12-10-25 SHOW

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Why all of a sudden is everyone using the R
word again? No, not that one, Not the one they
drive by the governor's mansion on Summit Avenue in Saint
pol Minnesota and scream out, there went to a Tim Walls.
The other one. Recession. Remember that word that used to
have literally a very specific two sequential quarters or three

(00:23):
sequential quarters, and then it was two quarters of a
net negative financial growth. In fact, i'll give you a
more succinct description, but it had a literal dictionary definition.
And then when it happened under the previous administration, they're like, oh,
that's not a thing anymore. Well, now it's a thing.
And one of the outlets that was among the first

(00:44):
to ignore the very long running, very long running, accepted
definition of what constitutes a recession, that would be public radio.
Now they've decided that not only are they going to
do a think piece about whether we're in a recession,

(01:05):
the experts they're going to use are not economists. It's
Santa No, I'm not making that up. That's a story.
That's a story I'm gonna share with you. And speaking
of Santa Wire, Virginians trying to kill him, that's another story,

(01:25):
don't worry. It's Northern Virginians. So for our Southern Virginia listeners,
you're off the hook. I really really see you guys
as two different states because it's a whole different vibe.
Doesn't mean there's not people in Northern Virginia. We like
Stephen Kent, obviously, our NERD correspondent. We like Stephen very much.
And I have people who you know, are around the
DC area who are not the craziest, but it's chock

(01:48):
full of crazies. And then when I go to Southern Virginia,
I you know, hang out like Smith Mountain Lake or
go up by Gaylax there and just enjoy the beauty
of the mountains. Totally different peeps, totally different peeps. Even
over just outside of Norfolk there little coastal over there,

(02:09):
nice folk. So I know you didn't try to kill
Santa and a police officer. That's the Northern Virginia Virginians. Okay,
But the one story, Oh, you guys ready for this,
You're gonna lose their mind. I should approach it?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Where?

Speaker 1 (02:29):
How should I approach this? I think I'm gonna approach
this story where you all have to defend yourself because
Let's face it, you're probably among the best at defending yourself.
This is from the Hill. This is the title of
the opinion piece for the editorial folks over at the Hill.
You ready, the Marine Corps just had its two hundred

(02:53):
and fiftieth birthday. Let's abolish it. Oh yeah, I want
to start this fight. The Marine Corps just had their
two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Now let's abolish it. I'll
share their reasoning with you. In fact, that's we're gonna
launch out on that story. I'm just curious for any

(03:14):
of you Marines, either active or don active, retired, whatever,
what this what would our what would the US military
look like without the Marines? And yes, I understand the
Marines fall under the Office of the Navy, but the Marines,

(03:36):
here's how I envisioned it. As a non marine. However,
I am a nephew of a nephew of one marine, uh,
and a cousin to a marine. And so from that perspective, no,
I'm sorry, two to two cousins as marines. One transferred
branches to the Marines or from the Marines. Excuse me,

(04:02):
I I but I've never been a marine. I just
watch you all fight with everybody else among the branches,
and uh, you know sometimes it's very interesting. But my understanding,
my lay understanding of why, why what, what really sets
the Marines apart. And and you can tell me if
if I don't understand this is the Marines do all

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the other branches things, or have the ability to do
all the other branches things if called to. And that's
not to insult the other branches. It's it's the it's
the whole idea that you know, how should I how
should I put this? And again I'm not trying to

(04:43):
start a fight. But I also saw who was in
charge of kicking doors in Fallujah and uh, you know Ramadi,
and and that didn't look like any fun and it
was that was gangs and marines going around there. All right.
So the the US Marines they do all the other
branches in a single force. It doesn't necessarily mean they

(05:05):
have the full spectrum of special speciality that the Air
Force has or the army or the navy. It's just
that if the Marines want to come get you, if
they got to fly there, boat there, swim there, or
walk there, they can do it tactically and do it
very well, and they're much scarier in lore in other countries,

(05:27):
like there was what was what was? What was the
rumor in was it Japan at the time that if
you wanted to be a marine you had to kill
a family member, you had to kill one of your
family members. I think that that was the It was
the Japanese who thought that, Yeah, I'm almost I'm almost positive,

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or maybe it was even earlier than them, Maybe it
was the Chinese back in when we occupied Beijing for
a minute. My point is is you have that lore
there too, and you can't deny how helpful that is.
Because if you're sitting there and you know that, you

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know a thousand Marines are about to come on shore,
and these guys all killed their family member because they're
just insanely murderous, you know, people without a conscience. That's
kind of terrifying. That's pretty scary stuff.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Man.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
So for the hill. This is not the Atlantic, by
the way, this is yeah, okay, all right, so somebody's yeah,
here we go. So you had to kill and eat
a member of your family, and then many of them
thought that they all all the marines were extracted from
prisons and insane asylums. Dude, what a backstory? What a
backstory if you're if you're the military, if they think

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that that'll keep the other guys up at night? Man,
what is this?

Speaker 2 (07:00):
What?

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Oh? No, I'm not okay. Here's what I'm not trying
to do. And I know you're joking. I'm not trying
to start, you know, the fun fight. Like this guy's serious.
And I'll read you. I'll read you a little a
portion of the story I think is the important. So
all right, So one of our listeners marine just he

(07:23):
just sent me an email in lat that says, come
and take it, or come and take us. Yeah, yeah,
I see, this is what I kind of expected. But
he'll make an argument, we'll convey it to you and
then we'll mark it together. Does that sound fun? Okay?
All right? Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seven four. Why is the Marine Corps necessary, especially in

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an era where we're doing things more and more where
we don't actually put American soldiers' lives or marine's lives
or Emmene's lives in danger?

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Right?

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Do we do this through autonomous drones and we you know,
submarines boats attack you know, from a water standpoint. Like
we can do. Plus, we can just send a missile
anywhere we want, so we can park off shore and
make your life miserable and they don't have to leave
the ship. Or occasionally you blow up a drug boat

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and then they just kind of do a little drive by,
make sure everything's sunk, and you know, grab whatever they
need to grab. Eight eight eight nine three four seven
eight seven four. We'll get into that story and much
more coming up next on the CaCO Day Radio program.
Imagine my surprise when I'm just putting together, all right,
what are we going to talk about Wednesday kind of stuff?

(08:39):
And I see this from the hill because I check
the hill. And even though most of the stuff they
ride is insane, every now and then it jumps a
level this and frankly, this sounds like an op edge
you'd see in then, I don't know, New York Times,
Washington Posts maybe, or the Atlantic. The Marine Corps just
had its two hundred five fiftieth birthday. Now let's abolish it, Okay, Well,

(09:04):
let's explore this. Let's see, as Americans reflect on the
most mythologized service, we should ask a difficult question. Do
we still need the Marine Corps as Congress prepares another
record setting defense budget. The US needs to consider whether
the marine sustained independence makes strategic or fiscal sense. So,

(09:28):
and I'm also clearly anytime you have somebody who's approaching
is from leftist politics who all of a sudden wants
to talk about fiscal responsibility, I get a chuckle there,
all right, So then he goes on to right. Oh,
and I'll introduce you to the author at the end,
and his bio is kind of important, so hang on
for them. The simple truth is that the Marines became

(09:52):
a redundant long ago. The Marine Corps received fifty three
billion for fiscally your twenty twenty five five, about six
percent of the US defense budget. That's the other side
of this. They are I guess maybe space price space
for US is the least expensive service branch. I'm not
sure what the Coastguard's allocation is, but technically it's homeland security,

(10:15):
but it is not. I'm not implying that it's not
a military saying it's just a it's in a different
it's in a weird different department. So I'm gonna stick
with this allocation because I don't is the defense budget
is the Coastguard in the Defense Authorization? Or are they
in the Homeland Security Authorization? I was gonna look that
up and I forgot. But my point is it's not

(10:36):
the majority. The Marines are not a even a double
digit percentage of our defense spending. And they have what
about one hundred and seventy five thousand active duty, which
is what you know, the few. That's that's the few
in that commercial. All right, this is a steep price tel, Well,
I should have just waited the steep price tag. Yeah,
for one hundred and seventy thousand active duty personnel operating

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in redundancy with the other branches. Yet funniness sustained not
because of mission requirements, but because of political popularity and
the Marine corps enduring public standing. Few American institutions command
such bipartisan reverence as the Marine Corps. The Marine myth

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cultivated so convinced convincingly through advertising Hollywood, Sands of e Regima,
full metal jacket, flags of our fathers and a few
good men. Is a few good men in full metal jacket?
Is that marketing slop? Have you seen those? Yeah? Flags

(11:41):
of our Fathers, Sands of ev Regina, those are very
good movies. I'm and though they're all good movies, let
me just point that out. But a Few Good Men
is about and out of control. Uh uh you know
ceo there, But I guess maybe because the good guys
win in the end. Whatever. But Full Metal Jacket, that is,

(12:02):
it's it's it's one of the most epic war movies ever.
So well and it's it's one of my favorite movies.
I can we watched that many many times. The opening
scene with Arley Army just picking people apart there amazing, amazing,
But like I don't want to spoil it for you.
You should have seen it by now. There's not a

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lot of happy things happening there, not a lot at all.
And the end of the movie, I mean, it's just
so dark, man, But that's what they were going for.
They wanted, they wanted the they wanted to tell this
this story and and not hold back. So anyway, all right,

(12:45):
so they let me let me finish reading this slop
here and all right. So the convincingly sold through advertising, movies, movies, movies,
and an epic campaign across the Pacific. You know, the
Marines had an epic pain across the Atlantic once real
early on real early they're pretty good at it. Like

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it do I have to sit here and go through
all of why why the Marines exist and what we
were trying to do and how those countries are the
kingdoms of Northern Africa. You know, they were essentially requiring
the you know people to pay these gratuities to them,
and we're just like, yeah, we're not gonna do that anymore.

