Monday-8-18-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Wondered about. But I've never built a secret layer, so
I well, if I did, I wouldn't tell you either, obviously,
but I will I will attest to not having done it,
because Ross is adding a new wing to the uh,
the mansion, the the estate, whatever you want to call it.

(00:21):
And I've just wondered, once you know, to construct something
like that, probably involving secret doors and passages and you know,
panic rooms and all the rest, how when do you
murder your your crew? Right? Because you got to murder
your crew when you're done right. So nobody actually technically knows.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
The I think the way they tend to do it
whenever you see people who built stuff like this is like,
you know, one person doesn't know everything. There's one person
that knows a little tiny bit of it, and then
they bring in another person and they never.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
But you get enough crumbs you figure out what the
cake was. Do you know what I'm saying? Because you
you know, you've see these guys on the internet and
they're usually they look like they're all like m I
T half on the spectrum dudes, and they'll be like
people go words. There's video from and it's like five
seconds and it's the most innocuous thing you've ever said.
And the guy's like, well, it's like the guys you

(01:17):
figured out where what's his bucket put the flag the
anti Trump flag right, or they're using like contrails and
uh and uh, you know a variety of things to
figure out where in the woods what's his but what
it was the guy's name, I always forget his name
from transformers. That's where Charilah Booth put the flag right

(01:39):
and there and and eventually they're like, oh, and then
they find it in the in the middle of nowhere Tennessee, right,
and there's there's guys who just that's their whole like
YouTube channel. So all it takes is one of those
and then boom, secret layer details whereof the government has
and then it defeats the purpose.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
If you're really interested in this, I would the best
source material. And I'm being completely honest, it's pretty fascinating.
I don't remember what season it is, but part of
the premise of Better Call Saw was the construction of
Gus Fring's meth lab underneath the laundry. Oh okay, and
it's absolutely fascinating And I wasn't expecting that when I

(02:22):
started watching that series. This, of course, is the show
that came after Breaking Bad about Better. You know Saul Goodman,
the lawyer, right right right, and there's a lot of stuffing.
It is fascinating, like that part of it. When that
part of the premise or the plot started, I'm like,
this is great and it goes into detail. It's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Because you don't want to if the problem is you
don't you can't murder them right at the end, because
what if there's you know, what if there's issues. Do
you know what I'm saying, Like you go and the
hot water's not working in one part of it, and you're.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Like, ah, damn it. Well, I think towards the end, well,
first up, these guys were in like a bunker underground,
so there was no discernible details about where you were.
You were in an underground Well that's what you think, yeah, yeah.
But I also think they understood towards the end that
if they were opened, if they were to open their mouth,
they would all die, including their families. So I think
that might have something to do with it.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Okay, And that was gonna be my second question. And
knowing that as a GC and I'm not a general contractor,
but somebody who is in the trades.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
You'd think you wouldn't bid those.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Jobs, right.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
I feel like we're having the conversation from clerks here
for just a moment. But yeah, like if a guy
brought you and he's like, what do you know about trapdoors,
you'd be like, oh, I am so busy, right, or
you do that thing, bid way more than than you know.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
It's like a it's like a dummy bay.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
I think it comes down to the psychology and temperament
of the individual doing it. Thinking about the episode of
Better Call Saul, and also the extraordinary abundant amount of
money you would be offered, so you'd be set for
the rest of your life.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Oh yeah, you know, there's there's there's cons for sure.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
So like I said, it did. It didn't work out
in the show. It did not work out for everybody,
but for some of them it did, I bet. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
And also, you can't you can't use that person on
your resume, do you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, I don't think you'd ever have to worry about
working again, gotcha.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Okay, So it's one for the road basically.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Anyway, So that's going well, that thing that's not happening right, good, okay, wonderful.
So let's see here.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
We got so much.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Crazy audio this morning. Believe it or not. There were
some protests over the weekend too. Apparently there's some people
they're unhappy about some stuff. And what was very interesting
looking at the DC protests is, I know the demographics
of DC. You do as well, and if you don't,
you should familiarize yourself because it's always very telling. But

(04:56):
it's hard to gauge a DC protest because normally it's
a national issue.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
People will go.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
To d C.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Maybe some of you have in the past, and so
just saying that it doesn't look like the district demographically
is not really a gotcha because people who are very
passionate about stuff they show up in DC. But this
is a DC issue with you know, the the whole
home rule thing and the nationalizing of the police force,

(05:30):
which is expressly.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Permitted within the constitution, by the way.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
And and yet ross would you look and see are
there are there any minorities who live in d C?
Run that through the AI this morning?

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Sure, let me tell you, yes, there.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
Are, Okay, but a very small percentage of the district,
like one, maybe.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Let me check again. No, it's a bit higher, Okay, okay.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Did nobody tell them they were having a protests over
the weekend about things within the district because that's white
bro's that is not the district.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
And so in this instance.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
Because it is a DC district related issue, I would
expect to see a DC ish group of people, a
very diverse, un approved smattering of individuals. And for some reason,
I saw a bunch of videos over the weekend of

(06:33):
people who made their I'm going to DC, I'm so
mad videos, but also some DC residents purportedly I mean,
I don't know, I didn't check their ideas, and like,
it only appears that white well to do people are
upset about this. I'm just throwing it out there. I

(06:54):
know that that's probably not necessarily the case.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
In all instances, but.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Any of the protest videos I saw were and because
remember the first day, like the day of we had
the NAACP, we had the crazy lady who was scared
of the crocodiles or the alligators or whatever, and we
just you know, we had that snapshot of what was
on stage, and that felt very put together because the

(07:20):
signs were so nice, and that was almost intentionally very
fifty to fifty, which is more in keeping with the
district's demographics. However, when it's boots on the ground over
the weekend, it's all people that I question whether they
live in the district, And I don't know, maybe that's

(07:42):
just my own paranoia.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
I'm not gonna lie. So I saw nothing about these
protests over the weekend. I was completely off social media
for most of it. And it's glorious and I really
recommend it. Were they all like white and sixty five?

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Again, they weren't necessarily all sixty five again, but they
were super white, and.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
They didn't look like they.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
They didn't look like they were sitting around And you know,
how did I describe this?

Speaker 3 (08:09):
They didn't strike me.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
As people who worried about how much money's in their
checking account or do you know what I'm saying, Like
everything's everything's going okay for them for the most part.
Is kind of the vibe that I got. And also
that they just didn't live there. And I don't know,
I understand that I'm speculating. I'm kind of filling in

(08:32):
the blanks here, but I just thought that was very
strange because if it is the authoritarian hellscape, I am
led to believe by looking at some of the gatherings
which were not in the grand scheme of things, really
that big for DC, because you know, it's kind of
the protest capital of America. They looked more chevy chass

(08:56):
than navy yardish, I guess would be the best way.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
You know, it's funny you mentioned it because now that
I think about, there's like three or four people where
whenever I go on Facebook, they're just perpetually pissed off
at Trump, and like that's just pick a day, pick
a time, go on their page. There's gonna be something
on there where they're ranting about Trump and how Trump
is the worst thing ever. And now that you mention it, all,
like four of them are well off white people.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah. Got, it's so horrible, don't they It's really weird. Yeah,
So I don't know, that's the vibe I was getting.
So if you see any of that, because I'm sure
the media will run you know, like the opening and
I'm on the air, so I don't know, but like
good Morning America, they're like, uh, unrest in the capital
over the weekend, and then they'll have some shots of that, right,

(09:42):
but they'll never really deep dive it.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
They'll just show you the footage.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
I suspect that's what you're going to be greeted with
on TV this morning, but again I'm speculating. So anyway,
that's how we'll get started. We'll get to some of
that audio and much more coming up six sixty Hang
on Cacoday Radio program phone number eight eight eight nine
three four seven eight seven four. You want to you

(10:09):
want to be part of the show. I look, I
don't know if this is propaganda. I don't know what
they're driving at, but it might explain some stuff. So we'll,
you know, we'll throw it into the mix. A California

(10:30):
woman has tried to unsuccessfully smuggle more than one million
dollars worth of crack cocaine disguised as a giant wheel
of parmesan.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Jamie Cho.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
This happened over in the UK, but if it's happening there,
I got to assume it's happening here arouse the suspicions
of UK border agents. When she arrived at he Throw
Airport on fly from Brazil with a seventeen pound wheel
of parmesan Peruvian parmesan on my dad, which I didn't

(11:09):
even know was a thing inside the cheese wheel. You know,
you have the caseine, right, if you've ever seen a
cheese wheel, if the waxy casing was a little bit
of parmesan, but most of the interior was actually ninety
four percent pure crack cocaine. And then it got me thinking, ross,

(11:32):
what is the one thing that is in abundance.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
At a certain favorite Italian eatery.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Breadsticks? Unlimited limited breadsticks at the Olive Garden. Right, No,
they have those damn and soup salad.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Well, let's let's go straight on the salad for a moment.
So when they when they bring the salad, what is
one of the things they do after the salad is
then served to everybody?

Speaker 2 (11:58):
They put they go away, put the salad down, that
go away.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
No, No, there's a thing in there. There's a little
step in there.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
They give you a BackRub, dude, which one ave a.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Nice Is that the one in wake forest does that?

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Or is that not normal? It might just be for
my VIP. Yeah, I was gonna say, you probably have
status there.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
So no, they bring over the little which, by the way,
you can buy the cheese grater.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Did you know that, I know you can buy the dressing.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, and and well that was gonna be my second thing.
What is the secret sauce within the dressing? We've talked
about this, right, it's pretty apparent if you ever buy
it and you ever think about it. Right, there's clearly
parmesan in the dressing, which makes it so cracked, like
I guess would be. So is it simply the fact

(12:47):
that you feel like family and the chefs are trained
in Tuscany or is there perhaps another item?

Speaker 4 (12:53):
No?

Speaker 2 (12:53):
See, this is silly because anybody who's ever done a
grady and narcotic like that. No, is that you don't
get hungry when you do that. So that be really
bad for business because people would do that and be like,
I don't want to eat anymorey possible.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
I've literally never done crack, so don't.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
If you do like a drug like that, you're not
going to be very hungry, especially like cocaine. Yeah, you're
not going to do lunch unless you're like Chris Farley,
where you'll have like, you know, five steaks with your cocaine.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
That didn't need most people.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
Most people who partake in that don't eat a lot.
I guess they tend to be skinny.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
Mm.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
But wouldn't that also be helpful in making sure that
people don't abuse the unlimited.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
See. I was thinking she was smuggling it to the
UK because they have those cheese races where they take
the wheels of cheese and they throw them down the hill,
and I would like throw No, they're using it. They're
using it to cheat in the race. So they would
open up the wheeled cheese, they would take a little
bit and then they would be like, I'm ready to go,
and then they just floral themselves down the hill.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah, I see, Okay, Well, it raised a lot of questions.
She was unsuccessful, is obviously the story indicates. But I
do love this, she in a handwritten note, was inside
the bag that contained the wheel of shit.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
That's the other thing too.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
You gotta if, like, I don't understand why you'd bring
food in both in the US but also in the UK.
Anyone who's got strict controls on foods like that, they
tend to get extra scrutiny. Her note said quote, I
dropped out of the University of California, Santa Barbara on Monday.

