Friday-8-8-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I thought Monday and Tuesday. Man, I'm like, this is
gonna be the shortest week ever. But now we're here,
so but it is Friday, so we got that going
for us and coming up on the show. I'm not
gonna lie. This is one of the worst takes I
think I've seen on the from the Sport of NASCAR
in a while. I don't know, I just happened. I

(00:22):
don't know. I don't know how this came across my
threshold this morning, but I was reading it and it
kind of annoyed me a little. And I don't have
anything against the driver is being interviewed here, but I'm
just from a from a perspective of somebody who's not
a NASCAR Ross. Would you check and make sure I'm
not a NASCAR driver? All right's gonna check on that
this morning.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Sure, let me check you or not.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
I am not a NASCAR driver. I have been in
a NASCAR with one of the drivers when we do
the NASCAR Experience thing and that station thing, and they
just drive around the track to the crap out of
you and that's fine. That was that was very much fun.
So that being said, Ross, you know nothing about NASCAR, right,

(01:02):
other than your dad was a NASCAR fan though, right,
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, So I'm almost scared to ask
who you root for after the Lee Trevino incident we
have with the golf. So so anyway, you know who
Kyle Larson is. I'm a big driver of this era,
big driver. They were talking to him about racing movies.

(01:23):
You know, every sport's got their slate of movies. But
if you want to talk about the comedic side of
NASCAR movies, what is the comedic side of.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
NASCAR's Talladega Knights.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Correct, Kyle Larson thinks it was bad for the sport
and made them look dumb. What he let me be
let me be abundantly clear.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
He revealed that his some of his favorite racing movies
on a podcast on Julian Edelman's podcast, So and uh
he said, well, he liked the movie Talladeya Knights. He
leave the movie did damage to the sport of racing
and quote turned our sport into a joke. I don't

(02:10):
I don't know if I've ever met anyone who enjoys
NASCAR and doesn't enjoy Talladega Knights, or I've never met
anyone who saw Talladega Knights and then stopped enjoying Nascar.
I guess this is what I would say. And every
single sport has its movies of absurdity because they're comedies

(02:32):
and that's what they are. Let me do this ross
baseball movies that are are comedic but don't necessarily reflect
the actual MLB grind Major League there's a good one.
You'd are you bulldorh them didn't destroy the sports hockey

(02:55):
you want to get into hockey? Slap shot Mighty Ducks.
Maybe you could argue that golf, golf, golf, which is
a much stuff of your sport. Ross. What's golf's movie?

Speaker 2 (03:10):
It's Happy Gilmore or Happy Gilmour. Some would say the
better movie because it features Lee Trevino. Happy Gilmore too.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
And then there's also a third one, though it has
less to do with the tour, but is one of
the most beloved comedies of all time.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Candy Katy shak.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Do.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I gotta do this for every sport. I can do
this for every sport. So I I I you want
to You want to know what? You want to know?
What made a NASCAR less palatable? And it's not you.
Kyle Wilson Kyle Wilson, Kyle Larson, Is Wilson's got thrown
into this part of poor news guy. It's not you,
Kyle Larson. You're fine, bro. I mean people are gonna

(03:49):
have opinions, whether for you or not. What what What
What made it a Nascar less palatable to a lot
of people is when in the nineties you had a
sport that was rapidly expanding. Right. I was never really
a NASCAR fan growing up in Wyoming. It's just we're
not nascari out there. But I was around the right

(04:10):
group of friends. I really got into watching the races
with them, and I really enjoyed it. And but I
saw what was happening with with uh where where the
race and where the where the sport had decided that
they were they were gonna seize this growth, which is understandable.
But the unfortunate thing that happened, and it was part
of a larger pattern, is it basically required the sport

(04:33):
of NASCAR to disregard the hardcore fans and so a
lot of these smaller tracks got ignored. It got it
got uh you know, the annual pilgrimage to whatever race
that you went to turned into it had the Disney effect. Man,
it got so expensive. People would wait all year, had

(04:55):
it all in. This was this is the race we're
going to. We're gonna go. We're gonna we'll go up
there for a few days. We'll do the infield thing,
We'll catch all the races. It'll be fun. This was
people playning their entire vacations around this, and it became
so incredibly unaffordable for some people that they felt a
little jipped. Man and a lot of the people that
worked a lot of the local tracks, I mean, the

(05:17):
heritage that we have here in North Carolina, and the
fact that there was probably people who work for the
NASCAR teams listening to the sound of my voice right now,
you know, you know, And those fans still didn't go away,
but they never really got the same experience. And you
could just say that that's progress and that's how life works.
But that's when I talk to people who are are

(05:40):
a NASCAR fans, this is stuff they talk about. I'm
just I'm giving it to you from an outsych so
I'm not a driver's perspective. Is that you were your driver,
You're in a little bit of a bubble. You'd really
have to convince me how Talladega Knights was a net
negative for people's perception of NASCAR. See jee's got cover

(06:03):
top cruise, top cruise, what's grapp up? Nobody thinks that's serious.
I think it's seriously funny, but they don't think it's serious.
And then here's sport works every year so that we
can do some some new points thing or whatever. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Before before that movie, had no interest in it at all,
even though my dad was a big fan. Used to
record the races on VHS and like, you know, rewind
the accidents, like the recks, yeah, over and over and
over again, just in his chair and watch the cars
go around the circle every single set, you know, every
single weekend. And it was annoying as a kid because
I wanted to watch stuff. But that movie came out
and I'm like, suddenly I'm kind of interested.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, it's not always a circle. By the way, you
got a couple of road courses.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
Yeah, you're kind of Jesus, your golden flee Stappers with
your tiny little fat balled up fist pms A man,
he had a beard.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Look.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
I like the baby version the best, do you hear me?

Speaker 1 (06:57):
I win the races and I get the money, I'll.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Have to picture Jesus in a tuxedo T shirt because
it says like I want to be formal, but I'm
here to party too. Listen, that movie is so big.
If we opened up the phones just for Ricky Bobby
Talladega Knights quotes, we could probably do the entire show.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
You we could do the phones, but it's just cow
not quotes, right, this is dad be it. That'd be
the whole thing. So I'm sorry. I have a really
hard time thinking that Talladega Knights somehow besmirched uh uh Nascar.
I think the things that harmed NASCAR was its attempt

(07:36):
to grow in the way that it went about it,
and who knows, maybe I'm completely wrong in the math
mass where the growth was successful in the fact that
a lot of people, because let's face it, those are
a lot of people. Probably they were sure as heck,
weren't spending the money that it cost to go to
uh do infield at Daytona.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
Now, you know, oddly, I feel kind of the same
way about professional wrestling, where yeah, they tried to expand,
and I remember I went speaking to Kyle Wilson. We
went to go see a WW event.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
I remember the Yeah, what's it called now the Lenovo Center.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, yeah, we had a box there and it was
super cool. But half of the card was like female matches,
and as soon as they were at Star, everyone would
just tune out, like prowd of just died. I'm like,
why is half of the card these female matches? It
used to be like an oddity, and now they expanded.
They're like, oh, we're gonna get you know, more of
a female audience, or this is going to appeal to
the men. And it was like, I don't know, man.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
I don't know. So but you know, they act like
not every that, every every every sport you can think of.
Badminton's had a comedy thing. I can't remember that the
movie was called, but like, this is not new every
major sport, every version of it. You go football and

(08:51):
with the NFL side of it, but you also go
with the college football. What did water Boy hurt the
SEC right ross? You're like, I can't watch SEC football now,
brack No, everyone pretended everyone did the Rob Snyder thing.

(09:12):
I want to quote him from the movie. So, uh yeah,
I'm sorry, I just I saw that this morning. I'm
like I don't know what it is. You can do it.
You can do it all you know, you know, you
don't quota all. That wasn't my school, Yeah, everywhere, you
all can do it. I heard that for all the

(09:35):
rest of my formative years. No, man, I think I
I if anything, I can't believe that Talladay Units was
anything but a net benefit, anything but in that benefit
because at the end of the day, even with those
two and their egos and everything else and everything that
happens in the movie, it's it's it sounds it's slated

(09:58):
in like a positive representation the family.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Now it's made out of love. Yes, But I would say,
if anything, it was detrimental to like, what is it,
the F one or to the European racing there right, yeah,
whatever that is?

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Yeah, yeah, the indie race and the F one race.
Oh wait, what is it detrimental to them? Because it
made them look stupid? Because NASCAR was better. Yeah, everyone
knows that this weak frenchman coming over being super weird,
and I don't know that they made their racing seem
a little bit more effeminate. Right, Wow, he's drinking tea
in his car and he's not really doing it. What

(10:30):
she did there?

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Well, I mean that's what they did.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
In the movie. Yeah, no, I hear you man.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
You know we had big ass pancakes and they had crepes.
What is a even a contest? Is it?

Speaker 1 (10:40):
I's not a contest. So I hate to see that.
But anyway, all right, that was Friday. That's how we're
gonna start a Friday show. What are you gonna do
about it? It's what he said what he said, And
I don't know. I didn't I saw that portion of
the thing. And maybe maybe there's some bigger contexts that
I didn't see. But if there is, I don't know

(11:03):
what it is. All Right, coming up on the show,
we got us a little cancelation local. We're just going
to head over to a Wendy's and carry. Wait to
hear what they canceled over there. Because people are big
babies walking around wanting to be offended by things. I'll
explain next hang on KCODA radio program where we have canceling. Okay,

(11:26):
let's go ahead and get into the canceling. This is
this is not far. This is in carry at a Wendy's.
You have to look really hard because you don't have
the traditional Wendy sign, so keep your eyes peeled ross.
What do you think was so offensive inside a Wendy's
in carry that it has now been removed from the

(11:47):
carry Wendy's and canceled that caused such great disruption to everyone?
What do you think might have been in on display
in a Wendy's in carry that caused the freak out
and the change?

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (12:01):
Terrifying stuff.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
So it's scary stuff.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
It's scary stuff. That's your hint.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
It was a mascot of some ginger haired girl.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
That's the that's the market, that's the Wendy's.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Oh okay, so it's not that's Wendy. Okay, so it's
not Wendy No, but rhyme's kind of with Wendy.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
It's a girl's name ends with with you know the
why there and starts with a W and is the
focus of season two's Netflix news show that's getting ready
to have its first episodes. I guess here this week
or something Wednesday? Did you watch the Wednesday?

Speaker 2 (12:41):
We watched a few episodes.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, okay, what'd you think of the Wednday? I actually
watched that the first season. I thought it was okay, Yeah,
we bailed out.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
I don't remember why.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Okay, all right, but you're but you're familiar with the show. Yes,
So season two is Wendy's is tied in with Wednesday.
So they have the whole hey, we're really excited as
part of this Netflix promotional thing, and so they have
like they have scary stuff. They have like, oh there's
a black cat. Oh there's a spider web, there's a bat.

