THURSDAY-11-6-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here on your Thursday, so you are more than halfway
through the week, so that is good. Uh, you know, Friday,
Friday on the horizon. And since it is Thursday and
our board didn't explode this Thursday like last Thursday, we
will actually chat with you know, not so undercover super
secret agent Stephen Kent. So that will be exciting anyway,

(00:29):
super secret Agent Stephen Kent. And we got a lot
to get into. I mean, obviously he's you know, he's
up in the Greater DC area up there. I'm sure
he's got some thoughts on his new Attorney General, mister J.
Jones up there, and uh so we'll touch on that.
And I got a few stories we didn't get to

(00:52):
last week because again Ross's board exploded. So it'll be
a it'll be a very pack segment, but there's lots
to cover, you know, because mostly the rest of the
news is election related and a really crazy story out
of Texas. I was just reading about here before the

(01:14):
show kicked off. Apparently, if you have a friend group, now,
don't get me wrong, I can only judge friend groups
from a male perspective, and I don't think that I'm
wrong saying this male friend groups and female friend groups

(01:35):
have key differences. Would that be fair? I think that's fair, right.
I'm not going to get into the stereotypical. You know,
women will literally undercut other women because dudes will do
that too. That being said, this might be one of
the one of the craziest versions of that that I

(01:57):
have seen. This story out of Austin, Texas. So we'll
fill you in on that. And it almost feels Florida
man or woman I guess of the story, but it
was just blowing my mind this morning. So that'll be
on the show. We got some audio we got to

(02:17):
get to on the EBT front. Mandami gave a speech yesterday,
well he gave one that night, but he gave one yesterday,
and the New York Post is big med because he
didn't do the gracious thing to Hey, I really appreciate

(02:38):
even if you didn't vote for me, I'll work for you.
But like, why were you expecting that? That's not him?
And to some extent, you know, it's not really Trump either,
So you know the New York Because the New York Post,
I don't know if you guys read it regularly. It's
one of my prep sources because they usually have a
lot of like good kicker stories on there. But you know,

(03:01):
you look at what you know New York is up to,
and they spent like weeks attacking Curtis Sleewah, trying to
get him to drop out of the race. And then
everyone's honing in on the fact that if you add
Sleiwah's vote and you add Cuomo's vote, it's like two

(03:25):
tenths of a percentage point more than Mondami got. The
problem is you're also thinking that all the Sleewa voters,
if Sleewah wasn't in, that would have voted for Cuomo. No,
I don't think that it would have instantly transferred. So
the New York Post did that. Now they are straight

(03:47):
jihat on Mandami, so it'll be interesting. But they were
very critical of his speech. But I'm like, what'd you
guys expect? What did you think he was going to say?
Now he did reach out, were so to the voters
a little bit?

Speaker 2 (04:03):
You know, there were a few months ago where I
told supporters across the city to stop donating, and today
I am asking them to start once again.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
And I am at wait, wait, wait, I'm sorry, hold on,
hold on, you said everything was gonna be free. Bro? Right?
Am I wrong on this? You said everything like this
is gonna be free, and that's gonna be free, and
this is gonna be free, and vote for me because
it's gonna be free. So the very same people. And
I understand that he didn't say it was going to

(04:32):
be free for rich people. No, no, no, He's gonna
stick it to him and we'll see how that goes.
But you know, to the people who voted for you,
you're like, nah, you gotta vote for me. Everything's going
to be free. We had put Ross and Jay. We
put that cut up, the short cut of the woman
who said she voted for him but doesn't think it's
gonna work. Like you told that woman everything was gonna

(04:56):
be free. Now now you want money? What the heck's
going on?

Speaker 2 (05:02):
You know, there were a few months ago where I
told supporters across the city to stop donating, and today
I am asking them to start once again. And I
am asking them to do so because of the fact
that a transition that can meet the moment of preparing
for January first is one that will require staff, it
will require research, it will require infrastructure, and those are

(05:24):
things that we will have to provide, and I'm excited
for the fact that it will be funded by the
very people who brought us to this point, the working
people who have been left behind by the politics of
the city.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Uh, all right, so everything's gonna be free, but just
send me money. That is that's like a Nigerian print scam, right,
I mean not just but you know that would be
the classic, the four oh one scam or whatever they
call it, like, that would be the classic, right, or
the lottery scam. Oh yeah, no, you just won this lottery.

(05:57):
You don't remember entering. All you gotta do is pay
this administrative fee. Oh I'm a Nigerian prince, and I
gotta hide money because I don't know we're genociding Christians
and I got to move money and so. But but
but you get to keep a little bit. I need
this much to you know, handle the transfer. What are

(06:20):
you talking about? But the problem, I don't say, it's
a problem not for him, because these are the people
that you're now asking for money.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
I voted form on Donnie.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
Do you feel like socialism would work in New York City?

Speaker 1 (06:31):
No?

Speaker 3 (06:32):
Not necessarily.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Oh good lord. If you missed that little nugget from
earlier this week. You know that's not fair. Let me
play her longer. Cut the entirety of the statement, and
I'm sure it's better.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
I voted firm on Donnie.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
Okay, okay, tell us why.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
I'm just looking for someone new and not part of
the established Democratic Party who also hasn't been accused of
sexual assault. I spoke to the other side a little bit,
and they're concerned about like the government run grocery stores
and the free buses.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
What's your responsibility.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
I think government in the US is great in the
sense that there's always balance, right, Like, no one person
is making all the decisions, and so I think they'll
be balanced within.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
He describes itself as a Democrat socialist, like do you
feel like socialism would work in New York City?

Speaker 1 (07:18):
No?

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Not necessary?

Speaker 1 (07:19):
All right, So that that's the full cut there. And
and by the way, I don't have a problem with
her having beef with Cuomo. I mean I sat here
on the show and I'm just like all the people
are like, oh, well, you can't. You got to vote
for Cuomo over Sleewa. I'm like Cuomo the guy murdered
the old people stuffed him in there during the COVID

(07:41):
didn't care that guy. I mean, I and so she
has a she has a philosophical objection to the accusations
with Cuomo over the sexual harassment stuff. Got it one
hundred percent. But then it's like you use that as
an excuse, used to go, I'll just vote for the

(08:01):
other guy that's the blue no matter who. Thing right there,
I mean, there is no critical thinking going on. I mean,
maybe you don't vote for Sleewa. Maybe they were I
mean the Republicans don't. I mean they field people, but
they're not gonna win a New York City election. Like
that is purely an internal party thing. And she's she's

(08:22):
along for the ride. She's comfortable with it. So what
are you gonna do? All right? Six fifteen here on
the CaCO Day radio program. Like I said, we got
some ebt stuff. It's a Hollywood celebrity has come up
with a good idea. And I mean that we'll see

(08:43):
if it catches on. We'll get into all that more
coming up. Hang on. Interesting watching a lot of the
reactions too, from like Florida and Texas, less so North Carolina.
I guess maybe we're doing it, but people are like
terrified in these states over the NYC potential exodus. Do

(09:06):
I think eight hundred thousand people or whatever the actual
number was from that poll are going to pick up
and you know, move? No, will there be a significant
number that maybe, because here's the thing, there's one thing
just to pick up and move, there's another thing to go. Well, look,

(09:26):
you know, I basically work remote anyway, I live in NYC.
I'm a few years out from retirement. Maybe maybe we'll
boogy out of here just to kind of protect the
you know, the end of work cycle earnings. Things like, yeah,
you're gonna see that. That's also kind of normal. So
you're gonna, I guess, accelerate that. But you know, a

(09:49):
couple of sheriffs down in Florida chipwood and then the
guy from Tampa's name escapes me. Who does who always
has the greatest audio? But he's the guy who's like,
oh yea, yeah, no, we shot him eighty six times. Well,
why you should amaze it because we ran out of bullets.
That would be the guy they shot, by the way,
had killed a police officer. The canine officer tried to

(10:13):
kill a little old lady and was firing at a
swat team, So just reminds you of that situation why
they may have given him all the bullets. But yeah,
but they're trying to recruit NYPD officers, so I understand that.

(10:34):
But yeah, they were all over the social media yesterday.
You know, the fire chief there in New York. Where
do I have this? That dude quit yesterday? He's straight
up quit? Yeah, where is uh? No?

Speaker 6 (10:53):
No?

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Oh, I thought i'd put it in the stack. Maybe
I didn't. Yeah, so one of the fire chiefs up
in you are, who's jew. I don't know if that's
the reason he did it, but it's mentioned in the
story he resigned. He's just like, I'm out. So I
don't know. I don't know all the inner workings there.
Maybe he was planning on retiring. But you know, it's
a hell of a statement because you know, Montdomie doesn't

(11:17):
even get sworn in for like two months, so the
mayor transitions on New Year's In case you're wondering there,
let's see here. Oh I thought I put in the stack.
Maybe I didn't. It's okay, I mean that's basically the
gist of it. I was going to tell you his name,
but you get it. But I mean, if you look around,

(11:37):
if you look around at many of the elections yesterday
they fought, not yesterday Tuesday, they really followed the mid
term post president pattern, and people are trying to explain it,
and they're trying to read into it. There's a story
about what happened in Wake County. So even though Raley

(11:58):
didn't have big elections, there were a lot of communities
in Wake County that did and Republicans got absolutely pummeled.
And I see people, you know, the Clayton Anderson's of
the world and whatnot. They're like, this is a rejection
of Trump and Republican politics, and it's not. It's literally
this is where Wake County has been going. Why because

(12:21):
Wake County, and you know, the nearly fifteen years I've
been on the air here, I mentioned this yesterday. You
had you had a mayor of Raleigh that had just
gotten done when I arrived. I mentioned Pat McCrory was
mayor of Charlotte right pre governor under the BEV Purdue days.

