Wednesday-5-6-2026

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wednesday, you know, for for whatever that's worth. Well, I
mean that we'll have us chatting with Congressman Brad Not
So that'll be at eight oh five, so, uh, we
can get ready for that. Ross is still wearing his
three Amigos garb from yesterday. You know, Cicco to Mayo's
one day bro. It's not like a whole week. So

(00:20):
the giant sombrero is a nice touch though. So, uh,
do you guys have a big Cinco Tomyo party over
at the hayes manor maybe tacos or something? Do you
guys do anything for that?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
We did not do a damn thing, all right. I
mean it's an excuse to have tacos.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
It's just just the point that I'm making, and I
feel like everyone loves tacos. So so anyway, that was, uh,
that was yesterday. So I'm sure I'm speaking to somebody
who decided, hey, you don't be a good idea is
if I go drink tequila on a Tuesday night. Thankfully
I thought better of that, but I know some of
you probably did not. All right, so what are we

(00:58):
gonna get to on the show today? Hey? Thank you
next Jen for playing along. Appreciate that. Let's see here
do do do?

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Do?

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yell Marco Rubio fun. Apparently people are mad at that
over the Odyssey movie that's coming out, and it was
for a really dumb reason. But I don't know, maybe
maybe we become maybe it's maybe it will stand out
because more often than not, when we're when you do

(01:31):
a historical movie and I'm talking about a movie where
nobody would have spoke English right at the time that's
in the movie, they would have spoken, in this case
a variety of languages, but you know, uh, but like
Eastern Mediterranean languages. But since you're making the movie for

(01:52):
an English speaking audience, you have people speak English, you
can make a decision not to Mel Gibson famously did
uh what that TV show that Jason Momoa did last
year where it's about the the the various kingdoms of
the Hawaii of Hawaii. They also chose to do that

(02:13):
in Hawaiian or whatever technically the language will be called.
But more often than not, you just the people just
speak English and you just kind of go with it, right,
But a lot of times they do with a British accent,
and I guess that's kind of what we accept as normal.
We know that they don't. We know that they're supposed
to be speaking German, but they're going to be speaking

(02:34):
English and now they're going to do it. But when
you do it with an American accent, apparently everyone gets
all but hurt. But that's what people are all buttered over.
So I don't know figured it out. I have to
bring it up on the show and see what you think.
I think this is. I think this is a part
and parcel of now just hating on the US right now,

(02:55):
and then this is just how it manifests in a
Hollywood environment, I think, cause I think that that's where
we are with you know, the NATO stuff and Trump
saying this and the europor is getting all upset. I
think that this is absolutely fallout from that. Yeah, the
headline the Odyssey everybody using American accents is definitely a

(03:16):
choice fans thrown by American accents, modern speech and new
trailer for Ancient Greece epic. It sounds like they're out
of Starbucks now. Most of the actors are from the
United States, two of them are British. Of the I

(03:37):
should say, two of the bigger ones, Tom Holland and
I can't remember the other one right now, but so
Robert Pattinson, that's who it is right now. He's Robert
Pattinson's the sparkly vampire dude right from the Twilight series. Anyway,
they're British, but they chose to have them. They chose
to everybody just to have the same accent, so they

(03:58):
went with an American accent. And now people are upset
and they're like, nah, should have been a British accent.
And I'm like, well, it shouldn't have been either technically,
because there's they don't speak they're they're not speaking English. Okay,
by the way, here, here's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
What do you do if he came back here and
find all these shouters in his house?

Speaker 5 (04:22):
They're pineying me for a day. He didn't even know, Like,
I'm sniffering.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Bastards, who's looking after your wife?

Speaker 5 (04:31):
And duc my dad is coming home.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
And getting driving.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
Curates bringing it all.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
It's it's a it's a it's it's a Hollywood blockbuster.
It's Christopher Nolan and and this is the controversy recording
here and I and I had to rack my brain.
I'm like, why is this being brought up?

Speaker 6 (04:59):
Why?

Speaker 1 (05:00):
There multiple articles, including the Hollywood Reporter one where I
just read you the headline what are people so upset about?
And the only thing I can land on is this
is a bunch of people who are upset because they're
taking the political side of what's going on, and now
they're trying to apply it to a three hundred dollars
move or three d million dollar production or whatever they

(05:20):
paid for this thing, and it's just all so dumb.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
I mean, it's obvious they chose the wrong American accent, right,
you should.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Have gone Southern? Yeah, okay, all right, I like what's
going on here? So you so you think they should
have gone like like deep deep deep South, like almost
like Banjo Southern or what?

Speaker 2 (05:40):
They sort of went the broadcast medium non distinctual diction
where I wish they had gone either deep South or
go way north with Brooklyn. Right, I'm not saying Massachusetts,
that's a bit too far.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
What about Dakota like the Fargo one? Maybe hm hmm.
I mean, perhaps the choice is a striking departure from
the unwritten Hollywood rule of characters and historical epics employing
British accents from the Ten Commandments to Ben hurd A
Gladiator to Rome. That's the HBO show. I'm assuming they're

(06:16):
referring to the Odyssey. Characters speaking their various dialects of Greek,
Atique and Hellenistic wouldn't make it for a very accessible film,
But the modern British accent is traditionally considered universally pleasing
and just foreign enough to convey a timeless quality.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
I mean sometimes, yeah, sometimes it goes the opposite route,
like in Star Wars, where all the evil guys had
English accents besides Darth Vader and the Rebels all had
American accents.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Do they all have English accents? A lot of the
bad gys do, yet a lot of them do? I agree?

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Like you go in that Death Star, Like if you're
on that board of you know, evil member Death Star people,
you're going to be British.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Wait, well is there a problem? And I knock on
the Death Star you got could be it's safe? Right? Safeish?

Speaker 2 (07:07):
I mean that's pretty safe. It has one weakness and
there's no way it could like escape to the rebels.
So you're fine, is it?

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Are we talking like womp rat level of weakness or smaller,
a little bit smaller, just a little though. Huh listen,
I'm not an engineer, but yeah, yeah, okay, all right,
well I won't cancel my trip. It'll be it'll be fun.
Go check it out. Yeah, this is also dumb. They're like, well,

(07:35):
Christopher Nolan's braddish. Yeah, is he's talking? No he's not. Okay,
shut up, what are you talking about? Let's see here. Notably,
one director has embraced ancient langue. Oh they're talking about
mel Gibson. Yeah. Ross, do you think they could have
You think they could have done Apocalypto and not done

(07:56):
it with the accent or with the them speaking the
actual language. Do you think it would have killed it
if they're all running around speaking British?

Speaker 6 (08:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (08:03):
I think so. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not arguing that
there's not situations where that makes sense. But for for
a big old Christopher Nolan movie first story, by the way,
that most people, most people I think, have a basic
understanding of it just sounds like you guys need a
reason to be mad, so to I like Ross's point.

(08:24):
I think if you're Nolan, you double down, if you
sequel this thing and and you go you go like
Deep South and let them just deal with that, all right.
So that's where we start.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
I've heard when it comes to like British actors trying
to do in American accents, a lot of the time
they decide to go like Deep South because it's easier
for them to do it.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Is an easier accent, yes, yep, yep. Yeah, And the
New York accent too is apparently an easier accent. So
you think you want like good Fellas, But in ancient Greece.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
I'm saying they are always own American accent. There are
a lot of American accents. We're a pretty damn big country.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Well, Italy is a lot closer to Greece than the UK. Yeah,
it's fair mm hmm. So I mean, if you're gonna
do it, let's go ahead and do it.

Speaker 6 (09:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
I don't know. I'll probably just watch the movie and
be fine with it. This is the kind of movie
i'd watched, not maybe not in the theaters, but but
I mean, what do you got in there? You got
Matt Damon, I'll tell you the what you know what,
the worst accent is ross the one that would be problematic.
We probably have to scrap the whole film, and I'll
give you a hint. Matt Damon probably is aware of it.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
That's what I was saying in the beginning where I
said we can go up north, but not as far
as Massachusetts.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah yeah, oh, I'm sorry. You did see that? Okay? Good? Yeah? Yeah,
yeah yeah, if you want to, if you want to,
can you imagine no ough, ah, Odysseus a sax fan.

Speaker 5 (09:47):
Oh oh.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Oh put a sword in that man to it? Now?
All right? Six sixteen? Hang on what accents the actors
on the film of the audust she should be using?

Speaker 6 (10:01):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (10:01):
We have Nicholas Cage from con Air. What was that
guy's name? Rain's right? Uh? I remember's character name. Here's
a vote for Joe Dirt. Jo Durt doesn't have an accent.

Speaker 5 (10:15):
Way you make it?

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Well, that guy does. But are you saying Homer is
where you make it? I'm away, you make it all right? Whatever?

Speaker 6 (10:22):
Brother?

Speaker 1 (10:23):
I mean a Homer accent, you know, reference would be
somewhat interesting, but no, no, So it's basically just that
dude and then the coach from the water Boy. I mean,
what's going on there? It's the whole movie. I don't know.
That might kill it. Uh So anyway, they're they're all
they're all mad in Hollywood. I'll tell you another thing.

(10:44):
I kept seeing this phrase in articles. Your post was
trying to make it happen, and I was ignoring it
because a lot of times I spite ignore things where
I by I see some new phrase and I'm like,
I'm not giving in to me learning what that is.
I'm not playing your stupid game because every time I

(11:07):
do get I find out what it is and I'm like, oh,
that's actually called another thing and you're trying. You came
up with a cute phrase for it. It made me
learn it instead of calling it the thing we all understood.

Speaker 5 (11:16):
It to be.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Do you guys know what the blue dot fever or
flu is? He to described with both right, that's not
you know, man? What is it is? Do I get
that on my sports car? And what is that?

