Thursday-7-24-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh, it is Thursday, so you know we're trucking ride along.
I will warn you though that the now that the
weather is great now, but at least you know it's
it's North Carolina, it's July. Everybody expects it. But it's
gonna get a lot worse. And uh, of course we'll
blame Ray Stagic coming up a little later in the show,

(00:20):
but he'll give you details on how much your weekend's
gonna suck. So I don't know if I'm gonna make
it to the weekend, though, I gotta be honest with you.
I woke up this morning. I am I'm having some issues. Ross.

(00:43):
Could I confide in you and I guess the audience
for this, of course?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, one this is this is tough, man, I am.
I think I'm spiraling this morning. I don't mean to
do this on the air for all you guys, but
you know, one of one of the things that you know,
I think people in this situation should do is probably
reach out to somebody. And Ross and I have worked

(01:13):
for over a decade together. Ross, I think I'm hallucinating, man,
I think I think I am I'm seeing things that
aren't there. I have memories of experiences that just didn't happen,
and I feel like I should tell somebody. I swear

(01:36):
yesterday I saw Tulsi Gabbard at the White House Press
Briefing give one of the most insane briefings I've ever seen,
outlining things about Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, most of the
staff there, and and and then this morning, as I do,

(01:57):
I get up in the morning and I have a
list of websites that I just secondarily check, right, So
I go to ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox News. I
go to The Washington Post, New York Times, Twitchy Daily Caller,
New York Post, I want to owe, not the b

(02:19):
And then I go to each of those websites in
the morning just to see if anything populated, because you know,
we put prep together and I don't think it happened.
I think I hallucinated Tulsi Gabbard outlining some of the
most insane stuff I've heard, because I don't see anything,

(02:44):
or I see references to some other stuff that I
thought was it, but maybe not. Did I hallucinate the
entire Tulsi Gabbard Hillary Clinton is an absolute lunatic press conference.
Because I don't see anything in any of those major
news outlets say some Epstein references. Did you see anything?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
No, you didn't. You didn't hallucinate. It did happen. It
did happen.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
It did happen.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
But you can't be surprised, right that this is where
we are in all seriousness, you had to know this
is how it's going to go.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
I assumed that they would start doing damage control. No,
and there's a smidge of it. CBA. Wait, hold on,
CBS News wrote, uh, Gabbard releases more documents prompting concerns
over intelligence. So so so at least that's a reference,

(03:45):
I think. But yeah, no, no, this is what I
was talking about yesterday, dude, you better have it. Shipping
illegal immigrants to all of these cities was the only
thing that moved the needle on illegal immigration in my opinion,
because it made it real for people. But to blatantly

(04:08):
ignore that for the most part, was even more than
I thought they would attempt.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Me.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
No, we're at a perpetual stillmate, nothing is going to
happen now, listen. They need to put these people through
the process, though, so it ends up on the news.
That'll end up on the news. Now where that.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
There's no question if answer somebody now.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
But they and even if they're going to be found
not guilty because of the way the system is right,
put them through the process so they suffer through that pain,
and then that'll get on the news. This isn't I
was at Target yesterday. I was doing a pickup after
the show, and there was a guy in like spot
ten or whatever. It was like two spots down from me.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
By the way, this is because rosstaes not go inside.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
I do not. So I was standing there and the
guy had his window down and I pulled up and
I thought the guy was going to have a heart attack.
He was screaming at his radio. He was super angry,
and I thought there was going to be like an incident.
He's listening to Glenn Beck, and Glenn Beck is talking
about all this stuff that's gonna happen yesterday, and he's
screaming at his radio, bleeping Democrats, they're all gonna be

(05:14):
thrown in prison. I'm like, you see on the phone
with somebody, he's screaming at his radio, listening to this
radio station.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
That's our boy, right.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Yeah. Well, but I'm like he is angry, and I'm
like Is there gonna be like an incident, like a
violent incident. Is this guy like you know, is he
Looney Tunes? And I'm realizing that he's talking aback and
he's so pissed off about this news and the Tulsy
Gabbard stuff and what's gonna happen to the press conference?
And this guy's convinced and he's super angry that they're
all going to go to prison. And I'm thinking, this
guy is going to be so disappointed because we are
in a perpetual stalemate. This is how this is gonna

(05:43):
play out. Even if they go on and they do
a live press conference and they show every single document
up on the screen. Now, what's going to happen because
of the Epstein files is the other side he's gonna say, oh, well,
you know how Trump is saying, this isn't the real
Epstein files. They did like a switcheroo, Right, It's all
a hoax. That's exactly what Trump is doing with these files.

(06:05):
So we're not getting nothing is going to happen. There's
not going to be any budge. The media isn't going
to acknowledge it. That's what's going to happen. I mean,
that's that's where we are. What do you think moves
the needle putting them through the process.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Okay, all right, Just to be clear, So if you
think if they indict somebody, there's no and I agree
with you, if somebody's indicted, there's no choice but to cover.
Even if you cover it purely from the way that
the CBS News headline that just give you, I just
gave you, they're like, oh, all the intelligence is wrong.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
And to go along with my point to prove it
even more. They're seeing the timing of this in relation
to the Epstein files or all the drama they're they're
tying those together and they're saying, the only reason Tulsi
was up there yesterday is to distract from the Epstein files.
But once again Trump is saying there was a hoax.
It's not a thing. They did a switcheroo that say,
isn't the real files. They're going to say the same

(06:54):
exact thing about every file you put up on the
screen when it comes to Tulsi, when it comes to
Rushi Gate, every single one. So we're stillmate, nothing's going
to happen unless you put them through the process.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, it's it was be I just assumed it was
going to be a solid defense this morning, because like
how this audio is wild from Tulsi Gabbard yesterday. Let
me just let me just give you a little samp.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
Thank you very much, good afternoon.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
At President Trump's direction and with the support and coordination
with the House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford, today we've
released a declassified Oversight Majority staff report that was produced
in September of twenty twenty. The stunning revelations that we
are releasing today should be of concern to every American.

(07:42):
This is not about Democrats Republicans. This has to do
with the integrity of our Democratic republic and American voters
having faith that the votes cast will count. There is
irrefutable evidence that detail how President Obama and his national
security team directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
That they knew was false.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia
interfered in the twenty sixteen election to help President Trump win,
selling it to the American people as though.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
It were true. It wasn't.

Speaker 5 (08:17):
The report that we released today shows in great detail
how they carried this out. They manufactured findings from shoddy sources.
They suppressed evidence and credible intelligence that disproved their false claims.
They disobeyed traditional trade craft intelligence community standards and withheld

(08:37):
the truth from the American people. In doing so, they
conspired to subvert the will of the American people who
elected Donald Trump in that election in November of twenty sixteen.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
So you know, one of the things she starts with
is the date, and it has their signatures on it.
So you think they're going to claim that that's falsified.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, they're not going to They're not gonna care or
they're not going to cover it. Yeah, I mean they're
gonna they're gonna call it a fascist trump oaks because
they don't believe anybody in the administration. They're going to
say they're doing this to this track from the Epstein files.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
This is the There there's three paths here. There's the
overall path right, which is just uh clapper, and you
know others because again that if if you heard the
date there that is Joe Biden, that is when Joe
Biden is present. Okay, so but but but there's a

(09:38):
date on there, like it's irrefutable because the way that
they log these things. So to uh, to Ross's point,
they're going to have to push back over the very
standards that they use themselves to verify any document that
they may be leaked or received through FOYA. I mean,

(09:59):
just just so you understand what it is they're ignoring.
And then she went on, do you believe that any
of this new information implicates former President Obama and criminal behavior?

Speaker 5 (10:11):
We have referred and will continue to refer all of
these documents to the Department of Justice and the FBI
to investigate the criminal implications of this.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
For even the evidence correct.

Speaker 5 (10:22):
The evidence that we have found and that we have
released directly point to President Obama leading the manufacturing of
this intelligence assessment. There are multiple pieces of evidence and
intelligence that confirm that fact.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
Head go ahead, Derek or Garrick, thank you, So, just
two questions, but to begin on that there, yesterday you've
inferred that the former president help leader coup. Based on
what you now see, do you believe President Obama is
guilty of treason?

Speaker 5 (10:56):
I'm leaving the criminal charges to the Department of Justice.
I am not an attorney, but as I've said previously,
when you look at the intent behind creating a fake
manufactured intelligence document that directly contradicts multiple assessments that were
created by the intelligence community. The expressed intent and what

(11:18):
followed afterward can only be described as a year's long coup,
and the trees and his conspiracy against the American people
are republic and an attempt to undermine President Trump's administration.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
I mean, even if they don't believe her, for the
Director of National Intelligence to sit up there and to
say those things merits, that should be the top story.
And obviously it's a little tongue in cheek this morning.
Clearly I wasn't hallucinating, but I will say it's even

(11:51):
The ignoring is even further than I would have predicted,
because I thought they would start playing defense and they
have not. And Ross is probably right until somebody is
literally indicted, maybe they won't. Maybe they won't.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
I mean, after listen, and this is what I come
to expect. And it's very sad that it's come to this.
I said, I see a list of news yesterday. I'm like,
nothing is going to happen here unless they're put through
the process. But are they going to do that to
the first you know, black American president? Right because of
the fall that would come from that.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Do you do you believe that we have riots? I
don't know if you're on board with that.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
If they were to indict Barack Obama, I.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Have no idea. I know the story would be, you know,
obvious racism and all that kind of stuff. That's where
other media would go with that. But I mean after Benghazi,
I mean this nothing surprises me now never. When Benghazi
was like, oh, this is the next Watergate? How many
next watergates? Have we seen that go nowhere?

Speaker 1 (12:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Because the media just doesn't cover it. Dude, it's so bad.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Here's the least surprising bit of the audio too, right.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
Here, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign high level DNC emails that
detailed evidence of Hillary's quote psycho emotional problems, uncontrolled fits
of anger, aggression, and cheerfulness, and that then Secretary Clinton
was allegedly on a daily regiment of heavy tranquilizers.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
By the way, I don't But here's why I actually
disagree with g. Gabbert. Did you ever see moments of
cheerfulness with Hillary?

Speaker 2 (13:23):
I mean we heard the cackling.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Was that cheerful? Was that cheerful? Cakolid? I'm so confused, wait,
hold on, I think I have it. Let's uh, let's
uh here it is, all right, So tell me if
this sounds cheerful? Yeah, I mean evil laughter. No, that's yeah,
you're right. No, no, no, that sounds like a villain
in a volcano layer.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah, it's like it's like a manic person in a
volcano layer.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Volcano always a hairless cat, hadding a hairless cat.

