Friday-09-08-2023

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Episode Transcript

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All right, good Friday morning,everybody, and welcome. It is the
case O Day Radio program. Andyou know, one of the things that
we do here on the show,we call them service elements in the bizz.
That's gonna be things like news,weather, traffic, you know,
stuff that's handy on your day today. I'm gonna supersede the traffic today

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and just encourage you to just becomea shut in. Okay, just lock
yourself in your house, don't don'tbe near whatever side of your house is
nearest the road, and you know, keep the radio tuned, streaming we
get, you know, on theiHeart radio app, get your smart device

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in there. Do that. Don'tleave your house. It's not safe.
I just listened to Ross regale meof his experience, and I haven't physically
been into the North Carolina DMV ina while, although next time I renew
it's I have to do it.I'm gonna have to physically go in there.
But that's not till right right,because a couple of years you have

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one shot right where you can doit online, but the next eight years,
after eight years and then it alternates, you have to go in person.
And the reason for that is theydon't want people losing their vision and
then they're driving into people. Well, that sounds like that might be the
least of the issues. What Rossjust told me terrifies me. But it
makes so much sense, right,No, it no, it does,
although to some extent, like youcan kind of go, oh, maybe

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COVID screwed everybody up. Like doyou remember when people were driving a thousand
miles an hour and horribly during COVID, when there was like a third of
the cars on the road. Right, this is when it's like, are
you a necessary employee? You'd goon you'd go on like four forty or
forty for that matter, and there'slike four open lanes and nobody can maintain

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one. And I'm like, everyonejust went stupid. But now that I
have the information that you just provided, I I think we're onto something,
dude. It was so eye opening, all right, right, sit down,
everybody, so first seated. Idecided I wasn't gonna go take and
renew this thing in Raleigh because thatwould be completely insane. So I went
somewhere else close to Wake Forest.I don't want to name the the specific

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to one of the you went toone of the rural offices. I did
the smaller way, but thirty minutesaway from Wake Forest. So yeah,
okay, driving down there. Andyou know how I am. I'm very
punctual for things. I'm always ontime. I get my work done.
I worry about things prime more thanyou're you're a little You're you're definitely prepared
oriented, right, tend to stressabout stuff. I was really prepared.

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Yeah, I was prepared for thisthing. And it said on the DMV
website that to an EER license youwould have to take a vision test and
an eye test, no, youknow, a sign test and an item.
So I was even like super prepared. I'm like, this is probably
gonna be an all day or deal. I am not going to go there
a second time, just to besafe. I'm going to get glasses like

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a prescription in case I need them. Yeah, and then I'm going to
go there and see if I couldtake the test with or without. But
anyway, sign tests just real quicklyfor the signed test when I moved to
North Carolina that I had to takethat at the time because I was new
to the state. When I'm well, here's the thing. So when I

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moved here in two thousand and six, he had to take a knowledge test
or not. That's what That's whatI'm talking. It was a twenty five
question written test about the rule like. It covered everything. How many points
go in your license, If youpass a stop school bus, you're right
of way? How does it roundaboutwork? What is the yield sign?
Got all this kind of stuff.They got to catch you, and you

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had to get twenty out of twentyfive other ways you fail. You also
had to do a vision test anda signed test. That's what you did
in two thousand and six. Thatis not the case anymore. That's what
I gathered after being at the DMVfor three plus hours yesterday afternoon. Not
just for you because you have one, but you're saying that people who were
getting out of state licenses, gettingtheir first NC licenses didn't have to do

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that right first off too, Igot there at twelve o'clock because you can
only do walkings now afternoon. SoI walk in there and they said,
do you have an appointment? Isaid, I don't, but I want
to get a ticket and so enoughto be here all day. So in
my ticket and I sat down andI started talking to people around me and
we all had tickets they were takingus, but nobody had an appointment.
But on the website it said itwas booked up until December, so I

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could have gotten there at like nineand just sort of like walk through,
I guess, but whatever, Sothat that that was incorrect, and I'm
getting ready for my SCIGN test,and yeah, dude, I'm like,
wait, because if you try tobook an appointment online right now, it
is booked up till December. However, I went there yesterday and everybody who
was in line at eleven o'clock,who had been there for hours, had

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no appointment, even though they saidyou couldn't make an appointment, because it
was makes no sense, all right, perfect anyway, So that's the first
dysfunctional thing I noticed when I'm sittingthere. Then I started noticing people going
up and taking their test. Andthere's a person from Florida, and there's
another person from Florida, and aperson from Maryland, and a person from
Vermont and a person from Texas,two of them from Texas. So they're

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going up and they're transferring, youknow, they're getting a new North Carolina
license, whereas in the past youwould have to take the knowledge test,
division tests, and the eye test. That is not the case anymore.
All they do is take the eyetest and the scient test. Oh okay,
all right, there's but they explainsa lot because they no longer have
to take the written twenty five questionsasked about all the laws and how everything

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works. On top of that.Listen, I am like, you know,
it's anonymous business whatever. There aresome people yesterday that should not have
passed this test, that passed thetest, and I understand they're very understaffed

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at the DMV. This DMV hadone person working there, and the room
when I got there at eleven o'clockprobably had about nine people in front of
me. Right, how do youknow they shouldn't have passed? Though?
So I'm sitting there and it's avery tiny office. I want to say.
The size of the DMV was likethe size of maybe a little bit
bigger than your studio in my studiocombined. So we're sitting there and when

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you go up in front of everybody, everybody can hear you. Everybody get
an egg and see you, andthey can they can see everything's going on.
So this one gets up there,it took her I want to say,
ten minutes to do the eye tests, tending like he's in like he's
the woman right now, ten minutesto do this, and when you put
your eyes in the little view master, there is like I don't want to

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say, like seven or eight lettersfrom left to right. And it's in
twenty forty vision. So if youhave twenty forty vision, you're gonna pass.
This woman gets up there. Ittook her ten minutes to read the
first line, and she's going easyto be no easy that you shout,

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pauses, she's pausing. She goeseasy D and then I was like,
yeah, it's a D. Andthen she moves on. Looks to tell
her she's a preschool teacher and shejust got the blocks in. Now she's
going on to the scientist. Andwhere you're supposed to be like you know,
divided highway ahead, put a pedestriancrossing, you always kind of stuck.

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And she goes right. So thisside is like and this isn't what
she sounded like. She actually thisis not so I'm I'm actually changing my
accent to the fen the woman rightright, No, no, no,
no, you want to make thisas anonymous as possible, So that somebody
can get t boned by this crazyThis is not it's now as she's not,
like, so she goes right,So this is like a sign when

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you see it, right, you'vegotta like slow down, but you don't
really have to slow down, likelike if there's cars coming, maybe you
slow down, but you don't haveto. And sometimes you don't slow down,
but sometimes you do. And awoman behind the desk is like,
well, no, no, ma'am, you need to slow down when you
see this sign, you need toslow down. She said, right right,
you need to slow down when yousee it. Yeah. When you

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do that, you know, becauseyou've got to let other people kind of
go. And she's like, yieldand she's like, yeah, yield,
and then she moves on to theto the next sign. So it's not
even one of the hard signs.It's I'm like, woman, it's a
yield sign. I don't think you'reallowed to shout answers from the gallery.
But the woman behind the thing gaveher the answer. She said, you

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mean yield, Yeah, yield.And this happened like two other times,
like to these two people. Iwas there for three plus hours. No
nobody failed their test nobody had anyissue, but they did two of them.
I'm telling you should not of past. One dude gets up there.
One two gets up there and he'sbeen what he was there but when I

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got there at eleven o'clock and itwas this is now like a little after
one o'clock, so he's probably beenthere over two hours. He gets up
there, he has the number iscalled and he goes up and he goes,
yeah, I need to renew mylicense. And he throws two licenses
down. He throws on a regularright class C or whatever, and he
throws down a CDL and he goes, this one is expired. And she
goes, well, no, ifyou got your CDL, you don't need

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this. That is your license.Now you don't need that. This is
your old license that expired. Sowhat are you doing here? And he
goes, well, no, Ihave these two licenses and this would expire.
She goes, no, sir,you're not understand what I'm saying.
This is your license. You don'tneed this license. And he goes,
well, what have I been sittinghere for two plus hours for? And
she goes, I don't don't know, because you read read the website.

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They didn't give him a sticker,they didn't give him a lollipop, nothing.
He just he left. Dude,I'm saying, I'm like, I
got up there, and I'm finallylike I was so excited, and up
to this point, I've been like, really quiet. I got up there,
I'm not leaving. Like I madethis woman laugh the entire time.
She was laughing the entire time.And she says to me, she goes,

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do you need those glasses? AndI said, honestly, I just
got these because I don't want tocome back again. Right, No,
So here's the thing. I wassuper nervous the entire time, like you
months before leading up to this thing. After seeing all the people go up
in front of me, I'm sittingthere and I'm like, I'm golden,
dude, Like, there's no wayin how I'm gonna pa I'm gonna fail
this thing. There's there's no way. So I told her, I said,

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the only reason I got these glassesbecause I didn't want to come back
again. And I thought maybe Ihad failed the vision test and I didn't
want it. So this is justlike you know, in preparation for it.
And she goes, well, youcan take it out their way.
You could take it like first youcan try it with your vision, you
know, with regular vision, thenwith the glasses on. So I took
it with my no glasses past tooklike two seconds because there's literally seven letters

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there. It didn't like to beinitially like oh boom, flawless victory.
Come on man, yeah, sevenin a row. Can you believe that
you're going on? It was astreak. So she assuming you're king of
the DMV at this point, right, she goes, She goes, you
can if you want, you can. You can still wear those glasses to

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drive if they're a prescription. AndI told her, I said, I'm
never wearing these things ever go ever, so like literally right now on the
road, there's just ticking time boBut that's why because of the two you
know of at a small dm Ihave noticed in the past three years,
Like you said, I think,especially after COVID, that people just are

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people always sucked at driving, butnow it's even worse, Like it's so
bad, and there's so many peoplemoving from out of state and these people
no longer have to take the writtentest, and it explains so much.
I've held a license in Wyoming,Colorado, California. And I've always had
to take a written test in everystate. So I've had I've had a

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license in five states, and there'sa yield sign in all of them.
Do you know what I mean?Where you know she was? I want
to say she was from Maryland?Oh, well, can we get her
on one of the Desantists buses headednorth. We'll just trick her. We'll

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tell her it's like a cafe orshe can't see. She'll probably get in
and then boom, just you know, drop her off in Maryland. Dude,
No, no, it's not abeat. Ross just wants to drive
the tank of doom now, andI don't blame him. All right,

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Well, there you go. So, uh, you know, Happy Friday.
That's what you're dealing with on theroad. So if you see a
yield sign, you should just assumethat somebody there doesn't see it or know
what it is. Just fly throughit. Just drive. It's optional.
It's optional. How are you feeling? Do you want to slow it down?
It's up to you. I mean, sometimes you'd slow sometimes you don't.