Speaker 6 (11:33):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Thankfully it is not the latest STD they've cooked up
thanks to OnlyFans, but rather it is a term that
is used to describe large scale musicians like Post Malone,
Megan Trainer, Pussycat Dolls, just a variety of others who
aren't selling tickets. So the blue dots are a reference

(11:55):
to like when you open the if you go on
the ticketing sites and then you see the arena, and
then they got the you know, look all the spots here. Yeah,
well they're having a lot of problems and as a result,
you have many tours that are canceling, you know, big
chunks of tour. They're moving venues.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Okay, so I saw reevaluating what's going on. I saw
that yesterday too, and I assume they all had an illness.
So they're just saying people who's aren't buying.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Tickets, right, Yeah, so this is what I'm saying. There's
already a word for this. People aren't buying tickets or phrase.
I don't know. You don't have to come out. Oh
we've got blue dot fever. They got blue dot fever.
You know why, for a thousand reasons people don't want
to go to your concert. It doesn't mean necessarily they
don't like your music, but they don't want to put
up with what going to a concert has become.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Dude, And tickets are so expensive. I saw a clip
of and I'm sure you've seen it back in the day.
It was Kurt Cobain when he was found out. Like
I think it was Madonna was charging fifty five dollars
for a ticket, okay, and he was like blown away,
how expensive that was?

Speaker 1 (12:56):
I mean, that is expensive for you know, that that
period of time. But it's not just the cost of
the ticket, it's everything that goes in it. I can
tell you on multiple occasions, I've been on a ticket site,
less so for music and more so for sports, and
I'm banging around on there and I can be somewhat indecisive,
so I'm looking all around. I'm like, Okay, I find
what I want, and then I go to check out
and they're like, sorry, loser, every ticket sold out now

(13:19):
because you wait three minutes, And I'm a, holy hell,
what happened? I just you just the ticket sales just started. Yeah,
it's fighting bots.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah, it's some sort of buying all the tickets right
so they can resell them correct And.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
I refuse to go then to the resale site and
deal with that garbage. I'm out, or at the very least,
all the good seats are taken instantly, and then you
got you got a gazillion dollars in different fees that
go along with it. The whole thing's are pain and
when I can't when I have very high qualities headphones

(13:56):
and I have access to streaming music. I'm good. I'm good.
And unless you are like a Taylor Swift where the
demand is so insane, I'm not surprised people are suffering
from I got no beef with post Malone. I think
he's a pretty good musician, but I'm not. We're not

(14:18):
go blue dot fever. They got blue dot fever. No,
They're just not. They're not selling tickets because the experience
has become too commercialized. That was the other thing Ross.
Do you ever remember going to the box office and
standing there physically buying a ticket was the thing we
used to Yeah, I'm not the person to ask on tog. Yeah,
I know you're not really concert, but you will know

(14:40):
that's how it used to work because my entire life,
since I was like sixteen seventeen, I've been in radio
and I've never had I've always gotten the ticket.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Like I sort of don't like going to concerts because
I feel like it's work.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Do you know what I mean? And it's I remember
I remember when they would have a concert at the
Casper Events Center, which was basically the only big concert
venue in the whole state of Wyoming, and so if
you wanted to go, you could go to the Casper
Events Center box office, or they had a partnership with
the IgA Grocery stores, and you could go into any

(15:12):
of the ig at participating in IgA grocery stores anywhere
in the state of Wyoming and you could buy tickets
for the Casper Events Center events. So that's what me
and my buddi should do. The moment they'd go on sale,
we go to IgA with we at our fourteen dollars
in hand or whatever the hell the ticket price was,
and then you go up to the customer service counter

(15:33):
and then you just buy your concert tickets there. What
happened in Indiana, yes, today is just crazy. I'll get
into that here in just a moment. And of course
the way the media is choosing to cover it is
also crazy. But that's what we expect, all right. So
I was just mentioning to you this this this phrase
I keep seeing being used called blue dot FEVA And
don't worry, it's not COVID all over again. It's not

(15:56):
the latest STD or anything. It's just people wanting to
cute way to say that nobody's buying concert tickets anymore,
and I'm not surprised, but you have a big acts
post Malone, Megan Trainer, Pushcat Dolls that are focused on
in this article, but there's quite a few more who
are having to re evaluate their tours. The venues are

(16:17):
too big, they're mostly unsold and as a result, they're
not selling tickets and so what are they having to do?
They're having to cancel them. Fans are taking the Internet
to come up with the term blue dot fever to
describe basically people bowing out of going to concerts, and

(16:38):
I'm like, look, there's a thousand reasons why this is,
but none of them are surprising. Tickets tickets are much
more expensive. I think that we went through that era
of older acts coming back and touring, right remember when
Fleetwood Max's like, all right, we're going to do this again.
Then the Eagles came back and decided they were going

(16:58):
to do it again, and you had the Stones still
doing it again, and those were really well received and
people spent a ton of money on tickets. I went
to the one of the Fleetwood Max shows, but I
didn't pay for them. As Ross was pointing out, being
a radio does have its perks. But I remember those

(17:18):
tickets were I remember hearing how expensive they were and
it was like, wow, but here's the deal. When you're
going nostalgia, of course you can charge that when you
have it toured in fifteen years, not as the Fleetwood
Mac as people knew it or whatever the timeframe was there.
And now your fans who are now what in their

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fifties sixties and have a lot of disposable income, they're
going to be a lot more agreeable than two hundred
dollars tickets.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Yeah, when you're a legend, it's different. But if you're
aiming at say late teens, early twenties, and these people
can entirely afford a mcdouble, they can't afford your tickets.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Man, wait, wait, wait about a triple? Don't even dump?
Are you insane? Which is nonsense? Okay, yeah, say good
boy your retirement. Yeah that's a good point. So yeah, no,
you're right. They So when the ticket crisis caught there
and then the fees and everything else has gotten there,
people are just like, yeah, it would be nice, but

(18:14):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
And we used to have like your your money used
to get you more too. Well, that goes with everything
I remember working in Omahon. I had to make the
trip down to believe it was like Kansas City for
I had broadcast Atla La Palouze or whatever it was,
and that's like a multi day event or something.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Or an all the event.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Everybody in the world was there, and tickets were not bad.
I mean, I wouldn't say it was like sixty bucks
or something.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
God, I remember. I remember we got tickets for and
they sent them to all the radio stations. Remember when
they decided to do the Woodstock was it Woodstock? What
ninety nine, ninety six? Remember the nineties they did Woodstuck again.
Do you remember the lineup for that? Yeah, yeah, I do.
It was insane and we got we got tickets sent

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to our station in Wyoming or whatever, and I'm like, man,
I really want to go to this thing. But I
remember also looking at the ticket prices. They were not expensive.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, the one that was like twenty five years later,
that was all over MTV. That was amazing. But there
was one like, yeah, three or four years later when
they tried to do it again, maybe it was like
ninety nine for the thirtieth that was a colossal failure.
That was that's notorious as being a big failure.

Speaker 6 (19:25):
It was.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Yeah, what was the first one that they came with?
So that was Woodstock ninety four.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yeah, it's the twenty five year anniversary, right, I remember
Green Day was all over that one. Well, everyone was
on everybody that was on MTV was there at the time.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah. I don't know where Socrates, New York exactly is,
but that is where around my sister lives. Okay, all right,
let me just dude, So let me just hitch you
with some of the names on this. This is crazy
just looking at this. By the way, base tickets for
thirty dollars for this, So if you wanted, if you

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wanted the worst ticket possible, you can for thirty dollars.
I don't know if that's daily or for both days
or all three days. It was three days. Holy cow.
All right, so check this out. Joe Cocker, who is
an amazing person to see in concert, Blind Melon, Cypress Hill,
The Rawlins Band, Melissa Etherrich, Crosby Steeles, Nash, Nine Inch Nails, Metallica, Aerosmith,

(20:29):
Salt and Pepper, Primus, the Band, The Cranberry's. That's Day one.
That's that's the first day, second day, and I'm not
even reading all of them because that would be the
rest of the show. Bob Dylan, Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Peter Gabriel, Spin Doctors, Porto for Pyros, Traffic Country, Joe McDonald,

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Green Day, the Neville brother Santana. There's so much here.
Uh and then and then they had a second Red
hotch Sleep Pepper's card. So this is my point, this
is my point, absolute insanity. I remem this. By the way,

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this created they had an album that came out after this.
I remember owning that album too, and that was a
big commercial success. So so for thirty thirty dollars for
the cheap ticket there, I guess that was a daily
but you could go see Aerosmith, Green Day, Portocle, Pyrus,
Red Hotchley, you could do that for thirty bus.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, I'm telling you. The big music festivals, man, they
were cheap, especially compared to you to pay now.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Ah yeah, after everything with Coachella, they were just talking
about there, what was the average spend was twelve hundred
dollars And by the way, that was that was just
that was just per you know, to get in there.
And I saw ross, did you see eighty percent of
the coach telling people financed in some way, shape or
form their tickets. Oh what are you doing? You gotta

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go to Coachelle, you gotta be seen. Man, twelve hundred bucks, John,
what's up?

Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, so I look like I said, you know, I
popped in the car called 'all shows sell what ch'all
were talking about?

Speaker 5 (22:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (22:24):
You know I can remember back in like the early
mid two thousands going to the House of Blues, you know,
catching uh you know, D twelve m them Snoop Dogg, Porn.
I mean, all those guys, all those groups, those fans,
and cover charge is like twenty thirty bucks and you

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can see all of them like it was.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
It was a flast.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
And you know, I haven't been to a concert since
the House of Blues, like inst the mid two thousands.
And now that I have kids, my girls are just
they're obsessed with like, uh Ella Langley, Lady Wilson. There

(23:15):
there's uh Megan Maroney I think it is, and.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
The country country girls.

Speaker 6 (23:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
And you know, going to look at these ticket prices.
If you want a decent seat for a pretty good experience,
you're like two three, four hundred dollars. Sometimes more.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Yeah, and for sure.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
Yeah, and and you know concerts has never really been
you know, little kid friendly. But I mean that that
comes with the territory, you know what I mean. So
you know, trying to find, you know, a way to
do it is just it's it's next to impossible, you know,
with like you were saying, the cost of everything is

(24:04):
just going up, you know, but that comes with it
comes with you know, time and everything else, because I mean,
not everything is going to stay low forever. It's just
not going to happen.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Well, well, you by looking at two sir as you're
looking at you know, this could be what the market
correction looks like. Yeah, you know, I mean that's this
is how market corrections work. People have something that they're
that they're thanks for the call, they're appreciated, people have
something they're trying to sell, and then eventually this is
the supply and demand right here. So if that is

(24:37):
in fact what we're watching and then they have to reevaluate,
I'm you know, it's a process that has to happen.
But we don't have to make up a fake term
for it. We just call it what it is and
then deal with it accordingly. All right six forty four
back in just a few this rabbit hole of everything
thirty dollars would have procured for you during this So
Woodstock ninety four, I just want you to imagine this.

