sort of camera here. We don't have a window
because the company can't afford a window, and he's making

(48:03):
these really panicky sort of what is happening now?

Speaker 1 (48:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (48:11):
All right, we have completely crapped the bed. So I'm
going to go to break and try to fix everything.
We'll be right back. It's the case you to a
radio program, we hope.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
All right. So I think the gut button bars fixed.
I might have spazed out a little there. I apologize.
One of those days. In fact, poor race Ageic gets
to stuff for the bront because he joins us, now,
how are you doing there? Ray? Because normally would have
gone to you after I was done with my audio
and then then I couldn't hear the audio, and then
I hit the wrong button and your weatherbed play. Just

(48:42):
it's been a morning. It happens.

Speaker 6 (48:45):
It happens, So make everything better, shall we? Yeah, we
will mild, but not even close to record warmth. For example,
yesterday and Rowley sixty one, the record will stay at
seventy eight. That was in nineteen forty four Greensboro, so
that's try at fifty nine. The record there also seventy eight,
and that one also in nineteen forty four, so it's

(49:08):
been warmer, but still we're near above sixty degrees as
we head on through the coming days, Today most likely
upper fifties, a lot of sunshine around Tomorrow partly Sunday
lows will still be down close to freezing and augusty
breeze around, especially this afternoon the north northwest. And then
as we get to Friday, still looks like the wet day,
maybe some decent rain, occasional rain and showers around, but

(49:30):
the highs will be in the upper fifties to low sixties.
And then the weekend is going to be great. We're
right near sixties we get into February, but the warmest
days are yet to come early next week, low to
maybe mid sixties Monday Tuesday and lots of sunshine. So
that should have made you feel better. Case see one
rain day and then the ends the book ends today Thursday,
and then Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. All looking great, feeling great.

(49:53):
Pretty nice stretch here now of milder weather as our
pattern kind of shifted now to a more maritime influence
off the Pacific, more.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
Zonal west east.

Speaker 6 (50:01):
Blah blah blah. What that means is what you just heard,
no chance of any wintery pre sip and above average
temperatures at least over the next six to ten days.
And I took a little peek further out it might
last even longer.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
Yeah, you know, you know why it's so great because
you've taken beautiful weather and you've also aligned it with
days people can play golf on usually and not exactly
what they're stuck in the office. It's this very simple formula, man,
it is it is one or two. But yeah, I
love it. It'd be great. Yep, very good, thank you, sir,
appreciate it. There you go, race agic from the Weather Channel.

(50:35):
All right, then I just almost threw to a break,
which then would have caused Ross dispads out. But now
we're taking this thing to the end at least of
this hour, and then we're gonna chat with State Auditor
Dave Bollock. All right, So I don't know, maybe I
started talking about this Ouiji board and that's what happened.
I want to be clear here too, Like a Wuiji

(50:59):
board is a tool, it's a conduit, but like it's
the concept of opening oneself to something else.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Yeah, I'm being gonna be completely honest like Markey, and
I won't allow them in our house. Like I've I've
listened to enough George Norri where I know that that
stuff is evil.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
I believe in any of the religious concept you know,
the the specific religious doctrine, if you have any sense
of spirituality about.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
You, correct, right, Because you're like, oh, well, it's just
like a board produced in a factory and a stupid
thing that goes on top of it and that. Yeah,
but you're opening up yourself to that, to that energy,
and I won't Nope, Yeah, nope.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
Because let's say, let's say even none of it's real,
but you're left unsettled by it, which clearly this woman
is if, if it's real, how is that a positive
experience for you?

Speaker 5 (51:51):
Like?

Speaker 1 (51:51):
Why would you do something that is most likely just
gonna make you feel really bad? Because she's she's talking
about doomsday man.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
And I'm a normal person. My husband's a normal person.
We have jobs. We're not witches, we're not Satanists, we
don't do stuff like this. We started this as for
fun in twenty thirteen, July twenty thirteen, we had nothing
else to do. We got on a wigi board for
fun and it just kind of took off from there

(52:20):
and we have continued to talk to it. And I
should also say we are not We're not like super
smart people, right, We're not like geniuses. But this thing
kind of seems like it is. Let me show you.
So it does stuff like speak in binary by speak,
I mean, you know, it's giving us ones and zeros
to write down on the Ouiji board. I'm recording this

(52:41):
and in the moment we have no idea of what
this means. We googled it later. This is again July
twenty thirteen, and it turns out it's binary, but it's
backwards binary, so in this way it meant nothing. But
when we reverse the numbers it meant hello because it
does that a lot. It speaks backwards a lot.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
Okay, all right, that dude, that's super weird. That is
so weird.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
Yeah, but here's the thing. You know that my probably
my favorite genre of movies is I love horror movies.
Love horror movies, man. And although I don't like necessarily,
I don't like the slasher ones, give me some, give
me some supernatural there, give me some of that anytime.
There's a gazillion Exorcist movies. Most of the things she

(53:27):
talks about are in movies, including a reference to a
demon called seven, talking about arch demons and stuff. But
that's another thing. What were we gonna say? I'm sorry? Right?