Speaker 7 (13:53):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Wait wait ready one see yes, oh all my wait,
hold on, all my enemies.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
Will pay.

Speaker 8 (14:07):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Yeah, that's not cheerful, that's ominous. I guess it'd be
the word there, dude that But you know people, and
I know that the media is not going to bring
this up. We saw we saw one really big one,
but we saw several. Do you remember when she literally
like uh calked out and they had to like shove

(14:28):
her in a car at some events.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
And they were like, oh, is because she's so dehydrated
from the campaign.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Right, yes, when in reality she was plotting.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Oh yeah she did. She did the whole day of
portnoy like weak legs at the Super Bowl thing, but
unintentionally like just collapsed and they had to like all
like coming around her and like shield her and push
her in the suv.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Well that and that's the one, but there were there
were two other occasions where they essentially like whisped whisked
her away, just not as dramatic as that one. What
was even crazier This is CNN's coverage. See if you
can figure out why it's CNN's.

Speaker 5 (15:08):
Intelligence community assessments released in the months leading up to
the November twenty sixteen election concluded that Russia had neither
the intent nor capability to impact the outcome of the
US election.

Speaker 4 (15:20):
On December fifth.

Speaker 9 (15:21):
We've been listening there to the Director of National Intelligence,
Tulsea Gabbard, continuing on what has now been a multi
day effort not only with public statements like this, but
release of documents to attempt to back up the quite
extreme allegation that President Obama is guilty of treason and
then he worked in some sort of conspiracy with Hillary Clinton, etc.

Speaker 7 (15:44):
In the assessment.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
So CNN wants they literally pulled away from the press conference.
This is the White House press briefing. So it's going
to be interesting. All right, We'll take a break, be
right back. Yeah, there is a hurrey ficked story from
was it Alabama? I have it Ross pulled the audio.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Ross.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
How angry did it make you pulling that audio of
the uh the dungeon?

Speaker 10 (16:11):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Absolutely horrific.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
I like wood chippers not enough. I don't know what
we do, but we need something more like loading the audio.
It's such a horrific, awful, terrible story. I'm like, should
we even do it this morning? Because I thought about it?
But like I I you know, because here's the thing.

(16:35):
If you're listening to the show and I look, I
have mentioned on the show, I struggle. Here's why I
struggle with the death penalty. There's one issue that waves
in my mind when we're talking about the death penalty
for people, and and if you have a healthy distrust
of the government and what they can do to you, uh, like,
if you're if you think what happened to the Jay

(16:56):
Sixers is obscene, If you think you know and then
insert whatever story it is, keep in mind that when
somebody is literally on trial for their life. And and
honestly I never thought of this. And then a guy
used to do radio with and a lawyer that we
used to have on the station who was was one
of Timothy mcveigh's attorneys. All right, so I know this guy,

(17:21):
he brought this up, and this the entire weight of
the government is against you for the purpose of killing you.
And and that should give you pause. However, there are
times when, if if this is provable, you can't execute
them fast enough. And I you know, the whole China

(17:46):
shoots you and then send your your family a bill
for the bullets doesn't even seem enough.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Like you always think about like the you know, the
you know, the Shawshankred, like the andyd frames of the
world where they're super guilty but they were actually innocent.
Now in the movie, of course you went to prison.
But you know, I'm saying, like, you know, what if
they had put him to death, they've been awful. However,
sometimes you encounter such monsters. Yeah that there's no hesitation, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
And it's and and and it sounds like there is
an admission by at least one of these monsters here.
So in fact, let me, let me just go ahead
and do this. I don't mean to ruin your morning.
But and the other the other reason for this is
people need to understand that evil, immense evil exists. And
I and I know conceptually people probably believe that, but

(18:32):
like the level of evil that can exist and and
and it can exist right here in our backyard. These
are not just point These are not illegal immigrants, These
are not terrorists from Isis like we we we've seen
that level of evil. But for evil to exist right
here next to you, at this level, it it's just staggered,

(18:57):
all right. So let me let me just do this
rather than rather than teasing it. And I'm going to
warn you this is this is probably one of the
most troubling stories that I've done in recent memory. But
it so blew me away yesterday. So again this is
rule Alabama. Here we go.

Speaker 11 (19:15):
This is where authority say six children, the youngest only
three years old, were victimized repeatedly over more than a year.
It's an underground storm shelter near the home of William
Chase McElroy, one of the men charged with raping and
sodomizing the children, as well as kidnapping and human trafficking.

Speaker 12 (19:30):
Inside the storm shelter there were chairs and beds and
things of that nature, and the children were drugged by
mister Trehast and tied to the bed and to the
chair into a pole. And then people would come and
pay money to have sex with these children.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
See that should be enough. We have a couple more cuts,
but just to reiterate, they turned a storm shelter on
a piece of property into a slave a sex slave
dungeon for kids and literally chain them to a pole,

(20:09):
chain them to a bed. And then I don't know
why it makes it worse, but it wasn't even just them.
They then turned it into a business for all practical purposes.
I don't know if they were charging, but they had
other people come over where these kids are. Then they

(20:31):
had to drug them for you know, obviously, and this
is what they're uncovering.

Speaker 11 (20:38):
Assistant District Attorney Brian Jones says there could be more
victims and more leched perpetrators. He says the grand jury
has indicted a fourth person, but he can't release that
name because that person hasn't been arrested yet. But he
says we may never know the full extent of the
whoors that happened here.

Speaker 12 (20:53):
There are some allegations with individuals that we will have
a hard time identifying just because we don't know their names.
And the children were drugged, according to one of the
co defendants, and so they may not they may not
be able to recognize or be able to identify anyone.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
So there are people likely in this case that participated,
who will never who will never see justice. Even though
even though you have one of the it sounds like
one of the defendants you know, is clearly laying this
out for him, but he himself doesn't know the extent
of it because he wasn't one of the primaries. This

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is this is why the Epstein thing bothers me so much.
And again, I don't have kids, but you don't have to.
You don't have to look at this and just mentally understand,
like what is life going to be like for them?
And and I hope you know they're able to do

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something normalized in some way, shape or form. But I
don't know. I don't know how you come back from that.
And so what you've essentially done. And this is why
it's it's like, I'm all good, you want to grease
these these pieces of garbage because arguably they probably they
took a normal life away from these kids. I don't

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know how you just get on with things, all right?
One more cut Jones.

Speaker 11 (22:27):
As many of these details came from some of the
defendants themselves, This has been a tough case for investigators
and prosecutors when they've been looking into since the first
of the year.

Speaker 12 (22:36):
It absolutely infuriates me, but we have to kind of
put that aside and just do the job. That's all
we can do.

Speaker 11 (22:43):
It could be some comfort to investigators and authorities to
know that the crimes these defendants are charged with come
with a minimum mandatory sentence of life in prison without
the possibility of parole.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
You know, I know a police officer who works in Minneapolis,
who works at one of the suburbs, and I think
I'll just leave it at that because he's probably told
me some stuff he shouldn't and this is what he
works on. This is what he works on, and and
I I don't want this come across. This is not

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an insult any way, shape or form. It's clearly colored
who he is. And and to some extent, you you
there's a certain amount of morose, not joking, but where
you have to say, you know, hey, I got a
job to do. I got to do that, and I

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commend him for that.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
You see this from like people that work in like
the FBI, like criminal profiling stuff, right, they say, right
when they're like this is their life, and they say, like,
you know, if you stare into the abyss for too long,
it's going to take you over.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Well, here's here's what I mean by colors his life,
the way that he the protective nature. If people didn't
know what he did, they would they would look at
him and they think that he is over protective of
his kids and he's a little off, but he's not.
He just sees this. He sees this every day and
then he goes home. He's got like, sid, why does
he have six kids? Now? He's got five five kids,

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And and he probably goes home every day and he
looks at his kids and he's got a great family
and and and he realizes what he just saw every day.
And then I'm sure it crosses his mind, what if
this happened to one of my kids.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
You can't help but be paranoid about it. Yes, that's
completely normal.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
And you know he's he's shared details with some higher
profile cases just over the years, and it's to the
point where it's like, I don't know that I want
to know anymore. I mean I want to because you know,
it's my job to convey these things, but like, I
don't know if I've heard of something that rose to

(24:52):
this level in America, right, I'm not talking about some
of the stuff you see and in some of these
third world countries, but like and and and and again,
I understand that it exists, but like a Hollywood team
couldn't come up with something that's twisted. They wouldn't. They
wouldn't put it in film because it would off put
people to the film. And and this is what they

(25:16):
found out in Alabama. And I and I'm sorry, I
would chippers too fast.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yeah, they look like something like the morbidly obese version
of the people in Deliverance.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yes, yeah, that is Oh yeah, the bugshots. Oh yeah,
one hundred. So we'll be following this. It wasn't on
my radar. I had no idea what was going on.
Just saw it yesterday. So I just just wanted to
let you know. All right, six forty five coming up
on the show at eight oh five, we will Stephen
Kental join us, our NERD correspondent. We'll talk Cobert and

(25:50):
Superman and a few other things. But our Thursday traditional
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(26:11):
of steps you should have every day. So if you're
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we'll do it next here on the CaCO Day radio program.
We'll send me emails. I know, I know. And to

(26:31):
Ross's point where he's like, I don't know if we
should do I was the same. I didn't. I saw
the story middle of the day with what was going
on in Alabama with these these kids literally tethered two
things and being drug and all the horribleness, and I
throughout the day I thought, am I going to send
that for prep? I'm gonna say, And then when I

(26:52):
was sending prep to Ross, you know, near seven o'clock
last night, I just I'm like, yeah, yeah, because I
didn't know about it. I didn't know about it, and
I don't know. Maybe it'd be better off not knowing
about it, But you need to you need to understand
the level of evil that exists out there. And it
doesn't mean you lock your kids in a basement, but

(27:14):
and you're Rosier description of the fattest version of the
Deliverance Boys one thousand percent accurate. And that was going on.
And it's not a big community, which means probably everyone
in this town knew these guys just you know, it's
how small towns work. And I'm assuming had no idea. So,

(27:37):
like I said, we'll be following that. There is some
conclusion to another pretty horrific story, if I could just
stack them. That of course is the Brian Cooberger. So
this is the dude who decided to stab those students
to death in Idaho, up in Moscow, Idaho. So yesterday

(27:59):
was sent and seen, so you get victim impact statements.
He may say something and then you know they they
pronounced sentence, and you know there's a few things you learned.
One he had he knew he had nothing to do
with these students, which there there's a certain level of
randomness to that, which is I don't know, arguably more

(28:22):
bothersome just because you know, people think they can guard
or be on guard from, you know, people that they
sense mean harm to them or are off whereas this
dude just he's like, all right, this is this is
where I'm gonna go However, he didn't talk about it
much when it was his opportunity. Let's let's get into

(28:45):
just a couple pieces of audio here and and we'll
start here.