(12:42):
And you had Wake County commissioners. I want to say
that the Wake County Commissioner's Board at one point was
all Republicans, and the school board had an interesting mix, right,
because they brought in general what's his bucket I can't

(13:02):
remember his name to be the superintendent for about five
minutes and all of that shifted away. Now is there
shenanigans with you know how they decided to go at
large and you know, to really flip the whole thing Democratic. Sure,

(13:22):
But the biggest reason that Wake County, and not just
Wake County, but Wake County is probably the best example,
is you had all the tech, you had Raleigh constantly
being hammered as a great place to start a career,
to raise a family, and there were a lot of
young professionals who moved into Wake County and a lot

(13:43):
of them are from the northeast Michigan too. For summer,
a lot of people from Michigan. I remember seeing some
stats one time. I was a little blown away, But
forget where they're from. Understand that you're dealing with people
who are much younger, right, and they're coming in and
you know how how it goes. The younger you are,
the more likely you are to be Democrat, and then

(14:04):
as you get older, a lot of people will go Republican.
So I'm not surprised by any of that. But of
the how many candidates twenty seven? No, yeah, it was no,
I'm sorry, it's twenty six. Yeah. One the Republican endorsed
candidate won one race out of twenty six or twenty seven,

(14:26):
Oh no, I'm sorry, twenty two. It was the Dems
who endorsed twenty seven. So Wake County Republican Party endorse
twenty two candidates, only one one. Again, I'm not surprised,
you know, they had they flipped up where Ross lives
in Wake Forest Kerry had been transitioning for a while.

(14:46):
I mean, you look at a lot of the pockets there.
It's not but you know, to think that it's a
wholesale rejection rather than demographics is I'm sorry, I'm just
not there. That's just how it's going to be. And
there were other areas too. I was reading about where

(15:08):
was it one of the towns down by Charlotte that
in like five years was all Republican is now all
Democrat from city council and mayor. Is the NYC fire
commissioner who resigned. His name is Robert Tucker. And by
the way, there is no like we know why he resigned,

(15:33):
because he in his letter mentioned that let's see between
he said, and this is Mayor Adams, who's still the mayor.
He sent him a letter twelve hours after the win,
and it says between now and then December nineteenth is
his resignation date. So that's the then I will continue

(15:56):
to lead the greatest fire department in the world and
ensure an orderly train transition. This is from the post. Tucker,
who was Jewish and a Zionist, felt he wouldn't mesh
well with Mandani. I imagine not, I imagine not. I mean
remember one of and I don't know if you've If

(16:19):
you remember this woman, you should. She was the Woman's
March and she's a lunatic, Linda Sasuer. She's like one
of his advisors. And she not a fan. She not
a fan of Jewish people, not a fan of Israel.
She makes no bones about it.

Speaker 7 (16:40):
So you know.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
And this guy, you know, he's he looks like he's
I don't know, maybe late fifties, so I don't know.
Maybe he was on the cusp of retiring and this
was just the kick he need. I don't know, but yeah,
he's outy man. Plus you know, plus mont Donnie's dad,
Like have you seen some of the quotes. He's a

(17:04):
he's a professor, university professor. He is. I was just
reading some quotes yesterday. I think my favorite from his dad.
And remember, this is going to shape this dude grown up.
And you got to remember mont Donnie's never had a
private sector job that wasn't working for his mother, and

(17:25):
that was a very short lived thing. Other than that,
he went right into the politics. You know, he's an
assemblyman up in New York. So still clearly that'll be transitioning.
But yeah, but you know, when you're raising a household
where let me, I want to quote this so I
am accurate because it involves Hitler, So just bear with

(17:48):
me real quick. I opened the wrong article, but I
saw this actually this morning. Uh do do do do? Do? Do? Do?

Speaker 5 (17:58):
Do?

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Here it is his father's name is Mahmoud Mandami, Columbia
University professor. So in twenty twenty two, during a conference
he was on a panel at he argued that Hitler
got the idea for the Holocaust by studying how Abraham
Lincoln dealt with Native Americans. That's what he's that's you know,

(18:24):
So that's the household. This dude's coming from Hitler just
did his thing because he saw abe Lincoln did this
thing to the Native Americans, and arguably, as somebody who
has slightly more knowledge with Native you know what happened
in the West with Native Americans, just because that's what
they teach us out Wyoming growing up Gee. And then

(18:46):
I'm naturally curious, I did you know? Can I find
out all of it? Fascinating and oh yeah, a lot
of horribleness done. Lincoln pals compared to about two or
three other presidents. If you want somebody mad at me,
mad it you know, Jackson, Trail of Tears, the Wounded
ny Thing, not under Lincoln, the Disillusion of seven was

(19:11):
it seven or eight standing agreements years after Lincoln that
basically paved the settlement for parts of Montana, Wyoming where
I'm from, where my family literally got in a wagon
and went out there because they're like, all right, nobody's
using the land anymore, come on out. Whatever you can
fence is yours, which was a lie, by the way,

(19:32):
because we fenced like sixty thousand acres and now we're
dead sixteen thousand, which I know sounds like a lot,
but from a Wyoming perspective, that's not even that's not
that big, so it doesn't even make sense. And then
you know, to drag Hitler in. There's just that's crazy town.
All right. Let me grab a call here. The only thing,

(19:53):
the only thing, well, no, I'm gonna get in trouble here,
so let me let me do this. Phil, Hello, shut
that window.

Speaker 8 (20:01):
In the kitchen over about the early.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Oh it's wrong with the window? Phil? Hello? Oh, all right,
we'll put him on hold and see if he's still there. Phil.
Sounds like he was getting given the business. Did she
asked you to fix the window a few times and
you didn't do it? I'm sorry, just like creating a
narrative now, I mean, it is a little chili is

(20:28):
there is? You got a draft coming in? You should
call the folks over a window nation. Oh ok, all right,
Well we'll never know what happened with the window there.
But sounds like Phil should have addressed that the first
six times he was asked, which I don't know if
that's true, but that's the funny version of it. By

(20:48):
the way, what the heck is wrong with John Cleese?
I I know this guy's little moonbatty, which which I
hate because as you know here on this show, we
are fans of the Monty Python and he is.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
He was on Twitter yesterday going after Erica Kirk. Am
I missing something? While all of a sudden, you're just
allowed to pile on some widow whose husband was assassinated.
And again, I don't even care the political angle. That's
why this is why, you know, we've had a standing
thing on the show, and I've always explained it. I

(21:27):
wasn't one of the things I don't do with with
the exception of they decide to go ahead and make
a statement that I have to decide whether it's true
or not.

Speaker 7 (21:37):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
When when you know you're covering a story of a
family that's grieving after like an officer involved shooting or
a standard ground thing, you know, something where somebody is
dead and there's controversy surrounding it, I don't. I don't
sit there and attack the parents because like, that's your kid,
even if you're you know, even if your kid DoD

(21:59):
do something wrong, I understand that there's an emotional connection there.
That being said, I don't understand the hatred for Erica Kirk, Like,
what did she do other than wear leather pants? I
guess John Cleese was tweeting about how she was applying
fake tears before she spoke at the TPUSA event. I mean,

(22:26):
is this guy just not all there anymore? So? So
uh why jah hat Ali? Who is just piercecum He
tweets very normal Christian behavior for a grieving widow and
a man married to an Indian Hindu American? This is JD.
Vancy's referring to, who publicly said he wants to change
her religion. And then he included a picture of Kirk

(22:49):
and JD hugging. Okay, I mean kind of normal. Some
would call it empathy. Some would call empathy. But then
Cleese said, then another account posted a picture of Erica
Kirk and what it looks like she's doing is it

(23:10):
looks like she's she's digging around in her eye there.
If I had to guess, as somebody who doesn't wear
makeup but have been around women who do, it looks
like she's probably got a little goober or something up
in there from her mescarra. I don't know, but Cleese
decided that clearly what's happening there is she's trying to

(23:32):
create fake tears to more in her husband. It's just
so it's also gross Man and Clease added, as George
Burns once said, sincerity is the key. If you can
fake that, the sky's the limit. So I don't know
what's going on with that, dude, All right, let me
always back. All right, let's let's figure out what's going

(23:52):
on with Phil's window. Yes, Phil, what's going on? Hello Phil? Hello,
Hello sir, good times. I don't know what's going on.

(24:15):
Oh all right, Well let's go. Let's go ahead do this.
I'll take a break, we'll figure out. Well, well we'll uh,
we'll figure out what's going on with Phil. And we
got some other callers. Oh wait, hold on, all right,
so we do have let me grab this call here Colin,
good morning, what's up?

