Friday-2-13-2026

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Anyway, phone number eight eight eight nine three fours seven
eight seven fours. We get things rolling this morning. We
got Olympic stuff we have, dude. I you know, I
wondered if this was going to be a problem. I'm
starting to think this is going to be a problem.

(00:22):
So the sheriff for what is the county? I think
it's Pema County. Yeah, Pima County is the name of
the county. They're in Tucson, you know, So he is
the investor. This is I should point this out. When
you start getting west, and I don't know how it

(00:43):
is all on the East coast, but when you start
getting west, a lot of times when it comes to
like who are the detectives, who are the main investigative bodies?
A lot of times it's sheriff's departments, And like Houston's
gonna example, Harris County Sheriff's department really is the investigative
body La Santa Barbara, where I went to school, it's

(01:07):
the sheriff's departments. So I don't know why that is.
I mean, I don't know. Maybe it's an old West thing,
but that's kind of how it is. So the main
investigative body for the kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie's mother is
actually the sheriff's department. And that's important because like a

(01:27):
lot of sheriff's departments, and this is where we know
we share similarities. That is an elected office. In many cases,
it's a partisan office. So the sheriff, his name is
Chris and Nanos, is the Pima County sheriff. He hates
him some Trump He's a Democrat. He's one of these
open borders dudes, which is crazy for Tucson. But whatever.

(01:52):
And there's some reporting out this morning and by the way,
this isn't Fox News doing it. It's NBC two on
KVOA and others who are claiming that the sheriff, and
now he's responded to it, is essentially trying is like
screw you to the FBI and the resources that were

(02:15):
given to them, and arguably the most valuable resource that
this sheriff has at his disposal by using the FBI,
and he can use him legally. He is the primary
on this. The Feds just can't swoop in there. It's
not a federal case. They're there basically to provide support.

(02:35):
He can use the FBI whatever they're offering to whatever
extent that he wants. The problem is he doesn't want to, apparently,
and a lot of people are wondering why on God's
green Earth when the FBI is offering the rapid use
of its lab in Quantico, which is an invaluable resource

(03:00):
from a law enforcement perspective, They're giving you not just
access to run all your evidence through it, but they're
giving you the opportunity to fast track it because of
how high profiled this is. And dudes basically like, not
screw y'all. There is no way I'm gonna let the
FBI aid in this. People are gonna start asking questions now.

(03:22):
He claims that there was a disagreement with the FBI,
whereas the FBI was trying to downplace some evidence. That's
what he says, because he gave a little presser yesterday.
I don't believe that for a minute. This guy has
been a presence on CNN and MSNBC overall of you know,

(03:44):
whenever they want to hate on Trump from a law
enforcement a law enforcement perspective. So I don't believe a
word this guy's saying. But I just want you, I
just I just wanted to bring it to your attention
that this case that is probably, at least from a
trending standpoint, the top one, two or three story in
most national news broadcasts. This guy's decided there is no

(04:09):
way he's gonna he doesn't want the FBI in there
because God forbid Trump. I guess get anything now. I
am speculating on his motives, but like, why else would
you tell the FBI screw you, We're not going to
use these resources. So instead he's decided he's going to
just run stuff through a private lab which is buddy owned.

(04:29):
So there you go. Just crazy. Also, I will say
this though, he also mentioned that glove that we mentioned yesterday,
where he says, I, you know, I don't know if
necessarily that's a big piece of evidence. I don't know
that the FBI was saying that it was, but I
newscasters were, And the whole thing was just weird to

(04:50):
me because I'm like, you found a essentially a lab glove,
like a week later, week and a half later, after
you've had everybody in their mother, they're you know, cruising
around there. From a forensic standpoint, I don't know, but
that was the That was the gist of his presser
yesterday essentially explaining, well, you know, we don't need the FBI,

(05:16):
we don't need well we'll we'll go ahead and do
it this way. I think also he doesn't want the
FBI to be read in on any of this excuse
me in on any of this stuff. Again, just me speculating.
But the guy's politically and this is the problem with
politicizing law enforcement. This is the problem with all these

(05:37):
garbage fake sheriffs that we have. Now you know, people go, oh,
it's a DEI sheriff, or it's this share It's it's
like one. If we're gonna have politics rolled in here,
this is what it looks like, right, because God forbid,
a couple of people get the credit for whatever it

(05:58):
is they're trying to figure out. So if you're Savannah Guthrie, man,
I mean, do you say something, do you say something
that don't get me wrong, Savannah Guthrie is exactly the
kind of broadcaster who would have this kind of riffon.

(06:20):
This is what makes us all so crazy, man, And like,
the only thing that with me I can remove the
politicians because I'm like, there's an eighty four year old
woman who might be dead or at the very least
is terrified, and we're gonna we're gonna sit here and
play these games. And even local news is gonna call

(06:43):
you out, which, by the way, I just my quick
research on the new the two news stations. They're not like,
these are not conservative stations. They're just a local version
of the national rod And even they are like, that's
so weird that the FBI is like, you can basically

(07:05):
have our lab and other resources and you don't want
anything to do with it. Why would that be? And
you can still maintain control too, That's what's crazy. Usually
the FBI comes in, it's an FBI thing, and then
you kind of have to petition to get stuff through there.
I don't know the actual law enforcement process, but not

(07:27):
every law enforcement agency can send a piece of evidence
to Quantico, let alone have it essentially turned around the
same day. Why you wouldn't want a piece of that
is it's pretty crazy. The Sheriff's department maintains primary jurisdiction
of the case, but can request FBI assistance or federal

(07:47):
investigators to take part in the investigation in various elements. Yeah,
so you can just use the lab if you want.
You can have a whole team down there with cadaver dogs.
If you want this is high profile enough, the world
is your oyster, do whatever you want with it. So

(08:08):
you explained to me why a local sheriff, who again
is having to contract out a private lab right because
this has left his own resources, wouldn't want anything to
do with the FBI. I'll tell you what the FBI
should do. If they don't need them there, why don't
you use those resources to figure out why that French

(08:30):
judge completely and totally screwed us with the only sub
one thirty score on the ice dancing thing. Ross I
fell down the rabbit hole on this yesterday. We were
absolutely robbed, and all of these crazy individuals on that
thread of that Twitter thing you sent me yesterday you
just wanted to post the same picture over and over
and over again. Need to also deal with the fact

(08:51):
that in this case, and I think probably in that
the snowboarder, the dude yesterday who got this quadqualified for us.
It was this guy's name, Nathan Perry, finished first and
the men's snowboard cross and then all of a sudden
was disqualified because he quote intentionally made contact with one
of the racers from Spain for every benefit that they

(09:15):
think that the US is getting. I think that there
are enough judges in the Olympics who hate America and
are willing to absolutely be biased in them.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
I've had that thought.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah, and this isn't new, but I think when Trump's
in office, this is definitely something you have to throw
into the pot.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
But that French thing, man, we're like, you know, everybody's
scores were pretty much the same, and then you look
at the French judge of judging and it's like plus
eight points above everybody else.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Yeah, the whole thing is sus so sus But you know,
post your picture one hundred tons. Oh it fell down.
It fell down, dude, we're getting hosed. It's not the
first time it's happened. And it kind of comes with
the territory, right. Nobody likes it when you're just stomping
mudholes in their butt every chance you get. But it

(10:11):
was what we do. Sorry, sorry for being good at stuff,
but yeah, that is uh. And it's always the French judge.
Remember it was the I point this out. In Utah
was a French judge who was bribed by the Russians
who pulled the same crap. I'm beginning to think we
can't trust the French. Just just my two cents anyway,

(10:36):
six seventeen, ponder that we'll be right back. The wife
was watching something some guy who like was used to
be with the Sheriff's department down there in Tucson and
said that this guy's an ego case.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Huh yeah, it wasn't that long crime site. We use
it sometimes for a prep that the website.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yeah yeah, good sight.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
So they're talking this guy's retired, and then the background
you just see like tons of his accommodations and metals, right,
and he's in a super top yeah yeah. And he's
talking about how he has a relationship obviously with the
Sheriff's apartment. It knows them all by a name. And
he said, the main issue with this case is, in
his opinion, is the share of and his main problem
is the ego where he right, you know, he doesn't

(11:13):
want to work with other people, and he doesn't want
to admit his mistakes.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
And they were saying, and his mistakes a lot of
people are pointing out, might be the seriousness in which
you pursued this case and the initial because i've heard
the first two days are really important. I believe it's
the first forty eight, right, forty not days hours or something.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
But yeah, they were saying like, oh, she wandered off right,
like it was a silver alert, whereas there was tons
of blood on the at the front door, and they
should have let people know that, you know the severity
of the situation.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Well, now hold on, hold on? Can I can I
Devil's advocate on this? What if? What if if the
reason that you have blood on your front door is
not because you've been abducted, but because you don't want
your firstborn son to be murdered by the avenging angel.
I mean that's fair, right, so you have to know
the situation. I heard that works, by the way, too,

(12:03):
but not human blood, which I think it is, so
it was different. But yeah, yeah, so, uh, you know, clearly,
if you've already have some sort of political bias, people
are gonna think it's a little sus But it's also
if you remove the politics, not involving the FBI would
have to do like reports and stuff, might be a
good way to cover up your own uh screw up,

(12:26):
some would say, But man, if you're Savannah Guthrie and
you're seeing politics injected. And look, I hate to bring
this up, but it is. It is a factor to
Savannah Guthrie. This is the type of sheriff who is
then platformed on her network, right, because you know what
you're gonna get. You're gonna get some guy who's gonna

(12:47):
come in. They're gonna claim he's a border sheriff, which
he's not technically, but he damn near is in Tucson.
Remember the becsar or whatever, the Texas one is who
they had on who kept saying he was gonna arrest
Trump or Ron said no, it is Rondayday, was gonna
rest Ron DeSantis, the San Antonio sheriff. These are the
guys who end up on the TV networks who are

(13:08):
then it's like it's like when you have Jen Ruben
at the Washington Post. She still worked there, and they're like, oh,
you know we have a conservative on staff, right, you
trot them out even though you don't. These are the
kinds of sheriffs that are on there. And so the
idea that you're going to have in competence coupled with
politics that are going to play in this. But now
you're not just a newscaster who wants to, you know,

(13:32):
exert a little bit of bias onto the thing, but
you're having to deal with the abduction of your own mother.
I'm sorry. It's an element of this story. It's not
an element I wish on anyone, because, again, my sympathy
is for this eighty four year old woman. I don't
know the politics of I don't care about any of that.
Who's either dead or terrified, And yet here we are.