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I can't. And she corrected herwith the name of the thing.
Huh, All right, I getto feel and they just don't. And
I don't blame them at all,which is why I'm not naming like the
actual where I went, because Idon't want these people get in trouble.
But like I don't feel it.I don't cause because she seemed like she
was a nice person. It justseemed like they did not want to be
there. It needs to be awritten test. Look, I'll tell you

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what. That old man who drovethrough that farmer's market, probably a nice
dude, you know what I mean? Kids were there's original they had,
they had, they have my informationthere. I'm sure it's still there,
and they're gonna go through and belike, Nope, you failed give something
in the mail, be like whathappened? You didn't do a C.

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You said it was an F wasa d fail. The old lady you
drove through the Panera, probably anice lady. Explain so much, gave
her kids, you know, moneyevery Christmas and the birthdays, and still
you know, drove through businesses justsaying all right, so that's how you
get to start your day. Butwe got all sorts of stuff we gotta

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get into. Pete Calendar will joinus eight oh five. As per usual,
I feel like there's a competition nowbetween the big city mayors to figure
out how they can best drop theball on enforcing laws and not having their
citizens terrorized in some instances. Sowe'll make a contest out of it.

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They have the phantom phantom pooper,and we have now in Raleigh unarmed security
people to deal with heavily armed bargoersbased on some very recent stories. So
a plus with that and I'll giveyou the list run day. Can you
please tell people we were not offthe ear yesterday because of my DMV task,

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because people are like, oh,that's why you didn't go. I
was here running the rerun, thankyou very much. Yeah, no,
Ross was there, So that wasI didn't feel I was not feeling worth
in a craw. I'm quite abit better today. But you were bitten
by a bat or something this stuffand then you re ran all the stuff

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with me and the tub and thestairs, so everyone thinks I'm dead and
this is ai me. So that'swhat we that's what we get. Anyway,
we gotta take a break. We'llbe right back. Case O Day
Radio program, Hang on Your Day, Smarter one O six one FM talk

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and he Talk w PTI more withCasey starts now all right, long per
second there, but you know wehad to get the details in. And
if you're lucky enough to survive yourmorning commute, just reminder you know,
five pete calendar will join us.So if you're still alive, check in.

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If not, we warned you andwe will get to that. There's
a new Joe Biden ad I wantto touch on here and kind of get
things roll in this morning. Plusit's Friday, so we got a bunch
of stupid stuff because you know that'sSouth Friday's work around these parts. Phone
number eight eight eight nine three fourseven eight seven four a poverty seminar that

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you have to hear the details of. We'll have that next hang up one
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the best end Talk. This isCasey O Day and Carol Line this morning

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News. All right, good morning, here we go six thirty five and
we're getting too DMB fun stuff.Ross went there yesterday and figured out we're
all doomed. So see what Ididn't mention too before it, I'm gonna
I'll mention it now because I haveno self control. So a few of

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these people as mentioned that shouldn't havepassed. Yeah, I was doing like
the woman the you'll sign it wasshe didn't speak English. It was all
broken English, like it is ared sign and it is on the post,
and when you'll see this sign ifwell you don't, but here's it,
like you don't have to. SoI've driven in other countries, like

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so when I've driven in Latin America, you know, rented a car or
whatever, the signs look the same. So like if you're in a Spanish
speaking country and you see a stopsign, it doesn't it says alto not
stop, obviously, but you knowbecause it's in the local language. But
it looks exactly the same. Soby testing people on signs without the words

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on it, there shouldn't be alearning curve, you know what I mean,
Like you should not be an issue. Right, So I didn't know
that. So you say, likea yield sign, like it's somewhere else
it's it's still like an upside downtriangle. Yes. Now, now in
something like if you go over toEurope, some of them are look a

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little different, but they have likethe same thing but if when you say
she was broken English, was it? Did it sound like Spanish was her
first language? I believe, Sothey came from Texas. Okay, Okay,
well I can tell you in Mexicoand Central America and South America in
the places I've been, it lookslike a damn yield sign. Like it's

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not. It's not a question asto what it is. So I feel
like she was just blind man,So that's probably a bigger issue. All
right, we'll go have a callon DMV stuff since we're all terrified.
Now, Yes, Chris, what'sup? Thank good morning, Thanks for
taking a call. Like I wastelling Ross, I have an unrestricted Class

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A CD with the Hasman endorsement andwe have to get our license from newed
every five years. And this pastJuly, and like Ross did, I
too went to a rule d MBoffice in Sampson County. I want name
the town, but in Sampson Countyand walked in supposed to have an appointment.
I walked in right at noon.Brad the number, and I'm supposed

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to take And with the CDL youcan never renew it online. You have
to go win every five years.Take the scientist take the eye test,
give him one hundred and eleven dollars. And and if you have a Hasmat
endorsement, you've got to read theHawsmat thing, which is just an extra

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scientist. They had me do noneof it. I give him my money,
my old driver's license. He madesure I wanted to be an organ
Downer asked him, was I registeredto vote? And uh? And so
I looked at him and I saiduh. And I was supposed to do
this and he can't give me thislook like kind? He said no,

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and I walked out. And I'mfifty. I'm fifty six years old and
have a gray beard. And youknow, my eyesight is good. I
still have twenty round twenty twenty vision. But he didn't know that at all.
And I could be out here haulinggasoline is blind? Is no English
speaking woman that lost was talking about? And so yes, it's kind of

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scary, but it's even more scarythan what lost things? What now you
holming something delicious, sir? BecauseI'm always curious. Right now, No,
don't him, Hicks. I've gota drill rig under directional drilling,
now, okay, but you don'twant to it's no, no, take

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too long to part it out tooand sell it like these meth dudes.
All right, well, good labor. Let me shout out, Let me
shout out our heart radio. Iget listened to y'all through them, and
lets you sing the home and becky'all. Oh on the app? You
use the app? Yeah, yeah, oh, rock on? Sir.
All right, Well, do appreciateit and stay tuned. Okay, I'm

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sure the story's coming, all right. I mean, I think a major
part of this, right is,I think they're incredibly understaffed. And I
said, there was one person therefor a few hours, and there was
a second person that came, andwe were talking about how they don't have
to take the knowledge we're intest anymorefrom out the state because listen, I
was there three plus hours. Ifthose people had taken the twenty five question

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written test after what I had seen, right observed, I would have probably
been there six hours. I'm stillI'm still stuck on the morning thing,
though, Like I have a theoryand I don't know what's going on,
but based on your like our employeesfilling those in with fake appointment, I
don't know too. Like I said, it is impossible to get to prove

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anything, right. I'm just wonderingany explanation there, because it's impossible.
I went on two months ago inpreparation for this, trying to book an
appointment. It was booked until November. Now it's booked until December. However,
got there at eleven o'clock. You'renot supposed to start going if you're
walking till twelve. Everyone there hadno appointment, and everybody there was just
taking a number and going in theirorder before before noon. But he said

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that it was booked. So whydid you say on the website that there
that it's booked. I have aI have a really really easy way to
solve this. You're ready, justdeclare everyone is sold citizen, right,
right, We're all just travelers.Give people, give them that, give
them that giant handbook that they pullout and then start going through so they

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can explain torte law from you know, British Days or whatever. I felt
because the body cam on those isamazing. I felt so bad and I
saw like three or fourteens come inwith their parents taking their tests like it
was their big day. They weresixteen, right, And I felt so
bad for these kids because they showup at like one o'clock and the woman
there is like, hey, wedon't start doing the driver's test till two.

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We stopped taking them at three fortyfive because there's only two of us
working here, so you might notbe able to fit your time in today.
If you really want appoint me,you're gonna have to book an appointment.
And whereas the parent is like,all right, how do I book
an appointment? And they go,well, you can't do that till after
December. That sucks. If you'rea kid walking to take your test for
your driver's test. Is it justthat little kid? Because I've I've heard

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of parents literally having to go,you know, ap Dylan. I saw
her post something we've had her onbefore. She writes for The Carolina Journal
North State Journal. She had tolike driver kid too. I don't remember
where it was, but it seemedway out of the way just to get
sort a kid could could do it. So are there openings maybe before that

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if you're willing to travel a wholebunch? None of it makes sense.
But remember we literally like we raninto like a bankrupt dot a few years
ago, and I don't know ifanyone really answered for that because it turned
into a big political thing. Butlike all that money was just gone with
all these half done projects, andlike nothing really happened with it, and

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like when the money then, whenthere was then money that came back,
like the projects didn't restart, butneither did the money apparently get funneled to
the DMVs. So god only know, like this is basic stuff. You
got to get the basic stuff beforeyou start into your special project stuff.
But I feel like we just divertthe funds there almost immediately. You see

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it at the federal level right now, where it's like, all right,
this is one of your stated partsof government. Obviously, states are different,
they have different duties. Beds aresupposed to be limited. But like
I've seen this for years where theytake like transit funding and they want to
build these illustrious bike trails or rememberwhen they were talking about putting like a

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pedestrian bike lane in the middle ofthe weight extension, and it's like,
why don't you just get the roadsand the DMV handled and then like maybe
we can talk about that. Soall right, all right, people are
sending me all their horror stories.No no, no, no, I
hear you. But you're all onthe road and you're all giant safety hazard.