(14:38):
Currently I'm in Paraguay in South America. Thank you for
clarifying solo traveling for the first time.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
It's been amazing. So a couple things.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
One, shout out to the Alma Mata, appreciate that. Two,
why would you write that note and then put it
in your giant wheel? Is it like to create a
weird a backstory of some sort. Oh well, no, drug
smuggler wouldn't write this note.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah. I mean I've never been through Customs, but I've
seen like enough on TV and stuff where like they
really checked the food, right, They're really serious about that,
So they do have a lot of questions.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So I was just
telling Ross this. So over the weekend. Over the weekend,
went to went to a buddies buddies place and and
it was like, it's like two hours away, and so
it's me and we're having a little bit of a party,
and it happened to be somebody's birthday. And so I

(15:34):
stayed over there on Saturday night and I brought my
Apple TV. I tend to travel with that, but mostly
because I was able to stream some sports that he
didn't have the streaming stuff for, so use that. And
then we get done, and now all the adults are
doing you know, adult stuff. And so they got three kids,
and it hooked up in the room with the big

(15:55):
TV and he's like, hey man, they want to watch
the New Superman. And so he goes let me just
he throws me thirty bucks because we had seen what
it was and you could order it on the Apple
TV now. And I'm like, all right, whatever. So they
watched New Superman. I don't hear anything about it. I
get back yesterday, put the prep together, I get done.
I'm like, well, I'm gonna watch this because now I
own the damn thing, you know. I was just gonna

(16:17):
wait for it to come to like HBO, Max or
wherever eventually and then watch it. So I watched the
New Superman last night. Yeah, okay, it's and I don't
this is like the way that they pace movies now.
And I don't know if it's a product of people's
attention spans, but it's like it doesn't feel like you're

(16:39):
watching one in all encompassing movie, even though you know
when you get done, the things all make sense. It's
like watching ten back to back, like ten minute YouTube videos.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
Is that making sense? On I'm describing it.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
It does and it kind of sounds awful, right, But
because of.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
What they were going for in the movie, which is
really the way that comics read, where it's it's it's
over the top, it's punchy, it's real quick, like every
every character in there is played in I don't know

(17:22):
how to describe it. It's just not played like it
is in superhero movies usually, but is clearly how comics work,
where it's just very confined, quick stuff. It's, you know,
it's over the top. The fight scenes are really well done,
I mean really well done, and I know that the
you know, with James Gunn, the thing is is it's like, oh,

(17:43):
he tries to do the humor that he did with
Gardens of the Galaxy and does it work. I don't
even know that that's what they were going for. It's
a very modernist but also quasi throwback.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
Way of presenting it.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
So through that lens.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
The stuff that people are being critical about, like some
of the music choices for fight scene stuff like that,
I don't know, man, it kind of works.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
I had an issue because I saw it. I had
an issue with the Tim Walls cameo where there's this
scene where you probably remember this because you saw it. Yeah, Superman,
he's on the floor of the Fortress of Solitude and
he's trying to put together some Ikia furniture and he's
really frustrated. Yeah, he's so frustrated, and you hear a
knock on the icicle and it's Tim Walls, and Tim

(18:33):
Walls helps him put the furniture together. And some people
were like, why is Tim Walls?

Speaker 6 (18:37):
There?

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Is this a political message? I don't know if that's true.
It was weird. Yeah, it's weird, you.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Know it's weird. Is literally how to get into the
Fortress of Solitude is an element of the movie, and
you do not knock on any icicles.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Then the other scene, okay, the other scene they had
a problem with. There's a scene where Superman is on
the side of the road and his car brokes broke
down and he doesn't know how to do zero. Yeah,
he doesn't know how to fix a tire and he's
stuck there in Iowa or Kansas or wherever he is
and he's like, I don't know how to fix his
tire and a car pulls over to help him, and
they's a OOC and she fixes the tires. Some people

(19:14):
are saying that's overtly political and there's a message there,
but I don't know, but it was weird.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Let me say this though, because you know, the narrative
was that they did his parents dirty, right, yeah, No,
I did hear that, Yes, because the message right, and
they did. But what they fail to talk about, and
this is the only part that bothered me, they did
both parents dirty, both sets.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Yeah, because I heard how like the dad was like
a super weirdo in this right, Obviously I didn't actually.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
See mom and dad are played up like meth Head
trailer people. The adoptive parents there, the real parents are
a holes who remind me of like rich Iranians. I
don't know how to describe.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Say you're saying, like his parents on Krypton.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
His parents are no, no. Parents in Krypton are play
like we already know the narrative where they the rest
of them messages to go to Earth and hook up
with all the women because they're all.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Stupid, right, That is exactly they made their parents.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
His real parents look like a holes, that's true, but
the kents are played up as like meth Head trailer rednecks.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Oh yeah, but I had seen the theory going around
and this is like a legit, real, real theory that
around here where they were saying, like in every Dad,
every biological dad in a James gun movie is a
complete a hole. And when you go back and think
about Guardians and every movie that came before it, that's
the case, the biologically that he's made.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
It's not that he's made to look like an a hole.
He's made to look like the dumbest piece of trailer
trash you've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
Wow, that's weird, though from the exact sense.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
The other thing was missing as a stained wife beater,
and I'm sure it was under the shirt he was wearing,
which I don't. I don't understand that because they didn't
go to make him look bad. They still are purported
good people. But it's less Iowa farmer and more guy
who saw the tornado. Let's interview him. And that was

(21:01):
a really weird decision because like, has James gunn been
to Iowa that's talked to farmers?

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yeah, I've never seen that take before. Maybe that's in
the comics. I'm not like a big comic reader. I
don't know, but I know, like the Henry Cavill Superman,
right you had who was this? Kevin Costner was the
dad right And the only thing.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
That bothers you there is it's like he could have
totally saved him. And it's so crazy that nobody would
have believed any of the stories people told because they're
all sitting there in the middle of a tornado like
that was the cliffhanger there spoiler alert. But this this
was a different take altogether, like completely different takes. So

(21:43):
for what it's worth, I don't know. I don't know
that I would have paid thirty dollars for it, but
I didn't, So there you go. You know what was
crazy is it was thirty dollars to buy or twenty
five dollars to rent. That's the thing they do now too,
why you know, right when the movies first come out.
So but anyway, give you a little book report because
I happened to see it. I'll tell you what I
wasn't able to watch, and it sounds like none of

(22:04):
us will be able to is Do you remember when
ESPN and Spike Lee decided they were going to do
a whole docu series on the struggles of Colin Kaepernick.
I remember we talked about it when they said they
were going to do it, and we never saw it
come out. Well, there is an update, and I you know,
we're gonna have to read a little into this, but

(22:26):
I'm really not surprised in the grand scheme of things,
because the ship has sailed. That's that's a I mean,
that's clear.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
That's why.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
You know, all of the all of that window of.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
All of these projects that maybe made sense, probably didn't
but maybe made sense three years ago. That worked. That's
why that Ironheart thing was so funny, that that Marvel series,
because they shot it in an era where you could
show essentially the background being nothing but like BLM hosters.

(23:01):
But now it just feels old and weird and not
what people are looking for anymore. That seems to have
struck this docu series. So we'll get you an update
on that, and like I said, get some Madio. We
got to get into let's do this. We'll take a break.
Six forty two. Hang on, saw the James Comy video
from over the weekend. H's uh interesting. I just want

(23:21):
to remind you this is a grown adult. This is
an adult who shouldered a significant amount of responsibility for
quite a few years running the FBI who unforced There's
no real there's nothing that really preempted this video. Decided
to release this into the wild over the weekend, and

(23:44):
let me just play it for you, shall we? Okay,
here we go.

Speaker 7 (23:48):
Hey, everybody, welcome back to my substack. Last week's cold
turns out to have been COVID. Quite a flashback, and
Donald Trump is still president and still humiliating America on
a national stage standing in Vladimir Putin. It's like a dream,
a bad dream you can't wake up from.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
But I don't want to talk about.

Speaker 7 (24:06):
That bad dream this week. I want to talk about
a truly inspirational public figure named Taylor Swift. What of
course I watched her podcast interview with the Kelsey Brothers.
Of course I watched the whole thing, although on YouTube.
Teresa and I got kicked off for the last fifteen
minutes and finished it on her phone, But I watched it.
You see Taylor Swift and I go way back. I

(24:28):
went to my first concert of hers fifteen years ago.
I've been to a second, and I have helped financially
support the attendance of a lot of family members at others.
I'm in a family's Swifty group chat.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
I know all her.

Speaker 7 (24:43):
Music and I listened to it in my headphones when
I cut the grass.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
What what what are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Dude? This is the most embarrassing video I've ever seen
an adult put out let alone the former director of
the FBI.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yes, yes, Also, I like I understand you're You're you're
struggling for content here, but like you used to run
the FBI, you have some good stories, right, You're not
just some person who hit middle age and you're like,
you know what I gotta do. I gotta I gotta
do something.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
Many go make me a.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Some sort of video. I don't know anyway, my life
is born. You're You're basically went from running the FBI
to half the country things you're a criminal. But even
if you just want to lean into the stories of
the FBI, you think you come up with something not
this talent whatever this is?

Speaker 7 (25:40):
So, Yes, I have a favorite of hers, although honestly,
for me, it's a tie between all two well ten
minute version and Exile featuring Bony Fair Tallis Swift has
grown up with my family, I know neither of those,
and provided us a soundtrack really, as we've grown ourselves
and learned and adapted and dealt with adversity and celebration,

(26:01):
she had songs for all of it. I suspect that's
something that millions of Americans have also experienced in their families.
I think that's because Taylor Swift produces great art, but
also because she models something. At every stage of her career.
She's shown a certain way of being that resonated with
my kids and also felt right to me as a parrot,

(26:25):
and she's still doing.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
That as a grown up.