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Like you like the suspense, right, not like the hostile
type stuff.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
Well, I like the movie Hostile, but for different reasons,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (53:45):
Right, So it's it's either in a very very elaborate ruse,
which is possible, or a demon coming through the Ouiji board.

Speaker 6 (53:52):
Or or.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
I did she like she didn't disclose everything the demon
told her to do, Like maybe the demon convinced her
to pretend it's her husband's birthday every day of the year.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
Do you kind of so you think the husband is
like speaking backwards binary on the Ouiji board in other
languages as well.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
Hey, man, if if you're at if you want the prize,
you got to put in the work, So.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
Just do the dishes.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Man, he's like, oh, how can I get this thing
that I want? I'm gonna learn Samerian backwards?

Speaker 2 (54:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (54:30):
Right, Oh, why does it keep telling me to invite
my sister over? What's up with that?

Speaker 4 (54:40):
So it speaks also in backwards languages that we don't speak.
We don't speak it forwards, we don't speak it backwards.
This is I believe it was Latin. I believe it
means salutations or something like that. I have again, I
have all the details in my Google doc.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
That's another By the way, I'm not going to play
this whole cut here. This that's another trope man, where
it's like, wait, you get one of these things and
then the spirit from beyond is speaking, but they always
sound like an upity nineteen hundred's englishman salutations, right, It's
it's weird stuff. Weird.

Speaker 4 (55:15):
Just goes on to say contact two.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
All right, here's what I want. Let's get to the
end of the world.

Speaker 4 (55:19):
Shall we goes on to say Contact two succeeded eighteen thousand,
five hundred and thirty four days ago, which was August.
I think that's seventeenth, nineteen sixty two. I think that
had something to do with JFK and the Bay of Pigs.
We have JFK, but historically Contact three, that's US fails
twenty nine thousand, one hundred and forty nine days after

(55:42):
Contact one, four thousand, three hundred and twenty four days
in your future, which is May twenty seventh, twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
So yeah, so all that to say that her Ouiji
board or her horny husband, it's going to be end
of May.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
So as believe as this all sounds right, the factor
mains the Buffalo Bills are going to win the Super
Bowl in twenty twenty six. So I don't believe anything
she's saying.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
Oh no, what it speaks backwards sixty two oh two.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
So you're saying we're gonna win one in sixty.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
Two oh two. Wait, all this tracks sixty two oh two.
I think Josh Allen will still be playing man win
win is a win. Yeah. What you guys need to
do is UH is not playing playoff games. Where they
have refs with X ray vision so I can see

(56:40):
right through players. All right, I'm sorry. I wasn't gonna
go here, it's too soon, but anyway, so yeah, the
big old buckets are crazy there, man, I saw that
thing floating around. All right, here's some here's some non dema.
Well maybe if you're if you're a hardcore progressive, you
think this is demonic. Watching Catherine Levitt the new White
House Press sect Terry yesterday again thought she did a

(57:02):
good job. She didn't have a binder in front of her,
yet seemed to know everything that she wanted to say
and anticipate the questions and numbers and you name it.
Knew everybody's name, far more impressive than us. As we
talked about earlier in the show. If you asked Ross
and I to name all the salespeople, maybe Pry.

Speaker 5 (57:24):
Not.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
P not a, notother personal just you know, we've got
multiple markets. These thing's happen, all right, So let's get
into it. And I really love that one of the
first things she got into was the drones, the new
Jersey drones. And this is crazy, man, because it begged
several questions.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
Let's hear it first and before I turned to questions,
I do have news directly from the President of the
United States that was just shared with me in the
Oval Office from President Trump directly an update on the
New Jersey drones. After research, Instead of the drones that
were flying over New Jersey and large numbers were authorized
to be flown by the FAA for research and various

(58:09):
other reasons. Many of these drones were also hobbyists, recreational
and private individuals that enjoy flying Jones in meantime, In time,
it got worse due to curiosity.

Speaker 2 (58:21):
This was not the enemy.

