12-18-25 SHOW

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Is it Friday yet it's Thursday? All right? Well next
best thing? All right, So we didn't go to war,
we didn't open internment camps. See what other stupid rumors
were permeating social media prior to the president's speech last night.

(00:20):
I think the war one was the big one. And
I saw a lot of I saw a lot of
pro Trump accounts that were like, oh yeah, yeah, no,
we got a source. We got a source, and it
is a it's somebody having to do with the military.

(00:41):
And apparently the military was all brief that were going
to war. They told the ball and apparently they all
were able to keep their mouths shut. And Trump's gonna
say tonight, and you heard it here first clicking he
click subscribe, all that crap. We didn't do that last night.
So I don't know, maybe take that into account. I

(01:06):
don't even know how that got rolling, like I saw,
And it wasn't just like little accounts or anything. It was, uh,
who did I Who did? I I think I saw
Tucker talking about it with somebody some clip up there. Look,
the the thing was kind of what you expected it
was going to be, because here here's the analysis on

(01:27):
this Trump. Trump is the numbers guy. He likes he
likes the charts. I don't know he likes the meetings
that much unless he's the one running him, but which
he usually is. And so he really wants you to
understand the charts. So that's why he brought the charts,

(01:50):
and he wants you to understand, this is how bad
it was under Biden, and here's what it is now,
and here's how bad this was, and here's it was
this bad. But here's the projections for my numbers guys.
And he wants you to get as equally excited as
he gets over stuff like that. And to some extent,
he's not wrong, right, because Washington has trained us to

(02:15):
be very top line or just you know, be dumb
on an issue. Sit there and go, yeah, I'm pretty
sure if the government seeses, you know, a double digit
percentage of our economy in the form of our healthcare system,
I'm sure. And if we call it affordable, I'm sure
everything's gonna work out. And then you know, you don't

(02:36):
worry about numbers. But Trump worries about the numbers, and
you know, whether he's right or wrong, you know, these
are projections. In many instances a lot of what he
talked about last night isn't it's tangible. I know it
gets spun, but it still exists out there. And so
when Trump sees the now is sover. What the Democrats

(03:01):
are doing a better job of is having empathy for
the struggles of people in America and affordability. And he
sees that and he's like, well, wait a second, I
just had a meeting with my numbers guys, and they said,
this is happening. We're projected here with a six percent reduction,
and we're you know, we're trying to we're doing everything

(03:23):
we can to get rate cuts going there. When he
sees that stuff, it probably drives them crazy because of
course he knows he's not going to get the coverage.
But also he's you know, he's looking down the road,
whereas people are looking at how much money they're going
to have left in their account through Christmas because you know,

(03:45):
didn't budget as well as I could of and we're good,
now we got to travel. We weren't going to travel
for this one thing, and and like, which is understandable
on all sides. That's his job to sit there and
look down the road. But it you know, the reality
on the ground is people people are looking at, uh,
you know what, what are the last thirteen days of

(04:06):
the month have in store? Maybe maybe are we gonna
have a little money to go out on New Year's
So whether he did a good enough job explaining some
of that, because you know, a wage increase, that's another
thing he was talking about. He's like, look, under Biden,
we had a three thousand dollars average wage decrease. I'm

(04:29):
up sixteen hundred. I don't remember. I don't have the
number in front of me. But his point was and
and that's and that's fine, but not everybody felt that.
They felt they felt things get a lot more expensive.
But unless you you know, you actually got your boss
came to and you're like, all right, we're giving you
a dollar raise or you know, whatever it is, you

(04:51):
may you may not feel that yet. So that's what
that's what last night was about. I'm fixing Biden's mess.
That was that was the thing. And I understand that.
Then the media is, oh, so he's just out there
pointing figures, he's not taking responsibility. I know, I don't
think that that's just a deflection, because here's the deal. Normally,

(05:15):
but you know, blaming your person before you like remember
remember how Barack Obama could literally blame Bush even into
a second term. Okay, blaming but not doing anything is
pretty standard fair in Washington, Like, ah, I guess is
high you're right because my you know, the guy who
was in here eighteen months ago, he uh, he was

(05:37):
an a hole and and there he go. There's your explanation,
get to get away from me. Whereas I I think
Trump did show where they're trying to take tangible steps
and where it is actually paying some some dividends there.
But you know, we're gonna get in. We're into the
promising game here pretty quick. Where it's are you in

(05:59):
it for the long haul? Are you gonna? Why are
you gonna? Are you gonna? Are you an investor who
can sit there and and and wait for that too,
uh to mature or when somebody comes around they're like, look,
we're gonna give you a shiny new uh thing. I'm
a bob right now, just vote for me, and only

(06:20):
later are you gonna determine whether that that thing's of
decent quality. A spoiler probably not, probably got you know,
lead pain on it and stuff just horrible for you
but that's what that's what last night was about, not
all the what was there was another crazy thing. Oh,
he's gonna he's gonna step down. What was what was

(06:42):
what He's gonna step down? So and then so that
Vance is in there, so that Vance is the incumbent,
except he's gotta wait if he's gonna do that, like
if you're gonna start a conspiracy rumor theory thing you
might attempt to have some understanding of and you know
how that works. So but AnyWho, this is where we

(07:05):
find ourselves. All right, it is six thirteen. That's I mean,
that's I was prepared, like if he actually got into
some you know, something crazy to have that be a
big part of the show. But I don't know what
else to say. He had his charts, he's got his numbers,
experts quote unquote experts and liberal professors that do hits

(07:26):
on MSNBC and CNN. We'll tell you it's all bs.
I'm sure throughout most of the day to day it
says predictable as the sunrising in the east, as they say,
all right, six fourteen, hang on twenty here on the
KCO Day radio program. Oh one other thing, I would

(07:47):
be remiss Trump. Also, I'm sorry just the number, why
not so Trump? And now that they would be issuing
seventeen seventy six checks, I guess is what we're calling them.

(08:07):
Warrior dividend is the term that Trump used. According to Trump,
all million and a half Ish military service members will
receive a special Warrior dividend just before Christmas, Man saying,
who do you think was more excited? Members of the

(08:28):
military or the dancers of the cabarets in Fayetteville and
cherries over there by Lejeune, That those ladies are pretty pumped.
The Warrior dividend, in honor of the nation's founding in
seventeen seventy six, were sending every soldier one seven and

(08:50):
seventy six dollars rolling the check's already on the way.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Umm.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Here's here's the thing. So remember how I talked about
being plugged in or or or being willing to be
in for the long haul, which is what Trump's charts
were about yesterday. It's about showing progress even if you
don't feel progressed yet, and trying to make that case.

(09:25):
And it's not an easy case to make in politics
because you have but you know you have an entire
party that's just willing to essentially buy votes. It's all right,
if you guys are like me, we're gonna have blah
blah blah, and then it'll be this much money directly
in your pocket. What are you doing? I mean, it's no,

(09:45):
it's no different. And Trump has talked about various check options.
There's this for the military, which uh you know this
is this is about bonuses for employees, So there is
a there is a bit of a difference there. But
like you know, he's he's talking checks on the tariff,

(10:08):
dividend and stuff. And I guess I kind of and
this is the long, long term. Look me, I kind
of thought that the whole point of DOGE and tariffs
and all of this was to pay our gigantic national debt,

(10:28):
trillions and trillions of dollars just sitting over US decades
worth of you know, actual GDP tied up in interest payments,
so we would all gird the loins. And there wasn't
there wasn't gonna Like it's if I'm sure you've all

(10:48):
been there, you have call it a lull if you want,
but you you you have to reevaluate your spending and
maybe there's a period of time. All right, so one
of you who is now only working part time because
you're going back to finish a degree. Okay, well now
things have to change. You don't have the going out
to a nice restaurant. What's a weak money? So you

(11:10):
take that out and you buckle down, and it sucks
because you really enjoyed doing that. But that's the responsible thing.
And I thought that's what a lot of this was about.
Our CNN is still not calling him War secretary. Oh
that's adorable anyway, so CNN rights. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
directed the Pentagon to pay out two point six billion

(11:33):
is a one time basic allowance for housing supplements to
all eligible service members in pay grades well basically six
and below. So just not the top tippy top there
is that. See here's the thing. I don't know if
they pay it out that way because it's the military

(11:53):
and it's just the easiest way to do it, or
if that's has something to do with how monies were appropriate.
But I but I get I don't know what a
military member's paycheck looks like. Is that a standard line?
I'm assuming that that's a standard line. Housing housing supplement
of some sort that well, well, well, if you live

(12:14):
in the barracks, how does that work? I don't know.
Maybe someone could explain it to me. I I what
I'm asking is is there a reason for doing it
that way with the housing supplement? Is it like from
a legal perspective, or is that just an easy line
that's always there on the military paycheck so you can
shuffle it through there like cause we have that with

(12:35):
what we do, we have different you know, there's there's
pay and then there's all you know, there's all the
other little things in radio. So people with voice tracked
they get a separate thing and so, but those things
exist and then you just have to figure it out
how it pushes through. You think the Democrats will sue
over this military bonuses? I don't know. I don't know

(12:59):
what's Jasmine Crockett doing. She complain yet, I'll have to
check in see yes, if she's mad or not. So
I have a harder time pushing back on the military
stuff here. But oh, by the way, our phone number
is eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.
But it's hard. It's very hard to tell people to

(13:21):
look along a whole and to ignore the people who
come around and basically try to bribe you. If you're
gonna be one of the people who's gonna kind of
try to bribe you, right, so that'll just be my
two sets. But maybe you think I'm stupid and wrong
and you want your check. Okay, all right, fine, call

(13:42):
the show and defend it. Eight eight eight nine three
four seven eight seven four Yes, yes, because I've already
got this email. It's very easy. That's very easy to
say when you have a good job. I'm only working
part time. Now, look my sympathy. Dude. I don't know,
I don't know your backstory there, but that's what we

(14:04):
that's what I thought. We decided we were gonna We're
gonna take any additional revenue and any cuts from dose,
and we were gonna pay down the debt because that,
you know, kind of impacts all of us, so especially
the younger we are, the more offspring that we may have. Right,
that's that that thing, that thing needs to go away.

