12-11-25 SHOW

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's gonna be kind of a different Thursday around here
because it's gonna feel a little Wednesday ish and uh,
let me explain. But hold on, I gotta let me
grab this text here. So, uh, you know, we like
routine even though we don't really stay on a script
during the show. We just bounce around and do whatever.
When it comes to guests, which we don't have a
bunch of guests. It's just this is not that kind

(00:21):
of show, you know. The normal thing is we have
Congressman Brad not every other Wednesday. We have Senator Ted
Budd once a month. We have Pete Calender on Fridays,
you guys seem to like him. And then on Thursdays
we have Stephen Kent our nerd correspondent most of the time,
but he has a He travels a lot, which has

(00:44):
led us to theorize that he's actually a CIA agent
and he's just using this as some sort of cover
because he sends texts like this, Hello with seven o's
my flight home from Estonia tomorrow has been rescheduled. Oh right,

(01:08):
Estonia is not a real country, it's something you know.
How So back in the day when they used to
make maps, do you guys know about intentional map errors.
I don't know why I find this fascinating. So back
in the day when they used to make maps, you know,
various map makers. That was big business, right, So you're
making these maps, you hope to sell these maps. It

(01:28):
could be navigational. It could be well, they're all navigational,
but you know, depending, it could be industry specific, it
could be whatever it is. It could just be a map.
And then what map makers would do is they put
an air in there, little some that's not going to
trip you up, right, just a little just you know,

(01:50):
at a little air. Maybe one or two people will
notice it, but in reality it's nothing. It could be
like it could just be like a little street that
doesn't go anywhere, doesn't exist, right, or a slight curvature
to something that is more or less straight, just little
things that aren't going to screw people up. The reason
they did it is making maps is expensive. I know,

(02:15):
we just take it for granted that you got one
on your phone, You got two on your phone. Most
people probably have You probably have Google Maps, you probably
have ways on your phone, and who knows what else.
You got a map function in the uber the lift
all of that, but in reality, that's intellectual property. Somebody
had to go and they had to figure all that
stuff out and write it down and and you know,

(02:36):
put it together in map form. And back in the
day it was very competitive, so map makers would insert
slight little errors in there so that if another map
maker published their map and the air was noted, it
became clear that they stole your intellectual property and you
could sue them. That's a thing. Yes, it's my second

(03:00):
favorite little easter egg meant to get somebody after what
Elon must did when somebody was leaking info. If you
guys don't know this story, So somebody and they narrowed
it down to I don't know, like a few hundred employees,
and they didn't know who was leaking to the media,

(03:21):
so they sent a document out they knew would be
immediately leaked to the media, and it was on like
you know, like the all the if somebody sends an
email to everyone in the studio here, it's all Raleigh
or all Greensboro. So they sent it out so that
it looked like it was something that went out to
all the managers. She got, you know, a few hundred

(03:42):
people there and then they just waited and then somebody
leaked it, and Elon immediately knew who it was because
they took the time to make one small change, almost
a notable from a spacing unnoticeable from a spacing perspective,

(04:03):
in each of the documents, So everyone had what was
essentially a coded document, even if they didn't know it.
So when it leaked and he was able to see
the picture, they figure out, okay, the spacing, it's double
space between these two words. Then we know it was
Jim or whoever it was, and that's how he figured
out who was leaking. Yeah, that's pretty Any of you

(04:25):
business managers out there, I don't know if you're ever
going to run into that, but keep that one up
in your gourg. So I think It'sestonia is fake. So
I don't know if I believe Steve. All Right, it's
not fake. It's next to Latvia and that's what I know.
And then it's next to that weird Russian enclave. That's it.

(04:47):
I'm sure Estonia is nice this time of the year anyway,
says my flight home from Estonia tomorrow has been rescheduled,
will now be burning right around showtime. Okay, and then
he wrote and this is part of his cover he says,
and yes, I was a We're here doing special ops
training for Baltic veterans, unrelated to the CIA anything. Never
heard of them, all right, So yeah, you're trying to
do it hard to cover it up. So no Stephen

(05:10):
all that to say, there's no Steven and learn about
map stuff because that's what we do. But yesterday we
got our calendars crossed with the Congressman brad Not. I
reached out after the show and we chatted and he's like, oh, man,
let's well, why don't we do tomorrow? And I'm like,
we can do that because next week is the last

(05:32):
week of shows for the year. I know, I know,
getting fired on the nineteenth. I guess so, and we
do him every other week, so I'm like, we can
do it this week or we do it next week.
He's second, I can't do it next week. So we're
going to chat with Congressman brad Not. But instead of

(05:52):
eight oh five, he had to do seven oh five.
So that'll be coming up then, okay, And as a
former federal prosecutor, I want to talk to him about
the slaughter case, which is not finally putting a bunch
of these horrible people that I keep saying he put
in a wood chipper and handling it. That's just the

(06:14):
last name of a woman who was fired from the
FTC for being a moon bat. And here's the thing,
it's these are presented as she's suing because it's you know,
it's the struggle of one American. But the fact remains
that this is being done intentionally and being funded by
people who want to get Trump for the purpose of

(06:36):
hamstringing Trump basically saying just because he's a president doesn't
mean he can fire political appointees from the previous administration.
That's what this is about. And who knows they you
know they, I mean, they're at the Supreme Court now.
So I suspect this is going to get cooked, cause again,

(06:58):
I haven't seen one logical argument that the president can't
fire people who are in positions of power.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Right.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
These are not just janitors or accountants or you know,
people that just kind of blend into the traditional corporate infrastructure.
These are decision makers in the executive branch or an
executive branch office that falls into the purview of the president,
who's the damn president. It's also dumb, but there's you know,

(07:28):
everything is about buying one more day without Trump being
able to do what he wants. That's political strategy now
just hamstring, hamstring, hamstring. So I want to talk to
him about that because, like as stupid as the whole
case sounds, because it's over this, if somehow they're able
to get a Supreme Court ruling the president can't fire

(07:50):
political appointees from previous administrations. Like, I don't know how
an incoming president, Republican, Democrat or otherwise is able to
functionally do the things they're promising to do because you
have to have by this was the big problem during
Trump's first term. You had all of these these bureaucrats

(08:14):
who were undermining him in every way that possible because
he you know, he's bulling the china shop. He's going
to do things different. And if you got a nice
cushy gig there in DC, uh and you got a
little bit of power there. Because of the complexity and
the size of government and everything, uh, you know, playing
those little games is something that you can do. It's

(08:36):
one of the things, frankly, that I think irritates the
American public the most. Right, just the uh, the idea
that you're somehow entitled to that job and to be
done in the same way that you think all the time.
And that's just not how it works, not when you
get in the upper reshlan. Again, two types of employees.

(08:59):
Their standard employees, that's a different thing. But there's those
who serve at the pleasure of the president, which I
think is abundantly clear. So hopefully since he's a lawyer
and I'm not a lawyer, he can get a lawyery
on that, because it's important. If that ruling goes the
wrong way, I I I even know what that looks like.
I guess maybe whoever I if Vance doesn't win or

(09:20):
whoever the Republican is next time, then they can't fire Patel.
But we'll see, all right. So all that to say,
we got a little different schedule today, all right, coming
up on the show. So you see the latest boat controversy.
This is so dumb, this is so we seized a boat,

(09:44):
but we didn't blow it to smithereens. And now, I mean,
I understand that they're taunting, but Democrats like, well, why
didn't you blow it up? Why did you seize this
boat and not blow that up. But I think once
you know what the boat is, you'll understand just how
stupid all of this is. So, you know, lots to

(10:04):
get into here on our Thursday. We got idiot reporters,
we got idiot lawmakers. People are just I read. I
don't know why I spent so much time on this
this morning, because I really should be reading more important stuff.
But apparently are you all sitting down? Are you seated?

(10:26):
I don't want I don't all right, if you're driving,
put both hands on the wheel. I don't want anything happening.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
All right?

Speaker 1 (10:33):
You ready breaking news? Jack Nicholson was a man whore
back in his day. I know I was shook as well.
Yeah yeah, apparently he liked the ladies, especially when he
was in his prime. Probably still does. Oh yeah, some

(10:54):
reporter wrote a whole, big, scathing thing. Can you believe it?
Jack Nicholson? He was out of a man who Yeah, yeah,
Hollywood star. Have you heard of Leonardo DiCaprio. He's kind
of a big deal, isn't the whole bag on him?
That he if you're under twenty five, Unless you're under
twenty five, he won't date you. Come on, man. So

(11:18):
we got that and we're gonna be canceling a Christmas Carol.
I'm sorry. I don't make the rules. Apparently woke boombets do.
And it's one you've heard of. We'll get into all
that more coming up six eighteen. Hang on here on
the CaCO Day Radio program. There is a hilarious backstory

(11:43):
to this Jasmine Crockett Senate run. You know what, I'm
not surprised, and it'll be funny because people will scream
dirty tricks. But like, this is where we are. This
is where we are right now in politics, where one

(12:04):
of the ways you can try to manipulate things is
to either run a new to the business candidate in
a partisan primary race. Right, you've seen this. We had
this a lot. I will say this. A lot of
people theorize that in one of our state Supreme Court

(12:26):
races not that long ago, a Johnny cum Lately Republican
who jumped in there who really didn't have any history
with it was actually to make sure the Democrat won,
which they did. Right. So these are the kind of
games that get played in the background. You can believe
or not believe or whatever, but it really doesn't matter.

