12-03-25 SHOW

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
I'm trying to decide how to start the show today.
I want to do a positive story, do I want
to there's another because there's like two or three things
that is that are really bothering me. And yesterday I
opened the show talking about the selling out of the

(00:22):
fan base by the ACC teams who want to go
play in Bolivia or excuse me, Brazil, why not Bolivia
probably eventually, So I don't want to like double bummer you.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
But the this.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
What third day, third day of the existence of Arena's
Law in North Carolina, which yes, even though it's you know,
it's North Carolina, is something that many other state legislators,
legislat chores rather are are looking at and should be

(01:02):
looking at. And basically it is the curbing of this
catch and release mentality where somebody can have seventy two
convictions or arrest excuse me, and convictions and you know,
twenty of them are felonies over the last like ten years,
and somehow they're roam in the streets with their own
little brand of crazy on rinse and repeat as they

(01:23):
eventually ramp up to you know, stabbing some girl quit quote,
stabbing that white girl on the on the light rail
down there in Charlotte, you know, for something to do.
And then you see other examples of it.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
You see.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Just some.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
Up in Illinois where the woman was set on fire
by that dude who what was he? A forty some
time loser and then we found out it was seventy sometimes.
And now this story up in Virginia, I mean, this

(02:05):
is the most convictible thing. All the evidence is that
there's photos, there's video, and yet catch a release. So
listen to this Virginia resident breaks in to an ABC
store middle of the night up there in Virginia, breaks in,

(02:30):
proceeds to go through the aisle, smashing bottles and just.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Boozing it up.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
If you look, if you look at the pictures, there's
just shattered glass all over the middle of these state.
It looks like it looks like he mainlines some Buchanans,
which is not my favorite, but it'll do. And uh
it then drinks so much, eventually stumbles into the bathroom,

(03:03):
passes out on the floor, face down in a dirty,
nasty public restroom, head right next to the toilet. And
what do police do, Well, clearly right, they get a
call there's a disturbance, so they show up, Hey, what's

(03:24):
going on? They find the suspect. They well, first they
see the store just torn asunder, and then they see
the suspect laying there, still passed out after it's drunk,
after the drunken rampage that has brought law enforcement there.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
And what do they do.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
They take the suspect into cussy, not even under arrest,
just to sober up, and then after a medical check,
let them go.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
No charges filed, no nothing.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Yes, it is a raccoon that being said, clearly is guilty,
clearly is hammered out of his mind, clearly head right
next to the toilet, face to I mean, we've all
been there, but like nothing, and they're.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Joking about it. These cops don't care.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Oh, Officer Martin safely secured the bandit and transport under
the shelter to sober up before questioning. I don't even
think they mirandized him. Some shot, shoddy police work. What
are we doing? After a few hours sleep and zero
signs of injury, he was safely released back to the

(04:42):
wild with some stories, I might add.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
You think the other raccoons are gonna believe him?

Speaker 1 (04:48):
I think when that next time a little trash Panda
convention gets together. He's like, oh, yeah, how was your
trash can?

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Bob? That's good? Where you been? Bill? Are you and believing?
I found this place that's got this liquid? It's amazing.
It's amazing.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
Even even made a old old Debbie over there look
a lot hotter, and she's been manging for you know years.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
They wouldn't. They're not gonna believe them.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
And if you don't believe me, I have retweeted pictures
on our Twitter account at Casey on the radio. It
looks like buchanans. I can't tell what the other bottle is. Uh,

(05:43):
bad decisions were made? So this actually happened?

Speaker 2 (05:46):
What did this?

Speaker 1 (05:46):
When did this happen? Was it on Black Friday? You
might have been on Black Friday? Well, you know what,
let me say this phone number by the way, eight
eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. If
you are also sick of law enforcement and prosecutors abdicating

(06:08):
their duties, catching releasing criminals and then nobody's ever held accountable,
because I know I am. But you know, things get
tough around this time of the year, especially right you know, Thanksgiving, Christmas,
you just get together. You know, maybe there's a riff
in the raccoon family. There by the way, did we check, God,
did we check immigration status?

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Was it a raccoon or am apatch? Do we know.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
That's Spanish for rec anyway, So like that, there's some
due diligence that wasn't done. And now what if he's
dealing with addiction issues? Starts to spiral. Christmas is right
around the corner. I got to see the family again.
Oh me back of the next ABC store. So yeah,

(06:59):
not pleased, not pleased with this continued trend. Meanwhile, if
you touch your cell phone in North Carolina, even to
move it, they could write you a ticket.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
That was one of the other new laws that went
into effect.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
True, look it up. The irony, of course, is in
a more serious note. Those are the kinds of laws
that they will gladly enforce. But the other ones, raccoon aside,
you know, with the actual human dirt bags, those are
the ones that are gonna try to not to. That's
why Mecklenburg and other counties are whining that they actually
have to punish people. But not this raccoon. He got
away with it. He learned nothing, which means he'll probably

(07:37):
be right back doing it again six point fifteen. Hang on,
I didn't have Trump beefing with Sabrina Carpenter on my
uh bingo card. But okay, here we are. I still
don't really know, and this is gonna aige me. I
don't really know anything about Sabrina Carpenter. She likes really

(08:01):
short shorts or something. I don't know every time I
see her, like because we have some photos of her, actually,
you know, because we have our hallways that the studios
are lined with concert footage.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
I don't know any songs she sings. I guess she's
very popular.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
I couldn't tell you what she sings, but I in
no political context was I aware of anything. So like,
it sounds like she's just doing the standard Hollywood flex thing.
We go out and you make statements, pretend like people

(08:37):
come to you for political opinion, when in reality they
come to you for short shorts and pop songs. So
I you know, but hey, everyone's the toidle their opinion.
So let's see here, here's how I understand it. So
the White House actually used Sabrina Carpenter lyrics in a

(09:03):
response to a she called them out because she used
she used, and here's the thing. So they used a
song of hers, I guess in one of the some
deportation video. I'm assuming it was some sizzle reel that
posted on social media. But again I don't know any
of her song.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
So I m and I get Really here's the other thing.
I get really tired of.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
The the musical artists who come out and pretend like
they don't understand how ascap BMI works. And they do
it because they they rightfully assume that most of you
don't as well, even if you have some vague understanding
of it. So licensing of music for political rallies, this

(09:50):
is where you normally see it. Right, Trump comes out
to a song some rock some you know, aged burned
out rocker in his seventies, flips his crime.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
I ever told him he could use it?

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yes, you did, you did, And so the reason you're
in and the way that you did is because your
music was licenseable through these bulk music licenses. And the
reason an artiste, let's take who was one who got
mad at Trump?

Speaker 2 (10:24):
So didn't Tom Petty have some We'll just go with
Tom Pey.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
I can't remember if he did, but Tom Petty's a
good example because most people know what Tom Petty is.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Tom Petty's got a whole host of songs. Great. I
like Tom Petty, by the way, just so we're clear.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
And because he has a whole host of songs, and
because they are very popular songs, people want to use them.
They want to use them to play on the radio
on classic rock stations, they want to use them to.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
You know, maybe being a.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Pharmaceuticals because that's where all the music goes. Now right,
we're gonna license a song and then we're gonna change
one of the words to this weird name drug thing
that you should ask your doctor about that you probably
don't need, but whatever, and we'll just ruin everybody's musical
childhood and the one hundred other things that people may

(11:20):
license it for not necessarily big licenses, Like let's say
you own a bar. If you own a bar and
you play music in the bar, technically you're supposed to
have an ascap or be a my you're supposed to
license the music. And they actually they'll randomly go in
every now and then. In fact, I just saw a
story here recently where they went in and they can

(11:42):
absolutely devastate a bar because they posted like here's ten
bars in America, and I think they learned a little
something from the Napster stuff where if you just go
full force. So what they do is they go and
they make examples and then they hope that that pushes
people into it.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
But if your Tom.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
And Tom Petty's manager, Tom Petty's lawyer, you can't go
and individual you can legally you could go and entertain,
price out and contract every single licensed usage of your music.
It would be way too time consuming. So what what
what as cap BMI And there used to be a

(12:24):
third one, but we'll just go as cat BMI. What
they do is they are repository, so if people want
to they handle all of that. So when you go
and let's say you're on it, you're you're you're doing
a political campaign like the Trump administration was doing when
when you know, people were beefing, they went and acquired

(12:45):
the as cap BMI licensing so that at the various
rallies they can play these songs. And so, yes, they
do have permission to do it. Was Sabrina Carpenter. The
other thing, I'll say, I don't know how it pertains
to whether you describe as a deportation video. Here it looks,

(13:10):
you know, it just looks like one of these little
little clippy videos they put there. They didn't manipulate the song,
there's just video running behind it. They probably have license
to do it. So for her, her little bubble had
to come out and start screaming about it. Even Sabrina Carpenter,
who has been around for a number of years, she knows,

(13:31):
and they're counting on you not knowing. This is why
I just get so annoyed with this stuff. If you
don't want anyone using your music, then don't license it out,
and then if somebody uses it, sue them into oblivion.
I'm all fie with copyright. I'm in the copyright business.
You're listening to a copyright show right now. Better not

(13:54):
catch you.

Speaker 5 (13:56):
So.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
And also I don't know how necessarily how the White
House is using that for financial gain, which is another element.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
We'll just forget about that.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
But yeah, every one of these artists who comes out
and say I never gave them permission, Yes you did,
and you're lying to your fans because you think your
fans are stupid. So the response to her, they just
used like lines from her song, which had to be
monotonous going through there, or maybe they got some young
interns really into Sabrina Carvers. I know how to word it.

