Monday-4-15-2024

Episode Transcript

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Wonderful weekend. Sorry, I hadto grab my phone that I left over
literally in another room. So goodmorning eight eight eight nine, three four
seven, eight seventy four. Itis the CaCO Day radio program. Where
do I start? Oh my goodness, from over the ross? Did you
have a good weekend? By theway, let's start there. Make sure

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everyone was an amazing weekend? Yeah, okay, all right? Would you
do anything you wanna? Probably theend of the Masters, right, no
totality, you know, I forgotto check it out. I feel I
feel bad. Now. Did LeeTrevino pull it off? He did not.
He didn't. He didn't didn't evenmake the cut actually, so some

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would say that's because he wasn't therewith the start, but I'm not a
golf expert. But no, itwas a young Scottie Scheffler, one of
the gentlemen with the very pregnant wivesthat we talked about. He ended up
pulling it out. Was it theBilly Old Concert? Is that it was
that the topper for the weekend?Oh? For us? No, man,
it's it's a long story. Ifyou want to hear it, I

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would love to hear you. Allright. So about two weeks ago,
Okay. Lincoln has these playlists thathe makes on YouTube playlist of fifties,
sixties, and seventy songs. Yes, loves him. He's like an encycling
He's like an encyclopedia this music.So he has the YouTube playlist and listen.
This has nothing to do with me. I have nothing to do with

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this. I would not encourage this, but I sort of did. So
he has his playlist set up.He started doing this about two weeks ago.
This song would end, he wouldhit pause in his playlist. He
would walk up to the TV becauseit's playing off the TV. He would
intro the song like he was theDJ, and he would continue the next
song. And he would do thisthroughout the entire playlist. And I'm like,

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what are you doing, buddy?And he goes, I'm playing radio.
I want to be a radio man. And where did this come from?
I and probably drugs or kids atschool. Right, you need to
be a doctor or a video gamesor probably yeah, work for the CIA
or the Department of Defense. Right, isn't there isn't there isn't there a

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radio station in Grand Theft Auto whilethey're out murdering there, there's multiple radio
stations Yeah, So he's been askingto come to the radio station and he
wants to record breaks for his playlist, and you realize there's so much that
he takes. I don't talk aboutwork a lot. He sees me working
on prepping stuff right right, Andyou brought him in a handful of occasions,

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and it's always been around him,but you realize that he's been taking
stuff in without even knowing it.Like he knows. He knows that it's
called a break when you talk betweenthe songs are up the ramp. He
knows who the post is. Heknows what a cold intro is. He
knows what a fate is, heknows what a cold out is. No
child should be burdened with. Heis twelve, and he knows what a
stop set is. Twelve especially,Yeah, twelve year old knows that a

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commercial is called a spot. Theseare things that he knows that he is
just sort of like picked him nately, yeahately. Yeah, So we brought
him into the radio station. Hewas very, very nervous, and we
were he wanted to He has overlike one hundred and thirty songs or something
on his playlist. He wanted torecord a break for every single one,
and I said, buddy, Ilove you, but that is like,

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plus, that's not even how ana rotate works, correct, Right,
So I could explain it to himhow He's like, hey, you should
talk over every three or every five. Right. So we brought him in
and he recorded his show, hisquote show, and he uploaded the playlist
to YouTube, and I shared iton my Twitter, my x account,
and Facebook at Hayes for Sheriff,and I retweeted it in the show account
at Casey on the radio. Didhe get monetized or no, No,

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it's not MONTI. I mean,we can't do it anyway because it's all
you know, it's music exactly.Yeah, yeah, I just it sucks
that he has to learn this suckyside of this too. So but you
know what, it sounds like heliterally would learn it regardless of whether you
showed it to it. He startedoff very nervous. Towards the end of
it, dude, he was havingfun and he was sounding good. Oh
yeah, yeah, like you canyou can tell a major difference even between

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the first break he does in thesecond break, but if you want to
check it out in the whole playlist, and he's like, by hand.
He has chosen this playlist and it'sin a very specific order that I don't
quite understand. But I do notmove a song in that playlist because he'll
know like traffic, Yes, yeah, yeah, that's cool man. I
saw your wife posting pictures because youknow that's what she does all the time.

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Yeah yeah, I'm just like that. Looks like that was probably they're
probabing a good time, so ahundred he wanted to do a bring.
I'm like, how many do youwant to do? Every song? Like?
Guy, all right, you betterwatch out. They may hire him,
wouldn't it be surprised? Ah,have you heard of? What do
you mean? You're my boss?Now? Yeah? All right, that's

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cool man, it's cool. Souh yeah, yeah it was. I
saw those pictures, so I wascheating. I alays saw your wife posting
the pictures. I was cheating alittle, And you know what, good
on you. I love the masters, man. And there was some there
was some crazy stuff. But theamount of time that you have to invest
in that, well, listen,that's easier when you don't have a family

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at home. Man, did Iwas hooked all weekend? Did I want
to come into the radio station ofmy day off note. But in the
end I was very happy, Ohyeah, yeah, that's not but that's
not coming into work. It wouldhave been one thing. If you're there
and then all of a sudden,like like it's uh, you know any
scene from the movie Office Space right, We're like Boss Mike, he watchs
in there. He say, hey, you're here on a Saturday. Can

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you do something ps reports? Andhe's production. You're like, no,
my family's here. Man. He'slike, we'll have a BELP check your
PPO, buddy. Oh wow,have you even checked your PPR? Are
you down with PPO? Oh?So all right? Cool? Cool?
Did you witness although by the bythe time the Billy Joel concert kicked off

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on CBS, yea, I'm sureyou were home because it was post prep.
Did you get into that for asecond? No, smart, we
we We've been into the new Falloutshow on Amazon. I had to resist
the urge because I have, like, I have shows backing up on shows,
and I took the plunge on oneof the others because I didn't have

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a bunch of time this weekend towatch Rando shows. I didn't go fall
Out. You know what, Iwatched Franklin. Are you familiar with the
New Franklin series of Benjamin Franklin orthere's a mini series of Benjamin Franklin.
And Oh, that's the thing.The Kirk Douglas is in right, Michael
Douglas. Yeah, Kirk Douglas waydead, rest in peace too, although
kind of when you watch you're like, is that Kirk Douglas. Yeah,

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it's Michael Douglas. Yeah, wasgonna be in it. And I was
like, I don't know about it, but I saw like a still photo
of him, like promo Photo'm likehe sort of looks like Benjamin Franklin.
I'm gonna tell you all right,Well look i'll tell you. I give
you. I'll give you the therundown here. Now it's I broke my
rule because I thought I want thewhole thing to be there before I start

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watching it. Ross knows this.We've talked. I mentioned on the air,
but every time we talk on That'swhy the Fallout series was gonna be
it. But this weekend was toughbecause the whole thing is there, right,
So I was like, oh,watch the I'll watch the Franklin series
and if I only get through afew episodes. It won't kill me.
Well, I my brain didn't likecheck to see. I thought it was
all there and only three episodes werethere, which was actually the right amount.

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But now I'm kind of committed tothat. I have some thoughts,
and then I saw this morning,Like the first thing I saw this morning
was Michael Douglas being asked about it. I have I have some additional thoughts
that'll go with it. So we'llget to we'll get to that, We'll

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get to the masters insanity. Ithink there was some stuff that happened in
Israel that a bunch of you inmy email are clamoring for me to make
the whole show about this. ReadsUh, what happened in Israel? Don't
don't don't don't don't don't? Howdo I not? How do I?

