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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
We are dealing with a relentless and unmitigated attack on
my childhood, many of your childhoods, really, anyone who was
a child of the eighties. This week has been the
absolute worst. If I could just recap before we get
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to I'm sure you're fully aware of where I'm going
with this, but let's just let's just jump in the
way back machine to Monday of this week, when tragically
we had to tell you about Malcolm Jamal Warner, the
oldest of the Cosby kids, who was just trying to
take a Caribbean vacation, gets pulled out to see by
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a rip current and tragically loses his life his And
then you start thinking about, you know, the Cosby Yes,
I know all the cospy baggage and everything that's there,
but you start thinking about that, and then just days
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later we find out that Ozzy Osbourne. Now some would
argue he's from the seventies. I would argue though, that
Black Sabbath kicked him out in seventy nine and he
did his best work in the eighties with his solo albums,
the first two of which were just I mean, you know,
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top tier albums of all time.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Kind of stuff, and then and then yesterday this do
you know who stem that is right inside?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Imagine him in yellow spandexy and a tear away shirt,
jamming tar with the American flag.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
You've seen the meme.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Hulk Hogan.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Hulk Hogan is the third in this.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Just got off a week Ross. I'm surprised you're here today, man.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I consider taking the day off. I really did. I'm
not even gonna lie like I really was, like, so
I get out of the jim yesterday. Yeah, right, I
get out. I don't know what time it was, maybe
like a little after eleven or something.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, because because you're the one who told me. Because
I there's a window where I just don't engage with
anything that updates from a news standpoint.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I don't. I have my phone.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Only there's only like three people who can text my
phone where it'll make a noise, and Ross is.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
One of them.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And so I'm sitting there in a world of I'm
watching like YouTube videos. I'm just like now, I'm not
learning anything. And then Ross reached out, So you're at
the I tell people how you that's thing?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
So I wasn't on my phone because I'm at the gym,
and I put that away in my pocket. You know,
I just focus on the workout. I get back in
my car and I check out my phone, open it up,
and my phone is blown up, blown up. You have
no idea, Like the notifications on my phone just ridiculous,
the amount of people that are texting.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Me a terrorist.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yeah, So I opened it up. In the first message
I saw was Kyle Wilson's from News and it's a
photo is front porch with the American flag and he said, uh,
you know, just put out the flag, you know, in
memory of a real American rip. And I'm like, whoa wait,
what happened? So I opened I opened up X. I
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immediately feel like I've been gut punched, like the big
leg has been dropped in my childhood.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Right. Yes.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
And I sit in my car for like fifteen minutes,
teen twenty minutes and Mark you can see where I
am because it define mine like a kN iPhone app.
And she's like are you all right? And I'm like, yeah,
I guess and she's like, what's r I'm like, Hull
Cogan died and she she just respect I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah she knows. Yeah, And then is that when you
texted me. Yes, that's when you texted me, Because if
Ross texts me, that's the other indicator. If Ross texts
me and it's not just some goofy story or something
or letting me know that a guest book, Yeah, that's
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that is very rare. Indeed, I don't think people under
I am so sad.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Yeah, and I'm so sad.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
People don't understand. If you weren't there in the eighties,
you do not understand the cultural phenomenon that was hul Cogan.
He was an integral part of that decade. You take
hull covid my bedspread. Yeah, my Bedspread's what I'm saying. Yeah,
he was up the and I I can't I can't
like if listen. He was up there in the eighties
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with Michael Jackson, Madonna, oh yeah, the Top NFL, Joe Montana.
He was part of the eighties and it was that
patriotism such a good role model at the time. Just
think about that song. You just played the theme song
that is such a patriotic song about courage and bravery,
and every kid when that song would hit you would
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get goosebumps. As a kid. Yeah, demand was like a
it's like Superman died. That's what I saw a cartoon
an Ax where it was, you know, it was a
cartoon of Hulk Hogan walking away into the sunset with
a little kid holding a Hulk Cogan action figure. And
that's what it feels like. It sucks man, Like, I
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saw that.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I saw your post, and I saw that, and then
I saw somebody who was spamming your post to promote
some realist block ye blocked him. Yeah, I just I
just want those people executed. I don't know, like that's
just disgusting to me.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
But yeah, if you're like a Blue gen X kid,
it's been a crappy week. Yeah, it's been really bad.
And the reason for this too, I was thinking about
it is we can all sort of like unite around
these things, and I don't know if the current generation
can really do what we're doing now. Back then, what
you had what twenty thirty channels at the most, Oh,
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we had less until we had Saturday when I was
in the middle school and some of us had what
like thirteen channels or something. Yeah, and we would all
watch the same shows and we would all get up
on Saturday and watch the same cartoons and we would
watch Saturday Morning wrestling and when we see Hulk. And
this is why it's been a really crappy week because
we all watched The Cosby Show. We all did well
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except Jeff Bellinger, right, except Jeff Bellinger. But you know,
we all watched the Cosby Show. We know, you know,
we grew up with the Oh. And then we all
saw Ozzy on MTV, and we all saw Hulk Hogan
on Saturday mornings, and we didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
See him on Saturday mornings like he verwhere Ross is
correct in the sense that he was everywhere. He was
in all the commercials. Veggie, he had his own vibe.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I had lunch, the lunch box and the thermis, the
wrestling buddies, the.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Tool wrestling buddy, the bedspreads, the everything. The posters I
remember I've talked about on the show. Every now and then.
My mom would be like, I think it was mostly
to shut us up. When we go up to Walmart
and Sheridan, She'd like, you can pick out a poster.
And that was That was the next thirty minutes of
my life going through And you know the big thing
that's like a picture book that was on the end
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cap he flipped through all the posters and you know,
half of them were Hulk Hogan and you get one
of those.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
It's just a matter of back then, right, there weren't
a billion different options on streaming, so we all watched
the same thing, so we all sort of had the
same culture. We could all quote the same movies and
all the same lines. So it's been like a you know,
for this generation and generation that grown up that way
in the eighties, it's been a bad week. It's just
been awful because you know, it just.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Dawned on me and I should have pulled it. Is
stallone explaining how he got them to do the movie
and all of that pretty.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Fast because Vince didn't want him to do Rocky three.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah, and and Hulk had he was able to tell
Vince McMahon, I'm doing it, and uh, and there's nothing
you can do about it.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
And McMahon had to bend the knee. Man.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Eventually he had to ben the knee because the star
power of hul Cogan was just too much, especially after
the movie, which again I don't understand why I didn't
want him to do the movie. That probably was uh
if there was maybe a handful of people, although I
would I would find it difficult to not know who
Hogan was.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Obviously there he is now in the movie.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
So yeah, have they they've decided it was a heart attack.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Is that what I'm to understand?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Uh, cardiac arrest?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
So and you know this and I'll tell you why
it hit hard. And this is is a little individual.
I just one of my friend's funerals was Wednesday. He
was he was a and he was born. I just
realized that he was born the same year as Hogan.
Just a very good friend of mine who over the
years got to know he own he owns a hotel,
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in a restaurant and all that stuff, and made it
a point to spend a lot of money there. But
also we became friends, vacationed with him a couple times.
And so I'm already like I'm already in funeral mode
and I'm seeing all these stories come out, and it's
just like, I just.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
What else?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You know, that's what you ask yourself?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
What else?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Man?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
And as you can imagine, it's hitting a lot of people,
a lot of people really really hard.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
And it was seventy one. I said, somebody write this
and it's so true, Like for a professional wrestler from
the nineteen eighties to live to like in their seventies,
that's like for a regular person that lived to like
one hundred and.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Two, especially in the eighties, That's what I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, No,
you're absolutely right, man. I like Rick Flair. Rick, How
old is Ric Flair?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I don't know, but I can't believe like he's the
last one standing amongst like you know, the legends. And
some people are like, I don't listen when I say that,
Because I said that in a comment somebody replied to somebody,
and somebody's like, but what about and it named a
bunch of people that you would have to google to
find out who they are who wrestle.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Well, I'm not trying to challenge, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
I'm just saying, like Hall of Famer classic, like really,
there has to be a few more, but like you know,
the two giants of the time right then on the
route Rushmore, you'd have to admit it's HAULK. Hogan and
Rick Flair. And I'm just surprised that Flair has outlasted Hogan, right,
because he's I mean, it's been a fun life, He's
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had fun not exactly clean living, That's what I'm saying.
But I hear you. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
In fact, here is Rick Flair.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
People all one of the fatus, and that it means
when we were actually very very close friends and we
camp went up with each other on a regular basis.
So I just talked to Jimmy Heart yesterday and he
was fine.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
And they have to happen, just horrible.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
How did you get the news? I'm so sorry, Rereck,
I am so sorry.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
Oh, I've gotten it from everybody. My boat won't stop.
We had magic. I mean it wasn't like me in Steamboat,
but we had We just had a chemistry that was
I felt like equal to me in Steamboat, but in
a different way. And he was so over I mean
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I went when I went there in the nineties, I
had never seen anything like it in my life. The
music started and he came down the hallway and I
mean I would get him down for two minutes, and
we have It's just an unbelievable relationship.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
I mean, And.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
I'll give you an idea of almost fun we had
working together. If we were doing a dark match after TV,
he would we would go on and say room service
and throw me in and give me the boot, drop
the big leg at me.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
We got back in a hotel for room service.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
I mean, that's that's how much fun we are working together.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Dude, Rick Flair is inconsolable. That's how big of a
deal it was. Did to see Ric Flair sobbing.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
No, you know, but the other thing too. And this
is not taken away from Ric Flair. I expect to
hear a bunch of wrestlers commenting on this, being heartbroken.
Speaker 10 (12:38):
But like.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Everyone is, we have politician audio man because it's just
like you have to if you're if you're desantists, you
have to comment on it. If you're Tom Holman, who
I just realized sounds an awful lot like Rick Flair,
doesn't he though he does? So Tom Hogan right, all right,
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the government dude, the the immigration guy. Here's Tom Mahoman's
audio that is set my favorite Cogan memory.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I love Hulk Hogan.
Speaker 11 (13:14):
I got I hadn't the time Mastiff dog two hundred pounds?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Its name O Holman, Oh.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
People, oh wae, I love I han't the time Mastiff dog.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Two hundred Maybe not quite, but it's there. There's some
there there, so like, yeah, man, just just craziness. I
don't think, I don't know that. There's a big argument
though over what was the best Hulk Hogan moment though,
right in the ring.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Is that even for every child ever, it's WrestleMania three.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And and this right here, this guy, well he is okay,
this professional.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Likely in the world today.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
You look at that, if if if, if you're younger,
if you're young enough that you were not.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
There to take in all of this era.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
One love that you listen to the show too, Go
watch that, Go watch because again Andre, that just Andre
the Giant being who he was and Hogan doing what.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Happened there in the ring.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Is uh.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
It busted your brain, man, It literally busted your brain.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
It was like a real life superhero. It was like
he Man in physical form. It was like watching David
versus Goliath. Yea, it was the big Yeah. We talked
about it for weeks at the lunch table and I
in elementary school.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Did you see that? And every kid did see it
because going back, going back to the h the channels thing,
I think I saw I saw somebody post under that
clip one of the like the New York TV News,
you know, like the straight Local News did a story
on it.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Right, it was New York. It wasn't even Detroit.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
It was.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
They did a story on the fact that Hulk Hogan
slammed Andre the Giant like it was an update from
the Middle East, just because they realized it was so crazy.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Fourteen years ago. As asked in the show, what was
the biggest, you know, sporting event I can remember in
my childhood? And my answer was Hulk Hogan slamming Andre
the Giant. I was like fourteen fifteen years ago. I
remember that, yeah, and I meant it and I still do.
It was just had such a big cultural impact. It
was just insane, all right. So we got wet, as
you can imagine, we got it. We got to a
sound on that. We got a bunch to get into today.
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Pete Calender will be joining us at eight oh five.
We'll see, uh, we'll get his Hogan memory. Plus we'll
talk about some other stuff. So stick around right back.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Even if you're listening right now and you just hate
it when we talk about wrestling, it ain't just about wrestling. Clearly,
that's where people know Hogan from. But they know him
from a bunch of other stuff because it's the length
of legacy.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
It's the length of.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Legacy that's there and and and even outside of the
wrestling ring. Right, this is UH, this is right. Let
me play this for you.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
This is this is the beginning, all right.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
This is the Alpha. Yesday was the Omega, all right.
This is Hulk Hogan's very first intro in UH in
the wrestling ring there, right, the first produced one by
the UH was there was this was it w w
E by then?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
No was still a regional right yeah, Well I'm not sure,
but it's like a video montage of, like, you know,
an introduction video of this guy that's coming to wrestle
in the organization.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Yeah, listen to this.
Speaker 12 (17:09):
This man is not a television illusion. He is not
an artist conception. He is not a figment of the imagination.
Speaker 13 (17:25):
He is real.
Speaker 12 (17:28):
He stands an amazing six foot seven inches tall. He
weighs an incredible three hundred and twenty four pounds.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
He is the Hulk.
Speaker 12 (17:46):
The Hulk, without a doubt, is the most awesome figure
in professional wrestling today.
Speaker 14 (17:52):
His measurements are almost unbelievable.
Speaker 12 (17:56):
His neck measures twenty four and three quarter inches, his
chest expands to an incredible fifty nine inches. His biceps
are twenty six inches, and at the end of these
powerful arms are to twelve inch fists. This magnificent upper
body tapers off to only a thirty four inch waist.
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The Hawk is supported by treelike legs that can leg
press over nineteen hundred pounds. Combine these amazing measurements with
more brute strength than you can imagine, and you have.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
The haul hal.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Remember when you could just take that all in? Remember
when you could just take that all in?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Ross. I don't know if you say I fight. Did
I send it to you on YouTube or on Twitter?
When I sent that video last? Was it last week?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
I think it was on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I think it was on Twitter. Did you have you
been back to that? I don't know if it's that
one I saw. I like because people were reposting this
video and then people were community noting the numbers they
were throwing out, and it's just like it.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Shine, come on, man. It's like when like at the
end of blood Sport back in the day where you
watch the whole movie, and then at the movie it
was like, you know, the fine like they put this
like crawl up on the screen of the and it
was like the Frank Duke's records at the Kumaite And
you're like, wait, that was supposed to be a real movie. Yes,
fastest kick point, you know, fastest kick knockout point to
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the records.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
He holds, yeah, well yeah, ye hyeah dude, So yeah, yeah,
you don't need to just just take it in for
what it is. So that's like, well, that's the beginning.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
And of course he got smaller because the pythons went
from twenty six inches to twenty four inch pythons. Well,
why slam Dondra. So yeah, hey man, these things change,
you know, you.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Get older, these things right wait, hold on, what is
this Boston Way?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Hold on?
Speaker 5 (19:45):
You get an email from Boston Paul here?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Uh just wait, It'll only get well, you're a ray
of sunshine. It only get worse as you get older. Look, look,
I'm sure when you were a young man in the
founding father started to die that was a big deal
for you. So I'm sorry you had to go through that.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I was thinking about this and really there's only there's
only one other person from my childhood where like I have,
I'm not really affected by celebrity deaths that much. The
last time I was upset and really, you know, really
took a few days to think about it was Robin Williams.
That was one that really remember you were you were
really that one really hit me hard. And this one
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was like yesterday, I didn't cry, but it was very somber,
like it was a somber day, like it was part
of my childhood. Was like you know, like I said,
the big leg was dropped in my childhood. The only
one I can think of that would really affect me
like this one would probably be Patrick Stewart, Like once
Picard goes, I like protect that manner. Uh I listen.
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I love William Shatner, but I mean I grew up
on TG and you know that ship. So yeah, but yeah,
it's gonna be a bad day too. So hopefully that's
not going to be for another you know years.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
I couldn't God have taken Marty right, That's you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Do you think Hogan would have cowardly like jumped through
that window, the barbershop window, harbor.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
No, no, no, no, Hogan's people threw people through barbershop windows.
Come on, man, So now have we heard from our
wrestler listener.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I'm Marty Garner.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Yeah, I haven't no, okay, i'd be interested. Yeah, I
got it.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I got to assume you worked with him around him
at some point, so ah yeah, and and so that
was the alpha. But just to show you the relevance
that Hogan had, we were just sitting here a year ago,
not even a year ago, and you know, Hulk Hogan's
up there tearing a shirt off at the RNC.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Man, what happened last week when they took a shot
at my hero and they tried to kill the next
president of the United States? Laws enough And I said,
what Trumpamania, Ron wild Brother.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Let trump Amania roll again.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Let trump Amania make America right again.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
You know something Trump bites.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
I didn't come here as Hault Cogan, but I just
had to give you a little taste.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
As an entertainer.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I tried to stay out of politics, but after everything
that's happened to our country over the past four years
and everything that happened last weekend, I can no longer
stay silent because I want the world to know that
Donald Trump is a real American hero, and I'm proud
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to support my hero as the next President of this
United States.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
And you also have to understand the time in the
draw because if you ever if you ever go to
an RNC or a DNC for that matter, and I
have been both covering them, there's people speaking basically all
the time. It's just relentless. There's uh and or there's
business being conducted with the delegates, but there's always someone talking.
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And and but in where the seating is is varying
levels of fullness. When Hogan's out there, it's full, right,
That's one when you get your list, you get the
big the list for the for the few days that
it is of who's going to be speaking and when.
And obviously he was speaking ahead of when Trump was
going to speak, so it's going to be busy. But
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I'm telling you, like even when, like even Sarah Palin's
introduction wasn't full at the r n C and Saint
Paul that year with bi King because we were literally
we were doing a live broadcast at the time it
was happening, and we could see out into there and
then we might have commented on something that.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Got me in Troy. But but like Hogan, the thing
was jam. Everyone wanted to see Hogan man, you.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Know, I remember when they made that announcement, there were
a lot of like younger people mocking it. Yeah, even
a bit older mocking it like a wooh cares. And
I'm like, I don't know, man, there's a big chunk
of middle aged gen X that's gonna care about Hulkogan because,
like I said, he was like the he man of
our era, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And and I also saw people where they were talking
about how Trump was desperate, He's got to go dig
up like relics. You have to understand these dudes have
they've they've been friends for a long time, long before
Trump ever decided to get into politics. The Hogan Trump
relationship to I don't know the full extent of what
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it was over all the years, but like these guys,
these guys had a relationship. And remember Trump, you know,
had in the periphery. He had involvement with McMahon. There's
obviously you know he would he showed up for various events,
he was in the ring. He slapped when he slapped McMahon, right,
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that was one of the bits they were doing like
this is this is where and where is the oh
there here it is so this is WrestleMania four, right,
just so I want to make Yeah, this is leaning
into it.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah with the because everybody thinks about the Hogan Andre match,
you know WrestleMania three, which we played that audio, but yeah,
WrestleMania four. It was also leading up to like like
a remat, like they were Yeah, but you gotta.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Car right because it's so big, you gotta you know,
it's like Hollywood making a sequel.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
So and so, I mean, this is the promo for it.
Speaker 15 (25:30):
But if you look in their eyes, man, have you
seen the fear in all those little holsters?
Speaker 7 (25:35):
They realize?
Speaker 15 (25:36):
Then when I get Andre the Giant send stuff in
the launched position. When I slam him through the Trump
Plaza brother from New York down to Tampa, Florida.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
The fault line is gonna break off.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
It is Andre the.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Giant falls into the ocean.
Speaker 15 (25:51):
That's my next two opponents fall to the ocean Florida.
I tend him, so will Donald Trump and all the
hag of Adiacs. But it's Donald trum pegone to the
top of the Trump Plaza.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
With his family under his other arm.
Speaker 15 (26:04):
As they say to the bottom of us say thank god,
Donald Trump's a hawk.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Commaniac.
Speaker 15 (26:10):
He'll know enough to let go off his materialistic possessions.
Hang on to the license kids, dog paddle with his
life all the way to safety. But Donald, if something happens,
you run out of gas and all those little hawk
of maniacs run out of gas, just hang on to
the largest back in the world. And our dog paddle
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us backstruck all of us the safety.
Speaker 12 (26:33):
Oh thank you, haul hag and let's get back to action.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I mean, listen, once again. I started off the show
saying this. You had to be there to understand the positivity,
the optimism, and the patriotism of the eighties. And we
all grew up in that. And that's why we can
look at the world around us today and realize this
ain't right. It can be better.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
People want to say, well, that was reality.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
But it was dude. It was like I lived through it.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I remember it.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Like, oh, it's like you know, rose colored glasses or whatever. No, dude,
it was different. And there are those of us alive
who lived through it. Who knows what it was like.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
We're trying and and we're at the right age.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yes, it exactly, And like I'm saying, like, people don't
realize like back in the day before Donald Trump was
painted as this horrible, awful Nazi racist, which is complete
bull right. People looked up to it. It was like
he's the cool billionaire guy. That's why he was in movies,
That's why he was everywhere.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
One, and and look, I'll give you a comparable.
Speaker 16 (27:38):
Two.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I watched my friend cry, uh when Earnhardt died. He
was he was, he was Grey, was a huge racing fan.
We're watching that race and I actually I was, actually
I was rooting for the guy who who hit him,
Stirley Marlin, because we would we would literally like we'd
do pools stuff on it. So and I think he
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was kind of mad at me. Craig was kind of
mad at me. The dude was tore up.
Speaker 17 (28:07):
He was.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
He was Earnhart.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Too, he still is.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
My dad was too, man, My dad cried over that. Yeah,
like I because you know, he's from a country boy
from New York. It's not all you know, the city
of obviously, And like he would watch Nascarloton and he
would he would record the races on his VHS and
remember him rewinding that that accident over you did get
the lag that?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah, yeah, man, watching that watching that. I I remember
there was there's like five of us. We're in a
living room and we're all watching this thing, and you know,
everything's fast, of everyone's in a good mood. You know,
we got snacks. Greg's got a stupid dog over that
he would chew on all the furniture. I hated that dog,
(28:49):
and I'd be like, do we not bring your your
your dog over? But everyone was just happy. And then
we're watching that and you don't immediately know what happened,
you just know, and then you get the sense that
this saint's your stick because it wasn't even in the
grand scheme of things. It wasn't that aggressive of of
a wreck. It was it was you know, you see
(29:11):
these videos of guys where their car flips over three
times and then within five seconds they jimmy themselves out
of the door and they're just running away in case
there's a fire. And then you see this and then
you see everything stop and you see what's going on.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
And then it hit.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And then when it hit, it was five miserable people
just sitting in a room. Greg goes in the kitchen.
