Friday-10-17-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Because you know at the weekend coming up, a weekend
full of hope and uh oh no, I'm sorry, the
Vikings have to play Philadelphia, so we'll probably get destroyed.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Ross. Are you guys on a buy or do you
play this week? You're on a buye? Right, Yes, we are?

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Okay, all right, Well that has to be good for
your stress levels this week. Right to worry about that?
That's how I was feeling last week. And then who
do the Cowgirls play? I think they play the Commanders.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, hang on, I got it.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Right here, So we'll get we'll get rased Agic's hot
take on all that insanity. Plus, since it is Friday,
we get to chat with our buddy Pete Calender. That'll
be coming up at eight oh five. I saw a
news report from Town and Charlotte yesterday. Who I'm not

(00:54):
a parent, but I'm gonna ask a question of you,
who are? Because I don't know that I could give
an honest answer not having a child. But the question
is for I play the audio. The question is, at
what point do you yield to the idea of your

(01:18):
kid going into going into jail and staying there for
a while. And by the way, it's for two reasons. One,
it's for the safety of the public, but also in
the back of your mind you have to think, well,
this is going to escalate to murder and then it's

(01:40):
all over for my kids. Something's got to be done,
like how many arrests, what type of arrest? How do
you get there? That is my question, those things being
all stupid? Why is next Gen just an absolutely loot dog?

(02:01):
This week, Ross, can you play the audio that I
sent you here about thirty minutes ago.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
I'm my next genis yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
All right, all right, So listen to this report from
the Charlotte Crime Report Check this out.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
CMPD says sixty percent of people arrested this year for
committing a violent crime had been arrested before. They told
us about a fifteen year old who has been arrested
one hundred and eleven times since August of twenty twenty three.
Arrest included fifty five car thefs instilling from cars forty

(02:36):
five times. At one point, police found multiple guns on
the team and took a phone as evidence. They say
they found various Google searches on it, including what is
the charge for killing an officer? Is police murder a charge?
And what is capital murder. Police say. The fifteen year
old was most recently released again in September.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
At now I know what they say. The one hundred
and twelfth time is the charm. That's I just I
want you to understand the parameters of what you just heard.
He's been arrested one hundred and eleven times in two years,
or it says it's twenty twenty three, we'll call it
two years. I guess it's probably more two years.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
And ten months. So that's an arrest a week. That is.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
An arrest per week basically, And again you heard there.
This isn't tagging bridges. This isn't you know, loitering or
being out after curfew or any any of that by
some of it maybe.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
But it's also he had multiple guns on him.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
He's fifteen, he's googling how to kill or what happens
if he kills a police officer, which I guess maybe
you can see as a deterrent.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
It would be interesting to see how he took that
information like these are serious, serious offenses, not just for
a fifteen year old. They'd be serious offenses for a
frigging adult who had that kind of criminal record, who's
still running around with guns? I don't know his status
on what he's how is one? How is he out too?

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What must the findes be or the community service or
anything for any have none of them been adjudicated since
he was thirteen?

Speaker 2 (04:37):
That's I mean, that's wild.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Think about the worst kid you knew in school who
had multiple I know exactly who it is. I know
he got arrested a couple times when we were in
high school, and that was like, that was that was
scandalous in a little town I grew up in.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Man. Now, don't worry. He ended up he's doing life
in prison. Now I'll tell.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
You, I'll tell you what his name is, Mike Linstrom.
Mike Linstrom.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Because he kept that going and he then graduated.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Years years later to uh, some really violent stuff involving kids.
Guy was garbage in school. Nobody, nobody wanted to be
around him. But like it just went unchecked. And why,
I mean, they still punish you. He ended up going
to juvie for one of the one of the high

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school years man, and and still it escalated that. So
if you're if you're the parent of a kid who's
got one hundred and eleven arrests in you know, two
and a half years. At some point you kind of
want your kid to go into the system, right, wouldn't
that be the wouldn't that be from a parenting perspective,

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wouldn't that feel like your only choice because you see
the behavior elevating with your kid and you're like, look,
I gotta get him into a juvenile facility. He's fifteen, obviously,
so I gotta get him into a facility because he's
he's gonna murder somebody. Does you run around with guns?
I suspect it's probably gang activity related. So at what

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point is a parent do you make that decision? Is
one hundred and eleven the number? I I don't know. Again,
I don't have kids, so I could. I can't give
you an educated answer on that.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
It also it reminds me of that scene in the
Shawshank Redemption where Andy Dufranni is sitting there and he's
talking to the young kid that got arrested for uh
stealing the TV.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Oh yeah, yah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
He's going on and on and on about all the
times he's been arrested, and Andy's like, maybe you should
consider a different line of work because you're not good
at this.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
You're not good that. That's a very good point. This
team is not good at this. One hundred and eleven.
Did you ross, Did you ever get in trouble, get
a ticket or whatever?

Speaker 2 (06:58):
And you were a kid? I got a minor and possession.
I mentioned this.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
I was at a I was at a party. Please
show up, here's the po po and we all got
and and honestly I wanted to stay in jail rather
than have my mom retrieve me. We weren't really in jail, though,
so I don't does that count as an arrest. They
they literally drug us all back to the cop shop
and then called our parents.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
You know, I'm not gonna lie like I was a
really good kid.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah, my dad.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Would have whooped my ass.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
But I just remember how tight.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah, well yeah, dude, it was not that was That
was not a fun sun was right ahead of summer.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
That ruined the whole summer.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Well, I ruined the whole summer for being a forgetting
caught whatever so like. But that was time consuming, Like
I had to go to court a couple times, right,
and then I got they did the thing where they're like,
all right, you got forty hours community service. It wasn't
really financially a thing. I think there was a little

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bit there. And then if you don't if you if
you don't get arrested again, and like year, I think
it was a year, then it's off your records. It's
probably even on my record. And I didn't get arrested again.
It was very or detained or ticketed or whatever whatever.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
You would call it in that situation. So that was it.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
But that was forty I had, you know, I ended
up picking up trash over at the cop shop. And
then uh uh basically we have like borrow ditches as
you're coming down the mountain there, so that's really where
they task you and you got to clear like tumbleweeds
and all it's soup, it's super wyoming. Uh whe're tumble

(08:32):
weeds and roadkill. Hey man, life comes at you fast
out there. And and but like so that that was
one thing that was one ticket for you know, one
bit of dumb assory that you know, I had to
schedule into my summer there, which sucked. He's got one

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hundred and eleven, like he that kid should be doing
twenty two hours of community service a day.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
But I suspect.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
It doesn't track like that, not down in Charlotte, probably
not in the city of Raleigh, not in the city
of Greensboro either, because you got a bunch of woke
garbage judges. With what we are a judicial reform, what
is that We're just gonna not put people in jail.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
See we reformed it.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
That kid need a fifteen year old needs to be
in jail for his own protection so he doesn't escalate
and elevate himself to a.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
Murder rap and for the protection of the public. But
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
I don't know from a parental standpoint, at what point
you flipped the trick. I would think it'd be before
one hundred and eleven arrest or it would depend on
the kind of arrest. Look, every parent who's paying marginal attention,
I'm sure knows if their kids hanging out with people
they shouldn't be hanging out with.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
My mom would tell me.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
She'd be like, I don't like him, and I don't
want you hanging out with him, which then you know,
it makes you want to hang out more, at least
in secret, because you're a kid.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
And you're rebellious.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
But like, I will tell you there were three.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, it's ain.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, there's three I can think of. There's probably more.
There were three people in high school where my mom's
just like, you are not hanging out with them, and
in retrospect, even though I didn't get in trouble with them,
and two of them I really didn't hang out with
because I wasn't hanging out with anyway.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
She was just up on something.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
All three of them ran into significant problems later in life,
a criminal problems that Mike dude was not one of them.
But because again you could see that coming a mile away. Yeah,
she was right well nose for news there. Well it's
a small town too, so everybody knows everything. But yeah, man,

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number just blew me away this morning because at some
point I'm like, well, just to protect your kid, At
what point do you like You're like, all right, You're
going in because I I feel like that may be
the only alternative. All right, six eighteen here on the
KCO Day radio program. So that's where we start, but

(11:23):
lots to get into on this Friday morning, to hang
on a CaCO day radio program. We got Taylor Swift
News on the show today just because this is.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
I don't know what this is.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
I like, it's so interesting because we were talking about
this the other day, right because as soon as Taylor
got engaged to mister Kelsey, there all of a sudden,
like it broke something in the super woke.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Community. Who I you know, always she I.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Saw her always represented as an ally and all this stuff,
and but that was a bridge too far, her wanting
to marry a white dude. And so then the article started.
This one's crazy a self proclaimed white, highly academically educated lesbian,

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a bisexual writer. This is in their own bio in
case the picture didn't tell you this slam Taylor Swift
is racist, dangerous, and sis heteronormative. Wait, so I have
a question. So is being sis heteronormative problematic?

Speaker 2 (12:50):
Right?

Speaker 1 (12:50):
I understand, Like, but when you say it like that,
then it's problematic. So, like, the hypocrisy is wild there
because you're probably offended if somebody who's let's say, somebody
who's Christian who doesn't agree with your lifestyle says that
and you're like, ah, you big it. So people who
are not in that lifestyle are problematic because I know,

(13:17):
I know, it's just one of a thousand. It's you know,
it's the whole Black people can't be racist. And then
you just see the most racist crap in a video
and you're like, that seems pretty racist. Nah, it's a
power and balance. They can't be racist, and I'm like,
everyone can be racist. I reject that wholeheartedly. You're clowning yourself.
So here we go. All right, So in the article, yes,

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Taylor Swift is racist, but not the kind you think
she is. Oh okay, all right, so what what? What
is the racism is? What is the great offense here?
Uh so let's see here. Melissa Fabello, by the way,

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is the writer's name, not the kind you thing she is.
She then gives an example of one of the songs
on her new album, which I know nothing about, but
claiming that it's pro eugenics the and referred to her
new album as the magnum opus of white supremacy. What

(14:24):
makes Taylor Swift dangerous isn't that she writes lyrics that
could serve as the background music to a pro eugenic
Sidney sweeneyad. By the way, just for the records, Sydney
and Taylor, for that matter, are magnitudes hotter than this chick,
and she could pretend like she doesn't she cares. I'm

(14:46):
having trouble figuring out why they think this is gonna work.
But I guess maybe the third time is the charm.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
CNN has once again announced a new subscription streamings surface.
You remember the dumpster fire that was CNN Plus. By
the way, what is this one called? Why did they
not even have the name of whatever?

