Thursday-4-25-2024

Episode Transcript

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Cacoday Radio program phone number eight eighteight nine three four seven eight seventy four.
It is Thursday, so you knowyou're almost there. And since it's
Thursday, we'll get to chat withSteven Kent. We didn't talk to him
last week, did we? Right? Last week? Because last week he

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had the conflicts. We haven't talkedto him in a couple of weeks.
And if you don't know Steven Kent, he's well, he's our Thursday guy.
He's he's a guy who who spendshis has spent his career sitting here
and focusing on the intersection of wokepolitics, entertainment, nerddom, you know,

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all the stuff that tends to permeatethis show. So he is.
He was tasked with a big liftthis week by both Ross and I cause
we both had the same question.And for those who don't know, I
haven't done the story yet, butI have it. I have it in
my rollover stack of stuff. Letme tease it for you. So in

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what how many days? Five leftof the month, just under it,
So nine days from now, innine days, one of the two uber
Nerd holidays is here. There's twoof them. I guess you gonna know,
and they're very close to each other. Now, one in March,
one in May, you have Marchfourteenth, three fourteen, bye day,

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get it? Haha, Matt choke. And then you have the fourth of
May or may the fourth get it? It's a Star Wars pun. So
with that in mind, uh ofthe what is it? Camps one of
the big milk companies, I guessI don't have it yet, but one

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of the big milk companies is producingblue milk in honor of Star Wars.
And immediately I saw this and Iwent, oh, okay, like when
the old man's on the island throwinglightsabers in the ocean. Right. But

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what confused me and Ross and Ihad the same question is they referenced the
blue milk is having emerged from aNew Hope, which is one of the
original seventies era Star Wars movies.Right. That was the sticking point.
And I'm like, what the hellis that? And so poor Ross mate
Stephen figure it out so he canexplain it to us. Yeah. I

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was confused too, very confused,because we are not as into Star Wars
as mister Stephen Kent. Now,it's almost impossible to be so I did.
So we had like a we textedback and forth and we got to
the bottom of it. Okay,all right, because immediately I thought,
old old Luke on the Island,you did too. Yeah, No,
a completely different thing. Yeah,Nope, something else I didn't know they

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didn't go. So uh that II feel like that's gonna well that we
got to talk about the TikTok stuff. So Biden signed this thing. If
you don't know that the whole TikTokdivestment or basically sell TikTok to an American
company or you're you're gone, waspart of the Foreign aid I e uh,

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you know, Ukraine, Israel.I think there's some Taiwan stuff and
those a few other things. Butyeah, so in that tucked in there
was the this thing they've been threateningto do with TikTok, and so and
what's here's what's here's what's wild aboutthis. It's but you've already had people

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in the you know, in thethe upper echelons of Byte Dance, which
is the Chinese pair and company ofTikTok, who when when they initially said
hey, this is a thing wethink they'll do, have made comments along
the lines of, well, thenperhaps we won't sell, which that's a

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huge red flag for me. Right, if you have this company, it's
worth I don't know. I don'tknow what TikTok's worth. Let's say it's
worth five billion, five billion dollars. It's probably worth a lot more,
but let's just say five billion.And it is a company, an entity
that was formulated for a specific market, meaning it's not TikTok in China.

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In China, it is something else, although they interface, but that's not
what it is. It's a separateentity. So when I hear allegations from
lawmakers that they feel that TikTok isa Chinese spy tool for gathering information in
all of this, and then yourrebuttal to that is that we might even
take this thing that holds all ofthis value and potentially just flush it away,

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because that's what you'd be doing ratherthan reaping the the purchase price.
That's weird to me. It's alreadya significant transfer of wealth, likely from
a US entity to to a Chineseentity. Right, that's just that's just

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here's your money. Would lead oneto the conclusion that maybe they just don't
want they don't want a US entityor perhaps even the US government to be
able to poke around into the innerworkings of TikTok like it it it it
on one on one hand, soundslike a bit of an admission, you
know what I'm saying. So that'swe'll talk with Stephen about that, because

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that's crazy. And let me justpoint this out because I saw people freak
it out. They're like, duh, you know it's I saw, well,
one, there's racism because it's aChinese zoned app. I saw those
allegations, which, sure, whateveryou want to put out there, I

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guess because obviously that is what's drivingmost of the folks, but also about
the inherent value of it. Andlet me say this, I am an
honest, arbiter when it comes tosocial media platforms. I would remind you
that on this show, long beforeElon Musk ever thought about buying Twitter,

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when we were in the doldrums ofshadow banning, voter manipulation, with the
Hunter Biden thing and everything else underthe sun, I have always held the
same slice of positive about Twitter,even under the old regime. I said,

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for all of its faults, whatTwitter does do well if you know
how to drink from the fire hoseis as somebody in the business of breaking
news occasionally, much more so whenI wasn't doing mornings, because most of
you know, breaks later. ButTwitter is incredibly valuable at getting you video

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audio insight immediately on what's going on. You have to understand it may not
all be accurate, and even todaynow it may not even be a real
video, but there's inherent value therebecause of the way that the platform works.
So even now we're even though we'rein the Twitter's farming phase, I

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saw somebody refer to it as engagementfarming phase, and people tell me where
to look on my keyboard, whichis so annoying that I almost can uh
that inherent value still exists. Idon't understand tiktoks okay, and I haven't

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now maybe that's not fair. MaybeI'm not understanding the inherent value of TikTok
from a breaking news perspective. ButI've dug around on there and people send,
you know, links to it,and then I'll dip into some other
stuff curious, you know, curiouswhat's going on. That's why you have
a VPN, by the way,And yeah, I like where I guess

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if I had to look at theinherent value of TikTok societally, it's confessions.
Do you know what I mean bythat? Like TikTok has proven invaluable
in getting people that you may nothave realized were in any way, shape
or form involved in the rearing ofyour child to tell on themselves. Right,

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we wouldn't have libs of TikTok?Right, yes, yeah, so,
I like I wanted to. I'mtrying to find an inherent value.
You would agree that that is,I guess if you had to be yeah,
right. Overall, I think ifyou were to eliminate TikTok, right,
mm hmm, I think the theintelligence and our political discourse would skyrocket
a bit. He would go up. I think it's not beneficial to the

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discourse at all. No, that'sa theory. This is ros. I
just got feeling from there. Youknow what, let me do. I
think it is dumbed down America.I think it's been a net positive,
a net negative. Let's the bestway I think to vue. Let's go
see what's popular on TikTok right now, shall we. I don't know if
it's eating cinnamon or milk, infact, you know TikTok. I have
heard the TikTok is the incubator whatdo they call it? Rolling stone?

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The incubator for new undiscovered music,which arguably, you know, the YouTube
kind of did their thing and that'sstill a thing and there there there's others
out there, and that's fine.Let's uh, let's see what's trending on
over at the TikTok. Shall wedon't want a bunch of society bug bull,

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I don't mustle you one day.You can't have here. How is
it going to work? No?How was he going to worst? I'm
pretty dirt. I said that youconsume me. I don't want to.
Okay, Okay, So strong messagingthere now? Is is it ironic?

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Non ironic in the way people?I don't know. But he's damn popular.
This is like one issue. Thisis like one issue that you know.
I mean, my buddy Michael,I'm going to bulldoze his house to
win the power ball. You'll betalking all the time. He's like a
big lib. He said, likeif this happened, if if TikTok is

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actually a band, he's gonna voteMaga because he's so against TikTok, it's
just brain rot. It is.It's just brain rot. Uh you say
I could see the benefits from Twitterand exit even Facebook, or I'm not
gonna lie. I've never been onInstagram. I have no idea. But
when it comes to TikTok, likeI said, it's a net negative.

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I think some people are sitting thereforever just scrolling looking at these dumb videos
over there's no benefit to it.It makes you stupid. I think Instagram
into the quality of some of thevideo and photos I think people like,
and that's fine, But it comesdown to Instagram is not It's Mark Zuckerberg.
And by the way, they justlost like four billion dollars in the

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last quarter on all sorts of stuff, so we'll see how long that's around
for. But but like people takingpictures of everything they've ordered in a restaurant
ever and making us all way toeat is annoying, right, But it's
not China gathering information. Right.I feel like the same way I did

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about with Instagram that I do areabout Pinterest, where I feel like,
what do you or like the switchthe Nintendo, so I feel like it's
for women and children. I feellike it's a women and children app that's
you know what, that is fair? And I've said that forever about the
Switch. I feel like the Switchis marketed towards women and children. Well
you I'm not gonna get into thedetails of it, but like we you

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know, we just had a meetingwhere we're talking about all the social media's
and that's kind of what I wastrying to say. Yeah, and once
again go back to my buddy Michael, the only person, the only dude
I know, the only guy inmy wheelhouse here. Yeah, that I
know that ever sends me links toInstagram is my but my lib, my
super lib buddy Michael, and he'she's will send me links to Instagram and

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I will immediately write him back.I go, I don't click on these
links because that is a website forwomen. I said, I'm too busy
lifting and eating twenty eggs. Icannot click the link of Sorry, but
why are you doing that? Ross? Why are you putting in the effort.
Why do you come to work,why do you get up early?
Why do you go out to it? I've been here now, I've been

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here today since three thirty. I'malready tired. Can I can I share
some philosophy with you on your deadh Yeah, sure, sure, go
ahead. Wow, that's here thebeat, Yeah, it's good beat.
No, how was he going towhat I said that you consume me?