Speaker 7 (26:28):
Like a lot of you, I struggle with how to
stand up to bullies without letting their meanness infect me
and change me.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
What.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Remember when this guy found the eighty six forty seven
on the beach, right, and he was like, what does
this mean? I had no idea and where leg Oh
obviously he knew, and he's pretending like he doesn't. Now
I think he's an absolute moron. I think he's an idiot.
I think he should have never been in that position
of power, and this just solidifies that opinion. Now he's

(27:00):
an idiot.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
He thought this was clever, right, he thought this was clever.
He's like, Oh, people are gonna go like, why is
you talk about Taylor Swift because she knows how to
stand up to.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
How old is this dude? This dude looks like he
has to be in his sixties, right, Oh, I'm sure yeah.
And you you're in your sixties, You've lived a life,
you have experiences, you were in charge of the FBI,
and you believe that Taylor Swift is art.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Even if you think it's art. If this is how
you cope with quote unquote bullies, which is a whole
weird thing in and of itself. Like I don't need
my FBI director to be diabolical, but I'm embarrassed for
the FBI right now. But he doesn't have to be
the fbis it's portrayed in like some political thriller where

(27:49):
it's you know, there's like super evil because they know
where all the aliens are and.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
All the rest.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
But like the fact that you would be sitting in
the office and you know, pick some huge crisis of
of national reckoning and law enforcement that broke out during
that time, and you're in your office jamming out to
Taylor Swift trying to figure out what to do. That's
I'm embarrassed for us, not you know, not just him,

(28:14):
but for us man, the FBI used to I know,
we talked about squandering credibility and all these things, but
like the FBI used to be able, old man, If
the FBI is investigating you, you're cooked, right, because the
conviction rate at the federal level is like, you know,
ninety seven percent or whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
But I think a lot of us too have in
our mind like like this vision of elliot ness right
in the Untouchables, where yeah, this pure good person who's
not partisan and straight down the middle, and if you're
breaking the law, they're going to come after you. But
it turns out the guy in charge of the FBI
was an abject moron who listens to Taylor Swift.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
And then then his number two was any McCabe, right,
and then you get down to that weird the couple
page and struck right like it's bumbling idiot at the top,
and then like we agree, Peter structures evil right after
the little cringe, little smile smirk.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Thing he did. That dude's demonic.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yeah, and Andy McCabe is not a good dude, but
he seems to be I guess sharper than the FBI
director that he answered to. But it also explains why
he just basically did whatever he wanted to go to
the boss's office and he hears Taylor Swift blasting out
the window.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
All right, well, I'm just gonna go ahead and do it.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
You know, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission. Oh man, yeah,
I have not paid attention very much to Comy's little
blog or whatever the hell this thing is, other than
the seashells and the forest photos, which are weird as well,
and and his his swiftness. Do you do you think

(29:57):
that the swifties are gonna save you if it does
hit the fan? I mean, that's the other thing here,
all his grand jury stuff going on. My only thing
is he I think, in addition to him wanting to
get the bully narrative in there, he thought this was
clever to show that he's not stressing about it. I
think that's what he thinks this is portraying. Oh man, look,

(30:19):
I'm not nervous. I'm talking about Taylor Swift. But again,
it comes across as just cringey, And we got lots
of cringey on the button bar today. We're full of cringey,
like Monica McNutt, who horse hosts a sports show on
a sports station you may have heard of called ESPN's

(30:39):
that crazy new thing out of Connecticut.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Who is It's supposed.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
To be a lighter thing. There's a comedian Drewski, who
I think is funny. By the way, Drew I think
Drewsky's funny. So they got Drewski in there. It's not
supposed to be super serious. And he's wearing a Detroit
Lions blue jersey. And on the jersey are the word Sanders,

(31:04):
ross Aukham's razor this thing?

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Who might that be? Right? So I put it through
Oukham's raisor ramon, which is the actual term. Sure, that's
Barry Sanders.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
That's Barry Sanders man. And do you host a sports
show on a sports station?

Speaker 8 (31:18):
I do not?

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Okay, all right, Ross does not. Let's see if Monica
picks up on that show.

Speaker 9 (31:24):
So the jersey, let's get into it because obviously this
ties to one sha Door Sanders, who balled out in
his first No.

Speaker 10 (31:30):
No, I'm sorry, that's high.

Speaker 6 (31:35):
Come on the tie as the Sanders bear with me,
with me, let's get into your door because.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
I think, okay, hush, what like the color colors matter,
not like right, well, I obviously race matters to ESPN
hosts very much, but like Colorado, black and gold, Cleveland

(31:59):
got a burnt orange thing going on a little bit
of black. There is no blue anywhere anywhere. And she's
not young, she's not super old, she's not young. Like,
how do you purport to cover football and you can't
pick out Barry Sanders, one of the greatest people to
ever play in the NFL. I haven't crunched all the

(32:22):
numbers yet, so I'm just going off, you know what
my brain tells me and reacting to his story, Has
there been a mayor of New Orleans in my lifetime
who wasn't corrupt? Like they have a they got a
storied history there, So I don't know if you know this,
the mayor of New Orleans and a police officer body

(32:43):
card slash lover were have been indicted for you know,
a bunch of scummy, scammy stuff. And then I got
to think, and I'm like, I didn't even know this
woman was the mayor of New Orleans because I just
really don't pay attention and it's New Orleans.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
I really don't care.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
But then I started thinking, like I've done stories over
the remember that remember the goo the guy during Katrino?
Is it ray Nagan or whatever? But do you get
he was what he's like twenty charges and of convicting
that dude on and he's not alone. In fact, I
probably should have called up a list here. But let's see, Uh, Anthony, wait,

(33:26):
hold on, what is this? LaToya Cantrell?

Speaker 2 (33:31):
All right? Uh?

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Was married, by the way, Democrat, it's New Orleans. That's
not unexpected.

Speaker 11 (33:38):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
She and a a.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Bodyguard police officer, basically her protection detail. Apparently we're up
to some shenanigans. According to the indictment, charge Friday with
going to criminal lengths to carry out and cover up
a romantic relationship with a city police officer.

Speaker 6 (33:56):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
The lengthy federal investigation corruption. And this is her first term,
by the way, so she got right after it. According
to prosecutor, she and former bodyguard Jeffrey Vappi basic combined
eighteen felon accounts, including making false statements, substruction of justice,
and conspiracy. Honestly, it's so bad. I think that you know,

(34:18):
once you're sworn in, like on that day, you just
open the investigation and then just wait. Man. According to prosecutors,
the duo has spent the last four years pulling off
a conspiracy around the affair where they allegedly lied about
the relationship. Now, people, it's more than just that, because

(34:40):
also they're accused of using tax money to carry out
the affair, and then they use tax money to cover
up the affairs. So that's where you get into the
financial crimes. Both were married at the time, I guess,
or when the affairs started back in twenty twenty one,
both got one got divorced. The mayor's husband died, think,

(35:01):
But yeah, I'm not going to get into all the details.
You can read all about it, I guess if you
really want to know. But yeah, it just got me
thinking about hold on, let me just put the list
of former mayors of New York or of New Orleans.
And maybe it's just a tradition down there. You know,
New Orleans is a different place, man, Ross. I ever

(35:23):
tell you I interviewed down there for the FM talk station.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Now, yeah, yeah you did, yep, yeah, And I don't know.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
I mean, it would be cool, but it struck me
as the same way when you interviewed in Vegas. I
had that same thought.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Oh yeah, No, if I were to take that job,
I'd be dead.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
There's just too much. There's too much going on, especially
to do a morning show, which is what the interview
was for. Like, I don't know I could do a
morning show in New Orleans considering you know, all the
night life there, especially when I was quite a bit younger.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
So that's scary too, because he'd be in a talk station.
So if you piss somebody off, they get like voodoo
curse you, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
You know that that actually didn't occur to me, but
now that you mention it, that's probably a good point.
I guess do they wait in the parking lot or
do they send you a picture of you as like
a rag doll?

Speaker 2 (36:18):
Or I'm not sure how it works. I mean, I mean,
I know there's times where I show up to work
and I'm always sort of like aware of my surroundings
because you know, the political climate we're in the environment,
it can be kind of weird. And I'm like, you know,
is there anyone in the parking lot? And it'd be
scary if you showed up for work and there's Papa
Shango standing there.

Speaker 10 (36:33):
M M.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
All right, hold on, tell me a list here. Did
Mitch Landau get convicted of anything? Let me check, because
that would have been the marror.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
But see, and I think the bigger question you need
to ask is I don't think it's about city. I
think the issue you're having is with party, Like has
there ever been a non corrupt democratic mayor? Should be
the question?

Speaker 1 (36:56):
Well, I mean that that's fair, But New Orleans is
its own thing, dude, And I think the mayor actually
has different duties down there. Everything we have to do
with Louisiana is just a little off, Like, yeah, what's
what do you call it? County? Down there? You don't
call them counties called parishes? Right, and that's not necessarily

(37:17):
to hack on Louisiana, but they.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
Definitely are their own thing. Is there any all right?
So maybe he wasn't convicted of anything.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Was he accused? Oh yeah, of course he was accused.
Let's see here, all right. So I don't know if
this is criminal, but basically I get what'd he get
in trouble for redirecting? That's been a big problem in
New Orleans and it didn't get as much discussion as
it probably should have with the levies failing and New
Orleans is not the only city.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
To do this.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
They do this up in Fargo Moorhead too, and that
where they have flooding and then they have flooding that
you know, rinse and repeat every year. In that case
up there, it's called the Red River, but every year.
I remember when I worked in Minnesota, we'd see this
every year, and then every time they'd have a flood.
Once the flood was mitigated, there would be money that
would be you know, assigned at a federal level for

(38:09):
like levees and or rebuilding the levees or strengthening this
or or whatever. And then the money would always get redirected.
I always go spend it on something else, and then
the flooding would happen to be like oh me, oh my,
because that was one of the things. In New Orleans.
There had been a ton of money that basically were

(38:29):
about improving the levee system on Lake Pontertrain that eventually
those were the very same levees that failed during Katrina,
and everyone just like, ah, well, the money was supposed
to go here and then it went over here. And
I don't think anyone ever got in trouble for that.
They just got a bunch more money, which I don't
know the state of the current state of the levees there,

(38:51):
but clearly they were almost starting from zero in some
instance following that flood. Yeah, so they were accusing this
guy of redirecting money, but never actually pinned anything on him.
So two of the last three with federaland I know
three of the last four with federal indictments. Great, yeah, man, Well,

(39:13):
good job there, all right? Eight eight eight nine three
four seven eight seven four. We have a quick phone
call here, Yes, Cody, what's up?

Speaker 5 (39:21):
Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 10 (39:22):
Casey?

Speaker 1 (39:23):
How are you educating ourselves about New Orleans?

Speaker 5 (39:25):
Sir?

Speaker 4 (39:26):
So?

Speaker 5 (39:26):
Yeah, yeah, I mean to speak to New Orleans too.
I mean, we kind of coined a phrase because I'm
from Texas. Uh, kind of coined a phrase because I'd
take five of the last eight times I've been to
New Orleans there's been a shooting either within earshot or
where I could visibly see him, and we just kind
of got we coined the phrase, well that's noah, why

(39:49):
you going, sir?

Speaker 1 (39:50):
You sound like a magnet for shooting.

