Thursday-1-23-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I am broadcasting this week from our Greensboro facility.
I'm I'm all over the place, man, because all week
I'm here in Greensboro, come back to come back to
Raleigh for one, and then I'm headed down to the
coast to an event. Yes, I know, they just got
a bunch of snow out there in the outer Banks.

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But we're going to be up in Beaufort. Well, I
am ross Is ross Ain't coming but at the Beaufort
Hotel because we have our big Bourbon uh uh you know,
Battle of the Barrels is what it's called at the
Beaufort Hotel going out there. We got some listeners, we
gave away a trip, so congrats to our winter there.

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And this is this is going to be reps from
like all the biggest names in Bourbon, you know, the
ones you'll want with the special stuff. And that's coupled
with a dinner a really really really great right struant
there that's part of the Beaufort Hotel. In fact, probably
the best shrimping this is gonna start a fight. Probably

(01:06):
the best shrimping grits or top three shrimp and grits
I've ever had, and I have been salivating ever since
we put this thing together. Probably have that for two
of the meals, but not the main meal because they're
gonna go five star chef on this thing, so that'll
be pair with the with the really really nice bourbon.
They have room specials for under one hundred bucks. It's

(01:30):
like a mini v K and we need it after
this week. So at our Greensboro facility, it's it's brand new.
We're in high Points. Specifically, we're in downtown high Point
if you where the ballpark is right there where they
have the big food hole down there, which is what
a great location. I'm glad I don't broadcast out of

(01:51):
Greensboro every day because I think i'd be three hundred pounds.
And the barbecue joined under me is fantastic. But anyway,
so I am. I'm sitting there and you know, it's
all future and so literally part of the way I
don't maybe I shouldn't say that there is a really

(02:11):
there's a newer way that involves your phone to be
able to get in through one of our secure there's
multiple security apparatus. So don't don't start nothing you don't
want to finish. But what I did not realize is
I was standing outside in ten degree rather this morning.
Ross is that if you misscan it, it times you
out for two minutes. And I did it twice because

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I'm like, my hand is like, it's cold as hell, man,
and I'm standing on the outside of the building. So
then I'm like sitting there and I have to stand
there for two minutes. And then I did the same
thing because I you know, I do the Greensboro broadcasts intermittently,
and so I've been standing. I was literally it's the

(02:56):
coldest I've been in a while. And I'm a kid
who grew up Wyoming, lived in Minneapolis for eight years.
So we need to be done with this, man. And
I know some of you are going outside jobs today
and you're just like, God, screw you. But you got
to understand, I'm not dressed for working outside. I'm dressed
for getting from the parking lot to the door and

(03:18):
into the warm studio. So I but you know, don't
give me that. I've worked many a day outside much
colder than this, and I wouldn't just be wearing a pullover.
Look I'm wearing. But yeah, so that that'll get you
up this morning. So if you're you dragging a little.
You need something to get you going this morning. And
I probably won't scream about Tom Tillis the whole show today,

(03:38):
but probably some of it, and that'll that'll wake you up.
You give me be up and at him. The won't
be any problems there, so uh, there you go, all right,
coming up on the h on the show today, I
can move one of these backwards left handed mice that
our boss uh screws up. Here we go. We're gonna

(04:00):
have to have a couple discussions, uh, the the DEI
casts off cast offs. I understand it's fun to go
on Twitter x whatever and set tell them to learn
to code, which is deeply ironic because eventually a I'll

(04:20):
do it. So uh, there's that, but you know there's
going to be a wholesale rejection because well, at the
federal government, Trump's just like this stuff's done and we'll
explain what they've done so var because it's not done
done yet, and then how employees are responding to it.
There's a lot of shenanigans afoot, a lot of it.