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I don't want to. Yeah,see a lot of good points he's bringing
up right right, dude, sobad? Oh man, And before you
know it, you spend too muchtime on TikTok or something called crackhead Barney.

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Who will I'm sure you guys knowwho that is. What a video
crackhead Barney's the performance artist. Sois she like Andy Kaufman type? That's
where dude, it's why it's sodangerous. This is why you and I
don't I've never worked on radio withsomebody where we didn't have a sit down

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meeting in the minds to make surekind of feel where we're at. We
don't have to. We don't haveto, because that is straight where I
was going. Because if it's likean Andy Kaufman type thing, I respect
it. Right, Oh my gosh, yeah, so good, it's so
good. But but but but ifit isn't like Anydy Kaufman thing, then
that Alic bald would shot the wrongperson. Yeah, it's not that.

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Unfortunately she has a history and Irealized we talked about her on the show
before. She's a fixture. Thenuh yeah we have yeah, yeah,
yeah, I'll uh I can't waitto learn. Yeah, we're gonna all
learn together. So that's a that'sa person who's been around doing all sorts
of stuff. Uh. Let's seehere. So we got that, Uh,

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we got USC University of Texas insanity. Uh, the protester. We
got a lot of audio today.So uh yeah, all sorts of good
stuff. Oh, and we willaddress the absolutely insane annual ranking of the

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best beaches in America by Travel andLeisure. Can I let me ask you,
let me ask you a quick question. North Carolina got so disrespected.
When you're doing a listing of thebest beaches in America? Should the majority

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of those beaches not be on anocean? Does a beach on a lake
count the same as a beach onthe ocean? Now, look, if
you're doing the best beaches in Wyoming, I think we have a beach.
I guess there's what they call abeach at a couple of the big reservoirs.

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But but like, that's not abeach, it's not a I know
it's a beach in that it's notwhy it's not a beach. I saw
this list and I lost my damnmind. So all that and uh,
you know, whatever else happens comingto owe it another incentive to be homeless.
I'm telling you wait for it.It's on the way. Hang on

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phone number eight eight eight nine threefour seven eight seven four. I don't
know. Let's tell you what.Let's go ahead and start the show like
kind of like we did yesterday thePresident on the road yesterday. In fact,
let's just listen and see how thespeech was going yesterday. Shall we
imagine what we can do next fourmore years? More years? I'm sorry,

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did he just say pause? Youknow the irony is he paused and
then said pause. And I thinkpeople are missing this that he didn't read
it four more years pause, hepaused, imagine what we can do next
four more years? Oh right,that's wilder than him just reading it verbatim

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and saying four more years pause.His brain registered. And a reminder,
if you've never read a telepropter,commands that are nonverbal are in ellipses parentheses.
You know they're and they're and they'reseparate, so it would say four
more years space, line space,parentheses, pause, space, and then

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whatever other garbage he was gonna spewafter that. So his brain paused out
of just doing this for so damnlong, And then he still couldn't stop
himself from reading it. And theneveryone starts chanting, and I an awkward
room, man, see what wecan do next four more years? And

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in that inch interesting too, assomebody starts saying to is that person saying
four more years? Before the presidentsays it, is that a staffer who's
meant to get the room chanting?Is it kind of sounds like that?
Imagine what we can do next fourmore years? That's a staffer, right,
I'm not wrong on this ross.Is that what it sounds like to

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you? I'm dude, completely okay. It sounds like a staffer who knows
his job. One the pause hitsis to begin the chant realizes the President's
he doesn't. He realizes look onBiden's face as he isn't gonna stop talking,
right, he realizes that Biden isbron Burgundy from Anchorman. Yes,
yes, just reading whatever's on theprompter. Does he have any thoughts on

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Sandy? He sure does Are theypositive? Is what he is? He
encouraging them to get out and voteor get out and do stuff, and
perhaps other stuff they should go do. I don't know. Yeah, what
a it's? Is it? JebBush? Please clap awkward? I'll let

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you be the judge of that.The ever energetic Jeb Right, the guy
who was so charismatic they had toput an exclama exclamation point after his name
on his official campaign signage. Ifelt like when Jeb Bush did that the
police clap, I felt it wasmore like despondent, like it was desperation

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and sad. With this, it'sjust confused and lost. Yeah that's fair.
Yeah, Jeb obviously thought that someonewas going to land and it didn't.
But still it's like, you know, the guy was governor of Florida
since what I was in high school? When did he come in? When
did he come in? We hadthe one governor die who was governor forever

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down there, Lowton whatever, andthen the lieutenant governor was governor for a
month and then it was Jeb sothat would have been late nineties. Yeah,
so it's not like and the grandgrand scheme of things. Dude,
it spent a lot of stage time, and so to not have something he
thought was clearly going to be aclapline not work. Yeah, de spawn

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is probably the right word there.But this man every day. Can you
imagine every day waking up and havingto be like his handler on the road,
right, because you got all thisthis stuff is so coordinated, and
even when things are going great,whoever, who are the whoever the person

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on the ground is who ultimately isin charge of this for a campaign,
that person looks like they haven't sleptin five days. It's just the nature
of politics, especially during campaign season. It's crazy. So you are you
couple that stress already knowing that alsoif you put a pause indicator in there,
a directive into the scripting in theway that it's always been done,

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that there's only a fifty to fiftyshot, he'll honor it. I can't
even imagine, dude. But yeah, so you know, things going well,
but that's not the It's not theonly thing, not the only thing.
He was up to behind the scenes. He's got some big plans.

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And then yesterday we found out thatthe Biden administration, who I don't know
if you saw him at one ofthe events he was with AOC and they
were kind of like holding hands walkingdown there, and you know, they've
had some differences. But I thinkit was correctly surmised by some analysts that
AOC's happy because there are elements ofthat absurd Green New Deal, which I

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had so much fun mocking that insanity, all right, like nothing betrays and
then people are like Hawaii and likeno more cows. And then remember that
video that weird like video about howall of people are going to transition the
world's work's going to transition into plantingswamp plants or something. Right, it

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was just crazy, like cartoon sizzlereel on all that insanity, and we
all, we all looked at itfor the absurdity that it was. And
yet behind the scenes, here iswhat the Biden administration is now working towards,
the White House telling Fox Business it'snow considering declaring a national climate emergency.

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Okay, here we go. Areyou sick of this yet? It's
an emergency? I told you wepredicted it. That's how we roll down
here. Always right by the way, we nailed the story of the what
looks to be the actual motivation forthis seventy four year old to open fire

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on that white dude just walking hisdog down by Shaw. There's a lunatic,
is self deputized lunatic who thinks he'sprotecting a prayer room. And this
guy's literally on he's on the sidewalk. But that doesn't matter. And I
don't know that sounds a little alittle problematic there and some details that we

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readily shared here on the show,and now only now the folks are catching
up in the rest of the media. So anyway back to this, So
this climate thing, we've been warningyou about this, going back to COVID.
If all you have to do isgo, oh and it's an emergency,
as our governor did, as othergovernors did, is local elected officials

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did, President of the United States, and then you could just go and
basically violate the Constitution. And nowall these rulings are coming back going,
no, you can't do this,you can't do this. When these judges
were too cowardly at the time toactually hold accountable these violations, you would

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think you can do it. Rememberour own governor, what three weeks ago
on the official website for the Governorof North Carolina, not Roy Cooper's campaign
website or any of the rest,but the official thing created at the top
of it, and I shared,I tweeted out a screenshot of this,

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tweeted out that we are now ina education emergency, right, so they're
testing this stuff out. And whenthere's an emergency, then I then you
can do stuff you normally can't dobecause it's an emergency, and you run
the risk, obviously of just decidingeverything's a damn emergency and using it to

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justify your own arguably criminal behavior atthe very least well outside the bounds of
what you swore an oath to andwhat is expected under our laws. And
so this stuff needs to be Thisstuff needs to be kai bosh immediately.
There needs to be zero appetite forthis. Unfortunately, very hyper political people

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won't care. They will go aheadand do it, and there needs to
be repercussions. You need to havepeople that literally, when the voters go
to the polls go that's a totalitarianin the making. I don't care that
they agree with me on other stuff. Can we get somebody better on this?
Anyway? Back to this, butthat's a climate crisis to you mark

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the ap which sets the standards fornewsrooms across the country. They're urgent Americans
to use the term climate crisis toaddress the current situation. This is all
troubling. But if the president declaresa climate emergency, what impact does that
have? Well, I mean,this is this is this is the serious
story of the today. NBC Newshas reported that if Joe Biden declares a