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How do I not? So hangon, we'll fit it all in coming
up on the Cacoday radio program.So when you work in broadcasting, you're
going to be presented with choices,especially depending on the type of broadcasting you're
doing. They are they will comeat you. They will come at you
for a variety of reasons. Andthose choices, especially when they surround a

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decision during an event broadcast, aregoing to be important choice, not just
during event broadcast. And here's whatI mean by this. At some point
in a radio career, likely youare going to have to make a decision
to transition from a piece of programmingthat is ongoing but is going on outside

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of when it was normally supposed tofor whatever reason, into some other piece
use of plan programming. And youknow, I will say this, even
though it's I don't know, thegap has been closed. Usually your decision
was not supposed to be one thatwas just a fiduciary decision, right,

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and and that's fine, but onerather that's going to reflect the best and
be the most explainable on air tothe audience, which is ultimately who you're
accountable for, because it is eventhough your audience is technically they're not your
financial they are, right, oryour financial reason for existing, they they

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still are. Because the model iswe want as many of you folks to
listen to Ross and I say dumbstuff, and then our salespeople can go
out and find advertisers who are like, hey, so those guys are funny
sometimes, and then that's how thisthat's how this works, right. So
then you don't. We don't justbill you every month. And that's the
circle of life. So with thatin mind, there are on occasion going

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to be times where there isn't aright decision, but there is an easily
definable wrong decision. Now, I'veworked in talk longer than Ross, but
it's not just talk. I've hadto make this decision in music settings too.
And the rule number one is,whatever decision you make, somebody's gonna

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call and yell about it. Somebody'sgonna call and complain about this free product
of ours. It's it's the Ross. Do I speak lies or do I
speak truth? Because I feel likethere's a lot of men and you need
to preach okay, right, justwhatever happens. You know, it's very
most people are politish. I saypolitish because some are just very matter of

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fact, which is fine with me, but others are not so politish.
And I'll give you an example beforeI head into what that happened with CBS
yesterday. So I worked the veryfirst talk station I ever had a part
in. I didn't directly work onthe stage, but I had a management,
a middle management kind of role inaddition to the on air work that

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I did do was a was alocally news talk in outside of the Twin
Cities in Minnesota, which is technicallywhere I worked first before I went to
Minneapolis and worked for iHeart. SoI was I was. I was in
a position where I could make thosedecisions, and the worst one to have

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to make a decision about was themidday broadcast of KWNO, which is in
Winona, Minnesota. Check that outall right anyway, and it's just you
know, it's a station that startslocal host. We had a local guy
there for years. They just themorning round up, reads news obituaries.
Anyone's lived in a in a smallermore rule setting for radio or smaller town,

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you know how local you can getthere. And it ran Limbaugh,
but you have to understand it's inthe Central time zone. So Limbaugh comes
on at eleven and runs till two. But the station's clock or schedule was
we would run live the first hourof Limbaugh eleven and noon, and then

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at noon the morning host would comein and he would do a noon news
hour and feature hour that it wasn'tjust news, it was also remember the
long form Paul Harvey in addition tothe rest of the story had a long
form thing. We would run thatand that was the format, and the

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listeners were fine with it because ithad always been that somewhere and I guess
if they were new, But youthen got Limbaugh delayed. But that was
the source for Limbaugh. It wasn'tthe world of podcasts, and it worked.
But if Limba got moved an inch, and if God forbid, there
was a recording air because Paul Harvey. We used to have this thing called

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patch chords, remember the old whenyou see like an old reporter and they're
plugging things in the wall. Thatused to be how you'd get radio audio
from one place to another. Nowwe use a digital version of that,
which is much easier, isn't it. Ross Oh, we love it so
much better than patch cords that youcan see and you just know work.
And if Limbaugh didn't get recorded becausesomebody put a patch cord in the wrong

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place, or there was an issueand you had to make a decision,
or if there was a breaking newsstory and you had to move, either
of those just leave the building.Man and I had to make a couple
of calls over the years, soI understand that. But again, there
may not be a right answer,but there's usually a definably wrong one.
Yeah, and if you're forced tomake a difference sort of answer, then

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somebody likes like involving that Limba situation. Then you're gonna get tons of messages
about how you're you're you're part ofthe illuminati or the globalists or why are
you trying to censor rush or allthat kind of stuff. Fuck you forgot?
Yeah right, Yeah, well itwas a different time. I didn't
hear that word back then. Yeah, that's more prevalent. You know exactly
what I'm going to Yeah, allright, So that being said, as

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I transitioned from the master's little work, getting the uh well prep together and
just you know, buckling in foranother week of busy broadcast. As mister
Limball used to say, I got, I was like, you know what
I'm gonna do, is Billy Joelthink it's the right kind of thing.
It's something where there's a there's anentertainment factor, but I'm not going to

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be so emotionally involved in it.I thought that it will prevent me from
falling to sleep. And then allof a sudden he gets sting out there
Jerry Seinfeld's hosting this thing, andeven though I wasn't a Seinfeld show guy,
I like Jerry Seinfeld, which isa weird paradox. But and you
know, I'm like, I'm inI'm in on this. You know why,
because for a moment, it feltbefore you all not all of you,

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behalf lost your minds. That's whatthat felt like. Where I didn't
have to think about Billy Joel's politics. I didn't have to or Jerry Seinfeld's
I don't or any of it.I could just go from the thing over
the other thing and be and itwas good. I'm like, this is
a good Sunday. And then,depending on which of the affiliates you you

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were watching, this thing happened.And by the way I am, I'm
I don't believe CBS, and I'lltell you what they say, but I
want you to listen what happened.And all of a sudden, I was
so emotionally invested because it's a BillyJoel concert. We've been listening to it
for like an hour and a halfat this point, Ross, are you
a Billy Joel fan? Do youlike Billy Joe? Billy Joel used to

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be in like my top three.Okay, so what would you say?
What if you had to introduce somebodyto Billy Joel and they're like, well,
what song should I listen to?What might be a suggestion or two?
Uh? Scenes from an Italian restaurant. And by the way, they
killed it last night with that,it was great moving out my life.
It's all about soul some eighties.Yeah, I like it. Piano Man

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obviously, Oh wow, that's that'sthat's weird that you say that. So
pianre you think that's a big onefor him? Huh? And then I
think that would be the biggest one. I think, yeah, that is.
If he's younger, you probably thinkit's fired. We didn't start fire.
But no, piano man is thejam, right. He's well aware
of that too. I mean hesaid a numerous occasions. He's well aware.
If he doesn't sing that they're gonnaburn the place down, he has
to sing it. Well he uh, we don't know because he was doing

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Piano Man and look, does BillyJoel sound like Billy Joel from then?
No, And he even admitted hedid Innocent Man, which is one of
my favorite Billy Joel songs and there'sand he even did this whole thing where
he's talking about how there's there's somehigh notes. He's seventy. He says
he's gonna try and uh, youknow, did he get album quality from

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that? No? But he's seventy. And I'm watching this and I'm like,
fine, just look at least you'renot driving drunk into somebody's house in
Oyster Bay. I'm fine with this. This is good. There hasn't been
a whiff of politics. I'm enjoyingmyself here, let's go. This is
from CBS. This is a Watcherand Roy good stuff. I'm taking this.

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What what hold on? Pause?This is the pause? Next eleven
A raising awareness for suicide? Howone Oak County? Why lost? And
what an appropriate topics? Warm waitersimpacting Maple Syrup productions? Oh no,

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oh no, my god, man, let's stop one. You've heard it
before? What? What? WhatI did? The Maple Syrup news?
Is that what you mean? Herpiano band? This song? You've heard
it? Come on, I haveYou're right, I have, I have
heard it. No, what away to ruin the mood. The worst

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possible thing you could do in thissituation. You hiding yourself. Heidi's a
thing, and it's not even yourthing. It's ABC's thing. Don't be
a Heidi. I understand it's kindof a reverse, you know, but
what what are you doing? Andso CBS is like, well, we
had some local affiliates make that decision. Oh that's interesting. You know,

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as somebody who is familiar with whatbeing an affiliate's like, it's not as
simple as that. It's not assimple as that generally when you live in
in I don't know how it worksat the TV level when it's a networked,

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owned stationed station, which some areand some aren't. But I do
know that being an affiliate is hascomes with obligations and a lot of times
comes with direction. Like when wewere we had contracts with Minnesota Vikings,
Minnesota Twins. Over the years thatI worked there, we've had contracts here

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in North Carolina with the UNC tarHeels on the Greensboro side, with tar
Hills in state and Wake Forest andthese are not new things. And when
it comes to something like that,I understand the local affiliates they are they
want their local news because it's ahuge revenue stream. I get that,

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But for CBS to sit there andsay the local affiliates made the decision.
When it all happened at the sametime, you need to better explain that.
Was there a thing in your carriageagreement, your franchise agreement that allowed
them to do it. Did somebodyat CBS have to go yep, okay,
all right, We've hit the timeyou can do it. What are

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those conversations like, Because the endproduct is people in some of your biggest
media markets, many of your biggestmedia markets, who tuned in for an
event that you promoted for months,watched you flip a switch, and in
each of the instances I've seen,there is this weird delay. Right,
It wasn't a smooth transition, Sothat's why it's to some extent the timing

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was orchestrated. It all happened atthe same time. How do you do
that? Why do you do that? Why do you take this little nostalgic
masters to Billy Joel concert moment funSunday that I'm a fun Sunday evening that
I'm having him do that. Iwatch, you know, Scottie Scheffler go

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out and fight off the competition.Also his wife trying to baby trap him.
If that's a thing, right,Remember he was the one who said
he'd get out of there. Hewon the thing again, second time in
three years. It was great.I watched the an amateur who looks like
he is serial killer who plays reallygood golf play with Tiger Woods when he
saw him. Bit interviewed after becausehe was top amateur. Oh what are

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we doing CBS. We'll explore nexthang on the CaCO Day radio program where
we've we've struck everything with a wrench, so we'll go from there, all
right, Ross. So I didn'thave a chance to watch this normally,
I don't make this stuff a highpriority because SNL has become what SNL has

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become. But yeah, dude,that would have added to this whole weekend
where you're just like, for amoment, like, is it before everyone
lost their damn mind? No exactly. So I stumbled across the SNL skit
this weekend. It was so funnyand a Cole Markey in and it's more
of like a visual gag, butit's probably the funniest SNL's been in years.