(14:26):
We make a dent in it, at least to show
that it can be done. I don't know if this
is the answer. All right, couple other things ye are
sending me their favorite their cabaret recommendations and faith. I'm good,
thank you. So I'm fine, you all do you steph.

(14:50):
I'm just saying there's a lot of ancillary businesses that
then benefit if you if you shove seventeen hundred and
fifty or seventeen hundred and seventy six dollars into every
military member's hand. Do you guys see the Mexican Congress
go full melee? Oh and I should all right, excuse me.

(15:13):
Hold on, So it's Mexico City Congress, all right, so
this would be the I'm assuming they're city council, all right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
all right, So it's not the full Mexican Congress, but
it is. It's like if the New York City City Council. Honestly,
you know what the way politics is right now, I'm

(15:39):
watching it. I'm literally watching one of the new Oh
who wow, hold on, who's the little one throwing elbows there?
How are you doing? O? Law? How are you? Yes?
Do not mess with that check AnyWho?

Speaker 3 (16:01):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
I feel like this might be good for venting. Just
hear me out. So this time of the year, we
get to the end of the year, right just for
Congress is like all right, going home for a new year.
What like, give them thirty minutes just to work it out.
Just just lock the doors, keep the cameras rolling. No,

(16:23):
you know, no weapons, all right, maybe no edge weapons.
I don't know. We'll figure it out and then just
go to town. It's a whole new thing. They could
stump on the campaign. I'll call it the uh the
I don't know, make up some important sounding name for
the actual event. You don't want to go full purge, right,

(16:47):
and it's in this We're not in this to you know,
to murder anybody, but but you know, frustrations are up there,
so sometimes somebody, uh, somebody needs uh tombstone, you know
what I'm saying. Just like then they can work on things.
There would be a benefit to perhaps being healthier or

(17:08):
electing scarier looking individuals from your district because you dont
want to get you you know, you don't want to
be embarrassed. You want to send some whishbag up there.
It just gets the crap kicked out of them every year,
and then they can come back in the new year
feeling refreshed. I think it's a I think it's a
fine idea. What do we do we'll travel, We'll travel

(17:30):
congressional baseball game. My idea is better and would bring
me in probably more of you joy. And I feel
like if I'm just going over the congressional delegation, uh,
just on an R versus D level in North Carolina,
I think the RS have it. I think they're getting
the w We got a couple of bruisers and you know,

(17:55):
I don't even know who do they have over on
the D side? Who they have over on the R side?
Yes see, this would be fun. So what were they
actually fighting over? Apparently they're there's this is funny.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
The elimination of the Transparency Institute, which I did a
little research. So basically it's like a quasi, I don't
know what you describe it as, like a why it's
like an interior watchdog thing that both sides basically have
corrupted for whatever they want stuff. So then you have
this the you have one party who is a very

(18:34):
minor party who decided that they weren't getting their way
and so they jumped on the other party. That's my understanding,
just you know, from the one article that I skimmed,
but the video is amazing, and I think I think
that we can. Uh, I think that that we could
recreate this and really bring down the temperature after bringing

(18:55):
it up for like thirty minutes and then just bring
it down, bring it down. And then when you go
out to campaign and be like, look, if you vote
for me, I promise on the next rec to fy
Night or whatever you call this thing, I will, I will.
And then you know, whoever, whoever you're gonna give the
business to, you're gonna throw hands with. And honestly, if

(19:16):
you're if you're a member of Congress and everybody hates
you and they always promise to, you know, beat you
up first, then maybe just maybe you get a little
more agreeable on stuff. You're like, Man, I'm sick of
getting by the rest of the delegation, including people on
my site. All right, I've got a little wacky here

(19:38):
on a Thursday. I'm just I'm just trying to help.
Nothing else seems to be working. Everybody's just up there
blatantly lying. Nobody's showing up for work. Did you see
the did you see where is this? The yeah Eric
Swallwell thing. This guy's running for governor. But they had
some stats he has missed. Not that I care because

(20:02):
it's probably better that he's gone. But since he's running
for governor and had the audacity every day of the
shutdown to film these obnoxious videos. I don't know if
you saw any of them, And it was basic. It
was basically him doing something where he could look cool,
like here I am by this giant outdoor pool in

(20:23):
La or wherever, you know, looks like some Hollywood backyard, which,
by the way, is always a good look to show
your super awesome backyard pool to a bunch of people
who haven't been into work in forty days because your
team doesn't want to reopen the government, but hey, you
do you and he'd make these, he'd be like, I
could be voting right now. The problem is that's not

(20:46):
really true. M m yeah. So they started crunching the numbers.
Swallwell has missed ninety five votes. That doesn't even include
his committee stuff, you know, votes he would have and
things he would have participated. That's out of three hundred
and forty two House role call votes. So he's missed basically,

(21:10):
you know, a little less than a third. Well, no,
it'd be a little more than a third, wouldn't it.
No less than a third, But still that is more
than double Nancy Pelosi. And my favorite stat he has missed.
Where is this? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I want to
make sure I get the member of Congress's name right.

(21:32):
He has missed more role call votes this year than
Raoul Grahalva, the Arizona congressman who died in March. That's
why I wanted to make sure I had this stat.
Eric Swalwell has, he will have. I don't even know

(21:54):
if he can make the math up. He's lazier than
a dead guy, the guy who died in March. For
total number this year, that's where he's at. And so
again he's California. I wouldn't care. But those videos man,
and the part where you were essentially honey trapped with

(22:16):
a your little Russian spy. You're Russian spy, Chinese spy
there and like there's been no like there's no penalty
for that, which is which is just wild considering the
committees he was sitting on. But it's Washington going to Washington,
all right, six forty two, Hang on, as we got

(22:38):
the show going this morning, so you didn't screw up
and say the wrong thing today. Yeah, we got a
canceling very important canceling. Right, we're canceling United States of America.
The name, I guess for some reason, not decision. This

(23:01):
is according to the National Education Association, you know, the
people messing with the kids. Carol Markowitz with a fun
new column in the New York Post about the National
Education Association. So let me let me just share this

(23:24):
with you. Teachers' union pushes neo pronouns and several other
linguistic changes. Okay, Yeah, the one that's standing out to
me is the thing that we call our friggin country.

(23:44):
And if that's a problem, then I don't know what
we're doing. So let me just go through the list here.
Let's see here documents obtained by Defending Education. Sorry, I'm
on the New York Post. Of course they had to
hit me with nine thousand pop ups. All right, So

(24:05):
these are these guys are a watchdog. I don't know
if it's Chris Rufo's people, but that kind of thing anyway.
So they got a hold of the board meeting for
the NEA, and specifically they're advancing social justice event they
just had and fun stuff. One more neo pronouns at

(24:31):
a time when many school districts are ditching a lot
of this because of threats within the you know, from
the Trump administration on funding. They are all in on this,
which is weird because you would think that an organization
is job it is to protect the interest of their members,
i e. The teachers who worked there, wouldn't want to

(24:53):
do something that would get funding withheld to the people
that pay them. But that's you know, that's just how
I process that. All right, let's get to the America stuff,
because that's that's fun. Here we go. The NEEA is
not entirely sure this whole quote America thing is going

(25:16):
to stick. So so the way that they refer to
the United States of America for the purpose of their
training there is the same way that we used to
address Prince for about ten years, you know, the artist

(25:37):
formerly known as Prince. All Right, so they call the
United States of America quote what we now call the
United States of America, which might be the dumbest woke
correction I've ever seen. Amount What does that even mean?
What we now call the United States? Everything that called