(14:24):
Here's a short and sweet message, short and sweet. I
guess it's a Sabrina thing.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (14:30):
This is.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
This is the kind of stuff that makes me feel old.
Oh you want to know something that made me feel
really old. I was pointing this out on social media.
So I was having a conversation over the old Thanksgiving
holiday there, and I was talking about varmint hunting as
you do right and specifically I got a car accident

(14:54):
when my buddy's truck he's driving, I might be shooting
coyotes out the window. Perfectly legal on private property.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Deal with it.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
And I was mentioning too that I was using the
yoat hole. It's not poorn, rain or sleep, at least
not outside of my window here. But so a you know,
much better situation than yesterday. Oh and then yesterday afternoon, jeez,
I was talking about somebody hydro playing. When I was

(15:24):
coming in yesterday, I would say, what time was it?

Speaker 2 (15:32):
How about six thirty?

Speaker 1 (15:36):
The belt line from all the way from down by
like Buck Jones Road, well a little further north than
that up to about Crabtree Mall was an absolute park lot.
I don't know how big that accident was, but they
had all the trucks out.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
There, so.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah, man, hopefully hopefully nobody was tied up in in
that and lots of that to go around. The problem is, well,
we're out of the woods on the last one. Raced
Agent's gonna come in here and he's gonna be you know,
he'll be flipping tables here in about an hour with
some not so nice predictions. But we'll get the latest

(16:16):
from him coming up here in just a about an hour. Okay, Sorry,
I'm stalling because I'm trying to not smash my computer.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Here with a hammer.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
But it's mostly the New York Post thinking I need
seventy two pop up ads every time I review one
of their stories. So yesterday in Tennessee, they had a
they had a special election to fill the seventh Congressional
District seat. The GOP rep that was in there resigned

(16:50):
to take some private, I'm sure very lucrative and not
at all probably slightly corrupted sector job. So sorry, I
don't care who you are. You signed up you want
to be a member of Congress. And then all of
a sudden, somebody offers you a pile of money for
something weird, weird, weird. If you're gonna do it, commit

(17:14):
to it. Sorry, That's where I'm at. So anyway, they
held this thing, and you know, so Republican Matt Epps
won or Van Epps excuse me, but most of the
coverage was surrounding the woman he was running against. This
aften ben Byrne whatever this is. This is a she's
a state rep and lives in this is around Nashville

(17:40):
and hates country music.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
It was an interesting strategy.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
I would have to say, yeah, she she's not a
fan of bachelorette party, which I can understand that kind
of depending on.

Speaker 2 (17:54):
Where you are.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Look, if you're an a loud bar and a bachelorette
party comes in with the old suck for a buck
shirt and everyone's screaming with phallic straws, I guess in
that setting it's fine. But you know, every now and
then you're in more of a calm setting and all
of a sudden, it's just a gaggle of banshees roll
in there.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
That can get annoying.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
That being said, the country music thing was probably not
a good marketing angle and the part where she is
like a repository for all the worst ideas of progressive
politics in a district that went double digits for Trump

(18:37):
in the last presidential election, like you got to moderate.
So I guess, I guess thankfully she didn't because she lost.
The thing that I think people are failing to recognize though,
is she only lost. I think it's at six percent still,
I'd have to check the update there. It was at
six percent after when they called it yesterday six percent.

(19:04):
District won by thirteen or fifteen percent by Trump. Now, also,
I would point out it's a special election, so turnout
is clearly not what it is during the presidential election
or even during a mid term you know, the midterm elections,
so that can skew the numbers. But I even though

(19:25):
they won the seat, I don't know that the GOP
should be dancing on that. And Nashville and the you know,
the Nashville area is dealing with a lot of the
same cultural and political shifts that many communities in North
Carolina have been dealing with, you know. And they put
those lists together of the fastest growing cities, the ones
that are really blowing up. You know, you get Raleigh

(19:45):
on there, and Charlotte generally is on the top ten list.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Nashville is right up there.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Nashville has a huge, huge amount of young people coming in.
It's growing rapidly, so it is it is ever evolving
there in Tennessee. I had this conversation the other day
with somebody. When I started doing this show, Raleigh had
just had just had a Republican mayor. That's crazy if

(20:14):
you you know, if you recognize the current state of
politics in the Triangle, you know, the Triad has more
holdover because it didn't have as quick an influx, although
it's catching man and then Charlotte.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
You know, Patriccrory was mayor when we launched this show.
That was BEB. Purdue was governor at the time.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
And now I don't believe there will ever be another
Republican mayor in Raleigh or Charlotte, Greensboro probably not maybe
I don't know, but Raleigh, that ship is sailed. We

(21:00):
just you know, we just now we're onto Janet Cowell here,
which I have some thoughts like maybe you should lean
into the Flaming Convention Center. Hear me out on this one, Okay,
So I don't know, if you guys know this the
roof of the convention Center, which is they're very proud

(21:21):
of in downtown Raleigh, and I have defended by the
way a lot of people are like the infrastructure, we
don't need any of the infrastructure, And I look, I
understand the small government aspect of it, but I also understand,
uh that, you know, the Raleigh downtown was in a
really bad place. I think that the whole Fayetteville Street

(21:42):
with the back and forth and the walking and all
that stuff, and that convention Center has it has it
has definitely spurred economic development in and around it. How
there's like five new hotels in the last few years,
and so the convention Center being part of that and
now being able to bring in the bigger conventions and

(22:05):
host them is not is not a net negative. Do
I think it's as financially as efficient as it could be?

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Probably not? Probably not.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
But when they do the uh, what's the the cosplay
weird weirdo fest down there right where I would always
forget that that was going on the the comic con
and then you're just driving around downtown Rawle, You're like,
the Hell's going on?

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Why are there Gundans walking around? What is what is happening? Man?

Speaker 1 (22:35):
How many Harley Quinn's are walking the streets of downtown Raleigh. So,
but it looks just like another convention center, even though
it's got that kind of mural facade thing going on
on the back, which is kind of cool at night
when you're coming up Saunders.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
But I've never and I've been.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
I've been to a lot of conventions in a lot
of places, Vegas, Miami, all points in between. I used
to go to a couple different conventions here. I used
to go to ICST and Shot Show every year, which
some of you know what that is. One's the fish
and one's the gun hunting thing and those who kind
of bop around and uh, you know. Then radio conventions,

(23:15):
ANAB stuff, and various other regional stuff. And I'm sure
if you're in a professional career you've probably been to
a few conventions as well. I've never seen a convention
center with flame shooting out the top. But apparently Convention
Center downtown Raleigh had flame shooting out the top and
they were unintentional. Chalk it up to a gas leak.

(23:35):
They're estimating two million dollars worth of damage there, and
there's some finger pointing, and I'm going to withhold judgment here,
but I don't really trust anyone, So maybe maybe I
am already judging in the fact that I don't trust
any of you. Raleigh Convention Center required to get an
annual fire inspection just based on what it is, which

(23:57):
makes sense, right any play you're sticking gazillion bodies in there,
you want to make sure that safety is of the
utmost concern, and whether it doesn't. It doesn't sound like
the problem is that inspections got done. It sounds like
they got done. It sounds like some people are wondering

(24:21):
if things that came up during the inspection were properly addressed. Now,
in this case, it's the top of the ability, it's
the HVAC system. There's a gas line up there in
some way, shape or form, I guess ruptured. I This
is not definitive. This is just kind of what I'm
feeling out from the articles here. And a fire broke out.

(24:45):
But back in May of last year of this year,
rather the fire alarm and sprinkler system a failed inspection. Now,
according to the mayor, the sprinkler system did go I
don't know how a sprinkle system attacks.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
A roof fire.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
Really maybe, you know, I'm not that's not my not
my expertise there, But the mayor's claiming it did what
it is supposed to do. But based on let's see
the most recent inspection May seventh. At the time, nine
items were marked as failures, including the fire alarm system,
including that the fire alarm system wasn't inspected and maintained

(25:27):
in accordance with fire code. That went for the sprinkler
system as well. The city tells w r A L
News all the inspection items were fixed. Turning an interview,
maryor Janic Cow said the sprinklers did go off, So
that's that's what they're saying there. I saw some breaking
news stuff for they were like, oh, it's a scandal,

(25:48):
this didn't but you know, contextually, that's what she's claiming.
I think that needs to be verified. But sometimes accidents
just happened. So take the make lemonade. Come on, you
ever been to a monster truck thing with the Pyro
or a concert with the Pyro? How much cooler is that?

(26:10):
How about a convention with pyrotechnics?

Speaker 7 (26:15):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Can you imagine last night a comic con flame shooting
out like it's gravedigger. Hell yeah, that could that might
attract people. I'm just I'm just coming up with ideas.
This is what we do around here. We find problems,
then we fix the problems. You're welcome, six forty six.

(26:40):
Hang on, good Wednesday morning to you. Let's go ahead
and grab a quick follow. We're doing conspiracy theories on
this show. No way, Okay, let's hear.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
This, Tony. What's up a Tony? Yeah, I know how
you feel.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
You feel the same way this morning when that alarm
went off the four point thirty.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
AnyWho, Tony, are you there?

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Apparently not. We'll check that out, probably on that Raccoon
Feld too. Yes, I'll go drink of you guys. I
know that story. The pictures are amazing and they're on
the Twitter account at Casey on the radio.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Check that out? You ready? All right? Rock and roll? Hey, hey, Tony,
let's say.

Speaker 8 (27:41):
Outlaw the retrigerants that they use now the all the
new ones are I'm.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Getting Tony, Tony, I just put you on the air,
so we didn't hear the first part of what you said,
so start over.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
But you're on the air. Tell us what you think.

