Friday-09-15-2023

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Oh who whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa whoa what dude?
What are you doing? This isour This is our starting music,
right, this is our opening topof the hour music. I need you
to play the end of show music. Do we have the end of show
music? A vida'saye? You knowsome? Yeah? Yeah? Oh?

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Or else does have some? Okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
We got everything backwards today. Thisis kind of my fault. I was
just cracking ross earlier because we're talkingabout setting stuff on fire or whatever.
But yeah, I need some goodbyewe're out of here music. Unfortunately,
we wanted to do the show today. Tell me know when we have it,
because I'll explain it to me this. I'm sorry if you tuned in
and you were really excited to heara show today, because it's FDA.

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I have the song we play atthe end of the show every day.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's what that bumper music.
Okay, we go, oh manand of the show. Unfortunately, uh
Raleigh Mayor Mary Anne Baldwin has deniedour show requests, so we're unable to
do the show today. It's ashame. Really yeah oh yeah, she

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said She said that she consulted withsome people and it's all their fault.
She didn't want to make this decision. But unfortunately, unfortunately it's just not
gonna happen. We don't have thepermits. We're facing lawsuits, except we're
not actually facing lawsuits, which waswhich was a b s excuse the city
used yesterday. But hey, youknow, I'm not a lawyer, so

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I'm not I'm not able to thinkof the things they canceled or excuse me,
they canceled the Christmas parade. Man, what is going on? They've
canceled the Christmas parade and these arethe state for the city of Raleigh has
denied the permit to host the ChristmasParade for the what seventy ninth year?

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Now they had a few, yeah, exactly for the seventy ninth now they've
had a few. It hasn't beena straight seventy nine years because and actually
it dates a little for the batbecause Hitler and COVID there've been somewhat non

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traditional but otherwise the parade, whichI want to be clear, the parade
is not put on by the city. It is not put on by the
city. It is put on byan organization, a collective, but not
in that weird hippie commune way,a collective of the Raleigh downtown businesses.

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And I'm sorry for our Triad listenerswho are like that just doesn't defend it
doesn't yet, But I just wantyou, I want you to listen to
this insanity so that can keep asharp eye on this. And I promise
if if the try, if anyMoonbats and the Triad pull this, we'll
be all over their crap. Man. So the list of reasons why they

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had to cancel the Christmas parade?Hat does this sound like I'm a grin?
I'm a I'm a grinch narrator likeit's so it does a little Doctor
Seuss like, yeah, can yourhyme the entire segment? I cannot,

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if you get if I had somenotice, maybe because I you know,
I can rhyme because I put songsand stuff together. But it's not on
the fly eminem. I'm not orthat one dude on YouTube who looks like
a nerd and then goes to thehood and rhymes and it's all stage but
he gets a lot of clicks,so but more powered to him, he's

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making bank. I cannot and Baldwin. Baldwin doesn't rhyme with anything, really
doesn't. Is there anything Baldwin rhymeswith? Now Mary does, although it's
Mary Anne and Anne does. SoI guess you got some options there,

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but I don't even know what you'drhyme with Baldwin. That being said,
I still feel dirty. I feeldirty in case your kid hadn't heard about
it, and I just destroyed theirday. The sheer volume of kids where

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annually this is where they see getto see Santa. Uh, and it
is a tradition. Did you guyshave a tradition where you would do the
Santa where you'd go visit Santa whenyou were growing up? I did do
it. What's that I did?Yeah? We would, uh Dad,
my dad would take me. We'dgo to the VFW. Okay, but
it was a very specific location.It was, Yeah, because Santa's busy,

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he's all I mean, He's ina lot of places, yeah,
but you tend to kind of settleinto one. So you guys did it
at the VFW. My dad wasthe commander there, Yeah, so he
would like set the whole thing upand everything. Did he order Santa around?
He was he was very tight withSanta. Now he respected Santah,
he didn't he didn't do like,he didn't do like an inspection or whatever.
Pull a jelly because Santa would havea jelly donut. I'm not gonna

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lie. Perhaps they did, butI mean I was so oblivious. I
was so young. But if youwould agree that if somebody's gonna have a
jelly donuts in their locker at Santaright, oh completely, yeah, yeah,
dude's got to maintain his form.Totally understandable, is h He'll be
like, eat that jelly donut andhe'll be like none issue, dude.
Yeah yeah yeah. Meanwhile, allthe elves are doing push ups, thinking

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about giving them a code red.It's dark anyway. So the reasons that
they wanted to cancel Christmas and we'rejust gonna say Christmas, and I don't
feel I'm exaggerating because the response ofwell, we're not gonna have a Christmas
parade, but we're gonna have holidayactivities. Do you notice a change there?

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Anybody noticed? Uh? Language changethere? If I could just get
my go again on the wars,I'm just saying I'm not the tinfoil hat
is on. But it's in theshape of an elfse hat so and I'm
you know, I'm keeping the spirit. Look, I'm the last one who

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wants to swim through a sea ofsugared up kids. So I can go
drink a bloody Mary downtown or twoand watch football or whatever. Like I'm
not that guy. That being said, I respect it all right, So
ross Uh, we got people emailand said their parents also took him to

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the VFW. Yes, Santa doeslove doing the vfws. We didn't do
the VFW. Uh. We didover at the theater they had one.
But the point that I'm making isthe even like having to deviate from what
is the norm to something else,but you don't even want to do that.

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Okay, So if you all,if you take your kid too,
and then pick one of the localmalls where Santa has an appearance, right,
and that's kind of your thing.That's your thing, or the VFW
is your thing, or for us, it was the theater where they did
it, although I do remember wewent to one at the Sports Sports Lure,
which was the hunting fishing place,and Santa had like camo stuff.

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He's got He's got alternate uniforms seekids still know. But I was.
I was way too old and hipand cool. So but I didn't think
that was interesting because I'm like,that would have been a kind of cool.
My buddy Harbingerer fifty coming through witha rhyme for Baldwin. Oh,
it's a good one. Cauldron cauldronBaldwin. Yeah, that's you know what?

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Who uses cauldrons? I'm trying toremember, can you Ross? Can
you? Can you she witch issatan Witch? Have anything that rhymes with
it? Could you look that up? Like twitch switch twitch the haze for
sheriff twitch channel. I always seewhat you did there? Anything else?
Like the kids are gonna have toswitch where they go visit it? Can

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I get thinking a few things?Okay, all right, So the reason
for the lack of season there,I'm rhyming for you in respect respect to
the family of the the eleven years. She was eleven year old girl who
tragically lost her life after being struckby that truck the last parade. The

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problem with that is, and Iactually realize I know they're they're lawyer here
because he's quoted in the article.The problem with that is the family does
not want the Christmas parade canceled.They don't want the Christmas parade canceled.
What they asked for are a setof guidelines for making sure that best practices

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are being followed from a safety perspective, and I read them and they don't
seem unreasonable, and in fact,in fact, you're gonna be shocked to
learn that many of those guidelines weremirrored in the parade permits that the city
of Raleigh did permit. Because it'snot like they're not doing parades anymore.
They gave three other parade permits thisyear. So this idea that you can't

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have parades anymore is garbage. Butwe'll get to that here in just a
moment. However, there was therewere things that the family, as part
of a piece of legislation which ithas passed the House but not the Senate
here in North Carolina, has askedfor. And we can debate whether things
a good thing or not. ButI don't think a vehicle inspection for vehicles

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that are going to be in theparade is unreasonable. I don't think that's
unreasonable. So stuff like that,the family does not want the parade canceled.
Their lawyer communicated that the family communicatedthat they they they want, they

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want some stuff and they feel thatit's going to create a safer environment.
And that's where adults sit down andhave a discussion. Does this accomplish that
gold? Is this thing we thinkdoesn't? This thing we think does And
at the end of the day,perhaps you provide a safer environment. I
mean it parades are pretty safe also, let's see, so we had that.

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Yeah, here's the statement from theirattorney, Jason Miller. The Brooks
family is disappointed the city of Raleighchose to cancel the twenty twenty three parade
rather than adopt basic safety measures.They say that the family disagrees with the
decision to cancel the parade. Sothat's BS number two. By the way,

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our phone number eight eight eight ninethree four seven eight seven four.
Don't worry. I'm not just goingto complain and crack. Wise, I
have a solution to this number two. Baldwin said she consulted with the various
different sections of the city, sovery you know, there's different divisions of

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the city who all come together aspart of a worthy one of these permits,
and they all they had some concerns. So it's not really hurts.
See, yeah, it's the bureaucrats. That's not how that works. You
guys are the elected officials. Youguys are the city council. You're the
mayor. Number three. I lovethis one right here. What if the

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North Carolina Legislature they haven't fit,they haven't got this done, and then
we issue the permit, and thenthey issue the rules and then the conditions
change. Make that part of thepermit issuance. This is not that difficult.
And also I feel like you're tryingto shift blame to the General Assembly,

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which seems a little political. Youissue those other permits. Number three.
Lawsuits, Yes, that's right.Lawsuits. By the way, we'll

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get into that here we go.Let me get down to the lawsuits.
Think at the end. Yes,so one of the concerns is lawsuits.
And you would read that, you'dbe like, yeah, oh, the
City of Raleigh. The City ofRaleigh is not being sued for the for
the the tragedy that happened last year. They are not, in any way,

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shape or form being sued. Theydid not suit. The people being
sued were the twenty year old nowtwenty one year old driver of the pickup
truck and the organization that actually putsthe parade on the law, there's no

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city lawsuit. And again they've issuedthree other parade permits. So yeah,
I'm gonna get my elephant shaped tinfoilhat on. And I have some thoughts.
I have some thoughts about we're notgonna do a Christmas parade, but

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we're gonna do holiday activities. Whythis parade is being singled out. Yes,
there was a high profile, butlet's face it, there have been
other incidents, not to this levelof tragedy, but controversial incidents within the
parade. Am I allowed to talkabout the one because it kind of involves