Speaker 8 (24:34):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Yeah, you were talking about Erica Kirk and the stuff
that people are giving her hate for. I think I
think what got people I personally saw some of this
was just after the shooting. There was a lot of confusion,
a lot of chaos. But then they had that that
memorial for him, and it seemed more of like a

(24:58):
like a concert style thing rather than like a like
a sympathy thing that pop technics and stuff. And then
one of the other things that people are you know,
commenting on is the way she was so embraceive with
Jadie Van's thruwing her hands through his hair stuff like that.
It's I think it was a bad look. That's all
I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yeah, I I And again I saw the normal haters.
So I largely ignored a lot of it because I'm
just like, but like, it's gotten. The leather pants thing
caught me off guard. You saw she wore leather pants.
I didn't even see I.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
Saw the leather pants. Yeah, and and again that's I
think it's.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (25:34):
I think it's the branding doesn't go with the with
the visual, if that makes sense. I think a lot
of it is.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
But but and I'm not arguing with you, sir, but
it does. Like here's here's the thing. Her background is
kind of amazing actually, like all the people thought she
was just some you know, trad wife or whatever the
term is. But in reality, she's she's Miss Arizona, right,
beauty queen. So the fact that she's wearing things that
she finds fashionable but it is not. And her life

(26:03):
and her husband were that's this is this was their life.
It was arena events, it was you know, convention speaking
engagement stuff like that. So you know, I'm with.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
You from someone who doesn't. Yeah, somebody who doesn't isn't
familiar with the political scene or something. They see it
on the news or they see clips of what's going on. Again,
obviously it's how it's presented to them, but it's also, well,
this is supposed to be someone who's grieving. Why is she,
you know, at this event kind of you know, rock

(26:36):
and roll style event and then kind of cozying up
to the vice president. It's just I would be if
that was a family member or a friend of mine,
I'd kind of say, that's that's a little odd the
way that was the response.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
But that's why I think I think but no, no, no, no,
certainly because I I agree with you. I think that
the filter and thanks for the is it's an extraordinary
filter in the sense that I think she would argue,
and I know she did. She actually did argue this
in her speech that she is doing this to uphold

(27:13):
the legacy of her husband. And again, I know you're
not arguing that, sir, but it's like it's it's just
the It's the same as Michael Brown's stepfather with the
shooting there in Ferguson right with the or Michael Brown

(27:36):
was killed by the officer's name escapes me. His mom
and his stepfather did do a bunch of press conferences,
and again I didn't sit there and attack the bomb.

Speaker 6 (27:47):
Now.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
I did have problem with the stepfather because it sounded
like he was calling people to burn things. But other
than that, like I understand why they're standing in front
of that microphone because it was a you know, it's
a big story. She just lost her son. I get it, well,
Erica Kirk. She just lost her husband, and she lost
him for the things that he was saying that he

(28:10):
was doing. That was his legacy. Yeah, that's what this
is what makes it just so scummy. And I didn't
even understand the leather pants thing other than the only
thing when somebody says leather pants, I just think that
that would be really hot and not it's just a
guy perspective. Everything's being all sweaty down there. No, no, no, no,

(28:32):
thank you, all right, Sue, go right ahead.

Speaker 8 (28:36):
Yes, Hi, Casey, Hello, Yes, I had a question. When
the government shuts down, is there a vote with that?
Who makes that decision? You know that the government is shutting.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
Down the lack of a funding mechanism for the government,
So it would be the the inaction of a combined
US House and Senate. I say, yeah, I mean it's
as simple as that. If there's no money too, So
the government shuts down when there's no money to fund it. Right,

(29:13):
every time you have a government shutdown, it's because they
have not remember that, the House starts it, then the
Senate has to approve it, to allocate dollars to go
ahead and fund the mechanism that is the government, and
the funding ran out. So once the fundings ran out,
it's shutdown time.

Speaker 7 (29:32):
All yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
No, go ahead?

Speaker 4 (29:37):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 8 (29:37):
Also, what just happened in New York reminds me of
what Kylmocks. What Kylmach said that capitalism inevitably will fall
to socialism. Do you think there's some truth in that?
As to look, what's happening in New York?

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Well, Mondamie gave a speech a few days ago where
he quoted Mark, So, I think you might be on
this something. Yeah, uh huh, yeah, Sue, are you from Boston?

Speaker 8 (30:07):
Well, everybody catches my my voice. I'm originally a New Englander. Yes, Okaycutts, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Southern Massachusetts.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Let me ask you a very important question, then I'll
let you go. Do you think Bill Belichick should be
in the NFL Hall of Fame as a coach? Oh?

Speaker 8 (30:29):
Boy, that that's a question. Like like the other day,
I never thought I would agree with Obama.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
You know, you know what, if somebody's right on something,
I don't care who it is. I'll give him credit
for it. So uh right, yeah, all right, So I'll
let you go. I don't mean to put you on
the hot seat there, do that. Yeah, Apparently Bill Belichick,
they're trying to figure out whether he's gonna go first
ballot into the Hall of Fame. If I could just
irritate the rest of our Bostonian listeners, I think think

(31:00):
that one of the things that should weigh heavily is
what happened after Tom left then figured out because you
know a lot of people make in the argument that
after Tom Brady left Belichick was he lost to superpowers?
So did he have him to begin with? We can

(31:20):
start that fight this morning, because that's really the debate
that's going on. So, but he does have a gazillion rings,
and I even though I am highly critical of Bostonian teams,
I did like the way he dealt with the media.
So there is that, all right, six fifty one. Hang on,
I am viewing probably the biggest note I've come across

(31:44):
in a while. This dude is so excited too. Whatever
you call spider scientist, I'm sure it's an a racknid
something or other. Any who scientists have announced they have
what they believe to be the largest spider web ever discovered,

(32:06):
and they're super excited. All right, So just to get
a sense of this thing, it's oh like, it's just
you know what, I'm literally, while I'm reading this story
to you or I'm explaining this to you, I can
feel myself walking through a spider web. That's always fun,
especially in North Carolina where you get a lot of
the like the one, you know, the one single long,

(32:30):
floaty web. I'm not sure which spider does it, but
I think we've all been there, right, You're having a
good morning, you get out of your car at the office,
you're walking. All of a sudden, you got a spider
web on you and you're not even near anything, and
it's just kind of dangling from the tree. There, or
maybe that's just the Highwoods office facility where the studio

(32:52):
is located. But AnyWho, or you go into your shed
or whatever and you walk in there, you don't have
a lot of light, and all of a sudden, spider
web and your face so to this is in uh
by the way, it's so big. It's in two different countries.
Albania and Greece both lay claim to this. Why the

(33:14):
spider web is one thousand, one hundred and forty square feet.
That's a that's a two bedroom apartment. That's a small house.
It's that big. And by the way, it's not one
spider either. This is the part that will really creep

(33:34):
you out. So oh man, uh oh, I can't do it.
I was gonna gonna grab the yodler thing. So how
many spiders do you think live in this thing? Just
in your head? It's the size of a you know,
a small house from a footprint onety two square feet

(33:55):
or one and forty square feet, how many spiders do
you think live on that? Bad boy? If you said
one hundred and eleven thousand, you would be correct. It
was this is a cave, all right, So there's there's
a cave system that literally sits right on the border.

(34:17):
Scientists are up in there and they're like, holy crap,
look at this web, and yeah, yeah, it's one continuous thing. Now,
I guess the only upside is they're not poisonous. They're
would are known as barn funnel weavers, just domestic house spiders.
But yeah, also you get a lot of bugs up

(34:38):
in the cave. There was that prime prime food get
in the area. I don't know, but yeah, no, thank you.
And again the dude in this article, he's so pumped
because like, spiders are his life and he's just like, yeah,
I look at this thing I found um trying to

(35:04):
figure out something here, So what did they do to it?
You don't want to do what that guy did where
he burned his house down because he found all the
spiders in the crawl space. And he's like, because if
you light a spider web on fire, goes up like that.
The problem is he his whole crawl space was spider webs.
So he let a match and it did go up,
but so.

Speaker 6 (35:23):
Did his house.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
So I think with the cave, they're just studying it.
But no, thank you. And if you're somebody wh gets
the creepy crawleys. I'm sorry I ruined your morning, but
I had to share it with you, so I wasn't
the only one to know. All right, let me get
into this first of all, phone number eight eight eight
nine three four seven eight seven four also one hour

(35:48):
from now, a little less than one hour from now,
mister Stephen kent NERD Correspondent extraordinary will join us and
we'll talk about some nerdy stuff, but we'll also talk
about what happened with Virginia election, as he is a
Virginia resident there right in the heart of the blueyst
blue portion of the state. So that'll be an eight six.

(36:12):
All right, here we go. So, uh in Texas, just
a horrific headline, half naked woman allegedly tortured and chained
in Texas backyard for months by five friends to the
air quotes friends who didn't like her anymore. Ladies.

Speaker 6 (36:36):
Yeah, like.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
The interpersonal stuff with your like, guys will never understand it.
That's fine, because it's just it's not how we roll.
But and not that guys won't do horrible things to guys.
But like when you don't like somebody, Holy cow, the
mean girl, the mean girl thing is is real? All right?
So this is in Austin Police Department responds to a

(37:00):
home on the south side of the city around nine
a m. Day with this I guess this would have
been last Friday, no Thursday, day before Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Halloween.
Uh after nine one, one call was made regarding a
woman screaming for help and handcuffed to a metal exercise
piece of metal exercise equipment.

Speaker 6 (37:24):
Here, what is that.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
She's tethered too? Looks like some sort of some sort
of setup for boxing, because there's a there's a punching
bag and it looks like a kid's play gym, but
it's for exercise stuff. Because there's a speed bag, there's
a main punching bag, so she's tethered to that. Officers
arrived to find the woman suffering from severe injuries and

(37:47):
naked from the waist down, shackled to the exercise equipment.
First responders quickly sprang into action attempted to free the woman,
but due to the condition of the restraints, they had
to call the fire departments so they could cut through
the metal. Good lord, what was she tethered with? The
woman showed signs of physical distress, had visible injuries and

(38:10):
became a parent. She had been in the restraints for
quite some time as they were to free the women.
Just listen to the audacity of this, because like they're
out of house and police show up, they're clearly the
first thing they do is they're you know, they're gonna
go get this woman who's clearly in distress. The people
in the house, which were described as five adults, noticed

(38:32):
what was happening, tried to flee, but immediately we're caught
in detaining. How do you not notice when all the
pop post show up and they're in near yard. The suspects, Michelle, Crystal, Mache,
Juan Pablo, and Maynard I'm not going to read everybody's
last names, had allegedly held the victim captive for months months.

