Monday-7-8-2024

Episode Transcript

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Sounds normal to you, but tothe trained year or the OCD year,
it's just a little something something.But Ross, everything's coming through your board,
correct, right, all right,rock on. I don't know.
Maybe maybe I'm crazy. Maybe it'sbecause yesterday was just the worst. Ross

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knows some of this, and hethis is why I like Ross. I'll
tell him a lot of times wedon't even answer each other because we're not
tweens. Girls. Okay, sorry, sorry twin girls. You like the
text? Do you want to dothe tip? Whatever. However, when
he can tell there is a crisis, he's always there with encouragement to take

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a day off. And I appreciate, appreciate that or three or you know,
however many and you know what,I gotta be honest with you.
With the way things eventual unfolded yesterday, that probably would have been smart,
but I was I thought I thoughtI had things figured out, worked out,

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everything was gonna be fine. Andit was because I didn't have the
requisite experience with this topic. Andso I had tons of time too.
And it's you know, it's oneof the things that we do in the
world of radio. Sometimes the storycomes up. We don't I don't know
anything about it, and uh,you make the commitment that you're gonna go
and you're gonna get a lot ofinfo. Now I have a selfish personal

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interest obviously, in in the sensethat you know, this was something that
was impacting my life outside of work. Yeah, you know, that's why
I didn't learn cricket stuff, right, we just did the story whatever.
But this I did, and I'mgonna I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna

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I'll set the scene. But Isent a tweet out yesterday and it happened
after I had communicated with Ross kindof let him know what was going on.
What did you suggest, napalm?I can't remember what it was.
There was definitely something on fire,but oh my gosh, it got so

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much worse. And the tweet Isaid this, And let me just be
abundantly clear here. If there's onething on on Twitter, and it predates
Elon a little bit, but obviouslyit's once you get into monetization of engagement
farming. There's a lot of folks. How many times have you seen somebody
just send out a tweet. It'susually very short and it's just like your

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world changes at three check back orBiden in handcuffs. By the end of
the day, you know whatever thehook is, and you know that you
know that there's nothing coming or it'sgonna be just it's either gonna be an
unprovable thing scoop, which I don'tknow. It's fine if you want to

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do it conspiratorially, but if you'regonna make the promise that somebody's going to
jail, even in this this messedup system, you should at least have
the goods that in a normal worldthey would be in jail. Like,
I don't even hold you to thestandard of what DJ is gonna do.
And and there are there are someTwitter accounts that realize if you need to

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pump those numbers up, that works, And I hate it and I hope
it stops working. And I literallyblock accounts for that crap. So when
I send a tweet out yesterday,I I didn't have enough room in the
tweet to explain what I wanted toexplain and also let you know how much

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I hate that crap. So Iwrote, kids, I have first ballot
Hall of Fame nightmare fuel ross.That's a high standard, right, first
ballot Hall of Fame nightmare Fueld.Yeah it's pretty big. Yeah, yeah,
what would you say is up there? If you just I'm sorry,

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I just hit you with this rightthere. Just something that that haunts your
dreams, maybe a story you sawor what about that little girl who founded
the bees in her wall? Okay, that's that's a very good example.
I did not find what was howmany bees was? It was way too
many. It was like over fiftythousand bees. It was all the bees
they're looking for in the documentary.I've just put it together. They did

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a whole documentary about had a cutename and a camera what it was.
But they're like, ah, allthe bees are missing and then we're all
gonna die. So we found them. They were in this little girl's wall.
That is a good example. Sohere's what Ross knows. And I'm

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gonna let you I'm gonna tell you. I don't like to do the trick
warning thing, but I'm gonna letyou know when I get before I get
to the really stuff. Okay,So I'm bopping back and forth, you
know, travel we had the timeoff all of that. What is that

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three weeks ago? Okay? AndI have when you live on your own,
you do whatever you want within reason. Eventually kind of mature and you
don't do some of the stuff youdid when you were twenty or you know,
your first apartment, you're like,I'm gonna have an indoor fire pit.
Right, You're past that, althoughnow you can kind of maybe afford

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to do that, but still no, not me. So I this sounds
weird. I don't sleep necessarily justin one bed, is I It's crazy?
Right? So like I have twodifferent sleep possible my house. Don't

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judge, it is what it is. I know some people I've told people
that in they can't fathom it.They're like, I have to sleep in
my bed on my side whatever,And I'm like, it's just me.
I'll sleep in the kitchen if Iwant to. Who's gonna stop me.
So so there's that, And ithas to do with, you know,

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where you want to be in thehouse. The airflow, if it's the
windows open, act that whatever itis, that's not important. What is
important, though, is it stayswarmer in the one room just kind of
naturally, if without screwing with toomuch stuff, without having to really crank
stuff, So that can that canimpact it. However, also when you're

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running a lot of ac. Onthe other side, it stays cooler because
it's a lot more insulated. ButI prefer the bed. So it's obviously
obviously it's summer, so but atnight sometimes it's actually reasonable. And so

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as I returned to the world fromtime off, I am I'm very bad
with unpacking luggage because I don't Ialways have a carry I only take carry
ons even internationally. And I gotit. I don't have a lot of
variety to my clothing. It's alot of you know, T shirts and

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pants and shorts, pretty basic mixand match. Okay, So I took
the luggage and I when I gothome and I literally put it on the
one bed and opened it up,took out like the travel you know,
my travel kit case thing for youknow, toothpaste and all that, at

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a couple other things, and Ijust kind of left it there, and
in sheer laziness, I slept inwhere I wanted to sleep so that other
one can be a guest bedroom whatever. And then I wanted to go sleep
up there because obviously crazy you know, crazy temperature extremes all that. But

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when I'm doing that, I don'teven let I don't like. It has
a comforter and sheets and looks likea normal bed, but I mean,
if I'm hot, so it's stilla little warm. There's like a blanket
on the bottom end of it.I won't even I'll just sleep on top
of it with that blanket. Iknow that's weird, but it's necessary for
this story. So I moved theluggage, put in the over the closet,

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a little stand thing in there.I'm like, I'll deal with that
later. And a few days goby. This is just And then on
Thursday obviously was a day off,and so Wednesday, I'm like, hey,
I know it's not sinco to myole, but you can drink tequila

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for this, right. So anyway, so I come back to the house
and a little late when I wassome friends and uh we did that because
you know, Friday morning we hadto do the show. And I woke
up and I'm like, that wasstupid. Also what happened? And I
like, had I thought, likeI thought I had left like a screen

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door open or something, or ascreen on a window, and like all
the mosquitoes were like, yeah,let's go in there. Like I didn't
know what was up at first,but I brushed it off because like it
wasn't bad bad and it looked likemosquito stuff. So I kind of walked
around the house and I did actuallyfind a culprit, and he met his
demise with the electric whacker thing.So it happens again and it's bad.

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And then I kind of looked aroundwent to the other bed, and then
Saturday night, slept in that bedand got under the covers. This time,
because the blanket was a little Ihad thrown it into the wash.
I woke up and I am absolutelybrutalized on my legs, and so I'm

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like, all right, I gottafigure out what's going on. I start
walking around the house kind of youknow. I was threw some dishes in,
was sweeping, sweeping the patio,and I'm like, all right,
well, I'm gonna go. Letme go grab those sheets or whatever,
because like, I don't know what'sup, but I like it was gross.
So I pulled back the sheets ready, all the bed bugs, all

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of I know this is a longroad to get there, but you need
to understand because now I have tosolve a mystery. Why in this one
part of my house and nowhere elsebecause I point, I'm like, I'm
checking everything and and and that thatpart of that one bedroom and then the
bathroom that's adjacent to it that attachesto it, the en suite, which

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also attaches out into the hall.So that's that's important. So I'm like,
how like I hear bedbugs and I'venever actually had that happen, but
it sounds awful, like like youhave to you have to burn your house
down, right? Is just thatI was gonna say, So you burn

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that mattress right like that. Themattress is done, it's out, and
not just that basically anything that Ididn't So I take everything out of that
room and it's the hottest load withthe hottest dry thing I was reading online.
They're like, that'll do it.But even stuff like there's a couple
like mats, bath mats and stuffthat were like ten dollars at Walmart.