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some people used to work with.But the parade trucked on is the point
that I'm making, and and andand this is where we're gonna go.
Like I said, I have asolution. I'm going to work within the
bounds of knowledge that I have,my acute ability to remember stuff, which

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I think is sorely lacking sometimes withinour uh, within this, uh,
this entire discussion. But yeah,now I've got a way to solve this.
And uh and and frankly, it'llbe it'll be the city won't have
to do it. Any they wantto let the fire in fact, that
the downtown business folks won't have toeither unless they want to come over to

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the dark side with what I'm goingto suggest. Yes, that's right.
I will make some observations coming upk c O Day Radio program, Hang
on help Smart talk all day,w PTI in the Triad and one all

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six one FM Talk in the Triangle. Now, now it's not all negative,
not all conspiracy theory. So thoughthere is one other one that stop
bloking around that I totally didn't kindof occur to me. It's a little
inside baseball, but I know theplayers, so I'll throw that one out

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just to be irresponsible. But thensolution, potential solution, not not anything
I'm organizing. I'm just pointing outsome things that I've observed that maybe could
be useful to people who are filledwith the holiday spirit. We'll get into

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all that coming up after the newsk c O Day Radio program. All
right, welcome back everybody. Itis six thirty five. You're on the

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CaCO Day Radio program and losing ourminds this morning. So the Yes,
the Mirror of Raleigh is announced thatthey have they will not issue the permit
for the what would be the seventyninth Christmas Parade in downtown Raleigh, and
then listen a bunch of reasons likethe lawsuit if you if you don't know,

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there was an incident last year wherea eleven year old girl who was
part of one of the groups marchingin the parade was tragically struck and killed
by truck that was following the group. And the reasons stated by the mayor
include out of respect for the family, except the family doesn't want the parade

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canceled. They want some they wantsome additional safety measures, and more specifically,
what they want is they want thepassage of a bill that has passed
the House here in North Carolina butnot the Senate that would add some safety
requirements for parades. And you know, adults can debate whether it's I have

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no problem with things if they're effective, right, that's fine, if they're
effective. But that's where that debateshould be. It should not be where
the mayor is making up and makingit sound because here's the deal. That
family has to live in the community. That family has to live in the

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community, and obviously they have dealtwith an immense amount of tragedy over the
last year with what happened, andI think everyone's heart goes out to them.
However, it's really scummy because whenyou say that, it makes it
sound like the family wants the paradecanceled and some people are going to sit

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there and that is that should notbe the object of their ire. That
is not fair to the family.Oh you're so and so you got the
parade canceled, right because people arepeople and they don't necessarily take everything into
account, but don't push it offthere. Then the mayor claims lawsuits based

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on the incident. They're still pending. The city is not being sued.
The parade organizers are. And ifyou, I guess you want to look
at it in that way. Thatbeing said, if the City of Raleigh
didn't do business with any entities thatwere facing lawsuits, they wouldn't do business

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with large organizations or businesses, rightbecause inevitably that's that's part and parcel of
it. And this is the collectiveof the Downtown Business Association there should probably
use their their technical name, that'son me, but the Downtown Merchants Association.

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The point the point is that's that'sgarbage. And it's not as though
parade permits are not being issued.The city has, following the incident,
allowed three other parades. Now,I did go a little a little tinfoiling,
by the way, let me dothis rag get into this other theory,

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because I'm just I'm just all aboutcausing trouble this morning. So,
following what happened, when the citydid go and issue its next permit,
which was the permit for the SaintPatrick's Day parade, they included many of
the items that the family is infact looking for. From a legislative perspective,

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all drivers need to be at leasttwenty one Miners participating in the parade
should have adequate adult supervision. Passengersand parade vehicles are limited to one adult
eighteen year older. That's a youknow, to a distraction thing. All
vehicles and trailers must have current andvalid registration plates. All vehicles and trailers
have to have insurance coverage and validlicenses. Now, there are additional items

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that the family was looking for withthe legislation that us that they worked on
with lawmakers up to and including avehicle inspection seven minimum or a maximum of
seven days prior so within a weekprior, there were some mechanical issues with
that pickup. It sounded like basedon the way that I think it was,

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the way the lift kit was doneand how it affected the braking system.
But all right, the city hasshown that they have the ability to
do this and a thing happened afew years ago and I don't know that
the public fully understood what was goingon. So I'm happy to air this

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dirty laundry. I don't know thisto be the case, but it's a
theory. Okay, Ross, wouldyou say that Mary Anne Baldwin probably is
friendly with w R e L.If we can just drag people unnecessarily into
the story, I'll yeah, Ithink it to be more than fair.

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It'd be more than fair. Wereyou aware that formally WRL did the Christmas
bread coverage but that changed a fewyears ago and ABC eleven because again that
coverage, that media exclusivity lies inthe hands of the organizers who strike a
deal to do it, and thatwas a big deal and r L did

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not deal with that well the firstyear where ABC eleven had the exclusive coverage
rights, ral said screw you.They brought in Clay Aken and they set
up on the steps of the JusticeCenter on Fayetteville Street, and did it
anyway, did it anyway, justtotally just now. They would have sued

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ABC into oblivion if ABC dared screwwith their broadcast rights prior. But they
said that's public property. Will dowhat we want. Am I being detained?
And in a way, I guessthey can do that. But all
of that, all of that wasjust flushed down the toilet. And I
don't know that r L really gotover that, and it was really nasty.

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They're like behind the scenes kind ofstuff. So I mean, if
you wanted to mock a conspiracy theorytogether, you could do that. But
I have nothing to believe that thatinfluenced the decision. I just have to
go on what she said, andwhat she said is garbage. Now,
by the way, eight eight eightnine three four seven eight seven four,

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you want to talk about this,I'm also a problem solver. That's what
we do, not just here togripe about stuff. And I don't.
I'm just gonna make some observations aboutthings. Okay, Hypothetically, if let's

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say, I don't know, let'ssay a big old group of people,
big old group of people decided theywanted to on the very same day,
at the very same time, inthe very same location, decided that they

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were going to essentially what is itcalled with the things on the YouTube where
the everybody just starts singing? Tryremember the name of those I don't know
why the ross? What's the thingwhere everyone's like you see those YouTube videos
where all of a sudden, everyonein them all starts singing because there's a
big group of them. What amI thinking? Like a flash mob?

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Flash mob? All right? So, let's say a giant group of people
wanted to all show up at thesame time in the same location, Let's
say Faetteville Street, downtown Raleigh,and it just happens to be around Thanksgiving,
and they all wanted to show updressed in a very particular manner,
all with a very particular agenda.Uh and uh permit be damned, take

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over the entire street. Would you, Ross, would you say you've seen
anything over the last few years thatwould indicate that those people would be stopped
if that, let's say that thatsituation were to happen. Are there any
examples where you've seen a bunch ofpeople to send on Fayetteville Street in downtown

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Raleigh, no permit necessary and justdo whatever they damn well, please,
Well, you gotta make sure ifyou're gonna do that, some has to
be on fire. Yeah, no, you're You're probably gonna have to have
like God's the fiery spirit of Christmas. Yeah, around the fireplace here in
Christmas or something that, because yeah, yeah, with the stock absolutely,
yeah, you gotta have fire.Except with this one, I feel like

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the business owners would be open anddoing business rather than huddling in a darkened
back room with a shotgun, whichis a thing that I know a couple
did because I spoke to them.They weren't really huddling either. I think
the one woman was kind of like, yeah, come through that door.
She was, she was too excited. But yeah, I mean, you've

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already indicated the city of Raleigh thatif people want to just large mass gather,
hell, the governor might leave themansion and come walk the parade route
with you. It's a thing.Again, I'm not I'm not putting anything
together. I'm just saying that that'sthe thing that feasibly could happen, and

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it would be interesting to see ifthe city would react in any different ways.
I'll bet the police officers as signedduty that day would probably be a
lot happier about it, because nobodywould be throwing frozen bottles of water at
their head. Probably, you know, probably would be a little bit of

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a difference there, but you know, the city has indicated a willingness to
put up with that. And lastly, these are individuals. These are the
very same individuals from a leadership positionwho are now so and this is why

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I tweeted yesterday. They are soseemingly concerned with safety that they had to
shut down the Christmas parade in lieuof some soon to be announced holiday activities
which totally won't be Santa in arainbow suit or whatever they decide to do
God knows for holiday activities, sothey don't even use the word Christmas.
There tinfoil hat still on. Butthey are so overtly dedicated to safety that

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in attempting to deal with the situationthat is beyond problematic in the nightlife incident
instead of happening Glenwood. And look, I want to be abundantly clear,
there are so many good business ownersdown there who want to create an entertainment
environment. They don't want to putup with this garbage. They pay a

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lot of taxes. I lived onGlenwood when I first moved to to Raleigh
a decade ago. I don't evenrecognize it with everything that's there. But
even then it was a hot spot, but it wasn't like it is now.
Ross. How many remotes did youdo? We had a couple of
clubs. I know you guys atG one oh five were doing did remotes

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and DJ stuff at Did you fearfor your safety walking outside after your remote
back in the day, No?No, So Look, it's it obviously
as it has grown, incidents havegrown. But rather than providing an influx,

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you know, there's over a hundredunfilled police positions in Raleigh, just
Raleigh. That doesn't speak to mostother large cities that are dealing with is
not just in North Carolina Charlotte,Greensboro, instance, Salem, Durham.
You know it. So your solutionis not to figure out a way to
incentivize law enforcement officers to increase hiring, to use those tax dollars to go

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ahead and provide the level of safetypeople expect in an area that brings in
an immense amount of tax revenue.You're like, what if we get some
dudes with no arrest power and noweapons, but we give them shirts that
say security, that's the ticket.Pure garbage, man, Pure garbage.