Speaker 13 (28:50):
You really didn't think this one through.

Speaker 7 (28:52):
You're not that good.

Speaker 13 (28:54):
In fact, you're not that good at anything.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
His mom. You can see you can.

Speaker 13 (29:00):
And get along with others. You couldn't even get a
female to look in your direction, all because you are pathetic.
Now you're a joke in this courtroom. I wish I
could have crowned. I wish I could crown you, whether
jest or hat to complete your orange jumpsuit clown.

Speaker 7 (29:21):
Look, there is.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
A moment, and I'm going to not say levity, but
it's I haven't heard something like this in a victim
impact statement. So at one point, mom of one of
the students who was murdered specifically quote her daughter, not
the daughter who was murdered, but the sister of the daughter.

(29:46):
The sister's eighteen. Her sister who was murdered was twenty.
And this is Kaylee Gonkov's if I'm pronouncing that correctly,
and I think I am. And so she her eighteen
year old daughter, wrote a couple of lines gave him
to mom as part of her statement, and all I

(30:07):
have to say is kudos. Listen to this. You'll probably
never hear anything like it again.

Speaker 13 (30:13):
Quick message from our youngest daughter. Harby wanted to say,
you may have received a's in high school and college,
but you're going to be getting big d's in prison.

Speaker 7 (30:27):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
That's good right there, and no emotional reaction from the guy.
And if you don't know what that means, I'm sorry.
You're gonna have to google it and just be careful.
But I think you can figure out what D stand
for now. As far as him saying anything, well, that
was a different story entirely.

Speaker 7 (30:44):
Koburger. You have an opportunity to make a statement if
you wish to. I take it you were declining.

Speaker 10 (30:50):
I respectfully decline.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
I don't know how you do anything respectfully at this point,
but I will say, you know, kudos to mom to
the extent that you can, and good on the eighteen
year old daughter.

Speaker 13 (31:02):
Quick message from our youngest daughter. Harry wanted to say,
you may have received a's in high school and college,
but you're going to be getting big d's in prison.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
And again, it's just this goes to the point man
you you don't know what evil you're you're next to
on a daily basis, and that doesn't that doesn't mean
you should lock yourself in a bunk or anything.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
But you go to your point about that. You know,
you have people on social media and you know in
the news that are like, oh, he's going to be
stewing on these comments for the rest of his life.
And I don't know if he is, like I think,
because we're processing what he's hearing through regular normal human emotion, right,
but he doesn't have that. He's a psychopathic monster. And unfortunately,

(31:48):
I think he's going to go back to his cell
and never think about it again. I don't think he's
going to care. And the sad part is the families
of the victims are going to be thinking about it
for the rest of their lives.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Now in a moment where some of the d's come
to pass correct, maybe, I don't know, But other than that, no,
you're right. When you're a sociopath, you just like clearly
because he didn't show any emotion during this whole thing.
During the whole thing, which I you know, I saw
a story. We really haven't covered each element of the trial,

(32:18):
although you know, eventually turned into a plea, So you
didn't have the full on trial, and I don't know,
maybe you know, this is the only opportunity, to your point,
for the family to really confront this guy, and he
just sat there, stonefaced, didn't care respectfully declined, just sitting there,

(32:39):
just going with it. To this day, I don't know
that we fully understand what his motive was. It looks
like this is probably going to happen, and I don't
know how the Republicans are look because they're likely going
to go through a primary, whereas the road seemingly is
probably cleared on the left. But former Governor North of

(33:02):
North Carolina, Roy Cooper. This is from Axios and WRIL.
So there you go. There's your source. Has in fact
decided to run for Senate. I don't think this is
a secret much and plans to announce his campaign prior
to the end of the month. So what is that
a week? We've got a week. People familiar with the

(33:25):
plans told w r A L News the decision brings
clarity to Democrat strategy to regain this seat. All right,
So they're doing some analysis there. They're trying to flip
at least four Senate seats. Obviously North Carolina would be
one of them. I'm still I have still yet to
hear who's going to be the slam dunk opponent for

(33:49):
Roy Cooper on the right. Not that they wanted or anything,
but like, I still don't know who that is. Now.
It'll be interesting because there's a lot to run attack
ads on Roy Cooper over right. You got the thing
with his daughter where he's pushing back against DEI and
his daughter has a financial interest in promoting DEI. Take

(34:10):
that for what it's worth. You have everything from COVID.
Arguably if people are paying attention to this stuff, you
have what looks to be a clear failure in Western
North Carolina following the hurricane and the lack of even
naming somebody to go ahead and you know, be the

(34:32):
point person on this, which is very unusual. And so
you know you're gonna get treated all this stuff, I'm
sure with incessant advertising both on the radio likely here
probably and you know television, bus the people who call,
the people who text, and everything else. The question will

(34:53):
be how doesn't move the needle? Also, how will it
play out in Western North Carolina? Because let's be honest,
if you're western North Carolina, the last thing you should
probably do is vote for this guy. Like the the response,
and then and and and the the just sitting there.

(35:13):
That's what was crazy, the just sitting there instead of
advocating for FEMA to do their damn job. He didn't.
He didn't even comment it really one comment on it,
really one way or the other, and and and and
that should be campaign ending level stuff. But he'll probably
sweep the city of Asheville, the city of Boone University Town,

(35:36):
and uh, I guess we'll wait and see. It'll come
down to probably what happens with the undecideds in western
North Carolina, because again we're probably this this race will
be within a few percentage points, likely unless the Republicans
run some lunatic so I don't know how it pans out.
But it also gives you a big lead in fundra

(36:00):
because now once he declares, he can fundraise, and he's
obviously he'll have to do reporting. But and believe it
or not, even though fundraising for the Democrat Party has
has had some issues right now, for the more standard fundraising,
I just saw reporting they've raised like three billion dollars.

(36:24):
The question is where's that money coming from? And will
the investigation and Act Blue change some of the ways
that they can. That's one of the biggest scandals. I
still don't understand why that's not a priority, why that's
not something they're holding press conferences on those stories of people.
And we've seen a bunch of when we've seen some

(36:45):
locally where some guy, they go to his house, he
lives in an apartment, not a nice I shouldn't say
not a nice apartment, a real standard apartment, you know,
probably cost him fifteen hundred bucks a month to two thousand,
and yet somehow that individual made like eight thousand individual
contributions to the tune of twenty k last year. Like

(37:08):
the amount of shenanigans with that fundraising just based on
those stories is crazy. But also when you're doing a
bunch of five dollars donations, are they five dollars donations
or are they a big thing of money where the
person wasn't legally able to give it and so then
they then split it. That's the theory, and I really

(37:33):
thought the Republicans would be smart to really lean into that.
The problem is maybe they're doing it themselves with the
wind Red Yeah, act blue and wind red or the
two different conduits for fundraising. So and if that's the
case through all these people, but like why because you
got a kneecap that before you get into the races.

(37:57):
That's the strategy there. And to this day, I don't
understand why they didn't make it a bigger deal. You've
got to turn that into a scandal to the point
where they're not able to use this is you know,
this is art of war stuff. If you're the Republicans,
you should have made that the most toxic thing ever,
so that people have a distrust of money is raised

(38:19):
through that particular platform. Now it doesn't mean they won't switch,
but then the story is, well, why did you switch
if there's not a problem and they have not accomplished
that to this point, you really got to be paying
attention to, you know, to understand how sketchy that thing looks.

(38:41):
So I don't know, maybe they'll ramp it up, but
they probably should. All Right, a couple things we had
district judges yesterday doing their thing. I don't even know,
Like these rulings don't even make sense, don't even make sense.
So this pertains to kilmar Abrego Garcia. You know him

(39:04):
as the Maryland man who was taken to El Salvador.
They went and had cocktails with him, the whole thing.
Never mind everything we learned that this guy is a
human trafficking spouse or girlfriend, his wife, spouse abusing piece
of garbage according to her, and yet they're still running protection.

(39:29):
So he judge is issued a ruling barring ICE from
detaining him following his hearing that he has coming up.
When is the hearing It's in a few days, It
doesn't matter. So the ruling basically says, rather than sitting out,
you know, outside the courthouse or whatever that ICE is

(39:52):
has to give him three business days or has to
give the judge three business days warning if they and
to take action. And if there's one thing about this guy,
we know he's never attempted to evade being found or
being apprehended. That's a sarcasm, by the way. Yeah, the

(40:14):
ruling will prevent ICE from quickly detaining Garcia, who is
now said to be released due to a separate ruling
by Tennessee judge. The alien will not be released immediately
as there is one other hearing which could take up
to thirty days, but once he is, they can't do
anything for three days and they have to tell the judge.

(40:36):
I don't know how that's legal. There's no part of
me who's ever seen anything like this telling Ice if
they have a proper detainer, that they can't literally take
this guy into custody. And they do, because again they're
going after the criminal charges with him, so you know,

(40:58):
if they're ready to indict, and they time it so
that it's following this guy's hearing, whatever his hearing is.
A seventy two hour notice is something I have never
seen in my life. And again not shocked with everything
we've seen with the judges, but still a little, still little,

(41:19):
just because this is even far worse than some of
the other injunctions where you could at least attempt to
make an argument, albeit a stupid one. This is just
something that was made up. Also, you had a judge
in Florida who has blocked the Trump administration from getting
hold of the Jeffrey Epstein grand jury stuff, the transcripts.