Speaker 5 (39:52):
So, I mean, it's a fun place and it's honestly
for me, it's the food.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
But uh, what I'll do that.

Speaker 5 (40:01):
What I was speaking of what's foss about was I
was listening to 'ell's conversation about Komy and it just
I got it in my head. It was cracking me
up because what y'all are discussing, I'm like, was was
Taylor Swift like two thousand's early two thousands breakup music,
like one of the guiding principles of his moral compass?

(40:21):
And I'm just like, this guy's out.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
Of his mind.

Speaker 5 (40:23):
What is he talking about.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
I'm assuming he's got a moral compass there, which I
was calling a question now, But yeah, the whole thing's weird.
I think he just thought he was being really clever, sir.
I think he he thought, Oh it's like it's like
he thought he was Paul Harvey for a moment. He's like, oh, yeah, well,
why am I talking about Taylor Swift? And he's like, oh,
it's a message on bullies, like he's an after school
special and right, it's just embarrassing.

Speaker 5 (40:49):
Yeah, dude, it's yo, yo, Like, I appreciate joll y'all
are cracking me up this far, so I appreciate.

Speaker 6 (40:55):
I just it just popped into my head.

Speaker 5 (40:57):
I'm just like, this guy's such an idiot.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
Yeah, every and every thanks for the call. Every day
he goes out of his way to reinforce that message.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Oh what is this?

Speaker 1 (41:08):
They don't use dolls anymore? What does that mean? What
are they voodoo different?

Speaker 10 (41:14):
Now?

Speaker 3 (41:14):
Are the kids doing voodoo differently?

Speaker 1 (41:17):
I mean, I understand there's a lot of lunatics on
social media who talk about manifesting stuff, which I guess
is part of that. But did they screw up voodoo? Now?
And then one day, one day Ross, we're gonna read
how gen Z figured out that the voodoo is easier
if you get a small personification of the person and
stick pins in it.

Speaker 10 (41:36):
You know.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Yeah, No, it's probably like some sort of like AI
companion voodoo doll. Now, can you get.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
Your AI to voodoo? Somebody that that creepy chick thing?

Speaker 5 (41:45):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (41:45):
I don't know, probably oh man, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
I mean we remember we had to remember the witches
that were fighting Trump and then Trump got his own
witches or something. Remember that, Luna, See we played the
audio for you.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Yeah, the witches that were saying that Trump had his
own witches, which we're casting like a protective sort of
shield around Trump. So like their curses would bounce back
on them.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Yeah, it's the rubber and glue thing.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Yes, yes, So.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
Wait, you don't have you don't have your own team
of witches to fight back, dude, we need like witch
insurance because not everyone can afford their own gaggle of witches, right,
so you you almost have to like like timeshare teams
of witch practitioners because do they have to have just

(42:35):
one person under their protection or because you're not always
under attack? Yeah, no, it's it's it's like insurance of sorts.
Maybe there's a business opportunity here I'm just not aware of.
But yeah, the voodoo stuff, I don't I don't know
what your email means, sir. They do it differently. I'm
I'm unclear.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
All right?

Speaker 1 (42:53):
Coming up on the show, Uh, we got a story
out of Tennis seats pretty interesting. I don't know that
we'll ever figure out exactly what happened, but we will.
We will get to that. And oh yeah, what is
I don't know. I don't understand this Ron Howard thing
and why every why is everyone attacking Vance this weekend?

Speaker 2 (43:13):
What did he do?

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Just existing? Some Brits are very pleased with themselves, so
I'll give you details there. Adam Shift's got a problem
with him. Ope, he's got a problem with him. It
was a very very busy weekend for that, So all
that more coming up, and this horrific story out of
Florida and Ross. Did you watch the video of the

(43:36):
of the family literally getting killed because this truck driver
made a U turn.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Yeah, unfortunately, I did.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
Anything stand out about the dude driving when the accident happened.
It's really the creepiest part in my mind. If you
don't know the story, it's awful. And uh, California will
play into this, so we'll get to that coming up
seven eighteen. Hang on if you if you're watching the
golf over the weekend. I don't know that it was
the most nail biting of his Sunday, but I am

(44:05):
really enjoying every time Scotti Sheffler wins, which he did.
The disappointment in the raw raw after when they're being
interviewed because like we've talked about this Scheffler, they're bagging
on Scheffler because like his whole thing is he goes
and he plays golf. Clearly he does it pretty well,

(44:25):
and then he just wants to go home, hang out
with his family and not think about golf at all.
And for whatever Rea, especially during the British Open, that
just rubs some people the wrong way. And it's like, well,
what do you What could your complaint possibly be that
he's not taking it seriously enough. He's beating the crap
out of everybody. I don't know what more he wanted
to do, same thing. So he goes and he wins

(44:47):
the thing, and I mean, he did come back from
what like eight strokes down heading endo the weekend. That's
pretty impressive. But then they go talk to him, He's like, Yeah,
I'm gonna go home, hang out with the fam, cash
my giant millions of dollars check and uh be the
odds on leader into the final stage.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
Of the FedEx Cup. Thank you just leaves again.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
Man. So anyway, I just I get amused every time
I watch him go out and win one of these things,
just because you know, it's kind of like when we
ask Jeff Bellinger stuff a little bit like we already
kind of know where it's gonna go. And so I
think like Balonnas or whatever that woman's name is, and
the others they're I think they're kind of on board
for it, and again he keeps.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
Coming out and beating the crap.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
Bet everybody, I don't know what more you want from
the man goes out and plays a really good golf
I'm sorry, he's not gonna lead Travino it to invoke
with one of Ross's favorite golfers or John Dalia and
party hard.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
That's just not his thing. Uh So a few things.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
One, Adam Schiff thinks he's he's he's got himself a JD.
Van scandal. It's really rich that Adam Schiff even pokes
his head out at this point like this, this uh,
this mortgage stuff does not look good for him, and
in a in a just world, it would play out
that way. I just forgive me for being cynical and

(46:13):
assuming that they're never going to convict a sitting senator
of this stuff, even if he's uh incredibly guilty. But
who knows, maybe it'll be different. So his new scandal
is this JD. Vans had a river level raised so
he and his family could go kayaking. That's the scandal, right,

(46:34):
one of these one of the one of these rivers.
Uh in this case, uh, it's Ohio Sesar Creek Lake
and then the outflow of the river right which is
which is managed and monitored, uh as it pertains to
a lot of lakes and reservoirs here in North Carolina.
Obviously we try to do that. Sometimes the flooding, especially
around Lake Leure with what we saw, if the hurricane

(46:55):
makes that impossible. But so that's that's the thing. He's evil.
He's in this position of power. He wanted to go kayaking.
There wasn't enough outflow on the river, so he just
called somebody at an army Corps or whatever and they
raised it. And that is the scandal that Shift wants
to pursue. The problem is that's not really how that went.

(47:17):
Adam Shift, and Adam Shift knows this. So what happened,
and I'm sure jd Vance, by the way, was not
consulted on this because it's like it's outside really what
you would bother somebody in that position over. The reason
that the level of the river was raised very slightly
was at the request of Secret Service. Secret Service wanted

(47:40):
to be able to have a boat, not a kayak,
but a full on boat which is going to have
a more significant sized draft, so that they could provide protection. Also,
have you know, the Vice president's kayaking or doing anything
that has a remote element of danger. Secret Service is
probably not pumped over this, so they want to also

(48:01):
have the ability to provide and render immediate aid. The
Cacoda radio program, I was just telling Ross about this.
I didn't see it get a lot of national pub
although I do see the New York Times to do
a piece on it, speaking of raising and lowering water levels.
Lake Alice was the name. Lake Alice sits inside a

(48:22):
state park called William O'Brien State Park, which is north
of the Twin Cities in Minnesota. And see twenty six acres.
It's not you know, in the grand scheme of things,
Minnesota's got a lot of lakes. By the way, they
got a lot more than ten thousand that support life.
It's closer to like fourteen thousand, so, and then the

(48:43):
ones that don't have life even more so, Lake Alice
isn't there no more. And it's really weird how that
came to pass. So there's two narratives they're investigating. Here's
what we know. For some reason they decided that they
needed to pump water or let water flow out of

(49:05):
the lake. It's controlled right the creek downstream, and so
they open the valve, and then the person who opened
the valve went on vacation or something, or went on
to do another project. It's a little unclear because they
talk about vacation, but the idea that one person be
in charge of this is not necessarily accurate. And then

(49:31):
it was all gone. The valve was left open. Now
some are saying that it's a mechanical issue. Others are
pointing to the fact that somebody opened it and then
didn't follow through on it.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
So that's what they're investigating. Imagine coming back from vacation
to that.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
And also, how does nobody people live, you know, Unlike
in North Carolina, where a lot of times people don't
live on the lakes, especially the reservoirs for obvious reasons.
There are almost there's almost no lakes in Minnesota where
somebody doesn't have a dock out in this thing. And
if you got a dock out and all of a sudden,
your docks don't have floats anymore, or usually it's on pylons.

(50:11):
Because the water levels changed so much, you think somebody
would have called the DNR at some point. Now, granted
this lake is mostly in a state park, but it
does have infrastructure on it, so I don't I don't know,
but yeah, let's go be mad at JD. Vans because
the Secret Service wanted water levels high enough so they
could float a small boat. Clearly the problem. And by

(50:35):
the way, everything's dead in this lake because they did
they during the whole thing. It's normally nine feet deep,
as you know, bass and crappie and bluegill and stuff,
but now it's just dead fish. And I bet it
smells wonderful for nearby residents there, all right. So anyway,
I just saw that because I still get a lot
of Minnesota stuff posting like my social media from working there,

(50:57):
and they gave me a little bit of a chuckle.
But also like, how does that work? But he turn
on is out of office. It's like when Rostern's on
his out of office while there's still show to go
ahead of a vacation. It doesn't work like that, especially
if you're in charge of the lake levels there. Bro
So anyway, little problem there, a little problem, but our

(51:18):
little JD Vance attack or whatever you want to call it,
that continues. So he was over in the UK a
little little vac there and wanted to go to a
gastro pub, right, one of these very old school looking
British pubs. I mean that's when you're over on vacation

(51:38):
in Ireland or the UK, chances are at some point
you'll go to one of these and they could be fun.
A lot of them are just a little too touristy
for me, so it's it's funner to find some, you know,
in a smaller town. But if you ever go to Ireland, they'll.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
Try what's what's the old, old old one.