Speaker 2 (15:13):
This is it?

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Plus plus, CNN plus plus I don't know, or the
you know ross CNN the OCHO that's look lean into it, man,
go with CNN the ocho. Yeah, uh not CNN Max.
That's the thing they have on HBO. I don't know
what the name is, but it doesn't matter because nobody's gonna.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Sign up for it. And CNN and.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
CNN Plus the one we remember they tried to do
one prior to that that never did anything. But what
was crazy is the amount of money they lost because
they had to build out the infrastructure. So in this case,
and I don't know exactly what that looks like, but
I remember reading about the numbers. Uh when CNN Plus
crashed within a month failed within a month. Because see,

(16:02):
here's the CNN's problem. You have a brand that during
prime time peak watching time constantly fails to get a
half million. I'd have to look maybe something, but in

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key demos it's like one hundred and fifty thousand maybe.
So that's the pool you're pulling from, right, So if
you're a streaming service, you have to have a big
pool of people want to see your stuff. You know,
you can grouse about Peacock and all that, but I
will tell you I subscribe to Peacock. I don't have

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traditional cable, but I subscribe to Peacock. And in addition
to having all of the NBC Universal Movie, a lot
of the movies, I should say, sometimes it's you know,
I get upset because it's like one of theirs, and
then it goes to a different service.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
But whatever, I use it.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
You know, if they're streaming golf and I have paramount
plus two, so between those two, I could watch all
the golf, a.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Bunch of movies.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
T you know, TV shows more so older ones and uh,
you know, and that's because when it comes to CBS
or NBC, the amount of people they have that use
their product is far more than CNN. CNN is super niche.
So you know, the idea that you're gonna do this

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and then you're gonna have to hire the host and
do all this stuff.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Like I don't get it, but.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
I think maybe it's just because they built everything out
for CBS Plus and they're like, well, got to find a.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Way to use this.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
But yeah, it's seven dollars per month, by the way,
or you can buy annually and save money whatever.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
If you want that, you can check it out. But
I saw that last night, and I'm like, what are
they doing? Man? All right?

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.
Have you guys seen the proposed new map congressional map
here in North Carolina?

Speaker 2 (18:20):
Well, i'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
I'll tell you what's crazy is I think everyone who
wants to argue against this map should have to because
it'll be Roy Cooper. Roy Cooper's already mad about it.
I saw his tweets. I think every single situation where
Roy Cooper's whining about this congressional map, they should hold

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They should put it side by side with the final
map that he drew when he was in the legislature,
Cause this one, like Ross, did you glance at the map?

Speaker 2 (18:53):
There's nothing crazy in it? Do you know what? I'm saying, like,
there's no weird Octopi.

Speaker 4 (18:59):
Identicles, right, And I saw people on leve like freaking
out yesterday. I'm like looking at it, like, what are
you freaking out about?

Speaker 1 (19:04):
It's pretty like there's some long districts when you get
into like western North Carolina, which makes sense, right because
our state shrinks and then curves down basically to a tail.
But like, there's nothing weird in there. And the municipalities
for the most part are held in singular or or
two different districts, right, Because the point of redistricting, when

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you look at the language is is common interest is
one of the things that you're looking for, right. So
that's why the city of Greensboro having a district to
touch Charlotte with all the Adams insanity from years ago,
really didn't make sense because it was it was you know,
people lived in cities, but also it was very very

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rule folk who basically lived along the interstate. I mean,
there wasn't necessarily shared interest other then to draw a
district that would be a Democrat for life district mission accomplished.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
That's what they did.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
And you know, I had that thing not been changed,
it would still be the case, I'm looking at this
map from Republicans and like stuff is really kind of compact.
There's only one or two instances, and I would be
interested to hear the reasoning behind it where it kind

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of whether there's even like a little loop or a
little tail or anything. And that may just be about
trying to get the numbers equal. But for the most part,
the counties that are included in each congressional district probably
have common interest. You know, if you live in Murphy,
you probably have common interest as you get, you know,

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towards the communities, the more rural communities south of Ashville,
your mountain towns you're all about the same size, probably
have because mostly a lot of that's along rivers right there.
You probably have shared interest for flooding concerns and.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
All sorts of stuff makes sense.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
Raleigh being its own thing makes sense. Charlotte being basically
its own thing for most of it makes sense.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
And then you look at that.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
You look at a map from the nineties, or Roy
Cooper esque map from the two thousand and it's it
looks like a Jackson Pollock man that old first district
from Durham to the coast, explain that to.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Me bypassing Raleigh.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
I might add, if you look at the old maps
Durham all the way out to the coast, how the.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Hell did that work? Nah?

Speaker 1 (21:52):
I mean this, and and of course it'll be lawsuit
city and and everything that you expect.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
But what the main beef here?

Speaker 1 (22:01):
There's one congressman who his his house will now not
be in the district that he represents. I would remind
mister Davis. It's it's Don Davis. I would remind people,
and Don and everybody else. You don't have to live
in your district. That's a weird thing in North Carolina.

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If you want to live in Mantio and represent Murphy,
you technically can. Since everyone likes the Manteo Murphy Murphy
to Manteo thing by you can live in one and
represent the other. It's probably it probably you know it's
gonna give your opponents something to attack you on. Governor

(22:48):
Josh Stein, who has no say, I would remind you,
because of Roy Cooper if you missed that part of
the show yesterday, the governor can't veto the maps. It
only takes a simple majority to approve them. Why is
it not vetable? Because Roy Cooper authored the bill that

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made it that way. Of course, then he thought he
was protecting his team, which is I mean, I can't
tell you. I can't tell you in my literal now
decades of doing this job, the amount of times.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
I have seen and I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Sometimes Republicans do it, but more often than not, when
it's really big ones, you see Democrats decide they're going
to do something really sneaky or weird, like I don't know,
get rid of the you know, the go nuclear option
on judicial nominees at the in Congress, where the karma
that comes back, the political karma that comes back, is

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tenfold tenfold what Harry Reid did so screwed the Democrats,
I e. Look at the Supreme Court. Good job team,
or not letting the governor attempt to veto this so
you can go through the override thing and maybe have

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a fighting chance other than suing and judge shopping. I
would encourage you to look at the map. I would
also encourage you to look at previous congressional maps from
the two thousand and for that matter, the nineteen ninety
redistricting in North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
And it's not even close and.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
Anyone who's complaining about it should have to have those
two maps in front of them and explain why the one.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Is worse than the other.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Cause that's the ultimate gotcha here, which of course means
they'll be avoiding that like the plague. All right, six
forty five, coming up, John Bolton, Dude, this is Earth
and what the people are thinking. They were you know,
they were going to go in and like plant a
document or something. Oh I saw somebody speculating that's what

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they did with Bolt.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
No, they went in, they planted documents, which is.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
Funny because do you remember remember how they how they
spread out the documents and photoed them with the Trump
thing to make it look like they were just laying
around like people were rolling around in them like Scrooge
McDuck and his vault. What John Bolton is accused of
doing is far dumber. I'll explain. Coming up next is
super interesting, just in the sheer stupidity that is alleged here.

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And again there were people, you know, they'll say, well,
he's going after John Bolting because he's going after his enemies.
It's what happened with Letitia James and and probably will
happen with a certain Senator from California, and uh, there's
you know, this is just he's just making stuff up,
just going after his enemies, which is really rich. But

(25:57):
you know, and then I saw people speculating that they
were gonna, you know, either plant or you know, John
Bolton have inadvertently taken something. It would be in a
box somewhere. No, No, that is not what is alleged.
John Bolton, who I refuse to call ambassador now that

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he's under indictment. I've told you this story right when
I was filling in for Schnidt. He had already he
had an emergency, had to take the day off. They
had already booked John Bolton. And if you don't call
him ambassador, he won't let.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
You interview him.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
A nice guy anyway. So he's facing eighteen charges, including
eight counts of transmission of national defense information and ten
counts of retention of national defense information. Prosecutors wrote the
indictment that during the time he was National security advisor

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to Trump, Bolton shared more than a thousand pages of
information about his day to day activities that was some
level of classified. It's funny with for those charges, it's
for two unauthorized individuals.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Do you know who they are? His wife and his daughter.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
So this dude is sending top secret stuff to his
kid for what I don't know, to brag or what
I don't know. He also kept a diary of doing
some of this. Bolton, who's expected to surrender himself, I
guess today or unless he did it last night and

(27:42):
I just didn't see it. But he did get an
Obama judge. It sounds like in the draw, so who knows.
The FBI investigation revealed that Bolton allegedly transmitted top secret
information using personal online accounts. By the way, he didn't
use AOL, which by the way, should be a charge

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in and of itself, usually get ten years just for
still using an AOL account, but also for sending thousands
of pages of classified documents. So he did it and that,
but that's important too. He didn't do it in his
work email for obvious reasons. He used this personal thing.