(41:44):
A Florida federal judge has denied the Trump administration's bid
to release grand jury transcripts from an investigation that ended
with this is the two thousand and eight. This is
the first thing with Epstein. They wanted to get a
hold of those transcripts. For what reason would a judge

(42:05):
deny this? Judge Robin Rosenberg wrote in a twelve page
ruling that the quote the court's hands are tied because
the request by the government is not tied to an
ongoing trial. I saw several lawyers that commented on this
in a couple of different stories, and they said that

(42:25):
that's not necessarily a standard. It doesn't have to be
a trial. It can literally be an investigation. Well, I'm
pretty sure that the Trump administration could argue that they
have an investigation going on, considering that the DOJ has
been tasked with this. It's not always been to my satisfaction,
but clearly there is an ongoing thing. And at the

(42:46):
same time, simultaneously, you have the Wall Street Journal reporting
something that we already knew, and that is what the
media is latching onto that in the Trump back in
May was told by the DOJ that is part of
the the treasure trove of Epstein documents files hard drives

(43:07):
that his name is in there now that we knew
that we knew this because there were two occasions where
you know, one Donald Trump obviously knew this guy. The
guy was a member of Trump's Club, which Trump famously
excommunicated him from for attempting to essentially one of the

(43:30):
member's daughters to I guess turn her out for whatever
they were doing. That was the suspicion. And he also
used Epstein's plane when his was having a maintenance to
fly from New York to Palm Beach. We know this.
This is not new information, and it doesn't mean that
just because other people were on Epstein's plane that they

(43:54):
themselves were diddling the kids. Who was wasn't it wasn't
there a bunch of Hollywood actors. I think it was
what Chris Tucker and a few others who flew on
Epstein's plane to Africa as part of some charitable thing
that was going on. All right, nobody's accusing Chris Tucker of,
you know, raping kids at Epstein's island, right, this is

(44:17):
why you go through there. But it is very interesting
to me that they say, you know, this briefing, reportedly
according to the Wall Street Journal, took place, and they
mentioned a Trump. They're like, hey, you're in here, which
just proves my point that clearly names are in this thing,

(44:37):
and it doesn't mean every name that you come across
is somehow, you know, part of some criminal act. But
it makes it makes people who couldn't understand, such as myself,
why we just wanted to do away with this thing,
very that much more suspicious, Like we have a bunch
of names. How are you not tracking this down? You

(44:59):
just saw what the FBI did with all the J sixers.
They turned what did they say? A third of the
bureau was working on that. So again, the whole thing
is is just crazy. And now you got judges getting
in the way of this. I just don't understand. The
Justice Department had filed a petition requesting transcripts from proceedings

(45:22):
of federal grand juries that were convened in South Florida
and five and seven to investigate Epstein. Eventually turned into
a bit of a sweetheart deal there. But now the
DOJ is not allowed to look at them. And again,
these were federal courts, because we're not even state courts.
These were federal courts. It's so in their purview, it's

(45:44):
not even funny. And this judge is standing in the way.
I know that we're all pretending that the Trump administration
has solved the judge issue because there's been a few
Supreme Court rulings, but clearly they have not. Clearly they
have not. I guess it'll take it up the food
chain there, but it's going to be a slow process,

(46:07):
all right. Seven here on the CaCO Day Radio program.
Oh yeah, this sir? All right, so we got it.
Every time I see a story like this, all I
can ask is how so here here's the headline. Surf
instructor has arm ripped completely off when clipped by Amtrak

(46:28):
train with no warning. We'll dissect this next hang on.

Speaker 3 (46:33):
They have a comment about the last four years of
Biden administration. They had all this information on Epstein, and
if it was true that Trump was involved, they would
have laid that out just because they've lied about everything else.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
That's our working theory on the show. One hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
Yeah, well, I think I wish you guys would say
this every single day, because where the Democrats get back
at the Republicans is they say it every single day,
one thousand times, and then stupid people start to believe it.

Speaker 10 (47:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
Well, one, I think we say it every day, or
at least every day that we touch on this, so
uh yes, but yeah, you're you're correct, and Hannity says
it every ten minutes, so oh.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
You got to But I appreciate your time. Okay, No, no, no, it's.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
All good, sir. I'm not I'm not knocking on you.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
Yeah, yeah, no, that's the same. Look, if there's one
takeaway in all this thing, if you're trying to evaluate
what did Trump do? What he didn't do, and and
let me say this, if if, if there is verifiable
evidence that Trump in any way, shape or form partook
in any of this, throw them in prison. I don't care.
I just want I just want to be abundantly clear here.

(47:39):
You're gonna have to prove it. But the thing it
makes most most difficult to believe is what CJ just
like laid out and we have said on the show,
with every single thing that we saw thrown at Trump,
if they had any evidence, even questionable evidence, they would

(48:01):
have they would have had a press conference. It would
have been the only thing in the media. So last
night I hear something going on like in the roof
or the attic or you know, up in there, and
it's like eleven thirty I had trouble sleeping last night.
So it's like eleven thirty at night, and so I
can access literally something allows me to see up on

(48:23):
my roof. And it wasn't a human, and I thought,
oh my, you know, did like a squirrel get in?
What the heck's going on? But it wasn't actually in
the house. And so at eleven thirty, I'm up there
literally with my uh with a flashlight, with my iPhone light,
and there's like two raccoons on my roof doing whatever

(48:44):
it was to accomplish, making enough noise that I picked
up on it. And again I was having trouble sleeping,
so I was like half awake, but like, there's nothing
on my roof, what do they doing? And so it
was the weirdest thing where I was. So I peer
over these stupid raccoons like twelve feet from me, fifteen
feet Maybe they don't even respond. They just look at

(49:04):
me like what hey.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
I know they just look at you. You know I
have the same experience, Yeah, to look at you like
do the little hand motion.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
They were just sitting I'm like, were you guys fighting?
Were you hooking up? What the hell's going on up here?

Speaker 7 (49:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (49:15):
They gave zero bleaps. He did not care. And normally
I'm cool with the wildlife around, Like I got a
pausum that lives under my deck. We're fine, We're chill.
Ross had a raccoon. Although you've you've now turned on your.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
Reccord, we still does. Randy the raccoon who for the
longest time we figured out somebody was going into our
trash and like snacking. Yeah, one day I walked out,
it was like three in the morning, it was coming
to work, and I walked down and the trash can
was like right there, and I heard, like, you know,
some movement and I look over and it was the
same sort of thing you're describing, where the raccoon is
like on top of the trash can and puts his

(49:48):
arms un He's like, what up, buddy, Like yeah, sort
of like a movement like a little shitmy, you know, yeah,
And I'm like, all right, well, we have a raccoon.
So Mark, He's like, you know, let's put you know,
let's put the trash out every now, and you know,
just to give him a snack or something, you will
put it in. So yeah, no, this is a horrible idea.
So it escalated so one day, like I got home
and I pulled up, and I hadn't seen it when
I left the house at like three, but I pulled up,

(50:10):
you know, when I got home from work at like
ten thirty, you know, in the morning after the show,
and on top of the jeep, our old jeep which
we're having toe today by the way, in the driveway
that's been there, you know, like an old old car
on top of the jeep was the jeep. Patriots was
like snacks, like like like a cake and like like
baggies of like you know, like yeah, he started being

(50:34):
rude and he was like, I'm just gonna put all
the trash on top of this jeep. So if you
drove past my house, he saw these snacks on the
old jeep in the triangle, and like.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
The jeep is inoperable. So like you read the room.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
Right, you see the little handprints like climbing up the
side of the jeep and stuff. So I've had to
put this like giant boulder on top of the top
of the trash can. And he still manages to get
food out, like like yeah, like ziplock bags.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
On the ground.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
I'm like, how you get in there?

Speaker 14 (51:00):
Man?

Speaker 1 (51:01):
Dude. Now, it was less for raccoons. But when I
was a kid, we had the three can. We had
three cans and like this wood thing and it literally
had a lid that you could bungee cord down. It
was actually a real pain in the butt to take it. Yeah,
so I was trying for bears, but we had it
for bears, and the bears would still get in there.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
Yeah, you know, I tried the bungee cord thing and
it works. But the thing is when you take them off,
they like like to sling shot back and like hit
me in the hands and stuff. That sucks. And you know,
the boulder, the giant boulder I put on top is
just sort of it's a good workout. You got to
pick it up, use your legs, you know. I see
it like it's like it's like a weightlifting thing. But yeah,
he still manages to get in there, man, Like I

(51:38):
don't know how.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
So I don't know what. I still don't know what
those two were up to yesterday. No good clearly, because
again I was already having trouble sleeping and they're just like, oh,
let's make a bunch of noise. This guy for a moment,
thinks there's a burglar on his roof, but I think
that's just Again, it wasn't so heavy, but like, I
don't know what they were. It's sound. There was like thumping.
I don't know what was going on.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
Man, Yeah they're fighting.

Speaker 1 (52:01):
Well they were fine. When I looked at they looked
thick as thieves when I got up there. Well, they
clearly are the raccoons.

Speaker 12 (52:05):
Man.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
I think the first thing I saw on top of
the jeep was like a half of an old cheesecake.
I'm like, man, he's just being root. Put your food away, man.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
I mean cheesecake's good, right, yeah, but I mean that
cake sweets. Guy.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
I can devoured entire thing. So it takes a lot
of self control not to eat the entire you know
thing of cheesecakes. So I'm like, I'm not gonna eat.
I'm gonna put it off. So he's rubbing it down. Yeah,
he's like, look at me, the old cheesecake. Put on
your roof.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
Jerk ah. So how many steps do you think the
raccoon gets every day? So we talked on the show.
I don't know, it was like a month ago where
we were talking about how they're like oh, be sure
to get twenty what was it, twenty thousand steps?

Speaker 2 (52:44):
I know you're supposed to get ten thousand.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Ten thousand, Okay, I'm sorry, ten thousand steps a day?
Oh yeah, here it is right here? Yeah yeah, that
literally ten thousand steps a day goes as far back
as the nineteen sixties. And you did the math on this,
how far is ten thousand steps?

Speaker 2 (52:59):
I was redoing it because I can't remember if my
memory is correct, I want to say like five, but
it might have been like three. Fine, let me confirm. Yeah,
it might be five, but it was some ridiculous number
where they're like, oh, it's super easy to lose weight,
just do the simple hack throughout your day, and it's like, yeah,
walk five miles and you lose weight.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
Hold on, I'm literally querying this right now. How many
steps do you think you got a day when you
first learned this?