Speaker 1 (51:54):
It's nothing but tourists in there. Dirty Nellies which is
over by like sham Then or Limerick, I guess would
be more accurate Galway, and you get over in that area,
everyone goes to Dirty Nelly's and because it's been a
pub since I think like eleven hundred or something, so
got dirt floors, the whole thing.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
But so you go to the Cotswolds and they have
a bunch.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
These little pubs.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
Well staff got word that the Vances would be coming
to dinner at one of the pubs, so to fight
the resistance, I guess they decided to tell the owner
that if they ate there, they were all going to walk.
So literally the people own the pub had to cancel
the reservation for the US Vice President, and then they

(52:42):
took a big victory lap on social media, and I
at least understand it. Over there. Jd Vance had earned
a lot of earned his own level of hatred when
he was over scolding people at the you over their
censorship stuff. And so if you're the left over the yeah,

(53:03):
like they're driving you know that that altered photo of
JD Vance with no hair right where he's got the
big beard where it's just comically photoshopped. They they're driving
around like billboard trucks with that photo around where he
was visiting and thinking that they're getting to him, And
I'm like, didn't he posts that to his own social

(53:24):
media account, which, by the way, I love the way
that people on the right are dealing with this stuff
in the same way they dealt with the South Park
where they just embrace it because for whatever reason, it
makes the left even matter. That's why he had all
those videos where they were upset after the South Park episode,
because like Christy Nome and those and Charlie Kirk were

(53:45):
embracing it, using the actual chricatures of themselves as their
social media photos.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
That's the thing with Jade Vance.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
You spend all that money to drive that truck around
and you think you're shame and in one he'll never
see it. Maybe he'll see it on the news and
then he'll laugh about it.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
Because he just doesn't care. But you know, good on you.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
You got. You got a pub in your little vacation
area where you rely on tourists to sit there and
cancel the vice president's dinner and uh some sort of victory.
I guess this is called the Bullpub, which, by the way,
is not outside of the political sphere in the US. Actually,

(54:27):
Kamala Harris went there, I know, and they hosted her
and that was no problem. But jd Vance is a
bridge too far. I guess speaking of the UK too,
Where is this other story here? I don't know if
you've seen this, but Cure Starmer or whatever has decided

(54:47):
he's gonna go ahead and pick a fight with four chan.
So so he sent they sent a letter to some
of the media out let's basically saying that four chan's
doing stuff that is not allowed under UK law and
you need to do something. So four Chan, being you know,

(55:08):
the trolls that they are, basically filed a You've probably
seen that the State Department now is literally revoking visas
for you know, various politicians in different countries that are
trying to silence people in the US and to go

(55:28):
all right, well you want to do that like this,
did this to a bunch of Brazilian politicians, Then you
can't come to the US for any reason. We are
revoking your ability to even travel here. So now four
Chan did send a letter asking the Trump administration to
basically revoke Cure Starmer's ability and his staff's ability to
travel to the US. I don't know that that will happen,
but I also don't think that you want to pick

(55:49):
a fight with four Chan. First of all, we don't
care people in the US. Ross. Have you ever got
one of those Germany's mad at you Twitter notifications?

Speaker 4 (55:58):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (55:58):
Yeah, they're great.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
Yeah, and you immediately cowed right and apologized or no.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
I sort of looked at it and laughed and said, okay.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
Yeah, exactly what do you think is going to happen here? Man?

Speaker 3 (56:10):
Not a damn thing.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
And now you got four Chan, who, when they get bored,
likes to make a project of people.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
So I'm sure starting.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
I'm sure that'll be fun this week for you, buddy,
But no word on how the US is necessarily going
to react to that, so we shall see. And then
the final in our jd Vance trifecta Ron Howard, who,
if you didn't know, was the director of the film
adaptation of JD Vance's book He'll Billy elg or whatever

(56:41):
it is. I don't know they were interviewing I don't
even know why they were interviewing Ron Howard over something
else he was working on, and of course they had
to drop in the jd Vance thing, and Howard did
the Hollywood thing. Man, He's just like, yeah, well he
was really weird to work with.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Yeah, he was.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
I'm perplexed by his public persona basically saying that when
he worked with him, he wasn't political, and then now
he's vice president he's political, which was really weird. I
maybe Ron Howard, this is I think what is so
weird to him, and he needs to understand.

Speaker 3 (57:17):
Maybe JD.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
Vance, because he was working on a project with you
that was about the book and then the movie, which
really didn't have a lot to do with politics other
than where he ended up. Maybe he just didn't decide
to invoke politics into every interaction that he had with you, right,
because he's working on the narrative. So I'm assuming most
of your conversations are about, Hey, are we accurately portraying

(57:42):
this portion of your life? Are we putting on the
screen something that would be accurate to what you intended
it to be in the book. But when you're Ron Howard,
you're one of these people in Hollywood where you can't
do anything without having politics somehow seep into his into
I think maybe, just maybe that's where the disconnect is

(58:03):
heremm Howard, in response to you said, this is the question.
You spend a lot of time with Jadie Vance, you
did press together. Are you able to reconcile the person
you knew and the character in the movie with the
person you see now? And that's how they decided to
go ahead and enter into this. All right, we'll get
into that in the truck driver thing. And your calls

(58:25):
in just a moment, Ken Boone on the phone, Okay
from the weather channel. All right, Ken, what do you
got for us this morning?

Speaker 11 (58:33):
All right, Well, we've got sunny and hot conditions for
us here today and we are going to see those
pop up showers and storms later on this afternoon. They
did this evening. Temperatures today expected to reach the low nineties,
but it certainly will feel a lot hotter than that.
Not as hot though, as we head through midweek, loos
seventies todight. Mix the clouds and sunshine. Heading through both
Tuesday and Wednesday, just a slight chance to see a
shower storm both days. Temperatures both afternoons are going to

(58:55):
be in the mid eighties range, and the end of
the business week calls for sunshine and low to mid
eighties for both Thirsday and Friday. We should get another
update on Aaron at the top of the hour, but
as of earlier this morning, one hundred and thirty mile
hour wins category four hurricane.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
Yeah, some of the pictures are pretty crazy, so we'll see,
all right, Ken, thank you very much, appreciate it. All right,
We will come back here in just a few minutes.
And yeah, we got to talk about this story out
of Florida with this truck driver who had a CDL
but how he came about to have it and then
what he decided to do with it, and the way
they decided to react to it. All raise a bunch

(59:30):
of questions. We'll get into that next dot. And again
I don't know the totality of it because a lot
of it's social media and some of it's anecdotal. But
where there was a problem where they were literally asking
truck drivers to demonstrate that they comprehended the English language
and that wasn't always working out. And there was one

(59:53):
incident they got some press where basically they asked him
to read like from a kid's book, and the drive
couldn't do it. And then they're like, no, you can't
be driving on the roads. So there was a pretty
horrific story out of Florida over the weekend. And this
took place on the Florida Turnpike. And just to give you,
I guess the visual reference. If you wanted to drive

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from like Tampa to Port Saint Lucie Fort Pierce, this
is the road. You would say. It's a toll road,
got a lot of truck traffic, but it's not an
interstate per se. But it basically is it's controlled access highway,
and like most controlled access highways, you can't just flip
a U turn in the middle of it. There are

(01:00:36):
paved areas, but that's for the police to sit and
clock you, I guess, I don't know, or if emergency vehicles.
And so you see the sign that you've seen one
hundred times that says for official use only. And you're
not supposed to flip a U turn, And if you
are a semi truck, you're really not supposed to because
unlike a passenger car which might be able to pull

(01:00:58):
off the left shoulder do a U turn illegally granted,
but but conduct one and not hit somebody. You don't.
You can do that. You can be out of the
flow of traffic. You just have to be able to
speed up real quick with it. With a truck. Anyone
who's watched a semi truck turn, you know that you
can't just pull to the left conduct a U turn

(01:01:21):
because you'll drag the trailer across like guardrails, fencing all
the rest.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
It's not even a matter of being able to read
or comprehend this stuff. It's like basic physics, right, Like,
if you're going that speed down the interstate, you can't
just you know, whip whip a U turn out of nowhere.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
And more but more specifically, if you're a tractor trailer
you recognize that it's clearly not made for you, because
to conduct that turn and get your trailer to turn
without hitting something or jackknifeing or whatever, you have to
start your turn from not the left hand lane, but
the right side of the roadway so that you can
make that turn. So when you do conduct that turn,

(01:01:56):
now your trailer is essentially a barricrade across the highway,
and that's what this driver does. And within moments, while
the trailer is now a barricade, you see a small
passenger SUV slam in basically the underside of this truck
and it killed the whole family inside. Well, then you

(01:02:17):
find out that this guy is in the country illegally,
but was somehow granted a CDL in the state of
California so that he could drive. And that's where this
story really kicks off, because California is I haven't seen
a statement from him where they're even acknowledging that they
did anything wrong. But the other part is, how the

(01:02:39):
hell do you get a CDL if you're in the
country illegally And a lot of people want this company
put out a business and I will say I'm undecided
at this point. I mean, the guy presented with a CDL.
What are the rules around that? I don't know. But
the craziest thing from the video, after everything I just
explained to you, is he's in there. There's two drivers

(01:03:02):
in there, there's another one in the passenger seat, and
when this happens, it's clear that this is bad. He
doesn't visually react.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
No, in fact, he doesn't react. So I'm scrolling and
I come across that video and just watching him in
the driver's seat, Yeah, watching me just you know, smiling
and normal, and all of a sudden, like you know,
something happened. I'm like, what happened? Because there's no reaction
from the guy, Like, oh, well.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
He looked like he just pulled into a truck stop
and there's no parking.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
Yeah. So I rewatch it a few times and then
I look in the background and you can see the
car like slide into the back of the eighteen.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
Wheeler, right, and he's at an angle because his cab
now is facing almost solid, you know, the other way,
so he clearly visually can see it, and he's just like,
it's so weird.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
Did you see the video of him on the side
of the road afterwards? It's the same sort of weirdness. Yeah,
well he's just standing around like, I guess I'm gonna
be late. Can I get back in my truck? Did
something happen? Did I murder a family?

Speaker 10 (01:03:53):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:03:54):
Yeah? Yeah, it's the whole thing is crazy, Kyle, real quick,
what's up man?

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
The number of truck drivers I see, you know, with
that same ethnicity, it's a It's at least a third
of the drivers I see every day.

Speaker 6 (01:04:10):
I'm a truck driver.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Yeah, yeah, the guy's probably seek, but.

Speaker 4 (01:04:16):
Yeah, and uh, you know, there's also a growing number
of those similar type truck drivers on the side of
their cab on the sleeper still have these giant murals
of I assume like martyrs for wherever they're from, holding
AK forty seven's and.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
Uh think, you know, I don't think if the guy's
must at one point, I think he's seek. But regardless,
he's in the country illegally. How does he acquire a
cd L is the thing that just I don't understand.

Speaker 4 (01:04:47):
Oh yeah, I'm from Ohio and you can't.

Speaker 8 (01:04:51):
You have to.

Speaker 4 (01:04:52):
You have to have some sort of proof of citizenship
to get I need to get.