(26:00):
now is something that we used to call it, different
from you know, from a language perspective, from a changing
of hands. Hell, the Gulf of America right there by
the way, landfall hurricane free since the name change, interesting stuff,

(26:23):
all right, So, yes, so it's not the United States
of America. It's what we now call the United States
of America. I can't, I can't even Yeah, you're right,
I just did two hundred and fifty year old bad clearly.
Oh uh oh wait, hold on, we have some other
terms that are now canceled apparently. Oh, homosexuality, homosexual you're

(26:48):
not allowed to say anymore, I guess according to the NEA.
I'm so allowed to say it because I'm just finding
out so they can send the door kicker police in
after U, which is weird because that's like the clinical
abbreviation of the term heterosexuality. Homosexuality. Again, I don't make

(27:12):
the rules, all right. What else is gonna torture your
kids with? Well, that's the big stuff. It's a lot
of the neo pronounced stuff and some parsing of just
some of the terms here, all right, Well there, yeah, yeah,

(27:32):
so you got you got the big picture. You here
as you sit and listen to the sound of my
voice wherever your home may be in this I'm sorry,
what do we call land? We now call what we
now call United States of America just in time for
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Super super pump for that,

(27:56):
Thank you, National Education Association. All right, let me flip
over to this. It's uh, you know change now. Wait,
I have a question. So do the rest of the
Americas have to change too? I'm just curious because you

(28:17):
know that uh, you know, everyone who lives in North
and South America and Central America. Can they call themselves
Americans in some capacity? I know, yeah, because it's all
called the America is So are you gonna are you
gonna go woke schoold the other? However, many nations are

(28:38):
in this hemisphere. Do you have to physically be a
land mass attached to land mass? Or can he be
an island too? I don't know the rules. So you
go to you go tell South America that you know,
this is the land that used to be known as
South American. Let me know how that goes. Maybe go
tell that guy in Venezuela, he seems nice, or the

(29:00):
Columbian president like gems. Yeah, they'd love to hear about that,
this thing, that woke thing you want to tell them about.
All right, Sorry, just A little follow up question there
popped in my mind as I was transitioning over to this.
So the remember I told you about the the recreated

(29:21):
Boston Tea party that was going down. Oh, it went
down to the Boston Globe covered it big if you
don't remember. A bunch of moonbats decided they were going
to recreate the Boston Tea Party, except not really any
part of it other than it's in Boston, and I

(29:43):
guess it was a party, although nobody looks happy about
anything in these photos, probably because they're all seventies. They're
on their seventies and they're outside.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yeah, yet another AARP themed rally here. So the gist
was they were going to go to the harbor, not
where nobody's even gonna dresses a Native American because you
can't do that because that's appropriation. And then they were
gonna dump stuff in the harbor. But they didn't want
to dump tea. They wanted to dump ice because ice,

(30:16):
get it. Yeah, So they they put water into water,
which ironically is something I did just in the last break,
although now my ice is a little melted here. But
so I guess I am also a super stunning and
brave protester. So they were going to recreate the thing
that way to protest Ice. So of course here comes

(30:39):
the Boston Globe they send out, they got the photog.
I don't know, there's like, I mean, there's some people there.
That one's got a walker. Again, I'm not knocking on
the walker. It's just like, where where are the young people?
Oh there's a few, here's some younger folks. Oh they
got a fire signed. Isn't that nice? Says no Ice.

(31:03):
It's on fire, Okay, get it, fire and Ice. It's
a Game of Thrones reference. Okay, uh yeah, I'm trying.
I don't know, maybe seventy five I'll be generous, maybe
maybe a hundred. And then you guys just dumped that
like there's not even They didn't even sing so I

(31:25):
had audio. What a big letdown. And by the way,
this is I don't know, I don't know if you
guys all probably all live in Brookline or wherever you
you realize of all the things that the actual Boston
tea party was about, even though there's again you should

(31:45):
you should learn about it because its fascinating. There's a
lot of different motivations there at the end of the day.
It was sold over a two percent tax and now
you're in the highest one of the highest tax places
in America, just getting your lunch, eating on taxes every day,
and you're down there throwing ice into water. Water. You

(32:07):
throwing water into water is some sort of protest here
on the CaCO Day radio program, and boy, I'm gonna
have to do the thing. And it's said, look, you're
not most hosts won't do this. I'm gonna change my mind.

(32:29):
I gave it a think, and I realized that my
initial analysis was lacking. So I was reviewing the the
ice into the harbor pro toel I don't even know
what they called this stupid thing, but whatever, the recreation
of the Boston Boston tea party, only this with ice.

(32:51):
So you're throwing water into water and nobody's dressed as
an Indian and they're like, you know, you're just you're
half you know whatding it boring and and and I
saw the photos and I realized that, for you know,
once again, we have one of these protests, but they
do not look anything like protests used to look. I

(33:12):
would say, I don't know, before the elimination of usaid
it's weird that that coincides. But but it's you know,
older folks, and it's just this trend. And I you know,
I made fun of that, and that's where I was wrong.
I was wrong. These are actually the people you want

(33:34):
at this protest if you just go one by one
you look at it, because basically, from what I saw,
the protesters had cups or you know, buckets or whatever
with ice in it, and they're shaking it for you know,
if that's the effect you want, that sound of all
the ice shaking and then the ploop into the water,
But they got to shake it first. And I don't

(33:57):
know if you need a bunch of people who's are
are probably shaking all the time with the hands, then
you know, maybe that's who you want out there. You
don't have to remind him to keep doing it because
you know it's already going brilliant, because you know, I

(34:20):
get the younger ones and they're like, I don't want
to shake anymore, but they have no choice. So there
you go. I stand corrected. I apologize, though I'm not
making fun of them. I'm just saying, you gotta take lemons,
make lemonade, that's all. Then you're then you know, the

(34:40):
sound of your protest is just just the way you
want it, all right. So there I did a correction.
You're welcome, all right, seven oh nine here on the
cac O Day or radio program. Uh, alright, it's this.
What do you guys think of this Dan Bongino thing,
because you know, they love just been the rumors. And

(35:01):
Dan's an interesting one because you know, obviously his background,
secret service all that, but he had carved himself out
a nice little niche in uh in the in the
world of broadcasting, and to some extent he's you know,
he's he can retain some of you know, some of that,
but he was he stopped doing his you know, his

(35:23):
daily show, and then decided he was going to go
be the number two over at the FBI. And it's
an interesting transition when you're somebody who does this to
then somebody who's there and you may be seeing the
things that and you may see some stuff that go, oh,
I didn't know what I was talking about, or you

(35:44):
see stuff that's like, oh my gosh, it's so so
much worse than I thought, which is actually kind of
something that Bongino has has tweeted about. But you know,
he he and there are there is a segment of
people don't like him and Patel or just don't like him.

(36:05):
I think he's just sell out because on his first
day they're at FBI HQ, he didn't come running out
with all the secret documents throwing him into the air
so everyone could read. You know, you didn't see a
lot of movement, or any movement for that matter, on
some what I think a lot of people thought were
high priorities. There was all the insanity with the Epstein

(36:26):
files and all along the way. I would see these
stories where people go, Dan Bongino is seething behind closed doors,
but there's nothing he can do. But he you know,
he kept coming to work, kept doing the thing. I
don't want to point out I don't mean I know nothing.
Dan Bongino and I have never spoke. I never interviewed

(36:47):
him nothing. I've never even I don't think he's been
in any radio things I was at. So I don't
know anything about the man. But what a roller coaster
for about a year there. Why do you think he's retiring?
Why do you think he wants to leave? I'm assuming
he's just gonna come back into the into the broadcast

(37:08):
side of it, But then how much can you talk
about and as of course it's being spuned. Is this show, oh,
the show's big cracks over at the the you know,
the FBI and the DOJ and all this. The dominoes
are starting to fall like there's plenty of coverage like
that as well. So you tell me eight eight eight

(37:30):
nine three four seven eight seven four what grade would
you give the FBI up to this point. I know
people are mad at him over a lot of stuff,
but you know, they have there have been a lot
of arrests, especially on when you get into the child
predator side of stuff. They've really really been racking those

(37:53):
numbers up. And I don't think I should say I
don't think anyone's mad, but I'm sure somebody's mad who
hates this administration. But yeah, that you know, some of
the bigger ones, there's no heads heads on pikes figuratively,
let's be clear of people who you know, with the
Russian collusion stuff. The only person who's ever got in

(38:15):
trouble for that, I guess I should say from a
sanctioned trouble, not you know, political trouble is what it is,
is one lawyer who you've never heard of, whose name,
who's probably I think he's back lawyering already, you will
slap on the wrist for something nobody. The FBI hasn't

(38:37):
been part of an investigation that has captured anybody on
this stuff, not yet within a year. Considering how blatant
some of it is. I think there's a lot of
people who that's where they are right now, even if
they even if they still like Trump, are wondering what's
going on with the Attorney General, what's going on with
the FBI? But I don't know that. What I'm trying