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They're gone, they're out. Butthe mattress obviously is gone. And that's
what you right, because you're like, yeah, you should take the day
off, and I'm no, no, no. To be fair, he
said you should take two days off. Okay, that's you know what you
might be right the most awful thing. So so like immediately I'm like,

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I gotta get a I actually knowexterminator bedbug, like dude, and I'm
like, we got we gotta dothis. So so I actually talked to
the guy. I texted him alittle bit, but he couldn't get there
until after brown noon today. Soyesterday I am simultaneously educating myself on these

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things, and I'm also trying tofigure out how they got in there.
And I always just assumed it's likeyou go to a you go to the
swap meet, and you're like,hey, look at that couch, and
then you just like, don't checkanything, and it's it's it's just the
the trojan horse. But I don'tthink so, and so you have to
understand that. In the in thespan of that vacation, uh and and

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back and forth to work, Iam in Raleigh, Greensboro, Miami,
and Costa Rica, Okay, Andthe Miami thing was not just at the
airport. Remember they had the twofeet of rain. I got stuck in
that. So I had to goin the middle of Miami now being a

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swimming pool, and and go geta hotel. It was very cheap though,
why because nobody's dumb enough to bein Miami, just me. So
it's so I got like I hadpoints, and I got a I got
a suite at the Kempton, whichis very nither win in Winston Salem is
amazing. By the way, ifyou haven't been to the bar restaurant,
highly recommend it. But that's anotherthing for another time. So South Beach,

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Miami, Anglers, Kempton there.So now I have to figure out
one of these places. I hadsent dude a picture of the bugs that
I corralled in the murder Zone.And what was interesting is he's like he's

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explaining it to me, like Iknow what the heck it is. There
are two kinds of these bugs.There are the North American version, or
I guess the northern version, andthen there what are known as tropical,
and the body style is different.Not that I could pick it out,
but once he pointed it out,I guess it made sense. And he
thought it was interesting because it lookedlike there was both and the only place

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where there's both of those places isMiami. So I don't know, this
is not me knocking. I keptin especially you brought him back from Florida.
Well no, So here's the thing. Yes, they went Florida.
They yes, and remember that's onthe down leg. That's so, it's
just everything is Florida. Man,this is this is my punishment for doing

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all the Florida jokes. I thinkI haven't got to the worst part yet
and for that, I'm gonna takea break. I'm leading up to this
and I'm sorry I'm dragging you along, but holy crap, here's the thing.
For like several hours on Sunday,I'm doing the thing. I'm doing

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the thing where I know because Ican visually see that there is not anything
on me, and it feels likebugs are on you, just randomly,
and it's it's so awful. Andthat's where Ross and I's conversation ended.
And I after a little while,I'm like, I kind of got it

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together, and I'm just like,oh, that's a horrible feeling. But
we're gonna get We're gonna get throughthis. I learned way too much.
They there's they love to hook up, totally irresponsible with you know, children,
and boy, they make a lot. It's when you start doing the
math, it becomes like Frank Duke'sexplaining the number of rounds of the Kuma

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te all right, the horrible partthough, yeah, that's not even the
horrible part. The horrible part comesyour way in just a few minutes.
Hang on, I like, Ihear you, and I read all this
stuff, and look, it makessense. Some of it makes I'm it's
either napalm or professional dude coming inso and I and they do all sorts

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of explained it. I'm like,you do just whatever, man, just
whatever, Just do it twice orextra whatever. And that's where we left
it. And I communicated Ross whatwas going on. He say, I
take the day off. And thenI'm like, now, or take two
days off? Ha ha. Idid threaten our PD And he's like that's

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awful man. I'm like, yeah, I'll still be there. I'm feeling
better. So the creepy krawleys thatstuff kind of like dazed, and then
I did and this is the here'sthe cautionary tale, and then we'll get
to the meat. I did somethingincredibly dumb. In hindsight, I recognized

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that after my fervent search, thata very small footprint of my house was
impacted by this. Because now Iknow what to look for from eggs and
all that, and basically that rooma little bit in the bathroom in the
shower, but I'll never use thatshower. But I looked in there and
the tile is kind of the colorof the egg, so it And there's

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another thing. I had a cleaningI have a cleaning lady, and uh
yep, that's right, Flexen.And the last time she had came and
done anything with that bathroom and thatbedroom was prior to vacation. So but
it was the day before four.So I have a timeline now because obviously

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she's she's good. And it's likewhen she changed out the sheets and she'd
have noticed and she'd have said something. And I did text her and she's
like, no, no, nothinglike I would tell you. I'm like,
no, I know you would.I just literally I'm just trying to
figure this out. So I decidedI'm going to contain and start the murdering.

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Don't start the murdering until you're readyto do all the murdering. Here's
the spiral and wait for the punchline. So I'm like, all right,
I don't have I already know wherethis is going. Well, really,
what's your prediction, sir? Ibelieve that when you killed one of them,
Uh, they all sort of ranto where the one was, so

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they all it drew them all out, right, they all came out.
You're half right. You have tounderstand I'm opening volley was Nagasaki? Okay,
yeah, I understand. That's Iknow how that's that's how ants work
because when you kill an ant,you ever notice, like you step on
an ant, Yeah, a lotof like where's your friend? It releases
like some sort of oh yeah sayingthat the ants get like a pheromone or

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something that the ants can sense,so they go there so they can sort
of like get rid of their dead. I was on a website that,
based on that tried to give youlike it has like a calculators you can
try to figure out how many basedon eggs stuff and what you see,
and it's total. It's probably wildlyinaccurate, as I came to find out.
And so I decided, all right, I'm going to the center of

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the problem. Is this bed righthands down? That's it just horror story.
When I pulled back, there's actuallylike a comforter pad two, so
it's two layers. That's right.You get the fitted sheet off and you're
like, oh my gosh. Andthen you pull the pad off, You're
like, there's a whole other townhere. So then immediately I'm like this

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mattress. I didn't take it outof the room, but I did strip
everything down and h and lean itup against the wall there, right,
because I wanted to assess what's goingon. So and I'm like, you
know what, I could probably killlike a bunch of these because I have
some I have some stuff, right, and for ticks and mites and all
that, and that stuff, Jennerand Flees will work, but bed bugs

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were a little different, right.You got to you gotta hit them right
on and on the ones that gothit right on absolute, absolute scoreboard.
Uh Nagasaki. Right. Problem isJapan's not just Nagasaki or Hiroshima. And

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that's where the comparisons will stop,because yes, you're kind of right in
that all of the bed bugs atthat point, the ones I could see
and couldn't see, recognized that Ihad I had started the war. And
you have to understand the only thingthat they eat is blood from warm blooded
cret creatures, mammals. Right,I'm the only mammal. I'm it.

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I'm the buffet. I didn't takethis into account. So two things happened.
One bloom, You're all dead.I feel good. I'm like,
this war is gonna be over toI'm George Bush with the mission accomplished banner.
Okay, I'm like, this isgonna show up Tomorrow's be like,
oh no, thanks, he didmy work for me. They then scattered,

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which is far worse than the antsfrom like the crystal skulls. Okay,
I'd rather have them all as weirdas that sound. They scattered,
and to scatter, they went placesthey had never been, and I recognize
pretty quick what's going on. Likeno, so I try to like spray

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perimeter in there, like we're yousaid you should have done the perimeter first.
I did. I actually did dothe perimeter. First. I did
the door. I'm two doors intothat room, and then the bathroom.
I did the perimeter hard. I'mhaving didn't care. I'm sorry, I'm
having a hard time focusing here.Yeah, sort of looks like the skin
this like your skin is hanging offyour bones. Yeah, like iak sugar

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water every morning. So is thatwhere you're gonna go as a host for
a giant space cockroach? I'm justgonna put it out there that are you
a giant space cockroach? You guyskilled all my people. So I knew
it all right now, all right, So I did perimeter first. Remember
how you said you gotta hit them, You gotta hit them on right,
they'll die a quick death on Sonow I am. I am in a

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sinking feeling because every time I saidanother perimeter, I look behind me and
I'm like, you can see them. They're they're like all they're like six
different sizes. I learned so much, little ones or big ones. They
don't fly, but they are determined. They're a little engine that could.
I almost respected the hustle. Andso what happened is now I'm like I've

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lost I've lost the the the They'rethrough the wall. They're in the city,
okay. And so then my afternoonturned into trying to find a place
where they wouldn't go so that Icould could I to put prep together.

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I got to sleep. Turns outI don't very much, and I would
go into another room and within twentyit's like, you know, it's like
Jason Voorhee's tracking you through the woods. Right. He's not fast, but
he's always there, and I wouldsee them. I'm like, I'm a
bedbugs spotty machine. Now yeah,and then you get super paranoid about them

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being everywhere, like you can't sayit gets and now the creepy crawley feelings.
And so every about thirty minutes,I would get up with a broom
and murder spray and just go outand try to put another bullet in their
head. And it quickly was growingout of control. And and then I'm

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like, all right, it lookslike the area they want is this.
I got squatters in my house.There's nothing I could do to oll tomorrow
when the police show up. Ineed to I gotta do prep. And
now I feel horrible. I shouldI should Rouse was right, we should.
I should not be here because Idon't think you could pay me to
sleep in this house. But Igot to set up away from anywhere that

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they were, where it's wood stairsconnected. They kinda they need you have
fabric is more advantageous to them.And I'm like, I gotta I got
a pretty good setup. I gotsome blankets that had never been near him,
but also I had just washed hotat setting okay, and I set
this thing up and I kind ofon a couch, but it's a it's
one of those couches that's it folds. It's in it's in my office and

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it folds and flips down. Andthen it's a bed. So this is
an extra bed, and it's leather, or it's probably not real. It's
not real leather, but yeah,it's not really their jam. And so
I'm up in there, and I'msitting there and I'm looking around because now
I'm paranoid, and I see thefirst one and and and then it dawns

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on me. I'm the only foodsource in the house. You know,
I don't got critters running around,not married off kids. I'm it.
They're gonna go wherever I go.And and they will always know somehow because
I would look through the door intothe hallway where I've got every light on,

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because I've convinced myself that if it'ssuper light, maybe they won't move
like a cockroach. They don't care. You're the only buffeith, and you
realize real quick that you are losingthis campaign, and even with reinforcements tomorrow,
I don't know, maybe the burnit down napalm thing was right.
You know, you're like the Australianswith yes, yes, how could I

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not beat an EMU pull get on? They're so dumb, and I'm like,
I gotta get it together. Igotta I gotta do work. So
I'm like, all right, Iget this prior to get it set.
I got it set up. Isee what's going on. But I'm like,
I still got a truck forward.I'll take a quick shower, come
out, we'll do another round ofmurdering. I don't know that I'm gonna

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sleep very much, but we'll makeit work. I do a show tomorrow.
So this is the part where I'mgonna let you know this. This
is not some of you are gonnaget pretty creep down. I want you
to stick through it, okay.And I asked Roza if you want to

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know before the show? He saidno, he would take the plunge with
you. So ross, you're signingthe digital permission slip. Okay. I
gotta I feel like I need legalprotection here for what I for what happened
next, And unfortunately there's not away I can just get to it without
telegraphing a little of what's gonna happen. Do you're probably picking up on it.