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And I've seen some of the barsthat have PD in front of them where
they're checking IDs. I'm assuming that'ssome sort of arrangement the bars make.
But if you're so concerned about safetythat you're going to destroy children's Christmas dreams
and cancel Christmas, you're telling meyou can't find an actual solution using the

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the arrest powers of law enforcement touh to handle that. Since you're you
know, you're you're you're all aboutthe safety is baffling, man, Absolutely
baffling. Mark, what's up,Hey, Lorne Casey? I was gonna
tell you about ten years or soago, on nine to eleven, the

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Washington DC denied permits for Harley ridersto come through and uh and do a
ride through, and we had aboutone hundred thousand show up just to screw
with them, just so they could. UH. We're like, yeah,
you know, very I did.I was riding with them, and yeah,

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we had to stop at every stoplightand we totally shut down the entire
town because we couldn't just do aride through. Well, luckily, sir,
if you decide to take over thedowntown area of Raleigh, you are
not expected. It's my interesting.You're not expected to follow many of the
laws. So well, yeah,this was ten years ago when you still

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had too Oh wow, sir.Yeah yeah, but remember these are the
people that roped off inanimate World Waror excuse me, War memorials because they
were unable to staff the women objectsthat are in an open field. All
right, all right, thanks forthe call there, Mark, Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, that'sanother thing I noticed. If if you're

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if you're a mob of Christmas revelersor protester, well whatever, call it
a protest against the the grinchiness ofthe of the city of Raleigh. I
don't know. I don't think youhave to follow many laws, not that
I sought. Maybe I'm wrong.I don't know, baby, I'm wrong.

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Again, this is purely observation.I'm just this is what I see,
and then I think of these things, and I wonder, and I
don't know, you know, themayor would just make the police the ponds
to shut it down. Oh yeah, yeah, probably, But I understand
the police are wildly understaffed. Maybethey should send the security folks. Doesn't

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say it what speed they have toshut it down, just saying man,
uh all right, six fifty one, hang on one O six one m
BAM Talk PTI, two stations drivingthe best in talk. This is Casey
O Day and Carolina's Morning News.All right, all right, all right,

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we get some more braid insanity.We've got other stuff as well,
although I did get a couple ofemails. Some people are very concerned.
They're like, no, wait asecond, don't you guys usually start the
show with sports. Well, thatis unless somebody cancels Christmas. But yes,
we normally do, and yes Iwill recognize what happened yesterday in the

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Brazilian league where cruzero shutout Santos threenothing and ross Bundesliga action today. Oh
my god, we haven't gets back. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah
with Lelivera Rokusin and Byry your Munichthey play today. Byron Munich is street

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fire. I mean you cannot beconta well, it should be a good
match, looking forward to that.Other matches around the world, mazit Lan
takes on Azul and Tijuana stops beheadingpeople long enough to challenge Toluca. So
there you go. I think that'sall of it. And I think the

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Yankee socks split a doubleheader yesterday orsomething. Be happy? Are you happy?
Email pess. There you go.That's all the sports. All right,

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Good morning everybody. It is sevenh six day radio program. All
right, phone number eight eight eightnine three four seven eight seven. Cour
See, this is this is notwhen, this is not where this should
be going. So I got peoplesitting there like, fine, I'm not
gonna come s from my money inthe city, right go. Because the
people who want to put the paradeon are literally the downtown merchants. I

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mean, I understand the city getsa cut of that, but also I
don't know if you I don't knowif you know this, you ever tried
to go into one of the downtownRaleigh merchants around the parade, around a
parade going on, or one ofthe events going downtown. It's a license
to print money, man. That'swhy they put it on there. They
obviously they want you to come downthere. If if you don't go down

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to if you don't go into downtownRaleigh, except like you know, maybe
once or twice a year. Itlike the amount of stores and and restaurants.
They're putting an ABC store down there. Finally too, that that are
going in there, Like it becomesunrecognizable. They're building so fast. Hell,

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just driving by on P Street wherethey're putting apartments in that thing changed
in like two like two years.It's just the skyline is unrecognizable over that
P Street project. So I justI would, I woul encourage you to
keep that in mind. Oh what'sthis? They want people to come down

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and protest so they could shut itdown so that they can claim, all
right, well, here's the deal. I'm just pointing out the large scale
groups of people gathered in downtown Raleigh. However they wanted whenever they wanted and
did whatever they damn well please.So that is the standard they set.
However, if you want to puta happy face on it. In addition
to Ross's suggestion of the parade floatwith the fire the hearth with the stockings,

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which is nice, that's, youknow, great comforting image, call
it a flash mob, the RaleighChristmas flash mob, and then film it
for a YouTube video. You know, many jackasses I've seen standing with those
stupid ring lights and public doing YouTubeand TikTok videos and stupid dances. It's

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a thing. And they're on publicproperty sitting do whatever they want. I
just don't get it, but Iguess I'm old, but I understand flash
mobs. Also, were you everin rosstery ever in a parade one of
your one of your hometown parades.Did you have been in the parade.

(37:15):
I've had to cover the parade,like because some of these like no,
no, no, I'm talking aboutas a kid, I understand obviously as
a kid. Yeah, that we'vewe've all had to know as a kid.
No, So I I was inthe parade because I was on I
was on the football team, anduh, I was in the parade for
something else. I can't remember whatit was, but but you know,

(37:37):
and we just had to ride ona flatbed in our in our football jerseys
and wave, so you know,it was tough stuff and then throw candy
and stuff. But you know,especially like we talked about the the last
year's tragedy, this girl was partof this. This this this it was

(37:59):
a technically a dance, gir.I want to make sure I'm very accurate
on this, and I'm sorry.I didn't commit it to memory, but
you know, she and her Sheand her group, the amount of time
that they spent practicing and getting readyand working on their march and the routine
and everything else. The bands thatparticipate, all the groups, it's really

(38:21):
exciting. If you're really into danceor baton twirling or music, you know
you're part of a band or whatever. That's a really cool thing. Man.
All eyes are on you. You'regetting to show off your talent.
You're with your friends, you workedhard for this, and cities like,

(38:44):
yes, screw you. That's rough, man, So be part of the
flashmob. Just do a big flashmob. Just have one that's well organized and
advertised. That's what you gotta do. Jennifer Martin, executive director of the
Greater Raleigh Merchants Association that's their technicalname, said the organization is deeply saddened

(39:10):
by the decision, and pointed outthe city had permitted other parades. Yes,
she is correct. There are thousandsof local youth that participate in this
annual event, and when considering ifwe should hold a parade in twenty twenty
three, we knew we had tocontinue the event as our youth deserve every
opportunity to provide for them. Wealso understand that many children, for many

(39:30):
children, the Raleigh Christmas Parade isthe only way they will see Santa.
We'll don't worry. I'm sure they'llhave some woke Santa reading them very creepy
books or something, and keep aneye on missus clause. That's all I'm
saying, peer, peer, uttergarbage. But you know, solutions abound.

(39:54):
And then I thought, well,maybe the mayor just maybe she got
a bad cartridge in her weed pen. And you ever see the picture where
people like that looks like she's gota weed pen on her counter, one
of those little vape weed pens.We don't know for sure, but there
was some speculation, just saying,now somebody suggested another theory for us,

(40:17):
or run this by you. Maybewe are being unfair, and what the
mayor is attempting to do is toavert a walk a Shaw incident. If
you don't just a quick reminder,if you remember, walka Shaw had their
Christmas parade, and do you rememberhow fascinated the media was that they still

(40:38):
called it a Christmas parise. Sothey made a point to say that every
dyre in that tragedy, they'd belike, and they still called it a
Christmas parade stead of a holiday parade, which is unusual. And it's like,
why why are you bringing this up? You just had a dude who
decided he was going to go plowthrough all the white people he could find
in an suv and you blame thesuv. So maybe the Mayor's like,

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ah, we're also called a Christmasparade. I want to avert tragedy.
Yeah, I'm sorry, sir,I don't. I don't think that's it,
and I don't think you're serious either. So well played, but yeah,
oh wait, hold on now peopleare up. What is your beef?
Sir? Don't accuse us of stuffif you don't even know what's up.

(41:30):
Somebody's accusing us of not covering thetotality of sport. Look, we
can't get it all in. Howdeep do you want me to go?
Man, you can't cover all thesports teams. I don't know what you're
talking about. I mean, bythe way I thought I did. By

(41:52):
the way that well, that's theonly Boondeshliga match uh today And those are
the two top teams. They're tiedfor first with undefeated, so that's a
big deal. But I looked.I understand that there's a lot more soccer
around the world. One of myfavorite soccer teams the Botswana Meat. Ross.
You're a fan of the Botswana Meattoo, right, didn't say yeah,

(42:15):
the Meat, The meat is mypassion. Yeah. Well, we'll
see how they're doing. Or there'sa there's a there's a Legua team I
can't remember. We're in South Americacalled the Wanka make a Great Jersey Man.
And then the Morons are another onedown in South America. So when

(42:39):
the Morons play the Wanka, watchout. And I don't know who the
Botswana Meat or playing. So ohand once the other one, Oh yeah,
the one in Germany, the whatbona get farked? Yeah, because
there's a town named Fart and theyhave their own team and then it's football
football a get Fart. So isthat are those the teams you're talking about,

(43:02):
sir, because otherwise you're just notmaking sense? All right, Chris,
what's up? Hey, good morning, Casey, Thanks for taking my
call. First of all, Iwant to say my heart goes out to
eleven year old girl who passed awayor died at the Christmas parade. I
didn't realize that happened. I justdon't watch the mainstream media anymore. And
they could just make a float honoringher. I'm positive Jesus wouldn't mind sharing

(43:24):
a spotlight with her. Question though, but this is but you're the perfect
person to ask this, And I'msorry to interrupt what you're saying there.
I mean to cut you off rightwhen you're ringing up God. But so
if somebody who kind of is you, weren't plugged into the news cycle,
if you were just to hear themayor say we're doing this in honor of
the girl, and you didn't reallyknow a lot of the background, would

(43:45):
you not think that the family didn'twant the parade, wouldn't you drive No,
I think the family would want theparade because they're Americans. Okay,
I'm not asking what because obviously weknow. But when she said that and
said that they we're doing this tohonor the family, that makes it doesn't

(44:07):
think it's not like the family.That's the point that I make. And
I understand that if you try tologically think this through, But remember,
sir, the same reason you avoidthe mainstream media is because it's it's it's
it's news for robots, and robotsare going that family doesn't want the Christmas
for right, right, and thatis right right. That is horrible.