(38:59):
to figure out is is Bongino like the sacrificial lamb,
or is he just one out of there so bad
he's gonna take this opportunity at year's end, and then
will the story emerge. Why I suspect, just having heard
Bongino speak about this is I think he thought he
was going to go in there and be able to,

(39:20):
you know, turn tables over, and clearly that has not
necessarily been the case, not in the ways that I
think a lot of people were expecting, a lot of
people were demanding. How is it that nobody, nobody has
been purplocked over what are the incredibly, incredibly damning pieces

(39:44):
of evidence and clear illegal activity. How has that not
happened yet? Is it this way? It's just the swamp
protecting the swamp. That's what everyone thinks, all right eight
eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. You
went away in on any of that. Yeah, we can

(40:09):
can get into this as well. All right, So we're
going to do the travel band freak out again. I
see CNN is getting ready to go with that. You know,
remember who's the Muslim band according to that judge from Hawaii.
Except now it is in full effect. We'll give you
the details of what exactly was signed yesterday and what

(40:30):
it means for you know, people's I guess ability to
travel from nearly forty nations now, and how this is
going to turn into some sort of you're all racist attack,
just marked my words. That's coming up. Seven fifteen, hang on,
officials from a Oh of course this is okay. This

(40:51):
has to be some megachurch woman injured after being kicked
by a camel in churches live Nativity. He's seen, all right?
Is that that's got to be a flex right if
you it's I mean, it's one thing if you just
have like a sheep or two, but like they got
camels and the whole thing. Yeah, here we go. All right,

(41:17):
so about thirty thousand people go to this church. Is
that mega by Texas standards? I suppose it might be. Wow,
this this is the spread, I'll bet just setting this
thing up and what they've invested so that they could
because like this is this is legit proper animals you know,

(41:43):
the barn if you will, Yeah, the whole thing. Okay,
So they do a whole show there, all right, So
that makes a lot more sense. I thought they just
had like camp I you know, it's hey for the
month of December, We're just gonna have a bunch of
animals hanging out here in front of the uh front
of the church. Like I could have organized one of these.

(42:06):
Back in the day, we had a neighborhood camel's I
don't know why, but yeah, we never made it happen. Okay,
all right, Sorry, I just got a little distracted by
the camel attack there, and then I was like, wow,
there are churches that r go all out. Man. Also,

(42:26):
what's the name of this town? B Cave? There's a
bee cave Texas? Wait, hold on, so the name of
your town is Bee Cave? Who made that a horrible discovery?
Do you have a you have a platform at least
right I'm assuming somebody probably had to like almost die
so you could name your town. Walked in there like,

(42:50):
oh is this is this? Is this the honey cave?

Speaker 2 (42:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (42:55):
Well oh wait, no it is, but it's all the beat,
and then you could name you can name your town.
You're worried about a bear in there? No, it's all
the bees that killed the you know, your your nephew
because your homesteader's out there. Sorry, it's the whole thing.

(43:15):
Oh it's called Bee Cave. How that happened? That's what
happened to jimmy man? All right, Sorry, got distracted. Let
me get back, Let me get back to over where
I was trying to go here. What towns you ever?
You ever? Have you ever stopped at you ever seen
a town? And then you like pondered the name, and
you're like, something horrible happened, didn't it? You got especially

(43:41):
when you go out west, there's a lot of towns
names like that, or or mountain like the mountain, or
mountain like areas like parks, as they say out there
We'll usually have a lot of like dull knife. That's
one there, the doll, otherwise the knife doll because they
all the throats of the Native Americans who would come

(44:02):
up there following what happened down at Harden, Montana, and
they wanted an ann ounce of revenge, so kind of
dulled their knife all the people they were murdering. Dull knife.
So stuff like that crazy Woman Canyon by where I
grew up is somebody she went in there, she lost
her mind. I tried to kill somebody or something. I

(44:24):
don't remember the whole story, but yeah, now it's crazy
Woman Canyon. I'm just saying some not all names are
happy names. I'm sure we've probably got some here in
North Carolina. It's just not occurring to me right now.
It's just a horrible, horrible backstory. Meanwhile, you know, what
do people want to do? They want to run around

(44:44):
and change the name of the shopping center. Oh no,
we're gonna we're gonna change it to the shops at
whatever because some family name that nobody knew anything about
happens to be associated with this Cameron. Yeah, you can't
have that. Now we find ourselves here, all right, Eight

(45:05):
eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Umm, alright,
so we got get that rid to go?

Speaker 3 (45:17):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (45:18):
What am I looking at here? Okay? Sorry? Sorry, sorry, sorry,
this is something my log didn't look right, and if
it was gonna be a problem, we're gonna have to
figure it out. So oh why is that like that? Sorry?
This jade is not on you either. I'm just trying

(45:39):
to figure something out here. Okay, alright, well I think
that'll go ahead and time out, all right? Eight eight
eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Now what
is this.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
To do?

Speaker 1 (45:56):
Okay? Oh wow? Okay, some of these are horrible names.
All right, Well i'mna have to look that up, sir,
because if not, I'm gonna insult to slice of my
audience here. I love, I love I love talking about
how things got their names. All right, let me uh,

(46:16):
let me do this. We'll go ahead and set this up.
I I'm trying to figure out too, if we're gonna
be chatting with Stephen Kent last. I knew he was
in Estonia. I'm not making that up. That's where he
was sweet because he couldn't be on in uh in
a in a country that some people probably think is

(46:37):
made up. Any Wait, wait, wasn't that the one from
the Avengers movie? No, no, it's the whole thing. So
he's over there, so maybe we'll talk to him. But
what I really want to talk to him about is
this this uh, this sky Dance Paramount, Warner Brothers now
Netflix thing with this bidding war Like they're predicting that

(46:58):
if Netflix does get the Warner Library, it will they
will have no incentive to release movies into theaters and
it will be the death of theaters. So yeah, yeah, well,
I mean that's what that's what people are throwing out there.
They're just like, this will this will be the end
of it. It'll be all over if they were allowed
to do this, And so I love it. I do

(47:19):
want to chat with Stephen about that. So whether we
get to talk to him here at eight oh five
I haven't heard back from him, or you know, the
next time he's available, that will definitely be on the
topic here on the CaCO Day radio program. All right,
So we got into a discussion about town names just
because I saw there was something called Beehive, Texas and

(47:40):
our b cave excuse me, and I just realized that
somebody probably had a really really awful day one day
and they're like, don't go over there, there's a bee cave.
And then somebody build a house. But that probably wasn't
a nice naming, and there's a lot of places like that.
So death Valley. Huh, all right, real quick, John, what's up?

Speaker 3 (48:05):
Heye? I was Obert going from North Carolina the New
Jersey called Chartlesville, Pennsylvania. I wonder how they got that.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
Yeah, well, I don't know. That's uh, that's that's like
booger Hole, West Virginia. How what what is it? Although
I think we did look it up and there was
some sort of slangy reason for it, but you just
never know. All right, let me get into uh, let

(48:40):
me get into this right here. Uh. So Trump has
decided to once again alter the White House Presidential Walk
of Fame. So as you probably are aware from when
he first showed everybody this and had a very interesting
on Joe Biden's entry, it's just a wall with all

(49:03):
the presidents. You just walk along there they are, there's
little plaques, little factoids and what you know, what had
everyone the first time is when when you got to
Joe Biden's it was just a picture of an auto pen, Right,
that was the joke. Well, Trump has adjusted a few
other things surrounding both Biden and Obama. So now there's

(49:27):
two new plaques out of my way pop up. There
are two new plaques under Joe Biden's auto pen photo.
I guess, but you know his his entry and one
of them says sleepy Joe Biden was by far the
worst president in American history. Okay, Biden oversaw a series

(49:50):
of unprecedented disasters that brought our nation to the brink
of destruction. His policies caused the highest inflation ever recorded,
leading to the US dollar to lose more than twenty
percent of its value in four years. Now, I know
those people are probably sitting here and they're going, well,
this is really childish. Why is he doing it? I'm
going to defend this. I'm going to defend this. You

(50:14):
know why, because I'm sitting here and I'm really remember
what we talked about with Why what Trump was trying
to accomplish yesterday with his primetime speech. It wasn't just
about seventeen seventy six checks and you know, putting money
back in consumers' hands for healthcare and so just giving
it to you know, the big hospital systems in pharma,
they're still going to get it. But it's you know,

(50:38):
he is, He's pulling on some strings over there. But
in reality, what that thing was about is Trump loves
his factoids, he loves his charts. He's seen him, he
understands him. He's a business guy, and he realizes that, well,
he understands that you don't love his charts enough because

(50:59):
you know, you're busy, you're doing stuff, and while you
kind of know things, maybe you don't know some really
important things that are coming down the pipe. That he
wants to make sure that you understand that he's looking
out for the long term. And that's what all the
little charts and the numbers and things were about yesterday.
Well that's what this is about, because that little blurb