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Yeah, so I would be like ten thousand steps. I
would walk all day, I'd go to the gym, I'd
walk all day, and then i'd look at it would
be like five thousand steps, right, Like how is that?
Or like seven thousand steps? Like some stupid it's so
hard to get to ten thousand steps, and then I
would know it's super easy.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
How many miles is ten thousand steps? We'll ask Rock
and I know that annoys. Yeah. I still don't understand
why people on you're on Twitter and you get annoyed
when people ask Rock stuff. And I'm not saying for
like life advice that is dumb, but like just to
know something those is ten thousand steps. Let's see what

(54:00):
Rox says, dude, do do do do? Do four point
seven to five miles?

Speaker 2 (54:10):
Right?

Speaker 1 (54:10):
So it's five yeah, so it's five miles. Well, uh,
you're in luck. According to a new a new study
published with the Lancets, So that's a pretty legitimate health journal.
Ten thousand steps is too many or I mean, if
you want to, you can do ten thousand. But according
to the Lancet study, if you want to get health

(54:32):
benefits including a reduced cause of death, cardiovascular disease, cancer,
type two diabetes, dementia, and depression, uh, the magic number
is only seven thousand.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
So I mean that's not so bad. That's doable. Well,
I said before, I'm like, I'm going to get those
ten thousand steps and I would walk all day, do
circles around house and be like seven thousand something like that.

Speaker 1 (54:55):
Are you telling me Lincoln does like seven thousands?

Speaker 2 (54:57):
He does? So he paces all around the house and
likes you know, looking at like listening to his like
nursery rhymes and YouTube videos and stuff, or like he
likes drawing on his phone or and like he'll just
walk and pace around the house all day. And the
iPhone comes with that app where you can check to
see where your steps are. Yeah, the hepp and we
I just opened it randomly the other day. I'm like,
you know, because I'm concerned. I'm like, I want him
to get enough exercise, you know, because he likes to

(55:18):
play video games. And I'm not going to say you
shouldn't play video games because that would make me a
huge hypocrite, but I'm like, I want to make sure
my kid is getting enough exercise. And I'm like, well,
you know, he does walk around the house all day,
so how many steps is he getting? And I opened
up the app, but it was like seven thousand something steps.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
What would you gotta do if you want to play
video games but you want to get that Dance Dance
Revolution game, just get one of those. Uh, I'm sure
that's probably expensive. By the way, three point three miles
is seven thousand steps, so that's a little more doable.
I will say this. You know some people poop poo this.
As far as you know, Ross has been a lot
more aggressive with his health changes. Obviously he's a gym rat.

Speaker 7 (55:53):
Now.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
When the high school boys will allow him to use
the machines, this is his straight beef man. Dude, when
does school? When did they go back to school?

Speaker 2 (56:03):
But not soon enough? I hope, I hope it's today.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
Somebody one of them had the audacity to go ask
him when he was gonna be done with the machine
that he had been on for thirty.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
So yeah, no, dude. But like I said, they just
they just hover around the machines and they don't move,
and they crowd over him and they talk and gossip
there and wait for your machine. In the second you
walk down and you take like I'm going to go
on the a bicep curl. One of these kids walks
over and they're like, how long are you going to be?
You got two more sets or something. I'm like, you
know what I'm gonna be? When do you graduate high school?
That's when i'ming to be off the machine. Wow, yeah,

(56:36):
when you graduate high school day. Yeah, because they paid.
I pay to be here and you don't.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
Oh, that's right, because it's free from it's infuriating. I mean,
but it's probably Look that's probably a smart thing on
on the gym spart Oh, it's smart. Yeah. You want
to create a habit and then you know when they
are able to pay, hopefully they're still in the habit.
I was like, I just lost my train of thought here. No, oh,

(57:01):
I was gonna say, but like the thing that I
do a lot more of now as I've tried to
make some changes myself, I'm not gonna go deal with
high school kids at a gym. I walk a bunch
more now, and like just that simple act. I'm not
here to preach to you, but just just walking a
lot more. I've like, I haven't changed a lot of

(57:24):
my Uh. I've always eaten pretty healthy, but I'm not
a sweet sky. I don't. I don't eat a lot
of sugar and eat a lot of like white bread.
I actually prefer like whole grain stuff like that. So
so you add walking into that mix, dude, it's super helpful.
Like I feel a lot better because I walk more.

(57:45):
I don't think I'm doing ten thousands, right, I mean.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
It's just discouraging when they're like, it's a super simple hack,
just walk ten thousand steps, and you're like, exactly, let
me go five miles a day. I'm sure's weight.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
Yeah. I had a actually, uh, I had to go
to a went to a funeral yesterday for a friend
of mine who passed away last week, and it was
about a mile to where the funeral was, and like
i'd be inclined, I'd be inclined to walk that, you know,
weather permitting, things like that. So just like making those
easy decisions, a little stuff like that. I highly recommend it.

(58:19):
And you don't have to deal with high school kids
trying to steal your machine. All right, let's get rased
Agic from the Weather channel. If he's ready to go.
All right, So good news if you want to be
healthy for ten thousand steps, only seven thousand now according
to these research.

Speaker 7 (58:32):
So oh, thank goodness, I'm almost there.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
How close?

Speaker 7 (58:36):
Well, I don't know. I mean when I do go
work out and I don't do steps, I do the
elliptical and i'd do like forty minutes. So I've got
to get it's got to be quite a few steps, right.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know what that would translate to.

Speaker 7 (58:49):
But yeah, that's the key to that whole phrase is
when I work out.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
So no, I did like fifteen minutes in the elliptical
and it's like two thousand steps or something.

Speaker 7 (59:00):
I'm getting five, so I'm getting close, getting close.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
Is that you know you don't like pump the iron
there like aarn'nolder.

Speaker 7 (59:07):
Yeah, I do, not a not a lot. It's again,
when I get.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
There, it's the entire rack, the entire rack. Yeah, well
the gym I go to right now.

Speaker 7 (59:17):
Yeah, well some of the some of the machines now
are starting to, you know, push the limits. I may
have to switch just because there's not enough weight now.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
So right Ray picks up the machine.

Speaker 7 (59:29):
Bench pressing the machine. It's not the bench press, trust me.
The leg machines are the ones that you know traditionally
are a little bit easier to But anyway, yeah, when
I get there, But.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
I will say this, I wouldn't say that you've made
it nice for a couple of days, because you're still
not nice. But now you're gonna punish everyone again. This
is what I'm understanding.

Speaker 7 (59:50):
Okay, big trouble coming yesterday, try at eighty six. Triangle
eighty eight may still stay in the eighties of the
triad today low nineties triangles, so unshine, beautiful day, gonna
start feeling a little hotter, a little more humidity in
the coming days. Starting tomorrow we go back low mid
nineties heat in next values go back above one hundred
and then really seeing this ridge dig in. We may

(01:00:12):
see one, two, three, four, five, at least five days
in a row where we're gonna be near one hundred
around Raleigh surrounding areas. Now try it may be like
ninety five to ninety six, so ninety five to one
hundred for several days starting it may start tomorrow in

(01:00:32):
the triangle, but Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, forecast tis
four the triangle or all one hundred degrees. That's gonna
put the heat in next one oh five to one ten,
so dangerous, life threatening heat on the way. Certainly, if
you're gonna do your ten thousand steps and you're gonna
do them outdoors, i'd say do them in the morning
and bring some water, yes, fluids, water, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Dude, I'm telling you, like, there's two things that blow
me away when in weather like that. One is people
who run yep, after the show, I'll see him like
after the show. And two the old guys will still
golf at.

Speaker 7 (01:01:10):
New Yes and they will. And you're crazy to me,
you wonder how they do it? Like yesterday, I mean
it's not even really as hot, but I like mowed
my front yard and I was looking at the back.
I'm like, I'm not doing this. I was dying. I
was like, that's it. I'm doing the front and that's it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
These guys are out there like noon tay time like nothing.

Speaker 7 (01:01:29):
I don't know how they do it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
Good for them, yeah, I guess, but none for me.
All right, thank you, sure appreciate it. There you go,
Race Stagic from the Weather Channel.

Speaker 10 (01:01:38):
Hey, ja, see how everybody going. You know what casey
iho the person that they choose to run against Roy Cooper.
It's a western North Carolina Republican, somebody who's not gonna
be scared to take it to Roy Cooper. Not gonna
be scared because Roy Cooper's don't talk about it, remool
of DGI and everything, and they need to be brought

(01:02:00):
up that Roy Cooper oversaw as attorney General, the dup
lacross cases, Attorney general didn't prosecute that woman for the
lie she told against them. And so when he goes about,
oh you you support Donald Trump to gender way Geid,
he needs to then the Republican needs to come back
to him and say, well, you support people being arrested

(01:02:20):
and not being and being arrested charge simply because of
the color of their skin. And then when it finds
out the other person rides, you don't believe in them
being helped accountable. And then the person from Western North
Carolina got jamal.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
Do you think that's more impactful than literally what we
just saw with the dereliction on the hurricane stuff.

Speaker 10 (01:02:41):
No, I'm saying no, No. That's why I said, it has
to be somebody from It has to be somebody from
western North Carolina so they can just I say, it
has to be a Western North Carolina Republican so he
can get in there. And it has to be a
Republican that can sit here and bring everybody together because
a lot of people still upset.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
How I'm sorry, I'm just I'm short on time. Who
do you want to see? Because I have a theory
who they're.

Speaker 10 (01:03:07):
Gonna yeah, you think it's gonna be Dan Force.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
No, I I don't, but I and I've even reached
out to Dan I I will say he hasn't denied
that he's thinking about it, but he also was very
dismissive of it. My theory is that they're gonna shove
my They're gonna try to shove Michael Wadley down our throats.

Speaker 10 (01:03:28):
But see, here's the thing. Was Michael Wattley one of
the people when this attack came out against Mark Robinson?
Was he one of the people that said, you know what,
I don't believe it, Mark, we got tobacco. Was he
one of the people that rant if he was one
of the people that ran.

Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
The Republican National Committee, used to be head of the
GOP here and and they didn't do anything they could.
They didn't give him any money. Uh you know when
all that was coming out, So you know interpret that
how you have to?

Speaker 10 (01:03:58):
Well, it has to be someone that's gonna stand up
because the Democrat Party people can say all the jokes
they are together. They just want to get rid of Trump.
That's what they want to do. That's what they want
to do. Yeah, so we have to stand up the fight.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
Okay, all right, Yeah, again, I don't know who it's
going to be, but I have thanks for the call there.
I might have to do the training story here and
after we chat with Stephen, but yeah, because I and
here's what I'll say. I got beef with Whattley for
a particular incident which I've talked about here on this show.