(12:51):
But I think it answers questions as to why Jasband
Crockett is in this Senate race and why because as
we as we realized we were chatting with Ted Budden,
I asked him if he looks forward to serving on
a Senate committee with her just kind of left right,

(13:11):
because it's just so absurd that Jasmine Crocket's brand of
politics thinks they can win in Texas. I even though
she said, oh Mondamie one, but there's a reason she
might believe it. And here is the reason. Uh now
uh and as here's the headline, an AstroTurf recruitment process.

(13:35):
National Republicans propped up Jasmine Crockett to push her into
a Senate run. It makes sense a lot better than
you know, you get some moderate, old school, you know,
a Democrat there in Texas who's got a twang in
a you know, and a family history since the Alamo

(13:56):
kind of stuff, and you know, you gotta gotta spend
a bunch of more money. Jasmine Crockett, she like, she
put an ad calling herself stupid out as her launch ad.
I mean, technically it's Trump doing it. She's just kind
of staring off to the side in this weird profile
but the point is this is who Republicans in Texas
would much prefer to run against. Republican Senate campaign are

(14:19):
Republican Senate Campaign ARM. All right, So this is what
is known as the NRSC. You've heard it, I'm sure,
National Republican Senatorial Committee, right, So this is their pack.
Republican Senate Campaign ARM has actively worked behind the scenes
to encourage Jasmine Crockett to jump into the Senate race,
believing she'll be the easiest opponent. All right, So how

(14:42):
do they do that? Well, what you do is you
you put a bunch of polls out and you include
her in those poles. Right, so even if she's not
thinking of running, now, she's in these polls. And then
when you do the polling, you pull in places heavily
where Jasmine Crockett will look good in said polls. So like,

(15:05):
all right, this is possible Democrats that could run. And
then you go to one of the really woke areas
and Jasmine shows up pretty now and then she sees
these poles and she's like, I should run for Senate.
And of course, with the redistricting in Texas, she kind
of had to figure something out. So there you go.
They put out a poll in July with Crockett's name included,

(15:27):
which showed her as the leading Democrat and a hypothetical matchup.
Interesting behind the scenes stories going on today one this
this crocket thing. I just want to expound a little
on how all all the different stuff they did to
get her in the Senate race, because she actually cited
those polls I told you about. So what you have

(15:48):
is you have you have you know, Republican operatives or
GOP operatives that basically started doing polls, including her in
the polls. And more importantly, it's who you pull in
where you pole. And a lot of these poles were
done in very blue spaces, so that could be a
city or and the one that Crockett actually cited was

(16:10):
done online but was promoted via blue Sky. Well, if
you're doing polling on blue sky one, you're probably the
majority of the people that are going to see something
like that is are our people on the left right,
because that's what blue sky is, and because arguably I

(16:31):
would much harder on the left because blue sky is
just it's crazy if you ever dipped in there for
a minute. So it's it's not unusual that Crockett would
do well, but they have to do more than that,
so they do the polling. And Crockett, by the way,
actually commented during during her announcement, she said, the more
I saw the poll results, I couldn't ignore the trends

(16:53):
that were clear, so which, by the way, had to
have whoever put these poles together just die and laughing
in a room somewhere. And then they also would go
on social media and recruit people to call her office,
her house office, demanding that she run for Senate to

(17:15):
show their support, and apparently that happened. According to staffers,
they received many, many, many calls of people urging her
to join the race that had been going on for
several months. So that's how this happened. There's so many
dirty tricks going on there, but this one was entirely predictable.

(17:35):
Once you once you saw the fervor in which you
jumped into this thing, you had to figure someone was
either lying to her or which they are kind of
I guess. I mean that lying in the sense that
the people who were polled said that. But you know,
how you sample where you sample matters, as we pointed

(17:56):
out on this show, because the news loves to do that.
Be like, we polled six hundred likely voters in Washington,
DC to see what they think of Donald Trump's putting
the National Guard in here. Well, DC's ninety two percent blue,
so they're not fans of Trump. I'm not surprised that
you found a certain percentage so you could write your

(18:19):
story in a ninety two percent blue district, man, And
even then you barely got above fifty percent. They what
NBC did that poll? One of the networks did that.
It's the fact that it's not ninety two and it's fifty,
considering the makeup of the district, that should have told
you that you were not onto something. You were onto

(18:40):
something else. A bunch of people probably don't like Trump,
who like being able to walk around at night not
get mugged. That's what that poll indicated. But that's no fun.
So yeah, they did. They did a bunch of stuff,
and now they're not going to stop. They're gonna sit
here during the uh, during the i'mary now and try

(19:01):
to guide her along. Oh yeah, you know, you set
up some set up some independent expenditure, right, one of
these namely I mean they have a name, but faceless
packs Americans for Crockettness or you know, whatever it is,
whatever it is, when in reality it's just Republican money.

(19:25):
Run those ads, get Crockett through the primary. Your work's done.
Then just go on to the general and watch her
in John Cornyan debate and see how that goes. So yeah, yeah,
we got a very interesting little path to her candidacy there,
which they're taking credit for. You can believe it or not.

(19:47):
There is anonymous sourcing in this article, but I've heard
of this stuff. This stuff happens, so I'm not surprised.
Now there is a race I do want to talk
about from a primary standpoint, because this is very interesting,
and that is Phil Berger's race. All right, let's head
over to Rockingham County where he has a primary challenger,

(20:11):
and that is Sheriff Sam Page, who we've had on
this show many, many, many times. I've known Sam for years.
I've known Phil for years. I only ever talked to
Phil on a couple occasions. Sam Sam Paige, as part
of his sheriffing, was an annual participant in our radio
Row Up in d C which was hosted by the

(20:34):
Fair People, which is the Immigration Reformed People, and Sam
was they would bring in sheriffs from around the country.
We had sheriffs from like southern Arizona to talk about
immigration all over the place. And Sam Paige was one
of those sheriffs who'd come up and we spoke with
I think I had him on every year we did
that radio row because Rockingham County, being a rural county,

(20:56):
is exemplary of what a lot of rural counties are
dealing with. You have a lot of agricultural work, you
have or had in the case of Eden u significant
factory work with the brewery and everything that is no more,
and so small counties. I know that we in the
news you see you know, Operation Charlotte Webb where they're

(21:17):
running around Mecklenburg or Wake County or any of the rest.
But in reality, when you get into the very rural,
agricultural counties, it's it's this is a huge issue for
them as well. And then you couple it also with
when when you're in an economically challenged a place where
industry is leaving like Eden has suffered, you're also battling narcotics,

(21:40):
which we've talked to Sam about, right. People they don't
have they're not able to find work there are issues
when then you import other workers that are now competing
in places where there's less unemployment. Thank you know, Eden's
done some stuff to turn that around. I'm not trashing,
it's just the reality of it, okay. And so then

(22:01):
he couple you know, you couple the illegal immigration, then
the drug angle and all of that, and uh you know,
uh Page has been able to speak to that, I
think quite effectively. So the fact that he's challenging Burger
is very interesting. And apparently there's a little behind the
scenes going on, all right, So one Trump has now

(22:25):
endorsed Burger, Right, so I'm assuming somebody from I don't know,
Americans Prosperity or one of these others who really has
the president's here when it comes to cant you guys
have no idea how much control and flex a couple
of these organizations have. It's the same on the Democrat side.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
And and you know Trump trusts them to tell him
who to endorse. And I don't have anything saying that
that's that's who did. I'm just giving you an example
of organizations that I know, uh, Trump takes meetings with.
And so when it comes to this, I don't know
that Trump is fully invested in everything going on in
North Carolina other than the bigger picture. And so I'm
sure somebody told him if we, you know, we got

(23:09):
to hold our majority and or super majority, and Senate
Berger is the leader in the Senate, and it will
upend the apple cart. And and so Trump probably put
that out, which is actually interesting because and I'll have
to ask Sheriff Page this. I believe I think Page
has met with Trump. I'm almost positive that he has

(23:33):
met with Trump because I was with Sam Page and
then Congressman Mark Walker, and when we were up at
the DC thing and we were at the there's a
there's like a club that it's a Republican club, and

(23:54):
we were over there. That's when I saw Jim Jordan
speed walking everywhere. And I believe Page told me he
was lean from there with some other sheriffs to go
to the White House. This was during the first Trump term.
So it's to what extent those two men have spoke.
I don't know. You know, Sheriff Page, if you're listening
or one of your people are, because I know your

(24:15):
people listen and you want to call the show, please
do that eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seven four. I thought I had his number in my
phone and I don't because I was going to text
him last night. But yeah, you want to call the show.
I'm very curious. So that's one side of the other side.

(24:35):
And this is what I find much more. How do
you say this soap opera? E is this top gop
legislator tried to convince candidate not to run against NC
Senate leader? All right, this is where it gets juicy.
On the eve of election filing season in North Carolina,
Republican state Senate Majority Whip did something she's never done before.