I'll tell this story. He goes in the kitchen. He
calls somebody. I think he called his dad because his
dad was a huge racing fan, And like fifteen minutes,
Larter he comes out. His eyes are red like he
was wet right after the news.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
We got the news. So the just the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
So you know, maybe that's your comparable. That's where that's
where a lot of people are with whole Cogan. The difference,
of course, is Hogan's in his seventies. It's a long
lifespan for people of that wrestling era for a variety
of reasons, whereas Dale Earnhardt, right, he's still racing at
top level. So but yeah, yeah, so there's a lot there,
(30:13):
all right, So let me get well, it's the only
cut I haven't played.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
So here's Rond DeSantis says.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
By the way, can we also grab whoever decided? While
Rond de Santis is talking about Florida resident Terry Bullet
Hulk Cogan and his commenting on that, who had to
choose that moment to start screaming about Donald Trump and
Epstein in the middle of the Santa Can we take
them to El Salvador. I'll pitch in for the ticket.
(30:41):
Ross you want to, you pitch in for the ticket
a little.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
We'll get this guy.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
El Salvador as a really nice place. We can take
whoever this lunatic is. But you can't just for five minutes.
Here's Ronda Santis.
Speaker 8 (30:51):
As a Floridian, as somebody that grew up in west
central Florida. I was sad to see the news that
that Haul Cogan passed away today. He was a a
major icon for anybody in gen X. I can tell
you growing up then in the eighties and in particularly
the early nineties, he was really beginning actually really was
a star. First before even he was Hulcamania, but when
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he was Thunderlips and Rocky three, and that was like
a huge, huge deal. I mean, obviously that was a
great movie franchise with Sylvester Stallone. So he was Thunderlips
and then a couple of years later became the World
Wrestling Federation Heavyweight Champion, and you know, as a young kid,
like you know, I'm growing up, and it's like, you know,
that was like somebody's like, wow, that's our superhero kind
(31:36):
of deal.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah, and obviously we cut the lunatic out, but and
then also the part where you know when you look
at Florida. You look at the major metros the way,
you know, Miami and Tampa have very different vibes. Tampa's
very blue collar and that's where Hogan lived, and it's
not unusual if there's a lot of wrestlers there. But
I don't know, man, it's just something about that not
being Miami. That's interesting, all right, real quick, Eric up.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Hey, Kassey guy.
Speaker 16 (32:02):
I Uh, I just started listening to you guys the
show recently.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I'm glad I found you.
Speaker 16 (32:07):
And I heard your reference a listener that's a wrestler
a couple of times, and I just heard Ras say
his name was Marty Garner, and then it just I
just lit up because when I was a kid, me
and my buddies used to do a little backyard wrestling thing.
Speaker 9 (32:22):
Yeah, and uh, come to find out that in one
of my.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Friends of apartment complexes lived Marty Garner and we had
seen him wrestle as Champagne a couple of times and
a couple of these uh independent federations, and he was
so cool. He took us in his house. He showed
us all of his boots and everything, and it was
just the highlight of our our you know, highlight of
our time, just just back then. I just wanted to
throw that into that real quick. If Marty's listening, I
(32:47):
really appreciate it.
Speaker 16 (32:48):
And you are always remember Champagne.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
All right, man, that is awesome, dude, that's what this is.
This is hold on, hit the right button. Yeah yeah,
so well i'd be interested. I'd be interested. I'm not
I'll be interested if you hear from him. Rosst Just
kind of dude.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
If I was a kid in my neighbor, like somebody
living in my apartment complex, it was like a professional wrestler,
it'd been the greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Oh my god, except for Marty Jeannetti.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Absolute coward.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
I'm sorry, it's just picking out, dude, right, not the time,
all right, phone number eight eight eight nine three four
seven eight seven four.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
So yeah, yeah, I know, I know we've we spent
the first hour of the show on this.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
But worth it, absolutely worth it, because you have to
think of it outside the bounds of just the wrestling
and understand the cultural impact of what it was. And
uh and especially if you were of that age when
you were still all in on this stuff.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Man, all in on this.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
This is it's a huge huge loss. All right, we'll
take a break. I'll be right back hanging up. Obviously,
were talking about the uh you know, whul Cogan dead
at seventy one, and as and and and really just
what it was to be in that era, man, what
it was to be in that era, and.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Just watching all unfold around you. We were off the air.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
We were talking about lunchboxes and uh, like you're the
old thermis lunchboxes and even the ones that proceed that,
Like that was a big that could that could make
or break you at school. I'm not even exaggerating. We
had a kid bring a Flipper lunchbox, which is crazy
because Flipper was what was that the sixties.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
I think I think his grandma about it.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
For you know that that could break you as a kid,
like your lunchbox, your thermos or your trapper keeper like
it had to be on point.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Oh god, don't let it be something dumb man, you
know what that but Slipper kid never let that.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
That stuck with him for years.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I don't have the lunch box anymore, but I have
the thermis that came at the whole Cogan thermos. I
found one with the fireworks on the cover and now
he's just striking the pose, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Yeah, yeah, okay, I had I didn't have just a
Hogan one, but I had one with like six or
seven of them on there that was, you know, all
just standing there striking a pose. And I remember I
had a Transformer one. I can't remember any of the
others I had any who. I remember my first one
was metal though.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
And it got all rusty.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
That's how you got tennis, I guess you could.
Speaker 17 (35:29):
So.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I looked at some calls. Tavares, you're up first, go
right ahead.
Speaker 9 (35:33):
He was going on Tasey Hey, going up Saturday morning.
Speaker 13 (35:39):
When that song came on.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
You could not tell me that I wasn't the Hulkster.
Speaker 9 (35:45):
You couldn't tell me that I wasn't him.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
I was him.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Me and my friend we used to get in the mirror,
tell your.
Speaker 9 (35:54):
Yeah, we were we were black kids from the hood.
Uh we were. We were three hundred pounds muscle bonn
white dude. At that moment, you couldn't tell us any different,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
We had we had to.
Speaker 9 (36:08):
I had to pull over when I heard it. After
hearing Michael Dumal Warner, Ozzie Osbourne like that that era.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
I mean, this is an attack on our childhood, sir,
It's an attack.
Speaker 9 (36:20):
Oh I was going on, hold up, hold on, man ive.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
No what what's what's next?
Speaker 5 (36:27):
I don't know, man, it feels it feels coordinated. It's
been a rough week.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
So you know nowadays when you're you know, you're dancing
around to that song, you're flexing. Nowadays that parents would
put their kids on like eighty HD medicine or something.
It's just tell me we were built.
Speaker 9 (36:42):
We were We were a bunch of kids that were
built different, that were uh that were a free range
kid and not we didn't have a helicopter parents and
uh that that that didn't give us a price for
everything that we that we did. You know you came
in last. That meant you came in last.
Speaker 14 (37:00):
Yeah, that was all right.
Speaker 9 (37:03):
It's different today, man, appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
I'm sorry. I'm sorry to be the one to break
it to you this morning.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
But that is that's the other thing too, Like we
my mom would locked the damn door, go outside, and
weather almost didn't matter. And h I had a little brother,
which if you're a wrestling fan and you got a
little brother, it sucks to be that little brother because
we're trying some stuff out. Oh yeah, and and also
(37:31):
let me grab one more call real quick, and then
I want to add something about the cultural and uh
and really that arab ed what's up, hey.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Casey, good morning man. I'm a little older than you,
So I had gone through my formative years, uh with
you know, the doom and gloom of the seventies, you know,
between uh you know, Watergate and you.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Know the malaise, Yeah, the la I mean, uh, you know, horrible.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Part of presidency. It was like Ronald Reagan his campaign
alone was like that first spark to sort of and
I was talking to Ross about this. It was an
entire cultural gloom between you know, the protests of the
sixties and all that, and every cultural movement has this
sort of flat back, you know, and this was a
(38:22):
good flatback that that happened. Like I said, like Reagan's
presidency started the halster, the you know, the rocky movies,
you know, and and all of a sudden, we saw
the flag and it felt something to be good about.
And for me personally, it was a relief. And by
the way, I did survive a uh a metal lunch
box myself in the seventies. Yeah, I had. I had
(38:44):
come through with David Carradine.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
Man, that's acceptable, absolutely, man.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Yeah, you pretty much superheroes or action movie stuff.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
You were that.
Speaker 5 (38:53):
It was like it was golden you bring a flipper lunchbox.
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Yeah, yeah, you know you were a target.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
You were talking, Yeah, clipper for sure.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
So all right, hey, yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
No, I was just saying I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Oh well, I appreciate you listening, calling in man, and
have yourself a good rest of the day. And let
me piggyback on something he said. And I left this
out at the beginning, but I think it's it also
was the era where the news was incorporated into He
starts he's talking about the slap back and all the
things that were really wrong with Carter and the gas
(39:29):
lines and all of that, and then you know the
you know, the Reagan with his you know, very positive
campaign obviously, and then you get in eighty four, Hope
is that's when he wins the championship Ross. Do you
remember who he beat for the title in eighty four,
Iron Chic, Iron Chic? Yeah, you want to talk about
storytelling of the news of the day then into this
(39:52):
you know, entertainment that couldn't be more perfect.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
Yeah, you had like those are the big villains, right,
they were like Iran in they had the Russians later,
and we talked to before in the show like get
a Sergeant Slaughter When he sided with Iraq, it was
a big deal. And now, like I was recently watching
that Vince McMahon documentary on Netflix and he sort of
apologized for all of that, like he's like, oh, we're sorry.
It was a different time, and it was a different time,
(40:19):
but yeah, it was overly political and you know, maybe
the Iraq thing was insensitive. It was genius, dude, Yeah,
it was genius.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
And it's still not the best heel turn.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
No Hogan, The best he'll turn is Hogan. Yeah, period,
end of story.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Because he was all those things and then he was
the opposite and he couldn't wrap your head around it.
I don't care what anyone says about any of the others, man,
you can have a hard time convincing me that that's
not the best. All Right, it is seven thirteen here
on the CaCO Day Radio program. Let me we'll still
take calls it, We'll take calls the whole one. Did
you see Adam Carolla sad yesterday? He said, protect Steve
(40:57):
Gutenberg at all costs. Yes, yes, dude, We're gonna have
to make a list.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Marky sent me text this morning. She woke up with
a five thirty and the first thing she sent me
was like, well, who died today?
Speaker 2 (41:10):
Who is it? Well, that's your wife's a positive start
to the morning, and say, well, man, it's been a
fun week. Also, Chuck BANNGIONI died. I see a couple
of you have sent me that email. H You know,
I feel bad for Chuck because he's gonna get super
overshadowed this week. But yeah, probably probably some folks who
(41:31):
know who that is.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
All right?
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Um me I got because other stuff did happen for sure.
Now people are sending me the lunchboxes they have and
they want us to tell them whether they're acceptable or not.
All right, fair?
Speaker 5 (41:49):
So this guy had an ALF lunchbox. ALF was acceptable?
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Right?
Speaker 5 (41:53):
I think ALF was acceptable?
Speaker 17 (41:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (41:55):
No, ALF was cool? Half is funny?
Speaker 5 (41:57):
Yeah you could. I'm good with that. Girls could get
away with most anything.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
I'm sure. I actually, I'm sure they had a pecket order.
I just wasn't up to speed on it because we
didn't let him sit at our table.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
So it was changed. Years later, the.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
Girls were like Strawberry Shortcake, Strawberry short Little Pony, cabbage Patch. Yeah,
and then later on it was like new Kids on
the block.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And that was weird because it would
be you know, the girls could put their little heart
throbs on a lunchbox, but if some guy brought.
Speaker 12 (42:31):
In, like a.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
Right Miss Elizabeth or something on a lunchbox had been
frowned upon, Yeah, they'd be.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Like, oh he got that on there, like no, no,
well I want to make out with her.
Speaker 5 (42:42):
No, it's different anyway.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Oh yeah, of course. And the other guy's ask if
mister T's mister T's still acceptable? Heck yeah, man could
have a mister T, just not a flipper one. Sorry
to all you flipper fans. All right, let me can
they keep kind of go overdue? Well, let me do this.
We'll go ahead and hit a break. We'll do a
(43:06):
reset because there's some actual other news that happened. None
of it is big in my opinion, but you know,
that's kind of what we're here for. Plus Pete counter
will join us at eight o five, so stick around.
We'll get into all that next. Sad obviously with the
news this week with Malcolm, Jamal Warner, Ozzy Osbourne and
now Hulk Cogan. Oh, it's just so weird to say
(43:27):
all those within a week, within a week, it is.
Speaker 5 (43:31):
It is nice to be able to get, you.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
Know, to talk about lunchboxes and and just you know,
because that's I don't know, man, there's just so I
feel like some of that stuff which has gone by
the wayside.
Speaker 5 (43:45):
I was asking Ross do kids even do lunch boxes anymore?
Speaker 2 (43:49):
And no, it's the and you know, from an insulation standpoint,
those cloth bags with the velcrow are probably probably insulate better,
but they're not any fun. They're just plain brought.
Speaker 5 (44:04):
What's Lincoln's. Lincoln just has a plain black.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
One, right.
Speaker 4 (44:06):
I mean maybe they do that on away.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
I'm sure they probably do, but it's not it's it's
not the habit. It was a big deal to see
what your what your friends were going to show up
with on the first day of school, right, because it
wasn't just lunchboxes. The trapper keeper and you had the
list of things and you had all the supplies then
you sit down.
Speaker 5 (44:23):
What was the first thing you do in class? Do
you remember the first thing you did in class? Ross?
Speaker 2 (44:28):
The teacher had come out with a bunch of like
meat packing the brown constructure, the paper or you were
told to bring a bunch of paper grocery bags from home.
And then it was arch and Kraft because you had
to cover all your books. That was day That was
day one for me and I suspect most everyone getting
(44:50):
robbed of the lunchbox experience was wasn't just an eighties thing.
Lunchboxes were a thing going back to the fifties. That
sucks for them. They'll never get to know.
Speaker 5 (45:03):
But I don't know, man.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Nowadays you probably get some woke parent and have their
kid bring a Hamas lunchbox to school or something.
Speaker 5 (45:09):
Do they make camas lunchboxes?
Speaker 2 (45:10):
I'm sure somebody h you gotta be careful opening it though,
got the wires?
Speaker 17 (45:19):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (45:20):
Just the worst man? Uh No, actually I found the worst.
Are you ready for this?
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Hold on, I'll tell you the worst is and we're
gonna go to Seattle for this one.
Speaker 17 (45:30):
So.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Uh in Seattle they have a they have a huge,
huge thing like called seafair and uh, I'm not from Seattle.
My mom actually she she lived part of her life
in Seattle. My grandfather worked for Boeing and or in Washington,
(45:56):
and she went to the University of Washington too. So
so we got a chance to go back during Seafair Week,
which is in August.
Speaker 5 (46:03):
And I remember, and I was.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
Junior sophomore in high school something like that, and I remember, see,
I remember just being blown away by Seattle because again
you're a kid from Wyoming and you're just like, it's
a huge city. And yeah, you've been to Denver, and
I had been to Los Angeles before, and I think
that was it up until that time in Portland, but
you know, going to Seattle, it was just it was
so everything was so cool. And over the Seafair Week,
(46:31):
this this thing in August, you have you have all
these boats pulling into the Puget Sound.
Speaker 5 (46:36):
There, You've got you've got.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
Military stuff, you got the Blue Angels going and uh
and and just the whole vibe of Seattle, which clearly
is not the vibe anymore. Right, Seattle's gone a very
different direction where instead of grunge rock emerging, it's crazed,
homeless peoples that live in trash cans, and I'm not
making that up.
Speaker 5 (46:56):
That's an actual thing.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
If you watch the uh that document, I recommend what
is it, Seattle's dying or Seattle is dying.
Speaker 5 (47:04):
One of the local news station's there.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
There's some lunatic in a trash can, which, by the way,
Trump did do something on that yesterday.
Speaker 5 (47:10):
I'll tell you about that coming up. But now are
you ready for this?
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Protesters have taken to the streets to protest the Blue Angels.
Who are you miserable? Piece of who are you? Yes,
protesters are now calling for the end of the air
show component that's part of the Seafair festival. By the way,
(47:37):
the Blue Angels or US Navy pilots, I'm not sure
it's been Blue Angels each time or the whole time,
but they've been doing they've been doing as part of
this since nineteen seventy two. I'm telling you, Seafair takes
over the whole city. It was crazy and it was
so much fun. They have huge concerts and all this stuff,
and so these lunatics decided, uh, they're gonna they They've
(48:01):
even taken billboards out and here's what they say. Say
no to the Blue Angels too, And in it you
see a very diverse group of people, one with their
hands over their ears, uh, and then a woman in
a he job who's got her fist in the air
screaming about stuff, a dog howling, and then some white
(48:25):
lunatic with a bullhorn, and you know they're all in this.
Probably we'll retweet the story and go look at this garbage,
and it says, say no to the Blue Angels. Too loud,
war trauma. I guess that's what the woman's supposed to represent,
because she's a Palestinian or somebody who moved to seat.
I guess that's the reference.
Speaker 5 (48:43):
And then pollution.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Yeah, so they're organizing a protest against having the Blue Angels.
Speaker 4 (48:50):
It's like imperialism, the imperial ended upon the he we
lewisen the news. Back to the future, your too darn
loud thing, right, yeah, shut yeah once again, go back
to get in the time machine, getting delireon and go
back to the eighties and tell somebody that like someone's
gonna be upset about the Blue Angels.
Speaker 5 (49:05):
They think you, they wouldn't believe you.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
You probably don't do lunchboxes because like parents would start,
would you use them to get all political or as
we found out, blue angels are apparently offensive now, so
and I made a joke about, you know, I probably
send their kids with a hamas lunchbox. And then so
we just posted an Amazon listening here for a free
Palestine lunchbox.
Speaker 5 (49:26):
But you can buy right now.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
And get delivered. Uh oh, it's gonna be a little while.
It must be back ordered. This is so dumb, man,
you know what it is. It's the whole thing where like,
you know a lot of schools that were like, really
cancel Halloween because like certain costumes are going to be
offensive to other kids, or certain kids won't be able
to afford a costume so it'll make them feel bad.
(49:51):
And then so some kid comes in with I don't
know what the equivalent would be, like say he Man
was still a thing you walk in today with your
he Man lunchbox, and then it's offensive to kids because
that's not really it's bad for your body image because
it's not really like a physique you could you could
get in this, or it makes fat.
Speaker 5 (50:07):
That's what I'm rocking right now.
Speaker 4 (50:08):
Yeah me too.
Speaker 5 (50:09):
Yeah, yeah, so oh look at this.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
Do you know there were Donald Trump lunchboxes back in
not President Trump, Donald Trump lunchboxes back in the day.
Speaker 5 (50:21):
Man, that'd be weird.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
I don't know, man, I'd probably thought that was a
little weird showing up. So anyway, so you should have
this by August eleventh, ross your new free Palestine lunchbox.
I know you get your bills one, but clearly, uh
clearly gonna want this one.
Speaker 5 (50:39):
Very nice. Who's paying thirty bucks for that garbage?
Speaker 1 (50:42):
Man?
Speaker 3 (50:44):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (50:44):
Yeah, So again just to reiterate the Seattle protesting the
Blue Angels.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
You're right though, man, you get that. You jump back
in the time machine and tell somebody in the eighties
at Vince McMahon to be apologizing for uh the way
that Hulk won the championship and how the Blue Angels
and nobody would believe you. They'd institutionalize you in a
in a hot second, speaking of instantly. Wait, hold on,
(51:12):
let me grab a call. We have a callers holding,
and then I'll share this story about institutions. Hey, Greg,
what's going on?
Speaker 1 (51:21):
Yeah? Hey, two lunchboxes that got me through elementary school
an evil six million dollar man.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
Absolutely those are top tier.
Speaker 5 (51:29):
Absolutely no bills. Oh oh they even we got a bill's.
Speaker 4 (51:33):
Man that's an elite caller, I mean, unbiased opinion.
Speaker 2 (51:39):
Ross says it literally like people will come up to
him at the gym because he's all in bills stuff and.
Speaker 4 (51:43):
Just yeah, no, So I've got two good go Bill stories.
So I get home the other day. Yeah, this was
on Monday, No Tuesday, Tuesday, get home and Lincoln opens
the door for me. He opens the door and I
don't know where he goes Go Bill and he just
walks away nice. And it was the Michael Scott crying meme,
(52:04):
you know what I mean, like or like the Will
Smith crying meme from whatever that movie is, and oh dude,
it's the best. And then the other day I was
at the gym and this woman, this old woman was
staring at me the whole time, staring me down, and
I'm like, it got so weird, Like I'm like, at first,
I'm like, maybe she's looking at the TV behind me.
I'm looking like maybe she's watching, because sometimes that happens.
(52:26):
They're like, this person is staring at me, but they're
looking there's a TV right above your head and that's
what they're watching. But this woman was staring me down.
I got so uncomfortable. Super uncomfortable. Right, I'm like, I
gotta leave because this is again weird. So I get
up to GOM and so I'm just gonna leave go
to another machine, and she goes, hey, I'm like, oh man,
oh no. And I walk over and she's dressed like
a disco ball, like she's got only sequence on right,
(52:48):
old this old black woman and like sequences.
Speaker 2 (52:50):
Old lady workouts.
Speaker 7 (52:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (52:52):
Yeah, she's on the shoulder press and she goes, I
walk over to my what is it? What is this
gonna be about? And she goes she goes go bills
like that.
Speaker 2 (52:59):
Yes, that's because like this is the stuff you know,
to talking about all of these things, whether it's wrestling
or the stuff of the lunch boxes or whatever used
to it used to be like, and it still is
to some extent, especially as you rally around sports and stuff.