(28:26):
I think he also had a Yahoo email, one of
the one of the other free ones. I don't see
it immediately in here, but the AOL one is the
one that stuck out to me.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Let's see Bold.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Issue a statement Thursday saying he is Trump's latest target.
He says his book The Room Where It Happened, was
reviewed and approved by the appropriate experienced career clearance officials
that the FBI was made for. That's the other thing too,
in his book that is really what tipped.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Them off on some of this stuff. And what I
mean by that is.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
This book was pen long after, but what tipped him off,
it sounds like, is the level of detail and information
that he had at the ready to put into the book,
which they didn't believe he could have done by memory,
and they apparently allegedly were right. He also had his Oh,

(29:26):
by the way, that very same email account was hacked
back in twenty twenty one, but no charges were filed,
so the Biden administration was aware. I don't know if
they were aware of totally what was in there, but
he made the FBI aware that it was hacked.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
I'm assuming he.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Must have mentioned that there was stuff going back to
when he was actually in the Trump administration, which was
his last government job, and nobody did nothing. Ironically, that
would have been right around the same time they were
rating mar A Lago, just to show, just to show
you the level of corruption all around that you're dealing

(30:05):
with and frankly, if there's anybody in the FBI that
was down with the mar Lago raid but didn't give
a crap that John Bolten was emailing stuff to reporter friends,
to his wife, to his daughter right in the same moment,
and it contained classified stuff and they didn't do anything.
They shouldn't work at the FBI anymore because it lays

(30:29):
bare what their motivations were. These charges are not just
about his focus on me or my diaries, but his
intensive effort to intimidate his opponents said, uh, said the ambassador.
All right, let's see here, Yeah, here we go. Bolton

(30:50):
is accused of sharing highly classified information with his wife
and daughter over email.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
That's according to sources.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
It's while it's not laid out in it just says
two individuals on those charges. Apparently the sources told Fox
and CNN and everybody else it's his wife and daughter. Also,
he had sent confidential secret, they ran the gamut, confidential
secret and classified, all of which he's not supposed to share.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Including and this is.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Including detailed technical information about weapons of mass destruction that
could be a problem. I don't know what you mean
by that, Like, is it schematics to build a nuke.
What are you talking about? That's all it says in there,
for obvious reasons because it's still classified stuff. There was

(31:41):
a dude down in Charlotte who was arrested about a
month ago for quote, having a weapon of mass destruction
and it turned out to be a modified glock so
he could shoot it automatic, so that counts.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
So I'm not implying that Bolton was sending Nukeschama. I'm
just saying that it could be a dirty bomb, as
the emailer points out, a small conventional bomb with radioactive material. Yeah, no, no, no,
I got it. I got it, but email and via
an AOL account, then getting it hacked, and the previous
administration knowing, I guess because he disclosed it that he

(32:20):
was sending this stuff to his daughter and his wife, who,
by the way, do not hold any security clearance of
any sort. Right, it's just proud Papa, look at this.
I don't know, I don't know what the motivation was there,
but the charges are are pretty extensive and if.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
True, really really stupid. But you know that's the and
that's why the Trump thing was.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Where he had retained documents which by the way presidents
retained security clearance and literally consult on stuff historically. Now,
I know it's gotten weird with the Biden Trump era,
but John Bolton is one of those swamp creatures. It's
just been around forever and he's never met a war.
He didn't want to go into. That's who he is,

(33:16):
and so there's a lot of John Bolton's. There's probably
so much classified information from career, higher profile people like
the Boltons of the world. You know, remember Biden had
stuff in his garage next to his Corvette, which I
hope they don't let him drive anymore now that I
think about it. I think we'd know if he did

(33:39):
be a bunch of dead people. It looked like one
of those farmers market stories, like ah, sixteen people were
injured after a car drove through a farmer's market. It
always turns out to be some one hundred and three
year old or whatever. Yeah, I think it'd probably go
like that. Like, there's probably so much of this stuff

(33:59):
that people have tained over the years sitting around. If
you just think about all the you know, the upper
echelon people that have spent just bounced around, spent almost
their entire career in some sort of governmental function. So
in that sense, you could probably argue that Bolton was

(34:21):
selected to be a target. But just because they prioritize
your prosecution doesn't necessarily mean you didn't do it, And
that is that is where we find ourselves this morning.
All right, eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seven four. Jim, what's up?

Speaker 5 (34:41):
Hey?

Speaker 6 (34:41):
You were talking about the AOL account.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
I still have the original AOL account from about I
don't know how many years ago it was, but it
still has my name with no numbers.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Oh well, no, no, no, no, no, let me let me be clear.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
He should be he should get ten years for using
an AOL account steal for sending classified stuff?

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Are you sending? Yeah? Are you sending classified information? Sir?

Speaker 6 (35:06):
No?

Speaker 3 (35:06):
But I got to check my uh my deleted policy
if I have any in there from John Bolton.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Oh that's a good point, sir. Maybe you got on
a uh an email list or something. All right, but
he gets schematics for something cool, send him on over, okay,
but send him to send him to Ross's account, not mine.

Speaker 6 (35:23):
Okay, that's that's always the intention.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Yeah, good, good, all right, Look at Ross gonna get indicted,
but know how to build a dirty bomb, so you'll
have that going for you. Uh, Ross, when you were
dubing in the Joy Behar audio, I'm gonna play that now.

Speaker 2 (35:43):
Do you think she didn't know he was a Democrat?

Speaker 4 (35:46):
I don't know what's going on there. Either she's completely ignorant,
or it's I don't straight up or yeah, or it's
just straight up propaganda because there's no other way to
spend it, and the take on is the work. I
don't even know what planet are you living on?

Speaker 6 (35:59):
All right?

Speaker 1 (35:59):
So Joy Behar made a comment about the Virginia A
g although they had the AG's debate yesterday, there's a
little snippets of it. He said he's very ashamed of it,
but he was totally gonna, totally going to be an AG,
good ag if you liked him, which what else can
you say? But so they're talking about it on the

(36:21):
View yesterday and Enjoy Behart says something and it says
something stupid, which is not unusual. But I'm sitting there
listening to it, and that's the conclusion I arrived at.
I don't think she I don't think she knows. I
think she thinks it's either a Republican or she's conflating
the Politico text thing with him being on there or something. Listen,

(36:42):
listen to Joy Behar yesterday and tell me what the
hell you think this is, because.

Speaker 7 (36:45):
What's come up in this conversation is this individual J. Jones,
who's running for attorney general in Virginia. He's about thirty
six year old man running for attorney general who had
some leaked text messages come out where he aspired to
violence against Republicans.

Speaker 8 (37:00):
I don't know why.

Speaker 7 (37:00):
It's hard for people.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
But.

Speaker 7 (37:04):
Democrats denounced him. No Republicans, He's a Democrat.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Democrats could announced him, and the Democrats announced them.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Republicans haven't. Is that is that true?

Speaker 6 (37:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (37:17):
None of that is accurate. It's like upside down world,
like an opposite town, Like what is happening?

Speaker 2 (37:22):
I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (37:23):
Did she could flaate or confuse this story with the
group chat story.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
I think she did, and then she just her saving
grace was well, Democrats renounced, but Republicans haven't. Republicans have
done nothing but denounced this dude. Hell, they've made it
the central marketing point in not just the AG's election,
but also the governor's race.

Speaker 4 (37:43):
I mean actually not seen the debate, you know, the
end of the debate where what's your face won't even
answer the question, or any attention to win.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Some seasons probably rooted that on. She probably thought that
was brilliant. I don't know, I don't watch the show.
Maybe they talked about him, maybe they didn't. But just
one more time with this insanity, because what's come up in.

Speaker 7 (38:03):
This conversation is this individual J. Jones, who's running for
attorney general in Virginia. He's about thirty six year old
man running for attorney general, who had some leaked text
messages come out where he aspired to violence against Republicans.
I don't know why it's hard for people, but let
me just say that.

Speaker 5 (38:21):
Democrats, he denounced him.

Speaker 7 (38:22):
No Republicans, he's a Democrat.

Speaker 8 (38:26):
Democrats should announce him.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Yet I have no, I have no, I have no.
All right, well, look clearly they've done it.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
Ross, Will you grab will you grab some audio of
one of the Democrats denouncing him and asking him to
step down?

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Can you grab something? We'll come back to this, all.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Right, So rosskin a great, because apparently they've all done it.
So Ross should have no problem finding that. Uh, just
and I just need one example. I don't need the
whole choir of Democrats who've denounced and asked this guy
to step down.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
That's the other thing. Even if you could find that audio.
I have heard one or two denounced, but none of
them say he should drop out.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it should be but
it should be easy if you believe anything.

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Joy Beharst.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
I think Fetterman might have said something negative about it.
Now they're trying to push him out.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
Yeah, they're talking about primary and him up there. Well,
hold on, maybe one of the congressmen. Here's Congressman Buyer
from Virginia. I'm sure, I'm sure he has a problem
with this.

Speaker 8 (39:30):
What Jay said was awful. It's no worse than what
Donald Trump says almost every day and the things that
zagy Vance has said. You compare it to the other
evil things people make mistakes.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
I very much hope you proveils.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
Okay, Well that's nude. Ross, all right, I don't need
the Democrat. Would you grab any of the daily audio
where Trump wants children to die in their mother's arms? Right,
So I can't find that what do you think that's
and this is your job. I'll take any of them,
because he says it every day. You're telling me that

(40:08):
you could not find any. Is the congressman lying?

Speaker 4 (40:12):
Well, it goes back to the point. Really he said,
you know, yeah, it's bad, but Trump says worse. But yeah,
and also the guy should stay in the race. I
hope he prevails. What do you mean you hope he prevails.
So you're admitting that he did the thing and you're
saying it's awful, but you still want him to win.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, because he promised last night on the
debate he'd be good. And if you remember the guy
who killed or is alleged to have killed Arena down
there in Charlotte, remember when he went in for his
nine one misuse of nine to one one charge with
that magistrate and said that there's listening devices under his skin.

(40:50):
She made him literally promise to her out loud that
he wouldn't do bad stuff anymore.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
It's in the transcript.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
And then whoopsie, he may have murdered somebody on the
light rail. So you know, colored me suspicious over the
promise from the from the ag candidate up there? All right, well,
we will. We're gonna look. We'll look for the Trump daily.
I hope children die slowly in their mother's arm audio,

(41:26):
and then we'll be right back. Hanging on Ross has
been ever since I just brought it up, he's he's
been sitting here thinking about driving through a fruit stating.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
You mentioned Joe Biden driving through a farmer's market, and
I was like, you know, I don't know why you're
shaming the man. I've always had like the fantasy of
driving through a fruit stand and a painted glass, like
two guys carrying a pane of glass.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
Is it part of a heist or what?

Speaker 4 (41:46):
It doesn't have to be. I mean, it could just
be me driving to work in the morning.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
But wait, wait, hold on, hold on.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Why is the farmer's market or the guy's carrying glass
for that matter, happening at like three something that morning.

Speaker 4 (41:57):
I mean that that's suspended. That's us right. What are
they doing?

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Why are you carrying a giant paint across a road?
I think none of that makes sense.