(24:58):
She drove to a candidate's house to discourage him from running.
Amy Gaily traveled from Alamance County District. Is a Gallier Gaily.
It's one of the two. And I'm sorry if I'm
mispronouncing it, and I just want to By the way,
this is how Ril's positioning this. There's nothing there's nothing
illegal or anything that this is right. She's free to

(25:23):
go talk to somebody, clearly distrategize. You can decide whether
you think it's appropriate or not. But Ril writes this
like she did something illegal, and that's not the case,
all right, So she traveled from Alaman's County Alamance County
District to the edenhome of Sheriff Page, a fellow Republican
who vowed months ago to challenge Phil in the primary

(25:43):
for the Senate. See. Burgers represented the area for twenty
five years, and the Senate leader has led Republican measures
to cut taxes, slash regulations, and rewrite state policies. Still
does not have constitutional carry. So maybe you know that'd
be a good thing. Maybe you could promise people in
the primer if you want to keep your seat. But

(26:05):
Page's position is the Burger has lost touch. Basically, the
argument is, as Senate majority leader, he really doesn't give
a flip about Rockingham County because he's a big picture guy.
Is not how Page has described it, but supporters at
Page have described it to me. So, I mean there's that,

(26:25):
but there's also the other side. When your Senate Majority
leader and something you guys need something in your district,
it's really easy to get it into a bill. So
she got away all these things. Now. Page does not
believe that Rep. Galley coming to his home was appropriate.
He said that the visit was well inappropriate and shows

(26:47):
that the Senate leaders are quote, nervous about him beating Burger.
Page did not receive gaily. He said he was not
home at the time. She and her husband actually went
up I don't know, for tea or something. I don't
know why. They said they were there, but they never
got to talk to Page because he wasn't there. That
would have been November thirtieth, with the day before. But

(27:07):
when she was unable to get Page to answer his door,
she wrote a two page letter with a plea quote,
I am here to beg you to please not file
because of the money that Phil will spend, there will
not be enough money left over to keep the super majority.
Which I don't buy that for a minute. You're telling
me that if Phil Berger actually has to spend on

(27:29):
a campaign that there won't be the ability to spend
on other campaigns. We know how much cash you have
on hand. Okay, so that's that seems a little weak.
But there is the upset the apple cart, right that's
you know, and that's that's a pretty convincing thing. You've
got somebody who's the most powerful. Arguably Phil Berger and

(27:54):
Destin Hall as House speaker are are more powerful than
the governor. Right now, it's true. It's true. And I've
had conversations with people that are, you know, in the
upper echelons of politics in North Carolina, and that's that's
kind of how they view it is, is what I've

(28:16):
been told, right almost the governor's rate. A lot of
people are like, well, you know, why why did Republicans
not seem to lean into the governor's race. Well, there was,
of course the CNN stories, but also you have a
super majority who cares who's governor. Do whatever you want,
and then when they veto it and have their little
footstomp press conference, then you just pass it. Anyway. There's

(28:37):
a lot of truth to that. So, uh, this this
could get ugly, but it doesn't look like pages going anywhere.
So there's that. All right, I'm gonna dig I gotta
I swear I had his his cell number. I'm gonna
try to find it. I'm gonna go ahead and try

(28:57):
to find that. I want to I really want to
talk to Paige. And if I talk, and since I'm
gonna talk to Paige, I will send an email to
Burger's people. I suspect they, well they might come on.
I don't know now they're in this thing, but Uh, this, this,
this could get very interesting, very very interesting. Let's see here,
Republicans old of vetoproof majority in the Senate, which helps

(29:19):
the GOP control blah blah blah blah blah. Gaily said
in the letter that Page's GOP primary challenge will drain
resources from Burger and his supporters. Well, look, if Page
truly believes that Burger and and you know, Page, being
the sheriff of that county, probably has some pretty unique
insight on some specific things. And this is what I

(29:41):
would ask him specifically, where do you think Burger has
neglected his local district? And I and he should be
ready to answer that, because that that's the logical question.
Gaily went on to say, I just really feel strongly
that Sheriff Page has made a really big mistake that
is going to a lot of harm to causes I

(30:01):
care about. This is her responding to Ral's question quote.
I didn't feel like I could live with myself until
I knew that I'd done what I could to try
to talk some sense into him. But this is where
we are. Let's see here. Gaily's letter says a competitive
Burger Page primary would affect incumbent Republican senators in the

(30:25):
districts that are becoming more democratic, which counties vance Franklin
and Nash. Who would that be Barnes? I guess Senator
Barnes and Lee who Michael Lee represents New hanover Cato.
Really I thought he won pretty handily, but we will

(30:46):
see in twenty twenty four. We spent ten million in
Phil raised most of it, all right, So that's the
other side of it. Phil Berger's ability to go out
and fundraise. Now we're cooking with gas, okay. Gaily said
she didn't tell Berger about her plan to visit Page
or her letters. So Ril Asperger's campaign about the statements,

(31:07):
and in a statement provided by Dylan Watts, he's the
Senate Caucus director, he did not echo Gaily's concern. Well,
of course, whether it's coordinated or not, this is the
way you got to play it. Where's this is what
I was looking for, all right, So here is the

(31:28):
way that they're pitching this. Senator Burger will win his
primary because the overwhelming support has received from his district
and conservatives across the state who know how fiercely he
fights for the hard working people of Rockingham and Gilfret's ready.
The district does go into Gilphert as well on March fourth.
Phil Berger will do what he's always done, helped Conservatives
win as many elections as possible. Sam Paige will then

(31:51):
try to explain why he wasted everyone's time and money.
I mean, Sam Page isn't just some guy and you
know off there. He's an elected official for two plus
decades in that district. So I don't know that i'd
slough it off that aggressively, but something to watch, even
if you're not in the Z triad or in this case,

(32:12):
north of the triad, as it could be very impactful.
All right, we'll try to talk to both those cats,
but for now we're gonna go and take a break.
Be right back Cacoday Radio program, and we are just
tiktoking our way down to Christmas vacate. So today, tomorrow,
next week, and then after the nineteenth. We've clearly been fired,

(32:34):
so you should comment accordingly. But I hear we'll be
rehired on January fifth. So that's our schedule. But I'm
curious what Congress's schedule is. So let's talk to a
member of Congress. Brad Not joins us Good morning, Congressman.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
How you doing, fazy, good morning after doing well?

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, well you know how my calendar is. You just
heard it. So I just just counting down the days,
count down the days. But right, you guys, are you
guys supposed to be doing stuff? So you guys doing
stuff or you just.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Know we we we are the the House is in
full session. We're gonna be going all this week and
then all next week, and then we'll take a little
bit of a break for Christmas. But even though we've
only got a one or two seat majority as it
currently stands, we're we're still trying to get things over
to the Senate. We're in full and full gear.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Yeah. We talked to Senator bud yesterday says they're getting
some confirmations done and there's quite a backlog there, so uh,
hopefully we see it moving forward. I am curious, though,
to talk about one of the other branches of government.
I I'm not saying I want I'm not saying I
did beat my head against a wall, but I clearly
wanted to. Listening to the lawyer for the former FTC

(33:49):
Lady Slaughter that Supreme Court case about whether Trump can
fire people or not, which is just crazy to means
the president she serves in that branch. But it was
two things. One Gorstich was asking the lawyer for the
plane of if the president has an obligation to faithfully
enforce the laws, and the guy wouldn't even answer in

(34:10):
the infirmative the affirmative. And then our newest Supreme Court
justice basically said that we would be better led by
experts rather than somebody who is elected having that much power.
So what's your take on the case and are you
willing to yield your slice of power to quote unquote
experts to run things.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
Well, there's a lot to unpack here. Casey, with that
particular case number one, it's representative of a very real
priority for the Democratic Party. That priority is, of course,
the unelected bureaucratic class. They have perhaps as much power
as any branch, if not more power than any branch

(34:52):
of government. They are the engineers and the execution prey
behind the COVID nineteen policy. They're the folks that determine
how high your house can be, how long it takes
for a building to be built. They're the ones that
go on to the farms and say, use this type
of fertilizer, not that type of fertilizer. Oh, and you

(35:13):
are disturbing a stream, so we need to stop. These
are very real and powerful people that no one really
knows who they are and what they do in terms
of the average citizen. And President Trump has very aptly
identified this as a problem. He has gone aggressively this

(35:33):
term to reduce the size and the power of the
federal administrative workforce, the bureaucratic class. And secondly, this case
shows that the Democrat strategy has been to challenge him
on every front. They don't like something, they sue him.
And this case they were they were probably they we
had They're not done. They knew they were going to

(35:55):
lose it, but they tried to slow him down. They
tried to thwart everything they can. And then lastly, I'll
say this the the the judge that you mentioned, Judge Jackson. Yes,
she she has shown herself not only to be an
inn that jurist, but someone who is just overtly parison.
It's very troubling.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (36:15):
But she is a quintessential rubber stamp, not from a
constitutional standpoint, but a partisan standpoint. And you know, Lord
help us if we get three more judges in her
mold on the Supreme Court. Uh.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
What I was asking is, you know there there is
this Uh you have people openly saying, some of your
colleagues openly saying that if Democrats get back in, uh,
they got to stack the court, which, of course then
I think Republicans have stacked it next time they're in.
To talk about this just a little as from a
lawyer's perspective, Uh, in a federal prosecutor, like the pandemonium

(36:51):
would be. I I I can't even imagine how crazy
that we could Eventually we could have We could have
a Supreme Court the size of Congress if if they
get after.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
It, well that that is that is very high on
their list. And you know, the President has has done
very well and and nominating and pushing through traditional conservative judges.
And we have a majority right now, but you know
many of our of our judges are older. They're going

(37:21):
to cycle off probably this term or next term. So
the Democrats are going to have their chance to nominate judges.
Joe Biden pushed through a lot more judges than President
Trump did in his first term. The constitutional system is working,
but what the Democrats want is to radically transform the
United States government. If you remember, they showed their hand

(37:43):
when Joe Biden took power. They had unified government, They
had the House, the Senate, in the White House, and
they wanted to get rid of the filibuster so that
they could do the following. They wanted to pack the
Supreme Court, they wanted to add two states, which would
give them four new Senate seats. They want to have
mass amnesty, and they wanted to of course open the border.