(13:57):
So no, I'm not surprised to hear that somebody with
some inside and relationships there is basically at the same conclusion.
Excuse me, I'm trying not to sneeze here, all right.
So there's your update for whatever it's worth. They don't

(14:19):
know what's up with the gloves. They're not using the
FBI lab, and the dude literally held a press conference
to say he's not biased, he's just doing his own thing.
Let's see here. Yeah, by the way, the Pima County
Sheriff's Department is spending two hundred thousand dollars for to

(14:40):
process the evidence that they sent to this private lab
in Florida, which again could have been sent to Quantico.
What happens when you're doing a resupply in the Caribbean
with two giant naval vessels and you're playing bumper boats.
Is that bad? It's pretty impressive if you've ever seen
the where how they do these resupplies, like literally they

(15:03):
don't stop right, They're just chug it along. They just
chug it along. They put these big cables across and
they start ziplining, essentially supplies. The problem is they were
dealing with some I would say it's rougher seas. I
don't know if it's prohibitive clearly because they were trying
to do it, and two navy ships, which are you know,

(15:27):
doing their thing down in the Caribbean collided two It
says two troops were left with minor injuries.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Do you mean.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Seamen or I don't know, but anyway, the US destroyer
Truxton with supply ship US wait, hold on our supply ship?
Is the USNS supply that's the best name. I mean,
I understand that's what it is.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
But like.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Truxton, say, trusted sounds kind of awesome. I'm on a destroyer.
It's name miss trucks that don't f with us? What
do you the supply ship. What's your name? Supply? Like
you're giving away the game. But anyway, they played a
little bumper boats. You had some injuries. I'm just curious, like,
is that like, is that bad enough where the captain's

(16:15):
not the captain anymore? Or is that just cost of
doing business there? I don't know. Remember we have what
we have. We have twelve ships currently cruising around the
Caribbean right now, including the four the gerald Ford, which
is the largest aircraft carrier in the world. So like,

(16:35):
were we brought the big guns, so to speak. But yeah,
they're playing bumper boats on this thing. And what's crazy
is you see one of the the naval I don't
know what, I don't know technically what his job, what
his mos would be, but one of the guys who
actually gets to stand out there on deck, he's just
got his cell phone out film in this. It's kind

(16:56):
of weird to me. The trucks left its home port
and or back on February third. The destroyer had to
return to port for several days to conduct an emergent
equipment repair and is now back. So this you know,
this happened a little bit ago, but now we're getting
the details of this. Yeah. So if you slam, if
you slam your giant billion dollar ships into each other,

(17:20):
is that enough where a captain gets in trouble? I mean,
I don't know, and I'm not rooting for or against anything,
but it just seems when I've seen these resupplies, there's
enough distance there where this wouldn't happen, which is why
I thought the whole process was so cool. Man. Look,
there's a certain ross. Tell me, there's a certain level

(17:40):
of bad assery to some of like little things, I
say little things, but little complicated things we do in
the military, like wat should a B two bomber get
refueled in air? Like it lends credence to the bad
astery of our military. Do you remember how we learned
how that happened?

Speaker 2 (17:58):
As children? What do you mean, children of the eighties
and nineties? How did we learn how an airplane refueled?

Speaker 4 (18:05):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (18:05):
In air?

Speaker 4 (18:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (18:07):
Ah, that's a toy. It wasn't it? No? No, what
was it?

Speaker 2 (18:11):
It was the top gun video game on the Nintendo. Yes, yes,
remember having to refuel You're like, this is crazy, this is.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
It was hard, that's right, yeah, man, So like when
you see stuff like that, you realize your military is elite, right,
I don't think the North Koreans do that. I'm assuming
everyone dies right when North Korea's going to refuel in
air like that, pilot's already got his stuff in order.

(18:39):
He knows this isn't going to go well, and we
just do. We do that all the time.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah, not only are they not going to link up
with you, but they also don't have the fuel.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Well I took it for granted. My bad. Yeah, yeah,
we're just here for a photo op and Cyonara. Uh so, yeah,
I don't I don't know. If the ships are slamming
into each other, who gets in trouble? Is it the
cap and is it whoever's driving the ship? I guess well,
obviously clearly I know all the technical names. The driver

(19:08):
I don't know. I don't know eight eight eight nine
three four seven eight seven four. I'm sure we got
some Navy vets here, So or do you guys bump
into each other a bunch? And that's just normal? I mean,
clearly they had to go do the refuse. Here's what
I expected in my inbox. Dude, it's the Navy. What
does that mean? I And by the way person emailing this.

(19:30):
I know you were a marine, so I don't know
what you're hacking on the Navy. That's your department. Also,
they drive you around everywhere, so oh dude, I can't
it's the Navy. They like to bump into each other.
I see what you did there.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
I mean, you did this to yourself. What do you
mean you brought this upon yourself?

Speaker 1 (19:51):
But I want to know. I have genuine curiosity, and
now it's all Navy jokes in my email and it
has nothing to do with fueling, well not really. I
mean yeah, I kind of expected a little of that.
So eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.
I just want to know, you know why, because we've

(20:11):
had these stories. Remember when they just had an F
thirty five that just fell off the carrier. That was
what that was last year, Right, it happened, It happened,
it happened twice or something something else fell off. I
don't know if it was an F thirty five.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Do you remember as kids how we learned how it
was hard not to fly off the carrier?

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Do you remember.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
The Top Gun video game?

Speaker 1 (20:32):
I gotta play that game, so I still have the
I have all the games on the thing on a
what do you call the emulizer or what emulator?

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Emulator?

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Emulator, emulizer, that's that's Trump's new weapon. Okay, it's the
discombobulator or the emulizer. You don't want to know. You
don't want any of that. You'll poop yourself. Probably should
have called it something else, just saying anyway, Yeah, man, Yeah,
that was a hard get dude. There was another Flying
Game two for the UH for Nintendo, and you had

(21:05):
to do this crazy like Canyon Run, which is weird
because that's kind of like what they do, and the
the late the Latest Top Gun, and I remember I
could never ever, I never ever beat it, and I
would get so frustrated that game. I have to now
you got to figure it out. But and then the
game broke and then we never bought another one, so

(21:27):
to this day it remains an undefeated game there So,
But also you couldn't You shouldn't listen to Nintendo grade
video games because if you listen to that, you would
assume that you could ride a motorcycle over an absolutely
flat wall.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
I mean, you can do it until your bike overheats.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
But this is the point I make it. Why would
they Why did they think a wall was the thing
they had to put in there? You had all the
jumps in the rams, but they're like, now we're gonna
put a straight wall like it's a and then your
bike's gonna go over and then your bike always overheats
because you don't do proper maintenance. That's another thing. I
as a kid who grew up with really really like

(22:09):
ghetto motorcycles. I had a Yamasaki, which was a piecemeal motorcycle.
I didn't have overheating issues. The only thing that ever
overheated is my three wheeler. When my fat friend Rainy
got on the damn thing and it caught on fire,
and his dumbass drove it into a pond to put
it out. That's a thing that happened. Drove it into

(22:32):
one of our you know, basically it's a pond we
created so the cows can drink. Just drives it right in.
He's like, well it was on fire, and I'm like,
now it's underwater. I had to get a tractor toe
the damn thing out of there and never was able
to get it properly running again. But yeah, man, everything
I learned I learned from a Nintendo area of video games.

(22:54):
All right, six forty three, hang on reminder coming up
at eight oh five. I am super excited to chat
with our good friend Pete Calendar today because I'm so jealous.
Not only is one of the county commissioners in Mecklenburg
County basically sitting there with a DUI failure to appear

(23:16):
warrant and then nobody arrests her, so you got that
going for you, but also the sheriff of Mecklenburg County,
this McFadden, who Pete calls him. What not my fault? McFadden?
What a gift that keeps on giving? I mean not
from a public safety perspective, clearly, But if you didn't

(23:37):
like earlier in the week he testified in front of
the North Carolina Assembly and it was in fact, I
can't even tease it properly. Just listen to this.

Speaker 5 (23:48):
If I were to classify your position as the highest
law enforcement officer in the county, will that.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
Be a fair description?

Speaker 4 (23:54):
That's correct? Okay?

Speaker 5 (23:57):
And as such, you made reference earlier that your constitutional office,
my colleague made reference that there are constitutional divisions amongst
responsibilities between us and you.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
What branch of government do you operate under?

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Okay, all right, that's it ross. That seems like a
pretty uh, pretty easy question, right, like to the point
where I'm kind of wondering why the guy's asking it
unless he understood that what the answer was going to be.
Do you know what I'm saying? Like, is he saying
it just to be perfunctory or does he know this

(24:33):
guy is such an idiot that this is a gotcha.
I don't know the answer to that, but let's continue.
All right, So you're the sheriff of Mecklenburg County. What
what branch of government are you in? I would think
that if you work in government, you should probably know that.
Let's listen, in Mecklburg County, what what branch of government

(25:00):
you operate under?

Speaker 4 (25:00):
Suff Constitution of the United States.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
That is what establishes the branches of government. I'm asking
which branch you fall under?

Speaker 4 (25:14):
Beckhamberg County were duly sworn Meckinberg County Sheriff. We answer
to the people of Meckinburg County.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
By the way, how is everyone in Becklenburg County not dead?
That'd be my first how is everyone not dead? How
is Pete able to call in today? These are the
wonders of the day. Hold on, this is not.

Speaker 5 (25:32):
Was not where I was anticipating getting stuck. Are you
aware of how many branches of government there are?

Speaker 4 (25:41):
No?

Speaker 5 (25:42):
Oh, for the sake of debate, I will move on
and say there are three branches of government legislative, executive, judicial.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Of those three, which do you believe you fall under?

Speaker 4 (25:56):
I believe I fall under the last one?

Speaker 3 (25:59):
Say to me judicial, Okay, you are incorrect.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Sir, Ross Did it hurt dubbing that in this sport?