Speaker 4 (42:04):
I just think it would be an amazing feeling.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
You don't want to hit the fruit vendor? No, I
don't want.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
I don't want anyone to be injured. I don't want
I just want to hit the fruit stand and destroy
the pane of glass wan and drive through it. I
think it would be an amazing feeling. Yeah, and then
maybe maybe I have to get out of the car
and run through like a Chinese New Year parade or
something that'd because.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, or Marty Gross parade. Yes,
those are fun too. Yeah, alright, Like if I ever
win the power you hide in the Dragon, I could, Yeah,
it'd be amazing.

Speaker 4 (42:35):
But if I ever win the power balls, that's the
thing I'm doing. I'm doing that. I'm gonna I don't
know where it is.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
All three of those things. Yeah, you're gonna pay to
have a Chinese New Year's parade. I'll do it here
in the parking line, next to a farmer's market, next
to a glass thing.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
I'm rich. I don't care. Okay, all right, you do
you man?

Speaker 4 (42:52):
I'm glad you like, I mean, you could come along
if you're you're telling me if I didn't invite you
to that, you wouldn't come.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
You would you?

Speaker 4 (42:57):
You would be super excited.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
I'd be so mad if you didn't let me take
a turn. Yes, Like it's things the guys want to do.
Women will never understand.

Speaker 4 (43:06):
After I did it, I would have them reset it
all up and then you could do it.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
Mm hmm okay, I like it.

Speaker 4 (43:12):
What kind of fruit I don't know, like peaches or something.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
You want something soft enough so it doesn't just scatter
it explodes, so you get the color.

Speaker 4 (43:20):
Right, yeah, and plums and nectarines.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Watermelon probably watermelon? That look good? All right?

Speaker 1 (43:29):
Well, hey man, I hope and then you bol how
about you do it with the bulldozer that you're then
going to use to level your buddy's out face.

Speaker 4 (43:37):
See what we're doing now is we're just coming up
with an amazing business. Yeah, this would like people would pay.
Dudes would pay to do this. You come down.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
It's like those those stress rooms where you get to
bat and you can start smashing everything. Yeah, or what's
that you know where that you can go, uh do
the heavy machine like the tanks, like you're allowed to
the tanks.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (43:59):
Okay, all right, Well I hope you achieve it someday
and then I'm there to watch and or participate. And
I got people emailing me. I held top secret clearance
with additional caveats. Okay, that sounds spyish.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
For over twenty five years, had there even been a
hint or suspicion that I had ts material top secret
at home on my PC. SUVs with government license plates
would swarm the driveway and tear my Yeah. Yeah, That's
why I pointed out that it's people like Bolton and
others who were high enough up the food chain, because

(44:37):
then you get into the it's the.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Same thing that Congress does right at the end of
the day.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
They won't go after each other in the really personal
criminal ways. Trump doesn't have a problem with it, clearly,
but because if you do it to them, then they'll
do it to you. Because nobody up there can explain
thoroughly to the and public how when you go up
to Congress and you have a dollar in your bank account,
you serve four years and you're a millionaire now on

(45:07):
you know, one hundred some thousand dollars a year salary.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Nobody can explain that.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
So that's why these guys whenever, So once you get
into that upper echelon, whether it's a member of Congress
or an ambassador or somebody who's uh, you know, national
security advisor some of these other positions that.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
Bolton has held.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
Now you get up into what used to be kind
of the untouchable range with very unless it's so overwhelming
they can't ignore it, they'll generally ignore it.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
As you saw.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
At the very same time they're rummaging through Malania's underwear
drawer down to mar Lago, John Bolton is disclosing to
the FBI that his account was hacked, that he used
to send top secret information.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
It was known, and they did nothing, nothing.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
Until the Trump administration came along, and it's say, hey, this
thing that they.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
Never went after. I guess maybe we'll go with that
gay Boston, Boston, Paul, you didn't have top secret clearance?
Stop it?

Speaker 4 (46:12):
How do you think he how do you think he
took down whatddy Bulger? We're doing this again again. We've
been doing this for like fifteen years.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
But the math doesn't math doesn't math? H All right?
Whatever is that?

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Because the Ted Kennedy investigator and you've seen The Departed, right,
I have seen the Department.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
The character based on Paul, which one day, all of.

Speaker 4 (46:42):
Them except Nicholson, he's all He's in. He's like an
amalgamation of.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
All of them.

Speaker 1 (46:49):
You can look it up. Okay, all right, I'll check
it out. I'll see what Scorsese says. I'm sure there's
some director's commentary on the I mean.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
In all fairness that that would be his opinion.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
Though, right, the director of the film of the film, Yes,
that would be his opinion. I guess Okay, a Portland
man is now facing federal charges. All right, so here's
what he's accused of doing. According to authorities, he used

(47:20):
a laser pointer I guess, stronger than Lee's normal one
two to attempt to blind a pilot flying a Customs
and Border Protection helicopter. This idiot did it from his property.
So then the police are like, okay, we've got shine
with a laser. We can see the guy. Please show up.

(47:43):
He's running a meth operation out of the house. How
dumb do you have to be? Like, you know, if
you went across town, they probably still would raid your house.
So it's just like, if you're running a meth operation,
I don't know that you have time to also harass
law enforcement with a laser.

Speaker 2 (48:02):
Stay in your house and make your meth.

Speaker 4 (48:03):
Bro do you ever like drive around though with inspire
to expire tags? And it makes you nervous and you're like,
I mean, yeah, yeah, it's saying but like ten and
two and like you're making sure you're following all the
rules and the speed limit and because you don't want
to be pulled over. And this guy is just like, hey,
I'm going to take down on it like a Sikorski
or something with a laser pointer outside of my meth lab.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Like what are you doing? Brian Keith Capolo? Uh? Oh wait,
no hold on.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
Brian Keith Capolo nepeya four names. When law enforcement arrived
at the house to confront Brian, uh, they found let's
see what is what else.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
He charged with? Here?

Speaker 1 (48:46):
Absolute tool man. By the way, Ross, you're gonna be
shocked to learn this.

Speaker 6 (48:51):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
His mug shot looks like a guy who has a
meth lab. Really. Oh yeah, it's pretty crazy. Uh, let's see.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
Law enforcement right at the home they found meth as
well as evidence of meth production and drug trafficking, and
he's he's been charged with all of that as well.
He's now the third person in Portland to face federal
charges for using a laser pointer to try to crash
a federal aircraft. They've made three arrests in Portland just

(49:19):
for that thing, just for the laser pointers. If you
saw it down in Texas, they they indicted to Antifa people,
which is weird because they are in you know, in
the in the arrest and the season of some of
their stuff. It clearly outlines a Rico style thing going on,

(49:40):
you know, an organization, even if it be loosely affiliated
among all these different groups with training, training schedules, meeting schedules.
So this whole it's just an idea. That indictment, if
you should go read it, pretty much lays bear what's
going going on. This is more than an idea, which

(50:05):
you know, people with brains new clearly. But you know politicians, man,
they gotta they gotta deflect. So there you go, all
right eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven
four reminder coming up here in about thirty minutes, well
less than that, we'll chat with mister Pete Callander and

(50:27):
uh I definitely want to ask about this. Federal Investigators, ACU,
Charlotte Community Activists Cedric Dean, Now, this guy is no
joke down in Charlotte. I had to do I had
to talk, you know, texted Pete about this and some
other stuff like this guy's everywhere shaking hands with the mayor,
hugging it out with the county commissioner. The head of

(50:48):
the county commissioners there getting awards.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
Is up on stage. He's doing all these projects.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
Money, tons of money is flowing into this guy's organization
that he set up. Except according to the Feds, he's
kind of like their William Barber. That's why this thing
like this guy is ever. Everyone knows who he is.
He's a constant, you know, got to defund the police.
We need, we need sentencing reform. In fact, one of

(51:17):
his organizations was just about re entry stuff because he
himself had been in prison and he doesn't like prison.
He doesn't think prison's fair, and and so money was
flown in for that. He founded Sons Against Violence Everywhere
Save and several other organizations, but they were doing a.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
Lot of stuff. He also.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
He also, according to the FEDS, had a little side hustle.
According to federal investigators, because the FBI raided this.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
Dude's place yesterday, uh.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
Dean was exploiting homeless people to defraud Medicaid out of
millions of dollars.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
This dude ripping off the homeless and the government for that.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
No, I know it sounds bad, but he did he
have goodt you know, did he have good intentions? What
was he trying to do.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Buy a lambo? Oh, I don't know. It's about Vacacia
beach house. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
He's accused of stealing millions, like, well, I'm sorry, we're
orphans with cancer, not there to exploit.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
What are you doing man?

Speaker 1 (52:23):
Allegedly, No, Dean used the money to buy multiple homes,
hot cars, and fund a.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Lifestyle that fed.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
Say, uh is now part of a massive seizure operation
because they're having to so they're season all these homes
in the cars. I don't know if he had a lambo,
but apparently he had quite a collection.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
Dean also would buy single family homes turn them into
group homes. He ran a program at a hotel where
he said he tried to provide food, shelter and treatment
to people in need.

Speaker 6 (52:54):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
By the way, Uh, the previous to this, they are
they went in and they found out that that hotel
was basically just a place for prostitution and drug use,
and they shut that down for all sorts of safety violations.
So like they knew that this guy already had some problems.
But now then the Feds got in because a lot
of these moneies that he was because he's defrauding medicare.

(53:18):
Now now you're defrauding the Feds. It isn't just like
z Smith Reynolds grants or City of Charlotte grants. You're
stealing federal money. You're stealing from homeless people basically. And
I don't know exactly how all of this scam worked,
but some of it was he'd get hobos, he'd pay
him a little bit of money, and then they would

(53:39):
he would render they would be able to render some
services which they never rendered, and then just claim it
and then just keep most of the money and then
pay the hobo a little bit so he could get
himself a bottle of whatever he wants. Just I mean,
the allegations is just pure scum baggery. And this guy
was lauded lawmakers and the city council and everyone down Charlotte.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
They love this guy.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
Oh wait, hold on, Pete told me something else too.
I'll go back to my text here. Oh that's right,
Uh Ross, you remember the councilwoman Tijuana Brown down in Charlotte.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
Yeah, we've talked about.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
This was the dude who was standing next to her
with his arm around her when she was giving her
press conference about giving the money back and all that,
what all that was happening. So I wonder if she,
if these people, if these two weren't scamming together.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
Man.