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
That California man. Apparently they'll they'll go ahead and get
you one. And then question is, yeah, well, then thanks
for the call there, sir. The question is how many
other drivers, because once you know that California will issue
a CDL, and that's you know what you hope to
do here in America, and that's your loophole. The question
is how many other drivers has the State of California

(01:05:17):
license that are in the country illegally with this CDL?

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
How many are out there driving around?

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
So I was just sharing details of this horrific story
out of Florida. Basically got a driver decides he's going
to flip a U turn on a controlled access highway,
the Florida Turnpike. Clearly, he realizes he shouldn't be doing
that because to conduct that turn, he has to start
the turn way over in the right lane, turn across

(01:05:43):
the lanes of traffic. Because it's one of those things,
it's turn around for official use, ambulances, state troopers, that's
who normally sits there. I guess in an emergency, it's
a place you can pull off if your vehicle won't
work anymore. Clearly, not a truck or a pass your
vehicle for that matter. You turn goes to do it,

(01:06:03):
it goes immediately horribly wrong because unlike in Christmas vacation
where your passenger vehicle will fit very nicely under the truck,
that's not how it works. And so this family's driving
along their suv doesn't clock it because why you know,
I shouldn't say, why would you, but like, it's not

(01:06:23):
what you're expecting to see, and three people lose their
lives and then almost zero emotional reaction from the driver.
Come to find out not a legal resident got a
CDL in California, will apparently give you one, and was
now driving on the floor to turnpike, taking lives man.

(01:06:46):
And then my question is, Okay, how the hell does
that happen?

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
I mean, I.

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
Understand different states issue licenses, that's the whole thing, but
when you get into a CDL, is there not more
federal oversight on this or is it? Because you know,
one of the things that we do because of interstate
commerce is if you have a driver's license in Wyoming
and you go to California, you're still legal to drive
and vice versa. And that's the way that it works.

(01:07:13):
But if you have a state who clearly is playing
by a different set of rules, then I don't know
what the answer is. And again not just a passenger vehicle,
but he's CDL, which should be and he is more
complex to acquire. All right, let's get into the calls.
I'm sure every truck drive around the roads on one
of these party chats talking about this this weekend. Dennis,

(01:07:35):
what's up?

Speaker 8 (01:07:37):
Hey see, I just find a point out that in California,
the California Driver's Handbook comes in eleven different languages. Again,
the test itself is a thirty two different languages.

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
I've taken. I've actually taken a California driver's test. I
had to get a license when I went down there
for school, and I remember it just being a much
bigger pain in the ass than Wyoming. So I'm assuming
for CDL it was, but it was a pain in
the ass, and in the way that it was trying
to register a vehicle in California that you bring into California.
They charge you like a five hundred dollars fee just
to bring a vehicle in, and then you got to

(01:08:10):
go through the DMV stuff. So why is it so
much easier to get a CDL, especially if you don't
even have status in this country? Do you guys, do
you have a CDL?

Speaker 10 (01:08:19):
Sir?

Speaker 1 (01:08:19):
I'm assuming you have one, Yes, sir, No, Yeah, I
was just gonna ask you, is.

Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
There a federal component to it?

Speaker 8 (01:08:29):
No, there's not. It's all handled by the state.

Speaker 1 (01:08:32):
All right, Well, maybe the answer is, and I don't
know if it's legal is a state. If you're the
state of Florida, you just thanks sticks for the calder, Sir.
Do you just say that you're not going to recognize
California issued CDLs? Can he legally do that? You probably can't,
but it might send a message, and uh what what
kind of stuff would the company be looking for? I mean,

(01:08:54):
they have to verify it, probably for what insurance?

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
Right? All right, we hold on, Let's let's get more
calls here.

Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
Chris, what's up?

Speaker 6 (01:09:05):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (01:09:05):
Yeah, it is a federal The CDL is a federal license.
That's why they can enforce the laws the same in
all fifty states on a cd L.

Speaker 1 (01:09:14):
And when I've been out on the passenger vehicles too,
all the same. But that's not a federal thing.

Speaker 10 (01:09:19):
Well, well yes and no, but the uh, the I've
been driving, I've had my license now for twenty eight
years and I have a I have a hazmat endorsement
on my license, and I also have a quick card
which gets me in the board. And I had to
have an FBI fingerprint background check to get that, and
I have to renew it every five years for the.

Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
Pork component of it.

Speaker 10 (01:09:45):
Well, no, for the hasmat part too. And in most, uh,
most trucking companies won't hire you unless you can hire
a hazmat because that limits them on what they can
haul on that truck.

Speaker 1 (01:09:58):
Right, right, So is are we so? Are we so
hard up for truck drivers that we have to import
truck drivers?

Speaker 10 (01:10:05):
Or uh, they're turning them out so fast that some
of these companies are taking their their recruits and after
three months, they're making them trainers. And you can't learn
how to drive one of these in three months if
you go to school or not. Yeah, well, I mean

(01:10:26):
you can hardly control yourself in one of those trucks
after three months. I mean it's taking me twenty eight years.
And I'm I mean, I've never had a serious accident
or anything, but I still see things every day that
I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
About, right, and I've driven all Were they just a
driver team.

Speaker 10 (01:10:44):
No, they were, they were probably a driver team.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
And do they pay do they pay guys that they
that are then you know essentially because you know what,
it feels a lot like these companies that are abusing
H one B visas right and where they they pay
them less. But also they have total control over their
lives because what are these what are these guys gonna do?
They can't just jump as well to another company.

Speaker 10 (01:11:06):
I can guarantee you this was at the first time
he's done something that was questionable. But with an end
facing cab camera, the company should have known something was
going on to start with, and he didn't just decide
to make a U turn. There was a pattern there somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:11:23):
I mean, he's a video of him not reacting because
they did that. You have is that pretty standard now
if you are not an operator.

Speaker 10 (01:11:30):
The larger companies like I'm just gonna say, you know,
Prime and Snyder, because they're so big, they self ensure
up to a certain amount.

Speaker 4 (01:11:39):
So they can afford to put whoever in the truck.

Speaker 10 (01:11:44):
Our company, the live drive was smaller, and we have
to have an insurance background check before he can hire you,
and then he has to pull a driving report every year.

Speaker 1 (01:11:59):
Gotcha? Okay? That's it, because the insurance thing was the
thing I couldn't wrap my head around. So you think that, say,
it might be a company that's self insures, so.

Speaker 10 (01:12:07):
Well, if they're, if they're if they're a larger company,
you can self ensure. I think Prime self censures up
for like a million dollars, okay, but anything over that
they go to an insurance company.

Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
Yeah. Let's and I appreciate the call there, sir, because
that was one component I was just I couldn't I
couldn't clock this, like was he not insured? Of course?
What does that mean for the family? So I guess
the survivors of the family. I don't know. Yeah, but uh,
this story better not just go away? Janet, what's up?

Speaker 9 (01:12:40):
Oh, Casey, I was just calling in about the truck driver.
So it is through the company's responsibility to ensure that
they can read and speak English. I mean, I think
would think that that would be painfully clear. But not
just that, but some companies actually have a zero U
turn policy, like you cannot ever do even when it's

(01:13:02):
set up to do a legal U turn, like the intersection, right,
you still cannot do a U turn because.

Speaker 1 (01:13:09):
The very reason truck Yeah, I mean, and you know,
chances of you making it from an inside left lane
on a two lane highway or is probably slimming none
with most trucks, right.

Speaker 9 (01:13:18):
Well, I mean unless you want to take out half
the minion and level cars. Y.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
Yeah, now, but I understand why that would necessarily be
the case. And I don't know if he doesn't have
any English proficiency, because some people are battling over that.
But like, even if you don't, inherently all you know,
if you know anything about driving a truck, the whole
situation should tell you this was not made for you
to make a U turn in right.

Speaker 9 (01:13:42):
Exactly exactly, especially not on the highway. There is zero
chance that you will have it clear on all lanes
long enough to make that U turn.

Speaker 1 (01:13:52):
Yeah, it's like I see these trucks that are trying
to do these switchback roads and uh, it's it's like, bro,
the road's not made for you in an eighteen wheeler,
all right, and now you got one. You got that
said the cab is twenty feet higher elevation than the
truck and now they got to figure out how to
get it out of there.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
And it's just crazy.

Speaker 9 (01:14:10):
You got your cab and the left lane and your
tails and the right lane.

Speaker 1 (01:14:15):
Yeah, all thing's a mess. All right, Janet, thanks for
the call there, and I'm going to get one more
call on this, and We've got a few other things.
We've got to get to Paul. What's going on?

Speaker 5 (01:14:23):
Alright?

Speaker 6 (01:14:23):
I got my license in California years ago, and I
want to flip the coin a little bit. Okay, what
if California says you have to hire him where I'll
sue you. He has his license, he lives in California.
I mean, you know, it's easy to say the truck
and company is default.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
But that's all.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
I was very clear, Sir. I said, I'm undecided on
that because I.

Speaker 6 (01:14:47):
Love That's what I'm saying though. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 11 (01:14:49):
Though.

Speaker 6 (01:14:49):
You know, it's some of these companies are just i mean, cutthroat, ruthless,
don't care about drivers. I've been out here thirty years,
I know, so I'm gonna company care a lot. And
it's you know, you gotta look at both sides of it.
You know, the way the laws are written, you could
get your license for intrustate, which means you say, into

(01:15:11):
state or interstate. All they have to do is past.
The law said you can't drop in interstate unless you
are are a citizen. But there again, to me, that
falls back on the government. Well, got any trucks run
up down the road, and there's very little as far
as state the state what you can and can't do.

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
Yeah, I'd be interested to see. Uh, well one, do
we know the companies in California or is it a
Florida company?

Speaker 6 (01:15:38):
Well, but there again, though, what does it matter if
he if he applies and he's qualified and stay to California?
Says we will suit you if you don't hire him
for discriminating California.

Speaker 1 (01:15:49):
The guy would sue. But but you.

Speaker 6 (01:15:52):
Know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (01:15:52):
Though, I mean no, no, no, do you know?

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
Do you know what you mean?

Speaker 10 (01:15:55):
Sir?

Speaker 1 (01:15:55):
And so now the question becomes to other states adopt
that approach?

Speaker 3 (01:16:00):
And is it going to be I don't know the answer.

Speaker 6 (01:16:03):
I'm being honest with you, Like I said, I've been
doing this thirty years. I don't have a problem if
you want to see what state I'm from, if you
want me to read out of a little book, I
don't have a problem with that. All you doing is
making my industry safer.

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
Okay, Well, let me ask you this, sir.

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
Is it okay for you and you're eighteen wheeler to
make a U turn on a controlled access?

Speaker 6 (01:16:20):
Absolutely not, absolutely not.