(38:04):
So we would have had a complete transformation overnight had
Joe Manson and Christian Cinema not held firm and said
we're not going to do this, We're not going to
give up the filibuster, and the country would be a
very different place. We probably would never get it back.
It would be a broader, a broader example of what

(38:26):
we see in California, just constant Democrat control, supermajority numbers
and a far left rubber stamp. And that's that's ultimately
the goal of the Democratic Party is after people.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Don't realize how weird the election system in California is.
I only know this because I went to school down there.
They have this thing called a jungle primary, so that
like so yeah, so it's like an extra screw you
to the possibility of somebody in the GOP actually winning
one of the big rights there. It's it's just a mess.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
It is, it really is, and you know it's it's
it's leading the country and everything and every category that's bad,
from homelessness to poverty, to drug overdoses to violent crime.
They've got people who are leaving that state and drove,
and yet they still have Democrats supermajorities. That's the danger
of these policies that we're talking about.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
All right, I want to I want to go over
to the narco boats for a moment. I'm gonna play
a piece of audio from Senator Jack Reid. First. I
don't know if you've heard this, just so we're clear
on who's in these narco boats. Yeah, you know, one
of the fact is that drives us in the United
States and is demand, and most naco traffickers are are

(39:42):
not in those boats.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
They pay people to do that, and usually people who
are not significantly involved with naco trading.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
It's it's the way they make money. So so just
to be clear, Congressman, if you're in a boat trafficking narcotics,
you are not a narco trafficker if you're getting paid. Uh.
And the other side of that is so yesterday we
seized an oil tanker uh, and I saw Democrats go, oh,
we're not going to blow this one up. Clearly we

(40:11):
don't need another Exxon Valds. So let's let's have some
thoughts here. But I'm I'm curious if what your comfort
level is with all of this? Is this a manufactured crisis?
Are you fine? Have you seen the double tap video
as they're calling it? Where is your head at on this?
Should uh? You know, hearings actually start and you you
have to take part in that.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
Well, Okaseie. It's worth nothing that the double tap controversy
has very quickly been put to rest. I have not
seen the classified video. Many senators have and some on
the Armed Services Committee in the House have seen that.
And there has been very little doubt that that the uh,
that the that the the strike was appropriate. And essentially
the members who were who were on that boat were

(40:53):
thrown off of the boat. They get back on the
boat and they try to protect the contraband and then
flee on the boat to continue their mission. And in
terms of my comfort level, with this, the intelligence is
very is very sound. Of course, there needs to be
very precise action taken. But pulling back a little bit further,

(41:15):
Americans lose sight of just how severe our drug traffcking
problem is. You know, there have been more Americans who
have lost their life to drug overdoses in the last
twenty five years than in the entire nation's military conflict history,
the two hundred and fifty years of military conflict casualties.

(41:36):
There's about twenty percent fewer deaths in that bucket than
in drug overdoses in the last twenty five years. And
the scale of this problem, it's hard to put it
into into just just a round number.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
It is.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
It's unbelievably costly, it's unbelievably damaging, whether it's you know,
the effect on lower income housing, whether it's the effect
on neighborhoods, whether it's the effect on countless families across
the country. This is a state sponsored attack on the
United States and going right to the source to eliminate

(42:10):
part of the supply, just to send the message, do
not engage in this activity and bring that poison, bring
those weapons into the United States. So as long as
we're not you know, blowing up every boat without cause,
which is not what we're doing, and we are attacking
the narco terrorists. I think there's a there's a very
sound case to be made here. And just for scale,

(42:32):
I know that you know this, but to remind your listeners,
there have been maybe a you know, a dozen and
a half, two dozen, three dozen of these boats who
have been hit by the United States. When Barack Obama
was president, there were hundreds of drone strikes that killed
everyone from uh, you know, civilians to enemy combatants. Even
an American citizen was killed in the Middle East. And

(42:55):
again it is done. The resistance here is just like
that Supreme Court case. President Trump is doing it. They're
throwing stand at the wall to see what sticks. And
this is just one of the darts of the day.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
Where where does this go? Because it doesn't you know,
they told Maduro to leave and it's uncorroborated. But apparently
he said only if you put my vice president in,
which clearly that's going to be a non starter. So Trump,
being somebody who loves to talk about how he hates warning,
he never wants to go to war and he won't
do the war if is that an effective deterrent. If

(43:30):
he's bragging, then he won't go to war, and then
telling Maduro do this or else. But where are we
going with this? In your understanding, there's.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
There's a lot of Well, first and foremost, I have
not been briefed at the level of the White House.
Obviously I'm not the Armed Services, I'm on the Foreign
Fairs Committee.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
But I will say it's that it's very openly accepted
in Washington that there are very real and dangerous undercurrents
in Venezuela. You know, you look at who there. Who
are they? Their main partners Russia, China, Iran, in Cuba,
and they those states, particularly China and Russia, have a

(44:10):
very real interest in propping up the Maduro regime so
that they can have a launch point for whatever actions
they want to take against the United States, whether it
be militarily one day, god forbid, or fiber attacks, espionage.
They want to preclude us from having a sound Western hemisphere,

(44:30):
you know, a Western hemisphere that is basically in the
North American model. They do not want democrats, democratic reforms
to take place in Venezuela. They do not want a
free market in Venezuela. They want to control the market
in Venezuela. They're trying to do it in Brazil, and
losing South America would be a very real problem for US.

(44:51):
And then secondly, we know that there is very nefarious
activity that goes on in Venezuela with drug traffickers, with
the Chinese fentanyl trade, with these sort of black market
attacks on the United States. So do you think you
take all of that into account? I think the President
right now is putting very real pressure to force Maduro

(45:11):
out and hopefully secure a more middle of the road
pro United States group of people in in in the
government in Venezuela. I mean people forget there was a
duly elected representative that was supposed to take power in Venezuela.
She won the Nobel Peace Prize. She has a bounty
out in her head right now, so I think she's

(45:32):
in Norway. So there there there are alternatives here, and
the President is trying to put pressure on a very
real uh issue for the United States.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
The uh one. Let me flip over the last thing here,
just because we're taking your temperature on this. We had UH. Well,
if if you watch the local news channels in Raleigh,
like ral Cover it essentially the just the GESTAPA moved
through and grabbed all the brown people. In reality, it
was Charlotte's Web down to Charlotte, Wake County felt that
there was stuff in several other places. I'm sure your

(46:05):
office heard about it. What do you think of the
job that ICE did when they came in and uh
uh conducted those operations? Do you are you are you
comfortable with everything there?

Speaker 2 (46:17):
Well, you know, I repeat the earlier statistic here that
there is a tremendous, tremendous problem in the United States
because of illegal immigration. Again, millions of Americans have died.
Millions of Americans have died because of this, whether it's
through addiction, whether it's through overdoses, whether it's through violence,

(46:38):
whatever it may be. We need to get a hand
on this. And secondly, the administration has offered to pay
people here illegally to lead thousands of dollars, So the
idea that this is some sort of radical uh you know,
roundup is absurd. And then lastly, the folks who that
that that ICE are targeting, I'm large are people involved

(47:02):
in criminal activity. And you know, I really get frustrated
with this idea that there is never going to be
an unfortunate bycatch someone who gets swooped up accidentally or
who's not involved in crime. Of course there will be
no one wants that. But they should not be here illegally.
So what's more troublesome to me is when people say, oh, well,
you got someone on a construction site not a criminal. Well, casey.

(47:26):
I prosecuted people who had two lives. They were here illegally.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
They fourteen seconds. I just let you know.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
I'll just say I prosecuted construction workers. I could prosecute janitors.
I prosecuted farm workers. They look legal. They sell drugs
at night. This is a very focused effort. It needs
to happen.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
All right, Congressman, appreciate it very much. We'll talk soon
after the new year, and we'll be right back. It
is the Cacoday Radio program now with a fully reset
call screener or a phone system. I should say, all right, So, unfortunately,
and I hate to be the bearer of bad news,
we got some cancelations this morning. Yeah, and their holiday

(48:05):
related cancelations this morning. Let's see, let's start with let's
start with the song shall we Apparently a Christmas classic
is well cancel and it's one you've heard of. You
ever hear of jingle bells? Yeah? Apparently that's problematic. Now

(48:32):
now I think they mean the original version and not
the Batman version, which I don't know what it is.
For what. I can't remember people's names when I meet
them sometimes, but I will always remember the Batman version
of jingle Bells. And that's just it's one of those
core kid memories. You know. Do you guys know the
Batman version? Oh? Yeah, Jay, do you know the Batman

(48:55):
version of jingle Bells? I can't say that I do.
Oh okay, all right, you're about what You're born a
decade younger than me, So it's jingle bells Batman smells
Oh yeah, yeah, I know that wrong. Okay. See see yeah,
this is what I said. Jingle bells Batman smells Robin
laden Egg. Now you can go in two different directions here.

(49:16):
I think it was it's based on where you were raised.
But jingle bells, Batman smells Robin laden Egg. What was it?
The Batmobile lost a wheel, the joker got away, if
I'm remembering correctly. But no, apparently we're canceling the original version.

(49:37):
I don't make the rules apparently Joy Read makes the Rules,
who posted a video yesterday saying that jingle Bells was
written to quote make fun of black people. I have
never heard this, and I think the Read I believe
her reasoning is because the person who was the author

(49:59):
of jingle bell was a soldier in the Confederacy. But
I don't know that he wrote it for that reason,
and he didn't write it when he was a soldier.
H James Lloyd Pierrepont, by the way, is who is
believed to apend the song in eighteen fifty. Let's see.