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Remember I said, I woke upand I am just like, I'm
like, what happened to me?Why am I? Why don't look like
I got attacked by all the animals? So I have done this all day.
I'm sweaty, I'm nasty because I'mrunning around moving stuff, sweeping,
planning, arson and I go tothe shower, not obviously that one,

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but the one that I use wherewhich thankfully I had not seen anything in
there yet yet. Get in theshower, I'm scrubbing the heck out of
myself, cause not in paranoid,I'm like, are they on my back?
It's like ticks? Right? Whereare they? And I'm like,
can I go to the the neighborlook at my back? But I don't
show them there, Like I'm theseare all the things going through my mind.

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And I do all that scrub thehair, brush, the teeth.
Basically all the clothes I had,I had put them in one of the
rooms where they have they've already seizedthat land, right, I want no
set And I got clothes that werenowhere near and I visually checked them all
and brought them in there. Andthere's a little cubby thing and he closed

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the boot, put them in there. And here's the telegraphing. We wear
ross and I wear headphones a lot, and it doesn't afflict everybody like this,
but I it does happen to me. Where if you wear headphones a
lot for work and you know,not just radio, but guys weren't construction

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sites, you know, work inan airfield, whatever, sometimes like your
ears will get all backed up,and so I literally have like a flush
kit thing in that shower. Soif I'm like, ah, and then
I could just do it. Iknow it's kind of gross. You didn't
want to hear that, but didexist. So I'm like, you know

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what, I clean everything. Let'shit this bad boy. You know where
this is going, don't you?In the sleep While the rest are like,
look at this buffet, this isamazing. One of the bed bugs
was not interested. He's like,you know what, I'm going splunking.

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And so I flush the right earand like, I really didn't get the
results, but it felt better.I'm like, Okay, I do the
left ear, and uh, itexpels out and then I feel something on
the left side and then it dropson my shoulder. It's the it's the

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cave dude. But that's not theworst part because as I am looking at
my shoulder, going I guess Igotta burn the shoulder and get John Wick
to stick his pencil in that ear, I feel movement in the right ear

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and he's not coming out. Ohmy god, you've got a bug in
your head. Not anymore. We'lltalk, but I staying and you'd stay
over there, dude, exact countAm I delivering on my promise? Yeah,
so that was why are you here? Because now I'm having to go.

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Yeah, you started the show andyou're like, oh, my mic
sounds weird on the way. Everythingsounds weird today because you got bugs in
your ears. Man, No,hold on, I didn't realize that.
The one dude's like, I'm goingspelunkin. The other dude, much larger
dude, was like, hey,that sounds like a good idea, but
I'm gonna go check this other kveout. But also it's all you can
eat, right because they got alittle thing to in there, which that

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crosses my mind. I'm like,yo, no, and I learned many
years ago, you you gotta becareful because I was in my twenties and
uh, we were road tripping upin New England and we we found this
like Vermont, Yeah it was inVermont or New Hampshire, I can't remember

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which one. Like roadside hotel,the only amenities. It's got a bar
and a driving range and was likecheap and we're like we're in And in
the middle of the night, Iwoke up. I'm like, what is
that feeling? And it was aspider in the moment I woke up,
boom in the year and I ranin the shower and I ended up drowning
him. And now he's in there, and I did the rest of the

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trip, like a week with himin there. He didn't the whole thing
didn't come out because I didn't wantto. I was poor, didn't want
to go to the doctor any ofthat, and so I just waited it
out and then boom, one day, boom, there's the whole thing.
And so I learned my lesson,so I didn't drown him. I negotiated
with him for four hours with acombination of vegetable oil and water and just

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something together, and then eventually hegave up the ghost. And it was
at that point as I go intothe night and I know that I'm not
sleeping. Two hours before my alarmwent off, I surrendered the battlefield and
I slept in a folding chair onmy patio for two hours. And now
I'm doing a show because that's ourcommitment. And I'm sorry if I creeped

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you out. I'm still thinking napalmmaybe the way to go. But we'll
see it eleven thirty when the dudegets there. Okay, all right,
we'll be back. Hang on.I know that I just chewed up the
first hour of the show, andI here's the deal. The story had
to be told once in its entiretybecause there are cautionary tales in there.

(33:15):
There is These are stories like oldTime. Somebody mentioned Twilight Zone, the
email where you were able to conveyfrom an audio and the imagination of the
listener's perspective something that will stick withthem. And I know this because multiple
people are. I don't know thatthey're. One lady's very upset with me.

(33:38):
But I gave you a trigger warnings, So what do you want me
to do? And I didn't gocrazy on it. I literally told it
straight up because they're driving like Ihad not covered in bugs. Yes,
yeah, absolutely, you know whatmy buddy Robert, who so I he

(34:01):
and I share that cleaning lady.And I know one of Robert's things is
bugs. I don't know why he'sdude. He's a dude's dude, but
like bugs creep him out, man, and he's not and I hold him
and she cleans my house then goesto his house. He was like,

(34:24):
she can't clean your house this week. After they're done, and then my
house on the same day. I'mlike, I will work it out with
her. Man. It's just wild. So like I'm sitting there and I'm
I'm like telling him this because Ijust like I have to share the pain

(34:45):
with somebody else, and like heviscerally got it. So I apologize if
I did that to you, butin a way, but like there was
so much going on. From nowon, we'll do calls right now and
then I'll probably retell a very shortenedversion of it. So if you're hearing
this now, he just joined usor that, go back to the podcast
if if you want to, youwant an hour that will fly by and

(35:07):
horrify you, And to Corey,you send me the email. Those were
the bugs in your ears? Howmany you think you're in your nose and
mouth. Thank you for that.Appreciate that. Thank you very much.
Glad you sent multiple emails on thatthing that I thought I did think about
for a moment, but I hadto like erase it from my brain.

(35:32):
Don't worry. We'll get Joe Biden, who every time the more black churches
he goes to, the more awkwardhe looks and wait to hear the quote
from the bishop. And we gotaudio. We we got all sorts of
stuff we will get to over thecourse of the show. But it's my
show, and I had to sharethat with you, cause damn Okay.
All right, Seth, you're upfirst, go right ahead. Hey,

(35:52):
good morning, we're usome morning.Casey. Yeah, I was driving on
forty this morning listening to this onthe way into work, and I'm like
viscerally also reacting to the story.I'm like making these jerk emotions, like
freaking out, and I'm watching thepeople around me. Before You're like,
dude, are you okay? Areyou like going into medical medical issue?

(36:15):
I'm like, no, I'm fine, I'm all right, but I'm getting
ready to go over to the window. The widow. The widow got a
chair to watch me. I don'tblame her. I look like it looks
like the dude on the other sideof the park with the bees. But
she thinks I'm an OCD meth produceror something. I don't know. She
knows what I do. But comeon, man, and I'm getting ready
to go overseas myself here in abouttwo weeks, and I was like,

(36:37):
oh god, I'm gonna be likehyper paranoid. I'm gonna I don't want
to come home like Casey. Soyou are in the costun airte so thank
you very much. So also,if you think you're getting them with the
h bomb but you're not, okay, justor call in. He's like,
yeah, Casey's dumb, and youknow what, He's right, Yeah,

(36:58):
Like thank you that. Like Ilearned my tail. The spider thing was
very instructive and horrifying, but instructive. And I rather than you know,
shoot first, ask questions later.I'm telling you if forget water boarding,
all you you military folks listening,okay, all right, forget you know,

(37:20):
the the Hanoi hilton or pungy sticksor fingernails, bamboo, you know
what put somebody in a house withall the bed bugs and tell them they
can't go outside of the house havefun sleeping, and you'll start hallucinating bed
bugs. You're like, is thatnow it's a fuzzy because they're about size
of a little fuzzy and some ofthem are the same color. It's that

(37:45):
was awful and I and I yieldedthe field. I let squatters take over
my my house just for so Icould get like two and a half hours
sleep. Awful, all right,Uh Joe, what's up? Hey?
What's up? Gentlemen? How's everythinghorrible? Obviously? Sir? Okay,