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national climate emergency, he would haveCOVID like powers under that emergency, and
they also compared the emergency powers tothe nine to eleven emergency powers. All
right, so did you hear howwild that was that you just heard?
Did you hear what you do?Okay? Sorry, that wasn't worded as
well as it could, like Biden'steleprompter. Did you take in what they

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just said? So? The AssociatedPress is talking about Biden's declaration of a
climate emergency as potentially providing him thesame flexibility to do things the same powers
that existed under COVID post nine toeleven. That is chilling, man,

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absolutely chilling. The Center for BiologicalDiversity has estimated Joe Biden would get about
one hundred and thirty wartime like powersby which to bypass democracy and impose the
green new deal on the America withouta single vote of Congress. How and
before you say that, And Iunderstand that we have different you know,

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different constitutions, different governments, Butit was in talking to some Canadians that
I know, some friends I've madeover the years from living in Minnesota and
whatnot and going up there and fishingand hanging out the declar where when Trudeau
came out and was just like,I'm here's all of our new gun laws

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for the entire country. It happened, and I think here in the US
a lot of people went, well, that's you know, they don't have
the same as US. They don't, but they kind of do. And
that was staggering. To Canadians.That was like how and I don't know

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that they've received an adequate explanation otherthan Trudeau said it's an emergency. And
I think if you're all the restof these cats who run around and want
nothing more than you know, unfetteredpower, you got the h the Australia.
Did you see the Australian PM.I didn't put it in the prep
pross. Did you see him yesterdayholding a press conference? He's not just

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mad about uh, you know,different, you know, a few different,
very specific pieces of disinformation he feelsmay may have been intentional or part
of another country. He cracked downand demanded the crackdown of websites and then
bragged about it that depicted his headplaced on other bodies or yeah, he's

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like doing like the president eleven Zwhatever his name is in China, Winnie
the Pooh thing like yes, yeah, he went on winning the Pooh.
He's the lock up elon Musk.He was mad. He said that nobody
should be able to and by theway, never tell the Internet this cause
it's if you look at any threadsunder this, it's crazy. He said

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that nobody on the Internet should beable to to photoshop his head on the
what was the one the why ismy brain failing me? What? What's
the monster's name that lives in theupside down? The Demi Gorgan? The
demog So he put his head ona Demi Gorgan And it was one of

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the it was what that was oneof the exams. That was one of
the things he was talking. No, it was the it was the for
Yeah, it was the Demi Gorgan. So yes, because I guess maybe
he thought someone go on Twitter andthink that under that suit, he was,
Oh I can't vote for that,yeah right lord, Oh my gosh,
she's a demic gorgan, when inreality he's just I don't know,

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man, you know what's crazy toos? I was listening listening to him that
Why does the Australian PM sound likethat time Michael blue Blaze tried to pretend
he was South Africa? You eversee that skit he did. There's a
video that Michael blue Blay did,who like he tended just to be a
regular dude from South Africa and thenhe would go and like work job.

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You know, it's one of theseweird undercover celebrity undercover things whatever. And
I just I remember happening to watchthat because it was pretty amusing. But
he was so bad at doing thisweird South African accent. And just to
be clear, Boublet is not Australian, so it's not like he was going
back to a native thing. Itwas. It was just as weird as
and I don't know why that accentis stuck of my brain and like that's

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exactly how the Australian PM sounds.So I'm convinced he might be a Demi
Gorgan doing some sort of impression thathe thinks is correct. But never tell
the Internet you can't photoshop your headon as an elected official onto a Demi
Gorgan, because you know what theInternet's going to spend the rest of the
day doing creating AI generated Demi Gorgonporn with your face on it. Broz,

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do you want to link to theDemi Gorgan porn with the austrolier?
I have already got tons of it. I'm good, good, you got
a whole collection. Huh what's yourfavorite? You know it's my way of
fighting the man? Yeah, what'syour favorite? I can't get into it
on the radio. I want tomake sure you have this one. Is
it? Demi Horgan? Okay?All right? Because that's I think this

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shows how popular it is. Soapparently him saying don't do that has worked.
It's it's the streisand effect, thatterm and the Debbie. The thing
in the thing is the other thingis streisand did you not see this?
I'm dead. I'm not gonna sendI'm not gonna send it to you.
I just thought we were making stuffup. What's the thing? Somebody created

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a Debbie Gorgan porn, where oneis the Australian PM and the other one
is streisand brilliant. Absolutely. Imean, I'm sure that Demi Gorgan's had
worse. Eh, I don't know. The chick in the pool was a
lot hotter, right the first seasonMarch or something? Every day? Yeah,

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like do I want Demi Gorgan?I want Martin bar bar Bar Yeah,
yeah, I go with Barb.That's right, that's right. You
arise this morning, on this twentyfifth day of April. You're of our
Lord twenty twenty four, on ain a world where Demi Gorgan porn exists.

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You're welcome. We'll be back CaseyO Day Radio program. Thanks for
hanging out with us one hour fromnow. We'll get into the conversation with
Stephen Kent. We've got blue MilkTikTok. Is there something else I was
gonna talk? Well, anyway,we'll we'll get into that as well.

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We'll make fun of the Australian PMas well. Oh and by the way,
I'm sorry a little bit of housekeepinghere. People. I need you
to stop, okay, and needyou to stop photoshopping my head onto Rambo's
body. Okay, Ross Ross thehere, look at this, somebody photoshopped

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your hate that's that's mister T inhis prime. That might be a hate
crime. I don't even know what'sgoing on there. People, stop it.
It's not okay, not acceptable.I demand that you not photoshop Ross
and I his heads onto peak physicalcondition Jean Claude Van dam and stallone.

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What I'm getting tired? Yes,is the my my head photoshopped on thunderlips
from Rocky Yeah, from Rocky three. I mean, I will stop stop
monster what monsters? Okay? Arewe done? Thank you? I would
not I would hate to have tohave you arrested or execute it or whatever

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the Australian PM wants. Put it, put it, do it, dud,
don't tell the internet. No,that's how you end up in a
Demi Gorgon adult video. You absolutelunatics. Oh man, all right,
let's go ahead and get into this. I have no idea. I have

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no idea. If it's a competitionin California to see who can outstoop at
each other with people's money and theirideas to sell quote solve homelessness. But
we may have a new leader.If you remember, do you remember the
story we did where they had comeup with like a hobo tent city,
and then they found out what wasthe operating cost for the tents, like
five thousand dollars a month or somethingpertent pertent which slept I think two people.

(34:39):
So they put two hobos in atent and and then they would provide
you know, food and some jobservices I suppose probably some clothes things like
that, and somehow they were ableto figure that. Somehow they were able
to make it cost like five grandper tent. Actually, let me check
it for whatever. I think itmight have been five grand per persons.

(35:02):
That would have been ten grand pertent. And you're like everyone has ever
been camping ever, even if youhave really nice stuff and you're one of
those weird glampers that I see upon the Blue Rich Parkway from time to
time. Yeah, you know,you know, you know who you are.
Where you got like the multi roomtent with the giant air mattress,

(35:28):
a blender somehow in the middle ofthe campground. That's fine, you do
what you want to do, Butlike, I don't they weren't even talking
about those kinds of tents. Well, now, the city of Santa Monica.
They decided they're going to go big. That's right. Santa Monica has
approved a new plan to create aone hundred and twenty two unit apartment building

(35:52):
for the homeless. The facility willinclude a mix of student, D one,
two and three bedroom apartments. Right, because you have families that are
experiencing homelessness as they as that's theterminology that the City of California uses.
You're experiencing homelessness. Okay, Andhere, by the way, and I'm

(36:15):
not necessarily opposed to efforts to aidhomeless. You know, we can debate
public private how it should be donewith recognizing because I think often when you
say somebody's homeless, you think aboutthe singular individual. But in reality,
there's whole families that are homeless.It's very sad. Especially you ever see

(36:37):
the video of like the Disney workersdown in Los Angeles where they're all like
they're living like ten to a roomthese cheap motels or in their cars,
or you know where it's whole familiesin there. So it exists, and
I understand it. Here's where thisgets interesting though, the cost. So

(37:02):
arguably, if you're building a facilityfor people who are homeless. You don't
need any of the luxury items.You need to be spartan in this effort.
Okay, it needs to be functional. You're going to build this obviously,
you know, you want to makesure that you're spending. You want

(37:22):
to make sure that as it's built, the build is good. And you
know, the really expensive fixture kindof you know, the water and the
sewage systems and the bathrooms and allof that. Right, you can't straight
bottom barrel, but you can reasonablygo in there and try to get the
most bang for their But so anyway, each apartment's a million dollars. I

(37:47):
repeat that again. The one hundredand twenty two unit building is expected to
cost one hundred and twenty three millionin one million dollars per apartment, and

(38:07):
I guess maybe another million for thelobby whatever. A million dollars. It's
a million dollars in apartment for astudio, hope, a place where you're
going to put a homeless person.They can't help themselves. And I understand
it's Santa Monica, and you knowthings are expensive, But the government's there,

(38:30):
so the government doesn't have tax liability. They're not going to be running
into the permitting. Insanity may getsome lawsuits, but right this should be
a no. And you're spending amillion dollars per apartment. Can you imagine
I lived in southern California and Ididn't live in a million dollar unit.
I didn't live in a three hundredthousand dollars unit. Costs her up but

(38:57):
not that much since late nineties,early two thousand and you spend a million
dollars per unit, which, bythe way, if that's the standard ross,
how much of those units that bloughtout your son not even close to
that? What if is that filledwith hobos? Did you even check?
Maybe this is a new trend lookingdown on your hinge. The California Interagency

(39:24):
Council on Homelessness, listen, thisthing is such a grift too. By
the way, if you're not familiarwith this organization, this is a whole
agency whose job, as best Iunderstand it, is to take giant piles
of money and then remember what youremember what the Joker did in the Nolan

(39:44):
series with the bank robbery, whathe actually did with the money that that's
basically the California Interagency Council on Homelessnessjust light it on fire. These folks
have how much did they burned throughlast year? Twenty four billion? They
had twenty four billion dollars ross.I want to do some quick math.