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Apparently. Let me grab one morecall and then we get into the
other stuff next segment, Jason,what's up? Hey? So two things.
Well, so I'm gonna have tocarry about seventeen year old because of
the DMV being so backed up forhis Level two license. Part. But
I think the appointment stuff, there'sonly for driving tests. For all the

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other stuff, you can get therewhen they first opened up. That's when
the ticket stuff comes into effect.Now you also get a ticket when you
go after lunch to gotta squeeze ina driving test. But about the appointment,
Yeah, so if I'm not ableto get him in, I've got
I lived in Rocky Mountain. Igot to drive him all the way to
Mount Harry to go take his drivingtest because that was the closest appointment to

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get him. If not, Iwas the last wait till December when I
scheduled. Is now the second part. I think that lady probably lives Rocky
mount because between Rocky Mountain Nashville theyput sixth round about and nobody will stop
at the yield. They'll pull outin front of you while you're going around
the purples. It's crazy. Ross. Did you want to respond on since

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he was addressing you, not talkingto me, Well, it's for anybody.
I was just you know, I'mjust I'm just giving griefs sir.
Yeah. Now, the round aboutfixations, all right, there's literally six
between Rocky Mountain Nashville, and it'snot it's probably five or six miles and

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they're six round about. I rememberwhen they first when they put that big
one in, when they first putit in around NC State, it was
initially a double laner, and Iremember going through there and watching this and
I'm like, everyone is all thecollege students are going to die, and
I it was really quick that theyknocked it down to a one, just
a single lane. And I don'tknow that we can handle that here in

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North Carolina. But oh man,it's like a whole way thought somebody trying
to be vice and let the otherfirston threw of messing up the whole rotation.
But yeah, good, good tohear y'all. See later, all
right, Rogan, that's a wholen I mean, the double ones are
a little difficult from time to timeand people aren't used to them, so
maybe they shouldn't have started there whenthey start putting it around NC State.

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But now they got what like fiveover there, maybe even more so if
you don't know it by now,probably not best to drive over there.
All right. So what's it liketo be poor? Well, if you're
somebody who lives in one of thereally rich suburbs of Chicago, you don't
know, but you know you wantto be empathetic. So wait till you

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hear what they're doing to educate folkson poverty. But they're doing it rich
suburb style. That story, Pete, Calendar, your calls coming up.
Case O Day radio program, keepingyou connected. This is f w PTI

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in the Triad and one oh sixone them talk in the Triangle, all
right, six fifty three and uhgood Friday morning, a c O Day
radio program, just terrifying everyone onthe road. What we do? All
right, let me grab it.I'll look at that. Yes, Boston,

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Paul, what do you want?Hey? Yeah? This private security
downtown. I thought they already had. I thought they already had the ambassadors
down here. It was supposed tobe doing all that, you know,
But I guess that's not worth it. Then she tried and no turn on
red all over the downtown that wassupposed to solve all the crime. I
guess that didn't work. So nowwe're gonna have people running around and saying

(29:44):
stop her. I'll tell you tostop again. Well, I mean this
is more Glenwood where we've had youknow, stabbings. We had a guy
literally get beaten to death, andthen the dude apparently bragged on social media
about doing it. So and Iwas looking at the lists of arrests and
various infraction. State's out of controlman, and yes, you know,

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let's let's put on armed Let's putsome unarmed folks with no arrest powers in
there. That should obviously solve theproblem. So, but it's not just
client where it goes from Goingwood allthe way to more Square. So I
don't get what is this part ofthe defund the police program that they got
going on. I don't think it'sa combination of things, which is why
we're gonna get into it a littlelater. And it's not just Raleigh.

(30:30):
I mean, they have these issuesin Greensboro, down on Elm Charlotte.
They have people run around just poopingwherever they please. So that's nice.
You know, I was. Iwas downtown in Winston Salem here during one
of the summer concert things down there, and well I saw a law enforcement
in the general area where you know, where the music was going on,

(30:53):
like one of the parking garages thatpeople were smashing car windows in there and
nobody was doing anything like there's sothey should give them at least a revolval
at one bullet, you know,and then you know they can have the
other guy running around siting citizens rastcitizens. Rast they given one, they're

(31:14):
probably gonna be out guns. Solet me ask you, really, did
you pass your your actual North Carolinadriving stuff or you want of these scofflaws
that somebody cheated for you people CEOthat you had that guy with the CBO.
I have a CBO and he's correctwith every five years, he can't
you. And I said to theperson there, it's pretty stupid. You

(31:36):
know. I got a little bitof high blood pressure, so I have
to have a physical every year.You know, it's a full physical.
It's part I got to go tothe DMV to get an eye test.
I mean, it's pretty ridiculous.Should yeah, And like I've seen you
guys drive, Yeah, you can'teven drive over a bridge with your political
aids in the car without killing people. So like, I'm terrified. I

(31:57):
haven't. I haven't had a movieviolation in forty seven years. Well they
got to catch it. So plus, you like you just flipped out year
old I used to be a copthing right, and they just let you
go? Is that how that works? I don't know what you're talking about?
All right, all right, yeah, do you have a good day?

(32:19):
How was your weekend? Yeah?Yeah, I'll think about it.
I mean, probably get t boneand killed, but whatever. Can you
imagine how high your blood pressure wouldbe if you're taking down Weddy Buls you're
like bossing Paul like for the endof your days. I blood pressure just
like handicapping what this season is gonnalook like for his teams. So I
might have something to do with it. I just Boston, Boston. Plus

(32:45):
he's got it, Like didn't hebuy an RV or something too? I
think he's got a camper. Solike, if he's driving that and he's
driving it poorly, you don't standa chance against that man. But yeah,
no, to your point with thehigh blood pressure, I'm sure sure
that's totally what it is, thewhitey bulger thing, all right, So

(33:07):
check this out. I love thisstory. So in a Highland Park,
Illinois, the city of Highland Parkdecided to partner with the Alliance for Human
Services Family Focus blah blah blah anyway, basically a bunch of the welfare groups
programs various charities to help educate citizensby holding a poverty simulation event to help

(33:32):
increase residents understanding an awareness of whatit's like to live in poverty. So
you live in a very, verynice and I don't begrudge you part of
Chicago. These are huge houses,and they somehow think that if you show
up on this Saturday between nine andeleven thirty and pretend to be poor for

(33:58):
two and a half hours at anevent that I kid you not is being
held at a country club, thatyou'll understand what it's like to live on
that poverty line, scraping by tryingto make ends meet just the humbers on
that man. You leave your youleave your three million dollar house to go

(34:20):
to this country club and then youhave to pretend to be poor. How
do you pretend to be poor fortwo and a half hours to it?
You could watch a movie and notexpend any money and just say I was
poor for two hours. But no, that is how out of touch this
is. And I just love thatit's at the country club. All right.

(34:42):
News is nax Thang on good Fridaymorn and everybody welcome. It is

(35:15):
our number two here on the cac O Day radio program. So we
got one big bastard of a stormruin out in the Caribbean. We'll chat
with Ken Boone in wait stage.It is still taking this Clemson thing hard,

(35:36):
isn't he? I wonder if hewas also rooty for the Chiefs.
Dude, that was a disaster.Did you watch any of that yesterday?
Ross? Did you watch any ofthe I went to bed sort of early,
but I went got up at liketwo am to go to the gym
today and I was checking out,you know, like all the clips and
stuff on Twitter. Dude, Dude, not good when even when even like

(35:59):
Chris collins Worth is calling out theblatant none calls, it's bad. I
mean there was that, but therewas also it was just like ineptitude.
And I understand that Kelsey was outand Mahomes had a little some something,
but like they just won the SuperBowl and they look like bad news Bears.

(36:20):
Man. I couldn't even describe it. And I remember before the game,
I was watching a bunch of peoplethat were shifting once Kelsey was announced
out, like a bunch of peoplewere doing money line Lions bets and it
was moving the line, and Iremember thinking, come on, man,
it's the Lions. I hope theLions are not as good as they were
made to look yesterday because we needthose two wins in the division. As

(36:45):
a Vikings fan, like I needthe Lions to suck, and they didn't
look like they sucked yesterday. Butthat might have just been Kansas City.
But you got to be pumped becauseobviously that's like, you know, it's
like a big, big stumbling blockfor you guys right there, ow and
one. So now if we loseit on Monday, I'll feel better.
You're not gonna if you're not gonnalose to the Jets, I'm confused.

(37:07):
So why didn't Mahomes just rush forlike one hundred and fifty one hundred and
eighty yards? What I understand,Like, you know, he had some
of his receivers out and stuff,and he didn't have the weapons that he's
always had from the start of hiscareer. Being surrounded by these all pros,
why didn't he just jump over guys, stiff arm people and run for

(37:28):
two hundred yards just as as goodquarterbacks do. Exactly. Well, look,
he couldn't scramble if he wanted hisline. Did you see his line
was lining up? Yeah? Yeah, somebody said it best on Twitter,
like they were lining up halfway toArkansas. Yeah, you're not gonna standing
at that point. He's standing rightnext to the guy fall starting every single
every single possession. I guess theyfinally called in the fourth quarter when they

(37:50):
were in like third and twenty orsomething. But you guys are you're the
Monday You're the Monday Night game,right, Yeah? Yeah, because Cowboys
are the Sunday Night. And thenthe Vike and started playing the Thursday Night
against the Eagles, which we're justwe're gonna get pillaged in that game.
Let's see who who plays the Patriotsfirst? Oh that is the Eagles,

(38:14):
All right, well they're gonna slamthem. We play the Buccaneers. No,
Tom Brady, I don't know,should be interesting, but yeah,
I do not want to see Detroitgood. I texted Brian the bad boardop
while that was going on, sincehe's a Vikings fan too, and he's
like, I'm not even watching,don't care, So I don't know if
he's cashed out for the season already, but I wouldn't blame him, by

(38:36):
the way, dude, go backto this, but you know, I'll
mix that in a little later becauseI don't want to just sit here and
do sports in this. We gotto talk about the Liberty Safe thing.
I want to get into this yesterdayand then obviously I was, I was,
I was in no condition yesterday,so we didn't get to But this
Liberty Safe thing is crazy. Nowif you don't know the details, then

(39:01):
you don't have internet, I guess, because it's like the only thing I've
seen on my Twitter timeline for liketwo days and it goes like this,
and I want to I want tobe very accurate here. So Liberty Safe,
which, obviously, if you listento this station, is a name
you are probably familiar with because whatGlenn Beck and Dorston forevertted Hannity like,

(39:22):
they've had a they've been they've beenpart Yeah, like everyone except us.
It would have been nice to getsome of that, but the big national
guys, Liberty Safe has been aconstant advertiser. Now Liberty Safe the people
who started it and built it,they don't own it anymore. A Hedge

(39:42):
fund bought it, and the HedgeFund, arguably, if you look at
their pattern of political donations, doesn'tseem to jive with typically who you would
see as a Liberty Safe enthusiast.Whether that was instructive about what happened.
I don't know how many of youknew though, that you're Liberty Safe,

(40:08):
and it's not just liberty there's somebrands that do, some that don't that.
People at Liberty Safe had a mastercode, so there was ever a
problem they could they could crack itopen. Maybe you did, maybe it
didn't. However, how many ofyou assumed that they would hand that over
to law enforcement without a specific warrantor court order requiring it, because that's