(38:07):
I feel free a man. Ihad a buddy that went through this.
First thing you gotta do is getyour housekeeping a bomb in her entire set
of equipment to go. That stuffcan never come back in the house.
Second of all, yes, Iwant the equipment. The equipment is at
my house actually, and Roberts gothis own, which is why I told
him that he's whiny and just askedher to change in between. But he's
he bugs creep him out, man. So yeah. But the second thing

(38:27):
you gotta do, the you gottabay these sobs. You got to get
yourself a bloody piece of room tenchtemperature steak laid on a plate. What,
No, it's a steak, sir, it's my steak. You want
to get. You know what I'mgonna get, sir, I'm gonna get
a hobbled cat. One of thisgot the wheel the back. Now you're
talking, Now you're talking bread.No, Yeah, they come out get

(38:51):
whatever you got to need. It'sgot to be room, temperture, it's
got to be bloody, and they'llcome out to it and they're gonna swarm
it. And then you grab thoseson of the guns and you spray them
and you'll kill hundreds of thousands ata time. Well then that probably shouldn't
do the cats. So all right, all right, man, good luck,
y have a good way. Doyou think I probably can't go over
to the shelter today and be like, you know what, I just found

(39:14):
out. I love cats. Youshould give me five of them. Do
you have slow ones anything injured?Probably not. You just make so many
realizations as you're you're you're figuring outthat you're it. You're the only game
in town. They're gonna follow youwith they are. It's like slow zombies.
Man, It's just awful. Allright. I feel like we need

(39:37):
some oh, one of the lastthing. I'm gonna say. There are
two moments this over the weekend too, where I felt bad for a moment.
Then I'm just like, nah,this is what I do. One
I felt bad for a moment aboutthe promo I cut Friday, where I
just said, hey, uh,it's uh fourth of July. Park two,

(40:00):
how many fingers well folks have left? And what happens? You know,
a little crazy fireworks story join usMonday. And I don't know if
you're aware of what happened down inSouth Carolina. I texted Ross. I
said, I felt bad for alittle moment for for a little bit,
and we'll get into that story.But then, while I am on a

(40:22):
arrest period in between my you know, my murder raids all around the all
around the house, I started toremember Spiderweb Dad. Do you remember that
story Ross? Where he went up? Was it? It was the rafters
of the garage, right, hehad like the garage had wood rafters.

(40:42):
We had the panels overseeing store stuff, but it was wide open up to
the sky. And and there's twodifferent versions. There's this one and then
there was another dude, but thestory went the same way and he was.
I think it was his basement orsomething, and I don't know how
it got as bad as it did, but the whole thing spy Webs and
they both arrived at the conclusion blowtorch is the way to go. And

(41:07):
you remember that story because they burnedall their stuff down right, it's like
turkey frying in your garage, andyou don't know how displacement works. I
felt bad for Spiderweb Dad because Iread the heat thing right, and there's
only so much you can stick intothe dryer of the washer. And I

(41:28):
thought for a moment, because Ihave a blow torch, what man doesn't.
I don't have a flame thrower,but I have a blow torch,
so we get by. What ifI have that in one hand, and
I have a little fire extinguisher that'sin the in my office, and then

(41:50):
I have a big one in thekitchen, but or a bigger not like
a huge one, but you knowwhat I mean. What if I got
the little palm one in one theblow torch in the other, because just
trying to hit them individually with theuh And that thought crossed my mind yesterday.
I'm like, it's not that theywere dumb, it's that they didn't

(42:10):
do it right. It's like,you know what it was. It was
communism for a moment, Ross,it was communism. Those two guys burn
their house down. They just didn'tdo it right. I'm gonna do it
right. Yeah, we're gonna learnfrom their mistakes. Yes, yeah,
you just These aren't spiderwebs. Theseare bed bugs whatever. I mean,
if it's bed bugs or carbon ortermites or whatever. Yeah said in the

(42:32):
way kill right, Yeah, you'reright, yeah, And I was.
I had convinced myself that if Iwent onto the three season porch patio thing
where they did, that's what theydid. Make out. That floor is
not it is not like the otherfloors. Right, You're not going to
catch that thing on fire directly becauseit's the fire resistant composite. There's reasons

(42:57):
for it. But I'm like,that could be my test area. And
I'm like, dude, you aregoing to burn your house down. Stop
it. You already tried to fixthis yourself. Stop stop your Clark Griswold,
just stop, man, And uh, thankfully I did. And then
horribleness. So all right, let'sdo this because I gotta have a buffer

(43:20):
zone. I do we got news, you ever got actual news and audio
and all sorts of craziness because youknow the weekend THEO was and we will
get to that after my selfish hijackingof airtime coming up here on the CaCO
Day Radio program. It's wrong though, it says, uh infested CaCO Day
Radio program infested with bugs slash bugsin ear survivor, you got the bugs

(43:44):
part right. I'm a two timesurvivor. I will fix that right now.
And I think when I was akid, I got I had like
the silver fish or the roly piehad something in my ear. I remember
my mom was just like, shewas not pleased. But so but adult,
we'll just for adults. So anyway, thanks for putting that out there.

(44:05):
Everyone appreciates it. Speaking of adults, it's adulting at church with uh
Joe Biden. I'm telling you,man, the more black churches he goes
to, the more uncomfortable he looks, and the orange is gone, that
little hand to temporary tattoo thing hehad rocking. I mean it was kind

(44:30):
of there for this Stephan Stephanopolis interview. Yeah, but now does this make
him a Christian nationalist because he's campaigningat a church, A big fan of
the church. Mark Robinson's remember he'sbig. He's in big trouble for saying
some stuff at a church again andthey think he's a Christian ationalist. So
yeah, I mean right, becausewe equality yours. No, no,

(44:52):
it doesn't, of course it doesn'tbecause, as you'll come to find out,
it's a moonbat church. Yeah,yeah, it's uh it's super moonbatty
man. And uh there is anamazing quote. Well there's two things.
One Joe Biden says Dark Brandon's comingback. Do you think Joe knows he's

(45:15):
Dark Brandon or do you think there'san act? Does he think it's somebody
else? I was just thinking ofthat, like he's like, that's that's
a good looking man there. Ohhe's scary too, he probably does.
But anyway, the the amount oflike what's he gonna do for him?

(45:35):
Like he was, he was allin on those statements he was making.
He's like, I'm not going anywhere, And there was, you know,
speculation was that they're literally negotiating surrenderat this moment. And he came out
full throated and he's like I'm I'mgonna do what I'm gonna do if you
can be convinced that you can knockdefeed Donald Trump while you stand down.

(45:55):
This is from the interview. Dependsif if the Lord Almighty comes out and
tells me that I might do that. Well, I mean at a more
practical level. Washington Puss just reportedin the last hour that Senator Mark Warner
is assembling a group of senators togetherto try and convince you to stand down
because they don't think you can win. Well, Mark is a good many

(46:17):
We've never had that. He alsotried to get the nomination too. By
the way, he didn't do differentMark a lot of marks. Whatever.
Mark's not Mark, can I havea different perspective. I respect him.
And if Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffriesand Nancy Pelosi come down and say we're

(46:37):
worried that if you stay in therace, we're going to lose the house
in the Senate, how will yourespond. I've go into detail with them.
I've just picked all of them indetail, including Jim Cleiber. Every
one of them. They all said, race, stay in the race.
No one said what does that mean? He also Jim Clyber, because Akeem

(46:58):
Jeffries is black, so is notthat I saw the video of him not
hugging that woman or whatever, althoughhe had talked to her earlier, that
is on video. But you couldn'tconvince me he remembered something he did before
the Ralley right now. So Idon't know. But on this what do
you mean? Also, Jim Clyburn, what does that mean? Maybe he
holds him to more of a standardor something because didn't he have something to

(47:22):
do with them, or maybe I'mthinking of a different guy like the primary
back in twenty twenty. It allturned around in South Carolina because of his
help, right, yes, somaybe that's why, Yeah, I get
Yeah, maybe I Again, Idon't have to because you know, the
easy thing if you're like Associated Pressand that the parties are flipped, you
just go look racist. So Idon't know, it's just a weird wording.

(47:45):
I should leave. But if theydo, oh I'm not going to
do that. Yeah. Yeah.And and by the way, this goes
on, and remember they had thiswas like this is a short interview and
it was pretty recorded. It's useif the Lornal Mighty come out and said,
Joe get out of the race,I got out the race, and
Lord of Mightey's not coming down.I mean these hypothetic what sends somebody in

(48:09):
as the Lord Almighty. I'm sorry, I understand this is a blast,
but you'll have to tell him thatyou support abortion. Note so he'll be
like, oh, that's the church. I know, Nichol George if I
mean default, but it's it's notthat hypothetical anymore. I grant that they
have not requested the meeting, butit's been real. I met with them.