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This is important because there's two stages North stage, South
stage at this ninety four Woodstock and so let's say
you walked, you came in, you bought the bottom of
the barrel ticket, got your little foldy chair, and then
went over in this case to the north stage and
just sat down. Your day starting at ten am would

(25:20):
have gone like this. Joe Cocker would have played, then
Blind Melon, then Cyprus Hill, then the Rollins Band with
Henry Rollins, then Melissa Ethridge, then Crosby Steels and Nash
Nine Inch Nails. Again. You haven't moved. You're sitting in
the same place you've spent thirty dollars. Following Nine Inch Nails,
Metallica would take the stage, and then following Metallica, which

(25:43):
had a full fireworks show, Arrows meant to be your
closer for the evening thirty bucks. You haven't moved an inch,
I mean possibly moved, and you might be covered in mud,
but you're covered in mud. Yeah, yeah, yeah, mud everywhere
one hundred thirty bucks. And by the way, had you
been there the night before and watch Jackal play, you

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would have witnessed the lead singer dupre Jesse James Dupree,
walk onto stage with a bottle of whiskey, start chugging it,
then spray it out on the crowd, then start smoking
a joint. Then as the cameras close up, start shotgunning
the whiskey while flicking the joint at the camera and
then rocking out. And then middle of rocking out, go

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retrieve a stool, light it on fire, then retrieve a chainsaw,
cut the stool up, and then go retrieve a rifle
and start firing it into the air while the band's
still rocking out, and then go attempt to grab the
whiskey bottle, which you smash cut your hands so bad.
Now there's blood spraying everywhere, and they never stopped playing

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thirty bucks thirty bucks. It's insanity. So yeah, that's why
I know, Harps. I mean, one more call and we'll
get on to some other stuff. But it just blows
me away. Greg, what's up?

Speaker 3 (27:07):
Yeah, my experience in Germany for a day a rock
and roll wasn't quite like that, but it was similar
in that we had two stages and several bands, and
I think we paid like twenty five bucks for it.
But like you, when you were younger, we used to
just walk up to the box office and buy our tickets.
I think I saw Elo in nineteen seventy eight for

(27:28):
ten dollars. So yeah, there was no third party, yeah exactly.
There was no third party vendor that was selling tickets
and jacking up the prices. And so I'm one of
those that's a.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
Little bit older now and maybe just a little bit.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Of discretionary income, but I'm not willing to spend what
they're asking for these tickets anymore.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
I can just put on my music and look, here's
the deal. A good live concert is a great experience.
And I've been some really good ones, been some really
bad ones, but people aren't going to be able to
You got to hook people on it, and thanks for
the call. There you go. You got to hook them
on live music. I'll tell you. One of the things
that I really enjoyed about living in California was and

(28:14):
living in Santa Barbara, is the amount of spillover of
really good music that would come to the Santa Barbara venues,
and they had a bunch of small theaters and rock
venues right on State Street, which is the main drag
in Santa Barbara. And for for ten dollars you could go.
I told you I went and saw Blink one eighty
two at a college like at a college party, at

(28:37):
a college party, because they were just they'd play all
through southern California and one of the big frats would host,
you know, they had a big like it was an
old motel that had been converted to a frat house.
Was really cool. And then in the big middle there
they would have these concerts Blink one eighty two. I
think it was five dollars to get into that, and
that also got you a cup so you could attack

(28:59):
the kegs five bucks. So I mean you got to
get people hooked on that, and then they're gonna be
you know, once they like the experience, they'll continue with it.
But if the the barrier to entry, especially for like
our caller said he's got his daughter's I didn't ask
how old his daughters are, but let's say they're tweens.
If the barrier to entry is one hundred and fifty dollars,

(29:21):
and you're trying to get a tween to do that.
Good luck and they're like, all right, well I'll find
something else to I entertain myself with. Oh man, all right,
Like I said, we got to get into a few
other things. Is there Is it possible? Is it possible
for this Katie Porter chick to be more unlikable every

(29:42):
time you see her? So if you remember Katie Porter congresswoman,
she had a little skill, little scandal action there because
she's on video going full diva on her staff members.
It was a really bad look and then she hipped
out and walked off that interview. She's still in the

(30:04):
primary there for governor in California, and she has this
new ad she put out. Everyone is just destroying her
over it, because again, you can't force it. Everybody knows
that you're evil to your own staff. They're holding it
against you and so putting together the aweshocks. I'm a mom,
just like you ad. Nobody's buying this.

Speaker 7 (30:25):
I'm Katie Porter, and I'm not like most people who
run for governor. I actually get what you're going through,
do you? Mom of three kids? I know what it's
like to push the shopping cart. My mini van has
almost two hundred thousand.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Miles for daily driving.

Speaker 6 (30:40):
Who may soon be living.

Speaker 8 (30:41):
On my couch?

Speaker 7 (30:42):
To give Californians what they need? It's going to take
standing up to Donald Trump, calling out greedy corporations and
stepping on some toes along the way. Now, could you
guys please get out of my shot?

Speaker 1 (30:56):
So she played for a laughline the thing she screamed
like an evil banshee at her staff member in the
notorious video could you please get out of my shot?
She's like, all right, what if I delivered as a
as a laughlight? And then they even put the little
laugh track in there. Ross, do you believe for a

(31:16):
minute this this congress critter? Which is where where she?
Do you believe for a minute she's running around at
the grocery store with her two hundred thousand mile minivan.
Oh and by the way, why don't you ask yourself
with your other little joke? Why you why your adult
child needs to live in your on your couch? Do
you know why she got divorced from her husband? Oh?

(31:37):
Do tell uh?

Speaker 2 (31:38):
There apparently there was a fight and at one point
she dumped boiling potatoes on his lap, which comes an argument. Yeah,
so I mean, she's I'm a single mom. I don't know, man.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
But also, how long can you go on blaming Trump
for the policies of California. That's what I mean. Why
your kid living on your couch is probably not Trump
policies that is causing them. It's due to the fact
that it's on god expensive everywhere, but especially in California.
And remember, because she was in the state legislature before

(32:06):
she was a member of the US House. So like,
all the decisions you've made up to this point have
led you to this.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
I know maybe it's because of the Jungle Primary thing,
but I don't understand how you can live in California.
You're you're in California, you see the results of the policies,
and you're sitting back going, yeah, this is all the
Republican's fault that are not in power at all.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Dude. I was just all then I was reading what
happened to Woodstock ninety nine. I forgot what a what
a disaster that was, So like, you had multiple cases
of arson on Saturday. Apparently Limp Biscuit and Kid Rock
performed and their fans destroyed everything. So they were issued
like a ban for future Woodstock. So then their fans

(32:48):
stuck around on Sunday and then just tried to attack
any of the performers on Sunday, at one point chasing Jewel.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Off the stage. You leave Jewel Kilture alone, you disgusting people.
I used to have a picture of her my locker. Yeah,
I love Jewel. Yeah yeah, messed up teeth. No, I
liked her teeth because I also had messed up teeth
and all, you know, we have that in common. We're
meant to be okay, Yeah, all right, yeah, I never
had beef with Jewel. The problem though, is after they

(33:19):
chased her off the stage. An anti gun group known
as Packs had distributed candles throughout most of the day
for anyone to stop by their booth the year.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Their intention was for the candles to be lit later
in the evening as a visible vigil for victims of
the Columbine High School massacre, and it was to be
done during the Chili Peppers performance of Under the Bridge. However,
none of this had been mentioned or approved by local
firefighting authorities, and instead fans used the candles to basically

(33:51):
light everything on fire, including burning down the audio tower
as well as plot board that had been ripped from
various venues the night before so that Limp Biscuits Fred
Durst could CrowdSurf on it. And so yeah, yeah, to
say it went sideways is it's being polite, man. But

(34:16):
I love that some gun grabbers showed up and basically
gave them the AMMO, just to make a point. All right,
So yesterday Marco Rubio, now is I guess because the
White House Press secretary is on maternity leave, they've been
kind of rotating people through. And so Marco Rubio was
up there yesterday and he done good man, He interacts well,

(34:39):
and they tried to get him on the Cuba thing,
and I thought this was really well handled.

Speaker 9 (34:44):
On Cuba. Oil blockade on Cuba. There's no oil blockade
on Cuba per se. Here's what's happening with Cuba. Okaqba
used to get free oil from Venezuela, used to give
him a.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Bunch of free oil.

Speaker 9 (34:54):
They would take like sixty percent of that oil and
resell it for cash. They wouldn't even go to benefit
the people. So the only blockade that's happened is the
Cubans have decided, I mean, the Venezuelans have decided, we're
not giving you free oil anymore. And you can only
imagine nowadays the way oil prices aren't. No one's giving
away free oil, much less to a failed regime. So
the problem with Cuba is worse. Okay, their economic model

(35:15):
doesn't work, doesn't work, and the people who are in
charge can't fix it. And the reason that I can't
fix it is not just because they're communists. That's bad enough,
but they're incompetent communists.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
Yes, one percent, And he's absolutely correct. You know this
idea that they're blowing, they're blockading fuel into Cube, but no, no, no,
nobody's doing any of that. Basically, Venezuela is now like,
all right, we're not because you know, Maduro was doing
it to puppet Cuba, and now that Venezuelans like f that,
we're going to sell it, get all the money. And

(35:45):
if people want to sell oil to Cuba, the US
isn't stopping it. Cuba just has no way to pay
for it. And as you saw there, they weren't even
given it to their people.