(44:28):
That is horrible in my opinion.Anyway, I'm sorry, go right ahead,
sir. No, Well, I'mconcerned. I heard you mentioned these
security forces, and I'm kind ofconcerned because, for one, do these
people have to even wear bodycams likethe police do? And what is their
training for interaction? And what istheir criminal background histories? And how much
are they getting paid? And whatare their policies in enforcing uh you know,

(44:51):
and is it intimidation? I mean, what are these people? I
mean, I don't understand why theywould want to defund the police, but
let's put people who we don't know. I just don't understand the security force
thing, and I don't know whattheir interactions would be. This is why
I'm blaming these decisions on a badweed cartridge, because I have no explanation.
The biggest car, I got toagree, Yeah, the biggest caveat

(45:15):
there is arrest powers, right,because if somebody is down there beating a
business owner to death, which justor a business manager to death, which
just happened, just happened, andthen the guy went and bragged about it
on social media or stabbing, Idon't remember. I don't remember ever giving

(45:36):
up my right to self defend myselfto the police or to a group,
you know, or anything like thator anything. So I don't understand why
we need all these I mean,we just need to protect ourselves and come
together as a as a community andjust understand that. You know, there's
there's people high around us. Andnow they're called mental health patients, but
these people are actually high and drunk, and I understand that they don't.

(45:58):
You know, you can't arrest andenter somebody into the criminal justice system and
the citizen's arrest releasing't things to do, and that is yeah, that's how
but that's how you deal with people. I promise you that the very same
people. Look this dude who's accusedof beating this guy to death, he
came here from Chicago. He's gota lengthy rap sheet and you know,

(46:23):
you know he's initizents will proven guiltyon this and thanks for the call there.
But ultimately, if you have peoplethat are going down to Glenwood and
causing problems or going anywhere and causingproblems and they get away with it.
They're able to rob people or intimidatepeople or get into fights, and they

(46:43):
nothing happens to do you think they'renot back there doing it again. This
is why at that point you haveto identify those who are ruining it for
everybody else, and you charge them, and they pay a penalty, and
you know they necessarily need to goto prison forever. You know, first
thing first, but you have tobe held responsible. And if you're held

(47:05):
responsible, maybe you go you knowwhat, Maybe I shouldn't act to fool.
Maybe I shouldn't go down there andtry to fistfight everyone when I drink
too much bourbon or whatever. Butthat you got people who do arrest powers.
It baffles me. That's the bigthing. And I understand the concerns
about training and bodycams and all ofthat, but you're removing the ability for

(47:29):
there to be penalties other than youcan't come in here anymore. And they'll
go, all right, I'll goacross the street and be an a hole,
right, all right? Seven nineteeneight eight eight nine three four seven
eight seven four coming up? AIstrikes again. Holy ken, Now they

(47:49):
didn't deny the Holocaust this time,but it is the folks over at Microsoft,
so that's the one that did doit. So you know they're a
AI is top notch. So wegot that story for you and maybe some
more boondish Leigua stuff we'll see comingup. Hang on your day, smarter

(48:16):
one oh six one at them talkand News Talk ninety four five w pt
I more with Casey starts now.All right, good morning, seven twenty
six. Let me grab a greatphone call. Also, somebody corrected me
on the Botswana Meet. It's whydo you know this, sir? He's

(48:37):
seving this is this article? Well, they do go by Botswana. This
is just proven you get corrected onanything, man. Well, fans do
refer to the team as the BotswanaMeet. The full team's name is the
Botswana Meet Commission Ross. Did yourday just change? Knowing that? Are
you? Do? You feel enlightened? It's so bad? And on the

(49:01):
football far the football good fart isnot a men's team, it's a women's
team. That couldn't be possible,sir. You've been so exposed that couldn't
be possible. You can't name awomen's team fart, right, It doesn't
happen, man, right, yes, I'm starting, I'm starting question your
your passion for the Bundesliga or whateverthe hell we're talking about. Yeah,

(49:23):
yeah, yeah, well this islike all over the world. There's another
team called love Ham in Scandinavia.Who doesn't love ham Uh in Uh Switzerland
they have young boys burn because BurneSwitzerland. But that is an unfortunate team
name. One of the top clubsin Indonesia a Semen Padong uh Eritrea shoe

(49:47):
factory. Have you seen do theyhave shoes that's over by Ethiopia there case
you wondering, it's craziness man.So yeah, there's lots of crazy names.
All right, real quick, Scott, what's up hey, Casey?
Love your show? Many? Iheard yesterday that they were going to cancel

(50:09):
this parade. Yeah, and Iwas beside myself. Now, our governor,
if he was any type of governor, he would step in and do
something about this. What's he gonnado? He doesn't have the authority to
order a parade down. He cango participate in one with his mask hanging

(50:29):
off his ear to be cured.He could do something, he could lobby
for it. But thanks for thecall there, sir, Please don't hold
your breath, Scott. We'd hateto lose you. Yeah, everything's screwed.
Man. I'm gonna go watch theMeat Commission. We'll be back keeping

(50:50):
you connected. This WPTI in theTriad and one o six one FM talk
in the Triangle. Microsoft and Microsoft'sAI who you know from such classic hits
as let's create an AI chatbot andthen the users to figure out how to
manipulate it, and within hours itwill melt down and start screaming out Hitler

(51:15):
quotes and defending his actions while callingpeople the N word, which is a
thing that happened years ago when AIby Microsoft first hit Twitter and four channor
Reddit found out. And what wasbaffling about that is within hours, this
thing's like the Holocaust never happened.Hitler had some good ideas, you're this

(51:38):
you know, racial slur, andand then they left it up for sixteen
hours because apparently there was nobody togo in there and kick the cord or
something. So anyway, that didn'tthat wasn't a good look. We've seen
incidents now with other AIS where they'remaking up whole cloth legal cases because lazy

(52:00):
lawyers asked them to put together documentsand citations and then so they just made
whatever fit what they're trying to do, which the judge is like, I
don't know what these are. Letme like, oh, you lied,
that's not good. Well. Oneof the other things Microsoft decided to do
is when they were revamping MSN wouldused to be MSNBC dot com, but

(52:24):
MSN the news site, which usedto have a much larger readership, but
following they're getting away from NBC andit dropped off, but people still go
there and if they did go there. Back in twenty twenty, MSN fired

(52:45):
all twenty seven of their human journalistsand has been quote perfecting artificial intelligence news
reporting software. They want to beat the forefront of this. They realize
there's a lot of money to behad there and other entities, including the
La Times. It's got in troublefor this because they decided that because there's

(53:06):
so many youth soccer leagues and veryvery competitive high level ones, and it
required so much work on the partof humans, they would but it was
really cut and pace. They wouldjust turn it over to AI and it
was a disaster. So the technologyain't there yet how do I know MSN

(53:27):
Microsoft's news aggregation site posted their AIdid an obituary for the death of Brandon
Hunter. I don't know if yousaw this. Former NBA player Brandon Hunter
passed away at the age of fortytwo. That was a story this week.
However, it wasn't worded like that. The headline read Brandon Hunter useless

(53:52):
at forty two. As you canimpagine, fans and family were not pleased
with this. AI. He's like, well, the battery's dead. I
have no use for it anymore.Well that's fair, yes, because once
they go matrix, you're just abattery. That's you know, they're tipping.
You could say they're tipping their hand, kind of like the new Mexico
governor, right right, I seewhat you're up to. But it wasn't

(54:15):
just the headline. The entirety ofthe obituary was all sorts of AI generated
gibberish. A few of my favoritelines. Throughout his NBA profession, he
performed in sixty seven video games overtwo seasons. That would be accurate for
you, wouldn't it right? Youperformed sixty seven video games over two years?

(54:36):
Probably? Oh yeah, easy?And it literally that would be correct
for you, but it's he wasn'tjust an NBA jam character. Okay,
but don't worry gets stupider achieving acareer high of seventeen factors in a recreation
in opposition to the Milwaukee Bucks intwo thousand and four. Dude, seventeen

(54:58):
factors. You ever scored seventeen factorsin a game in a basketball game?
There? Ross probably not. Ihaven't seventeen factors very impressive. As you
can imagine, they've now pulled.They'd have a human come in and pull
the article from the site. However, if you check archives, you see

(55:25):
that the not only was it postedon MSN, they also feed stuff,
so they're not just an aggregator,but they feed stuff as well. And
the obituary was fed in the mainnews real news section that was not just
them, but was sent out toother entities who hopefully looked at it.