(50:24):
I'm trying to I'm trying to figure out what the
why why she thinks that other than just who it is, right,
nobody denies that there's well one they're not one hundred
percent sure he's who wrote it, but that's who they
believe wrote it. But more importantly he he well, he
was a soldier in in in the Confederacy. He also

(50:50):
was a songwriter. He wrote other songs and like when
he wasn't a soldier like this one. So I I
don't know, but let's see here And by the way,
it wasn't called jingle Bells when he wrote it was
called the One Horse open sleigh was actually the name
of the song. All right, So, according to read the lyrics,

(51:15):
laughing all the way is quote likely a reference to
ah okay, so to racist comedic routine. I'm assuming they're
referring to minstrel shows. Yes she is. That's a leap there,
because I tried to look this up and I even
went to Wikipedia, where you know, you're tending to get

(51:36):
a little more biased, and they don't agree with that.
So I don't know where she's getting her info there.
But we got to cancel it. But don't worry, we're
also gonna have to cancel the whole holiday. Yeah, unfortunately,
unfortunately you'd have to cancel it. But but and this
is very important, you have to change things, so it'll

(52:01):
be a half canceling. Yeah. So I saw this buzzing
around social media, and you know, it's your typical it's
a lot of TikTok influencers who basically just find like
these are the people who were mad because Pantones Color
of the Year was one of the three hundred shades
of white, which no guy recognizes. There's three hundred shades,

(52:22):
even though you go with your girl to the paint
thing and They're like, which are the you know, which
are the three hundred shades of white do you want?
Then you have to look at the stupid little strips
and you're like, that's all those all look white. They
got mad at that because they picked a version of white.
Like again, it's these are first world problems. But now
there is this trend called decolonized Christmas. So what is

(52:45):
decolonized Christmas? You're gonna the halfway through this, you're gonna
be screaming something of your radio, and I will say
it because it is the most logical responses, but I'm
gonna save it for the end. All right, So how
do you have a decolonized Christmas? So instead of traditional
Christmasy food, you know, figgie, pudding, ham, all that good stuff. Instead,

(53:07):
you are only allowed to prepare native and indigenous recipes.
I'm not making this up. There's various recipes that are
then shared among those who are celebrating a decolonized Christmas,
and they do not allow you can't cook with anything

(53:28):
that wasn't here at the time that America that you know,
Europeans arrived in the Americas. So no wheat, barley or rye,
none of that is native to the American so it's
masa primarily corn, you know, corn stuff and culinary ash, lime,
things like that. Basically, she said that she wanted to
decolonize Christmas, which let's see here, yeah, only allows for

(53:54):
Navajo corn products in her in hers in her case, however,
she says, depending on where you live in the United States,
you may look to local native recipes, also doing away
with you know, the you can give gifts, but the
gifts have to be made by Native Americans, like the
whole here's the thing, and this is I know, this

(54:16):
is what you're screaming at your radio. Do you know
what didn't exist in America prior to Europeans arriving here.
You guys know, in the America's Christmas that wasn't a thing.
That was not a thing they had not heard of.
That that's why, and I mentioned this yesterday on the show.

(54:38):
That's why if you ever been to California, as you
go up the coast, any of the larger cities and
a lot of the smaller ones, they have those missions, right.
That was that was a large scale rollout of missionary work.
A reference Father h Nipprosera. He was kind of the
guy who put all that together, and that was to
share the Christian faith, of course, which would then include

(55:01):
Christmas two natives who had never heard of it. So
I don't even understand what you're doing. People. Christmas wasn't
a thing, So you can't decolonize something that was always
colonized because it was the colonizers, to use your favorite word,
that did the Christmas. I'm just I sit here, said, like,

(55:24):
did anyone bring this up to these idiots that are
doing these videos? I'm sure they're getting a lot of clicks.
Uh yeah, how about all right? How about here? Let
me help you, ma'am. Also, no indoor plumbing for Christmas. Yep,
you're gonna have to go to go out in the
woods find a little spot well private time. Hey, those

(55:47):
that was not here, no electricity for you? Yeah, sorry,
no phone? What you're filming on right here? I don't
know how you're decolonize using this smartphone. They didn't have smartphones.
I'm pretty sure. Hold on, let me look it up. Nope, no,
Native Americans do not have iPhones at the time the
Europeans arrived. I checked, I just checked. They did not.

(56:07):
So uh so so tiring, all right? Seven forty three
here on the CaCO Day radio program. Uh we got
race aging. Do you write a rock and roll Let's
talk to mister there.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
What's up, dude? You man way up.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
To I don't know my my phone system tried to
kill me earlier. But other than that, you know, trucking right.

Speaker 4 (56:31):
Along, Thank goodness, got issues this week.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
Huh No, it was like, it's just it did that
thing where it it like reset, and when it did it,
it did that audio pop where I had my headphones
on and I think I'm death now. So yeah, and
I was only interviewing a member of Congress when it happened.
That's all big, yeah, right, that's all. Yeah. So maybe
it was the other side wanting to uh impede what
he had to say. Conspiracy rolling, Yeah, probably.

Speaker 4 (56:57):
So how about a day yesterday where where actually above
normal fifty seven ti AD fifty seven Raleigh. It wasn't terrible.
And this morning temperature is actually up a couple degrees
from twenty four hours ago, upper thirties to give it
some low forties in most spots. But we're not gonna
go much further. And that's the problems being offset now

(57:19):
with the sunshine it's going to be out with a
few clouds by some cold invection, meaning we're gonna bring
in on the northwest breeze, so colder, rare, So maybe
mid forties to upper forties today, so certainly not back
into the fifties tonight in the twenties. Tomorrow mid upper
forties again with a little cloud early. However the triad
west there might be some flurries or snow showers around,

(57:40):
but no accumulation. You got to get above thirty five
hundred feet and into the mountains as you get out
near Yancey and Avery Counties to get that, so don't
have to worry about any snow again. And then we'll
start the weekend mild, low to mid fifties, and then
Saturday night to Sunday with the next cold front coming in,
maybe a touch of rain, could be a little wet
snow in spots, especially the further west you go. And

(58:00):
again I would shoot more for the mountains and maybe
the try it than anywhere else. And then we'll see
this next dump of colder air come in, leaving us
in the mid forties on Sunday. But then Sunday night
at the Monday the coldest of it in the teens
Monday morning, and then sunshine and not even out of
the mid number thirties on Monday. So okay, I would
say for the next few days it's Sunday night to

(58:21):
Monday would start turning sharply colder again, but that's not
gonna last long. If they go out, milder weather come
in most of next week, especially toward the end of
the week, I think tempertures may actually get above normal
for a change.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
Okay, all right, well done, and stop using big words
and nobody knows what they mean. Well once in.

Speaker 4 (58:39):
A while, I got a clash that five and a
half year degree.

Speaker 1 (58:41):
You know, I know, I know. All right, get out
of here. We'll talking to now, thank you or ay
stage a tear from the weather channel. Uh, Derek, hang on,
I'm gonna come to your call first thing in the
next segment. Oh look at that little a little whoopsie.
Oh it's Ohio. Although I do have a Florida man
story too, I thought i'd get a two. Oh don't
you hate it when this happens with your meth. I'll

(59:03):
tell you what it is coming up cac O Day
Radio program and we'll start with the phone call. Derek's
been hanging on. Derek, good morning to you. What's up? Hello, Derek,
Good morning morning sir.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
Hey, Casey, Hey, it's actually Doug. She got it from.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
Oh no, that's all right. Well we'll call you whatever
we want, sir, it's my show, all right, Go ahead, Doug.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
Hey, I just wanted to I wanted to call in
about heard your commenting about Sheriff Page running against Philburger
this morning.

Speaker 4 (59:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
Apparently some of the other GOP members are not happy about.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
It, so.

Speaker 3 (59:39):
Yeah, they It's funny how you got the majority with
Amy Scott Gaily from Alamance County coming across county lines
and coming to the sheriff's house in the darken night,
bringing the three page document and telling him, trying to
guilt him into getting out of the race the night

(59:59):
before for filing. They've spent approximately two million dollars on
hate ads and nasty ads against the sheriff. This is
a twenty seven year rowman who served Rockenham County and
has got proving conservative values. Yeah, this man's care deeply

(01:00:19):
right now Europe.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Yeah, I know the sheriff we've had in mind. I'm
not picking a horse in this race because I don't
do endorsements, But yes, sir, you know what I know
of Page is he is very passionate about the community.
Uh yeah, twenty plus years a sheriff there, So she's
not it's not he's never held an elected office. But
people are gonna have to weigh that against perceived power

(01:00:41):
that they get from Burger being you know, head of
the Senate and probably the two people actually running the
state of North Carolina. So it's going to be interesting, Yes, sir.

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
It's something though. This man's been in an office for
twenty four years and everybody boasts that he's the most
powerful man in the state, but yet Rockingham County is
still a Tier one in Poverish County. This man has
been in the office too long, and the people in Rockenham, Canton,
Gilfert County are speaking up. You can see it on
the social media post. Even after what happened last night

(01:01:14):
with the Trump post, people are saying, more than ever
they're going to vote for Sam Page. Mister Burger's been
in power a little bit too long, and he's he
don't even live in Rockenham County anymore. He lives in
Raleigh at a high rise condo.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
There's tax records to prove that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
Well, let me see, let me say, let me ask
you this question because you say, and I am not unfamiliar.
Clearly you know our towers based out of Eating for
ninety four to five, So it is uh with her.
It is technically the community that we serve as far
as licensing goes, and then the greater Triad area. But
and I have followed what has happened up there and
eating with the closing of the brewery and several other

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things that have been very hard up there. My question
is what do you think a republic, whether it's Page
or Burger, can do to turn that around, short of
basically the government coming in and spending a crap ton
of money, which really isn't a very conservative thing. So
what would you say that that Page could do or
Burger could do to stem the flow there?

Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
Reaching out to industries and businesses to try to bring
businesses to Rockingham County instead of trying to bring a
casino to Rockingham County that got pushed back from eight
hundred and forty people, but trying to trying to navigate
through the waters and getting to industries and industry leaders.