But it's like it's just fewer and fewer things that
we can rally around cause we're just like, I'll bet
(53:21):
that person's politics.
Speaker 4 (53:22):
Right right, And me and this woman just talked about
you know, she asked where it's from. She was from Buffalo,
and we used talk about Josh Allen for like twenty
minutes there.
Speaker 2 (53:29):
You go, that's great, man. You didn't bring up you
didn't bring up Trump, sure did not, or Kamala or
Hillary or.
Speaker 4 (53:36):
Nope, nope. Oh we had a conversation for like twenty minutes,
no idea, what are politics? And don't care like normal people. Yeah,
used to, used to do and still do to some extent,
but it.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
Gets harder, man, Like you can't we can't even have
if you can't have political discussions with people who are
there for that purpose. And it's just screaming, Like when
you see these people show up to various events and
you know, uh, some reporters trying to ask them questions
and they're just screaming at them, or some person on
(54:07):
the streets to say, hey, I want to have a conversation,
and they're just like, not, screw you, you're Satan, and
and and then it and then it just it oozes
into everything else.
Speaker 17 (54:16):
Man.
Speaker 2 (54:17):
Although Ross, I've thought I found it pretty I've found
this this list the twenty best and twenty worst lunch boxes. No,
I'm sorry, it's one hundred best and then the twenty
worst on this one website. I scanned all one hundred
lunch boxes. Do you know what's not in there anywhere.
Speaker 4 (54:33):
Don't tell me, hul Kogan. Yes, it's that's garbage. It's trash.
Speaker 2 (54:37):
That whole list, your whole list is is is busted,
and then the worst one is Patriots. So I think,
I don't know, I mean that part checks out. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
So it was weird because one list is clearly accurate
and the other one is hot garbage.
Speaker 4 (54:51):
I mean, to be fair, that could have been accurate
for the time. Joke aside, because like the Patriots were
garbage in the eighties.
Speaker 2 (54:58):
Oh okay, yeah, yeah, I don't know what exact year
that's from. I still remember the doesn't Patriots get blown
out by like fifty three points one time?
Speaker 5 (55:09):
I'm trying to remember who did that to them?
Speaker 2 (55:11):
So maybe that's the photo they used on the front there.
So hang on, though, I was talking about institutions, so
I don't know if you guys saw this yesterday. So
Trump is signing an executive order too, and this is
how they were to restore order to American cities and
remove vagrants from our streets. And so basically there's there's
(55:33):
three main parts here. One, you know, it recognizes that
there if you're homeless, there is a better than better
than fifty percent chance you are suffering from either mental illness,
drug addiction, or both, and it's much higher than fifty percent.
But you one of those things is part of your
(55:53):
life and is contributing to it. And if you're homeless veteran,
it's almost it's it's it's even higher. So just something
to think about. And so it it's not treating all
homeless people the same, right, So one of it, you know,
and and a lot of it's going to require cities
(56:15):
and states to to pull some weight.
Speaker 5 (56:18):
But so in it, he wants to make.
Speaker 2 (56:20):
Available certain resources. I'm sure there's going to be some
financial component there, but but resources that can then be utilized.
But it also requires cities to stop it with this
with you know, openly allowed. I don't know if you
got to see what's going on in LA right now.
(56:42):
So remember how they said, he don't worry all these
fire victims. We're going to fast track all this stuff.
They're not not only that the one hundred million dollar concerts,
all the money. Nobody can figure out why why it's
not just going to the victims, and it's and the
reason is because all the people in these within these charities,
all these they they all got to eat, so they
all pass money through each other, so everyone takes their
(57:03):
little percentage and everyone can keep their charity because yeah,
and it's not to knock on what all charities do,
but it is that process where it's being passed through,
in my opinion, clearly for that purpose. And that's it's
it's ugly, man, it's so ugly. But now on these
(57:23):
on these now cleared sites because army corps went in
there and people also cleared off while people are waiting
for permits so that they can rebuild their houses and
the city's just not issuing them. And by the way,
they're clearly not issuing them in this one part of
the Palisades, which everyone speculates is because they're going to
land grab this stuff so that they can build like
(57:44):
low income housing. They said they weren't going to. It
clearly looks like they're going to. But the bit the
other problem is is now the people have these properties,
the homeless people have moved on to them, and the
city won't do anything about it. So there are you know,
homeless encampments now on the you know these properties in
the Palisades and a Malibu where it's tense city all
(58:05):
over again. And as you can imagine everything that comes
along with that, you know, we get the lunatics running
around with their pants off, screaming at people, and so
Trump saying, here we go. It's called restoring civil commitment.
The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Health
and Human Services, shall take the following actions seek, inappropriate cases,
(58:28):
the reversal of federal or state judicial precedents and the
termination of consent decrees that impede the US's policy of
encouraging civil commitment. So if you are that guy on
the subway who was making people so fear for their
life that that marine had to put him in a chokehold,
if you're any one of these absolute insane people that
(58:50):
you know what you did rises to the level of
me having to talk about it here on the show
because just nobody can believe it. Then know more of
this just you know, hey, you know, just we got
to be compassionate, and it's just it's going to be no, no,
you need mental health care. And if you if you're
not going to get it, then you're gonna be in
a place where you have no choice.
Speaker 5 (59:12):
But to get it.
Speaker 2 (59:14):
And and already people are losing their minds over this.
But there's a lot of crazy almost people. And again
it's not necessarily it's not their fault that they're dealing
with the with with mental health issues. Some of the
stuff is their fault. I mean, you have to make
a decision to start drugs, but like, but in those instances,
(59:36):
then there's also rehab.
Speaker 5 (59:38):
You know, you got to see if that sticks.
Speaker 2 (59:39):
But the mental health component that would solve a lot
of the problem and arguably be a lot healthier for them.
It's a lot healthier now. I understand some people have
some nervousness about the idea that the government can just
throw you in a sanitarium kind of kind of things,
because you know, historically they that power was abused for
(01:00:05):
a variety of reasons. So it will be important what
the guidelines are. And I want him to do it
in a way that literally does try to make the
person who's screaming at people on a subway trying to
bite their own ear with no pants on, I want
them to get better. Okay, I am. I have compassion
for other people, but when you're causing a danger that
(01:00:25):
could cause somebody then to physically react to you or
shoot you. That's not a safe situation for you either.
So but yeah, I can tell you California and other
cities they're gonna fight tooth and nail on this, So
we'll see where it goes. Ray Stagic is here. It
is that wonderful time of the year, and unfortunately on
(01:00:46):
just a horrible day.
Speaker 4 (01:00:47):
No no, no, no, squat Box, what do you mean
he's doing the according today?
Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
Yeah, no, no, no, that's what I said. I said,
what we considering the song that.
Speaker 14 (01:00:56):
We gave him, which is super weird, right, yeah, that
is like premonition, right.
Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
Yeah, it's a it's been a tough day on the show.
It's been a tough week.
Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
I feel like this is in the chats on our
childhood going on here right now.
Speaker 14 (01:01:10):
It is you know what are we like grew up
in like the eighties and now of early nineties.
Speaker 5 (01:01:15):
Yeah, that's kid. Ozzy was Bourne and now was.
Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
A big one.
Speaker 14 (01:01:20):
So I'll never forget quick Auzzie story. The first stereo
ever got. I bought it myself and it was at
these big Sermon Vegas c M tens and they cranked
and I got my azzie album out Diary of a
Mad Man, and I was cranking in my my mother.
My mother went ballistic, she went crazy. It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
Yeah, people always so Ozzie wasn't the eighties, but people
forget Sabbath kicked him out in seventy nine, and he
made arguably his best music with his solo albums, which
were in the eighties. So yeah, anyway, he had to
come correct. All right, So we'll do it as a tribute.
Let's hear it, man, Then we'll do the weather.
Speaker 14 (01:01:55):
Okay, all right, I'll try to get a couple of
measures in here. It's not that difficult, but I here,
So here we go.
Speaker 4 (01:02:00):
All right, So do you need to hear the song?
Speaker 5 (01:02:02):
Yeah, let's heard.
Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
I listen to it.
Speaker 5 (01:02:04):
Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 14 (01:02:06):
Yeah, you're gonna play everyone.
Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
Just yeah, play real quick, every Yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 5 (01:02:12):
That's it. Tom's clashing, all right. Just remember if you
screw this up, it's an insult to his memory. Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (01:02:22):
So I just got the intro.
Speaker 14 (01:02:23):
I don't have the I'll just play what I got,
all right, all right, that's a little harder.
Speaker 5 (01:02:53):
He killed the intro.
Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
Can I just say?
Speaker 5 (01:02:57):
Can I just say you raised agent are a real America.
Speaker 4 (01:03:03):
That was great. We had tons of people texting me
on next saying they were so looking forward to this
segment with right, I.
Speaker 14 (01:03:09):
Can't find the chorus though, the coorse part of it.
You know, you got to go look for these things
on the interweb.
Speaker 4 (01:03:14):
I'm telling you so many messages yesterday like Ray, better
get this right.
Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
Yeah, a lot of pressure, it is. I was gonna
send an email, but then I thought now I was
just making nervous, So.
Speaker 14 (01:03:24):
Yeah, nah, you know it's getting easier.
Speaker 5 (01:03:26):
It's getting easier. Probably that's good Man, helping you get
back into it.
Speaker 17 (01:03:32):
All.
Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
Right, here's the part that I don't want to do,
but ruin our weekend if you could please.
Speaker 4 (01:03:39):
Yeah, hotter as we go on.
Speaker 14 (01:03:41):
So even though maybe a little mid nineties today heat
advisory triangle, try it no, but into the weekend and
next week ninety five to one hundred, maybe hotter and
heating next well above one oh five. The hottest reeds
will be like central, eastern and southern parts of the triangle.
To try. It's still going to be hot, but maybe
not the advisory criteria today, but maybe over the weekend
(01:04:02):
and early next week there is a big cool down
coming later next week. Let's hope for that. Fingers crossed
next week at this time we may be talking about that.
Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
Okay, all right, hey, thank you very much, appreciate it,
and have a good weekend. Okay, oh wait, no, we're
talking an hour. Never mind, I'm an hour. My brain's
friede today and we'll be right back.
Speaker 5 (01:04:19):
Hang on.
Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
It's looking a lot like the Senate race is going
to be former Governor Roy Cooper on one side, and
if Donald Trump apparently has his way, Michael Wattley on
the other. I don't understand. I mean, it's I can't
say that Wattley doesn't have campaign experience, clearly, but he
hasn't been He has never held elected office at a
(01:04:43):
federal level, let alone a state level other than you know,
elections perhaps for you know, party chairs and stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
So you know what.
Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
And and most people don't know who he is too,
that's the other part of this.
Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
So you're gonna have people that are really into politics. No,
but a lot of people don't know who Michael Watley is.
And again I've in my interactions with him, one of
which has included him and I kind of getting into
a little verbal spat over something I don't know, but
I also feel like he's done a very good job
with the RNC this last time, this last cycle around,
(01:05:21):
he could have been better, but I think that at
least they're not listless anymore, which under Rona they were
Rona Rona.
Speaker 5 (01:05:29):
However you said her name, mcdan it was.
Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
That was terrible.
Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
So we'll see. And again that's who the Destin Hall
put a tweet out a few weeks ago and he
said we need to rally around whoever Trump chooses, and
that offended me, like, no, that's not how it works.
So I'll still wait and see who's going to push
out our radio if I find the button there, there
we go, our radio buddy to the south.
Speaker 5 (01:05:52):
How you doing there?
Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
Hey, I'm doing all right. How are you well?
Speaker 5 (01:05:56):
Awful? I mean, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Ozzy now Whole Cogan,
Chuck MANGIONI mentioned.
Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
That, or Chuck Banngoni. Yeah, yeah, I'm not a jazz fan.
Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
That's okay, but our listeners were, so I want to
make sure to add that, which it's it's.
Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
Also what with the guitarists. There was like a guitarist
for a band who died like three days ago. But
like nobody, nobody gave him.
Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
We lost a Cosby kid, rock legend and arguably one
of the most culturally significant icons of the.
Speaker 5 (01:06:29):
Eighties and beyond. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
Hogan was everywhere. People just think I was wrestling, but
they like, they don't understand. I can't I can't remember
how old.
Speaker 5 (01:06:39):
How old are you, Pete.
Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
Fifty one?
Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
Okay, so you're yeah, so you're just you're about six
years older than me. Like, so, yeah, you were there
with the Hogan lunch boxes watching him slam Andre the Giant.
That was insane even if you weren't into it. The
guy was in half the TV commercials there ran in
the morning on Saturdays.
Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Yeah, right, No, Look, I grew up with a my
best friend across the street. He was really into the
wrestling and I was not. But because we were best friends,
I was over at his house whenever they got the
pay per view WrestleMania stuff. And so yeah, I mean
I grew up watching Hulk Hogan wrestle even though I really,
(01:07:24):
you know, didn't care a lot about it. And and
then of course you know the Rocky movie where he
made the appearance. Yeah, he was. He was ubiquitous in uh,
in my childhood. And then of course, like his greatest
achievement was you know, taken out Gawker.
Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
Oh well, the Peter Tiele, the Peter Tiel Holgan story.
By the way, I was just looking at tweets from
former Gawker writers who were like f him and hants
on his grave, so you know, those are nice people.
But for people who don't know, let me just real quick.
So because I don't think rostin you you didn't even know.
Speaker 5 (01:07:57):
This until you really laid it out for you. So
it was isn't just Hogan.
Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
Yeah, Hogan was the moment Peter Teal was waiting for
because Goker went after and outed Peter Teal uh and
and wrote really nasty stuff about him. And if there's
one thing you don't want, it's a billionaire biding his
time for revenge. So it's right right, that's.
Speaker 1 (01:08:22):
Gay. Yeah, Peter Teel is gay. But he was in
the closet and Walker, like you said, outed him, and
he did not want that to be He did not
want to be outed as gay direct and they didn't care.
They published it anyway, and so he you know, swore
revenge and then just like laid in the Bushes waiting.
Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
For his moment, and then when the Hogan thing came up,
he kid He reached out to Hogan and said I
and he said, are you going to sue them? And
he said, I'm broke. I don't have the financial means
to do it, and goes, Hi, I'm Peter Teal, I'm
a billionaire. Let me fund this and I will fund
it for you. Yes, yes, And it did.
Speaker 5 (01:09:01):
It absolutely decimated Goker. And you know what I have,
I have no problem with it.
Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
Gowker was garbage.
Speaker 5 (01:09:08):
That was not journalism. What was being done there?
Speaker 1 (01:09:11):
Right, No, Jo, You remember there was the most egregious
case I think was they had gotten some video of
a drunk I think college girl or something having sex
in a bathroom stall, which like could be and people
made this point at the time like that was non
consensual relations and so like that's rape and you're posting
(01:09:34):
this video and they and she asked them, please take
this video down, and their response was quote blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
Yeah, yeah, no, they were awful exactly that. Yeah, No,
it's just awful, awful.
Speaker 17 (01:09:47):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
I interviewed one of their writers one time, and I
found him to be equally as detestable. That's not a surprise, Yeah,
he just it was just a smarm coming through the phone.
Speaker 5 (01:09:57):
Was something crazy?
Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
Yeah, so yeah, anyway, yeah, that whole story, and there's
much more to it. But if the video of Hogan
was Hogan having sex with Bubba the Love Sponge his
wife that they posted.
Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
Right, that they set him up. I mean they totally
set him up for that to make a payday, right,
Wasn't that The underlying motive was that they they arranged
it and they.
Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
Were pretty definitively proven. But yeah, that is the but
that's that's the story most people accept, yes.
Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
Right, And so when they won their lawsuit, when Hogan
won the lawsuit, because if I remember correctly, it's been
many years, but like nobody knew that Peter Tiel was
behind all of that until after the fact. But when
they lost, when Gawker lost and they had to turn
over everything, all of their records, all their files, they
(01:10:50):
lost everything to Hogan essentially, but I mean all of
their records, all of the you know, digital files, everything
had to be turned over. They lost every and then
Peel just burned it to the ground.
Speaker 6 (01:11:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
Yeah, they they traded because it's part of a larger group,
the Gawker media group, some of which still exist but
not in there, and they still have a lot of
the A hole writers, but you know, for like Kataku
there there. They just they do things like when the
new PlayStation came out, they wrote an article about how
they can't review it because of George Floyd and it's
(01:11:26):
just too hard right now. It's just these are the
people that you're giving. So I'm not making that that's true.
Speaker 9 (01:11:32):
No, I know it.
Speaker 5 (01:11:33):
Yeah, it is one hundred percent true.
Speaker 1 (01:11:35):
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
I got I gotta pivot over to this though, because
this is another big thing. Do you remember the tweet
that Deston Hall put out around the front think it
was the first of July, so just about four weeks
ago he puts this tweet out. He says, the NC
Senate race is too important to be derailed by a messy,
deviceive primary. The real fight is against the radical left
(01:11:57):
destroying our country. And I guess if somebody doesn't know
Deston Hall, the North Carolina Speaker of the House, okay uh.
He then wrote, we must we must unify behind whomever
President Trump picks and send a conservative fighter to d C.
I had a visceral reaction to that, because I'm pretty
sure that's not how it works. But that doesn't mean
(01:12:17):
that whoever Trump picks, and if it is, in fact
Michael what I guess, because Laura Trump doesn't want a
piece of this, it definitely makes him the front runner
for now. But do you think Wattley can beat Cooper?
I'm having a hard time getting there.
Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
Well, okay, So I and I went, I made a
bunch of notes about this when the news, you know,
was breaking. The first thing, like we heard was Cooper
was going to run, and of course, you know, Morgan Jackson,
his campaign guy was like, I can't confirm that, but
Axios had it apparently confirmed. So okay, we're going to
make his Yeah, so he's gonna run. And then the
(01:12:57):
next thing is, okay, well what now on the Republican side?
And then we saw, like, you know, Lara Trump. Is
it Laura or Lara Lara? I was told.
Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
I was told I interviewed her a bunch during the campaign,
and I always told me, ye, Laura, So Laura.
Speaker 1 (01:13:11):
Okay, And so she had said that she was going
to make her decision by Thanksgiving, and when the Cooper
news broke, I was like, she needs to decide right
now because she cannot. She cannot like sit here and
handstring all the Republican field for the next four months
while Cooper is out there raising money and you know,
launching his campaign. So I applaud her for making this
(01:13:33):
decision as quickly as she did. So this way she's
out now. The next thing, and we had seen Rottley's
name kicked around as one of the potential candidates. What
Wrottley brings to the table are a couple things. I think.
Number one, he has a very thick rollodex and for kids,
that means your contact file, Okay, So he knows a
(01:13:54):
lot of people, he has access to a lot of
fundraising money, and that's going to be necessary to go
up against Roy Cooper, not just because Cooper's rolodex is
thick because of the HB two fight where he reached
out all these business leaders in big time left wing
donors all around the country in order to you know,
savage Pat McCrory in North Carolina so he could win
(01:14:16):
the governor's race back in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5 (01:14:19):
So you really like somebody is to cancel job right
as Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (01:14:22):
Yeah, the NBA All Star Game. All yeah, yeah, I
mean just completely, you know, held our state hostage and
said to his fellow Democrats, do not fix HB two
in any way. This remains an issue for me to
campaign on. So if you try to cut a deal,
you will be you know, persona non Glada. And this
is you know, this was a common play from the
(01:14:44):
Cooper playbook. He would primary Democrat legislators who had voted
against his vetos right if they voted to override, if
they voted with the Republicans on stuff, he would he
would back primary opponents against his fellow Democrats. So there
may be there may be some benefit that Wattley has
(01:15:05):
in having that long list of contacts that he can
that he can use. He's never been a candidate before,
but he's been very intimately involved in campaigns, so he
brings that to the table, so he knows kind of
like what works what doesn't. He's very media savvy, does
a lot of media, so he's not going to look like,
you know, this is his first interview ever. Also, he
(01:15:26):
was the North Carolina GOP chairman during Cooper's term, and
so he also will know the issues that Cooper has
in the state, right versus you know, somebody like Laura
Trump coming in and not really knowing Cooper's history during
COVID and all of that. So I think he definitely
(01:15:47):
brings some stuff to the table. We'll see how he does,
you know, on the campaign trail obviously, but the Trump
endorsement is the huge Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:15:55):
That's the other thing though. Have you spent time have
you talked to Lottley on a regular basis? Have you
interacted with him?
Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
Yeah? Well, I mean over the years, yeah, yeah, But.
Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
Like I don't know that he comes across as likable
to everybody. Him and I had an issue and you'll
appreciate this as a radio guy, So for about the
fifteen minutes when Corey Lewandowski was a hot gift, right right,
So that fifteen minutes of time, they had a Civitass
event that they do annually that I used to broadcast
(01:16:24):
at and Wadley reached out to me and he wasn't
the keynote.
Speaker 5 (01:16:30):
The keynote was that doesn't matter, but.
Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
He said hey, and it was clear they were trying
to push tickets and he said, hey, we're going to
have Corey Lewandowski there. Do you want to interview him,
and then you can promote the thing. So I booked
the interview. I don't normally just get handed interviews and
then take him, but I'm like, yeah, we'll talk to him,
had him on the air, he was fine, talk to
him about the stuff. And then I show up at
the event and Lewandowski is, in fact not part of
(01:16:56):
the main event. He was only there for the VIP thing.
And so I tracked down Wiley at this thing and
I said, I said, here's the problem.
Speaker 5 (01:17:06):
I just told all my.
Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
Listeners, who then went and bought tickets that they could
come and they could watch Lewandowski. And now they're reaching
out to me, going, I'm not going to pay to
go to the cocktail thing where he was at for
fifteen minutes, which was an extra you know, one hundred
dollars or whatever. And I told Wyley, I said, I said,
you can't do that because you made me lie to
my listeners and that's all I have, you know what
I'm saying. And he didn't give a flip. He got
(01:17:30):
angry with me and just walked off. So so I've
excuse me if I'm not pumped.
Speaker 1 (01:17:38):
No, Look, hey, I understand, but I've seen some people.