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So I almost, well, holdon, I don't want to I
want to ruin all this for everybody. I want you to. I want
you to go see the damn thing. We got it on the blog at
Casey on the radio, and thenwe'll we'll link it out to you.
By the way, here is it'sit it raw. This is right.
You gotta visually see it. Butif you are our age, you're older,
you're I'm sure you're very familiar withBeavis and butt Head. Beavis and

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butt Head was, you know,Zeitgeist during the time I was coming up.
It was such a big an MTVfor that matter, because when I
was in middle school, MTV wasn'ta regular It wasn't on the regular cable
package. Even so you had tobe one of the ranch kids with satellite

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to get it, and so wehad a chance to watch, so people
would come over and watch it.And Beavis and butt Head irritated the entire
state of Wyoming too when the Beavisand butt heead Do America came out because
of a few seconds of gag jokeswhere they made fun of Metitzi and big
Piney, which are two which bythe way, we all did because they're

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funny words. Big Piney. Whenyou're a you're a a twelve year ol
thirteen year old boy, that's funnyas hell. And Matzzi if you're a
kid from Metitzzi. Now I wasan adult, I'm like, oh,
it's yeah, that's fine, niceplace. But it was funny, and
so they made the jokes. Theymade the jokes and went, you know,
did their little Beavis and butt headlaugh and like they had like the

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governor was mad. It's it wasso weird. But anyway, so for
whatever reason, they did this skitwhere they're at a you know, like
a town hall meeting learning about AI. So you have like the serious news
reporter lady, you have the uh, you know, the learned professor who

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who is also obviously somebody who's aBeavis and butthead fans she's not. And
uh, there's two guys dressed inthe in the audience who are wearing the
exact hair shorts T shirts they werealways in, you know, they're whatever.
Yeah. Right when I found theskit, so I'm scrolling and I
stopped really fast before even hit playbecause I'm like, the guy in the

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background looks like Beavis, and I'mlike, maybe that's just me. And
then I'm like, oh, it'ss and l I'm like, oh,
my it's part of the skit.So at this point in the beginning,
you can only see the Beavis guy. Yeah, and and so the so
immediately the professor locks on because it'sright in his field of vision, and
the the woman who is the theinterviewer, even I I didn't hear that.

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Ross was literally just dubbing an audio, so I don't know which part
she got, but she's like,she she has not seen it, she
said, because in high school shewas pretty or something, right, And
then to Ross's point, that happens, and then all of a sudden,
he said he he needs him tomove, So the guy trade seats with
somebody off camera, and then theguy who sits town looks like Butt.
Heead and even has his upper lipups. He can see his gums,

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And then that turns into it thingit is. It is funny, but
it's absolutely something you gotta lay eyeson. But I'll play a little lo
Yeah, there's a gentleman in youraudience who looks strikingly similar to Beavis from
the cartoon Beavis and Butt. It'sjust a little distracting. I'm not familiar

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with that cartoon, but wouldn't helpif he moves seats. Yeah, yeah,
that might be a good idea.It's the gentleman in the blue shirt
and blonde pompador. And by theway, at that moment, she starts
laughing, and it's just over forher. I have a feeling from her

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reaction that they didn't tell her orshe didn't know what they were going to
look like, maybe you do afull but just her reaction is she looks
like really shocked and surprise, likehow funny it is? Especially butt Head.
Butt Head looks right, yes,yes, yes, it's put the
curled lip and every oh yeah,spot on. Man, sir, do

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you mind moving? I'm sorry you'retalking about me. I have no idea
what's going on? I'm sorry?What? Yes, can you move the
seats? Okay, sure, I'msorry. I just I've never heard of
that cartoon character. And you reallynever watched Beavis and butt Head when you

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were a teenager? No, Iwas pretty so I was going to parties
and hooking up. Now, Professor, if AI is left unregulated, what
is your worst case scenario? Ohmy god, are you serious? What?
I think that's a valid question.No, Now, they're a gentleman

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behind you that looks like butt Head. Honestly, the adience members aren't as
informed the question on Twitter. Idon't know if you didn't hear that's where
I watched and hang out butt Headfrom the cartoon. He beabs his friend,
I hate it, like to moveon and discuss AI, So would
you like him to move? Allright? All right? So this goes
on the part where I lost itjust because it was kind of a quick

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thing. Is then they go allright, well, let's get a question
from our from our audience, andthen they do that thing where they cut
to a tweet like it's an audiencequestion and it's I don't have it in
front of me, but it's aI am cornholy and I need more tpee
for my bung hole, which isyou know anything about the show that's an
immediate and and he's like, that'sfrom the show, and then she plays

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dumb and then starts laughing again.It's it's yes, yeah, it's very
good skit, but it's like it'sit reminds me that you're saying talking about
the past before people went crazy.It's like SNL back when they're funny,
and SNL would was always at itsbest when it was random and silly and
weird. You didn't tell me anythingabout it, by the way, And
so when I saw it was apolitical setting, because I did not see
it it was Beavis and butt Head. I thought it was going to be

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I thought they were going to berepresentative of Trump and Biden. And I
would have been fine with that,by the way, right because you're going
on there and you're scuring you know, us, skewer both. I thought
it was going to be some Ithought it was gonna be some political thing
when I clicked play, and Iwas pleasantly surprised that it was not.
And no, to your point,no I don't. I don't expect that
from them anymore. I have verylow expectations. So uh but anyway,

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we got we got the link foryou, or if you just want to
go right to the blog at Caseyon the radio, you will find it
there and do with it what youwill. All right, let's see here
so mentioned obviously the masters uh yesterday, that was a good watch over the

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weekend watching uh Scheffler watching Texas defeatuh Ludvig. I got nothing against that,
dude, It's just so there wasthere was a golfer a lot of
people are not familiar with because Europeangolfer named Ludwig Auburg, I'm probably mispronouncing
it, not for Germany, actuallyfrom Sweden, but actually also I think

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he lives in Texas like Scheffler does. So okay, but yeah, so
you had you had that and thenMark marcaw at third. But it was
interesting, you know, it was. It was a good tournament. There
was some there were some great shots, there were some big you know,

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the Master's chorus causes guys to go, uh tin cup if you remember that
Kevin Costner movie. They literally SergioSergio Garcia did it a few years ago
and one of the holes just kepthitting balls. I mean he had to,
but what do you take on thehole, like a thirteen or something.
That's my kind of golf, Sothere's always the possibility of that.

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So yeah, it was. Itwas just it was very nostalgic all around.
Now Scheffler has two green jackets nowand at no point during the ceremony
yesterday Ross did I see them referencehim being able to stack now. Yeah,
no, he could stack it.That's fifth. That's half off at
all of garden. But nobody saidanything during the jacket ceremony. I watched

(30:06):
the thing. It's dereliction of duty. Maybe they probably just did they give
you a little sheet because there's somuch, so many discounts that you just
don't have time when you're in Butlercast and probably what it is like you
ever you've been broadcasting before and you'veget like a sponsorship list where it was
like yeah instance, right, yeah, just like get a few in each

(30:26):
break kind of the yeah, nowthat's probably what it is, all right,
So uh, yeah that happened.I did have one other entertainment.
Oh, I watched the the TheFranklin uh is what it's called The Benjamin
Franklin Show with Michael Douglass, andit is a very stylized, hollywoody version

(30:51):
of the time, which I thinkis by the way, I think it's
one of more a very fascinating storyof US history, the all of the
events that transpired during during his longdormancy in in France during the during the
US Revolution, and like if ifyou've never most of it looked accurate.

(31:18):
I didn't sit there with you knowwhere I was going and checking all of
it on the bigger points, right, like the people, the players are
all there. The process of howit went down. A lot of people
think he went over there and wasjust chilling at the you know, the
upstart US embassy and then just meetingwith folks in regular diplomatic channels, and

(31:41):
that was not it at all.Franklin went over there. He brought his
grandson, which that's a fascinating storytoo, by the way, because the
reason he has charge of his grandsonis because his father, the grandson's father,
the son of Benjamin Franklin, isin prison because he was a loyalist.