(40:07):
Would you look, would you quicklywait on on? Yeah? Would you
look and see what the estimated numberof homeless in California is. Just give
me a ballpark to work with.And I want to remind people the last
year that spent twenty four billion dollarsto eradicate deal with homelessness. Twenty four

(40:28):
billion dollars California. What is theestimated homeless population of California. I just
want to highlight the absurdity of aboutwhat I'm about to show you more than
one hundred eighty one thousand, onehundred and eighty one thousand. All right,

(40:52):
hold on, I'm gonna try toI'm not gonna try to trigger your
phones. One hundred and thirty threethousand dollars was spent last year per homeless
person in the state of California tofix homelessness. One hundred and thirty three

(41:17):
thousand dollars average salary California. Doyou do the average salary in the state
of California. Well, it's notthe media, I guess the media and
be more accurate, but the averageis one hundred and eleven thousand, So

(41:38):
literally more money was expended per homelessperson in the state of California than what
the average California worker makes, andthe number has not gone gone down.
It's almost as if simply being homelessand then being provided a place to live

(42:00):
does not cure everything that goes alongwith being homeless, whether it's lifestyle choices,
addictions, mental health issues. Youhave people who have suffered injuries in
service of this country, I mightadd that limits their ability to work.

(42:22):
And then you throw in the PTSDangle, the addiction angle, the mental
health angle, not just on homelessveterans, but you know people in general.
And understandably there's there's gonna be somefolks where non traditional processes are needed.
But you guys have tried everything exceptjust going, hey, your new

(42:43):
job is being homeless but with ahouse. Here's a salary, Just to
show you how incredibly credibly never noincentive to fix a problem, how incredibly
corrupt this whole thing is. Becauseif you're one of these folks, who's

(43:05):
you know, suckling at the publickeet in the Interagency Homeless Coalition. And
you can't simply one of you can'tjust do a simple division and go,
hey, you know what we're spending. We're spending way more than what even
the average salary is it. Wecould save we could literally save twenty percent
if we just gave them the money. And now they're building one million dollars

(43:30):
studio apartments for hoboes. I justhow do you sit in California and put
up with this? How is everyonenot fled? Mind boggling to me,
but not as mind boggling as whatwe're gonna we're gonna talk about next.
If you didn't see what happened onPiers Morgan, well, one, you

(43:55):
probably don't have bleach in your eyes, because that might be the necessary remedy.
But it was crazy and it involvedcrackhead Barney, the individual who got
up in Alec Baldwin's face. Theaudio just wait for it coming your way
here on the CaCO Day radio program. The deputy Defense Minister of Russia was

(44:17):
taken into custody yesterday. Why isthis? Why is this important? Well,
for a couple of reasons. One, do you know do you know
how people on the outside looking inso people who likely are more honest arbiters

(44:38):
than you know, Pravda. Youknow how much money Putin has. I
mean, nobody really knows, butthey have some estimates. And if you
ever see even a sab like GoogleEarth of that house he built down down
south by Ukraine, it's bonkers.Forever they had the Winter Olympics where they

(45:01):
built the fake hospital with secret secrettunnels. Sochi, He's got a mansion
down there that might well be themost expensive mansion in the world. And
that's just the tippitty Iceberg. Theway in which they feel many many feel

(45:21):
that the money funnels through is basicallythrough the various branches of government. The
people in charge know to take themoney and then get a percentage of it
goes back to Putin, and thenthere's some laundering concerns as well. And
this guy was like notorious him andhis boss for doing that because there's so

(45:43):
much money that goes through the youknow, the military side, and so
some are seeing this as arresting.The deputy minister was about sending a message
to the minister Minister, who Idon't know, maybe told Putin. They're
like, hey, we got alot of military costs. Maybe you should
stop stealing all of it. Butwe don't know. But I will say

(46:06):
this ross. Uh, you know, next month when this guy testifies,
I mean, who knows, whoknows what we'll learn? Right, I
can't wait next month when he testifies. I heard his initial consultation with his
legal staff. It's right next tothat window over there. Well that's nice
to calm me down. Yeah.Yeah, And it's a nice legal firm
because they're at the top floor.That's skyscraper. So you know that's how

(46:29):
you know they're the best, right, they're the top yep, the penthouse.
If you don't want to, youdon' want a lawyer in a basement.
Yeah, well I would hire to. Would you trust that, because
you'd be like, now that guy'sI'm gonna go to jail for that guy.
So all right, we'll uh,we'll see how that all pans out.
Meanwhile, we got this in D. C. Andrews Air Force Base

(46:52):
Vice President Harris's detail a wild sceneas one of the agents. According to
reports, they'd be came aggressive withother agents when the special agent in charge
and the detail shift supervisor attempted tocalm the agent. So these are his
two direct superiors. He's like,now I'm gonna fight you both. Now,

(47:15):
that's the report. A physical altercationensued. The agent was handcuffed before
being withdrawn from service for medical assessment. It happened at like nine in the
morning. And when I say theyhad a scrum, what he did is
there was some disagreement with this agentand another agent. The two bosses went

(47:37):
over andlay, hey, what thehell is going on? What do we
do? Were the detail for theVice president? Could you not be screaming
at each other? And according tothe report, the agent at that point
tackled the chief agent and began pummelinghim on the ground like it was an
MMA fight. What obviously drew alot of concern for the other agents around

(48:01):
there is dudes armed. So he'sbeaten on this dude and he has a
firearm, at which point the otheragents intervening, They secure him, secure
the firearm. That's the story youprobably heard already. But Real Clear Politics
they have a little bit of afollow up. They got a little bit

(48:22):
of a follow up here that Ithink is kind of interesting this morning.
This is from reporter Susan Crabtree.Sources tell Real Clear Politics that the agent
within the secret service community that theagent assigned to Harris was armed. During
the fight, the gun secured inthe agent's holster, other agents had to
physically restrain him. And are youready for this? That there are dei

(48:45):
concerns among the secret service community asit pertains this particular agent. Why because
the vetting and hiring process for thisagent was not how they'd do it,
is what the report is, right, there's a pretty on all the detailed
I never ever did watch a documentaryon that. You know, how you

(49:06):
get to be a Secret Service agent, and you know that's the part that
they'll show you. But that wasnon existent here, according to the sources
for Real Clear Politics, basically thatthere were elements of the agent's background that
were ignored, as well as mentalhealth concerns that were widespread concerns that nobody

(49:29):
followed up on, and that hedid not go through the traditional hiring process
and vetting process that all other agentsdo and instead was fast tracked. And
by the way, here's the otherthing. The secrets. When you think
of secret service, what do youthink of You think of agents sitting there

(49:52):
and you know, jumping in frontof a bullet for the president and vice
president whatever. But in reality,those are the those are the the really
really high quality, top you know, top tier agents. That's a that's
an assignment. That's a prestigious assignmentto be on detail for the president,
even the vice president, and heckyes, even the families to some extent,

(50:14):
though there's a pecking order within that. The vast majority of Secret Service
folks do not provide presidential or vicepresidential protection detail, right because remember this
is a Treasury department thing. SecretService does a is is involved in so
much on the financial side and nonpresidential protective detail side. So to get

(50:37):
one of those positions is that's athat's a big deal to get one of
those positions. And everyone around yourecognizes that none of the norms we were
here, and even when concerns wereexpressed, nobody would do anything that's going
to raise eyebrows and for everyone goingwow, you know, it's just that's
how racism works. Uh. Idon't know if you know this. They

(51:00):
have black Secret Service agents, theyhave female agents, they have Asian Secret
Services, they have folks from allover. But it's not your normal job
because you have what I would considermilitary style or police style concerns. So
if I, you know, ifRoss doesn't record a promo that he's supposed