Speaker 2 (26:08):
So the issue here, Yes, this guy's an idiot. Yeah,
but it's an elected office in the position, and he
was put there by idiots. Oh so even after this
has been done, the idiots aren't going to care because
they also probably couldn't answer the question because they're idiots.
And the guy, the sheriff, is such an idiot that
in that moment where he should have been like, oh man,

(26:30):
this isn't good. He's such an idiot. He has no
idea what just happened.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
You know, I'm gonna correct you. You said moment moment
implies it was one thing that was ninety seconds of
just beating your head agains him.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Yeah, and he's completely oblivious as to what just happened.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, he probably still doesn't care.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
No, and the people that put him there also are
not going to care and probably could not answer the
question either. No idea because they're idiots.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
You know how everyone's like, oh, we shouldn't have Civics
tests for voting. Maybe I don't you know what I'm saying.
Maybe I don't What percentage do you think would be
able to vote if you gave a test? I mean
something as simple as that. Not just in Mecklenburg County,
but in.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
The US they're freaking out over voter right, he let
alone a test.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
I don't know how to change my name. Hey, let
me ask you a question. Uh, Ross, your wife doesn't vote? Right?

Speaker 2 (27:24):
She does?

Speaker 1 (27:25):
WHOA? Hold on? Hold on, wait, hold hold on, because
I wait. I have heard over the last two days
that once you get married as a woman, you're not able.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
To vote anymore. That would be incorrect, at least from
my perspective. Okay, yeah, it might be different for other people.
Do you think she's just going in there and pretending
for the sake of you or she actually voting? Bud,
ask you a question her driver's license. Was she able
to get her your last name on there after you married.
She was yeah, oh wow.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Okay, because you know, the DMV is a dumpster.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
For it is complicated.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Yeah. Yeah, so it took her years probably huh right, years,
kind of like you know, immigrating legally to the US.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
It's like a five year No, I believe it took
like a week, maybe a few weeks.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
I see.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Okay, so most most of that just waiting for your
new idea to come into mail. Oh so really, you're
just you've already done all the things you can do other.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
Than open the envelope. I see. Okay, yeah, man, so
this is why, like, like, remember when the Wake County
sheriff misspelled the word sheriff.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Yeah, he put down sharif sharif.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
And then we made fun of him because he was
driving around the North Carolina State Fair and his little
dune buggy with his Sharif thing. And still I still
have a photo somewhere because one thankfully, this is why
we have such an awesome audience. One of you happened
to see the sharif driving around and when that's not
how you spelled, sheriff snapped a photo and send it
to me and I appreciate that. And thankfully it was

(28:51):
just before it was This was before AI, so I
didn't just immediately discard it because I don't trust anything now.
But like this is like the Wake County, the previous
Way County idiot sheriff who you know, showed up because
he was upset that one of his deputies was literally

(29:12):
murdered and then he was taking canine officers dogs because
he's just that big of a piece of garbage, like
he had his moments. But this guy down in Mecklenburg, dude,
you don't know. He didn't just know which branch he's in,
which you know, it hurts the brain. He didn't know

(29:33):
that there are three branches of government. And I feel like,
I feel like if there's a sheriff's debate that we
need to, we're gonna have to get remedial, which sucks. Man.
Probably any political debate, we're gonna have to get remedial
instead of just diving into the you know, the actual

(29:55):
questions of substance. You're gonna have to do a basic
thing like all right, do you know what office you're
running for? And then make them actually say it out loud,
and then ask them characteristics of the office, because boy,
oh boy, they're not sending their best and brightest man
one more time, just to make our brain hurt.

Speaker 5 (30:14):
On the first part, if I were to classify your
position as the highest law enforcement.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
Office, this is a perfunctory question, a fair description. This
is about getting something on the record.

Speaker 5 (30:25):
And as such, you made reference earlier that you're a
constitutional office. My colleague made reference that there are constitutional
divisions as responsiblity.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
That's Alan Chester asking, I know, Alan.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
What branch of government do you operate under?

Speaker 4 (30:41):
Make a broke County?

Speaker 3 (30:42):
Oh jeez, what branch of government do you operate under?

Speaker 4 (30:47):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (30:52):
By the way, I'm not pausing this for dramatic effect,
and thank you to Ross for not clipping it out,
because this is him pond This is his brain trying to.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
Work Constitution of the United States.

Speaker 5 (31:05):
Correct, That is what establishes the branches of government. I'm
asking which branch you fall.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
Under, Beckhamberg County, Mduley sworn Meckinberg County Sheriff. We asked
it to the people of Mecmburgh County.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
This is not where I was anticipating getting stuck.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
Ross, which medium would you say that you work on
from I would say entertainment. No, no, no, which medium which?

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Yeah, I would say yeah, I would definitely say when
it came to the medium, it would be auditory medium.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
I mean that's somehow that's technically right, but not all.
At the same time, my four I just was my
fourteen year old. She knew all the branches of government.
You got people with even younger kids. So people who
are literally like in transit with their children this morning,
were listening in their house, young kids running around who
know the branches of government that the sheriff of Mecklenburg

(32:04):
County is unaware And that would be the Nina the
Pinta in the Santa Maria Correct, Yes, no, actually, could
we not ruin kids? Break?

Speaker 2 (32:12):
I would like to change my answer. You asked me
this really hard question about what means.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
About which medium of media that we operated? Yeah, and
I and you said auditory.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
I was confused, you know, I was. I have a
lot going on here. Yeah, I've learned a lot of
stress and a new baby at the house, little little
sleep deprived. But I've thought it over during the break
and I need to change my answer. Okay, my answer
is Wake.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
County, what what wait, hold on, wait, wait county, but
we don't. But we also we broadcast in like twelve counties,
so that's well.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Then I would also include the twelve counties, but primarily
Wake County where this building is right here.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Yeah, no, physically where you're physically located, right, it's in
Wake County. It's technically accurate. I have to give it
to you. Okay. So there's that, nailed it. Yeah, Between
that and the strip club stuff with the sheriff man,
it was a hoot. I can't wait to chat with
Pete Bank.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
What is the strip club thing?

Speaker 1 (33:05):
All right? So there is reportedly wait, reportedly he was
asked about he claims, he claims it lies. It's all lies,
except I don't think it is. So there were allegations
that he had his deputies drive visitors to bars and
strip clubs when they had the Sheriff's convention going on.
So they had the Sheriff's convention and then they had

(33:27):
a bunch of other sheriffs and other people from sheriff's departments,
and he used his on duty deputies to essentially show
fur them to and from the gentleman's clubs as you do, right,
So well you didn't want to. Look, you didn't want
them anything to happen to him. You don't want them
to drive drunk. Right, So it's just it's unfair that

(33:48):
Pete gets all this. It's so un Listen to me. Shereefs,
sheriffs whatever you want to call yourself, and local elected
officials of the you know, the twelve different counties which
are in our two DMAs or whatever it is. So
for scythe Guilford Wake clearly Orange, all of them. Listen up.

(34:14):
I need you guys to do some stuff, crazy stuff
because this you all are so boring. Now, don't get
me wrong. You're doing crazy stuff like when you make
rules or when he can sol Christmas parades and do
stuff like that. But peekets to feast on this because,
as Ross pointed out, idiots elected an idiot and they
don't know that the idiot's an idiot.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
It's just so scary though, when you consider the sheriff's
role when it comes sort of like being your last
line in the sand of your constitutional rights in a county. Yeah,
that's why during COVID a lot of these sheriffs were like,
I'm not doing that.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
Yes, and on where you lived you had a very
different experience because the Sheriff's just said no, we're not
doing that.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
The sheriff is like a major buffer between like you
and tyranny.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
And for this guy to not even know like what
role he plays, I mean it fair. Do you think
he hears the word tyranny means Mecklenburg County?

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Oh? Is that what it means?

Speaker 4 (35:08):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Well, actually, you know what, that might be an accurate answer.
That might be an accurate answer. Yeah, So who asked
him the question?

Speaker 2 (35:19):
Was?

Speaker 1 (35:19):
It was Rep? Jones who asked him the strip club? Yeah,
here it is. Jones asked McFadden about one of those
allegations that he had deputies drive visitors to bars and
strip clubs during the Sheriff's convention. He said, hypothetically, does
pooling on duty deputies to show for individuals to bars
and strip clubs? Does that make Mecklenburg safer? H McFadden

(35:41):
declined to answer, saying the allegation was part of a
petition to remove him and is appending matter. So he
didn't actually deny it. I stand corrected. He just simply
said that the allegation is in appending motion to remove him.
And is appending matter? So he told yet happen. I'm sure, yeah, man,

(36:03):
Like we need a basic civics test. Maybe not for voters,
but probably, but at the very least for people running
for office. Just you know, just a little somethings. Put
them in a room, right, make sure that they don't cheat,
and then just if you don't score a certain P.

(36:25):
I had to take a quiz for work yesterday. I
didn't know I had to take, which I don't think
I was supposed to take, because they think it's the
whole thing. But like, you know, we have like the
workday stuff, and they had like a little quiz in there,
and I had to take it to demonstrate that I
understand the medium in which I work, which what was
that medium? Again? Ross Wake County?

Speaker 2 (36:43):
At least yeah, I mean Wake County.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
God forbid, I had answered that yesterday. So I don't know. Well,
we'll dive deeper coming up a little later. I got
to flip over to some others because I could just
I could just clown on the dude for the next
two hours and fifty minutes forty nine minutes, but that
wouldn't be very exciting for everybody. So and we'll do

(37:07):
the clowning coming up at eight oh five in a
much more aggressive manner. Check this out. I will say,
his commitment to the I don't know what to call it,
his commitment to I guess his job is pretty astounding.