(32:02):
He was an active loyalist. Sothat family dynamic obviously adds a layer
to the show, but is anactual family dynamic. Benjamin Franklin's own son
rejected the cause of independence and didso rather aggressively to the point where he

(32:23):
was actually over the course of thewar he was put into prison. And
there's a lot of other factors there. And so Benjamin Franklin has his grandson,
who's seventeen at the time that theygo over, and he goes over
to see if he can get Franceto or wealthy French individuals. It doesn't

(32:47):
even have to be the crown perse to fund the Revolutionary War and the
armaments that were necessary. You haveSchumont who's in there, who was a
very very wealthy shipping dude over inFrance. And you have a representation of
French French society that looks so overthe top as to be comically uh exaggerated,

(33:10):
but in reality is not just aweird era. The powdered wig era
of France is weird. Man justby today's standards, this strange stuff.
You have the Marquis de Lafayette.You have h and that story is reflected
in there, and uh, it'sbut it's very hollywoody. You also have

(33:35):
and I can't people were complaining becausethere's a one of the the the aristocratic
class in in in France is ais purported to be a woman, but
French society believes it to be aman in drag, which is probably pretty
easy to pull off in French societyat that time, because people old dress,

(33:58):
you know, it's crazy how theydress, and there's so many exaggerated
wigs and makeup and everything. Andpeople are like, oh, they threw
that in there, but in realitythat that is an important it's it's a
semi important I should say, aportion of the history of what of what

(34:21):
Franklin was trying to do, andhe went over there just basically he went
over there at a time when BenjaminFranklin was actually a very very very famous
person in the world, but notfor the reason that you think the revolutionary
thing was one thing, right andyou know, the thought that France would
want to join this to humiliate thethe British, but also everyone thought,

(34:49):
everyone thought at that time that BenjaminFranklin had discovered electricity, and he had
obviously had written a book with youknow, little quips and summations, which
was incredibly popular, but also wasI believe forbidden in France. And so

(35:09):
he went over there and people wereswarming him literally from the moment they landed
to the time he was making histrek from laharv La have Her. I
can't remember which port he landed atto you know, into Paris and Passe
Passe is where he spent most ofhis time. So and nobody would talk

(35:29):
to him, nobody the king hadforbidden anyone who's in his inner circle from
communicating with him because it's a hugediplomatic thing, and so he spent his
time trying to figure out all thesedifferent behind the scenes channels and like,
it's fascinating stuff. I thoroughly enjoyedit, and I've just watched the first
few episodes. It's very slow,but if you're following along, I thought

(35:52):
it was very entertaining. Here's wherethe problem started. I wake up this
morning and I see that Michael Douglasand I understand a question was posed to
him, who, by the way, is seventy nine and he's playing a
seventy year old Franklin would have beenseventy at the time, and he decided,

(36:13):
here we go. In his interviewwith GQ, Douglas talked about how
his new series Franklin immediately struck him, like, as a seven year old
in England or in America in eighteenhundred, the average lifespan was thirty nine.
I think it gave me great fate. Now keep in mind, people
think when they hear that average lifespanthat that's because everyone just died at thirty

(36:35):
nine. But in reality, that'swhat happens when you math in infant mortality
rates that are pretty significant and childhoodmortality rates, so you know, it's
like when you got a zero onetime in class, and he struggled to
keep an a there you go.So with that in mind, he gave
his GQ interview, and inevitably,him being a playing a seventy year old

(36:55):
and he himself seventy nine, theconversation drifted and it drifted over to our
current president situation. Uh, andI'll let you know what He set them
up against the clock here, Sowe'll get to that and much more,
plus what happened in Israel. We'lltalk about it coming up KCO Day Radio
program, hang on Aco Day Radioprogram, Monday edition. All right,

(37:20):
so we're gonna get into the Iranstuff here in just a moment. And
I got to tell you I'm notone for unless it's to explain how an
entire forest got burned down. I'musually not one for the gender reveal insanity.
I'm okay with this, ross.I'm assuming you're okay with this.

(37:40):
In the world of gender reveal stories, we've done that, aren't That doesn't
include arsening an entire forest, becauseyeah, you will be too. I'll
explain what's going on here in moments. So anyway, I was talking about
the the Franklin thing. It's onApple TV. By the way. Somebody

(38:01):
sent me an email. I'm sorry. I thought I mentioned that it's on
Apple TV, so if you haveit, if you don't, I wouldn't
even have it, except it's partof the one package, and so it
gets me the other stuff and I'mstupid, So whatever. So I watched
it, and it is what itis. I enjoy the little nuggets of
history. And they did ring alot of the bells on what is a

(38:22):
very it's an very important story tothe American Revolution. And you have to
understand that this is happening on theafter a significant string of losses from Brandywine
to Saratoga to others, where Franklinis over there to try to get French
help, thinking that the philosophy ofthe enemy of my enemy is my friend

(38:45):
kind of thing would work out withFrance. So with the because you have
to understand the French position at thattime, they thought what was happening in
America was very funny to the British, but also very dangerous that if their
people went, hey, you know, that worked pretty well, how it

(39:05):
could impact the French monarchy. Sothey were they were very tepid there,
and so Franklin and his grandson literallyshow up. They show up with not
any official capacity and just kind ofmake friends with muckety MUCKs. And it's
easy to do because I mentioned BenjaminFranklin at that time not only had a

(39:28):
book that had that had gone viralin those terms, but all and it
was a It was a book thatwas comedic, that was informative, but
also talked of revolutionary ideas. SoFrance was not a fan. French people
were, as you would come torealize with the French revolution that would take

(39:49):
place following our own, and obviouslyinspired, but you know, at that
time, he's just there. Andthe component that there were spies around them
and infiltrate and people we know thatwere, you know, very high ups
who were tasked with spying for theUK. Those are accurate. Some say
they're overdone here, but it's Hollywood, so it is what it is.

(40:13):
So I'm watching it and I thinkDouglas does a fine job. People complain
about some of the accent transitioning andwhy this isn't just it is what it
is. There's a lot that's noton there. But so Franklin and his
grandsons show up and he's greeted asan author and the guy who they who
they? You know, people go, oh, he invented electricity and as
we know he didn't. That wasone Thomas Edison and nobody else and that

(40:42):
elephant who knew too much. Butit really shows you the predicament that France
was in, because if he hadnot been well known and not well liked
for those things, it would haveFrance probably would have thrown him out of
they but they had to handle himwith kick glove. So all this time
he's having to figure out, hey, how am I going to how am

(41:06):
I going to get in there?And so this is purported to document it.
It's a mini series. It's notdone. But I did watch the
first few episodes and I was finewith it. So inevitably, what do
they do. They get Michael Douglasto sit down for an interview. He's
seventy nine, he's playing a seventyyear old and he you know, he's
got the grandson with him, andthe thoughts drift, thoughts drift. He

(41:32):
goes, I was immediately struck,like seventy years old. In England,
the average lifespan thirty nine. Again, that's what happens when you have a
lot of ones and twos in there. I think it gave me great faith
in Joe Biden and it was areminder we can go on a lot longer
than we thought. Do you knowhow Benjamin Franklin of that period is described,

(42:00):
because there's a lot of descriptions,there's a lot of writings from many
of the individuals in France who endedup dealing with Franklin. And I'll let
me tell you the overwhelming first thingthat they would say about Franklin, Well,
it's the clothes were a big thing, and they actually satuate that there
he intentionally wore, He intentionally broughtlike a bunch of furs and stuff,

(42:21):
so he looked like DiCaprio's character inthe Revenant. But that was that was
for a reason. So there's commentson that. But his sharpness, his
acuity, his his ability, he'sdoing this on his own. I mean,
he has some confidants, which ifyou read I don't a spoiler.
Uh, not all of them are, and that's historically accurate. But for

(42:44):
the most part he's having to figureout how to overcome this thing where nobody
in real power is allowed to bearound him, where French officials have banned
him from Paris, which is athing that happened, and just the ridiculousness
of what France was at that time, and he's got to figure out a

(43:05):
way to get him to eventually,if you know anything, send an armada
of ships, which coincided with theBritish making the decision to depart New York
following the capture of Philadelphia and sailthis. So they captured taykonder Roga,
which is a very important fort atthe time, and that had been captured

(43:25):
from the British previously in the upperreaches of the Hudson River of New York,
and the general at the time forthe for the British was tasked with
continuing to go all the way upthe Hudson because they were they were they
were in a position where they wanted, now that we have Philadelphia and we

(43:45):
have Tykwonderoga, we're going to makeeverything north of Philly ours and push the
rebels back. So that's but thatwasn't glorious. So you had this decision
made where the entirety of those truewere moved back to New York City,
which was the base of operations forthe British at the time and sailed to