Speaker 5 (35:54):
It was just to.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
Fund the lavish lifestyles of the communist leaders there. So
good on him, all right, So I saw this story yesterday.
This is interesting. I want to get into this with
Steven More tomorrow. Ross. This is the fiddler story, so
if you want to make sure you send this to
him because this brings up a really good question. So

(36:18):
there is a big time Canadian fiddle player by the
name of Ashley MacIsaac. Not familiar, but hey, you do
you and if people love it great, who has launched
a one and a half million dollars civil lawsuit against
Google a legend the online giant defamed him via it's AI.

(36:40):
And here's what happened. So this musician was they were
supposed to do a show I think at one of
the big casinos there and that's you know, that's controlled
by one of the tribes up there, and so their book,
they're ready to go and all of a sudden they
get canceled.

Speaker 6 (37:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
I don't know how to pronounce this. He had been
booked by the sipokineticotic First Nation. However, they canceled a
concert appearance. It was to be for December nineteenth of
last year. So mc isaac is like, wait, well, wait
a second, why would you just cancel this? And it's
then informed that they had googled using the Google AI

(37:22):
background information on the singer when they were putting together
some marketing stuff and it it had quite the bio.
It claimed Viasai that mcaaac had been listed on the
National Sex Offender Registry for life and had assaulted a

(37:43):
child with intent with the intention of sexually assaulting the
child and the assault caused great bodily harm. So this
is what the people who had booked this are now
finding out. They're like wea and then other people who
had seen it it started getting shared in like dedit groups,
who then started harassing the tribe for booking this person.

(38:04):
Here's the problem, none of that was real. Google's AI
just made it up, just made it up. And as
a result, now this this fiddle player is able to
show actual damages because this is they had been paid,
They were going to be paid this amount of money.

(38:26):
Now they're not. And and it also started to impact
other shows there. Mcaiaac claimed he had learned of the
inaccurate information when the First Nation canceled started digging into it.
The First Nation the tribe up there later issued a
public apology to mc isaac, saying decisions were based on
inaccurate information generated through AI assisted search when mistakenly associated

(38:50):
When with the mistakenly associated offenses appeared, I think you
should be suing them for a lot more. Because here's
the thing. If you, let's say you're the spokeshole for Google, right,
you're an actual, living human person, right, and you hold
a you get on a microphone, and you state unambiguously

(39:11):
that this person is a sex offender messing with kids,
the amount of liability that Google have would be pretty substantial.
I don't know that you can just explain away allegations
such as that because the AI did it. I don't

(39:31):
know that that works. Yeah, here's the line. If a
human spokesperson had made these false allegations on Google's behalf,
a significant award of punitive damages would be warranted. All right.
So the question is what obligation does the company that
runs the AI have when the AI does something like this,
and should it be at the same level as if

(39:52):
one of their employees had set it unilatterly? And I
don't know where you're at, ross, I think that they
do have an obligation because this, I mean, that could
ruin you. And how do you argue with an AI?
You can try, right, if you've used AI, I'm sure
you've corrected it at some point, but you don't know

(40:14):
that it's that it took and you don't know what
that you know what it's showing everybody else.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
No, it could be so frustrating trying to argue where
you know something as a fact and the AI is like, nope,
you're right, don't Mark he got an argument about Matthew
Lillard being in a movie. She was like, Matthew Lillard
was in this movie, and the AI went on for
hours despite all the evidence, saying that she was wrong,
and it was driving her insane.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
Do you let it let alone? This thing trying to say, hey,
you're a pedophile who tried to rape a child? Right, yeah,
think what do you do? Do you think that it
should carry the same weight as if a human at
Google had made this statement? I mean somebody should be
held accountable. Yeah, yeah, because again this person can show
actual damages, which is very important I guess in how

(40:55):
these lawsuits work up in Canadia.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
But yeah, I mean, yeah, navigation there the complete destruction
of someone's livelihood.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
Right, I've seen I've seen listeners who got cute and
I had like Google overviews of us that they've like
posted on Twitter that are inaccurate, but they're like dumb
things inaccurate where they're clearly conflating two things. But man,
if if you come out you're like that dude loves
having sex with children, that could be pretty damning. And

(41:24):
and and again, Isaac mc isaac tried to like contact Google.
You can't get hold of anyone nowadays at these tech companies.
We're gonna chat with Pete Calender on on Friday. He's
going through it. Man.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Yeah, I saw a groc had a synopsis biography of
you and it was calling you a boon big beer denier.
Would you like to talk about the allegations.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
Can't be called a denier for denying something that's not well,
there we are and here we are. Well, that's denier.
Implies that the thing you're denying is in fact tangible.
You know what I'm saying. So I think you're I
don't think the word means what you think it means here.
Uh Now, if you ask Google's AI for an overview

(42:08):
of Mick Isaac, it now simply says. In late twenty
twenty five and twenty twenty six, he made headlines for
taking legal action against Google. So clearly somebody's gotten up
in there everything. Oh really, why is that? But no,
But what Pete's dealing with is, uh, they just nuked
his YouTube channel from space really is gone, Pete Calendar.

(42:33):
Pete Calendar got his YouTube channel. He's on a ghad
right now. Yeah, he does his live stream. I think
it's every Wednesday or Thursday, right, yeah, thursdays yep. So
Pete was too controversial for the YouTube's correct Yes.

Speaker 6 (42:47):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
In fact, let me go back and look what he say,
what do you do? I don't know that he knows.
His frustration is he's tried to like every time he
tries to, like he thinks he's talking to a person YouTube,
it's just AI and they're like, yeah, we're gonna look
into it, don't worry, except they're not. Yeah, And I

(43:08):
think he's had to move his stream and now he's
just posting story after story of other channels, some of
what you're real milk toast, like Strange History Cafe who
had their chin their channel nuked, and they just do
they just do like little history bits and it's clearly
them doing it too. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
I saw something a while ago where channels were getting deleted.
They were like history channels, like you're saying, just like
documentary history channels. And so they would make like a
you know, a short video about World War two and
the Nazis or whatever and the death camps and the
algorithm or whatever it is. That YouTube would pick it
up and be like, hey, this is pro Nazi material,

(43:48):
and I'm like, no, it's not pro Nazi. This is
a documentary explaining what the Nazis did. There's a difference,
like this is educational, like hey, these people, this this
thing happened, and YouTube is like no, no, no, you're
a Nazi one of the your channel.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
Pete posts too much. So I'm trying to scroll back
here and figure out exactly if he even knows what
the well, we're gonna talk to him Friday. But but yeah,
it's so frustrating because also that's a big Remember that's
what Pete was doing when he was not on the radio.
So for those of you who don't know, the reason
I know Pete so well is Pete used to host

(44:22):
a talk show in the afternoons for iHeart, specifically iHeart
Asheville did that for years and years and years, and
then they you know, they changed up scheduling and all that. Unfortunately,
Pete was the victim there, which you know, when you're
an afternoon talk hoost, you're always looking over your shoulder,
and so he was floating. Excuse me, let me take
a sip in my water here. So Pete was floating

(44:46):
in the it was floating there, and so he had
to figure out, Okay, how do I you know, how
do I feed my family? And it's one of the
reasons I wanted to get Pete on the air here
just for That's why we started doing the Friday bed
and then if eventually he was able because Pete's good
at what he does, he gets a job there at
WBT and we continue on. But he built a nice

(45:07):
little apparatus head stream on YouTube, he had Patreon people,
he had a lot of people to tune into it.
Excuse me, coughin this morning. And Pete is not that controversial,
He's really not. So we'll be interested to get more

(45:28):
of that story on Friday. Let me take a break
so I can I don't know, drink all the water.
Hang on, So somebody did an AI assist tool to
give an overview here and ross the show is described
as a diehard New England Patriots super fan. I mean that.
I that's libelous, that's slanderous, that's blasphemy. So yeah, you

(45:54):
need to tell me where you got that so I
can get paid. All right, let me grab a call.
Uh Donna's so.

Speaker 8 (46:01):
Good morning, Casey, So AI wrong? AI wrong? Like saying
you're tangent sex guru.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
There's a lot of stuff floating around out there.

Speaker 8 (46:13):
Okay, so a I went to What Stuck ninety nine?

Speaker 6 (46:16):
I was there.

Speaker 8 (46:17):
Man, that's five hundred dollars, best five hundred dollars I
ever spent.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
I'm curious. Were you one of the people who was
assaulting Carson Daily so they had to evacuate him.

Speaker 8 (46:30):
No, and Kid Rock. Kid Rock didn't start any trouble.
He started the day on Saturday, I think it was
July twenty seventh, came out in his pimp white mink
coat and or whatever fur that is that he was wearing.
And the trouble started after his show and so coat

(46:53):
was coming on, they started throwing bottles.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
Huh, the coat was made of kittens. I don't know
if you know that's.

Speaker 5 (47:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
I just said, so.

Speaker 6 (47:07):
Rotten.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
You're the eagle man and there in the kitten coat.

Speaker 8 (47:11):
So and the trouble didn't start until uh last, the
last day. Well, yeah, I walked off. I went and
had a sandwich twelve c.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
Everybody heard this thing. Three people died at this They
had to form They had five hundred riot officers come in.
On the final day. Uh MTV evacuated their entire coverage crew,
initially to trailers and then everyone started trying to tip
the like the motor coach trailers over and then they
they literally told the MTV staff, we can't guarantee your

(47:45):
safety anymore. You should leave. So I don't know what
you guys. This Hondias Cruise Hondius h O N d
I U S is the name of the cruise company.
They were the ones that were running these uh these
an Arctica Argentina back to West Africa cruises for European customers.