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Rockenham County has a lot to offer. We have ninety
two thy five hundred residents. We've got people that are
willing to work. We've lost, like you said, Unified recently,
two hundred and fifty six jobs. There was another company
up in Stokes or Stonebull that lost eighty five jobs,
went across the Virginia line. But they seemed to mister

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Burd seems to be focusing on dark money things like
casinos and all the time he's getting money in his
campaign account that's not working for the people, that's working
for his pocket.

Speaker 1 (01:03:11):
Well, and I would point this out too, which I'm
sure you're aware because you live there. Of Course, there's
proximity to the Triad, you know, so there's airport products
and all the things that companies look for. And of
course you got it ever improving highway headed up in
that direction, so you know, we also take those are
things though just play devil's advocate, right, So you're putting

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through a lot of that money that was allocated for
some of the new road construction of the Triad was
you know, had to be in Senate bills, so that happened.

Speaker 3 (01:03:44):
We also have a new Workforce Development Center. That's the
taxpayers paid for and voted for a quarter cent sales
tax to build a workforce development center to build up
students to be able to get jobs in the community.
We have good programs, and I used to be a
school board member, we used to have We have good
programs that get students involved and engage and place them

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in jobs. Working on that from a school level to
start helping build a future from a high school level,
going into college, investing in the community.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
And one of the stories we talked about earlier in
the show, it's actually a couple of stories, but it
speaks to something that's probably gonna be a story for
a while, is a primary challenge for the state Senate
leader in Rockingham and Almets counties there and it is
none other than longtime elected official Sheriff Sam Page, who

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we've spoken to on the show several times over a
variety of issues. And he just got back to me.
So let's chat with Sheriff Page about all this. How
you doing this morning, Sheriff doing great?

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
Doing great?

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
All right, there's two things with this race. It's not
like this was a surprise. I remember you announcing you
were going to file, you're going to run, and now
you filed and you're running.

Speaker 5 (01:05:03):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
Yeah that that that that that shouldn't surprise anybody. What
is a little surprising her? Two things though, One that
a current state senator change your home to try to
convince you not to do that. Tell me about that.

Speaker 5 (01:05:19):
Well, the night Sunday night, last Sunday night, a week
before my filing on Monday, I got I had Sindra
Amy Gaily came on my house and dropped off the
letter invice. It was the letter was trying to persuade
me not to file and run for Senate against the word.

Speaker 1 (01:05:37):
Okay, do you have a relationship with her? I'm assuming
you guys had spoke before.

Speaker 5 (01:05:42):
I know Sindra Gaily, but not really. She represents Almans County.

Speaker 1 (01:05:46):
Okay, yeah, so is she the only one who's reached
out to you? I mean, what has this been like,
because clearly the target you're going after is arguably the
one of two most powerful people in the state.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
Well, you know, yes, you know.

Speaker 5 (01:06:04):
Center Berger has been an office for twenty four years.
He has, and I keep hearing the people telling me
about me as a dollars brought to Rockenham Countyo that
past twenty four years. But at the end of the day,
we're still a Tier one county. And so you know,
I'm running for.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
A Senate to make a difference.

Speaker 5 (01:06:21):
To make a difference in my in my county, to
make a different in the district, and to help the
people in North Carolina, and always putting the people that
I serve first. But as far as Center Burger, you know,
you know, just like I have an opportunity to run,
he has an opportune to run. And I'm gonna make
try to make a difference in and we'll try to
win this primary and move on to November.

Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
Here's the other thing that surprised me because I and
you can tell me if I'm remembering incorrectly. I remember
standing there with you, and I believe it was then
Congressman Mark Walker over at the Republican Congressional Club when
we were up there for radio row and you said
you had to leave to go to the White House.
So you've had time with Trump, you've met him, correct.

Speaker 5 (01:07:03):
I worked with President Trump. Actually I worked with the
sheriff for Trump. We've organized that back in twenty sixteen.
President Trump was elected and then we began working with
President Trump on the Border Security Immigrations Committee. So I've
had several opportunities to work directly with the President and
his staff and the things that you're seeing now, the

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border security initiatives, how it's been ramped up, the interior enforcement,
all those things we've worked we've worked on to support
those policies in his last administration and now that comes
in curu istion. So we feel it we've We've done
some great things in the past and looking for some
great opportunities in the future.

Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
So are you I'm surprised. Are you surprised with the endorsement?
Then this is why I'm asking because I you know,
Trump one of those people where he loved If you
get FaceTime with him, it's a different thing. So why
why would he endorse your opponent? It is my question.

Speaker 5 (01:07:56):
Well, let me let me say this. First, is last Monday,
I filed at tried to file around twelve noon to
run for the run for Senate in North Carolina in
the twenty sixth district. And then last that night, about
seven o'clock, I got a call from a gentleman said
that he was representing the President and he was gonna
be on the line in just a minute. I wouldn't
sure about was a for real call or not, because

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you know, I don't normally get a call for the president,
you know, at nice the House. Uh, it was the president,
and we talked about some things. We talked about how
things are going, UH, some campaigns, we talked about uh,
you know, UH the future, and some things we wanted
to do. And UH it led to the conversation about
he wanted me to come to Washington and to uh
to work for him in Washington at a high level

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of position. And of course, you know, he also mentioned
Bill Berger. I did tell him and reminded him of
the activities we've had together and the relationship, and he
recognized we had the relationship and I worked for him.
But uh, I found that last night I was at
the college at the meeting, and I found that last
night's email that that he would be some he would
be ennorsing UH opponent. So you know, I'm flattered that

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I had the opportunity and the offer to come to work,
because I you know, I'd like to work in the administration,
but when I commit myself, I've committed to working for
the people in the district here in North Carolina, in
Rockingham and Guilpert County, and you know, when I give
my word, I'll stand by it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:18):
Well, it's no secret the struggles from an employment perspective
as well as some of we've talked about some of
the narcotic stuff too. The Rockingham County has its problems
and we had a caller who didn't feel that Berger
had done anything to address them. So from an employment perspective,
you coming in as a freshman senator, what do you
think you would be able to do to improve employment

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in Rockingham County which is a big concern.

Speaker 5 (01:09:44):
Well, you know, I first of all, I have to
look at the revenue, the conversation with the revenues coming
in and looking at the budget and look at and
look at things that need to be funded, important priorities
that need to be funded. You know, I look at
some of the priorities that my opponent is supporting. H
look at some of the revenue sources that if lector
in the passage as casinos UH and electronic gaming the UH. Basically,

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what's what's now illegal in our in our part of
the county estate And I can't support the site of revenue.
I'm looking at the tax conversation and the tax reduction
for our individual citizens in North Carolina. I'm looking at
a lot of issues, but at the end of the
day is you know, yes, I would be a freshman senator,
but you know what, there's time for the senators in

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North Carolina to be there to represent their districts, to
have a follow in line with what one person says
that they want to do, you know what I'm saying.
And that's the problem with that is when persons saying
that kind of leadership role too long, become too powerful
and the individual's voice doesn't mean as much. So I'd
like to see that return back where the senators can
represent their districts and make a difference. And that's what

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I want to do.

Speaker 1 (01:10:52):
Is this personal? Or you and Burger get along? I mean,
what's your relatedly?

Speaker 5 (01:10:57):
Get well? I know I'm I've known my opponent for
probably since about nineteen eighty five when I was a
deputy and it was a defense attorney. And again, you know,
I've seen some I've seen some good things that we'll
take it away from anything. I've seen some good some
good policies comming to but over the years, as we
moved forward. I've also seen where Tim burgers at the

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place he got away from the will of people and
moved to more toward the corporate in the UH UH
and other interests and not that you know, the people
that in the district. So I want to be kind
of like I've been a shaff for the past twenty
seven years. I want to be that representative of the
people in the district and and let them have my ear,
not special interests.

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
All right, last thing, and it's not necessarily the campaign.
I'm just curious your thoughts because immigration is such a
big thing with you. All of the ICE bra that
came sweeping through North Carolina with Charlotte's, Webb and Wait
County and some stuff in Gilford. Did you guys get
any of that up in Rockingham? How do you how
do you view the job ice is doing in North Carolina?

Speaker 5 (01:12:01):
Well, well, my understanding for the numbers we've had since
twenty ten, about six hundred and forty five people come
to our jail that were criminally charged that were ilegal
in the country. So we do have persons living in
Rougre County that have committee crimes that were ilegal in
the country. And as we process those versus and supported
the federal detainer program, which is very important about identifying

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and helping to remove criminal offenders out of our communities,
working with our federal partners, and I've always done that.
I had a matter of fact, I had one of
the supervisors yesterday with ICE. We were having discussion on
kind of how things are going. But I think they're
doing a great job. We support ICE, we support border
chol and we support the America First Partment of the President.
We want to make sure that we protect America's starting

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out of reporters and also in the interior. And oh
cool loless you know, we're going to support our federal
partners wherever we can.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
Okay, sure, if I appreciate the time. This morning, I
just saw the story and well let's call let's call
the sheriff to see what he thinks. So good luck,
and we'll try to get your opponent onto and ask
him about some of that stuff for sure. So thank
you and have a good day, sir, Thanks your listeners.
All right, there you go. Sheriff Sam Page sent a

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candidate running in the primary down seat to Phil Berger
up in Rockenham County, and they're thereabouts, all right, eight
point fifteen here on the CaCO Day Radio pro that's interesting.
The phone call was interesting. I did not know that
the call from Trump there. Want to get a gig

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ah Man politics gonna politics? All right, eight fifteen? Hang on,
I mean, the controversies today are up at the national
level are just some of the dumbest I've seen in
a while, from a joke that jd Vance made to
what's got Elizabeth Warren's address and a twist? All right,

(01:14:02):
Elizabeth Warren is now upset about pennies. Oh, I'm telling you.
When Trump's administration stopped making pennies, they left banks, retailers,
and consumers unsure how to conduct basic cash transaction transactions.
The result inconsistent price rounding, an unequal treatment of customers.