Speaker 8 (28:03):
Okay, the bit in their thinking and I'm here what
I'm saying, party when I.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
Oh, will you make sure he's not being fed back
to his own sound there, Jade?

Speaker 2 (28:15):
All right, go ahead, Tony? Is that better?

Speaker 8 (28:18):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Thank you?

Speaker 9 (28:19):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (28:20):
They outlawed the refrigerants that everybody used that are more
diminarily friendly to what they call more environmentally friendly. They're
heavier than they are so least sing, and they're flammable
and explosive. They're based on I think LP and gas
and a settling and so if we have an issue

(28:41):
like this again, you may have an explosion actually in the.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Habitable area.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
So this is in the this is in the EC units.
What did this what you're talking about?

Speaker 8 (28:56):
Yeah, all AC units are changing refrigerants because they're no
longer available to what you're familiar with in today's economy.
Areas retrichers that are lighter than they are said heavily, they.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
Go up in the atmosphere, gotcha, and then down that.

Speaker 8 (29:13):
They'll settle down and too, like just the mesial building
that they're building, it'll go down through the vents if
it's on the roofs.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
And it'll be flammable.

Speaker 8 (29:24):
So if there's a smart that could be an interior
fire that will ignite mustibles.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
So did we did we make this decision because the
free on was harder to find? Or do we make
this because somebody environmentally said that we need to turn
buildings into the Hindenburgh.

Speaker 8 (29:45):
The second one, it was promoted as going to be
more environmentally friendly. But this is not just commercial, it's residential.
It's everything out there. So it's introducing this into your
homes and you know, ladies like is you know, burn
candles and you know, uh, like myself. A lot of
people got brand new system put in there, and then

(30:07):
magically the the treasure it disappears. Maybe settling in your home.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
No, no, no, Tony, this is invaluable. So you have
just come up with the best reason why you can
tell your woman she doesn't need any more candles.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
This is perfect.

Speaker 8 (30:25):
That might be a different college.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
I was gonna say, I was gonna say that might
end fiery as well. All right, Tony, well I appreciate
the call this morning. Okay, so good look at that, ladies,
you don't need any more candles?

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Well you try, you try to kill everyone? What are
you doing?

Speaker 1 (30:44):
So I I don't know, I don't know anything about
the technology. I know that I hit the thing on
the wall and then it gets colder or hot, and
then sometimes it does and I got to call somebody.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
But that's it. So uh. But also.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
There's a long history of taking things that work perfectly
fine and somebody in government thinks they know better and
then it just ruins it. Looking at you, laundry detergent,
Yeah I did choke out some fish, sure, but it
got my clothes clean.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
I appreciated that.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Dishwashing dishwashing detergent, yeah, same problem, but it got the
dishes clean. And somebody's got to come along and stick
their their al Gore style nose up in the up
in my business. Hate it, hate it. I just want

(31:49):
stuff to work, man. So anyway, all right, So I again,
I don't know what Tony's talking about there the whole
story behind that, and if that you know, if that
is the case for each of the units or whatever,
because I don't want to put it on the radio
that your ac is about ready to explode because your

(32:10):
wife wants your house to smell like pot pourriese if
I find out, what are you out there called to
report the thing? And you did not report it as
the roof. The roof, the roof is on fire. You'll
never have that opportunity again unless you're a firebug baby,
but you will have failed as a human. I would

(32:32):
be so excited. I'm looking at all the convention centers
on fire. Let me call nine one one, Yeah, nine
one one, what's your emergency? The roof, the roof, the
roof is on fire.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
And then we'll just wait and see test the mid eighties,
and then again in the nineties, then again in the
two thousands. Musical knowledge of the dispatcher.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
All right, So apparently I don't know enough about this
to render a judgment on what our previous caller was
talking about, although I did edumacate myself that in fact,
the free on was itch need at least on you

(33:18):
can get on the existing units. You can still service
as long as you can get some recycled or whatever.
I don't even know how that works. Remember the good
old days when we just used whatever we wanted for
whatever we wanted. Yeah, I mean you got things like
lead makeup and stuff, and that wasn't probably good, but
it probably worked pretty good, or they wouldn't keep putting

(33:39):
lead pain on all the stuff from China. So some
say that is the thing, and then others disagree. So
we've got lots of phone calls. Let's just dive into those.
Logan you're up first, go right ahead.

Speaker 10 (33:53):
Yeah, so I was just one of the kind of.

Speaker 9 (33:57):
Corrected.

Speaker 11 (33:57):
I don't really the.

Speaker 10 (33:58):
Word we use, but it's fun to talk about what
the caller said.

Speaker 9 (34:01):
The new refrigerate is labeled as a wildly flammable. It
has a very low.

Speaker 10 (34:08):
Flame velocity, so it's very unlikely the.

Speaker 9 (34:11):
Spark or a flame will actually ignite it if it
does get out into the air. But if it does,
it's gonna like burn out really quickly. It's almost like
if you turn on your gas reill and you get
a little bit too much propane in there and it
just how Yeah, that was gonna be like that, but
a much slower.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Yeah, this is gonna be my question because I shouldn't
say I don't know anything. I know how to weld,
and so I'm familiar with things like flashback arrests and
things like that. So but I don't know from a
technology standpoint as far as giant you know, convention center
h VAC units go, how that works? But at a
basic level, if you've ever used a cutting torch or
various other welding products, these are things that are built

(34:49):
in for obvious reasons.

Speaker 10 (34:51):
Yeah, and so it's it's gonna be something something more
like that. But it's it's gonna be so it's.

Speaker 9 (34:56):
Gonna burn out so quickly because it's it's the fuels
to just give out.

Speaker 10 (35:01):
It's not gonna it's the likelihood that's going to start
a house fire or something like that is very very
infinitestimal from from what from what I've heard, because I
just had some training on this with with my company
not too long back.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
I got you, I got you, And again I don't know.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
I think the bigger question is going to be, uh,
during the inspections where there were failures, where they properly addressed,
and then if they were sometimes you know what happens.
You know, that's that's just that's why you have insurance.
And uh, nobody actually had. He was hurt, which is good.
So that's the best you can hope for. All Right,
I appreciate the call there, sir. All right, so let's

(35:42):
let's just keep trucking through the shall we, Anthony, what's up?

Speaker 11 (35:47):
I was gonna say one thing about it. One thing
I was going to say is the old timers best
had a check for pro pain leaks with a cigarette lner. Anyway,
I had somebody there on site yesterday because my company
does work in that building. It was actually a refrigeration
unit that the lime musted loose and ignited on him
to make a bear unit.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Okay, so it busted on and there was it hit
a heat heat source or at least a lot, and.

Speaker 12 (36:12):
So the refrigeran already, the refrigerant has all in it already.

Speaker 11 (36:16):
That's you know, really really flammable.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
My uncle, my uncle used to use a lighter in
the barn to check to see what was in buckets,
and generally there was gasoline in there and stuff like.
I watched him hold up on a on a gas
thing a lighter next to it so he could see
inside it.

Speaker 11 (36:37):
Yeah, well that I mean, as long as it's not contained,
as long as this kind of place the vent, it
won't explode.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Ten year old me just said that looked like a
bad idea, But hey, he's still alive, so what do
I know.

Speaker 7 (36:49):
Hey?

Speaker 11 (36:50):
On the song thing, though, one of our one of
our coworkers was I'm not going to say the name
of our company, but he was saying, you know, blank
didn't start the fire because there was an equipment that
we maintained.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Oh well, hey, there you go, man. So that's why,
by the way, that's why it was said, thanks for
the call. That's the second reference to that song here
in a few months. Because it was also really funny
in Portland when ANTIFA was doing aerobic protest, which is
a thing if you missed it, it was a thing a
few weeks ago, and they were jazzer sizing too.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
We didn't start the fire because they did.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
See what they did there, because they they the courthouse
for one hundred days, they did start the fire. They
also burned iced teese bus or ice cubes. What are
the ices? Not spice ice though, one of the dude ices,
but not ices like the terrorist ices. Are you confused yet, Albert,
Go right ahead, sir.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
You start getting one. How we're doing today.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
We're not on fire. So that's good.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
Good, that's good.

Speaker 6 (37:46):
That's good.

Speaker 13 (37:47):
I'm going to kind of cliffy some things from the
call it tony.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
Okay, so the refriger is slightly flammable, yes, we all.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Agree on that.

Speaker 13 (37:56):
But I will tell you I been around.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
For about sixteen years already in Europe is proven it's safe,
and all the manufacturers have made certain certain processes with
for my eco sensors, some mitigation, uh.

Speaker 5 (38:12):
You know, tech techniques to eliminate the possibility of anything
blowing up. So uh, yeah, we we deal with this
all the time, with people putting stuff on Facebook and
Twitter and TikTok and you know, thinking that they know
what's going on, but it's actually not true.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
It is plclifammable.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
But it is true that we had to change, right,
And I hate that we're changing, uh to the European
model because they tend to suck compared to what we
do here in America.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
But okay, correct, yeah, I mean we did.

Speaker 13 (38:42):
I have to have to have to change for sure.
A lot of it comes from obviously, you know, being
more being more efficient and also being safe for the
for the environment. But I will tell you this if
anybody wants to be completely scared.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
And I hate to do.

Speaker 13 (38:56):
This, but I didn't realize myself. I was heating their
company myself.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
In the local area. Yeah, but I had my refrigerate fixed,
my refrigerator fixed. It fixed at my at my home.
And uh, it turns out the refrigerators of the refrigerate
it's actually buttane. So if anybody's familiar with you taned. Uh,
if you have a cigarette ladder, that's fane. Yeah, so
that's the refrigerator is the most dangerous thing in your

(39:22):
house right now.