Speaker 4 (54:35):
Yeah, they say, like birds of a feather, right, yeah, absolutely, yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
This is uh, that is some karmic justice right there.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
Uh in June, let's see here.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
Oh, okay, here we go. Soay.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
It was back in June that the FEDS apparently started
investigating this. FED say they spoke to eight witnesses who
either worked or lived in one of Dean's properties. They
told investigators that he and his workers would get medicaid
information with people living on the street this is what
I was just talking about, or in homeless encampments, and
then use that information as to mcclaims for services that

(55:15):
were never provided. In one case, just one homeless person
had fifty four services submitted on their behalf.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
He was dead.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
So they weren't just stealing from live homeless people. They
were also when they died, submitting claims on their behalf
even though they were dead. And I guess that's because
maybe they weren't then listed as dead.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
I would like, did they they were like a John Doe.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
According to the indictment, his he had a holding company
that he set up to funnel this money through Dean
Holdings build Medicaid fifty or fourteen point five million dollars
and had already successfully received nine million of it. This

(56:07):
is a really nice house too, by the way, it's
his main name.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
All right. So what kind of cars are there? I
think he does have a Lambeau Ross.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
I was joking. There's a quick little shot here. There's
like five vehicles there. I think one of them is
a Lamborghini all right, But what is it for the children?

Speaker 2 (56:26):
No?

Speaker 1 (56:26):
Clearly not ah shame Yeah, unless they're homeless children. Maybe
then they helped pay for it. Dean previously, it's spent
twenty eight years in prison and two separates. I think
his opposition to jailing and police was just him just
getting ahead of things.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
He's like, I'm doing all sorts of criminal stuff here.
I'd hate to go back. What if we can get
the jail shut down? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
Dean was also arrested in May for misdemeanor breaking and entering,
but the report noted he's been charged with pre blah
blah blah. Oh he also had a baby die in
the hotel. This is just awful.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
Oh. He also he also owned a.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
Property in Fayetteville that was used to help the homeless
that's now shut down. Yeah, all right, we'll tie. We'll
tie more with Pete about that. Let's talk to mister stagic.

Speaker 2 (57:21):
How you feeling about Sunday afternoon, sir?

Speaker 8 (57:24):
Poor to very poor.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
The Commando's just lost. I know, I know, you know.

Speaker 8 (57:31):
One of the better games is actually the Bears and
the Panthers.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
Stop it with that.

Speaker 8 (57:37):
Come on, two teams that are kind of surprising, and
last night was a surprise too. Hot goals. Yeah yeah,
raise your hand.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
Anybody what jumpsry? Would you say?

Speaker 8 (57:47):
Anybody picked? Anybody got the Bengals? Raise your hand?

Speaker 2 (57:50):
I bet. I bet on the Bengals, bet on them
to cover, right.

Speaker 8 (57:55):
I met straight, I met straight up to win. You
didn't think they'd win, though, did.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
You you know? I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
I'd be quite honest with you. Fla, I mean flack
can black Coo can play. Guy's got a super Bowl
ring man.

Speaker 8 (58:07):
And I almost switched him and got him in my
fantasy league. Three touchdowns and three fifty four.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
Yeah, yeah, he kind of went he had again.

Speaker 8 (58:15):
Yeah, and about Rogers, that was sweet, but.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
You got Jack.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
That's the first thing Ross said this morning was awesome,
is like, did you see the video?

Speaker 2 (58:24):
But you know what, I kind of get it. They
took three pound due.

Speaker 4 (58:27):
He's like, dude, I'm nearly fifty dude, what are you doing?

Speaker 2 (58:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (58:31):
I would have been a little angry too, probably could
have got more hurt than anything else.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
So what do you all have to say? You don't
like Cowboys chances?

Speaker 8 (58:40):
No, and I don't like Clemson's chances. Now do you
see the line went to five and a half? Now?

Speaker 2 (58:45):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I haven't. I hadn't really dug
into it, but I'm not surprised.

Speaker 8 (58:49):
So I'm like, oh boy, that's mm hmm. Because Vinza
Vinzena didn't look like he was ready last week. So
you know football tonight, we do Miami Louisville. I like
Louisville and you cat you n see at ten thirty? Yeah,
you went see a cal I don't know what it

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is on that, but I got a few.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
I gotta well, let's see Big four opponents.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
UNC's been outscored one hundred and thirty three to twenty
or something.

Speaker 8 (59:19):
Hey, maybe tonight's the night. Maybe maybe I don't know,
tonight could be right, that's in cal.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
Yeah, I don't know, man, I don't I don't like
to touch that game is I didn't mind with the
Clemson bed against them.

Speaker 8 (59:32):
I just right, I don't know anyway, How did everybody
do their homework?

Speaker 2 (59:37):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 8 (59:39):
Well, if you're paying attention yesterday, I told everybody tomorrow morning,
you look at your carth thermometer and you take ten
off forty today, right, and it's forty even some upper thirties.
To the north up near a button or beef cattle laboratory. Yeah,
that is a recording station, wake Forest, thirty nine degrees
forty five out in the Piedmont.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
Try it at the airport.

Speaker 8 (59:59):
Yeah, you see this.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
What's the name of the recording station?

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
So you go north, it's just northwest. We know everyone
knows where Butler is is, where the federal prison is.
We're Bernie made on.

Speaker 8 (01:00:08):
It says the buttoner beef cattle laboratory.

Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
What are they do in the lab man, I haven't
like being able to stile things.

Speaker 8 (01:00:15):
Or it is thirty eight degrees right now, so it's
cold and it's cold beef some of the chillier weather. Basically,
it's sunshine. The next couple of days, beautiful weather in
the seventies, load to mid seventies, maybe the upper seventies,
and then Sunday maybe shower late like at night after sunset,
mid upper seventies on Sunday, back into the sixties. Monday,

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back to the seventies on Tuesdays, plenty of great weather.
The overnight loads will be comfortable too. So I'm wasting
a lot of time on the on the foosball.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
So that oh it's an NC State operator, right, that
makes a lot.

Speaker 8 (01:00:50):
Of Yeah, I figured it was because Clemson's got like.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
It could have been cows doing science. You don't know,
it could have been. Yeah, been like in the far side, you.

Speaker 8 (01:00:57):
Know here on the south, here's Horseshoe House. You know
where that is, West Sanford, Yeah, southwest of Triangle.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
This is this is NC State's beef lab. That's what
this is.

Speaker 8 (01:01:08):
Oh okay, alright's.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
Okay, very good. Well, it also explains why they have
a probably have a weather station up there because it's
like twelve hundred acres. All right, thank you, sir, do
appreciate it. We'll talk at an hour. There you go.
So it's not just a reader. It's not cows with beakers.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
It's something. It's people with beakers and cows. Okay, all right,
that makes a lot more sense. All right, seven forty nine, hang.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
On, Oh, look at that Ross kill Away is.

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
Erupting on Hawaii. Dang, that thing's cooking, man, and uh oh,
that's crazy. So kill Awaya started erupting, and us almost
uh ten hours before that, a volcano and I Ran
started erupting. It had been seven hundred thousand years since

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its last eruption, and also a volcano in Indonesia.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
Is it times? What's going on here?

Speaker 1 (01:02:01):
Maybe we did the Iranian one and then we did
the other two to cover up so it didn't look
like it was US.

Speaker 4 (01:02:07):
I hope Yellowstone is gonna be cool. It's still out man, told.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
You, man, that was the That was like you've never
seen a classroom full of kids where some of the
girls were crying. That was well when they're explaining it
to you guys, Yeah, because we're sitting there in Wyoming
and like, you know, so we're talking, we're learning about it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
You know, Yellowstone.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
If you guys don't know this Yellowstone, and I think
most people do, Yellowstone is one of the largest super
non dormant super volcanoes in the world. And so they
have a map that they show you and they're like,
all right, if it erupts, everyone who lives up to
this point is insta dead. Everyone over here is probably dead.

(01:02:52):
And we're in the probably dead. We're just far enough
because we have the Big Horn Mountain range between us.
But like explaining that to third graders is just evil
or whatever. We were like, oh, yeah, he's probably gotta
not work out for you.

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
It's hard enough for a kid to process the fact
that the sun is going to one day like, you know,
explode or what are the happy there?

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:03:13):
Louis c k has that whole bit about it, like
traumatizing his kid by bringing out the fact. He's like, no, no, no,
it'll be like a billion years from it doesn't matter.
Scared of your kid, your kid, Yeah, six billion years?

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
What is a kid?

Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
Little kid doesn't understand six billion, right, Yeah, So the
Yellowstone discussion is pretty bleak. Plus I got family members
you know growing up that lived at Yellowstone.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
In Yellowstone is uh criminal.

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
The park's criminal investigator was my uncle, whose deputy is
a position through the US Marshall's there. He was there
at the time, so my aunt, my cousins lived there,
and then my other family members who would work over
in Yellowstone during the summer tourism season. And so like,

(01:04:01):
is Uncle Brian gonna get killed by a volcano? What
about my little kay little he's got two little daughters.
My favorite new volcano name. So the other volcano in
Italy that's rupt here right now is called Stromboli, which
I'm all for volcanoes named after food. Let's welcome in
our guest Pete Calender from WBT Middays like you can
listen on the iHeartRadio app. Pete, did you know there

(01:04:22):
was a strong bowlie volcano that sounds delicious?

Speaker 6 (01:04:26):
It does?

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
Yeah, I'm all for that. Hey, real quick, I.

Speaker 1 (01:04:30):
Want to us to start this off with you. I
want to play an audio cut and then ask you
a question. Will that be all right?

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
I mean it's your show casey, so I know, but
you know you appreciate you coming on, and I just
you know, of course.

Speaker 6 (01:04:43):
No, I appreciate the time.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
As always, it's a Charlotte related question.

Speaker 1 (01:04:47):
This is for our little news report I saw this
morning as I was stirring, and here we go.

