Friday-5-29-2026

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Glad to have you a long phone number eight eight

(00:01):
eight nine three four seven eight seven four as we
get things rolling this morning. It's Friday, so that's good. Friday,
have a four day week, that's even better. Mister Pete
Callender will join us in the final hour of the
show today. That'll be at eight oh five, so stick

(00:22):
around for that. I hear they have a really nice
new hotel there in Charlotte that the FEDS rated, So
you know, we'll be chatting about that few other things
whatever comes to mind, that'll be happening here in the
third hour oh the show. So this morning I am

(00:47):
reading a bunch of how do I describe triumphant articles
from like Daily Mail, Washington Post. They are super excited
because the musical lineup of Donald of the two hundred

(01:11):
and fiftieth celebration up there in DC as part of
Trump's big, big plan is shaken, and not because Millie
Vanilli's on there. In fact, they're not even the part
of the updated story. This is the crap I don't understand,
and I'm actually very sad because I really like one

(01:33):
of these artists, the Donald Trump affiliated Freedom two fifty concert.
It's Donald Trump affiliated because he's the president. I we are.
There is a story I didn't get to the other day.
In fact, you know what, now's the time to do it.

(01:54):
M m hm. Because I think you're gonna see a
bunch of this. I think you're gonna see a bunch
of this there are Yeah, all right, good good, good
found it found it perfect? Thank you? All right. There

(02:14):
are a bunch of people who don't care this two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary. And again I get it, it's arbitrary.
It is two hundred better than two fifty. I don't know,
it's a quarter century. But the point is the amount
of people who hate parades and concerts and having fun

(02:38):
just so that they're they you know, they're they're their
tds can be out there is growing very thin. So
as far as the musical acts go, we went over that.
I think we talked yesterday or the day before about this.
As far as the musical acts go, you had Millie Vanilla,

(03:00):
the Commodores, Brett Michaels, Young mc flow rider didn't know
what he was up to, Vanilla, Ice wors Day in
the time, Martina McBride right, all these names out there,
all of which were part of the June twenty Fish Show. Well,

(03:20):
that story, of course, you know, hit a couple of
days ago, and now we have this. Almost as soon
as the lineup for the June twenty Fish Show was announced,
artists began vocally declaring they would not perform at the event,
which is to be hell, by the way, the actual
event event for this is the Great American State Fair, right,

(03:46):
so it is riffing on state fairs, right, love a
state fair. North Carolina's got a good one. All a
bunch of states have good ones, and so let's have
a state fair. But instead of a state fair, it's
a national fair, but it feels like a state fair.
It'll have concerts and cheese kurds and carnies and it'll

(04:07):
be right there on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
That's the event we're talking about. Almost as soon as
the lineup was announced, artists began vocally declaring they would
not perform at the event. M morris Day announced Wednesday
on Instagram. Quote, it's a no for me. And here's

(04:31):
the thing, and they glow all this irritated, especially when
we get into music artists who are like where they
write the article, they're like so and so rock band
says that Trump using their song at a you know,
at a campaign event, he should be he should be
tried for treason. Right, And then people who work in

(04:53):
the media, who write these stories, who understand how ASCAP
BMI and all of this were then don't tell you.
The thing and the thing when you're talking about music
rights is Trump campaign paid their ASCAT BMI fees. The
licensing management of it is handled by one or two companies,

(05:16):
and that's just how it works. So there there was
no there was no problem there. You just decided to
do a story and then present it in a dishonest manner.
So what I'm seeing from Morris Day here is I
didn't know we were booked for this. That's the thing.

(05:36):
They're trying to make it sound like Trump just had
a list of names and said it. These people and
more specifically, their management, took the deposit. They took the deposit,
They said they were going to do it, and then
the names got out there, and I'm you know, the

(05:57):
moonbats did what moonbats do on so social media and
and and and now we get into this dumpster fire,
even though it's like, yeah, he's the president and I
get that you don't like him, but two fifty baby,
who's hating on a party? Martina McBride Young mc william,

(06:23):
King of the Commodore is also made clear they wouldn't
be performing at Freedom to fifty. I hate this. I
think Martina McBride is amazing and I'm done with her.
I'm just done with this guard.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
What are you doing?

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Martina McBride was also one of my mom's favorite artists too.
Oh yeah, she loved Martina McBride. And I saw Martina
McBride at the Shyanne Frontier days too. I remember going
to that concert. Yeah. So now they're like, oh no,
we didn't know what we were sign enough for BS
you did. BS you did, and so a bunch of

(07:06):
people who probably don't listen to you. That's the other thing.
You're Martina McBride, You're a country artist. You've been around
for a while. The people who are harassing you on
Twitter or Blue Sky or wherever the harassment was taking place,
that made you come out here and pretend you don't

(07:27):
understand how concerts work. They don't go to your shows,
they don't know your songs, they don't care that you
know they are they are. They have it in the
stack here. They are coordinating a no Kings protest for
the very same day that the UFC event is just

(07:51):
to gum everything up there in Washington, DC. Like, that's
who you're dealing with. And and now you're sitting here
and you're pulling out of a concert. Give me a
freaking break, man, Martin. The thing about Martina McBride too.
One of her biggest songs ross do you know Martina McBride,
I don't know if you're your include in on the country.

(08:13):
I don't know if you ever. Okay, one of her
biggest song is Independence Day. It's a good song, it's perfect,
it's perfect and for you know, for for now her
and like three or four others be like, oh no,
we didn't, we didn't know it was a political event.

(08:35):
It's a you're doing a concert in DC, celebrating in
the United States. That's it. If you consider that political.
I guess you consider that political. Why'd you take the booking?
It's also ugly and then all of the the media
folk get to do their victory lap this morning, man,

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and it's just like, why did you not want to
be a part of it? Let's see here. The only
artist who also weigh in, but in the affirmative, was
Vanilla Ice. He's like, I'm gonna be there, So there
you go. Uh, let's see, where's the Morris State All right,

(09:18):
here we go. So this is the Morris Day shared
a graphics stating contrary to rumor, Morris Day in the
time will not be performing at the Great American State Fair.
It wasn't a rumor. Somebody put the concert lineup together.
They contacted your management. I'm sure, I'm sure they've contacted
a promoter. Right not to get into into the weeds

(09:43):
too deep here, right, You're not you're not publishing artists
lineups if you don't have tentative you know, if you
don't have tentative agreements, it's just not a thing that happens.
He went on to say, our music has always been
our voice, and we choose not to publicly affiliate with

(10:04):
any single political party. You're not You're you're celebrating the
United states Man. William King, co founder and member of
a music instrumentalists for the Commodores, confirmed in a phone
called a Rolling Stone. Yeah, that's right, rollingston't calt all
of them that they that they would not be featured

(10:26):
at the concert. Artina McBride said, quote, I was presented
with an opportunity to perform at a nonpartisan event, but
that turned out to be misleading. What turned out to
be misleading everybody knew what this was is Trump demanding
that he does a duet with you. I don't understand

(10:48):
what the problem is if there is an issue state
it because this just said. This sounds like your manager
wrote this because you didn't want to take the flack.
Let's see. McBride added that quote, She asked a lot
of questions and was assured it was a non partisan

(11:08):
event that was meant to celebrate all fifty states. What
does that mean? What is tru is Trump gonna is?
Is he gonna roll across the stage or a flag
with like what forty five stars on it or something?
None of it makes sense. Quote. I thought it was

(11:31):
a great way to celebrate the states and also bring
people together in a way that only music can. I
saw it as a bigger version of so many state
fairs that I'd performed in over the years, celebrating community
and making each state special. But things started changing, and
what we were told is in fact is not what
is happening. It just ugly man again. And this is

(11:57):
the thing. I'll even give McBride the benefit the doubt
if there is if somebody said something to you and
it weirded you out to that point, you need to
say what it is, because I don't believe you. I
think that they did what they normally do. They decided
Rolling Stone called all the artists. Even though you're in

(12:19):
the music industry, and even though you're in the country
music industry, you're still dealing with a crap ton of
moon bats throughout the whole process, your record labels and
you know, various other promoters and venues that you go
to and put the squeeze on these people. It's just
ugly man. And I was mentioning this town, in this

(12:42):
massy Chusetts, you know, which are already not good people.
But I've been seeing various versions of the very same story.
So in Rutland, Mass it's somewhere in the middle of
the state, I don't know. A letter was sent out

(13:04):
to the roughly ten thousand residents announcing that this year's
Fourth of July celebration is off. Never mind that the
money that was needed for the fourth of July celebration
had been fundraised all year, was successful, and the city

(13:27):
has the money. The city also announced though they used
that money for quote, other things. The Town of Rutland
announced they scrapped let's see here, the annual fireworks display,
parade and concert over quote safety concerns due to a
law enforcement shortage. This is a combination of two things.

(13:48):
One they residents were asked for a bond referendum and
they said no. And I've this is the petty local
government crap that I have witnessed over the years. Right,
they don't get what they want, and then they go,
all right, we got to make cuts. Let's cut the
thing that will offend you the most. School Oh, school

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boards are notorious for this. Right, they'll be like, all right,
we need a bond referendum because we have you know,
we have a nine thousand percent growth in our administrator
class and we can't afford anything. Oh it didn't pass.
No more electricity. We're cutting all the sports. Water. Your

(14:32):
kids don't need water, right, Never look never looking at
the fat there. This very same city has the exact
same amount of police that it has had the previous
five years, and had these celebrations. But then you dig
into it and you find out not only is it
a ninety eight percent white enclave up there, full of

(14:55):
full of moonbats the city council or selectmen or whatever
this stupid name they call themselves out there because people
in Massachusetts can't be normal. They're a bunch of like
TDS afflicted losers. Man. And I'm sorry, I think they're
doing this because Trump's promoting the two fifty. Call me conspiratorial.