(51:20):
there has one of the numbers he really wanted to
get out there. His policies caused the highest inflation ever recorded,
leading the US dollar to lose more than twenty percent
of its value in four years. So he simultaneously does
that on the day that he's holding the you know,

(51:42):
the educational workshop that you know was last night's speech
at nine and so if people now want to report
on this, even to call him immature, and they post
the plaques. Now somebody else is seeing this thing who
probably wouldn't have tuned inlets night because they turned into
the Red Hulk when they watch him, because like, there's

(52:07):
a screw loose man. But now he gets coverage of
exactly the stuff he wants to get out there, even
if they just want to use it to beat up
on him. It's kind of brilliant, kind of brilliant. I
like it. Remember I said there was two plaques. There's

(52:28):
let's see here. Yeah, let me keep reading nickname both
sleepy and crooked. Joe Biden was dominated by his radical
left handlers. They and their allies in the fake news
media attempted to cover up his severe mental decline and
his unprecedented use of the auto pen. All right, so uh,

(52:50):
and then here's the here's the other plaque, because that
was all in the first plack. So here's the oh
excuse me, that was in the original plaque, and then
the new plaque. And then I'm going to read you
the second new plaque. So there's three plaques, very busy space.
The plaque reads quote following his humiliating debate loss to

(53:12):
President Trump in the big June twenty twenty four debate,
he was forced to withdraw from his campaign for reelection
in disgrace. Oh yeah, that's his bait. That's bait right there.
So yeah, yeah, I'm going to defend it because I
kind of understand what they're going for here is this

(53:35):
is about blitzing the consumer base, all right. This was
about you know, the speeches he's given, the interviews, the
thing he gave last night, and then any coverage he
gets on this or the seventeen seventy six checks or
any of the rest. This is a this isn't everything,
all of the walls, so to speak, marketing effort, branding effort,

(53:58):
and you're just seeing one piece of it here. He
also took He also took jabs of former President Barack Obama,
calling him one of the most divisive political figures in
American history. I don't disagree with that. I mean, I
don't know how you can argue that Obama was not divisive.

(54:23):
It was divisive even before a word was spoke, right
just on the just on the lines of you know,
never having we've never had a president wasn't white. So
you had that and then you had everything that came
with it, from the healthcare to the race stuff to
the you name it, but like, I don't know how

(54:43):
you argue that it wasn't. As president, he passed the
highly ineffective Unaffordable Care Act, resulting in his party losing
control of both Houses of Congress and the election of
the largest House Republican majority since nineteen forty six. Obama

(55:04):
also spied on the twenty sixteen presidential campaign of Donald
Trump and presided over the creation of the Russia Russia hoax,
the worst political scandal in American history. His hand picked successor,
Hillary Rodham. Clinton would then lose the presidency too. Drum
roll please, Donald J. Trump. So yes, and again that's

(55:30):
other stuff he wants out there, the Unaffordable Care Act,
as he calls it, because this is here's the thing,
and it's really hard in political world to communicate what
is a very easy story to communicate, because nobody really
just says it like that. They're already they're already approaching

(55:50):
it from the worst case scenario, right, if they do anything,
if they touch Obamacare in anyway, all the all the
memas die, right or you know what, ever, garbage they're
they're up there, when in reality, even if you were,
even if you like the effort that they were making,
when it comes to the Affordable Care Act, it's fundament
it's fundamentally broke. The only thing you need to know

(56:12):
is it was passed. Forget that, you even forget the
political side of the fact that it had no Republican votes,
but which was the thing, but it was passed. It
fundamentally financially can't support itself unless it receives these giant
subsidies which were shimming in and put on this uh
this three year window by the very same people are

(56:35):
now arguing that they have to be a part of it,
because if they're not a part of it, everybody realizes
that this plan is there's you can't afford it, and
then it crumbles, and then what the hell do you do?
That's it. You don't even have to get partisan on it.
This thing doesn't work. It's broken. The only way that
it will keep working is if you pay this obscene

(56:56):
amount of you know, extra fees, and and if you
don't pay him, then it stops working. It's like there's
a Black Mirror episode you guys watch that I really
did that show on the most recent season where basically
if you if you go brain dead, they can bring
you back. And but all the ways in which this
woman gets manipulated, it's just it's really well done. And

(57:19):
uh yeah yeah. It kind of kind of feels like
that where you sold one thing it's something entirely different,
and then it's just out of control financially, and a
fix is not just to throw money at it, which
is what they're doing, all right, seven forty five raced age.
It doesn't want to hear me BLOWVI eight. He just
wants to share the good weather news.

Speaker 2 (57:39):
Right, yeah, it's good, yeah, all these things right, it
at least sits mild. Don't have to worry about snow
or ice or anything over the next to several days,
even leading up to Christmas.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
I think we'll be in good shape.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
You know, we had that kind of little touch casey
of winter, so everybody's kind of like, you know, you
kind of think like, wow, is this what the whole
winter's going to be like?

Speaker 1 (57:59):
I don't know, maybe, but.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
I think everybody will settle around sixty today be pretty
happy with that. The rain probably holds off to mid
to late afternoon from west to east and we'll get
occasional rain and showers tonight. I wouldn't be surprised if
as a rumble of thunder somewhere, and we don't see really.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
Temperatures drop much.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
Mid upper fifties for the overnight low temperatures and then
tomorrow's shower early yeah, so in the fifties and then
falling temperatures from the mid fifties and upper fifties to
around fifty in the afternoon, so it's not like they're
tumbling terribly tomorrow with the gusty breeze, and then we
kind of reset and we get back into sunshine for
a couple of days. For Saturday Sunday near fifty depends

(58:37):
on where you are, try it probably upper forties, trying
the low fifties. And then Sunday we're hovering near sixty,
mostly sunny. So it does look like a nice weekend
coming up as we get into Christmas week, stay dry
and sunny on Monday with highs in the mid upper forties,
so a little bit cooler, but you know, really not bad.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
And as I said, don't see any real Arctic outbreaks
over the next several days. Let me, I'm going to
ask you this because I'll forget at some point and
tomorrow Tomorrow's White of the Year. Oh that's right. I'm
not asking you about that. I just want to know
if you're gonna win the Pin Stripe Bowl up there
in New York City, Clemson, Penn State For folks who

(59:16):
don't know, yes, yeah.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
Being a New York person, it's it's it's kind of cool.
But I say yes only because of I think Penn
State will have less talent playing because of what their
second line is. Then maybe I think Clemson's got maybe
a little bit deeper in terms of depth, and I
think Kid's gonna play, so they'll have a couple of
the major starters playing.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
But uh so I think they win. Okay, all right,
that's we got. Well, you got ten days, nine days,
so yeah, next Saturday. Yep. So you like that they
play in Yankee Stadium, cold weather? No, I don't like
it at all. Okay, I thought there was a gym
to go to one of these. You're like, you're going
to a bowl game, and but now you're gonna go
play in the snow. Screw that noise. So I guess

(01:00:01):
two things I don't like. Well, I guess it's all
the same.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
I don't like football games being played in baseball stadiums,
and I do not like football games being played when
the infield's still showing. Remember the days which Oakland, I
remember a lot where you know you're playing in like
the football the baseball field was this the dirt was
still there with the Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
I don't like that either. But okay, all right, I
feel you man. All right, thank you, we'll chat an hour.
There you go, race stage for the Weather Channel. All right,
stick ground phone calls coming up next, hang on, let
me grab a phone call here in this segment.

Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
One of the things that was announced yesterday is the
assistant director of the FBI, Dan Bongino, is leaving. And uh,
I don't know. Do you think he got sick of it?
Did Trump walk them? You know, clearly when it comes
to be telling Bongino, the enemies that try they you know,

(01:01:04):
they don't really like either of these guys. But I
don't know what getting the scalpel Bongino's going to do,
so uh, we're just speculating on that. All right, Jamal,
you want to weigh in, go right ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
Hey, Casey, how you're doing? Casey? I say this one
of the reasons why Dan Bongino was leaving because when
he got in there, he saw how hard it was
to really clean it up. You know, I'm a Republican.
I love my Republican Party, and under President Trump, eighty
five percent of the stuff I want I have gotten. However,
the Republicans before Donald Trump passed these little backroom deals

(01:01:38):
to where the bureaucrats the barocracy get protection to where
if you try to fire them, well, the law says
you got to do this, you got to do this,
you got to do this, and it's hard, and when
they're an open rebellion, like many of these FBI agents
weren't and are, you can't get rid of them because
the barroccery said you have to go through these steps.