Speaker 3 (01:04:53):
Ce bed says sixty percent if people arrested this year
for committing a violent crime had been arrested before. They
told us about a fifteen year old who has been
arrested one hundred and eleven times since August of twenty
twenty three. Arrest included fifty five car thefs instilling from
cars forty five times. At one point, police found multiple

(01:05:17):
guns on the team and took a phone as evidence.
They say they found various Google searches on it, including
what is the charge for killing an officer?

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
Is police murder a charge?

Speaker 3 (01:05:28):
And what is capital murder. Police say the fifteen year
old was most recently released again in September.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
So my question is, is one hundred and twelve times
the charm?

Speaker 6 (01:05:41):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
Oh, okay, Now, a fifteen year old with neck tattoos?

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
By the way, I don't know if you've seen a
picture on the.

Speaker 6 (01:05:49):
Well, that's not possible. No, that's not possible because you
can't you can't get tattoos if you're not over the
age of eighteen. That's eagle.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
Oh yeah, well, silly me.

Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
That's on average once a week August of twenty twenty three.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
That's that's more than once a week. How does what
is going on? Man?

Speaker 6 (01:06:07):
Well, it's just a highly motivated entrepreneur youth. Uh I
don't understand. Yeah, Like, shouldn't we be celebrating the fact
that he has found his his life's calling and has
obviously excelled at it. I mean, not to the point
where you're getting away with all of this stuff that
you keep getting.

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
Mad at it.

Speaker 6 (01:06:27):
But he's there yet he's not, but he's no, but
he is committing you know, he's trying to hone his craft.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
Ah okay, yeah, because you're like, if you go to
steal a fifty five cars I think was the number,
and that was the steel cart, that wasn't just the
you know, Robinham and you get caught fifty five times?
Don't you move on to Arson?

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
You know what I'm saying? Or don't? And here's the
real question.

Speaker 6 (01:06:56):
I know, hang on, I think you're overlooking something in
the data. Okay, okay, okay, it's the data that we
don't see. See. These are just the arrests that they
caught him for. We don't know he may like, I mean,
you're you did the math on that, and I was

(01:07:16):
told there would be no math during my segments, thank you. Right. So,
But if like for example, he was doing he's getting
like one, would you say, like one every other day
or something?

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
One would be just above one a week on average?

Speaker 6 (01:07:33):
One a week? Who are you? Who are you casey
O day up in Raleigh Greensboro area. Who are you
to know whether or not he has actually stolen more
than one a week? He could be racking up one
a day for all we know, you know, I just

(01:07:53):
feel like this is some anti Charlotte bias, you know,
undercounting like his his you know, proficiency and his prolific expertise.

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
Here's here's why. And I and I try and and
here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
Because I have people even they go, why why do
you care about the crime in Charlotte. I care about
the crime in Charlotte because one I have, Pete is
my friend. He lives in Charlotte.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
Pete murder.

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
And I don't want I don't want any of your
family murdered, right, okay? And then you have coworkers my
program director, and Raleigh also program stationed.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
Charlie's constantly down there. I don't want him murdered.

Speaker 1 (01:08:32):
So there's that, But also the really bad ideas that
permeate Charlotte's government, permeate Raleigh's and Greensboro absolutely hosts and
Durham's and everybody in these big cities.

Speaker 6 (01:08:44):
Man, Yeah, they look at each other like it's they
they look at their fellow blue cities and if they're
not doing like actual visits to the cities to learn
from the local electeds and the local judges on how
to do things and what are you doing down in
your location. Oh it's working, so well, let's adopt that model.

(01:09:07):
They do this all the time. City leaders, county leaders, Right,
they go on these junkets over to other cities out
of out of state. You know, they'll go to Austin
or Portland and stuff, and they'll you know, they'll get
a tour and they'll get to hobnob with the local
elected officials and bureaucrats there, and then they come back
and they bring these terrible ideas. Well, yes, we go

(01:09:30):
over to other places, but other places come here too,
and you know, they're looking at what we are doing,
and they're going to then say, oh, this is so
you know, equitable. U, this is so inclusive. Let's go
ahead and adopt the Charlotte model. Uh and we'll get
you know, the same magnificent results. This is a catch

(01:09:51):
and release jurisdiction. That's what this is. And even even
the Charlotte Mecklenberg Police Department UH at their their their
crime stat update that they delivered.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
I watched this. Yeah, Uptown's perfectly safe. I heard. So
that's good.

Speaker 6 (01:10:08):
Well no, oh ha ha ha ha ha. So they
they said that the stats for the entire city, the
overall crime has dropped eight percent when compared to the
first nine months of last year, and the violent crime
has dropped twenty percent. Okay, but that's that's for the

(01:10:29):
entire jurisdiction. However, according to the local FOP for turnholder
Or Police, they point out, yeah, if you look at
just the Uptown Charlotte area, homicides are up two hundred percent. Okay,
So yeah, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
Did that woman not say it was safe? She said
it was safe. I watched it. They asked her, so
it's safe, and she said, yes.

Speaker 6 (01:10:53):
Of course, it's safe, right, And so they are advancing
this narrative. Youve got to keep in mind, we talked
about this a couple of weeks ago. You got to
keep in mind that the Charlotte leadership in the business community,
they are very worried because, you know, early voting is
now underway and one of the items on our ballot
in Mecklenberg is an increased sales tax for transit and
for a little bit for roads. And so although that's

(01:11:16):
all of their mailers that they're sending out are all
focused on the road money. They're not even mentioning light rail,
which is like forty percent of the of the plan.
So they're not even mentioning the transit system. They're talking
about congestion. They're talking about roads, right, because they are
super worried that all of the that the murder on
the light rail line and all of these stories about

(01:11:39):
the assaults on buses and stuff, that this is going
to jeopardize the outcome of the referendum. So they have
advanced this narrative that if people don't feel safe, then
they're not safe. In other words, they are gaslighting us.
They're saying, it's just a perception that you have that
this is that Charlotte is violent because our crime stats

(01:12:01):
are down year over year. Yeah, but what were they
five years ago? Because I seem to recall there was
something that happened right around twenty twenty where we had
this like massive surge in violent crime and all crime
all across the country. And have we gotten back below
those numbers, right, because that would be a better comparison.

(01:12:23):
It's good that crime is trending down, but just because
it declined doesn't mean it's safe. It may be a
little safer than it was last year at this time,
but that doesn't mean it's safe. And it also doesn't
account for just the general vibe, if you will, of
walking around the entertainment district south end of the town.

Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
I was walking as this was going to ask, because
you lived in Charlotte before you lived in Nashville, right.

Speaker 6 (01:12:49):
Correct, Yeah, I've lived in Charlotte for most of my
thirty years down here.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
Okay, are there now upon your return to Charlotte? Are
there parts of Charlotte you won't go to that you
previously did and you used to live there? Because this
is this is the part that gets lost, man, and
that is the public's perception on the ground you're not
gonna hoodwing people who live in those areas as when
like when they go interview people in DC and they're

(01:13:13):
talking to people quote unquote in the hood who are happy,
and then they go out to the white enclave neighborhoods,
the rich areas, and they're all mad as hell, And
it's like, so, is that what we're dealing with here again?
I just because selfishly, I want your guys militarize so
that my cities take note of that and stop pulling
this crap.

Speaker 6 (01:13:33):
Okay, well that's fair. Yeah, no, And that's what the
FOP has asked for. They're like, look, we have such understaffing.
It's it's almost as if there was some sort of
a concerted effort to like take money away from law enforcement,
to demoralize law enforcements and below the be CO conspiracy.

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
Peete, all right.

Speaker 6 (01:13:51):
I didn't say there was. I'm just saying it's almost
as if there was some sort of I don't know,
like a defund the police kind of movement that occurred.
And these are the results. And so they've been asking
for the National Guard to come in to help backstop
the personnel shortage in Charlotte and yes, there are. Like,
for example, when I first moved to Charlotte, this would

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have been nineteen ninety nine or so, and I would
walk around Uptown all the time, felt totally safe, no problem.
Now my wife works in uptown and any time that
I'm like going to met her after work, We're going
to go out someplace, I'm picking her up or whatever.
I'm always carrying, always carrying in uptown and I am

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and there is a heightened awareness because of the people
that are on the streets at all times. I don't
enjoy going uptown, which is the sentiment of a lot
of people, and that is like, that is a huge
problem because of all of the billions of dollars that
have been spent over the last twenty five to thirty
five years trying to make Uptown a destination. Right there

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were marketing camps.

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
I had to visited Charlotte previously on three separate ca as.
There's a little boutique hotel that's right in the middle there.
I can't remember the name of.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
It, The Dunhill, Yeah, I think it is the dun Hill.
And then Dotown you have the Steakhouse just down the
street there. Yeah, So I've stayed there.

Speaker 1 (01:15:13):
I've walked to the steakhouse, walked to the other bars
at night, went back to the hotel, never felt unsafe.
It's been ten years since I've done that, and it
is an absolute tragedy if that's what is imperiling that area.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
Now I got it. I do have to move on
just to a couple of things. Because you mentioned the
funder to ignore the crime.

Speaker 6 (01:15:30):
Just to ignore it casey okay, Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
Yeah, absolutely so.

Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
Uh, I was Sedric Dean, a defund the police guy, Christine.

Speaker 6 (01:15:44):
Yeah, so, I had no idea who this guy was
until he popped up at a press conference held at
a lawyer's office where Tijajuana Brown, our Charlotte City council
member who got federally indicted for defraud the federal government,
taking a bunch of the peap loans and then using
it to fund like a horse drawn carriage, a throne,

(01:16:04):
a birthday party, like all of this stuff. And I'm
not kidding about that. That's really what she is accused
of spending the money on. And so she did this
press conference where she says, I gave the money back.
I gave the money back, never outright denied that she
took it right, because she did. And so she was
just saying, I gave the money back, and this guy
is sitting next to her, and then he eventually pipes

(01:16:26):
up and he's like, you know, this is all about racism,
and because she's a black woman on city council and
a powerful woman all this stuff. She's a former incarcerated person,
formerly incarcerated person, and so is he right? And so
he has set up some sort of a nonprofit group
where he tries to help the homeless and people who

(01:16:48):
need transitional housing and such. And he just had four
of his homes raided by the FEDS for Medicaid fraud.
Apparently now he has not been a said yet and
criminally charged. They just seize the assets and such part
of their investigation. They did these raids yesterday. And he's

(01:17:10):
apparently accused of like recruiting homeless people, getting their Medicaid
identification numbers, billing Medicaid for services mainly quote mental health
services that were then never provided, and receiving somewhere in
the neighborhood of eight million dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
And I like, but I do like that he didn't discriminate.