(40:34):
what they did, And it bafflesme, Like, if you want to
talk about a consumer group, thisisn't bud Light, that's which people are
sitting there calling it. This ismuch more targeted and specific right Liberty Safe,
liberty in the name market it almostexclusively in conservative talk radio everywhere and

(40:55):
on Fox News channel they run abunch of ads, but like this was
their demographic. It was all aboutSecond Amendment. It was all about freedom
and liberty and all of it.So when it came time for a request
based on a larger search warrant fora home liberty safe gave law enforcement the

(41:19):
access to the safe, the mastercode instead of holding out for a specific
court order. It's two different things, right, two different things, and
they had access to this. Idon't know how you screw that up.
How like I'm not in the safebusiness. But if I'm sitting there and

(41:40):
you know, I'm in the evenlike middle management. And some dude comes
in and say, hey, wejust got an email from the FBI.
They're searching this guy's house and theywant to get in the safe, but
he won't give them the code,So can we give them the master code?
And you don't say, I'm sorry, did they have a specific court
order forcing us? And if theanswers no, hell no, they just

(42:06):
did it man. And the blowbackhas been bonkers. How many of you
have a liberty safe? I havea liberty safe, just super clear.
I don't have the big beast thatsome of you guys have, but I
do, and I didn't know,right, I was not aware that that

(42:30):
was a thing. So now libertyis safe. They put a statement out
saying, uh, yeah, youSo in the future, we're going to
allow people to opt out of ushaving this master code. However, if
you ever run into an issue whereyou can't remember your combination or the or
the electronic lock fails, I guessyou're gonna have to hit it with a
cutting torch or something. But reallydoesn't. But then, like in the

(42:55):
statement literally points out that they justthey didn't even wait for the actual court
order. They just gave it.Like, it doesn't look like they're changing
that part of it. So whothe who the safe company is going to
be able to come in and stealmarket share like they are, you know
in the bud Light thing with thewith the twenty six percent loss and then

(43:17):
MODELO swoops in there. I don'tknow who that's gonna be, but people
are peeved. Man. The problemis is it's not a case of bud
Light that you can go out inthe field and shoot up with your Uzi
and make a TikTok video. Thosesaves are incredibly expensive, so like,

(43:37):
what do you do in that instance? And I've seen a lot of people
saying, what you want to dois you got to take the serial number
on the outside off, so there'sno way to match it up. And
I don't know if that's gonna work. I guess you can go through the
op ed thing because you've already madethe invest or the opt out thing,
because you've already made the investment.But when it comes to selling of new
saves, it'll take a long timeto figure out what the impact is going

(44:00):
to be. But the speed atwhich people are willing to squander and irritate
their customer base, especially with thisman, because it's not as broad like
bud Light, you know, ranthe political gamut well with liberty safes.
I gotta think that most of thepeople who bought it, obviously your Second

(44:22):
Amendment folks, right, that's wayby the liberty safe. Like it's like
ninety percent of your customers are goingto be people who are going to be
deeply offended by this. And theydid it anyway, And then we're like,
Dad, you know, it iswhat it is. In the future,
we'll do you know, we'll tryto do better kind of but we

(44:45):
won't actually address the bigger issue ofyou know, people want you to go
and fight for them in the sameway that people on the left demand the
companies stand up and expouse their politicalbl to the point where they're willing to
literally push back on government. Howmany companies who wanted to make a point,

(45:06):
we're willing to tell Donald Trump,I don't care what you're trying to
do, We're not going to takepart in this, or to make statements
like Disney did where they stepped forwardand they ran this little this this wheel
of interviews with people going, yeah, I'm trying to make everything that we
do. Remember these producers like,yeah, I'm trying to implement all of

(45:28):
these things in every project that Iwork on so that I can be an
advocate for LGBTQ stuff. And thenyou had management willing to do that.
How many companies issued statements over theAll Star Game? Remember they would,
they would, they would all issuea statement over this voting change law in

(45:52):
Georgia, which had less teeth thanmany Blue states and was being wildly misrepresented.
Yet multiple airlines, Delta air Lineswas willing to step up. I
think it was Southwest as well,and others to issue statements and directly take
a position, and that is expectedby people on the left. On the

(46:14):
right though, they just like there'salmost this expectation who just stay neutral.
But with Liberty Safe, people aresaying, no, this is your fight,
this is what you need to do. You need to be an advocate
for this, because you've have marketedexclusively to people who have this very strong
position about privacy and Second Amendment stuffand they just they had no plan to

(46:40):
do any of that. And Ithink it's worse than bud Light if you
just want to get into market share. If what I'm seeing on social media
is to be believed, this isnot going to go well. All right,
let me grab a call Jamal,what's up? Hey, Okay,
see what's going on in this onand saw you had an upset stomaching.

(47:01):
You know, he was, youknow, your bowsers all over the place.
But KC, let me say thisLiberty is Safe. When they were
sold that this hedge fund group peopleshould have been known because I'm gonna tell
you, YKC, you made aperfect example about Disney when they was talking
about they're trying you know, they'reslipping in the homosexual stuff. And they're

(47:22):
purposely trying to you know, andthis is what they were clear everything up
because that's what they said. ButKC these companies, that's why they want
these traditional low taxes, limited governmentpeople because they figured out how to take
the old Republican conservative talking points anduse them against us. Liberty Safe.

(47:44):
The people who bought it, they'renot for a Second Amendment rights, they're
not for this stuff. This isa hedge fund group. And like you
said, look who the people onthey donated liberal conservatives excuse me, liberal
building. There's a millionars because alot of people either old this Democrats,
four people yeah, fider wants sendup there saying yeah, with you try

(48:07):
to be poor for about three hundredthousand dollars. But these are the people,
Casey, that don't mind losing moneyto win. So if this heads
phone group an't Liberty Safe, whoto say they did? They bought it
for what? What was that purposefor buying it? Was it just to

(48:27):
make money? Because if it wasjust to make money and they had no
no inkling to try to defend peopleand their rights, then this is what
you're saying. It's like right now, live your question, let me answer
your questions. Yes, I thinkit absolutely was. I think they saw
a company that was seen remarkable growthbut was under capitalized even with some of

(48:52):
the expansion, and they and theysaw an opportunity. The problem is is
that you lose the spirit of it. And when the spirit product is what
market said, then you don't haveanyone with that spirit who's willing to defend
it right because it's path the leastresistance. It's just another project in your
portfolio. And while that may workfor some products that are politically innocuous,

(49:17):
this is not one of them.So to remove the spirit and the enthusiasm
of the founders and the people whobuilt that company, so when the rubber
did meet the road and you weren'twilling to stand up after watching all these
companies issue statements over Georgia's voting lawsand everything else, Yeah, is yet
another giant letdown, and one thatis almost exclusively going to be aimed at

(49:40):
people who are Second Amendment arden supportersand privacy folks. It's it's just who
to say, o, casey,who to say it wants some little blue
hair, blue hair, uniform hair. Oh my god, I will sing
them ribl who sit here and sayoh no, this is well, yes,
we will have you get these guysoff there, because these are the

(50:01):
people that's working in these heads fungroups. These heads fun groups, people
hire these radical liberals. Matter offact, perfect example, look at Fox
News. How many people said,oh Fox News is really changing, really
changing. Then you come to findout heads, funs groups like black walking,
all these other things that came associatedwith then you're like, well,

(50:22):
wow, I haven't seen it.And it's like conservative businesses who are supposed
to be alternatives to what liberals aredoing because the other safe places out there,
but liberties say particularly marketed to peoplelike hey, we're a Second Amendment
group, this is what we do. We'll defend you. This is a

(50:43):
private safe We're not gonna be doingthese things, and give people this comfort
and knowing, hey, hey Ican get you guys. You know I'm
gonna be defended, but you don'tknow. I'm sorry, I only got
about thirty seconds. Let me saythis, you don't even think that you
don't even have to defend for thatreason. And I appreciate the call there,
Jamal, have a good weekend,s all right, you don't have
to defend it for that reason.You don't have to be like, yeah,

(51:06):
we hold firm to the tenants ofit. You just have to look
at it and go, we're gonnascrew this investment. Man. If you
fundamentally remove the privacy and safety partof a product called to safe based on
the government not having to fulfill theirall of their obligations, you're undermining your

(51:27):
entire product. It's wasted money.Think about it. We'll be back.
Thank you. K c is PTIin the Triad and one oh six one
FM Talk in the Triangle. Letme give you a more succinct example,

(51:49):
and I think it's a really goodone of why arguably this liberty safe thing
is a much larger violation of yourcustomers expectations. I've said it many times
on the radio. One of thepieces of advice that a guy in this
business that I respect I used tosay, and he'd say it frequently.

(52:14):
He said, never violate the expectationsof your listeners. Okay, that's,
you know, pretty good advice.But it's not just radio. It goes
for whatever industry. If you're dealingand attempting to attract customers that you engage
in, if you violate the expectations, the trust that is put in you,

(52:37):
it's going to have backlash, butnot all is created equal. With
the bud light example, I don'tknow that there was expectations per se.
Most people are on just the mulvenything. But arguably what was a bigger
screw you was the attitude that themarketing woman had about the customer base.

(52:58):
All right, That's where the realviolation took place. Because if they did
just come out and said, lookwhen it cans, we we said,
who is the one hundred you know, most influential people on TikTok right now?
And we did. Every one ofthose people, we sent them a
can. Didn't matter what they wereengaged in. This thing would have gone
away. But that couple with thatvideo of that woman, that was the

(53:21):
violation with Liberty Safe, a brandthat was specifically marketed marketed as we got
you, We're with you. SecondAmendment. Safety government no is is about
you and your ability to lock anda lockdown your things, keep them safe
from prime and eyes, not justpeople you know there to rob you,

(53:44):
but providing you security. People havehigher expectations when you deviate from that stated
main goal. Right, you buya safe to secure stuff from burglars from
your kids, maybe right for safetypurposes, you do it too. Also,

(54:05):
you know, have that little uhhave that little uh good feeling knowing
that you're in business with people whoagree and share your thoughts, your ideas,
and your goals. And one ofthe goals that I think we should
have is government, especially law enforcement. Right. I expect law enforcement to

(54:27):
want to do whatever they think theyhave to do to you know, to
uh to adjudicate justice, right Ihave. I got no beef with that.
I'll give you an example and thenI'll go back to the other thing
I was talking about. So themain example is there there was a story
a few years ago where they weregoing up to like town homes, right,

(54:50):
so they were directly abudding the publicsidewalk and they were walking uh drug
dogs through there, and like it'sloose enough now to like the living rooms
of these homes that the dogs maycatch a whiff open windows something like that,
and they were saying that that isprobable cause and that turned into a

(55:12):
big I can't remember if it wasBaltimore or Philly where they were doing this,
but it creates what law enforcement istrying to do. Is they want
to they want to be able todo this, and I'm looking at this
from the purest forms. Let's notturn this into an argument, but understand
this. They want the path ofleast resistance to accomplish their goal, and
I have no problem with them fightingfor that within the bounds of the law.