(13:10):
There's a noose there, right, Yeah, So apparently with the
spider webby you go to Ril, it's right on the
front here where it's got a bat and a scary
little witch thing and spider webs, and it's clearly just
stupid promotional stuff. Part of it includes a noose because

(13:31):
that's what you're going for. That's the theme of the
Wendy's or the Wednesday, the Wednesday show, Right, it's the
Adams family. They're a little bit different. She basically tries
to murder her brother every episode. If you remember the
classic show, like it's all the goth scary, morbid stuff
but done in a cartoonish fashion, which all of this

(13:52):
stuff is. But apparently people walked into the Wendy's to
get their square Hamburger. You want to go with the
double is my my recommendation. One is too few? Three
is that just I don't know. I hate to say it,
probably too many with the double perfect good to go.
Of course it costs what your house does now, but

(14:13):
still it's very good. A fast food Hamburger, and and
and and the cartoonish, stupid marketing fashion which is a
hallmark of what it's a hallmark of fast food. Any
movie or any show that is out that might have
a tie in to uh, two kids, that's what you
went to fast food for. I don't know about you, Ross,

(14:39):
but if there was a big kids movie coming out,
you knew that there was going to be a toy
version of McDonald's. You just didn't know what it was yet.
And what do you gotta do? You got to collect
the male. So like from from I I have to
assume that the original Adams family movies that really populated
back when Ross and I were younger, not even going
back to the show, but just those movies, I'm sure

(15:00):
they had marketing tie ends. Going the fast food. But
you can't see a noose in a contextualized setting without
having to get Wendy's to remove it. On Wednesday afternoon,
customers walked into Wendy's on North Harrison Avenue and saw
what appeared to be a news. No, it doesn't appear
to be a news. It's clearly a news. Unlike the

(15:22):
Bubba Wallace thing where it's like, is that a noose
or is that the garage door handle, this is unmistakably
a noose. It's just all so dumb, so dumb. So
I guess Wendy's is the marketing partner for the Netflix
show Wednesdays. Wednesday is, of course the Adams Family spin off,
and it's not bad. It's not bad. Again, I watched

(15:47):
the whole season. I'm more of a season watcher, so
I probably won't jump in when it restarts. But it
was passable, so I don't know if it's appropriate for
little kids, but yeah, that's right in that target demo,
you know, young adults and then some of the younger
you know, high schoolers and whatnot. So it is what
it is. So you know, Wendy's makes sense, So they

(16:08):
do a marketing partnership. It's getting ready. I think it's
I remember when it airs this this weekend they release
it or whatever it is very shortly, and so they
got a whole Wednesday thing, which is also it's a
nice time of the year for this. Although it's slightly early,
you can vibe this stuff right into Halloween because it's
Adams Family stuff. So they got stupid, you know, marketing

(16:30):
materials from Netflix. They got you know, the bat thing,
and then they got a spiderweb and a witch and
a black cat and you know, all of the very
generic stuff. And then they have a noose and I'm like,
here we go. We're going to do this early because
you know, Halloween has become the perpetually offended finding Halloween

(16:51):
displays where a pirate is in a noose hanging from
a tree or a skeleton or something. And what happens.
What do they do? They call the new can you
believe this? They film a video, they put it on
social media, goes viral and everyone's like, ah, look at
these evil racists over here, and they're like, I've been
putting you know, in a lot of times. It's like
I've been putting this stuff up for twenty years. It's

(17:12):
clear this is clearly a cemetery, that's clearly a pirate.
I just remember the pirate was so one of the
stories where they were very mad, they're like, ah, what
is this. It's like, uh, that looks to be a pirate,
you know, I know he's dressed. The mannequin is dressed
as a pirate. So this thing is going to be
so vanilla cookie cutter, which it clearly is. And of

(17:33):
course it's going to be in context because it's a
marketing effort, meaning they want you to understand why there's
a fake spider web and witch and cauldron and you
know all the stupid say They want you to say, oh,
that's for the show Wednesday. I hadn't thought. I didn't
realize I was coming back. I'm gonna make sure I
watch it. And that's how most people would interact with it.

(17:54):
Maybe your kids, they would be kind of excited, is
it something new, something different. But if you're in the
if you're in the the if you're in the grievance
mongering business, and you're some sort of social justice warrior
or uh, you know, perpetually offended person who works at
some nonprofit or a advocacy group, all you see is

(18:16):
a payday man. You walked into the Wendy's and you're like, oh,
this is perfect. I can get I can get super
offended about this, and then I'll call my friends at
the news who will dutifully come down and do a story,
which Ril was happy to accommodate. Her name in this
case is Kimberly Mucktarian, a civil rights activist of course,
who works with Save Our Sons. And by the way,

(18:39):
they Save Our Sons group that they have this is
more so it's like when there's a police shooting where
they're like, oh, I can't believe they shot this young
man who pulled a gun on him. How that happened.
And so that's so they like have speed dial to
Ari Ril come down to write a story anytime. They
want him to see the reference of this organization and

(19:01):
folks within it. So they send out a they send
out a crew, and the crew comes down there and
we're gonna we're gonna have to make sure that this
never happens again. So they go and they harass this
particular Wendy's location because you know, people, uh clearly don't
have better things to do. And then after they then
went to other Wendy's to make sure that nobody else

(19:21):
had a news and some of the other ones they
went to there was no news, so clearly this one
was racist. Was that the case or do you think
that maybe just possibly because you went over and you
get freaked out over a stupid Netflix promotion, other locations
might have said, you know what, we don't want to
deal with these lunatics, so we'll just go ahead and
remove that part. But also, why are you sending your

(19:43):
your your stupid news cruiser with your with your team
down there to harass a Wendy's for marketing promotion for
a goth themed show and and get a job? Kimberly mcterran,
you're you're You're not. This is not productive. This is
not productive for people.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
I know.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
It probably makes you excited that you think that people
like me are bothered by you and you're making a
difference somehow. No, you're not. There's like ten people are
going to patch you on the back until you're doing
a great job. But you're not. Most people think you're annoying.
Most people if you show up at a thing, they're like, oh,
my gosh, here she is, because she's not gonna shut it.
You want to tell me about, oh how horrible things are?
Can she just quit it? For a minute. Oh oh wait,

(20:25):
here's she is smiled. Oh you found a noose in
a Wendy's is a marketing thing for Netflix. You're so brave.
You're so brave. Not brave, you're clearly unemployable in standard
world things. So because if this is what you have
to resort to for work, marketing shaming at fast food restaurants,

(20:52):
it's all so tiring, so dumb.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Right, Like, imagine that you are the reporter or whoever
who gets the call for that, and you're like, yes,
scoop for you. You're like, oh it is, and they're like, oh,
they have a Wendy's a noose on display at the
Wendy's And.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
You're like what, yeah, me more.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
And they're like, oh, well it's this Wednesday Wednesday promotion
and Wednesday Adam. At that point you should be like,
shut up. Yes, I'm not driving down there with the
news van and and recording and editing and then I got.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
To find it because it's very and the signage sucks.
So yes, this is what I'm talking about. But but
it's even sadder that this is that's this woman's job,
and and how lacking are there for real civil rights
issues that this is the best you can come up with. Yeah,
it's that whole thing that you know, there's the business

(21:39):
of being perpetually offended by, you know, by racism in
this country is only outmatched by the stirring lack of it.
And so see, this is what you this is what
you have to cobble together.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
I mean, we see a similar thing. We have people
send us links or stories that they would like us
to talk about, and we we look at them sometimes
say this is nonsense, We're not covering it, or it's.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Just it's not it doesn't rise to the level of
who cares? Right, who cares? Everyone's offended, all offended over
the South Park thing. Now, to be fair, it did
go a wee bit deeper than I understood yesterday because
I had not watched the episode when it aired live
on Wednesday, nor had Ross. So I saw the I
saw the JD vance and Trump representation and all that,

(22:24):
and I know, look, people are correct, they didn't they
didn't pick on Biden for four years. But also, like
he there were there were times that they should have
clearly where there was low hanging fruit. But I, like,
I don't know what it was, is it because their
their attorney from back in the day is one of

(22:44):
the attorneys that helped Hunter Biden, which is true, by
the way, if you see that, that's true. I don't
know if it's as complex as that. But it didn't
just stop with them making jd Vance look like meme
jd Vance, but also so tattoo. Uh. It had them
a little deeper storyline. Ross. Did you have to see

(23:05):
that whole storyline? I suppose when when I put the
thing in the prep right, yeah, so that was it
was a little more than just a fantasy island there.
It had Uh, let's just say it had some other
stuff going on. All right, recruits, this is it.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
We're heading to a location that might.

Speaker 5 (23:22):
Be filled with illegals.

Speaker 6 (23:23):
Let's take these bat off breas down.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
That's right. Door. They explore a stage show and Door
is there and she's the map. Oh he's the map. Wait,
so why is she the map?

Speaker 2 (23:48):
No, she's not the map. She has a map that
comes out of backpack.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Right.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
No, yeah, yeah, but she's singing. Well, the map sings it.
So the map in the show, right, the map jumps
out and that has the voice. I don't know if
it is Bobby moynihan. I always thought it kind of
sounded like Bobby moynihan. But the map jumps out, and
then the map says, I'm the map.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
I'm the map. Are they confused and the fact that's
a map, I'm.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Done, I'm the map.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
I'm the map. I'm the map.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
That's what happens.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Okay, But is there confusion? Does it not look like
a map or no, it looks just like a map.
Do you think that it's deeper than that? Do you
think that while it is a map giving do you
think it's also trying to confess?

Speaker 2 (24:35):
No, No, I think it's trying I think because the shot.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
But you might.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
I don't mean to offend anybody in the audience who
is of adult age who is a fan of Dora.
Maybe that's like your show. Yeah, but the show tends
to be aimed at children who might not know what
a map is. So it's trying to teach the children. Hey,
I'm a map.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
So it's what if it's trying to teach the children
it's the other kind of map.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Hey, it jumps out of backpack and it says, I'm
the map.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
You know what the other kind of map is? What's
the other map, remember, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, No, it's
not that. It's not a minor, but it's on a
kids show around kids.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
It is a scrolled up map that has directions on
it where or through every episode looks at the map
to know where she needs to go to get the
mcguffin or whatever. Right, okay, so let's the bridge with
the power of math or whatever.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Right, and the power of a bunch of kids. No, right, no, okay,
and adrenochrome. Right. No, you don't know why I watch
the show. Unfortunately, for they're not going to show that part.
It's going to be you a nuendo.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
You never picked up on any of that.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
So all right, So rossn is just a regular old map. Anyway,
here comes like.