Speaker 8 (01:17:29):
Yeah, he didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:17:30):
He would also use dead homeless people allegedly.

Speaker 6 (01:17:33):
Correct, so he would bill for the dead as well, correct,
And you know, and it's interesting you go to the
guy's Facebook page and he's all blinged out in gold
chains and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
Oh yeah, and the aerial pictures of the house. So
that's really I need a non problem.

Speaker 8 (01:17:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:17:48):
Yeah, they rearranged some of the landscaping rocks to read
thug mansion. So and black lives matter of course, but yeah,
it's just it's it's one of those things where a
man if only they or any signs that this guy
might be dipping, I mean, aside from spending twenty eight
years in prison, you know, if only there were some.

Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
Arlier this year.

Speaker 6 (01:18:11):
Yeah, yeah, and kidding as well.

Speaker 1 (01:18:12):
Yeah, okay, the pearl clutching is is a foot Wiley
Nichols very mad, but Josh Steins mad Roy Cooper's mat
which and that would of course be the most succinct
and tightly drawn congressional boundaries I've ever seen anybody. Anybody
who wants to complain about this should have to do

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it standing next to a picture of the proposed map
and the last one that Roy Cooper did, That would right,
and that would be a requirement.

Speaker 6 (01:18:41):
What I also level is the hoisting on the pitard
of oneself, which was that there was a deal crafted
decades ago to not give the governor veto authority over
redistricting maps, and that field Roy Cooper exactly. So yeah,
he doesn't get to Josh Stein doesn't get to veto
any of the maps either. And yeah, so now the

(01:19:03):
risk here obviously is that by diluting Republican support in
District three with Greg Murphy, that you're going to end
up making it a flipable seat. But we'll see, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:12):
We'll see. But here's the thing, and we only have
a minute left.

Speaker 1 (01:19:15):
If anybody's slogged through as a reporter redistricting process, and
I've covered it, I'm sure you have. One of the
things that they outline in the law that they're looking
for is shared interest and it's worth differently in different
states that that may everyone of those things makes sense
on that map. There's no weird OCTOPI arms and somebody
said it, and Ross I think said it earlier. We

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live in a red state with very deep blue cities.
You know a handful of deep blue cities. But you
get out, you get out of there and and it's red.
And they have shared interests, Greensboro having shared interest with
Charlotte with the Alma Adams snake thing. Yeah, forget about it.
But right, all right, well we spent so much time

(01:20:00):
they're unfortunlamb out of it. So uh, I want to
start a nonprofit where we're gonna flip orphans with cancer.
So I'll talk to you often about that. Yeah, it
could be very profitable. I want my own thug mansion.
All right, thanks, Pete.

Speaker 6 (01:20:14):
I appreciate buddy man, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:17):
All right, there you go. Look at that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:19):
Packing Pete calendar. That's his new name right there. All right,
we'll be back. Such a nerd. I'm just sitting there
reading volcano names in Italy to see if more food related.
They have a volcano Ross called Mount Volcano.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
That's lazy.

Speaker 1 (01:20:35):
They have a Tuscany, a Tuscan volcano, which I believe
that's where they make the breadsticks, right, actually bake them
in the volcano.

Speaker 2 (01:20:45):
So I didn't realize they had so many. Holy crap,
there's a lot. All right, Well there you go. Let
me let me kick back over to a couple other
other little items here. Oh, by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:21:03):
I saw a story that, so I'm going to my
Twitter to call it the story because I tweet about it.
Why am I in a prison jumpsuit on my Twitter
photo now?

Speaker 4 (01:21:13):
Because you're a juvenile delinquit, I'm not though. You told
the story in the beginning of the show, and.

Speaker 1 (01:21:18):
I told a story about when I was in high school.
The cops showed up or have a little party right
against served time. We got nipped, as we used to
call it, miner in possession. They drug us down to
the cop shop. They called our parents, which I would
have preferred to be thrown in the hole and have
my mom show up at eleven o'clock at night to
retrieve me.

Speaker 2 (01:21:34):
And then that was it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
And then I did my community service and since I
didn't do anything bad again for a year, it quote
was expunged or taken off my record, right.

Speaker 4 (01:21:45):
And I don't mean to make you feel bad. It's
just I don't feel safe now in the workplace. It's
just it's sort of changed the dynamic. Can you vote?

Speaker 2 (01:21:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I do that. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:21:58):
You know groc Is drunk. Groc Is isn't working right.

Speaker 2 (01:22:01):
No, this is the worst part of AI. Man.

Speaker 1 (01:22:05):
You and like two other people that are on our
Twitter all the time. Did you see port Stephen Kent
where they put face tattoos on him yesterday?

Speaker 2 (01:22:13):
Ibe?

Speaker 4 (01:22:13):
Was that AI?

Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
Maybe I don't know. I've never physically seen Stephen. I
did see him doing an interview, but he could have
had makeup on. So when he was on the TV
and his uh, his nerd outfit is the nerd outfit
with the cape he was so excited about.

Speaker 2 (01:22:28):
But I have not. I have not. Maybe he does
have face tattoos.

Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
But I didn't go in to jump, so I didn't
get finger printed or my photo taken or nothing, went
to went to juvie. I didn't go anywhere. I went
to the police. They didn't even put us in a cell.
They put us in like a like the break room
or whatever, because they had vending machines in it. And
we all had to just sit there and wait for
parents to come. Just and the worst part was my
mom came last because she had to drive all that way.

(01:22:55):
Just terrifying and like the whole time, I'm like, maybe
she's not coming, maybe she's not coming. But the problem
is when your uncle's one of the depth the Sheriff's deputies,
and uh, you know, she was cold. But I had
to watch my friend's parents all show up and that
didn't go well. So then I just sit there and

(01:23:17):
it was like torture man.

Speaker 4 (01:23:18):
Right, You're like, well, I'm gonna guess I'm gonna die
here now.

Speaker 2 (01:23:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:23:21):
But Grock is weird, like sometimes it works really well
and other times it just doesn't want to work, like
it just won't work.

Speaker 2 (01:23:26):
Yeah, it does.

Speaker 4 (01:23:27):
They were like, the filtering will be weird, or they'll
add like twenty pounds to somebody, or they'll make them
super old. It's so weird.

Speaker 2 (01:23:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:23:35):
I don't know why it is.

Speaker 1 (01:23:36):
I tried to and I can't remember the reason I
was trying to render it. I was trying to render
a photo, That's what it was, trying to render the
anime version of the famous Roy Cooper photo where he's
got the mask hanging off his ear, he's walking with
the protesters and it's whenever it so, you know, just
some dumb little post. And I spent all of my

(01:23:56):
cause you only can do so many if you're not
a subscriber.

Speaker 2 (01:23:59):
At a time, I.

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
Used up all my freebies, and I realized that it
would not, and I don't maybe it's built into it.
GROC would not render a picture of somebody incorrectly wearing
a COVID mask.

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
Like I tried with that. I tried just to have
it render one outright.

Speaker 1 (01:24:19):
It would never have the mask could be in their hand,
but it could not be hanging off their ear. And
I was very explicit in detail. And then I thought,
maybe that's just one of those weird quirks built in
because it's AI, you knows, and it's trained with whatever
that it doesn't want to medically misrepresent something.

Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:24:38):
I just remember being very frustrated. Anyway, So Ross has
put me in a prison jumpsuit. Now, yesterday I liked
the picture yesterday with the beer and the face tattoos.

Speaker 4 (01:24:46):
I was killing it, man, well yet not at first
you thought it was like MS thirteen or something. I'd
explained it was post malone or like jelly roll.

Speaker 1 (01:24:52):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but I just want to make
sure I didn't have it was like you, we rendered
a photo of me with an Aryan nation tattoo.

Speaker 4 (01:25:00):
I was concerned about that. It's just the typical AI gibberish.

Speaker 2 (01:25:03):
Yeah yeah, yeah, No, I zoomed in and gave it,
gave it a look. See there.

Speaker 1 (01:25:08):
So here's the story I was trying to go for.
And then I got to tell you about this documentary
I saw. Yes, I'm very excited about. Ros's very excited.

Speaker 2 (01:25:16):
Too, I think so.

Speaker 1 (01:25:18):
But this thing, this, so you're this just turned my
stomach yesterday and I'm just like, this is one of
those where it's like, I want to be the one
to feed him into the wood chipper, but I want
a wood chipper that RPMs can go as low as
like five per minute, so it takes hours. So yesterday

(01:25:40):
Amana California was sentenced to life in prison. All right,
so what did he do? So he's not that I'm
gonna execute him life in prison according to authorities, Uh
well not acordy authorities.

Speaker 2 (01:25:53):
This is what he did.

Speaker 1 (01:25:54):
He's convicted now in sentence. So uh, here's here's what
they accused him of doing. His ex girlfriend has two
little girls right now, he's with a different woman. He
goes over to the These are not his daughters, by
the way, just to be clear. They with the ex girlfriend.
He goes and he stabs his ex girlfriend fifty times

(01:26:16):
to death. Kidnaps the two little girls, takes them back
to his place, where he has now modified his basement
so there's a pit like in uh the silence of
the lambs, rapes the four year old, kills her in
the process, throws the body in the pit, then keeps

(01:26:38):
the six year old as a sex slave for him
and his new girlfriend, and she has to live in
the pit with her sister's corpse. If we're not grease
in that guy, what are we doing me? I mean
in like instantly, yes, take him out back behind the courthouse.

Speaker 4 (01:27:00):
Yeah, I know that sounds bad.

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
I guess he had his due process.

Speaker 1 (01:27:07):
Do I think he actually I think he kind of
admitted to the girlfriend killing too.

Speaker 4 (01:27:10):
You know, it pisses us off. We love watching these,
like you know, true crime shows orly the Dateline twenty
twenty shows, and they'll go through like forty five minutes
of this horrific crime or this murder that happened and
all the evidence and they'll present it to you and
you obviously the person is found guilty, and then they're like,
do you serve twenty to thirty years? How is that
even possible?