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And you know, some cases they just gave up. Other
cases we had to go kick butt take names and
we did so. Anyway, all right, uh, look it up
if you don't know the full story there, because it's fascinating.
And also it was a race to get them created
before a transition to power within presidency, so it makes
them more interesting, all right. It has embedded the Marines

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as a fixture of American ethos, making them making for
a prestige that is disproportionate to current function, and making
questions about the Marine corps very existence almost unpatriotic. So
the guy who wrote this, so's he's approached. His name
is Harrison Cass, senior defense and national security writer, cast As,

(14:11):
an attorney, former political candidate, and a for remember the
US Air Force who joined as a pilot trainee but
was medically discharged, so I guess he was in the
Air Force for a minute, and then I don't know
what the medical discharge was. But he focuses on military strategy, aerospace,
global security, and of course he's got of you know,

(14:31):
I went to NYU and and all the typical suspects
you would expect. So so his so he he wants
the Marines go bye bye, saying that they don't really
serve a purpose, they overlap all the other branches, and
it's really just it's they're just kept for nostalgia. I

(14:52):
didn't say it, I just read it to you, and
I'm very curious what you think eight eight eight nine
three four seven eight seven four To the practical argument,
are the Marines redundant? Are are? Are they redundant to
the point that if they weren't there, that our US
military would still be able to operate in the same

(15:14):
manner that it does and effectively complete the things that
it needs to complete, even though we're in a very
evolving situation with you know, autonomous the drones and underwater
and you know, everything that we can do now in
the hill, they decided we don't need the Marines anymore,

(15:37):
So do away with that shave six percent off the budget,
although it really wouldn't because there are very core functions
that the Marine Corps does do that if you didn't
have them, you would have to task the other branches
with doing so. You would need probably more people, you
would need probably more training. You still would need the

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equipt meant to do certain things that the Marines do.
Somebody message they said, the Marine Corps is all always
has an entire infantry battalion waiting to deploy to any
national disaster, terrorist attack, or horrific event in the world.
The Marine Expeditionary Unit is the only branch who's who
forward deploys troops to respond to anything. We are the

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world's nine to one one. And I have heard that
express before because that's you know, that's that's what we've designated,
and that's that's going back to what I was saying.
I've always viewed the Marines as having the ability to do,
you know, be the utility players, right, so, whether whether
it's land, air, or sea, whether it's the Battle of
Fallujah and the Second Battle I think, yeah, second Battle

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of Fallujah, which was just horrific. Those are Marines going
door to door and just clearing stuff and you know,
trying to weed out al Qaeda there and they captured
what do they capture the airport in like a day
we first got over there. So yeah, so yeah, I'm

(17:06):
I'm I'm not on board with this, but I want
to throw it out to you, especially you who are marines.
How do you think and what would the what would
our war fighting abilities look like if we didn't have marines? Uh,
We're I mean, just you just have to process it
through World War two. Uh, in the Pacific on the
Pacific side, the Marines are the ones who captured those islands,

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those islands which were necessary so that we could deploy
air which eventually had a couple of big bombs attached
to it. That doesn't happen, not in that time frame,
and probably millions more were killed if the Marines weren't
able to go in there. And you know, everyone talks
about Ewo Jima, but Saipan was really that, you know,

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that was the jumping off point. That was the year
before Ewo Jima. But going through and taking all those islands,
that was the Marines doing it. And it was some
of the most horrific and bloodiest battles of World War two,
the capture of Way City in Vietnam. That was Marines

(18:12):
doing that, and that was strategically important, though it also
kind of fizzled out going forward because the published perception
was was getting very, very negative on Vietnam. But that's it.
That's its whole other thing. But it doesn't it doesn't
erase the fact that the Marines were asked to take
this thing that was not going to be easy, and

(18:34):
they were able to get in there and do it.
And yeah, somebody sent me this email and Jade was
there too. If we don't have the Marines, who's going
to hand the five thousand toys that we raised this weekend,
four Toys for Tots out to the kids. I guess
maybe you could repurpose that, But that in and of
itself is a great brand. If we raised five thousand

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plus toys and a lot of people do a lot
of fundraisers forward to imagine the joy that marines. See,
that's the thing. Marines are tasked with, simultaneously bringing joy
or hell fire. Right, here's a toy. Yeah, here's here's
a bullet. Right, that's a that's a pretty broad approach

(19:19):
to things, so good on them all right, let's get
to the phones. Bob, good morning, what's up? Hello? Bob? Hey, Jane,
how's our phone thing working?

Speaker 3 (19:32):
There?

Speaker 1 (19:33):
So we got the you got it all cued up
for I'm gonna put him up, Okay, Bob, We'll put
Bob on hold. You see if he's oh, crap, I
just hung up on him up, but Bob called back.
I'll put you right up next. Whatever we got going on.
Because I'm an idiot, I pushed the wrong button. Let's
see if Jim, Jim, are you there.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
All right?

Speaker 1 (19:54):
We need Yeah, I'm going with the phone pot up
on the top. I can't see your.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
I'm getting the feedback.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
You cannot hear them. There we go, now I can
hear them all right, Jim, what's up?

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Well? First of all, so you know where I'm coming from.
How I served twenty six years acted to the Air Force.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
There was a lot of times where the Marines were
supporting the Air Force as well as the Air Force
helping out the Marines. So all the services work together.
They each have a different niche as far as what
their strongest points are.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
What do you know? What do you think the Marine's
strongest point that the Air Force, Navy, the traditional Navy,
and Army are not able to replicate on the current formation.
What do the Marines do better than everybody else?

Speaker 4 (20:54):
There?

Speaker 3 (20:57):
Basically the maritime where you're actually having people doing the attack.
But you also have to keep in mind that the
Marine Corps is actually a subdivision of the US Navy.
In addition to being their own separate service, they're also

(21:19):
the ones that supplied the guards for all the embassies
and there's a reason behind that. It's because they're trained
to be able to do a wider spread of activities, right.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
They also serve as the security forces for the Navy
on board.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
So here's my question, this is what I'm getting at.
So do you think that six because they account for
six percent of our spending across all branches, do you
think that's six percent well spent? That's the question that
people have as is that six percent well spent?

Speaker 3 (22:03):
I'm surprised it's not more because they need it.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Well, it's just I mean, this is what we're talking.
This is what makes them. Thank you very much for
the call there, Jim, I do appreciate it. This is
what makes the you know, the whole thing that much
dumber just because it's it's bang for your buck at
that point. Oh okay, all right, so just by auto, I
don't all right anyway, go ahead, caller. I see two

(22:29):
names here, so go right ahead. Hello, Hello, Auto, Bob,
Hello Otto, Hey, yeah, sir, ye, sir, yeah, right ahead.

Speaker 5 (22:40):
I just want to say that I was a paracter
for the eighty second Airborne Division back in nineteen seventy three.
But I want to tell you something. I have the
most respect.

Speaker 6 (22:52):
For the Marines.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
In my opinion.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
They are the point.

Speaker 5 (22:57):
Of the sphere.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
They go in.

Speaker 5 (23:00):
And do things where other services really.

Speaker 7 (23:04):
Aren't trade to do.

Speaker 5 (23:06):
So I think they're imperative to the security.

Speaker 7 (23:09):
Of the country, and.

Speaker 5 (23:13):
I have their most respect for him.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
I appreciate that, and that seems to be the overwhelming
and thank you for the culture, the overwhelming settlement a sentiment,
excuse me, settlement sentiment. Look, let's be honest about what
this is. This is a leftist opinion writer who's wanting
to pander to his traditional audience because they're big mad
that what's happening in the Gulf of America there with

(23:39):
the drug boats is you know those boats are shock
full of Marines, and so they're, you know, an easy
punching bag. If you're some little weasel in your editorial
office there in DC at the Hill, because you say, oh,
they're all mad at the Marines anyway, And if you
and you remember what happened when they wanted to war
dog up Los Angeles, everyone lost their damn mind. But

(23:59):
they did it anyway. And those Marines showed up, and
they didn't go how they you know, they operated not
in the way that marines operate in other places, because
their goal wasn't to, I don't know, turn your country's
technological history back to the Stone Age, right, They just
went in there. They did their thing. They stood there.
I saw the videos of people screaming and yelling at

(24:20):
him hunt some guy one hundred pounds screaming at some
two hundred and thirty pounds six foot three jar head
like that guy couldn't just snatch him and break him.
And you know, they did what they needed to do
with poise man. So everyone's like, oh, it's gonna be
it's gonna be pandemonium. But it wasn't. But when the

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Marines wanted to be historically it has been and that's
the tip of the spear. Stuff our last caller was
talking about in the email I read earlier about the
Expeditionary Force. But this guy's argument is, we'll just train
the other branches to do all this stuff. I don't
know that that tracks. Mark, good morning, he in casey.

Speaker 8 (25:01):
We're just good at getting it done. I mean, we're
gonna making it happen.

Speaker 5 (25:07):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (25:08):
I think every Marine would understand if I say, uh,
willing obedience to orders. Uh, it's there's a different mentality
than the other branches have. And I can tell you
a little experiment my father in law did so. I
was in the Marine Corps for eight years. Father in
law retired from the army and they did an experiment

(25:30):
when he was in. They had a soldiers stand at
parade rest and another soldier would come up and they
would ask the other soldier why they were standing at
parade rest. Well, Marines could come in and the soldier
will be standing at parade rest and the Marine will
automatically go to parade rest. There's just not.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, Mark, I just want you to specify what parade
rest is. That's that's the out of the side standing there, correct.