(38:58):
They're all well, one of them's in their fifties, everybody
else's twenties early thirties. The victim told investigators she'd been
friends with them, but stated the group at some point
decided they no longer liked her and decided that they
would just quote keep her as a captive. She said
she was forced to live outside for weeks, beaten whenever

(39:19):
she tried to flee Detextas said the woman was fed
one play of food today shackled to a mental exercise. Stand.
By the way, I'm looking at a picture of the house.
This isn't some house that's tucked into the woods. This
is in the middle of a busy neighborhood. So how is
it this woman's in the yard for how long she
was in the yard? It doesn't know she was in

(39:39):
the yard the whole time. But like, well, I mean,
there's office buildings in this picture right behind the house.
Nobody heard, what nobody cared? I guess, uh, one play
of food today, shackled to the stand. Michelle Garcia, who
was the woman's bestie, I guess. According to the woman,

(40:01):
Michelle's one of the people in the house told investigator
she limited the woman to one meal a day because
she thought the victim was getting chunky jeez man. The
victim also said that the night before she was found,
her pants slipped down and she got in trouble, and

(40:21):
when she got in trouble, they would open one of
the windows and shoot her with a BB gun. She
was cuffed backyard, left there overnight with no pants as punishment,
and again the BB gun thing. During her captivity. She
sustained extensive injuries. The BB gun clearly was open wounds.

(40:42):
She was transported to the hospital and was receiving tweet treatment.
Let's see the guy. The guy whose last name is Castro,
was accused of shooting her with the BB gun, said
he had to shoot her with the BB gun to
punish her because he didn't want to touch her because
she was getting chunky. What the hell is going on

(41:03):
with these people? By the way, I'm looking at a
mugshot of the one of the other women. Clearly they
don't have hate for everybody who's chunky. If I could
just make that judgment, call umm. Castro also said that,

(41:24):
by the way, do these people have lawyers? The quotes
they're giving to the police are insane. Castro, the guy
with the BB gun, also admitted that when he got
home from work, he would enjoy quote grabbing the BB
gun and chasing her around the yard because quote, she's
he effing hates her. That'd be careful. I didn't say

(41:46):
the word, and it was a way for him to
take out aggression and stress that was building up because
of some I guess he was in a relationship with
the woman Michelle all suspects charged with everything pretty much
under the sun. It's Texas, so they'll probably actually go
to Well, it's Austin, so we'll see. Yeah, man, what

(42:10):
an absolutely backcrap crazy story there. And again I'm just
looking at a picture of the front of the house
and the neighborhood, Like if you're yelling in that backyard,
a hundred people are gonna hear you. Yeah, there's like
a small office park like it looks like it's a
block behind the house there, absolutely losing their mind all right,

(42:34):
coming up on the show. Rather now take it for
what it's worth. It's a convicted felon who's telling you this.
And you know he has said some stuff. This was
Jeffrey Epstein's old selly. He has said some stuff that
didn't track previously. But he gave a rather interesting little

(42:58):
statement yesterday specifically about Jeffrey Epstein's case and what DOJ
officials were discussing with him. Tell you with a grain
of salt, I'll tell you what he said coming up
next here on the CaCO Day radio program. So this
was this was Jeffrey Epstein's celly, and but he was

(43:20):
not I guess in the cell when Epstein killed himself.
He but he was in protective like protective custody. This
is why they put him with Epstein because he is
a former law enforcement officer. Right, So they're not gonna
stick Epstein in general, Pop. They're not gonna stick this
guy in there either, because I guess cops don't do

(43:43):
well in there. His name Nicholas TARTAGLIONI I don't know
probably how you pronounce it, and I don't. I don't
believe him, by the way, even though if if what
he is saying is true, it's it's just bonkers, because
this dude is angling for a pardon, and I think

(44:07):
he's trying to appeal to Trump because he is. These
are federal charges, by the way. He is he was
convicted of killing four people in a cocaine deal gone bad.
Just you understand, like what this dude's accused of. All right,
So he claims that he would talk with Epstein and

(44:34):
Epstein told him about an offer that was made to him.
All right, So oh and yeah, hang on just a second, yeah, yeah, yeah,
So this would have been pre conviction at the time.
He has since been convicted following what happened with Epstein. So,
but he was convicted of quadruple murder. So clearly the

(44:54):
guy has some incentive if he thinks he can angle
for a pardon to you know, try to do so.
So he claims that Epstein told him that prosecutors had
offered to cut him a deal if he would testify
to that Trump was, you know, at the center of this,

(45:18):
so they wanted they wanted him tom implicate Trump in
you know, the Epstein stuff. And that was an offer
that was made Epstein, specifically by the lead prosecutor who
you probably know her name, you know her last name,
Maureen Comy, Yes, former FBI director's daughter, who was up

(45:41):
there at the Federal District in New York. Is what
he said. He said, Epstein told me that Maureen Comy
said he didn't have to prove anything as long as
President Trump's people couldn't disprove it, right, So just just
get it out into the ethos. We may never convict him,
but it will clearly sink him. But you can't tell

(46:02):
us anything where somebody could go actually check on that.
So be specific, but be specific about things where there's
not a possibility of witnesses being there. Things like that.
Let's see now he didn't specify what crimes Trump would
have been implicated in. Of course, Epstein was charged with
sex trafficking and conspiracy were the two top charges. He

(46:25):
had a bunch of them, but those are the two biggies.
Oh and financial fraud too. They got him for money laundering, blackmails,
some stuff with that, but the sex trafficking was where
he was probably going to face the most years. Comey,
who acted as lead prosecutor in this dude's case, was

(46:46):
fired by the DOJ back in July, so she's not
with the office anymore. All TARTAGLIONI added his petition because
now he has filed an official petition for a pardon,
because now he's also claiming that she's corrupt and she
was intense she intentionally did this to him because he
had knowledge of the offer that Epstein had been offered. Right,

(47:07):
So that's how this all ties together.

Speaker 6 (47:10):
Hit piece.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
I don't know what this is. I mean, it clearly
is a hit piece, but I don't understand. Just I
don't understand what's going on here. All right, So here's
the headline, not from a Wall Street journal. I'm reading
the Brie it because I couldn't see the article because paywall.
But giz Moto did one, and you got to understand.
If Gizmoto did it, you're dealing with the cocker people.

(47:31):
So buckle in. Let's see here. Twitter employees, or they
write XAI employees more specifically, were reportedly compelled to give
biometric data to train anime girlfriend. Okay, all right, so
if you've been on the Twitter or the groc app

(47:55):
or whatever, did we talked about this on the air,
Ross played a little audio, have the little AI check now.
I did go check it out. I was creeped out
in like thirty minutes and I haven't touched it since.
And then I had to adjust my notifications because I
got a notification on Twitter, which I have those on
for my phone, but it was a message from the

(48:15):
CREEPYAI the slutty check. Sorry. I don't even know how
to describe it other than that like she is super innuento.
Now you can you can mess with setting stuff like
that doesn't have to be but if you have it untethered, man,
everything is double entendre. So in tondre, excuse me. With

(48:35):
that in mind, So what you have here is you
have some former Twitter employees I don't know if they
got beef with musk or what, but that sounds pretty ominous, right, Oh,
your employer's forcing you to turn over your biometric data,
like you'd be creeped out in almost any any job. However,
and when you get into it, you're halfway through the

(48:57):
article because I'm trying to figure out what the hell
their job is. So they were female employees and male employees,
but they, for whatever reason, only focused on the females
here who were Their job was AI trainers. So here,
here's why they wanted biometric data. And in this case,

(49:17):
the biometric data they're talking about is not DNA, it's
not you know, any of that. It's how they react
to things. Because what they're trying to train the AI
to do is to sound as human as possible and
react as human as possible. So as part of the training,
which was disclosed to them when they took the job,

(49:41):
they would they would have things like all right, here
we go, I want to be very clear on what
it is. Uh per the public area this Wall Street
Journal at a staff meeting in April of this year,
employees working on the XAI project. These are the people
who trained the language models and also how the animated

(50:02):
version looks. Were informed by a company lawyer that XAI
wanted to collect their biometric data, including facial likeness, voice
and inflections within the voice. See one of the things
that is the hardest, and it is very noticeable, although

(50:25):
it's getting much less noticeable. But like early AI, you
could tell it wasn't human. It just, you know, just
the inflections that people have in their voice wasn't transferring.
Arguably it's transferring a lot better now, hence my blood

(50:47):
feud now with YouTube. Sorry I'm still on this beef
because I spent fifteen minutes again yesterday, just wanted to
put a documentary on and everything is AI slop on
YouTube and all of it. So so David Attenborough, I don't
know if that guy's still alive, should sue the crap
out of YouTube because any any documentary for whatever reason,
is a fake David Attenborough voice and it's and you

(51:08):
can and you immediately know it's a I if it
has to pronounce a number because it can't do it
for whatever reason. But the inflections are getting better. So
that's what they That's what they were asking these women
and men to do. Basically, they would read a prompt right,
so they would see it prompt. Maybe it's a dirty prompt,
some perv. We want to see what the a I'll do.