(37:29):
So you know how it is you go to there's
certain gas stations you go to and you just know
there's somebody who's going to be standing outside who just
needs a few dollars for gas. But if you try
to buy him gas, they don't want gas, even though
that's what they say. They need. Pretty pretty regular, pretty
regular thing. And also they never seem to recognize you
if you're a regular there. That's the other thing that

(37:49):
always threw me, you know what I'm saying, ross, Like,
how many times have you gone to the same gas
station in the morning or in the afternoon or whenever
you go, and there's the same dude who always needs gas,
but yet you've talked to him, he's panhandled you twenty times,
yet fails to recognize you.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Right, if that's your thing, you need to rotate the stores.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Yes, Yeah, the BP across on Capitol from where you
turn in to kind of go where the radio station
of Raleigh is there's a dude who for probably for
ten years, he's never gotten any gas. Stuck there. He's
just stuck. He can't see his vehicles. It's he walked over,
but like nobody's given him gas in like ten years,
and yet there he is. So here you have a

(38:30):
forty year old panhandler who operates outside a seven eleven
in New York City and he sees this dude go
into the seven eleven. And you know, these guys are
watching too. They want to see if he got cash, right,
because now everyone's like, I don't have any cash. I
don't have any cash. I don't have any cash. So
they're watching their eyeball and they see he with some cash. Well,

(38:51):
he saw the dude get some cash. And as the
dude walks out of the store with the cash, the
guy asked him for some of the money, and the
dude pulls a gun and shoots the guy in the neck,
killing him. The panhandler why because the dude had just
robbed it. The panhandler watched him rob the store, it's

(39:14):
all on video. Watched him rob the store and thought, well,
that guy's got a bunch of money. Let's see if
I can get some of that and you know, you know,
I guess you don't panhandle the armed robber. But I
don't know did he think that was going to work out,
because it was like, oh, well, I'm not one of them.
I'm you know, I'm the other guy who wants money

(39:35):
for drugs. Probably I don't know, But sadly he lost
his life over it. But the crazy thing is he
held the door for him. That's his thing, right, He
waits for you to start walking out, he holds the door,
and in that moment where he's done something nice for you,
he panhandles you. He watched the guy pull a gun
rob the store, then proceeds to hold the door as

(39:59):
a gentleman would while asking for money, and gets shot
for his troubles. Um, so he holds And it wasn't
just shot immediately. That's that's the even crazier thing. So
he holds the door in hopes of getting money. Another
man who appeared to have known the doorholder said something
to him as he entered the store, So these guys

(40:19):
know what's up. The victim, then, once initially rebuffed by
the guy, continued to aggressively panhandle him. Once the dude
with the gun who's robbed the store says no, to you,
you would probably you should probably go, all right, I'll
get the next one. He didn't. He kept going, He

(40:40):
kept going. He followed the dude. In fact, at one
point he followed him back inside the store. So the
robberies take a place. The guy goes back inside the store,
probably to get away from the panhandler, and the dude
grabs a bottle off the shelf, and at that point
the gunman just shoots him again. Just absolute commitment to

(41:05):
you know, to what's going on there at your own peril.
Sadly for him, Please say, no ar rests have been made,
all right? Seven point fifteen Our phone numbers eight eight
eight nine three four seven eighty seven four. Judging by
the number of emails I've gotten from former Navy personnel,
apparently you guys bump ships a lot, so I guess

(41:25):
that's a big nothing Berger. I just saw the video
of these two ships, that the supply ship colliding with
the destroyer in the Caribbean, and I'm like, somebody can
lose their job over that. But apparently it's not all
that unusual. Though maybe this level of damage was so
ponder that we'll be right back. Can you go let
just a tile in down the hall. He's locked himself out,

(41:49):
so get ransom for it, though, make sure you get paid.
He just just sent me an emails for coming back.
So all right, Ross is gonna go let Kyle the
news guy in because I have to talk down because
we're back. So I'm very busy. Let's see here, ask
him the three branches of government before he let him in, though,
and if he doesn't know, then nothing we can do.

(42:13):
That's the password, the three branches of government. I can't
get over that. And I know a lot of you
guys are like, oh, why aren't you talking about it?
Because like, this is a story I got to chat
with with Pete because this is his beat.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
So I've been kind of sitting on sitting on it
this this fine week. So all right, dude, due, So yeah,
did you know the branches? Yeah? No, no, no, So I
didn't hear anything you said after you said, hey, let
Kyle in. So I'm down and I opened the door
and he sees me open the door and he starts
running towards the door and I shut the door. Yes,
and I'm like, god, intruder, And yeah, so if he

(42:49):
doesn't have the thing to get in.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
I'm probably here to rob you. So he let him in.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
Ye, no, no, he's inside.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
No, okay, so did you? I wanted you to ask
him the three branches of government before you open the door.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
Get this. So he didn't have his phone to send
us an email or a text, obviously, which is why
he was locked out.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
How did he email me?

Speaker 2 (43:06):
He had to go down to his car at a
laptop in his car. He had her on the laptop.
He the sign of the Wi Fi and send an
email via that. So we would let him in. I'm
not laughed at you, that's I mean, because if I did,
I'd be scared. I don't have a laptop in my car.
I would just be banging at the door for hours.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
Or you go home. You'll probably go home. That I
could do. Not that I could do. Yeah, wow, that sucks.
That is my greatest fear with these locks.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
So I opened the door and I like peeked out there,
and I see him running towards there, like holding the laptop,
like juggling it.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
Like before before we had these locks, which literally they
fob off of your phone. I'm sure some of you
in your place of business have these because everything's off
our personal devices. Now, it's crazy. Greensboro had those locks
for like two years before Roley did because Greensboro we
it constructed a new office, so we got all the

(43:57):
new stuff. And the very first time I was brought
cashing over in Greensboro, the first thing I did when
I go to use the restroom, walked out without my phone.
Thank god. The chick on the other one of the
other morning shows just happen to be strolling by the
front door. Because remember, once we're away from the entry door,
we're in soundproof studios, you know what I'm saying, So

(44:18):
like you could bang on the front door, nobody's gonna
hear you unless they're up. Well, I'm glad Kyle got in,
so but yeah, you should had the three branches of
government question was I think it has to be the
new password here. So all right, So this is this
is interesting. Excuse me right here. Every day this goes on,

(44:40):
there's gonna be more of these two. So the Internet
has a new Savannah Guthrie theory, which I can kind
of under I can kind of relate to, not in
the sense that I like generally I bother myself with
this stuff. But it is a mindset that permeates within media.
And you know, the thing is, you never want somebody
filling in for you to have better ratings than you,

(45:04):
because then everyone gets paranoid about their job. I've never
understood it in radio because that's just not how the
revenue model works. But but I know people with this mindset.
So the Internet's theory is that Savannah got Thrie had
a met she had to have surgery, so she took
some time off, and then when they looked at the ratings,
the ratings went up. And so therefore this is some

(45:25):
stage incident to boost ratings on her behalf, I think,
is what the Internet's are. I don't believe this, by
the way, I just throw I'm just telling you what
the internet's thinking.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Yeah, she came back and she saw like a huge
spike in the ratings, and she got paranoid, like they're
gonna fire me. So I need to increase my ratings
to get it to that point. So I'm gonna have
somebody kidnap my mom as you do. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Yeah, by the way, real quick, some breaking news here
this morning. Whole family's been kidnapped. Oh man, they're being
held at Frankie's up in Briar Creek there, so that's good.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
They enjoy that place.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
They have an unlimited card, so that's you know, it's
conditions or humane. So is that What's Lincoln's favorite thing
out there of the golf right now?

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Probably the mini golf?

Speaker 1 (46:07):
Yeah. Yeah, they have a ton of games up there too.
I've I've only ever gone up there and done the
batting cages and the golf. So do they have bumper
boats up there too or something? I don't remember?

Speaker 2 (46:17):
I think so, but every time we go it's been closed.
I think there are bumper boats though.

Speaker 4 (46:21):
Think so.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
I don't think this is the time of the year
for it. So yeah, man, did I ever tell you
how we uh ever tell you how we got thrown
out of two different Frankie style things in South Carolina?
And one day because we uh we went and we
did the go carts and we backed the limit of
the Governor's off on the go carts, which I could
show you how to do, so you just flipped the

(46:42):
seat up. There's a little thing there so that the
go carts went a lot faster than the other go carts.
And then we we wiped out and then we got
thrown out. So I was in college, so I you know,
my brain was not fully formed or whatever. But man,
we had a good time.

Speaker 6 (46:59):
Try.

Speaker 1 (46:59):
I remember the name of the two players in Colombia.
There's two of them around Columbia. That's where it happened.
But yeah, it's you know, it's not easy getting thrown
out of two of those things in one day. I
don't even know. I'm probably not allowed back and it's
twenty years later, so maybe you have to test that theory.
So uh, yeah, it's so totally ross family, totally kidnapped,
but being held to Frankies and it's not at all

(47:20):
a ratings things. So right now, we started a Frankie's
Fun Part conspiracy because a couple of listeners said when
they went, the boats weren't working either. I think the
boats probably work, guys, but I don't know. I, like
you said, the only thing I've ever done up at
Frankie's is the putt putt and the batting cages, and
I don't remember why I was up there for that,
but AnyWho, So, but I don't think it's like the

(47:44):
Bears of the Zoo, if that's what you're asking their emailer.
By the way, I don't even want to know what's
on the other side of this paywall. Can I read
a headline from the News and Observer jd Vance and
his wife are having a baby? Not everyone can really?
Is this today's scandal that he got his wife preggers?

(48:07):
I mean, is this all? They're just right? They're just
showing off. What are we doing? Man, It'd be far
more impressive if Trump's wife was pregnant, right then? Oh,
I can't even imagine. So, yeah, jd Vance's wife are
having a bit. I hope they have triplets. Just to
rub it in your face. If this is what's making

(48:29):
you butt hurt this morning, who cares? Good for them
or fine for them? Don't I don't know. I mean,
they got rugrats already? You throw one more in the mix.
I suspect I will say this, Ross, I suspect that
jd Vance and his wife are not going to construct
the same baby schedule you and your wife have, if

(48:52):
I had to guess, probably due to his job, but
I don't know. Also, I bet they have a nanny
in the mix, So just let them have a baby.
Can you imagine if we were can you imagine if
we were in a much less political time how this
story would play out. People would be genuinely excited because

(49:15):
you don't have the when was the last time a
baby was born in office to a president or vice president?
I don't even know the answer to that last time
baby born in office? Thank you, yes for doing this
on the fly? President vice president? Like it's been a minute, right,

(49:39):
I can't remember any of my life? Ty well, now
hold on, I shouldn't say that. Do you count? Do
you count bastard kids from Clinton or not? Maybe I
shouldn't use that term because it's not their fault, But
do you do you our mistress's children counted? I don't
know the answer, but let's just go with okay, So
listen to this. The last child born to a sitting

(50:02):
US president was Grover Cleveland's wife eighteen ninety three. No
sitting vice president has ever had a child born while
in office. So I guess as long as JD I
guess doesn't get out of office, that'll be the first

(50:24):
they would do. Magazines would take pictures. It'd probably be
a cute kid, you know, or hopefully you know, you
want to win the cute kid lottery. I don't know
how important that is as a parent. I don't have kids.
I was selling Ross like his new baby Lofton is
frigging adorable, Like he's super photo ready, super photo ready.