(04:42):
And I hope that there's a lot of eyeballs that
are watching this. And uh, I think I have a
solution here, and and then it goes out into companies
or institutions, whether they are n g o's, you know,
non governmental organizations that that contract government contractors, universities that

(05:06):
get dollars public dollars. And then the next step is
the private sector who follows suit. Because the private sector
realizes that no longer are they going to have to
maintain these score so that they can work, you know,
they have access to working capital, which is how so

(05:28):
much of this got crammed down Corporate America's throat. They
went to companies that utilize working capital, you know, big, big,
of the biggest companies ever who literally have to draw
on this stuff from black Rock and some of these
others who these were conditions of it, and so because
they had to do business, they met the conditions. And

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so I find it deeply ironic where people are streaming
that the government. Are the governments out there influencing this This,
this entire industry likely would never have exist did if
not forced by people in a position to strangle a
company's ability to exist, Because think of companies and think

(06:14):
of how much it costs to get paper clips sometimes
or you know, your your M and E for those
of you who travel, they you know, that got impacted.
They stopped her for a one match, and you can
call it greed, you can call it whatever you want
to call different companies or in different states, and and

(06:34):
realize that that's a big line item on the budget
of a lot of companies and they're always looking for
something to purge. And if they're no longer held hostage
by having to get the access to the money along
with the you know, the cancel culture that was around things,

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they're not going to have an incentive to maintain big
departments of this or pay people like that really really
fat chick who wears the tightest clas I wouldnt even
comment on her size, but like she wears this Spandex
stuff and then stands in front of a whiteboard going
all white people are racist, and then you find out
what they pay her or that Ebrahm ken d X

(07:18):
or whatever. I mean. These are easily a manager's salaries
for like a two day thing, like an annual salary
for a middle manager for just you know, a three
hour thing a workshop. And then there's the staff you maintain.
And there are a lot of people which this is

(07:40):
what they were educated in they hold these degrees. The
degrees have weird names, but they're all DEI. And so
you're about to have I don't even know what the
number is. You're about to have fifty thousand, one hundred thousand,
probably more if you get into some of the ancillary
stuff where they don't have job prospects in their big

(08:04):
old degree that they just paid a gazin and they're
still paying on. So there's a lot of panic, there's
a lot of repositioning, and it doesn't change the underlying
fact that that the DEI stuff and any employee who
would expouse it and believes it, believes that everyone is

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inherently racist, has stemied companies ability to recruit people because
the companies have a big DEI office. And if you
are somebody who is not going who is going to
be seen as an oppressor, well maybe you don't go
work for that company because you realize you're probably limited

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with upward mobility. So even if they change their name,
even if they do what I'm going to tell you
that they're up to, the fact remains that it is
still a cancer within your company. And I'm not talking
about HR and providing fair working conditions and dealing with
employees who do things like discriminate against people, but now

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it has to be all across the board and standardized
HR departments, even with a modern adaptation, are capable of that.
So if you have if you have on your LinkedIn
that you're a a DEI officer, a lot of them
are changing their labels HR professional and so now if

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you are a company who's hiring an HR professional and
you've wanted to get rid of that DEI culture, the
onus is on you to really figure out who you're hiring,
which is really bad news for people who are all
in on this, because you've got to be all in
on the grift and they'll take that same attitude. Federal

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employees are literally shuffling. There have been several DEI officers
for departments within the US government where the person has
went and changed their title to something very generic, changed
their LinkedIn. They're literally their official government title, which obviously

(10:10):
required higher ups within you know where they work, Department
of State. There was two in there. I was reading
about to UH to maintain this. They're also gathering and
UH and and gathering all of the DEI stuff right,
all the stuff that likely UH is you know, in
the case of the State Department, Marco Rubio or has

(10:32):
ordered essentially purge from the system, and they're creating like uh,
cleverly labeled backup stuff so that they because they think
in four years they can just turn the spigot on again.
You can't dismantle this enough. And I and I don't
think they're thinking this through. So what do you do? What? What? What?

(10:55):
How do you How are those people going to go for?
And what does what does it mean when they're unable
to because you're dealing in a lot of cases, you're
dealing with a religion for all practical purposes. Right, you're
not telling somebody that instead of doing music radio, let's
switch you over to talk radio because you know there's
more opportunity. And like I made that transition, I made

(11:18):
it on my own. You're looking at people who the
mere suggestion that they don't do the one thing anymore
is akin to you denouncing their god because they believe
that strongly. Will there be violence? I don't know, I
hope not. These are all things that you have to

(11:39):
think about. And so I think if you are one
of these think tanks, one of these organists, whether it's
the Heritage Foundation or whatever. I think that right now,
there needs to be an organization the catalogs who all
of the DEI people are. And it's not a blacklist.