(48:05):
And if you remember, you had a bunch of people
come down with this haunt to virus. Multiple people have
died and nobody will let the ship dock. And then
they're like, all right, well now we need to determine
apparently which version of this virus this is, because one
is remarkably worse than the other because of how it transmits,
and they figured out it's the bad one, which has

(48:29):
up to a forty percent mortality rate. So I don't
know what they're going to do. And then now you
got this other story. And by the way, when they
talk about human to human transmission, it's not as simple
as like breathing on you. I don't know how to
say this nicely. Some of the vector groups might have

(48:54):
been people that were having casual sex with each other.
And so now we find out that there is a
dude in Switzerland who is on I guess the ship
in April. Him and his wife went on a cruise. Uh,
and he has it and he's all isolated in a
Swiss hospital. She doesn't have it. So that's gonna be

(49:17):
a fun conversation. But I'm like, what do you do?
Because now these people are basically just floating off the
Azores or wherever they're at, wherever they're not being allowed
to dock, and I guess they're just waiting for it
to run through the ship. I don't know, but when
you're talking about some with a forty percent mortality rate,
sure as hell nobody wants that dock and we're at
the you know, at t airport, and now you got

(49:40):
this guy. So, uh, there's I saw reports that the
ship that they may not be able to use the
ship anymore.

Speaker 6 (49:49):
So what do you do?

Speaker 1 (49:49):
You just make I guess you make a shoal out
of it, right, you sink it to the bottom and
let the let the fish live in and around there.
But what do you do with all the people on
board right now? They got to take one for the
team or what. But that story gets remarkably worse every
time I see an update with it, like far worse
than just neurovirus poop crew stuff, like some real deal

(50:12):
bad stuff. Here. Let's see when did he again the
part where he has it and the wife doesn't have it.
I bet she's got some questions. He's probably like, you
can keep me in isolation forever now, so I don't
have to have this discussion with her. If I'm that dude,

(50:33):
I think maybe that's the that's the that's the course
we choose, all right. Let me flip over to a
couple other things here. Uh, yeah, you know what, I'm
gonna do that later we'll we chat with the congressman.
So I don't want to model that ross. You guys
ready to resign Stefon Diggs now that he's been cleared.

(50:56):
It's you a little wide receiver help. Weren't you saying
you still needed some wide receiver help there? And I
think we're good. But you know he's a wide receiver
and he knows your playbook and he was found not guilty.
New England Patriots star How do you care write it
like that? X? New England Patriots star Stefan Diggs teared

(51:18):
up as a jury cleared him of assaulting his personal
chef in December, after his defense team hammered his accuser
on the witness standard showed videos of her dancing after
the alleged attack. The six person jury rendered its verdict
after just ninety minutes, following testimony from Jamila Adams, who
was digs living chef for six months and claimed he

(51:40):
slapped and choked her. Apparently, one of the things she
left out that came out in this too is when
she went in for the interview, they hooked up, and
that came out in the wash. They're like, you know
the first thing you did when you got around this dude,
is I got naked with him, So, all right, should
you be believed? And I look, I don't know the

(52:01):
answer to it. The dude's a little off stefan day.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
He's like a lot of wide receivers in the NFL, right,
like very cryptic on Twitter. Yeah, these weird messages over
like super complicated, over introspective, like everything he says.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
He's a weird dude. He's a weird dude. When you
see him interviewed, he's even weirder. But according to the courts,
he's not a chef choker. So so what do you do?
I mean, what do you do if you're one of
these teams? I mean, Patriots sign him back? Remember they're
dealing for what a j Brown?

Speaker 6 (52:35):
Right?

Speaker 1 (52:35):
Everyone just assumes that when we hit June, AJ Brown
is going to be a Patriot, but you know, who knows.
Maybe it keeps Remember the baseball player the picture for
a it was a picture for the Dodgers, was it? Bauer? Right,
Trevor Bauer? You remember that insane Remember that woman that
came out, She's an insane woman. She's like, yeah, he
tried to murder me every time we had sex. And

(52:57):
then it turns out that he's into some rough stuff.
She's into some rough stuff. There was more enough evidence,
and it was clear she was making all it up.
Trevor Bauer never recovered from No, not.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
Only was she making it all up, but that was
the plan from the very beginning, from the very beginning,
Like there's evidence of like text messages between her and
or like her friend being like.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Heyah, just telling her friendly I'm gonna fleece him. You
watch this, and you know she went in there and
did her a little horrish thing, and and then now
and then nobody would touch him. He ended up having
to go play baseball in like Japan or something, and
it was and this guy was a cy young finalist
like what the year before, and and they just the

(53:38):
team just didn't want to deal with him. And it
absolutely cost him probably hundreds of millions of dollars. And
even now he's in the process of still trying to
resurrect his image enough to get a decent contract in
Major League baseball. That's the issue with a lot of
these people.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
Even if they're found innocent, the whole procedure, the whole
trial can just destroy their career.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
Well, and so this is what this is the point
of trying to make with Digs because Diggs is such
a weird dude anyway, people are inclined to go, you know, go,
you know what, I just don't want to deal with
him when when he's playing well is he's immensely talented.
He's just always been a locker room issue. That's always
been my beef.

Speaker 5 (54:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
He also has an issue of disappearing in the playoffs
when balls are place. You know, you throw the ball
at Lean's raight in his hands and he just for
some reason in the playoffs he can't get that reception.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
It's very busy. Yeah, he's very blaming his MVP quarterback
for the for him not catching it. I've already mentioned
he's a locker room issue. Yes he is, But when
you're starving for wide receivers, you could do worse.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
And the other news out of that trial was when
the story verse broke. The story was that she had
cooked him before he assaulted her Dino nuggets, and it
was revealed yesterday they were not Dino nuggets. It was
a overcooked hot dog.

Speaker 1 (54:58):
Oh okay.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
So she was like, here's your meal, sir, And it
was a microwave a bowlina you know, you put in
the microwave that kind of pops. Yeah, He's like, here's
your your you're weedy on bread and he was like
do they haven't at and then he apparently attacked her,
but not guilty.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
Well, to be fair, she should have done it in
an air fryer. Right, those produced amazing hot dogs. If
you can't grill him. Look, the best hot dog is
a chargrilled one, and I want it crispy. I don't
know how your rosty Lakers kind of well done when
you do him on the grill. Yeah, yeah, I mean
that's but second to that, you just take it and
score it with a knife about I literally just made

(55:34):
these the other day. Throw him into the air fire
for like eight minutes. Perfect, But yeah, microwave, that's old
school man. Nobody doing it that way. M Yeah, there's
a bunch of stuff here. You can we'll we'll tweet
out the article you get into more of it. Speaking
of that, I just noticed something when I was digging
around on the Twitter. Thought a little odd. I was

(55:56):
just noticed the show bio for the ke Is Casey
on the radio, and it says host mornings six to
nine on one of six one and ninety four five
that's accurate, and then it lists my bio as JP Morgan,
Junior Executive intern. How'd that happen? I know, was that Ai?

(56:16):
Who did that?

Speaker 8 (56:17):
Or? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (56:18):
It was was it ross Ai?

Speaker 6 (56:20):
What? No?

Speaker 1 (56:22):
I for one am shocked. You're the first I'm hearing about.

Speaker 7 (56:27):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (56:27):
I haven't heard of this. Okay, all right, so we're gonna.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Buy an internal investigation and figure out who had access
to the tier.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
Would you put a blue ribbon panel together?

Speaker 6 (56:35):
We?

Speaker 1 (56:36):
Yep? Okay? And who's on the panel?

Speaker 5 (56:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (56:39):
Me?

Speaker 1 (56:40):
Okay, all right? Seven forty four Race Stagic he's here.
He didn't make the cup for the panel. He's got
to do the weather stuff today. So Stefan Digg's not
guilty you guys signing him?

Speaker 6 (56:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (56:53):
Probably?

Speaker 1 (56:54):
You guys know a little wide receiver?

Speaker 6 (56:55):
Help?

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Right?

Speaker 6 (56:56):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (56:57):
Not really?

Speaker 1 (56:58):
Who's your good too?

Speaker 5 (57:01):
It's still what's his name? He got one?

Speaker 6 (57:05):
Now?

Speaker 5 (57:05):
I can't even think.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
You don't know what your number two receivers?

Speaker 5 (57:09):
Yeah I do? Why can't I think of it?

Speaker 6 (57:12):
Well?

Speaker 5 (57:12):
Who's one and who's two? I mean that could be debatable, right, I.

Speaker 2 (57:16):
Mean, it doesn't really matter who your wide receivers are
when your quarterback is someone at the caliber of Dak Prescott.

Speaker 5 (57:22):
Right, mediocre, right, so you got mediocre quarterback? Why is it?
Why is it? Why is it escaping me?

Speaker 1 (57:29):
Right now? Both c Lambs your number, that's your number one,
and then it's Pens.

Speaker 5 (57:38):
Yeah, Pickings number two easily.

Speaker 6 (57:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (57:40):
Don't ask Pickts that though.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
Because I thought there was like Pickens issues going on
right now.

Speaker 5 (57:45):
No, No, I think he's going to be around.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
That's a good wide receiver corps though.

Speaker 5 (57:49):
It is, it is, but you know, that's another disappointing
season ahead. So I don't have any high expectations. But
you got to fix the defense now, So we'll see
if they bring everything together.

Speaker 6 (58:00):
I think.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
I don't think you guys have you guys also have
Jonathan Mingo, right, the former Panthers guy, he's.

Speaker 5 (58:07):
Pretty Yeah, I think so. Then I just saw I
just read it. Actually somebody from somebody from Detroit linebacker
is about to go maybe in the become available some
veteran linebacker sore. Right, Yeah, that's our year. Yeah, listen,
I gave up on that years ago. So about nineteen
ninety eight.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
You're like, ah, where did it take the millennium off? Yeah? Yeah,
it's just about done that. Yeah, all right, man, so
you're getting there. You get whacky with the weather again, like, yeah, son,
it'd be nice you get some.