(50:48):
As evidence if you're not following Ross on Twitter is
he posts many of them. But like, as a parent,
you're like, please, do you sit there in your back
your mind, go, don't come out ugly. And just because
your kid comes out that way with the smashed face
doesn't mean they're gonna look bunny.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
You know, I have no opinion on this matter.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
You have no opinion on it. Well, you clearly won
the lottery, so like, but you're saying, at no point
prior to that, did that thought ever cross your mind? No, Okay,
all right, come on, okay, I I don't know, I
have no I have nothing to draw off of. So
although now you could just filter your kid, you know

(51:27):
what I mean.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Well that we've been we've actually been like afraid of
that where like people are gonna think he's the doll
or something like because he is an attractive baby.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
I will yes he is. Yeah, No, he's a he's
a Gerber like commercial baby. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
Yeah, we've had this conversation, like people are gonna think
he's like a dollar. So I remember that like social
media influencer who faked the whole thing and she had
like a baby.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
A doll and she was letting people hold it. That's
how abrasive she was. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, man, you
need to make that kid a child actor.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Today we were like maybe we should, like you know,
like like super impose or like have grot put a
mole on them or something.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
So maybe an ugly birthmark or something maybe in the
shape of like communist China.

Speaker 4 (52:10):
Yeah, yeah, no.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
You don't want the ugly baby. I just I don't
know if that's things that people think about. I mean, you, hey,
I want to I want to you know, I want
my kid to be healthy, right, I don't want to
deal with any uh you know, medical complications. Uh they're
off the jump, But like then are you? Like also,
I wanted to be frigging adorable. So there's I don't

(52:33):
know if these are things people think about. But you know,
like I said, going back to if you did this
in a normal, non political time, I don't know that
that ever existed, but let's just say it did. I
think people would be super pumped man instead of writing
stupid articles. Judie Vance and his wife are having a baby.
Not everyone can. I'm aware of that, and that's sad,

(52:54):
especially for people who have to go they want a
baby and they got to go through all the stuff
and and then you know, you go the adoption out
maybe or whatever. Like I understand people struggle with these things,
but for most people, they can have a baby. I
don't know if you know this. It's look at the
NBA so or h Stefon Diggs. Look at Stefon Diggs.

(53:16):
How many babies did he have last year? Five? Clearly
some other people are able to do this, you know,
to write a whole lot bet all right, Like I said,
I'm not going on the other side of that paywall,
so don't even know, all right. Uh, let's see here, Yeah,
check this out. Police in Orange County, this is LA area,

(53:39):
say that they are I are trying to identify a
mysterious white powder that has been turning up basically smeared
on one dollar bills. This is, by the way, this
is Quail Hill. This is a very nice area. It's
very hoity toity area. Boy, I can't imagine what the

(54:00):
white powder on the Hundrows.

Speaker 4 (54:01):
Might be.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
In the La area in the Ritzy neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
It's cake mix.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
Do you think Betty Crocker cake mix?

Speaker 2 (54:09):
People are baking cakes?

Speaker 1 (54:12):
You have to understand this part of Irvine where these
people are, they don't bake anything. They have personal chefs
who bake cakes. So I don't know if that's it,
because you wouldn't want your personal chef getting their cake
mix all over your money there. Yeah, man, I wonder
if they're going to be able to figure this out.
But police are on it. They say that they were

(54:32):
initially notified after where it was this a supermarket there
found two hundred dollar bills with a dusting of white
powder attached. One of the grocery workers said that it
actually prompted them to feel dizzy. Although they're wondering if
maybe that was a not a physical reaction but more

(54:53):
of a psyche kind of thing. Let's see here. Yeah,
so they're testing, although they do think some of the
substance might be a fedrian Yeah, yeah, I wonder what
other substance they might use, things like a Federan to
cut that would then end up on one hundred dollars bill.

Speaker 4 (55:15):
What you know?

Speaker 1 (55:15):
Ross. It sounds like one of those investigations the Sheriff's
department there in la is gonna have to do for
like two years, make sure they get to the bottom
of it, right. I bet they might have come from
strip clubs. You should probably investigate those. Why is there
white powder on the hundreds? What is the crazy stat
about the percentage of US currency that's infected with cocaine?

Speaker 2 (55:35):
It's a super high number. It was like seventy percent
or something.

Speaker 1 (55:38):
Is that true though? Or is that one of those
numbers that just gets thrown around all the time. Would
you google? Can you google that or grock that or whatever?
What percentage of US currency has traces of cocaine on it?
It's a crazy number. But also I think it matters
the denomination, right that. You don't want a one on

(56:00):
cover with coke. That's poor coke. You want the hundreds,
you know what I'm saying. That's where that's where the
good stuff is. I'm assuming. Let's see here, Yeah, that's it.
It's a Bonker's number, all right, So we'll see if
we can get the Let me grab ray Stagic While
Ross was looking that up here, if he's ready to
rock and roll morning morning, Friday morning. Actually, yeah, call

(56:25):
what is Mayah Quick week? I know that the Daytona's
at this weekend, but like I feel like we're just
in a dearth of sports. Now. By the way, did
you know that one week from today spring training starts?
Is that earlier than usual?

Speaker 7 (56:41):
It sounds early, doesn't it? February twenty But everything seems
earlier now, doesn't it.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
Well, Baseball's gonna have a longer season, Hockey's gonna have
a longer season next year. This season is longer because
of the Olympics, but they're they're adding to it, and football,
you know, they want it. They want another game.

Speaker 7 (56:59):
You want to at the game, and they say they
might be able to do by twenty seven, although they're.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
Gonna lop one of their pre preseason games off, but
which I'm okay with that. I think to point, is
it too much? There has to be some anticipation during
the offseason. That's kind of the fun part. I don't know.

Speaker 7 (57:22):
Well, so baseball too much, that's a lot, okay, but
I and I'm not really a watcher of baseball anymore.
But I don't know. Maybe eighteen games is the threshold.
I mean, do you think about it in terms of months,
it's September through February.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
Yeah, so I think that's fair the fall, like the
super Bowl used to be in January. Okay, I mean
like and here we are, here, we are February. We're
gonna both later or.

Speaker 7 (57:56):
Earlier President's Weekend and try to do all that and
everybody's going to be off Monday, and I'll be off anyway,
and the Cowboys won't be in it again.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
And yeah, so we'll go through that whole cycle. I'll
look at that. You got everything planned out, Yeah, it's
all planned already for next year. So good.

Speaker 7 (58:10):
But yeah, I think, yeah, we're there, Yeah, We're we're
getting there. But yeah, there's college stuff too. I mean
I've become a fan or the baseball, softball, basketball, college.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
Right, but now we're going to turn college if they,
if they yet again get their way to expand the
BCS playoffs, like it's going to be half regular season
and half the playoffs. I mean, that's that's where we're
gonna be.

Speaker 7 (58:32):
Well, I mean, they've basically already ruined college football anyway
my opinion, so and I'm not afraid to say it.
And there's plenty of people. I mean, it's all.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
Right, Well, tell you what, Captain positive feel free plenty
We're all going to die in a fire, Nato.

Speaker 7 (58:48):
Yeah, plenty of at the next Super Bowl, right, yeah,
plenty of positive news. If you scratch out Sunday on
your card, right, every day surround that Today, Tomorrow, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday are going to be actually real nice. We're gonna
get back into this warming trend thing. Today might be

(59:08):
on either side of fifty with sunshine, so good looking day,
same thing. Tomorrow, we'll start in the twenties again. Where
we are this morning, so it's been a little bit
colder yesterday or and this morning especially, and then.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
Tomorrow afternoon we're close to sixty.

Speaker 7 (59:20):
And then the rain in the fifties Sunday, so just
kind of cross that out because the rain should end
very early on Monday. It'll stay cloudy, cool lit to
mid fifties, but the rain's done, and then Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday back into the sixties, maybe even seventy degrees at
some point in the middle of the week Wednesday, Thursday,
especially around the triangle points south and west. So scratch

(59:40):
out Sunday and the rest of them actually not that.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
Okay, thank you e or appreciate that. I'm forty seven.
We'll chat with you in the next hour, sir, all right,
and we will. Oh you know, funny you bring.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
I'm sorry, what do you got back to your answered
groxa's ninety percent of currency.

Speaker 1 (59:57):
All right, I'm gonna run to the restroom and I
got some I just went the ATM yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
Uh yeah, it's like, so if he's saying that number
that sounds the crazy number I heard, maybe it is true.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
By the way, so Ray just mentioned that I just
checked the iHeart holiday schedule. It says Monday February sixteenth
is President's Day.

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
We have it off?

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
Are we off on my twenty twenty six holiday schedule?
I'm looking at it right now. President's Day, Monday February sixteenth.

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
What a great day today?

Speaker 2 (01:00:25):
Yeah, my lord, this is a great Friday. Oh, let
me check hold on, hold on, hold on, I know
we're gonna go to break hold on.

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
It's very important. No, no, no, no, we got time, very important.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
I got five minutes dropped out, so here, let me
go into next week.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
Can we call Will you call Trevor and confirm it's
a holiday day. I want you to confirm with Trevor.
That's the greatest thing ever. You know what, you know what,
I am big fan of the president. Yeah. You know
who shouldn't have the day off because he doesn't know
the branches of government? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that guy
who That would be the Macklenberg County sheriff. Yeah, he
should get no federal holidays off. He doesn't know stuff.

(01:01:00):
This is fantastic, man, two four day weeks in a row.
Oh oh all right, I'm gonna go to break and
do a happy dance and we'll be right back. So, yeah,
we had no idea we had Monday off because they
so when they they they screw with our holiday calendar
over the last few years because they added Juneteenth and

(01:01:22):
they moved some stuff around and I thought they had
nerved President's Day at one point, but apparently it's back
and Ross. You confirmed with the Boston Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
I talked to Trevor. He said, yeah, it's the day
off company holiday.

Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
That's so weird because like we just had a meeting
with Trevor.

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
I I think they don't say anything because they're aware
that we we tend to be hyper aware of the
days off, So he said, we don't need to tell them.
They obviously now, but we did not know, and now
it's amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
Yeah, what a happy surprise. I have a little like
weekend trip I had, I'm adding a day. I had
no idea. I'm adding a day, like I'm I'm I'm like,
all right, let's get this show done. I mean, listen,
somebody wrote too, and they're like, oh, now, I know
what you guys think of the job you have to do.