(55:35):
So that was challenged, and thenprivacy advocates are going, no,
you can't do that. That's aFourth Amendment violation. That's crazy. And
then you go into court and youfigure out who's right. We may not
agree with what happens, but bothsides fight it out. And the example
I was going to give on theconsumer side is, do you remember when

(55:55):
Apple fought tooth and nail after thegovernment demand ended that they showed them how
to unlock the iPhones. Right,it was some terrorist investigation, Right it
was. It was a pretty highprofile thing, and they wanted into this
phone. It was a terrorists wereone of the big mass shooters. I
can't remember what it was, butthey wanted in this phone and Apple said,

(56:16):
no, we're not. And theyhad deeper concerns like if we create
a tool or show you how todo it, then you might be able
to recreate it. And now there'sa tool floating around that if ever got
leaked or uploaded the internet, orsomebody you know, dropped a USB thing
somewhere, feasibly could undermine our entiresecurity system. And Apple went to court.

(56:42):
They spent the money, they foughtthe fight. Even though it's easy
to say, look, they justwant to get into a terrorist phone,
you should want them to do it. No, I want law enforcement to
say that they should, and Iwant Apple to say, look, we
made a promise to our customers thatthis is providing the best level of security
and we're not going to do anythingto undermine it. But if you want

(57:04):
to go to court and we fightit all out and that's where it ends,
then we'll do what we have todo. And Apple didn't fully win,
but they didn't fully lose either,but they fought on behalf of their
customers and their business for that matter, because if their security is undermined,
they may not sell as many phones. That's why it is baffling to me

(57:30):
that Liberty didn't go. You know, this is a warrant for searching the
premises. This is not a warrantto get into a safe. This is
not a court order dictating it inthe same way that a separate court order
for digital searches, cloud searches.All of these things in new technology have
to be adjudicated and figured out becauseit's ever evolving, and I understand law

(57:51):
enforcement is going to have the fervorto say no, we think we can
do this, and others will sayno, you can't, and it will
be fought out out and we'll figureout the answer. Liberty didn't do any
of that, as best I cantell, and that is why it is
a much more grievous violation of theexpectation of their customers because you didn't how

(58:15):
they're back man. So anyway youwant to weigh in on it, feel
free. Let me grab a quickcall here. Wayne's holding on. What's
up? Wayne? Hey? Yehave to go on this morning to see
he is going, Sir. Ijust wanted to touch on the Liberty safe.
We were looking for a safe lastyear and we had a Liberty distributor

(58:36):
and mebbin that we went and lookedat their safe and there's two factors that
I was looking at, and Ifound out that Liberty doesn't offer a black
up key for getting into the safe. To keep Headwin out. They just
basically say they'd have to call offa rocksmith or somebody who could break into
a safe to get into it.So that was one of the main factors

(58:58):
of why we didn't go with theLiberty Safe. The other was the expense.
I mean, the Liberty safe werereally expensive if you get on up
into the tea for a plan thatwe wanted, and we ended up going
to Mace Gun Story in Maben andbought our safe. Uh and I'm going
to blank company of which brand itwas, but it wasn't it was exactful.

(59:24):
I'm sorry, go ahead, Ohno, it's God, I like
bess right on the people who knowwhere it is there, So yeah,
that is correct, and we boughtthe safe there. Uh. It does
come with a backup key, andlooking at theirs, some of their sates
have backup keys. But that wasone of the things that I was I've

(59:46):
never heard anybody really complaining about thekeypads going bad, but at the same
time, if it did and Iwas in an emergency situation where I needed
to get in my safe, havinga backup key is kind of a comfort
to me. So that's why wewent with the safe we chose. This
is this is a good example.Let me just say this. You did

(01:00:07):
what is should be the normal customerdebate over brands. You did your research,
you said this is important to me, this isn't. But I bet
it never crossed your mind when youwere looking at these different safe brands going
what would any of these brands doif the FBI said, Hey, we
need to get in that safe.We don't have a court order yet,
but we give us the code.Like, that's not a normal thing the

(01:00:29):
consumers thinking about. Because you're thinking, this is a safe, I'm the
one who's only going to be ableto access it, right, And that
is why, Well I thought,I thought once I programmed it with my
code, that no other code wouldwork. It had to be my code.
So when you said that just alittle while ago, that there is
a master code for the Liberty Safethat the police could use, are they

(01:00:52):
doing that for red flag laws?I mean, what is the purpose of
them that you could be able toget into somebody's safe well without a court
order? Well, they like becausethey had a warrant to search the premises,
and in this case it was aJ six defendant. You know,
I understand that they're gonna want toget into safe. They just you make
them go through the entirety of theprocess, and you know, and you

(01:01:15):
but you fight for it, andyou fight on behalf of the people who
paid you all of that money foryour product, which look, I think
it's the quality of the safe isnice. I appreciate the call there when
I was looking up at the clockhere. But if you don't have that
backup, if you don't advocate itlike Apple did to protect not just you,
but more importantly their brand and theirsecurity, what are you even doing

(01:01:40):
because you, I mean, youmarketed that is we're family, and uh,
you threw family under the bus man. All right, seven forty five,
let's get Ken Moon from the weatherchannel. You got a monster brewing
out there in the Caribbean. Sir. I'm doing well. I'm doing well.
We sure do. One hundred andsixty five on our Cat five storm.

(01:02:01):
Hurricane Lee is continuing to move towardsthe west northwest at about fourteen miles
per hour. We'll continue on thattrack here as we head through the weekend.
It's staying north of the islands,and right now all signs point to
it eventually turning towards the north andeventually the northeast, which would keep it
away from the coastline of the UnitedStates. However, we're still going to

(01:02:21):
have to closely monitor that is,it hasn't made that turn yet and not
forecast to do so until we getinto the early to middle part of the
upcoming work week, so we stillwant to continue to monitor tour it whether
it directly impacts. If it doesn'tdirectly impact the US, it certainly will
indirectly with a lot of wave actionand dangerous surf and rip currents along the
coastline. Hot out here again today, although not as hot as we were

(01:02:42):
yesterday where we saw record high's temperaturestoday expected to reach the low nineties,
a little bit hotter that when youfactor in the humidity, and just a
slight chance for the late night showersand storms today. Better storm chances over
the weekend though, ninety three thisafternoon, mid eighties with showers and storms
Saturday and Sunday. Dude, didyou see the game last night? You're
a football guy, right, Iam a football guy, but I didn't

(01:03:05):
I saw the fourth quarter. Ididn't get a chance to see the first
three quarters. It was like itwas like watching a high school team out
there that like just wasn't jiving.Those are the those are the super Bowl
champs. Man, that was crazy. All yeah, they definitely missed Travis
Kelcey. Uh yeah, that dude'stheir whole offense. I guess all right,
thank you much, sir, previateit. We'll talk in an hour.

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Yeah, that was that was crazy, all right, seven forty seven.
Back in just a few Hang on, it's one oh six one FM
Talk in the Triangle and here's talkw PTI and the Triad. You know,

(01:03:52):
maybe they should just be happy peopleare donating stuff. Did you see
the roster? You see when somebodytried to donate to a good will store
in Uh where where'd this Arizona?Yeah, now you haven't seen this story,
so what do you what do youthink the thing is? It's in
the news that somebody tried to donatebelow it like an inflatable doll. Uh

(01:04:16):
no, but I could just seewhere they just throw that away. Probably
wouldn't call authorities. Uh nope,human skull a donation box left it a
goodwill in good Year, Arizona surprisedsurprised workers who contacted police after Inside of

(01:04:40):
the box, they found a dreamcatcher that had a human skull as part
of it. By the way,what dreams are you catching with a dream
catcher with a human skull in it? And a pretty screwed up looking one
to boot? I might add,By the way, I bet that thing
would sell for a pretty penny.Some creepy person's gonna want that. Man.

(01:05:04):
No, man, you gotta comeon, you gotta frame it,
you gotta put it up there bestI can. He was like, five
bucks. It's in the dream catcher, so it's part of it. It's
arsen, Dude, I don't knowhow long it's going to be in my
shop, for like five minutes.Do you think some freak's not gonna come
in and be like, this isexactly what I'm looking for? Fifty,
I'll give you seven fifty. Iif I if I walked into Goodwill right

(01:05:26):
now and I saw this, knowingthat your birthday's coming up, you would
you would have a very interesting presentcoming your way, That's what I'm saying.
I would put it up in mystudio window and terrify everyone. It'd
be great. Yeah, that wouldfreak him out. Wouldn't it. I
mean, it's weird enough. Someof the stuff is just chilling in the
window. But yeah, you throwa dream catcher with a human skull.

(01:05:47):
Oh, let's see. Please saythe skull appears to be historical. Dude,
here's the other thing. If it'spart of a dream catcher, right,
which is kind of you know,Native American kind of thing, and
it is like a Native American andskull. How cursed is that? It's
the first thing I was thinking,which is exactly why this is the greatest

(01:06:09):
gift to give somebody. I wouldn'tgive it to you. I'd find somebody
who I want to be cursed.But ah, I mean it's history.
And then somebody put like glass eyesin it. The whole thing looks creepy,
man. I wonder why they partedwith it. Probably because the Poulter
guist right, skull is undergoing testing. They'll try to figure out how old

(01:06:31):
it is. But Goodwill would likeyou to know that among the items,
they would not prefer you donate ourtaxidermied bones of animals, humans, anything
that's not really their bag. Idon't know, man, like a nice

(01:06:53):
I think, like a nice mountedelkhead or something. You could probably sell
the heck out of that. Let'ssee, Yeah, that thing looks super
old, but yeah, if yourobbed it from a grave or something,
it's probably super cursed. You mightas well put Aztec gold as the eyes
and just go full on man.Yeah, that's for like, you give

(01:07:15):
that to your mother in law.They give it your mother in law,
just be like, here we gotyou something thinking of you. I know
you like art, Here you go. I'm curious what the dream catchers made
of? Too? Is like sinew? Is there human parts in there?

(01:07:40):
Dude? That's crazy? What elsewas in the box? Too? Would
give any clues? Like somebody hadto go clean out their dead relative's house
and they're like, oh wow,like we knew he was weird, but
holy crap, look at this.Well anyway, that is that is super
creepy, but not creepy as this. You're ready, did you see that?