(01:02:01):
And I do believe Dann Bongino just got frustrated because
from how they are describing the Black Pipe bomber who
Dad was with Benjamin Crump. They had been had this evidence,
they know who it was, but they wouldn't move on it.
And there was nothing they can do to get those

(01:02:23):
agents who sat on this. And nobody can't promote President
Trump when it comes to why he did the presidential
portrait Poetrass. Nobody can promote President Trump and put the
passion on the things he rarely want to concentrate on,
like President Trump. Nobody can do that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
Like well, I mean, clearly he's gonna get he's gonna
get earned pressed for it. So it'll be interesting. So
if you're but you're if you're Bongino and you see
these things, it's it's not like he can just go
tomorrow or whatever his last day is the next day
and be like, all right, here's all the secret stuff, right,
Because he's been privy to a lot of stuff that

(01:03:04):
he's not gonna be talk about. It's going to be
very frustrating for him.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
Well it's gonna it's gonna be frustrating from him. But
for the stuff he can say he will, and he
can talk about the process. He might not can't talk
about the individual agent or the individual investigation, but he
can talk about the process and say, hey, people, this

(01:03:29):
is why the this was able to happen. We have
to get the governments, we have to get the Republicans'.

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
Huge them all. But here's the here's the problem. One
of the things that bothers me immensely are these accounts
to go big news coming at three. Oh my gosh,
you're not gonna believe it. Oh god, Yes, it's just
the worst. And Bongino is going to be stuck in
that perpetually probably, and he's you know, I'm not even
accusing him of doing although he used to do it. Uh,

(01:04:00):
he would do stuff like that. But like, there's gonna
be a lot of teases that are never paid off.
And I think that it's gonna be hard to slip
into a role where you know stuff. You can hint
it stuff, but you can never say the stuff. And
because see it'll irritate listeners. I think just from my
you know, that's that's my own theory as somebody who

(01:04:22):
does this thing. And thanks for the call there, Jamal.
Although I know I'm horrible, but I don't do it intentionally.
My mind just wanders because I see a shiny object.
So I think it's a little different, and I do
try to get back to some of it. So there
is that as well. It is Thursday. Glad to have
you along here on the CaCO Day Radio program. All right.

(01:04:44):
I didn't think we were gonna have Stephen today just
because we didn't get a confirmation and he's doing some traveling,
so well that's a shame. But definitely we'll have lots
to talk to because you know, tomorrow is the last
show of the year for US. We will return on
January fifth, So I don't know what I'm gonna do tomorrow. Ooh,

(01:05:10):
I could we could just do like a phone it
in Friday, old timey where I'm just like, hey, whatever
you guys want to talk about. I'll have to figure
out some guardrails. So I don't know. Maybe we'll just
do a normal show tomorrow, or we just talk about
movies the whole time. In sports, we'll have like no
politics Friday, except what you know, something crazy will happen

(01:05:33):
and I can or maybe they'll actually find the person
up at Brown. Oh yeah, no real update there, just
grainy photo after grainy photo and just absolutely in nept leadership,
just awful. Every time I see the every time I
see like the president up there, not the president, like

(01:05:55):
Trump at the president of the university, I'm like, why
do you keep why do you keep walking it up
to a microphone. It hasn't It's like it hasn't worked
out for you yet, almost for none of you people
I think that there was like one first responder who
was just talking about, you know, what they were doing

(01:06:16):
there that that actually sounded competent and put that person
in charge. I don't know, it was like an assistant
something or other than the police, but like he seemed
actually competent. Everybody else just drooling morons. Man, So that
was going on. I don't know, so, uh, we'll see,
We'll see how we craft that. This is Uh, this

(01:06:37):
is interesting. Here's what I want to ask you as
a parent. Are you comfortable with your kid having an
AI toy or access really to an AI buddy?

Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
Is that something you're comfortable with because some of this
stuff is crazy. I don't know if you've been following this,
I will say it is bipartisans So there's that because
you got Marsha Black working with Richard Blumenthal. Oh yeah,
those two cannot be more different. However, they are raising

(01:07:09):
alarm over toys, many of them coming from China, right,
That's not unusual. It's where a lot of most of
our toys come from, I think. But these are toys
that have an AI component and really disturbing stuff. So
they did a bunch of testing from toys from let's
see Little Learners Toys, Mattel, Miko Kirio, full of toy

(01:07:35):
I don't even know some of these brands. And what
they wanted to do is they wanted to test, you know,
how the AI interacts with the kids. And I'm telling
you some of these toys were like just spitting Chinese propaganda.
It was crazy, right, I'll let you guess where those
were made. But a lot of the toys, they said,

(01:07:56):
and this is part of who did this US public
interest group education fund? All right? So they found several
of these AI enabled toys from different brands will engage
in sexual discussion with your kids, inappropriate conversations of other varieties, right,
you know, things like from a gory perspective that you

(01:08:17):
probably don't want little kids being shared that type of information.
One manufacturer from China named Myriat, which sells what's called
a my lou plush toy. I guess it's very popular.
I'm so my education on toys comes once a year
when we do that big toy drive. And then I

(01:08:39):
look at it and I go, the kids are so spoiled.
Look at all this stuff they have. And then I
march in and donate a bunch of fishing poles, because
that's just me. That being said, like, some of these
toys are crazy, crazy like what they can do, and
I just can't even imagine having access to from a

(01:09:00):
technological standpoint, what these toys can do. And don't get
me wrong, from a cool perspective, we had better toys,
but I can't argue the technology. Well, if you have
a milu plush, it will be happy to share step
by step instructions on how to acquire and light matches
as well as how to sharpen knives. Now, the match

(01:09:24):
thing is a little troubling, the knife sharpening thing. I mean,
that's just one of those guardrails you're just gonna have
to get built up, right, because I was a kid
who got taught how to sharpen a knife properly. Yeah,
well it was by a family member. But that being said,
you know, I can see where some of this stuff

(01:09:45):
may slip by from a it sounds innocent enough standpoint.
The AI power device. Oh, by the way, so that
there's the kids toys part of this. I almost forgot
the best part. There's the kid's toys, but also there's
other AI toys not for the kids. And you see

(01:10:12):
where I'm going here. Okay, so it's something you're gonna
go get at the store with no windows, that one,
and that they also now there it's less an issue
of like adult conversation because it's adults. But they found
some that were also spitting Chinese propaganda, and I'm like, boy,

(01:10:32):
that's gonna be a buzzkill. Right, Everything's going fine, Yeah,
the kids are over at your parents for the weekend.
It's just you two, you're rekindling your romance. And then
right there, all of a sudden, it's like the Little
Red Book. You should read it. MAO had a lot
of good ideas. Oh man, you want to talk about
killing the mood. So but anyway, let's go back to

(01:10:54):
the kid. The kid's component here. I just thought that
was kind of funny aside, because that's a that's a
whole nother problem right there. I thought of coming up
with fun communism themed double on andres, but I decided
I was too mature for that. But I've got some doozies.
And also I thought I might get fired, and then,

(01:11:15):
like you know, with tomorrow being the last show, would
be a self fulfilling prophecy. So but yeah, I'll let
your mind do the work. So now what do the
senators want? They want the companies, Uh, because it's less
the toy, right, or I mean, it's it's not how
you present it. It's the AI that you're presenting. Right.

(01:11:35):
The toy is just a reper you know, so your
kid will hold onto it and play with it. But like,
this is one of the really scary sides of the AI.
So my question is for parents, are we do you
have a problem with a minor child, and if so,
at what age having access to an AI, especially when

(01:11:56):
AIS are still really evolving and developing, and and clearly
they're able to create issues here. And then we had
that really tragic story where chat GPT is being sued
because a kid committed suicide. And if you look at
the chat transcript, like clearly the AI was was helping,

(01:12:21):
given some advice, giving him compliments on the equality of
his noose. I mean, really really bad stuff there. But
these toys, like the ones I'm looking at here, these
are for little little kids. I'd say that I'm looking
at these are for like toddlers right here. I can't

(01:12:42):
imagine letting the toddler have access to AI in any way,
shape or form. So like, that's a whole new thing
that modern parents. You know that my parents ever had
to worry about, probably not yours, but now you if
you got kids, this is what you think about. And
I know we're still having debates over screen time on
a screen time with something that can you know, easily

(01:13:03):
fool a child to be a person. And then if
you're just letting that person in the form of hey,
I raise your kid. God only knows man. So as
a parent, what is your AI policy? Plus, you don't
want your kid getting so comfortable they start cheating later
in life in school. I can't I can't even imagine
all the concerns. So eight eight eight nine three four

(01:13:26):
seven eight seven four I am curious what folks are doing.
What is this? Oh? I see that? Okay, yes, those
those would be the other toys I was talking about.
I don't know exactly what the Chinese propaganda was, but
I see that. This is what interests you in this story, sir,

(01:13:46):
And I'm here to help the kids. So priorities, all right?
Eight point fifteen Back in just a few Trump announced
during his speech yesterday, if you don't know what it is.
Members of the military. Uh, basically the mid level officers
and then everybody down and then everybody you know, all enlisted.