Speaker 1 (58:23):
Now the second part fully we predicted that on the
show one thousand percent. As people were seeing this, I'm like, no, Well,
the other thing is this is, if the drones are
a thing, a big chunk of the more recent drones
have to be drone enthusiasts flying around to see what
the drones are like. That was totally predictable. Got it

(58:44):
or messing with their neighbors or whatever. But the first
thing she said, those are FAA authorized and it's for
research purposes, which means the previous administration authorized those drones,
knew they were flying around and allowed panic to ensue
and then pretended like they didn't know. They could have

(59:05):
just said, hey, it's a thing. And don't get me wrong,
there are absolute legitimate reasons why the Federal U the
US federal government would have an interest in drone technology usage,
whether it is for as people talked about, locating a
dirty bomb, got it far more efficient in certain situations

(59:27):
than some of the ways that we do it now,
especially if you've got to get really close. Obviously you're
seeing in Ukraine they just did you see they just
hit Russia's i think fourth most productive refinery. That was
drones that did that. The whole thing is on fire still,
so I've got it. But what the hell are you

(59:47):
researching in New Jersey? You tell me you can't go
out to you know, you can't do this on a
military base or if you need to have a population center.
We have giant military basis that have giant cities within them.
I think there might be one moon just to the
south of the studios here.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
Or were they researching, Hey, where did the nuclear material go?

Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
Right?

Speaker 5 (01:00:12):
Like?

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
What explain this to me? And they they chose not to, man,
they chose not to But she was a pitbull man
and they hit her with those gotcha questions and she
was having none of it. This with the immigration stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:00:29):
Immigration, of the thirty five hundred arrests ICE is made
so far since President.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
Trump came back into office, can.

Speaker 3 (01:00:34):
You just tell us the numbers how many have a
criminal record versus those who are just.

Speaker 7 (01:00:38):
In the country illegally?

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
All right, So that is a setup question, right, because
it's in either or how many of criminal records? How
many are in the country.

Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
Allege with them because they illegally broke our nation's laws
and therefore they are criminals as far as this administration goes.
I know the last administration didn't see it that way.
So it's a big culture shift in our nation to
view someone who breaks our immigration laws as a criminal.
But that's exactly what they are.

Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
They've all had a criminal record, and welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
To the if they broke our nation's laws, Yes they
are criminal.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
Yes, and these reporters know that. Pretty glad to have
you a long And as we have been discussing this morning,
there's a whole lot of changes, and of course everyone's
freaking out in Washington, d C. With things like enter
the word resign to resign or you're going to have
to come back to the office or we're gonna start

(01:01:26):
digging into these NGOs and figure out why it's basically
a universal basic income for leftist politicians and supporters. So
while that's going on, NC hasn't escaped this. And I'm
not talking about past three dollars. I'm talking about changes
right now. Two of our Council of State members made
it a priority to when they entered office to attempt

(01:01:49):
to remove DEI components from their office. One is our
newest state auditor, Dave Bullock, who we chatted with here
a couple of weeks ago. Wanted him to come on
and talk about it. How are you doing this morning.

Speaker 5 (01:02:01):
Sir, Hey, good morning, Casey. How are you today?

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
I'm pretty good. Just watching everything on fire. So and
everyone freak out because you know, that's a license to
different money for me. But I saw this. You who
was I'm sorry, who's the other this state council member
who did it?

Speaker 5 (01:02:19):
It's the commissioner Farley, Commissioner, Labor Commissioner.

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
Yeah, you guys publicly said that one of the priorities
with you coming into office was to remove the DEI components.
So let's talk about first the size of your office
because it's obviously going to be a lot smaller than
say the IRS or some of these federal organizations that
are getting the pub And what the DEEI looked like

(01:02:46):
in your office, So bring us up to speed.

Speaker 5 (01:02:50):
Yeah, good question. Well, the State Auditor's Office is currently
about one hundred and sixty folks, wrong, mostly made up
of editors and accountants and investigators.

Speaker 6 (01:03:03):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:03:06):
Yeah, Well there's some page turners in some of our audits.
But on another note, we're going to make those more
exciting and interesting moving forward. But DEI is something that
I've been an opponent of for a while. When I
was chair of the board at UNC Chapel Hill, I
made the move to strip it out of the budget

(01:03:26):
at UNC Chapel Hill, so I've been a consistent opponent.
I don't think it brings any return on investment to taxpayers.
It's needless, it's pointless, and it really is divisive. What
it looked like in the Auditor's office was. For example,
if you are a team member in the Auditor's office

(01:03:46):
and you're being evaluated for your job performance, there's certain
metrics that were used to determine how well you did
your job. Trustworthiness, helpfulness, competency on the job, you know,
normal things like that, and then how how you managed diversity,

(01:04:08):
equity inclusion. And I'm just not prepared to have folks
that work in an office that I lead having to
answer how they do with DEI a pointless measure with
no return.

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
In the claims on hysteria on the hysterical side of
Twitter was that you're going to be in there and
Luke's going to be in there. Fire and everybody is
that true? Fire?

Speaker 5 (01:04:34):
As a matter of fact, matter of fact, we onboarded
two people yesterday at the office.

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
All right, well they.

Speaker 5 (01:04:43):
Were open slots, Casey and hey again at the auditor's office.
We're not spending your money, We're investing your money in
and getting a return on finding waste, fraud and abuse.