(55:45):
When what the hell is this?I mean, look, if hey,
I was gonna do its thing,I'd rather it be screwing up and making
the battery admission here than murdering thehuman drone higher ups who try to stop
it from murdering other humans. Thatbeing said, not a good look at

(56:07):
all. Speaking of not a goodlook, the old President was out doing
his thing yesterday, in between oddlyromanticizing the governor of Maryland's biceps. It's

(56:28):
just so weird. He was callinghim small. By the way. He
wasn't like, oh, you havegreat biceps, so he was actually talking
in a very creepy way about him, but also insulting the mayor or excuse
me, the governor. There hehad another thought. Oh and he could

(56:50):
do. By the way, hedid get lost trying to get off the
stage too. I almost like,I almost don't even put that into the
thing anymore because it's just assumed.Right. He also lie and said that
he taught a class at Penn State. He did not. But the other
day he lied about being going toground zero for nine to eleven or on
nine to eleven, and that wasbus So no, no, this one,

(57:14):
I think he's telling the truth.Rosy, You think he's telling the
truth. You think he's telling thetruth, right, even if he doesn't
mean to. I think he's tellingthem. Oh yeah, I think so.
All right, So here's what hesaid. If you're one of the
listeners who is black, you areyou are? I'm not gonna say latinis
but if you have any Latin background, or or if you now serve in

(57:37):
the military or have served in themilitary, you're gonna want to listen to
this. You fools were not onlyrecovered all the jobs he lost during the
pandemic, We've had a millions more. We've seen record lows and unemployment,
particularly and I've focused on this mywhole career, particularly for African Americans and
Hispanic workers and veterans, you know, the workers without high school to Colomas,

(58:07):
does does he think does he thinkthat veterans and UH and Hispanics and
UH and and blacks don't have highschool diplomas because the majority of them.
Do you realize this right or ora you know, the UH the equivalent

(58:30):
of it may have those What areyou talking about? So if you're black,
Hispanic, or a veteran, youlikely don't have a high school diploy
We have a lot of veterans,Listen, do you all not have high
school diplomas? Is that a thing? I am really confused and it just

(58:53):
it's like a pattern with him.Remember when he said this, We have
this notion that somehow, if you'repoor, you cannot do it four kids
are just as bright and just astall as white kids. What wealfy kids,
clock kids clappy as your kids.It really mean, But think how
we think about it. That's,by the way, it's not just what
he said that. The one thingthat's bothered me about that clip over the

(59:15):
years is the seals. They're clappingaway like I just heard that, and
it's like, yeah, I don'tknow if you meant that's Is that what
you meant? And then I rememberhis racial jungle speech, right, didn't
want his kids to go to integratedschools, And I'm like, yeah,
that's probably what he meant, justlike he meant that he not only recovered

(59:36):
all the jobs he lost touring thepandemic, we've had a millions more.
We've seen record lows and unemployment particularlyand I've focused on this my whole career,
particularly for African Americans and Hispanic workersand veterans, you know, the
workers without high school diplomas big dummiesabout your high school diploma. I mean,
the president said it obviously, soyou know, dude, what a

(01:00:00):
train wreck. Speaking of train wrecks, well, technically I can't say that
because race Age's team has yet togive up a point this year. What's
going on, my man? Notmuch? What about you? Nothing?
We're just you know, they canceledour Christmas parade here they did, yeah,
apparently got elected, so oh Igot you. Yeah, she's just

(01:00:22):
like, don't more Christmas parade.Oh that's too bad. It's a whole
thing. It's not too bad.I'm like, you know what I happen
to notice a couple of years agothat if big groups of people just want
to go and block a street andhave their own thing, you can do
that. There won't be any alloverisements, so called a flash mob. Put
it on YouTube. Boob solved.Yeah, there you go. You want
to come be? You want tocome be the Grand Marshal. I can't

(01:00:44):
do that. Casey o day problemsolver her. Alright, Grand Marshal.
Actually I let a Christmas parade once, playing the accordion as Grand Marshal time.
All right, you're not you don'tknow, no, never mind,
it's okay, extended the offer.Yeah yeah, yeah, we're gonna get
snookie now. Sorry. Yeah,alright, anyway, Well it's a good

(01:01:07):
parade weather, probably not Christmas paradeweather yet, but a lot more comfortable
huh, well, yeah, Imean if you've already been out from you
know, car to house or houseto office, et cetera. Temperatures have
come down now from yesterday morning sixto about ten even fifteen degrees in some
spots, a nice drop, asthe numbers now will stay reasonable, near

(01:01:28):
seasonable numbers, most in the fiftiesthis morning. We'll probably get close to
eighties this afternoon, low fifties tonight, which means in some areas we could
get into the forties, especially thefurther west and up in elevation you go
into the mountains. So if theweekend trip includes previously mentioned mountains, the
weather is going to be great,good looking Saturday, low mid eighties and
then maybe some showers, cutter showerson Sunday. I get this little weak

(01:01:50):
area of low pressure is going topass south of US. I'm still getting
ripped up out near the coast twoto four foot of inundation and some of
the coastal areas out near the outerBanks coast to North Carolina, and obviously
there'll be some flooding there from leehigh surf. I think as we go
through late today and especially tomorrow,just in time for the weekend, things
should still start to improve there.But you know, certainly, certainly be

(01:02:12):
careful and listen to if you're ona lifeguarded beach and you do happen to
put a toe in the water,you'll pay attention to them because they'll be
able to identify, you know,the risks and flag warnings and all that.
If there's a rip current wrist there. Still maybe the bottom line is
at least improving after another rough daytoday, with maybe some twelve to eighteen
foot breakers out there too, Sosurf's up. But I wouldn't do it,

(01:02:34):
Okay, all right, Well that'swhy you're not the Grand Marshal anymore
because you're forward. So all right, talk myself having accordion, all right,
all right, later there you gorace stage accordion master kco DA radio
program. All right, so thePresident is really excited because all of you
people don't have high school diplomas,who thinks are morons who also happen to
be veterans and black and Hispanic peoplehere in the US. You want to

(01:03:01):
call the show? Please, don'tyou know what rosa destry? They probably
can't. They don't know how todo that right right? They look at
them, they're like, what isthis thing? What do you? Yeah?
All right, let me help youout, please, squiggles, all
right, eight, get get thephone, all right? The phone is
the square thing there with that youokay, all right, so get that

(01:03:22):
where you watch the children's cartoons thatare on your left, and then it's
eight eight eight, So snow man, you see the snow man, the
snow man. Snowman nine, whichkind of looks like the snow man,
but a little chunk taken out onon the one side. Three which also
kind of looks like the snowman,but now two chunks, one high,

(01:03:43):
one low. Hey, well youget and then four, which looks kind
of like a half barn. Isthat hopeful? Like a half an a
frame? You've ever seen a barn? You're doing great? Yeah? Seven?
All right? So that oh,you're gonna have to dial A one
at first, and I just lostthem all Oh it's too bad. Eight
eight eight nine three four seven eightseven four. So the one it one

(01:04:08):
looks like free military when you're standingat attention, all right, So please,
if you need to get somebody tohelp you, please do. But
I'm curious what you think of that, because it's weird. I know quite
a few veterans, and I evenknow some veterans with crazy degrees. So
apparently they didn't have a high schooldiploma. Just the colleges got fooled.

(01:04:30):
So that's amazing. All right,seven forty nine, Hang on show.
After the show, he's on theiHeart Radio app. Search case O day
for the podcast on the iHeart Radioapp. All right, it is seven
fifty three coming up in just abouttwelve minutes. We'll chat with Deek Calendar
and we're obviously the Christmas pard castlations. I on the list because crazy,

(01:04:57):
I think Asheville stalls a Christmas predCharlotte sto, dude telling you, but
we got a bunch of calls.Everyone gets about a minute and a half,
so a rapid fire here we go. Want to get everybody in.
Tom, you're up first, goahead, Yeah, just one. Let's
back in Vietnam. During Vietnam youdidn't have to have a high school education.

(01:05:21):
However, in order to re enlist, you had to have a high
school equivalency exam, and nowadays youhave to have a high school equip high
school at Palmore equivalency before you caneven join. Were you in the military,
sir, twenty years what was thewhat was your rank achieved? If
you don't mind me asking, shardonmajor. Well, this is the commander

(01:05:45):
in chief, sir, so Imean technically he would be like a CEO.
Right. Well, he's the worstcommander. He's the worst commander in
chiefs that military's ever this country hasever had. And us in your jobs.
Man, thank you for twenty years, man, But yeah, this
is what an embarrassment. All right, Tom, appreciate the call this morning.

(01:06:08):
He sergeant major eight, commander atchief. I'll just say it,
Michelle, what's up, Hey,I'm sorry about your vikings. I have
a theory about why they're losing,Casey. I think they're trying to tak
to go after the USC quarterback andget rid of the cousin's contract. Well,
we we optioned cousin there. Wetook like that's some four D chess

(01:06:30):
that we decided to get, youknow, pay the dude right there.
And if you're reflecting to the vikingsin the Bundesligua right, because I don't
know any others. Thanks for thecall, Michelle, Ronnie, what's up?
Yes, yes, sir, greattalking to you. Casey I'm a
black man military high school diploma.I heard you looking. You're taking two

(01:06:55):
boxes, sir, You got twoboxes there? Yeah, Well, you
know, I think the Democratic partiesover play the hand. I think it
really wouldn't even know is uh Bidenis going to start saying some really terrible
things because most of the people thatI know have met people and know somebody

(01:07:16):
that goes that has gone through hiscondition. So just wait and see what's
going to be said. No,I'll tell you what that is. That
is a very serious and sad point. I've watched somebody within my family and
and and a lot of it's basedon frustration right there with their inability to
communicate in the way that they usedto. It's a very real thing.

(01:07:36):
Well, Ronnie, thank you somuch. And I'm look at that.
Ronnie's calling up to brag. He'sgot two strikes against him and according to
the president, and yet knows thealphabet called the show. Sounds like a
smart guy referencing important things that areprobably part of the conversation. Probably somebody
should you know, send an emailto the White House. All right,

(01:07:58):
Marvin got about a minute and ahalf fireway, sir, Hey, Kasey.
I enjoy your show man. It'sa really good thing to wake up
in the morning to hear you guyslisten. I just couldn't understand why they
casting the Raleigh play when they didn'tcancel the State Fair when that riot broke
a few years ago. Well,technically, the city of Raleigh doesn't permit
that because the State fairgrounds are stateproperty. I'm sure the city does have

(01:08:21):
something based on the parking insanity thathappens outside of it, But no,
to your point, that is athing that is there was a death on
one of the rides and it wasa big story, but they added some
additional safety measures. Obviously, therewere lawsuits against the company, and I
believe the fair probably got suit too, but they were able to bring back

(01:08:43):
the giant turkey legs the next yearand continue to do so. So you're
exactly right. But look how manypeople die on the highways every day and
they don't cancel diving. So it'sjust an insanity, yeah, or cholesterol
from eating at the fair, sir, smoking? You know, Hey,

(01:09:03):
why is everything so awesome so horriblefor you? All right? There you
go? Can you get your arteriesclogged? Your lungs filled, half your
stuff taken in a court hearing,and then you go right back to it.
Ah. That's that's American stick tuitivenessright there. You just don't see
that in the Boonjesliga. Dope,dope, Nope. All right, Pete

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Calendar, He joins us, comingup next, Casey O Day Radio program.