(48:30):
I've met with a lot of thesepeople. I've talked them right money.
For those of you, by theway, maybe tuning in to that
Sweetest Cent and you're like, ah, what happened? I did? I
did a literally the whole first houron the Nightmare Fuel thing that I tweeted,
So I'm gonna I'll talk about itagain for one segment at eight oh

(48:52):
five. Okay, I will notdo the full but if you want the
full version, that'll be our oneof the podcast, okay, or won't
be an hour, be the firstwhat thirty five minutes or whatever of the
podcast today, so you can getthat. You can get the whole thing.
The only thing I left out ofthat is how I was dressed,

(49:13):
which I'll at the eight o'clock hour. I'll mention that because it is.
It's an amazing little nugg of thestory. But I was running out of
time. Yeah, all right,let's go to Joe Biden, shall we.
Dude, is you know he's campaignin Pennsylvania. He's doing a few
stops, says dark Brandon's coming backwhatever, and then heads over to the

(49:35):
black church. Okay, all right. Remember this man was raised in a
black church, he told us,and every time he goes to a black
church, he somehow looks more awkward. You remember the video of him where
everybody's moving, they're feeling the spirit, they're dancing, they're clapping, you
know, the stereotypical southern black church, which you know it's a stereotype for

(50:00):
a reason. And he's like armstiffto his side, doing the slow rock
okay, and I can't dance,so I like, I get that,
But you're like, nah, thisis my this is my background. Mm
hmm. It is clearly not,sir, But he keeps going. And

(50:21):
you know, when you're for thesame reason that Mark Robinson goes to church.
There is value there in connecting withpeople. If you know how to
connect with them and uh. Andthen also it gives video for the Moonbats
journalists locally to say that Mark Robinsonwants to kill everybody because they've never seen

(50:43):
about nine different movies I can tellyou about because they're boring from the pulpit
of the church. Oh, hereis the damn. Here is the audio.
It was not attached to the otherstory. I'm gonna read it to
you. The bishop of the churchwho now has to tell his congregation a

(51:05):
little something because they knew that Bidenwas probably they probably knew Biden was coming
pre debate or had some well maybenot. I don't know. I don't
know how long this thing was scheduledout. But obviously, even if you
love the guy, you recognize thatthat Joe Biden shows up may not be
the one in your mind, Okay. And the bishop recognizes that. So
he's got to go lob some defensesome you know, he's got to preload

(51:30):
this thing. And I'm going toread this for batim the bishop j Lewis
Felton. That dude sounds like amiddle of the day injury lawyer, doesn't
he. Jay Lewis Felton call thelaw offices up Mi's o'theliomer something I don't

(51:50):
know, but he went, he'sa bishop, all right. Anyway,
he said, and I quote,I don't know why it is, And
Biden's sitting on stage next to him, he's kind of he's talking to him,
but he's talking to congregation. Idon't know why it is that you
want to make an issue the presidentand his condition and this is being directed

(52:10):
at the media, people online allof that. I don't know why it
is that you want to make anissue of the president and his condition was
stammering and not being able at certaintimes to bring forth words. And then
he's like, you know, lookat the other guy trump word salads.

(52:31):
We agree, wanders rambles. I'mguilty of it too. But if when
you're at that level of politics,tind to try to rein it in because
you know, time is money,Money's time. You're doing a bunch of
different things. Get to the point. Here's the test and stuff. It's
all the stuff you hate about upperlevel politicians that at the end of the

(52:52):
day kind of works like attack ads. Who likes these? I don't know
people sadly, this is what itis. The it's not because of the
stammering though, because you could arguethat Donald Trump is not a smooth start
to finish, clear, concise storyteller. Sometimes he is, but a lot

(53:16):
of times it's it's nine things goingon at once. The just randomly says
that, by the way, that'swhat people like because it is that differential.
So a lot of people try andexplain this on the air or online,
they're just like, no, whatyou don't understand is he's not that
guy. We talked about this lastweek right ross when Pete was on with

(53:37):
the European elections, right or justelections everywhere. It's like, you're just
not the guy who I hate becausethe COVID or whatever. I just need
to have the other guy. Andmaybe we're perpetually in that voting pattern or
maybe not. If you do whatMcCrone did in France and you literally bring
over all of the people that youbrought over the squad, you have to

(53:59):
understand in France, look, I'mrambling in France to maintain power, so
that the penn and there's there's farright, there's right, there's left,
and then there's far left and obviouslyyou got some middlers there and it's just
like in the US where they're justlike, that's a far right. Everyone's
far right. Who's on the rightif you listen to the left tell you

(54:21):
that? And for some politicians thesame back and forth. But the uber
moon bats in France, basically theleft could ignore them and then the right
ignores the uber right. So butMcCrone couldn't do that anymore. So he
had to go and he had toget a coalition, which means one of

(54:44):
two things happened. There were demands, there are policies, there are things
and priorities that had to be agreedto be included, maybe some higher up
leadership positions. We'll see you eitherdon't do it and then you get a
blitter rate in the next election,or you do it and you have now

(55:05):
successfully moved France leftward. And infact you were so quick to do it
one of the biggest fails in Frenchpolicy. Uh posts nineteen forty six was
about a decade or something, maybeeven more than that. Do you remember
when France is like the top marginaltax rate's going to be ninety percent.

(55:27):
I promise I'll get back to theTrump thing and the and the Biden thing
where they said, the top taxrate for the for the you over rich
in France is going to be ninetypercent, which is French society is born
upon income, inequality or whatever.Right the haves that have nods being members
of court. Let them eat cake. Oh that's a guillotine. What's going
on? And so they have athey have a long and storied tradition.

(55:52):
But ninety percent was too much forbasically all the people who would be tax
ninety percent because it's not like peoplesay the US, we had a top
marginal tax rate of whatever, itwas eighty some percent. It's like,
yeah, but that's not the theeffective tax rate. If you look through
history, the effective tax rate inthe US, if you group everybody doesn't

(56:13):
move much. Is it like eighteenpercent or something on average? But it
does, you know, around theedge of it ebbs and flows. And
I remember literally that day, whatis Depp Pardue's first name is Gerard right,
the actor, the ugly actor,but they call him but whatever,
he's a good actor. He's like, ah bye, yeah, I'm out.

(56:39):
And they're like, oh my gosh, wait where are the rich people
going? And and Franz you haveto understand France was like overrepresented in the
Panama papers, because that's all Itold you about when I was in When
I was Panama City and I'm inthe I'm in the Hotel Nice Hotel in
the financial district. I look atthis quizite condo building across the street which

(57:00):
had a doorman and the park,and I realized, there's no there's really
nobody in there. And then Irealized when I'm at the restaurant, which
is like the thirty eighth floor ofthe hotel, looking into the thirty eighth
floor of the condos, they're noteven built out. Most of them.
They're all tax shelters. And sothose Panama papers came forward. There's a
lot of big names craziness in there, but a lot of French because they

(57:25):
went Nope, if I'm going tostay, nope, and even if I'm
leaving, I'll probably nope. Andthey ended up having to undo that because
they were just driving anyone with abig money out of the out of the
country. That is a priority forthe new government in France. This thing

(57:45):
that they saw, they just didn'ttry it right the first time. Ross
what you need or fences or wallsto keep people in man I'm seeing this
stuff from France yesterday. Yeah,and I'm looking at the map that came
in. You see the map that'sall the social media where like it's all
of France and it's all blue whereLa Penn won. Right, the only
place she did not win was Paris. And the first thing I thought,

(58:07):
Well, first, I thought,the parliamentary system is ridiculous in garbage and
you talk about these backroom shady deals. It's the definition of it. Right,
I got to build a coalition withthe communists just some quote far right
can't win. But also the secondthing I thought was thank God for the
electoral College because this is the sortof thing because you hear this all the
time, right when we have anelection and I talk to people over in

(58:29):
Europe and UK thanks to the Twitchchannel, right, like I talked to
it, and you constantly hear oryou read it on social media, like,
oh, the American system doesn't makesense because why you know, the
popular vote should count and what isthis? You know, the electoral college
makes no sense. This is thesort of thing it defends against. Yeah,
and so this is why the founderswere genius in creating it. Minnesota

(58:51):
when I lived there, and thenit was it was swaying. Minnesota had
that to some extent. Obviously theydon't have parliamentary so to speak. It's
it's very standard, but it isimmediately clear that if you live in Minnesota,
the twin cities are one, they'reMinnesota left and outstate is Minnesota right.
And they're almost they at the timewere almost equal in voting. That's

(59:13):
why you'd have these crazy Senate races. Were one trunk full of ballots.
Get al Franken in there, thanksMark Elias, and and and then that
was quickly going the other direction becauseif you were a kid who wanted to
live in the big city, hadlofty ideals, maybe a little little leftist,
not just from Minnesota, but Wisconsin, the Dakota's, Iowa, wherever

(59:35):
you go to Minneapolis. And sothe numbers just kept blowing up. Yeah,
no, it's crazy. And thisthis, this bishop's got to think
of something not even remotely the samething. Sir, all right, who
do we got raced agic or doyou get swept away by stupid the name
hurricane out Hey? Good morning,all right, go ahead with your barrel

(59:58):
update, and then yeah, maybetalk about us for a few Yeah,
Baryl came on shore just before fouram Central time, Category one eighty mile
per hour storm impacts now being feltacross coastal Texas. Houston being hit hard,
heavy rain, storm surge along thecoast, and even severe weather threats.
So Cat one coming on shore nearMatagorda, Texas, eighty mile per