(51:23):
to, or I don't one ofus the other one likely that will not
bear potential unreversible consequences for those aroundus. If you have a secret service
agent that can't operate in a particularfashion, and God forbid, there is
something that happens and they're just notable to deal with it because they never,

(51:45):
you know, never bother to properlylearn how to do things or had
the skill set necessary that could rendereither the protect e dead or other agents
around there. So that's a remarkablyhigher level of concern that those individuals are
going to have. Other details.Crabtrees went on to report this again Real

(52:13):
Clear Politics sources say the agent inquestion it was acting erradically upon showing up
for a travel shift. The agent, following the warning by the senior agent
in charge to calm down, reportedlytook a run and tackled the senior agent,
got on top of him and startedpunching him in the face, at
which point, you know, othersjumped in there, and now they're they're

(52:37):
going through and figuring out what's up. So so that's just awful, one
hundred percent awful. So there yougo, all right, seven forty four.
Let's get mister Ray stage. Ican hear you excited the big draft
tonight. Yeah I am. Iam curious to see. Guess which quarterback

(53:00):
goes second. You think it'll beMay, You think it'll be mayor you
know what? Oh boy, betternot say this. I was never impressed
by Drake. I just I don'tknow. You look, you can say
it. There's been no no,no, here's here's what. This is
not a judgment on Drake May,U n C U n C does very

(53:22):
well in getting their quarterbacks to theNFL, right, you know that's for
for the for the level of youknow, for the number of championships the
schools had here as of late.They still churn a lot of folks in
there, but the last two precedingMay really feels all out man. So
and yeah, you know, there'ssomething to be said for the style of

(53:44):
school, the style of offense atthe school runs, and how that translates.
So that's a fair I think it'sfair for people to wonder. I
think Drake May is a good quarterbackwatching them, but it's you know,
how does it translate and people,But you guys still haven't even got your
your your dack thing figured out,So I don't know know, well,
you know, now we approach thedraft and you know, you're starting to

(54:06):
hear little bits and pieces that betweenhim and Ceedee Lamb, they're going to
get them both signed and so youknow, it's just yeah, we'll see
and I'll probably miss most of thefirst part of it. I'll be watching
my daughter's performance up at the universityat the Clemson and so I'll probably catch
it somehow. Try not to becheating on my phone while we're trying to

(54:28):
be quiet, not using our phonephone. Yeah, I mean this is
not hard I do it is itis. But anyway, typically this time
of year, weatherwise, we shouldbe load of mid seventies, and we're
going there, finally starting to comeback now after a couple of cool days
yesterday most of us into the uppersixties, had some low sixties earlier in

(54:52):
the week. Either way, lowmid seventies, a little cloud of the
white sunshine dead tim earlier fog stillmay be some areas of that. Other
than that in good shape. Alittle about cloud tomorrow, but no rain.
There could be a sprinkle try atwestern in the mountains, but I
think that's it. Near seventy degrees. The weekend is going to be great,
more clouds Saturday and then mostly sunnySunday and will warm up a little

(55:14):
mid seventies Saturday, near eighty onSunday, and even warmer as we get
into next week, middle and maybeupper eighties. Going to see a big
ridge park off the coast in thewestern Atlantic, and that looks more typical
late spring and summertime when that ridgepark there. So the temperatures are going
to warm up and going on anextended period of dry weather here case,

(55:34):
probably the next seven days dry andstarting Sunday is the next six to ten
day outlook is going to be fora normal or even above normal temperature,
So dry and getting warmer to evenhot for this time of the year as
we go through next week. Ilike the first word you use there,
though, dry dry Yeah, drydry hot good human hot, not good?

(55:58):
Yeah? Exactly? All right,man, we'll talk in an hour.
I appreciate it. Okay, thereyou go, raced Agic from the
Weather Channel. All right, comingup on the show, how many of
you how many of you have takenyour kids or how many of you regularly
take your kids to Drag Queen StoryHour? Is that ross you got?

(56:19):
You guys go to Drag Queen StoryHour? Is that a big big thing
there? You know? I can'tsay we have Oh wow? Do I
think you just haven't found the rightDrag Queen Story Hours? So for those
of you who yet to make thetrack, I there's a twist. We'll
have that for you. Plus Stephenkenill join us at eight oh five.
So hang on. Maybe you're busy, right, got a lot of family

(56:42):
commitments. Uh so, haven't hada chance to take the kids down to
Drag Queen's Story Hour. But ifyou if you've been waiting for an opportunity,
and you've always thought to yourself,you know what they didn't have enough
of? And Drag Queen Story Hour? Divisive Middle East politics? How many

(57:07):
times have you said that to yourself? Right? Well, uh, fear
not because it exists. Now absolutelyhear that and you know itself. If
you're a drag, you know itand you really want to show it and

(57:30):
you know it. So that whatis going on? Your kids? So
the kids are chanting? If you'rea drag queen and you know it,
say free Palestine just chanting away?How is up? Even if you think

(57:55):
that, right, even what businessdoes your does your three year old have
with Middle East politics? This isthe thing that kills me. Right,
you got, you got, three, four, whatever your kid is.
They're in there, they'll by theway, they'll they're like a they're like
a parrot. Well yeah, that'swhat makes it so scary though, right,

(58:19):
because kids are like, they're likeclay, right, They're very impressionable.
So what's crazy about this is tome, the free Palestine part having
the kids chant it is more cringethan them actually being there, which is
already cringe. I know, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh,
it's just like if you if becauseif I if you were there and
you said you could literally kids willchant anything. My question then, because

(58:45):
I agree with you on the clay, how much does that stick? And
the answer is kind of a lot, right, because kids are at the
end of the day, they're alsopeople pleasers. I mean most of them.
Some of them are just hurts,but there are people. So for
the adult they're they're they're looking afunction, right, They're there with their
parents and adults and they're there withthe other kids, and the other kids

(59:06):
are saying it, so then you'regonna say it, so you think it's
okay, and the person that you'rebeing presented as saying it, No,
it goes a long way. It'sit's it was. It might be one
of the cringier ones that I've seen. And I watched a video yesterday of
drag queen prom themed prom themes.Did you know that this is the things

(59:27):
you have said? There's the AlbuquerqueSchool District I think was the video.
As part of prom they're having dragqueen performances. Letich I you know,
I guess, at least in thatinstance, you're dealing with kids on the
cusp of adulthood and into I guesstechnically into adulthood, but good lord man,
and then inevitably, as they getolder, they become useful idiots.

(59:52):
Case in point, there was aninterview with some protesters who had were and
they went to NYU or they don'tgo to YU, that they came down
to n YU from Columbia Bernard Collegebecause they were having protests down there,
and they stick a microphone in frontof these two girls's face and I you're

(01:00:13):
you will weep for our future,but here we go. I think the
goal is just showing our support forPalestine and demanding that NYU saw. I
honestly don't know all what NYU isdoing. Is there something that NYU is
doing? I really don't know.I'm pretty sure there. Do you know
what ny is doing all about Israelprotesting here? You're sound more educated.

(01:00:37):
I'm not either. I was thereand we came down and side and I
used to support, so I camedown. I've heard there's lots of tops
and some people were saying it wasgetting dangerous, like they could the protest,
they show up the protests could Theydon't have no idea. It could
be about repealing the Nineteenth Right.They have these idiots that have no idea.

(01:01:00):
Now I will nuance the part whereshe says we don't know what NYU
specifically NYU did. I guess Ithink you should writing show and protests that
you should, but I don't knowif I could speak to I could definitively
speak to the demands of Columbia studentsand NYEU students on their administrators, but

(01:01:25):
I could find it out about twentyseconds, So it just it just encapsulates
this whole What the hell are youdoing? Phone number eight eight eight nine
three four seven eight seven four Keepthat handy as we're going to dive through
a bunch of stuff with our guests. Steven Kent will welcome him in when

(01:01:46):
you get chat. Last week isbusy, busy, busy, and there
is there are many things to talkabout, Steven. How you doing this
morning? I'm hanging in there,Casey, how about yourself? I'm pretty
good. We're gonna get in.We're going to get into milk stuff and
TikTok stuff. And let me startwith the the TikTok stuff. Milk okay,
yeah, yeah, yeah, wegot we actually got two milk stories

(01:02:09):
in the news. But now there'sonly one I want to talk about with
you. But I think the bigone, obviously is the TikTok stuff.
I have even before Elon Musk gotTwitter, right back in the day when
many people on the right thought thatTwitter was the land of shadow band and
why wouldn't they the manipulation of ourelections with the Hunter Biden insanity and just

(01:02:34):
yeah everything else where you just you'resitting there, You're doing very innocuous conversation
in the in the same things thatwould happen to people in many other techt
settings were happening. But I alwaysdefended the ability that Twitter, as somebody
who's kind of in the breaking newsbusiness, was a really valuable tool for
that for instantaneous Now, it's afire hose, and you got to you

(01:02:58):
gotta know how to drink from oneof those if you're going to use it
to inform yourself and obviously inform others. But Twitter, for all of its
flaws and problems and bad management decisions, it had that redeeming quality that if
you know, if something's on fire, right a volcano emerges through the you
know, through downtown Durham, II'm getting a flood of information in a

(01:03:22):
much more rapid fashion and any moreunique fashion that I did previously, and
that I find inherent value there.Would you would you agree with me,
as somebody who's also in this business, that Twitter provides that Twitter certainly does.
And I've seen one of those downtownDurham volcanoes by the way, Oh
wow, okay, all right,well that's that happened once. Put it

(01:03:45):
on the gram man. But Ican't figure I try. I try and
find the redeeming qualities of the TwitterI really do, and the best thing
I come up with is like oneof the current trending songs on there because
people are like, well, Twitter'sprovided an outlet for musical artists to get
out there and bypass the standards toTikTok. Excuse me, yes, has

(01:04:09):
provided this this outlet, and I'mlike, well, to be fair,
a lot of social media has butlet me let me review that. And
then I go see the top trendingcustom songs on TikTok and I'm presented with
this. I don't want a bunchof society. I struggle, adn't hustle
you one that you get out thereso read how is it going to work?