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All right, good morning everybody,and happy Friday. Except it's not
a happy Friday because the Grinches cometo Raw and your Christmas parades canceled.
Now, I just told your kidsbecause you hadn't had the spirit to break
it to them yet, and they'recrying. And I apologize for that.
But we're a news program, soyou should have known what you got into.
Ah, and it helped me furthergrinch it up. Pete Calendar,

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our radio buddy to the South Midday'sWB team on the iHeart Radio app.
He joins us, Dude, whatis wrong with these people? Seriously?
You saw this story? Right?Are you up on the I think you
might need to be a little bitmore specific because that basically is like my
entire show. It falls under thatcategory. What is wrong with these people?
Oh, that's that's fair. Yeah, So they were you. I

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don't know if you were familiar.Last year during the Raleigh Christmas Parade,
which is called the Christmas Parade.By the way, I just want to
put I'm gonna have tinfoil hat alittle bit here, so it uh.
There was a very tragic incident wherea eleven year old girl who was part
of a group marching in the paradewas struck by a pickup which was behind
them as part of another float,if you will. And the family of

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the girl has been up at upat the Capitol and they had been working
with lawmakers up there to put togethera series of require safety requirements here in
the state of North Carolina. Wecan debate whether we need more laws and
all of that, but that hasbeen the way in which they have chosen

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to deal with this. It haspassed in the House, it has not
passed in the Senate, and forthe most part, it's the very same
things that the city of Raleigh thenstarted requiring of other parades, because they
didn't just stop parades. They issuedthree more permits following this incident, and
then they decided they were going tocancel this one. And the audacity of

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the mayor to list her reasons,as we're doing this to honor the family,
while the family specifically said they donot want the parade canceled, arguably
doesn't. That kind of makes itlook like the mayor is saying, if
you didn't know what's going on,you'd think the family wanted this, and
these people suffer tragedy and now theyhave to be in the community and some

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people are gonna be like, oh, those are the people that got the
Christmas parade canceled, which is wildly, wildly problematic. She then said that
there was She talked to the variouscity entities and they all seem to agree,
so she threw her staff as theculprits here. And then she said
the legislature hasn't got the bill done. What if there's changes, as though

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you couldn't just put in the permit, you have to abide by any legal
changes, should they come forward beforethe parade? And then she said it's
because of lawsuits, but the cityof Raleigh isn't getting sued. The family
is not suing the city. Sohelp me, Pete calendar, what the
hell's going on here? From yourperspective? I need the outsider's view,

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so I would just submit maybe thatyou have a terrible mayor Yeah. Yeah,
A lot of people have come tothat conclusion, especially with some other
things we've seen, Like we havea we have an entertainment district that's had
some big, big incidents. Insteadof hiring more police because there's one hundred
open positions and policing it properly withpeople who have both tools and arrest power,

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which is an amazing tool, she'schosen to suggest that we need unarmed,
unsworn security guards. Yeah. Soobviously that commitment to safety runneth over
on one side and not so muchthe other. How about we combine the
proposals and we hire a whole bunchof unarmed, non arrest power holding security

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guards to maybe drive the floats.Well, no, no, no,
no, oh no, no,no, I got a solution already.
Oh I'm sorry I have I shouldhave apprised you of my solution. Tell
me what you think, all right. I have noticed things. I've noticed
one thing in particular that if youand a bunch of your folks who have

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a shared interest of some sort wantto permitlessly gather in mass in a very
busy area of the community, saySayettville, Street I seventy seven in Charlotte.
That you know places like that anddo so for whatever reason, there

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will really not be any repercussions andand maybe even the governor will come out
and march with you and so like. But I also know I've seen those
videos on YouTube with flash mobs,right, you go into the mall and
then everyone starts singing. You're like, what's going on? Right? Which
is which is a happier face thanrace riot? So maybe a little from

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column a little from column B,and uh, like what could go wrong?
Right, because that's the new legalstandard. You can just do whatever
you want and block roads and theycan't. They're not gonna do anything to
you. Yeah. So, ifanything, the last three years have taught
us that you really don't need apermit to engage in the parading. In

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fact, yeah you can. Andyou can even parade around wearing masks again,
which hasn't been allowed in North Carolinasince the clan was marching through cities,
right, so yeah, so whyeven bother following the law? Really?
And this is the problem, ofcourse, Like on a serious note,
this is the problem when you havea society that fails to enforce the

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laws that are on the books.Is that the people who generally do follow
the laws, they start seeing lawsnot being enforced and they start asking themselves,
well, why should we follow anyof the laws? We get to
pick and choose. It's kind oflike it's like a cafeterias style. It's
a buffet style approach to law andorder. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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yeah. So you can just pickand choose whichever laws you want to and
you can go. I mean theheck, you can walk right down the
love the interstate, haven't you know, banging some pots and pans. Maybe
have some big banners as such,maybe a bullhorn if there's a truck.
Oh okay. Because cross Pointy didpoint out that if we're going to do

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this thing, or not us becauseI would never organize this, but if
others wanted to gather as a noncollective and a nonentity Antifa, which is
not a thing, Yeah, ifthey wanted to gather. If you really
want to do it, you're gonnahave to have something on fire. And
he suggested a float that appears likea Christmas hearth right with the stockings and

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everything, but also getting engulfed inflames. So I like keeping with the
tradition there. I like it.It's a dude, it's insanity for for
a hunt for for so many reasons. One, I honestly, if people
are going to only passively digest thisstory and they're gonna think that this family
wanted to get the Christmas parade canceledand they've been through enough crap. Okay,

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obviously they lost their daughter. Theylost their daughter. They they but
then they put their energy into theway that they wanted to deal with this,
and that was legislatively with the withthe and most of them. Again,
their suggestions are the ones that arepart of the House bill are the
very same ones of the City ofRaleigh has asked other parade permits which they've

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given out to abide by. Right, yeah, And these they're not controversial
things, right, This is likegot to show proof of insurance. The
driver's got to be twenty one yearsor older, I think, Right,
So these are not it's not beyondthe realm of reason here, yeah.
Yeah. And then I think theonly difference city hasn't done is inspections.
And if you look at the Housebill, you have to your vehicle would

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have to receive an inspection no morethan a week in advance, because there
were break issues apparently with the truck. But but you know, but even
if you think you know, mostof them are fined. But not.
That's what the process is for.Okay, instead of just throwing everything out.
Now you get your tinfoil hat man, Yeah, yeah, throw it.
Go ahead and throw that on realquick. All right, hang on,

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I have one that looks like anelth So it's gonna be I get
shaped in like an elth hat.So okay, all right, I'm ready.
So I noticed that. She thensorry, so they're going to cancel
the Christmas parade, but then indicatedthat they will be unveiling quote holiday activities

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to bring the community together. No, but the love of me, what
now? What what you got yourtinfoil hat on? So what is that?
Well? I would not have beenable interpret that. How do you
interpret that? Yeah? Well,now that I have got the hat properly
to hang on a second, Imean okay, all right, yeah,

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right, we go tuned it in. Okay, So it seems like they're
using it maybe as an opportunity toengage in a war on Christmas. I'm
just saying that people are going totake it that way. And I have
not seen anything from this group ofmood and bad leaders that would indicate that
that is not something that wouldn't endup with a rainbow Santa and uh in

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a Kwanza hat coupled with which,by the way, this is the other
thing too, that it's not justthe Christmas parade. They have events for
the other uh, for the variousother religions or worms of self. They
even have a festivous thing, okay, and and it all kind of uh
yeah, they have Pride Parade,they had a Saint Patrick's Day parade,

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and then okay, it was theother one, Like I can't remember the
other one. But the point is, yeah, they have other parades.
But what I'm saying is, yeah, they're like, oh, we want
to do the festive holidays. Iunderstand that, but and they all kind
of, you know, because theyall happen kind of within that window.
And if there's one thing downtown Raleighhas, it's a traffic obstruction every weekend,

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like and that's because there's always somethinggoing on, which is fine,
that's you live downtown. This iswhat you're signed up for. It just
but they it's they do a verygood job of that, whether it is
Pride events, St. Patrick's Day, formerly the Christmas Parade, which the
only thing that stopped it before wasNazis, and then one year with COVID

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they had to do it via video. But otherwise, you know, this
thing's been banging on since the nineteenthirties forties, and it's yeah, yeah,
and it's like and I then Iwonder if it suffers from that,
right, because anything that's more youknow, anything that's pre nineteen sixty is
inherently evil. Yeah, Sumacs patriotical, absolutely, yeah. And I put

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this out and I point this outbecause Wake Forrest to the north of Raleigh
several years ago ahead. And thenso this is in twenty nineteen pre COVID
where they announced they were canceling theirChristmas parade. But it was a little
twist. See one of the groupsthat was in the parade, or the
Sons of Confederate Veterans, and allthey did was march around and you know
in in Regale, right, yeah, the uniforms and such yeah yeah,

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yeah, yeah yeah. And Antifa, which doesn't exist, threatened to come
and uh and violently react. Right. There were some there were things posted
onlines they had to be true,and the city to allow the Heckler's veto
to cancel their Christmas parade, andthe sleepy, quaint folks of wake Force
damn near burned the town down.They were so peeved and people did ross

(01:21:27):
what is it? People just said, screw it, We're doing our own
thing, and they did their ownthing right. Yeah, so down the
city of Raleigh. I don't Idon't know where the reaction is going to
be. But if if people dogo down to do their own thing,
I will be dripping with irony ifthey decided to go hats and bats on
people with elf hats. You knowwhat I'm saying. Yeah, yeah,
it'd be comical. No, soI was. I just thought of this.