(01:08:02):
Scientists we're able to create a fourteenday old embryo using stem cells.
I'm gonna repeat this. They createda fourteen day old embryo using stem cells.

(01:08:23):
Obviously, you know the embryo firstfew weeks sperm fertilizes the egg.
Periods of dramatic change boom. Sothis is post that. But they built
it. They didn't even peachree dishes. They built the damn thing. Let's

(01:08:44):
see here, this is great.Now we can just all cut our genitals
off. Well, I feel likemaybe we should run a few of these
through the old you know, theold easy baked you know what I'm say.
Right, It makes it a littleunnerved a little bit, you know,
because there's a whole lot of womenthat you see on social media who

(01:09:06):
are like, there's literally the lastthing we need you for. And I
think they mean it, Yeah,turn into wicker Man. But apparently we
don't need them either. Well,no, I understand that. But ultimately,
the guys have certain needs. Iunderstand this. I think they'll probably

(01:09:30):
be a little a little more hesitantto swear it off. I'm trying to
figure out what what are they evengonna do with this? Like, at
some point you just have to gogrease that. Do the cells continue to
divide that you're gonna have AI versuslike Adam Warlock from Guardians at some point
battling in the future. I donot like this at all. I need

(01:09:51):
to take away all the science funding. Yep, I'm going there, man,
it's so creepy. All right,hey, he Calendar joins us.
And speaking of creepy, we gotall sorts of stuff to get into our
the big city mayors given up onpublic security. We'll talk about it next.

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All right, Good morning everybody,and here we go Friday, third
hour. All ready, Cacio DayRadio program eight oh seven, and uh,
we got lots to get into withour usual guests Radio Buddy in South
mid Day's w b T and onthe iHeart radio app. So check out

(01:11:00):
Pete Calendar. What's up Pete today? I'm doing all right. I'm,
you know, just chilling out herein my luxurious air conditioning that we believe
in down in Charlotte. I don'tknow what's going on with you guys up
in Wait County there with your schools. Just heard them on the news another
school now doesn't have air conditioning upthere. Well, you know the COVID

(01:11:23):
money, they needed it for someother stuff. So yeah, well I
had an idea, because you knowme, I'm all about solutions. So
how about this, because I heardin that news report that they did not
have that. The schools were sayingthere's enough, not enough, HVAC technicians,
and so that's why they can't getthe work done. I'm thinking maybe
we create some sort of system wherewe could, i don't know, like

(01:11:47):
train and educate like another generation,like the coming up generation of the kids
today. They would then be ina position to take the jobs in these
various trades that obviously have been leftunfulfilled. So that would be like a
women's studies course or yeah, wellmaybe a little bit more. Yeah all

(01:12:10):
right, yeah, but like awhole system we could like levy taxes and
stuff, fire people to teach theskills necessary that kind of thing. Okay,
well, I mean yeah, createa pipeline. That's pretty crazy,
I guess if you asked me.I mean there's a lot of philosophers we
need right now, and gender studiesmajors, yeah, d E D E

(01:12:31):
I administrators. Yeah. Well look, if you can get a good gig,
that's quite lucrative. Yeah, I'msure what we pay for these things.
I'll tell you another thing that wouldbe good. Because now I'm being
told this is the main issue.I feel like we're in a competition.
Pete. You guys have the yougot you know, you got all the
phantom pooper stuff going on down there. I don't know if you I don't

(01:12:55):
know if you've heard. We've hadsome issues in uh, in Raleigh,
not just RALI, Greensboro's had somemission but basically the big cities in North
Carolina where it kind of feels likemaybe those who are in charge aren't really
interested in the law enforcement aspect ofwhat they're doing. And so like the

(01:13:15):
entertainment district and Raleigh, we hadone of the employees there who was literally
beaten to death. Yeah, thatwas right, Midwood smoke House, right,
they come out of Charlotte. Actually, yeah, And there has been
a whole host of issues. It'syes, like if you look. And
so the city's solution, as Iunderstand it is, rather than to invest

(01:13:40):
more in law enforcement, which Iunderstand it is a bit of an uphill
struggle because some people are not thinkingthat they want to go into law enforcement.
I can't imagine why. Rather thanbeefing those numbers up, because those
individuals are armed, they have arrestedpowers they're gonna go with, they want
to do private unarmed security. Oh, to deal with what is a problem

(01:14:02):
of armed individuals and uh, youknow, various crimes and stuff, And
I'm I'm not understanding this because Ifeel like that doesn't address the problem which
is obviously a rising problem, notjust in Raleigh, but in many,
many, many large cities that we'veseen over the last couple of years,

(01:14:23):
Charlotte included. And I just feellike they have no fervor to fix anything.
Do you get that feeling down inCharlotte as well? Well? I
mean this idea of unarmed private security, I mean, I kind of it's
not without precedent, right, Imean, look at how secure our malls
are, for example, and thoseindividuals are generally considered, you know,

(01:14:46):
sort of the apex of law enforcement, right, so why not adopt that
kind of that pinnacle model in thecity writ large. I'm also thinking there
might be an opportunity for some violenceinterruption, maybe some ambassadors, you know,
those types of folks like the COVIDambassador already have those they actually have

(01:15:09):
Roley's got a downtown ambassador thing,and and they're fun. I would thief
with them. They actually serve acertain purpose down there, and they've been
around for a while, and youknow, but but they're not there.
They're not for for the law enforcementthing. Do you know that that's the
that's the niche here. So likeif somebody, let's say, somebody's I
don't know, beating somebody else todeath, just use that hypothetical. Sure,

(01:15:30):
and you know it and it's youknow, it's one in the morning
and the bars are spilling out andit's just crazy town. It would be
good to have somebody with arrest powersand perhaps some tools with which to arrest
those individuals. Right. But that'sjust me looking for someone. But why
why go through the hassle and thetrauma inflicting this generational PTSD on a person

(01:15:57):
and all of their ken uh andarresting them, right, Because there's not
much that's going to happen once theyare arrested, right, So what's the
point of arresting like this is?It really is a brilliant strategy if you
think about it. It was like, hey, defund the police, and
then everybody's like whoa, whoa,you're crazy. And then they kind of
looked around and like read the roomand they said, Okay, this isn't

(01:16:17):
working. We're getting you know,waxed in some elections. So how's about
we don't talk about defunding the police. Anymore, we'll just say reforms and
blah blah blah and all of that, and then on the back end,
we just won't prosecute people. We'lldrop all the gun charges and then cry
about gun deaths. Right, we'lldo what we'll do on the back end

(01:16:39):
what we would like to look onthe front at the local level, but
at the federal level will really drillit to people. So don't worry about
that. Well, only certain people. Yeah, So the sentences there,
and literally on the day like raleighsMirror is putting this out, somebody just
reminded me of this, Like literallythe day were they've been trying to figure
out a solution of this problem isthe day that like somebody was literally stabbed

(01:17:02):
right as the announcement is going on, and it's like, I feel like
we need to do more, andthat looks right. Well, it's a
problem and solution so obvious that onlythe left can ignore it. Only the
leftist don't see it. And becauseit flies in the face or it's part
it flies in the face of anarrative, or it's part of actually there

(01:17:23):
the strategy, which is by theway, always been a hallmark of leftist
strategy is to encourage disorder on thestreets in order to make the population be
willing to sacrifice liberties in order togain some modicum of security. And so
when you allow for the destruction ofthe security of society, then it opens
the door for liberties to be taken. So if there's an intentional strategy,

(01:17:46):
that's it. Otherwise I suspect it'sjust a whole bunch of dumbasses. Yeah,
now I'm gonna go with coordinated thefirst thing you said there, But
like, I feel like I justuse another hypothetical. Let's say that you
are a very involved advocate of thedefund the police to the point where you're

(01:18:06):
out there maybe getting maybe getting acushy position as a high ranking state official
within a certain political party. Andand let's say you're out in your driveway
in the city where you've advocated forthis, and you get beaten half to
death, your leg broken and pummeledso that your car could be jacked with

(01:18:28):
your kids right there. Do youfeel like at that moment you go,
maybe we should rethink this would makeokay, because that literally just did happen
up in Minneapolis, in a neighborhoodwhere I wouldn't think it would happen,
having lived up there and having someknowledge of it, and she is,
she's all in on her thing,and she's like what the second DFL they

(01:18:51):
called the Democrats DFL up there,DFL party chair. So she like,
she's all in on this and shedamn near beaten to death over her vehicle
and her kids. Possibly something couldhave happened to him who she was trying
to protect at the time, andshe's like, well, maybe we should
reconsider this. Well she does.She does want the juveniles, uh,

(01:19:15):
and young people to be held accountable. I thought that was interesting. So
you know, maybe baby steps here, maybe you know, just you know,
coming around just a little bit.She's gonna start with because she got
attacked by some youths, right,Uh, maybe maybe this is sort of
the first step on the road torecovery here where she realizes, oh,

(01:19:35):
maybe there needs to be some morequote accountability for these youths, these juveniles
and young gils that did it.Yes, it reminds me there was a
judge in New York back in likethe seventies or eighties, right when it
was you know, just this cesspool of crime and violence and stuff,
and there was they called him turnhim loose. Bruce was his name,
and as the name mightn't you know, might imply he would let everybody go.

(01:20:00):
And so he got mugged and hecomes bay, going to the hospital
and stuff. He finally goes backonto the bench after some hiatus. He's
back on the bench. The mediais there to cover his return, and
he starts off by saying, ifanybody thinks that I'm going to now change
the way I sentenced people in mycourtroom, you got another thing coming.
You know. I'm not changing theway that I meet out justice here,
very very leniently. And somebody inthe back of the courtroom yells out mug

(01:20:26):
him again. And I get thesense that this is what it's going to
take for people to kind of comearound to this, or the electorate to
finally say they've had enough and startputting in place, you know, some
you know, tough on crime mayorsand DA's again. I don't know,
maybe it's just a cycle that weare doomed to repeat over and over again.