(01:14:25):
I'm pushing for answers. What do you want the answer
to be? I don't understand what you're a business. If
a business charges two dollars and one cent for something,
and now they're charging two dollars and five cents, that's
not a governmental function. And I've noticed business. I honestly,

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I haven't noticed anything. There's nothing I hate more than
getting changed, though, so I will try to. If I
have it, I'll try to use it to go to
the nearest thing there. Now, if it's rounded, there's even
less chance of it. But I have it. No how
many cash transactions has this really come up where it's
impacted your day I was doing. I had so many

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cash transactions over the last week, just because we were
parked out in front of the Walmart and you go
get food, Go get a bagel at the New York
Bagel place, going to Walmart to stand in line for
nine hours to buy one thing because people don't know
how to use the self checkout. There should be a
trap door if you get up there and you clearly
don't know what you're doing. Just right in the shark pit,
I got time, is money, get out my way. But

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at no point was this impact and yes they're on
multiple occasions, I paid for things with cash because I'm
one of these weirdos who likes to pay for small
things with cash. What my preference? And at no point
did any like it even did I ever remember the pennything.
It's all so dumb and I'm just trying to figure out, Okay, well,

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how is there unequal treatment of customers? If you go
into a store and they've decided to round two oh
two up to two oh five in one store, and
then in the other store they round two oh two
down to two dollars. Arguably, depending on which store you choose,
the customers are being treated the same because I don't
know if Elizabeth Warren knows this. Grocery stores don't always

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charge the same price as all the other grocery stores
for stuff. I know, it's crazy. You go over to Sprouts,
you're gonna pay your whole Foods or Aristeater for that matter.
Likely there's gonna be something in there that's more expensive
than if you bought at it. I don't know, food line.
So she just needs something to be butt hurt. But

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that's not the dumbest. It's up there. But it's not
the dumbest. No, that is that that achievement's going to
uh this guy who's mad at Marco Rubio. So you
got to wait to hear Marco Rubio did this is
in fact, you should be sitting down. This is big, breaking,
super important news. Good at one, two and three. Boom,

(01:17:04):
it's a three alarm news. Marco Rubio changed the official
font used for State Department. You know, reports and communications. Now,
that's it. That's it. He changed the font. And it's

(01:17:26):
funny too because like the people who are mad at him,
wait till you hear their theory. It's nuts. But just
the fact that he did it, I'm not surprised because
the State Department had used remember he's Secretary of State,
he the boss. They had used Times New Roman forever
and then into the last administration they changed it to

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I don't know if I know how to pronounce this
and never say it out love Calibri, calibri whatever, which
is a fine font. But Marco Rubio is a gen
x or damn near millennial right on the cusp there,
he's like me, and Times New Roman is us. I like,
that's that's the font of my childhood. So I'm not surprised.

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I don't know the reasons for it. What did he say? Yeah,
so here's the way that they wrote it. In a
move reflecting broader debates on diversity, the US State Department,
led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has reverted to
using the Times New Roman font in official communications, dismissing
the previous administration's adoption of the more accessible Calibra fond.

(01:18:38):
Why is that more accessible than Times New Roman. I
don't understand that. What do you mean it's more accessible?
Those are probably two of the top. Now, I like
the Georgia font. I'm okay with that, so when I write,
I think I have that on my email set. But
you know Times New where everything was Times New Roman
back in the day, so I'm not surprised by this.
But now you're implying that he did it to be

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less diverse. I don't even understand that. So I had
to look it up and the only thing that I
could find is a line that simply says that it's
it provides enhanced accessibility for individuals with disabilities the Kalibra font.

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But they don't explain what do you talk? Are you
mean somebody who's visually impaired? Is the easier to just
make the argument so I can at least assess it,
because like, there's a whole bunch of stuff from the
previous administration I didn't understand, and I never remember anyone
freaking out when blinking change it to the thing that
it was, because that's you changed it again. The you
know the guy I had his job before Rubio did

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eight thirty four here on the Cacoda radio program. I
just I had an inkling after I got done sharing
the outrage over a font change of the State Department,
you know, back to the font that it was for
like ever, and then you know that's because that's a
literal Nazi move. According to former White House Bureau chief

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for ABC, I thought, I wonder what font the Diary
Van Frank was printed in? And loa, behold Times New Roman.
So you're gonna have to explain to me insane moonbat
former journalist who's now the mask is completely off and
you are what we thought you were. Why would they

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print Times New Roman Marco's preferred thing. Why would they
use that if it's their Nazis? Why would the Nazis
print the Diary Van Frank when Times New Roman? See
trying to make the pieces connect, they don't connect. So
I enjoy your stage four tds there. Man, all right,
here's something terrifying. And I thought this number, well, I've

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seen this number before in the same range, and it
was terrifying then. But following what happened with char Early
Kirk and happening on a college campus, and everyone's got thoughts.
I wondered before I actually looked at the numbers here
if this would have tamed some of this insanity, and
it clearly is not. It's actually gone up. So there

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is new polling done of America's college students. How many
different schools and kids they sample? I'm just adding the
numbers here, I don't know. It looks like about around
three thousand. I think if I add all these numbers,
I have the actual full thing in front of me here. Yeah,
it looks are around three thousand. How many campuses? Over

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one hundred campuses? Okay, so I guess they may have
did focus groups on all of them. Here's the two
things you need to know. Words can be violence. Yeah,
here we go. Words can be violence. This this thing that
has been shoveled down kids' throats on college campuses, which
is really dangerous because if words can be violence, then

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actual violence can meet words. That's what this is. That's
the inevitability of it. Once words are violence, then meeting
violence with violence is morally justifiable, even though that's insane
because words are not violence. However, in the poll, a
ninety one percent said that they do believe to some

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extent because they give them like describes my thoughts completely,
mostly describes my thoughts somewhat or slightly. So if you
have the slightly, somewhat, mostly, and one hundred percent, it's
ninety one percent. Only nine percent of college students say
that words are not violence. That is a terrifying statistic.
That is a real problem, and that is basically something

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that has been absolutely indoctrinated into these kids at college. Man,
that's where that's where they're feeding them into this stuff
and again, and then violence becomes justifiable because you're meaning
violence with violence. That is the problem. Here's another one.
I'm just gonna give you one more. Silence is violence. Wait,

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if words are violence and there's no words, how can
so everything is violence? So confused. Thankfully, that is not
ninety one percent of students. That would be insane. It's
merely seventy eight or seventy nine percent of students who
think silence is violence. Ninety one say words are violence.

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Seventy nine percent say silence is violence, which does rhyme
and is fun to say, but is stupid. So there's that.
So no, and it didn't move that. The number was
in the high eighties prior to the last time they
did the poll, which would be pre Charlie kirkincident. So wait,

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now people wanted to go wing dings with the Hey,
I'm just saying what I would do if I was
Marco Rubio and some lunatic who is a quote unquote
retired respected journalist is out here screaming that I'm a
Nazi because I changed font Then I'm going to change
it to comic sands or something, just to be an
a hole. I know that's probably not good for the

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you know, the secret of the State Department communicating and stuff,
But I'm fun like that. So we'll be like, all right,
how do you like this? Now? I told you that
like the controversies today, suck man, they're mad. They're also
mad at jd Vance. Oh yeah, because he's clearly joking.

(01:24:40):
He's clearly joking in this tweet, and you're they're like
jd Vance. Jd Vance wants to end the six seven
trend using using the power of government. Now, I again,
I don't understand the six seventh thing. I don't think
your kids understand it. I've tried to have kids explain

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it to me. Doesn't make any sense. Yeah, they'll go
either or and I'm like, then say either or you
can say did those words still exist? They might be
violence according to some of your colleagues, but they exist.
So but then I realized I don't care, So then
I stopped looking into it. But with jd. Vance was talking,

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he was sharing a humorous story that is very relatable
I think for parents. So basically here's what he said.
He said yesterday at church, the Bible reading started on
page sixty six and sixty seven of the Missile, and
my five year old started repeating six seven like ten times. Now,
I think we need to make a narrow exception to
the First Amendment and ban these numbers forever. He's clearly joking. Yeah, hey,

(01:25:51):
hold on, somebody arguing that silence is violence. Oh no, okay,
all right, they're just making a joke. Yeah, man, silence violence,
words are violence. You can't win. Also, jd Vance is joking.
The six seven stuff is brain rot. I can't tell
you the number of times where I've seen, you know,

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a young person just kind of work that in there.
But then I think they're just doing it because they
realize they get a reaction out of it. And then
I can relate to that because I was that age
once and confusing adults is fun, man, and this is
it seems pretty harmless. So but jd. Vance is joking. Now,
who's not joking? In and Out Burger, do you see

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what they did? Because this is a problem. So In
and Out Burger has you know, they have like a
number system like a lot of restaurants. Do you're number
thirty eight, you're number thirty nine. They are eliminating from
the ability. You cannot get number sixty seven anymore. That's
a real story. And the but the reason they're doing
it is not just because they're trying to capture the trend.