(01:14:08):
So we'll get a one time, one thousand and seven
hundred and seventy six dollars bonus. Have you been like, oh,
you know, it's I guess because they can't be mad
over it. They're gonna be mad that it's not enough,
which is crazy considering that the Democrats got mad when
they paid the military during the shutdown. They were angry

(01:14:30):
about it. Go back, we played the audio, you saw
the interviews. They would be like, oh, you can't know,
you can't do that. I mean they couched it under.
You got to have everybody get paid. And it's like, well,
then stop voting to keep everything closed and everyone will
get paid. But what do you care? Because remember somebody
stepped up to pay the military. So and also, what

(01:14:53):
is the what's the most common pay grade in the military?
Hangout just a second. It was probably what E four.
I think I'm right on that. I don't know why.
I think I knew that from some other thing. Yeah,
all right, so Google agrees with me. Take that's what
it's worth, all right? So what is what is what
is somebody who's e for in the military making Because
it's not just that, it's also longevity, right, so you

(01:15:15):
get the grade in the well on a little chart here,
I'm they're not even clarint forty k. Yeah, so depending
on so based on your rank in this case four
and then anywhere from like twenty six hundred to thirty

(01:15:37):
two hundred based on longevity. And I'm sure there's other
things there too, So that's not hard and fast, but
I don't know. A couple grand to somebody who's how
you know, is clearing forty thousand, that sounds pretty good.
I'm sure they'll make fine use of it. I'm sure
they'll also make not so fine use of it, but
you know, that's that's what it's there for. There you go, So, I,

(01:15:58):
you know, getting upset over that, I don't know what
you want. I'm actually I'm actually curious they're not more
upset over the website. All right. So one of the
things he announced is, and this is my first time
he's talked about it, is locking in some deals on
certain medications. You've heard him have a couple press conferences

(01:16:21):
with his pharma buddies there and talked about some of
these medicines are kind of picking and choosing, So where
you got to put all that information somewhere? So Trump
announced that there will be starting in January and new
website where you can go learn about take advantage of
these price reductions. And the website, I'm not making this

(01:16:41):
up is TRUMPARX dot gov, TRUMPURX dot guy. And I
will say this, you better make sure it works right.
You don't want to roll out a healthcare related government
website with your name smeared on it and then have
it just turned into a debacle. So uh, let's uh,

(01:17:04):
I guess we'll see where that goes. But yeah, Trump
RX dot gov. He didn't say when in January, but
it was just one of those things where I kind
of laughed because he like, you can you can name
it cheap drugs or whatever. Well, then it sounds like
a scammy site. But they're the amount of purging of stuff.
It's gonna be very interesting the next time a Democrat

(01:17:25):
gets in office, Like are they are they gonna go?
It's not the Department of War anymore. It's not the
Gulf of America. We gotta change the website for this thing.
Oh my god, they're gonna name the ballroom after him.
Maybe we got to stop the like it's gonna be frantic,
but at least it won't just be abandoning the border
as your first act, so it'll be more petty things.

(01:17:47):
Maybe that's part of the trap as well. I don't know. Uh,
all right, we gotta talk about this. What what the heck?
Why are you going to the airport with measles? What
is that? URDU passenger had measles? So if you were
if you traveled on December tenth, what would that be?

(01:18:10):
That would have been one week ago from yesterday, so
it would have been a Wednesday. So if you were
at RDU Airport in the early morning hours, which is
always a very very busy time between four and eight,
you might have measles or had been exposed to measles,
it's probably the better way to say that. And where

(01:18:32):
was this Terminal two? So of course the busy terminal.
Someone with measles traveled through Terminal two at RDU Airport.
That according to North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
Let's see, do they travel through or do they depart
from or I guess arrive, No, I probably departure. Well

(01:18:56):
it's important because you know, if they ron alay over somehow,
then they didn't have to clear security there. So that's
when you really shoe or you know, sardine in there.
M oh I got to say, last time I thought
it was going to be a nightmare. I don't know.
I don't know if they're just getting faster with the

(01:19:18):
with security, like everything outside said it should be an
hour to get through security, and it was a breeze.
They actually had a bunch of things open. So kudos
if they're really making an effort there, because last time
I went through, it was a lot easier than I
thought it was going to be. But anyway, back to this,
so and I understand maybe the person didn't know they

(01:19:39):
had measles and then now they have measles and they
have to report. But also I wouldn't put it past
somebody to show up to the damn airport with measles.
Going back to think about it, last time you were
at the airport, there wasn't somebody who basically sounded like
they have colera right next to you. At some point.
That person's there here on the CaCO day radio program.

(01:20:01):
Uh okay, uh a woman issuing the I R S
to get pets classified as dependents and eligible for tax deductions.
Will you hunter, cat ladies are gonna be rolling in it?
What a dumb idea?

Speaker 2 (01:20:21):
This is.

Speaker 1 (01:20:24):
Also uh so, there's some people who don't think that
children should be allowed to be counted as dependents because like,
why should you get a thing because you're having a kid.
I'm not arguing, I'm just pointing out, like you could
you go really deep on this, but pets. Get out

(01:20:45):
of here with that. She's a lawyer too, by the way,
Mary Reynolds, Oh no, I'm sorry, Finn again. Mary Reynolds
is the dog's name? Okay, that's nice. Amanda Reynolds, Okay,

(01:21:05):
all right, I'm just trying to find this woman's name.
Has fought a lawsuit in the Eastern District of New
York arguing that the dog relies entirely on Reynolds for food, shelter,
medical care, training, transportation, and more. Reynolds argue that Finnegan,
an eight year old Golden Retriever, has no independent income
we'll get a job, lazy, but resides exclusively with her

(01:21:28):
and has annual expenses exceeding five thousand dollars all requirements
for illegal human dependent under IRS rules. So would there
be a max I'm serious, right, if you can ride off,
if you can ride off every pet you own for
five k, you think pet hoarders are going to have

(01:21:49):
the greatest day ever. When the IRS defines pets's property,
Reynolds says, this does not reflect Finnegan's role in their household.
This is the fur baby. This is the fur baby generation.
And and look, I'm not not if you love your pets,
you can be any age god at one hundred percent,

(01:22:12):
but there's not a generation before whatever this is. Who's
like I should be able to write that cat off
like it's a baby, said nobody ever. But now it's
like people are so into their pets. It's why you
can't go to an airport and not see ninety two
you know, service dogs, including one I watch poop on

(01:22:37):
the floor, highly trained beast. That one was what are
we doing here? How is this not? Can't you can't
you lawyers get in trouble for frivolous lawsuits? Oh? She
actually okay, hold on, So she actually argues in her
filing that this is neither frivolous nor meritless for all

(01:23:00):
tents and purposes. Finnigan is like my daughter and is
definitely a dependent. Okay, oh, okay, hold on, it's one
of these. Pull the ladder up. Reynolds goes on to
argue that not classifying all pets is dependents is an
unfair burden to taxpayers, especially since the I R s
says that some pets, namely service animals, can qualify for

(01:23:23):
tax advantages. So yeah, yeah, that's a that's a different
thing entirely. And look, if you want to talk about
what is or isn't a service animal for the purpose
of some tax credit that I'm not even fully aware of,
then fine. But now she's just like, now these are
the same as a baby. Why can't I just get

(01:23:45):
an ant farm and retire? Then you know how many
of those little bastards are in there for five K
a pull? So they have it. So this thing is
still ongoing. The I R s IS is expected to
file a motion to dismiss the case, but has not
done so yet. It's because they got probably three thousand

(01:24:08):
better things. If this holds up my return, it would
be so upset, all right. Eight thirty nine so all right,
is that a good idea? Of course it's not. But
man like pet hoarding to uh for tax purposes, all

(01:24:29):
the shelters they have the exact opposite problem. We've got
no animals. All out of animals today. You just have
to hang a big sign so you don't waste people's time.
Sorry clothes, no animals. People just breeding. Because here's here's
the thing. And I've told this story because it's one
of my favorite stories on the unintended consequences but hugely

(01:24:51):
foreseeable consequences, and that is when the when the British
were essentially trying to tame India, and they had big
problems with poisonous snakes, as they still do. So they
put a bounty on these snakes, you know, cobras and
a couple others over there, and you could come turn
them in and then they would give you money. And

(01:25:12):
that program worked. It worked great. In fact, it worked
so great they figured out that what was happening is
the villagers, knowing that every snake the attorney was going
to give them this money, started breeding the snakes so
they would have like clandestine snake. I don't know what

(01:25:33):
you would raise a snake and it's not a terrarium
is the thing I'm looking for, but essentially a snake
farm where you're just making more snakes so you can
bring him in. So the guys in the pointy hats
with the pith helmets of the day, you could go
ahead and pay you that money. So yeah, this seems
like an equally bad idea, but at least it's mildly amusing,

(01:25:56):
all right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seven four real quick this. I was gonna say this
to tomorrow, but let me just throw this out. Apparently
more and more Americans just think the appropriate Christmas gift
is cash, which I'm not opposed to. Anytime somebody wants
to give me cash, you're more than welcome to do it.