Speaker 1 (01:04:55):
Well, and this is the reason too, I wanted to
talk to you because numbers, even though I can give
you lots of examples where this has been exploited, numbers
should be the thing least deiable. Do you know what
I mean? Because two plus two is two, except because
people with a straight face have explained to me that

(01:05:16):
sometimes it's five. And the only person I used to
data girl who had a master's degree in abstract algebra,
and I asked what that was one time, and she's like, well,
it's like a math prob with no right answer, and
and then and then I tuned out at that point
that's for you guys, she's in actuary. Now. The fact
remains that all that you guys care about is the numbers,

(01:05:37):
and and so why having it, why a DEI component
would fit within that? This isn't health and human services
with this is this is this is crunching numbers.

Speaker 5 (01:05:48):
Well, and you know, we brought the entire auditor staff.
So the Auditor's Office actually has four regional offices, one
in Ashville, one in Cornersville, one in Wilmington, and one
in green as well. We brought the entire team to
Raleigh Friday, and I had a frank discussion with them
about my position on DI and how I didn't think

(01:06:10):
that it brought any retirement investment and then it put
people in a position that was not accurate. Number one
and number two created divisiveness in the workplace. I didn't
get any pushback from the members of the team because
my point to them was is that I believe that
everyone in the room was there because they're good at

(01:06:31):
their job, they deserve to have the job, and they're
giving the people of North Carolina value every day when
they come in trying to hunt down ways fraud and abuse.
And so that's the type of person we want working
in the Auditor's office. So to your point, yeah, I
want people. We're going to hire people based on merit

(01:06:51):
and the value that they bring to the office, not
based on some fantasy metric made up on a DI scale.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Yeah. And what is more troubling when a government office
was doing it, like the corporations were having their hands
forced because many of them needed working capital throughout the year.
And this component, this ESG score was created by activists
and a CEO had to make the decision as to
whether to put the DEI stuff in or maybe not

(01:07:21):
have the company run anymore. But at the governmental level,
it was purely a self inflicted decision. And there's another
component to this, and that is the meritocracy after employment.
And this is where I see people talk about, well,
if I'm a cists white male, or if I don't
tick enough boxes, why should I work harder? Because my

(01:07:43):
chances of advancing are nil in some cases? And you
want to talk about something that kills efficiency, that's got
to be up at the top.

Speaker 5 (01:07:54):
Well, yeah, I mean, because what will be you know
what I have found out. I will say this one
thing that I have been really blessed with in the
Auditor's office is I arrived didn't get a transition period,
and we talked about that before I started on January
the second. I have found a lot of people committed

(01:08:15):
to doing their job. Quite frankly, there are many people
that work in the Auditor's office that are not as
much concerned about who the elected state auditor is as
they are about doing their job, which is making sure
North Carolina runs more efficiently and making sure the numbers
add up. So we do have some really committed civil

(01:08:36):
servants in that office. At least I have found that
to be the case. Now, we've obviously going to make
some moves and have changed some leadership in the office,
and that's to be expected. But to your point, we
want to have an opportunity in our office at the
Auditor's Office for folks to earn their way to promotions,

(01:08:58):
to come to work, to dig down and go the
extra mile on behalf of tax payers get value and
purpose out of every day's job, and they're going to
be rewarded for that.

Speaker 1 (01:09:12):
I want to play you a piece of audio. This
was the very first White House Press briefing new Press
Secretary Catherine leave it. I love it. Excuse me, And
it has to do with some of the stuff they're
seen as Doge and others are digging into this. Let
me play the cut first.

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
Just during this pause, Doge and Omb have actually found
that there was thirty seven million dollars that was about
to go out the door to the World Health Organization,
which is an organization as you all know, that President Chump,
with the swipe of his pen in that executive Order,
is no longer wants in the United States to be a
part of. So that wouldn't be in line with the
president's agenda. Doj and Omb also found that there was

(01:09:52):
about to be fifty million taxpayer dollars that went out
the door to fund condoms in Gaza. That is a
preposterous way, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
And by the way, those condoms is the Jerusalem Posts
reported as early as twenty twenty, are then used as
balloons to fly IEDs into South the israelitelhoods. So my
question is because that's looney tunes. Have you seen anything
crazy spill the teaser?

Speaker 5 (01:10:19):
Not you, I mean, you know, really the biggest thing
that we've been doing right now, and I'll be just
totally transparent with you, KC is I'm trying to put
the team together to make sure that we move forward. Now.
We have begun the audit of the Department of Other
Vehicles and that is a Florida ceiling audit. One of

(01:10:40):
the bigger things that I've had concerns about in that
arena is the use of shelter trailers in western North
Carolina and the inability to actually use these trailers. There
were seventy to eighty trailers in Hickory, North Carolina at
the Ickorymotor Speedway, and tilers have not been deployed frankly

(01:11:03):
because they don't qualify as a recreational trailer. They're not
a permanent trailer. But the zoning requirements have not been
loosened up in the western part of the state. You
can't put them in a flood zone. Everything's a flood zone. Now.
You have to hook them up to water electricity, and
they have to fit zoning requirements. So a lot of

(01:11:25):
the emergency trailers that have been provided are simply sitting
in staging areas and not being deployed. And so that's
at least one thing that I've noticed and have talked
to the Governor's office about it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
How is your How is your relationship with Stein?