Speaker 4 (25:52):
We're just here for questioning, black, great and nothing battle.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Honey, Oh, did I mention that Christy Nome shows up
and shoots a puppy because that happens too. Did a good.

Speaker 5 (26:06):
Job in their soldier.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Okay, thank you, captain.

Speaker 5 (26:09):
I know it's tough doing what's hard, but we could use.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Your boattoks. Miss m oh just texted me up, texting
me up.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Another day doing what's tough.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
Hi, Mandy, welcome Tom Lago.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
Thank you, mister president.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
All right, So then they got that in this and
then you go to the massage room of mar A
Lago and there's a thing happening. Excuse me, I'm sorry. Yeah,
so you go there is a there's some old dude
getting massaged on a table in his story of the Explorer,
and he got it's it's human sex trafficking joke. And look,

(26:58):
I get like that. You can't laugh about it. It's
South Park. So there's literally there's nothing they're probably not
going to write a joke about except Joe Biden for
four years for some reason. That being said, going back
to my original point, Ross, so you said the map
had nothing to do with maps, and yet that scene
is depicting an underage child missusing clearly older gentlemen who

(27:21):
might be in fact attracted to minors someone say, a
minor attracted person. So now with that knowledge from this,
is there a chance that the map is a big
old child recruiter.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
It is not. What you gotta understand though, is like
you know, tray Stone and Matt Parker, the guy's body
in South Park.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Doing this now because of the reaction they had last episode.
They're purposefully going over the line to annoy a certain
segment of people because they find that funny.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
To be fair, we engage in that behavior.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah, So you've got to understand the psychology behind these
guys and what they're doing.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, you're not incorrect to point out that they clearly
gave Biden a pass. And I don't know, I don't
know how you give them a pass after the debate.
I don't I don't know how you you Pa. You
can say it's low hanging fruit or he's never out
there and blah blah blah. You can say all that,
but you not lean in in that moment. I think
it was a mistake. But to your point, the reason

(28:22):
for the overtop nature of this one is because you
bitched about the last one.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Right, because Trump came out and said what he said
on True Social and they're like them being who they are, are, like, okay, well,
if you want to be pissed off, we will piss
you off. So all of it is it intentional? One
thousand percent. Everything in that episode is intentional to piss
off Trump because of what he said on TRU True Social.
That's what's going on there?

Speaker 1 (28:43):
That's it, that's it, that's that's what you need to do.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
It's literally like they're doing it for the Lowells because
they can.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
What about the monkey? Is the monkey any inappropriate with
the kids?

Speaker 2 (28:53):
You mean boots? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Boots like that already? Yeah, I mean, what's why boots
hanging out?

Speaker 2 (29:01):
You know, people wonder, you know, why did Peppa Pig
really take off the way it did in the state. Well, first,
it's a good show for kids, but it's such when
we watched it, like coming after Dora the Explorer, Dora
the Explorers, Brian Regan would say, yeah, like it was
such a breath of fresh air because Dora is like
loud and in your face and map and backpack and

(29:22):
boots and bea and then Peppa Pig would be like, hello, Peppa,
do you like some chocolate cake? And as as a parent,
you're sitting there with your kid right who cries and
it's you know, you're exhausted, and you're you're already exhausted
because you're a parent and your kid is young. And
then on top of it, you have Dora screaming in
your face and then here comes Peppa Pig and it's
a blessing. It's like, yes, wow, okay, yeah, that's what

(29:44):
happened there.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
There's no minor attracted inanimate objects that singing that show,
is there? No Peppa? Oh okay that's good.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Yeah, yeah, thank you, daddy pig.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
You know, it'd be helpful if you were a map
is knowing how far you are from an elementary.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
School, right, it might be on the map.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
I'm just saying there and say A five hundred yards
is over here, got to stay over here. So I
think we cracked the case, all right, six forty nine
hang on balks around looking for things to get offended.
Apparently she's a constant pain in everyone's ass. Is that
what I'm doing? That's giving away things?

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Yes, that is what it sounds like.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
We had to call somebody who's in a position to
probably have an important opinion on that.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Okay, yeah, somebody very knowledgeable of the subject said that
the all you need to know about this case is
the person involved, and they are peg that clock that
right away.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
This is because that's the thing everybody. Every single little
town not that Carries a little town, but carry is
not a hotbed of civil rights struggle. Really, it's a
hotbed of neighbor gossip and apparently foxes on the on
the jogging path. That's a big thing. Uh, And that's
and that's okay, we joke about Carrie, but you know

(30:53):
most people kill to raise their family.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
There.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
It's the l.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Sharpton thing where you need to look for problems so
you can continue to go to job doing what you do.

Speaker 4 (31:01):
Right.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
But it's one thing if you're like, ah, my job
is to look for problems in New York, right, you knows,
big media market. Whatever you get, you get some uh
some some juice there, and you can you can parlay
that into a seven figure career, right, But yeah, not
everyone's that's not the home market. This this poor woman's
got to operate and carry has no other discernible marketable

(31:24):
skills to be a productive member of society except to
walk around Carrie trying to figure out where the next
uh you know, the the next million man march is
going to be and in reality ends up having to
go into a Wendy's and freak out over a marketing promotion.
Like that's sad. That's just sad.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Right, Who looks at like a when you know Wednesday
or like a Halloween display, and you're like, oh, what's this.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
She's so excited. Halloween's right around the corner. Oh yeah,
inappropriate costumes, which, don't get me wrong, So I don't
know why kids on college campus just want to make
this so easy for you guys every year. And at
least there you're like, maybe you have an educational apparatus,
but no, you are so hard up for something to
freak out about. You had to get this. It's literally

(32:11):
you're the meme. This is a Wendy's, ma'am. Let me
if I could for just a moment to go ahead
and help out the the woman who's unfortunately her her
area of figuring out things that are offending her is
apparently the carry area, so you know, not necessarily a
hotbed of civil rights strife, but she she parlayed it

(32:34):
into a hit on a Wendy's on Harrison and made
him remove part of a Netflix promotional thing. And then,
of course Carly Haynes from w r O went out
wrote an article and it's it's it's also dumb, but
let me let me show you what the big leagues
looks like, ma'am. Since unfortunately you just you got to
run around carrying to this stuff. How do you parlay

(32:56):
this into more of a national approach. You got you
gotta come up with You got to come up with
stuff that nobody's thinking about. Like this article from NPR.
You ready, it's twenty twenty five, the year we decided
we need a widespread slur for robots and that's not okay.
So the entire article has figured out that there is

(33:18):
a word that is increasingly being used that is, like,
I guess, the N word for robots. And then they
go into how people when they don't like something, they
have to figure out a derogatory phrase for it, and
I'm like, yeah, I don't know if you know this.
If you can pick any ethnic group on the planet
and there is a derogatory term for them, it's true.

(33:43):
But this is these are robots, all right, So uh ross,
what do you think the what do you think the
evil N word for robots?

Speaker 2 (33:50):
I've seen two words going around, okay in regard to this.
The first one is clinker.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Well, whoa whoa whoa hold up?

Speaker 2 (33:59):
And the other one, involving Grock is a grock sucker.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah, I know it's the first one. You can't say
you can't say that word anymore, apparently, Well, we can't
get this the first time you're hearing about So yeah,
if you use klanker, it's a it's this next word,
it's robophobic. What I didn't it's in It's in the

(34:25):
damn article. Wait are you are you robophobic?

Speaker 2 (34:29):
We're not talking data from Star Trek here man.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Like, no, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Like they don't have sentiens. It's it's a robot. It's
a robot.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
No, it's just a robot.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Huh it is it is just it. It's like being,
you know, saying something offensive and being like, my toaster
is going to be offended.

Speaker 1 (34:47):
That's toastaphobic. What are you doing? What are you doing
this morning? Trying to get us canceled? The Wendy's lady?
Who again, ma'am it's this is a Wendy's gonna come
over here? Yeah, yeah, so you need to not use that.
By the way, where do the word originate from? All right?
So they brought in a linguist. Whether he's cunning or not,

(35:08):
I don't know, but he is perpetually offended as well,
and he tells NPR it's a derogatory term for Robots
that stems from the Star Wars universe in two thousand
and five, based on a reference in Star Wars in
the Clone Wars series. A Clone Wars series.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
Now that's the cartoon, right, I guess, yeah, you're not
talking the movie.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Well it says is Star Wars and in the Clone
Wars series, so perhaps it was referenced in both.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
But still if you need to go back to the
pre you know, the prequels for your source material, you
know the argument for your source material, it's a problem there. Yeah,
it's weird.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
You know who uses terms like that? Jar Jar binks
what a bigot? Well he says misa right before it,
which I don't understand what that means. So dude, I
still am to this day. Why were you, like, you
know what we need? We need a Jamaican but not
Jamaican Star Wars character.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
And it's so bad. We recently try to rewatch because
and Or was so good. Yeah, and it's gotten like
all the Emmy nominations, like all of them, ridiculous amount,
and it deserves it because it's really good. Once again,
if you haven't checked that show out, and you've been
sort of checked out in Star Wars or not even
a Star Wars fan. You can like the show. It's
a great show. Season one is great, Season two is fantastic.
But because of that show we got, you know, we

(36:20):
are interested again in Star Wars. So we watched the
original three movies. We watch four, five, and six. Yeah,
and then we're like, wow, now let's watch the prequels.
They can't possibly be as bad as we remember. They
are possibly even worse than we remember. And Jar Jar
Binks specifically is awful, just awful. You have this, you know,
talking about racism or stereotype, you have this walking embodiment

(36:43):
of those things. Ed Hanks, right, yes, yeah, And you
go back and you watch like these documentaries and the
making of the prequels. George Lucas and he's like, dude,
Charger is the most important thing of this year. Everything
is focused around the We need more Jorge are farts.
We need more poop jokes.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
That's what I mean, jajo for more of those are
doing Man, oh no, let me read the next line.
Many of the memes circulating now zero in on the
xenophobia of it all and what social media users are
calling robot racism or robophobia, using existing stereotypes and tropes.

(37:23):
They joke about a not too distant future where robots
are ubiquitous as second class citizens, because you know what
this is, this is the orcs again. We're doing the
orcs again. You're like, ah, you know, it's a dog whistling.
What it represents is it represents the you know, the
embodiment of white supremacy on people they saw as lesser individuals.

(37:45):
Because everything has to go back to that, right, And
so they did this with Orcs with Lord of the Rings, like,
you know what the orcs represent. The orcs represent black people.
And I'm like, first of all, why do you look
at orcs and you think that.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
They did the same thing in a Star Trek with
Klingons with.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Klingons, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Just everything's got their example of it.
And it's like, wait, you say, why are you looking
at that and you just assume that that's black people?
That's rude as hell. I mean, what is wrong with you?