(44:06):
Charleston Harbor, and very famously there'sall of what you saw the surrounding of
Charleston, and everything was going swimmingly. But if you've ever been to Charleston,
you know that to get into CharlestonHarbor you have to run past several
outer islands, and those islands arefortified to allow for cannon fire. Charleston

(44:28):
was a very protected port. Itwas the most productive port. It was
the fourth largest city in the USat the time. And the British ran
that they ran that blockade, theyran those positions, those cannon positions ended
up in Charleston Harbor. Which isgood if you eventually sacked the city.
It's not great if the entirety ofthe French Navy, who you do not

(44:52):
realize is coming your way, comesyour way at a time when you're in
the channel. And Franklin had tonegotiate and coordinate all of this. Biden
figured out a way to get Iranto basically lose their fear of us and

(45:14):
launch all their stuff at Israel.And you have to understand when they launched
it, they launched it knowing itwouldn't get there for hours. We had
an entire news cycle waiting for thisstuff to show up, and and I
ran did that. I saw thecomment that they were like what, how
what what are their drones like HondaCivics or something like how why is it

(45:37):
taking them eight hours to get fromIran to Israel? It's yeah, I
call you gotta get coffee. Theyhad kids. You know, you ever
travel with kids and a wife?You gonna oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know they have bladders. Idon't know if you're stuff to pee
every ten minutes? Yeah, dude, yeah, And uh, you know
how many BUCkies are on the way. I mean you got to stop at

(45:58):
the BUCkies. There's none, there'szero. Yeah, it's thankfully for BUCkies
probably. Yeah, So shut up, just shut up and and life and
pre even though that I keep sayingthe thing with the electricians, they didn't
have electricity. They're talking about eelsMan talking about, which terrified people in

(46:22):
Europe because that wasn't a thing thatthey knew about. And they get over
there and they just think the NewWorld is nothing but wolves and electrical eels
Man. You know, Bo Bidendied by eels so it's an appropriate Oh
wow, you know what I'm sorryabout that. That's my bad. Ah.
Where in Surinam or wherever that that'sthat thing was? Where the eel

(46:44):
thing? Well, I can't rememberwhere it was. Oh, everything's dumb,
all right. Anyway, raced agentfrom the weather channels here. What
a weekend? Yeah, you knowdude, what it was? It was
great. And then I was onewho decided to watch the Billy Joel concert
last night. H Okay, thatdidn't know well, you know, I

(47:05):
don't in the CBS who the concertstarted late through their own ineptitude. And
then Billy Joel is doing the summationof this concert. I'm having a great
day. Got the Masters had great? Yeah, everything was good before that.
And then like I'm like, thisis nostalgic in the sense that I
was actually watched Network TV and Ifollowed it through the Masters, through this

(47:28):
weird show that I'm not tracker orsomething, and then onto it and I'm
I'm in it. I'm I'm goodto go. It has been promoted for
months. It's this one hundredth liveshow in a row at Madison Square.
Guard It's going to be a thing. Jerry Seinfeld hosting, sting, special
guests, whatever, I'm gonna watchthat. It's a good thing to watch
as you're winding down. And inthe middle of Piano Man. You've heard

(47:50):
of this song, right, Ohyeah, pian In the middle of Piano
Man, as Billy Joel utters youknow some of the many of the more
conic lines, including the one aboutbeing in the mood for a melody,
it cuts the feed. There's awkwardseveral seconds of dead air and it goes
to the local news. Uh huh. And CBS dipped out in the middle

(48:13):
of Piano Man, which was setto it was the final song of the
set, as I understand, andjust they heidied it and didn't and then
didn't say anything. Wow, itdidn't come back. That was it.
No, that was it. You'rewriting the local news. You're now you're
in this room. So that's whatyou get to learn about whatever the still
you're the talk. Huh. It'sjust maddening. Man. Oh well,

(48:37):
all in all, the masters,it was good so and yeah, the
weather once it went away, itwas crazy to watch that no wind yesterday,
but let's keep that trend up.I think people are happy, so,
you know, set the apple cart. Besides the breeze, I mean
it wasn't terrible. No records,no record today. But I'm going to
use the word hot because we're goingto be close to ninety in the Triangle,

(48:58):
probably middle upper eighty try it andwest end of the mountains. But
the record for the Triad is ninetytoday and for RDU Raleigh at the airport
it's ninety two. So warm,hot, whatever you want to call it,
but not records. Plenty of sunshine, some cloud around now. We
do have this little weak disturbance comingthrough early tonight and there might be an
isolated shower thunderstorm. I'm gonna emphasizeno widespread rain, so I wouldn't really

(49:22):
worried about it. Say, ifyou're going to be out between sunset and
midnight somewhere around there, if thekids are still playing ball games or whatever
it is, Yeah, you know, if you get a rain drop,
I wouldn't be shocked. There's nosevere weather expected. Overnight will be in
the low sixties. Tomorrow, we'llhave some afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Again
isolated variety so not widespread. It'llstay warm in the mid eighties. Still

(49:42):
low to mid eighties and cloudy.Wednesday, late week looks good too,
with sunshine returning, and will stayin the eighties normal high this time of
year. It's certainly not ninety.I think we're somewhere around seventy or the
low seventies this time of year.So yeah, seventy three officially for Raleigh's
the average high. So yeah,well above average temperatures. Let's see severy

(50:04):
three, eighty three fifteen Yeah,twelve to fifteen degrees above average, and
it'll stay above average all week,even into the weekend where we may see
some showers return. Oh all right, well yeah, wait to save that
for the end. Thank you,sir. Appreciate it. You're welcome.
Yeah, just all I want isa nice clear weekend. We'll talk again
in an hour, so appreciate it. And there you go, race Agic
from the Weather Channel. All right. So yeah, So basically, you

(50:29):
know, along a long way ofexplaining that Michael Douglas like this is this
must be what Biden feels like,and no, no, no, it's
probably not. Also, I wouldpoint out that you know, Franklin wasn't
calling Lidds at five o'clock, whichis what happened the day of the Israel
Iran thing. Cause like much muchof the negotiation and what was going on

(50:52):
was being done quote at court atthe time, which was basically all of
the muckety much showing up for theirfancy fancy pants dress parties. And so
yeah, no, it's not thesame thing, Michael Douglas, not the
same thing at all, not inany way, shape or form, as

(51:14):
we will come to find out aswe continue next here on the CaCO Day
Radio program. Aco Day Radio Program. And while we have regaled you with
many of the I don't want tosay necessarily always lighthearted side of it,
the it's still less serious than BillyJoel. Cons are getting cut off and

(51:35):
I'm referring to the dumpster fire thatcontinues to be the Middle East. Let
me say this, by the way, the position of the White House seemingly
as stated. And by the way, this is irrespective of all of the
opportunity hopping that we saw the administrationdo over what happened with the AID workers,

(52:00):
the seven AID workers who are whoare fired upon, because there's a
there's a lot of moving parts therethat I think people don't understand. You
have eight this is and this isnot an indictment of all aid organizations.
You have EID organizations that are atthe very least complicit in what Hamas is
doing. And you have others thatwork within the frameworks that are kind of

(52:23):
forced upon them, but I thinkor are there for the right reasons.
And one of those frameworks is andit's really really a tough position is you
have this is what HAMAS does.So if you have an AID organization that
has a shipment of whatever, food, medical supplies, whatever, they will

(52:49):
deputize themselves to be the security forcefor the shipping. But in reality,
what they're doing is they're controlling whogets it is this So you have you
literally have our guys or the Israelisor others, because remember we're still we're
still doing surveillance and logistical stuff bobbingaround out there with one of our fleets,

(53:13):
and and that's what we've committed,that's what we've committed to. And
so they have to monitor this becauseonce you create this scenario where some Hamastu
can just roll up and be likeI'm in charge of this shipman now,
and nobody pushes back because the shipmentstill moves kind of. But it also

(53:34):
is a huge security issue. Sothat's that's all going on. And uh
then the you know, the wholelead up to that, the Israelis saw
an opportunity with leadership following you know, uh, Syria basically being a launching
ground for Hesbolah. Uh. Theyto striking military target around that same time

(53:57):
and take out one of the Iraniangenerals. And what you saw over the
weekend was Iran's response to it,or purported response to it. And people
are like, well, you knowthey did this and they fired into Damascus
and this happened, and yes,yes they did. They make no bones
about it. So Iran launches thesuicide drones, some missiles, they launch

(54:21):
them literally from inside Iran, aswell as some outward positions like where the
Hooti rebels are, and as Rosspointed out, the distance right because their
drones don't fly that fast and they'renot that close. Let's try to watch
the Billy Joel show. Yeah,I am on it. Some of you
were very like, why are youWhy is this a jihad for you?