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They're trying to avoid. One of the other trends is
sociated with this. And this is where it becomes a
problem where uh, kids are gathering. There's videos online and
go watch this stuff. They gather in these restaurants and
when the number sixty seven called, they all they all cheer.
And if they just all cheered, it'd be fine, But
there have been incidents where they did more than cheer.
Stuff got broken, stuff was thrown on the ground, and

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then they all ran out, and then the employees had
to deal with it. And so In and Out Burgers
say yeah, we're just gonna avoid this entirely. There is
no sixty seven anymore. So I don't know if the
if then you do six and seven, and then you
have to eliminate those. But that's a private business. Jade
Vance's joking, okay, And you know what, in a year,
the kids will be saying something else. I don't understand. Huh.

(01:27:42):
Maybe I'll look into it. Maybe I won't. We will see.
All right, let's see here eight eight eight nine three
four seven eight seven four is the phone number you
wish to be on the show. We can probably slip
a couple of calls in and oh yeah, I you
know I there's the part where you do a bunch
of drugs. It can make you dumb. But then there's

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the this guy might be too dumb too, do drugs?
Do you know what I'm saying? Like, there's no there's
no room left in his depreciated mental state. So this
guy in Ohio, here we go, this guy in Ohio,
his name's Jason Smith, went to the bank and he's

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at the drive through, you know, with the suction tubes
and all that. Right, So he he goes in, he
goes in, he's in his car, and he's putting to
deposit his check and he accidentally dropped all of his
meth in there, which why did you have I guess
maybe had it in his hand and didn't realize. I
don't know. So he sends it over. The teller doesn't

(01:28:45):
say anything. She's Johnny on the spot because they actually
have a procedure for this. He drives away, probably was
frantically searching for his meth. Shortly thereafter two so and
they called the police and they tracked him down and yeah,
so he was arrested for the half of the meth
and they got it all on camera too, and he
I guess when they found him he did not realize

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he dropped it. But then he kind of gave away
the game because he indicated that then it might be his.
So again, too dumb to do drugs, but easy peasy
for the police, which they appreciate. All right, eight forty
four race stage in from the weather channels here, So
let's see if he can recreate yesterday or else or.

Speaker 4 (01:29:30):
Else might look good, won't feel as nice? Both tryad
triangle made it to fifty seven couple degrees actually above
were close to.

Speaker 1 (01:29:40):
Normal, And now we're back down.

Speaker 4 (01:29:42):
We're probably not going to get out of the forties
and mid and upper forties today, although we are milder
this morning than yesterday morning by a few degrees. We're
going to be northwest breeze and a little chili sunny
clouds will be around, so I won't look bad and
not terribly cold, but still below average by almost ten degrees.
Mid upper twenties tonight, Tomorrow, mid upper forties with a
little cloud early and then sunshine. And then Saturday is

(01:30:04):
going to be the mildest of the next few days
as we're back into the little mid fifties and mostly Sunday,
so Saturday is not going to be bad. And then
I'll get a little colder on Sunday, back to the
little mid forties, and it does look like we might
have a little rain or maybe a wet snowflakeer too,
especially try head west into the mountains with the next
rush of cold air coming in. I'll say it again,

(01:30:24):
we'll be cold Invectings Sunday night into Monday morning. Temperatures
Monday morning, yeah, why not in the teens in the
teens with daytime highs only getting to the mid upper thirties.
And it'll start getting mild there as we go through
the rest of next week. So getting a little better
toward the weekend, first part of it, toward the second
part of it not so nice. Monday morning gonna get

(01:30:46):
real cold.

Speaker 1 (01:30:47):
You do what you want at your house. There is
no invecting in my place. No invection, no cold air
invention in this house. No, all right, all right, try
it rank. No, the first one's free. That's how you
get hooked. No, all right, thank you, sir, appreciate it.
All right, we'll come back. Oh we got who do
we got today? For Bloomberg? Alexis Christofors, which I just
said it right, which means when I talked to her

(01:31:08):
in a moment, I'll say it wrong and we'll find
out together next Hang on, and it's time for your
Bloomberg update. Joining us this morning, Lexus Christofors. Did I
get that right again or wrong? You did? I'm so
proud of you, Casey Amy. All right, that's what's going
on today.

Speaker 6 (01:31:25):
Well, it's a day after it got a little less
expensive to borrow money because the Fed did the expected.
It cut interest rates yesterday by a quarter point, so
that's lowering rates a little bit on things like credit cards,
auto loans, home equity loans, But do not hold your
breath for the next cut, because the FED signaled it's
going to take this weight and see attitude before cutting
rates further. It wants to get more data on things

(01:31:47):
like inflation and the job market, which we know has
been slowing down. This is also an unusual meeting, Casey,
because three of the twelve voting FED governors disagreed with
the vote that hasn't happened in about six years. One
wanted a bigger cut, two wanted no cut at all.
We're also going to get a new FED chair in May,
when FED Chair Jerome Powell's term ends and President Trump

(01:32:09):
is expected to announce his successor in the coming week.
So next year lots of changes come into the FED.

Speaker 1 (01:32:16):
The most detailed the vision Accountan. I'm sorry. Normally Denise
reads them all through, so I was just typing something
up there.

Speaker 6 (01:32:24):
Oh, I thought we were going to have a chat,
but you know she'll read it.

Speaker 1 (01:32:28):
So she'll read it through and then at the end
I'll chat about whatever interest.

Speaker 6 (01:32:33):
Well, I've certainly got more news for you. Like Eli Lilly,
it says it's next generation obesity shot help patients lose
nearly a quarter of their body weight while reducing knee
arthritis pain. That's pretty incredible. As clear as the first
of several upcoming studies on the weekly injection. According to
Eli Lilly, some patients lost so much weight they decided
to drop out of the trial. Patients on this highest

(01:32:56):
dose of the drug, called red a True Tide, lost
more than twenty three percent of their body weight in
sixty eight weeks. Side effects here include nausea, constipation, diarrhea.
The obesity drug market is expected to hit one hundred
billion dollars by the end of the decade. Amazon, in
the news today, is reportedly developing a rush pickup service.

(01:33:16):
It's going to let customers collect orders from its stores
within an hour. Amazon plans to roll out this pilot
program and at least one major city early next year.
Hasn't said though what city that's going to be. And
Jet Blue is set to open its first airport lounge ever.
It's called Blue House. It's going to happen here in
New York City's JFK next week. It's a nine thousand

(01:33:37):
square foot space. It features art deco designs inspired by
a classic New York apartment. So it's going to be
coming probably to an airport near you in the not
too distant future. It's going to open one up in
Boston as well. Also, just want to call out Oracle
that stock is down wow, about thirteen percent now here
in the pre market. That's despite a thirty four percent

(01:33:58):
increase in cloud sales life last quarter. It still fell
short of Wall Street expectations. Sometimes good just isn't good
enough for Wall Street. Investors worry that Oracle's high spending
on AI data centers has not translated into the level
of cloud revenue they were hoping for. And I leave
you with this casey. Another twist in the bidding war
for Warner Brothers Discovery, President Trump signaling he will oppose

(01:34:19):
any deal that doesn't include new ownership of CNN, which
we know has long drawn complaints from the President. Now
this could hurt Netflix has already accepted bid because it
doesn't include Warner Brothers cable properties like CNN, Paramount Sky Dance.
Meantime is bidding for the entire company, and the CEO,
David Ellison, has reportedly promised Trump sweeping changes at CNN

(01:34:40):
if he gains control so the Warner Brothers Discovery saga continues.

Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
The Jet Blue thing. I hate that terminal. That's the
new Jet Blue terminal. I was in that not long
ago in JFK. Nobody takes cash in the entire terminal.

Speaker 6 (01:34:54):
Isn't that crazy?

Speaker 1 (01:34:55):
Nothing? You can't even buy a little pack of gum
at the little No, you got to use credit card,
and you can't. You gotta order food on your phone.
You get to talk to the bartender.

Speaker 6 (01:35:03):
Because we're old school, so many folks go out with
no actual hard cash anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:35:07):
Yeah, I like to pay for little things with cash.
Call me weird. Okay, all right, thank you, thank you
very much. Go Lexis. I appreciate it. Yeah, it's not
going to put a lounge in there. Although the lounge
you don't usually spend cash. It's an airport lounge. But
for the rest of it, it's all just dumb. All right.
We're gonna rapid fire these calls carrying real quick. What's up?

Speaker 2 (01:35:26):
Yes, for the university students that are enjoying silence and violence,
we need to bring back. Sticks and stones may break
my bones, but names will never hurt me.

Speaker 1 (01:35:35):
We can bring the words back, but we can't use
the sticks and stones because they throw them at Jewish
students during hamaspity. You know, they don't want to use
the real thing there. Jeff, what's up?

Speaker 2 (01:35:47):
Hey? See this is Jeff.

Speaker 5 (01:35:48):
I'm on my way to Fatteville for my Here's Disney
on ice trip.

Speaker 2 (01:35:53):
So the penny thing, it just doesn't make sense.

Speaker 5 (01:35:56):
There's so many big issues in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:35:58):
Let's just get over it and love each other. I mean, the.

Speaker 5 (01:36:02):
Media just does so much stuff to get his route up.
One quick thing so to me, the wise big thing.

Speaker 2 (01:36:10):
Like, so they're still in circulation, correct, So we still.

Speaker 1 (01:36:14):
Have some, Yeah, but people are trying to kind of
hoarding them because people are dumb and they think that,
oh they're going to be collectors items. So and thanks
for the calor Jeff. Yeah, like they're still out there.
But honestly, I got a hold drawerful. I'm sure you do.
Sam real quick. What's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:36:29):
And I say, if you will look at the periodic
table of elements at six seven, you will understand the
juvenile fascination with it. The element has abbreviated aho.

Speaker 1 (01:36:41):
Oh yeah, yeah, the same thing and amused us in
chemistry class. I don't know that that's it. But I
like that explanation even if it's not