Nick Craig made this comment. I think Stephen Horn made
a similar or somebody responding to maybe Stephen Horn. You know,
the conservative grassroots base, they have had years to find
somebody else to put up and to coalesce around, and
(01:18:01):
they haven't done it. And so, like, you know, like
I'm sympathetic to this idea that Wattley may not be
the best standard bearer for you know, the quote unquote
base or the grassroots or whatever people are identifying themselves as.
But if you don't do the work and get somebody
and fundraise for them and get the donors and all that,
like this is you know. So here's the other thing
(01:18:23):
is that because Wattley doesn't really have because he's never
been elected before, he doesn't have a record. He's kind
of a blank slate right now. On the other hand,
they're going to tie him to Mark Robinson because he's
the GOP cheer, right, They're going to tie him to
every single Republican candidate. But it's not him, right Whereas
Roy Cooper, who yes, has won statewide races everyone he's
(01:18:45):
ever done, he has never seen the kinds of attack
ads that are going to be coming his way now,
because this seat is so important at a national level, right,
and so I suspect that the kinds of attack ads
and the kinds of issues that are going to be raised,
not just on his COVID response. That picture of him
(01:19:05):
walking around at the Black Lives Matter protest march during COVID.
Speaker 2 (01:19:10):
Yeah, I mean, if there's ever.
Speaker 1 (01:19:11):
A picture that captures that, you know, Democrat elite governing caricature,
that's the photo. It's I'm walking you know, white.
Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
It's the big elderly male, call him the Big Three,
It's Roy Cooper, it's Nancy Pelosi the hairdresser, and it's
the French Laundry with Gavin Newsy.
Speaker 5 (01:19:29):
Those three, Yeah, would have been the demise of those three.
Speaker 1 (01:19:32):
And yet here here we go, so well, and it's
so perfect, the mask hanging down off his face, right,
I mean, it's just it perfectly encapsulates the problem. Right.
So you got the COVID stuff, but then you also
have the HB two issue which he ran on, hammered
away at, got elected over right, Well.
Speaker 14 (01:19:49):
Yeah, the mood shift.
Speaker 2 (01:19:52):
Think that's what did it? Dan forst thinks that he
and talking to him and I did a bunch of listeners.
He thinks that just did a better job of scaring people,
and so there was a bunch of split tickets.
Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
And right, yeah, the vibe is shifted now, right that
the HB two issue is no longer an issue that
his position wins. You know, that was a long time
ago in politics. So then so that's the other one,
and then the other the third one is the disaster
response they lie, Yeah, exactly. This guy's response was so
(01:20:28):
bad that Josh Stein, the current governor, also a Democrat,
had to do an entire new relief agency to address
Hurricane Helene because Cooper's model was so bad and broken.
And then that's not even counting. Now what happens with
the with the foreign policy stuff. As a member of
the Senate, he's got to have positions on foreign policy.
(01:20:49):
So what's his position on Gaza, what does he think
about globalized the Intifada? These are questions he's now going
to be getting from media that's not like a lap
dog Raleigh Capital Press or media. These are going to
be media people from outside of the state, and you're
going to have you know, oppositional media coming in as
well doing these stories on Cooper.
Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
Yeah, and he's not going to be You're right, he's
not gonna be able to awe shucks his way. And
let me say this about Wattley because I well, that
is an individual thing, and that speaks to me. I
do give Whatley credit for cleaning up some of the
disaster that was Ron McDaniel.
Speaker 1 (01:21:25):
Yeah, yeah, I mean that's the thing. Like operationally, he
obviously knows what he's doing right because he you know,
he he has you know, he he helped secure and
maintained majorities in the legislature here in North Carolina. He
went to the national level and he won a bunch
of races and helped them, you know, organize and streamline
and fundraise. And I've seen him. I've seen him at
(01:21:47):
an event work in the crowd up in ashrally brought
Ted Cruz to town and he he did a very
good job at that event years ago. So if he's
able to kind of capture he brings in yeah, he
brings in data and makes emotional appeals too. So I
don't know, we'll see, We'll.
Speaker 2 (01:22:03):
See, all right, Pete appreciate it and we'll be right back.
How far away do you think that Jerome Powell wanted
to be from that thing that walked through with Trump yesterday.
Speaker 4 (01:22:12):
Dude, that's like at A twelve the awkwardness there.
Speaker 1 (01:22:16):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:22:17):
So Trump just goes over the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell,
and you know it's they're building some stuff out right now.
So they're wearing hard hats and I don't know why
that makes it funnier, but it just does. And you know,
Trump obviously not a fan of Powell. Palell did not
want to be there, and the exchange is just just
listen to it's it's so uncomfortable for Powell.
Speaker 9 (01:22:39):
Man.
Speaker 5 (01:22:39):
I think Trump's loving every minute of it.
Speaker 18 (01:22:41):
You're the president with the chairman, as you know, chairman,
come on over here, and you want to just take
it a look at what's happening. And it's a it's
a tough construction job, building basements where they didn't exist
or expanding them. A lot of very expensive work, there's
no question about it. And Kim has been with me
for a long time, and you're in judge.
Speaker 4 (01:23:03):
Of the committee.
Speaker 17 (01:23:03):
And the one of the reason is what I wanted
to see it was the overruns of the expenses. Wanting
to figure out why. Yeah, so we taking a look
and it looks.
Speaker 18 (01:23:14):
Like it's about three point one billion one up a.
Speaker 9 (01:23:16):
Little bit or a lot.
Speaker 18 (01:23:18):
So the two point seven is now three point one. Yeah,
it just came out.
Speaker 4 (01:23:25):
Yeah, I haven't heard that from anybody.
Speaker 2 (01:23:27):
First, Trump reaches in his pocket. He has a printed
on a piece of pay fer, shoving his pace.
Speaker 9 (01:23:33):
I note about three point one at twelve.
Speaker 1 (01:23:36):
Just came from us.
Speaker 18 (01:23:38):
Yes, I don't know who does that?
Speaker 9 (01:23:43):
Are you including the Martin renovation?
Speaker 4 (01:23:44):
You just add a retired capital you know you just
said you just added in a third buildings with that?
Speaker 12 (01:23:48):
Is that's a third building.
Speaker 18 (01:23:50):
It's a building that's being built.
Speaker 4 (01:23:52):
It's been he was built five years ago.
Speaker 18 (01:23:54):
We finished Martin five years ort to set over as
part of the old world, so new so we'll get
to take a look. You're going to see what's happening.
And it's got a long way. Do you expect any
more additional course, runs.
Speaker 5 (01:24:10):
Don't expect him.
Speaker 2 (01:24:11):
We're ready for him.
Speaker 5 (01:24:12):
But we have a little bit of a reserve that
well we may use.
Speaker 4 (01:24:15):
But no, we don't expect to be finished in twenty
twenty seven.
Speaker 17 (01:24:19):
We're well along as you can see.
Speaker 2 (01:24:23):
And let's and let's just call this what it is.
That's your boss coming over to where you where you
work and watching you. That's Trump did that to f
with Powell, dude.
Speaker 4 (01:24:35):
And so when when Trump starts to throw at the
numbers there and they say, you've got to see the
visual and it we you know, we send it out
on the Twitter account at Casey and the radio. When
he starts giving the numbers, Trump the look on Powell's
face like the confused it's a mixture of confusion and disgusted,
like yeah, he's he's putting his head back and forth
like that isn't right. And then he pulls out the
receipts mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (01:24:57):
Well that's the renov that's the one. That's the rental
we just finished. It's part of the same project. This
was a ten year This was a ten year plan.
This goes back actually to I want to say, this
goes back to a discussion when Trump named Powell during
his first term that they build there's three buildings had
to be rented. Well one was new and then the
others the other two were renovated, so like it is
(01:25:18):
part of the larger cost. But yeah, Powell want to
be anywhere but there. But that's what that was that
was him showing up to ask about TPS reports.
Speaker 4 (01:25:28):
That's what that was.
Speaker 2 (01:25:30):
You agree, right, yeah, one hundred percent. He said, I'm
gonna go over there and see what's up of those
TPS reports.
Speaker 4 (01:25:36):
We're gonna need you here on Saturday.
Speaker 17 (01:25:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (01:25:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:25:42):
By the way, I don't know who they I don't
know who that actor is, but it easily that's it's
one of the best portrayals of that kind of Oh
you're talking about Lumberg, Yeah, Lumberg. Yeah, man, I forget
the actors say he's actual pretty well known actor.
Speaker 5 (01:25:56):
Yeah, there's a there's a bunch of there.
Speaker 2 (01:25:58):
So all right.
Speaker 5 (01:26:00):
What's even crazier is who's the who's the nerdy doe
with the stapler? What's his name.
Speaker 2 (01:26:07):
In office Space by Michael Bolton? No, not Michael Bolton.
The guy who's with the that You think it's gonna
be the shooter? Oh, Milton, yeah, Milton, you know who
that is. That dude's been in so many things, man,
it's Buffalo Bill.
Speaker 17 (01:26:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
From the Silence of the Lamps.
Speaker 4 (01:26:24):
He's been in so many things.
Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
Yeah, he was on the here that TV was the
cop on what was it monk or something's we on
that show.
Speaker 5 (01:26:31):
I think it was on that show. Anyway, He's a classic.
Speaker 2 (01:26:35):
Hey stick with our theme that they're taking everything from
the eighties from us. This week, Chuck E Cheese got arrested.
Speaker 5 (01:26:43):
Yeah, in front of the kids.
Speaker 2 (01:26:46):
There is a photo of this of a dude dressed
in a Chucky Cheese outfit in Tallahassee, Florida. I should
have done Florida. Wow, we're a little tight on time,
So no Florida, man saw. But we've had enough this week.
So they literally they go in, they locate him, he's
dressed as the mascot, and they put him in cuffs
(01:27:10):
and purp walk them right out of the thing, traumatizing
probably dozens of kids. But I don't blame them. So
this is what Because people are getting angry, they're like, oh,
they just did that for the viral nature. No, they
did that because what they arrested him for was stealing
customer's credit card information of the Chuck E Cheese and
then going and spending money. I spent like one hundred
(01:27:33):
and five dollars on this one lady's account. So the
police were actively figuring out this complaint because the woman
had come in she'd be like Hey, this thing happened,
and I have all these charges.
Speaker 5 (01:27:43):
And they had had the woman come in because they
pulled the police.
Speaker 2 (01:27:47):
What they did is they went to the other stores
where these purchases were made. They got whatever surveillance video
they could. They then brought the woman in the same
day they made the arrest and said, you recognize this
person who is using it, and she did because she
had just had her kid's birthday party there and apparently
(01:28:07):
she had seen him outside of the costume. She goes, yeah,
that's that's the dude who was at my kid's birthday.
Was helping us at Chuck E Cheese. So then police
figured out he was at work and they went and
arrested him. That it's just normal stuff, especially when you
consider that he was using his place of employment allegedly
to steal people's financial information and enrich himself. So no,
(01:28:31):
go play some ski ball, get over it. Chuck E
Cheese got arrested.
Speaker 4 (01:28:36):
I wish he tried to run, to be honest, to
see him like running that song?
Speaker 5 (01:28:40):
Can you run one of those? I don't know. I've
seen mascots run.
Speaker 4 (01:28:42):
I guess now I've been in one of the like
a big gorilla suit before when I was a mascot
for Station Up and allbody like way back in the
mid nineties, it was so hard to see in that
that you can't run in those though. I mean you can,
but you're going to crash into things and fall over.
Speaker 2 (01:28:54):
I'd be hilarious though, Well, it'd be even better if
he got away. Is now you're the cop who couldn't
catch the guy in the Chuck e cheese outfit.
Speaker 5 (01:29:05):
Would have hit the gym. That's hot though. That the
other thing too.
Speaker 2 (01:29:10):
Now he's gonna walk outside and that thing. I bet
it's a billion degrees? How hot was it in Tallahassee
the other day?
Speaker 4 (01:29:15):
Did you see somebody saying it with his bail was
set at thirty five hundred tickets?
Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
Oh no, oh, what's Florida man? They don't screw around
with this.
Speaker 4 (01:29:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's uh.
Speaker 2 (01:29:24):
But whether it was even funnier is when they're arresting him.
Did you hear how they addressed him in the office
or grabbed his arm. I'm not making this part up.
They grab his arm and said, Chucky come with me.
So didn't because that's obvious clear it's.
Speaker 5 (01:29:37):
Not the guy's name.
Speaker 2 (01:29:39):
What is the guy's actual name, Yeah, buried down the
story Jamel Jaru Jones. Jamel Jeru Jones say that three
times fast anyway. So, yeah, now he's arrested. This happened
two days ago, so that's why they arrested him. There
he might have been in the act of stealing more
(01:30:00):
off man. All right, So that's it. That's that's all
the eighties stuff just just destroyed today. Check this out
real quick. I'll get to the Biden book stuff next.
You know that Biden's doing a memoir, because of course
he is. Don't you have to remember stuff to do
(01:30:20):
a memoir? Isn't that how that works?
Speaker 5 (01:30:23):
Ross?
Speaker 4 (01:30:24):
I mean, maybe that's why they gave him less than say,
like you know, Obama or Clinton, because I was thinking
the same thing on like three pages. Yeah, I mean
what they're giving him?
Speaker 17 (01:30:33):
What?
Speaker 4 (01:30:33):
Ten million?
Speaker 1 (01:30:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:30:34):
Ten million?
Speaker 4 (01:30:35):
Half of you know, his his administration, his tenure there
was like the auto pen so and he wasn't there
most of the time. So what do you how do
you write?
Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
And arguably he doesn't. I know that the Jeff Daniels
doesn't want to hear this, but even though it's fifty
two years no, I'm sorry it was no, it was
his son that was Hunter was whying about this. The
story of Obama is a lot moreable from a you know,
because who are you selling those kinds of books to.
(01:31:04):
You're selling them to democrats, right, You're selling to people
like Baraco, but people don't like Barack Obama or not
buying his memoir.
Speaker 5 (01:31:11):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:31:11):
I did get a hold of some audio copy of it,
so we could pull a bunch of really funny drops
from him. But I have no use for any of that.
But Joe Biden. Everyone's mad at Joe Biden, you know,
because of everything that just went. So ten million is
probably generous. All right, let me uh, let me snag
a quick call here, Jacob on the Senate race.
Speaker 5 (01:31:34):
What's up, hey?
Speaker 10 (01:31:37):
You know I ran for office here in Wait County
twice in the last five years.
Speaker 11 (01:31:41):
Once for school board in twenty twenty two and county
commissioner last year. And whoever is the candidate. This is
a conservative state. But this race is going to be
decided in Wait County and Mecklenburg County, and it's going to.
Speaker 10 (01:31:54):
Be a turnout race. So whoever ends up being a candidate,
they're gonna have to turn out voters. They're not going
to win that county, They're not going to win Mecklenburg,
but they have got to turn out Republicans. Particularly it's
going to be a midterm year. They're going to have
to turn out Republicans and conservative winging independence and the demographics.
(01:32:16):
I'll just say for where I am north North Raleigh
and Wake Forest area, it has not shifted in our
favor in those areas.
Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
I'm by voting precincts inside the belt line, there's never
Republicans don't get elected there.
Speaker 5 (01:32:30):
So it just doesn't happen.
Speaker 13 (01:32:32):
Yeah, So it's you know, whoever it is.
Speaker 11 (01:32:35):
It's going to have to be somebody who can one
turnout the base and pull over some of those independents
who typically don't come out to vote, particularly in off
your election.
Speaker 5 (01:32:44):
Yeah, I agree, And it also there'll also be a
small part of it too.
Speaker 2 (01:32:48):
It'll be very interesting to see voting patterns in western
North Carolina because I think that turnout won't necessarily be
a problem there. But the question will become, are many
of those mushy middle voters or even to the left
to occasionally vote Republican? Are they angry enough over the
storm stuff still and I guess we'll find out, all right, Jacob,
thanks for the call. Jay, hang on, I'll get you
(01:33:09):
in the last segment. Let's get rased agic though from
the Weather Channel. All right, my man, one more time,
punch right now.
Speaker 5 (01:33:16):
Go ahead.
Speaker 14 (01:33:17):
Yeah, and not only hot, but an extended period of
hot about the triangle points east except out near the coast.
Heat advisories today, extreme he watches for the weekend. Either way,
everybody will be in the mid upper nineties today with
the heat indecks over one hundred. Not much chance of rain. Saturday, sunny, hot,
humid ninety five to one hundred, maybe hotter in some
(01:33:37):
spots with the heat indecks one oh five to maybe
as hot as one ten. Could be a storm Sunday Monday,
but not betting on it. Mid upper nineties, maybe one
hundred spots more on Tuesday, more on Wednesday one hundred
degree heat in and around the triangle. Might not be
quite that hot, but still above ninety five in the triad.
Either way, this extended period of hot weather looks like
it's going to continue through Thursday, so I'm into we
(01:34:00):
might get a pleasant cool down late next week, maybe
next week about this time.
Speaker 2 (01:34:05):
Okay, all right, thank you sir, having good weekend, and
we'll come back with Jeff Bellinger next. I didn't know
Jeff was going to be gone. He didn't take the
whole Cogan News tough diddy.
Speaker 4 (01:34:13):
Oh no, I don't think that's the reason.
Speaker 2 (01:34:17):
I think he just wanted to take a long weekend.
Speaker 4 (01:34:19):
But you never know.
Speaker 19 (01:34:19):
I mean, it could be the one pop culture figure
that he knows a lot about in his hurt bikes.
Speaker 5 (01:34:24):
I was so wanting to ask anyway. All right, well, Monica,
I'll let.
Speaker 9 (01:34:28):
You get to it.
Speaker 19 (01:34:28):
Go right ahead, Well, Casey, the big news today is
that federal regulators have approved Paramounts eight billion dollar merger
with Skydance Media. That stamp of approval from the FCC
follows months of turmoil revolving around President Trump's legal battle
with sixty Minutes, since Paramount owns CBS News Now. Earlier
this month, Paramount agreed to a sixteen million dollars settlement
with the President to help seal the deal, and just
(01:34:51):
last week announced that it would cancel The Late Show
with Stephen Colbert for financial reasons. Scott Dance Media is
led by David Ellison. He takes control of Paramount now
from the Redstone family, which has run the business for decades.
Market futures are mixed but lower this morning, just ahead
of the start of the trading day. The Dow futures
are up forty eight points, Nasdaq futures down seven, and
(01:35:12):
SMP futures are up just five points. President Trump downplayed
clashes with the Federal Reserve and insisted there is no
tension as he toured the fed's renovation site yesterday. That
construction site is made up of two nineteen thirties era
buildings which the FED started upgrading back in twenty twenty two.
The two point five billion dollar overhaul should be completed
(01:35:33):
over the next two years, and Powell did have to
correct the President when he inflated those construction costs have
been in front of journalists. But as far as his
job is concerned, Trump says he doesn't think firing Powell
will be necessary. Tesla plans to launch its Rowo taxi
service this weekend in San Francisco. That's according to an
internal memo to staff, which says some Tesla owners will
(01:35:53):
start getting invites to use the service there as you know.
This officially launched in Texas last month, but the California
DMV says the company has yet to apply for a
permit for driverless testing or deployment. Tesla also seeking permission
to expand to Nevada, Arizona, Florida. Not sure when that's happening,
but way Mo still outnumbers Tesla by a lot. It's
(01:36:14):
got over fifteen hundred autonomous vehicles in five major cities,
including San Francisco, and days after Astronomer CEO Andy Byron
resigned from the tech startup, the hr exec who was
with him at that infamous Coldplay concert she's resigned to.
Kristen Cabot was the company's chief people officer. She got
(01:36:35):
caught cuddling with Byron on a jumbo tron. Of course,
social media went wild, but Casey Astronomer has removed them
both from their website.
Speaker 5 (01:36:43):
Yeah, those memes were top tier.
Speaker 2 (01:36:46):
Yeah, and they're still going. Yeah, what's your what's your
favorite one?
Speaker 4 (01:36:50):
Oh gosh, there have been so many.
Speaker 2 (01:36:51):
I mean, there's a lot of pop culture couples that
have to airplane. Yeah. Of course, the scene where the
stewardess in the like the rubber pilot, the pilot with
his hands on her, that's I think that's leader in
the clubhouse.
Speaker 5 (01:37:06):
All right, Monica. Hey, I appreciate it, Thank you very much. Thanks, Casey.
There you go, Monica. Rick's from Bloomberg News.
Speaker 4 (01:37:12):
There.
Speaker 2 (01:37:13):
I don't know Trump could say there was no tension
with Jerome Powell. Looked like you'd rather be on the moon.
All right, Jay, thanks for hanging on.
Speaker 1 (01:37:20):
What's up, No problem, Happy Friday to you.
Speaker 13 (01:37:23):
Kasey.
Speaker 1 (01:37:23):
Doesn't time fly, yes, but yeah, it really does.
Speaker 13 (01:37:27):
Anyways, I'm a Chucky cheese thing. I think Chucky is
now grilled. But that's another story. I was talking about
the politics, how it's invaded every aspect of the of
our culture, especially the media and your you're and I
think that the deep state is embedded so deeply in
this country. I don't even think the Act of Congress
is going to take it out, but the Congress itself
(01:37:48):
is is. I mean, what are the police going to do?
Arrest themselves? I think Congress has made up of fifty
of the deep state.
Speaker 2 (01:37:55):
Well, I hope they're reading more than that. They all
there is some benefit to things continuing to be large est, Jay,
I gotta I gotta roll, but I appreciate the call
this morning.