(01:00:22):
hour winds and now heading inland,likely having impacts as far north as maybe
Chicago and Detroit later in the weekas a depression, but limited if any
here. I mean, I mean, I guess you can make a case
that the remnant low might be hookedup to a front and eventually and become
extratropical and draw some moisture in here, But that's kind of stretching it a

(01:00:43):
bit. But we will get someshowers. Thunder showers might be a few
trying to sneak in this morning toour south, but most of it this
afternoon's still warm and humid, nearninety. Tomorrow ninety five or the lot
to mid nineties will feel over onehundred again, and Wednesday we'll be back
into the lotta mid nineties again withafternoon storre worms each day. And what
was that I saw while I wasaway. What o six? All time

(01:01:04):
record high for Raleigh. You're talkingabout station with our ratings? Yeah,
well yeah that too. Did wehave that too? Again? Boy,
we're good, aren't we. Wellit's you know what, you gotta thank
the president and and debates. Yeahthey can do that too, right,
Yeah? But what was it?Six? Wasn't it? Gosh? I
was like, wow, good thing. I'm not there to take the heat
for that, but yeah, hot, humid, not quite as hot,

(01:01:28):
but hot enough. Next couple ofdays. Okay, well, what's the
next name? Storm? By theway, so you guys, Debbie the
sea storm, Chris Cutting, rememberwe changed we? Uh we did?
We tell you we changed all thenames to we're doing thematically and this year's
storms are all named after eighties wrestlersRoy who was the D Do you remember
who do we go with with DB? Remember who was the D?

(01:01:53):
Yeah? B was Brutus Beefcake,wasn't it now? I think we saw
the Bam bam Bigeloway then see andthen D is we have to come up
with the D storm. So anyway, just consult with us as you go
through talking and out. We'll doit. Yep, there you go,
Ah, are you staging from it'dbe like Diamond Dallas Page. Maybe I

(01:02:14):
don't know. Yeah, I thoughtwe had something, but I don't remember
because my whole life turned into awalking nightmare on Sunday. So I will
get into that story eight oh five, but the shortened version. So there's
that I yesterday took to Twitter withalmost no sleep, already in covered in

(01:02:36):
injuries. I'll explain kind of.I said, I have first level,
first ballot, Hall of Fame,nightmare fuel, and unlike those guys on
Twitter just looking for engagement, Ross, I delivered right our one of the
show, one hundred. Okay,this is not even a question the emails

(01:02:58):
that I have. I so Iwouldn't be surprised if somebody calls your boss
like I can't come in today.But also I can't go into a structure.
I don't know. I didn't meanto do that to you, but
is wild the whole setup how wegot there. I'm gonna eliminate that.
But if you want to hear thewhole thing our just listen to podcast.
Well I have it for you shortlyafter the show. Unless Ros gets creeped

(01:03:22):
out, He's like, nope,I'm out. So just look for it.
I'm going to give you a smallversion, and if you have a
visceral reaction, I will warn youat the part where I think it might
happen. But soul, my Sundaysucked. Long story short, I went

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on vacation. You remember all that, And I know that within the time
that I went on vacation to theweekend, it was actually the end of
last week, but into the weekend, signs were showing. But I didn't
figure out untill Sunday. A thetheory. My theory is a piece of
luggage from my travels, either MiamiCoastreak or Raleigh. I don't know.

(01:04:06):
Miami's looking like the spot because Ihad I went in and was pulling sheets
off this bed that I had notslept under into the sheets, uh until
the last couple of days. SometimesI sleep in one bed, sometimes I
sleep in the other. Don't tryto understand it. And I got I

(01:04:28):
woke up and I thought, likemosquito. I had left like a screen
open or something. Some mosquitos gotin. But it was it was weird,
man, because it looked like akind of but it had happened before,
and I had to go around likemurder, mosquitos, whatever. I
but I felt so bad waking upSunday morning, I'm like, what is
going on? And I go out. I'm doing some things, make I'm

(01:04:49):
making some food, and I'm like, I gotta like, I gotta clean
up and then figure out what's goingon. So I throw pasta in the
water and then I walk into thisbedroom and I'm I'm stripping it down the
throat in the wash right, andthat's when I see it. There is
a layer of bedbugs. I hadnever seen bedbugs in person, and under

(01:05:13):
I have a pad on there too, so I think the pad off,
there's another layer. It's it's it'slike a fifteen minute city or something.
And I'm horrified. But one becausenow every moment it feels like there's bugs
on my skin, even though Ican visually see there's not. I'm having
PTSD on this, and I tellI, tell Ross what's going on.

(01:05:38):
He's like, you should burn yourhouse down. I'm like, that's probably
where I'm gonna go. But soI doing triage. I'm educating myself because
I don't know a lot about it, and I convince myself that it hasn't
spread out of this nexus very muchand due to the short time. And
I get a guy he's coming today. I'm assuming he'll nap palm the house

(01:06:01):
for me or whatever he does.And we're talking and he actually puts me
a little at ease. He's like, no, this is good, this
is better. And so he toldme a couple of horror stories from the
anyway, and he goes, ifyou caught it early, this is what
we just we're gonna do these things. And I'm like, you should do
all those things multiple times, andthen if you want to use fire,

(01:06:24):
go ahead. But I feel alittle better and I kind of the creepy
crawlies go away. I communicate thisto Ross, who's instantly like, we
should take time off. So wedidn't do that, and I did something
really stupid. I'm like, youknow what, Yeah, I gott I'll

(01:06:47):
come tomorrow. I wonder if Igo Nagasaki on him? Right? I
got him, I got him surrounded. I know where they are. They're
in this They're in this one bedroomand then like a little bit in this
bathroom that's the en suite. Igot this. Do not do that because
what happened is I hit him.But unlikes the ticks and the fleas and

(01:07:10):
stuff that the spray also says thatit does. It's just the home stuff.
It's not the good stuff. It'llit'll, it'll kill the bedbug.
But you got to hit them straighton. They're not coming by munching on
it later and dying. And insteadof swarming me, they immediately broke into
one hundred different tribes and moved throughoutstarted expanding in the house, and I
start freaking out. So now I'mhaving to do this thing where every like

(01:07:34):
thirty minutes, I go on likekill team missions, like seal team all
around the house, just trying toto and I had like tried to put
a perimeter and it kept expanding.I'm losing this battle. I'm losing the
war. And it got so bad. I'm like, I have made a
grave mistake that I'm I am walkingaround this out. I'm walking around my

(01:07:59):
house. But I want you tovisualize this I am wearing because I don't
want them anywhere near my skin,because you have to understand, the only
warm blooded mammals, that's what theyfeed on. And I'm the only game
in town. I got no pets, I'm not married, no kids,
i'm it, and any room Iwent into, after a certain amount of
time I would see some, I'dsee a couple of them just kind of
like slowly Jason Voory's style, makingtheir way in. They are diabolical.

(01:08:25):
I respect the hustle, but i'mit. And I have now got on
a pair of real tree that Idon't use them for hunting anymore. But
you know, the pants got allthe velcrow around them, so you can
literally lock down your your sock situation. If you're like early early hunting,
like early fall beer hunting, yougot it the whole thing, or you

(01:08:45):
just could get eaten alive. Yeah. So I've got those on, which
because these have now made their wayto around the house pants and I needed
the longer socks, but the warmweather the wool socks, I want to
wear those. I have the shortsocks for shoes. So I have on
a pair of dress socks and thosepants they velcrow and then they flip the
socks because you need length on thesocks, and it tucks it in there

(01:09:09):
all tight. I then have along sleeve shirt that tucks and then hooks,
but it's it hooks off the pantsand I kind of you know,
rigged it, which is just likeit's like an American flag long sleeve shirt,
but it has the velcrow wrists andI've got those on lockdown, but
I need my hands. I havethe collar thing up and I had like

(01:09:33):
a pullover hat. I am basicallya middle Eastern, more moderate woman.
It's not the full uh you know, the full beaded thing. Most people
are mistake it and think that's thewhole outphit. There's an abaya the job,
and then there's the veil. Butanyway, so it's open. That's
what I look like, except nothingmatches. And my neighbor's like what is

(01:09:56):
he doing? And I'm running aroundfrantic. That's not the bad part.
That's the setup. So now Ihave I'm like, I don't know what
to Ross was right. I shouldnot I should take the day off because
you couldn't pay me to sleep.And it's like, do I go to
the hotel? And if I goto a hotel, this thing they're gonna

(01:10:16):
they'll have all the houses right,and then there'll be a bed bug paradise
and I'm not gonna let the squatterswin. So I continue this and I
prep and I do all these things, and I'm running around doing all this
stuff and I'm sweaty, I'm gross, I feel defeated, and I'm like,
I have to like clean up alittle. I gotta get my I

(01:10:38):
gotta get prepped done, and Igotta figure out what I'm gonna do to
get a little bit of sleep,because everywhere I go, even if they
weren't there, they're coming because that'swhat Vorhees does. And here is here's
the part. Here's the part whereI'm just gonna let you know you should

(01:11:00):
right here. But it's part ofthe cautionary tail. So I think I
got a pretty good handle on I'llbe able to sleep on this one couch
because it's you know, it's leatherfeel and they're more fabricy and it's got
metal legs. I don't know ifthey fully get up that they can,
by the way, and then I'llkind of cord it off and that'll work.