(54:43):
It's not. It's just the dumbestthing I've seen in forever, in decisions
like entertainment decisions like that. Don'tget me wrong, there's a lot of
dummer stuff out there but just baffledby it anyway. So we got that
little entertainment stuff. But you hada period over the weekend where things on
the international everything's on fire front werepretty crazy. And the first was where

(55:09):
you started to see the you startedto see the headlines Iran fires on Israel
and look, that's a pretty bigescalation. Not that people don't think that
Iran has been doing it via proxiesand even part of it with their own
people up in Syria. But ultimatelyIran has always kind of had that just

(55:35):
a little bit of hands off there, even though it was clear from from
day one that the Iran plan,as I think most people understand it,
is the Iran thought, you getall of these proxies doing all of this
stuff, Hamas is going to comein for their big thing. You see
it in the writings and literally whatwe've learned from Hama's individuals and uh who

(56:01):
these to the right of them,Hesbaalad to the north and several others,
and it all culminates with this bigHamas attack, going back to what we
saw and that under I know andIran's thinking that would be the lynchpin for
unleashing the flood of all of theseother countries who also are not fans of

(56:27):
Israel to get in there and mixit up, and Iran would obviously join
them, and it would be thisthis unification of a non unit. Remember
i Ran Iraq. They don't likeeach other, nobody likes each other,
but they all like the fact thatthey all hate Israel. And so with
that in mind, they thought thatthat that would be enough things for everyone

(56:50):
to go, yeah, let's getthem, and it would be that coalition
that the rest of the world wouldhave to decide whether they wanted to tangle
with them. And it it gotthere a little, but it didn't get
to where they wanted. So overthe weekend they sent all sorts of munitions
Israel's way. Yeah. In fact, according to both this is US and

(57:15):
IDF officials, they say I Ranindividually launched more than two hundred drones,
cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles frominside their own territory, the first time
they've ever launched a direct attack againstIsrael from inside their own borders. And
so yeah, but they take awhile, and so like, you weren't

(57:37):
going to hide that, And Idon't just mean from people with radar,
Like there's videos of some guy he'slike, you know, he's walking around
with goats and a raq and overhim. Looks like a sci fi movie
because it's just all the things goingand it took hours and hours and hours
depending on positions. You could gothe whole day knowing that these were coming

(58:00):
and you know, do whatever youneeded to do. And still people think,
well, what's the effectiveness of that? And in reality it wasn't too
effective. But the act is abig deal, and the response from Iran
was one because at the end theythey shot and we aided. I don't
know to extent that we aided.They shot down almost everything the other they

(58:22):
had one one thing that got throughand did minor damage on a base and
I think the only person who waseven injured was a little girl and it
was minor. So yeah, yeah, I'd say they're pretty effective. And
Iran kind of knew that that wasn'tBut I feel like this is also kind

(58:44):
of what they saw with Hamas,where they I think they thought people join
in, but they said it wasin retaliation because one of their generals was
in that military office in Damascus whenIsrael leveled it last week, which argue
is the one attack that people havethe least concern about because everything's been about

(59:06):
oh civilians, blah blah blah.They literally it was a high level meeting
of military individuals in a governmental militaryesh setting right there, you know,
So that's like, that's what youwant if you're gonna do that to avoid
civilian casualties. Sadly, if youwork it within an embassy and a missile

(59:28):
hits it and you're the guy whosweeps the floors, it's just not as
impactful as some dude on the street. It's just that, you know,
it's our weird rules of war,but it's understandable and it's what proportional escalation
is about. So they do allthis stuff, and then I got to
sit here and listen to people,whether it's Michael Douglas or others sitting there

(59:49):
and trying to make it sound likethis is we killed a general of theirs,
and we didn't just kill a populargeneral. We killed arguably the leadership's
most popular general in Solomoney, whobecause he was willing to carry out the
atrocities, you know, outside ofthe normal protocols, Like this is a

(01:00:12):
bad dude, but he was adude that if when you're the thug leadership
and I ran, look at that, I used thug. I know.
I was told that people only usethug in a very specific racist setting.
But no, when you do thuggishthings, you get thugged. And Solomoney
was a thug and we didn't justkill him. Okay, we didn't just

(01:00:36):
kill him. The President of theUnited States then turned all of your TV
off, went to a podium,the same podium in the same position that
was announcing the death of Bin Laden. He went with the same backdrop and
everything, only it was President Trump. He went up there and within the
first fifteen seconds he started mocking thegeneral for quote dying like a dog.

(01:01:07):
And by the way, I'm herefor it. I thought that was that
was crazy man. And and thenhe talked for like ever he talked for
I want to say, it waslike a ninety minute press conference just talking
about what a piece of garbage cowardthis dude was crying, died like a

(01:01:28):
dog, some of the other stuffhe said. And you know what is
or you know what I ran didn'tdo it didn't launch a single drone.
Okay, I didn't do anything.You know why because whether it's fear or
respect and I don't care which theylooked at Donald Trump as president went you
know what, not right now?No, because this he'll he'll probably come,

(01:01:54):
He'll probably be riding a missile inlike how'd he do to you or
whatever himself or slim pickens excuse me? Yeah, Like they didn't want to
deal with that. And this wasa constant component of the Trump presidency of
people. A reporter would do astory and they'd be like, well,
and the reason that they didn't isbecause they think he's crazy. And my

(01:02:14):
question would be, so if youdon't look if I'm the crazy neighbor on
the block, which by the way, I think I am. But but
if like you know, nobody,if I'm the guy from the sand lot,
remember the house that the kids didn'twant to go to because the old
man lived there. It's a constantthing within kids' stories. The fact remains,

(01:02:37):
whether it's correct or not correct,that guy doesn't get his yard messed
with very much, do you knowwhat I mean? I mean, obviously
there was a breakdown of it inthe movie. They had the reasons,
But so what if I ran doesn'twant to lob missiles at stuff, especially
our stuff or stuff of our friends, because they think the other guy is

(01:02:58):
a lunatic. I don't care.I just care that they had no qualms
man. And immediately the White Housemade their position clear because the White House,
following what happened with the AID workers, had come out and just basically
they had been looking for an opportunityto appease that section of their voting base

(01:03:19):
who want Israel to sit there andtake it. So that's a signal,
man, that's a signal right there. And especially with all of this you
know, this weird Ukraine NATO stuffgoing on. I understand Israel's already you

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know, from a UN perspective inthere, but they're the whipping boy of
the UN, and ultimately you onlyhave to stare down a few allies and
you think he can do what youwant. And I ran did because one
of the allies they looked at wasJoe Biden and they read him as not
caring and I don't know that thatwas inaccurate. And again, they didn't

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fire on a US position per se, but they they're testing, they were
testing the edges here and then immediatelyall of these nitwoods start running out and
saying that you know Israel and betterwatch out and uh you know, and
not go overboard with this. Andto that I would ask what is overboard?
They fired hundreds of things to makepeople explode into your tea. Just

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because they're bad at it doesn't meanthey didn't do it. And the argument
is, like I saw somebody go, would you get a flamethrower for a
mosquito? You know talking about one? Iran isn't a mosquito. And they're
in they're enrichment programs which could whichcontinue even through all of the weird cloak

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and dagger stuff and literally sticky bombsand and computer code and everything that's been
a part of it. They're morethan that. But two, if you
handed me a flamethrower there was amosquito around, as a dude, I
would use a flamethrower on a misquitross. If I handed you a flamethrower

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because I saw that there was abug around, you wouldn't You're you're innate,
I'm a dude take over and youwould use the flamethrower on the bug
because the opportunities there, I mean, it would be criminal not to.
Yes, you should be put inGuantanamo if you don't, and we're watching
to see whether you know how towork that thing. Other dudes are because

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they love that. Ah. Now, let me show you you women think
that men only like the men explainingto women, you know nothing. Get
some guys at arrange and a guywho clearly doesn't understand the way that the
particular firearm works. Have you notseen the recent US Navy post? Well,
right, yeah, yeah, yeah, I was just literally you read

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my bike man, Okay, right, the Marines did a mock. The
Marines, who are a department ofthe Navy, mocked the Navy. Do
you know why? Because what's theNavy gonna do about it? What are
you gonna do? You're gonna godown to where all the Marines are chilling

(01:06:19):
on board waiting to go and uh, you know, do some weird crazy
whatever thing down there. You're notgonna go bug those guys. They saw
your CEO up on the up onthe deck holding a skull a rifle with
a scoute mounted backwards with the opticsclosed with a chicken or chicken wing stance