Speaker 5 (01:38:04):
Okay okay ja yep, every have a good one there
We are.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
We are dealing with a relentless and unmitigated attack on
my childhood, many of your childhoods, really, anyone who was
a child of the eighties. This week has been the
absolute worst. If I could just recap before we get
(00:25):
to I'm sure you're fully aware of where I'm going
with this, but let's just let's just jump in the
way back machine to Monday of this week, when tragically
we had to tell you about Malcolm Jamal Warner, the
oldest of the Cosby kids, who was just trying to
take a Caribbean vacation, gets pulled out to see by
(00:48):
a rip current and tragically loses his life his And
then you start thinking about, you know, the Cosby Yes,
I know all the cospy baggage and everything that's there,
but you start thinking about that, and then just days
(01:08):
later we find out that Ozzy Osbourne. Now some would
argue he's from the seventies. I would argue though, that
Black Sabbath kicked him out in seventy nine and he
did his best work in the eighties with his solo albums,
the first two of which were just I mean, you know,
(01:30):
top tier albums of all time.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Kind of stuff, and then and then yesterday this do
you know who stem that is right inside?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Imagine him in yellow spandexy and a tear away shirt,
jamming tar with the American flag.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
You've seen the meme.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Hulk Hogan.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Hulk Hogan is the third in this.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Just got off a week Ross. I'm surprised you're here today, man.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I consider taking the day off. I really did. I'm
not even gonna lie like I really was, like, so
I get out of the jim yesterday. Yeah, right, I
get out. I don't know what time it was, maybe
like a little after eleven or something.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, because because you're the one who told me. Because
I there's a window where I just don't engage with
anything that updates from a news standpoint.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
I don't. I have my phone.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Only there's only like three people who can text my
phone where it'll make a noise, and Ross is.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
One of them.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
And so I'm sitting there in a world of I'm
watching like YouTube videos. I'm just like now, I'm not
learning anything. And then Ross reached out, So you're at
the I tell people how you that's thing?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
So I wasn't on my phone because I'm at the gym,
and I put that away in my pocket. You know,
I just focus on the workout. I get back in
my car and I check out my phone, open it up,
and my phone is blown up, blown up. You have
no idea, Like the notifications on my phone just ridiculous,
the amount of people that are texting.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Me a terrorist.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yeah, So I opened it up. In the first message
I saw was Kyle Wilson's from News and it's a
photo is front porch with the American flag and he said, uh,
you know, just put out the flag, you know, in
memory of a real American rip. And I'm like, whoa wait,
what happened? So I opened I opened up X. I
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immediately feel like I've been gut punched, like the big
leg has been dropped in my childhood.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Right. Yes.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
And I sit in my car for like fifteen minutes,
teen twenty minutes and Mark you can see where I
am because it define mine like a kN iPhone app.
And she's like are you all right? And I'm like, yeah,
I guess and she's like, what's r I'm like, Hull
Cogan died and she she just respect I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah she knows. Yeah, And then is that when you
texted me. Yes, that's when you texted me, Because if
Ross texts me, that's the other indicator. If Ross texts
me and it's not just some goofy story or something
or letting me know that a guest book, Yeah, that's
(04:33):
that is very rare. Indeed, I don't think people under
I am so sad.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Yeah, and I'm so sad.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
People don't understand. If you weren't there in the eighties,
you do not understand the cultural phenomenon that was hul Cogan.
He was an integral part of that decade. You take
hull covid my bedspread. Yeah, my Bedspread's what I'm saying. Yeah,
he was up the and I I can't I can't
like if listen. He was up there in the eighties
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with Michael Jackson, Madonna, oh yeah, the Top NFL, Joe Montana.
He was part of the eighties and it was that
patriotism such a good role model at the time. Just
think about that song. You just played the theme song
that is such a patriotic song about courage and bravery,
and every kid when that song would hit you would
(05:24):
get goosebumps. As a kid. Yeah, demand was like a
it's like Superman died. That's what I saw a cartoon
an Ax where it was, you know, it was a
cartoon of Hulk Hogan walking away into the sunset with
a little kid holding a Hulk Cogan action figure. And
that's what it feels like. It sucks man, Like, I
(05:44):
saw that.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I saw your post, and I saw that, and then
I saw somebody who was spamming your post to promote
some realist block ye blocked him. Yeah, I just I
just want those people executed. I don't know, like that's
just disgusting to me.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
But yeah, if you're like a Blue gen X kid,
it's been a crappy week. Yeah, it's been really bad.
And the reason for this too, I was thinking about
it is we can all sort of like unite around
these things, and I don't know if the current generation
can really do what we're doing now. Back then, what
you had what twenty thirty channels at the most, Oh,
(06:18):
we had less until we had Saturday when I was
in the middle school and some of us had what
like thirteen channels or something. Yeah, and we would all
watch the same shows and we would all get up
on Saturday and watch the same cartoons and we would
watch Saturday Morning wrestling and when we see Hulk. And
this is why it's been a really crappy week because
we all watched The Cosby Show. We all did well
(06:38):
except Jeff Bellinger, right, except Jeff Bellinger. But you know,
we all watched the Cosby Show. We know, you know,
we grew up with the Oh. And then we all
saw Ozzy on MTV, and we all saw Hulk Hogan
on Saturday mornings, and we didn't.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
See him on Saturday mornings like he verwhere Ross is
correct in the sense that he was everywhere. He was
in all the commercials. Veggie, he had his own vibe.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I had lunch, the lunch box and the thermis, the
wrestling buddies, the.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Tool wrestling buddy, the bedspreads, the everything. The posters I
remember I've talked about on the show. Every now and then.
My mom would be like, I think it was mostly
to shut us up. When we go up to Walmart
and Sheridan, She'd like, you can pick out a poster.
And that was That was the next thirty minutes of
my life going through And you know the big thing
that's like a picture book that was on the end
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cap he flipped through all the posters and you know,
half of them were Hulk Hogan and you get one
of those.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
It's just a matter of back then, right, there weren't
a billion different options on streaming, so we all watched
the same thing, so we all sort of had the
same culture. We could all quote the same movies and
all the same lines. So it's been like a you know,
for this generation and generation that grown up that way
in the eighties, it's been a bad week. It's just
been awful because you know, it just.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Dawned on me and I should have pulled it. Is
stallone explaining how he got them to do the movie
and all of that pretty.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Fast because Vince didn't want him to do Rocky three.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah, and and Hulk had he was able to tell
Vince McMahon, I'm doing it, and uh, and there's nothing
you can do about it.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
And McMahon had to bend the knee. Man.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Eventually he had to ben the knee because the star
power of hul Cogan was just too much, especially after
the movie, which again I don't understand why I didn't
want him to do the movie. That probably was uh
if there was maybe a handful of people, although I
would I would find it difficult to not know who
Hogan was.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Obviously there he is now in the movie.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
So yeah, have they they've decided it was a heart attack.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Is that what I'm to understand?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Uh, cardiac arrest?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
So and you know this and I'll tell you why
it hit hard. And this is is a little individual.
I just one of my friend's funerals was Wednesday. He
was he was a and he was born. I just
realized that he was born the same year as Hogan.
Just a very good friend of mine who over the
years got to know he own he owns a hotel,
(09:07):
in a restaurant and all that stuff, and made it
a point to spend a lot of money there. But
also we became friends, vacationed with him a couple times.
And so I'm already like I'm already in funeral mode
and I'm seeing all these stories come out, and it's
just like, I just.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
What else?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You know, that's what you ask yourself?
Speaker 5 (09:29):
What else?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Man?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
And as you can imagine, it's hitting a lot of people,
a lot of people really really hard.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
And it was seventy one. I said, somebody write this
and it's so true, Like for a professional wrestler from
the nineteen eighties to live to like in their seventies,
that's like for a regular person that lived to like
one hundred and.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Two, especially in the eighties, That's what I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, No,
you're absolutely right, man. I like Rick Flair. Rick, How
old is Ric Flair?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I don't know, but I can't believe like he's the
last one standing amongst like you know, the legends. And
some people are like, I don't listen when I say that,
Because I said that in a comment somebody replied to somebody,
and somebody's like, but what about and it named a
bunch of people that you would have to google to
find out who they are who wrestle.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Well, I'm not trying to challenge, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
I'm just saying, like Hall of Famer classic, like really,
there has to be a few more, but like you know,
the two giants of the time right then on the
route Rushmore, you'd have to admit it's HAULK. Hogan and
Rick Flair. And I'm just surprised that Flair has outlasted Hogan, right,
because he's I mean, it's been a fun life, He's
(10:39):
had fun not exactly clean living, That's what I'm saying.
But I hear you. Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
In fact, here is Rick Flair.
Speaker 7 (10:48):
People all one of the fatus, and that it means
when we were actually very very close friends and we
camp went up with each other on a regular basis.
So I just talked to Jimmy Heart yesterday and he
was fine.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
And they have to happen, just horrible.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
How did you get the news? I'm so sorry, Rereck,
I am so sorry.
Speaker 7 (11:18):
Oh, I've gotten it from everybody. My boat won't stop.
We had magic. I mean it wasn't like me in Steamboat,
but we had We just had a chemistry that was
I felt like equal to me in Steamboat, but in
a different way. And he was so over I mean
(11:39):
I went when I went there in the nineties, I
had never seen anything like it in my life. The
music started and he came down the hallway and I
mean I would get him down for two minutes, and
we have It's just an unbelievable relationship.
Speaker 9 (11:56):
I mean, And.
Speaker 7 (11:57):
I'll give you an idea of almost fun we had
working together. If we were doing a dark match after TV,
he would we would go on and say room service
and throw me in and give me the boot, drop
the big leg at me.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
We got back in a hotel for room service.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
I mean, that's that's how much fun we are working together.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Dude, Rick Flair is inconsolable. That's how big of a
deal it was. Did to see Ric Flair sobbing.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
No, you know, but the other thing too. And this
is not taken away from Ric Flair. I expect to
hear a bunch of wrestlers commenting on this, being heartbroken.
Speaker 10 (12:38):
But like.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Everyone is, we have politician audio man because it's just
like you have to if you're if you're desantists, you
have to comment on it. If you're Tom Holman, who
I just realized sounds an awful lot like Rick Flair,
doesn't he though he does? So Tom Hogan right, all right,
(13:03):
the government dude, the the immigration guy. Here's Tom Mahoman's
audio that is set my favorite Cogan memory.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I love Hulk Hogan.
Speaker 11 (13:14):
I got I hadn't the time Mastiff dog two hundred pounds?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Its name O Holman, Oh.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
People, oh wae, I love I han't the time Mastiff dog.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Two hundred Maybe not quite, but it's there. There's some
there there, so like, yeah, man, just just craziness. I
don't think, I don't know that. There's a big argument
though over what was the best Hulk Hogan moment though,
right in the ring.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Is that even for every child ever, it's WrestleMania three.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And and this right here, this guy, well he is okay,
this professional.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Likely in the world today.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
You look at that, if if if, if you're younger,
if you're young enough that you were not.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
There to take in all of this era.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
One love that you listen to the show too, Go
watch that, Go watch because again Andre, that just Andre
the Giant being who he was and Hogan doing what.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Happened there in the ring.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
Is uh.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
It busted your brain, man, It literally busted your brain.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
It was like a real life superhero. It was like
he Man in physical form. It was like watching David
versus Goliath. Yea, it was the big Yeah. We talked
about it for weeks at the lunch table and I
in elementary school.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Did you see that? And every kid did see it
because going back, going back to the h the channels thing,
I think I saw I saw somebody post under that
clip one of the like the New York TV News,
you know, like the straight Local News did a story
on it.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Right, it was New York. It wasn't even Detroit.
Speaker 6 (15:30):
It was.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
They did a story on the fact that Hulk Hogan
slammed Andre the Giant like it was an update from
the Middle East, just because they realized it was so crazy.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Fourteen years ago. As asked in the show, what was
the biggest, you know, sporting event I can remember in
my childhood? And my answer was Hulk Hogan slamming Andre
the Giant. I was like fourteen fifteen years ago. I
remember that, yeah, and I meant it and I still do.
It was just had such a big cultural impact. It
was just insane, all right. So we got wet, as
you can imagine, we got it. We got to a
sound on that. We got a bunch to get into today.
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Pete Calender will be joining us at eight oh five.
We'll see, uh, we'll get his Hogan memory. Plus we'll
talk about some other stuff. So stick around right back.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Even if you're listening right now and you just hate
it when we talk about wrestling, it ain't just about wrestling. Clearly,
that's where people know Hogan from. But they know him
from a bunch of other stuff because it's the length
of legacy.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
It's the length of.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Legacy that's there and and and even outside of the
wrestling ring. Right, this is UH, this is right. Let
me play this for you.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
This is this is the beginning, all right.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
This is the Alpha. Yesday was the Omega, all right.
This is Hulk Hogan's very first intro in UH in
the wrestling ring there, right, the first produced one by
the UH was there was this was it w w
E by then?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
No was still a regional right yeah, Well I'm not sure,
but it's like a video montage of, like, you know,
an introduction video of this guy that's coming to wrestle
in the organization.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Yeah, listen to this.
Speaker 12 (17:09):
This man is not a television illusion. He is not
an artist conception. He is not a figment of the imagination.
Speaker 13 (17:25):
He is real.
Speaker 12 (17:28):
He stands an amazing six foot seven inches tall. He
weighs an incredible three hundred and twenty four pounds.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
He is the Hulk.
Speaker 12 (17:46):
The Hulk, without a doubt, is the most awesome figure
in professional wrestling today.
Speaker 14 (17:52):
His measurements are almost unbelievable.
Speaker 12 (17:56):
His neck measures twenty four and three quarter inches, his
chest expands to an incredible fifty nine inches. His biceps
are twenty six inches, and at the end of these
powerful arms are to twelve inch fists. This magnificent upper
body tapers off to only a thirty four inch waist.
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The Hawk is supported by treelike legs that can leg
press over nineteen hundred pounds. Combine these amazing measurements with
more brute strength than you can imagine, and you have.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
The haul hal.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Remember when you could just take that all in? Remember
when you could just take that all in?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Ross. I don't know if you say I fight. Did
I send it to you on YouTube or on Twitter?
When I sent that video last? Was it last week?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
I think it was on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I think it was on Twitter. Did you have you
been back to that? I don't know if it's that
one I saw. I like because people were reposting this
video and then people were community noting the numbers they
were throwing out, and it's just like it.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
Shine, come on, man. It's like when like at the
end of blood Sport back in the day where you
watch the whole movie, and then at the movie it
was like, you know, the fine like they put this
like crawl up on the screen of the and it
was like the Frank Duke's records at the Kumaite And
you're like, wait, that was supposed to be a real movie. Yes,
fastest kick point, you know, fastest kick knockout point to
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the records.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
He holds, yeah, well yeah, ye hyeah dude, So yeah, yeah,
you don't need to just just take it in for
what it is. So that's like, well, that's the beginning.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
And of course he got smaller because the pythons went
from twenty six inches to twenty four inch pythons. Well,
why slam Dondra. So yeah, hey man, these things change,
you know, you.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Get older, these things right wait, hold on, what is
this Boston Way?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Hold on?
Speaker 5 (19:45):
You get an email from Boston Paul here?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Uh just wait, It'll only get well, you're a ray
of sunshine. It only get worse as you get older. Look, look,
I'm sure when you were a young man in the
founding father started to die that was a big deal
for you. So I'm sorry you had to go through that.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
I was thinking about this and really there's only there's
only one other person from my childhood where like I have,
I'm not really affected by celebrity deaths that much. The
last time I was upset and really, you know, really
took a few days to think about it was Robin Williams.
That was one that really remember you were you were
really that one really hit me hard. And this one
(20:26):
was like yesterday, I didn't cry, but it was very somber,
like it was a somber day, like it was part
of my childhood. Was like you know, like I said,
the big leg was dropped in my childhood. The only
one I can think of that would really affect me
like this one would probably be Patrick Stewart, Like once
Picard goes, I like protect that manner. Uh I listen.
(20:49):
I love William Shatner, but I mean I grew up
on TG and you know that ship. So yeah, but yeah,
it's gonna be a bad day too. So hopefully that's
not going to be for another you know years.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
I couldn't God have taken Marty right, That's you know
what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Do you think Hogan would have cowardly like jumped through
that window, the barbershop window, harbor.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
No, no, no, no, Hogan's people threw people through barbershop windows.
Come on, man, So now have we heard from our
wrestler listener.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
I'm Marty Garner.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Yeah, I haven't no, okay, i'd be interested. Yeah, I
got it.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
I got to assume you worked with him around him
at some point, so ah yeah, and and so that
was the alpha. But just to show you the relevance
that Hogan had, we were just sitting here a year ago,
not even a year ago, and you know, Hulk Hogan's
up there tearing a shirt off at the RNC.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Man, what happened last week when they took a shot
at my hero and they tried to kill the next
president of the United States? Laws enough And I said,
what Trumpamania, Ron wild Brother.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Let trump Amania roll again.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
Let trump Amania make America right again.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
You know something Trump bites.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
I didn't come here as Hault Cogan, but I just
had to give you a little taste.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
As an entertainer.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
I tried to stay out of politics, but after everything
that's happened to our country over the past four years
and everything that happened last weekend, I can no longer
stay silent because I want the world to know that
Donald Trump is a real American hero, and I'm proud
(22:51):
to support my hero as the next President of this
United States.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
And you also have to understand the time in the
draw because if you ever if you ever go to
an RNC or a DNC for that matter, and I
have been both covering them, there's people speaking basically all
the time. It's just relentless. There's uh and or there's
business being conducted with the delegates, but there's always someone talking.
(23:20):
And and but in where the seating is is varying
levels of fullness. When Hogan's out there, it's full, right,
That's one when you get your list, you get the
big the list for the for the few days that
it is of who's going to be speaking and when.
And obviously he was speaking ahead of when Trump was
going to speak, so it's going to be busy. But
(23:41):
I'm telling you, like even when, like even Sarah Palin's
introduction wasn't full at the r n C and Saint
Paul that year with bi King because we were literally
we were doing a live broadcast at the time it
was happening, and we could see out into there and
then we might have commented on something that.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Got me in Troy. But but like Hogan, the thing
was jam. Everyone wanted to see Hogan man, you.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Know, I remember when they made that announcement, there were
a lot of like younger people mocking it. Yeah, even
a bit older mocking it like a wooh cares. And
I'm like, I don't know, man, there's a big chunk
of middle aged gen X that's gonna care about Hulkogan because,
like I said, he was like the he man of
our era, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And and I also saw people where they were talking
about how Trump was desperate, He's got to go dig
up like relics. You have to understand these dudes have
they've they've been friends for a long time, long before
Trump ever decided to get into politics. The Hogan Trump
relationship to I don't know the full extent of what
(24:43):
it was over all the years, but like these guys,
these guys had a relationship. And remember Trump, you know,
had in the periphery. He had involvement with McMahon. There's
obviously you know he would he showed up for various events,
he was in the ring. He slapped when he slapped McMahon, right,
(25:03):
that was one of the bits they were doing like
this is this is where and where is the oh
there here it is so this is WrestleMania four, right,
just so I want to make Yeah, this is leaning
into it.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Yeah with the because everybody thinks about the Hogan Andre match,
you know WrestleMania three, which we played that audio, but yeah,
WrestleMania four. It was also leading up to like like
a remat, like they were Yeah, but you gotta.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Car right because it's so big, you gotta you know,
it's like Hollywood making a sequel.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
So and so, I mean, this is the promo for it.
Speaker 15 (25:30):
But if you look in their eyes, man, have you
seen the fear in all those little holsters?
Speaker 7 (25:35):
They realize?
Speaker 15 (25:36):
Then when I get Andre the Giant send stuff in
the launched position. When I slam him through the Trump
Plaza brother from New York down to Tampa, Florida.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
The fault line is gonna break off.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
It is Andre the.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Giant falls into the ocean.
Speaker 15 (25:51):
That's my next two opponents fall to the ocean Florida.
I tend him, so will Donald Trump and all the
hag of Adiacs. But it's Donald trum pegone to the
top of the Trump Plaza.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
With his family under his other arm.
Speaker 15 (26:04):
As they say to the bottom of us say thank god,
Donald Trump's a hawk.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Commaniac.
Speaker 15 (26:10):
He'll know enough to let go off his materialistic possessions.
Hang on to the license kids, dog paddle with his
life all the way to safety. But Donald, if something happens,
you run out of gas and all those little hawk
of maniacs run out of gas, just hang on to
the largest back in the world. And our dog paddle
(26:30):
us backstruck all of us the safety.
Speaker 12 (26:33):
Oh thank you, haul hag and let's get back to action.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
I mean, listen, once again. I started off the show
saying this. You had to be there to understand the positivity,
the optimism, and the patriotism of the eighties. And we
all grew up in that. And that's why we can
look at the world around us today and realize this
ain't right. It can be better.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
People want to say, well, that was reality.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
But it was dude. It was like I lived through it.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I remember it.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Like, oh, it's like you know, rose colored glasses or whatever. No, dude,
it was different. And there are those of us alive
who lived through it. Who knows what it was like.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
We're trying and and we're at the right age.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yes, it exactly, And like I'm saying, like, people don't
realize like back in the day before Donald Trump was
painted as this horrible, awful Nazi racist, which is complete
bull right. People looked up to it. It was like
he's the cool billionaire guy. That's why he was in movies,
That's why he was everywhere.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
One, and and look, I'll give you a comparable.
Speaker 16 (27:38):
Two.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
I watched my friend cry, uh when Earnhardt died. He
was he was, he was Grey, was a huge racing fan.
We're watching that race and I actually I was, actually
I was rooting for the guy who who hit him,
Stirley Marlin, because we would we would literally like we'd
do pools stuff on it. So and I think he
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was kind of mad at me. Craig was kind of
mad at me. The dude was tore up.
Speaker 17 (28:07):
He was.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
He was Earnhart.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Too, he still is.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
My dad was too, man, My dad cried over that. Yeah,
like I because you know, he's from a country boy
from New York. It's not all you know, the city
of obviously, And like he would watch Nascarloton and he
would he would record the races on his VHS and
remember him rewinding that that accident over you did get
the lag that?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Yeah, yeah, man, watching that watching that. I I remember
there was there's like five of us. We're in a
living room and we're all watching this thing, and you know,
everything's fast, of everyone's in a good mood. You know,
we got snacks. Greg's got a stupid dog over that
he would chew on all the furniture. I hated that dog,
(28:49):
and I'd be like, do we not bring your your
your dog over? But everyone was just happy. And then
we're watching that and you don't immediately know what happened,
you just know, and then you get the sense that
this saint's your stick because it wasn't even in the
grand scheme of things. It wasn't that aggressive of of
a wreck. It was it was you know, you see
(29:11):
these videos of guys where their car flips over three
times and then within five seconds they jimmy themselves out
of the door and they're just running away in case
there's a fire. And then you see this and then
you see everything stop and you see what's going on.