(01:04:34):
But I've also given him credit where I think that
he has been much more effective than his predecessors up
at the from an r NC standpoint. So that being said,
I don't think most people in North Carolina know who
he is. Stephen Kem joins us, good morning, How you doing, sir?
What's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:04:52):
Good morning?

Speaker 10 (01:04:53):
We're doing well.

Speaker 1 (01:04:54):
So you finally saw it referring to the new Superman movie,
so now we can speak in intelligently about it, and
we're just going to start there. What did you think?

Speaker 14 (01:05:05):
So, I would say that a movie, any movie that
hits the market, has a body and it has a soul.
The soul of this movie is quaint, it's cute, it's
charming at times. I think it has a decent message
compared to a lot of movies out there. So I
think that that's good and so I won't criticize it

(01:05:25):
on the marriage, but it is a hideous movie. It
does not look good. And I really really was tempted
at a couple moments throughout that movie just to walk
out because I don't like I was watching a Mortal
Kombat video game cutscene.

Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
Okay, So, and this is interesting because outside of the
back and forth over oh it's a woke thing, it's
not a woke thing. I'll let you opine on that.
But the other criticism I've seen come up is why
do I want to watch Superman get his butt kick
for two hours? Is that a fair assessment? What do
you mean by look good?

Speaker 14 (01:06:02):
What I mean by it didn't look good is the
fight sequences are deeply caked in CGI, to the point
where again you feel like you're watching a Mortal Kombat
video game cut scene. It does not look like an
action movie that I've ever seen. There was recently a
scene that's been going around on social media from The Thunderbolts,

(01:06:23):
which nobody saw that movie, so I can't blame you,
but look up Thunderbolts fight scene and you'll see this
recent Marvel fight scene that is just so bizarrely shot
and the special effects look like they are from the
early two thousands, and there's something going on in Hollywood
where no matter how much money they spend, it looks
cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. So practical effects were nowhere

(01:06:47):
to be found in this DC Superman movie, and I
think it is actually to its detriment.

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
You know, what was I'm trying to think, what was
the movie that had Angelina Jolee Eternals Eternals had that scene? Yeah,
you remember that, I do. There was a couple of
scenes we actually like mocked here on the show.

Speaker 7 (01:07:07):
Was it woke?

Speaker 14 (01:07:10):
No, it was not. I don't think that this movie
was woke in any sense. You can make some points
about obviously there is no truth justice in the American way.
There's really no mention of that at all. I can
hardly find an American flag throughout the entire movie. But
I think that the essence of a movie being woke
has to be a little bit deeper than that. You know,

(01:07:34):
The The Last Jedi is a good example of a
movie where leftist Hollywood filmmakers are undermining a key hero.
I think in modern Western canon, Luke Skywalker, in order
to build up a young female Heroin. They can only
build something up by tearing somebody down. That's that kind
of element is not happening in Superman. I think that

(01:07:56):
the portrayal of the Kents is earnest and positive. And
the only thing that they really did that they retconned
in a way that I think is pretty severe is
that Superman's parents, you know, the Kryptonians, are actually evil
and they sent him to Earth to destroy us, very
much in the way that Goku and Dragon ball Z

(01:08:17):
comes to Earth to destroy it but then becomes the
child of Earth. It's sort of a weird flip of
that story, but it works for the message, which is
that you're not defined by your family, You're defined by
your choices, and that's good. I mean, who can object
to that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
I don't know me, I don't know. I liked Russell
Crowe right right, was Russell Crow?

Speaker 14 (01:08:41):
And Russell Crow still exists. He's still out there, don't
I don't agree with the the like James Gun thinking
that he alone can choose to invert Superman's origin story.
I don't understand where people get off thinking that they
can just change that. But he did, and the purpose
of it was to have Quark, choose the Kents and

(01:09:02):
choose that family lineage, which if you're going to go down.

Speaker 1 (01:09:07):
That road, but you can't set up Zod that way
that was the well, you can't think that was the
whole thing. Zod and and his his Kryptonian father were
at odds, and if Zod's evil, then his father must
not be.

Speaker 10 (01:09:22):
Yeah, no, you can't.

Speaker 14 (01:09:23):
You can't go down that road the same way that
you could before us. I mean, these are these are
consequences of that. But I just think that we should
think a little more critically than to go like it's
woke and therefore it's bad to be woke, would be
to undermine the foundations of the family, to say that,
you know, you should just do whatever feels good and

(01:09:44):
you have no obligations to society. You need to go
do soul searching. But you know, Paw Kent and ma
Kin are a minding clerk in this movie of of
something positive, which is that you know this house, this placed,
this family, we know you, we love you, and we're
with you, and that kind of thing, I actually think
is really beautiful and for thirteen year old and twelve
year olds in the audience watching this movie, that message

(01:10:07):
of family and its importance center in this movie, and
I think that actually is valuable and countercultural.

Speaker 1 (01:10:14):
Ah wait till they reboot. They'll make them evil probably
next So yeah, probably, And it's interesting you talk about
building up. So I actually you still haven't watched that
Ironheart garbage, I'm assuming. Yeah. Did you see the Sasha
Baron Cohen interview on that?

Speaker 4 (01:10:32):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
All right, so he plays Oh crap, what is who's
the demon Marvel character? Who am I thinking of? Old
Baron Cohen? Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:10:46):
Mephisto.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
Yeah, he plays Mephisto, right, and barely in the thing.
And I again, I tapped out after about an episode
and a half. I just couldn't. But I saw that
interview and it was very interesting. So he's doing a
podcast and that really rere Williams. The actress who plays
the title role there. Yeah, uh, she's she is Zegler

(01:11:10):
again and like she apparently she so Sasha. The reason
one of the reasons that his character basically didn't have
any screen time is she was so awful to work with.
And he said this that she was she thought she
ran everything. The directors were scared her. She fired one
of the directors, which I don't understand that executives were
having to show up to the set to like keep

(01:11:33):
the peace.

Speaker 3 (01:11:33):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
He refused to do any reshoots because she was such
a monster to work with and she was one of
these characters. Remember they introduced her in the Black Panther
and then this was her launching off and then she
was going to be another arm of all of this,
And now, like, why do they keep gambling on these lunatics? Man?

(01:11:55):
I will never now stand.

Speaker 14 (01:11:57):
No, I mean we will. We will never know why
Hollywood is committed to its own destruction. But this is
this is just the way that it's shaped out, and
that's sort of part of a progressive ideology to tear
down the foundations on which you stand. So ironheart total catastrophe.
Look DC's Superman by James Gunn. I don't like this movie. Again,

(01:12:21):
it doesn't look good and it's not enjoyable to watch.
But I think that it is bad for different reasons
than you'll get on cable news.

Speaker 1 (01:12:31):
So we also found out yesterday. I'm trying to see
who is who to quote on this. This is from Deadline,
by the way, but I'm trying to figure out which
exact said this that doesn't matter. It looks like Marvel
is a head of Doctor Doom and kind of getting
ready for whatever. The next segment is, they're going to
be recasting basically everyone but four and technically Downey Junior

(01:12:55):
is already recast because he's Doctor Doom. Now do you
know you know about this because they're going to keep Hymnsworth,
but Captain America is going to get recast basically everybody else.
Steve ros Yeah, you name it.

Speaker 14 (01:13:08):
So yeah, I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:13:09):
I don't.

Speaker 14 (01:13:10):
I'm not up to speed on this, but I do
know that they're doing a reboot, and that means starting
from scratch on all the casting. So you know, at
some point, I wish they would kind of just let
all of this go and let Marvel sit in silence
for ten years before beginning again. But I don't think
that they can afford to do that. Financially. They have

(01:13:30):
to keep the party going.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
No, no, heck no, let me flip over to the
non superhero side. But definitely an entertainment. So there's two.
There's two schools of thought. Really, late night shows are
dead financially, and if you look at the demos, you
look at all of that and the number that there are.
You could make that argument, or Donald Trump got Stephen

(01:13:54):
Colbert fire. So I'm curious which which camp you're in?

Speaker 14 (01:14:00):
Well, you will, you will be shore Trump doesn't.

Speaker 1 (01:14:02):
Trump doesn't help when he takes credit for it, would
you do? So?

Speaker 14 (01:14:06):
Yeah, so yeah, you'll be shocked to find out that,
of course, Stephen Colbert and CBS and all these other
clowns on Late Night the business model is just not
there anymore like it used to be, and the quality
of the programming is not there.

Speaker 10 (01:14:21):
But I do think to.

Speaker 14 (01:14:22):
Your point, what is really bad here is when Donald
Trump goes on truth Social and claims the scalp, and
then he also says who is next all the way down,
you know, to Jimmy Fallon and these other guys, basically
projecting that he is in fact out for them. But

(01:14:44):
you know Brendan Carr over at the ft SCC, and
he's the guy who is subject to scrutiny here. Everybody
thinks that Brendan Carr is not going to approve the
Paramount and Skydance merger that CBS is trying to get
part of here, and that is just a very very
silly framing of what Brendan Carr cares about what he does.

(01:15:08):
This is not on the table. They do not care
about Colbert and his non existent viewership. He is just
a drain on the company, and they are a company
an extreme debt paramount needs the cash infusion from Skydance
to stay alive.

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
Do you think, though, that it is? Do you think
politics is what killed him? At least in part? I guess.

Speaker 14 (01:15:33):
No, I really don't. There just is not evidence for that.
There is no evidence for politics playing a role in
the cancelation of the Cold Bet Show and.

Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
Business. Yeah, I just mean the downflid, not the merger stuff.
I just mean the downfall of the concept of it
because uh yeah, I watched Leno and Letterman as a kid.
I wanted to see headlines with Leno, wanted to see
Letterman's top ten list. You tune in my you know,
my family tuned in if I could stay up that late.
And yeah, but at no point in my adult career

(01:16:09):
with the four current ones, do I have even a
moment for any of that. And a lot of it
is because they do get political, and they only get
political on one side, or they have dancing syringes, and
I just I'm not going to waste an ounce of
my time, So I've made a decision based on that.
I'm sure others have.

Speaker 14 (01:16:29):
Yeah, no, I people don't stay up late for this
sort of It's a quasi news program. And what Colbert
has been doing for the past couple of years on
his show is not that different from turning on MSNBC
or CNN. But there are just a couple of punchlines

(01:16:50):
sprinkled out in there. You know, It's just it's just
not there.