Speaker 5 (58:38):
Suns have something that maybe if there is, it'd be
this morning. It won't be much, and then as we
go through the day probably may mainly dry the triad,
especially just north. Basically a few showers this morning, but
a better chance midday into this afternoon from west to east,
So tryad first and then across the trying the showers,
thunder showers, upper seventies to low eighties. A few showers

(59:00):
and thunderstorms are likely tonight and tomorrow into tomorrow night,
so it'll come in rounds. There'll be some thunderstorms, will
be some generous rain and spots. There's a marginal risk
the further west should go maybe a severe storm or two,
so be on the lookout for that. So that could
impact later today and tonight and then tomorrow afternoon, maybe
some of the kids ballgames. Friday should see big improvements,

(59:20):
but cooler weather upper sixties, low seventies, and then we'll
get back into a chance of shower Saturday Sunday, a
chance of showers from Mother's Day, starting to get milder again,
back close to eighty degrees or just above over the weekend.
The good news case is that we will have some
dry days and then we'll have a couple of wet days,
then some dry days. I think we're going back and
forth in this pattern right on through the middle of

(59:42):
the month. So it's good news. It'll help the drought,
help squash somebody's wildfires going on across the southeast, and
maybe start limiting some of the restrictions that we have.
Certainly not with this one event, but if this trend continues,
maybe we'll get some relief.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
Okay, all right, thank you, sir, appreciate it. Yep, there
you go, raced agic from the channel. All right, coming
back a little more audio real quick. So also I
will give a recommendation for the women's adult soccer team
on something they should probably stop doing, you know, if
they'll listen, we'll get into that more coming up case
O Day radio program. It is one of those wednesdays

(01:00:17):
where we chat with Congressman Brad Not who joins us
this morning.

Speaker 5 (01:00:21):
How you doing, sir, Hey Kasey, good morning.

Speaker 1 (01:00:24):
If you're doing well, I'm good. You're a busy boy.
I will say that, I know you can't get into
details of it, but for those pe who don't know,
you sit on a and it's the by the way,
the committee is what five and five right Republican or Democrats,
all right, who have to deal anytime you have to
deal with these ethics complaints and ethics allegations. And now

(01:00:47):
I just saw in the news that one of your
one of your cohorts there, mister Chuck Edwards, is in there.
So without getting into the details, I know you guys
are investigating there. We just have the all My Adams
story the other day. Have you guys seen a significant
increase in which you guys are having to deal with
just you know, because you just we just had this

(01:01:08):
run of like three members of Congress essentially resign. What's
going on up there?

Speaker 6 (01:01:14):
The short answer is I've only been there casey about,
you know, a month and a half, so I can't
really judge it a whole lot. And the committee appropriately,
in my mind, keeps a lot of the inner workings confidential.
From what I've been told, there has really not been
a huge uptick. There's a there's a there's a process
that suspicions or accusations can be reported to the staff.

(01:01:36):
If there's credibility or merit, there can be a brief investigation.
Once there's likelihood of confirmation, it can go up, or
it can be discounted uh and and disregarded. And that's
typically how the process goes. When a member resigns, like
we saw with mister Swallwell or mister Gonzales, then then
the matter goes away. The House loses jurisdiction so or

(01:02:00):
the Ethics Committee loses jurisdiction. So that's typically the process.
But there's usually a you know, a steady flow of
people who are being accused or things that we're looking into.

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
Oh fun, okay, now Edwards, And it's not it's a
claim that I've heard others say. Essentially, his camp is
saying this is this is politics, right, He's in one
of the most targeted districts for the upcoming election, and
this is their way of, you know, muddying the waters
so that he's not successfully in gaining reelection. Would you,

(01:02:32):
in your opinion, would you say that that is something
that happens where allegations just seem to come forward at
the politically most convenient time or what.

Speaker 6 (01:02:42):
Well, you know, I can't comment on anything relating to
the Edwards case or anybody else's cases that may or
may not be before the Committee, but I will say
there was the petition from Nancy Mayce a few a
few weeks ago, and a lot of people were out
done at the vote that I I voted present because

(01:03:02):
it had to do with the committee work. But I'm
very glad that the issue was defeated in this regard
because if you do incentivize accusations being public or made
public for the Ethics Committee, would that would induce the
politicization of accusations alone. There has to be merit with accusations,

(01:03:24):
and that's why, whether it's a Republican, whether it's a Democrat,
merely an accusation cannot be what gains traction. There has
to be something with the accusation, and that's developed by evidence,
whether it's documented evidence, whether it's photographs, whether it's eyewitness testimony,
whether it's multiple instances of eye witness testimony. There has

(01:03:46):
to be more of that. And so you know, of
course there's always accusations during a political season, but the
Ethics Committee, when it's working well, takes an accusation quietly
and then looks to see if there's more behind it
than just a political motivation.

Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
Okay, all right, and again I'm speaking more in the
generic there, but it is interesting that that we see
this stuff continue to come up. All right, let me
let me pivot over to this just because your background
is that of a lawyer and a prosecutor, so I
like to pick your brain on what's going on with
the Supreme Court. And boy, it's been an interesting week

(01:04:25):
and a half here. If there's way how fed up
is Scalia with excuse me or the other justices I
should say, with Katanji Brown Jackson, even as a non lawyer,
like I'm reading some of the you know, some of
the stuff that they're writing in their decisions, some of

(01:04:45):
the comments that are being made there. And and did
did the Supreme Court quote just take a wrecking ball
to the Voting Rights Act, shuffling us, shuffling us back
to the days of Jim Crow. I believe it's the quote,
give me your read on these cases having to do
with the elections and redistricting that we've seen the Court
now finally rule on.

Speaker 6 (01:05:07):
Yeah, it's interesting. The case that you're talking about was
the case that came from Louisiana, where there was an
explicitly court ordered drawn district based on race, and the
Supreme Court said, courts cannot do that. You cannot force uh,
discrimination based off of race.

Speaker 5 (01:05:26):
They ordered the.

Speaker 6 (01:05:27):
Legislature you must draw a district that exclusively considers race.
I'm oversimplifying, of course, and Supreme Court overturned that. And uh,
you know, basically, you can consider politics, you can consider region,
you can consider uh, the economy, you can you can
consider zip codes, but you cannot consider exclusively race. You

(01:05:48):
can't fight discrimination with more discrimination. And of course the
Democrats have melted down. There are lots of members in
the Midwest, in the in the South, and even in
the Northeast where there are our district's drawn exclusively with race.
And so is it gutting of the Voting Rights Act?
Absolutely not. The Voting Rights Act was implemented to design

(01:06:11):
preclusions to voting. And it's quite interesting President Obama he
urged people to get out and vote to right the
wrongs of this court decision. Well, he's proving a point
that the Voting Rights Act is not being gutted. People
have the right to vote, it is not being obstructed.
The fact that we're encouraging people to swamp the polls

(01:06:32):
of the good thing, get out and vote, elect the
people you want to elect, and allow the government to
function in that way. But all the Supreme Court set
essentially is we cannot allow discrimination in certain instances on
race and then preclude it in other instances when we're
using race. So I believe it was the correct decision.

(01:06:52):
It was the color blind decision, and I think that
the ships will fall appropriately in the next couple of
months and years from here.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Do you think that this is part of a larger
turning of the tide, because I think people in recent
history have seen a lot of stuff, especially with the
Biden administration, where decisions would be made and then it
would be stated explicitly that they were going to make
decisions based on race, and Katanji Brown Jackson, by the way,
is one of them. M Kamala Harris being asked to
be the vice president is another. What universities would do

(01:07:23):
where they'd have like, all right, we're gonna have graduation,
but only for black students, and then the other day,
then the next day will only be for Hispanic students.
And non lawyer me looks at this stuff Congressman and goes,
how is any of this legal? And so that's what
this kind of speaks to. And another story that's going
on right now is the New York Times now is
now finds themselves under investigation by EOC and based off

(01:07:47):
a complaint from one of their editors, who's a white male,
who says, look, the policy at the paper essentially precluded
him from being able to be promoted. And I find
it very rich. By the way, the New York Times,
for their entire existence, would love nothing more than government
crawling up into a private business's backside over one of
these things. Now they're getting a taste of their own medicine.

(01:08:10):
So I have to ask, is nature healing on this front?

Speaker 8 (01:08:15):
You know?

Speaker 6 (01:08:17):
Yeah, I really hope so, Okatie, because I think that
most people would say that in the vast majority of instances,
merit based decisions are what should drive today. You know.
Martin Luther King Junior's speech implored for an assessment of
character and work performance, and he wanted a colorblind society.
And for Republicans, you know, we lose sight of the

(01:08:40):
fact that there was an African American judge, a black
judge Clarence Thomas, who wrote a concurring opinion in the
Kalay decision. And you know, it's inconvenient for for Democrats
because he's a conservative black man, and they disregard that
if you're a conservative black man, you cannot be you know,

(01:09:01):
in their cookie cutter figure. You know, in regards to
in regards to the New York Times, if someone writes
the best column, it shouldn't matter what they look like.
I will say that in portions of the Democratic Party,
I do not sense one bit of movement at all.
And there's a variety of reasons for that. There's a

(01:09:22):
variety of motivations for that, but it's very much baked
into their political gospel and they have not pivoted at
all from it. But we as a society, I think
we should pivot away from merely considering race or whatever
other status you want to consider, and we all to
let the work do the talk. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:09:42):
Yeah, it's it's really interesting to watch because to your point,
some of the would be congress people, including the guy's
name escapes me. He's the Muslim candidate in Michigan, right
who's running for senator. He's openly campaigning on Hey, if
I get elected, first thing I want to do is
impeached Donald Trum because of course, and then two uh,

(01:10:02):
he wants to he wants to essentially impeach I guess
Clarence Thomas, get him them off the court, and then
and then packed the court. He's running his congressman. So
what is the fear. What is the fear on the
Republican side that if they don't get out ahead of this,
the next wave of Democrats should they take over, is
going to do all these things.

Speaker 6 (01:10:23):
I think that I think his name Casey is Abdul Lsied,
and uh, you know he's he is, He's right down
the middle of the Democratic Party. They're very, very focused
on establishing a uh you know, kind of the the
extension of the of the Joe Biden presidency. I mean
Joe Biden. They they force fed the EI, they force

(01:10:43):
said quotas, they force fed outcome determinative policies. Uh. They
had it not been for two senators, they would have
already packed the Supreme Court, they would have had massive
open border amnesty, they would have added two new states
for senators. And they aim for permanent political power. And
that's what he is he's echoing. He is, he is
basically extending that mantra. And uh, you know, thankfully, I

(01:11:07):
believe that most Americans are waking up the fact that
the Democratic Party is really tacking to the left. They're
not coming back to the Bill Clinton model. They're not
coming back to the even the Rama Manual model. I
mean Raba. Manuel's on the outskirts of the party because
he goes, yeah, girls are girls, boys or boys. You know,
he said it. He's that boys shouldn't play in girls sports,
and he has been casticated and he knows it's a

(01:11:29):
real problem. Even Barney Frank do you remember him, Casey, we.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
Talked about this yesterday.