(15:19):
I don't care. Sure looks like that though, Sure looks
like it. And there have been other cities too that
have announced that they're not going to be doing fireworks
because it's not a time to celebrate this Fourth of July.
The No Kings protests is going to be doing their
thing again too, and there's gonna be other protests and

(15:42):
we just can't deal with it. And I'm sorry. This
is local communities who are TDS afflicted in this case,
willing to steal people's money, who don't want you to
have fireworks because they don't like the guy who's in charge.
And Martina McBride won't saying because people were mean to

(16:02):
her on Twitter. It's gross and it's how we start
our Friday. Let's see coming up on the show, we
have an amazing funeral IDEA super excited about that. We're
gonna chat with Pete Calender. That'll be an eight oh five. Dude,
this this motel they busted there in Charlotte. I don't

(16:23):
know if you guys seen this story. This is crazy.
So what is the name of the hotel? Dude, Garden
Inn and suits. Uh, this is up by the It's
not a Reagan Drive. It's up by the up towards
the the NASCAR track kind of in. It's in a

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not nice part of town. So there you go. And
and ironically I thought this was the hotel I should say,
the motel that our boss stays at when he goes
to Charlotte because he programs one of the station's there
and he put me up there one time when I
had an event in Charlotte, and I thought I was
gonna get murdered. But it is not that So that
motel is still good to go. This one not so much.

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According to authorities with the fb I who raided the
hotel Wednesday, basically, what it happened was it turned into
and I'm gonna use their quote a farmer's market for drugs,
guns and prostitutes. Basically, you go to the motel and
you know, you know, here's guys selling guns over here,

(17:34):
there's a guys selling fentanyl in this room, make producing
some drugs in another room. The hookers are over here,
all told us. Attorney Russ Ferguson said Charlotte police responded
to nearly six hundred calls last year at the hotel.

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Ferguson said that innocent people living in the area were
duped into a false sense of protection by the suspects
because what had happened was like the criminal masterminds, the
gang or whatever who's running this were the quote security
guards for the motel. They had uniforms, they had the
whole thing, and they were essentially just just running this thing. Dude.

(18:20):
How many people were arrested. It was quite a few. Actually,
the main let's see the main five suspects, Marcus Logan,
head of the hotel's security, Justin Day, Michael Boat right,
Nikwan's Daniel Smith are all charged. Let's see fentanyl, trafficking,
illegal firearms, various drug charges, supplying drugs, possession with inten

(18:48):
to distribute. It just kind of runs the gamut depending
on what they actually got him with fentanyl distribution, cocaine
based distribution, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking,
firearm possession by a felon, three of those, you name it.
They caught the charge, but yeah, it was they were

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essentially running a I don't know, little party operation there,
but of the most dangerous varietal to the point where
again the FBI actually went up and rated it. So
we'll chat with Pete about that coming up. That'll be

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at ATO five. Okay, all right, wonderful. Where is the story?
I thought I put it in the stack. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
here it is. Okay, good, good, good, good good. So
I saw this stat yesterday and I'm just gonna throw
It's Friday, so we're gonna we're gonna bounce around. This

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is run the New York Post. Nearly sixty percent of
Americans say they're too broke to have fun, all right,
And I don't I don't purport to know everyone's financial situation,
but you know, you don't have to spend a crap
ton of money to do things that are fun, right,
I mean, sure, there's a lot of stuff that's fun

(20:13):
where you can spend a lot of money, right, going
to Disney probably fun, Probably gonna cost you a crap
ton of money. But I don't know if it's just
the country kid in me or what. But like, we
didn't have any money, and we could always figure out
some fun. Man, You just you can just sit there.

(20:37):
You could spend two dollars on bottle rockets. I'm entertained,
forty six year old mees entertained all afternoon.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Ross.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
I give you some fireworks. You having fun? You having fun? Right?
Five dollars worth of fireworks, having a great time? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (20:54):
What kind of fireworks are you getting?

Speaker 1 (20:57):
I walked into this, damn it? Go ahead, go ahead,
he's frantically moving the mountain.

Speaker 4 (21:05):
You're gonna tell me you don't have no black cats,
no Roman candles or screaming mamies. No, oh, come on, man,
you don't got no lady fingers, buzz butterles, snaker bombs,
church burners, finger blasters, gut busters, zibity do dies or
craft flappers.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
No, I don't.

Speaker 5 (21:20):
You're gonna stand there owning a fireworks stand and tell
me you don't have no whistling bungholes, no spleen splitters,
whisker biscuits, honkey riders, hooskerdoos hoosker don'ts cherry bombs, nips
and dazers with without the scooter stick or one single
whistling kiddy chaser.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
What good? I just want to clarify, like real fireworks
or like snakes and smart.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
Doesn't matter, you still have fun with.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
I don't want snakes and sparklers. I want the good stuff.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
Those are quality. That's what people want. You're still gonna
have fun. You just you're just It goes back to
the Martin Shore quote the other day. He's like, my
movie found an audience of forty year old and what
was it male children or something?

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Forty year old boys, forty year old.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
Boys exactly give us something with a fuse, man, we'll
have a great time. Go go bowl your kids. I
went to I went to a buddy's house. He's got
how old's the girl? She's eight boys maybe six? Right,
this is what he's doing. He's sitting there, he's running

(22:31):
the grill. Right, his wife and her two friends and
him and then his wife's friend and all that. They're
standing there and they have, you know, roughly the same
age kids. They have a slipping slide where they have
stacked like like soft bowling pins. I don't even know
what they're from. And they're literally taking turns picking up

(22:51):
their children and flinging them on the thing bowling. They
were having a hell of a time that cost almost nothing.
Cash strap folks are fueling a fun drought, with more
than fifty seven percent of people surveyed saying cost and
budget is preventing them from having a good time. Overall,

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the state by state survey found forty eight percent of
the nation feels like they lack fun in their lives,
and twelve percent can't even remember the last time they
had a free day to enjoy themselves. Look, I recognize
this exists.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
I got it.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
I know there's people out there busting their ass financially,
just not getting a head things are. I get it,
But I'm sorry, I do not believe sixty percent of
Americans can't figure out how to have fun. I think
that they see fun as you know, a trip to

(23:52):
Italy or something like that, which is fun. Don't get
me wrong, Go to Olive Garden tell Ross about it.
He'd be very excited. But a lot of stuff you
can do for fun there really doesn't cost you a
lot of money.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
I mean, yeah, I'm thinking about like the age here, right, Yeah,
like in my early twenties, I was broke, but I
had a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
They have oh so much fun. Fun all the time, dude.
I can't tell you the number of miles me and
my buddies drove around in Wyoming aimlessly just looking for fun.
And then fun was there. What is that?

Speaker 2 (24:29):
Hey, listen, I'm not endorsing drinking, but you also have
a generation where you keep seeing these studies come out
where like you have a generation just not drinking anymore.
And the two kind of back in the day when
most people in their you know, early twenties, a two
kind of go hand in hand.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah. The people who were bowling their children were drinking.
They're sipping beer or white The women were all drinking
white clothes but whatever they they were and they were
flinging their children and the children having a great time.
Everyone's having a great time fun. I'm amused, even though
you know, I don't have a kid there or whatever,

(25:06):
and I'm not going to toss your kid, but still
like some of the simplest things, man, just getting together
and I to your point. I alcohol a little love it.
I mean, there's a reason hold my beer is a thing, right,
The reason hold my beer is just thinking about it.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
It goes back to as long as you can remember,
poor college kids or kids in the early twenties who
have no who can barely afford you know, food, the
the ramen and their pantry. But they go out and
buy a twelve pack and they have a really good
time on the weekend. Yes, and now suddenly that's not happening,
and then this will we're not having fun anymore. Yeah,
because you guys are boring.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Well, they're also listing things, and it's like like when
they talk about Dave and Busters. I can't afford to
go to David bust.

Speaker 5 (25:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Well yeah it's expensive. You guys are uptight and sufferable
and boring. That's your problem.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yes, go make fun here, you guys here, let me
let me help. This will cost you a little money,
but just a little, but promise it'll be fun. All right,
you're ready? Tanner wite Tanner right, Tanner write, go look
it up, figure it out, do it. What could be

(26:20):
more fun than shooting a target than if the target explodes?
That's fun? Man, But you don't even have to Oh way,
a'most expensive whatever. Whatever, you're gonna get an explosion at
the end, you can suffer through, get some rim fire.
I don't care. Suck it up. Yeah, I think here

(26:41):
in this article, really, when I see them bring up
what people consider fun, it's things like going to Dave
and Busters, going on big vacations and things like that.
And I get it. I get it, But I don't
believe sixty percent of America can't have fun right now.
I just see this is the doomer gloomer kind of stories. Yeah,

(27:04):
yesterday ran another thing with Trump. They're like, oh, mag
is all They've all left Trump. It's over, it's cooked.
And I'm like, really, last week you just said he
was unseating incumbents everywhere, So which is it? Like this,
this is easy stuff. So when I see these doomer stories,

(27:25):
I try to dig into them a little. Let's see,
the economic buzzkill comes as Americans have shelled out forty
five billion and extra fuel costs since the US and
Israel launched their war on Iran. This is what this
soul piece is. What's the funniest, stupidest thing you do? Right? Ross.

(27:47):
What's fun that you have with like Lincoln or whatever
that doesn't cost you a penny?

Speaker 2 (27:54):
I don't know, man, just being silly. I don't even yes, yes,
I don't even know how to answer that, because like
ninety percent of my time with my kids is just
being goofy and silly.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Yes, which is fun, by the way.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Right, making up games and stuff.