Speaker 8 (26:03):
Yeah, just uh Okay, you're not in attention, but you're
not like free to move.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Around to correct. Okay, I just want people to understand
this experiment is just them standing there, all right, so
go ahead. So the other in this case, the soldier
goes to the other soldier and says what.

Speaker 8 (26:18):
He's asking. He said, we know, why are you sending
that parade arrest? Where the marine just goes the right
two parade rests, and the thought process behind it is
people will say that marines are kind of like dumb robots,
but the reality of it is that they don't question

(26:38):
what's going on. They just if you say, hey, charge
that machine gun hill, They're going to charge a machine
gun hill. They're not gonna say, well, should we do
like this? Should do like that?

Speaker 1 (26:49):
Yeah? I mean that's uh, that's that's what these guys
want to eliminate. But you know again, marines are Marines
are an easy target because you got mad at them
over La, not that the individual marines made the decision,
and the fact that five thousand of them are on
a boat bombing around off the coast of Venezuela right now,
So I would expect more of this, And I don't

(27:09):
know if it's going to become an official position. But
this is not the first off ed I've seen on this.
So but like like I said, if the journalists want
to attack you, that seems really dumb.

Speaker 8 (27:19):
So yeah, that'd be a big mistake.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, all right, all right, Mark, appreciate the call, and
let me get one more in to hear this segment.
All right, Jay, just a couple of minutes. What's up? Hello?

Speaker 2 (27:33):
I think they could get rid of Yes, go right ahead, sir.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
I believe they could. I believe they could do with that,
and they could train the other branches to do what
they do. And you know, this country spends nine times
more money or more money on the defense budget than
the next nine countries combined. And nobody has attacked us
on ire Land and since nineteen forty two.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
And we're going to.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Tell you're nine to eleven.

Speaker 6 (28:03):
Not by another or not by another country's military.

Speaker 5 (28:07):
That was a palate group, Okay.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Right, well, yeah, they were not uniform military. And you're
referring to the incident and the Japanese instead up in
the northwest, right, like going back to the forties. Some
would argue, though, yeah, and here's my argument against that, sir,
we have, but not boots on the ground. We are
attacked every day by China digitally, and I mean hundreds

(28:32):
and thousands of times a day digitally, and those those
attacks and many instances are being carried out by not
just hackers over there, but more specifically the Chinese government
in the Chinese military, and Russia does it to us too.
So it's the evolving state of warfare. A lot of
people consider what China's doing, attacking, attempting to hack like

(28:53):
infrastructure and power grids. That's an act of war. Whether
you do it with a missile or you do it
with ones and zeros, you would agree.

Speaker 6 (29:02):
I would agree, But I don't think it's a military
solution to that though. That's a technology solution that I
tea people had to solve that. You can't solve it
with guns and bombs and ships and plys and.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Well, no, no, no, no, And I'm just saying that
this is why there is a discussion about the evolution
of warfare, and because.

Speaker 6 (29:25):
Attacks change, no doubt about it.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yeah, it isn't two ships pulling up firing cannons at
each other as it was back in the day. Now
it's now. It's changed in the World War two, it
changed and it will continue to change. So I appreciate
the call this morning and we will be you right back.
Good morning to you phone number eight eight eight nine
three four seven eight seven four. I was just reading

(29:48):
there is a dude the UK is so cooked man,
all right, So you need to know about an incident.
I'm gonna be delicate about the incident because the incident's horrific,
and look up most of the details. I will tell
you some of them. But it's the way that the
government's handling this that just I don't even know how

(30:12):
they could do this, Like in the US, I don't
think they get away with this. But because now these
the two have been a judicated and found guilty and
sentenced and all that stuff. All right. So there was
an incident where a fifteen year old girl, this is
in London. She's in a park with her friends and

(30:33):
two two individuals, both one sixteen, one seventeen, and that's
an important distinction here, decide that they're gonna they're gonna
rape this girl. They had they had been in the
country three months. They had arrived on you know, on
these migrant boats, and of course we're you know, given

(30:55):
housing and all this stuff, but apparently they had a
hard time scoring women. So they were to the park
and they did this and they What makes it, what
makes this even more horrific, is there is a video,
not that the girl herself started filming when they were
literally dragging her over to a dark portion of the park,

(31:17):
and we can read some of the stuff that's in it,
but we can't see the video. And then there's audio
of what's happening to her, but not video is my
understanding of the description. So there's not it's not like
the video has her actually where you can visually see
what's happening. And by the way, in this case, uh

(31:39):
they she was again trying to it was it was
It was done with her on her knees. Does that
make sense. I just want to point this out because
it's going to be important for what I'm going to
tell you. What you can hear on the video because

(31:59):
they drag over, they put her on her knees, and
then they proceed to force her to do things and
in the in the video, you can hear her screaming
as they're dragging her, You're going to rape me, You're
going to rape me, and then you also hear while
it's happening, a woman stop and keep asking the girl
if she's all right, and she keeps saying she's not,

(32:21):
and she's crying, and then the woman just leaves didn't
want to involve herself, which is just horrific. Thankfully, another
person did come by right as things were getting done
and took the girl to a hospital for this. Uh
eight o five. We should be chatting with Congressman Brad
not it is. He is on my schedule this week,

(32:43):
so we will. We'll chat with him. We talked yesterday
with Senator Ted Budd, so we'll get a perspective from
the the other side of the legislative branch, and I'll
ask him about jas mc crockett too. Just guy, Yeah,
that's what I do. Dwell on stuff because I told
you she is Oh chef's kiss. I'm so happy she's

(33:05):
running for senate. It's so much content for me, I know.
And uh what did she what did? Oh? Wait, she
said something, Yes, a hangout. Where do I have this?
Oh that's all right? Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah. So
she was on MSNBC. I'm gonna call it MSNBC forever.
I don't care that it's MS now, but I also

(33:26):
call Twitter Twitter still, so don't try and change me.
So she's on with the dude who looks like Rachel Maddow,
and she said when she they're like, well, how are
you gonna win Texas? All right? Which is I guess
a fair question. Clearly, Texas is Texas and been a

(33:48):
red state, uh for the most part, until you get
into the big population pockets, which is pretty much how
it works. But Texas as a whole, as much as
they want to claim that, you know, they're on the
CUSP would make in it blue, they're just they're just not.
So she if she wants to win as a Senate
candidate a statewide race in Texas, you're you're not gonna

(34:10):
do it by going whackier to the left. That's not
gonna be helpful for you. You know, John Cornyn is not
my favorite senator, but Texans I'm sure preferred John Cornyan
over somebody who's essentially a squad member. That's why when
they were running people against uh, you know, Cruz and
Cornyn over the years, uh, they they leaned into more

(34:33):
moderate individuals. As annoying as he is, better O'Rourke he
he doesn't seem as he doesn't seem as crazy in interviews,
whereas Crockett doesn't care. And so she said she knows
she can win Texas because Zo ron Mondami won New
York City. Yes, Jasmine Crockett believes that a US Center

(34:59):
race in a red state is comparable to the mayoral
race in one of the bluest cities in America. Okay,
she did not expand on how that's gonna work. But again,
just every day because now she's now she's running for Senate,
so she's gonna be all over the news. She's gonna
continue to generate things and topics for me, and for

(35:23):
that I am very thankful, really appreciate that. All Right,
let's talk about something a little closer to home down
in Charlotte. Obviously we talk a lot about that. We
like chat with our buddy Pete on Fridays. And just
because it happened in Charlotte, the story of what happened
to Arena Zarutska outraged, outraged just about every North Carolinian

(35:48):
I've spoken with. Yes, even people who are not traditional
conservatives are like, something's got to be done. And even
though we're in this whole defund the police. Let's get
social workers' mentality among many on the far left. Well,
we just saw how that works in San Francisco. Or
social worker was stabbed to death the other day. When

(36:09):
police would have been the more appropriate people to respond
to it, they decided, even though police were nearby, to
have a social worker deal with it. And that was
a guy who walked into a hospital, specifically a portion
of the hospital that is for mental health, emergency mental
health issues. And by the way, Zuckerberg Hospital. Remember, they

(36:30):
didn't want Mark Zuckerberg, who bought a hospital for them,
to have it named after him. They did. And now
this is why it's not always good to have things
named after you, because now your name's associated with this.
Just walked in there and the social workers like, you
can't be in here. Was making people uncomfortable. Apparently there
was no security protocol, and they like, we need to

(36:51):
have somebody go, like, we don't know what's up with
this dude. He's acting a little Craig Cray and we
need to figure it out. And even though there are
police actually at this hospital and another part of it,
they sent the social worker up there. I don't know
that that's the that was specifically the policy decision versus
how hospital people. But it does give us a little
look as to how that works out when you have

(37:13):
a situation where somebody it could it like they had
he had already creeped everybody out and refused to leave.
At that point, you don't know what you're gonna get.
That's why you need to have people who have the
broadest ability to deal with whatever's coming down the pipe.
And it's not a social worker, it's somebody who has weaponry,

(37:38):
even if it's you know, less than lethal or whatever
it is. And they didn't do that. And and now
this social worker's dead because the guy essentially grabbed him
from behind and started stabbing him in the neck. Yeah,
And so then we saw what happened with Arena Zarutzska.
There were other families that were part of that hearing
down in Charlotte, where one of our deb ross couldn't

(38:00):
even be bothered to learn who was who, and that
the father of this other young lady who was from
Charlotte but was down in South Carolina visiting her friends,
who was murdered, brutally murdered. It is soft on crime stuff, man,
and so that's what they were all there to talk about.
So the Charlotte City Council is dealing with now people