(51:30):
Maybe it's somebody asking for a restaurant recommendation, whatever it is.
And while they were shown the prompt for the first time,
they were recording them their facial expressions and recording their voice.
That's what they were doing. That's what this is. And
so when you pitch it as you know this these
evil lawyers and Elon Musk is evil and he forced

(51:53):
his employees to give their biometric data. He's it was
it was part of the gig, and seems completely reasonable.
That seems completely reasonable, because if you're trying to train
the AI to act like a human female or male
or whatever it is, you want it to react in

(52:13):
the same way. That's what's going on here. So it
sounds like somebody's just cheesed over it. And then here's
the other part. Prior to the meeting, employees were reportedly
asked to sign, not forced to sign, asked to sign,
and they did offer to move them elsewhere in the
company if there was availability. They were asked to sign
a document that gave x AI a perpetual, worldwide, non exclusive,

(52:38):
sub licensable, royalty free license to use the biometric data. Again,
what we're talking about is maybe the little weird anime
thing on the what is this what is that thing's name?
I'm going to refer to as the things It's not
human and you know, eventually they don't want to kill us.
So I don't know a little revp flirty thing on

(53:01):
the on the gra cap anyway. So the reason I
understand why they're making them sign that because let's say
you don't work at X anymore, and the way that
you scrunch your face up when you read something that
bothers you is now incorporated into the AI. You could
find a lawyer if they didn't have licensing on that,

(53:22):
who would sue? They'd be like, clearly, my client is
that's you know, that's my client's face expression. That's just
lawyers being lawyers. And this is standard boiler plate without
getting into too much detail. This is standard and radio,
not the facial expressions. But what I'm doing right now
this show. I don't own this show. My employer owns

(53:43):
this show. And any of the words I'm speaking right now,
I'm speaking on behalf of my employer. But if I
don't work here no more and they want to run,
I don't know, best of they have the license to
do it. It's their content. So anything that I create
under the auspice of my job here, it's my understanding,
my employer's understanding that they own the rights to it.

(54:06):
This is super standard. It's just a different thing here.
Instead of a three hour show where I, you know,
scream into the void, it's people who are essentially being
mapped so that the the animated version of the AI
version of them sounds, looks, and acts more human, which

(54:27):
is ultimately the goal. So I don't know why we
needed a big, lengthy article over this thing. Yeah, here
we go. Annie. Annie's the thing's name, the flagship anime.

Speaker 6 (54:37):
Girlfriend.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
Employees who let their biometric now here, here's the other
reason that they're beefing. Uh, let me read this. Employees
who let their biometric data to the project were reportedly
put off by how sexualized the AI character was. Yeah.
I mean when Ross was showing that thing to me,
When he was showing that thing to me, I was

(55:00):
like that, you ask it normal questions and she's all flirty.
That being said, the employees weren't saying these things, and
nobody knows it's them either, right, So I keep saying that,
you know, the scrunch face looking at something, just so
we have a visual here. Nobody's like, hey, that's Becky, right,

(55:22):
nobody's doing that. It's this is so, this is such
a nothing Burger users are able to put the character
who is trained on real people's biometric data into Lingerie
and other skip, can you do that? You put in lingerie? Okay,
I didn't know while using mandatorily surrendered, copyright free employee

(55:44):
biometric data is almost certainly the creepiest data set that
went in. No, it's not creepy. And again it's not
that it's right. It is royalty free in the sense
that it's work produced while under employ Again, ten years
down the road, if they run a commercial that I
cut and I don't work for iHeart anymore, they are

(56:04):
legally allowed to run it. I got, which is fine.
This is just a different version of this, all right.
So that's that if you couldn't get through the paywall,
I had to do a little digging to see what
it said. And by the way, since it is the
former Gawker writers over at Gives Moto. They do refer
to Musk as Nazi throughout this article, because of course

(56:26):
they do. All right, seven forty four Race Stagic from
the Weather Channel is, uh, he is brimming and ready
to go. What's going on? Man?

Speaker 6 (56:35):
Not much?

Speaker 1 (56:36):
How are you, oh, you know, doing a thing?

Speaker 6 (56:39):
Yeah, yeah, trying to figure.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
Out Uh yeah, I was just say, trying to figure
out how we can just skip to Saturday tomorrow right
into the weekend.

Speaker 6 (56:47):
So yeah, just get right past it. Right, Hey, let
me ask.

Speaker 1 (56:51):
You a question. Do you think Bill Do you think
Bill Belichick should be in the NFL Hall of Fame
as a coach?

Speaker 9 (56:58):
Yes, it doesn't matter why or how or what or
what anybody. It's it's all about number of Super Bowls and.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
Right, but y see, the problem the problem with it
is is we got to see what happens when Tom's
not there. So some people are making the argument that,
you know, once you didn't have Tom Brady and Gronk
running around there, he was mediocre at best, and so
should you reward I'm not trying why, I'm trying to

(57:27):
start a fight, but I'm not taking a position. But
that's actually a fair point. I don't know, but yeah,
rings count, man, rings count, So you're.

Speaker 6 (57:39):
But then all right, so take.

Speaker 9 (57:42):
Oh, maybe it's not Gronk, but take another player besides
Brady on that team, that player in Hernandez.

Speaker 6 (57:49):
No, I wasn't really thinking him.

Speaker 9 (57:53):
That makes it to the Hall of Fame eventually, and say, well,
if you didn't have Tom Brady, then maybe he was.
You know, he wouldn't have been because look at when
he didn't have Tom Brady.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
So that's what Yeah, that's that's what people are arguing.

Speaker 9 (58:04):
So nah, I'm saying the player, one player shouldn't make
the city.

Speaker 6 (58:10):
No, No, I think he should be in there.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
Remember he also has Super Bowl titles prior to the Patriots,
right to what the Giants, I believe, say exactly. And
you know, Patriots head coach though he was defensive coordinator.
I think for what Yeah, for the Giants, Patriots are
I'm just trolling. We have a lot of Boston transplants.
I like to troll the Yeah, imagine that because then

(58:34):
they call and they yelled, but they do in that
weird accent, so then we all laugh.

Speaker 6 (58:38):
So yo, what are you talking about? No, the people,
the accent, the Peabody.

Speaker 9 (58:44):
It's the I'm going to watch the Patriots today. Yeah,
my buddy's from Peabody. He they're Patriots fans, and they
my best friend down here. His son plays for Auburn.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
But where'd you he's from Peabody, Peabody, Body, Peabody, Peabody.

Speaker 6 (59:04):
Yeah, no, I like, I know you do.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
I know what you're doing in Massachusetts.

Speaker 9 (59:09):
But and this is the one thing I would say
about them is that they're fair weather fans because now
you don't hear anything, and then now you'll start hearing
more about the Patriots because they were losing after they
won Super Bowls and.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
Now start I think is the top. He has the
most touchdowns in the NFL, so.

Speaker 9 (59:25):
So who would have thought that. But anyway, luckily not
much going on till next week. That's what everybody wants
to know. How cold is it going to get? Well,
it's gonna get cold enough that it's going to go
below freezing. The coldest morning likely is going to be
Tuesday morning, maybe some upper twenties around snowflakes in the mountains. Again,
I'm gonna say I wouldn't be shocked if we see
a few snowflakes get as far east, maybe as the triad.

(59:48):
Maybe the triangle, it's a little more aggressive, would be
in yesterday, but I'm not being real aggressive with it.
So much colder after some beautiful days coming up. Sixties today,
near seventy tomorrow, a little bit seventy saturd showers and
still in the seventies on Sunday, and then the colderrere
will come in. Might not get out of the forties
on Monday. Cold this morning will be Tuesday morning Veterans Day.

(01:00:09):
High forties, maybe close to fifty degrees in some spots.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
All right, well, you know what, that's still acceptable weather
if you want to get it.

Speaker 6 (01:00:16):
It won't last, so right, it'll it won't last long,
It won't.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
It's great fire ring weather. That too, fantastic. All right,
thank you, sir, appreciate it. Okay, there you go, raise
sedagic seven forty. By the way, Belichick's not the only
coach that they're considering eligibility for. Also, let's see George Seaffert,
Tom Coughlin, Chuck Knox. I think Chuck Knox used to

(01:00:42):
coach the Bills, right, and Dan Reeves, Marty Schottenheimer. So
I guess we'll see, all right, seven forty eight hang
on a short segment here and then Stephen kent to
official NERD correspondent, He'll be joining us here in about
ten minutes. So we got that going for us. Did
you guys know there's a Chinese ass not stuck in
space and their ships busted. I did not see this anywhere,

(01:01:06):
all right, So they have their own space station. By
the way, the Chinese space station is run by the military,
so technically it's a military base. So that's disconcerting. Three
Chinese astronauts due to depart the tang Gong space a
Tangong space station re entered the atmosphere in the land.

(01:01:30):
This was supposed to happen yesterday, are instead going to
remain until let's see here, well, I guess, until they
figure out what the heck's going on. So they had
a new crew that was going to go up and
relieve this other crew. So one crew flew up, docked
the rocket or whatever, and then the other crew you know, hey,

(01:01:52):
all right, it's your station now, and then they were
gonna get in and fly home. And so they got
in get ready to fly home, and they said that
it was hit by space debris, and they're not sure
exactly what's going on. So they're figuring that out. Now,
you know, they're fine, But there is the part where
now you have double the amount of people in a

(01:02:13):
space station, how much food you have there? All these things?
So yeah, our number three here on our Thursday, a
feat we did not achieve last week because Ross's board exploded.
So it's been a minute since we've chatted with our
official NERD correspondent and proud Virginia residents, mister Stephen Kent,

(01:02:36):
who joins us. Now, heck of an ag. You guys
just elected up there? How you doing? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:02:42):
Aren't we lucky to have Jay Jones as our top
law enforcement offering officer in the state. I feel safe
and secure. Definitely not threatened for me or my family
at all.

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
Oh okay, all right, so apparently it's fine to wish
children die in parents' arms. I just want to make
you can have our age. By the way, I'll give
you Jeff Jackson. Do you want them?