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going on, which is fine,some people shoot like that. Whatever,
and what you know what we're gonnado a meme about these guys who drive
us everywhere we want to go.So yeah, yeah, there's there's a
lot of that that goes on.Absolutely. So to sit there and go
it's a mosquito with a flame throwis to not understand what any dude handed
a flamethrower in a mosquitoy situation woulddo if instructed to do so. But

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I also think the position of theWhite House in the US, at least
in this one instance, that willhelp you shoot him down or track them
or whatever aid was rendered, Butwe're not going to help you go forward
and attack. I'm fine with that'sthat's I think that's the proper position.
But you know, now, watchingall these people go, well, it's

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like Iran can do anything. That'snot true, and it's also not true.
Historically Iran has done many a thing, and some of those targets have
been I don't know us targets,whether it's barracks right yeah, whether it
is some of our ships, whetherit is that time we set out to

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literally shoot down what was or noteven shoot down. We wanted to render
inoperable a significant representation of the IranianAir force, and so we were gonna
go after the air Force and apart of their navy operation. I think
we're going after a frigate, iswhat it was. They had identified a

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frigate over some mining operations, andthey were gonna basically make it inoperable.
They weren't even gonna murder everybody.They were just gonna they wanted to render
the ship inoperable. And at everyturn, our guys are out there and
they're just like, hey, we'rejust here to shoot your rudder. And
then some jackass with a fifty cowis thinking he can shoot an E ten

(01:08:40):
down and the guy's like, well, look, you've now met the threshold
for me making your life, makingyou missed. And then it was on,
and we ended up literally decimating halfof their navy and a good portion
of their their ability to then parlayair at tacks based on what the Navy

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provided, and it wasn't significant tostart. They like forced like Washington had
to stop at and and like commandour guys to stop blowing things up over
their own current standards of whether they'reable to open fire. Right. They
had set these very tight window becausethey thought no one and Iran would be

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stupid enough standing on a frigate witha fifty cow to start firing on.
You know, US air superiority,and so the standards were like, you're
fine unless they fire at you,and then after you tell them not to
fire at you and they do itagain, then you can open fire.
And these guys were ticking those boxesin the first few minutes and like they

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had no choice. So don't giveyou this Iran crap. And obviously you
don't understand, you know, what'show dudes and flamethrowers work. So the
whole thing was very frustrating anyway,eight eight, eight nine three four seven
eighty seven four. Yes, it'sjust stupidity around every turn. I did
see that there were a lot ofpeople, maybe you know, hold dual

(01:10:08):
citizenship with the US. I sawbecause I was now in the world of
local news and news following the BillyJoel cut off, I did see a
lot of folks basically were able toget on commercial airlines because you had this
this big window and fly to Floridaat least that's where I saw the news
news story out of So yeah,yeah, strange stuff, But all of

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these comparisons are for not when yourealize Donald Trump did everything, but you
know, bring the body of theirfallen guy. Unfortunately, it would have
been tough because kind of got rippedapart. But they did everything, but
did everything but have him unzip hisfly and urinate on him. From a

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disrespect standpoint in that presser and Iran didn't do a damn thing. And
whether it was because they thought Trumpwas crazy, I don't, I whatever,
I don't care, but they theymade a decision, yes or over
the weekend where they said, Idon't think Biden's going to do anything,

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and that was a lot of it, I think, based over the reaction
that was coming off of what happenedwith the aid workers and a shift in
position. So where it goes nowI don't know. Could be armageddon by
lunch, but for now we'll takea break. We got a again,
a gender reveal thing I normally don't. I don't like these, but I

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got to give props where props isdue and much more coming your way.
Hang on, I will tell youone of the things that one of the
things, and then people are peopleare upset in the sense that you know
they did. Hold on, whatis this? You can't say Iran didn't
retaliate. They fired missiles at USbases in Iraq. Yeah, they told

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us, and they were also missiles. They were there were missiles that we
knew were coming and were expected retaliation, but they didn't fire on is the
actual United States? Right? Andyes, so because some people feel that,
but you they did wound people andthat there was expectation, but there

(01:12:27):
was also we didn't do a verygood job of dealing with it, just
like we had that. Remember wehad that drone that got through the other
day because it was close behind someother I don't know if it was some
sort of returning other aircraft or oneof our own drones. I can't remember
off the top of my head.But yeah, but with with the ferocity

(01:12:49):
of what they launched into Israel,they seemingly have a very different opinion about
what the US will be willing todo here. So but that's a fair
point one to bring that. Ibring that up since a couple of people
emailed me. Okay, so letme flip over to this because I find
this fascinating, and then we'll getinto the audio. I promised. Why

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is it that so many people whoare heads of diversity and inclusion and equity
for companies or universe? How isit that they so many times find themselves
literally thrust into what's that? What'sthat show? On ABC? What would
you do? Have you ever seenthat? I don't like that show,
by the way, I think Ithink it's pure emotional manipulation. But if

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you've never seen the show, isit? Jonathan Kieras, I can't remember
the report. I'll pronounce reporter's name, but basically, and I got a
beef with him. But the showis like, they'll be in a coffee
shop or no, it was anice cream show. This is the one
that blew my mind. They're ina coffee shop or an ice cream shop,
and this dude comes up and hewants to order some ice cream,

(01:13:56):
and they got a young girl workingthe cash here or whatever, and she's
like, which one do you want? And by the way, the joke
or that the joke, But thesituation is he's illiterate. He's a grown
man who is illiterate, and heisn't presenting a lot of you know,
he's not strumming a banjo or anyof that stuff. But the scenario is

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the girl who's an actress will thenbe really really mean to him and start
making fun of a how can younot read you're an adult? Bah?
You know, because that would bea normal thing that would happen in that
retail environment. And then another thenthey want to see if other customers will
step in to take this dude's sideor stand silent. Right, that's this

(01:14:44):
whole thing, one hundred different scenarios, generally over the top, and these
are the situations that heads of DEIfind themselves dealing with every day in America.
Then they take to Twitter, casein point, this dude and I'm
sending this to Ross right now becausehe hasn't seen it, because I want
him to weigh in on it.This dude is the head of Diversity,

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Equity and Inclusion for MI T which, by the way, that's a big,
big get. His name is CarlReid, and he tweets the following
Just boarded an early morning flight wearingmy at MIT gear. A seat mate
looked at me and asked, basketball, I said, no engineering, which,

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by the way, is I meantechnically, MIT has a lot of
engineering, but you're the head ofDEI. You're not an engineering person.
And then he takes a picture ofhimself and says, what prompted what about
me? Prompted him to think Iwas playing or coaching basketball? And the
you know, the scenario is he'sblack, so obviously he's sitting next to

(01:15:50):
racisty dude here who just made theassumption that he might be a basketball coach.
So I just sent the tweet andRoss can tweet this out too,
a screenshot of it. Russ,do you think that he sat next to
you know, the grand something orother of the clan and that's you know,
and that happened. Or do youthink that maybe, just maybe he

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sat next to a dude who lookedat him and made an assumption, but
not for the reason that he's he'sputting out there. What is your you?
No, it's the first time seeingNow. If it was me,
myrie, my question would have been, did you work with Professor Lambeau and
and win the Fields Medal? That'dbe my personal question because I've seen Goodwill

(01:16:33):
hunting about forty thousand times. Yes, but no, he's wearing like a
windbreaker, looks like he's wearing anathletic jacket. Dudes wearing an athletic jacket.
He's clearly clearly he looks too oldto be a player, right,
we agree completely? Yes, Yeah, he looks like he looks like a
guy. And by the way,he probably presents as a dude who absolutely,

(01:16:57):
in some way, shape or form, does in fact is associated with
MI T and some sort of facultystandpoint right, And so because he presents
like that, this is what.This is what people don't understand. I
don't care if you're white, black, brown, or whatever. Chances are,
within a few first few minutes,if you told me you worked for

(01:17:20):
MI T or not, I candetermine whether I think you're telling me the
truth. Especially this guy is thisguy is a It's just like some of
the really bad stolen valor stuff outthere. Like I don't I'm not even
have the military background, So I'mnot noticing out of position, you know,

(01:17:43):
adornments of one's uniform. I'm justnoticing how people carry themselves. And
so dudes looking at him, Ican't is he in an upgrade? He's
in a Delta It says comfort pluson the headrest. I can't tell if
he's just in that middle ground onthe I don't fly delta very much,
but whatever, the dude's wearing anathletic jacket. He's wearing a coaches jacket

(01:18:08):
is some people would refer to ita windbreaker is rosters could but you know
what I'm talking about, And he'sdoing so at the very because I saw
people go well good, you know, oh yeah, because mit a big
basketball powerhouse. I don't know ifyou know what happened here just a few
weeks ago where uh basketball at thecollegiate level had uh it was kind of

(01:18:30):
a big deal and people were travelingeverywhere. But it's a perfectly logical assumption.
That's just somebody who's having cut Andfrankly, why are you talking to
me just because I'm sitting next toyou. I don't necessarily want to tie.
And it's not just him, it'sreally anybody. This is what headphones
are for. Have you heard ofthese? They noise. You don't even

(01:18:54):
have to by the way, funtrick, you don't have to turn them
on. You don't have to havea damn thing going through them. But
if I get on a plane andsomehow my my earbuds are not in,
they're soon to be in. Andgenerally, if I'm traveling, I have
my my older studio headphones with me, cause if I have my laptop the

(01:19:18):
air. It's a pain sinking myEarPods with my company laptop. So it's
just easier to plug in you know, standard old school plugins. That's it.
That's there. You go. Thiswill never happen to you again,
sir. Just put headphones on.Oh like people already emailing put headphones on.