(01:04:30):
No, how is it going towork? I'm supert. I said
that you consume me don't And thena twelve year old try to give me
you need enough cinnamon and light myselfon fire to die? Please help me?
Is does TikTok have redeeming qualities?Not for the Chinese intelligence apparatus.
Well, I was not in favorof banning TikTok on the grounds of speech

(01:04:53):
on the app, but after listeningto that song, I think I changed
my opinion. No, I mean, and just even listening to lyrics of
that, where the lyrics of it, I wasn't born to work, and
I'm too pretty to get dirty andall this kind of stuff. You just
kind of wonder why these things takeoff on TikTok. It's well known and
it has been established that TikTok inthe country of China is mostly focused on

(01:05:16):
scientific content encouraging people towards patriotism andmilitary service. You know, it's a
national kind of propaganda tool in inChina and in the United States, it
sort of goes for the gutter.It's completely the worst of a lot of
our culture, and we should allwonder why that is. But you asked

(01:05:38):
about redeeming qualities. You know,it's incredibly viral like that. The algorithm
is very, very, very smart, and it has been a benefit to
a lot of small business owners andentrepreneurs. But I've just I remained unconvinced
about this argument. There are alot of social media tools out there,
and somebody is going to fill thisvoid very quickly, and I will get

(01:05:59):
into that. And the funny thingwas is I was listening to this dude
and Immediately in my head, Ithought this dude ripped off, right,
said Fred. So do I haveroom to judge right growing up when writ's
right right? Said Fred? I'mtoo sexy was right in my wheelhouse for

(01:06:19):
the very same ages who embrace TikTokRight now that I don't think he said
he didn't want to work. Ithink he just he just couldn't help it
because he was too sexy for it. So is it? You know,
yeah, I'm open to the possibilitythat I'm being a hypocrite. Here is
the point that I'm making, youknow, It's it's something that I as

(01:06:41):
like a libertarian approaching the crackdown ona social media app. I I feel
very icky about it. It justit reeks of hypocrisy. But not all
social media apps are created equal.I mean, this is quite literally a
foreign operated syop where we should bequestioning every single day why certain kinds of
content rise to the top. Andthat is just not the case when you're

(01:07:03):
dealing with domestically owned and operated socialmedia companies that are responsive to congress,
responsive to feedback, and can berained in if they are seen to be
stepping out of line. I willsay one other redeeming quality of TikTok.
The best recipes that my wife hasmade have come from TikTok. It's really
good for foreign and ethnic foods thatare like made to be simple for people.

(01:07:26):
And I've enjoyed some very good mealsthat came from TikTok. But why
can't that come from Instagram? Youknow? Or what's what's the one that
most is mostly pinterest thing? Allright, isn't it exactly? And look,
if you know what, that's actuallyvery convincing. I cook from time
to time. And the thing thatannoys me the most about recipes on the
internet, not on social media,is you ever go to a recipe page

(01:07:49):
because they can't just give you therecipe because they have to you know,
they got a waterboard you with adsand a story, like a story about
this was my recipe I learned duringmy first first year of being a woman
back at my aunt's house on theshores of right, And it's this whole
like shut up, how many onionsdo I need? Kind of thing?

(01:08:09):
So I would appreciate that brevity.But the tradeoff is, and I think
that has to be the forefront,that this is not simply about whether we
think that it's people with you know, sub fifty IQs that are filming these
videos. It's it's the idea ofreal security concerns. And when I hear

(01:08:30):
when they talk about possible suitors thatthere are still folks within Byte Dance who
have commented that that's an option,but they may well not sell it to
somebody, my alarm bells go offthat that might be an admission. It's
exactly what we think it is.And they don't want people poking around in
that, because why would you foregothe billions of dollars which you could immediately

(01:08:54):
shove into the Chinese you know,government's coffers probably for you thing, if
not, because you don't want peoplelooking at how the sausage is made.
That that seems a little red flaggyto me. Think about the Joker in
the dark night when he's lighting thepile of money on fire and he reminds
them, Op says, all youpeople care about is money. And when

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you think about the CCP, theChinese government, this is not about money.
And Bite Bands is not a profitdriven good faith company. They are
a Chinese intelligence operation and so theyare not going to sell their plaything to
an American buyer or company. Ijust find that very unlikely. So we

(01:09:35):
will probably see them take their balland go home, and that should be
an admission of guilt to everybody watchingthis. But of course it will probably
be a much more polarized conversation thatwe have around it. Who owns Vine?
Who bought Vine? Vine? Vineexists? Yeah, but who bought

(01:09:56):
it? It was one of theother texts that bought viney Twitter Twitter.
But yeah, if you're Elon Muskand if they're gone, if they do
take their ball and go home,how do you not immediately because you're not
dealing with limitations probably from a copyrightstandpoint at that point, right because they're
gone, they're out there, they'redone though they're not even allowed to legally
operate in the United States. Sowhy does he not just take the carcass

(01:10:20):
of this company the Twitter bought that. I'm assuming he's still you know,
has and even if it's shuttered,and do this because Vine was the closest
thing and you could implement the elementsthat people like there. So certainly it
happens on Instagram. On Instagram,they've they've largely tried to clone the functionality

(01:10:43):
of TikTok for their stories and realsection. And you see this also in
Snapchat. Snapchat is not completely dead. There's still somewhat relevant. Uh.
And Vine is a possibility, butyou're going to see I think a reluctance
by American tech and social media companiesto fill this boyd because it will immediately
set off antitrust concerns the FTC andthe Biden administration if any established social media

(01:11:06):
companies are trying to expand their shareof the pie anymore than they already have,
which is why the most likely outcomeis that a buyer is a new
entrant to the social media space whodoesn't have any footprint like Microsoft Oracle.
And there's some weird talk about KevinO'Leary from Shark Tank and Steve Manuchin,

(01:11:28):
the former Treasury secretary and movie producer. I don't realize you produced Wolf of
Wall Street SO and Suicide Squad.What a work of art. Yeah,
he had some It's been some upsand downs. Man. Let's talk about
movies though. We just over chatwith Stephen Ken here. I I on
multiple occasions now I have been sittingin front of my TV screen with my

(01:11:55):
hand on my Apple TV remote gettingready to press play on Three Body Problem
on Netflix, because it has likeit has all the elements of stuff that
I normally like. But every timeI just I read a little about it
or I start, you know,I watched the trailer, which is is
rather interesting. It looks like I'mI'm I have to buckle in for a

(01:12:17):
mental thrashing. And I don't knowwhy that is, because inherently that's just
stuff i'd watch, and I feellike, unless I'm one hundred percent focused
on it, I'm going to misseverything. Though, So talk to me
about this series, which is kindof is going viral at the moment.
Yeah, so you are right.You are completely correct about the Three Body

(01:12:38):
Problem, which stars Marlow, Kelly, Jess Jong and Benedict Wong. And
this show is about gosh, howdo you even describe it. It's about
time travel aliens coming from another dimensionchanging reality on Earth and like affecting what
we see so that they can wagea sigh up on planet Earth. And

(01:13:00):
the movie is upside the movie,the show, The show is incredibly complicated.
My wife is really interested in science, weather and relativity, and she
is obsessed with this show. AndI find myself falling asleep on some of
the more science driven episodes. Butwhen you get down to the like the
aliens are waging a syop on planetEarth and there's a lot of politics.

(01:13:25):
I have enjoyed that a great deal. But I do I do get tranquilized
by the science episodes. Is itan allegory? Am I supposed to be?
I don't know, but there's noI mean, there's a few of
them out there, so yeah,for sure. And and just for clarity,
this is a series right now.I think it's about ten episodes for

(01:13:45):
season one, so you got tobuckle in for many, many, many
hours of storytelling here. But itdoes have a really interesting connection to the
Cultural Revolution in Mao's communist China.The story begins there and your characters,
Jarneys, began after surviving the culturalRevolution, and it's one of the first
instances that we have seen on screenand American media of the cultural revolution in

(01:14:09):
China and how brutal and evil itwas. And so that's of course why
this show is not welcome in continentalChina. Yeah. Yeah, Well,
you call the guy poober or youshow a teman joke, and we've had
others others gonna go a foul,there's something else, and Ross has tried
everything in his power to get usto not work tomorrow because of the Fallout.