Speaker 2 (01:02:04):
Shut up. I knew that was coming listen as an adult. Yes,
that is. There's a few things, very few surprises. Yeah,
a few surprises, and a few things that can really
bring you joy. And finding out that you have a
three day weekend when you had no clue, that's amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
That's great. Right after we had one too, you know that,
So I would have to bring that Oh no, oh jeez,
oh man. Ross Uh just just stumbled upon another News
and Observer headline. Here, Casey and Ross have Monday off,
but not everyone does deal with it. So AnyWho, you

(01:02:42):
know what, don't worry, We'll be studying up on our presidenting. Okay,
it's not you know, it's not just fun and for ality.
I mean that's what the day is about, correct, Yes,
it's also about presidenting and stuff and knowing stuff about presidenting.
So we'll we'll uh, well, we'll we'll admit to that. Okay,
speaking of committing I honestly I think you're gonna start

(01:03:05):
shoving people in insane asylums. So one of the big,
one of the big crew parades, which Grevin and Marti
Grod like, these different crews, these groups put these things
on under fire because well, of course they decided to
assault police day.

Speaker 8 (01:03:20):
After riters of the crew of Carrollton allegedly aggressively through
items at NPD officers along the parade route, The group's
leadership spoke out, it's very disappointing, to be honest, because
we worked very hard to put on a family oriented parade.
Both Captain Wayne Lee and President Eric Youngblood were upset
to hear the allegations about their own writers on Float

(01:03:42):
number ten. The NPD says the incident happened around four PM,
which prompted officers to stop the float and tell all
the writers to get off. At that point, they didn't
know who did it, so the decision was to pull
the whole out of the parade, and look that was
the police decision.

Speaker 3 (01:03:59):
We respect that to say.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
All right, eight oh six here on the k COOT
radio program, Ah man, you know who doesn't have Monday off?
Pete callaner a radio buddy to the South. No, no
slave drivers down there at WBT. What's going on?

Speaker 6 (01:04:13):
Yeah, hey, nothing, I don't think so right. Not a
lot of attention being paid to.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
Well, hold on before you start, before you start. And
I did not realize we need to do this. I
we have a new civics test for all our guests
to make sure they're not idiots. So all right, So
North Carolina is known as the state and they are
part of a collection of states that make up the
United States. How many states are there?

Speaker 6 (01:04:43):
There's one the state of Mecklenburgh.

Speaker 1 (01:04:47):
Okay, that's nice, Like the Free State of Jones. Huh,
that's own thing.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
Well, it's fifty seven under the Obama administration with the colaboratories.

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
Dude, I'm telling you my this is so. I played
the mcfah an audio because you know you have to,
and I played it multiple times. And what blows me
away is as I'm playing the audio, I'm getting inundated
with people who are you know, they're with their children, right,
they're taking them to school, they're doing all that stuff,
and eleven year olds are screaming out the three branches

(01:05:17):
of government. So like all my listeners' kids are geniuses. Yeah,
I'm so bro I was saying, I'm so jealous between
that the strip club allegation and the fact that you
have a sitting commissioner with a Dewey warrant, like I
need my local lawmakers to step up or down.

Speaker 6 (01:05:36):
And and your favorite now, former Charlotte City Councilwoman Tijajuana Brown,
she pleaded guilty in federal court the other day to
the thing, yeah, to the thing that she said she
totally didn't do. She pleaded guilty to doing the thing, namely,
picking a whole bunch of government grants under the PPP
during COVID for her business, which she then uh funneled

(01:06:01):
into her private accounts to fund a birthday party where
she sheught it was she rented a throne and she
rented a horse drawn carriage.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
If you yeah, if you have to rent a throne,
you're poor, Okay, those of us from those of us ross,
how many thrones do you have at your house? Right?
Now like three yeah, seventy yeah, exactly right. So that's
that's embarrassing. Man, what is butt? Well, let's start here
before we get into the McFadden stuff. Let me let's

(01:06:36):
start with your county commissioner down there, because here's the thing.
I like, you have spent large swaths of my life
having to go to city council, county, county board, school
board meetings, sit at the little media table. It's awful,
and you got to sit there. You really see how
the sausage gets made on things like consent agenda, in
the little games that they play. But every every single

(01:06:59):
one of those, especially from a county commissioner's perspective, the
friggin' sheriff's there, a law enforcement official or a representative
of said law enforcement official, city council, probably the police chief, whatever.
So you're telling me that as long as you're an
elected official, you can have a known, active open warrant
in an adjacent county, which would make you arrestable in

(01:07:23):
that county. Although they're explaining in some weird way that
there's some games in this and you won't get arrested.
That would be nice. So explain what's going on here,
because I think people know the McFadden story, maybe they
don't know what's going on with this woman.

Speaker 6 (01:07:39):
So this is Mecklinberg County Commissioner Ivette Townsend Ingram, and
she first won the one of the three at large
races four years ago. She is up for re election now.
And before she won, before she was sworn in, she
got busted for d WY. Now she will say, look,

(01:08:01):
I was not driving while intoxicated. I was simply parked
in my car with the engine running because it was warm.
Was she was at a park parking lot, and she
was in a very bad place. She had six family
members that had all recently died, and so she got
a bottle of wine, parked her car in a park

(01:08:23):
in Gaston County and drank from the bottle and then apparently,
you know, fell asleep or passed out, not really sure.
But she was then approached by law enforcement and she
was arrested, given it and given a duy because that
does count if you are drunk in the driver's seat

(01:08:43):
of a running vehicle.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
Like that, that in the ability to power the vehicle, yes.

Speaker 6 (01:08:49):
Right, And so they arrested her. She got she got
a deal, and you know, first time offender kind of
a thing, twenty four hours of community service and she
had to complete it within two Now she claims that
she has done that, and she has tried to send
them proof and this was back in October of twenty

(01:09:09):
twenty four, and so she says that she did complete it.
She tried to send the paperwork in but it was
never for some reason accepted. I don't know if she
was typing acres.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
Yeah, let me ask so because I have a new
understanding of what some of this community service can be
based on what I saw with the now Virginia Attorney General,
where apparently you can go do community service that's your
own wope pack.

Speaker 6 (01:09:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:09:36):
Is it one of those situations or did she say
that she legitimately did something and what is it she
I have.

Speaker 6 (01:09:43):
Not seen any interviews or she did give a statement,
but she does not explain in this statement that I
read through where she actually performed the community service. She
just said that she has completed it, and she did
completed and that for some reason, like they were never
told about this warrant. It's been outstanding for over a year.

(01:10:06):
Why did you know, Gaston County, you know, not not
tell her lawyer and whatever. But if I understand it, yeah,
so as I understand it. Though the like Gaston County,
when they determined she has not fulfilled the requirements of
her plea agreement in doing the community service, then they

(01:10:26):
would send that warrant over to Mecklimberg County. Now, according
to Gary, not by fault. McFadden our illustrious but often
frustrated and taken out of content.

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
Sheriff.

Speaker 6 (01:10:39):
At a recent forum, he was they were talking about
opening reopening the juvenile jail facility, which is sitting empty
right now in Mecklimurk County and has been for a
couple of years.

Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
Good, no kids are committing crimes, that's good.

Speaker 6 (01:10:51):
Yeah, we send them over to Cabaris County to the
state facility there and we pay them rather than opening
hours again or leasing the space to the state or
selling it to the state because the state has offered
to buy it or to lease it, but McFadden refuses
to do so because he knows best. He'll run it himself.

Speaker 1 (01:11:10):
And why don't you the land of Largesse, my friend.

Speaker 6 (01:11:14):
Yeah, yeah, His brilliant idea is to transfer all of
the people, all of the staff from Cauberis County and
transfer them these are state employees, transfer them to under
his control in Mecklenburg County, and have them staff Jail North,
which is the juvenile jail fability. And of course the
state's like, yeah, we can't do that, but he just

(01:11:36):
you know, that's that's his brilliant idea.

Speaker 1 (01:11:38):
So let me get back, let me get back to
the commissioner, because I'm reading then they're asked, why why
don't you just arrest her? She's right there? And I
saw some article explainably that Mecklenburg has to be told
to arrest her or begged or asked nicely in pinky
swore or some weird explanation.

Speaker 6 (01:11:57):
Yeah, I'm not buying that either. And that's why I
mentioned this forum where they were talking about the Jail North,
because at one point, you know, they opened it up
for questions and people were just you know, ripping into
McFadden and he talked about how, you know, they don't
have enough stick warrants. They have like this whole stack
of warrants that they're supposed to go serve as sheriff's deputies,

(01:12:17):
but they don't have the staff to do so, and
so he said, there was like he has a stack
of like a thousand warrants.

Speaker 1 (01:12:25):
That, right, But how many of those people on his
calendar does he know he's going to be in proximity of, right,
because the meet.

Speaker 6 (01:12:34):
Probably very few.

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
Yeah, I mean there's there's only one.

Speaker 6 (01:12:38):
Yeah, there's probably only one in that stack that announces
their you know, plans to attend a public meetings.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
Probably idiot drug guys too, something on the facebooks. But yes,
all right, So so he's asked this why and he
says he's too busy, Okay, pretty much.

Speaker 6 (01:12:58):
Well, he doesn't have the staff. And this this is
his go to excuse the great resignation. He keeps referring
to it as right where everybody quit and everybody didn't
want to go back to work after COVID, the Great resignation,
and we can't hire staff, we need all this staff.
And of course, you know, part of that may be true,
but the other part of it is that he is
a terrible leader. And there was actually last night an

(01:13:22):
anonymous letter posted up to Facebook that obviously came from
somebody inside or formerly inside the Sheriff's office, detailing the
way that he has created this kind of toxic work environment.
This is why I keep saying he should be removed
from office for maladministration. He created a snitch culture whereby
the low level line staff would snitch on their supervisors

(01:13:46):
and then Nick Saden back the staff claims, and this
created chaos inside the jail. The inmates then see this chaos.
They see the staff being pitted against the supervisors, and
Nixaden is handing out his personal cell phone number to
the inmates and to the inmates families. So if anybody
on staff tells an inmate to do something the inmate

(01:14:09):
doesn't want to do limits them in some way, then
they call Gary, and Gary then sides with the inmate,
and that then creates this tension between the detention officers
and the inmates in the in the cells, which has
led to this increase in assaults on attention officers who

(01:14:30):
are now afraid for their lives. They're afraid of being
you know, snitched on and fired in all this, and
so they quit.