Speaker 2 (01:27:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:27:29):
Too, I saw this story yesterday, just the idea that
the six year old everything's being done to her and
that she has to then try to sleep next to
her dead sister. Just I mean, there's not do we
need a new level of hell, get on it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:45):
We're gonna have.

Speaker 1 (01:27:46):
To expand on Dante's thinking there, man, I don't know.
But the only upside is it sounds like this guy's
going to prison. Where that dude who's already beat two
child molesters to death? Is you remember that guy? I
remember that guy with the beer, the ball guy. He's
just like you keep setting them, I'll keep eating him
to death. Wherever that guy is now, just move him
out of his cell and make him his sellie.

Speaker 2 (01:28:06):
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 4 (01:28:07):
We have a special assignment just for you.

Speaker 1 (01:28:09):
Yeah, here's Bob. Yeah no, you might recognize him from
the news.

Speaker 2 (01:28:13):
Yeah. Yeah, he's not going anywhere, but he's very happy
to meet you. Ah. It's just so so awful.

Speaker 1 (01:28:20):
I almost didn't bring it up just because it is
so awful and I want to like bummer everybody, but like,
this is, this is this is, this is what executions
were made for. Sorry, but I guess the only upside
is that those guys probably don't usually do well in prison,

(01:28:41):
and this will likely be no exception. All right, a
forty three race. Stagic here, we'll get to I'll tell
you about the documentary here in the next segment. What's
going on, mister Stagic? Keeping that fair weather, that good fair.

Speaker 2 (01:28:52):
Weather around right? Ah?

Speaker 1 (01:28:53):
Not there yet, not there yet, Okay, all right, doodle dude, dude,
he's probably checking the clems in line. Maybe the cowgirls
live Cowboys? Whoa wow, oh that wow surge.

Speaker 8 (01:29:08):
Let's see how you are. Let's see what are the
Vikings doing this weekend?

Speaker 2 (01:29:15):
Getting destroyed by Philadelphia?

Speaker 8 (01:29:18):
You think so Philly?

Speaker 2 (01:29:22):
Do you see one to us the last two times
we played, Yeah, but.

Speaker 8 (01:29:25):
That doesn't mean in Minnesota Philly two and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:29:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:29:31):
There's a couple, there's a couple.

Speaker 4 (01:29:33):
The Bills have a bye. But I'm still expecting a lot.

Speaker 8 (01:29:36):
Yeah, yeah, you're going to my school now. I just
expect to lose, and then if they win, I'm actually surprised.
It's a good thing. It's a good thing the Dallas
Cowboys can end up finishing under five hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:29:48):
I think ROSSI should still tweet on Sunday, what a
beautiful Sunday.

Speaker 6 (01:29:51):
It is.

Speaker 2 (01:29:53):
He tweets that every time the Bills win.

Speaker 8 (01:29:56):
Well, so you're winning if you're not losing.

Speaker 1 (01:30:00):
Yeah, that was my last week we had by That
was absolutely my take.

Speaker 8 (01:30:03):
Yeah, that's a lot, a lot less stress, a lot
less stress. I can tell you that. Well, we were
supposed to go. We're supposed to go to Athens for
Uga Old Miss, but that fell through. So I'm kind
of glad because yeah, kind of fell through.

Speaker 2 (01:30:19):
All the other Athens Oh you know, I can't feel
the ruins and stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:30:24):
No, no, much better.

Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
That fell through.

Speaker 8 (01:30:25):
And it kind of cool because both the games I
want to watch are on A three thirty, so I've
got capabilities to watch three at one time.

Speaker 1 (01:30:31):
So I just want to watch. I just want to watch.
The Georgia coach called timeouts when he's.

Speaker 2 (01:30:36):
Not over and over again.

Speaker 8 (01:30:39):
That was bad that.

Speaker 2 (01:30:41):
I don't know what that is. I don't have time
to explain to you.

Speaker 8 (01:30:43):
No, we don't, but he did. Okay. Anyway, cooler morning,
but quickly getting milder. Maybe I get out of the sixties.
Today been upper sixties, but tomorrow we will a little
bit seventies across the area. Another night in the forties.
A beautiful for Friday night lights if that's your thing,
or over the weekend, what is it like, corn mazes
and pumpkin patch time of year? Hey, rides weather, it's

(01:31:04):
gonna be.

Speaker 2 (01:31:04):
Fair, baby state fair.

Speaker 8 (01:31:05):
Yeah, that's right, the fair too. And the showers that
come Sunday night will be well after, well probably well after,
probably around midnight, and then they'll be going by Monday.
So all next week looks dry too. It may not
rain again here substantially for the next seven days, because
what comes in Sunday night, it's not gonna be much
at all. You might wake up and the ground might

(01:31:26):
be damp, and you'll be like, well, what happened? Rain?
And yeah, maybe a little bit after a beautiful weekend,
we'll back off temperatures a bit into the mid upper
sixties again Monday, or back of the seventies by Tuesdays.
So beautiful rount of weather over the next seven days.

Speaker 1 (01:31:38):
Okay, thank you, so appreciate it. Ye and every week
and we will come back with Denise Pellegrini from Bloomberg
News next, Denise, what is happening?

Speaker 5 (01:31:47):
Yeah, some weight loss drugs used to treat diabetes, Casey,
they could be getting a lot cheaper. That could be
really good news for a lot of folks if it happens.
President Trump says the price of a zempic could come
down to just one hundred and fifty dollars a month.
The list price of ozebic, which the President calls the
fat loss drug, is just about one thousand dollars right

(01:32:09):
now for a month's supply, so going down to one
hundred and fifty would be a massive discount. I should
mention the talks over the price of weight loss drugs,
including ozembic, are still ongoing, according to memet oz He's
head of the Centers for Medicine and Medicare Services. Also,
beef prices could be coming down because President Trump says
his administration has struck an agreement to bring down the

(01:32:30):
price of beef for consumers. US operas, we paid a
record price for ground beef in August. Open ai is
pausing depictions casey of Martin Luther King Junior after users
generated disrespectful deep fake videos of the civil rights leader
using its artificial intelligence tool. Sora Company took action following

(01:32:51):
complaints from King's estate, and will allow other high profile
figures and their reps to opt out of appearing in
Sora videos. One fake video generated by this open ai
technology sor a posted beneath open AI's statement depicts King
swearing during the fame I Have a Dream speech and
complaining about beeping from smoke alarm detectors. Open AI's policy

(01:33:15):
change does mark a more cautious approach after previously taking
kind of a lazy, fair, free willing approach to things
and some news and tech as well. Apple for years
has resisted the idea of touch screen max, a position
that dates back to co founder Steve Jobs. Even his
successor Tim Cook once famously said combining a tablet and
a laptop would be kind of like melding a toaster

(01:33:37):
and a fridge together. Well, Times of Change sources tell
Bloomberg that finally Apple is preparing to launch a touch
screen version of its Mac computer, the revamped MacBook Pro,
with a touch display, set for late next year or
early twenty twenty seven. You know, the rest of the
computing industry embraced touch screen laptops more than a decade ago.
Samsung meantime gearing up to unveil it's highly unto disipated

(01:34:00):
trifold smartphone Casey. The phone will debut in South Korea
later this month. It'll be Samsung's first device with two hinges.
This will allowed to work as a smartphone or if
you open it all the way, it'll be, you know,
kind of like a larger laptop. So that's kind of
that's kind of cool. And earlier this week, we had
Jamie Diamond, CEO JP Morgan Chase talking about bankrupt dott

(01:34:22):
A under tricolor, saying there is never just one cockroach.
Now the critics are critters rather are practically crawling across
the counter because regional bank stocks plunged, led by declines
at a couple of regional banks. They said they were
the victims of fraud on loans that sent investors really
in a tizzy yesterday. Right now, though things are improving

(01:34:43):
a little bit. Dow futures are actually higher, S and
P futures, so there's still lower, Nasdaq futures still lower.
Bitcoin really taking it on the chin today. Gold those
having a great week. It's biggest weekly gain in five years.

Speaker 1 (01:34:55):
Yeah, did you do you have a touch screen laptop?
Idea company? Are company laptops that they give us? Are
I always forget his touch screen and until I bump it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:05):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (01:35:07):
We had the reverse problem here, because you know, everybody
is like fully into technology, right, So you walk around
and you see all the PC's that are not touch screens.
But if I look, I can see fingerprints all over
it from them trying to touch the PCs.

Speaker 2 (01:35:23):
Yeah, you know, all right, maybe that's the worst problem.
I guess. All right, Denise, I really appreciate it. Thank
you have good weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:35:29):
Yeah you too, Denise pelgrenny there from Bloomberg News. All right,
so check out this documentary I saw, yes, say, uh,
you know this is uh what was the one the
other day we were talking, Oh, the Bacho Man. I
want to see the macho man one they're doing. But
this one's definitely right up there. It is the Earnest Documentary,
The Jim Varney documentary.

Speaker 6 (01:35:50):
Pavor you thinking about buying a BCR stereo TV or
a blind?

Speaker 5 (01:35:54):
The Earnest campaign and the commercials it was fun from day.

Speaker 2 (01:35:59):
One was the coolest parts of his Jim Varney, he
was a trained theatrical actor. Oh havern I never thought
of myself as learn. We went from doing one or
two commercials a day to doing.

Speaker 1 (01:36:11):
Fifteen p'd ski out of the pool and click the pancakes.

Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
This is the infamous window.

Speaker 5 (01:36:18):
And then it evolved into merchandising and the earnest movies.

Speaker 8 (01:36:24):
That was the most fun.

Speaker 4 (01:36:26):
This group of artists got attached to the Barney Machine,
the character from a TV commercial who could become so
famous that he starts making movies, almost like it's a
different planet back then.

Speaker 1 (01:36:40):
I mean, this is there's there's about a minute more
to it. We tweeted out you can watch it ross.
I'm assuming you're pumped as well.

Speaker 4 (01:36:46):
I can't wait. We just saw the John Candy one
I like me and that was fantastic, and this is it. Yeah, yeah,
it's very good. And this looks good too,