Speaker 1 (01:16:22):
That should just becomsensor. I met this guy, I knew
it too, so well.

Speaker 6 (01:16:25):
Here here's the thing that people don't that don't drive
trucks don't understand. You can be unemployed in a split second.
I feel sorry for the family, don't get me wrong,
but I'm saying there's other things. It ain't like working
in a factory or being a doctor or something else.
There's a lot of things I can do. Another gentleman
said about has mat, You know, because I have has mat.

(01:16:49):
My illegal alcohol INMIT is cutting half. So if I
go out here and have a drink, and that's why
I don't drink at all. But if I have a drink,
they can get me for DUI and I'm in my
call now. Yeah, your license are tired to give. So
if you don't protect your license, you don't protect your family.

(01:17:10):
That's the way it is.

Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
I have don't have a hard time believing this guy
is gonna have a license when this.

Speaker 6 (01:17:15):
Is all, if he ever gets fair truck again, he'll
be lucky.

Speaker 1 (01:17:20):
Yeah, all right, Hey, Paul appreciates Yeah, I appreciate the
call this morning. Yeah, this is why we're just trying
to get to the bottom of this, because that's that's
what you do. You look at the situation and go,
all right, did what California has decided to do with
CDLs or do other states do that? Maybe California is
not the only one who will give a CDL to
a non non citizen. Again, not even somebody who has

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a green card. We're talking about somebody's probably got a
tax ID number for the purpose of this employment.

Speaker 12 (01:17:49):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:17:49):
Yes, CDLs are issued by the individual states. However, there
is a minimum federal requirement, a minimum federal requirement that
under the Obama administration they attempted to make it less cumbersome. However,
during Trump's first term, he postponed the change. Okay, so
the Obama because you know how they do these things.
It's not an instant a lot of times, and so

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they put it into motion that a change was going
to happen.

Speaker 3 (01:18:14):
Trump initially postponed it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:16):
However, that was during his first term, so Biden let
it go through and outside of the minimum ELDT, the
individual states can then figure it out. Here's where it
gets wonkey. So basically, you can either go through this
process within the state to get your first CDL, and
you have to have a federally accredited class, which costs

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about four K I guess according to the emailer here. However,
some states allow you to bypass that, so you just
passed the state driving test written in driving and one
of the loopholes is I had a CDL in my
home country if you're on an approved country's list. Yeah, man,
that's kind of what I'm feeling this might be. I'm

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sure California made it as bare bones as possible, but
I don't know if any of you guys ever vacationed
over in India.

Speaker 3 (01:19:06):
The last thing you want.

Speaker 1 (01:19:08):
Is traffic like that here, because it's not just India.
A lot of countries are just a damn free for all, man,
or you wouldn't think twice about whipping a you in
the middle of a highway. That's the bigger problem. It
goes into the cultural discussion, but that's it's clearly a
much bigger problem. So and again I don't know if

(01:19:29):
that's fully how this came to pass, but we'll be
looking for more info as more stories happen. Hey, I
got a question, Roster, did you show your wife this
pregnancy robot story?

Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
I said in the prep yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:19:42):
I thought about it, but no, oh you didn't. Okay,
I'm curious. You think she'd be all in on this
or no?

Speaker 2 (01:19:47):
Well, what exactly is it?

Speaker 10 (01:19:49):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
It doesn't it? Basically it's like a rent to womb.
I don't know, right, So it has like the baby
for the couple.

Speaker 1 (01:19:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you get you get all preggers, and
then they stick the baby in there that doesn't have
to go to the bathroom every ten minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:20:02):
Does the guy have to like do stuff with the robot,
like feed it?

Speaker 1 (01:20:07):
Yeah, I'm I'm assuming there's a component for all this.
Uh so this is Look, this is not They don't
have these at Walmart yet, but so in China they're
working on a designer bought with an artificial womb. All
the nutrients would pass through a hose, but it would

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it would handle the pregnancy. So I guess no stretch marks,
no water retention, no my my feet hurt, no, none
of that. But I'm asking because when I hear women
talk about President's pregnancy, a lot of it's the emotional
connection right, big lines and then you throw some like
like in the movie Blow? Is that not? How creatine?

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (01:20:50):
Okay? All right? Because there's a weird story over what
happened at the I talked about the BMW Championship, the
frown Scottie Scheffler one but one of the golfer his
name's Ben Griffin, and he did something you just don't
see watching pros unless there's some weird reason for it,

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and that is to four putt from inside five feet
or inside four feet. I guess the only person I've
seen do that, but he was. He was having a
bit of a like a mental breakdown. Was Ernie L's
one time. There's a famous video of Erniel's where he's
not lining up to hit his putt. He keeps reaching
his putter over the hole and trying to just smack
it back in, which you can do, but it's not

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real smart. And you see guys do it. When they
got like three inches left, he had like a foot
and he kept missing it and I think he's five
or six putted, but he was doing it because he
was spazing out. And we've all been there play golf.
You just lose your mind. This guy he four putts
and then.

Speaker 3 (01:21:53):
He blames a creatine overdose.

Speaker 1 (01:21:56):
And I had asked Ross, because you know, Jim Brow Ross,
if you can od on creatine.

Speaker 2 (01:22:02):
I've never heard this before, Like I take five grams
a day. That's that's like what they recommend if you're
like lifting and stuff like, but it's counted in. I'm
sus yeah, yeah and there. But there's some crazy bodybuilder
bastards that are like, hey, you need to take like
five hundred grams of this stuff a day. But typically,
like if you get if you buy creating in the store,
you get a big scoop and you put it in

(01:22:23):
your pre workout or in your shake or whatever. That's
typically five grams and that's what you need and it
builds up in the muscles over time. It's not like
an instant thing, so it's over time, and it allows
your muscles to absorb more water so your muscles will
feel like fuller, and then it allow you to lift
a little bit more but not really. But it's not
a stimulant. It's not like steroids. It's there's no caffeine,

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there's no like jitters involved. And this guy is like
I ingested too much creatine like during the match or whatever.
And then it gave me.

Speaker 1 (01:22:53):
A big swiggy set. Yeah, and they yeah, not shaking
it enough, so you got a big chunk of it.
I'm I'm assuming could happen.

Speaker 2 (01:22:59):
Yeah, he called it, yeah, because it little clump. So
he called it like a big like snowball of creating.
Like I was getting tremors and sweating and shaking, like
he's having some sort of like you know, like coching
episode or something. Yeah. So I sent it to Harbinger
wanting to get his opinion on it, because my opinion was,
this guy is just blaming this for this awful incident
at the hole or whatever. And Harbinger said the same thing.

(01:23:21):
It sounds like he's coming up with an excuse. We've
never heard of that before.

Speaker 1 (01:23:25):
Well, he's a pro golf for four putting inside four
feet and not a particularly difficult situation either. So and
and by the way, he right after he played fine.
He actually played pretty well, So it was a very
quick attack.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
I mean, you're also talking about one of the most
used and the safest supplements out there, like it's it's
known for that.

Speaker 1 (01:23:47):
Maybe he got his creat team from a giant wheel
at Parmesan.

Speaker 2 (01:23:50):
That's a good point.

Speaker 1 (01:23:51):
Got a little mixed up there. It's like, ah, I
keep shaking it now. I think I can run through bowls.
Speaking of people who think they're invincible, hike or in Tennessee,
I found out he was not after being bid by
a venomous steak snake at a state park. Where is
this savage Gulf? Well, that's the name of the state park.

(01:24:12):
You want to be on the lookout. Thorty's think it
was a timber rattler. Yeah, I don't want to mess
with those man ross. Do we know how it happened?
I know this is a fast breaking story. Are there
any clues maybe as to perhaps how this guy could
have come in contact with this rattlesnake?

Speaker 2 (01:24:30):
You forget every time you bring up this snake story,
even off the air. You're sort of like looking at
me and insinuating something, and I'm not sure what it's
supposed to be.

Speaker 1 (01:24:37):
I'm not insinuating anything. I'm just looking for best practices
around rattlesnake. Should you pick up random rattlesnake in a
state park?

Speaker 11 (01:24:43):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
So? I think what you're trying to lead back to
is you're trying to make a snake chuck reference, and
you're trying to blame me for this guy's idiocy link
everybody knows. First off, you've got to be able to
pick out which snakes are venomous, which snakes are not venomous.
But also, if you're like me, I've built up a
tolerance over time to snake fenom so I can just
pick up the snakes and tie them in the snake chucks?

Speaker 1 (01:25:06):
Is this how you win parlays of mind?

Speaker 6 (01:25:08):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:25:08):
When defeating your enemy? Sure?

Speaker 2 (01:25:11):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:25:12):
Does it work against Sicilians? Do we know?

Speaker 2 (01:25:16):
Is death on the line? Is death? Thought?

Speaker 11 (01:25:18):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:25:18):
Yes it is. Well, you never want to go in
in a Sicilian when death is on the line. That's silly,
That's what I've heard. That's dumb.

Speaker 1 (01:25:24):
Anyway, I heard of, you know, work the opposite away
one time. So yeah, apparently he picked it up. So
I guess maybe that's your first problem. Don't pick up
the poison snake.

Speaker 2 (01:25:31):
There was it one snake or two? It was one
half a snake chuck. That's the issue there.

Speaker 1 (01:25:37):
What do you mean that's the issue. You got to
start somewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:25:39):
You need two of them, not one. Of them. This
guy's dumb, so.

Speaker 1 (01:25:43):
He should wait. Hold on, I just want to I
want to make sure I have the advice here. So
don't pick up a single venom r snake.

Speaker 2 (01:25:48):
Right, but if you see two of them, then you time,
then you time together, double fist the poison snakes.

Speaker 3 (01:25:54):
Okay, all right?

Speaker 2 (01:25:56):
Yeah, yeah, Well what is it gonna do with one snake?
Just flail it around like an idiot?

Speaker 3 (01:26:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:26:01):
Not pick it up is another option. You could do
that as well. Now I'm not the person to ask,
because me and my buddies go out to Lake de
Smet where they have the rattlesnake caves, and then when
the spring, when all the little ones are out there,
we take sticks and fling him at each other, which
is not smart. But technically we didn't pick them up
with our hands.

Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
Let's see.

Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
According to Matthew Griffith of the Grundy count oh Man,
he could have gone to the auction set into the
state park to handle snakes. Grundy County Emergency Management Agency.
I'm assuming it's the same Grundy County from the John
Michael Montgomery song Ross Do you know that song? Grundy
County auction. I think it's called sold the Grundy County Auctions.

Speaker 2 (01:26:39):
I do not.

Speaker 1 (01:26:40):
I'm now gonna have that song in my head for
the rest of the day. All right, Well, your whole
statement is, yeah, he picked up his snake and it
bit him and he died. So thank you for three
paragraphs of that. And then the final paragraph is strongly
recommending that people want to go hiking in Tennessee don't
handle poison his snakes. I guess that's good advice. Don't

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do that. If you counter a snake, remain calm, but
don't pick it up. And if you get bit and
seek medical attention. Did he not seek medical attention either?