Speaker 6 (01:11:34):
Yes, yeah, he's on his He's on his deathbed, and
I my heart goes out to him that he's talking
about politics on his deathbed. But regardless, he said that
the party has just become too extreme. And uh, you
know this this individual and in Michigan, he is unfortunately
I mean that not as a Republican or a North Carolinia,

(01:11:55):
I mean as an American. He is unfortunately carrying a
banner that's right in mainstream of the Democratic Party. They
want to fundamentally upend the United States system. If they
don't like something, they want to burn it down. They
do not want a debate, they want to do away
with it. And that's a very very problematic tenet that
we see moving forward.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
And by the way, the reaction to Arnie Frank over
on Blue Sky is he should die today. It's really aggressive.

Speaker 6 (01:12:23):
Oh, it's very sinister.

Speaker 1 (01:12:26):
And what's crazy too is they were also they were
also castigating him as a homophote, which I thought was
really funny because he's gay so well he was he was,
he was.

Speaker 6 (01:12:37):
I believe he was one of the first I know,
he was one of the first members that was, you know,
a gay man in Congress. And he has been as
that's sort of been his central core the whole time.
But he was a taking his orientation away. He was
just a classic liberal Northeastern Democrat. And he was signing
the alarm bells and I hope that the country is
listening to that.

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
Yeah, and again, if you guys didn't hear this, he's
not the congressman is not exaggerating. Barney Frank is in hospice.
He is hooked up. He's got the oxygen too, Like
this is literally one of the last interviews he'll ever give,
and he's using it to do this, and then they're
just for all the years he put in, people probably
would have voted for him are now like calling for

(01:13:18):
his death. We're at a crazy place right now. And
and I think, once again, following what happened to the
correspondence dinner, we get less course correction every time this
happens on verbage Like there's some who were unabashedly the
next day going I'm not changing a thing. The guy's
a literal Nazi. So I don't know how you how

(01:13:38):
you fix that?

Speaker 6 (01:13:41):
Well, I think it's going to start with radical change
at a local level, you know, being friendly to your neighbor,
having a good family, spend time with your kids, going
to church. You start small and hope it multiplies outward.
I think that's the only recipe that we can bank on.

Speaker 1 (01:13:56):
Casey, what's your comfort level with this very aggressive redistricting now?
But I'm sick of the argument over who started it.
I think it's pretty telling that the Democrats have literally
run out of states basically to Jerry Mander. I think
that should be a pretty good indicator. And then what
you saw in Indiana yesterday might be an even better

(01:14:16):
indicator for people who don't know. Indiana basically decided at
the last minute they weren't like redistrict and as a result,
I think it was what two congressional seats Republicans thought
they could extract from Indiana. So the senators who led
the charge last night, five of the six lost their
primary races to Trump approved challengers five of six. What

(01:14:40):
should we take away from that.

Speaker 6 (01:14:43):
Well, you know, we did go back and forth about
who started. You know, politics is always a bruising business.
You know, the Democrats will say that Texas started it.
But if you remember, Texas re drew one or two
districts and Eric Holder sued them, and when Texas won
after years of litigation, that's when the map went to effect.

(01:15:04):
That's what triggered California. But California was more jerrymandered even
with the second Texas map before they redid their their districts, right.
So you know, in terms of what I think about it,
I think it's unfortunate. I do believe that the country
remains a center a center right country. That's not where
the Democrats are. And the Democrats, I know, are panicking

(01:15:27):
because the Trump administration has tightened the border. They've stopped
the influx of illegals. We are net down millions of people.
When you look at people who did not come into
the country or people who have left the country that
has that has great concerns for their Senate, I mean
for their for their House apportionment. You look at the
migration from blue states to red states, vast implications for

(01:15:50):
their congressional apportionment. And so the Democrats are trying to,
you know, really aggressively jerry manager to hold the whole power.
And uh, I wish we could have substance discussions, policy debates, rigorous,
you know, back and forth. But one of the negative
sides of the jerry mandering is it does pull out

(01:16:10):
some of the people like that Senate Canada you just described,
or some of the folks in the House who want
to burn the place down. And you know, I hope
that we can get back to the Ronald Reagan, George Bush,
Bill Clinton, let's talk about this in a very civil
way and let the best ideas win. But right now
we're a few steps away from that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:29):
All Right, We're gonna have to leave it there. I
got through half my things, but that's how it goes,
So we'll chat again in a couple of weeks. Congressman,
I'll let you get back to it. Thank you for
the time this morning.

Speaker 6 (01:16:38):
All right, Katie, take care, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:16:39):
All Right, there you go, Congressman Brad No joining us
here on the CaCO Day radio program. The Fiddler up
there in Canada, who is now suing Google because Google's
AI when asked for a background bio claim the dude
is a sex predator on children, all all the worse

(01:17:04):
stuff and as a result had concerts canceled, and now
he's doing Google because none of it was true. Now,
somebody does make a good point. This guy when he
was younger, because he's like a prodigy. When he was younger,
his first album name was The Kitty Fiddler, which I
don't I don't know if I know if I'd have
gone with that one, but he didn't do any of

(01:17:25):
the stuff. But then I'm looking on our Twitter comments,
Ross and several of our listeners are just doing hateful
AI searches now, like did Boston Paul really take down
Whitey Bulger? Did you read any of this? This is
dibbs post. I stopped reading when it said no, Well
it said he didn't take him down, but it did

(01:17:45):
say he murdered him in prison, So maybe you shouldn't
have stopped reading. Yeah, yeah, there's it's. It says, while
he didn't arrest him.

Speaker 4 (01:17:58):
In his role.

Speaker 1 (01:17:59):
In short, Boston Paul helped murder Bulger years after his capture,
but had nothing to do with bringing him to justice. Yeah.
So they they're accusing Boston Paul of beating him to
death in his cell with a lock attached to a belt.
So that's number one. Then I go and I read
this garbage. Uh, hang in a bunch of these posted.

(01:18:24):
Where's what I'm looking for? All right?

Speaker 6 (01:18:25):
Here?

Speaker 1 (01:18:25):
It is who would win in a fight? Flabby beta
male case O Day or fit alpha male Ross Hayes.
And the AI believes you would win because you know
Bragilian Brazilian jiu jitsu or something.

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
I mean, I have watched Brazilian jiu jitsu, so oh
you have? Yeah, I've watched it several times. Yeah, so
that's that's good enough.

Speaker 1 (01:18:48):
Yeah. Also, you're trained in boxing and wrestling? Is that true?
Once again? I mean I have watched boxing and wrestling?

Speaker 6 (01:18:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:18:56):
Do you watch them wrestling? Did you?

Speaker 6 (01:18:58):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:18:59):
So that's fun. The AI is all on crack this morning.
What are you gonna do? And then the classic favorite
of the being John Wayne Gacy being the same person.
So I should sue Rock man, I should get some
of that. Yeah, I would. I would say, from what
I've seen, Rock does not like you. No, no, I
don't know why I'm super nice to Grock. And then

(01:19:22):
I don't even think I've corrected Rock. All right, are
you guys, Are you guys watching what's going on down
in San Diego? This is bad man. In fact, it's
so bad it's got its own name. So down in
San Diego, they have to keep closing the beaches and
it's becoming a big, big, big problem because a lot
of people go to San Diego. Cornado Beach is amazing

(01:19:44):
out there. Well that's closed and a lot of the
other ones are closed. And the reason is is because
Mexico's being an a hole. So Mexico went through the
growth of Tijuana. Tijuana is I think doubled in size
in a very or period of time, and as a result,
they were had their sewer system couldn't keep up. So

(01:20:05):
under the Biden administration, when it started becoming a problem,
the US because you have the Tijuana River right there,
and the Tijuana River essentially empties right at the border
into the Pacific Ocean. The US, I think, was actually
going to throw some money at this too, to basically
go like, hey, you guys need to like speed work

(01:20:27):
your sewage system, because when you dumped in the Pacific Ocean,
the current flows northward there, so inevitably it ends up
impacting San Diego. Well, that new Mexican president hates Trump
so much. Mexico said, we're not going to do anything,
and in fact, all of that sewage is now going
to be dumped in the Tijuana River right before it

(01:20:48):
enters into the ocean on the Mexico side and then
just be allowed to flow into the waters and just
disrupt San Diego. San Diego's beach beach communities and you
have some famous ones. A Mission Beach is amazing down there.
I had a friend who lived there. Great stuff. Now
nobody can go to the beaches because it all smells
like feces. They're calling it pounami, which I love that term,

(01:21:11):
and the US trying to figure out what they can
do about it, but there's not much you can do.
Mexico's just being a jerk, and that President shinebamb or
whatever her name is, she thinks it's funny. So I
don't know what. I don't know how you deal with it.
Do you round it all up and float it south?
She get a big tube start churning it back over
the border wall. I don't know what the answer because

(01:21:34):
right there at the border, right where it meets the beach,
they actually have like a park, and on the US
side they have a park, and then they have places
where you can go like talk to each other through
the thing. A lot of people go to that, and
that's right where it's happening. Ross wants to catapult it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:49):
Yeah, well at first I was thinking we could collect
it and fly over and drop an am but you
were saying like airspace and yeah, it's an airspaces whatever,
So yeah, we can catapult it. So a pouapult like yeah, yeah,
like an old old school uh you know, tribute North
Carolina pumpkin chunkin, but with poop.