Speaker 1 (39:23):
So we have the we have an out cabin up
on the higher part of our property and everything. Every
appliance has a washer, dryer, it's got a refrigerator, it's
got a deep freezer.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
All of it runs on pro Pain. So exactly.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Yeah, man, that was that's that wasn't easy to find
all that stuff. Thanks for the call there, sir. But yeah,
we just have a big, you know, giant pro pain
tank buried up in there and we all got to
fill it like uh once every once every year. But yeah,
every washer and dryer running on pro Pain, that's the thing.
But yeah, none of it ever exploded, so.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
That was good.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
So this is Yeah, so it looks like this is
about protecting the ozone. So they had to make air
conditioning worse. Thank you appreciate that, which, by the way,
why are we changing don't it wasn't there isn't there
like a severe lack of air conditioning over in Europe?

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Isn't that?

Speaker 5 (40:17):
Am?

Speaker 1 (40:17):
I did I hallucinate that this summer where they were
all screaming bloody murder and then we find out nobody's
nobody's got ac and also that they're whining because it's
eighty one degrees when you convert from celsius, like God's
too hot, and then you run the numbers like it's
eighty one in the UK was eighty one or eighty two?

Speaker 2 (40:37):
And they're like, this is it? This is the seventh
level of hell.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
And I'm like, this is a nice even in the
North Carolina in July.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
This is why this is.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
This is sitting out on the patio weather a bunch
of whiners. So, in fact, just for that, since you
clearly we have we signed on to this boondoggle, I'm
gonna get some old school hairnet and then just spray
it right up in the ozone, the good stuff from
back in the day. All right, one more quick call,

(41:08):
that's a plot Eco terror?

Speaker 14 (41:12):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (41:13):
Yeah, Lee, what's upright?

Speaker 5 (41:16):
M Casey?

Speaker 15 (41:17):
How we doing this morning?

Speaker 5 (41:17):
Brother?

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Good sir and gren I'm.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
Glad to hear that.

Speaker 15 (41:21):
Yeah, you know, I'm right there with you. I'm in
the HVAC world as well. And changing the free ons
has been a bit of a headache.

Speaker 7 (41:30):
You know.

Speaker 15 (41:30):
There's a lot of nuances that come in. But like
the previous scholars said, there's so many things that have
been implemented to keep it safe. And I think it
takes if I remember it correctly, I think it takes
fourteen percent of the free on in the atmosphere before
it becomes combustible. But man, it all comes down the

(41:51):
global warming potential. That's the word that the EPA has
put in place to make everything more difficult. And like
you said, it's just not as efficient as the old
PreO was and it's aggravating on our side for sure.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
And then they're gonna come next, are going to come
for my heater, which, by the way, I have my
heater to heat my home. It's it's a spotted owl.
We just it's all we just burned spotted owls. So
but it's very efficient, sir.

Speaker 15 (42:20):
So I'm absolutely, I'm like I said, I'm this is
what I do for a living.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
And I still have a fuel.

Speaker 15 (42:27):
Furnace because I like my heat and I pay for it.
You know, God created fossil fuels, and he created this earth,
and you know he designed all these things for us
to years. We should utilize them. I can tell you.

Speaker 11 (42:40):
My fuel, my old fuel oil.

Speaker 15 (42:42):
Burns at one hundred and seventeen degrees. I can feel
the heat in my house.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
That's how you know I love it.

Speaker 15 (42:48):
My right does too.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
Oh yeah, women love the heat, especially this time of
the year.

Speaker 7 (42:53):
Man.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
Yeah, all right, absolutely. Wait, we appreciate your brother, and no,
if you have a good day, God blest y'all.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
Look at that man back ever goes out. I'm gonna
so save money, I know all of you. Oh yeah,
by the way, you environmental moonbats, you want to hear
something that's gonna send you into it tizzy?

Speaker 2 (43:11):
You ready? You know what heats our barn?

Speaker 7 (43:15):
Coal?

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Baby, that's right.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
I'd have to go go drive up to the coal
mine up and up by Ranchester, or I could drive
over to Gillette go to the coal mine and then
they just load.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Up the back of the truck.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
You want to put a tarp down with coal, and
then we have like a like a churn thing in
the barn. Looks like a big looks like a big
water tank, put all the coal in there, and then
it's got a little feeder thing and then that's what
feeds the coal furnace that keeps the barn and then
occasionally the cowsworm. Yeah, that's right, good old fashioned, you know,

(43:51):
dead stuff, perfect fossil fuels, Baby seven eighteen. Hang on
Open AIM. By the way, I'm not a fan of
leadership over there at Open AI.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
I think the.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
I think that guy is and I know he's beefing
with Sam Altman's his name. I know he's beefing with
Elon Musk over trying to privatize something that was supposed
to be public whatever. But the guy just runs me
the wrong way. That being said, if you remember Open
AI and Chad gpt is what we're talking about here.

(44:29):
I had there's a very tragic story that they were
I don't want to say caught up in. I mean
they're really at the center of it where you had
this sixteen year old Adam Rain we talked about this
on the show, who committed committed suicide. And there are
transcripts of his conversation with the with the AI up

(44:52):
to and including the AI explaining to him how to
tie a noose and evaluating the job that he did.
He had hey had made an initial attempt, it had
corrected him on stuff, and he had openly discussed suicide
and then eventually it kind of helped him. Well, obviously

(45:13):
there's a lawsuits surrounding this. The problem is this defense.
I don't do you have any PR people over there,
all right, So what is the defense by open AI
with their chat gpt product.

Speaker 2 (45:31):
It is really dark.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
The defense against the lawsuit, as they have finally filed
an actual response to this story hinges on two points. One,
the terms of use provides that chat GPT users must
comply with open AIS usage policies which expressly prohibit the

(45:56):
use of chat gpt for suicide or self harm. That's right,
It's not their fault that their AI convinced a sixteen
year old, or may may have helped convince a sixteen
year old to kill himself at the very least made
him much more efficient at the process, because it's against

(46:18):
the terms of service. And if they didn't stick the
landing there, they then follow up. Also under the terms
of use, users under eighteen years of age are forbidden
from using chat GPT without the consent of a parent
or guardian perfect blame it on the parents of the

(46:41):
now deceased sixteen year old. Good lord man, what a
horrible response. Oh, it's right there in the TOS says
you can't use it to suicide yourself.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
It's right there. You should have read it. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
The terms of service is three thousand pages and nobody
ever reads it. And the logical thing would maybe to, like,
I don't know, put some programming in that says that
they can't help you commit suicide, but it's easier just
to bury it in the terms of service.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Why the heck?

Speaker 3 (47:13):
Non?

Speaker 2 (47:16):
That is a dark response, my guy, umm.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
Or the company, by the way, doesn't use age verification,
So I don't even know why you're going to bring
that up if you don't have a process, because right,
you know there are I don't even think there's a
step to ask your age. I think there is now
if I remember correctly. They didn't at the time, but
I think they did implement something which actually in and
of itself.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
I'm not a lawyer, let me check. Nope, not a lawyer.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
So wouldn't that kind of be an admission that there
was a problem If you went ahead and implement.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
I mean they should have.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
So there is a couple from Australia or they big, No,
they moved Okay, I didn't know if they were vacation.
So they had. They were from Australia. They had just
relocated to Texas and it's like, how long have they
been like two weeks? Okay, all right, so family, mom, dad,

(48:20):
They have some younger young kids.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
It doesn't say how old the kids are. Uh well,
I don't know, maybe five is the oldest.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
Anyway, so they decided they're going to go out to
eat and uh so they had driven by this restaurant
that they thought looked kind of cool on the outside,
so they decided to go there. Said the wife had
had real lodge like Colorado ski lodge vibes. So they
went in, sat down and said that they were shocked

(48:50):
and were upset because they felt that they'd been kind
of ropidoped, but not up said enough to leave. Apparently
the restaurant in question was Twin Peaks, which is a restaurant.
If you've never been to a Twin Piece, I don't
know how you made it five feet in the door

(49:12):
and didn't see what was up, Like, they're not hiding it.
Maybe they're not standing out front, but I just find
it very interesting because they then vidio. You know, they're
like sitting at a table complaining about it.

Speaker 6 (49:25):
Here.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
Let me guess.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
It was uh he's let me guess it was his
idea to stay. We're already here. You gotta see this through.
And she's just salty about it. Yeah, you had some
bigger issues to work on there. Sorry, I get distracted
by stuff. Well you know that if you listen to
the show. It's how we roll. All right, let's head

(49:51):
to Atlanta, shall we please? In Atlanta, say, they have
just made a a rather large.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
Uh what was the I think it's meth. It's a myth.

Speaker 1 (50:02):
It's meth myth bust specifically nine hundred pounds of meth.
And the person whose method was he's kind of an idiot,
not just because they're in the meth business, but specifically.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
They had a giant refrigerated truck.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
That purported to be like a blackberries it had blackberries
in it and so and then they parked it in
front of their house in a residential neighborhood there in
in Atlanta. And I guess the neighbors like, why is
there a refrigerated BlackBerry truck out there, and I don't
know the whole course of events that got there, but

(50:44):
eventually police they made the bust and inside the thing
were some blackberries, basically a wall of blackberries, and then
right behind it nine hundred pounds of meth. Yeah, you
got you gotta be super dumb, because neighbors are nosy. Okay,

(51:06):
so I guess one of the Okay, So as sheriff's
deputy responded and he happened to have a drug dog.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
They did the thing with the dog.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
The dog walked around the truck and I'm sure just
went absolutely backcrap crazy, and that's how they were eventually
able the blackberries believed to have been brought in from Mexico. Yeah, oh,
look at that. The two arrested, one Hernandez and Nelsion Sortou,

(51:33):
charged with trafficking meth and fetamines.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
Let me guess, in the are they in the country legally?