(01:14:33):
Who up? Yeah? So,but here's what I find fascinating about
Fallout Now I have I have stillyet to watch it. I am going
to I'm gonna find a binge window. I love everything that everyone's telling me
about it, everyone's opinion. Thatbeing said, it's fascinating to me what's
happening as a result of this serieswhere it is literally driving it's it's driving

(01:14:59):
people to go and into the game, and it shows you how successful if
Hollywood just buckles down, tells agood story, and yes, there's always
going to be people going ah,the game doesn't match the series or any
of the rest, but for youknow, even people in that camp,
they're not being as mean as usual, so it must get closer. And
it's like, does Hollywood look atthe success they're having with this reverse profit

(01:15:23):
making where people ball Out's been outforever and now people never knew about it
are going out buying the games becauseof the series and go, this is
the this is the way to usea Star Wars quote which probably make you
happy? This is the way?Do they look at this and go this
is the way? And am Iover selling the impact that Fallouts had in

(01:15:45):
maybe showing a proper way to dothis? Oh? I think that it's
definitely shown studio executives how you cancreate a feedback loop, a positive feedback
loop with consumers who are really interestedin original stories. Not everyone in the
world are video gamers. I myselfhave not actually played Fallout, but I'm
very excited about this show. I'mgoing to watch it. I think it

(01:16:09):
looks incredibly interesting. That does notmean that I'm going to pick up a
video game that's not necessarily part ofmy habits. But they are looking at
video game IP and I think they'restarting to salivate over how many good stories
there are that would be wonderful forscreen adaptations. So I'm counting the days
for my Red Dead Redemption TV showor movie. Why would you want to

(01:16:30):
watch a show of a man murderinghorses for two hours? I mean,
I thought on Redpend Redemption he wasmostly just kidnapping hookers. No, no,
no, no, it's a horseeating That's all I know. But
I'll watch ross play all right.Last two minutes we were a speaking of
Ross and I we saw the bluemilk thing that Kemp's is doing for May
the Yeah, and I immediately thoughtthey were talking about old the old man

(01:16:56):
on the island toss and lightsabers intothe ocean and his bitter ass. But
instead it referenced the milk from NewHope, and I couldn't find I don't
know what the hell means. Somy case made you figure this out,
so free. I got ninety secondseducata, sir, okay Well. Blue
milk on Tattooine is first seen inStar Wars Episode four a New Hope,

(01:17:17):
the original Star Wars film, whenLuke is finishing his day of work at
the beginning of the movie and he'shaving breakfast or lunch with Aunt Brew and
Uncle Owen, and he's discussing hisdesire to go to the Imperial Academy and
leave the farming life, and theyare drinking stiff cold glasses of blue milk,
and it's become sort of a StarWars iconic, you know, joke

(01:17:42):
about the blue milk because they nevertalk about it, we never actually see
it again, but yet they serveit at Star Wars Galaxy's Edge at Disney.
Blue milk is just one of thego to references for Star Wars fans.
Now that nasty green stuff. Oh, I don't want to talk about
that. But the blue milk comesfrom the Banta on the planet of Tattoo.
And these are the creatures, thebig furry creatures that are the horses

(01:18:05):
for the Tuscan Raiders, the sandpeople, you know, those big furry
stuff animal Who thought that comes fromthe female bantha. I mean, you
wouldn't want to know. I don'twant any of it. And I think
the idea of blue milk sounds gross. That's just me, but I was.
I'm glad we had you for reference, Steven. I appreciate it.

(01:18:26):
And uh, we'll see what I'mexplain next week. Okay, green milk
next week? All right? Yeah, maybe well you had quite the negative
reaction to the green milk, somaybe there's a story there. So there
you go. Let's get into thankyou to Stephen Kent for joining us.
We'll take a break to have youand uh. The insanity continued to ensue

(01:18:48):
yesterday, though seemingly was met withdifferent pushback on the University of Texas campus
and Austin. It's the old homie. Don't play that from in living color,
because that wouldn't happen. They werehaving none of that in Texas,

(01:19:08):
and USC was pretty aggressive too.Man. That was kind of crazy to
see the full for. You knowwhy, because these universities are terrified.
I don't care how moon batted upthey are, which really lets you know
how bad this looks to everybody whatyou're seeing at Columbia, Yale and a

(01:19:32):
bunch of others. In fact,there's a list right now, I'm sure
it's growing of fifty major universities thatare all currently being investigated for anti semitism.
You know, dealing with complaints areat the federal level. Now well
they do anything, probably not.But yeah, and for those you're wondering,

(01:19:56):
Duke and UNC are both on thatlist that it just runs the gamut
nationwide. There was a weird incidentwith one of the local Fox affiliate reporter
or a camera guy. He gottaken down and hooked up and hauled out
of there. Camera hits the groundand it's you know, he's like,
I say, it works for thelocal Fox affiliate. But he claimed he

(01:20:19):
was pushed by officers, but everybody'svideoing, and it almost looks like he
charged officers. The whole thing isweird. Camera Look, camera guys,
good camera guys. And I knowif you I count amongst my friends a
couple TV camera guys here locally,and you really got to know what you're

(01:20:41):
doing. There's a fine line betweenbeing able to get in there and also
not interfering with what the police aredoing. And I've run into situations where
police officers were in the wrong sayingthat members of the press were were perhaps
running a foul of it. Andit's usually a tense situation. If they

(01:21:01):
had a moment to think about,they probably wouldn't have thrown that out.
But that's fine. That's this wasnot that. This was something totally different.
Man, Listen to this for youin Foo seven last year, Carlos,
Carlos, what do you think ofthis? I think it's uh,

(01:21:23):
it pushed me and I they saythat I had an officer. I think
the officer were pushing Onunny. Hasthis ever happened to me? Well,
I mean I was just covering things. You were the press. Yeah,
I told him that was the press. And also, look, I don't
see any Carlos is not wearing likea Hamas scarf for anything like the Again,
the whole thing's just weird because itdoesn't he doesn't appear that anybody pushes

(01:21:45):
him, and it doesn't appear hemakes contact with some officers who obviously are
dealing with urchins, uh, youknow, who were doing everything in their
power to remember they de arrested adude yesterday. You have to understan,
Yeah, what was going on?So they arrested like one of the main
instigators who was doing violent stuff,and then they crowd surrounded the police and

(01:22:10):
then de arrested, which is thisfun turn they made up where they literally
vandalize a police car to get theircomrade out of it, who then takes
off running. And they did thatyesterday, So like everything's on edge.
I just I don't understand what thiswas, but it was. It was
an anomaly amongst the a crowd there. Meanwhile, others on the Prohamas side

(01:22:35):
were taking to the TV interview bootha person known affectionately it says here in
the article, I don't know aboutthat as crackhead Barney, who began her
career as a subway performer with apoverty level Barney outfit. It was a
Barney suit, but like the eyewas missing, it was all messed up.

(01:22:57):
It looked like five Nights at Freddy'skind of stuff, and is now
crackhead Barney is the very same individualwho was screaming at Alec Baldwin in that
coffee shop, trying to get himto say free Palestine, and eventually we'll
also saying he's a murderer and allthat. And while that may tugget your

(01:23:18):
heartstrings because of how you feel aboutAlec Baldwin, that person's a lunatic.
And they're a lunatic who I rememberedfrom back during the George Floyd stuff because
there is an interview with this psychopathtalking about how Maga has sex with their
machine guns and stuff, and itwas the whole thing was just crazy.
But you realize real quick this personis a lunatic. So following in the

(01:23:43):
video you see Baldwin reach his handout and smack the fuck. She's backed
some papers that are in the samehand as her phone. So what does
she do. She gets invited ontothe Piers Morgan show and oh my gosh,
you have to understand that she iswearing a she is wearing the neck
brace bandages, she's got crutches.All of these things are pure performative.

(01:24:09):
She looks like Saul Goodman client.Oh look at that. I just made
a reference to a show that onlywatched like a season of Nailed It.
Anyway, so you know it's thatstereotypical ambulance chaser. How they would dress
up their client and then proceeds togive one of the strangest interviews. You

(01:24:30):
have to understand that her her herhoots are hanging out her chesticles and but
with little like gauze over the frontpart, with her shirt pulled up,
and she's in this whole thing andshe's she's bopping around like a bucking bull
man all the time screaming because shehas no conversation skills at Piers Morgan,

(01:24:56):
and it is something to watch manyyes, just for the rector. My
name is actually just Piers Morgan.That's funny, by the way, Piers
Fie Morgan. Actually my name isjust Piers Morgan. And then can we
start on the We need to starton the premise that Piers Morgan is a
liberal that's not in dispute. Rememberfamously, young Ben Shapiro Peers Morgan over

(01:25:21):
gun control. That being said,Piers Morgan is one of those I would
call traditional liberals and not a progressive. Would you say, Ross, would
you say that's a fair assertion asto who Piers Morgan is because he doesn't
embrace any of this woke stuff,especially after like the Overton window. How
far it's gone? Yeah right,yeah, yeah, yeah. He he

(01:25:41):
had to come to it. Hehe kind of had like the Bill Maher
moment kind of thing. So takeyou know, take what it's worth,
but understand what this You know,this guy's history, so this shouldn't be
a hostile at all. Can yousay free Palestine for me? Can you
say free Palestine for I'm shouting?Yeah, I want you to say it.