Speaker 10 (01:16:54):
I mean.

Speaker 14 (01:16:54):
When John mulaney, comedian from SNL, launched his own late
night Testyle program on Netflix, it was like a skit
show and then also an interview program. He was able
to pull one point six million views for its debut episode,
and that did decline over time, but it's comparable to

(01:17:15):
Jimmy Kimmel Live. And that is for a show with
no legacy audience, a very much smaller brand name at
the top in John Mulaney, and he was still able
to rival Jimmy Kimmel, and that is I think all
you need to know. It was a live program on
Netflix and experimental, and we're going to see more of

(01:17:37):
that because that's where audiences are at eleven PM in
the evening, they're sitting at home, having another glass of wine,
punching into Netflix and boom, we need late night programming
there not on NBC.

Speaker 1 (01:17:51):
The I watched documentaries at night, but I do that
to fall asleep, So maybe I'm not the right person
to ask.

Speaker 7 (01:17:56):
But he did.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
Mulaney did fight a bunch of teenagers too. I don't
know saw that, so.

Speaker 14 (01:18:01):
Yeah, and people thought it was funny. The show has
like political sprinkling throughout it, and John mulaney kind of
really does play both sides beautifully. But it's not about politics.
That's not why people tune into this stuff. And that's
all that these shows have become on the network show
on the network channels. So they are going down like

(01:18:22):
the Titanic. Nothing can save them, not even the view.

Speaker 1 (01:18:26):
A real quick just we got a couple of minutes
left here. You mentioned Mortal Kombat earlier.

Speaker 7 (01:18:31):
I saw the rod.

Speaker 1 (01:18:33):
Apparently Ross hasn't seen. I was asking them during the break.
I saw the one they did what like three years ago,
and I will say, I will say it was okay.
There was definitely fan service in there. Because you tune
into Mortal Kombat, you kind of want to see the
characters do their things, and they had those references in there,
which you know you have to right But now they're

(01:18:53):
going to do another one. Should they have just left
it at one? Or or are we good with this?

Speaker 10 (01:18:59):
No, we're good with this.

Speaker 14 (01:19:00):
Yeah. This is a continuation of this sort of reboot
of Mortal Kombat, and in keeping with a lot of
the trends right now in sort of legacy legacy franchise media,
this rerun or reboot of Mortal Kombat is leaning into
the campiness of it to the max. We went through
a period in the twenty tens where everything like Christopher

(01:19:22):
Nolan's Batman had to be gritty and realistic. We had
to sort of take the campiness out of adaptations. But
we are now back in a period and James Gunn
Superman is actually part of this where we're embracing the
cheese a little bit more. And so this Moratal Kombat
two trailer, it's really crazy. This actually is just like

(01:19:42):
the real video.

Speaker 3 (01:19:43):
Game in all of.

Speaker 14 (01:19:44):
Its goofiness, and I think people are actually starving for
this level of fun. And also when you go to
Mortal Kombat and see one of these movies, people are
not looking for a story, They're looking for great fights.
So this is all going to come down to choreography
and whether or not it is cool. That's all that
matters with a Mortal Kobat movie. The cool factor.

Speaker 1 (01:20:07):
Yeah, and you know what, going back to your CGI
on this, I haven't seen Superman yet, but like obviously
clearly there was a bunch of CGI in the first one.
But I thought it looked really good, Like everything looked
good in the movie. So we'll see.

Speaker 7 (01:20:21):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:20:22):
I was gonna get into one other, but unfortunately we're
out of time, so uh, you go do your secret
mission or whatever and we'll chat next week, sir.

Speaker 14 (01:20:30):
Thanks Casey.

Speaker 1 (01:20:31):
All right, there you go, Stephen Ken joining us here
on the kc O Day radio program. Yeah, there's one
other movie coming out, and well it's gonna be on Hulu. Ross.
Have you seen this? They're doing a married with children movie.

Speaker 2 (01:20:44):
I saw that yesterday and I thought it was like
an AI joke. I didn't know it was real.

Speaker 1 (01:20:47):
I guess it's I it's my understanding it's real. So
but the question is can you do that?

Speaker 7 (01:20:54):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:20:56):
We'll get into that much more coming up. It is
the cac O day radio program hang On, or you
see something frankly anywhere on social media and you you
know you want to either get excited or mad about it.
I would just encourage you to check unless it is
literally from a news source that you trust, all right,

(01:21:16):
so just weigh it. And I saw people floating this.
It looks like a movie poster with the cast of
Married with Children, obviously in in you know, today's years old,
although not quite because Applegate is still you know, she's done.
What does she have MS or Parkinson's I believe so.

(01:21:37):
It clearly is a photo from a few years ago,
and it was promoting a Married with Children movie that
was to Aaron Hulu, And I don't want to be
the bearer of bad news. There's not going to be
a live action Married with Children movie, And I suspect
a lot of it may have to do with the
fact that Christina Applegate is she's not She's not in

(01:21:59):
a condition probably to do a movie if you've seen,
which is very sad. But you know, there was footage
of her from one of the Award shows a few
weeks ago, so I don't know that that works for
a comedy. However, there is a project or was a project,
depending on who's reporting that it was going to be animated,

(01:22:19):
which then makes sense, right, So you have you have
reports that it is it is in production, however, they're
waiting for a commitment from either Fox, Hulu or Peacock.
But at this point there's no definitive thing on it,
and that got me thinking, So that's where it's at.
I don't think we'll probably see it, and if it's animated,

(01:22:42):
I don't know that it's going to have as much
appeal for people. That being said, do you think I
And this is so weird because we just talked about
Married with Children. We were discussing Ed O'Neil's ability to
be on two very very popular shows. You I don't
know that you could do. I mean you could if
you weren't cowards about it, but like what made that show.

(01:23:03):
There's certain elements like no ma'am right, and all of
the you know, if you go on if you go
on YouTube or even on Twitter, there's montages of Al's
best fat Lady shoe jokes. And I don't feel that
any Hollywood studio would be willing to go down that road.
And so the last thing I want to see is

(01:23:25):
a neutered version, animated or otherwise of married with children.
I don't It's like the Indiana Jones stuff. The other day,
We're like, oh, we're going to reboot this. I don't
want to see that. I don't trust you, and I
sure wouldn't. I don't think you could do a lot
of those things. And remember Applegate's character for what it

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was is she was, you know, she was a slutty bimbo,
and I don't know that they'd be willing to portray
her like that. So I don't know, Maybe it's just
best that it's dead. Probably ROSSI, I'm assuming you're on
the same page. You don't think that al Bundy could
be the al Bundy anymore?

Speaker 2 (01:24:03):
Well, I mean I think they have it in them.
I don't think they'd be allowed.

Speaker 1 (01:24:07):
Yeah, no, no, no, one thousand percent. Absolutely. Oh I think
I think he'd love to do it. But yeah, no,
I'm talking about the studios, so Fox, Hulu, Peacock or otherwise.
So that if you saw that, and I saw trending yesterday,
that's the skinny on that it wasn't gonna be live action.
It's animated, and it's either being shopped or it's on
hold permanently or whatever. There's there's no definitive answer on that.

(01:24:29):
So if you're excited about it, just a little bad
news for you, all right, So check this out. This
I and I don't we see these We see these stories,
and I just don't understand. I don't understand how people
get hit by trains. And I know that they do.
We had a we had a talk radio host got
hit by a train, Doc Thompson. But it's like you

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ever live near a train ross You ever lived near
a train track? I sure have you? And and there
did you ever not know the train was coming out?

Speaker 2 (01:24:58):
There's one in wake Forest that goes through down and
oh yeah, you can hear like I can hear it
when I leave the house in the morning, like you
can hear it.

Speaker 1 (01:25:05):
It's I lived when I first when I first moved
to Raleigh, I lived on glen Wood at two to
two two, which is up past the old Hibernian. And
you know, you have the train track there directly behind
you on like forty second streets back there, and I
was on the train side, and like you get used

(01:25:27):
to it, but you never don't know the trains.

Speaker 2 (01:25:29):
Now it's sort of like my cousin Vinnie correct.

Speaker 1 (01:25:31):
Yeah, yeah, and which is weird because I could sleep,
I could sleep through it. But like if I had,
if I had my patio door open or anything, I'd
be on the phone and I'd literally have to tell
the hang on and then the thing could go by,
and then that'd be the end of it. So every
time I see these stories, and then I see these
with no warning. Surf instructor has arm ripped all completely
off after being clipped by Amtrak train with quote no warning.

(01:25:55):
So she was walking, she was pushing her e bike
on a train trestle bridge of some sort, and all
of a sudden, the train snuck up on her, which
you know, as trains do because there's really no way
to determine where they're coming from where they're going, they
give no warning. Apparently it was a ninja train. I
don't know. She said there was no train horn. There

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was three seconds from when I saw the train. Okay,
you don't need the horn. The grounds moving if you're
on a trestle, that's got to be vibrating like a
son of a gun too, So like, I don't understand this,
But yeah, we see these stories and even with noise
canceling headphone, like I like, Ross hates them, but I like.

(01:26:41):
I like my AirPods. In fact, I just had to
buy a new set because I lost my other ones
because I'm dumb. So I was able to get the
upgraded pros, which I'm loving these. So they have two
settings on the air pods. How did you end up?

Speaker 7 (01:26:55):
By a way?

Speaker 1 (01:26:55):
How'd you end up with owning a pair? If you
don't like them?

Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
I was gifted them numerous times. I hate the way
they sound, I hate the way they look, I hate
the way they feel. I hate everything about them. I
can't stand them. I hate them.

Speaker 1 (01:27:07):
You just earbuds at all?

Speaker 2 (01:27:09):
Oh, I hate them. Give me wired headphones.

Speaker 1 (01:27:11):
I'm still I'm still with you. It's clearly a better experience,
but it's it's not as practical all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:27:17):
Yeah, but I don't. I don't like. I've been gifted
them several times, and I'm always very polite, like, thank
you very much. I appreciate it. But then I like
throw them in the trash because that's where they belong. Well,
you should regift them to uh, give them to you
if you want from now on, Yeah, because I'll lose
these two sunglasses and earbuds are not long for this
world with me.