(01:19:39):
Yes. Now, if you're asmoke show, as on one of
my recent flights, I won't talkto you. If you want to talk
to me, that's fine, rareexception. And even then, depending on
the mood I'm in, probably notso whatever, all right, so uh,

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mitigated racism or and will tweet itout. Or a guy who literally
he looks like a basketball coach.He looks like a fit dude who's wearing
an athletic who's wearing an athletic jacket. And I think that that is a
logical question. And I think thatanyone who would be wearing literal sports gear.

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And I don't know that the setupto it. If he just out
of the out of the blue,the guy just turned him and goes basketball,
or if they had had some conversationabout m I T and he went,
so he went the basketball program.I don't know, but I know
he thought he found himself a hotone, just based on the little smirk

(01:20:41):
he's got in the photo. Youcan check it out at Casey on the
radio, but first we check outthe weather with Ray Stagic. He's just
sits therey all more, just stairsat a Doppler does nothing else. Doppler
sate the lonely. Yeah, it'sa lonely world in here. Must feel
sorry for me. The symphony carsalready take a lot of time off coming

(01:21:04):
from me. That's a claim.Well, I've been doing it long enough,
right, It'll be what twenty eightyears in at the end of May,
so yeah, I been edited thatlong. Probably we've got to do
about another twenty eight in order toget out of here alive. Right.
The radio math is math, yeah, exactly. The math all works out.
But yeah, and the numbers today, mid upper eighties, very warm.

(01:21:27):
Probably won't see records for the Triad, it's ninety. For the Triangle,
it's ninety two. We may hitninety in some spots. Raleigh off
to our Goldsboro fit and filling tothe west of the Tria. It a
little cooler in the mountains, cooleryet, we'll get a little cloud right
now near Rocky Mountain northeast to that, but other than that, no rain
and just a hit or miss showerthunder shower tomorrow that may keep us down
a little bit with the cloud sunmixed to the low to mid eighties,

(01:21:49):
and I think Wednesday will be cloudy, low eighties and then back to the
mid upper eighties on Thursday. That'sa sunny day. Friday is a sunny
day. The weekend there might bea little unsettled way what. I don't
see those as any big organized systemthat's going to bring all day rain over
the next five to seven days.But we will see our temperatures finally come
down maybe by the end of theweekend to more like normal, which is

(01:22:11):
the low seventies. But until that, dry the warmth, and I'll go
with mainly dry weather. Not goingto say we're not going to get any
this week, but Tuesday, Tuesdaynight possibly and then again maybe for the
upcoming weekend. Okay, all right, very good, thank you sir,
and we'll chat tomorrow and Jeff Bellingercoming up. Oh and that gender reveal.
We got to do this because it'skind of amazing. We'll do it

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next Hang on Bloomberg Update Now withJeff Bellinger. Jeff, what's happening?
Good morning, Casey. A storyof the American consumer is still one of
resilience. The Commerce Department reporting thismorning the retail sales rose seven tenths percent
last month. Sales minus autos we'reup one point one percent. Both of

(01:22:53):
those readings topped economists forecasts, andNew York Fed President John Williams told Bloomberg
News this morning he expects the economyto continue to grow at a solid pace
now. Stocks ended last week witha sell off. Major averages had losses
on Friday of between one and aquarter and one and two thirds percent.
The Dow was down four hundred seventysix points. That capped the worst week

(01:23:15):
for the blue chips in over ayear. But the futures look good this
morning. Higher right across the board, Dow futures are up two hundred eighty
eight points at the moment. TheFood and Drug Administration has been under pressure
to move quickly and get new drugsto patients who need them as soon as
possible, but data compiled by Bloombergsuggests the agency's haste has led to waste.

(01:23:35):
Since twenty fourteen, more than threeand a half billion dollars has been
spent around the world on medications thatturned out to be ineffective or had most
of their uses withdrawn. Here inthe US, shipments of Apple iPhones took
a hit in the first quarter.Preiminary figures from IDC indicate just over fifty
million iPhones were shipped from January toMarch, and that was down nearly ten

(01:23:59):
percent from the prior first quarter.Price of oil has eased a bit today,
back below eighty five dollars of barrel. Traders are made betting the attack
on Israel will not turn into awider Mid East war. You may have
thought that every brand that could possiblypossibly have a tie in to Barbie already
had one by now, but you'dbe wrong. Kraft Hindes has parkeered with

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a dozen original glazed donuts and onlypay the sales tax on that second dozen.

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Casey can you do me a favorite? Jeff, I'm so busy today
I got stuff I'm not gonna beable to get there. Can you how
far is CBS's facility from where youare? How far is it probably a
mile or so? Oh? Canyou head down there and ask? What
the hell did you see it?With a Billy Joel concert. I'm so
upset I didn't see that. Ohoh okay, all right, so yesterday,

(01:25:05):
Look, yesterday was a good day, Jeff. You know, the
Masters, And then they had abig Billy Joel Live at Madison hundredth live
show and in the middle of PianoMan the final show because the things started
late. Through their own incompetence,they heidied it. Remember the Heidi incident,
famous Heidi incident right during the SuperBowl? Was it or some some
major playoff game with the Jets?Yes, yes, ok, yeah,

(01:25:30):
So they made the decision the middleof Piano Man to dip out to local
news at a lot of yeah oho. This thing that hype for months.
So if you get us some answers, that'd be great. But from
a business perspective, that seems likebad business. But that's just the radio
in me anyway, all right,so uh, you're you're our ms are
okay, Jeff, Okay, Iappreciate it, all right, have a

(01:25:53):
good Monday. Look at that JeffBellinger off to get answers. Ross and
I would do it ourselves. Verybusy, very very busy. Today I
think I don't know all right.So, gender reveal parties, literally we've
you know, when we talk aboutthem, it's usually after somebody's either taken
a blue Roman candle to the testiclesthat one was funny, or started one

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of the most destructive fires in recentCalifornia history, not as funny, but
also, how the hell this one'sa little different. We're usually down on
them. I was kind of diggingon this. A gender reveal party,
the couple sitting front and center surroundinga ring where a rather interesting thing is

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happening. I hosted a gender revealwrestling match for my sister. Whatever color
wins is the gender of the baby. Now, I got to tell you
something. What's amazing here is thatthey have all the gear. They got
the ring. One of the wrestlersis a little person. I'm not sure
if it's dwarf or or what,but but you know, you have the

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you have the David and Goliath setup. You have the over you know,
the over cell that obviously is youknow, wrestling like they're doing everything.
They got chairs and tables and it'sa well. I love the visual
because the dude portraying the you know, the the girl is big, right.

(01:27:30):
It looks like he smells like beefand cheese, right, big hairy
guy. And like the other one, like you said, is like a
little person wearing like a kerr anglelike single it you know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeahyeah. So little guy in blue
uh ogre in in pink? Allright, so let's do this. I
hosted a gender reveal wrestling match formy sister. Whatever color wins is.
The gender of the Baby God isreally well done. And there's so many

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twists and turns as you go through. Who's out? Is he gonna make
it? And then it's you know, he's down for the count and one
two, and then up he comeswith a slap to the face and where
do you get that chair from?Its great? I'm sorry I hit the

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wrong one laughing and the taker bellsin there? How great? Was that?
Ross? You hate these things too? You down with this though?
They all go this. Ye Isaw that yesterday, even before you put
it in prepping. As a bigfan, I almost sent it to you,

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and I'm like, there's no wayhe hasn't seen this, so so
we'll get it out there. Wouldyou like to reveal the gender of the
baby, by the way, Idon't think we should. I think we
should lead people to the website.That's what I was just, that's why
I was asking