(01:11:27):
And then I got some clothes werenowhere near it. I gave him
a visual inspection everything, and they'dbeen freshly washed. Do We're fine,
And I got everything where they can'tget to it. So I go and
I shower and I'm in the shower, and one of the things that happens
if you wear a headful lot ofheadphones for work, like we do pilots.
I guess to some others, yourears can get a little clogged up.

(01:11:54):
So I actually have like a flushkit in in that shower, and
the thing works like gang bas fansgreat, and so all right, I'm
gonna hit these bad boys. Itnever dawned on me, is it been
a while? And I flushed theright ear? All right? Worked?
That was much like, We're good. I know it's a little gross,

(01:12:15):
and I'm like, all right,cool, I hit the left here.
I'm starting to feel better. I'mlike, plans working. I don't see
him just great. And the momentthat rinsed out while everyone was running around
trying to eat me, this guyis like, I'm going cave diving,
and that's what he did. No, that's not even the worst part.

(01:12:38):
You feeling it, aren't you thelittle tingly sensation. The worst part is
this. So I look over andhe's on my shoulder, and let's just
I didn't have the most manly reaction. But I'm like, you're going down
the drain right now. I can't. And the moment he's off and I
think I'm clear. I feel wigglingin my right ear. And I told

(01:13:02):
you the story of when I wasearly twenties, me and a buddy are
like, let's go to all thebaseball stadiums. We have no money,
and so we we did. Wedid. We did Baltimore and went to
the Mets. We didn't get Yankees, I know, we suck, and
went to Boston and went to ThenWe're gonna loop around through New England and

(01:13:23):
then come back through Cooperstown and thendrive backs as I was obviously not living
in North Carolina and somewhere we wehave no money, and so imagine our
surprise on the roads of New Hampshire, whichever one doesn't allow billboards. There
is this roadside motel that has asports bar attached to the motel and a
driving range with like five bays,and it says you stay here, you

(01:13:45):
play here. And we did haveclubs with us because we're going to play
the course in Cooperstown. And inthe middle of the night, I wake
up, I'm like, what isgoing on in Oh it's a spider and
it crawled in my ear and Imade rookie mistake and I went to the
shower and d and it stayed withme like the next week we were still
out and then when I got backhome event it came out and I'm like,

(01:14:09):
don't make that mistake. So Iknow I got to negotiate with this
monster, which you know, don'tjust jam him in there. The trick
that I found that does that didwork is a little whale in the ear.
But you actually it's weird because youactually want up that you're facing up.
I'm pulling away from the bike andyou want it up so like they

(01:14:33):
can float out because if not,you'll just drown it. I can't.
Yeah, so grust If I wakeup and I'm doing my morning routine and
bugs start falling out of my ears, I am I'm done for the day.
And you you were saying early inthe show, very early before we
went on the air, like youknow, like five fifty whatever, you're
you're testing your microphone out and thisis before you told me about the bugs

(01:14:55):
in your ears. Yeah, you'relike, oh man, the microphone doesn't
sound right. It does sound rightto you. How come I and how
come this doesn't stutter? Because yougot bugs in your ears? Man?
I think well, actually, Ithink the microphones sounded different because I the
I literally bumped this thing, andI have different headphones. I just switch
out headphones, so not for thatreason. Just because I got some newer

(01:15:16):
ones, you may have to buynew headphones like mat oh the match that
they's gone. Yeah, I knowthere's a bunch of stuff like anything in
that bathroom that's not a gazillion dollars. It's gone. Owls, bath mats,
they're gone. And I want toapologize too, because I made the
joke previously about before I knew aboutall this, like I just knew.
I knew it the bed bugs,but you know about like the ears.

(01:15:39):
I was on the upswing with you, right right, and I just said,
being funny, I said, youknow, hey, your skin is
hanging up your bones. Have youbecome the host of a space cockroach?
Right? Are you drinking sugar water? I'm drinking tea iced tea, so
unsweet? I know that's so.When's the bug guy come? Uh?

(01:16:00):
Eleven thirty? Yeah, yep,eleven thirty. I I mean I gotta
go. Triage free gets there,right. You mean if I were you,
dude, I would move I wouldwell do it. So Nate Palmer
Arson. I don't know if youdecided, but dude, it's just horribleness,

(01:16:23):
just horribleness. I promise you though, if you want like the full
horror movie experience, since in youknow, the growing sense of dread.
You think it's going one way,it's going another. Dumb decisions by the
protagonist, right, Ah, I'mgonna run in the woods with heels,
or I'm gonna I'm gonna murder thembefore the guy can get here tomorrow.

(01:16:44):
Like all of those elements, allthe good horror elements, or at least
uh stereotypical one, they're all inthere. I could say this is terrifying,
and this is an experience that Ithink more people had living in North
Carolina was like once this happened.I want to say, this was like
ten years ago where we were watchinga movie in bed and all of a
sudden was movement and it was oneof those good old fashioned, big old
North Carolina palmetto bugs and the shriekingthat we went a dude, terrifying.

(01:17:09):
I can't even imagine having a wholecolony of bedbugs. Did you win the
shriek off with the wife or thatit was super I'm sure I did.
Yeah, I always win. Idominate. Yes, yeah, yeah,
yeah, I'm not gonna lose.H you had to win it, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah, Imean dude. And then I'm just like,

(01:17:30):
I gotta tell this story. It'syeah, I have to. And
then there was a moment too whereI'm not kidding. I thought I felt
bad for making fun of the dudewho burned his house. There's two different
ones because they were trying to getspiderwebs out one of like garage rafters,
the other one in the basement orsomething, and spider webs burned like a

(01:17:50):
son of a gun. I don'tknow if you guys know this. And
so he's got a whole house.Well what did you think was gonna happen?
He burnt his house down. ButI was doing all the reading getting
to know the bedbugs and uh,it's like they hate heat. And I'm
like, I got a blow torchin one hand and a fire extinguished in
the other. That's safe, right, And I thought about it because I

(01:18:11):
was running. I was I ranout of murder Spray had like a big
tall the raid you know, tickflee whatever. It's got the bed bugs
on there but I used the wholedamn can, and there was like three
quarters when I started probably poisoned myself. So that was that was. That
was my Sunday. And now Ihave the creepy Crawley's again to every time

(01:18:32):
I tell it, so I'm notgonna tell it again. You want to
hear the full version, go tothe podcast. It's there for your first
hour. Oh all right, wewill be back. Hang on, have
we I'm trying to think we've known. It's never even been like talked about
with management. I remember I justwanted a window for ten years because they
were gonna put us in the hthe old morning show studio for the organisation.

(01:18:56):
Yeah, people are always surprised tolearn that we're we're like nowhere like
in this his studio. Yeah yeahyeah different. Ross is his studio,
It is mine is described as spartan. Ross is Mine is very cozy.
Cozy that's a good word. Yeah, very uh unique. And then he'll

(01:19:18):
put like signage to block his windowbut also confuse people, and then he'll
get a misspelled award and then hehung that for like a year. So
you never know what you're gonna seeanyway. So there you go. Yeah,
that's no. Would you rather,hey, would you rather help me
tree eye or clean up after thedude hits the house today? Or help

(01:19:40):
a dude move out of an eightbedroom house. I'd probably go with the
movie. I don't know. Yeah, I don't want to risk bringing the
bugs back to the my house andwith Lincoln and stuff, so well,
no, just go. You justgo in, walk into like a giant
industrial uh, like smelting nothing,right, So all I need to do
after I help you with the buggs if that were the case, We're

(01:20:00):
to jump in like a giant likea chemical plant, like the Joker in
the Michael Keaton Batman movie. Ireally feel heats the answer here, so
I think you gotta Yeah, butyeah, you could do that whatever,
man, whatever makes you feel better, that's fine, Like crazy crazy day.
There's even other parts. I justI'm not gonna go back into it.