(38:22):
don't want to go on public transit, don't want to
go on public transit, and so how do you fix that?
If you remember the mayor down there, Lyle's or whatever,
she's like, well, we're gonna we're gonna get a bunch
more police on the on the light rail. I can't
remember if they were going to be all uniformed or
maybe maybe you kind of have some undercover. I'll leave

(38:43):
it to law enforcement to come up with that strategy.
But that never really materialized. There was like questions from
a funding standpoint, and we can't do it right away
and we need more money, you know, the standard thing. Well,
now the Charlotte City Council has come up with a
plan because ridership is down clearly on all forms of

(39:04):
public transit and the public doesn't feel safe there. So
they've decided that they need to address that. And you'll
be happy to learn they have allocated the hiring of
two hundred news security officers, police officers who will patrol
and maintain order on public don kidding, they didn't do
any of that they hired a PR firm to not

(39:25):
making this up. They hired a PR firm. Didn't even
hire a North Carolina based PR firm, by the way,
they hired one from Austin, and are going to pay
them three point four million dollars to quote and I'm
quoting from the city council agenda that was approved earlier
this earlier this week to enhance the public's perception and

(39:50):
use of public transit in the Charlotte Mecklenburg era area.
So you're not going to so you're just going to
You're just gonna have a PR thing with it. Look,
I am not I am not a public transit PR

(40:10):
excuse me, public transit security expert or PR. But I
kind of work in PR. That's you know what this
is marketing. You're here in marketing right now. You're listening
to me, but also you're hearing our sponsors messages. That's
that's that's how it works. So I do have a
toe in this water. Have you thought about less murder? Again,

(40:31):
I am not a public transit safety or marketing expert,
but if you thought of less murder, and you can
and if you want to get cute with it, you
can go like, are you ready light reil light now
with less murder, But you have to have less murder
and rapes and assaults and just lunatics making everyone uncomfortable

(40:54):
to the point where they're just they would they couldn't fathom.
It's gonna sound very sexist. They couldn't fathom the concept
of their daughter, sister, wife, mother on that light rail
at certain times or at all times, or on a
bus because of of yes, outsized high profile incidents. But

(41:14):
it's not like Zarutska is the only person to suffer
at the hands of some criminal on mass transit in Charlotte.
There's a whole laundry list. Of course, we just had.
We just had another stabbing. You all were able to
make racial hay out of it because the the led
stabber is an illegal immigrant, Hispanic who's stab the black
guy allegedly. But like you know, people hear this stuff

(41:39):
and you think the way you're going to clean it
up is with some cut C three and a half
million dollar pr firm thing rather than actually addressing the problem.
Give me, give me a little bit of them, give
me the million, okay, and here's and let me do
your consult. Go with less murder, less assaults, less absolute
crazy people being left out in the while to terrorize others.

(41:59):
Get serious about the enforcement, and then maybe people will
have a certain comfort level with mass transit. I don't
even understand what they're gonna do. How are they gonna
pe r their way out of an incident where they're
you know, generally video has emerged of some lunatics stabbing
people on the very same light rail that you're trying

(42:20):
to convince a guy that it's safe to use to
go to uptown where he might just get stabbed in
the street. But that's what they're gonna do. They're gonna
pr their way out of it. What an absolute dumpster
fire disaster. But again, I don't live there, and uh,
content for me, it's just too bad because there's a

(42:40):
bunch of people who live in Charlotte I consider friends
of mine, and uh, I don't want them to get stabbed.
But this is this is so exactly kind of exactly
what you would have like if I had to predict
how they would deflect off this, I would have just
assumed it would be something along these lines. But then
I thought, nah, you can't. There's just you can't because

(43:03):
the public will absolutely pitchfork you, but maybe they won't.
And now we're gonna see. And then if they do
pitchfork you, and I'm not saying that they should, but
let's say that they do, then you can hire a
pr firm to say that you were not attacked by pitchforks,
and then you won't have been attacked by pitchforks. It's
like magic. Really, these are not the droids you're looking for.

(43:25):
That's that's how, That's how Charlotte's decided to handle this.
Oh God help everybody who lives there. Seven seventeen hang on,
So just just to take us through to you know,
where we are and how we got here. Four years
nobody could solve it. It was an unbreakable thing. The
Trump administration comes in, they don't have any new evidence

(43:48):
or information. Using what was already existing, they were able
to cobble this together and figure out that this this
They think this is the guy who did it. Never
mind there had been some reporting that it was a woman.
That controversy continues to permeate online. But this is who
the Justice Department of the Trump administration believes is the

(44:11):
pipe bomber. This Brian Cole junior. And then they go
and they raise his mom's house where he's living, They
take him into custody. They were able to and we
don't know all of it, but it sounds like they
were able to piece this together through license plate readers
and cell phone tracking and the like. They this guy

(44:33):
should have been at least on a short list to
talk to under normal investigative procedures, and for whatever reason
they didn't. Well, now he's in cussy, this Brian Cole Junior.
And then there was reporting that he claimed that he
was Maga, but then there was reporting that all he
said is he was he thought the election was stolen,
so that was MAGA. And then his parents are like, no,

(44:55):
he's not any of those things, which makes sense because
he and his father were involved in some some somewhat
high profile political arguments up to an including suing the
government to stop deportations and suing the government over the

(45:15):
ability to sell a bail bond's company and appearing with
Benjamin Crump and alleging that there was racism of foot
there even though the sale went through. But you know,
that's that's the background there. So people had a really
hard time with them. And then that all just kind
of kind of went away. But now there's another update. Dudes,

(45:37):
a bronie. Do you guys know what a bronie is.
If you don't, I'm jealous of you. So there's that.
But to understand this, I'm gonna have to tell you. So,
a bronie is an adult male, hence the bro who's
obsessed with my little pony. Yeah, that's a thing. That's

(46:02):
the thing. And in fact, they even have like a
whole they have a whole uh in Milwaukee, they have
like a conference for everything. It's just I don't know, man, Like,
here's the thing. If I think it's I think it's weird,
and I think most people think it's weird. But the
the bigger problem is within that sub set, there have

(46:24):
been some some significant incidents of the uh we'll call
it the broni to pedo pipeline. And but but it's
just so it's one of these odd subsets, you know,
and and and again, if you want, if you if
you want to be fascinated by my little pony and

(46:45):
you're just out living your best slight whatever or the
furry thing, I think it's weird. I think it's weird
when I walked into that Dave and Busters in in
Carrie years ago, and there's like just four of them
just chowing down and and they're there, and another listener
had sent me the picture, so I went and kind
of investigated, and apparently they eat there, but they're just

(47:07):
sitting there eat. I don't know how you eat with
the heads on, but I'm not I'm not a furry dude.
So but yeah, and so it's so weird. Man, let's
see here. So this guy, in addition to just being
fascinated with the you know, with the the culture of

(47:32):
the life, I don't even know what you want to
call it, he went a step further. He produced my
little pony artwork. He wrote songs. He even wrote some
really disturbing like fan fiction, both of a horror genre
and a much more adult genre, which it's a horse
man and I don't know when you're riding fantasies about

(47:55):
that if you envision yourself as another horse, so it's
two horses hooking up, which you know that happens. I
was raised on a ranch. I've seen it. In just
a few minutes, we'll chat with mister ray Stagic and
figure out how long the polar Vortex will continue to
attack us, so we had that. I got Florida Man
coming up. Oh yeah, and it's space themed, so you're

(48:18):
not gonna want to miss that. But I let me
finish my update on my the the Can we call
him the Brony Bomber? Now the DC pipe bomb bomb Suspect?
Can we call him the Brony bomb Suspect. I think
we got to go with Broni Bomb because we just
found out he's really into my little Pony to the
point where he's writing songs and writing weird like fan

(48:43):
fiction stories of the horror genre and of the adult genre.
I'm not gonna subject you to the latter, but I'm
gonna read you a little of his horror thing, which
also is the names of the horses, which I had
to look up a bunch of the others. Now I
will I'll say this. I don't like the description is
so stupid on this because it's just Google being Google,

(49:07):
all right, So they're talking about it. They're like, my
Little Tony franchise not only appeals to little girls. The
toy line is primarily marketed to, but it's drawing a
cult following of teenagers self proclaimed geeks and even adults
who fondly remember the TV series and want to live
in the nostalgia. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

(49:28):
A thousand times no. There is being nostalgic about a show,
being a fan of it, even collecting stuff from it.
This is something different. And I had two little sisters.
We had a gazillion of these my little ponies just
strewn about the house, right because you know, I was right,
you're right there in the peak of it, and so

(49:49):
they had to have all my little ponies at me
and my brother weren't into it. We were into like
doing things to them, but because you know, we're boys
and we're jerks, and that's that's what you do. But uh,
and we had access to things like bee blasters and
you never see what one of those could do to
my little pony or a barbie you've never lived. But

(50:09):
it was my sister's who had all these things. So
while you could be nostalgic. Ross and I have talked
many times on the show of our nostalgia for Saturday
Morning Cartoons, which I think was peque for us because
it had you had evolved to so many channels now,
but it was before they decided that every kid's story
either has to be educational, even though there were educational

(50:32):
moral tales in there. I'm talking strictly educational or a
political propaganda device. You could just go watch it and
then not think about it again after until next Saturday
when you're excited to get up and uh and watch it.
But I don't. I didn't. I didn't make my house
look like Castle Grayskull, right, I don't. I don't walk

(50:55):
around in the he man garb. And you know what
that's good for all of you. You don't want to
see me just as a loincloth. Mm hmmm. I'm doing
you a favor. So this is something This is something else, man,
this is something else entirety all right. Here's a little
snippet from his fan fiction Apple Bloom. This is see
what I'm talking about with the names. This is one
of the horses names. And I don't know how you