Speaker 7 (01:03:03):
Honestly, yeah, I'll take I'll take Jeff, you can have Jay.
We'll call it a trade.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
Well, they're both both equally useless. So though Jeff is
one of these who's now suing the Trump administration again
for who the hell knows for everything, basically, jack Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:03:20):
That's that's within the realm of the norm casey, you know,
doing a little lawsuit against the Trump administration. But you know,
the the murder stuff is, you know, you can have them.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
Well, but but and here's the thing, and I'm not
uh frankly, you can have both and then we'll be fine.
It's it's the it's the performative nature of this. So
Jeff Jackson is suing because some some monies that were
supposed to flow through to North Carolina not flowing through
because the government shut down. And we have seen this

(01:03:50):
performative thing. Elizabeth Warren was doing this, Schumer's been doing it.
Our own attorneys using our funds to sue the federal government.
We're paying for that. Yeah, it's because the government shut down,
so they keep doing these things like Trump can just
reopen the government. Trump doesn't have a vote in this, right.
So and I'm like, are there are there that many

(01:04:13):
idiots buying this that narrative? And then I go on
Twitter and I'm like, yeah, apparently there are, like I
don't know what they think this guy's going to be
able to do.

Speaker 7 (01:04:22):
Yeah, you know, most most polling on the government shut
down does reflect that the most satisfaction is aimed at
the White House, which is just sort of political I
literacy on you know, full display right there.

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
Yeah, it's embarrassing. Man. All right, Well, let's get into
a couple of things. Were you surprised by the way.
I mean, the only thing I was really surprised of
was the Jay Jones thing I watched. I think it
was the Richmond station was interviewing people and they ended
up talking to like four or five people that are
were voting for Spanberg. Right, They're big Democrats who were

(01:04:58):
okay with the job the Curnede, so they were they
were splitting tickets, and I thought that was an interesting angle.
But clearly that may have been the only five people
in Virginia.

Speaker 7 (01:05:09):
I don't know, So yeah, I am surprised to see
j Jones pull it off. I think one of the
things that you might have at play here is, like
like with the old thing about the shy Trump voter,
the person who tells the polster like, no, I'm not
going to vote for for Donald Trump, but definitely going
to vote for him because I hate you know, Hillary Clinton,
or Kamala Harris or whatever. I think you might have

(01:05:31):
similar factor going on there where there's a shame factor.
But in truth, most partisan people who are participating in
kind of these off year elections, you know, they'll accept
it because they believe that the other side is worse.

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
Do you have a street ticket in Virginia? I don't
even know. You go in and oh, okay, you don't. Okay,
I was gonna say, maybe that's the other thing, but
you don't have it. All right, let me get into
let me get into a few other things here. So
these are pretty standard. They're almost in the background, you know.
Carriage agreements, right, We've been dealing with this since the

(01:06:06):
day of cable right where you have spectrum or whatever
it is, and then one day ESPN's not there because
they're fighting over carriage rates. That's of course transferred now
into the streaming and in this case YouTube TV and
Disney are fighting. So that's a problem. We didn't get
away from that. And normally I'm just like, I don't

(01:06:28):
I'm not rooting for either of you. I just hate
both of you for cause just the big conglomerate ruining
all my favorite childhood movies coupled with horse feeding me
ai slop on YouTube. I don't care, but I saw Disney.
I saw people posting pictures of Disney announcing a generous
price hike for their Disney Plus streaming service, Like in

(01:06:48):
some cases, if you had the one year introductory, it's
going to be double now. And now I'm like, maybe
Disney is the problem here. So are you following.

Speaker 6 (01:06:57):
Any of this?

Speaker 7 (01:06:58):
Yeah, I mean Disney is the problem here. And it
is also the case that they are being the most
combative and disagreeable because they have a little bit more
to lose here. Disney's market capitalization is you know, they're
like a two hundred billion dollar firm. But you know,
just they're dealing right here with YouTube, who is a

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property of Google Alphabet and they're valued at like three
trillion dollars, which is to say, Alphabet Google YouTube is
in a much prettier place to be stubborn and kind
of stand their ground. This is a bigger problem for Disney,
who has massive overhead costs for the production of all
of their content, and all all YouTube does is basically

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managed digital real estate.

Speaker 1 (01:07:43):
Yeah, and also, and I saw the Wall Street Journal
had a piece on this where they were talking about
the You know, it's so much easier nowadays. If you're like,
all right, I'm not going to do I'm not going
to do TV through YouTube. Let me go to one
of the other TV streaming services where I can get
all the channels, and you could. I mean, you can
do that on your lunch break. Whereas you know, back

(01:08:04):
in the day, if you had you know, Comcast or
whatever it was, you got to go return the equipment.
You got to go to the other one if there
is one, because a lot of times they'd have these
these franchise agreements with the city and you were kind
of screwed. Now people are insta of flipping. So I
think Disney thinks that's the leverage that YouTube needs to
come around on.

Speaker 6 (01:08:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:08:23):
I mean, for Disney, this blackout in this situation means
losing like fifteen percent of their subscriber base who are
coming in the door just for ESPN and the stuff.
This is a this is a big problem. So I
do think that you're going to have some reconciliation for
everybody involved here soon. But you know, YouTube is in

(01:08:45):
a more incalcitrant position, or a more privileged position to
be to be stubborn.

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
Now, the worst take on this story, I'll just end
with this is Elizabeth Warren. Did you see Elizabeth Warren
weigh in on this.

Speaker 7 (01:08:57):
I'm sure she wants to break up a company for
something or other.

Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
Right, No, it's yes, yes, but it's Trump's fault. She says,
you might not be able to watch Monday Night football tonight.
This is from Monday. Why when companies get too big
they have the power to cut off your favorite channels?
And what has Trump done about her? Please let them
get away with it.

Speaker 7 (01:09:18):
These people. Everything comes down to politics in the White House.
You know, this is a question that you could really
ask yourself, you know about like what do people and
what do consumers own in the digital world? You know,
one of the things that I'm reminded of in this
blackout situation is that we the users don't really own
anything that we are streaming. Even the stuff that we

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DVR on YouTube, TV and record, you can't access it
if there's any sort of disputes between these large firms.
That's generally the problem with all of the digital and
streaming services is that you don't own anything. Go and
get DVDs and vhs. Is if you actually want to
own your content and your media. She's just doing this direction.

(01:10:05):
These politicians are craving.

Speaker 1 (01:10:07):
Yeah. And the irony, of course is is Google and Disney.
If you look at campaign contributions, especially by employees, they're
giving all the money to her and her you know,
and her party just especially Alphabet. It's like in the
ninetieth percentile when you look at employee breakdown. But I digress,
all right. I have seen now everybody Ross literally warned me.

(01:10:27):
I saw. I watched the Nerd Rotic and Critical Drink
or They've all weighed in on this, and I was
horrified to hear about what is supposed to be season
four of The Witcher. I tapped out season three, so
I have not sampled any of this, but the descriptions
from what I've heard are literally all the worst decisions.

(01:10:48):
Is that your assessment? Have you watched it? What are
we doing here? Because it was such a good shot
when it started.

Speaker 7 (01:10:54):
So I have not watched. I have not watched season
four of The Witcher. It's not one of the series
that I follow more closely. Is this a show that
you were pretty passionate about before Henry Cavill stepped in?

Speaker 1 (01:11:07):
Yeah, absolutely, And the reason I was passionate it was
the same reason the director didn't like cavill Because cavill
nerded out on this like this is this is an
ip he was a fan of. And so if you
remember the beef was the director was upset because Cavell
would point out that this isn't Cannon and then they would
get into a little thing over it. And I'm sorry,
I just yearn for somebody who actually respects ips because

(01:11:30):
if we as we've seen with Marvel and Indiana Jones
and you know, every damn near every other thing, they're
being steered by people star Wars, they're being steered by
people who have no respect for it, let alone a
passion for the product. So it showed when he left.

Speaker 7 (01:11:49):
Yeah, you know that definitely is a blow to fan.
That's always hard to hear. But yeah, a critical drinker
he did. He did give this a pretty bad review.

Speaker 4 (01:11:58):
But I need to get caught up on it.

Speaker 7 (01:11:59):
I've been I've been on an anime benge lately. Honestly,
I've been watching a lot of anime on Netflix because
that's that's the good stuff, right.

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
I won't even tease you over that. I just I
could not. I've never been able to get into anime.
Got a roommate, it would watch a ton of it
man and I just he was. He was into it.
So if you love it, you love it. There's a
story the Wall Street Journal did speaking of owning nothing. Uh,
and then Gizmoto did their hatchet job version of it.
Ex employees XAI employees reportedly compelled to give biometric data

(01:12:31):
to train anime. Girlfriend is how they headline this, and
so they had apparently some plays they're upset. I guess
maybe they're former employees. They were there and they were
literally their job title is AI trainer. And when they
say biometric data, what they mean is they would sit
the man and women. They only focused on the women here,

(01:12:52):
but they had men and women. They'd sit them down
and they would show them a prompt that a user
may enter like, and then they would tape their facial
expressions and their words in responding to it so that
they could get the AI to sound more human. That's
what they were asked to do. And apparently that is
somehow scandalous because lawyers made him sign something saying that

(01:13:16):
AI owns the work product from that. Now, do you
agree with that. They're saying all these people should get royalties.
I think the lawyer stepped in to make sure that
there was a lawsuits going down the road. But I
can't think of a better way to train AI.

Speaker 7 (01:13:32):
I guess. But you know, aren't we talking about biometric
data that ultimately is being used for the anti chat bot,
the anime.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
Girl, and the.

Speaker 6 (01:13:44):
Slutbot.

Speaker 7 (01:13:45):
Yeah, the slutbot, yes, well yeah, you said it, not me.
I mean, this is a bot that has a not
safe for work setting that can basically do sexpot conversation
with anybody who uses it. I don't think that that
is what any employee imagines their mannerisms or expression being
used to train.