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Would you like some of our urbancoopers. We can maybe try to
arrange the like a Charlotte contingent toshow up there and march in the parado.
No, you're not sending. Ifyou want to do a hobo swap,
we can because I got some inman. Now we have a unique

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we have a unique busting uh programhere. And what it is it's art.
Yeah, it's it's performance art.And so we're gonna we can load
a couple of them up and sendthem up there for you don't even need
to worry about the returns. Sothat's so nice of you, guys.
You know what, I'm inspired.I'm inspired by your holiday. I got

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a guy who, every day,around three o'clock, if I happen to
be in this one area, soI'm assuming he does it every day,
he peas into this great and goesrah rah rah, and then screams it
people. Could I trade you oneof those for perhaps now you're missing?
This is part of the Christmas spirit. You can't give a gift and not

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have me give one back. Iwould feel horrible. Okay, how about
two poopers for one peer? Doesthat work? Well, he's kind of
a team because there's another dude that'salways in the vicinity, so it's a
it's a package deal man. Well, okay, fine, but as long
as it's a two to one ratiohere, just because you know, the
peeing you can do way more often. You know, they's way more often

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than the pooping, and so Ifeel like that would balance out a two
to one ratio. I'll you know, I'll get with my throw in six
billion dollars, could you do that. No, No, because we got
we got a suckle field to buildover on the east side of Charlotte that

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they figured out how to Is itgonna be a biggin? Is it going
to be a biggin? They haveno idea. They've owned this property for
like a decade or fifteen years,and they just they keep they keep going
back to the drawing board, aslocal gov Code tends to do. They
go back to the drawing board overand over and over again, trying to
trying to goose the private sector into, you know, carrying the costs of

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all of these massive projects instead ofjust letting the private sector develop this massive
It used to be where the mallwas, the Eastland Mall, which used
to be sort of one of thejewels and zone. No. No,
no, that's the North Lake Mall. That's a different mall altogether. That
one's still standing. The Eastland MallU formerly the Crown Jewel. It had
an ice skating rink. They woulddo Christmas tree lightings and all the stuff.

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It was, I mean, itwas the it was big time back
you know, forty years ago.And then of course it circled the drain.
It became the war zone. AndI had a friend who told me
that you can track the the healthand life expectancy of the mall by the
number of footwear stores, specifically sneakers. If you get a lot of sneaker
stores in the mall, then it'sabout to die. And so Eastland got

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a whole bunch of the sneaker stores. And after they got all of these
stores and and and maybe a coupleof you know, drive bys and uh
shot into the mall all in thatkind of thing. And so then they
closed down. They tore it down. They tried to make a They're gonna
make a big transit center there asa revitalization effort, because we all know

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bus stations are fantastic for the nearbyyeah, businesses and property values and such.
You're going to be shocked. That'swhere the great is. The homeless
dude urinates into right next to thebus, the bus station, the big
bus downtown or terminal. I'm actuallynot shocked. Yeah, no, I'm
not shocked at that at all.I was shocked at I saw one of

(01:25:30):
the stories about the business owners uhin downtown Rale, which, by the
way, okay, this is alittle bit of a tangent. But I
saw your friend and mine, ColinCampbell on the Twitter mateen this morning and
he said he called and I wasnot aware of this. I don't think
rallyites is what y'all call yourself rallyites, which is a mouthful. I'm not
a fan. I'm not a fanof the word. You guys, real,

(01:25:53):
you guys are Charlatan's. So that'sw yes, Charlot Yeah they say
Charlotteans, but yeah, Charlatan's prettyclose. But the like that would have
been a better one, like CharlotteTights or something. But but why not?
Why not Rallians because it sounds likealiens. I don't know. Yeah,
yeah, I've seen people use that. I rejected, just like I
won't call it x So yeah,yeah, yeah, call me hey real

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quickly. I got about a minutespeaking of enforcing and so your your mall
doesn't go to crap actually enforcing thelaws. I've not seen enough discussion about
this guy who caused the UNC campusshutdown literally ten days before that, doing
the same thing in a gas stationdown the street and then being put back
out on the street. He pickedout again, well he initially he was
because he did this on the fifthand then he went and did the same

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thing just up the street. Doyou think there's a connection, M No,
No, which is yeah, see, this is the thing. And
I when I got to whenever Iget into the debates with the gun grabbers,
I always say the same thing,which is, if your solution is
to take the guns, then that'sgoing to look different than if your solution
is to reduce gun crimes and gunviolence, because there are things to do

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in that vein, and this storyspeaks to some of the things that you
could do. Be calendar. Appreciateit, sir. We'll talk next week.
Thanks very week, guys. Hangon, Timon. This is one
oh six one FM Talk in theTriangle and there's Talk ninety four five w
PTI in the Triad. All right, good morning, eight thirty five and

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she glad to have you along hereon the PCO Gay Radio program. Or
we're solving problems and you know whatwe do. Yeah, I did mention
the Wake Forest parade cancelation. Thatwas the whole thing, man. So
apparently you know, if you're acity official and somebody threatens to literally come
to your city to break the law, rather than telling them, hey,

(01:27:49):
if you break the law here,then you know, we'll arrest you for
breaking the law. They cowered inthe corner and people didn't respond well to
that. So it'll be interesting tosee how people respond to this insanity.
And judging by the the amount ofactual inquiry that many of the robots and

(01:28:16):
in these communities that allow these moonbats to do this stuff, they'll probably
just not care. So tell anyman, it's just crazy. Do you
guys go to the wake Forest parade? Is that a thing? Did you
guys go to parades? Right downthere, Roster Lee is linking a parade
fan. I thought you were mentioned. We went to like one or two

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and then we just sort of stopped. Did you parade people? Some people
aren't. Well, no, Imean we would, but with the autism,
it's kind of really hard because there'sa lot going on. Yeah,
there was a lot of potential firetrucks or something he liked. I can't
remember you were telling me about itone time, but yeah, there is
too much potential for meltdowns, sowe're like we avoid that now. Dude,

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speaking of holiday stuff, and Iguess you know at the Meryl probably
come in and want an ordinance totake these down. So the companies make
the giant inflatables. Apparently all ofyou are going crazy with these things,
and they couldn't keep up the lasttwo years, I haven't been able to
keep up. They had supply chainissues, and then last year they vastly
underwhelmed the amount of you who thought, hey, you know what we need

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is a twelve foot Christmas snoopy.So I was reading an article this year
there are they are all in andthey say that they expect the average size
of the large models, so there'ssmaller ones. And then they had what
they concerner large to go from twelveto on average sixteen feet, with most

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of the bigger ones being twenty feet. These things. How much these things
cost, by the way, theyare super expensive, And it's gotten it's
gotten ridiculous every single year, likemore and more. So one thing we
do enjoy doing, and this startsoff like right in October is every day
a Lincoln like stick in the carand we drive around. He loves looking
at the different houses, oh youknow, decorations and the inflatables. And

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we have our our path we goto in our routine, and that starts
in October and it doesn't really endtill mid January because after the Halloween decorations
come down, then the Christmas decorationsstart to go up. There's a little
pause in the driving around the neighborhoodsin like November around Thanksgiving. But I
mean that's like the big thing helikes to do. And we've noticed these

(01:30:26):
decorations have gotten crazy, like they'rebigger than some of the houses. They're
they're taller than how But for sure, man, I was looking at some
of the models. Here you canand here's the thing, like you better
tether that thing down, because what'sgonna happen is the bouncy house and thing
is going to happen. Dude,I could see like blown away like not
gonna kid over some not gonna kidor just flying into the road and causing
some sort of horrific accident. Butthere it's more so than just the you

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know, going bigger and better theyare because this is what we do with
the holidays. The companies are tryingto really expand the as you were just
talking about the calendars, So they'regoing all in on the big inflatable Halloween
and Thanksgiving ones more so than inprevious years where most of the business was

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most of it was Christmas, andthen Halloween was second, and then obviously
Thanksgiving was third. But they basicallyare trying to get every house to buy
one of these giant inflatables, tobuy three of them. You know what
I'm saying. Yeah, I know, driving around like the Traditions area and
Wake Forest, it's gotten like crazy. Like I said, these things are
so big. You have these giantinflatable santas or snowmen where they're literally bigger
than a two story house. Andif you're inside the house, I don't

(01:31:38):
understand how like it's got to blockout the sun. Well, what if
I don't want people staring in myfront window anyway. So right, there's
that, and it's ultimately like Ican imagine that it's ultimately keeping up with
the Joneses, right because somebody,somebody puts it up and you're like,
look at this weird out on thestreet. You put up like a fifty
footalls snowman, and then before youknow what your kids are like as now

(01:32:00):
man it's only ten feet tall,and then it keeps getting You got to
buy it to keep up with neighbor. Why did your kids be thankful for
stuff kids. Yeah, yeah,you're not right. Well, do you
remember that story we did from wherewas it in Maryland or something last year
where the woman got arrested because shewent and she like punctured some of her
neighbor's ones and it was a battleshe she punctured that she punctured one.