(51:16):
write horror or adult content with these my little ponies
names like. Let me give you some other ones, uh,
Pinky Well, that one may trends anyway, Pinky Pie is
not a good example. Twilight, Sparkle, Princess Candace, Sweetie Bellu,

(51:37):
rainbow Dash, all right, so you get it, you get
you get the you get the vibe there, but he
went with Apple Bloom. Apple Bloom's eyes snapped open as
she sat up in her bed, panting heavily and sweat
dripping from her red mane. Wait, does she have a
red main because I got pictures all these. She does
have a red Maine. So he knows his stuff. There
you go. I had to look it up. This skeletons,

(52:01):
the zombie fied ponies rising up from the ground. They're
decaying bodies, rotting, horseflesh sliding off them from their bones.
She buried her face in her hoofs, silently crying at
the horrible images that inhabited her mind. So this guy's
so into it. He's creating a scenario to get his
characters murdered by zombies. I don't know what's going on, man,

(52:25):
But that's not nostalgia, Google, That's something that's something above
and beyond. And again it's not illegal. You want to
go to Milwaukee every year and go to the what
do they call this thing, the Milwaukee Ponyville Cider Fest,
which is the big convention that they have for the
last twelve years, in Milwaukee. Then you know, go ahead,

(52:49):
but don't don't pretend it's the same as fondling fondly,
fondling fond lee. I'll let you figure the Freudian there,
I guess fondly remembering Furday Morning cartoons that have no
impact on my life now other than just remembering, you know,
all the stuff we used to watch. That's it. It's

(53:11):
that simple. All right, you've been good, so let's go
ahead and do this thing. And it is a doozy.
So this one, like I said, this is a doozy.
A Florida man is accused of stealing a BMW. It
was a twenty eighteen convertible while the car's owner was
walking his dog at Ormond Beach Centennial Park. Where is

(53:35):
Ormond Beach? Sorry, I just want because you know the
part of Florida here, it is the part of Florida
is tends to give you different vibes, Is all that
I'm saying. M Yeah, yeah, that's what I thought I
thought it was. Yeah. So it's south of Saint Augustine,

(53:56):
not quite all the way to Daytona, but it's just
north of Daytona, so that that's where this is happening.
So yeah, yeah, yeah, that part in the Panhandle tend
to be real good ones and this one is no exception.
So while this dog, this car owner's walking his dog.
This guy, Calvin Johnson is his name. According to authorities,

(54:17):
he stole the BMW. He was unlocked and the keys
are in the cup holder, so probably not a good
look for the car, Like for the car owner. I
don't know why you would why you would do that,
but AnyWho, that's that's the story there. And then he
decided to see how fast it would go. According to police,

(54:37):
was driving over one hundred miles an hour before losing
control and crashing the car, which, by the way, passing
motorists saw this accident. It was a big and extracted
from the thing from the car. And the dude is straight.
He's just standing up. Police show up. He doesn't look
to be that. I mean, he's got some cuts and bruises, clearly,
but he's walking around. But it's the story he told police,

(55:01):
which is why we're here. According to Florida man Calvin Johnson,
he didn't steal the car. He was teleported into it. Well,
it was already traveling nearly one hundred miles an hour
and he was just trying to regain control of it. Yes,
that's right. He claims to have been teleported into the car.
When police arrived at the scene, he told of the teleportation,

(55:25):
made a passing reference to the X Men, which there
are portals in X Men, but I don't I don't
know what exactly he's referring to. So there's that, and
told officers that he was glad to see him because
they could save him from the Aliens. Okay, yeah, so

(55:48):
we've got like, we've got a ton of fun sci
fi and you know, and nerd culture stuff in there
between X Men teleportation and the Aliens. And he doesn't
say which aliens, so don't I don't know. Are we
crossing genres with the X Men into the Aliens with
the big portal who came out in the Avengers the

(56:10):
crossover people have been demanding, but don't know if they
want I don't know. But he was placed under arrest,
taken to a hospital. They're going to do a mental evil.
I'm sure you're very surprised by that. Johnson has an
extensive criminal record, which includes convictions just this year for trespass, obstruction, loitering,
resisting grand theft. It was a really expensive bicycle, so

(56:34):
it went over the thousand dollars and bumped it up.
That's why he stole the bike. He said he felt
like it. So at least in that instance, we're not
claiming teleportation powers X men and aliens. But maybe he
figured out I got convicted of that. I need to
come up with that. And since it was a BMW,
is it beamer me up? Would it be this thing

(56:56):
on raced Agic? Is this I stole a bud and
the claim that don't beamer me up right instead of
beam up beamer? Yeah, that's good I did there. Yeah,
so guy said he didn't. He wasn't stealing the car
that was doing one hundred miles an hour for a wreck.
He was teleported into it while it was doing one hundred,
which has to be terrifying. Right, You're just sitting there one,
you know, in your living room whatever, watching TV, and

(57:17):
next thing you know, one hundred miles an hour ripping
down a highway in a car. You don't know how
it's not yours?

Speaker 9 (57:23):
Oh yeah, the old teleport huh yeah that sound so AnyWho,
there's a good teleport and weather and what could be.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
Yeah, it depends on what you like. Right, I'm gonna
get a little bit way. You could teleport to somewhere warmer,
so yeah, you could do that too, uh, little patients.

Speaker 9 (57:43):
Maybe toward the middle the month and Christmas week, there's
some indications that maybe we will get a little bit
mild there up but near fifty today. Then the winds
will start gusting, clouds and sunshine, and as those winds gusted,
is gonna feel chillier a little bit thirties tonight, and
then the front comes through. We are colder for tomorrow, sunshine,

(58:05):
little bit forties and then mid upper forties, partly sunning
on Friday, back into the fifties, little bit fifties and
sunny Saturday, and then we'll be near fifty on Sunday
and mostly stundy again, and then our next golfer will
come on through and we're much colder again on Monday,
with upper thirties with loads in the morning and the
teams to near twenty degrees, so not a bunch of

(58:28):
priests and staying i'd say unsuitably cold over the.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
Next few days.

Speaker 9 (58:33):
I think Tomorrow and especially Monday will be the coldest
days because this afterday, once I win starts whipping up,
it can feel a little chilli.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
Okay, are you do you have a digital mic that
you're using or is it?

Speaker 3 (58:45):
Now?

Speaker 1 (58:45):
We got to kill the minus? Oh I gotcha? Okay,
all right, so I'll let you guys work on that.
I just want to make sure that's sounds a little weird,
but yeah, that would explain it. All right. We'll work
on the mixed minus for Ray next time, so he
doesn't have to listen to himself. You guys can't tell
what that sound is.

Speaker 9 (59:01):
It's it's it's okay, it's.

Speaker 1 (59:04):
Your voice coming back to you on a slight delay
while you're trying to talk, and it's just unnerving. Jade,
can we can? We want Raise on the air right now.
Let's fix the mixed minus while he's on the air.
So you need to take his whatever feeds him, which
I think is utility to you need to unselect it
so that he's just feeding utility one. Okay, then maybe

(59:25):
it's the other way around. Yeah, okay, try it the
other way around. Saray doesn't hear himself? All right, go
ahead now myself? So all right, well we'll figure it out.
Off the air, undo what you just did to me,
and we'll be right back all with with with hopefully
less mixed minus. All right, let's go to break. We

(59:47):
should be chatting. Uh normally, see this is when Ross
isn't here. Normally Ross would do a confirmation for me
this morning, because I get paranoid of things around my
calendar and I don't have a confirmed day of But
he's he's pretty good at calling in. So Congressman Brad Not.
It is his every other Wednesday, So that's been coming
up here at eight oh five, and I wanted to

(01:00:10):
I'm gonna ask him some of the stuff I was
talking to Ted Budd about. Oh, I'm very I'm gonna
run the marine thing by him too. But you know,
one of the one of the reasons I do enjoy
chatting with Congressman Not is the fact that he was
a federal prosecutor. And there is so much going on
from a legal perspective, clearly in the injunctions, the lawsuits,

(01:00:32):
the crazy judges, the discussion yesterday over Trump's there was
a hearing yesterday over Trump's ability to fire people, right,
because there's there's there's politicians who claimed all of a sudden,
the president can't fire people, and it was one of
the FTC muckety MUCKs who clearly serve at the pleasure

(01:00:55):
of the president. And so that's the lawsuit. This is
kind of the test case for this, but there are
many many more floating around out there. But when you
have the people who are the higher ups at agencies
that fall under the executive branch, everyone used to think
this was a no brainer. That's why they partitioned what

(01:01:18):
constitutes a government employee that is subject to this and
what isn't. And it's also why we had to put
laws together to go against something called burrowing. Right, So
you have jobs that are jobs that flex with the
changing presidents. Those are one thing, and then you have
the more standard right, you know, the guy who works

(01:01:38):
in the back office at one of the things in
the accounting department, which is really not a political appointee
kind of job. Miss Slaughter was among the first kind,
not the second kind. And the burrowing thing is what
would happen is a new president come in, he'd bring
his buddies into these jobs, and then as they were leaving,
they would put this person in a different position so

(01:02:00):
that they weren't among those that serve at the pleasure
of the president, and it was getting really rampant. So
and they still do it, and when they get called
out for it, they all pretend because nobody, nobody wants
to actually punish the other side up there, because they're
all part of the same broken apparatus. But that's what
this lawsuit is about. And some of the argument, like
I heard Justice Gorsich questioning the attorney for slaughter the

(01:02:23):
woman who's suing, and Gorstige asked him a very simple question.
He asked, does the president have an obligation to enforce
the laws? And the guy would not answer in the affirmative.
And what Gorsich was trying to get to is he
was trying to get to the statutory side of it, saying, well,

(01:02:43):
if you believe that the president has an obligation to
force the laws, in that same breadth, they talk about
the president also having the ability to use his people
to do it. And that's where the lawyer didn't want
to go. And then our newest Supreme Court Justice, Miss Katan,
she brown this was this is such a dangerous argument

(01:03:07):
she's making. She said, it's in America's best interest to
defer to experts. Okay, well that sounds that sounds innocuous.
Off the thing, it's, you know, we seek out experts
when we need medical care, right, go to a doctor,
you seek out you need legal stuff, you go talk
to a lawyer. You don't want to fix your plumbing,
you call a plumber. But that's not what she's talking about.