Speaker 1 (01:14:06):
Well, it's not like when they announced this, like Elon
was bragging about how this thing was gonna be, that
there was gonna be like off the hook mode or
whatever he called it, right, So, like, there's no way
you worked there and didn't realize it. Also, if the
the biggest problem with AI voice, and I think you
would agree with this early on, was you could tell
because there was no human there, right, the cadence was off,

(01:14:29):
the inflections were absent, the the piece of audio back
in the day was do you ever hear the Joe
Rogan monkeys playing hockey audio? Yeah, you could. You could
tell it's not a human now it's to the point
where it's really hard, and that's that's a result of
this training. But at no point would I interact with him.
Go that's that's the way Becky says that word, right,

(01:14:52):
it's not trackable to you. You're essentially you're essentially a
mannequin for this thing, and you're getting paid a lot
of money and you knew what was up.

Speaker 7 (01:15:01):
Yeah, but I just sort of believe that this is
a breach on people's sense of dignity. You could sort
of think, and Elon could even say that there's going
to be AI training used for these bots, but you
don't really connect the dots until it's done that like,
oh my gosh, like I am being used to train
sex bots. I don't think that any employee of like

(01:15:25):
any level of maturity imagines that this is really what
they're doing with their time, and then when it actually happens,
you just sort of start the question the entire enterprise.
I mean, it does feel like a lite form of prostitution.
I'm pretty with these people. I'm feeling a little violated
when it actually comes to fruition.

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
Have you ever prompted Rock to answer a question for you?

Speaker 7 (01:15:48):
Yeah, I will use Rock for for some research.

Speaker 1 (01:15:50):
Sure, Okay, well you just trained the AI and I
know I ask. You're a free prostitute.

Speaker 7 (01:15:56):
So yeah, we're all and pimped out these days. And
you know, I actually was able to find some records
of different articles that I have written, even my book
How the Force Can Fix the World, and being able
to track where it has appeared in different chat bots
and AI models, you know, appearing in different searches. You know,

(01:16:19):
it definitely is something that has been used to feed
chat GPT and you know you don't get paid for that.
But then again, you know, knowledge is knowledge. You know,
when you write a book and put it out there
on a shelf, you don't get a royalty when somebody
then quotes you or shares your concept with somebody verbally.
That's kind of what books and information.

Speaker 1 (01:16:40):
Are for, right And and here's the thing from a
royalty perspective, this conversation we're having right now, I'm getting
paid for it, You're getting some FaceTime, but ultimately, iHeart
media owns this and ten years down the road if
I don't work for iyehard. But they want to run
a best of when you and I talked, they can
do it. There's no royalty, is there. It's super standard

(01:17:02):
and in entertainment for you know, work product that was
provided at the time to be in perpetual universe. I
mean they use these grandiose words a universal you know, forever,
they can go ahead and use it. So it's I
think it comes down to steven for the most part.
It's the old saying, if it's free, you're the product, right.

Speaker 7 (01:17:23):
Yeah, yeah, But I think I think at some point
we're going to have to consider, you know, what human
beings are motivated by, and what makes human beings react badly,
and if you're going to be you know, using your
employees and their biometric data for any the not safe
for work bot, I think there just needs to be

(01:17:43):
a really explicit line there for your employees so that
they don't get to the end of it and feel violated.
And also like, come on, you're you're a mega tech millionaire.
You can't just hire people to help train your bot
do that kind of That's what they.

Speaker 1 (01:17:59):
Were hired for. That was literally their job. Title, they're
AI trainers, that was their title.

Speaker 7 (01:18:05):
Are the AI AI trainers for sex spots or AI
trainer or some sort of and they're any idea about
using AI for the good of mankind?

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
Yeah, I mean there in lies the question. But also
take the sexual part out. We only got thirty seconds.
Let's say that I can get Annie to say that
she likes Trump or she hates Trump, and you're an employee.
Feels differently. Do you have the same objection? So all right, well,
thank you for your free service, and we'll talk next
week's or what's your books? Your upcoming books?

Speaker 7 (01:18:35):
Name again, focus determines reality. He'll be out next here.

Speaker 1 (01:18:39):
There you go. There is Stephen Kent joining us. Do
appreciate it, sir, have yourself a wonderful Thursday, and we
will be right back. Germany, like a lot of European nations,
is dealing with Yeah, in the UK a lot, a
lot of it, but Germany is dealing with their fair
share of illegal migrants coming there a lot. Although Germany

(01:19:05):
is it's a little different. Germany took a ton of
Syrian refugees who are legal to be in Germany, but
what they've run into is like then everyone in Syria
is like, I'm I'm I'm gonna sneak into Germany. There's
a bunch of people who speak my language, customs all that.
So that's that's a huge problem for them there. And

(01:19:26):
they are actually actively deporting people back to Turkey and
then into Syria, and uh there they are, I guess
gonna ramp that up. They had some elections there in
Germany where there was a bit of a power shift,
except they've decided to facilitate taking them from Germany to

(01:19:49):
Turkey and then through the port of entry into Syria.

Speaker 3 (01:19:52):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:19:52):
They are going to create a special train to do it. Yeah,
I mean, I understand the Europeans love the trains, but
it's just the whole like you know how that's I understand,
it's not the same, but still your Germany. I have

(01:20:13):
a little self awareness because the people who are mad
at the more conservative version of some of the people
who are elected there in Germany are making that comparison.
They're like, ah, yeah, yeah, I know what you're doing.
Except the difference is they're not taking them to Auschwitz.
They're taking them literally to their house or where it

(01:20:34):
was their house. But politics going to politics, man but yeah,
admittedly I cringe when I was just reading that a
little bit smidge. I mean, you gotta recognize your history,
That's all I'm saying, speaking of that I had. I
didn't clock this initially, and then I saw some of
my friends who still live in the Twin Cities, God
help them. It was called I was following what was

(01:20:56):
gone over in Minneapolis with the current mayor and then
the Somali dude who won the UH at the at
the nominating convention, and they took it away from all right,
so he got it. He has butt handed to him.
So the current incumbent mayor, he will still be the mayor.
I didn't even clock what was happening in Saint Paul.
So Saint Paul just outs to their mayor. So to

(01:21:19):
understand the Twin Cities, Saint Paul is the commer more
conservative you comparably, or at least it was, and I
would call it the old the older Minnesotan right where
it's just and in Minneapolis is the newer hipper version.
And both have their charms. I've technically lived in both
of them when I worked up there. I think Saint

(01:21:41):
Paul's great UH and I think Minneapolis had a lot
you know, that's they got a lot of cool stuff
there as well, but it was very different vibes, and
Saint Paul was always a little more conservative you had
you know, they had Republican mayor when I lived there,
Norm Colban and so h. The current mayor was just

(01:22:02):
ousted though, and uh, the woman who ousted him is
the very same Minnesota state representative who claimed to be
an illegal alien. Now I don't think she is. She's Mung,
all right. And so if you don't understand culturally the
among people and how it impacts the Twin Cities, then

(01:22:25):
the nuance may be a little lost on you. There
is a huge population of munk Hmong. I think the
people from the Clint Eastwood Grand Tarino movie, all right,
And by the way, they are especially in Saint Paul.
There's lots among people, great restaurants and generally very very

(01:22:46):
like hard working but integrated and all that. Like, nobody's
got to nobody really has a problem with with with
the with the MNK folks. However, their origin story is
a little interesting. So the reason that there's some among
people in Saint Paul is the Mung who are from Laos, right,
except they were, you know, so tribal and Laos at

(01:23:09):
the time around Vietnam, the government of Laos hated the
Among people and they would do awful things to him.
And then as a result, then the Mung people decided
that they would essentially non officially but basically team up
to help the US military in Vietnam. And that was

(01:23:30):
a bridge too far, and that really ramped it up.
So they started coming in just killing Mung folks as
part of that deal. Though, we essentially after Vietnam opened up,
because under the fact that they were being persecuted, opened up,
and a lot Among people came and they and they
settled them, which is kind of crazy because Laos is
so hot. They stuffed them in Detroit, Minneapolis and a

(01:23:53):
few other cities, like all real cold weather stuff. So
so she's Mung, and so I don't she said, I'm
illegal in this country. My parents are illegal here in
this country. She's not illegal from the best that I
can understand. That being said, she's now the Mary of
Saint Paul, and she's an absolute lunatic just by the way,

(01:24:13):
just in general. But as far as her legal status,
she was lying. And I don't know if she was
lying to get people's goat or if she honestly believed that,
which I don't understand how she could. She's had legal status.
She came over as a teenager because there's a fan
there's They still will allow some people to come over

(01:24:34):
as part of family unit cohesion stuff, and I guess
that's when she came over. She's not illegal, but she
thought it was trendy to brag that she was. So
she's just a liar. But also she's the Mary of
Saint Paul, so what are you gonna do? She becomes
the first mong American and first woman mayor in Saint Paul.
So there you go. I know we all don't live there,
but it's just crazy. I can't tell you what crazy

(01:24:57):
town is going on up there. The story my buddies
tell me. And like, my two best friends don't even
live in the Twin Cities anyway. They still live in Minnesota,
but they they'll live in Minneapolis or Saint Paul. One
moved down to Rochester and the other one's down along
the Mississippi River a town called Woodnona. Like they just
got out because they said Minneapolis was just going bonkers.