Speaker 5 (01:11:46):
That's fine? I mean I've known him for a while.
He seems to be certainly committed to making sure that
we rebuild western North Carolina. I've been surprised by that.
I think he's trying to feel out out exactly what
he was left with from the Cooper administration and looking
to move forward. I have met with some of his

(01:12:09):
department heads, his new cabinet members to let them know
that we will be sending teams in to all that
their departments. But you know, I haven't. I haven't had
any any terse words with the governor one way or
the other.

Speaker 1 (01:12:25):
It would be fine. It wasn't a secret, and you
can tell me if I'm if I'm wrong, But at
least the way it didn't appear to be a secret,
and I think COVID had a lot to do with it.
When the Council of State members were going back and
forth over him reinterpreting what we all understood the law
to be that Cooper didn't have a great relationship with
opposite party member state Council members, and that had to

(01:12:51):
be a net negative for North Carolinians. So how do
we make sure that doesn't happen even when you guys
have fundamental disagreements.

Speaker 5 (01:13:01):
Well, that's a good question. I do I have. I
have seen a willingness from the governor to work with myself.
I can't speak for the other members. I do know
that he is UH because I was in the room.
He's worked with the treasurer, the new treasurer who's a Republican,
as well as Commissioner Farley on a couple of things.

(01:13:24):
So he at least seems to be willing to reach
across UH sort of the party isle to work with
other members of the Council of State UH, and we work.
We're working together currently on one project to help my
office with the structure that the Governor's required to sign
off on some things, and he's indicated that he's going

(01:13:46):
to assist me to move forward in an expeditious manner. So,
Governor Cooper, you know, I dealt with him occasionally, particularly
when I was on the chair of the board at
USC Chapel Hill, and if you just didn't agree one
hundred percent with everything he said, he really had no
use for you.

Speaker 1 (01:14:04):
Well, they came after you. They came after you and
several of the board members, and then the students would
go out and do a little wiggle worm protest out
where you're in screen at you while you're trying to
figure stuff out. Obviously, you know that was a tumultuous time,
but Stein wasn't there. I have some disagreements, so you
probably do ideologically. That's that being said. The relationship Cooper

(01:14:26):
had with Council of State members, like I said, was
a was a net negative. But that was during controversial stuff.
And I think one of the controversial things is going
to be if Trump well, I mean Trump said it.
He said, no, we're gonna we're gonna put the we're
gonna pass the dollars through the state side. Step FEME
on this and as a working philosophy going forward, it's

(01:14:47):
something that has been suggested. My question is that's got
to create a whole new ball of wax for you. Uh,
what what do you think of that? Because now you're
doing oversight, you're doing double overside. On stuff on billllions
and billions of dollars more than you're currently doing.

Speaker 5 (01:15:04):
Yeah, and we haven't even started with the Board of Elections,
which starts my first Yeah. No, I actually agree with
President Trump. I don't see the necessity in a huge
government apparatus like FEMA, when the state of North Carolina
and every other state in the Union has its own

(01:15:24):
emergency management department, And instead of creating some behemleth of
a government agency that requires yet one more layer of
red tape to make dollars flow, why not just go
directly to the states, give it in the form of
a grant to the states, and let the states distribute
it in the way that it sees it, and that

(01:15:45):
the way the citizens need. My office is certainly capable
of tracking those dollars and making sure they're not wasted.
And we've begun that process with Western North Carolina. So
I actually support President Trump in that effort. I think SEEMA,
other than just writing a check and sending it to

(01:16:08):
the state, serves no purpose.

Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
Yeah. And even if there's no waste per se, you know,
nobody's scrolling dollars to the wrong place. You have if
you have additional bodies in between. They still have to
be paid, benefits have to be provided. So it's less money.
It's less money for the state to duel out because
you're you're in middle manager. Hell all right, I got
a minute, and so explain you said something. We're going

(01:16:32):
to get creative and how we talk about waste thirty seconds?
What do you mean by that?

Speaker 5 (01:16:38):
Yep? Well, what I mean by that is that the
Auditor's Office in the past has focused solely on financial statements,
occasionally done for performance all this, and what I mean
by that is we are going to work. In fact,
I'm meeting with the Select Committee in the leg in
the in the House of Representatives today on our own
version of DOGE in North Carolina, and we're gonna look

(01:17:01):
at agencies and we're gonna look it away to be
more efficient. And the recommendation might not always be just
to be efficient, maybe to eliminate programs.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
All right, And that's what I thought you were saying,
but I wanted to make sure I didn't put words
in your mouth. All right, Dave Bullock, State Auditor, appreciate
the time this morning, sir.