(01:20:21):
But I just keep remembering different stuff, all right, I'll tell you
this one. There was a momentwhile I was negotiating with the holdout in
the right ear right, Squatters writeswhatever, and I'd done the oil thing
once, I've done the water once. Then I did them both again and
I'm like every time you do it, like he gives you this indication like

(01:20:42):
all right, all right, Iget it. I get it, and
then nothing. And now I've gota little water in the ear too.
So I'm like doing the thing whereyou're trying to jerk your head so it
comes out, because maybe he'll justsurf on out. And again my brain's
not with me. So I'm Ido this and I stand, I walk
out on my patio because water,you know, water might come out.
And again my neighbors have to thinkI am insane because now like I'm trying

(01:21:08):
to bite my ear or something,and I'm dressed in like, uh poor
man poor man's bow hunting attire anddress socks. There's all reason is gone.
And and by the way, ifyou don't and so I had this
thought, well those didn't work.I the goal is not to kill him.
I learned my lesson with the spider. But you got to be a

(01:21:29):
firm negotiator. So I'm gonna arderthe deal. This thing. I'm not
gonna spray the entire can of ratein my ear, but maybe just a
little to know I mean business,and it sprays the wrong word, like
yeah, I get a little getthe the essence of it, it's probably
Q tip or something. It's probablybad because it's a nerve agent. So

(01:21:49):
I would it crossed my mind foras long as it took me to explain
it. I'm like, that isa horrible ideal. So I would be
better off, as I said,just having John Wicks stick his insul in
my ear, because then at leastI don't have to think about this anymore.
And you know, he's probably dead. So what today? What a

(01:22:09):
day? Now? Arguably worst daySouth Carolina. Sorry to make that transition,
but we're short on time. Andagain another thing I feel bad.
I did the standard fourth of Julypromom. Who's not gonna be able to
count to ten? What's gonna happenin the world of fireworks? And then
the first to emerge. You seethe video of the dude in the in

(01:22:30):
the electric wheelchair and the kid lightswell, you know like a stack of
where there's like twelve of the boxthat go off right next to him.
He's trying to have the dude lightit, and then the guy helps him
and then they're lit and he goesto light he goes to the I'm gonna
get to the Sharon harristing here injust a moment. I'm waiting. I'm

(01:22:51):
waiting for one other thing so tochill out. So he he like,
I don't know if he turn earnedit off or what. But he's now
directly next to us, and likehis thing isn't moving, his little joystate
it ain't working, and these thingsare about to who the hell knows right,
And thankfully didn't get injured. Butafter a few of them whatever,

(01:23:13):
it started moving. But the otherguy ran so far he couldn't even push
him. I know that's as badas it was. No, how do
we not know it's the m eightything. Think about this, we're dealing
fibers. If you have an ameighty go off in your hand, it's
gonna your hand's gonna get messed up. Surely you still have a hand,

(01:23:34):
probably mostly functional when you're done,because it's not under pressure, so it
has even though it's gonna. Youknow, it's harder for it to expand
against the hand. It has alot of and we can get into the
physics of it, but that's youknow, it's a it's a much better
option. If you close your handhas gone bye bye. Hand, you're

(01:23:57):
you're uh. I guess maybe creepingpeople out who just instinctively shake with one
hand because your other one's gone andthey're gonna feel bad. So anyway,
this guy won a different route,and the fact that it's coupled with this
like TikTok video thing is wild tome. So this guy in South Carolina,

(01:24:19):
life of the party joker, youknow, get families there, he's
got friends there. He's always cuttingup what do they refer to him as
the show mooting but funny dad.He has on a he has a super
Fourth of July, and to topit off, he has a comically oversized

(01:24:43):
think turd ferguson SNL Jeopardy, thecowboy hat like Uncle Sam top hat,
patriotic as a as a you knowwhat. And for some reason he decides
he's smoking a cigarette. He's doinglike a funny jig. He's in the
red, white and blue. Everything'sfine, and there's you can see like

(01:25:10):
smoke behind him, and then hesla he's like doing finger guns, kicks
his feet and then it all goeshorribly wrong because that was a full on
mortar. And the mortar in question, when I say behind him was not
behind him, but rather on him. And this is a big boy,

(01:25:34):
it's on him. And it's furtherproblematic because he's got this the crazy hat
man, which even though it's bigfor some of that size is it's a
horrible idea and he did not makeit. Uh what is he? He's

(01:25:55):
HVAC worker. So now now withthe jig, it's fine. I just
want to I wanna be a bundlelyclear. So he's doing this this silly
video for those he's using something smaller, but then he had to keep up
being the ante and later on theforty one year old according to family,

(01:26:21):
this is his wife. I thoughthe was just showboating before he set it
on the ground as I watched himpick up a large mortar lit and do
what he did with the other littleones, put it on his head and
you're done. You're done. Anduh yeah, here's the And I don't

(01:26:46):
know why this is one of thefirst things that cross my mind. Family's
there. Do you remember the awfulmoon back college moonbats and just other distasteful
people who right as Trump got intooffice, if anybody had an American flag,
they were triggered and they would likelose their crap. So they just

(01:27:06):
couldn't fathom that somebody has an Americanflag. And it wasn't just the trucks
with like four flying. But assoon as you let them know that bother
you, then you know it wasjust an up the antithing. But they
would like flip out on people whohad a bumper sticker that you know probably
been there for five years or something. Uh it is, we're having it

(01:27:27):
because it was so triggering. Well, you all are stupid. I don't
believe you this family. I willsay, if you're triggered by the American
flag, I going for it.I would understand. And like I can't
even imagine because you're in South Carolina, and South Carolina they did. They
loved them some flags. They loveany representation products you can't. South Carolina

(01:27:47):
is one of those states, notthe only one where the chances of you
coming across multiple flag representations on aday where you just run a few errands
are very high. It's like it'slike if you're ever in a if you're
ever somewhere and there's a group ofguys in the store and they get a
little accent and trying to place it, you will know if they're from Texas,

(01:28:08):
because somebody will have something referencing Texasas as a garment. They can
have a Texas belt buckle, lonestar hat, whatever. Man. I
picked some dudes out in a grocerystore in another country one time, like
those are Texans, And I justseen him across because the dude had the
he had the quintessential Texas hat andbelt buckle match, And of course they

(01:28:32):
all were so like if that's Iagain, I mean, I don't even
know how to pick it apart otherthan to say that's awful. I just
like, and then Fourth of July, which is one of the fun holidays,
right, but I mean that sympatheticallybecause and then you're there and it's

(01:28:53):
just oh, it's the whole thingis just horrible, man, but also
dumb as hell. Don't do that, right, just I don't build the
oil to the top to deep friarTurkey raced agic from the Weather Channel.
I don't know if you actually didthat, but maybe you did. Got
close ones. I remember when thatfirst trend started. I'm like, does

(01:29:14):
nobody understand how displacement works? Andit was clear they did not clearly,
or they don't try to get youthrow it in there. Yeah that too,
but you know what, and nowyou don't have a garage, so
good on you, so the Lordyou wouldn't. Yeah, it does,
it does, So any garage recordis coming our way. What's up?

(01:29:36):
I don't know. It stays hotand humid the next few days upper eighties
to low nineties today, load tomid nineties tomorrow and Wednesday. Storm chances
will be best during the afternoon,how whurs otherwise hazy and warm. There
might even be some fog in spotsnext few mornings, but the rain,
if you do get a thunderstorm,we have the potential to produce some downpours
too, so hopefully that'll cool youoff just a bit. Boy, it

(01:29:58):
was a hot week and hot weekend. I don't see really temperatures going too
much below ninety degrees until maybe laterin the week, when, especially the
Tria, you may end up inthe upper eighties rather than ninety or just
above ninety degrees. With the showerthunderstorm chances with us each day here this
week, so another look like we'regonna see widespread all day rain. I
think the better chances will come laterin the week. Hopefully everybody getting some

(01:30:21):
barrow did come on shores, aCategory one storm with eighty mile per hour
winds and now bringing wind and rainand even some hurricane force wind gusts in
and around Houston and Galveston, waterrise and now power out to over a
million customers in the state of Texas. Obviously there's no flights in and out
at Hobby or Intercontinental and other regionalairports, so certainly call ahead and figure

(01:30:44):
out what your travel plans are ifyou did have some travel plan to the
Great State of Texas, because evenDallas could be impacted with some heavy rain
too. As we go through themorning and into the afternoon, then all
that moisture get drawn up into theOhio Valley, the northeast New England as
either depression and or eventually a remnantlow, so rain will be in the
forecast, maybe Chicago, Detroit,but especially to the south southeast of them,

(01:31:04):
and then some of that moisture getsinto the northeast, Dani Winga.
So we escape this one, butI'm sure there'll be more. Do you
do a Texas station or not?U daily? Yes? Actually do San
Antonio, Okay, yep, good, try to get him to shoot at
it. It's Florida and Texas,I feel are convincible states sometimes. So
all right, let me know howthat goes. Okay, Yanks, Yep,

(01:31:27):
dude, I'm the start and stuff. Anyway, we'll be back.
Hang on. Well, good morning, Casey. Stock's advanced in slow trading
on Friday, Investors hoping a gradualcooling of the job market will help convince
Federal Reserve Board policymakers to start cuttinginterest rates later this year. Futures are
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Walmart deals will be in effect todaythrough Thursday. And kids just starting

(01:32:38):
their summer vacations. Casey won't wantto hear this, but Target sent out
a news release this morning about backto school deals. Oh you think that's
bad, Rosching? He's watching hisChristmas movies already. Yeah. Yeah,
I have a neighborhood website and oneof the people complained that Halloween was already

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up the stores they visited. Well, and I probably bought candy. So
what are you gonna do? Allright, thank you, sir, appreciate
it. Okay, have a goodday. Yeah, all right, there
you go. What is it expandedto the one hundred and Yeah, let's
say it's a Hayes family. Onehundred and seventy one days of Christmas kicked
off yesterday with Ernest saved Christmas.Oh okay, all right, you can
do worse for that.