(01:03:28):
She's talking about in the administration of government and that
and to get away from the elected side of it.
And I'm here to tell you hell no, no, this
is the limited amount of accountability that we can even
flex as citizens. How dare you argue against that just
because you're in a lifetime appointment position now, which by

(01:03:49):
the way, wouldn't have happened without what happened with elections,
because that's you know, presidental appoints, the you know, nominates,
the Supreme Court. Senate confirms this is what we do.
But yeah, that's a horrible argument. She said, quote that
it is in the best interest in the American public
to have certain kinds of issues handled by experts, and

(01:04:09):
it is undermined when one person has too much power.
Saying that too much power with one person's problematic here
on the Cacoday radio program. Let's see I do nuts,
all right, So I don't see the congressman calling yet.
I'm a check, I'm a check my notes again. I

(01:04:30):
swear I had him this would be his rotation. Ross
even sent me some last week on this. Yeah, so
he was of the opinion too that it was I
can't so Ross is technically on paternity leave, so I
cannot even ask him job questions, which I wouldn't do

(01:04:51):
anyway when he's off. But yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Oh.
By the way, if you need a if you need
a baby fix, and you go to our Twitter account
of Casey on the I see that Ross posted a
video of his adorable new baby son under the Christmas tree.
Just scroll It's like the third tweet down at Casey

(01:05:11):
on the Radio, and you can go. You can go
gauge the cuteness. There's like thirty comments and they're all
all convinced that he's very, very cute. So but if
you need that in your life, go ahead. It's right
there on our Twitter account. To scroll down, you'll see
the video and you'll get a sense of how bonkers

(01:05:33):
they go. And I mean that a good way when
it comes to doing the Christmas tree like they put
in the hours. It's very ornate, very christmas y. You know,
who's not feeling the Christmas spirit. Apparently McDonald's like, this
is e this is gross. So McDonald's decided this is

(01:05:56):
this aired in the Netherlands, so and it's bad. So
they have a new commercial it's AI, which I'm let
me just explain something to all the big business out there.
Stop it with the AI commercials. They're all horrible there.
I haven't seen one that's good that where now. It's

(01:06:16):
one thing if you're using AI to create something that's
not real, right, But when you're just trying to create
humans doing human stuff, it's immediately recognizable and I recoil
from it. But the problem with this ad is not
limited to the fact that it's AI, which is just
creepy in and of itself. The problem with this ad is, well,

(01:06:38):
let me just let me explain to you the headline
or the title of the ad McDonald's right ad, and
then the name of the commercial is it's the most
terrible time of the year. Yeah, yeah, Now I what
were they going for? They were going for it can
be very stressful around Christmas, which nobody he denies around

(01:07:01):
the holidays with having to travel, and of course that
travel happening during that time of the year where you
know we get winter weather and you know for Thanksgiving,
Christmas or whatever holidays you celebrate. Like people understand that
there's going to the mall. Oh just step in front
of a truck if your choices are going to the
mall or truck hitting you, so you end up in

(01:07:22):
the hospital where you can't go to the mall. I'm
gonna choose the hospital. But and then you know, just
every there's everything's on the timeline. Everything's on a timeline.
So you gotta, you gotta, you gotta deal with that. However,
to make that the entirety of your Christmas advertising effort,

(01:07:44):
people are not responding. Everybody hates it. Even the Norwegians
hate it. So good on them. So you have like
they have little cut shots, like here's a guy plugging
in the Christmas lights and then a fire breaks out
with his family in there. That sucks this guy. There's
there's there's call. They're carollers, but it's all cold and windy,

(01:08:05):
and some guy drives by and slushes them. I think
it's the word a horrible, horrible representation. Again, it's all
ai of family members that are just awful people, and
that's the that's the thing. So they made this campaign
and turn the most wonderful time into the year in
the most terrible time of the year, which you can

(01:08:26):
get away with talking about that, but you can't undermine
what it is. Undermine what it is. It's it's all
of those things, but this attitude, which can be best
summed up as f Christmas if your family eat McDonald's

(01:08:47):
and stuff. I don't know, I mean, I don't know
what they were going for, but that's clearly what they portrayed.
It's just joyless, absolutely joyless. And don't get me wrong.
We were parked down in front of that Walmart over
the weekend right doing the fundraiser for the Toys for
Tots and it was pandemoni. At one point the power
went out at the Walmart. I think I mentioned that.

(01:09:09):
And it's like, think of it into Walmart parking lot
where there's no parking spots. It's so busy. Within fifteen minutes,
it's a ghost town there because people are scrambling to
go have to find other stuff. Yeah, that's stressful, man,
but that's life, that's how it goes. And then you
get the good stuff, and then the good stuff I
saw manifest there was not just all of you who
came out to donate toys and say hello and do

(01:09:29):
all of that to the tune of over five thousand
toys the kids in this area are gonna get for Christmas.
But you know, we had Santa showed up out there
and kids when they I mean bonkers. My biggest concern
because Santa was sitting up there, is when kids. It

(01:09:50):
happened when I was when I was driving by tweety railroad.
I've told this story where the there, you know, the
gas station that's across from the tree to the tweezy
railroad there, all right, so you got to go across
the highway to get over to tweets. You Well, the
family pulled in over there and the kid, the kids
like were running towards the road. Dad caught him. But

(01:10:12):
like because they're kids and they they see the eye
on the prize right there. And so I was concerned
because Sanna, you know, Sanna looks like Sanna. We had
a little thing where you come by take pictures for
a few hours on Sunday, he graced us with his
presence and you see kid, You see kids so excited.
Occasionally there's a crier, but for the most part, they're

(01:10:34):
really excited. To the point I was worried that one
was going to like escape their parents to get to Santa.
And then they you know, they get there, they put
the kid on Santa's lap.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
And.

Speaker 1 (01:10:46):
It's just that's the joy of it right there. Yeah,
I mean, there's the present side of it, but it's
the it's the spirit of it. And and to not
encapsulate any of that if you're McDonald's in your advertising,
it's just weird to me because even though yes, McDonald's
is fast food, McDonald's is I mean, they're they are Americana.

(01:11:09):
That it just is America. McDonald's is a representation of America.
Whether you like the food or not, it's undeniable. Remember
back in the day, who let's go back to like
dream Team, you know, the the Olympics. Remember McDonald's has
been an Olympic sponsor forever, which is I know some

(01:11:30):
people find that weird, but because you know, athletes and
then fast food, but it's because you're an athlete doesn't
mean you have to skip McDonald's and as a kid
going and getting that happy meal. Oh man, how excited
were you when you were a kid to find out
you were going to Mickey D's. Man, get whatever toy
happens to uh, you know, be part of the uh,

(01:11:51):
be part of that particular cartoon you're watching. Collect them all.
So for them to fumble the ball on on Christmas
like that, and then to use AI to do it,
maybe you could have done some human stuff and made
it really funny, but no, people are already recoiling from

(01:12:11):
the from the AI AI soullessness of it all. And
then your messaging is just, yeah, Christmas sucks, Eat the McDonald's.
And you know, McDonald's is usually a pretty savvy marketer.
So that was that was interesting little decision there. Here

(01:12:33):
is something I don't think any any bit of marketing
is going to help. Scientists say. This is more scientists
trying to get you to stop eating meat unless they're bugs. Apparently,
all right, so here we go. Scientists say they have
created a low cost meat like oh I don't like
those two words next to each other, meat like fungus,

(01:12:55):
which could soon replace chicken. No, no, not gonna do it. Yeah,
this is anyways, scientists have genetically modified Well, there you go.
We get the GMO side of this. Genetically modified a
fungus commonly used in the production of meat substitutes to
make it even more environmentally friendly and a key source

(01:13:20):
of protein that actually provides higher nutrients than chicken. One
of the famed animals that has the least impact on
the environment, by the way, chickens. If you want to
get into things that we raise to eat, chickens are
on the lower end of the environmental impact. In fact,

(01:13:42):
one of the really coolest things in chicken production is
have you seen the moving coops? This is brilliant. Just
from somebody who grew up in an agricultural environment, I
think this is really cool. So it's basically, you have
a big chicken coop and it kind of functions like,
are are watering systems for our falfa fields where you

(01:14:03):
have a central This is why when you fly over
the Midwest you see those big circles. If you don't know,
they're not aliens. It's not crop circles. It's a watering mechanism.
So there's a central locked position and then the thing
the watering system on tracks just swings around in a circle,
slowly watering everything. It's very efficient. So all of that

(01:14:23):
to say with chickens, they're kind of doing that where
the coop moves, and it has a lot of benefits. Right,
So if you do it in the field, the chickens
are all eating the bugs, right, eating all that stuff,
and they're also returning what they're eating to the ground.
That's natural fertilizer. And since it keeps moving, they're also
not in a place where they can just decimate everything

(01:14:44):
that's under it because they're not there for that long.
It moves very very slowly. The chickens don't seem to mind.
I think it's I think it's very brilliant. And because
here you go, there's your fertilizer right back at you,
and the chickens are basically free ranging under there. It's
a big, big area and just living in chicken dreams. Also,