(01:26:01):
Yes, I'm happy to say.Okay, I'm not gonna shout if
you If you just keep quiet,I can answer your question. Yes,
I'm very happy to say quiet,Pierce. Sorry you're still talking. I'm
never quiet. Okay, but tryyou asked me to do something. If
you don't shut up, I can'tgive you the answer. Oh, okay,

(01:26:25):
I absolutely believe that Palestine should befree. Yes, you gotta understand.
By the way, at this point, she's like bopping out of her
chair. She's turning around, puttingher button back to the camera because she's
on like one of those satellite youknow, sitting in a room Lenks and
oh my gosh, oh okay,and how are we going to do that?

(01:26:45):
Pierce, give us the give usthe free yea. If it was
as simple, I'm gonna do it. If it was as simple as me
just giving a simple answer, now, it would have been done by now.
It's a very complicated, is she. But let me ask you again,
why did you Why let me askyou again, seriously, why did
you do what you did to AlecBaldwin? And what did you hope to

(01:27:06):
achieve? Alec Baldwin? Look atme, honestly, look at I'm sorry,
I almost forgot. She's in awhite face too. I'm sorry.
I just realized I didn't say thatpart because everything else is so she's in
white face. She's a black womanwho's in white face. All right,

(01:27:30):
at this, look at that.We're a white man. Listen. I
understand. I understand your performative artist. I understand you're trying to make everybody
laugh. You've made You've made yourjoke about your terrible maiden, right,
okay, to beat me this week? Third white man yesterday. By the

(01:27:54):
way, I can't tell if she'sinto that. She's such a lunatic.
By the way, do you knowif she's single? I mean, what
do you think, Ross, Canwe fix her? You'd probably be fixed,
right, Sure, wouldn't be aproblem. I don't know why I

(01:28:15):
should be laughing. This person isprobably going to murder somebody at some point.
She seems so unhindy. White boyfriendbeat the This is the third white
man, my daw is Alex.The second day was another white man.
Third day, Pierce Morgan is beatingme up on international, And of course
it's international because she's via satellite toLondon from New York. So anyway,

(01:28:39):
I'm gonna look. That video exists. Ross had to go through and bleep
it this morning. He is,he's already gouged one of his eyes out,
so you know, go watch itif you want. But holy crap,
maybe it's something in the I don'tknow, in the weather. A
little last ray stagic about that.We got a side it crazy in today's
forecast. Actually, you know what, Casey, it's gonna be great the

(01:29:04):
next few days. There's this onelittle patch of cloud left over. Other
than that, most of us areclear. This morning going to be a
beautiful afternoon, covering around seventy degrees. Tonight we're up a few upper forties.
Tomorrow we'll cloud over. We shouldstay dry, reach about seventy degrees
once again. Then we're going tostart this warming tread which is going to

(01:29:25):
continue well into next week. Andso we'll with dry weather Saturday, mostly
cloudy, low to mid seventies,Sunday twenty of sunshine near eighty degrees,
and then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdaynext week, Big Rich is gonna park
off the coast, and that's goingto mean a southwest flow. Temperatures could
get well into the eighties, maybemiddle eighties to the upper eighties as we

(01:29:45):
go through Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdayof next week. And I don't really
see much in the way of ameasurable rainfall the forecast, so dry and
near seasonable temperatures the next few daysand getting real warm and staying dry isok
ahead toward at least the first fewdays of next week. All right,
Well, have a good one,Enjoy your draft watching secret at your daughter's

(01:30:08):
thing today and all right, we'lltalk about the decisions bad decisions all of
our teams made tomorrow. Okay,O, good man, all right,
go, we stated from the WeatherChannel, Johnny and us maybe can hang
it up there we go, allright, Jeff Bellinger's next hang on,
Well, good morning, Casey.Looks like we're in for a rough day
on Wall Street. Later dated fromWashington suggests the economy slowed more than expected

(01:30:31):
at the beginning of the year.The government estimates the gross domestic product expanded
at a one point six percent annualrate in the first quarter. But within
that report, a report on coreinflation was hotter than expected. So we're
seeing sharply lower futures right across theboard. S and P futures are down
more than one percent, down sixtythree points. That has back futures are

(01:30:55):
down two hundred and eighty eight andthe Dow futures down four hundred and thirty
nine points. And disappointing quarterly resultsfrom Meta platforms may had already set the
stage for a rough start to today'ssession on Wall Street. Investors' concerns over
Meta's big investments and artificial intelligence outweighedthe fact that the social media company posted
record revenue for the quarter. Nowthe parade of big tech earnings will continue

(01:31:18):
today. Alphabet, Microsoft, andIntel report after the market's closed. Today.
Ford posted better than expected first quarterresults. The automaker said demand for
work trucks was especially strong at thestart of the year. Its recently redesigned
super duty pickup was a big seller. Worldpools planning layoffs the appliance maker,

(01:31:39):
cutting about one thousand salaried positions.Worldpool says slow home sales here in the
US or limiting demand for its products. Aldis being sued. A proposed class
action accuses the discount Grosser of sellingmislabeled peach cup products. Labels say the
cups contain one hundred percent fruit juice. Plaintiffs say they also contain water juice,

(01:32:01):
concentrates, flavorings, and other ingredients. The Tropical Smoothie chains changing hands
a Blackstone will add the chain toits portfolio of brands and Casey. This
may be among the most extreme examplesof holiday creep we've seen home depots pushing
out its twenty twenty four Halloween merchandise. The chain told Yes. The chain

(01:32:24):
told Axios a new and improved twelvefoot skeleton, a seven foot Frankenstein monster,
and other decrps will be on saleonline starting today. Home Depot says
it is the first ever halfway toHalloween sale. I've seen weird like Christmas
in July sales. Yeah, right, as to do that. But what

(01:32:45):
the hell, man? You knowwhat it is. It's because, for
whatever reason, a few years ago, everyone decided they needed a giant Halloween
or Christmas decorational. You know,there's a inflatable snoopy near where my house
is the size of a two storyhouse. That that, and then when
one gets it, everyone else hasto get it. So I kind of

(01:33:05):
get what a home Depot is doing. We've lost our minds on this stuff.
So yep, I think you're right. All right, thank you,
Jeff. Okay, take care.Talk to you Monday. Yeah, yeah,
all right, have it. Havea good Wait wait, wait,
talk to me monday. Is henot here tomorrow or no, Joely will
be covering tomorrow. I'm taking anextended weekend. Oh oh okay, all

(01:33:27):
right, have fun with your draftparty. I'm assuming with that you sorry
thinks? Oh yeah, take careof so okay, dude for ross for
a half second of my brain.I'm like, is it friday? Is
this it? We're done? It'sstill like that the entire week, though,
hasn't it? Yeah? You justsay no, no, hold on,
I'm asking Ross just wants to notbe yours. We can play Fallout
tomorrow. You can't even play untilnow? That is that at noon today?

(01:33:51):
Oh? Is it today at noon? Oh? It's noon today?
Oh? Wow? I had noidea. You had no idea. You're
saying the phone for next Gin updateis today. Wow. I'm saying that
because you wrote it to me threetimes over the two days. Yes,
must have blacked out. Like rememberyesterday when we determined that piece of equipment

(01:34:12):
it's been jacking with my mic soundis actually cooked and they have to fix
it. And I said, hey, they finally found it. And you're
like, well, I tested thatmeans you don't want you shouldn't work tomorrow.
I actually, Matt, you knowthe engineer. Yeah, great,
dude, I said to him.I said hey, because he's like,
hey, he sent me the informationon the comrax and he's going to write
an email and tell everybody about saidin the email, could you write that
you recommend Casey not do the showuntil you get the replacement because the Fallout

(01:34:34):
four update comes up tomorrow and hedid not send me anything like that,
so apparently he did not follow yourthing there. But so, are you
gonna jump on it get right away? Are you gonna wait and see if
it's like buggy or yeah? No, it's at noon, so I'll be
on that. Okay, all right, I'm gonna say, what's gonna affect

(01:34:56):
all the mods and stuff? Veryimportant stuff here, man, A lot
of research you have to draft later. I'm gonna be exhausted tomorrow. Yeah.
I probably shouldn't even send you prepperduction. Yeah, alright, well
I'll take that into consideration.