Speaker 10 (01:27:13):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:27:13):
No, was it one of those I'll just walk it off.
It's like a harpoon in the head again.

Speaker 1 (01:27:16):
Or a crossbow bolt right last week. It's hard to tell.

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
That's crazy, like just to say I walk that off,
or I'll put a band aid on it if you're walking.

Speaker 1 (01:27:29):
Decided to walk it out, but not with any great speed.
They was about a half mile in there, and so
he gets to the trailhead. Now he's it's not going well.
Somebody calls first Aid, but they don't get there in time.
The very last line of the story, it's still unclear
why the hiker picked up the animal. That's not unclear.
Was he showing off for a chick that's got to
show off for that's got to show off to a chick?

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Written all over it is that what happened?

Speaker 2 (01:27:56):
I don't say.

Speaker 1 (01:27:58):
They don't say, but if I had guess that might
be a component here.

Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
But that's just me.

Speaker 1 (01:28:04):
Hey, you want to you want to see who's the
dumbest woman of the day. Sorry to pick on ladies,
but you'll understand why because I'm undecided. So in the
final segment of the show, I have a woman in
France who has filed some sort of work claim that
I don't understand, and it's just crazy when you hear

(01:28:24):
the whole story. And then we got a lunatic social
media person, so we got quite a bit. We're gonna
get into it. Let me just tease the France thing
for ken Boon from the Weather Channel since it's already
ready to go. So some woman in France can check
this out. Work for Orange, which is like their comcasts
over there, their big telecommunications for twenty years, and has

(01:28:45):
fout a lawsuit because in twenty years. They've never given
her anything to do, and she's mad. Twenty years, she's
made she They've literally paid her for twenty years. She's
never had to do anything. They just keep paying her.
And now she's filing a lawsuit. Who does that? Who
the hell? No offense. But if the radio station just
kept paying me for twenty years, then maybe host a show.

(01:29:06):
I don't know that i'd tell anyone, but anyway, all right, Ken,
sorry to hit you with that.

Speaker 3 (01:29:11):
What's going on today, sir?

Speaker 11 (01:29:13):
Oh, not much. We've got a lot of heat and
humidity to deal with here today, not quite as hot
as we head through midwek We can still have a
chance for some showers and storms, I think as we
head through midweek, with the best chance coming today, So
enjoy the sunshine, but it will be hot. It's gottered
late day showers and storms. Temperatures into low nineties, feeling
hotter than that though, temperatures into low seventies. Just a
slight chance to see those showers and storms. Since we

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head through Tuesday Wednesday a little more cloud covered than today,
not quite as hot. High temperatures will be in the
middle part of the eighties, and then sunshine and load
to mid eighties. As we look towards Thursday Friday for
the end of the business.

Speaker 1 (01:29:45):
Week, I'll tell you anything that doesn't have a crap
ton of rains. You guys get much flooding down around
Atlanta or.

Speaker 11 (01:29:52):
We have had a couple of areas over the summer
that have had it, but I don't think we've had
as much as you guys have had up around there.

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
Okay, well, we don't need anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:30:00):
Thank you for that, Ken appreciate it, and we'll come
back with Jeff Bellinger in just a few minutes. Hang
on eight fifty. Oh my goodness. Jeff's not gonna know
what to do at the time, but we'll try. Bloomberg
up day, Jeff Bellinger, what's going on.

Speaker 12 (01:30:12):
Jeff, Well, good morning, Casey. Futures just turned mixed across
the board. The S and P futures are down six points,
NASDAC futures are down thirty two, but the Dow futures
just turn positive. They are up one point. At the moment,
investors are likely to move cautiously today. They'll be keeping
tabs on the Ukraine talks in Washington, and as this

(01:30:35):
week goes on, some big retailers will be releasing their
quarterly results, and FED chair Jerome Powell will be speaking
on Friday. Mike Movie fans one day be streaming the
Oscars on YouTube, sources are telling Bloomberg. The Google owned
video site has looked into the possibility of acquiring the
rights to the Academy Awards. YouTube has shown a growing

(01:30:56):
interest in live events, but it would likely have a
lot of competition for the Oscars. They've been on ABC
for nearly five decades, and were the telecast to become available,
NBC Universal, Netflix, Amazon and CBS just might show an interest.
A provider of human resources management software could have a
new owner soon, sources are telling Bloomberg. The buyout firm

(01:31:19):
Toma Bravo is in talks to acquired day Force. It
provides artificial intelligence tools for managing recruitment, payrolls, and employee
career development. Discussions are said to be advanced, but the
sources say they could still be delayed or day Force
could attract another suitor. Day four shares are up twenty
five percent pre market. Foreigners have returned to the American

(01:31:41):
real estate market. The National Association of Realtors says sales
of existing US properties to non US citizens from April
of last year through March of this year hit fifty
six billion dollars. That's up thirty three percent from the
same period a year earlier. It was the first increase
in eight years. Ac Air Canada suspended its financial guidance.

Speaker 2 (01:32:03):
Through the end of the year.

Speaker 12 (01:32:04):
The carrier says it is uncertain about the impact of
the flight attendant strike that has forced it to ground
its fleet. The attendance union is defying a back to
work directive from the Canadian government.

Speaker 1 (01:32:16):
Casey, alrighty, Jeff, Thank you much, sir. We'll chat tomorrow.

Speaker 12 (01:32:20):
Okay, sounds good.

Speaker 1 (01:32:21):
Talk to you. Then have a good day.

Speaker 4 (01:32:23):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:32:23):
Jeff Bellencher, Bloomberg News. So this is interesting. Over in
the UK, they're asking people to delete their old photos, emails,
and screenshots to save the planet. I guess that's how
you save the planet over in the UK.

Speaker 13 (01:32:38):
UK government wants you to delete your old screenshots. Not
like that, but to save water. And if you're wondering
what your screenshots have to do with saving water, let
me explain. Just up the river here dozens of data
centers which store all sorts of digital material like photos
and emails. They use large amounts of water in two ways.
Firstly to generate electricity to keep the centers running, and

(01:32:59):
second to cake the thousands of hot drives that stole
the materials cold.

Speaker 1 (01:33:03):
All right, so you get the gist. And I'm not
gonna play the whole thing. And by the way, data
centers are now the new most horrible thing in the world.
I don't know if you guys know this. Like in
Memphis they're freaking out because X out of Twitter has
some big data center. They're and like, oh, they're gonna
use all the water and it's and it's crazy how
quickly it's elevated to this. That being said, this is

(01:33:23):
how you get people to This is how you get
consensus right here, right, because like, here's the thing. If
I can keep the steaks and the air travel, and
all I have to make sure is that Becky doesn't
have three hundred pictures some some stupid crepes she ate
and blowing rock on or save the marriage trip or whatever. Right,
you don't need three hundred pictures of that? What are

(01:33:44):
you doing? And then I can sell the steak. That's
how you give me. I don't even have to buy into.

Speaker 2 (01:33:49):
The rest of this stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:33:51):
I just don't have to say I don't want to
sit there for three hundred pictures of crapes or you know,
some other breakfast item. Because you found the secret little
cafe and blowing Rock where you go down the stairs
that every single person knows about and is eating at
some point. Every guy knows about it, and you pretend
you found it even though there's a line of one

(01:34:11):
hundred people to get into this thing because it's Saturday morning.

Speaker 3 (01:34:14):
You don't need three hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:34:15):
Photos of it.

Speaker 1 (01:34:16):
So if that's what lets us keep all the other
fun stuff, I'm here for it. I'm here for her
right there. Yeah, Blowing Rock's a closer trip, guys know
what I'm talking about. You do that, maybe you go
to gamekeeper, maybe not, and then you know, say you
watch the leaves turn colors, guaranteed throwing that out there
for you. So anyway, I get behind that, but for

(01:34:39):
not the same reasons this lunatic is. And speaking of
Europe and lunatics, in France, a woman is suing essentially
what is like the big Comcast there because she since
was in ninety three, has worked for him and they've
never given her anything to do. They have promoted her,
they've moved her around, They've never given her work. For

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twenty plus years she's worked for them, haven't given her
anything to do. And now she's suing not because she
feels guilty about it. She's suing because she's getting ready
to retire. And depending on what your you know, what
your pay was and your title was, the retirement will
depend on how much money you get every month in retirement.

(01:35:22):
So she just she just wants them to promote her
so that when she retires she has a higher title
so her pension's bigger. How do you do that for
twenty years? Ross? If for twenty years, Iheartpaige, you and
you never had to come in and produce a show,
wouldn't you feel a little morally encumbered there?

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
I mean I would, right, I mean I'd feel bad
about it, right anything else? No, it's about it.

Speaker 1 (01:35:49):
It just feel bad.

Speaker 2 (01:35:51):
I'd also be paranoid that it would come to an end.

Speaker 1 (01:35:53):
Like that's the party to kill you, it's the other
shoe part.

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
Like they'd bring in the bobs right from office space
and they'd be like, what do you say you do here?
And I'd be like, nothing, yeah, nothing like to check,
and she did.

Speaker 1 (01:36:05):
She apparently, over the years, had asked. But the way
that she asked is she's making herself look better than
it is. She She was clearly asking for different promotions.
She wasn't asking for work. She was asking for higher titles,
which is clearly what this thing is about. But the
fact that for twenty years and they paid her millions
of dollars it she doesn't make an insignificant amount of money.

(01:36:27):
Just over those twenty years they paid her a crap
ton of money. And then now you have the audacity
when you're getting ready to retire, having done no work
for twenty some years, Now you want a promotion, maybe
with some some duties and stuff. Give me a break,
get out of here. So yeah, I don't know if
she's the dumbest or this check is.

Speaker 14 (01:36:48):
So I'm being evicted from my apartment. Yeah, let's talk
about it.

Speaker 1 (01:36:53):
How do we make videos on it?

Speaker 14 (01:36:54):
I live in a part of Florida. Oh no, I
mean Florida itself is just disgusting. But yeah, I live
in one of the worst parts of Florida, gotcha. And
there's nothing here. And for the past year I have
financially struggled to the point of mental insanity. I have
been stealing my groceries. I have been basically stealing anything

(01:37:19):
I can just so I can survive.

Speaker 1 (01:37:20):
I'm a little squirrel.

Speaker 14 (01:37:23):
Stress from the financial instability has made my bipolar symptoms
come back up.

Speaker 1 (01:37:30):
Oh no, oh, like those crazy eyes. I'm not even
gonna play all of this. Why what happened to Shane Ross?
If you were not able to pay your bills, you're
getting evicted and even stealing stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:37:42):
Do you tell anybody