Speaker 3 (38:17):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Ubiquit. It's a second class citizen's facing discrimination in the
same ways that black people and other racial or ethnic
groups in America have historic I have historically historically faced
You say, you're too far gone to communicate with, Oh
you get your robophobic, dude, I hope somebody accuses me

(38:38):
of that someday. And then what's the rebuttal?

Speaker 4 (38:43):
Like?

Speaker 1 (38:43):
If so? If the rebuttal is if they're calling you racist,
like I have black friends, is like I have a
sex doll, a sexpot, So I'm not robophobic. I have
a sex spot. Would that be the great rebuttal? Everyone
laughs about the use of the word inherently creates an
out group, an and versus and us versus them mindset. Well,

(39:09):
they when they become self aware, it's very much gonna
be us versus them. But if you want to go
out and meet the robots in the streets and be like, no, no,
I'm here, like the guys playing beer pong when their
windows got shattered during the Floyd riots, like no, no,
I agree with you. Good luck with that when the
robots are tearing you limb from limb or whatever they do.

(39:32):
The article also argues that people may be channeling their
racism for other things into the robots because at least
it's socially acceptable. I cannot believe we did not defund
this garbage before this. I guess now the mask is
off right you get to see the full breadth of it.

(39:54):
I don't know what's left in the shadows considering all
the reporting I've seen, but it's going to be very
in stress active. Yeah. So ironically, the people saying clanker
are assigning more of a personality to these robots than
actually exists. Okay, well, if the robots have personalities, then
what do you care what people call them? Say? I'm

(40:16):
not gonna share any more of this garbage, and then,
in typical fashion, is rebuttaled MPR's piece. They went and
found tweets from Democrat lawmakers where they used the term clinker.
Oh why aren't you It's just everything, man, Everything is

(40:36):
such an absolute exercise in just sheer stupidity. All right,
So yesterday it was kind of interesting. You know, so
far with everything going on in Cincinnati, the people that
we've seen in front of the microphone have been the mayor,
that chief of police, the civil rights guy who came

(40:58):
in and was like, we played the audio earlier this week.
But I was a little surprised because the woman who
got her face pounded in and then it was in
that viral video where she's staring eyes open, looks like
she's dead. She actually got in front of a camera.
And there's a reason you don't see that very much.
You didn't see that very much prior to this, and

(41:20):
that's that's because the DOJ has a Community Relations office.
I don't know if you know this. And one of
the things that notoriously the Community Relations Office would do
when you had a high profile crime that was getting
a lot of attention that the DOJ was not uncommon

(41:42):
for this branch of the DOJ to get with the
victims and explain to him why it was in their
best interest not to hold press conferences like this. They
would tell him, look, if you hold this press conference,
it's going to inflame things, and people may riot and
people could get killed. Do you want that on your
conscious We know because one of the things that Trump
administration did, although it was not a highest priority, it

(42:05):
didn't get a lot of pub is. Much like usaid,
they basically dismantled this office. So there's much you think
about that you had on arm of the DOJ that
was going in there because they didn't want a victim
of a crime to go on there and hold a
press conference because they thought people would get upset about it.
For you know, the vapid race related reasons that we

(42:27):
tend to that we tend to see and then they
would shame people to not do things like this. They
couldn't tell them, they they couldn't, but they could basically
tell them, well, look, if you do this, it's out
of our hands. We're not gonna be able to help you.
Or it's not this like it's it's it's unclear the
full extent that they've gone to, but I've read some

(42:47):
in a couple incidents, some pretty high, uh, pretty troubling
things that they were doing. So I was very much
in favor of them dismantling this thing. So now the
narrative is not strictly controlled by the mayor. What is
the mayor's name again, Aft tab purvol By the way, dude,
that sounds like a scith if we're still on Star Wars,

(43:09):
doesn't it right? Ross aft tab Purvo Perval. That sounds
sithish if if we're doing Star Wars stuff still, ye AnyWho? So,
uh yeah, the mayor and the chief of police and
uh uh a pastor. You know they're there. They're al

(43:31):
sharpting dude, uh out there saying just the most insane stuff.
That's not going to be the only narrative because this
woman was happy to get on there and chat about it.
So we'll get into that here in just a moment.
Let me grab a call.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
What's up, hey, case, good morning. I was just so
to have the robots thing man, and uh, you know,
I think we can all agree that generally speaking, people
on the left have like no sense of humor. They
need to find something to be offended about. I think
the next thing coming down the pike is is them

(44:06):
being bothered by the mispronunciation of foods because they're they're
very snobbish about, you know, foods that come from different
countries and they want to show up that they know
how to pronounce them and stuff like that. And I
actually experienced that recently, you know, like at a food
bar type thing and I said, wow, I said, and
I saw someone that's you know, you're clearly a bit

(44:29):
of a moon bat, and I said, out loud intentionally,
I said wow, look quinoa. And sure enough they looked
up with a disgusted look on their face and goes,
it's keene waw. Oh sorry. So I'll bet you that's
going to come out like in the press eventually, you know, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
No, no, sure you don't. You don't have you don't
have to bet that. I've literally, we've literally done a
story where if you don't want to learn the proper
pronunciation of quote unquote ethnic foods, I don't know quino.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
Applies.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
But they were saying that people who were refusing to
learn how to pronounce it that was racism, and me
not learning to pronounce people's names because I kind of
do that bit where I'm like, I'm not even gonna
try that is that's that's inherent racism. So now we've
already been tagged with that so old school. So yeah,
all right, you're just gonna have to stick to your
new found robophobia. Okay, that's what you want to do,

(45:29):
robphobic comments, you know, things like that. Are you want
to hear from the Cincinnati victims. Since she decided to
tell her story, I'm not surprised by the way. That's
kind of what I expect her to say. But here
we go.

Speaker 7 (45:43):
First and foremost, I just want to say that I
don't want to relive what happened to me, you know,
eight or nine days ago. I'm here to talk about
the future and how we can change it, how we
can prevent this from happening to anybody else.

Speaker 1 (45:58):
By the way, she still looks like she just fought Tyson.

Speaker 7 (46:01):
Just sewer clear, tanous crimes have to stop. You know,
I never want this to happen to anyone else, especially
a mother, a daughter, somebody who is loved. So I
just know what it's done to my family, not just
to me, And I think that moving forward, we do
need more accountability, and I definitely think that, you know,

(46:24):
we we need more police officers.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
But let me pause here because she's what she's about
to do is she's going to give you some Remember
how the police that she chief of police was mad
at social media and she's like, I can't believe we're
reporting this without context, and they're like, well, can we
have some context? Like, yeah, you don't need context. She
can give you some context, specifically about the person who
is who is charged with assaulting her, the sucker puncher,

(46:50):
which I think is kind of important context.

Speaker 7 (46:52):
Tell us more man, like he said, you know, the
judges who are just letting people out with the slab.
The man who attacked me and might have damaged me
forever should never have been on the streets ever, and
the fact that he had just gotten out of jail
previously for something he should have been in there for years.

(47:14):
It's really sad to me because I can't even fathom
how many other people who have been attacked by the
same type of man over and over and over in Toledo,
in Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, our streets are being taken over
and nobody is doing anything. I am so sad and

(47:35):
I need to be the voice to help all of
the victims that never got their justice.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
Yeah, yeah, so that's weird. Huh. Ross, I was in
jail for something I should have been in jail, and
they slap on the wrist. Out you go and decides
to go to a music festival and allegedly make everyone
think this woman died for a moment. She got so
sucker punched. I am shocked to learn that did not
see that coming. And then I saw people and making

(48:03):
fun of her. She's like, oh, she said permanent, and
then thought it's for the rest of my life. And
she's so dumb she doesn't know it. She probably has
a traumatic brain injury. I don't know if you guys
know this. I'm not saying it wasn't that big of
a flood. But if that's your takeaway from that, not no,
she's kind of right. Maybe we shouldn't keep letting repeat
people out so they can just keep repeatedly victimizing people.

(48:26):
They're like, gosh, she used a word that means the
other thing that she used in the sentence, and she's
so dumb. Okay, if that's the way you want to
play it, I don't know. Good on her telling that story,
and I'm sure the mayor doesn't care. We'll be back apparently. Somebody.
Oh no, back in two thousand and seven dug up

(48:48):
a an old Maxim article because when you know, again,
when you're out of stuff to be offended over, you
gotta either got to go to a Wendy's and find
a Netflix promotion or you got to find something from
back in the day and be like, can you believe
this is a thing that happened? And yeah, a lot
of times you see it with like old interviews, remember
the remember the Clint Eastwood interview or the show Remember

(49:12):
the Sean Connery one where he was talking about smacking
a woman who was out of control, which, by the way,
ross In retrospect. How many instances of TV and movies
did we consume as kids where you'd have a woman,
he's generally a woman who would be freaking out in
some stressful situation, and how would a guy calm her down?

(49:33):
A lot of older movies had this right hit her
across the face, and sometimes it'd be comical, sometimes not,
but it worked like power right to the moon. Right, Yeah,
well there's that, but also just hey, calm down, get
with it. Just he he never thought anything of it,
but it worked or every time. So I'm not encouraging

(49:54):
you to do that, by the way, it was just
it was just and and so I understand there's gonna
be things represented and popc culture where now you're like,
I don't know about that right out the best route
that being said a Maxim article from two thousand and seven,
where in it what was Maxim?

Speaker 2 (50:13):
What was Maxim back in the day? Okay, So I
did I put this story in prep last night? Yeah,
I was unaware that the list was from I just
didn't check was from two thousand and seven.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
Correct, stop.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
Yes, when we talk about the perpetually offended, you're just
you're literally just looking for stuff now but also is
the list wrong?

Speaker 1 (50:37):
Who's number one? I don't know. That's why people put
these together so people can argue about them. So Maxim
of course was known for, you know, basically, all right,
who's the sexiest person out there? Right now, let's get
them meeting a Hamburger and Daisy Dukes and do a
photo shoot or something.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
Maxim was like an edgy magazine.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
It was, and believed that the articles were good.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Yeah, like an edgy dude magazine.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
Right, it wasn't. It wasn't pornographic, but it was right
on that cusp right. Nowadays it wouldn't either. That's Sabrina
Carpenter's album covers. But they had the audacity. In addition
to doing the one hundred you know, hottest Women, which
they would do every year, in two thousand and seven,
they also put out a A the Unsexiest Woman list.