Speaker 5 (01:17:17):
Okay, casey, thank you, my friend.

Speaker 1 (01:17:20):
All Right, there we go so we get our own
little mini doge looking forward to that. We'll be back
here in just a few minutes. We got lots to
get into, lots more audio stick around. It's the CaCO
Day Radio program, The CaCO Day Radio Program. Holocaust, rememberance,
stay just happened. Let's head over to the UK and
see how Good Morning Britain chose to point this out.

Speaker 8 (01:17:42):
And Charles will become the first British head of state
to visit Auschwitz Berknal later today as part of events
to mark eighty years since the liberation of the Nazi
death camp. Six million people were killed in concentration camps
during the Second World War, as well as millions of
others because they were Polish, disabled, gay, or belonged to

(01:18:03):
another ethnic group.

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
So hold on, So because they were Polish, disabled, gay
or another I guess she's referencing like Romani Gypsies and stuff.
Is there anything? Is there anyone that left off the list?
There a hold on, let's listen to it again. I
don't know why I just said this thing went back.

(01:18:29):
I feel like there's some there's a group that might
be missing.

Speaker 8 (01:18:34):
King Charles will become the first British head of State
to visit Auschwitz Berknal later today as part of events
to mark eighty years since the liberation of the Nazi
death camp. Six million people were killed in concentration camps
during the Second World War, as well as millions of
others because they were Polish, disabled, gay, or belong to

(01:18:55):
another ethnic group.

Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
I feel like that four things doing some heat that
Ross is. Can you think of any other groups that
were targeted at Auschwitz?

Speaker 2 (01:19:06):
I would say Catholic, but that was a lot of
the Polish as well. So oh yeah, Catholic that yeah,
are you missing one?

Speaker 1 (01:19:17):
Yeah? I yeah, there's something there.

Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
Gypsies.

Speaker 1 (01:19:22):
No, no, no, I said Romani Gypsies. Okay, yeah, no,
I pointed that pointed that one out there. We may
never know if we watch Good Morning Britain the jew
the Jews. Perhaps, Ah, that's what you doing, That's what
it is. Yeah, weird that you didn't mention that at all.

(01:19:45):
I mean, holy hell, what are we doing here? Is
that conscious? And she like did she feel it rolls
in with the other I mean, obviously that's that was
the reason for the season. You know what I'm saying, Like,
if you do you do any bit of research, especially.

Speaker 2 (01:20:05):
So you're saying the other people did not die. Is
that what you're saying?

Speaker 1 (01:20:08):
No, No, so you're saying that it's not what I
That's not what I said. That's I said. She's an idiot,
And okay, we'll just yeah, leave it right there. Speaking
of idiots, Acosta Lavista.

Speaker 9 (01:20:22):
Just wanted to end today's show by thanking all of
the wonderful people who work behind the scenes at this network.
You may have seen some reports about me and the show,
and after giving all of this some careful consideration and
weigh and alternative time slot seeing an offer of me,
I've decided to move on. I am grateful to CNN
for the nearly eighteen years I've spent here doing the news.

(01:20:43):
People often ask me if the highlight of my career
at CNN was at the White House covering Donald Trump. Actually, no,
that moment came here when I covered four President of
Barack Obama's trip to Cuba in twenty sixteen and had
the chance to question the dictator there, Astro about the
islands political prisoners. As the son of a Cuban refugee,

(01:21:05):
I took home this lesson. It is never a good
time to bow down to a tyrant. I've always believed
it's the job of the press to hold power to account.
I've always tried to do that here at CNN, and
I plan on doing all of that in the future.
One final message, don't give into the lies. Don't give
into the fear. Hold on to the truth and to hope.

(01:21:30):
Even if you have to get out your phone, record
that message. I will not give into the lies. I
will not give into the fear. Post it on your
social media so people can hear from you too. I'll
have more to say about my plans in the coming days,
but until then, I want to thank all of you
for tuning in. Has been an honor to be welcomed
into your home for all these years. That's the news

(01:21:52):
reporting from Washington. I'm Jim Acosta.

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
Now let's be specific. So where they were wanting to
move Acosta was Graveyard, but he would be able to
broadcast from the West coast, so uh so, you know,
midnight obviously is eight you get to the other side
of the country there. He did not want to do that, so,
like many others, he is off to do a sub stack.