Speaker 6 (29:24):
And then it hit.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And then when it hit, it was five miserable people
just sitting in a room. Greg goes in the kitchen.
I'll tell this story. He goes in the kitchen. He
calls somebody. I think he called his dad because his
dad was a huge racing fan, And like fifteen minutes,
Larter he comes out. His eyes are red like he
was wet right after the news.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
We got the news. So the just the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
So you know, maybe that's your comparable. That's where that's
where a lot of people are with whole Cogan. The difference,
of course, is Hogan's in his seventies. It's a long
lifespan for people of that wrestling era for a variety
of reasons, whereas Dale Earnhardt, right, he's still racing at
top level. So but yeah, yeah, so there's a lot there,
(30:13):
all right, So let me get well, it's the only
cut I haven't played.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
So here's Rond DeSantis says.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
By the way, can we also grab whoever decided? While
Rond de Santis is talking about Florida resident Terry Bullet
Hulk Cogan and his commenting on that, who had to
choose that moment to start screaming about Donald Trump and
Epstein in the middle of the Santa Can we take
them to El Salvador. I'll pitch in for the ticket.
(30:41):
Ross you want to, you pitch in for the ticket
a little.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
We'll get this guy.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
El Salvador as a really nice place. We can take
whoever this lunatic is. But you can't just for five minutes.
Here's Ronda Santis.
Speaker 8 (30:51):
As a Floridian, as somebody that grew up in west
central Florida. I was sad to see the news that
that Haul Cogan passed away today. He was a a
major icon for anybody in gen X. I can tell
you growing up then in the eighties and in particularly
the early nineties, he was really beginning actually really was
a star. First before even he was Hulcamania, but when
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he was Thunderlips and Rocky three, and that was like
a huge, huge deal. I mean, obviously that was a
great movie franchise with Sylvester Stallone. So he was Thunderlips
and then a couple of years later became the World
Wrestling Federation Heavyweight Champion, and you know, as a young kid,
like you know, I'm growing up, and it's like, you know,
that was like somebody's like, wow, that's our superhero kind
(31:36):
of deal.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah, and obviously we cut the lunatic out, but and
then also the part where you know when you look
at Florida. You look at the major metros the way,
you know, Miami and Tampa have very different vibes. Tampa's
very blue collar and that's where Hogan lived, and it's
not unusual if there's a lot of wrestlers there. But
I don't know, man, it's just something about that not
being Miami. That's interesting, all right, real quick, Eric up.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Hey, Kassey guy.
Speaker 16 (32:02):
I Uh, I just started listening to you guys the
show recently.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I'm glad I found you.
Speaker 16 (32:07):
And I heard your reference a listener that's a wrestler
a couple of times, and I just heard Ras say
his name was Marty Garner, and then it just I
just lit up because when I was a kid, me
and my buddies used to do a little backyard wrestling thing.
Speaker 9 (32:22):
Yeah, and uh, come to find out that in one
of my.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Friends of apartment complexes lived Marty Garner and we had
seen him wrestle as Champagne a couple of times and
a couple of these uh independent federations, and he was
so cool. He took us in his house. He showed
us all of his boots and everything, and it was
just the highlight of our our you know, highlight of
our time, just just back then. I just wanted to
throw that into that real quick. If Marty's listening, I
(32:47):
really appreciate it.
Speaker 16 (32:48):
And you are always remember Champagne.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
All right, man, that is awesome, dude, that's what this is.
This is hold on, hit the right button. Yeah yeah,
so well i'd be interested. I'd be interested. I'm not
I'll be interested if you hear from him. Rosst Just
kind of dude.
Speaker 4 (33:07):
If I was a kid in my neighbor, like somebody
living in my apartment complex, it was like a professional wrestler,
it'd been the greatest thing in the world.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Oh my god, except for Marty Jeannetti.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Absolute coward.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
I'm sorry, it's just picking out, dude, right, not the time,
all right, phone number eight eight eight nine three four
seven eight seven four.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
So yeah, yeah, I know, I know we've we spent
the first hour of the show on this.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
But worth it, absolutely worth it, because you have to
think of it outside the bounds of just the wrestling
and understand the cultural impact of what it was. And
uh and especially if you were of that age when
you were still all in on this stuff.
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Man, all in on this.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
This is it's a huge huge loss. All right, we'll
take a break. I'll be right back hanging up. Obviously,
were talking about the uh you know, whul Cogan dead
at seventy one, and as and and and really just
what it was to be in that era, man, what
it was to be in that era, and.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
Just watching all unfold around you. We were off the air.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
We were talking about lunchboxes and uh, like you're the
old thermis lunchboxes and even the ones that proceed that,
Like that was a big that could that could make
or break you at school. I'm not even exaggerating. We
had a kid bring a Flipper lunchbox, which is crazy
because Flipper was what was that the sixties.
Speaker 5 (34:40):
I think I think his grandma about it.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
For you know that that could break you as a kid,
like your lunchbox, your thermos or your trapper keeper like
it had to be on point.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Oh god, don't let it be something dumb man, you
know what that but Slipper kid never let that.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
That stuck with him for years.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I don't have the lunch box anymore, but I have
the thermis that came at the whole Cogan thermos. I
found one with the fireworks on the cover and now
he's just striking the pose, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Yeah, yeah, okay, I had I didn't have just a
Hogan one, but I had one with like six or
seven of them on there that was, you know, all
just standing there striking a pose. And I remember I
had a Transformer one. I can't remember any of the
others I had any who. I remember my first one
was metal though.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
And it got all rusty.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
That's how you got tennis, I guess you could.
Speaker 17 (35:29):
So.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I looked at some calls. Tavares, you're up first, go
right ahead.
Speaker 9 (35:33):
He was going on Tasey Hey, going up Saturday morning.
Speaker 13 (35:39):
When that song came on.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
You could not tell me that I wasn't the Hulkster.
Speaker 9 (35:45):
You couldn't tell me that I wasn't him.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
I was him.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Me and my friend we used to get in the mirror,
tell your.
Speaker 9 (35:54):
Yeah, we were we were black kids from the hood.
Uh we were. We were three hundred pounds muscle bonn
white dude. At that moment, you couldn't tell us any different,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
We had we had to.
Speaker 9 (36:08):
I had to pull over when I heard it. After
hearing Michael Dumal Warner, Ozzie Osbourne like that that era.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
I mean, this is an attack on our childhood, sir,
It's an attack.
Speaker 9 (36:20):
Oh I was going on, hold up, hold on, man ive.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
No what what's what's next?
Speaker 5 (36:27):
I don't know, man, it feels it feels coordinated. It's
been a rough week.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
So yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
So you know nowadays when you're you know, you're dancing
around to that song, you're flexing. Nowadays that parents would
put their kids on like eighty HD medicine or something.
It's just tell me we were built.
Speaker 9 (36:42):
We were We were a bunch of kids that were
built different, that were uh that were a free range
kid and not we didn't have a helicopter parents and
uh that that that didn't give us a price for
everything that we that we did. You know you came
in last. That meant you came in last.
Speaker 14 (37:00):
Yeah, that was all right.
Speaker 9 (37:03):
It's different today, man, appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
I'm sorry. I'm sorry to be the one to break
it to you this morning.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
But that is that's the other thing too, Like we
my mom would locked the damn door, go outside, and
weather almost didn't matter. And h I had a little brother,
which if you're a wrestling fan and you got a
little brother, it sucks to be that little brother because
we're trying some stuff out. Oh yeah, and and also
(37:31):
let me grab one more call real quick, and then
I want to add something about the cultural and uh
and really that arab ed what's up, hey.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Casey, good morning man. I'm a little older than you,
So I had gone through my formative years, uh with
you know, the doom and gloom of the seventies, you know,
between uh you know, Watergate and you.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
Know the malaise, Yeah, the la I mean, uh, you know, horrible.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Part of presidency. It was like Ronald Reagan his campaign
alone was like that first spark to sort of and
I was talking to Ross about this. It was an
entire cultural gloom between you know, the protests of the
sixties and all that, and every cultural movement has this
sort of flat back, you know, and this was a
(38:22):
good flatback that that happened. Like I said, like Reagan's
presidency started the halster, the you know, the rocky movies,
you know, and and all of a sudden, we saw
the flag and it felt something to be good about.
And for me personally, it was a relief. And by
the way, I did survive a uh a metal lunch
box myself in the seventies. Yeah, I had. I had
(38:44):
come through with David Carradine.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
Man, that's acceptable, absolutely, man.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Yeah, you pretty much superheroes or action movie stuff.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
You were that.
Speaker 5 (38:53):
It was like it was golden you bring a flipper lunchbox.
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Yeah, yeah, you know you were a target.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Man.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
You were talking, Yeah, clipper for sure.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
So all right, hey, yeah, I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (39:06):
No, I was just saying I appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Oh well, I appreciate you listening, calling in man, and
have yourself a good rest of the day. And let
me piggyback on something he said. And I left this
out at the beginning, but I think it's it also
was the era where the news was incorporated into He
starts he's talking about the slap back and all the
things that were really wrong with Carter and the gas
(39:29):
lines and all of that, and then you know the
you know, the Reagan with his you know, very positive
campaign obviously, and then you get in eighty four, Hope
is that's when he wins the championship Ross. Do you
remember who he beat for the title in eighty four,
Iron Chic, Iron Chic? Yeah, you want to talk about
storytelling of the news of the day then into this
(39:52):
you know, entertainment that couldn't be more perfect.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
Yeah, you had like those are the big villains, right,
they were like Iran in they had the Russians later,
and we talked to before in the show like get
a Sergeant Slaughter When he sided with Iraq, it was
a big deal. And now, like I was recently watching
that Vince McMahon documentary on Netflix and he sort of
apologized for all of that, like he's like, oh, we're sorry.
It was a different time, and it was a different time,
(40:19):
but yeah, it was overly political and you know, maybe
the Iraq thing was insensitive. It was genius, dude, Yeah,
it was genius.
Speaker 5 (40:27):
And it's still not the best heel turn.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
No Hogan, The best he'll turn is Hogan. Yeah, period,
end of story.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Because he was all those things and then he was
the opposite and he couldn't wrap your head around it.
I don't care what anyone says about any of the others, man,
you can have a hard time convincing me that that's
not the best. All Right, it is seven thirteen here
on the CaCO Day Radio program. Let me we'll still
take calls it, We'll take calls the whole one. Did
you see Adam Carolla sad yesterday? He said, protect Steve
(40:57):
Gutenberg at all costs. Yes, yes, dude, We're gonna have
to make a list.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
Marky sent me text this morning. She woke up with
a five thirty and the first thing she sent me
was like, well, who died today?
Speaker 2 (41:10):
Who is it? Well, that's your wife's a positive start
to the morning, and say, well, man, it's been a
fun week. Also, Chuck BANNGIONI died. I see a couple
of you have sent me that email. H You know,
I feel bad for Chuck because he's gonna get super
overshadowed this week. But yeah, probably probably some folks who
(41:31):
know who that is.
Speaker 1 (41:32):
All right?
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Um me I got because other stuff did happen for sure.
Now people are sending me the lunchboxes they have and
they want us to tell them whether they're acceptable or not.
All right, fair?
Speaker 5 (41:49):
So this guy had an ALF lunchbox. ALF was acceptable?
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Right?
Speaker 5 (41:53):
I think ALF was acceptable?
Speaker 17 (41:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (41:55):
No, ALF was cool? Half is funny?
Speaker 5 (41:57):
Yeah you could. I'm good with that. Girls could get
away with most anything.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
I'm sure. I actually, I'm sure they had a pecket order.
I just wasn't up to speed on it because we
didn't let him sit at our table.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
So it was changed. Years later, the.
Speaker 4 (42:10):
Girls were like Strawberry Shortcake, Strawberry short Little Pony, cabbage Patch. Yeah,
and then later on it was like new Kids on
the block.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And that was weird because it would
be you know, the girls could put their little heart
throbs on a lunchbox, but if some guy brought.
Speaker 12 (42:31):
In, like a.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
Right Miss Elizabeth or something on a lunchbox had been
frowned upon, Yeah, they'd be.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Like, oh he got that on there, like no, no,
well I want to make out with her.
Speaker 5 (42:42):
No, it's different anyway.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Oh yeah, of course. And the other guy's ask if
mister T's mister T's still acceptable? Heck yeah, man could
have a mister T, just not a flipper one. Sorry
to all you flipper fans. All right, let me can
they keep kind of go overdue? Well, let me do this.
We'll go ahead and hit a break. We'll do a
(43:06):
reset because there's some actual other news that happened. None
of it is big in my opinion, but you know,
that's kind of what we're here for. Plus Pete counter
will join us at eight o five, so stick around.
We'll get into all that next. Sad obviously with the
news this week with Malcolm, Jamal Warner, Ozzy Osbourne and
now Hulk Cogan. Oh, it's just so weird to say
(43:27):
all those within a week, within a week, it is.
Speaker 5 (43:31):
It is nice to be able to get, you.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
Know, to talk about lunchboxes and and just you know,
because that's I don't know, man, there's just so I
feel like some of that stuff which has gone by
the wayside.
Speaker 5 (43:45):
I was asking Ross do kids even do lunch boxes anymore?
Speaker 2 (43:49):
And no, it's the and you know, from an insulation standpoint,
those cloth bags with the velcrow are probably probably insulate better,
but they're not any fun. They're just plain brought.
Speaker 5 (44:04):
What's Lincoln's. Lincoln just has a plain black.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
One, right.
Speaker 4 (44:06):
I mean maybe they do that on away.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
I'm sure they probably do, but it's not it's it's
not the habit. It was a big deal to see
what your what your friends were going to show up
with on the first day of school, right, because it
wasn't just lunchboxes. The trapper keeper and you had the
list of things and you had all the supplies then
you sit down.
Speaker 5 (44:23):
What was the first thing you do in class? Do
you remember the first thing you did in class? Ross?
Speaker 2 (44:28):
The teacher had come out with a bunch of like
meat packing the brown constructure, the paper or you were
told to bring a bunch of paper grocery bags from home.
And then it was arch and Kraft because you had
to cover all your books. That was day That was
day one for me and I suspect most everyone getting
(44:50):
robbed of the lunchbox experience was wasn't just an eighties thing.
Lunchboxes were a thing going back to the fifties. That
sucks for them. They'll never get to know.
Speaker 5 (45:03):
But I don't know, man.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Nowadays you probably get some woke parent and have their
kid bring a Hamas lunchbox to school or something.
Speaker 5 (45:09):
Do they make camas lunchboxes?
Speaker 2 (45:10):
I'm sure somebody h you gotta be careful opening it though,
got the wires?
Speaker 17 (45:19):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (45:20):
Just the worst man? Uh No, actually I found the worst.
Are you ready for this?
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Hold on, I'll tell you the worst is and we're
gonna go to Seattle for this one.
Speaker 17 (45:30):
So.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Uh in Seattle they have a they have a huge,
huge thing like called seafair and uh, I'm not from Seattle.
My mom actually she she lived part of her life
in Seattle. My grandfather worked for Boeing and or in Washington,
(45:56):
and she went to the University of Washington too. So
so we got a chance to go back during Seafair Week,
which is in August.
Speaker 5 (46:03):
And I remember, and I was.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
Junior sophomore in high school something like that, and I remember, see,
I remember just being blown away by Seattle because again
you're a kid from Wyoming and you're just like, it's
a huge city. And yeah, you've been to Denver, and
I had been to Los Angeles before, and I think
that was it up until that time in Portland, but
you know, going to Seattle, it was just it was
so everything was so cool. And over the Seafair Week,
(46:31):
this this thing in August, you have you have all
these boats pulling into the Puget Sound.
Speaker 5 (46:36):
There, You've got you've got.
Speaker 2 (46:37):
Military stuff, you got the Blue Angels going and uh
and and just the whole vibe of Seattle, which clearly
is not the vibe anymore. Right, Seattle's gone a very
different direction where instead of grunge rock emerging, it's crazed,
homeless peoples that live in trash cans, and I'm not
making that up.
Speaker 5 (46:56):
That's an actual thing.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
If you watch the uh that document, I recommend what
is it, Seattle's dying or Seattle is dying.
Speaker 5 (47:04):
One of the local news station's there.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
There's some lunatic in a trash can, which, by the way,
Trump did do something on that yesterday.
Speaker 5 (47:10):
I'll tell you about that coming up. But now are
you ready for this?
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Protesters have taken to the streets to protest the Blue Angels.
Who are you miserable? Piece of who are you? Yes,
protesters are now calling for the end of the air
show component that's part of the Seafair festival. By the way,
(47:37):
the Blue Angels or US Navy pilots, I'm not sure
it's been Blue Angels each time or the whole time,
but they've been doing they've been doing as part of
this since nineteen seventy two. I'm telling you, Seafair takes
over the whole city. It was crazy and it was
so much fun. They have huge concerts and all this stuff,
and so these lunatics decided, uh, they're gonna they They've
(48:01):
even taken billboards out and here's what they say. Say
no to the Blue Angels too, And in it you
see a very diverse group of people, one with their
hands over their ears, uh, and then a woman in
a he job who's got her fist in the air
screaming about stuff, a dog howling, and then some white
(48:25):
lunatic with a bullhorn, and you know they're all in this.
Probably we'll retweet the story and go look at this garbage,
and it says, say no to the Blue Angels. Too loud,
war trauma. I guess that's what the woman's supposed to represent,
because she's a Palestinian or somebody who moved to seat.
I guess that's the reference.
Speaker 5 (48:43):
And then pollution.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
Yeah, so they're organizing a protest against having the Blue Angels.
Speaker 4 (48:50):
It's like imperialism, the imperial ended upon the he we
lewisen the news. Back to the future, your too darn
loud thing, right, yeah, shut yeah once again, go back
to get in the time machine, getting delireon and go
back to the eighties and tell somebody that like someone's
gonna be upset about the Blue Angels.
Speaker 5 (49:05):
They think you, they wouldn't believe you.
Speaker 2 (49:08):
You probably don't do lunchboxes because like parents would start,
would you use them to get all political or as
we found out, blue angels are apparently offensive now, so
and I made a joke about, you know, I probably
send their kids with a hamas lunchbox. And then so
we just posted an Amazon listening here for a free
Palestine lunchbox.
Speaker 5 (49:26):
But you can buy right now.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
And get delivered. Uh oh, it's gonna be a little while.
It must be back ordered. This is so dumb, man,
you know what it is. It's the whole thing where like,
you know a lot of schools that were like, really
cancel Halloween because like certain costumes are going to be
offensive to other kids, or certain kids won't be able
to afford a costume so it'll make them feel bad.
(49:51):
And then so some kid comes in with I don't
know what the equivalent would be, like say he Man
was still a thing you walk in today with your
he Man lunchbox, and then it's offensive to kids because
that's not really it's bad for your body image because
it's not really like a physique you could you could
get in this, or it makes fat.
Speaker 5 (50:07):
That's what I'm rocking right now.
Speaker 4 (50:08):
Yeah me too.
Speaker 5 (50:09):
Yeah, yeah, so oh look at this.
Speaker 2 (50:14):
Do you know there were Donald Trump lunchboxes back in
not President Trump, Donald Trump lunchboxes back in the day.
Speaker 5 (50:21):
Man, that'd be weird.
Speaker 2 (50:24):
I don't know, man, I'd probably thought that was a
little weird showing up. So anyway, so you should have
this by August eleventh, ross your new free Palestine lunchbox.
I know you get your bills one, but clearly, uh
clearly gonna want this one.
Speaker 5 (50:39):
Very nice. Who's paying thirty bucks for that garbage?
Speaker 1 (50:42):
Man?
Speaker 3 (50:44):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (50:44):
Yeah, So again just to reiterate the Seattle protesting the
Blue Angels.
Speaker 2 (50:51):
You're right though, man, you get that. You jump back
in the time machine and tell somebody in the eighties
at Vince McMahon to be apologizing for uh the way
that Hulk won the championship and how the Blue Angels
and nobody would believe you. They'd institutionalize you in a
in a hot second, speaking of instantly. Wait, hold on,
(51:12):
let me grab a call. We have a callers holding,
and then I'll share this story about institutions. Hey, Greg,
what's going on?
Speaker 1 (51:21):
Yeah? Hey, two lunchboxes that got me through elementary school
an evil six million dollar man.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
Absolutely those are top tier.
Speaker 5 (51:29):
Absolutely no bills. Oh oh they even we got a bill's.
Speaker 4 (51:33):
Man that's an elite caller, I mean, unbiased opinion.
Speaker 2 (51:39):
Ross says it literally like people will come up to
him at the gym because he's all in bills stuff and.
Speaker 4 (51:43):
Just yeah, no, So I've got two good go Bill stories.
So I get home the other day. Yeah, this was
on Monday, No Tuesday, Tuesday, get home and Lincoln opens
the door for me. He opens the door and I
don't know where he goes Go Bill and he just
walks away nice. And it was the Michael Scott crying meme,
(52:04):
you know what I mean, like or like the Will
Smith crying meme from whatever that movie is, and oh dude,
it's the best. And then the other day I was
at the gym and this woman, this old woman was
staring at me the whole time, staring me down, and
I'm like, it got so weird, Like I'm like, at first,
I'm like, maybe she's looking at the TV behind me.
I'm looking like maybe she's watching, because sometimes that happens.
(52:26):
They're like, this person is staring at me, but they're
looking there's a TV right above your head and that's
what they're watching. But this woman was staring me down.
I got so uncomfortable. Super uncomfortable. Right, I'm like, I
gotta leave because this is again weird. So I get
up to GOM and so I'm just gonna leave go
to another machine, and she goes, hey, I'm like, oh man,
oh no. And I walk over and she's dressed like
a disco ball, like she's got only sequence on right,
(52:48):
old this old black woman and like sequences.