(12:02):
But you can't sit here and decide that all of
a sudden you're going to operate in the same way
and just change your name even though you're on the
public dole and this ideology has been expressly rejected. But also,

(12:23):
I don't think you're going to do any good telling
them all to learn to make fries. No, no, no,
I think that where they're going to end up is
where somebody with a degree and a little bit of
extra schooling can find themselves, and that's in your kids classrooms.

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You may not have that one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a year DEI position at you know, pick whatever
it is, and yeah, you'd be working for less money,
but it's pretty it's a pretty transferable thing if you
have the degree, and then you add on the educational
and the practicum or whatever they call it where the
student teachers come in, and and then now you got

(13:04):
more woke ideology jammed into your kid's school. Like, I
don't know what this looks like, I think it's an
interesting conversation, but that's the only logical place I can Yeah,
this is a here's how woke federal employees can keep
DEI alive in defiance of Trump's order. And it does
a pretty good breakdown, pretty good breakdown of how they're

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going through and uh and and literally they're creating like
dry hard drive, hidden hard drives of all the DEI
stuff because they think in four years, in one day,
they can flip the switch and it's back. So will
it be a pause or will it be a complete
reorganization of how this stuff is integrated into everything that

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we do at a governmental level and within the company
you work? And I don't know the answer to that.
I I I don't. And you know, lastly we need
is more Antifa. University of Washington screwed up. Antifa literally
took some Turning Point USA speakers and who are who
are flanked by police and they barricaded them into a room,

(14:14):
which is kidnapping. I thought, and and uh and and
they have the they have it surrounded. There's video online
this morning. There's two cops they're standing there. There's like
fifty Antifa out there. They're beating on the doors in
the windows, even though they've said they've locked them down
so they can't leave. Even Trump administration's going to pull

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dollars if this stuff is happening, and the University of
Washington knows it. Harvard just had a bunch of a
bunch of dollars pulled from them because they're refusing to change.
This is gonna be. It's gonna be. It's not gonna
be pretty and smooth. Just prepare yourself. So well, we'll

(14:57):
get into a couple other things there. I got a
crazy costco story we'll get to. And Eric Swallwell decided
to send the dumbest tweet I've seen of this presidency
so far. So kudos to to that guy, because holy crap.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
Man.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
In fact, let me read it to you and then
we'll go to break and you can ponder the information
he's provided and think, you know, let me know if
you agree with him. All right, you're ready here it
is this is This is the Chinese spy hooker upper dude. Okay,
And I wanted to Nuki that one time. He says,
there's not been a day in America where more cops

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were hurt in a single event than January sixth. For
his first act as president, Trump releases every rider who
attacked and hert cops. This is the joker releasing the
lunatics of the asylum. Oh no, he didn't see the
second joker, did he? Oh yeah, that's okay. A lot
of people didn't spoiler. Yeah, yees. Single deadliest day for

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the for the kid. You know that for police is
January sixth. Think about that. We'll be right back. It's
thirty five. Welcome back here on the Cacoday radio program.
This is this is an easy answer, but it's so

(16:18):
easy it requires not just him not to know, but
for him to understand that he's trolling, but says it
anyway and then attempt to align himself as well. We
are the party of law enforcement because we're matic Trump
over the commutation part of his orders that he signed.

(16:40):
Eric Swallwell tweeting there has not been a day in
America where more cops were hurt in a single event
than January sixth, And then he puts some other stuff
in there, basically talking about j six stuff that's not
only provably false. You don't even have to go to
the big exam. Do you know what I mean, you don't.

(17:04):
You don't have to invoke nine to eleven, which is
the obvious answer. Right, you can go to Dallas, you know,
before they blew that guy up with the robot there,
which sadly I don't not video that I've seen that
dirt bag, or you can pick I don't know. And

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now if you want to go with hurt in a
single day versus killed, then you know, at least at
least those those numbers gonna be higher. But in nine
to eleven, there were more police officers killed than were
reportedly quote unquote injured. And by the way, the injured
because they played so fast and loose over whether like

(17:46):
sick Nick died. You know, you still have politicians go,
you know, they murdered a police officer that day. Well,
that's not that's not true. That's not true. You I
guess you could still argue that the st rest of
it continued, but it's just not true because it's not
I mean that they they did the autopsies, did multiple
autopsies on sick Nick. And I and I want to