(01:15:07):
I need liquid chicken I e. Egg, So you're not
going to do away with that. The research team said.
They use crisper based gene editing. Oh, I want to
eat this so bad to modify Fusarium venanatum. I don't
know what that is. Improving its production efficiency and reducing
its environmental impact. Also, let me just say this, chickens

(01:15:30):
are hilarious. Right. So there's there's the food part, there's
the egg part, but chickens, chickens are entertainment. Man. You
ever said, yeah, if you haven't sat out on a
porch where there's about twelve chickens just doing chicken stuff
out there in front of you, sometimes, you know, not
happy with each other at times, happy chasing the kids.
Oh it's better in TV, man. So no, I'm not

(01:15:55):
eating your genetically modified weird fungus I've never heard of.
I'm gonna I'm gonna go to chick fil A and
get an actual, you know, piece of chicken. So again, scientists,
please stop this all right? Eight eighteen? Hang on? Did
I did get to chat with the comms director for
Congressman Bradnot And yeah, we had like calendars reversed. I

(01:16:19):
think the Thanksgiving week threw us off and then we
started anyway, So we're either gonna chat with him tomorrow
or maybe next week. They're gonna let me know what
works there. One of the stories I was going to
talk to him, and it is, it's an awful story.
And it's what happened at North Forscyth High School where

(01:16:41):
a student is dead another injured after a stabbing incident
there and the video exists. I'm just going to warn
you if you're on social media and you want to
learn more about this story, but if there's a video
under it, just just I could. I saw both where
they put the little warning on, but I've also seen

(01:17:01):
it once now where didn't have the warning and it
just kind of starts showing you stuff, so you probably
don't want to watch it. For Scythe County, Sheriff Bobby
Kimbroke confirmed in a press conference yesterday afternoon, the families
of those involved were notified. There's no danger for the community.
Our governor called it shocking and horrible, which is an understatement,
it said. He is praying for the students and their

(01:17:22):
loved ones. Kimbro asked for prayers for the families, calling
it another sad day and for sythe County. Describing the
call that the SRO made to the Sheriff's office, Winston
Salem Police Department Chief William Penn called it a dark
day for our city, criticizing people for reportedly sharing video

(01:17:43):
of the altercation on the internet. Yeah, that's the other thing.

Speaker 3 (01:17:46):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:17:47):
It's like, you got all these kids with all these
cell phones, and so when stuff's going on by, it's
like a Hollywood movie shoot, just so many cameras running
and you see this stuff. You know, if there's a fight,
chances are there's a video flowing around on TikTok of
it or Facebook or well probably have Facebook for the kids,

(01:18:08):
but on the social media it's easier than ever to
get it out there. Winston Salem for Side County School
Superintendent Don Phipps, So he's this guy's like just on
the job. I think he was just sworn in confirmed
that the school would be closed today as a result
of the altercation. They got the crisis team counseling, pretty
standard stuff, but you know there are we got, you know,

(01:18:32):
we broadcast in Winston Salem, and I get I have
gotten many an email from many a parent there that
has expressed concern with safety issues, and which is not
unusual for most any districts, but some of the stuff
in Winston Salem, like that people have sent over the
you know, over the years, would be very concerning to

(01:18:53):
me as a parent. And I don't necessarily know what
the answer is. Because people want to talk about metal detective,
I want to talk about cultural problems. They want to
talk about police or the ability of teachers to be armed.
But the fact is that the status quo right now
there's way too many incidents. Maybe not to this extent,

(01:19:14):
but when you have a bunch, eventually you're going to
get here and now a student is dead. A student
is dead, and you know clearly another student is Now
I'm going to have to face the legal consequences. Is
it more than one student that they suspect. I don't
know where all these charges are going to fall, but
it's pretty horrific and pretty terrifying for many of our

(01:19:39):
folks who have kids in this particular district or specifically
in that school. Let me ask, if anybody listening his
kid goes to this school, what is your general sense
of safety there at North Prescith High School. Chicken tractors,
which I guess I had heard, but we don't deal
with chicken, although we had some chickens and a fixed

(01:19:59):
coup for eggs growing up, but I'm not a chicken farmer,
so I don't know. But that's what it's called. If
you want to know more about. Yeah, they make Look,
I've seen the ones where you can move. It's the
concept I'm talking about the big ones for the big
producers where it's like, you know, two football fields long
and they're able to move it back and forth on

(01:20:21):
the field. So yes, conceptually moving where your animals are
to save the you know, the ground from getting tore
up or in our case, overgrazed. That's that's common. So
why wouldn't work with chickens. But yes, chicken tractor. Okay,
all right, thank you chicken farmers for correcting me. But

(01:20:43):
I just I think it's rather interesting, all right, So
let's get some calls. So very tragic, tragic day earlier
this week at North Precise High School. There's video of
this floating around. And what you had was you had
an altercation, a student was stabbed and other well, one
student was killed, another was injured. And here we are.

(01:21:04):
And I have specifically had people email from who listened
to us at ninety four to five talking about security
concerns within the schools there and Forsyth County. And while
I don't have kids in the system, a lot of
it looks very similar to concerns other people have. So
my question was this particular high school, what is the

(01:21:28):
feeling among parents about safety prior to this. Clearly this
is going to impact your thoughts as well, but how
are you feeling prior to this and when what could
be done? Like, I don't I hate the idea of
kids having to go through metal detectors and that whole
dangerous minds kind of set up. But I don't want

(01:21:49):
anyone to worry that if their kid goes to school,
they're going to be going between classes and potentially get stabbed.
And yes, it sounds like there may have been some
I don't know what it is. I've seen a lot
of speculation that it could be beef. I don't know
what precipitated it. There's rumors and stuff out there. But regardless,

(01:22:11):
regardless if he got beef, I had beef back in
school with kids, you know, over you know, you get
into with somebody, maybe you get in a fight, maybe
you don't. But nobody ever stabbed anybody in our school.
They had the worst thing that happened was there was
one fight. Because there was also the part where if
you fought, and you would fight kind of traditionally right.
We weren't sparta kicking people. And then if one guy

(01:22:34):
was getting beat then you just that was it. You're
like if you yield done, all right, and the other
kids would kind of police it. We had one incident
where one kid knocked the dude down, turned around, we
thought it was over, and he ran back and kicked
him in the head and he got thrown. He was expelled. Man,
that was it. There was no screwing around. We were

(01:22:55):
not doing this. So in this day and age, with
these concerns, I really field for parents. All right, let's
start with Lynn. Lynn. You're up first, go right ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:23:05):
Yes, Hey, I'm a public school teacher and first of all,
very heartbroken for the student and the family and everyone
at North. I'm a graduate of North Forsyth, been teaching
for thirty two years there. There is a very simple solution,
a very common sense solution, and is not metal detectors.

Speaker 5 (01:23:29):
I have a kid.

Speaker 4 (01:23:29):
Also, but I'm in I'm in the schools. Kids will
use pencils, They'll they'll still fight, right, they'll bring there.
If they're bringing a weapon the school and they're not
going to walk through the metal detectors. That's a huge
waste resources, and it's not fear to the other kids. Okay,

(01:23:52):
so the solution, this is the solution. It is very simple.
There's very few kids that don't respond to consequences. We
have to remove those kids. Does that mean we're throwing
them away? Does that mean we can't love them support them? No,

(01:24:15):
we have to put them in an alternate setting. The
community needs to come up with support, other ways to
educate them. We can give them chances. We can give
them another chance to earn their way back. You want
to come back next semester, we could do that. We
can talk about that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:37):
We had a school in Wyoming that was it was,
that was the threat it was. We called it the
Bad Kids. Well, we had another name for it, but
it was a school we used to do this. Yeah,
where you would go.

Speaker 4 (01:24:48):
It's very simple. We're acting yes, we're acting like we
can't figure this out. So it's that's really small group
of kids who are repeat offenders. At some point we'd
have to have an honest conversation how many times have
these particular kids, how many arrests outside of school have
they had? How many write ups have they had. Now

(01:25:12):
there's a larger group of students who are watching the
lack of consequence, and if there are no consequences, they
are going to participate. Those are the groups of kids
that we can really help in the school. If they
see someone leave, they don't want to leave.

Speaker 1 (01:25:30):
You know, we had a couple of kids could disappeared
to the bad good school and I want to tell
you everyone was on their best behavior that week.

Speaker 4 (01:25:41):
Yeah, discipline is not punishment. Discipline is helping these kids.
We are expediting the pipeline to prison. When because the
crimes keep escalating, they talk back to a teacher, there's
no consequence. They cut out consequence.

Speaker 1 (01:26:02):
I worry about you guys. What happened up in Virginia
with a teacher just got a big settlement.

Speaker 4 (01:26:07):
Yes, they showed a teacher they pushed I mean my
colleague was pushed down. It wasn't on video, so nothing happened.
You know, people were so shocked that the teacher was
slapped and it was on video. I mean, we are
we are getting cussed out daily. I can't consequences.

Speaker 1 (01:26:27):
I can't even imagine when I was in school, concept
of somebody striking a teacher. Lynn, I want I got
to get some other calls in, but I really appreciate
your perspective and I agree with you absolutely, Like we
we decided we were going to do that anymore in
a lot of instances, and and and then you see,
you know, and then we get into these where people
want to go, well, you're suspending students, so there's a
higher percentage of this race or the other. And I'm like,

(01:26:48):
are they doing things? Are they doing these things that
lead to these suspensions? And if they are, then what
I don't understand what your problem is. Don't do the things.
And when we talk about prison a school to prison pipeline,
there's another pipeline. And lind just described it perfectly. If
you go every day and you just get away with
stuff over and over, eventually you're the adults. We end

(01:27:09):
up talking about, going, how does guy have forty five
arrests and he's out on the street. I mean, that's
what that leads to, Bob, go right ahead, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:27:21):
First, I want to say I completely agree with that
previous caller. I think Lynn Yeah, completely agree with everything
she said.