Speaker 7 (01:27:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:35):
No, I've got even like the like old school like
adapter for my iPhone that I could plug the old
headphones in gongle. Yeah, yeah, I hear you man, or
you put it. I try. I tried them once at
the gym. I put them in there and somebody got
me like a really good pair of like buffalo bills
ones right like logos and stuff the case of stuff,
and I'm gonna try these out them at the gym
and they just fall out. Their dumb I hate them.
I hate and they look stupid.

Speaker 1 (01:27:56):
Do you have the old Do you have the old ones?
Perhaps I've had the old ones.

Speaker 2 (01:27:59):
New ones, I've seen them all.

Speaker 1 (01:28:00):
You so you do have the newer designers because the
old ones, yeah, that was a problem. The new ones.
I can't get those things to fall out. They just
stay in there. You got to make sure you put
the right little plastic thing because they come with a
few of them. When you get the right one, they'll
stay in there. But they have two settings on the
newer ones, and they got one setting where you have
the background noise and then you hear whatever you're listening to.
So if you're like watching a video on your phone
but you want to be cognizant what's going on, and

(01:28:23):
then you can click, you could get a little button
on them, and then you have noise canceling and like
I love those on a plane because I don't I
want to hear anybody around me. And which is, by
the way, where I left my other ones. So if
you guys run an American Airlines flight between Raleigh and Miami,
there may be in the seatback pocket a pair of

(01:28:45):
air pods, but it's you know, it's been a little while.
It's been a few months, so maybe not so anyway,
the but even with the noise canceling on, which does
a pretty good job of demming, you're gonna hear a
damn train. Because when I see these stories like oh,
they had the AirPods in and then I saw some
dumb lawmaker in California or whatever, one of their state legislators,

(01:29:07):
is like we who wanted to like figure out a
way so if there's certain noises, it un which would
of course add like one hundred dollars cost or some
of these things. So stop it with the politicians. But
like even with the noise. Can't you still can hear
stuff if it's the if it's a train. So I

(01:29:27):
don't know what the heck's going on, man, I mean, yeah,
I'm sorry that you lost your arm, but I just
I don't understand how you can't hear a train even
without the train horn because the ground's moving, the crown's moving,
and I don't know. It's like this, you know what
it is. It's like situational awareness. It's just gone by

(01:29:48):
the wayside, man, just gone by the wayside. I told you,
I am baffled by people who have no situational awareness,
and you know what I mean. And it manifests in
a lot of different ways, like like technology has made
us too comfortable. Yeah, you go back in the day
when stuff might eat you. I guess you know, you

(01:30:10):
had to have the situational awareness. But like, I've been
in situations where I'm with like a girlfriend or a
friend of mine or something and we're in there and
I clock like something that doesn't look right and like
and it's been so blatant, and then the person I'm with,
I'm like, holy crap, this guy he looks like he's
gonna shoot somebody. What the heck's going and they're like, oh,

(01:30:32):
I didn't even notice. And I'm like, you're gonna die
in something. How do you not pay attention to what's
going on around you?

Speaker 7 (01:30:39):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
I'm like, super, Are you like me? Like when I
go to like a restaurant, I like to face the door.
Oh yeah, like like we'll sit down and Markey and
Lincoln will sit down. I always make sure I face
the door.

Speaker 1 (01:30:48):
And I've been made fun of my friends of mine
because I'm weird about where I want to sit. And
it's not some weird Jason Bourne thing. It's just it's
just practical. I want to be able to see what's
going on around me, and it's it's not just for
nefarious reasons. I also want to be able to sit
there so I can see if the waitress is coming by,
if I need to flager down, get a sense of
what's going on. I'm a single guy, so maybe ye

(01:31:11):
see if there's any eye candy in there. Whatever, But like, yeah,
just little things like that. Also in a parking lot,
like you know, if I'm gonna if I'm choosing where
to park, like there's certain things I don't want to
park next to all right, So let me give you
and then people will park over there and I'm like,
we're just asking to get your car dinged. Man, don't

(01:31:34):
park next to a car where the doors all tore up.
That person doesn't give a crap. Man, you don't give
a crap. Just little things like that. But to be
hit by a train, have your arm ripped off, and
then claim that you didn't hear anything, but try if
a train's going by a half mile from you, the
ground's moving anyway. Raced Agic from the Weather Channel, He's uh,

(01:31:55):
he's here. I see these stories where people like the
train snuck up on me, and I've never heard of
a train that could sneak up no no horn or otherwise.

Speaker 7 (01:32:04):
I would agree. One, they don't just sneak up on you.

Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
It's like, unless it's a ninja train, then there's you
can well, yeah, that too, stealth flu maybe otherwise.

Speaker 7 (01:32:16):
Right, electric, I mean maybe one of the electric ones could.

Speaker 1 (01:32:19):
Well, you know, one of the concerns with the vehicles
at first was they don't make any noise. That was
actually a valid concern.

Speaker 3 (01:32:25):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:32:26):
The first generation of the pre assist didn't make noise.
And you go and you're like, holy crap. But now
they all have a little noise built in, and.

Speaker 7 (01:32:33):
I get it. So yeah, it's kind of weird too.
You see his vehicle moving and you don't hear anything.
Yeah you think it did neutral anyway?

Speaker 1 (01:32:41):
All right? Yeah, you know what, here's the deal, stay inside,
don't Yes, we'll get hit by a train that way.

Speaker 7 (01:32:46):
So that's that too. Yeah, recommended. So yeah, you know
what I did. I kind of went ahead and I've
kind of been poking around and been seeing some things
that maybe break this big heat wave that's coming next
week and maybe early in August we get another cool down.
Yesterday only eighty six and eighty eight or eighty nine

(01:33:06):
basically didn't hit ninety at the Triad or the Triangle yesterday.
Today we probably will in the Triangle near just above ninety.
May stay in the upper eighties. Tried lots of sunshine,
mid upper nineties. Tomorrow we'll start seeing the heating next
go above one hundred. Then we're gonna turn it on
Saturday through Wednesday. Saturday through Wednesday under this big heat dome.

(01:33:27):
I'm gonna say it's gonna be ninety. Let's just go
ninety five, ninety six to near one hundred degrees and
that's air temperature without the heat index, so we'll probably
be back into advisories. The overnight lows are even going
to be mid upper seventies. We have a couple of
mornings where we don't dip below eighty degrees. So if

(01:33:47):
you took it and you said the Raleigh forecast starting Saturday,
it is one hundred right through Wednesday, each afternoon high
and the heat in nexts probably getting one oh five
to one ten or hotter and for the triad probably
at ninety five to maybe ninety eight degrees somewhere around
there each day either way, prolong stretch, very hot weather.

Speaker 1 (01:34:08):
Okay, all right, thank you sir. The forty cording fun tomorrow,
see you. Thank We'll come back with Jeff Bellinger next.

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
Good morning, Casey.

Speaker 15 (01:34:16):
President Trump talked about new tariffs set to go into
effect next Friday. He said levies will range from fifteen
to fifty percent. With that high rate being charged to
nations the US has not been getting along with the
President said trade talks with the European Union have become serious.
India still pushing for an agreement ahead of the August
first deadline. News of the trade deal with Japan push

(01:34:39):
stocks hire yesterday, but only the Nasdaq futures are higher
this morning. S and P futures are just slightly lower.
The Dow futures are down more than three hundred points
at the moment. This could be a rough day for
shares of Tesla. The electric vehicle maker, posted weaker quarterly
results after the markets closed yesterday. CEO Elon Musk said
Tesla could be struggling for another year or more. Tea

(01:35:01):
Mobile shares are higher this morning. The nation's second largest
wireless provider signed up more new customers than expected in
the latest quarter. Its profit topped forecasts. It was not
long ago that it was easy for workers to hop
from job to job for better pay and benefits, and
some people may not have gotten the message that it's
an employer's market now. Nearly half of the full time

(01:35:23):
workers pulled by bank Rate said they expect to start
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Cacamazon dot Com extended its Prime Day event to four
days this year may have been a mistake. Its customers
had extra time to browse the deals in discounts and
then compare prices. Walmart was running a week long Deals event.

(01:35:44):
At the same time Prime Day was going on, a
lot of consumers placed orders there instead of at Amazon.
Bloomberg's second measure says Walmart and Amazon both saw an
increase in spending compared to last year's sales, but Walmart
recorded the biggest year bump.

Speaker 1 (01:36:00):
Casey, Yeah, I was seeing some of the Prime style that.
You're right. It was a mistake, man, I was seeing
some of their numbers. They were kind of freaking out
for a while. So all right, well, thank you, Jeff,
appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:36:10):
Okay, have a good day.

Speaker 1 (01:36:11):
Yep, there you go, Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg News. I was
telling Ross and you probably heard part of it when
I was coming back walking across the train trestles. In California,
a lot of surfers will do that, which this chick was.
And I remember north of Santa Barbara there's a place
called Gaviota Beach, which is a big surf spot. But
if you if you from the upper parking lot, if

(01:36:32):
you run across the trestle, which is dumb, don't do that.
There's then a path that goes down where apparently there's
better break. I don't know. I was I would go surfing,
but I was never really good at it, So ross,
what's up?

Speaker 8 (01:36:46):
Okay, it is illegal to access private railroad property anywhere
other than the designated pedestrian or railroad crossing Federal Department
of Transportation website. I know she probably can't read, but
there are posted everywhere and it is actually so they're
not even mentioning the trespassing issue right, the fact that

(01:37:07):
anytime it's like being on airport property you get hit
by an airplane, who's going to be a fault here?
Oh wait a minute, maybe I forgot about the silent
airplanes never mind.

Speaker 1 (01:37:16):
Yeah, the ninja planes or you gotta gotta count for those. No, no, no, no,
I agree. I'm just explaining what I likely think was
why she was on this. And so when I say trestle,
I mean a bridge. So once you're up there, you
better know if the train's coming to run, like hell uh,
look what happened.

Speaker 8 (01:37:30):
On the Goonies, Look what happened in the Goonies.

Speaker 1 (01:37:33):
Well, and then what we said, although that wasn't a trestle.
I'm trying to think of the movie in the eighties
where the kid got smoked by a train. Was a
stand by me? Or something something yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
but that wasn't.

Speaker 8 (01:37:43):
A definitely yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:37:46):
Maybe she was looking for a dead guy.

Speaker 1 (01:37:48):
May again again, my issue is less that. Well, you're
absolutely right, sir. The thing is the part where she
didn't see or hear the train and then thanks for
the call there, sir. I'm just out of time here
on the show.

Speaker 13 (01:37:59):
But