(01:20:50):
Well we'll find out. I wantto flip to something else because I
want you to help me solve themystery. I'm good at those. No,
I'm good. I'm good at those. Get a little unsold streets music
going on there, all right?So back hold on, I want to
kill that. I don't know ifit's going to dip on the since you're
on the phone. All right.So I was reading this article yesterday about

(01:21:13):
the top education officials are asking NorthCarolina state lawmakers to postpone the January first
compliance deadline for the new Parents' Billof Rights, okay, saying they need
more time to comply. They gotto put systems and they're gonna see.
So here's my mystery. If noneof this stuff that this bill is addressing

(01:21:33):
was happening, and it's just youknow, it's it's it's a solution in
search of a problem. Right,none of this is going on. If
none of this is going on,and it's all made up in conservative lawmakers
minds and parents, then why wouldyou need more time to comply with it?
Right? If? Because you arecompliance? Right, I mean you're

(01:21:56):
in compliance, you're golden. Youyou could start this today, right,
unless, of course, there thisis all about like posting of the curriculum
on the website. Maybe that's whatthey need, like an extra six months
or a year to do to learnhow to use their websites which they already
use and post things too. Thatcould be it. I don't know.
And look, Charlotte Mecklenberg actually adoptedtheir stuff what two weeks ago, Charlotte,

(01:22:23):
So if CMS can do this,and far be it for me to
suggest that CMS does a lot ofthings correctly. But they were the first
in the state to do it,and they essentially just lifted all of the
language right out of the state lawand they just implemented and they put it
into policy. They are like,this is what we have to have as
our policy. This is what we'regoing to adopt, so we do it.

(01:22:45):
Meanwhile, like out in Asheville,I saw that that school board,
the city school board and actual issaying and they got people in there being
like, well, you know,we should really even comply with this stuff,
Like oh okay, So once againyou know rule of law typeality,
where the laws are are good toenforce against my political opponents, but not
for me to live by. It'sjust it's yeah, it's it's the lack

(01:23:06):
of a consistent standard applied. Yeah. And and if if people were making
that nuanced argument, which I realizeyou were slightly tongue in cheeked there,
but where where it was just well, we just have to develop this system
for uploading this stuff which we alreadyupload. They're not even making that argument.
They're going, well, now theseschools have to comb through everything that

(01:23:28):
they have to make sure that whatwe're going to go to jail. And
I'm like, well, hold on, you assured me that none of this
stuff existed, right, I wasassured. So I'm on Twitter yesterday banging
my head into the wall going,you know, which is it? Right?
And and the gs and the gowner'sbeef and over Disney carriage things,
right, yeah, right, it'sbeat, it's beef or it's it's both,

(01:23:50):
it's both. Like, that's theit's the thing that we're not doing.
But now that we have to complywith the law, we have to
ensure that we haven't actually been doingthe thing that we haven't been doing.
I don't understand why this is sodifficult to understand. Casey like, they
were not doing it, and sonow they're going to continue not doing it.
But they just want to make surethat they continue not doing the thing

(01:24:11):
that they were prohibited from doing.Which they why we didn't need to law
in the first place. I justyou know, it's a short week,
short week, you know, mybrains. Yeah yeah, okay, all
right, well I just again,I just tried to let's try to clarify
these things. And it's great whenyou know there's an opportunity for us to
talk and really kind of bounce thesethings around. That's right what I'm saying

(01:24:33):
there, So because I get reallyconfused sometimes, Yeah, you're not happening,
but they apparently are happening, soright. Well, and also this
idea that you know, this goesto the whole book banning argument. And
I saw that, like there wasthis hysterical piece written by the Ashville Watchdog
group about the Moms for Liberty chaptergetting set up in Bunkham County, which

(01:24:53):
is where Asheville is, and youknow, it's this four page hit piece
on Moms for Liberty, this ultraconserve group that's like, you know,
trying to ban all of the books. But look, librarians curate their collections
the libraries. Any library you gointo does not have a copy of every
single book ever published. That wouldbe insane. The libraries would be massive,

(01:25:15):
right, they don't have every book, so they have to make decisions
based on what books they would liketo stock on the shelves and which ones
they think their clientele, their customersare interested in reading. So the idea
that there should be some discernment inthe curation process based on who the audience
is, right, This idea thatoh, this is a book band,

(01:25:38):
it's laughably absurd on its face forstarters. Secondly, you have you have
these rating systems that exist in allsorts of entertainment. Why, it's in
order to help parents parents, sothey have an understanding. Because every parent
cannot read every single book before theirkid does, they cannot watch every movie

(01:25:58):
before their kid does, play everyvideo game. Right, so the industries
create and sometimes government creates these theserating systems. Right. And when this
idea was pitched to education folks,oh no, we can't do that,
Well, then you know what,Then we're going to get engaged in the
civic discourse. We are going torun full office, We are going to
take over some of these seats,and we will impose the curation process ourselves.

(01:26:23):
And this now is a threat todemocracy. According to these left wing
reporters, that all of a suddenparents taking an interest in the public school
system. This is then it killsme. The conservatives have a right to
engage in setting the curricula too.It's not just you guys on the left.
You don't get to control all ofthese levers. The Moms for Liberty

(01:26:45):
Group and other parental rights organizations,they were prompted to respond because you guys
lost your minds on this stuff.That's why. That's why this bill got
passed, and others like it allaround the country getting passed. And again,
if you hadn't been put sing,then you wouldn't have gotten the push
back. Well, no, thisis I got less than a minute.
This is the same thing with Leandroright where it's like where there is only

(01:27:10):
a singular, acceptable definition of whatis an adequate education and it's only public
schools and it's only funded to thehilt and it's only this and it's only
and it's like, have you consideredthat there may be other versions of that?
And yeah, it's another another discussion. All right, real quick,
thirty seconds you're going to go outto the Cherokee resid and get high or
you ready for that or uh,well, I mean it's all the way.

(01:27:33):
It's like I've moved two and ahalf hours east. Now, back
when I was out in Asheville,that might have been something to do.
Although I maybe I just wait forsome of the casinos to get opened around
the state and then maybe they couldget recreational marijuana. One oh six one

(01:28:04):
f M Talked and nine four fivew PTI, two stations driving the best
in talk. This is Casey ODay and Carolina's Morning News. All right,
well we're gonna have to Friday,so we're gonna have to take this
thing apart. Ross I just stumbledacross the twenty twenty three ranking of the

(01:28:27):
best cities for surviving the zombie apocalypse. Now you were saying off the air,
you don't want to be in thecity, right, Oh, there's
no way, all right, Sowith that, like understandably, yes,
there's spots in Wyoming I would thatwould be where I'd go. Just did
a density of population, terrain allof it. However, for the purpose

(01:28:49):
of this list, they ranked thetwo hundred largest cities in the US.
You're gonna have to be in oneof them, all right, And the
whole thing is stupid. Now,maybe number one I could get with if
you think this out. Number one'sHouston, Texas. It's a big footprint
of a city, a lot ofspaced out stuff, a lot of guns.

(01:29:10):
You know what I'm saying. Thatkind of makes sense, kind of
makes sense. But number two's NewYork City. No, that's completely wrong.
It's list already minimal guns, thousandsof zombie hiding points, zero line
of sight, right, all thethings working against you. You don't want

(01:29:32):
Number three, San Antonio, Miami, four La number five. I'm not
gonna hit all of these, butjust the ones that stand out, like
Las Vegas, lots of guns.Maybe, I don't know, Portland number
eleven. I mean yeah, ifyou dress them up, like, you

(01:29:58):
know, one of the two groupsthat like to fight, I guess then
you get the other one attacking themwhile you get away. I don't know.
Seattle's number fourteen, Honolulu's fifty.You're on an island, man,
but you're limited where you can run. San Francisco's twenty one. How would
you know the apocalypse started? Yeah, there's no way you'd be like,

(01:30:23):
are you a zombie? I haveno idea. I guess, well,
zombies don't poop on the sidewalk right, So like that again, well,
I guess it would determine. Itwould depend upon the rules of the zombie
universe we're talking about, because theyvary from universe to the universe. I
understand we're gonna go with. Yeah, we'll go with kind of Walking Dead.
Let's go. You know, Ithink that that's a good standard in

(01:30:44):
middle It's not quite World War Zright speed give an example like Walking Dead
the later years, right, thesezombies started to decay and to fall apart
in the heat, right, Somaybe you'd want to choose a desert type
area if we're going with those rules. Yeah, so Vegas is highly ranked.
I get yeah, sure, wellthen it is a dry heat.
I'm not sure the rules. AndI watched a movie where they were trying

(01:31:06):
to get into a zombie during azombie apocalypse to Rob's Safe, and it
looked really difficult. So something onNetflix I saw them. Let's see here,
Minneapolis, you got no no enforcementthere. Let me let me look
in North Carolina and see how thecity is fair. What what city in
North Carolina? You gotta go with? One of the big ones? Would

(01:31:27):
you think would be the best?Where I put it out there, I
mean I'm going, I'm going hometown. I'm going Raleigh, going, Okay,
just because I'm loyally, it's nothingelse behind it. It's just because
you don't want to leave your house, is correct. But there's a zombie
apocalypse. But I like my Idon't like leave my house. Right,
but you, but you may haveto make tough decisions, right if you

(01:31:49):
overwhelmed me, then then I willmake them, damn it, and I
will leave my house and go toRaleigh. That's not really getting away from
it, like they're gonna catch up. Well, so let's see what do
they say? It is the bestcity banks stored by state here Charlotte at
fifty, so out of two hundred, the best city in North Carolina still

(01:32:12):
is a bad option. And it'sCharlotte, followed by Raleigh, then Durham,
Greensboro, Fayetteville, and then WinstonSalem. Fayville is one hundred,
twenty ninth. It's it's like soldit's a bunch of soldier. It's soldiers
and gang bangers. This is sostupid, Like I would take the vets
or whatever, the soldiers in Fayettevilleover some idiot in a bodega, New

(01:32:32):
York city any day. Come on, dude, stupid. Yeah, you're
gonna you're gonna beat the zombies,a devil to your cat and criminals,
like, dude's high crime. Man. Everybody's arm down there. Oh this
thing is so dumb. Uh.Yeah, Raleigh's sixty eight, Greensboro one

(01:32:53):
hundred and twenty one. I feellike Greensboro would be better suited than Raleigh.
Oh no, it would if you'relooking at it that way, just
because of the terrain and the surroundings. Yeah, so what do they I'm
not even go there's a whole bunchof data points that they used to arrive
at this. Yeah. I don'tknow. I don't agree with anything.