Speaker 1 (01:22:05):
Okay, all right, hey here's all your poop. Beck. Well,
they're going to have to do something because it is
U is a huge problem. In fact, they estimate now
that there is thirty million gallons of raw sewage that
is flowing from the Tijuana River every day and then
making its way onto the coast there in San Diego County. Yeah,

(01:22:30):
here it is. This is the statu I was looking for.
The City of Tijuana has doubled its population over the
last thirty years and has made no sewage upgrades. And
in fact, back in twenty twenty five, Uh, this is
when it started. So this is this has been going
on since last year. We're and uh here, yeah, here's
what I'm looking for. Roughly one in three days, they

(01:22:51):
closed the beaches in San Diego because there's too much
feces and the super al Nino thing that we're supposed
to get this year is just gonna make it worse
because that's where you start getting, you know, the the
tides ripping up in there into San Diego. So I
don't know what they're gonna do. And again Mexico's basically decided, well,

(01:23:11):
we're not going to do anything. How do you like
them apples? And that's where we find ourselves. This is interesting,
probably not getting a lot of press, but maybe it should.
The Washington d C. Police have now terminated the three
officials who they say, were manipulating crime stats. Yeah, remember this,

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so this thing that wasn't happening that then when they
got in there and and Trump kind of you know,
put his people up into the DC police there, they
were quickly able to extrapt. So now second District Commander
Tatiana Savoy, Commander Michael Pulliam, and the already departed chief,

(01:23:54):
all three of them are out. These two were just
made final I guess this week because they had previous
Eve been sitting on leave with pay. Now they're just fired.
A reporting December called the data quote likely this is
the crime statistics likely unreliable and inaccurate due to misclassification,
claiming that violent crime is not being accurately documented. We

(01:24:17):
talked about this on the show and we gave some
examples of how they were manipulating this, and everyone was
accusing these big cities of doing it. Right, Chicago did it,
you had it up, and going back to Boston they
did it as well. And it was wholesale where we're
just reclassifying what something is so it's no longer a

(01:24:39):
violent crime. They did it with They did it with
armed robberies. They were able to manipulate that into something
else where it wasn't a violent crime and then it
just cratered and everybody knew what was up. But now, yeah,
you have these three officials that are out of work. Now,
whether it changes the culture, I don't know. The report

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entitled how DC's police chief undermined crime data Accuracy accused
the former chief, Pam Smith, of failing to adequately address
crime in the nation's capital and pressuring law enforcement to
manipulate crime statistics through and I'm quoting here a culture
of coercive fear that emanates from Pamela Smith. She resigned

(01:25:23):
back in December. She's the writing was on the wall there.
But yeah, now her underlings were kind of her enforcers.
They're also out of gigs, and I'm not sad to
see it. All right. Eight forty four raced agic from
the weather Channel. He's here to brighten and wet in
your day simultaneously.

Speaker 5 (01:25:40):
So, yeah, gets lighter, but it does get wetter. Yeah, Yeah,
most of our rain coming. I'm going to say this afternoon,
mid afternoon in the triangle to try it. Maybe a
little bit earlier and into tonight and tomorrow could be
some stronger storms and spots. We don't think widespread sphere,
just like we had to think about week. There may

(01:26:00):
be a couple of warnings and that should be about it.
There might be some heavier rain in spots, and it's
all good news because we certainly need the rainfall climb.
Most likely near eighty today. Try it'll stay in the
upper seventies and then we'll see those showers stutter showers
come in from west to east as we head through
this afternoon, and especially tonight and tomorrow, that's when we
get most of our rain. Scattered showers and storms. Tonight

(01:26:23):
will be in the low sixties. Tomorrow we'll be cooler,
in the mid to upper sixties, and then by Friday,
sunshines back near seventy the weekend, maybe some showers. Saturday,
less of a chance there, upper seventies, and then maybe
a few showers on Mother's Day. Doesn't look like a washout.
Ptemperatures will start to get a little bit milder in
the lower to maybe middle eighties, and casey, we're in

(01:26:44):
now a pattern that gives us at least rain chances
every few days.

Speaker 1 (01:26:47):
So that's a good thing, Okay, I mean, yeah, if
everybody's been screaming for it, so but eventually.

Speaker 5 (01:26:53):
Right now, I'll say right, and they'll say, yeah, we
don't want the rain, but could be some good totals
maybe up to an inch and some heavy your totals
to the west and southwest.

Speaker 1 (01:27:02):
Okay, all right, well I do appreciate it and we'll
chat coming up tomorrow. Have a good one, Okaytagic from
the Weather Channel. All right. Joining us from Bloomberg News,
Erica Herskovich. She'll be with us next. Hang on, Ericahirskowitz
with us today, Erica, what's happening?

Speaker 10 (01:27:19):
Hey there, Casey.

Speaker 4 (01:27:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:27:20):
Advanced micro Devices delivered a strong forecast for the current quarter. AMD,
the second biggest maker of computer processors, showed its cashing
in on the flood of AI spending. The company says
its second quarter sales will be eleven point two billion
dollars plus or minus three hundred million. That compares with
an average analyst prediction of ten and a half billion dollars,
according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Meanwhile, mealkit maker Hello

(01:27:41):
Fresh has been shaking up its strategy, prioritizing customer loyalty
over volume, investing in product innovation help the company's earnings.
Top Wall Street expectations. However, revenue in the first quarter
took a hit from the severe winter storms that drove
up customer refunds. Sticker shock at the butcher shop. If
you bought b flately, you've definitely felt it. Prices for
hamburgers and steaks are more expensive than ever. The average

(01:28:04):
cost of ground beef is now averaging a record of
nearly seven dollars a pound. The US cattle herd is
the smallest it's been in decades, squeezed by drought and
high feed costs. Meanwhile, demand for beef has held up.
Grocery giant Albertson says more folks have been shifting from
steaks to cheaper ground beef to deal with this sky
high airfare making it tougher to find affordable vacation deals.

(01:28:25):
But a lot of travelers are refusing to give up
on their dreams of a summer getaway, and they're just
making a pivot, that's all. According to a recent survey,
about twenty percent of Americans have just changed their summer
travel destinations to save money. And finally, Casey, a new
feature at dating apps like Tinder and Hinge, seems to
be resonating with young Adults Match reported quarterly revenue that
topped Wall Street expectations. The company has made a number

(01:28:47):
of updates for its dating apps, such as face verification
to reduce interactions with bad actors.

Speaker 1 (01:28:54):
Well yeah, catfishing insurance there, huh. Now, I got a question, Eric,
this is more on the sports front. Do you think
Stefan Diggs gets signed?

Speaker 6 (01:29:02):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:29:03):
I I you know, what was he Trevor Bauer all
over again? I don't know.

Speaker 10 (01:29:07):
You can't predict these things. Some guys get a pass
and some guys are just they're above it.

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
So you I don't know. I have no idea. I
can't I can't make a pretty He's not guilty. I
saw you. You saw what happened with Trevor Bauer, right, no?
Oh yeah, yeah yeah yeah the picture. Who uh? And
it became clear that the woman planned the whole thing
with her friend and then the poor guy who's been
playing in Japan forever.

Speaker 10 (01:29:29):
What I think if if you're a likable guy, these
things get overlooked. If you have anything like where you're
just like a bad guy and you have bad reputation
for just being a jerk in the clubhouse or this
or that, And I think you don't get you don't
get picked up.

Speaker 1 (01:29:43):
Yeah, it's it's so weird. Yeah, and Diggs does not
have a good rep amongst his colleagues there, so there's that.
I don't know. I wonder about this. I also wonder
about the golfers, like the dis Chambeau and whatnot. Is
the PGA gonna let him in?

Speaker 10 (01:29:56):
I think they will. I think they will because he's
gonna he's gonna, you know, raise eyes on the TV.

Speaker 1 (01:30:02):
Yeah, well the guy. That's because I want to see
him drive it four hundred and fifty yards. So that's yeah,
all right, Eric, I appreciate it. Have a good one,
you see. Yeah, there you go, Erica Hurskoo. It's Bloomberg News,
all right. A little piece of advice for any of
the women's adult soccer teams stop playing the under fourteen boys.
Where's the upside to that. University of Washington women's soccer team,

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which by the way, includes one of the US Olympic players,
decided they were going to go and do a scrimmage
against the under fourteen boys and it did not go well. Washington,
by the way, is one of the top schools for
women's soccer in the country. We saw this with the
US women's soccer team when they played the under fourteen

(01:30:46):
boys down in Dallas. I don't know, maybe they win
some of these sometimes, but every time you lose it,
now that's the news. How bad did they lose? By
the way, where's the final score here? Why would you
not that put that further up in the story. Well, anyway,

(01:31:09):
it didn't go well, they lost. It's there all the
way at the bottom. Uh okay, just they only lost
two to one. So I guess there's that because I
remember the US women's Olympic team when they played the
under fourteen Dallas team. They lost by a bunch. It
was absolutely brutal. Also, apparently a wallaby has escaped from

(01:31:32):
the zoo, so ross, you're not already a wallaby?

Speaker 5 (01:31:37):
Are you.

Speaker 1 (01:31:40):
Like a little kangaroo or something. It's like, yeah, it's
like the teacup kangaroo. I don't know how to describe it.
It's like a little pocket kangaroo. I want to say, like,
let's see how big do they get. I guess they
can get up to twenty pounds, so they're not exactly purse,
but there's a big size differential between the males and
the females too. Emails are quite a bit smaller. Yeah,

(01:32:03):
I don't know. They're Yeah, they're described as a macropod
smaller than a kangaroo or a wallaroo. What the hell's
a wallaroo? I guess that's the halfway point between a
wallaby and a kangaroo. Well, anyway, I will say this,
if you ever go to Hawaii, they have wallabies. They're
not native to Hawaii. So wallabies are kind of like

(01:32:23):
pigs and chickens were back in the day where you
had you know, people running around on ships and what
they would do is they would literally offload hogs, chickens,
in this case, wallabies, anything they thought that they would
have use of and then just let them, you know,
do their things so that when they next time they

(01:32:45):
brought their ship to the island, there's some food running
around there. And so that's how you get that's why
you see a lot of wild hogs and chickens, especially
in the Caribbean islands, because people were essentially seeding these
islands and same with the water. All of these they're
from Australia and Papua New Guinea, but they got them
run around on Hawaii as well. But not usually, running

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around the east coast and north care of the United States,