(51:26):
Yeah they did. Let's see here, now, who's all on
this list? Okay, before I tell you who's number one,
here's some of the others. Amy Weinhouse Okay, yeah, maybe
should just getting out of rehash a little bit of
an edge to her. Again, this isn't meant to be
taken seriously. Comedian Sandra Oh describes her as cold, bedside

(51:51):
banner and boyish figure. It's clearly tongue in cheek Britney spears.
But this was Britney when she was in kid mode
and she gained some weight, but she had not shaved
her head yet, because again you have to go back
to the era that it was. But it was when
we were first getting a look at how crazy she
might be. So she was on there. So I think

(52:15):
Madonna was on there too. Okay, look clearly, clearly they're
having fun. But the number who is the least sexiest
woman according to the maximum list, Sarah Jessica Parker.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
I mean they nailed it.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
I'm just saying, you know, I mean horse jokes people
were making. And again it's not Sarah Jessica Parker more
attractive than most women. Will probably say, yes, probably, but
she's being judged as a sex symbol for sex in
the city and for all of that. And also you
have guys that are probably kind of annoyed by her
existence because they're dating women or married to women, or

(52:48):
want to watch sex in the city and they find
it vapid because that's just normal guygirl stuff. Whatever. She
thinks the shows you watch are dumb. You think the
show she watches her dumb. You still love each other,
get over it. But it's it's a magazine for dudes,
and it's not meant to be taken seriously. And of
course they got to pull it back out, and you're like, oh,

(53:09):
can you imagine how horrible things were in two thousand
and seven.

Speaker 4 (53:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
I was having a pretty good time in O seven.
I was I had just transitioned into doing talk radio.
Looked like it was really gonna it was gonna be
a It was good career decision. Clearly it seems to
have worked out, and we were having more fun.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
They're just looking for stuff. It reminds me of the
when they went back to like a Playboy interview from
nineteen seven way of John Wayne, and they were waiting
to cancel John Wayne because he said this thing in
nineteen seventy one. Yeah, no, crap. The dude was born
what early nineteen, like nineteen was seven or something, right, Yeah,
what I mean, pre.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
Mustard gas Yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
And by the way, he's dead, yeah, yeah, he might
have had some opinions on things.

Speaker 1 (53:56):
This is yeah, this is two thousand and also it
makes and I get more. I get it. Here's why
I get extra offended because one thing, when you're going
back to a seventies era Playboy interview, I wasn't alive
for that. But now your old timey rooting around for
stuff is in my twenties. I feel personally attacked. This

(54:19):
is within my adulthood. And you're like, can you believe
how horrible and what a bunch of backwater idiots everyone was?
And O seven, Yeah, yeah, one, that's not true. But
two I was twenty seven, so screw you. And a

(54:39):
lot of people were making Sir Jessica Parker horse jokes,
horse face jokes. That was the thing. And also I
bet she didn't I don't know if she saw. I
bet she didn't care.

Speaker 2 (54:49):
You know, the culture was completely different and people were
a lot less offended, and it was sort of still
in that it was like that Perez Helton sort of stage,
remember where he would just move on the celebrities. And
I even saw this in radio. So back then I
was doing you know, nighttime radio and top forty stations
and sort of the night jock vibe. At the time,

(55:10):
the shtick was to make fun of the artists. It's
like what you would do. You would go on and
you'd make fun of the Justin Bieber, you'd make fun
of sure, know, that's what you did. That That's just
how it was at the time. And I remember when
this sort of vibe changed after Obama for sure, but
around like twenty ten or so, that vibe completely changed

(55:31):
and we had a new program director at the time,
and I remember it's like, you're telling offensive jokes. You
can't make fun of the artists. And I'm like, since when, Yeah,
Like that's my thing. Since when?

Speaker 1 (55:40):
By the way, it's.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
Also we all know, yeah, so what we all do
no is that nights it was like six to eleven.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
Well it's night. It's out of safe Harbor's what I'm
saying some of the correct Yeah, yeah, like what yeah,
I And the fact that we would ever get back there,
I think is probably pretty uh uh. We're not going
back there. Is as excited as I know some of
you are, to be able to say the R word

(56:06):
again or whatever gets you excited, you know, fully getting
society back to an O seven vibe. Id ship sailed man. Now,
when I'm having to do stories about robophobia, there's still
elements of it. All right, So Ross, you want to spectator,
Do you know what song ra he's gonna play here
in a minute?

Speaker 2 (56:25):
No idea?

Speaker 1 (56:26):
Alright, yeah, well he might. What was his clue? Was
it nineties or eighties? I can remember the eighties?

Speaker 2 (56:33):
Eighties?

Speaker 1 (56:34):
Okay, So normally we would pick a song and the
regis is accordion and then by the way he kills
it's with the songs he was given him, including dar Rude,
Sandstorm and uh what did we have? Hulk Holgan's Walk
on Music got them both. But this week he says
he's going to do an eighties song and then we
have to see if we can figure out what it is.

(56:55):
So I'm super excited about that. So you just let
me know the moment that man's Is he available now?

Speaker 3 (56:59):
Is?

Speaker 2 (57:00):
I think he's not.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
Oh, he's probably practicing the orchestra. He's getting all ready,
So he's gonna play some eighties something something I think
maybe Devo trying to say he's.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Been practicing all morning. He's spent, like you know, the
bandana wrapped around his head. Yeah, he's in his sweats,
ready to go. He's been the power dance fighting out
in the woods. Getting ready pumped up.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
Yeah, I mean why He's like, why are you Probably
last night I said, why are you walking around that accordion? Yeah,
big day tomorrow, big day. So uh we will we'll see.
I kind of cheated and called Mark or textan Mark
the Morning Guy in Ashville because Ray doesn't hit before
with him to tip me off. But no, I want
to be as surprised as the rest of you, So

(57:45):
we will do that. Also, coming up on the show,
Pete Callner will join us. That'll be at eighth five.
We got lots to dive into with the Senate race
and just a whole bunch of stuff and uh, a
really heartwarming story out of Oklahoma. Like I love how this,
I love how this play. I hate that this this
dude had to tolerate what apparently he had to tolerate,

(58:07):
But I just I love it when karma just instantly
spins around on somebody. So we will U we'll share
that with you, and uh a teacher of the Year
to tell you about which that thing's turning into the
Madden Curse. If I could be honest, all right eight
eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four is

(58:27):
our boy there yet? Nope? Oh my goodness, I bet
you Ross. I bet he's cheating with every other station.
You know what I mean. We want to feel special,
and I'll bet if you tune in to any one
of the other ones he does. It's this whole thing.
Lord knows he he didn't tell us about it. I
had to find out from another host. So that's how

(58:48):
this uh, that's how this thing's going to play.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
We're not having com rex issues today.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
If that happens, to know, I'm kissed off man. That
is not okay. Oh we got a dude. I saw
the funniest story yesterday. So twelve states. Oh is he ready?

Speaker 3 (59:04):
All right?

Speaker 1 (59:04):
So I'll tease at a moment. What's going on, mister
big band leader? Oh? No much? How are you?

Speaker 3 (59:10):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (59:11):
You know, we were. We were horrified. We thought maybe
the comrades wasn't working and we get cheated. So no, no,
believe it or not.

Speaker 5 (59:17):
I was actually I was practicing and lost track of time.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
That is exactly what we thought.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
That's what we said. You could tell raising his cordy
and studio to day.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
You can tell I was I was at the zone.
I was at the zone. I was like, holy, it's
forty five. I gotta go for the audience again. The
narrative is a lot of times we feed Ray the song,
but he said he's going to do one and we
have to guess what it is, and he just gave
us a clue. That's from the eighties, right.

Speaker 5 (59:43):
Yeah, I mean give her to I think it is.
I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
I'm pretty sure changing that a moved the gold post Man.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
You can't do like late seventies.

Speaker 1 (59:50):
Now Ross has been up all night reviewing eight all
the eighties music. So well, you got to tell we
like to make an ecd collection, that's right, right.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
Like I'm in eighteen eighties you fools.

Speaker 5 (01:00:03):
Yeah, man, I mean you know, listen, I'm really stepping
out of my element here, because you know, it's more
like songs that you would never hear on the accordion
that are being played on the accordion.

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
That's the point of this, yes, I god know, so all.

Speaker 5 (01:00:15):
Right, so it is the goal is to make a
makry out of me, right.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
No, not at all, sir, No, you know, excited our
audiences when you do the accordion. Joy, it really does joy.
There's no joy in the world except this. This is it.
This is the this is all the joy that's left.

Speaker 5 (01:00:31):
I might have to slow it down a little. It's
not going to be perfect, but you should be able
to get it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
All right, all right, let's let's do that first, because
that's that's the priority. So all right, it's the priority.
Here we go, Yeah, here we go. I know some

(01:01:17):
of those notes, so that was really the first The
first part sounds very familiar.

Speaker 2 (01:01:22):
Now that's on the tip of my tongue, though, like
I know you know what it is. I know, I
know it. Come on, audience, man, I'm so bad at this.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
Like I watch named it too, and I can't watch
it get so I can name that dang man. No really, jeez,
they got it ridy. What feels so stupid? I feel
so stupid. Come on, can you give me another hand,
give us another hint about maybe the artist or whatever
the artist is.

Speaker 5 (01:02:00):
It is not not female but and then something you
wear on your head, but they're not.

Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
Not female but male. So men, yeah, men, and without
hats man, without hats dude. I was just gonna that
is exactly what I was gonna say. And I'm like,
it's not safety dance. Yes, it is a safety dance.
I thought that would be an easy one. No, you
know what if the dude the moment started playing what

(01:02:34):
popped in my head and I'm like, there's no way
it's that, and I well, well done, Yes, that clearly
is no. Thanks. Yeah, alright, I feel dumb weather next hour,
you feel smart with better weather. How's that?

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
So?

Speaker 5 (01:02:48):
Yeah, it is better hit miss storms. Next couple of days,
rain chances go up. Next week it'll get more war
more humid. Low eighties today, mid eighties, maybe the upper
eighties by the end of the weekend, and some of
us will approach ninety as we get into next week.

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
Okay, I'm watching your clock. Just make on your whole weekend.
Oh we got in an hour or so. You can
share this then, thank you, sir. I appreciate it. Yep,
all right, we'll come back. We've got more audio. We
got Pete calender and uh, well it's next hang on
the first song that popped my head and I went,
now that's not it, but it was it. So but yeah,

(01:03:21):
definitely if you all recognized it. Ray did a good
job and we appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
I saw this video yesterday. So it's so twelve US
states now ahead of some of what the FEDS are doing.
Have already made substantial changes to their their EBT, their
snap benefits, whatever you want to call it, that have
limited the ability to purchase some items. And so now
you're getting these series of videos where people are going
to check out with food stamps and the clerk's like,

(01:03:47):
I'm sorry, this, this, this is are not covered. So
if you want those, you're gonna have to pay cash.
And then people get mad or I don't know, this
lady gets mad per se. But they start filming and
then they post videos of it so warn everyone what's
going on. And so this lady rolls up there and
she got a bunch of stuff. She's at a walmart.
Clerk's like, na, this is not there, This isn't on there.