Speaker 6 (28:07):
You know.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Yes, So i'd like, I again, if it was a
third of people. But they're saying sixty percent. I refuse
to believe sixty percent of people can't have fun with
the simple things in life. And yes, there are going
to be financial constraints, but that's not a hallmark just
of the time that you're living in. It's its own

(28:27):
unique version of it. You know, it'd be really fun,
ROSSI references the other day, Uh, getting on a yacht
with the entire Russian ballet. That would be fun, right,
good time. That's not a financial thing you or I
are doing. Gotta be batman, So you know, I got

(28:49):
to live my fun to other stuff. So maybe just
like reevaluate what what brings you joy in life? I
don't know, man, you just got to you gotta find
your own fun. It also comes as restaurant prices reach

(29:11):
it all time high with menu cost surgeon, then don't
go to a restaurant. You don't have to go to
a restaurant to have fun. Going back to the thing
where they were chucking kids in bowling pins, they're just grilling,
just grilling dogs and hamburgers and some chicken stuff.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
This goes back to the Kevin O'Leary cut from last
week where he's talking about bringing your lunch, about spending
thirty dollars on lunch every day.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
And they wanted to hang him. They wanted to hang
Kevin O'Leary. Can you put that cut up? I realized
I didn't play that. Kevin O'Leary makes this statement and
and basically it's in rebuttal to somebody who's like, you
don't cost twenty eight dollars for lunch, and a lary's
riffing on that, and it's like, whether it does or doesn't, which,

(29:55):
by the way, I don't think it costs twenty eight
dollars for lunch at maybe in New York it does,
but you can get lunch for a lot cheaper. But
even if it did, nobody's forcing you to go to
a restaurant to get the lunch. This is what Kevin
O'Leary said, and they wanted to put him in the stocks.

Speaker 7 (30:12):
You can't stand it when I see kids that are
making seventy grand a year spending twenty eight dollars for lunch.

Speaker 6 (30:18):
I mean, that's just stupid.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
It's just think about that in the context of that
being put into an index and making eight to ten
percent a year for the next fifty year.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Yeah, so he said that, and it just on the
floodgates run leash. You have people at well, kids don't
know how to cook, they don't have time to cook,
they don't have time to meal prep, they don't have
time to do this. And then somebody literally broke down
the cost of a sandwich and they're like, well, you know,
you have to buy the whole loaf of bread. It's
like yes, but also you're gonna eat more than one sandwich.

(30:49):
And sometimes, and this is pretty crazy ross telling me
if you've ever had to experience this, Sometimes when things
are really tight, whatever you're gonna eat, you're getting it
a whole bunch of them in a row for a while,
because that's what you got. That's it. That's how it works,

(31:14):
and then eventually maybe you get something else.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
The worst though, from my point of view, is when
you have to eat the leftover caviar. You know what
I mean?

Speaker 1 (31:22):
Oh yes, especially if it's not chilled properly so it
starts to smell a little more. Ugh gross. What I
do that. I'll put some truffles on it.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, really yeah, it'll.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Tamp the Tampa flavor down just a little. So yeah, man,
are we do? We just not know how to have fun?
And then I ask myself that, and then I look
at literally Martina McBride apologizing for daring to want to
go sing her song Independence Day at the two hundred
and fiftieth Celebration of America, and I'm like, yeah, we're

(31:58):
surrounded by a bunch of the miserable people just wallowing
in it and it sucks, man, And I feel bad
for him. I feel bad for him. I know this
is a little cheesy, but it's like, how do I degray?

(32:18):
It's the Waltons might not be the best example, but
like you know what I'm driving at, Like you think
of the Waltons and the Andy riffis show all of that.
It's the whole simple times, the family, people are getting together,
people are happy, things are happening, and nobody has to

(32:40):
go to Dave and Busters and get a fifty dollars
play card and do all of that. I'm not knocking
on Dave and Busters. Go there if you want. It's
just one of the examples that they use in the story.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
Now, listen, that's especially like give it like Frankie's is
the equivalent to that, right here, Frank's. But that's like
a treat for Lincoln when we go right because it
can get expensive and it's fun, but it can.

Speaker 1 (33:04):
What's his jam there? We love the mini golf, mini golf. Okay,
a lot of video games there, So I don't know, yeah, yeah, yeah,
and so that turns into a tree and I and
I don't. I don't know. If it's just that people
have outsized expectations. Now. When I was a kid, the
idea of going to something like a Frankie's Fun Park

(33:25):
was something that never occurred to me, and I think happened.
I went to, we went, We'd go to Elitch Gardens
maybe once every two or three years. This is basically
the Six Flags.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
And then when I was a kid, McDonald's was a
big treat play play the plaything.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Man.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
We went to McDonald's like once or twice a year.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yeah, I I our eyes are just too big on
this stuff. All right. I'm just looking at the clock here.
I'm gonna have to take a break eight eight eight
nine three four seven eight seven four. Apparently we don't
know how to have fun anymore except on this show
where we always do. And we'll be right back. Is
this really we're gonna do a protest over this? Okay,
all right, we'll put that in a stack. I'll get

(34:04):
to that here and just a little bit.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
I was sharing a story with you and it just
kind of shocked me. But then as I started reading it,
I just like, I think people's compasses are off like
I I. I don't I don't know everyone's financial situation.
I know that I've run the gamut in my life, man,
especially you know, especially younger dude. When you start in radio,

(34:27):
you make nothing, nothing like it's embarrassing, it was all.
It was crazy to me. Ross. I don't know if
it was to you as well, because even when you
just start in radio, your friends think you're like, oh,
now you got you know, you got you got a
big job. Man, you got this big famous jump and

(34:48):
you're like, yeah, not so much. It's a lot of romen, man,
you really got to carve it out. And it works
like that in other industries. But my perception of what
is fun I don't even think has changed that much.
Even though I can afford things that I couldn't afford
when I was in my twenties, that are you know, fun?

(35:09):
All right, it's I love to travel. You get to
do a lot of traveling. I get to do that
as much. You know, I did road trips and stuff
in the twenties. That was fun. But sixty percent of
Americans say they can't afford to have any fun. And
then you look at examples of what they consider fun,
and it's stuff that costs, Yeah, costs money. They One

(35:31):
of the examples there is Dave and Busters, and I
think that's a great example. Sure, you go to Dave
and Busters. Could be a great time. Be adults, you
have kids, it doesn't matter. Play the games. Have a
good time. That's cool, but there is a cost to it.
But on the flip side, if you if you want
to play games, you play games at your house. They

(35:52):
have a lot of fun. Uh, what's the russ what's
that card game? Cards Against Humanity? You ever play that game? Yeah? Ye,
little risque for twenty dollars. You're all in forever if
you don't lose the cards. That's a great time, man,
Just sitting around with some friends being awful. Good times.

(36:18):
So I I understand what people are saying. You know,
they're having to budget, and yes, things are more expensive.
I know we're not allowed to talk about the fact
that there was a twenty three percent increase in the
cost of most basic items under the Biden administration, coupled
with more increase, not to that extent, but a little

(36:41):
more increase even as Trump was coming in. Things are
more expensive, dude. I was looking at some flights for
something yesterday. It's a nightmare right now, some of the
costs out there. But you don't have to do all
those big things. To go have fun. Man, the funnest

(37:02):
days I remember when I was younger, probably didn't cost
that much money. Maybe ten bucks in gas box of
nine millimeter. It's wyoming fun. What are you gonna do?
So funds out there, man, it's just you gotta go
find it. Jim, what's up? Hey?

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (37:24):
Not to put a final point on it.

Speaker 8 (37:26):
But you know the studied fun case and good morning
by the way, uh and and there are three factors
that that play into this growth mindset. And you you,
you and and Ross have been hitting on it. And playfulness,
connection and flow. Those are three things. You got, those
three things, You've got fun and it's it's it's we

(37:47):
have to shift our paradigm from thinking that it's got
to be something expensive. But if you if you're with
your buddies, you're playing the cards against umanity, you're riding around.
It's it's all it takes. Its playfulness, connection, and flow.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
The amount of fun that could be had sitting on
a patio with the right people is it can't be overstated.
Talking about nothing, talking about nothing watching Uh, dude, I
watch my I was, I sat, I said. One of
the last times I was was with my brother and

(38:24):
his family. They have a new puppy at the time,
and we sat on his porch and watched this puppy
have sex with every inanimate object it could find in
the entire yard for over an hour, or at least
attempt to. And I don't know if I laughed so
hard in quite some time. Man and that costs nothing.

(38:46):
They got that puppy for free, and he's stupid. He's
a puppy and you know he's looking for love. Dude,
I'm telling you that the story, the vibe of the
story is really just look how Trump's ruined everybody's fun.
I understand what the reporters going for, but you're missing

(39:08):
the bigger picture and as a result, people are just
gonna continue to be miserable. You don't have to jake
what's up?

Speaker 7 (39:20):
Yeah, I used to go, you know, get free palette
and you know, in today's day, probably fifty dollars. With
the plywood. You build yourself a ramp and you just
jump off of it, jump over it, jump through it
sometimes if it ever if you built the wrong But yeah,
there's that. Plus, I mean, you can't do it anymore.
But you could rent movies and have you know, family

(39:41):
over for a movie night.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
Well, I mean you could, yeah, I don't know, that's
probably a red Boxer till still around. But yeah, but
even if you know, even going and ran things for
the call, you know, reun a movie's what three bucks
on the streaming things. I understand you gotta have the equipment,
but let's face it, you know, for the same reason
why we sit here and we look at Oh, these

(40:08):
people are very poor. They're on all the government assistants,
and yet they have like three flat screen TVs in
the house. All the rest. We have a standard of
living thing as Americans, which far outpaces most of the world.
I understand that. Look it over in Europe they can't
even afford air conditioning. But fun is a mindset, dude.