Speaker 1 (01:14:37):
This is what bad leadership does. This is what happened
to Wake County right when with our previous sheriff there
couldn't spell the word sheriff by the way, which I thought, Yeah,
which I thought was the dumbest thing i'd hear a
sheriff say or do, and then you know, yeah, and
here's the thing. I don't think Rep. Chester was setting
him up on this. No, he was doing the perfunctory

(01:15:00):
let's just get this on the record before we get
into the meat of this. And it was so he
was like you could tell everyone was so surprised except mcfat.
I don't did mc fadden clock that he was getting
clowned on his own account because now he still looks
so smug.

Speaker 6 (01:15:16):
Yeah, No, he is a he's a raging narcissist. And
this is why I say nothing is ever his fault.
He has an excuse for why somebody else is to
blame him. In fact, one of my colleagues at the
station here had McFadden on what Wednesday night, I guess
it was real brief, but it was you know, sort
of a you know, he had all the other candidates

(01:15:37):
that are running to beat him in the primary, and
then so he had booked McFadden also for a segment
and he asked him about this in McFadden said that
it was only because you see, he was confused because
in this setting there were city employees behind him. He
was part of the county, and so when he was
asked this question about the branches of government, he didn't
really know what they were trying to get at because

(01:15:59):
of the environ and their attacks on him because he's
the first black sheriff and their you know, evil white
Republican racist legislators and all of this. So it's not
his fault that he did not know, even though he
was specifically asked like, hey, do you know how many
branches there are? And he said no, And then.

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
When he asked again, he was the constitution right.

Speaker 6 (01:16:22):
And then when they said, here are the three branches,
which one do you think you operate under? And he
got that wrong too, And so that's and people are
trying to sort of minimize this, like, oh, it doesn't
really matter. But see it does matter because what Chesster
was driving at and he said this to Fox News
on Tuesday night after the hearing, he was like, I
was just trying to get to the point where we
could delineate, like this is your constitutional role is to

(01:16:46):
enforce the laws that are written by us. And he
was going to cite one of the quotes that mcfad
has given to a media outlet where he said that
we don't have to follow the rules or laws of
Raleigh and like that. That's what Chester was going for,
and he never could get there because McFadden was just
so ignorant of the constitutional framework under which he operates.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
All Right, two questions, One, how are you all alive
down there? And two he's probably gonna get reelected, isn't he?

Speaker 6 (01:17:18):
Well, Okay, I don't make rossell as.

Speaker 1 (01:17:20):
A theory, and I like Ross's theory. Ross, do you
want to reiterateor should I just paraphrase it? Okay, Ross's
eating and he's exciting to be found out. We had
Monday off. Yeah, basically, stupid people are electing stupid people,
and they're all too stupid to know what stupid is doing.
It is the rough sum of it. So I don't

(01:17:40):
consider you amongst that, mister Pete. But no, gods, you're
surrounding my friend.

Speaker 6 (01:17:46):
Yes, well I have. So I'm unaffiliated, registered on affiliated,
and I've been urging people to be unaffiliated in Mecklenburg County,
probably up in Raleigh as well, so you can go
vote in Democrat primaries. Now, the problem is there are
actual there are three challengers two of whom are highly qualified,
Collins and Robbin's and Collins was a chief deputy for years.

(01:18:09):
He worked for the Sheriff's office for thirty years. Robbins
is CMPD and he actually he's been endorsed by a
couple of Carolina Panthers because he worked a sideline security
for the Panthers since their inception, I believe. So they
both have a lot of experience, they're well respected. Robbins
has gotten a bunch of endorsements from like the FOP
and such. But in a race of four candidates, all

(01:18:32):
one candidate needs is more than thirty percent in order
to avoid a runoff. And we're going to find out
whether the Charlotte Mecklenberg Black Political Caucus, which is a
sort of a powerful group here that endorses candidates, they organize, they.

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
Get voters out, all the candidates Black, yes.

Speaker 6 (01:18:54):
But they endorse McFadden. And so we're going to find
out whether that endorsement is going to be enough and
the BPC is strong enough to actually drag macfadden across
that that thirty percent line or not. I don't know,
but this is this is going to be a huge
test considering like and it's not even like to me

(01:19:15):
rises to a level of uh embarrassment that I don't know.
In years past, you know, local leadership Democrat and Republican
as well as the business community, they would not suffer
this kind of national embarrassment. They would house this guy.
And I don't know if that kind of leadership exists
in Charlotte any longer.

Speaker 1 (01:19:37):
I'm telling you, man, I I you know, I again,
I I don't have anything to do with Mecklenburg County,
but like I am enthralled with some of the some
of the stories you get to deal with down there.

Speaker 6 (01:19:48):
And part of me, you know, part of me is
is you know, I'm almost tempted to go pull the
lever for micsad and just for my own personal you know,
gain is that he is a show prep generating machine
for me.

Speaker 1 (01:20:03):
Oh we love it all right. Well, unfortunately right now,
have to leave it there.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
I was gonna get into one other thing, but McFadden
sucked up all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:20:09):
So and early voting is underway too, so keep that
in mind. So all right, mister Pete, appreciate it. Have
yourself a great short weekend.

Speaker 6 (01:20:19):
Okay, uh yeah, I'm working Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:20:22):
Yeah, it's okay, buddy, We'll be with you in spirit. Okay,
all right, Joy come, yeah, I appreciate it. There you go,
Pete Calendar Midday's WBT. Always enjoy the conversation and again
super jealous. All right, we'll be back. See. We got
the Ron Johnson audio. I'll play that from the hearing
yesterday with Keith Ellison. What a slug Ellison is? We

(01:20:43):
got some Olympic news, got the Panhandler story. I don't
see anything on here about location of melee weapons for
your video game. Rouss is sitting in there asking Rock
where to find melee weapons for a video game?

Speaker 2 (01:20:55):
And if that was work really and I know I'm
not covering and it is not work related, but in
min if it's Wake County, right, so I might even
throw in Mickelnburg County.

Speaker 1 (01:21:05):
Oh yeah, so checkmate, Yeah yeah, but you just love it. Yeah,
Grock's amazing listen. And it's not any new ground here,
but it's just it's like magic. I don't understand it.
In the matter of three seconds. It's like, here's every location,
mid game, late game, early game, the.

Speaker 2 (01:21:21):
Stats of every weapon where you how you can like
tricks of getting Like how is it even it's magic.

Speaker 1 (01:21:27):
It's gonna be it's it's gonna be increasingly more amazing
until it murders. Though, yeah it would be great.

Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
Or like last week, they're not some car issues last week, right,
and I'm like, all right, well, Grog, tell me this
about Amasa six five, twenty twenty three. And it's just
you can see what it's thinking about, right, And it's
just like it's like it's like going through a manual
and it's it's.

Speaker 1 (01:21:46):
What do you, dude? I saw somebody making noise into
I think it was grog that their car was making
and then it was venturing guesses like what are we doing?
This is it's so there's so many things there that
you can use it for. And that is so different,
so remarkably different than how I mean Google is shambles

(01:22:08):
right and trying to find information. I can't remember what
it was earlier in the week because I made a
comment to you about frustrating. I told you the search
query it was so easy and yet nothing, Yeah, because.

Speaker 2 (01:22:18):
Like the blue line has gone anymore. Like that blue line,
the simple blue line search results are gone now, yes.

Speaker 1 (01:22:24):
Yeah, just just hot garbage. So and look, Grock doesn't
always get it right. In fact, sometimes he gets its
stupendously wrong. But ninety nine percent of the time you're
gonna get You're gonna get more information you could ever want.
And then you can ask it to be delivered to
you like you're a five year old, but the person
is a pirate speaking and it does.

Speaker 2 (01:22:43):
So did you see the story about I think it
was Claude where they were trying to test it or
they're maybe gonna turn it off or something, and like
it tried to blackmail the developer where so that was
so that was a test. Yeah, we covered that. That
was what they were doing is they wanted to see
what would happen. And what it did is it went
through the emails of one of the developers or somebody

(01:23:05):
and and found that he was having an affair. Now
they were planted in there, right, So it was a
whole test. So these it was a fake person and
then they put these these nuggets, these love letters or
whatever in the email, and it found it and then
tried to use it to blackmail You are correct, and
so that's they're also saying that you know, when you

(01:23:25):
test it, it acts differently. It knows it's being tested,
so it'll act differently when it's being tested. Yeah, but
this whole like AI is going to you know, because
it's been all over the web this week, there was
an article that came out it's like, you know, fear porn,
where it reminded me of the COVID porn we were
all going to die. But it's like, you know, AI
is going to destroy and take all of our jobs
in twelve to fifteen months or whatever it was. But

(01:23:47):
the more you think about this, I kind of feel
like it's like communism where they don't factor in the
human nature equation of it or logically what's going to happen.
I mean, how people use it or yeah no, because
they're like, you know, oh, it's going to take all
the way color jobs, medical lawyers, accounting, marketing, everything all.
But if AI takes all the jobs and there people

(01:24:09):
don't have jobs and there's no one to spend money
or anything because they don't have jobs, then the business
is using the AI, you're going to gout of business
because no one's buying their products.

Speaker 1 (01:24:18):
Well that but that is literally what is driving in
some analyst minds what you saw in the stock market
yesterday where you had one trick you because they always
put they always put the fearmonger headline up there, Like
one trillion dollars worth of worth disappeared yesterday. Speculators say
it has to do with people who are concerned basically
with what you just kind of laid out. But look, look,

(01:24:38):
whatt's the reality is most of you're not going to
notice that on your four ones, and all that it
is is the human nature of it. You know, AI
concerns may have played in it, but what you had,
and this is the best way I've seen it describe,
is what happened yesterday is patient people let impatient people
sell them something for nothing, you know, basically make them money.

(01:25:00):
Or I got that a little reversed. Impatient people let
patient people get a deal. Right, So people are willing
to hold onto these stocks. So you're right, I don't
know how it pans out, but the human factor is
what you're seeing right now. That's the speculation that's driving
the stock market.

Speaker 2 (01:25:15):
And another thing I was reading about that fear porn
article that I was talking about, they're only like ten
percent or less than ten percent of businesses. Right now,
we're incorporating AI.

Speaker 1 (01:25:25):
Well that's actually not true. They but but that's not
true more are they just don't directly incorporate it. We're
all incorporating it. When the last time you went to
customer service.

Speaker 2 (01:25:35):
As a tool? Correct? Yes?