Speaker 5 (51:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (51:38):
I guess maybe they had driven across and then we're
just chilling with their meth there in Atlanta. What were
you guys waiting for. I don't want to tell you
how to do your drugs, but like that doesn't make
any sense. I guess maybe they want to keep it
mobile case. But that's the thing, like, if you're gonna
do you're gonna police chase in Atlanta. Have you been

(51:59):
on the freeways there?

Speaker 2 (52:01):
What's that going to be?

Speaker 1 (52:01):
At one mile an hour? You'll have officers on foot
stopping you. All right, So they're charged with all this stuff.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
It's unclear. I guess they get deported, they do time.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
All right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seven four the phone number you want to be on
the show. All right, let me give you an update
on a couple of stories we did yesterday.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
I can get the right one called up there.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
Hey, there we go, and then we're gonna need all
hands on deck wood chipper assembly. This is a horrible
story I'm going to tell you here in a moment.
But you know what, you got to know that these
people exist so you can keep your kids off the roadblocks.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's one of those. But

(52:53):
let me hit this first. So the whole Nicholas Maduro
Venezuelan runt dictator thing that continue to escalate, and now
now it looks like this is a New York Post exclusive.
It looks like several Middle Eastern countries could be the

(53:14):
new home of Maduro, if in fact he'll agree to it.
It's my understanding that Maduro's position is that this is
a second This is all you know, people with knowledge
of the situation, so take it for what it's worth.
Is among his demands to leave was that his vice
president basically be slid right in there, which can't happen, right,
because you have a corrupt regime and clearly, if you're

(53:38):
this guy's vice president, I just assume you're in on
all the corruption. So if that's something that's that's not
gonna fly. And they've already had Remember they had elections,
albeit fake ones where you could literally see the returns
because they posted pictures and forgot to hide the computer screens.
And we recognize here in the United States, we recognize

(53:59):
the person Maduro quote unquote defeated as the rightful head
of Venezuela, even though clearly Maduro is still calling the
shots there. So like that's baked in, So that whole
vice president thing's not gonna happen. So where could Maduro
end up, Well, let me give you the the the

(54:20):
various countries here cutter or Qatar or what I still
say cutter Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates. And with the
amount of money he's gonna steal, excuse me, he's earned.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
You know, UAE is crazy man.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
Go to Dubai and get you, get you a big
old mansion out of one of the palms or something
and live high on the hog. So I guess those
are discussions that are happening, frankly, knowing what Maduro has
has done and literally speaking to Venezuelans. I told you

(55:02):
I had a conversation with some displaces Venezuelans when I
was in Colombia, and I found it fascinating. It was
a family who were a very prominent family in Venezuela.
They were the whole. It was Old Dennis. Old family
was Dennis moms and dentist dads a dentists. They had
multiple locations at very high end clientele. The kids, the

(55:24):
two kids were both became Dennis, and uh. They weren't
down with the Maduro. They weren't down with the Chavez.
They were at one point, I guess, and then they weren't.
And then all of a sudden, no more dentist's office
and in fact, the one woman I talked to, she
who is the one of the daughters, the dentist and

(55:46):
her brother. They were able to get in Colombia. But
Colombia doesn't allow you to perfect do professional stuff. They
protect their own professions when it comes to things like dentistry, doctors,
things like that. So she was working as a nail
tech and he was doing construction. Hey, Jade, I need

(56:08):
you to grab the phone there. We're doing the Ray
on the phone today. So and picked that up there,
so and and then they were talking about just some
of the like Baduro's people were coming, kicking doors and
killing people.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
So, yeah, you feed him right in a woodship ring.
Gonna ain't gonna bother me. But that's just me.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
Now, if you want true woodship for action, have I
got a story for you that'll be coming up here
in the next segment. All right, just go and put
them on hold. Oh, go to figure out what's going
on here?

Speaker 2 (56:45):
Do do do?

Speaker 16 (56:45):
Do?

Speaker 2 (56:46):
Do do do? All right? Yeah, so we're just gonna
do him on the phone.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
So go ahead and fire the old weatherbed there and
we'll get mister Ray staging via phone.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
How you doing, sir?

Speaker 3 (56:56):
Wow?

Speaker 6 (56:56):
I'm doing well. Okay, how are you?

Speaker 1 (56:58):
I'm good, except all our comra We got shows in town.
We got a big fundraiser doing this weekend for toys
for tots, So we're we're making.

Speaker 6 (57:05):
Do Yeah, they do the best you can.

Speaker 7 (57:08):
Right.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Hey, it's dry this morning. I appreciate that.

Speaker 6 (57:11):
Yeah, dry, chilly, a little blow average next couple of days,
and obviously if they didn't here yet, and the opportunity
maybe for a little winter weather on Friday morning, I
think somebody was in shouting distance, especially the further north
northwest you go, try and up into southern Virginia, a
little bit of wet snow, maybe even here in the
triangle at further south. But if there are accumulations, they

(57:34):
should be light. And I don't want to say it,
but there might be another chance even early next week.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
So we'll kind of stop it.

Speaker 6 (57:41):
No. Yeah, well, it's one thing, one piece at a time.
The first piece of it will be today, beautiful day
today in the mid upper forties, Tomorrow upper forties, low
fifties with increasing clouds, and after midnight Thursday night to
Friday morning, it's rain and snow and maybe a brief
period of wet snow early and then everybody transitions back
to rain. So I'd say accumulations are more likely triad,

(58:05):
and that's even going to be light inter or less
than to the areas to the north. So I still
lit in question case. See a lot more on that
as we go on through tomorrow, a few more model
runs and we'll kind of nail it down. And then
for the weekend, a small chance of rain Saturday in
the upper forties, and then sunshine on Sunday what hides
in the upper forties to low fifties. So now we're
staying in this battern. We'll get these little shots of

(58:26):
colder air. We're just having to lane the precipitation over
the top of it Thursday night early Friday. So that's
the point right now where we are in question.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
Okay, all right, well we'll see if it improves in
the next hour and we'll talk to you then. All
right there, racet Agic from the Weather Channel. All right,
we will take a break. This roadbox story is it's
got a cult, it's got small children, and frankly, I
think we need to stick all these people in the

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middle of the field and hit them with a mortar.
But twice media freaks out. We'll get into it next.
Hang on at least passing interest in these stories that
are merging on things like roadblocks and Discord and counter
strike and a lot of these on. You know, there's
the gaming aspect there, but specifically ones where you have

(59:20):
a higher population of much younger children and the predators
that then the turn them into happy hunting grounds.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
So we've heard the stories.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
This one is very specific, and I have been just
racking my brain trying to figure out which medieval torture
method we should use, because wood chipper just seems too quick.
I've often said if we could get a wood chipper
down to about three RPMs, then maybe maybe we could

(59:56):
for some of these really really horrible things. But we're
gonna have to come up with something much worse here.
So this is This is out of New York, a
man in Queens and four other members of an online cult.
So great, now I get the cult aspect here. I

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have been accused of exploiting Discord and Roadblocks to prey
on children as young as eleven. This happened from twenty
nineteen to twenty twenty one. They're only now going to
face some justice, So what did they do. By the way,
the guy who's arrested, he's twenty nine. His name is
Hector Bermudez, who was arrested Tuesday and then arraigned in

(01:00:44):
federal court yesterday afternoon. All right, let me describe it
to you. So they would go on, they would make
friends with these kids. By the way, the cult just
for you parents who might have some interests, because if
you've ever heard the name of this thing, I'm going

(01:01:06):
to tell you you might want to have a conversation
with your kid. The cult in question was referred to
as Gregy's Cult, like Greg but with two g's and
y Gregy's Cult, which sounds like a very kid friendly name,
but it was anything but. According to Attorney General Pam Bondi,
who held a pressure on this yesterday, they would they

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would befriend these children, indoctrinate them into their little cult thing,
and at some point they would go ahead and they
would they would get the kids to perform all sorts
of really horrendous sexual acts on camera. So they were

(01:01:48):
they were having the kids produced their own child pornography.
And then after they got what they wanted from them.
And this is where it gets just diabolical. According to
the charging doctors, they would then go bad cop on
the kids, blackmail them, and uh convince them to kill

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themselves at according to federal prosecutors, which they successfully did,
I guess in a few instances. Let me just let
me just recap this because it's just it's one of
the more horrendous things. This is, you see why, I'm like,
we got to figure out some other way because the

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wood shippers too fast. They'd go make friends with the
children and they pretend to be younger. They would get
sexual content from the kids, some as young as eleven,
and then to cover up their evidence, they would convince
the children to kill themselves.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
I think we have to go with.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
What was the thing where they used to fill you
with honey and then they'd put you in a log
and float you in there and the mosquitos and the
maggots had get you. But then they keep you alive
by feeding you more honey, skafing or whatever they caught. Yeah, yeah,
this is like we're going straight medieval here, just like
the worst you can think of, but the slowest as well. Yeah,

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that one was particularly nasty because your body's just basically rotten.
But they're keeping you alive, like they had a lot
of time on their hands back in the day, like
they didn't have Netflix. You got to do something right,
so you figure out how to deal with these things.
In fact, I want to say, yesterday in Afghanistan they
had a stadium executions. I'm not saying the Taliban really

(01:03:44):
gets anything right, but i've that guy apparently killed thirteen people,
so they're like, hey, who wants to come see a show? Yeah,
here we go. Eighty thousand people. Cause, again, not much
to do in Afghanistan, I guess unless you're you know,
you're brought here and then unvetted and you get to
go try to kill our national guardsmen and women. Yeah,

(01:04:08):
eighty thousand people attended a public execution in Coast, which
is I guess the eastern city that I'm probably mispronouncing.
Local news reports were there. They had the cameras rolling
at the city's central football field. A man named a
Mongol mangle Well, the detto, was put to death for

(01:04:31):
murdering a man named Abdul Raman. Oh, I think it's
a different Abdul Raman was that one of the nine
to eleven hijackers.

Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
I think it's a different one anyhow, and then and
then let's see murdered thirteen members of the family, I
guess to try to cover it up. Oh and some
of them are kids. How did they do it? Slowly?

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
I hope creeping up on eight oh seven now, Glad
to have you along. A from a visibility standpoint, a
much better day out there today than yesterday's commute.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
Was so enjoy that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
Unfortunately, I understand from our earlier chat with Ray Stagic
this it may be a change in as we get
near the weekend, which I'm upset about, not just from
the standpoint of I don't want to be cold anymore
and sure don't want to deal with sleep. But this
is a big, big weekend for so many of the

(01:05:33):
kids here in our community because we do an event
called Stuff of Us. And I just want to tell
you about this real quick, because if you're in the
Triangle area or in the triad and you're feeling motivated
whatever you want to do, we literally a whole team
of us are at some point there at the Walmart

(01:05:56):
on Kildare Farm Road in Kerry from you know, basically
all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday, I'll be out there
mostly Saturday Sunday, but you know we'll be popping around
out there, and we're set up right out in front.
And yet we got a big old bus. And let
me tell you what, we fill that bus more than once.

(01:06:18):
Because you're looking at the bus, You're like, you're really
gonna fill that whole thing.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
We do it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
Over and over and over again because we have we
have really great advertising partners that themselves donate and do
pick up and drop off. And we're of course tied
in with Toys for Tots, so there will be uh
members of the US Marine Corps there. There some really
nice folks, some officers. Last few times I've been out there,

(01:06:43):
they hang out and all you got to do is
just bring a new unwrapped toy and if you don't
have one, you can walk into the walmart and buy
you one and when you come out drop it off.
Say hey, you know, do pictures if you want. I
hate doing pictures, but it's mostly because I feel like

(01:07:03):
I ruined your pictures. But we'd love to chat with you,
and I'm happy to be the bait along with you
know a lot of the other folks you here on
various other or other stations. We'll be out there as
well over the course of those three days. So I
just don't want because I think people will come out
if it's cold, but I don't want the moisture that's

(01:07:23):
right on the edge of cold, because I understand. I
just don't want to cutting into the toys we're able
to acquire for the kids.

Speaker 6 (01:07:29):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:07:30):
Last year, and I think I'm correct with this number.
If not, I'm really really close. I think we did
like seven thousand, five hundred toys. We would have done more,
but I tried to go in and acquire some toys
which were actually machetes, because if I was a kid,
I would want a machete for Christmas. But I'm like, duh,

(01:07:52):
you can't put machetes in there. So we got fishing
rods instead, like Spider Man ones, because I think those
are those are kind of toys I wanted.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
So yeah, we got options. But we let's do.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
Ten thousand this year? Huh, why not we do ten thousand?
We need your help though, So Friday, Saturday, Sunday, dang
near the entire day. I'll probably be out there more
late morning through you know, into like early evening, and

(01:08:24):
we're just there stop buy and see us make a
donation and say hey and really really help the Marines
knock it out of the park this year with the
number of toys for Toys for Tots, which is what
this all ties into. Killed their farm road Walmart, Carrie,
North Carolina. We hope to see you all right now,

(01:08:45):
let me grab a quick phone call here on the
horrific story. I I hate a positive kids story next
to this horrible story. But if you're a parent man,
you got to be paying attention to this. This is
one of the most evil things I think I've talked
about in a while. A group arrested up in New York.
They had been running something called Greggie's Cult, and they

(01:09:07):
were on roadblocks, getting kids as young as eleven to
shoot pornographic videos of themselves, provide that to them, and
as part of covering the evidence. According to the Attorney General,
they would then, through the you know, cults being cults,
tak coach these kids into killing themselves because you know,

(01:09:30):
then they can't testify. And I can't come up with
a slow enough execution method to satisfy my bloodlust overreading
this thing. But we're working on it, Yes, Franklin what's
going on?

Speaker 14 (01:09:44):
Good morning, Case love the show, longtime listener, Thank you, sir.
I just wanted to say that I love thinking of boys.
To get rid of child predators. I think we should
suggest maybe a Mandela nick guy.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
What you mean the mandel Oh with the is that
the fire thing around the neck?

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
No, that's something. Is that the fire tire.

Speaker 3 (01:10:06):
That's where that's where they bury you up to your neck.
Then they light a tire around your head.

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
Oh? Can we use ants kind of like one ants?

Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
You know, kind of like the apaches did.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
Yeah? Man, yeah, especially you know the fire ants we
get around here. That could be fun.

Speaker 3 (01:10:26):
Yeah, that would be great.

Speaker 11 (01:10:28):
I think we ought to televise it too.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
Oh yeah, heck yeah, sir.

Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
Let's be a cautionary tale, or at the very least,
and thanks for the call there, sir. Let's figure out
so that parents are paying attention when your kid's on roadblocks. Man,
that is Oh you know what, I just thought of
another one. So yesterday I was I was having a
couple of beers with some folks I know, and one
of them's got this little tiny dog. It's it's not

(01:10:52):
a Wienard. I don't know what it is. It's like
a fuzzy wiener dog. I'm sure there's a name for it.
The damn things maybe two feet long, but it's less.
It's got to be like a foot high, not even
a foot high at the shoulders, little legs are like two.

Speaker 4 (01:11:04):
Inches, and the damn thing's verticals like six feet. It's
the craziest crap I've ever seen. But the whole time
we're sitting there, he's got this this like you know,
toy and teeth and growl and attitude and and like
your arm would fall off before you could run this
dog out of energy. So let's bury him down in

(01:11:27):
this and then we'll get that dog. And the dog's
name was Kyle and not to be confused with Kyle
and News. And then we'll just let that little dog
think that the chew toy's your face.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
Gond take a while.

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
It's a little dog, but he's gonna have the energy
to get the job done.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
I've helped the owner of the dog figure out an
exercise method so that their arm doesn't go out and
we get rid of the roadblocks. Predators winning all day, Winning, Patrick, Hello,
Hello Patrick, can you hear me?

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
I can hear you? Sir, what's up?

Speaker 12 (01:12:06):
Oh, well, you know you being from Wyoming, I don't
know if you're familiar with the old Cheyenne method of
execution when they when somebody committed a heinous crime in
their society, they would put them in a cage and
give them water until they starved it that they usually
took over a month. They'd only give them ortter.

Speaker 10 (01:12:22):
They wouldn't give them food, but they would give.

Speaker 12 (01:12:24):
Them wort, which would sustain you for several weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:12:26):
But it's a I don't even want to give them water.
But yeah, I see where you're going with there. I
think you should look into the scathe, the skating thing
with the log and the ants and the honey and
the mosquitoes.

Speaker 12 (01:12:38):
Yeah, I think they see was sour milk also.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean there's all sorts of
good ideas floating around from our forefathers, so like they
knew how to get stuff done, man, all right.

Speaker 12 (01:12:50):
As well as it was done the people that deserved it, right, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
Oh no, one hundred percent, So one hundred percent. And
I feel like if convicted of exactly what they're charged with,
they're they're on the deserve it list.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Oh absolutely, for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
All right, thanks for the call, although there'll be some
some woke advocate they're like, oh, they've had a trouble childhood,
they are feeling lonely, and then you get scathed too,
because I just I can't eight fifteen hang on, listen
to the conversation. Had this thought pop into your head,

(01:13:25):
got on some sort of device to write the email,
Then you read the email I'm sure looks as though
everything is punctuated and spelled correctly.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
And then you said it. You did all of those.

Speaker 1 (01:13:37):
Things just to tell me that we're gonna sit here
and talk about evil and then spend the whole time
talking about ways to execute. Aren't we ourselves being evil? No,
we're vanquishing evil. Also, they're not gonna let me run
a wood chipper. So I don't like, I don't even know.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
What you're Did you hear what they are accused of doing?

Speaker 1 (01:13:59):
And I did say that she's got a trial first
the animals around here, and then you know, we'll do
our thing, and then uh yeah, I can sort him
in the afterlife. I think I know how it's going
to go if I had to guesstimate. But no, in fact,

(01:14:21):
let's get Frank here to join us. Frank, what's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
Hey, Hey, how's it going going?

Speaker 3 (01:14:27):
Sir? Good?

Speaker 9 (01:14:29):
Got another idea on how we can handle those folks.

Speaker 1 (01:14:32):
All right, but just know that April's gonna get mad
at you so because she's I don't know, sending emails this.

Speaker 9 (01:14:37):
Morning, as most of the guys out there. No, it's
uh right at the tail end of the rut. So
we take him out in the woods.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
Yes, you put them in a set of stock.

Speaker 15 (01:14:47):
You put a antlers on one and on the.

Speaker 9 (01:14:50):
Other, and then take a course.

Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
Yeah, that's that's fair, sir, Absolutely, I think, yeah, you
put the antlers on to see. I just want you
guys to understand how de vious this man's plan is,
because he's got plans for the front and the back,
right the antlers or so the other buck comes along
and it's like, ah, you get out of here, and
then the back well that's you know, the buck comes
from that direction. It's a whole different ballgame. I like

(01:15:15):
it all right, thank you, sir. Remind me not too Yeah,
across you. Frank's got ideas I think on the underside too.
Sports car area, Honey for the bears, let's take this
up to an eleven, As Spinal Tap would say, where

(01:15:38):
are the guy from?

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
Anyway?

Speaker 1 (01:15:40):
All right, eight twenty three here on the Cacoda Radio program.
You know why, because we're a society that too often
these days seems devoid of justice. That's the problem. Oh
bullet ants, huh? Yeah, yeah, I have seen. I saw

(01:16:01):
some lunatic who does a his whole like I don't
know if it's this whole thing, but like basically his
YouTube channel is him just going and getting bit and
stung by stuff. Which do you how do you end
up on? I guess it's working to who am I
to questioned? Because I saw it. A lot of people
saw it, and I remember watching this guy's video and

(01:16:23):
him commenting that that was the worst insects sting of
any of them, hands down. So yeah, I just want
to make sure it's not so bad it hastens the
process too much. So we'll have to control the number
of bullet ants available for you know, such an endeavor.

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
So let me let me go back to this. Let
me go back to this.

Speaker 1 (01:16:50):
In a society that seems too often devoid of justice,
it can be really, really frustrating to watch some of
these high profile stories we've seen with you know, we
just we just passed a law in North Carolina, or
we just passed it, but it just went into effect
here two days ago, and that's Aerna's law, And while

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does a variety of things, the point that it's trying
to make is that if you have these people who
keep doing these things, and then you have judges who
are cowards who should be essentially dis you know, kick
kicked out of their profession because they don't want to
actually punish anybody, which can include keeping you know, people
safe so they don't get stabbed on a light rail

(01:17:33):
or set on fire on a Chicago train, or just
you know, permanently and repeatedly harassing people in let's say
a shopping area, deterring people then from going down there,
or committing nacts of larceny on the regular. And you know,
in modern society we have to put up with that.
People are sick of it. And North Carolina is at

(01:17:56):
least being proactive on this. Up in Virginia, they're still
they're still playing catch and release.

Speaker 2 (01:18:06):
So check this out.

Speaker 1 (01:18:08):
A bandit, a burglar, a ne'er do well is led
to a broken into a Virginia ABC Store, the liquor
store up there, trashes the place. There's photos of this,
smashed bottles all over, you know, the middle of the
aisle there looks like also and then consumed was consuming

(01:18:30):
apparently large quantities of what looks like Buchanans.

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
I think it's a Scotch whiskey. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
It's hard to tell because the bottle's pretty shattered. But
here's what we do know. After destroying numerous bottles of
liquor and then consuming large quantities of liquor, the intruder
then went into the bathroom at the ABC store and
passed out literally face like face right next to the toilet,

(01:18:59):
just sprawled out on all fours.

Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
And that's where police found them when they responded to this.
So what do they do?

Speaker 1 (01:19:07):
They grat they you know, they grabbed the purp sober said,
purp up. Don't even charge them, charge with nothing and
then just let him go. It's clear and he's he's
dressed as a damn burglar too. That's what's even crazy here.

(01:19:27):
Dressed as a burglar, smashes bottles, b and E, steals
the consumption of the liquor, and then has the audacity
to pass out drunk in the bathroom and nothing happens
to him. Virginia, you need to get your crap together, man.
And I know what some of you are saying, like, well,
k C, it was a raccoon. I don't care. I

(01:19:51):
don't look that. That's uh state liquor. That's clearly costing
the taxpayers money. Now, I what I prefer that the
raccoon is addicted to alcohol versus crack like the one
in Ohio, the kraccoon we talked about. Sure, I guess
I don't know. Both equally problematic if it's gonna lead

(01:20:12):
you to do things like this. But yeah, there's pictures
by the way, if go to at Casey on the
radio on Twitter, they have the smash bottles there the
aisles and then they have the alcoholic raccoon splayed out there.
Coming up, we will chat with Ray Stagic here in

(01:20:32):
about ten minutes and Bloomberg, although I believe I was
reading Denise's email correctly, Yes, they are training somebody today,
so we're gonna be chatting with Monica. But you know,
same Bloomberg report.

Speaker 2 (01:20:51):
That'll be let's see about fifteen minutes a little more
than that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:57):
A few things to get to including more quick call
on the medieval torture methods. We've been brainstorming this morning
based on a really horrific story. So yesterday arrests and
a federal indictment for a group running an online kitty
porn cult. You know, in case you couldn't think of

(01:21:19):
something more evil. They not only would go on roadblocks
to recruit kids and then get them to make sexual content,
but the part at the end when they got done
with them was to then use the whole cult thing
and eventually get them.

Speaker 2 (01:21:34):
To kill themselves. So we're dealing with that.

Speaker 1 (01:21:39):
Somebody did say that what we should do to allow
the Drunken Raccoon bandit to make amends is we get
a bunch of drunken raccoons and then we give them
the crack like the kraccoon in Ohio, and then we
let them go to work on the roadblocks kitty porn
suicide cult people. I'm open to that as a possibility.

(01:22:00):
We'll see Jim, Good morning, what's.

Speaker 15 (01:22:02):
Up, Good morning?

Speaker 7 (01:22:05):
Yeah, something I read from medieval times they would strap
the individual down to the table where they couldn't move
at all. Then they would had this device that created
a cavity over their abdomen.

Speaker 6 (01:22:20):
They would put a couple of.

Speaker 7 (01:22:22):
Rats in the cavity and then they would apply heat.

Speaker 10 (01:22:28):
So that as far as the rats knew, the only.

Speaker 7 (01:22:31):
Way out was through the cavity, in other words, the tummy.

Speaker 3 (01:22:40):
By only doing two or three rats, it's not quite
as quick as you know, more rats would be.

Speaker 1 (01:22:46):
We're just hey, look, we're just trying to come up
with the turrens, sir, some of us, some of us
are trying to solve the problem. And I appreciate you
helping for sure.

Speaker 7 (01:22:56):
So well, the risk has to be greater than the word.

Speaker 1 (01:23:00):
Yeah, I agree one, especially when it comes to kids.
Absolutely all right, Hey, yeah go ahead, Jim, Yeah, thank
you appreciate it. All right, So Jim's got Yeah, I've
seen the rat thing before.

Speaker 2 (01:23:16):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:23:17):
Look, and we can have a combo of all these things.
Lots of lots of material there. Hey, do you remember
the we we got into this?

Speaker 5 (01:23:28):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:23:29):
I think the week before Thanksgiving there was this clinical
psychologist who was being interviewed on Fox News and he
was making the argument that TDS is real. And I
would play the audio for you, but again.

Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
My it's not working. I don't know what's up.

Speaker 1 (01:23:52):
But the gist of what he said was he has
he works I think in the New York area, and
he was he was talking about it, not really from
a political standpoint as much as even if that's not
the name for it, he was talking about the unhealthy
obsession that people have formulated around their hatred of Donald
Trump to the point where it was negatively impacting their

(01:24:14):
lives and their relationships with family members, the relationships, their careers,
all of these things. There was one woman I remember
him talking about who couldn't vacation. She couldn't go on
vacation when Trump was in office because she said, all
she could think about is Trump. So going, you know,
paying money to go on vacation somewhere nice, I'm all

(01:24:36):
inclusive in Cobbo or something. All she'd be doing is
thinking about Trump. And it was just ruined it. And
he was pointing out that that's unhealthy, and he's right,
and it doesn't to be that obsessed with anybody is unhealthy,
but with Trump, you know, there's the whole TDS Trump

(01:24:56):
to arrangement syndrome. So he posted, He posted about this,
also did an op ed in Wall Street Journal about it.
Got a lot of discussion. Well it's crazy, though, is
now there's a follow up? That's right. Jonathan Albert is
the guy's name, and according to Albert, I asked if

(01:25:17):
Trump the arrangement syndrome is real, and I got death
threats proving it is. It's a wild set of stories here,
in some cases from other people who are in the
mental health sphere, right, clinical therapists who are also suffering

(01:25:39):
from this. And he said he was just absolutely blown away.
He said, I made clear in my article that TDS
is not an actual diagnosis, but rather wanted to speak
on the obsessive nature of some people as it pertains
to political figures. Again, this sounds like a guy who's
just trying to approach this because he recognizes that this
is unhealthy for people people, and that uh maybe, uh

(01:26:05):
maybe folks should take that to heart and work on it.
Let's see here, just real quick, just a couple of
the couple of the exchanges. He said, most of the
most of the loudest critics were reacting to the use
of the term TDS very upset by the way. This
is where they then all of a sudden, there could

(01:26:26):
be all super professional that's not technically a thing. You
know exactly what this guy's getting at, and you are
ignoring that so that you can take issue with the
actual naming of it. There's a there are clinical names
for this obsessive disorder here and allowing it to ruin
your lives. He was just pointing out that this one
is kind of within the lexicon, and what does it

(01:26:48):
really mean. I thought you did a good job of
breaking it down, because you could remove Trump from the
equation and insert anyone in there and you would see
how destructive the behavior is. It's self injurious to be
that obsessed over this is the kind of stuff you
see when there's like stalkers, right, somebody can't get over
a relationship breaking, and then you get like that crazy

(01:27:10):
do you see the cop up in New Jersey? Kind
of hot, by the way, but the hot crazy scale
matrix thing is unbeatable because she then used her police
baton to bang in the door of her ex boyfriend
to assault him and his current girlfriend, and then when
the other police showed up, she went full Schitzo and
then they had to take her down. So that's what

(01:27:33):
he's talking about. And no, I don't think I could
fix her. She was out there.