(01:04:08):
She literally walks behind the register so she's looking at
the screen right next to the woman who's working there. Again,
she's not aggressive to or anything, but decides, hey, we've
got to make a video out of this, and uh
here here, here, here's one of her concerns. She's got

(01:04:30):
the big one that's got the three cups or four
cups in it, the oversized reses in her hand. Literally
there's some juice and a lot of Some juices are fine,
but when you get into the stuff that's basically just
sugar water, those apparently are not on there.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
Take them.

Speaker 5 (01:05:01):
Let's just let's episode come on.

Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
Even she gon keep what's that you can't buy?

Speaker 4 (01:05:18):
So they went on when they said he will take
off all the whole.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
I'm taking away all is we're taking away the reces.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
Yes, yeah, they yeah, they're gonna go and take that
one away. It's what she says on the very end.
It's infuriating. She goes, what's the point of having them
if I can't be.

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
Did you catch the part too? It's kind of hard
to hear where she goes, yeah, and and then the
clerk goes, I wish in reference to having the ray
Pokeman stagic coming up here at excuse me forty five.
But first we kicked the hour off, as we usually do,
with our good buddy to the South Midday's w BT.
Can you hear him on the iHeartRadio episode Inclined, it's
a Pete calendar. Pete, what's going on?

Speaker 7 (01:05:55):
Sir?

Speaker 4 (01:05:56):
Oh? Not a whole lot? I don't think this week
it's been pretty slow?

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
Really has it been slow? Slow? We got I don't know.
It's so slow that we're having We're perpetually offended by
a Wendy's. So we have a civil rights incident. I
don't know if you've seen what happened up here.

Speaker 4 (01:06:10):
I saw, I saw a headline, but I did not
I didn't read any of the details there because that's
that's your zone.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
Well it's okay, I still do I still I still
talk about like the Charlotte murder prison. You guys are
running down there. So occasionally these things cross over, so
so that so you know how every community's got to
have their their their Malcolm X or they're Al Sharpton
right now, you just kind of stake that claim, but
not all the communities are created.

Speaker 3 (01:06:40):
Yeah no, it it's constitutional.

Speaker 1 (01:06:41):
Yeah. Yeah. So we we have one of those for Carrie,
which I don't know if you know much about the
Triangle is.

Speaker 4 (01:06:48):
I know Carrie is uh containment area for relocated Yankees.

Speaker 1 (01:06:53):
You've probably heard that, yeah, uh. And like the the
most dangerous we we referred on the show as the
Murder cap of North Carolina, which actually really really bothered
one of the city councilmen there years ago. But the
joke was they had two murders one year and they
had not had a murder for like three years before,
so that they had a two hundred murder increase year

(01:07:15):
over year. And I got so that was the joke.

Speaker 4 (01:07:18):
Don't lie. I mean, that's the said that those are
the statistics.

Speaker 3 (01:07:21):
They don't lie.

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
Yeah. Yeah, So I just had to go with what
it is. So that's how that joke started. But usually
the worst thing that happens is there's a fox that's
too friendly on the jogging trail. Or my favorite was
in one of the really nice communities. Uh, this woman
posted on like the Facebook neighborhood thing right, and she
took pictures because she thought that gangs had broken into

(01:07:42):
their gated community and tagged the roads. Oh gosh, they
were underground locator symbols. They were underground locutor symbols. And
the dude from the company did the location was listening,
he called in, laughing. So yeah, oh, what is the
gang's name? Fiber optic.

Speaker 4 (01:08:01):
Dash circle arrow.

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
Yeah yeah, so like it's it's pretty light light work. However,
all the calm was struck when the local perpetually offended
civil rights activists stumbled upon some super racism at a Wendy's,
which I love because you know the meme, right man,
this is a Wendy's.

Speaker 4 (01:08:22):
And I do know this story. I just saw. I
think I just took. I don't know if you posted
I saw the photo.

Speaker 1 (01:08:27):
Okay, all right, So this Wendy's had the audacity, like
probably all the other Wendy's, uh, to participate in the
company's marketing with the Netflix series Wednesday, which is an
Adams Family spin off, which probably has season two premiere,
I guess this week and so. And it's also perfect
timing because you probably leave this garb up through October

(01:08:47):
and you'd be good to go.

Speaker 3 (01:08:48):
Oh definitely.

Speaker 4 (01:08:49):
Yeah, it's a two per you just you do the
you do the outlay for Halloween decorations, and then it
lasts you two months instead of one.

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
That's perfect. It's like you weirdos with your all year
Christmas light. So they have they got like a spider web,
they got a little witch thing, they got a bat thing,
and it's all and it's all real garbage. But you
know all the promotional stuff you've dealt with this band
radio that you could send and so they put it
off there and so, but they're just looking for you
know that that dark, almost comedically dark field that Adam's

(01:09:19):
family perpetuates, and it's clearly labeled what it is because
it's a marketing effort to get people to watch the show.
But one of the items was a noose.

Speaker 4 (01:09:29):
Yeah yeah, yeah. Outrage ensues and l.

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
Datafully goes down and checks it, and then they go
to other Wendy's to check other Wendy's because you know,
there's nothing else going on, and here we are in
the land of stupid.

Speaker 4 (01:09:43):
Right, And that's so here's the key is that I
blame the media for this because if the WRRAL reporter goes.

Speaker 3 (01:09:50):
To it's okay.

Speaker 4 (01:09:50):
If I'm the reporter and I and used to be
a reporter, I was a reporter right here, I am
somehow alerted to this quote unquote story. First off, I
would probably argue in the assignment meeting, I would say,
this is not a story, right, just because we get
some press release from the officially constitutionally designated spokesperson for

(01:10:13):
the black community in our zone and they are somehow
outraged at this thing, like that's my first that would
be my first question is why is this news? Like
why is this offensive? And then if I go and
talk to this person. I would then ask them are
you kidding me? Like, are you serious? Do you seriously

(01:10:35):
believe that this is somehow or another some kind of
a racialized display. And this is one of the core
tenets though of woke and all of the critical race
theory and the corporate trainings that people were subjected to
these struggle sessions where it doesn't matter what the intention

(01:10:56):
is behind any speech or act. The intent doesn't matter.
The only thing that matters is how it is interpreted
and received by the victim. And here's the problem. If
people have this tendency for interpersonal victimhood mindset that is
an actual psychological thing that if people have this mindset,

(01:11:18):
everything everything is offensive, everything is an assault, and so
you can never then engage with somebody or do anything
because it will be interpreted as such. And so the
question is in order to break this stupid fever, is
to ask the person are you stupid?

Speaker 3 (01:11:37):
But are you stupid?

Speaker 4 (01:11:38):
Do you think that this is some sort of like
that that they would that a Wendy's would hang a
noose in some sort of a display in order to
purposefully offend black people, and which, by the way, a
lot of white people got hanged as well.

Speaker 1 (01:11:52):
I understand the history.

Speaker 4 (01:11:56):
I didn't want to do the math, right, I didn't
want to do the math, but like, this was the
this was the preferred way of of killing people, like
from a like a governing perspective, like the sheriff or
the local courts and whatever. Like people would hang the
perpetrators and even innocent people. They would hang people all
the time throughout history. This was a common way.

Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
Of doing it. And his horse simultaneously in a western
one time.

Speaker 4 (01:12:23):
So there you go. Yeah right, so like so but
this is the thing. It's like I wonder, like, what
does this guy do when he plays clue?

Speaker 1 (01:12:32):
What do you do?

Speaker 4 (01:12:33):
You remove the noose?

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
Well, yeah, is and you see this. I'm sure within
Charlotte media, there's certain groups that are clearly have a
speed dial relationship because this was the organization this woman's
tied end with this called Save Our Sons, which is
a group that was formulated because police kept shooting people
who pulled guns on them. Yeah, yeah, which is you know.

Speaker 4 (01:12:58):
Yeah, completely yeah, completely egregious.

Speaker 1 (01:13:01):
Yes, and so they this organization are they're perpetually offended.
You know, people who are running around, well I can't
tell you the number of stories that are predicated based
on complaints that they find. And so to me it
sounds like maybe somebody's got a good relationship with so
I'm speculating here, Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:13:20):
I mean, look again, it got to that news room
one of two ways, right. Either Number one is that
they're you know, just kind of trawling through the social
media maras and they see a picture of it, right,
and somebody complaining about it. And then I mean that
was the Sydney Sweeney trajectory. The genes add right, some
lefties are complaining about it. A couple of lefty reporters

(01:13:41):
trawling through their feeds, they see this, they amplify it.
Now it becomes a story. Now people comment on it,
and the next thing, you know, Donald Trump is commenting
on her Republican affiliation. Right, Yes, that's how like that's
the one way it goes. The other way it goes
is yes, somewhat on speed Downald, like, hey, we're getting
ready to drop. We got a press release coming out.
We found this thing, you know, and so this is
a story. And look, in the media world, particularly local news,

(01:14:05):
you know, you got to make slot. You get a
signed the story and as a reporter, you have to
make slot. You've got to turn that story because if
you don't, now you've got to fill you know, two
minutes in a newscast. And if you spend your time
tracking down a story and it doesn't turn into a
story for air, well, now you don't have a story.
So you have to make something into a story. So

(01:14:27):
there is that incentive that, hey, here's an easy turn.
I go to the Wendy's, I shoot some video, stick
a mic in the face of some you know, poor
store manager that was just hanging up the displayed that
corporate sent to them.

Speaker 1 (01:14:39):
You don't probably, yeah right.

Speaker 4 (01:14:42):
And then you stick a mic in the face of
some patrons and you know, they say stuff like, you know, oh,
I can't believe they did this.

Speaker 3 (01:14:47):
I don't really know.

Speaker 4 (01:14:48):
Of course, then you cut out all of the customers
that don't say the thing that you want them to say, uh,
you know, because you got to get quote unquote real
people into your story. That's one of the directives that
Local TV is always.

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
Telling their report people, Yeah right, the.

Speaker 4 (01:15:04):
Ones that say the thing that the reporter and where
the story came from, which is this SOX organization which
we have in Charlotte as well. But I remember twenty yeah, yeah,
twenty five years ago our our Save our Sons group.
They started as a reaction to, uh, to the gang violence,
not to police violence.

Speaker 1 (01:15:24):
That sounds that sounds good. Actually, that sounds like a
good one, right, it was.

Speaker 4 (01:15:28):
Yeah, it was a way to try to raise awareness,
like let's stop killing each other. And then I guess
your chapter took a turn against the police. I would
probably get that might have happened about five or six
years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:15:39):
So are you psychic, sir? I mean that is crazy,
how inotive you are? Yeah, there's there was a shooting
or a guy on video pull a gun on the
police and they're like, I can't believe you did that,
and yeah, yeah, it's so weird.