(40:28):
Fun is a mindset, and we've just built up these
standards to where if you're not able to post your
photos from the Amalfi Coast in Italy, right, so your
friends could be jealous. People just think they aren't having
fun because they're not out there flexing on it. The
fun don't need to be a flex Fund's just fun.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
I think social media, and you know how I feel
about it. I'm not going to go off on a
rant on that again, but I think social media has
a lot to do with this where people are depressed
because you go on there and you scroll and you
see what everybody else is apparently doing and you're like, oh,
I can't do that, boohoo me comparison is a thief
of joy and all that kind of stuff, and then
it like puts you in a downward spiral. You know,
why don't I have the new car, Why don't I

(41:10):
have a boat? Why am I not going on a trip.
Where's my cool outfit? How come my kids don't look
like that? And on and on and on. I'm telling them,
you take that social media, you put the phone down
for a little bit, and your happiness will increase.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
And and look, boats are fun. Boats are also a
financial nightmare. There's a breakout another thousand. There's a reason.
That's what that stands for. But you don't have to
own a boat to go to the water man. Go
over there or you know, wait around in there, screw around,
catch turtles.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
Yeah, the lake is there, and it's free. You know
what we do. We let going for walks in the park.
We join our park man. We'll walk for like thirty
forty minutes every single day.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
Is that like one hundred bucks? No, free, buddy, Yeah,
that's for it's free. Well, I mean technically you pay taxes,
but still but still yeah, yeah, you just post. I
saw you post pictures. The other day. You and the
you and Lincoln and uh lofton all went to a
cruiser around in the park.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Oh yeah, LINCOLNLND. They have the mini stage there, you
know where, So it'd swear it was like his first
his first birthday, like way back fourteen year thirteen years ago,
and he just goes into stage Lincoln. He'll his dance
for like twenty minutes.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Sure, having a great time. The only problem is though,
Ross said that there's a gang of murderous squirrels there.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
So yeah, no, it was pretty bad. Last weekend they
were out in force and they got into there was
there was a group of them got into some like
Chick fil A that was in the garbage there after
like the really nice rainy weather we had, and there
was this one dumb squirrel which we watched. By the way,
this was free. We watched this dumb squirrel for like
fifteen minutes run around with a Chick fil a ice
cream thing on its head. Yeah, going into like absolute

(42:47):
The squirrel was in heaven like sugar.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Daring to heaven too. Yeah, it was like in a
citiot still did.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
A squirrel like, oh, it's as though I had is
delicious amazing. We went home, we watched an earnest movie
on Netflix or whatever it was, and then this is
what Marky said. They've been the kids have been really
big into Blue, which, by the way, I think Blue
is the greatest kids show to come out in decades.
It's a phenomenal show. I'm such a fan of it.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
You said it's not annoying.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
It is not annoying. It is so good. Like Mark
you know, I'm not even lying. This might be a
new parent thing, but you get sucked into these shows
your kids are watching, and a lot of times they're horrible.
We will find ourselves just to put it on his
background noise, We'll put Blue on and we're entertained by
just Markey and I without the kids. I'm not even dude,
it is a good show. It makes us neither have

(43:39):
I had I up to four months ago, and I'm
telling you the dad in the in the Blue Blue's
dad banned. It is probably, and I mean this sincerely,
the greatest father figure in the history of television. For me,
the standard of how a father should behave and act
and interact with their children and a role model. Blue's

(44:01):
dad is up there. It's almost an unattainable goal. He's
such a good parental figure. I'll watch it. I'll be
like this is impossible, no doubt, Like this is a
standard that I can't reach. That being said Mark. He
was like, we got for the kids the Bluey, the
Guess Who game? Remember the old game Guess Who? Where
you flip down the pit?

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (44:18):
And Mark was like yeah, Marcu's like, hey, you want
to play Guess who? Blue Guess Who? Said, sure, do
sat down and she absolutely destroyed me four rounds in
a row. Wait can that game probably is canceled now,
right Guess Who? Uh may?

Speaker 4 (44:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (44:32):
No, I see where you're because you have to ask
general right and race and color and everything else. Yeah, anyway,
I mean, how inexpensive was that game?

Speaker 1 (44:42):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (44:43):
It's a Guess Who? You can go get it at
target for what ten fifteen dollars or whatever, and.

Speaker 1 (44:48):
You probably get it. You probably get it for two
dollars at a thrift store.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Yeah, and we're grown adults playing the blue sitting Indian style.
I don't know if I can say that anymore. He
crossed leg on the flower playing the Bluey Guess Who?
Four or five rounds I got decimated. We laughed the
entire time. It costs nearly nothing. It really comes down
your frame so much.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
That game.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
I'm so bad, dude, It's like legendarily bad, like so bad,
I like Hall of Fame bad.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
She laughs at how bad I am at that game.
Well least it amuses them, right.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
Right, yeah, completely, Yeah, they find it's so funny than them.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
So fun You're a bringer of fun. I real quick
back to the squirrel where the other squirrels trying to
eat the thing on the squirrel's head, thus making it
much more chaotic for the squirrels.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
On the one squirrel was chasing it like, hey, give
me that ice compting on your head because that looks
amazing and I don't know what that is. The other
one was like just busy, like you know, going down
in the fries.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Forty squirrels it, which is weird.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
It was weird describing there. We had like eight or
nine squirrels run out into the road. I think it
was because of the weather because it had been really
hot the drought. Right then we got all that good
amount of rain, and I think they were just like
the squirrels were just enjoying it. They were going down
all right.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
Well, Plus I got Chick fil A, So who's who's
not happy? With Chick fil A. All right, seven eighteen
here on the CaCO Day radio program, and grab another
call on this, Robbie, what's up?

Speaker 7 (46:12):
Oin't not much? Okay, I'll tell you what, man, I'm
waiting on the prediction markets to pick it up. So
like and bet on it is.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
How long it's going to be before the lack of.

Speaker 8 (46:23):
Middle brigade decides having fun has to become a human right?

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Well, I mean, honestly it would this was that it
wouldn't even be their worst thing. They declare it, and
thanks for the call a human right. So like all
of your utilities are human rights. The electronicy like that,
it's a human right. You gotta have that. Oh, you
have to have a computer human right. So if it's

(46:52):
just fun and we're willing to like whittle fun down
to the fact that sometimes fun doesn't cost you an
arm and a leg, I'm okay with that. Of course
they'll they'll muck it up like they always do. But AnyWho,
all right, I got a pivot to let me do this.
We'll go in and hit our break, we come back.
I am so upset the BUCkies is taking so long.

(47:14):
I had no idea. There's an update on the BUCkies.
They're doing a groundbreaking here in like a week and
a half, but it's not gonna be there for a while,
so I'll update you on that. We got more Minnesota
fraudsters to tell you about. And oh yeah, somebody, and
I believe this language is accurate, try to assassinate a

(47:37):
Supreme Court justice yesterday. I feel like that should be
a bigger story. Plus, I'm gonna share a tweet from
MSNBC or ns now or whatever stupid thing they call themselves, reporter,
you want to talk about a tweet with contexts missing?
This over a firing of a upper level FBI person yesterday,

(48:04):
which now they're like, oh, it's all political. I think
maybe you should have the background on this. We'll get
into that much more coming up here on the CaCO
Day radio program. So's telling me we have yet another
musician who is now deciding they're not going to do
the two hundred and fiftieth celebration. Who is it? Ross
Brett Michaels, Now right.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
He's out, Yeah, Brett Michaels, see, and it pretty much
comes down he gave a reason, and it pretty much
came down to, you know, I don't want to die.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
Yeah, because the threat threading to murder these people.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
Yeah, no, you know, what should be like a celebration
of our two hundred fiftyth birthday, it has become very
divisive and that there's a threat of violence. And he
doesn't want to put his fans and his band and
everybody involved with him, you know, in danger. So they're
pulling out.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
Like and half the country's fine with where we are
right now. That's what's wild. I mean, just think about that,
where people are willing to cat like used used to be,
it was only lunatics, like real fringy lunatics who would
threaten to murder you and they and they usually didn't
mean it. Right now it's like they probably mean it.

(49:14):
I saw I saw a video yesterday if some uh,
I don't know who this guy is, but basically he
does the Charlie Kirk stick, right. He goes to college
campuses and does the debates. And I saw a video
of this dude getting absolutely attacked. They dumped I think
a bucket of feces on him or something. Everyone just
standing around laughing. Hilarious.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
Yeah, So my buddy this morning has been sending me
a Democrat buddies have been sending me the the visual
graphic of all the bands. You know, here's the lineup
that's going to be there, and then like with the
X crossed out and he said, yep, another one down.
And I said, yeah, I too fear being shot by
a Democrat, excuse me, and and he wrote back and
he said, it's actually it's actually a good point. I mean,
think about it. In the past month. I think it

(49:56):
the past month, you've had two shootings in DC. You
had the White House correspondence dinner, and then you had
the recent one with the crazy guy who said the
White House with a secret service, right, and then you
were like, yeah, let me take my band and Martina McBride,
let me get up there and sing Independence Day in
front of some potential looney in the audience. Who you know,
I'm gonna put myself and my fans in danger.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
This is where we are, man, this is where we are.
And what happens is is then people I'm not saying
this is necessarily your buddy, but people on the left go,
all right, that's a win. They're showing Trump and it's
like you're totally misreading what just happened. I get that
you don't like Trump. But somebody who has been seeing
Martina McBride's Independence Day, I want to say was early nineties.

(50:43):
This woman's been on a stage singing that song. Well,
it's a great song for thirty five years everywhere. Like
I said, I saw a Shian Frontier Days. You know,
they have a big concert lineup down there. So that's
a great, great event. If you're ever in Wyoming U

(51:06):
Shying Frontier Days highly recommended. But now they're just like, yeah,
I can't do this one thing because somebody, somebody put
a bullet in me. But you got Trump, you showed them.
And honestly, Brett Michaels, I'm a little more disappointed if
those skanks didn't kill him. Nothing's didn't kill him. Did

(51:29):
you see those women?

Speaker 2 (51:30):
I used to watch the show all the time, man,
that and Flavor of Love.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
Girl I was dating at the time was into that show,
and so I would like, it's on in the background
and I just remember staring up and I'm like, none
of them are wearing panties. They're all awful, mark what
are we doing?