Speaker 2 (52:50):
Old lady workouts.
Speaker 7 (52:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (52:52):
Yeah, she's on the shoulder press and she goes, I
walk over to my what is it? What is this
gonna be about? And she goes she goes go bills
like that.
Speaker 2 (52:59):
Yes, that's because like this is the stuff you know,
to talking about all of these things, whether it's wrestling
or the stuff of the lunch boxes or whatever used
to it used to be like, and it still is
to some extent, especially as you rally around sports and stuff.
But it's like it's just fewer and fewer things that
we can rally around cause we're just like, I'll bet
(53:21):
that person's politics.
Speaker 4 (53:22):
Right right, And me and this woman just talked about
you know, she asked where it's from. She was from Buffalo,
and we used talk about Josh Allen for like twenty
minutes there.
Speaker 2 (53:29):
You go, that's great, man. You didn't bring up you
didn't bring up Trump, sure did not, or Kamala or
Hillary or.
Speaker 4 (53:36):
Nope, nope. Oh we had a conversation for like twenty minutes,
no idea, what are politics? And don't care like normal people. Yeah,
used to, used to do and still do to some extent,
but it.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
Gets harder, man, Like you can't we can't even have
if you can't have political discussions with people who are
there for that purpose. And it's just screaming, Like when
you see these people show up to various events and
you know, uh, some reporters trying to ask them questions
and they're just screaming at them, or some person on
(54:07):
the streets to say, hey, I want to have a conversation,
and they're just like, not, screw you, you're Satan, and
and and then it and then it just it oozes
into everything else.
Speaker 17 (54:16):
Man.
Speaker 2 (54:17):
Although Ross, I've thought I found it pretty I've found
this this list the twenty best and twenty worst lunch boxes. No,
I'm sorry, it's one hundred best and then the twenty
worst on this one website. I scanned all one hundred
lunch boxes. Do you know what's not in there anywhere.
Speaker 4 (54:33):
Don't tell me, hul Kogan. Yes, it's that's garbage. It's trash.
Speaker 2 (54:37):
That whole list, your whole list is is is busted,
and then the worst one is Patriots. So I think,
I don't know, I mean that part checks out. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
So it was weird because one list is clearly accurate
and the other one is hot garbage.
Speaker 4 (54:51):
I mean, to be fair, that could have been accurate
for the time. Joke aside, because like the Patriots were
garbage in the eighties.
Speaker 2 (54:58):
Oh okay, yeah, yeah, I don't know what exact year
that's from. I still remember the doesn't Patriots get blown
out by like fifty three points one time?
Speaker 5 (55:09):
I'm trying to remember who did that to them?
Speaker 2 (55:11):
So maybe that's the photo they used on the front there.
So hang on, though, I was talking about institutions, so
I don't know if you guys saw this yesterday. So
Trump is signing an executive order too, and this is
how they were to restore order to American cities and
remove vagrants from our streets. And so basically there's there's
(55:33):
three main parts here. One, you know, it recognizes that
there if you're homeless, there is a better than better
than fifty percent chance you are suffering from either mental illness,
drug addiction, or both, and it's much higher than fifty percent.
But you one of those things is part of your
(55:53):
life and is contributing to it. And if you're homeless veteran,
it's almost it's it's it's even higher. So just something
to think about. And so it it's not treating all
homeless people the same, right, So one of it, you know,
and and a lot of it's going to require cities
(56:15):
and states to to pull some weight.
Speaker 5 (56:18):
But so in it, he wants to make.
Speaker 2 (56:20):
Available certain resources. I'm sure there's going to be some
financial component there, but but resources that can then be utilized.
But it also requires cities to stop it with this
with you know, openly allowed. I don't know if you
got to see what's going on in LA right now.
(56:42):
So remember how they said, he don't worry all these
fire victims. We're going to fast track all this stuff.
They're not not only that the one hundred million dollar concerts,
all the money. Nobody can figure out why why it's
not just going to the victims, and it's and the
reason is because all the people in these within these charities,
all these they they all got to eat, so they
all pass money through each other, so everyone takes their
(57:03):
little percentage and everyone can keep their charity because yeah,
and it's not to knock on what all charities do,
but it is that process where it's being passed through,
in my opinion, clearly for that purpose. And that's it's
it's ugly, man, it's so ugly. But now on these
(57:23):
on these now cleared sites because army corps went in
there and people also cleared off while people are waiting
for permits so that they can rebuild their houses and
the city's just not issuing them. And by the way,
they're clearly not issuing them in this one part of
the Palisades, which everyone speculates is because they're going to
land grab this stuff so that they can build like
(57:44):
low income housing. They said they weren't going to. It
clearly looks like they're going to. But the bit the
other problem is is now the people have these properties,
the homeless people have moved on to them, and the
city won't do anything about it. So there are you know,
homeless encampments now on the you know these properties in
the Palisades and a Malibu where it's tense city all
(58:05):
over again. And as you can imagine everything that comes
along with that, you know, we get the lunatics running
around with their pants off, screaming at people, and so
Trump saying, here we go. It's called restoring civil commitment.
The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Health
and Human Services, shall take the following actions seek, inappropriate cases,
(58:28):
the reversal of federal or state judicial precedents and the
termination of consent decrees that impede the US's policy of
encouraging civil commitment. So if you are that guy on
the subway who was making people so fear for their
life that that marine had to put him in a chokehold,
if you're any one of these absolute insane people that
(58:50):
you know what you did rises to the level of
me having to talk about it here on the show
because just nobody can believe it. Then know more of
this just you know, hey, you know, just we got
to be compassionate, and it's just it's going to be no, no,
you need mental health care. And if you if you're
not going to get it, then you're gonna be in
a place where you have no choice.
Speaker 5 (59:12):
But to get it.
Speaker 2 (59:14):
And and already people are losing their minds over this.
But there's a lot of crazy almost people. And again
it's not necessarily it's not their fault that they're dealing
with the with with mental health issues. Some of the
stuff is their fault. I mean, you have to make
a decision to start drugs, but like, but in those instances,
(59:36):
then there's also rehab.
Speaker 5 (59:38):
You know, you got to see if that sticks.
Speaker 2 (59:39):
But the mental health component that would solve a lot
of the problem and arguably be a lot healthier for them.
It's a lot healthier now. I understand some people have
some nervousness about the idea that the government can just
throw you in a sanitarium kind of kind of things,
because you know, historically they that power was abused for
(01:00:05):
a variety of reasons. So it will be important what
the guidelines are. And I want him to do it
in a way that literally does try to make the
person who's screaming at people on a subway trying to
bite their own ear with no pants on, I want
them to get better. Okay, I am. I have compassion
for other people, but when you're causing a danger that
(01:00:25):
could cause somebody then to physically react to you or
shoot you. That's not a safe situation for you either.
So but yeah, I can tell you California and other
cities they're gonna fight tooth and nail on this, So
we'll see where it goes. Ray Stagic is here. It
is that wonderful time of the year, and unfortunately on
(01:00:46):
just a horrible day.
Speaker 4 (01:00:47):
No no, no, no, squat Box, what do you mean
he's doing the according today?
Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
Yeah, no, no, no, that's what I said. I said,
what we considering the song that.
Speaker 14 (01:00:56):
We gave him, which is super weird, right, yeah, that
is like premonition, right.
Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
Yeah, it's a it's been a tough day on the show.
It's been a tough week.
Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
I feel like this is in the chats on our
childhood going on here right now.
Speaker 14 (01:01:10):
It is you know what are we like grew up
in like the eighties and now of early nineties.
Speaker 5 (01:01:15):
Yeah, that's kid. Ozzy was Bourne and now was.
Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
A big one.
Speaker 14 (01:01:20):
So I'll never forget quick Auzzie story. The first stereo
ever got. I bought it myself and it was at
these big Sermon Vegas c M tens and they cranked
and I got my azzie album out Diary of a
Mad Man, and I was cranking in my my mother.
My mother went ballistic, she went crazy. It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
Yeah, people always so Ozzie wasn't the eighties, but people
forget Sabbath kicked him out in seventy nine, and he
made arguably his best music with his solo albums, which
were in the eighties. So yeah, anyway, he had to
come correct. All right, So we'll do it as a tribute.
Let's hear it, man, Then we'll do the weather.
Speaker 14 (01:01:55):
Okay, all right, I'll try to get a couple of
measures in here. It's not that difficult, but I here,
So here we go.
Speaker 4 (01:02:00):
All right, So do you need to hear the song?
Speaker 5 (01:02:02):
Yeah, let's heard.
Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
I listen to it.
Speaker 5 (01:02:04):
Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 14 (01:02:06):
Yeah, you're gonna play everyone.
Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
Just yeah, play real quick, every Yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 5 (01:02:12):
That's it. Tom's clashing, all right. Just remember if you
screw this up, it's an insult to his memory. Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (01:02:22):
So I just got the intro.
Speaker 14 (01:02:23):
I don't have the I'll just play what I got,
all right, all right, that's a little harder.
Speaker 5 (01:02:53):
He killed the intro.
Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
Can I just say?
Speaker 5 (01:02:57):
Can I just say you raised agent are a real America.
Speaker 4 (01:03:03):
That was great. We had tons of people texting me
on next saying they were so looking forward to this
segment with right, I.
Speaker 14 (01:03:09):
Can't find the chorus though, the coorse part of it.
You know, you got to go look for these things
on the interweb.
Speaker 4 (01:03:14):
I'm telling you so many messages yesterday like Ray, better
get this right.
Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
Yeah, a lot of pressure, it is. I was gonna
send an email, but then I thought now I was
just making nervous, So.
Speaker 14 (01:03:24):
Yeah, nah, you know it's getting easier.
Speaker 5 (01:03:26):
It's getting easier. Probably that's good Man, helping you get
back into it.
Speaker 17 (01:03:32):
All.
Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
Right, here's the part that I don't want to do,
but ruin our weekend if you could please.
Speaker 4 (01:03:39):
Yeah, hotter as we go on.
Speaker 14 (01:03:41):
So even though maybe a little mid nineties today heat
advisory triangle, try it no, but into the weekend and
next week ninety five to one hundred, maybe hotter and
heating next well above one oh five. The hottest reeds
will be like central, eastern and southern parts of the triangle.
To try. It's still going to be hot, but maybe
not the advisory criteria today, but maybe over the weekend
(01:04:02):
and early next week there is a big cool down
coming later next week. Let's hope for that. Fingers crossed
next week at this time we may be talking about that.
Speaker 2 (01:04:09):
Okay, all right, hey, thank you very much, appreciate it,
and have a good weekend. Okay, oh wait, no, we're
talking an hour. Never mind, I'm an hour. My brain's
friede today and we'll be right back.
Speaker 5 (01:04:19):
Hang on.
Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
It's looking a lot like the Senate race is going
to be former Governor Roy Cooper on one side, and
if Donald Trump apparently has his way, Michael Wattley on
the other. I don't understand. I mean, it's I can't
say that Wattley doesn't have campaign experience, clearly, but he
hasn't been He has never held elected office at a
(01:04:43):
federal level, let alone a state level other than you know,
elections perhaps for you know, party chairs and stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:04:50):
So you know what.
Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
And and most people don't know who he is too,
that's the other part of this.
Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
So you're gonna have people that are really into politics. No,
but a lot of people don't know who Michael Watley is.
And again I've in my interactions with him, one of
which has included him and I kind of getting into
a little verbal spat over something I don't know, but
I also feel like he's done a very good job
with the RNC this last time, this last cycle around,
(01:05:21):
he could have been better, but I think that at
least they're not listless anymore, which under Rona they were
Rona Rona.
Speaker 5 (01:05:29):
However you said her name, mcdan it was.
Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
That was terrible.
Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
So we'll see. And again that's who the Destin Hall
put a tweet out a few weeks ago and he
said we need to rally around whoever Trump chooses, and
that offended me, like, no, that's not how it works.
So I'll still wait and see who's going to push
out our radio if I find the button there, there
we go, our radio buddy to the south.
Speaker 5 (01:05:52):
How you doing there?
Speaker 1 (01:05:54):
Hey, I'm doing all right. How are you well?
Speaker 5 (01:05:56):
Awful? I mean, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Ozzy now Whole Cogan,
Chuck MANGIONI mentioned.
Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
That, or Chuck Banngoni. Yeah, yeah, I'm not a jazz fan.
Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
That's okay, but our listeners were, so I want to
make sure to add that, which it's it's.
Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
Also what with the guitarists. There was like a guitarist
for a band who died like three days ago. But
like nobody, nobody gave him.
Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
We lost a Cosby kid, rock legend and arguably one
of the most culturally significant icons of the.
Speaker 5 (01:06:29):
Eighties and beyond. Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
Hogan was everywhere. People just think I was wrestling, but
they like, they don't understand. I can't I can't remember
how old.
Speaker 5 (01:06:39):
How old are you, Pete.
Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
Fifty one?
Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
Okay, so you're yeah, so you're just you're about six
years older than me. Like, so, yeah, you were there
with the Hogan lunch boxes watching him slam Andre the Giant.
That was insane even if you weren't into it. The
guy was in half the TV commercials there ran in
the morning on Saturdays.
Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Yeah, right, No, Look, I grew up with a my
best friend across the street. He was really into the
wrestling and I was not. But because we were best friends,
I was over at his house whenever they got the
pay per view WrestleMania stuff. And so yeah, I mean
I grew up watching Hulk Hogan wrestle even though I really,
(01:07:24):
you know, didn't care a lot about it. And and
then of course you know the Rocky movie where he
made the appearance. Yeah, he was. He was ubiquitous in uh,
in my childhood. And then of course, like his greatest
achievement was you know, taken out Gawker.
Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
Oh well, the Peter Tiele, the Peter Tiel Holgan story.
By the way, I was just looking at tweets from
former Gawker writers who were like f him and hants
on his grave, so you know, those are nice people.
But for people who don't know, let me just real quick.
So because I don't think rostin you you didn't even know.
Speaker 5 (01:07:57):
This until you really laid it out for you. So
it was isn't just Hogan.
Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
Yeah, Hogan was the moment Peter Teal was waiting for
because Goker went after and outed Peter Teal uh and
and wrote really nasty stuff about him. And if there's
one thing you don't want, it's a billionaire biding his
time for revenge. So it's right right, that's.
Speaker 1 (01:08:22):
Gay. Yeah, Peter Teel is gay. But he was in
the closet and Walker, like you said, outed him, and
he did not want that to be He did not
want to be outed as gay direct and they didn't care.
They published it anyway, and so he you know, swore
revenge and then just like laid in the Bushes waiting.
Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
For his moment, and then when the Hogan thing came up,
he kid He reached out to Hogan and said I
and he said, are you going to sue them? And
he said, I'm broke. I don't have the financial means
to do it, and goes, Hi, I'm Peter Teal, I'm
a billionaire. Let me fund this and I will fund
it for you. Yes, yes, And it did.
Speaker 5 (01:09:01):
It absolutely decimated Goker. And you know what I have,
I have no problem with it.
Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
Gowker was garbage.
Speaker 5 (01:09:08):
That was not journalism. What was being done there?
Speaker 1 (01:09:11):
Right, No, Jo, You remember there was the most egregious
case I think was they had gotten some video of
a drunk I think college girl or something having sex
in a bathroom stall, which like could be and people
made this point at the time like that was non
consensual relations and so like that's rape and you're posting
(01:09:34):
this video and they and she asked them, please take
this video down, and their response was quote blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
Yeah, yeah, no, they were awful exactly that. Yeah, No,
it's just awful, awful.
Speaker 17 (01:09:47):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
I interviewed one of their writers one time, and I
found him to be equally as detestable. That's not a surprise, Yeah,
he just it was just a smarm coming through the phone.
Speaker 5 (01:09:57):
Was something crazy?
Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
Yeah, so yeah, anyway, yeah, that whole story, and there's
much more to it. But if the video of Hogan
was Hogan having sex with Bubba the Love Sponge his
wife that they posted.
Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
Right, that they set him up. I mean they totally
set him up for that to make a payday, right,
Wasn't that The underlying motive was that they they arranged
it and they.
Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
Were pretty definitively proven. But yeah, that is the but
that's that's the story most people accept, yes.
Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
Right, And so when they won their lawsuit, when Hogan
won the lawsuit, because if I remember correctly, it's been
many years, but like nobody knew that Peter Tiel was
behind all of that until after the fact. But when
they lost, when Gawker lost and they had to turn
over everything, all of their records, all their files, they
(01:10:50):
lost everything to Hogan essentially, but I mean all of
their records, all of the you know, digital files, everything
had to be turned over. They lost every and then
Peel just burned it to the ground.
Speaker 6 (01:11:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
Yeah, they they traded because it's part of a larger group,
the Gawker media group, some of which still exist but
not in there, and they still have a lot of
the A hole writers, but you know, for like Kataku
there there. They just they do things like when the
new PlayStation came out, they wrote an article about how
they can't review it because of George Floyd and it's
(01:11:26):
just too hard right now. It's just these are the
people that you're giving. So I'm not making that that's true.
Speaker 9 (01:11:32):
No, I know it.
Speaker 5 (01:11:33):
Yeah, it is one hundred percent true.
Speaker 1 (01:11:35):
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
I got I gotta pivot over to this though, because
this is another big thing. Do you remember the tweet
that Deston Hall put out around the front think it
was the first of July, so just about four weeks
ago he puts this tweet out. He says, the NC
Senate race is too important to be derailed by a messy,
deviceive primary. The real fight is against the radical left
(01:11:57):
destroying our country. And I guess if somebody doesn't know
Deston Hall, the North Carolina Speaker of the House, okay uh.
He then wrote, we must we must unify behind whomever
President Trump picks and send a conservative fighter to d C.
I had a visceral reaction to that, because I'm pretty
sure that's not how it works. But that doesn't mean
(01:12:17):
that whoever Trump picks, and if it is, in fact
Michael what I guess, because Laura Trump doesn't want a
piece of this, it definitely makes him the front runner
for now. But do you think Wattley can beat Cooper?
I'm having a hard time getting there.
Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
Well, okay, So I and I went, I made a
bunch of notes about this when the news, you know,
was breaking. The first thing, like we heard was Cooper
was going to run, and of course, you know, Morgan Jackson,
his campaign guy was like, I can't confirm that, but
Axios had it apparently confirmed. So okay, we're going to
make his Yeah, so he's gonna run. And then the
(01:12:57):
next thing is, okay, well what now on the Republican side?
And then we saw, like, you know, Lara Trump. Is
it Laura or Lara Lara? I was told.
Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
I was told I interviewed her a bunch during the campaign,
and I always told me, ye, Laura, So Laura.
Speaker 1 (01:13:11):
Okay, And so she had said that she was going
to make her decision by Thanksgiving, and when the Cooper
news broke, I was like, she needs to decide right
now because she cannot. She cannot like sit here and
handstring all the Republican field for the next four months
while Cooper is out there raising money and you know,
launching his campaign. So I applaud her for making this
(01:13:33):
decision as quickly as she did. So this way she's
out now. The next thing, and we had seen Rottley's
name kicked around as one of the potential candidates. What
Wrottley brings to the table are a couple things. I think.
Number one, he has a very thick rollodex and for kids,
that means your contact file, Okay, So he knows a
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lot of people, he has access to a lot of
fundraising money, and that's going to be necessary to go
up against Roy Cooper, not just because Cooper's rolodex is
thick because of the HB two fight where he reached
out all these business leaders in big time left wing
donors all around the country in order to you know,
savage Pat McCrory in North Carolina so he could win
(01:14:16):
the governor's race back in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5 (01:14:19):
So you really like somebody is to cancel job right
as Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (01:14:22):
Yeah, the NBA All Star Game. All yeah, yeah, I
mean just completely, you know, held our state hostage and
said to his fellow Democrats, do not fix HB two
in any way. This remains an issue for me to
campaign on. So if you try to cut a deal,
you will be you know, persona non Glada. And this
is you know, this was a common play from the
(01:14:44):
Cooper playbook. He would primary Democrat legislators who had voted
against his vetos right if they voted to override, if
they voted with the Republicans on stuff, he would he
would back primary opponents against his fellow Democrats. So there
may be there may be some benefit that Wattley has
(01:15:05):
in having that long list of contacts that he can
that he can use. He's never been a candidate before,
but he's been very intimately involved in campaigns, so he
brings that to the table, so he knows kind of
like what works what doesn't. He's very media savvy, does
a lot of media, so he's not going to look like,
you know, this is his first interview ever. Also, he
(01:15:26):
was the North Carolina GOP chairman during Cooper's term, and
so he also will know the issues that Cooper has
in the state, right versus you know, somebody like Laura
Trump coming in and not really knowing Cooper's history during
COVID and all of that. So I think he definitely
(01:15:47):
brings some stuff to the table. We'll see how he does,
you know, on the campaign trail obviously, but the Trump
endorsement is the huge Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:15:55):
That's the other thing though. Have you spent time have
you talked to Lottley on a regular basis? Have you
interacted with him?
Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
Yeah? Well, I mean over the years, yeah, yeah, But.
Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
Like I don't know that he comes across as likable
to everybody. Him and I had an issue and you'll
appreciate this as a radio guy, So for about the
fifteen minutes when Corey Lewandowski was a hot gift, right right,
So that fifteen minutes of time, they had a Civitass
event that they do annually that I used to broadcast
(01:16:24):
at and Wadley reached out to me and he wasn't
the keynote.
Speaker 5 (01:16:30):
The keynote was that doesn't matter, but.
Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
He said hey, and it was clear they were trying
to push tickets and he said, hey, we're going to
have Corey Lewandowski there. Do you want to interview him,
and then you can promote the thing. So I booked
the interview. I don't normally just get handed interviews and
then take him, but I'm like, yeah, we'll talk to him,
had him on the air, he was fine, talk to
him about the stuff. And then I show up at
the event and Lewandowski is, in fact not part of
(01:16:56):
the main event. He was only there for the VIP thing.
And so I tracked down Wiley at this thing and
I said, I said, here's the problem.
Speaker 5 (01:17:06):
I just told all my.
Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
Listeners, who then went and bought tickets that they could
come and they could watch Lewandowski. And now they're reaching
out to me, going, I'm not going to pay to
go to the cocktail thing where he was at for
fifteen minutes, which was an extra you know, one hundred
dollars or whatever. And I told Wyley, I said, I said,
you can't do that because you made me lie to
my listeners and that's all I have, you know what
I'm saying. And he didn't give a flip. He got
(01:17:30):
angry with me and just walked off. So so I've
excuse me if I'm not pumped.
Speaker 1 (01:17:38):
No, Look, hey, I understand, but I've seen some people.
Nick Craig made this comment. I think Stephen Horn made
a similar or somebody responding to maybe Stephen Horn. You know,
the conservative grassroots base, they have had years to find
somebody else to put up and to coalesce around, and
(01:18:01):
they haven't done it. And so, like, you know, like
I'm sympathetic to this idea that Wattley may not be
the best standard bearer for you know, the quote unquote
base or the grassroots or whatever people are identifying themselves as.
But if you don't do the work and get somebody
and fundraise for them and get the donors and all that,
like this is you know. So here's the other thing
(01:18:23):
is that because Wattley doesn't really have because he's never
been elected before, he doesn't have a record. He's kind
of a blank slate right now. On the other hand,
they're going to tie him to Mark Robinson because he's
the GOP cheer, right, They're going to tie him to
every single Republican candidate. But it's not him, right Whereas
Roy Cooper, who yes, has won statewide races everyone he's
(01:18:45):
ever done, he has never seen the kinds of attack
ads that are going to be coming his way now,
because this seat is so important at a national level, right,
and so I suspect that the kinds of attack ads
and the kinds of issues that are going to be raised,
not just on his COVID response. That picture of him
(01:19:05):
walking around at the Black Lives Matter protest march during COVID.
Speaker 2 (01:19:10):
Yeah, I mean, if there's ever.
Speaker 1 (01:19:11):
A picture that captures that, you know, Democrat elite governing caricature,
that's the photo. It's I'm walking you know, white.
Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
It's the big elderly male, call him the Big Three,
It's Roy Cooper, it's Nancy Pelosi the hairdresser, and it's
the French Laundry with Gavin Newsy.
Speaker 5 (01:19:29):
Those three, Yeah, would have been the demise of those three.
Speaker 1 (01:19:32):
And yet here here we go, so well, and it's
so perfect, the mask hanging down off his face, right,
I mean, it's just it perfectly encapsulates the problem. Right.
So you got the COVID stuff, but then you also
have the HB two issue which he ran on, hammered
away at, got elected over right, Well.
Speaker 14 (01:19:49):
Yeah, the mood shift.
Speaker 2 (01:19:52):
Think that's what did it? Dan forst thinks that he
and talking to him and I did a bunch of listeners.
He thinks that just did a better job of scaring people,
and so there was a bunch of split tickets.
Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
And right, yeah, the vibe is shifted now, right that
the HB two issue is no longer an issue that
his position wins. You know, that was a long time
ago in politics. So then so that's the other one,
and then the other the third one is the disaster
response they lie, Yeah, exactly. This guy's response was so
(01:20:28):
bad that Josh Stein, the current governor, also a Democrat,
had to do an entire new relief agency to address
Hurricane Helene because Cooper's model was so bad and broken.
And then that's not even counting. Now what happens with
the with the foreign policy stuff. As a member of
the Senate, he's got to have positions on foreign policy.
(01:20:49):
So what's his position on Gaza, what does he think
about globalized the Intifada? These are questions he's now going
to be getting from media that's not like a lap
dog Raleigh Capital Press or media. These are going to
be media people from outside of the state, and you're
going to have you know, oppositional media coming in as
well doing these stories on Cooper.
Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
Yeah, and he's not going to be You're right, he's
not gonna be able to awe shucks his way. And
let me say this about Wattley because I well, that
is an individual thing, and that speaks to me. I
do give Whatley credit for cleaning up some of the
disaster that was Ron McDaniel.
Speaker 1 (01:21:25):
Yeah, yeah, I mean that's the thing. Like operationally, he
obviously knows what he's doing right because he you know,
he he has you know, he he helped secure and
maintained majorities in the legislature here in North Carolina. He
went to the national level and he won a bunch
of races and helped them, you know, organize and streamline
and fundraise. And I've seen him. I've seen him at
(01:21:47):
an event work in the crowd up in ashrally brought
Ted Cruz to town and he he did a very
good job at that event years ago. So if he's
able to kind of capture he brings in yeah, he
brings in data and makes emotional appeals too. So I
don't know, we'll see, We'll.
Speaker 2 (01:22:03):
See, all right, Pete appreciate it and we'll be right back.
How far away do you think that Jerome Powell wanted
to be from that thing that walked through with Trump yesterday.
Speaker 4 (01:22:12):
Dude, that's like at A twelve the awkwardness there.
Speaker 1 (01:22:16):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:22:17):
So Trump just goes over the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell,
and you know it's they're building some stuff out right now.
So they're wearing hard hats and I don't know why
that makes it funnier, but it just does. And you know,
Trump obviously not a fan of Powell. Palell did not
want to be there, and the exchange is just just
listen to it's it's so uncomfortable for Powell.
Speaker 9 (01:22:39):
Man.
Speaker 5 (01:22:39):
I think Trump's loving every minute of it.
Speaker 18 (01:22:41):
You're the president with the chairman, as you know, chairman,
come on over here, and you want to just take
it a look at what's happening. And it's a it's
a tough construction job, building basements where they didn't exist
or expanding them. A lot of very expensive work, there's
no question about it. And Kim has been with me
for a long time, and you're in judge.
Speaker 4 (01:23:03):
Of the committee.
Speaker 17 (01:23:03):
And the one of the reason is what I wanted
to see it was the overruns of the expenses. Wanting
to figure out why. Yeah, so we taking a look
and it looks.
Speaker 18 (01:23:14):
Like it's about three point one billion one up a.
Speaker 9 (01:23:16):
Little bit or a lot.
Speaker 18 (01:23:18):
So the two point seven is now three point one. Yeah,
it just came out.
Speaker 4 (01:23:25):
Yeah, I haven't heard that from anybody.
Speaker 2 (01:23:27):
First, Trump reaches in his pocket. He has a printed
on a piece of pay fer, shoving his pace.
Speaker 9 (01:23:33):
I note about three point one at twelve.
Speaker 1 (01:23:36):
Just came from us.
Speaker 18 (01:23:38):
Yes, I don't know who does that?
Speaker 9 (01:23:43):
Are you including the Martin renovation?
Speaker 4 (01:23:44):
You just add a retired capital you know you just
said you just added in a third buildings with that?
Speaker 12 (01:23:48):
Is that's a third building.
Speaker 18 (01:23:50):
It's a building that's being built.
Speaker 4 (01:23:52):
It's been he was built five years ago.
Speaker 18 (01:23:54):
We finished Martin five years ort to set over as
part of the old world, so new so we'll get
to take a look. You're going to see what's happening.
And it's got a long way. Do you expect any
more additional course, runs.
Speaker 5 (01:24:10):
Don't expect him.
Speaker 2 (01:24:11):
We're ready for him.
Speaker 5 (01:24:12):
But we have a little bit of a reserve that
well we may use.
Speaker 4 (01:24:15):
But no, we don't expect to be finished in twenty
twenty seven.
Speaker 17 (01:24:19):
We're well along as you can see.
Speaker 2 (01:24:23):
And let's and let's just call this what it is.
That's your boss coming over to where you where you
work and watching you. That's Trump did that to f
with Powell, dude.
Speaker 4 (01:24:35):
And so when when Trump starts to throw at the
numbers there and they say, you've got to see the
visual and it we you know, we send it out
on the Twitter account at Casey and the radio. When
he starts giving the numbers, Trump the look on Powell's
face like the confused it's a mixture of confusion and disgusted,
like yeah, he's he's putting his head back and forth
like that isn't right. And then he pulls out the
receipts mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (01:24:57):
Well that's the renov that's the one. That's the rental
we just finished. It's part of the same project. This
was a ten year This was a ten year plan.
This goes back actually to I want to say, this
goes back to a discussion when Trump named Powell during
his first term that they build there's three buildings had
to be rented. Well one was new and then the
others the other two were renovated, so like it is
(01:25:18):
part of the larger cost. But yeah, Powell want to
be anywhere but there. But that's what that was that
was him showing up to ask about TPS reports.
Speaker 4 (01:25:28):
That's what that was.
Speaker 2 (01:25:30):
You agree, right, yeah, one hundred percent. He said, I'm
gonna go over there and see what's up of those
TPS reports.
Speaker 4 (01:25:36):
We're gonna need you here on Saturday.
Speaker 17 (01:25:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (01:25:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:25:42):
By the way, I don't know who they I don't
know who that actor is, but it easily that's it's
one of the best portrayals of that kind of Oh
you're talking about Lumberg, Yeah, Lumberg. Yeah, man, I forget
the actors say he's actual pretty well known actor.
Speaker 5 (01:25:56):
Yeah, there's a there's a bunch of there.
Speaker 2 (01:25:58):
So all right.
Speaker 5 (01:26:00):
What's even crazier is who's the who's the nerdy doe
with the stapler? What's his name.
Speaker 2 (01:26:07):
In office Space by Michael Bolton? No, not Michael Bolton.
The guy who's with the that You think it's gonna
be the shooter? Oh, Milton, yeah, Milton, you know who
that is. That dude's been in so many things, man,
it's Buffalo Bill.
Speaker 17 (01:26:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
From the Silence of the Lamps.
Speaker 4 (01:26:24):
He's been in so many things.
Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
Yeah, he was on the here that TV was the
cop on what was it monk or something's we on
that show.
Speaker 5 (01:26:31):
I think it was on that show. Anyway, He's a classic.
Speaker 2 (01:26:35):
Hey stick with our theme that they're taking everything from
the eighties from us. This week, Chuck E Cheese got arrested.
Speaker 5 (01:26:43):
Yeah, in front of the kids.
Speaker 2 (01:26:46):
There is a photo of this of a dude dressed
in a Chucky Cheese outfit in Tallahassee, Florida. I should
have done Florida. Wow, we're a little tight on time,
So no Florida, man saw. But we've had enough this week.
So they literally they go in, they locate him, he's
dressed as the mascot, and they put him in cuffs
(01:27:10):
and purp walk them right out of the thing, traumatizing
probably dozens of kids. But I don't blame them. So
this is what Because people are getting angry, they're like, oh,
they just did that for the viral nature. No, they
did that because what they arrested him for was stealing
customer's credit card information of the Chuck E Cheese and
then going and spending money. I spent like one hundred
(01:27:33):
and five dollars on this one lady's account. So the
police were actively figuring out this complaint because the woman
had come in she'd be like Hey, this thing happened,
and I have all these charges.
Speaker 5 (01:27:43):
And they had had the woman come in because they
pulled the police.
Speaker 2 (01:27:47):
What they did is they went to the other stores
where these purchases were made. They got whatever surveillance video
they could. They then brought the woman in the same
day they made the arrest and said, you recognize this
person who is using it, and she did because she
had just had her kid's birthday party there and apparently
(01:28:07):
she had seen him outside of the costume. She goes, yeah,
that's that's the dude who was at my kid's birthday.
Was helping us at Chuck E Cheese. So then police
figured out he was at work and they went and
arrested him. That it's just normal stuff, especially when you
consider that he was using his place of employment allegedly
to steal people's financial information and enrich himself. So no,
(01:28:31):
go play some ski ball, get over it. Chuck E
Cheese got arrested.
Speaker 4 (01:28:36):
I wish he tried to run, to be honest, to
see him like running that song?
Speaker 5 (01:28:40):
Can you run one of those? I don't know. I've
seen mascots run.
Speaker 4 (01:28:42):
I guess now I've been in one of the like
a big gorilla suit before when I was a mascot
for Station Up and allbody like way back in the
mid nineties, it was so hard to see in that
that you can't run in those though. I mean you can,
but you're going to crash into things and fall over.
Speaker 2 (01:28:54):
I'd be hilarious though, Well, it'd be even better if
he got away. Is now you're the cop who couldn't
catch the guy in the Chuck e cheese outfit.
Speaker 5 (01:29:05):
Would have hit the gym. That's hot though. That the
other thing too.
Speaker 2 (01:29:10):
Now he's gonna walk outside and that thing. I bet
it's a billion degrees? How hot was it in Tallahassee
the other day?
Speaker 4 (01:29:15):
Did you see somebody saying it with his bail was
set at thirty five hundred tickets?
Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
Oh no, oh, what's Florida man? They don't screw around
with this.
Speaker 4 (01:29:22):
Yeah, yeah, that's uh.
Speaker 2 (01:29:24):
But whether it was even funnier is when they're arresting him.
Did you hear how they addressed him in the office
or grabbed his arm. I'm not making this part up.
They grab his arm and said, Chucky come with me.
So didn't because that's obvious clear it's.
Speaker 5 (01:29:37):
Not the guy's name.
Speaker 2 (01:29:39):
What is the guy's actual name, Yeah, buried down the
story Jamel Jaru Jones. Jamel Jeru Jones say that three
times fast anyway. So, yeah, now he's arrested. This happened
two days ago, so that's why they arrested him. There
he might have been in the act of stealing more
(01:30:00):
off man. All right, So that's it. That's that's all
the eighties stuff just just destroyed today. Check this out
real quick. I'll get to the Biden book stuff next.
You know that Biden's doing a memoir, because of course
he is. Don't you have to remember stuff to do
(01:30:20):
a memoir? Isn't that how that works?
Speaker 5 (01:30:23):
Ross?
Speaker 4 (01:30:24):
I mean, maybe that's why they gave him less than say,
like you know, Obama or Clinton, because I was thinking
the same thing on like three pages. Yeah, I mean
what they're giving him?
Speaker 17 (01:30:33):
What?
Speaker 4 (01:30:33):
Ten million?
Speaker 1 (01:30:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:30:34):
Ten million?
Speaker 4 (01:30:35):
Half of you know, his his administration, his tenure there
was like the auto pen so and he wasn't there
most of the time. So what do you how do
you write?
Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
And arguably he doesn't. I know that the Jeff Daniels
doesn't want to hear this, but even though it's fifty
two years no, I'm sorry it was no, it was
his son that was Hunter was whying about this. The
story of Obama is a lot moreable from a you know,
because who are you selling those kinds of books to.
(01:31:04):
You're selling them to democrats, right, You're selling to people
like Baraco, but people don't like Barack Obama or not
buying his memoir.
Speaker 5 (01:31:11):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:31:11):
I did get a hold of some audio copy of it,
so we could pull a bunch of really funny drops
from him. But I have no use for any of that.
But Joe Biden. Everyone's mad at Joe Biden, you know,
because of everything that just went. So ten million is
probably generous. All right, let me uh, let me snag
a quick call here, Jacob on the Senate race.
Speaker 5 (01:31:34):
What's up, hey?
Speaker 10 (01:31:37):
You know I ran for office here in Wait County
twice in the last five years.
Speaker 11 (01:31:41):
Once for school board in twenty twenty two and county
commissioner last year. And whoever is the candidate. This is
a conservative state. But this race is going to be
decided in Wait County and Mecklenburg County, and it's going to.
Speaker 10 (01:31:54):
Be a turnout race. So whoever ends up being a candidate,
they're gonna have to turn out voters. They're not going
to win that county, They're not going to win Mecklenburg,
but they have got to turn out Republicans. Particularly it's
going to be a midterm year. They're going to have
to turn out Republicans and conservative winging independence and the demographics.
(01:32:16):
I'll just say for where I am north North Raleigh
and Wake Forest area, it has not shifted in our
favor in those areas.
Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
I'm by voting precincts inside the belt line, there's never
Republicans don't get elected there.
Speaker 5 (01:32:30):
So it just doesn't happen.
Speaker 13 (01:32:32):
Yeah, So it's you know, whoever it is.
Speaker 11 (01:32:35):
It's going to have to be somebody who can one
turnout the base and pull over some of those independents
who typically don't come out to vote, particularly in off
your election.
Speaker 5 (01:32:44):
Yeah, I agree, And it also there'll also be a
small part of it too.
Speaker 2 (01:32:48):
It'll be very interesting to see voting patterns in western
North Carolina because I think that turnout won't necessarily be
a problem there. But the question will become, are many
of those mushy middle voters or even to the left
to occasionally vote Republican? Are they angry enough over the
storm stuff still and I guess we'll find out, all right, Jacob,
thanks for the call. Jay, hang on, I'll get you
(01:33:09):
in the last segment. Let's get rased agic though from
the Weather Channel. All right, my man, one more time,
punch right now.
Speaker 5 (01:33:16):
Go ahead.
Speaker 14 (01:33:17):
Yeah, and not only hot, but an extended period of
hot about the triangle points east except out near the coast.
Heat advisories today, extreme he watches for the weekend. Either way,
everybody will be in the mid upper nineties today with
the heat indecks over one hundred. Not much chance of rain. Saturday, sunny, hot,
humid ninety five to one hundred, maybe hotter in some
(01:33:37):
spots with the heat indecks one oh five to maybe
as hot as one ten. Could be a storm Sunday Monday,
but not betting on it. Mid upper nineties, maybe one
hundred spots more on Tuesday, more on Wednesday one hundred
degree heat in and around the triangle. Might not be
quite that hot, but still above ninety five in the triad.
Either way, this extended period of hot weather looks like
it's going to continue through Thursday, so I'm into we
(01:34:00):
might get a pleasant cool down late next week, maybe
next week about this time.
Speaker 2 (01:34:05):
Okay, all right, thank you sir, having good weekend, and
we'll come back with Jeff Bellinger next. I didn't know
Jeff was going to be gone. He didn't take the
whole Cogan News tough diddy.
Speaker 4 (01:34:13):
Oh no, I don't think that's the reason.
Speaker 2 (01:34:17):
I think he just wanted to take a long weekend.
Speaker 4 (01:34:19):
But you never know.
Speaker 19 (01:34:19):
I mean, it could be the one pop culture figure
that he knows a lot about in his hurt bikes.
Speaker 5 (01:34:24):
I was so wanting to ask anyway. All right, well, Monica,
I'll let.
Speaker 9 (01:34:28):
You get to it.
Speaker 19 (01:34:28):
Go right ahead, Well, Casey, the big news today is
that federal regulators have approved Paramounts eight billion dollar merger
with Skydance Media. That stamp of approval from the FCC
follows months of turmoil revolving around President Trump's legal battle
with sixty Minutes, since Paramount owns CBS News Now. Earlier
this month, Paramount agreed to a sixteen million dollars settlement
with the President to help seal the deal, and just
(01:34:51):
last week announced that it would cancel The Late Show
with Stephen Colbert for financial reasons. Scott Dance Media is
led by David Ellison. He takes control of Paramount now
from the Redstone family, which has run the business for decades.
Market futures are mixed but lower this morning, just ahead
of the start of the trading day. The Dow futures
are up forty eight points, Nasdaq futures down seven, and
(01:35:12):
SMP futures are up just five points. President Trump downplayed
clashes with the Federal Reserve and insisted there is no
tension as he toured the fed's renovation site yesterday. That
construction site is made up of two nineteen thirties era
buildings which the FED started upgrading back in twenty twenty two.
The two point five billion dollar overhaul should be completed
(01:35:33):
over the next two years, and Powell did have to
correct the President when he inflated those construction costs have
been in front of journalists. But as far as his
job is concerned, Trump says he doesn't think firing Powell
will be necessary. Tesla plans to launch its Rowo taxi
service this weekend in San Francisco. That's according to an
internal memo to staff, which says some Tesla owners will
(01:35:53):
start getting invites to use the service there as you know.
This officially launched in Texas last month, but the California
DMV says the company has yet to apply for a
permit for driverless testing or deployment. Tesla also seeking permission
to expand to Nevada, Arizona, Florida. Not sure when that's happening,
but way Mo still outnumbers Tesla by a lot. It's
(01:36:14):
got over fifteen hundred autonomous vehicles in five major cities,
including San Francisco, and days after Astronomer CEO Andy Byron
resigned from the tech startup, the hr exec who was
with him at that infamous Coldplay concert she's resigned to.
Kristen Cabot was the company's chief people officer. She got
(01:36:35):
caught cuddling with Byron on a jumbo tron. Of course,
social media went wild, but Casey Astronomer has removed them
both from their website.
Speaker 5 (01:36:43):
Yeah, those memes were top tier.
Speaker 2 (01:36:46):
Yeah, and they're still going. Yeah, what's your what's your
favorite one?
Speaker 4 (01:36:50):
Oh gosh, there have been so many.
Speaker 2 (01:36:51):
I mean, there's a lot of pop culture couples that
have to airplane. Yeah. Of course, the scene where the
stewardess in the like the rubber pilot, the pilot with
his hands on her, that's I think that's leader in
the clubhouse.
Speaker 5 (01:37:06):
All right, Monica. Hey, I appreciate it, Thank you very much. Thanks, Casey.
There you go, Monica. Rick's from Bloomberg News.
Speaker 4 (01:37:12):
There.
Speaker 2 (01:37:13):
I don't know Trump could say there was no tension
with Jerome Powell. Looked like you'd rather be on the moon.
All right, Jay, thanks for hanging on.
Speaker 1 (01:37:20):
What's up, No problem, Happy Friday to you.
Speaker 13 (01:37:23):
Kasey.
Speaker 1 (01:37:23):
Doesn't time fly, yes, but yeah, it really does.
Speaker 13 (01:37:27):
Anyways, I'm a Chucky cheese thing. I think Chucky is
now grilled. But that's another story. I was talking about
the politics, how it's invaded every aspect of the of
our culture, especially the media and your you're and I
think that the deep state is embedded so deeply in
this country. I don't even think the Act of Congress
is going to take it out, but the Congress itself
(01:37:48):
is is. I mean, what are the police going to do?
Arrest themselves? I think Congress has made up of fifty
of the deep state.
Speaker 2 (01:37:55):
Well, I hope they're reading more than that. They all
there is some benefit to things continuing to be large est, Jay,
I gotta I gotta roll, but I appreciate the call
this morning.
Speaker 5 (01:38:04):
Okay okay ja yep, every have a good one there
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