(18:11):
be clear here because my position has not changed. It's
I can only adapt it into the situation. We're here
there were people who were absolutely violently attacking police. And
I'm not talking about the police because people go, well
they were hitting some of them with the you know,
the rubber balls and all that stuff. You have to
go individual on stuff. But there were people. There's a

(18:32):
there was a guy with a flagpole who clearly cheap
shot at an officer with it. No no exactly what
that dude's name is, but and the officer had been
among those officers that was standing and looking like they
were playing Bejeweled on their phone. I don't condone any
of that. The problem is is rather than targeting those
individuals where and you could even throw the book at them,

(18:54):
and I think people probably you decided you were going
to go and you were going to charge you know,
seventy five year old dudes with a caine who are
strolling give them, give them two years, and inflate a
fifty dollars charge. It is a known thing in DC
and it was evidenced during the Kavanaugh disruptions of disrupting

(19:18):
proceedings and parading is the other one, and turn those
into felonies and illegally so in many instances, according to
the Supreme Court ruling, you had judges who the stuff
that they allowed. I was I was reading a thing
this morning. I'm not a lawyer, but I've watched some
Law and Order. Okay, maybe there's some lawyers listening this morning.

(19:41):
If you're a lawyer and you're listening this morning, explain
how this would be allowed into evidence. So there was
one guy who he was given nineteen nineteen months he
is There was a twenty two minute video, and the
twenty two minute video was a montage of all the
worst video, right, that officer getting struck with the flagpole,

(20:03):
the one officer's got his hands in the door and
they're slamming it and they busted up his hands, right,
all the stuff that people absolutely agree in the ninety
ninth percentile are our dirt bags that deserve to go
to you know, go to jail. But that wasn't this dude.

(20:24):
This dude isn't in any of those And then interspliced
in the middle of a twenty two minute greatest Hits
or worst Hits? How everyone to describe it video is
six seconds of this dude walking down a hall, walking
down a hall like a tourist, and then another eight
seconds here, and in total he was in the Capitol

(20:45):
for eight minutes, and they know his path. He didn't
touch anybody, He didn't touch anything. He walked through that
open door, spent eight minutes walking around. Look what's going
on in here? What's going on here? Took some picture
left nineteen months but allowing a twenty two minute video
where it's all the worst stuff, but in all the

(21:08):
worst stuff parts, he's not there. He's not even in
proximity because they know his path. They charted his path
because he kept, you know, pop up over here on
this camera and this camera, and they trace it around.
They know he didn't do anything. They didn't care. And
the judge, over the objections of his attorney, allowed that

(21:29):
twenty two minute video which spliced him in doing nothing
in the middle of you know, pretty awful stuff. And
once you start doing that, and the judge light, which,
how would that not be prejudicial? How would that how

(21:51):
would that not be prejudiced? That that would be like,
you know, you're trying to tie I don't know, ross
to nine to eleven, sorry, buddy, And and but you know,
and then there's the here's the video of the planes,
here's the people jumping from the building. It's all emotionally taxing. Obviously,
we those of us who remember nine to eleven and

(22:11):
and and everything we saw that day. And and here's
Ross at Zukati Park, which is about a block away
getting a snow cone. But then you got all the
other stuff like you would never allow that. Also, Ross
had nothing to do with it was just an example.
My point is like, that's you don't even have to
be a lawyer to go. That's insane. How would that

(22:32):
be allowed? And it was because of the totality of
everything that this administration and this this this previous or
this previous administration and Justice Department chose to do.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
That.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
You you soured and and and you you you destroyed any
sense of justice over the totality of it because of
what you were doing. When you start charging people who
were there and you know they weren't there, including North
There's a guy in North Carolina, gotcha who wasn't there

(23:10):
and I think he was the he's like seventy veteran
wasn't there, and they you know, didn't they didn't care.
They didn't get him charged, but they essentially bankrupted him.
They essentially bankrupted him. And that was that was the goal.