Speaker 2 (51:45):
Marky? And I used to watch this show every Saturday
or Sunday whenever it was on both shows, the Flavor
of Love and The Brett Michael Show. I mean they
were pretty much the same show, just with different genres
of music. Yeah, and the Brett Michael Show was great
because every season he would sit there in the room
wearing a stupid bandana and his hat right right, and

(52:07):
his guitar and he would do an acoustic version of
every Rose has His Thorn and then he would just
make out with Horse. And that's the summary of the
every season of that show. But other to make out with.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
Him, and I think didn't. On one of the episodes,
they were like, what did the one girl do? She
went like urinated on one of the other girls. Just
super classy stuff, just real, you know, bring that's the
girl you want to bring home to meet ma.

Speaker 2 (52:33):
I still remember when it comes to Flavor Love, the
big shocker when he chose Hoops over New York. I'm
still not over it.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
What I don't know what the thing you said was
is that those are people?

Speaker 2 (52:45):
Those are people?

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Okay, all right, good on that, dude. I thought you
could get an STD through the TV watching that show.
That was rough man. Oh, you know, going back though,
gangs can be fun. Where's that as you know, mister
Michael's uh figured out they're on TV. I guess. So

(53:09):
did he ever find love? Did he ended up marrying
one of those?

Speaker 2 (53:12):
I think he found it a bunch of times, oh good, repeatedly.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
Yeah, a lot of it in hot tubs. You find
a lot of fun in hot tubs, Charlet, Hot tubs
are fun. What are you gonna do? Oh man?

Speaker 2 (53:27):
I love man. Every season they just wheel them out
and wheel Brett Michaels are like, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (53:36):
I promise I was on my laptop or whatever, so
I would only glance up sparingly, So I don't know
the totality of it, but watching him, I remember I
kind of paid attention to one of the early ones
where they're all just like they're liking like, uh, like
one of those stripper boosts right where you feed the
money in or whatever, and he's just sitting there and

(53:56):
they're having to come out and quote impress him, and
I I remember thinking society is doomed. And I was
so right and there, but like, what was crazy to
me is they kept going into the back room and
the ones like all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna have
my chest out and the other ones like you're a whore,
and the one calling her a whore has a one

(54:18):
inch hemline on her skirt right her butt cheeks are
sticking out. I'm like, what where do they find these women?
And then I saw you know, TikTok, and I'm like, oh, okay,
they were just it was early to the party.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
If we have to explain these shows to the younger generation,
let me do you know it was a different time.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
Yeah, I don't think we should make excuses for it,
and and frankly we did. The stuff we got now
is far worse man. Oh yeah, no, by far, far worse.
Just the level of skankiness, uh, for our own entertainment.
But yeah, those were more innocent. Meanwhile, they're threatening to

(55:02):
shoot musical artists or murder Supreme Court justices. So you guys,
we've talked about swatting before on the show, Right, somebody
calls the police like, hey at this address, I just
I just shot all my kids. Oh you're not take
me alive, and then police show up. They got swat
There's been incident, there's been incidents where people were literally

(55:25):
then themselves shot, when in reality it was some buddy
else calling it in you saw this in video game
stuff and on the webstream stuff, and yes, that's what
happened to Amy Coney Barrett yesterday or not yesterday, what
was the actual day May twenty seven, so two days ago.

(55:50):
In fact, we actually have some of the dispatch audio
an anonymous caller called nine to one one claiming gun
shots at her residence, clearly trying to provoke a heavily
armed place least response. Now, it's a little it doesn't
work that quite that way in DC because well you'll
hear it in the audio here, but they kind of
have a list of where all the really quote unquote

(56:11):
important people are, which is good right there, even though
some really high high profile celebrities have been swatted too.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
Man.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
Quite a few conservative talk hosts too have had this
happen to them. Here is the actual audio from two
days ago up in.

Speaker 9 (56:31):
DCS responding to there is an LOI for this address
that has twenty four hour security coverage for a high
priority resident of the county. Games just fed as fish
as noise the advice We have not been able to
get a answer on callback to the complainant's phone number.
And then if it's going to be a swatting situation.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
I'm glad security that's on scene.

Speaker 6 (56:58):
They should be outside and explore he said, here and
hurt anything.

Speaker 7 (57:01):
We're just gonna meet up with him first, just to
go over anything.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
And I'm glad because for a while it seemed like departments,
even even though they knew there was swatting, they still
were responding with with everything. And I understand they're kind
of in a rock and a hard place situation there, right,
because if there is an incident and you roll up
with just you know, one curious deputy, that could be problematic.
But yeah, at least they're getting a little bit of

(57:26):
a handle on it. But yeah, somebody's somebody was like,
I'm going to I've been a swat you know. In
their mind they're like, oh, the cops are gonna bust
and they're gonna murder this lady, and and they're cool
with that. All right, let's go ahead and do that thing.
And then police have to figure all that garbage out.
Crazy times man raced agic from the Weather Channel. He'll

(57:49):
never swatch you.

Speaker 10 (57:50):
Nope, Nope, you don't even know who that is. I
do not know where that is, and I probably don't
want to.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
Yeah, Yeah, you'd have to be a horrible person to
do it.

Speaker 6 (57:58):
Yeah, would you would?

Speaker 1 (58:00):
That's not you.

Speaker 10 (58:01):
You're on I am, I am doing weather things threw
up my weekend run. I don't think so. And you know,
it's like typical weather man speak. May or may not
see some showers thunder showers tomorrow morning Triad west and south,

(58:25):
so maybe down near Fayetteville and Charlotte.

Speaker 6 (58:28):
It's gonna be close.

Speaker 10 (58:29):
I mean, I didn't put them in the forecast for
the Triad because I think they'll stay just west. But
if you are traveling into the mountains for the weekend,
at least as we head on through tonight in the overnight,
in through tomorrow morning early afternoon, there could be a
few showers thunder showers around, but most of us will
enjoy some pretty decent weather. That includes today lots of sun,

(58:49):
some high clouds on either side of eighty depending on
where you are, beautiful day. Then we'll cloud over tonight,
low to mid sixties. Tomorrow mainly cloudy everywhere again west
and south of the Triad, especially a shower thundershower around,
But then as that front passes, we'll have a beautiful
day on Sunday, lots of sunshine mid upper seventies during

(59:10):
the day, at night in the fifties, So Sunday morning
in the fifties, Monday morning in the fifties, and after
we get past Monday with a shower threat early and
near eighty degrees in the afternoon, we'll go through another
dry stretch Tuesday through Thursday. Low humidity chapter is close
to eighty with lows in the fifties at night. It
is going to be absolutely beautiful. New dropt monitors showed
some improvement across the state, but still we do still

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have a fair amount of drought across the entire state.
So it was helpful, but not enough.

Speaker 1 (59:38):
So hypothetically Sunday morning, if someone were to have an
eight to ten tea time, do you think the temp
would be a tea off Sunday morning wild scenario had
just made up. Yes at April.

Speaker 6 (59:52):
Yeh, mid fifties, fifty seven h. It'll be nice. It
should be pretty.

Speaker 1 (59:56):
Nice, right light braes that may.

Speaker 6 (59:59):
Affect who knows who? That could affect great.

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
Probably hundreds of people, right courses. Yeah, all right, thank you, sir,
appreciate it. There you go. Race Agic from the Weather
Channel all right, seven forty seven. We've got a few
things I got to get in this quick little segment here,
and then we're gonna be chatting with mister Pete Callander
coming up at eighth five. Lots to get into with him,
and much more coming up Cacoday Radio program. Check this out.

(01:00:26):
So some some questions, some questions folks have after California.
Now I understand this isn't a huge amount of money.
I mean it would be for you and I, but
when it comes to federal spending or California spending, but
a rather interesting use of a twenty four million dollar

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federal grant for fire mitigation, right, California probably should do
some fire mitigation is what they did with it, though,
So check this out. According to who did the reporting here,
City Journal Christopher Rufo, he's the he's the charge of

(01:01:09):
the school choice guy. But anyway, so he was looking
into this, all right. So here's what they did to
mitigate fires in California. I think this is really gonna help.
The twenty four million was spent on drum circles, indigenous
fire rituals, and pagan animal worship of excuse me, animistic

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worship of plant and animal ancestors. All right, Ross, this
is you, ever you ever you ever learned how to
mitigate fires. I'm gonna teach you right now, very simple.
So you and your body show up in and then
you get in a drum circle, and then you burn
some sage, so you literally start a fire, and then

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attendees go around in the circle. And by the way,
some of the attention and the story are the basically
the chief fire fighting officer for the state of California
and and some of some of the other higher ups.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
So you you got the drumming, you got the sage burning,
and then you go around the circle, introducing yourself to
the land and telling people about your mother Earth creator
animal ancestors, and then you plead with the land to
not be on fire because now you guys are bros

(01:02:34):
because you're on first name basis or whatever. They spent
twenty four million dollars on that. Also, do you know, Ross,
do you know what your animal ancestors are?

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
You know, I never looked into it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:48):
You don't know me honey badgers and grizzly bears.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
Yeah, well my mom's sides the honey badgers, So yeah, yeah,
I don't I don't even know how does that stop fire?
At least if you spend it on a rain dance,
it would make sense. But you wanted to bird some
sage probably do some hallucinogenics, let's be honest here, and
you spent twenty four million dollars doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
Sound like they're trying to use like their Harry Potter
patronas to put out the fire or something. I don't
know what that is. What is the patrona? Everybody has?
Like an animal like the tequila? No, no, no, no,
it's like a spirit that comes out of you to
fight evil. Oh okay, it's typically like an animal in
Harry Potter.

Speaker 1 (01:03:31):
Got You, got you, gotcha? Okay, well yeah, maybe that's
what they were going for. Introduce yourself to the land,
tell people about your mother Earth creator, animal ancestry and
plant antse Oh so we have animal and plant ancestors.
What kind of plant ross? What kind of plants you

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think are in your lineage there?