Speaker 3 (01:27:27):
But I want to.

Speaker 2 (01:27:28):
Preface everything I'm about to say with this is one
hundred percent hearsay. I have no factual evidence. This is
coming from my girlfriend's daughter, who went to East Forsyth,
who has friends that go to North.

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
I got you. Well, hold on, I just want to
be very clear here, but I don't mind you letting
us know what you heard, because you're you're sources it there.
I don't want you to use names if you're going
to accuse anything of anything.

Speaker 5 (01:27:56):
Okay, the no names at all?

Speaker 7 (01:27:58):
Yeah, no names, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
The two boys involved, apparently, from what I heard, they
were both swinging weed or selling weed.

Speaker 1 (01:28:10):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:28:11):
I'm not saying that they weren't good guys or whatever,
but here is what the.

Speaker 1 (01:28:15):
Kids are saying, because you know the kids.

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
Now, what I heard was the boy that was killed
was attempting to rob the other kid. I'm sorry, someone
on the arm.

Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
Oh no, I'm sorry. Jade's talking down to Ram. I'm
sorry you're hearing that, Jade. Okay, just don't do that
for a moment, please, because you can hear it. All right.

Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
So the boy that was killed attempted to rob the
other boy. He stabbed the other boy in the leg,
and then the other boy bit his hand.

Speaker 10 (01:28:50):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:28:50):
Then the deceased boy then dropped the knife. Then the
other boy picked up the knife and stabbed them one
time in the and then I didn't see the video.
The girlfriend had it, but I didn't want to see
it because I saw the Charlie Kirk video and it
made me sick, so I didn't want to see the video.
But she said that in the video, it shows that

(01:29:13):
the other boy in the I think the tan jacket,
it shows that he it looks like he's trying to
stab him multiple times. But apparently that's not actually stabbing.
He's just punching him because from what she says, he
only got stabbed once.

Speaker 1 (01:29:28):
Okay, and again, I'm gonna I'm gonna just stop it there,
but I'm gonna there's something that really stands out to me.
How old is is your is the girl you're yeah?
How old is she?

Speaker 2 (01:29:41):
She's doing college now, she's twenty one?

Speaker 1 (01:29:44):
Okay, well, I don't care that she's twenty one. She
would have had access to this she was in high school.
There's something profoundly screwed up that a teenage girl, or
in this case now a twenty one year old girl.
But there's teenagers who can are have video of their
classmates getting stabbed and are watching it and analyzing it
and have access to it and are in a situation
where this thing exists.

Speaker 2 (01:30:06):
I can tell you that that information spread like wildfire.

Speaker 1 (01:30:10):
No, no, no, I know that's what I'm saying. It's
just how are we here? How are we here where
teenagers are watching videos of their own classmates getting murdered.
That's it's it's horrible, Bob, I got a roll, thank
you very much. Yeah. That that's just another profoundly bothersome
part of this. All right, let's get raised agic from

(01:30:31):
the Weather Channel. Sorry for the hard transition there, sir,
but we will very interested in what the weather has
in store for us, So go right ahead. Do we
have ray? Do we not have ray? Okay? Hello, hey
there you are all there? You are here? Can you
hear me? Okay? Good? Everything's fixed? Okay, good?

Speaker 9 (01:30:52):
See that?

Speaker 1 (01:30:54):
And beautiful today that it's gonna be. Yeah, we change it.
We fixed every Yeah, we've got it all. We got
it all. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:31:00):
We're gonna briefly come up in tempts today after kind
of a we're a wintry day yesterday. I don't have
to worry about any wintry precipt upper forties, maybe some
low fifties around partial sun today with a gusty breeze,
already starting to see clouds come in from the west,
and that's out all ahead of a cold front. Won't
bring much a precipt, but in the mountains will be
some even some snowfall again higher elevations about thirty five

(01:31:21):
hundred feet if you care. What was that over seven
inch the snow boon yesterday or the day before, and
they'll get more, so things will do.

Speaker 1 (01:31:29):
The mountains of our listeners.

Speaker 9 (01:31:30):
Yeah there, Yeah, it's gonna be nasty too. It's gonna
be gusty wins and wind advisory is really going to
be blowing, and we'll get some gusty wins but none
of that, and then that breeze will back down as
the chillier air spills in tomorrow a little bit thirties
in the morning and a little bit forties in the afternoon,
and then mid upper forties on Friday, back to the
fifties by Saturday, Sunday back to the forties. But Sunday,
all those days and then we'll get another dump of

(01:31:53):
cold air in here by Sunday night. Monday Monday morning
gonna be pretty cold, upper teens to near twenty degrees
for the lows, sunshine in the afternoon and high's only
in the mid to upper thirties. But it's a brief shot.
I think warmer weather, maybe warmer weather for a longer
period of time here with the big Arctic fronts even
as we get into next week, So no.

Speaker 1 (01:32:12):
Present to deal with.

Speaker 9 (01:32:13):
Little dip and temperatures tomorrow and again a bigger dip
by Monday of next week.

Speaker 1 (01:32:18):
Okay, all right, thank you sir, appreciate it, and we're
going to come back with Denise Pellegrini from Bloomberg next
hang on joining us. Hey, Denise, I just have to
let you know I got to be out at fifty
five thirty. I heard you, Okay, cool, cool, cool cool?
All right, What's what's going on?

Speaker 11 (01:32:33):
The Fed is really front and center on Wall Street today, Casey,
maybe the last interest rate cut we see from them
for a while. That's because of continued concern around inflation,
and of course all the questions about who the next
FED chair will be as President Trump moves to replace
FED chair J. Powells, So markets could be skittish all
day today. Paramount Skydens and Netflix, as you know, are

(01:32:55):
preparing for a big battle to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery.
This battle is expected to last all the way into
next year. Warner Brothers board isn't planning to cancel its
merger agreement with Netflix. They would have to pay a
nearly three billion dollar termination fee if they did. This
puts the ball in Paramount's court. They can follow through
on their tender offers so to stop as we've been

(01:33:15):
talking about, extend the bid or increase the terms, and
some are expecting the purchase price to move up another
five or ten billion dollars. US holiday road trips are
seen notching a record as gas prices crater as everybody's
been talking about. Just watch for huge traffic jams going
into the holidays. Gas prices below three bucks a gallon
in multiple states and below two fifty in some places.

(01:33:39):
We just saw that in North Carolina last week. And
on the other hand, it's not the case for airfares.
Domestic round trip flights are averaging nearly nine hundred dollars
seven percent increase from last year, depending on where you're going. Meantime,
we are watching some other stories like Chili's and Wendy's
Skillet beef kesos back by popular demand alongside the new

(01:34:01):
Southwestern Caso stock futures right now putting to a mixed
open doll futures up as in p futures, Neutral and
Nasdaq futures. They are lower and Wendy's is riding on
gen Z's quarter zip sweater fashion trend. They're now offering
quarter sip drinks. You can order twenty five cent drinks
Casey of any size with an off run.

Speaker 1 (01:34:21):
Wendy sapp you had me a caso with the other thing,
but I appreciate you. All right, thank you, Denise chat tomorrow.
There you go back to Denise Pelagreni from Bloomberg News.
All right, I want to carve out about three minutes
here at the end of the show. We got two callers.
You're gonna get ninety seconds each, so just know that Casey,
you're up first. Hello, Casey, can you hear me?

Speaker 3 (01:34:44):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
Yeah, Hey, Hello, you hear yeah? You got about a
minute and a half, go ahead, sir, Okay, Hey.

Speaker 7 (01:34:51):
I worked at a school district in Dallas, Texas. There's
a we had three k through twelves in the home.
If they're what they did, you know, we had the
same problems, but they basically broke everything down. All the
retnecks and you know, trouble makers are most of the
trouble makers went to a trade school. They put the

(01:35:15):
kids who could make it and the you know, I
guess the intellectual part there. These getting were smart with that.
The were smart. I mean they could put game boys apart,
and they were doing VR and things like that, and great.
They had the his Family school for the kids who

(01:35:36):
you know, didn't speak of this, and then they had
the prison school for the people who were just problem childs.

Speaker 1 (01:35:44):
And that's I mean, that's thought.

Speaker 7 (01:35:46):
And if you could make the grade, you could make
the grade, you could go to the you know, you
could always transfer into a better school.

Speaker 1 (01:35:53):
Well, and the problem is, and thanks for the call.
Now people claim that, well, all you're doing is you're
just leaving those kids behind. And then others argue, if
you stick troublemakers in there, you're you're making the other
kids leave themself and get left behind because now not
advancing to the extent that they would harvey real quick,
what's going on.

Speaker 10 (01:36:10):
Yeah, So I taught it for about five months at
Johnson County School fifth grade, and in that time I
saw enough to pull my kids out of public schools
there they're using pencils to stab each other with, and
the school system disciplinary track it really joked because they

(01:36:34):
tied the funding to the kids. So they don't want
to expel or remove children from school because they'll lose
funding and then they have to explain why they're losing children.
But yet we we had I had a girl who
stabbed another student with a pencil. She got one day suspension,
and they got back in and she stabbed another child

(01:36:56):
about two weeks later with a pencil, and another one
or two days suspension and they came right back.

Speaker 1 (01:37:02):
Basically Jane Wick, Okay, that's probably that's problematic.