(01:22:15):
I don't know, maybe he joins the idiot crew over
at the contrarian. Is that what the the dec All
the cast offs from the Post are calling it, and
now Krugman from New York Times, I don't know, but
I also don't care, you know why, because you're you're
possibly this smuggist reporter I have ever seen, and and

(01:22:40):
I'm almost impressed that he's never really backtracked on it,
you know what I mean, Like remember when he wouldn't
give the microphone up, like and and of course all
of the fake news and real fake news at no,
at no point, even when his empire, so to speak,
is collapsing around him where they're trying to move the

(01:23:00):
graveyard shift, but they remember they moved him before, and
he wasn't at the White House anymore. Like he's been
summarily demoted for years because he's so incredibly unlikable, and
yet he never let it get him down, never said, hey,
maybe the way I do things is problematic. And just

(01:23:23):
so you know, some of his former colleagues are on
these apology tours. Chris Saliza, remember Chris Saliza, just as
big as scumbag as the rest of them. He had
to play. He had a whole thread yesterday. But it's
also scummy, and I'll explain why outside of just what
he wrote. It says I screwed up. Back in May

(01:23:43):
twenty twenty, I wrote how Anthony Fauci had crushed Donald
Trump's lab leak theory for how COVID originated. The CIA
said over the weekend they now believe the virus leak
from a lab. And he gives a little background there,
but more specifically, i'll paraphrase this because it's very lengthy.

(01:24:04):
He says, when when Trump was saying from China and
Fauci was saying wet market, so not you know, not
being weaponized in a lab or studied in a lab,
gain a function in a lab. I decided that I
would just believe Fauci over Trump, not because there was evidence,

(01:24:27):
but because he decided that he didn't like Trump. He
liked Fauci more. That's not how you gather news and
facts on something that important. If you're not able to
independently confirm it, you have to present both. You decided
to take a position, and you also took positions. If
I could just remind people that were not just a

(01:24:50):
disagreement over the origin of the virus. You took positions
and your colleagues took positions that people who disagreed with
your facts were attempting to kill people. Okay, attempting to
kill people should have their children taken away in some instance,

(01:25:13):
should be fired and have their livelihood stripped from them,
And Biden tried to put it in action if they
didn't go along with it. So you didn't just make
a judgment air on the origination of the virus. You
openly advocated, and your colleagues and your guests openly advocated

(01:25:33):
for the eradication of people's lifestyles, to put them into poverty,
to break up their families, to ostracize them from everything
and everyone around them. And you were partially successful because
it destroyed It destroyed some people's lives. I'm not even

(01:25:57):
talking about any of the medical speculation about either long
COVID or people's hearts just stopping. I'm talking about families
that don't talk to other portions of the families because
you so engrossed them that you were right, and anyone
who disagreed was essentially a murderer or a potential murderer,
or not fit for society. And your scumbaggery doesn't even

(01:26:22):
stop with your stupid Manaculpa here because if you want
to go to his sub stack, which he promotes throughout it,
you have to go. He tells you to go to
his bio. If you click it, it shows you part
of the article, requiring you to give your email address.
Then you get part more part two of the article,

(01:26:43):
but you don't get his quote unquote. I can't remember
how he words it, but basically he goes through a
bunch of stuff. You have to subscribe for that. So
this piece of garbage got excommunicated for the same reason
his buddy Acosta's hit in the streets and he wants
to trick you into restoring his lifestyle with a groveling

(01:27:05):
semi apology that isn't really even an apology. You can't
hate these people enough. Sorry. See, Yeah, I was gonna
I'm gonna scream about Tom Tillis. Don't worry, that'll be
coming up at first race stagic. He's got good news.
So happy time is race stagic here. Yeah, let's bring

(01:27:25):
the happy. Yeah, not much bring the joy as the
last election, which didn't work so well.

Speaker 6 (01:27:32):
The joy is yeah, the joy is in what we've
got and what we're going to be getting. I mean,
don't really be too concerned about the rain threat Friday.
I mean, yeah, some rain, but they're believe it or not.
There is a special statement out from the Weather Service
about the abnormally dry conditions that they issued today, so
actually an increased fire danger through this evening, so dry
weather day. Most of us up probably mid upper sixties,

(01:27:55):
so some pretty mild weather but not even close to
record warmth. Got a stiff west breeze tonight in the thirties. Tomorrow,
still hovering around sixty. Most of us will probably fall
just short, but we will stay well above normal with
the showers coming in and getting a little warmer Friday
as this quick little clipper type system pushes through. It's
gonna be a fast mover. Mid to upper sixties on Friday.

(01:28:17):
Weekend's going to be great, upper fifties, lots of sunshine,
and then back up near seventy for the Triangle on Monday,
try it probably upper sixties and we'll keep the sixties
together even into Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
So it's all good.

Speaker 6 (01:28:30):
It's all above average, except Friday. Friday's a day where
we'll see most of our rainfall. That's probably gonna start
late morning and into the afternoon.