Speaker 4 (01:25:36):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:25:37):
Yeah, well not just as using rock. But let's say
you what you got into a chatbot. Chatbots are AI
driven now, man, and you can tell there are. There
are a lot. I still hate chatbots with the power
of a thousand suns, but they're better than they used
to be. That's AI stuff. So you know those businesses
for things that they contract, maybe a point of sales

(01:25:58):
service probably has AI in corporate it in some way.
I'll bet an inventory management program does because you're having
to kind of figure out what to order and when
to order, and that's going to make life a lot easier.
Did you do your taxes yet?

Speaker 4 (01:26:11):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:26:12):
No? Okay, so I did my I always do my
taxes right away, got it all. I've got my return
already and everything. This year I let them keep too
much money. I like to get it real close. But
so the tax service or the app that I use,
they kept pushing an AI assistant to help me do
the taxes. And this is old me. I'm like, no,

(01:26:32):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:26:33):
I don't want the AI helping me do taxes, but
probably a lot of people do.

Speaker 1 (01:26:39):
And I just, you know, because I just I know
what I have to do.

Speaker 2 (01:26:42):
When are the When is the whole tax system and
paying the tax is going to be brought up to
modern age because they know everything we have, but they
look it's you know, it's so stupid. It is a
knows everything about you. You're telling me, they already know
how much you have, and if you give them the
wrong number, they put you in prison. Right, just tell
me what I what I owe and I if I
do disagree, then I'll disagree and we'll go from there.

Speaker 3 (01:27:03):
But don't.

Speaker 2 (01:27:04):
Why do we have to do what we've been doing
for like the past, you know, forever, just to torture us. Yeah,
it's karma, you know, That's what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:27:13):
Ross is mad. The speed skaters aren't going fast enough
that when they hit the wall they turned and missed.
So I feel like, so I'm watching speed skating, that's karma, buddy.
I've been really into the Olympics this year. Yeah much
because I'm sitting there in the couch taking care of
the baby. Or feeding the baby, or changing the baby,
or entertaining the baby. So it's been in the background.
So I've been watching it a lot more than in

(01:27:34):
previous years. I don't really care the past pust Baby's
not gonna be an Olympian, yeah exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:27:39):
But I'm watching they're like speed skating and watching it
and they're like, he's going so fast, And in my
mind I'm picturing once again those NASCAR the cars going
around the track where they don't look like they're going
super fast, but because they're all going the same speed
that's why. But they're actually good two hundred miles an hour.
So I'm like, he has to be going so fast.
These guys have to be and they're like, he hit
a top speed at thirty five miles per hour instantly,

(01:28:01):
Like your sport is lamed. Do you know how fast
thirty five miles an hour on skates or skis feels.
I know as some and I'm gonna say this when
I was in when I was younger, I'm a very
good skier. I probably not now, but I was like
a black diamond moguls not a problem. And just all
of that, you get to a point that is under

(01:28:22):
thirty five miles an hour on skis where you're like,
I'm gonna die if I hit it. No, the skis
are different, Like I'm talking about the speed skating. The skis.
Those drones are going so fast chasing this guy, like
eighty ninety miles per hour chasing these speed skiers.

Speaker 1 (01:28:38):
Yeah, but I'm not that speed skier. I'm just pointing
this out, and falling on ice hurts more than anything.
So thirty five miles an hour face planning, No, thank you, dude.
You played a minute of hockey just on a dry
run and getting hit into the boards and falling. It's
just the way it sucks. Man. But yeah, Ross has
turned off on the speed skating now because they're not

(01:28:59):
at in instantly die level.

Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
It's a more reflection than everything else because everything is
so fast now, Like I say, they grock you can
answer for everything like two seconds. So they go thirty
five miles per hound, Like you need to up that,
but you need at least it was like seventy miles
per hour in the skates.

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
You rocket skates, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, your
little nitrous boosts there, it'd be great, all right, raced
agic from the Weather Channel is standing by. Let's go
ahead and figure out if it's gonna suck or not
this weekend. What you got all right, thanks Casey. I
think we've talked about it most of the week.

Speaker 7 (01:29:27):
Sunday the indoor day, right, whatever it is, Winter Games, NASCAR,
or maybe you don't like any of that stuff. It's
gonna be a damp one. And the good news is though,
we're going to go into a stretch after that of
much milder weather, returning some seventy degree days possible Wednesday Thursday,
especially around the Triangle. But we step back now, look
at this morning. What a beautiful morning. It's a little

(01:29:48):
bit chillier than twenty four hours ago. We're close to
fifty this afternoon. Tonight in the twenties, probably mid upper twenties.
And then the weekend will kick off Saturday with sunshine,
upper fifties to low sixties. Rain Sunday probably rains on
and off all day, a little bit fifties. Transit rain
will end on early Monday morning and then mostly cloud
in the afternoon, little bit fifties, and Tuesday, Wednesday or

(01:30:08):
the days we'll start getting back into the sixties, maybe
seventy degrees by Thursday. So case again over the next
seven days Sunday kind of the anomaly. Every other day
looks dry with a warming trend coming back next week.

Speaker 1 (01:30:21):
All right, well we'll give you partial credit. Then there
you go, raced agic from the weather channel. All right,
we'll come back, get our Bloomberg report. Like I said,
I got this Ellison audio I want to play before
we get out of here, and then we'll head into
our three day weekend together next hang on.

Speaker 9 (01:30:36):
Hey, they are good morning. Well, stock futures are trying
to recover from yesterday's rough session. We will start with
a company headquartered right there in Raleigh. Advance Auto Parts
is reporting a fourth quarter net income of six million dollars.
The auto parts retailer posted revenue of one point nine
to seven billion in the period. The results actually beat
Wall Street expectations. Advance Auto Parts shares have increased forty

(01:30:57):
eight percent since the beginning of the year. The sac
has increased twenty three percent in the last twelve months. Well,
another pair of Lululemon women's pants are being called out
for being see through. Customers are complaining that its heart
scatter pants are showing a little too much when bending
and squatting. Just weeks ago, Lulu was in the hot
seat after its get low line was called out for

(01:31:18):
similar problems. But Deurna is reporting sales of six hundred
and seventy eight million dollars. That's more than the six
to twenty five million average Wall Street estimate. The company
reiterated its twenty twenty six financial guidance of up to
ten percent revenue growth. The FDA rejected Maderna's application to
win approval for its flu shot, saying its studies did
not compare the expender Menero vaccine to the best available

(01:31:40):
standard of care. It shares gained about thirty six percent
so far this year. Well, do you have a woodburning stove?
They're apparently going up in smoke. The Wall Street Journal
says they're vanishing because of lightning restrictions, maintenance labor, and
lack of homeowner experience, and the hassle of maintenance and
safety concerns are leading even the wealthy choose alternatives like

(01:32:01):
gas starters or high tech water vapor units instead. Steak
and Shake is taking all microwaves out from its restaurants.
The chain says quality restaurants do not need microwaves, and
it's part of its focus on eating real food. Well,
if you don't have a honey and want a baconator instead,
this one's for you. Wendy's is celebrating singles with one

(01:32:23):
dollar Dave single cheeseburger on Sunday for what's called Single
Awareness Day. That's the day after Valentine's Day. You do
have to purchase something within the app to get the deal, though, case.

Speaker 1 (01:32:35):
What why would you sell?

Speaker 4 (01:32:36):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:32:37):
Anyway, I want to go back to the wood burning stove.
Are we really do a point where society's too dumb
to know how to work a wood stove?

Speaker 2 (01:32:43):
Apparently?

Speaker 9 (01:32:44):
I mean you just have to just throw the pizza
in there, right, and then you're good?

Speaker 4 (01:32:47):
Na?

Speaker 1 (01:32:47):
Oh okay, Well anyway, sometimes maybe it's because on the
Wyoming Kid, and that's the only way we stayed warm
in parts of our house. So whatever, Yeah, either way,
everyone would die if we got thrown back into the
stone age noted. Thank you, Matt, appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:33:01):
That's sir.

Speaker 1 (01:33:02):
All right, man, there you go. I met Piper from
Bloomberg News. Really we know how to work at wood stove, folks.
It's not that ross. You ever have a wood stove
as a kid. Yeah, I don't know if you're if
the house up in New York. Oh, man, it was
even crazier, is you know what? You know what heat
at our barn? Coal? And I would literally have to
go like to the coal mine and get truckload a

(01:33:24):
truckload of coal and then you put it in like
a thing that dispenses it slowly kind of puts it out.
But then you're like, it's not a day you want
someone to take a picture of you when you're done working,
because that may come to haunt you twenty years later
when you're running for governor of you know, Virginia or something.
But what it's I'm just telling it like it is.

Speaker 4 (01:33:48):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:33:48):
So you did a shift of a coal mine as
a kid.

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
No, I did not work at the coal mine. I
had to go and you don't even go to the
mine mine. You go to the basically where they have
the thing there and then they load you up, wad
out and then you haul the thing. But you got
to shove it. And so you're sitting back there and
you're shoveling all this stuff because it's elevated. Because we
have a stupid way that it's attached, and uh, then
you're just covered and you like you got to make
sure you go hose off pretty quick. But you can't

(01:34:12):
even go in the house to hose off. So you
had to go over where you have like the wash
station for the live stock and hit yourself first. Then
your mom will let you be.

Speaker 2 (01:34:19):
So you went into a coal mine with a shovel
as a kid.

Speaker 1 (01:34:21):
I did every day from like six.

Speaker 2 (01:34:23):
You know, we had such a dark gravel childhood's growing up,
me in New York and you and Wyoming. But that
being said, as a kid, that would probably be really cool, like,
go play in the coal.

Speaker 1 (01:34:32):
Mine, man, go in the mine. Well, it's an open
first of all, the mine is not what you're envisioning.

Speaker 4 (01:34:39):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:34:39):
The so the black powder mine, and uh what are
they The Chinese body named it something. Yeah, we sold
a mine to the Chinese. By the way, thank you.
It's an open pit mine. So it's just a huge
In fact, you if you if you leave Gillette, Wyoming
and you head north on the old Highway because there's
nothing else to do in Gillettes. So let me give
you some tourism advice. Uh, if you take the highway

(01:35:00):
to share it in Claremont. You go right by it
and you pull over and there's like an elevated platform
so you can look down in it. And that's when
I was a kid. Ain't time me go to Gillette.
That was like our favorite thing to do, man, because
it's so cool because it's they have like the Tonka
truck looking dump trucks. You see them down in the mine.
You're like, oh, look at that. You see one out

(01:35:22):
of the mine. Your car is not as tall as
the tires.