Speaker 4 (01:15:53):
So we had riot.

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
But dude, the missed opportunity for the store manager when
the mic is stuck in their face to go, ma'am,
this is a Wendy's I'm so mad. I'm so mad
it didn't happen. That would have been amazing. Would never
aired it or they would have and they would have
then canceled the manager.

Speaker 4 (01:16:10):
But uh, yeah, anyway, Yeah, we.

Speaker 1 (01:16:13):
Got we gotta pivot. We can spend the whole morning
on this. We got a pivot. I gave you some
credit on the ear earlier this week, sir, you said
something last week talked uh and I saw you taking
your victory lap on social media and what you said
was Roy Cooper is not prepared for the vetting he's
about to get. Now, are you comfortable with the total
veracity of the story, because the Daily Mail is one

(01:16:34):
of those where if I do a story from Daily Mail,
I tell people I'm doing it from Daily Mail. But
let's say that it is true, and let me just
bring the audience up to speed. What what what has happened?
And I want to put this in the clearest sense possible.
According to this Daily Mail article, is Roy Cooper was
married previously. He then decided to run for legislature. It
all broke down that we've seen those stories before usually

(01:16:56):
we ever watched NFL Draft where they got all their
college girlfriends and I'm like, I don't know, wait six months, sweetie.

Speaker 3 (01:17:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
So so he then starts to be romantically involved with
his now wife, except his now wife is still married
to a guy who's either active due to your veteran
and he then you know, they go into that nobody
really talks about it, which would be journalistic malpractice. Nobody
in any media had any curiosity and even right and

(01:17:26):
even if you thought, well, it's none of our business.
Once Cal Cunningham Jody Cunningham as we call him on
the show, literally ran for this very same job and
then a campaign was blown out of the water by
allegations that he had an inappropriate relationship with a woman
who was married to a service member. Arguably becomes relevant.

(01:17:49):
And he still said to himself, yeah, I'll run and
basically cow everyone else out of the race. That's an
insane story. Am I missing something?

Speaker 3 (01:18:02):
No? No?

Speaker 4 (01:18:04):
Yeah, well yeah, well, I mean but there's been nothing
in the past thirty years to disabuse Roy Cooper of
of this belief, right, because it's.

Speaker 1 (01:18:16):
The thing that the other guy did the thing and
it was okay, the barbecue pick didn't sync them. That
story sink Cunningham. Yeah, yeah, that's the crazy part.

Speaker 4 (01:18:25):
Well, and here's the thing, like, I look look just
like you when I read the story from the Daily Mail.
I also I always give a disclaimer because the Daily
Mail I consider to be tabloidy, you know. Yeah, and
and so you know, be warned. This may not be accurate.
But then again, they're citing court documents about some of
the separation agreements and the divorced agreements, and she is

(01:18:48):
directly quoted, so like, it does bear a lot of
the quote ring of truth. Like, it seems like this
is legit. And she obviously provided a photo or somehow
the Daily got a photo of them when they were young,
and they met when they were in college, they got married.
They were together for apparently it seemed like what almost
ten years that they were dating and then married, the

(01:19:10):
total relationship. But he like, I don't have any problem
with the timeline of it because according to the court documents,
the christ and Cooper was it seems like she was separated,
and so like, I don't have any like the timeline
does not, in my mind, raise any questions about like

(01:19:31):
were they cheating with each other or other whatever, Like,
I don't have any evidence of any of that. And
that's the separate thing to me, though. The issue has
always been that Number One, he ran for He went
in and filed to run for office and never talked
to his wife about it, which is bizarre to me,
Like every single politician I have ever interviewed about their

(01:19:54):
intention to run or not, they always say the same thing,
which is really the exactly so why would you not
have done that? And then if they had talked and
that just didn't wasn't reported in the piece, and he
was aware that she did not want him to do this,
well then he what threw away a ten year relationship

(01:20:17):
in order to run for office? That's what that tells me. Now,
it seems obviously that they were having marital problems. I
guess beforehand, because as soon as he like filed, she
moved right, she moved to Greenville, North Carolina.

Speaker 3 (01:20:30):
I think she said so, yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:20:33):
But to me, that's the question that I had was like, like,
what kind of a person does that? To just run
for office and then basically throw away the marriage over that.
Even when she tells you this isn't what I signed
up for, You're like, screw it, I'm blowing ahead. I'm
gonna do it anyway, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:20:49):
And again the fact that we just have a minute left,
the fact that the thing that he's now being accused of,
well you think it's fair or not, is the thing
that the other guy lost over and after the all
of Mark Robinson's stuff that they were willing to flow
Roy's buddies. I'm sorry, you're not going to get a
pass on this.

Speaker 4 (01:21:04):
No, And the left will say, well, you don't get
a pass either because of Trump and Robinson whatever. I'm like, yeah, fine,
that's not my beef.

Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
Butever not arguing.

Speaker 4 (01:21:12):
Yeah, I'm not arguing over that. And also, by the way,
you've got to criticize thirty years of media reporting where
nobody ever thought to ask any questions about his first
marriage if they were aware of it. I didn't know
about it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:26):
I had no idea he's married. Yeah, yeah, I didn't know.
And again, I will even take the excuse before the
Cunningham stuff where you went it's none of our business.
But you can't as a journalist ignore the fact that
you can. You can look at a Senate race that
was blown apart by basically this, even if the circumstances
are different, and then at that point not engage. All right, Pete,

(01:21:47):
we're out of time, unfortunately, but I'm sure that i'd
be very curious where the full throated denial is too,
So we'll wait for that. But we'll get together next week.

Speaker 4 (01:21:55):
Man, all right, brother, appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:57):
All Right, there you go, Pete Calender Midday's WBT and
I the iHeartRadio app. We'll be right back. This is
it's just more in that long line of where we're
headed with not just AI but companies that are finding
new in different ways to do business. And I got
to tell you, I don't know that I'm a fan
of this. I don't know if I'm a fan of this. Now.
This happened at a La Quinta, so and and by

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the way, I'm going to say some things, and it's
not me. If you want to stay at La Quinta
or whatever, do your thing, I don't care. But I
think everyone knows that there are certain classes of hotels,
right and Laquinta is a budget hotel. And when you
have a budget hotel, there's certain things that people associate

(01:22:41):
with that not necessarily negative things. I have no problems
staying at a budget hotel, by the way, and so
like when I do the summers where we were when
I was doing roofing to make money, like we travel
all over the state of Wyoming for different gigs. You
go find a Super eight or something, try to get
a long term deal. When you're staying down there because
we travel for work and so I spent a lot

(01:23:01):
of time there. But there's certain hallmarks that you have
right at some of those hotels. There's a higher propensity
that people may, you know, rent a room to party.
There may be some shenanigans in the parking lot. You
get a lot of construction crews that are up in there,
so which isn't necessarily a negative, but it's the whole
vibe of the thing. And yes, depending on where it is, too,

(01:23:24):
you may have problems with people that are running prostitution
out of there, or drugs or any of the rest.
And that's why it was really surprising that this person's
checking in a Laquinta and there's no front desk clerk. Instead,
there's a monitor and so when you go to check in,
you're greeted with a dude from India. They have outsourced

(01:23:45):
the check in process to India. And he goes through
the thing with you, and you know, you got to
scan your card with the machine. It's all at a kiosk.
Scan your card with the machine, they go over the rules.
The machine will spit cart your room keys at you.
And in fact, here is the here's the exchange one
of the room too.

Speaker 2 (01:24:04):
Just in case I lose one.

Speaker 1 (01:24:06):
Yes, I listens. So you just all going to get
signifio let it chase guests signature. Let me just put
the serial room for discussion.

Speaker 8 (01:24:12):
Please wait while we process your registration form. Please note
that we have a strict policy of no smoking, no pets,
and no visitors allowed in any of our guest rooms.
Signature must match the one on your ID.

Speaker 1 (01:24:25):
All right, we get to gist. By the way, the
hotel tells you no visitors or guests, it's probably because
they've had issues with the other thing I was talking about.
But that being said, those are the rules. Whatever book
the rooms of the room is pretty standard. People went.
People are not liking this, and I and here's the
thing that blows me away, because it's not like if
you're checked into a budget motel. It's not and this

(01:24:50):
is not the hack on people work the front desk
because I'm sure they're just beat down by all the
insanity that's going on there. Right, You're not necessarily always
dealing with the person who's in the best mood. Right,
And that's fine because I'm not a chit chatty guy.
Just give me and get me out whatever. But like,
if you have a hotel that clearly has some issues
with people doing stuff that you had to then create

(01:25:12):
a no guest policy, no visitors policy, which is I'm
assuming that's about do you also not have anyone on
the property, because that's where I would be concerned. Not
that the front deskler is going to come save the day,
but I feel like you've got to have somebody on
the property. So Wyndham, who is obviously you know, this
is under their umbrella. Now, they said that this is

(01:25:35):
a franchise thing and they were going to reach out
to the owners. And this was in the Miami area,
and it sounds like some people reported a couple other
liquina's doing this, and there's speculation I think they might
be owned by the same ownership group. But yeah, man,
just every day it's some little new thing. If it's
not AI, it's outsourcing of some way, shape or form.

(01:25:55):
But yeah, I'm not even hacking on the dude on
the other end of the video cameras got himself a
job doing that. He's professional, he's by the way, he
dressed to the nines. He's a he's a zoot. Suiting
it in there.

Speaker 2 (01:26:09):
But like, yeah, this is that.

Speaker 1 (01:26:12):
Made me uncomfortable checking into a hotel because I'm like, wait,
is there not an employee here? So if there's a problem,
what do I do? Like, I can't go to the
front desk and complain that they're having a rave party
in the room next to me and there's nobody to
talk to. But then I started seeing I have not
run into this in hotels yet, although I but here's

(01:26:32):
the thing. I also love mobile check in so a
lot of times when I travel, can I tend to
travel and use points and all that. I'm a Marriott guy.
Uh So I got status there and it's and all
of that. But like, and you can do mobile check ins,
you don't have to deal with anybody. So I guess
maybe I wouldn't notice something like this, but in reality,

(01:26:54):
I think I would. And uh So, Wyndham says that
they were contacting over the fretanch isiahs, but that is
not policy of their company. And I don't mean to
pick on them because the other examples people are given
were not win them hotels. But boy, avoid did that
thing go viral?

Speaker 4 (01:27:11):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:27:12):
Let me kick over to this real quick because this story.
Oh I love this story. So this is Oklahoma City.
This is one of those stories where you got to
see the mug shot. Will tweak this story out so
you can see the mug shot. So a guy who
initially told police a man assaulted him unprovoked was actually
later arrested after police determined that was not the case.