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I feel like people here have noconcept of actual survival. The people putting
this list together, Like in eventhe most minimal survival situations, like I
used to be constantly baffled by We'dhave hunters come out, right, We'd
have hunters come out and I wouldsay stuff to them. I'd be like,
all right, so I'd drop themoff and I'd be like, all

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right, So what you want todo is, you know, start here,
but after light if you don't seeanything and you want to make a
move, you want to go eastabout you know, a half mile and
there's a set of trees, andthey'd be like, which ways east?
And I'm like, how do younot know? I'm dropping you off in

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the woods man? How do younot know north southeast west? Especially when
you have a mountain range that youknow runs north to south and you have
the sun. And I feel likeyou're dealing kind of with that here where
everyone who was in charge of thislist would be horrible. They would be
only good as zombie bait if theywere in your survival group, you know

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what I'm saying, where you justkind of be like, hey, Bob,
remember that list you put together,and then you push Bob down and
then the rest of you get away, and that is the only net benefit
from these idiots. I think thesafest city would actually be my hometown is
connected in New York. I thinkthat would probably be the safest because the
zombies would be like, Nope,we ain't going there, Like absolute poverty

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can't do it. So they gotstandards that you say, it's not on
the list because it's not one ofthe tuner biggest cities. So I don't
know where it ranked, but toyour point are, well, no,
because you know, one of theworst cities on the list, Detroit.
I think it's like next to last. So I like, if the zombie
they're gonna have, you know,they're gonna get picky. It sounds like

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they would overrun Detroit. No problemsolves connectady, here's Buffalo, New York.
Hold on just throwing zombies through tables, That's what I'm like, Yeah,
you just turn you if the zombiesdecide to outbreak during a tailgate,
they do, they stand at Idon't think they stand a chance. Yeah,
but whoever put in New York Cityas number two, get out of

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here. They're wrong with you people. So I'm just scanning some other stuff.
Most of the Texas cities are rankedpretty high, which makes sense,
like there's actual data there where Icould go, Okay, all right,
armed to the teeth, although maybenot Austin, which is ranked six craziness
all right eight eight eight nine threefour seven eight seven four. It's Washington,

(01:35:50):
DC doing They're all getting eat andgood. Although if they eat brains
though, right, So I'm justsay it wouldn't be I can't believe you
would. I can't believe you would. You would use this to attack Mitch
McConnell like this. It's gross.Really, you think it's just him or
not the totality of everyone up there, all right? Eight forty three Ken

(01:36:14):
Boon from the Weather Channel. Doyou think you'd survive a zombie apocalypse?
Me? Probably not for a littlewhile at least, Matt maybe. I
mean, there's a lot of reallydumb people, which can you just push
them down? Let the zombies andthen you get away, and you're sure
you surround yourself with enough idiots you'regonna you're gonna do just fine. All

(01:36:34):
right, Well, we don't haveto deal with that right now. We
just gotta deal with heat and moreheat and maybe even a hurricane of sorts.
So give it to us. Headit into the weekend, sir.
You bet well. It's gonna beanother hot day out there today. Maybe
not as hot as it was yesterday, but temperatures are still going to get
up into the nineties with some sunshine. Chance for a few late day showers

(01:36:54):
and storms, but I think amuch better chance to see those showers and
storms as we head into the weekabout ninety three this afternoon, seventy one
tonight, showers and storms more likelytomorrow and Sunday, especially through the afternoon
and evening hours. It won't beas hot over the weekend, with high
temperatures into the middle to upper partof the eighties. Now, dryer air
does build in for early next week. And of course we're watching Hurricane Lee

(01:37:16):
one hundred and sixty five mile perhour Cat five storm now as it continues
to move west north west, lookingforward to make that turn towards the north
as we get into next week.But we can still potentially have some indirect
impacts on the coastline with some dangeroussurf and some dangerous rip currents. All
right, thank you, sir.You know you're with us Monday as well.

(01:37:38):
Right, No, I believe Jeffwill be with you, Jeff,
you know, Okay, but it'snot Ray So he's like preemptively thrown in
the towel on the Cowboys games.That what's happen? Think? So dude's
having a rough go of it,all right, Ken, have a good
weekend, sir. All right youtwo yep, and we're gonna come back
to chat with Jeff Bellinger, Decks, Hang on your day Smarter one oh

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six one FM Talk and news Talkninety four five WPTI more with case starts
now. All right, good morning, it is eight fifty one. Your
Bloomberg update now, Jeff Falinger,what's happening here on our Friday? Well,
good morning, KC, and happyFriday. Stock send and mixed.

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Yesterday, Apple shares fell another threepercent on worries over a potential ban on
iPhone use by government workers in Chinathat put pressure on all of the major
averages. Saw a small gain forthe Dow, but the NASDAC and S
and P both ended lower. Stockmarket futures barely changed. Right now,
the S and P futures are uppa fraction, and NASDAC and Dow futures

(01:38:50):
are both down three points. Theyear's biggest movie is going to be a
big pay day for Mattel. Globalticket sales for the blockbuster Barbie total nearly
one point four billion dollars so far. MATEL created Barbie and licensed the brand
to Warner Brothers Discovery, which madethe movie. The toymakers share of revenue

(01:39:10):
and profits will be around one hundredtwenty five million dollars. Worker retention among
the major challenges facing retailers. Alot of employees say the job, with
its low pay, erratic schedules,and monotonous tasks, just isn't worth it.
A McKinsey study found that the quitrate for retail workers is more than
seventy percent higher than other industries.Workers say the job has become tougher in

(01:39:32):
recent years. There's more shoplifting todeal with, and customers are more confrontational.
General Motors didn't have long to waitfor a reply after it submitted a
counteroffer to the United Auto Workers.GM offered sixteen percent raises for topway journeys
and fifty six percent pay hikes fornew employees who were unless. The UAW

(01:39:53):
quickly rejected that offers that it wasinsulting. Worldwide, food prices resumed their
decline despite assistant worries about supplies ofsome key staples. The Food Commodity Cost
Index from the United Nations Food andAgriculture Organization fell a little more than two
percent last month, and the caseythe TikTok Shop, this is a marketplace

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that the video app is banking onfor revenue growth, has gone live for
some users here in the US.The shop option presents a continuous scroll of
random products that are recommended Bloomberg saysthat so far it looks like a showcase
for cheap Chinese made product. Nocase, no, I'm show come on,
say it ain't too all right,just guaranteed lead with every purchase.

(01:40:38):
All right, well, thank yousir, have a good weekend. You
do the same talk monday. Okay, sounds good. You have a good
day. Take care. Yeah,wow, didn't see that. So TikTok
he's shilling Chinese crap. Okay,all right, well there you go.
Uh, couple a couple quick thingswe get out of here. This isn't

(01:40:58):
going to affect you. But Ido think that it is an interesting It's
it's interesting in how we and socialmedia and various other tech entities see the
future of uh, you know,monitoring users. And in this case,
Activision is using AI now to scanconversations on with players that are playing online

(01:41:27):
in group settings for toxicity. Wellone, it comes down to the definition
of toxicity. But two, likeI still don't trust the AIS not to
murder the drone human pilots, denythe Holocaust, and like screw up and
make up fake legal cases. Soit's bad enough when you got a bunch

(01:41:48):
of blue hairs in a room doingcontent moderation like we saw with Twitter and
Facebook. Now they're just going toprogram AI, which is not full proof,
and have them do it. Arewe feeling comfortable with that? Ross?
You game but you don't really dothe online? Well here's what they
right, So they want to like, you know, cut down a quote

(01:42:10):
hate speech and these like I say, they call of duty lobbies or whatever
because it's activision. Well technology inthe use of technology evolves, it just
doesn't like it's not static, right, Yes, So eventually, if this
is successful, you can see likemaybe a company like Twitch or kick or
whoever, or even YouTube using itto monitor people's live streams. I could

(01:42:32):
see that happening in the future.I think it's terrifying. Tube. I
think you Tube must already do it, I think because through but they do
it through the transcripting service, right, So I don't know that that's AI
necessarily, it's it's it's speech recognition, which is why when like YouTubers won't
say certain words. You know this, Yeah, like there's a bunch of
words they won't say. They won'tsay COVID, they won't say anything you

(01:42:56):
happen to do with like sexual assaultor child say, even if they're if
it's in a documentary style setting orthey're doing a news story, they'll say
CP or you know, they'll usecode because the captioning program they assume the
algorithm is pulling on that. SoI don't know that it's really that different.
And let's face it, a lobbyof a Call of Duty server,

(01:43:19):
there's some horrible people too. Yeah, I mean, I this one reason
I won't stream that game is becauseI've been on friend streams before and they're
streaming and there's some kid you've nevermet, Rando in a lobby, right,
and you forget to turn off theother people's mics, and all of
a sudden, an end bomb isdropped, right, and you have to
end your entire stream because you don'twant to get canceled because some idiot you

(01:43:41):
know said that on a live stream. But you know, it's it's sort
of like technology is like any It'slike a government program, right. Government
programs tend not to shrink and tendnot to go away. They get bigger
and more out of control. Soyou can see them eventually using this on
live streams to monitor what you're saying, and like you said, it's Ai.
It's not going to know content extersarcasm or her her her Why can

(01:44:03):
I say the word her perboly?Right, Yeah, they're just gonna be
like, you know, I,oh, I heard this word, or
I heard this this joke, youmade this inappropriate jokes to now your stream,
it's gonna you know, we're gonnacancel your stream. I could see
that happening. And well, like, these are not just people streaming.
These are people that are literally playinga game that they paid for, right,

(01:44:24):
So I mean that are in theredoing this, and you're right if
it mishears it. What were wedoing the we're talking about something the other
day where it was oh, wasthe air degon thing? Right? Like
did did he just did the translator? The translator accidentally said that the president
of Turkey was declaring war on Putinwhile Putin was sitting there. Obviously it's
a mess up. Then we weremaking jokes about you know, not hearing

(01:44:45):
stuff. But like, content moderationalready sucks within these because even humans,
for whatever reason, when I've challengedsome of the posts we have, don't
recognize sarcasm or jokes or any ofthe rest. And now it's just going
to be baked into the system,and then eventually once you remove more and
more humans, like there's no wayto even get around it. It just

(01:45:06):
is what it is, and they'llgo, well, our hands are tied.
The AI sets. There are peoplethat really have a hard time recognizing
sarcasm, and a lot of thesepeople tend to be the younger generations.
I've noticed there seems to be ahuge percentage of say, you know,
comparing zoomers the boomers. The boomerscan recognize it a lot of the time.

(01:45:26):
Zoomers, for some reason cannot,especially online. It seems like a
lot of times it's an impossibility.By the way, if you got a
Ross's twitch thing, he's got humansmoderating stuff and they'll throw you out for
anything, like even if it's yourfirst name, you know what you did,
man, you need to apologize.It's nothing you need to apologize to
say you're sorry. Don't deny thebig boon beer booon beer, and like

(01:45:49):
that, I'm ampled