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
I don't know, Probably weeds, Oh no, come on, man,
maybe like a bunzide tree or some.

Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
Okay, all right, those are there's a lot of work.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
But really like a thirty like red oak. I'm gonna
go tumbleweed. Oh that's a good one.

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Does it come with the music which,
oh you want to be the good bad they Yeah,
you could do that. To do that, we have music ancestor.
It doesn't say music ancestors in here, so I guess
we just got to go with that. But that hour
each and every week where we get to chat with
our radio buddy, mister Pete Calender down there in Charlotte

(01:04:32):
mid Day's WBT can listen via the iHeart Radio app. Pete,
How you doing, buddy?

Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
I am doing well. How are you?

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
I'm well. I was gonna say I'm good, but I'm
kind of not. By the way, I'm gonna I'm gonna
reveal something.

Speaker 11 (01:04:46):
Uh oh.

Speaker 1 (01:04:47):
Last a year ago, Pete made a very very generous
offer to me. It was right before I was headed
up to do the broadcast up in Asheville, and I
was down and I had I got stuck in Charlott
it an extra day, and I was chatting with Pete
because I was going up to Ashville, his old stomping grounds,
and you very graciously offered to let me stay in

(01:05:08):
your guest room if I needed to play. I don't
remember that. You don't remember that. I don't remember.

Speaker 3 (01:05:13):
I don't remember doing something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
Yeah, yeah, you did do that thing. And and I'm
sure because I was going to make the station pay
for a room. But now now I may end up
having to take you up on this since they closed
my favorite hotel, the Garden Inn and Suites. Uh yeah,

(01:05:36):
the farmers, guns and prostitutes. So what do you guys
with it?

Speaker 3 (01:05:40):
Top notch? Yeah, top notch security staff too, as I
understand it. You know, a whole staff of security that
has multiple felonies on their rap sheets, and it was,
you know, dealing drugs in uniform, yeah, and which well,

(01:06:01):
and look, you you can kind of understand why nobody
knew what was going on. I mean except for like
everybody at the hotel or motel and everybody in the.

Speaker 1 (01:06:14):
Neighborhood to Charlotte Becklenberg, right right.

Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
So I mean it's not like there were any signs,
you know, it was it was all so completely under
the radar that nobody knew what was going on at
the motel for all these years.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
Yes, so they got to come rage your motels like
you met. Yeah, man. The only surprise thing is that
they didn't find Hunter Biden inside, so I think this place.

Speaker 3 (01:06:46):
Yeah, well, I don't know. I mean I think he
has a bit of a he has he has better
like a higher quality of room service, I think. And
he did say that his superpower, well, yes, that's true
because all of his paintings burned up in the Palisade fire.
But yeah, well, I mean he did say they'll remember

(01:07:08):
that his superpower was to be able to locate the
drugs no matter where he was in the world. He
did say that, yeah, which then I started thinking, is
that really your superpower or is that just like every
nefarious actor from around the globe knows that you have
these addictions, and so they just like kind of hang

(01:07:32):
out in your vicinity at all times with some drugs,
so this way you can score and then they can
blackmail you and your.

Speaker 1 (01:07:38):
Dad, right, yeah, so and that may have been how
that went down, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:07:45):
Yeah, and so yeah, I don't believe Hunter paid any
visits to the Charlotte Garden End. But yeah, I mean, look,
this is everybody knows what goes on in a lot
of these motels. People you know, in the neighborhood. They've
complaining about this stuff for years. And years, Like you said,
the police have received hundreds of calls for service to

(01:08:06):
this location. And you know the question is, why would
local law enforcement not initiate uh investigations? You know, why
did it take the FEDS to come in and do this.
It's like that water fountain in d C where you
know it hasn't been working in two deck ones and yeah,
and then Trump comes along and fight, Yeah, you know what,

(01:08:28):
we're going to actually fix this thing.

Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
And then oh, people are mad about yeah right, They're
all yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:08:34):
And then he did another one too. There was like
a I don't know the name of this park, have
not not been to DC in decades, and so like
there's this like waterfall kind of feature in like this
long stretch of a park and that thing's been shut down.
It was like a basically a homeless camp and that
all got cleaned up too, and people are mad about
that as well. It's and you know this, it also

(01:08:55):
speaks to the candidacy of Spencer Pratt out in Los
Angeles that is getting all of this attention and buzz
and he's he's simply and I think Trump is doing
this as well, with just these little fixes right that
show you care. It's it's really like the Rudy Giuliani philosophy,
the broken windows philosophy, which is, if you send these

(01:09:17):
signals that you don't care about these public spaces, then
the messages get received by the worst people and they say, okay, well,
if you don't care, then I'm just going to abuse
the public space and the public that is in those
public spaces. And if you just care, and you just
take some steps to say, you know, no, we're going
to we're going to clean this up and we're going

(01:09:38):
to prevent you know, this abuse from occurring, the message
gets received as well. It's you know, these are all
choices that voters make, that the residents make. We will
put up with this stuff as long as we are
willing to put up with it. And if we're not
willing to put up with it, then somebody will come
along and amplify and articulate that message and they will

(01:10:01):
be elected and they will be able to make these changes.
But there's this completely idiotic idea, this ideology that says,
oh no, it's like suicidal empathy. It's like, oh, we
can't do these things because will hurt their feelings or
you know, we're the more humane people. And that's why
I'm very interested in that the Spencer Pratt race in

(01:10:23):
LA because that could be a harbinger of something else
if he is successful. And I don't know if he
will be, but it could be.

Speaker 1 (01:10:31):
I think there's I think there's a very good chance
he could make that. Because they have that jungle primary
in California, it's just looney tunes. Man. That's why it's
always so rich hearing some like a newsom or some
California politician lecture people on elections, right because I voted
in California when I lived there for college, man, and
it's it's like I didn't understand what the hell was

(01:10:53):
going on with the jungle primaries. Then you realize that
on the ballot a lot of the races are just
two Democrats.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
Ah yeah, well.

Speaker 3 (01:11:03):
Yeah, and now because of the governor's race where they
could have ended up with I don't know if this
will happen now, but you had two Republicans that were
actually leading in the polls and all because there was
like something like four hundred thousand Democrats on the ballot,
and so they were worried that all of those votes
were getting split up and So now you've got some

(01:11:23):
legislation in the General Assembly to do away with the
jungle primary because the Democrats could actually get shut out
because the two Republicans are leading one and two, and
so you could end up with only Republicans on that ballot.
So now it's like, Okay, we did the jungle primary
in order to ensure that a Democrat would always win.
Now it looks like that mechanism might hurt us. So

(01:11:46):
now we're going to do away with that law so
we can make sure that there's always a Democrat on
the ballot.

Speaker 1 (01:11:51):
It's the amount of manipulation out there. And I want
to say, I think that proposal is like a one
time thing or I read yeah, kind of like I
don't know, kind of like what Virginia tried to do.

Speaker 3 (01:12:04):
Yeah, contemporary suspension of the way we're doing things because
we are at a disadvantage, right, And that's really what
this comes down to the Democrat Party. I'm sure you've
gone over the autopsy from the twenty twenty four elections.

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
Love man. I mean, you don't even bring up cognitive issues.
Nothing I do made me boiled me as they would.
They had the little notes in there, right, and so
there'd be some sentence that is one hundred percent verifiably true,
and then they'd be like, this is not supported by research.

(01:12:40):
And the sentence was the sky is blue right right,
And I'm like, what a waste of time this is, man,
You sat on it for two years?

Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
Well, and here's the thing. You read through that and
it's I think it's like one hundred and fifty pages
or something, and I read through it and nowhere, nowhere
do they talk about any of their policies, their ideas,
the things that actually matter to people. They did not
talk about. They talked about tech, They talked about turnout,

(01:13:10):
get out the vote, operations, the fundraising, like the advertising
and what they always come back to. And this is
what democrats always do whenever they lose. They always say,
it's not about our policies or ideas, it's the messaging.
We just didn't get our message out. It's like, no,
pretty sure people got your message loud and clear after
four years of watching you do the things that made

(01:13:33):
the country crazy, and they rejected it. But they can't
say that because they can't alienate the base that turns
out in all their primaries. So like, I don't see
an off ramp for the party because they are unwilling
to even identify the problem.

Speaker 1 (01:13:50):
Well, no, the grant. You know, there's rumblings that the
grand Platner thing is just that's become a super wedge
issue with the National Party. Right, They're like, there's a
few people are just like we're going to get cooked
with moderates on this. Dude. Well, then Trico and Texas,
I mean, do they have one person? Do they have

(01:14:11):
one Democrat man in Texas that presents as a man
or do we get tall Rico what was in the
betto before? Like they don't have one. They don't have
one in Texas, right, guy? They not look stupid eating
a giant turkey leg right. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
Which, by the way, just free tip here to all
the political campaigners and stuff. If you're going to eat
food in public as a candidate, don't make it a
phallic looking piece of food, okay, because the Internet is
going to drag you for that and they're going to
photoshop and it's just it's not it's just not advisable, Okay.

(01:14:50):
So that being said, Yeah, like Beto Robert Franciso Rourke,
who was supposed to be the Savior to beat Ted Kruz.
He lost by like two points to Ted Cruts, right,
and so they think that, Okay, we've got this Tallarico guy.
And look, he's a seminarian. And I think because because
they don't speak the language of you know, Christian conservatives,

(01:15:14):
they think that's enough. It doesn't matter. The stuff that
he's saying is understood to be heretical.

Speaker 1 (01:15:22):
On Jesus didn't infect abortions. What No?

Speaker 3 (01:15:25):
Yeah, right, God is non binary, there are you know,
there are six genders in yeah. And then he says
that the annunciation, the Immaculate conception, that that is proof
that God's totally cool with abortion. And when when Christians
here this, they're like, oh, you're using God's word to

(01:15:46):
lead people away from God. And that is actually worse
than just being a sinner, you know. And that's what
Ken Paxton is being framed as. He's a sinner. He
had the affair and he was impeached.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
But a quit full child rapist on this guy. Child
rapists I see everywhere getting called because that's the new thing.
Everyone's a child rapist now right.