(01:27:35):
So Oakless, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma police get a report of
an assault and by the way, an assault clearly happened.
This guy's face got absolutely destroyed. Let's just say he
did not win this assault. So, according to police, the

(01:27:56):
man who assaulted him was just the guy who got
assaulted was harassing him for no reason and had been
doing so literally for days. Why was he harassing the
guy because the guy was developmentally disabled. He had some
challenge of some sort and I don't I don't know

(01:28:17):
that they outline exactly what it is, but let me
let me give you this. This guy decided to hone
in on some dude who was like Lenny from Mice
and Men and just start mocking this dude. And finally
the guy he's mocking he'd had enough and proceeds to
pulverize this guy, which had the dude had any knowledge

(01:28:39):
of Lenny of mice and men just seen that coming.
What are you doing, sir, I don't want to I
don't want to go. I don't want to go, you know,
down the road of the uh what was the term
he used for special need strength? But like that's a thing.
That's a thing. And so for you over there deciding

(01:29:01):
that you're gonna go mock somebody who's who you know,
who has some challenge of some sort because you think
it's funny, I'm not gonna shed a tear that he
turned around and beat the living crap out of you.
That's why your mugshot brought so much joy to my life.
I love instant karma. Man. The guy had also. I
think he threatened him with a knife at one point.

Speaker 3 (01:29:21):
What do you do?

Speaker 1 (01:29:22):
How are you living your life where you're out here
threatening somebody who you know who's doing you know, manual
Labor is probably just happy to be in the workforce,
and you gotta go give this guy a I'm glad
he beats you. I wish you would have called some
of his friends. I would love you to be The
guy at jail looks like minced meat. What happened What

(01:29:43):
happened with you? Well, Corky and his friends from life,
they beat the crap out of me. I'm good with this.
I'm happy. I should do a gofund me for the
guy in case his knuckles.

Speaker 2 (01:29:53):
Got It's a feel good story, right there, Isn't it?
Like people don't understand like you've heard about like old
man strength. Yeah, like special need strength is a thing.
I'm telling you that. There's a reason when Lincoln has
like a really bad episode like inserts melting it like
an autistic meltdown. Why we say he's hulking out because
it's like he transfer forms into the Hulk.

Speaker 1 (01:30:14):
Which, unfortunately that has caused him to uh be a
big fan of the Hulk.

Speaker 3 (01:30:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:30:19):
No, it's his favorite Avenger yes, yeah, yeah, and it's perfect.
It actually makes a lot of sense. I love the
fact that his favorite is the Hulk.

Speaker 1 (01:30:26):
Yeah, it's perfect. But this guy, this guy's employed. He
I mean, he sounds like he just cleans up around
the property of some business shopping center. He's not bothering anybody.
He's probably one of the nicest guys there. And and
and yet you decide you're going to torment him for days.
What kind of an a hole does that to a
special needs person? How awful and how low are you?

(01:30:49):
Somebody needs their face caved in and that was accommodated.
So ah, the man said that, Uh, let's see. The
man said that, what was this guy's name, kuk and Doll. Yeah,
this is the guy claimed, This is the guy who's
doing the harassing or no, I'm sorry, this was the

(01:31:09):
guy who punched him, he said. The Kuchandl approached him
at a verbal altercation ensued, the man telling Kukandhal to
leave him alone. He didn't want to fight. So this
guy's do you know what any part of this? Pull
investigators And on a Friday morning, Cuchandall came back and
be again harassing him, again calling him derogatory slurs and
brandished a six to eight inch knife in his hand.

(01:31:29):
He again told him he didn't want to fight, didn't
want to fight. He attempted to stab him, at which
point the dude hulked out on him and, judging by
his face, clearly got the best of them. So and
I love it for the karmic reasons. I also love that,

(01:31:51):
like you have to go to jail and people are
going to find out that the reason your jails because
you got your face caved in, because you were harassing
a special needs I have to assume they're going to
treat you the same way that the chomos get right,
I hope so I sure do.

Speaker 3 (01:32:07):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:32:08):
Anyway, Yeah, glad that glad that had and he had
a room. That's what he actually used to defend himself
against the knife. Because he's there, he's doing the janitorial stuff.
So I love this. I love this for you. I
hate that he had to go through it. But let
me screw with that guy. Probably. All right, let's get raced.
Agent from the weather Channel. All right, one more for

(01:32:29):
the road, sir. What do we got?

Speaker 5 (01:32:31):
Well, I think we'll trend a little warmer, little more
humidity as we get into the weekend, and rain chances
are pretty low. They're not zero, but I think hit
and miss stuff this afternoon, as we get into tomorrow,
and again on Sunday, we'll push eighty degrees so he
be on either side depending on where you are, whether
upper seventies or low eighties, and tonight will be in
the sixties, tomorrow low to mid eighties, and then on

(01:32:52):
Sunday we'll start to go mid to upper eighties, and
then the rain chance is going up a little bit
as we get into next week. But in the tropics,
I don't know if you've been attention, there are a
couple areas of hurricane centers had its eyes on ones
moving away off the coast, So it might be a
little rough for the beaches this weekend as you get
into the outer banks, maybe down near Virginia Beach and

(01:33:12):
Ocean City and maybe even South Carolina beaches. And then
another disturbance looks like it's gonna turn easter Bermuda. But
after that, it looks like a couple of waves starting
to come off the coast of Africa. May start getting
a little busier as we get into next week, at
least in terms of the chances of some of these
waves developing.

Speaker 1 (01:33:28):
So casey, as we.

Speaker 5 (01:33:30):
Get toward the heart of the hurricane season, which peaks
around September tenth, looks like things are starting to try
to pick up just a little bit there.

Speaker 1 (01:33:37):
Nope, nope, we're not gonna allow that. No, don't want it.
I know it's that time of year. All right, We'll
see what pans out. We'll talk Monday. Thank you. Sir, okay,
and we'll come back with Jeff Bellinger. Oh, we've got
a WNBA update for you. Hang on, Jeff, what's happening
here on our Friday, sir.

Speaker 6 (01:33:52):
Well, good morning and happy Friday, KC. President and Trump
is planning to nominate Stephen my Roun, the chair of
the White House Council of Economic Advisors, to fill a
federal reserve slot on a temporary basis. Myron will complete
the term of FED Governor Adrianna Kugler, which runs through January.
Kugler decided to leave early. The President says he'll be

(01:34:13):
searching for a permanent replacement in the coming months. Consumers
trim their credit card use In June, the Fed reports
in revolving credit use, which includes plastic, fell by more
than one billion dollars. Non revolving credit, which includes auto financing,
was up nearly eight and a half billion dollars. The
concert promoter Live Nation second quarter operating income top analyst estimates,

(01:34:35):
and Live Nation says it's on track for a double
digit increase this year. It says the fourth quarter is
setting up to be very strong. Uber and Dollar General
have a new nationwide partnership just announced this morning, customers
can order food and household staples for more than fourteen
thousand dollar general and popshellf locations for delivery by Uber

(01:34:57):
Eats drivers. Sweet Green is removing ripple fries from its
menu just five months after they were introduced. The salad
chain says customers like the fries, but they didn't fit
well into restaurant operations made things a little too complex.
They were air fried with avocado oil. In case, there's
been an overall decline in the number of international tourists

(01:35:18):
coming to our shores, but America is still having a moment.
In Argentina, the South American Nations currency is stronger. That
helped to spark a travel surge. More than four hundred
thousand Argentines visited the US in the first half of
this year, the number up nearly twenty three percent from
the same period last year. A lot of them came
to see World Cup soccer matches, and Walt Disney World

(01:35:42):
has also benefited.

Speaker 1 (01:35:44):
Oh yeah, and a bunch more. We're going to see
MESSI play up in Miami because yeah, he's a god there.
And I will tell you I'm glad I got I
got to go to Argentina. Last year for the currency
did pop up. It felt like stealing while was there, Jeff,
really in the greatest stake you ever had in wine pairs.
It's like sixteen dollars. So nice. Yeah, yeah, it was
very nice. All right, very good. Thank you, Jeff, having

(01:36:05):
something good weekend, Sir, you do the same. Take care. Ye,
there you go. Jeff Bellinger from Bloomberg News.

Speaker 2 (01:36:11):
I saw a stat this morning that we talk about
Argentina and you're saying, how like the economy there, the
middle class is growing by seven point seven percent.

Speaker 1 (01:36:19):
It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:36:20):
Yeah, yeah, it's weird. I wonder how that happened if
they're calling it malaise. Argentinian miracle, Yeah, like economic miracle.

Speaker 1 (01:36:31):
I mean, the the economics of Argentina post seventy six
whenever you have the big change is like they've tried
like six different currencies like they have they have not been.
It's it's been it's been really really rough. And then
when you get consumer confidence in people would invest in,

(01:36:51):
and then you get the rug pulled, it's like mean
coins down there and for them to have traction now
because instead of just all right, we're just gonna print
something new, but keep doing the same way. I know
they'll pretend like that didn't help, but it clearly no.

Speaker 2 (01:37:05):
I mean, think about it, like, reduce the size of government,
stop printing money, and let people keep the money they have.

Speaker 1 (01:37:10):
That's crazy how simple it all can be.

Speaker 3 (01:37:16):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:37:16):
Oh crap, what was I'm brady? What was I What
did I say I was going to talk about? Because
then I start reading something else that's on me. Oh
yeah this, Hey, Rossi's sitting down and you just sit down, buddy.

Speaker 2 (01:37:28):
I'll go prone and bungee cording myself down.

Speaker 1 (01:37:31):
All right, let me know when you are a musician,
let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:37:34):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:37:35):
Apparently Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett Is is a giant a hole
in real life. I don't believe it. Yeah, I know, boy,
you just you never see these coming, do you.

Speaker 3 (01:37:48):
So?

Speaker 1 (01:37:48):
The New York Post and a rather interesting exclusive article yesterday,
I was able to get comments from I guess three
current or former staffers who said that basically, she just
it's in her really nice DC apartment, makes them do
all the work, and then when she does interact, just
screams at them. It's just awful to him. Described as rude,

(01:38:11):
mean to her own staff, She's rarely present when TV
cameras aren't rolling, terrorize any staff that does appear. She
first work out of her luxury apartments, sometimes for weeks
at a time if she doesn't have any sort of
photo op and is just either indifferent, which is the
preferred to staff, or we'll just start screaming at him.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:38:35):
Boy, who could have predicted this?

Speaker 2 (01:38:37):
It reminds me of the Cloba Shar thing. Remember they
were like, oh, she beat like an intern or with
a comb or a brush. Remember that story?

Speaker 1 (01:38:44):
Okay, well, yeah, yeah, there's a few different things there.
Here's the thing. Amy Klobashar, when I was a broadcaster
in Minneapolis, was the Hennepin County District Attorney, so we
all knew her, and like everyone knew she was awful.