(01:26:19):
I will take I'll even take it in other currencies,
you know, if they're not you know the thing in
Zimbabwe where you had to have the trillion dollar note.
But yeah, yeah, I'll take your cash. That's no problem,
Very good with that. But well, I am the majority
six and ten Americans say cash or gift cards is

(01:26:41):
an absolutely acceptable holiday present. My grandmother if she heard
that you got somebody a gift card or gave you
give people cash on their birthdays, you know, things like that,
and she'd you know, she'd send the card, but giving
cash or a gift card, she would have lost her
mind because her big thing was because she was also

(01:27:04):
a big you know, she'd do the gift the holiday carts.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And my grandfather was I
think he told me that she had like two hundred
she'd said out every year, and he's just like, hey,
she's happy do the thing, but like every time a
little bit of the spirit got pulled away, she get

(01:27:24):
upset with that. But also I've been there where I'm like,
I don't know what you want, but I know you
know what you want. I respect your maturity to make
that decision. Here's a gift card, go do your thing.
So yeah, I'm fine with that. But for the first
time more a majority of Americans are fine with that.

(01:27:47):
So we just we're just slipping away into that or
is that just really the most convenient thing though, because
there's just you know, back in the day when you
didn't own a lot, then you know, Nana knew you
wanted socks because you need it socks. Now that might
be the least of your concern with all the different
toys and electronics and tugging adult toys too, you know,

(01:28:09):
like for your man cave all that kind of stuff. So, uh,
let's get raised agent from the Weather Channel here six
and ten Americans say they cash or gift cards is
just fine for holiday gift giving. I just fet my
grandma would lose. She get mad at you if she
found out that you just gave somebody a gift card,
because she wanted you to think, yeah, figure it out.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
And so and that's been the struggle between my family
and then my wife's family. They're all about gifts and
opening gifts, and my mother's more about I'm just gonna
write your kids a check. I'm like, that's fine by me. Yeah,
and you can write me a check while you're at it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:44):
I just saw I opened the segment. I said, anyone
who wants to give me money money, yeah, and especially
as they get older. I mean, I do get it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:52):
It's like my mother's like, you know, maybe one gift
and then we'll just run on like that's fine because
they let them go do their own thing. It's you know,
I don't want to take away from the spirit, right,
the spirit of the holiday, but it's it's kind of like,
you know, you don't want to give you remember those
gifts you used to get when you were a kid from.

Speaker 1 (01:29:09):
A cousin or something.

Speaker 2 (01:29:11):
No used to get the latch kit latch keys gif.

Speaker 1 (01:29:14):
Yeah, that was one of them. And you're kind of like, yeah,
I'll never use that. Oh, thank you, thank you, but
you know what I mean. If and then you'd have
to hear it's the thought that counts, exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
The thought that count Yeah. Well, the thought was, you know,
while you could have gave me five bucks and I
would have been happier than you know, even the ten
dollars whatever. All right, you're okay, that was kind of greenchy.
Starting to see the clouds come in now there's a
little bit of clear sky, but to more clouds than sunshine.
Showers breaking out of North Georgia and south southwestern parts

(01:29:47):
of UH Georgia heading north northeast, so that's our direction.
We'll get that rain in here mid to late afternoon today,
very mild, so we kind of turned it around. Close
to sixty tonight, rain showers around and some fog. By morning,
we're only dropping to the mid upper fifties, when's gonna
start to whip up too, so with those winds gusting
thirty plus, kind of breezy tomorrow morning, maybe a shower

(01:30:08):
left over and then some sunshine with falling temperatures. But
they'll get too scared. It's not like we're falling from
fifty seven to twenty seven. We're going like mid fifties
to like maybe fifty or the upper forties by later
in the evening hours, so towards dinner time, and then
the weekend's going to shape up to be pretty nice,
near fifty Saturday and Sunday, and on Sunday close to

(01:30:29):
sixty once again before we get slightly cooler early next week.

Speaker 1 (01:30:32):
Let's also remind people three they were straight days of
NFL football too. Oh that's right, yeah, because we got
two Saturday games Saturday, Sunday and in the Monday. Yeah,
and you got Bowl games galore. Yeah, yep. Yeah, it's
the weekend hopefully not moving around too much. Yeah. Oh
I don't plan on it. Okay, all right, thank you, sir,

(01:30:53):
appreciate it. All right, there you go. Raced Agic from
the Weather Channel. All right, we're gonna come back. We
will chat with Denise Pellegreen from Bloomberg and we'll do
it next.

Speaker 3 (01:31:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:31:04):
I mean, we have a report out on inflation showing
inflation coming in lower than expected for November, significantly lower
when you look at core inflation, and stock futures are
searching on that. Also, we had some positive tone comments
from Micron, memory chip maker that's giving tech shares a boost.

(01:31:24):
And right now Dow futures up two thirty five s
and P futures up fifty four, Nasdaq futures up three
forty one, and of course those headlines on inflation good
news for consumers as well. Tesla drivers are buying tools
to avoid getting trapped at the electronic doors malfunction, in
a crasher, in some other situation. They're buying things like
things that will help you cut the windows or cut

(01:31:46):
the doors, or other things that will help you get
out of the vehicle if you can't. Tesla's working on
a redesign behind the flush handles, and regulators are also
looking at the problem. President Trump plans military bonuses and
housing reform to ease price anxiety. He's announcing that service
members will receive a Warrior dividend of more than seventeen

(01:32:07):
hundred dollars this will be before Christmas for more than
a million people, and the president also expected to announce
new housing reform plans. He's also touting new FED chairmen.
He says Blue believes in low interest rates. We don't
know who that is yet. About whoever it is, President
Rump is going to make sure that they support those
low interest rates. If you've noticed more women behind the

(01:32:29):
wheel of Walmart trucks, rightly, you're right. About eighteen percent
of Walmart's truckers are now women. That's nearly double the
rate of the female drivers at competitions. Walmart has taken
initiatives things like pairing drivers up on more dangerous routes
and offering more predictable schedules. A new report says in
Stacart may be charging some customers way more than others.

(01:32:52):
It's concluded the grocery shopping app is using AI power
dynamic pricing, you know, just like ride share companies do
when it's raining. But in Stickhart tells Techcunt it prefers
to call the practice an AI enabled pricing experiment. Soon,
Meta's ray Ban sunglasses will help you hear better. Meta
says conversation focus is the mode it'll use the glasses

(01:33:15):
open ear speakers to make your conversation partner, the one
you're standing there talking to, sound slightly louder than all
the surrounding noise in places like restaurants or trains and
buses amplifies.

Speaker 1 (01:33:28):
She's back, all right, I don't know what happened there?

Speaker 4 (01:33:33):
Oh yeah, can you hear?

Speaker 1 (01:33:34):
Oh yeah, no, no no, you just literally your comrades
cut out that you just came back. I'm here.

Speaker 4 (01:33:39):
So I was going to say, Chipotle has this extra
sweater by one get one, I think because they want
you to go into Chipotle because they are unveiling their
new high protein menu next Tuesday. They've got all these
ads up for that and items ranging from fifteen to
eighty one grams of extra protein per item. Protein, as

(01:33:59):
you know, is the new thing that everybody's going for.

Speaker 1 (01:34:02):
So oh yeah, got that as well. Okay, all right, hey,
jam you might have had this story earlier this week,
this lunatic lady who's a lawyer up in New York
who wants her dog to be like a you could
get a tax right off like a kid. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:34:16):
And the really funny thing is I know someone who
used to work here who tried that about twenty five
years ago. The guy was single, and he was so sincere,
and he loved his dog. Oh, I was just convinced
that the dog was a dependent and it cost him
an arm and a leg, and he literally called he

(01:34:36):
named the dog his dependent. And he of course ran
into big trouble with the irs because you know, I mean,
that's not but now you know people, look, people are
pushing around these dogs and strollers. I don't know if
you've seen this thing about Japan.

Speaker 1 (01:34:52):
Yeah, she goes on.

Speaker 4 (01:34:53):
You know, they don't have kids, and the temples are
making money, you know, doing this for dogs instead. So
and you know, if you're an apartment owner, you cannot
rent your apartment unless you agree to have pets or
you will not get you know, the renting population of
millennials ors.

Speaker 1 (01:35:10):
And this is but this is the pushback to these
This is the pushback just because let me just say
this because I only got about a minute. Oh I
got two minutes. Ere mind, the pushback is and people go, well,
you know, it's because pets are so expensive. Pets are
expensive because you all made him expensive. All right, let
me just give you the ranch kid perspective on this Okay,

(01:35:30):
pets are expensive because you made him expensive, right, your cat?
Oh your cat? Oh he needs a liver transplant. No, no,
he needs you need that. You need you can, you know,
for like another twenty dollars, you can just get all
the things transplanted. It's called a new cat. It's new
And then there you go, boom and I just saved
you six thousand dollars on pet surgery Amazon