Speaker 3 (01:16:07):
It's like it's like the early two thousands racist, you know,
it's like we're going to throw these words out, We're
going to smear people with these words. And then what
happens is the words lose all meaning, like genocide and
all of that. So that's where so that that's the
state of that race. And like tall Rico is like
an even worse version of betto and so and Texas

(01:16:29):
went for Trump by like fourteen points or something like
this is the guy. And they're so starved to try
the Democrat parties, they're so starved to get somebody to
win back male voters after telling male voters, particularly white
male voters, we don't need you, we don't. In fact,
I just saw there was a clip from some politician
Democrats somewhere, I think up in Wisconsin or something, who's saying,

(01:16:53):
we don't need you. If we just get all the
women out, we don't need any men. Like okay, lin Man,
I guess that's a strategy to just become like a
one gender party. But when you lose black men, Hispanic men,
white men, right, and you keep bashing them as part
of your party's rhetoric, you cannot be surprised when they
don't turn out to vote for you, because you've quite

(01:17:13):
obviously identified them as the opposition just because they were
born a dude. So this is the guy that they're
going to bring up, and he's going to attract the dudes.
He's like Tim Walls, Like remember that was like, oh,
look at Tim Walls. He wears camouflage.

Speaker 1 (01:17:29):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah right yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:17:37):
But this is again because they don't think like the
people they're trying to woo, and they don't have anybody
in their camp that thinks like the people they're trying
to woo. This is why it sounds like this is
like this is some sort of cheap, knockoff Temu version
of masculinity. And that's why I think they fell in
love with Graham Plattner, because look at him. He's an

(01:17:59):
oyster farmer, he's a NEPO baby, and he sells only
to like his mom's restaurant. But then all of this
other stuff turns up from his Reddit poop posting, and
now people they're in a jam because like, like you said,
I don't really think that voters in Maine are going
to be cool with him saying yeah, I wish that
purple heart recipient actually got killed. He should have been killed,

(01:18:20):
and you know, how do you square that? And the
dude worked for Blackwater.

Speaker 1 (01:18:24):
Like and then there's so much they had a congressional
candidate in New Jersey they just found out used to
work for al Qaeda? Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:18:34):
Is that this is that disqualifying?

Speaker 1 (01:18:36):
And now well technically it was a charity that was
a fake front for al Qaeda. Right, I guess maybe
you get a pass there. I don't know, Pete, I
gotta I gotta spin you over to one thing. So
you saw that there has been absolute pandemonium since they
announced the bands or the acts that would be playing
as part of the two hundred and fifties celebration, right, yeah,

(01:18:57):
two fifty and now multi pull ones that were on
the roster. And by the way, I hate how the
media does this because they pretend like they just put
their names out clearly like they had had conversations with
their management, probably had paid to cause it scheduled this stuff. Sure,
So now you have Morris Day says he'll not be playing,

(01:19:20):
Martina McBride and and Brett Michaels, And if you read
their statement, especially Brett Michaels, basically it's like I don't
want to get shot, right, So we're to a point
where they're getting death threats and we can't even do
this towns. You saw that town in Massachusetts. It just
canceled their Fourth of July. It's a bunch of moonbats

(01:19:41):
who run it and they're just pretend like so they're
just not going to celebrate it this year, just to
stick it to Trump. We're so ripe in this. If
Martina McBride thinks she's gonna get shot, she can't sing
her song Independence Day.

Speaker 3 (01:19:55):
Right well, And it's also they don't want to anger
the eu weptists who are not violent, but the ones
who are, you know, leading an online pressure campaign, right,
they hate Trump so much, like how dare you do this?
And so it's now toxic to participate in a July
fourth celebration. That's where that and that's where the Democrat

(01:20:16):
Party is, and it ties into the grand platter stuff
is like the base wants what it wants, and the
base believes America is bad. We are the oppressor and
Trump is the sort of the personification of that. And
so if you do anything to celebrate America and Trump
is any way tangentially related to it, now you're the
enemy too. And yeah, that's why they're all pulling out.

(01:20:38):
They're just cowards.

Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
Yeah, I got to leave it there. Pete appreciate it
when like di'd a couples. Oh man, I even get
to the Witch's story. Maybe we'll do that next week.
All right, thank you sir, having a good weekend. Talk
soon and we'll be right back. Can you be thirty five?
Thank you mister Pete Calendar for joining us. Hey, I
was just ross. Have you seen? I am so looking

(01:21:01):
forward to this movie and I realized I hadn't brought
it up on the show yet. But they have another
trailer that came out. Do you have any interest in
Disclosure Day?

Speaker 2 (01:21:10):
That's the new Steven Spielberg, Right, that's the Spielbery alien flick.

Speaker 1 (01:21:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
I heard it's about aliens, but it's not really about aliens.

Speaker 1 (01:21:19):
What does that mean?

Speaker 2 (01:21:20):
I heard like it's got like you know, like sub
like text messaging, or it's going to be about you know,
it's all going to be like a metaphor for something
or symbolic of something or Oh I just want it
to be like a cool alien movie.

Speaker 5 (01:21:32):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
I don't want to I don't want to watch and
be like, oh, what they're really saying, is this is
symbolic of immigrant or something like that.

Speaker 1 (01:21:40):
Oh yeah, I would have a hard time believing that
Spielberg is necessarily going to go there. I mean, I'm
looking at review I'm looking at some of the reviews
that have come out. They're mostly positive, and I don't
see a lot of politics in it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:52):
Yeah that's good, that'd be perfect.

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
Yeah, just dude, Stephen, Stephen Spielberg is my childhood right,
just entertain us, and I don't has he done anything
super political? I guess unless you're an anti Semite and
you think Schindler's List was.

Speaker 2 (01:22:10):
Dude. I was just about to say, yeah, I'm sure
there's a segment of the population that's like, yeah, one movie, dude.

Speaker 1 (01:22:16):
Are you kidding? I just learned that there's a conspiracy
among some people that the Jews declared war on Germany.
I was just explaining this to Ross because I saw
it in some guy. I don't know if you saw
the story. Some guy decided he was going to he
saw Helen Mirren, the actress in London, and starts chasing her,
screaming craziness at her, and they identified him, and people

(01:22:37):
are going through his social media and this guy's all
in on the Jews actually declared war on Germany, and
Germany was simply responding. I didn't even know.

Speaker 6 (01:22:45):
That was a thing.

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
I didn't know. Now I gotta figure out if I
want to go down the rabbit hole and figure out
the totality of that insanity or just enjoy him a weekend.
But going back to man, Yeah, I don't know what
was the last thing Spielberg. Well, no, his last movie bombed, right,
didn Spielberg's last movie bombed? And he wasn't that West

(01:23:09):
Side Story that was Spielberg, Right, I don't know. Yeah,
I think that that didn't do well. I don't know
if it was for political reasons. I think people just
didn't go watch it. But yeah, you give Steven Spielberg
meddling around in action or sci fi. I'm in.

Speaker 2 (01:23:23):
I recently saw clip of him talking about like why
the movies aren't working like they used to anymore, you know,
besides pricing and the cost of a ticket, and he
said a lot of it comes down to the magic
is gone because the Internet spoils absolutely everything, so there's
no surprises anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:23:40):
Yeah, but I mean, like I I haven't been spoiled
you have to. I'm sorry. I think that if you
provide moderate filtering, you cannot spoil yourself, right, Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
Kind of like watching movies. Yeah, but I think I
don't like you. A lot of times. You do have
to go out of your way to spoil stuff. But
a lot of people don't have the self control. So
you'll start off and you're like and you're gonna start
a series and be like, oh, this is great, I'm
not gonna do anything, and then like one or two
episodes go by, and then you're like, well, let me
just go on and see how this ends, and then
it's really Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:24:13):
Yeah, I think for a movie it's a little different
than a series. I can't kind of get that. I
would just just give me, just give me a great
Spielberg flick and I'm in. He had that alien movie
years ago. What was the one where the kids it
was with the it was named after like a video
camera or something, right.

Speaker 2 (01:24:34):
Yeah, it was like eight millimeter or nine millimeter. Now
one of those is a movie about like stuff, so
you'll be careful.

Speaker 1 (01:24:42):
I think that's seven millime here, Nige stuff movie. Yeah,
but yeah, there's some stuff in there. You should if
you got the kids and you're walking into the two theaters, right,
because let's just say, it's gonna be very interesting discussion
on the way home trying to explain that to him. Yeah,

(01:25:04):
but like that was a pretty good movie. But then
I realized I haven't thought of that movie and probably
what a decade or whatever since it's come out. So
I don't know what was the last great Spielberg movie.
That's what I'm trying to I think.

Speaker 2 (01:25:22):
Didn't he produce like Ready Player one or something?

Speaker 1 (01:25:25):
Okay, yeah, all right, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
But even then it didn't like hold the magic of say,
like an et, it's not the same. But with this
new movie, he got John Williams to do the music
for it. And John Williams is ninety four and was
pretty much retired and came and he said, okay, I'll
do this for Steven and apparently he nailed it again.

Speaker 1 (01:25:44):
Yeah. Well, I mean, guy's got a pretty good track
record there. But like, I mean, just think think of
the game changing nature of the movies that Spielberg brought forth.
The original Jurassic park Man that was if you weren't
alive in the early nineties, you're listening to the show like,

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here's the thing. The whole story about how they were
able to do Jurassic Park basically brought about the building
of the company that ended up being really the leader
in special effects going forward because they figured out how
to make that dinosaur up here there.

Speaker 2 (01:26:24):
Yeah, no, it's industrial Layton magic.

Speaker 1 (01:26:27):
Exactly, and nobody thought it could be done.