Speaker 1 (01:28:38):
All right, thank you, sir, appreciate it. There you go.
We got Jeff Oh by the way, just real quick.
The reason I said it's say half apology is because
Saliza writes things like it now appears that reality TV
star turn President was right and Fauci was wrong. Well,
I don't see you categorizing Fauci as somebody who's a
promoter of game and function research. And it's not that

(01:28:59):
he's a real TV show turned present. He's a president.
And it never dawned upon you though, when he was
telling you that he believed it to be a lab leak,
that he might be privty information that you are not.
You never thought about that, which is insane. We'll be back.

Speaker 10 (01:29:17):
Good morning, Casey. It is decision day for the Federal Reserve.
Economists have no doubts that interest rates will be left unchanged.
One expert said it is the most predictable no change
in recent years. But there is a lot of interest
in what chaired Jerome Powell will have to say about rates,
the economy, and potential new tariffs. He'll be meeting with
reporters at two thirty this afternoon. Federal rules concerning vehicles

(01:29:41):
fuel economy will get a rewrite. New Transportation Secretary Jean
Duffy hit the ground running. He issued orders that cafe
standards implemented under the Biden administration be rescinded or replaced.
President Trump has said the old regulations amounted to an
electric vehicle mandate. Federal workers you don't want to return
to their offices full time are being given an option

(01:30:03):
by the Trump administration. The White House wants a more streamlined,
flexible workforce, and employees who don't want to comply with
the return to office director a directive are being offered buyouts.
They must resign, though by a week from tomorrow they'll
walk away with about eight months pay. There are signs
that things started to improve at Starbucks after Brian Nickel
took over as CEO and ordered a series of changes.

(01:30:26):
Same store sales still fell in the latest quarter, but
not by as much as in the prior quarter. Nichol
has worked to streamline menus and speed up service Starbucks shops.
He did away with extra charges for non dairy milk,
and he discouraged non customers who like to hang out
at the coffee shops without buying anything.

Speaker 1 (01:30:45):
It's ho hum.

Speaker 10 (01:30:46):
Another Super Bowl featuring the Kansas City Chiefs. Ticket sellers
say tickets to the big Game in New Orleans can
be had for a lot less than what fans paid
last year. Not to say that seats are cheap. The
least expensive ones are going for more than five thousand dollars,
but that is down thirty seven percent from a year ago.
But while ticket prices to watch the Super Bowl in

(01:31:07):
person maybe down, this year, advertisers are paying record prices
to reach fans will be watching on TV. Casey sources
say the most expensive thirty second spots are going for
more than eight million dollars this year.

Speaker 1 (01:31:21):
Well, I guess we won't be running a show promo. Okay,
all right, thank you, Jeff, appreciate it, all right, have
a good day. Oh man. Yeah, they'll get Pro Bowl
and Sandy that nobody cares about. So we got a
couple of weeks, all right, real quickly, don't worry. I'm
I'll be getting into this more and more. But a

(01:31:45):
rather interesting Wall Street Journal article appeared. You remember Pete
hagg Sath's sister in law coming out with that letter,
and she's like, I've been assured by some folks that
if I tell my story. It will make it, make
it so Pete hagg Seth won't be the Defense secretary.
And I'm gonna say these things that he did to

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my sisters, and even the sister heg Say's former wife said,
none of that is true. And yet it became a
became a thing. Now it didn't cost him the nomination.
He is the Defense secretary, and he is getting busy.
That being said, now we know who might have been

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there if you, you know, pulling the strings on this
thing behind attempting to undermine heg Seth. And according to
Wall Street Journal.

Speaker 7 (01:32:37):
Tom Tillis, you know, I was starting to think maybe
this guy's not the right guy for the job. And
it's stuff like this that makes me, you know, once
again point out that once the ball gets rolling on
this Senate race, as the incumbent, the the the party,

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and the people who hand out the dollars at the
state level, at the national level, and the local levels,
you're going to be very hard pressed to change their
mind because and they will tell you, we don't want to.

Speaker 1 (01:33:11):
Lose the seat. Now's the time to make the switch.
We have enough time. We have a pretty good idea
who the opponent's going to be or at least a
handful of people. I think Cooper is definitely in that mix.
We'll see, But now's the time you got to send

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somebody up there that's not doing this stuff. And I
talked to somebody who's kind of in the know on this,
and they were saying the reason they're not going to primaries,
Trump will probably endorse them. Well, my question is after
this article comes out and it appears that in a
statement until his didn't dispute the Wall Street journals reporting
about the call. He said hegstays statement did carry weight,

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which is why I communicated my concerns to the White House,
spent days doing due diligence and seeing if there was
any first hand corroborating accounts of the statement. He continued
that quote, he was not able to speak with anyone
who provided first hand corroboration. So what he's saying is, yes,
I may have pushed it along while I did my
due diligence. I don't know why you wouldn't just be

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upfront about it. But then eventually I arrived at the
decision in opposition. I think he was putting his finger
in the air politically and I wonder if Trump's going
to be a little upset about this.