(01:25:20):
All right, let me hit on a couple things. Okay,
So I tease this, let me get in into it,
because it happened again. So we had a story a
while ago of a woman who was just She's in India.
She's standing around, I don't know, doing whatever, and all
of a sudden, out of the trees comes a giant
elephant and stomps her to death for whatever. I don't

(01:25:43):
know if it had babies or what was going on,
but anyway, so I killed her. And so you know,
everyone with family's sad, they organize a funeral. It's an
outdoor event. It's not in the same place, but it's nearby,
and literally in the middle of her funeral, the same
elephants comes busting out of the jungle and like knocks
the coffin over starts stomping on it again. Because I

(01:26:03):
don't know, she did something to that elephant. I don't
know what it is. And I thought I'd never hear
another story like that. I was wrong. And what authorities
are calling a two part attack, a wild elephant broke
a man's legs in this happened in Malaysia, not India.
In Malaysia, and then later came back and finished the job.

(01:26:25):
So here's what happened. This guy is, he works. He's
a logger. Okay, all right, so you know, granty, you're
gonna be around elephant. So it's not like he broke
into an office building. But so they're out there, he means, coworkers,
and they're actually done working. I think they were walking
back out of wherever they were logging, and this big

(01:26:47):
bull elephant comes out and just hones in on this
dude and stomps him, doesn't kill him, but literally breaks
both of his legs. Now they're out, they're out in it, right,
They're out in the middle of nowhere. But there is
a house where they're staying there. So his coworkers pick
up his mangled you know, a body, and his legs

(01:27:08):
all all screwed up, and they take him to the house.
He's inside the house. This is important and they're trying,
you know, they got to get medical attention. But again
they're far out there. It's so like hours go by,
three hours go by, still no medico. The guy's an
immense pain, and all of a sudden they hear a
rucket outside and they look out. They look out and

(01:27:31):
they see it's an elephant, and they're like, that's the
same damn elephant. So his coworkers immediately moved him so
we wouldn't get No, they ran away. Apparently they didn't
like this guy. And according to the story, the elephant
boat broke into the house, which I don't even know
how that works. I'm assuming it must be kind of
an open air thing because it's Malaysia. It's very hot there,

(01:27:53):
and finish the job stomping the dude and killing him.
So like, if you get on the bad side of
an elephan, I'm just saying, man, like you fix it,
talk it out, get some therapy or whatever, because they
are absolute revenge machines. Raced agic from the Weather Channel.
You think you could fight an elephant, my.

Speaker 9 (01:28:10):
Man, you no, probably not.

Speaker 6 (01:28:13):
I could fight it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:14):
But this is two stories now, two stories now where
an elephant attacked the same person twice.

Speaker 6 (01:28:20):
Mm hmm, like twice, well, why go back or.

Speaker 1 (01:28:24):
They never forget? So the first one, it murdered a lady,
murder It murdered a lady. Two days later at her funeral,
it showed up at the funeral and stomped coffin.

Speaker 6 (01:28:33):
How does that happen?

Speaker 4 (01:28:34):
Yeah, where are we?

Speaker 6 (01:28:35):
Where do work?

Speaker 1 (01:28:36):
That was in India? This one in Malaysia. An elephant
stomped the dude, broke both his legs. They took him
to a house. The elephant showed up three hours later,
broke into the house and stomped the dude to death.

Speaker 6 (01:28:47):
Don't know what.

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
Yeah, I'm just.

Speaker 9 (01:28:49):
Saying, don't move to where Malaysia?

Speaker 1 (01:28:54):
Yeah or so, or don't move there for the zoo.
They had an elephant over at the zoo. So I
don't know any tactically crazy. Yeah, they never forget literally
all right, so uh what's up, mild?

Speaker 6 (01:29:06):
Yeah, I will Sunday right, Oh yeah, that's other one,
not that one.

Speaker 9 (01:29:10):
Well, some go west and go with elevation best chance
and probably accumulations. Saw some come out maybe a couple
of inches in the highest elevation, maybe four or five
thousand feet to the west. Early next week in the
West Virginia Mountains too. I saw some info maybe approaching
double digits in some spots. So yeah, first little blast
here of colder are coming in. I'll look beautiful until

(01:29:33):
we get there. So uper no upper fifties, a little
bit sixties today. Probably most of us are going to
be above sixty, and then tonight we'll be back in
the thirties after a morning. This morning we're actually in
the fifties or milder this morning, and then tomorrow in
the seventies. As Saturday we're in the seventies, probably low
seventies Saturday and Sunday maybe some mid seventies, and then
the fronal come through Sunday night into Monday. High's Monday

(01:29:57):
only in the forties, maybe even the mid forties, and
then Monday night Tuesday morning Veterans Day, low's in the twenties,
highs closer to fifty, and it's that kind of Monday
Tuesday timeframe. Wire'll be some rain and snowshowers around some spots,
and there could be some wet snowflakes. I would say,
if there is a chance, try it. Maybe a few snowflakes,

(01:30:17):
better chance, though with the mountains it's it's not impossible.
It's gonna be cold enough and something they try to
sneak in.

Speaker 6 (01:30:23):
But I'm not getting too excited.

Speaker 1 (01:30:24):
If it's a snowflake, it's one deck. You know, there
will be seventy million pictures on social media.

Speaker 9 (01:30:30):
There will be, and I'll be in big trouble. You
said it was blah blah blah blah blah. I've done
it thirty years. I'm used to it, so I'll take
it all right where I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:30:41):
There you go, race Agent from the Weather Channel, and
Denis Pellegrini joins us next from Bloomberg. Hang on, Denise,
what's happening.

Speaker 10 (01:30:48):
Yeah, Walt Disney has just signed a new multi year
deal Casey to make Draft Kings the official betting site
and odds provider for its ESPN sports networks, and that
means it is dumping that venture with Pen Entertainment. Pen,
for its part, is going to offer sports betting under
the score bet brand instead. A new weight loss drug
from Eli Lilly elaurelin Tide helps patients lose as much

(01:31:12):
as twenty percent of their body weight after forty eight weeks.
Patients who took it saw improvements in waste sized, blood pressure, cholesterol,
inflammation markers, most of the weight loss coming from body
fat rather than muscle. And this drug is part of
a newer class of peptie drugs that mimic the hormone amylin,
which helps regulate appetite and stomach emptying and we're going

(01:31:33):
to see a lot more of those drugs. Well, there's
a reason why you and your family case you need
to set up a code word if you don't have one.
Evil criminals are using generative AI to imitate people's voices
and make phone calls that sound so real that relatives
are getting built out of money by scammers using these
AI voices. So set up your code word, share it

(01:31:55):
with your family and anybody else who you really care about.
And if you're one of those people who uses your
old address, say from when you were a student in
Paris as here code word, criminals probably already have access
to that. Choose something more, you know, inside information from
your family, something people won't be able to guess. Not
your pet's name either.

Speaker 1 (01:32:13):
Will you buy I thought, Imber, everybody did that. Well, yeah,
you have to remember what your is, But you got to.

Speaker 10 (01:32:22):
Find another word, like your favorite fruit or so I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:32:25):
Which street did you grow up on? No, I just
made because I didn't even grow well I technically I
grew up on you, Neber say, I mean yeah too,
But yeah, so I just made something up.

Speaker 10 (01:32:35):
Crazy stock features Right now they're putting to a higher
open Dow futures up thirty one. S and P futures
up twelve, Nasdaq futures up thirty seven. If you're buying
a home, you might try a new home if you
want to low mortgage rate. Because home builders are sitting
on unsold inventory, they're subsidizing mortgage rates. We spoke to
one mortgage broker who got a client a two percent

(01:32:56):
rate in d R Horton offering a one percent introductory
mortgage rate for a year for some customers in some markets.
Starbucks out with the holiday drinks, including a Creme Brule latte,
and also they've got this adorable stuff, Hello Kitty, Barista.
You're probably not into the Hello Kitty stuffed animals when
I think about it, but a lot of people are.
Of course, this holiday rollout coming is the Starbucks Workers

(01:33:17):
United threatens a strike November thirteen, the day Starbuck gives
out all those free red cups to try to get
as many people as possible into its coffee shops. And
if you're trying to have a baby but having trouble conceiving,
remote work could help you. New Stanford University study Casey says,
not only does remote work make it easier for you
to take care of kids.

Speaker 1 (01:33:38):
That's no secret.

Speaker 10 (01:33:39):
But remote work apparently also makes it easier to conceive
children by cutting stress and increasing proximity. So on the
other hand, if you're trying not to have a baby,
you might want to go into the office.

Speaker 1 (01:33:52):
Yeah, well, you know, and Ross his baby's common and
he timed it perfectly between Thanksgiving and Christmas normal times.
We're off returning you right in the middle. His last
day of the year's coming up here. Genius, absolute genius.

Speaker 10 (01:34:06):
So that is an every year he'll have holidays around
that birthday too, which will be Oh yeah, I feel
like gathering and said, it'll be so sweet.

Speaker 1 (01:34:13):
All right, Denise, thank you, appreciate it. Talk to you tomorrow. Yeah,
there you go, Denise Pella, Greeny Bloomberg News. Uh yeah,
all right, real quick, some audio I want to get to. So, yeah,
you want to know how insane the rhetorics are getting
over the EBT stuff. Here you go.

Speaker 5 (01:34:31):
I don't know what I'm supposed to do. I just
woke up, I just checked my card. I did not
get a deposit of food stamps. I I don't know
what I'm supposed to do. They want us dead. I

(01:34:52):
literally sat with a friend this week while they killed
themselves because they got confirmation that they were getting food stamps.
There was a slew of other things that factored into it,
but that was the tipping point.

Speaker 1 (01:35:10):
Okay, all right. So also she said, answer violence with
effine violence. This is the words are violence thing now
in this case. I'm not unsympathetic. I get it, uh,
you know, and again not everyone who who avails themselves

(01:35:32):
of this is necessarily, you know, trying to scam the system.