Speaker 2 (01:26:30):
Which was a George Lucas project as well as Pixar.
Pixar started as a computer program that George Lucas was
working on that would kind of, you know, put all
the digital effects into place. Same thing. People don't realize
how much George Lucas really changed the industry. Same thing
with photoshop. Photoshop is a product. It came about by

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something George Lucas was working on.

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
When Jurassic Park came out. I don't know if there's
anything that's some or other than Jurassic Park that people
talked about from an entertainment perspective.

Speaker 2 (01:27:04):
And people in the industry, people in the industry, because
you still had a lot of the physical effects right right,
But when that movie came out, it was sort of like,
all right, well, obviously this is the direction movies are
gonna go in. It was the nail in the coffin
for a lot of the physical effects stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:27:18):
Sure, although it's now a lot more people are getting
back to physical effects too. I was I was reading
something where you have directors or what, and I don't know.
Maybe it's a cost savings thing. I don't know, and
a time saving thing, yeah for sure. But like, but
you know, Spielberg Bangers, Jurassic Park, E t ed T,
Indiana Jones, Saving Private Ryan. That was a Spielberg, right,

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I think that was a Spielberg movie. I mean just
just killing it. Of course, you got Jaws, I mean
everything under the Sun. And uh, that's right, this is
what I was checking. So he did Lincoln too. That's
what I want to make sure before I brought that up.
All right, so what's the other movie? What's the movie?

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So you don't walk into the snuff film movie? Hang on,
let me look this up real quick. Hey man, I'm
just looking out for you. You don't have to explain
snuff films to your kids. So let's they heard it
on the show here and now that's your project. So
uh yeah, super eight that's what the movie's called. Okay, Yeah,

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so don't confuse those two whatever you do. Don't do it?
All right, dude, this is getting so tiring. Do you
guys know who Corey Carrie? Excuse me, I want to
get her name right. Carrie Champion is ESPN. She was
with the ESPN and she does like WNBA coverage all

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this stuff, all right, So she's like, hey, you know
what I'm gonna do. She Elsea does a podcast, because
of course everyone does a podcast. She decided that she
was gonna use her podcast yesterday just to take down
Caitlin Clark. Man, this stuff's getting so tiring. Champion blasted
Clark's entitlement, saying she does not like how the twenty
four year old behaves on the court. Quote, I don't

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like you. I don't like the way you behave on
the court, and the league is positioning you to be
a superstar. Hugh this stuff and there's a trend. There's
a trend, and some of you're not gonna like to
hear it. This comparison I'm gonna make this is Jackie
Robinson stuff, man, And I don't mean it's the same

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the same, right, But what I mean is there is
this clear distaste within you know, many many people within
the league positions of power, and of course within the
sports media there that are openly racist, man, openly racist.

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And if you look at if you go look at
old headlines from like going back to Jackie Robinson, the
way that sports reporters would write stuff, super racist stuff.
How is this any different, man?

Speaker 2 (01:30:11):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:30:12):
By the way she said, hold on, there's one other
quote here. Champion also criticized Kaitlin Clark receiving blatant favoritism
and in fact, uh pointing out that she was able
to go tell a ref to quote open their eyes,
which nobody else can do. Ross. Would you check and

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see if any pro athlete has ever questioned an official's vision.

Speaker 2 (01:30:40):
Let me let me check they have.

Speaker 1 (01:30:41):
Yeah, oh really, okay, just this one incident or no.

Speaker 2 (01:30:47):
It's happened many times.

Speaker 1 (01:30:48):
Mm hmm, okay, that's it's just gross, man. And it's like, like,
I don't know, I see her out there and she's
getting poked in the eye over and over again, and
then nobody's doing anything. So maybe I have a little
different perspective, but you know, just just the ability to
be somebody's supposed to kind of be impartially covering this

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and then just you're gonna do a takedown of arguably
the biggest draw. Well, you think they're coming to see
mss me bound ross. What's that stat? Do you want
any you guys want to hear a crazy stat. Here's
a fun stat on Angel Reese.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
Oh yeah, no, it was her shooting percentage. I saw
this at a few Yeah, so it's you know, here's
Angel Reese's shooting percentage. You know, right underneath the hoop
five feet away, three feet five, you know, in the
post three pointer, underneath the rim, she's something like thirty
forty percent. Right. However, every other place on the court,

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she's at zero percent.

Speaker 1 (01:31:46):
Outside of five feet She's never made a shot. She
is getting ready to set the record for rebounds though,
So there's that Oh look at the time. All right,
mister ray stage, I'll have to do it.

Speaker 10 (01:32:01):
Okay, that's fine, because you didn't want to get me
in that conversation. I'll just say this, I won't watch.
And she got a te for that saying that to
that ref too, by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:32:10):
Anyway, yeah she did. So Anyway, I think I just
don't understand it. It's like, why, why sligh the Golden
people won't watch whatever.

Speaker 10 (01:32:18):
Exactly you're exactly right. You saw it in the game.
She got injured. People didn't even show up when they
found out. It was probably too late, but people won't watch,
and that's the way it's gonna go if you don't
like it anyway. Beautiful day today, mostly missing the rain.
Tomorrow there could be a shower thundershower west and south.
I think that's where most of it's gonna be, but
I wouldn't be surprised try it, especially in points south

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and south and east of that where the stationary front is.
But beautiful day. Upper seventies, low eighties today. Tomorrow, a
lot of clouds around, slight chance of showers, low to
mid eighties. That will drop into the seventies. Pretty pleasant
air mass coming in as we get into Sunday and
early next week. Next week looks like it's gonna be
a nice week.

Speaker 6 (01:32:57):
We need more rain. Their drought modelor has changed things
a little bit, but not enough.

Speaker 1 (01:33:01):
Okay, all right, having good weekend, sir, appreciate it, and
we'll come back with Bloomberg News next. Bloomberg Update now
with Denise Pellegrini. Denise, what's happening?

Speaker 11 (01:33:09):
Well, that deal on gas you can get at Costco
is helping boost business. It's reporting higher than expected profit
in the latest quarter. The company's membership renewal right was
great too, almost ninety percent, and it's sold a record
breaking volume of goods during the quarter. Its gas business, Casey,
experienced unprecedented demand thanks to the war in the Middle East.

(01:33:32):
Starbucks is giving bigger bonuses to tech workers who use
AI best a quarter of bonuses paid to tech employees
will be pegged to department wide goals that include AI
adoption as the company looks especially for those employees who
are using AI to boost efficiency. Growing number of companies
are launching smaller, cheaper products. You probably noticed this. We've

(01:33:54):
talked about some of the shwingflation before. Coca Cola selling
soda and skinnier cheaper bottles. Target has new offerings and
its toy department for five dollars. Still Land is planning
two new car models that will sell for under thirty
thousand dollars. Boston beer, maker of sam Adams, now offering
four pack sixteen ounce clusters of their product, and some

(01:34:16):
are even cutting prices. We've talked about PepsiCo slashing their
prices before, but now the experts say sinflation shrink flation.
Cinflation shrink flation is going to be a whole new thing,
and we're going to see it really taken to a
whole new level. We could get to the point where
a bag of potato chips has just one potato chip

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in it. Flavormaxing also a new thing. You know, there's
Starbucks Banana bread Match. I know you're not a Starbucks fan,
but Taco Bell. You know, all these companies they have
their own weird combinations of things, you know, all these
things they try to get buzz onto, you know, on
TikTok and everything so that they can boost their business.

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And now analysts tell Bloomberg that flavormaxing and the flavor
economy is now a whole new economy of itself where
companies are just creating unique and novel food items to
maximize novelty and drive sales, and that they have stopped
focusing on taste or quality altogether. Stock futures are higher

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right now, do futures up twenty four s and P
futures gaining forty three, Nestek futures up to forty two.
I was wondering, Casey, what's sort of the weirdest flavormaxing
thing you've seen.

Speaker 1 (01:35:33):
I refuse to participate. I don't know. Remember the jelly
beans that tastes like vomit that they made for you?

Speaker 11 (01:35:41):
Yes, yes, yes, And that's sort of akin to my favorite,
which is prunoo prison wine. Yeah, a fermented mash of
rotten fruit, bread, ketchup and sugar hidden in a plastic bag.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
Oh yeah, that's not created.

Speaker 11 (01:35:59):
By Madison Avenue, but I think it takes the cake.

Speaker 1 (01:36:03):
Imagine not being in prison and wanting to taste that.
I understand why the prisoners drinking. Yeah, I don't got options.

Speaker 11 (01:36:09):
But then you get out of prison and instead of
being able to have normal food belonging to give you
tuna and peanut butter on a honey.

Speaker 1 (01:36:19):
Boom go away. All right, we're gonna have to leave
it there. Have a good weekend, Denise, and what you're doing,
all right, Denise Pellegrini there Bloomberg News. Very sad to
see that. I don't understand this. By the way, it
looks like somebody may have messed with this headline. Groundbreaking

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for first BUCkies and Ross's private stall in North Carolina
will be June tenth. I don't remember that from the
story I sent you yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:36:51):
Didn't we discuss this previously on the show.

Speaker 1 (01:36:54):
Where you get a private bathroom stall there?

Speaker 2 (01:36:56):
I thought it was agreed upunt right also, but what.

Speaker 1 (01:36:59):
Ross also wants to do is when he's on the
show and he has to go, he wants the ability
to go and then drive to BUCkies, thus missing probably
forty five to an hour. But no, this thing's not
going to open until late twenty twenty seven. It takes
eighteen months to build a BUCkies. Make that make sense.

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The Empire State Building was built in thirteen and a
half months, for perspective, and we can't churn a BUCkies
out and under eighteen months. Yes, speed this. I've never
been so disappointed as to learn that it's going to
be late twenty twenty seven before this thing opens. Like,

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what is the complication there? Man, Empire State Building thirteen
and a half months, BUCkies bah eighteen months. Either way,
you know it's sure to be very popular and maybe
even Ross will get his own little his own little
stall there.