Speaker 6 (01:27:40):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
Uh, he said, well, trying to disprove the phenomenon. They
demonstrated it dramatically. Ummm, he said. People within my own
profession accused me of defending a fascist.

Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
Again, I saw the thing.

Speaker 1 (01:27:56):
I don't think he defended Trump as much as he
pointed out that this is really bad for your mental
health and you need to just take a chill pill
for a moment. He also was accused of being a
pedophile protector or must be a pedophile myself.

Speaker 2 (01:28:12):
He said that.

Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
People told him, he said he were not fringe accounts.
These were people who publicly describe themselves as compassionate, trauma
informed and dedicated to mental health work.

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
Where's the one where.

Speaker 1 (01:28:26):
It's the other therapist? She yeah, so it was a
woman therapist who accused him of oh that's the pedophile.
So that's nice, just wonderful stuff there, man, Good times,
good times all around.

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
All right, real quick, uh, Margaret, I got about a minute.

Speaker 13 (01:28:42):
Go ahead, Okay, I say we chain the guy to
a chair at the view and they him suffer with.

Speaker 2 (01:28:51):
The bullet ants.

Speaker 13 (01:28:53):
Okay, okay, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
So and the guest that day is AOC and garbage disposal.

Speaker 16 (01:29:01):
Hi perfect, all right, yeah, yeah, torch.

Speaker 10 (01:29:05):
Here, have a great day.

Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:29:07):
I don't know if I could watch that though, because
that I have to watch the view decisions decisions. All right,
let's get Ray Stagic from the weather channel so you
can make driving and travel decisions.

Speaker 3 (01:29:20):
Yeah, we'll see, we'll see.

Speaker 6 (01:29:22):
I think some probably north of winter state forty you
get up of Virginia and North Carolina border Friday morning.
Could get a little let's say, tough. Still some details
to work out, and always tough to get winter weather,
especially this early in the winter this far south. But
a gorgeous day today, chili this morning, this morning and

(01:29:42):
into the afternoon at sunshine met up for forties night,
no for twenties to near thirties. So it does look
like some chillier air. It's sticking around here. We might
crack fifty tomorrow. Clouds go on the increase, so two
dry days before Thursday night and Friday we got a
chance of rain and or snow early and then everybody
changes the rain as we go through mid and late morning.

(01:30:02):
So I took the better chances will be west and
northwest and north, so tryad first and then maybe into
the triangle some wet snowflakes either way, accumulations are likely
to be less than an inch, probably even less than
half an inch, so to go north might have bigger problems.
We'll see, And does look like we'll have some pretty
decent weather for the weekend, maybe a little rain on Saturday,

(01:30:25):
middle forties and the near fifty mostly Sunday on Sunday,
So Thursday night Friday right now is kind of the
target for where we're going to need the most work
on the forecast and where we're gonna have some impacts
either way. With the rain coming into it's still going
to be slow no matter what as we get into
early Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:30:40):
Okay, all right, I appreciate it, sir.

Speaker 1 (01:30:42):
Having a good rest of your day, and we will
come back with your Bloomberg update next. Hang on joining
us this morning, Monica Ricks, Monica's what's happening?

Speaker 2 (01:30:53):
How are you doing?

Speaker 3 (01:30:54):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (01:30:55):
Good morning, Casey it is.

Speaker 1 (01:30:57):
Have you by the way before I let you get
started on there, are you able to work in the
drunken raccoon story?

Speaker 2 (01:31:02):
Do you know what that is?

Speaker 16 (01:31:03):
I don't know what that is?

Speaker 2 (01:31:04):
Okay, this is an amazing thing.

Speaker 1 (01:31:06):
You're going to google after so a raccoon broke into
an ABC liquor store in Virginia, smash Boast got drunk,
found face down in the bathroom next to the toilet.

Speaker 16 (01:31:15):
Oh, it sounds like a good Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (01:31:17):
Sounds like college.

Speaker 1 (01:31:18):
Yeah, absolutely, so all right, Well, if we're not doing that,
then I'll let you with the other news. Go right ahead. Okay,
Oh did I just lose that? All right, Monica? Can
you hear me?

Speaker 16 (01:31:30):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:31:30):
I can.

Speaker 1 (01:31:30):
Okay, I'm sorry, go ahead with your report. I thought
I had just hit the wrong button there.

Speaker 16 (01:31:34):
So oh yeah, no worries. Well, Macy's has raised his
financial guidance for the year after posting a surprise third
quarter profit and its strongest comparable sales in more than
three years. The department store chain posted a solid three
point two percent increase for the quarter, and that includes
license businesses like cosmetics. Now, comparable sales are usually a
great barometer for retailer's health, and things have been not

(01:31:55):
great for Macy's for several years now, but they did
get a big boost from so called cyber week day
period from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday that brought in a
total forty four point two billion dollars online overall, and
it's bolstered by a record spending online during Black Friday
that was up seven point seven percent from last year.
Dollar Tree reported better than expected profits as well, with

(01:32:17):
same store sales of four point two percent. They raised
their four year earnings outlook because the discount retailers capturing
more spending from stretched shoppers thanks to its low price model.
Eighty five percent of its products costs two bucks or less,
and that is really resonating with people because obviously everybody
stretching their pennies and prioritizing essentials over discretionary items. President

(01:32:40):
Trump is expected to announce new fuel efficiency standards for
cars today. The details here a little unclear. The sources
tell us that executives from Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler
maker Stilantis are all expected at the White House for
this event. The administration expected to propose standards that are
less stringent than those that were under formal President Biden.

(01:33:01):
Agriculture Secretary Brook Rollins says she's considering pulling food benefits
from several Democratic led states unless they can provide more
detailed information on who gets those benefits. Rollins claims there's
rampant fraud within snap, which forty two million Americans receive.
We know they were unpositoring the government shut down and
not really hurt a lot of people, but the government's
now examining data and says some states are not complying

(01:33:23):
with the directive. So some states are giving them information,
others are not. American Eagle grabbed the spotlight with flashy
advertising and celebrity campaigns this year, including a campaign featuring
Sidney Sweeney that did generate a lot of backlash, but
it seems to be working. The retailer raised his financial
forecast for the year. American Eagle has also recently revamped

(01:33:44):
a lot of its product offerings, and finally, Casey's thought
features are in the green this morning, with traders at
a wager more economic data that's out later today and
that could really reinforce expectations for an interest rate cut
next week. Now, futures are up one hundred points, NASZAC
features up fifty three, my SMP features are eighteen points.
Even bitcoins trading at a two week high right now.

(01:34:05):
It's trading at about ninety three thousand dollars. The crypto
market is really seeing a recovery from a week's long selloff.
It started in early October.

Speaker 2 (01:34:13):
Yeah, I've been watching the Crypto bros freak out on Twitter, so.

Speaker 16 (01:34:16):
Yeah, geez it was a little bleak. They hit a
record and then all of a sudden everything plummeted.

Speaker 1 (01:34:22):
Yeah, well it's it's almost as if that's the nature
of crypto. So all right, Monica, appreciate it. Thank you
so much.

Speaker 16 (01:34:28):
Thank you. Have a good day.

Speaker 2 (01:34:29):
Yeah you too. All right, there you go, Monica.

Speaker 1 (01:34:30):
Rick's joining us here on the CaCO Day radio program.
I just got a couple minutes here. Let me shoe
horn in this story.

Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
Well, there we go.

Speaker 1 (01:34:44):
If I clicked the the right one there, This guy's
an absolute nus sence. I just think this is very
interesting because I don't think police know how to handle it,
or if legally they can handle it. So there's a
guy by the name of Keith Steal and he's an influencer.
So yeah, it's probably it is what it is and

(01:35:06):
his whole stick. I saw this, and I'm not laughing
because it's probably a good idea. I'm laughing because like
the ingenuity of just trying to stand out and do
something while making all the wrong decisions to do it,
and the online space is amazing to me. So here's
his thing rather than one of these guys who goes

(01:35:27):
and like, there's a guy who does a channel on
YouTube where he goes to restaurants and he'll walk in
and be like, I need a hundred burgers and then
he takes him out and he feeds the homeless with them,
and most of the videos, the restaurant people are kind
of they figure out that it's this guy because it's
big enough following, and a lot of times will give

(01:35:47):
him a discount. They may just give him the food.
That's the heartwarming content because still went in a different direction.
So this guy's been going city to city filming content
where he hands out eighteen inch machetes and bottles of
booze to homeless people, and.

Speaker 2 (01:36:05):
People are losing their minds over this. What does he
go by online?

Speaker 1 (01:36:10):
Pov Wolf yao, see this, just go by your name, bro,
And then he he titles the series keeping the Homeless
in the Streets. It is some dark stuff, man. But
thus far he has shot in Austin and New Orleans
and is now currently in New York shooting content, and

(01:36:31):
local officials are like, he's not necessarily doing anything illegal, right, Yeah,
I mean you want to make a rule where you're like,
you can't give the hobo a machete, but also, the
hobo is a person, and frankly, if you're living on
the streets, you might need a machete. If you're not
the crazy hobo. If you're the crazy hobo, you don't

(01:36:53):
need the machete. But what if the crazy hobo also
gets a machete, and then now you're the non crazy
hobo and you got to defend yourself against the crazy hobo.

Speaker 2 (01:37:02):
See, these are these are the these are the questions
we ask ourselves.

Speaker 1 (01:37:09):
But it's a it's a it's a wonderful example of
Oxford University's Word of the Year.