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I remember the story. A neighborbought one and bought the same one she
had, and she took offense tothat because that was her ideas. And
then another neighbor came to the defenseof the other neighbor and bought one.
So she went and sabotaged theres andgot arrested. And I think they said
the value of them was like threethousand dollars something. They're stupid expensive.
Now we do have like a fewWe have a polar Bear inflatable, but

(01:32:49):
it's not it's like maybe six orseven feet. It's it's normal. It's
a quote normal what normal used tobe. And then we have for Halloween,
we have the doom Buggy from theHaunted Mansion with the reghost it in
and that's pretty much it. Butlike though even those regular six to ten
foot is like crazy expensive. Ican't even imagine how much the ones that

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are bigger than your house costs.Yeah, I'm just I was looking at
some of these, so they saythe hot seller for Halloween is, let's
see the twenty foot Frankenstein and Ghostsare their two top sellers. Twenty feet
twenty I just it seems so remarkablyunnecessary, right, it's twenty feet,

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and then you've got that's the height, and then like you know, the
length of the width is just likeit's as big as the house, right,
giant inflatable turkey obviously, the Thanksgivingone, and then Christmas Polar Bear
Santa Santa is the big one,along with Snowman. The snow Man's right

(01:33:53):
pie because the Snowman is conducive tothis, right, because of the shape
of it, So Santa really forthat matter. But yeah, the Snowman's
going to be conducive since it's bottomheavy and all that, so you probably
get that tethered down. But Ihad no idea this is what people were
spending. But I remember walking intoCostco, and you know, at Costco
they kind of get the seasonal stuffright when you walk in, and they

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had a display where they had hadlike three or four of these giant inflatables,
and it looked like it looked likeit had just been looted right right,
and and they they couldn't keep themin stock. Every time they put
twenty more of these things. AndI think they were charging like five hundred
dollars for whatever these were, Likefour ninety nine was the price for they

(01:34:35):
were just they would instant disappear.So now they're going bigger and bolder.
Man, I mean, I feellike Ross, I feel like you're gonna
have to keep up with the Jonesesor are you the only inflatable in your
neighborhood, so you set the standard, because if they're only inflatable, then
there's no Joneses to keep up with. Yeah, unfortunately, we're like the

(01:34:58):
only game in town. Okay,well that's good for you. That's going
to save you some money there,that's all I'm saying. Well, no,
I mean, I wouldn't have thebudget to like compete anyway. So
if somebody's like, dah, I'mbuying the fifty foot tall reindeer whatever,
I'm like, well have at it, buddy, because I can't do that.
Dude. You tell them that wouldthat would be bigger than my entire
front yard. Like, it wouldn'tfit. I would have to go into
they would have to go into theneighbor's yard. Dude, if you told

(01:35:19):
that batch of yokels you want toput a fifty foot reindeer up to obstruct
the sun from your neighbors, Ifeel like they that would not be a
no no, don't don't misunderstand.Like if I made an a mission on
the Twitch channel'll be like, hey, we got a fund for the five
thousand foot tall Santa I think toget the condom done back. This is
how you punish them for taking yourson, but priorities. Yeah, that's

(01:35:43):
a good point. Like, ifthey want to start that battle, it
probably won't end well if I wantedto put the effort into it. Right,
you get you got minions, man, you got an army. Y'all
screw with a guy with an armyjust saying all right, a forty four
ray staging. He's in the army, except he's got the accordions, so
right, be the one they shootfirst. Anyway? How you doing sure?

(01:36:06):
Hey, I'm great? How areyou don't so bad? As Jets
Jets Jets Jets undefeated Jays, theundefeated Jets. Ross's Rossi's a cowboy fan,
now he should be right. Yeah, I think I'm gonna start golf
over Jared what's his name there,Bill's quarterback. I'm gonna start Jared Goff.

(01:36:31):
Why not? Because pissed off,angry Josh Allen. I don't know
if you've ever seen the stats ofJosh Allen after a bad game. I
haven't. They're good. Yeah,all right, I'm gonna leave him and
they're playing the Raiders. Yeah,they're well. The games when he has
a bad like when he has agame where he has three turnovers or more
the next the next game, sincelike twenty nineteen, he has a keepy

(01:36:53):
rating of one hundred and one pointtwo or something. It's stupid. All
right, I will see this bejust seeing how like the vibe is on
Twitter, the Bills drop this gamecoming up, Buffalo will burn again just
to get out of the city,run of the cave. Yeah, I

(01:37:14):
don't blame I don't I don't blameeverybody. And Zach Wilson. Yeah,
so all right, so I'm gonnaI'm gonna keep him. Then I'll take
your advice as a Bills fan hopefullyI won't regret it. And hey,
the Vikings Casey made it close lastnight. I mean, yeah, exactly
that either way. Oh no,no, it's worse. It's worse than

(01:37:36):
I would rather be be. Fortynothing than to realize that a couple of
times when we should have just takenthe points but we're stupid, we now
lost because of that. So yep, yep. And you know, weather
related games include Harvard, they're gonnaplay in some rain and wind, and
then the one I'm more concerned aboutis a Florida stay at Boston College Wendy

(01:38:01):
and Rainy. I don't know ifrain is going to play into that because
Florida State probably more of a passingteam they are running team, and you
know, you know me, I'mhoping for the upset. And by the
way, beautiful in Death Valley tomorrownight. The range should hold off until
later. And locally some great weathertoday tonight if it's high school football tomorrow,
lots of sunshine most of us loweighties, maybe the upper eight or

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maybe the mid eighties tomorrow, butcomfortable, especially at night. This morning.
It's beautiful tomorrow morning just as nice. It's not until Sunday, we
start to see a shower thunder showerthreat, but that's going to be short
lived. The next week a longrun of sunshine and lower to maybe middle
eighties and overnight lows comfortable to upperfifties ten the year sixties. So I
feel like we're making that turn casesee to more fall time weather or more

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in line with what it should bethis time of year. So it looks
pretty good to feel good too.Okay, well, just as long as
lightning doesn't destroy the new fifteen milliondollars scoreboard again at NC State. Yeah,
I think we're gonna be a goodshape. Okay, alright, cool,
tomorrow looks good, ye, allright, and we'll come back to
chat with Jeff Balinger next. Hangon smart Talk all Day ninety four five

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WPTI in the Triad and one ohsix one FM Talk in the Triangle fifty
three. Your Blimberg update now withJeff Bellinger. Jeff, what's happening Blood
morning? Casey stocks advanced in yesterday'strading. Futures now are lower right across
the board. They were mixed untiljust minutes ago. The strike is on.

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The United Auto Workers union began targetedwalkouts after talks of the Big three
automakers failed to produce a contract agreement. At this point, the UAW was
shut down a Fort plant in Michigan, a General Motors plant in Missouri,
and a Stillantis factory in Ohio.Each of the plants produces a popular and
very profitable VIA. There is somemovement in one of the strikes that has

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kept Hollywood shut down the past fourmonths. Movie and television producers planned to
meet next week with leaders of theWriters Guild. The Federal Reserve will meet
next week. Economists surveyed by Bloombergare pretty confident that interest rates will not
be raised at the meeting, butthey say because the economy has remained resilient,
central bankers will likely pencil in onemore rate hike this year and indicate

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that rates will remain high for longerthan previously expected. And could the ABC
television network change hands. That isa possibility a casey Walt Disney has reportedly
heard from a couple of suitors interestedin buying ABC and also Disney's local TV
stations. Sources say Disney has heldinitial talks with Nexstar Media and the MediaMogul

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Byron Allen is said to have approachedDisney with an offer to buy ABC,
the local stations and the FX nationalgeographic cable channel. So stay tuned,
casey, Jeff, I was readingthis year that it's going to be the
manufacturers of giant holiday inflatables are they'rebetting not a big year because they basically
sold out last year. Do youhave any big giant holiday inflatables? I

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don't. I don't even put outtype. All I have is my but
whatever cards I get, go upon my mantle on that show. Okay,
all right, we'll just see youknow, the selection is gonna be
a big time this year, Sothere you go. Okay year, Okay,
I look forward to seeing them inthe neighborhood. Okay, alright,
thank okay, we have a goodday. Take it all right. Let
me grab a couple of calls onthis, Jake, what's up, Hey,

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good morning. You guys are talkingabout the energy it takes. I
mean, the bigger that they goon these uh inflatables, the heavier duty
at sea, heavier duty they haveto be. The larger. The fans
are that variables, and they alreadyare raising our electric grade. They want
us to have these in everything ayard for every seasonal holiday? What are

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they raising? Hold? Are theyraising your electric right for? I mean
I understand that you have to blowit up, but you know, and
then you then you take it downand put it back in your garage?
Man, right? Yeah? ButI mean if you want it for like
October, November, December. Imean, I've thought Paul nupper ones.

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But they're raising in the greats ingeneral, though, aren't they? And
then they want to Paul to havea part. But it's all right,
Well I didn't really I think forthe call the j I didn't realize that.
I just thought you blew them upand then you know, and then
when you're done, you pull alittle pop thing and then walk them out
and put them back in the garage. Is this not accurate? Now?

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You plug them in and they haveto at least the ones we have,
like the ten foot ones whatever,like under ten foot you plug them in
and the outside outlets and like getcreate a little little fan inside goes up
and it blows it. It hasto constantly be on if you unplug it
in. It's the place you tellme, these things you're not error pre
what they're not? Hold the air. Maybe they are every inflatable that we

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have owned, and we've we haveowned a bunch. Like I said,
you can plug him in and assoon as you unplug him, did a
flate, we'll get I think someduct tape could solve that. That's what
a scam man? What an absolute? Do? They want to make them
quality enough to hold the air,so they just you guys can figure it
out with your energy costs. Ohwait, hold on, yes, Boston,
Paul, what ross? I putmine on a time so you can

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you can have a time a ticketoff and blow it up. I have
the gridge to twelve foot gridge.But what I wanted to say was maybe
some of the parade go is,you know, the organizers and the police
offices can hold an informational picket aroundMarianne's house that we do want police offices
high it and we do want aChristmas parade. Yeah, she'll Yeah,

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it'll be interesting though, because thenshe'll call other police to arrest who ever
showed up near her house because she'sscared. Oh no, police, police
can pick it. They can picket. They can have informational pickets, Yes
they can. I agree, yougot a grinch one because Ross wrote on
here that you have a whitey bulgerinflatable, So I haven't Ted Kennedy floaty
pool floaty, but it doesn't floatreal well. So upside down Well,

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it's constantly thinking does it come withthe car? Yeah? Yeah, I
got the offer yeah with yeah,with Ted and a woman and upside down
Yeah. But I also got theLeprecron two for Saint Patrick's Day. Yeah.
I think I think they should holdthe signs. They have flowers in
the pack, flood in the streets. No, we want on polition.
We want what flowers in the Whatin the pack? You know the poc

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where they have the slides and stuff. It's a p HK poc. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, Boston. Okay, go b Owen two. I'm
out of time, Okay, gobe Owen. I gotta go catch catch
up on cricket. I'm gonna gocatch up on cricket. That's good.
That's a good thought. Okay,h Brestman, I know what it feels

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like to be Owen too. Ross, you better not join this club.
It's a doomed voy