(23:33):
If they couldn't get you charged, they were going to
wear you down. I don't know if there's veracity to
the idea that J six those incarcerated were subject subjected
to abuse above and beyond or just abuse in general.
But there's some really really chilling accusations. And you know

(23:55):
why because as a totality, you have dehumaned those folks.
And it's easy to do because there's so much politics
attached there. These are the dirt bags of all dirt bags.
And if you've got it in your mind and you're
willing to go along with that and not even evaluate

(24:16):
what's going on on an individualized basis, it becomes a
lot easier to do those things. So no, the potstars
small Well can go ahead, and he can you know,
he can do all of his little, uh, his little
trolling here. But you know the fact remains that anyone
willing to take an honest look at this should be

(24:37):
horrified and then judge whether you think Trump should have
gone one by one, whether it should have just been
a handful, and and then you know, you had to
go through a hearing and a judy or if you
could look at the the whole thing, the whole thing
and with the ability of having u you know, many

(25:00):
of the folks who were who are actually accused and
or were convicted of attacking law enforcement or being violent
in some other manner, perhaps to a counter protester. Right,
you realize it's really hard to remove that stuff, and
most of them have served some time. And then you
couple it with the third factor that at the very

(25:22):
same span of time you watch city after city decimated.
And yes, some people were charged, but the standard protocol
was not overcharging. In most cases, it was undercharging. I
did many a story where somebody was out there and

(25:44):
you remember with the laser pointers where they literally blinded
they literally blinded a federal law enforcement officer. That person
did under two years, and a bunch of others there
didn't even catch a jailable charge for it, even though
they were in on it. And because remember they were

(26:04):
charging people who weren't even at January sixth, because they
posted that people should go there, there was an immense
double standard. And in Washington, d C. If you go up,
if you go up and you're some random dirt bag
in DC and you punched a cop this morning, would
they arrest you? Sure? Would you get a sentence commensurate

(26:28):
with a guy or what they were attempting to do
to a guy who literally walked through for or what
they did do nineteen months. Probably not you'd get you
might get sentenced to it, and then they'd suspend all
but like ninety days or something, they'd put you in
a program probation or whatever. DC is notorious for undercharging,

(26:52):
not in this case, and so you look at all
of that and you ask yourself, how do you make
that right when you're dealing with fifteen sixteen hundred individuals.
And I don't know. I still feel like there's people
that were that probably should have caught full charge. But

(27:17):
I think that if you're in DC and you decide
to assault law enforcement who's not doing anything, or just
assault anybody for that matter, is just stand their mind
in their business. DC has some serious crime problems. It
would behoove them to avail themselves of the statutes. But
with the January sixth stuff, they literally bastardized the statutes.

(27:37):
They made one up that some three hundred and fifty
defendants ended up catching, you know, in excess of a
year over until the Supreme Court stepped in and they
turned a fifty dollars finable offense into significant prison time,
not to be confused with jail time prison time, which

(28:01):
is usually I don't know what it is in DC,
but in most jurisdictions, you know, it's a year in
a day. Year in a day is the standard, whether
you're going to be in a county lock up facility
or you're going to one of the state prisons or
in this case, federal prisons. So forgive me there.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
But.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Swallwoll is an idiot. But I almost don't even have
to point that out. What is this Boston Paul thinks
he's cute this morning. It's okay, too much of a
coward to come to our bourbon thing. So he's got
to send you a little picky in like my microphone.

(28:44):
All right, coming up on the show, we've got big
Virgin news. I'm assuming, well, I don't know. I'll let
you be the judge. Costco California story next crazy stuff.
Hang on. He told them to make a list. Know
what I'm saying is an organization out there if they
want to track this is going to spearhead this and
and track them. We can discuss whether that's a good thing,

(29:06):
because it kind of feels like if you do that,
you're you're locking somebody into a position where they have
to double down on that ideology. I recognize that it
may not be a good idea. If somebody wants to, uh,
you know, get away from the DEI stuff and still
do you know, some sort of corporate something or other,

(29:29):
and they're not pushing the ideology, then I don't necessarily
know what the problem is, except the every time I
see somebody one of these DEI folks, they're all in man,
and you'd have to be because the ideology is so
toxic that you'd have to overlook the fact that you're
now the racist and not be aware of that crazy stuff. Okay,

(29:52):
wall hold on? Speaking of crazy? Uh Boston, Paul, what's up?

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (29:58):
I mean yeah, I can't quite a few people over
the years with something better than police officer.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Wait, hold on, hold on, So are you saying that
people really like to punch you or something? I can't imagine?

Speaker 5 (30:10):
And I tell you, you know, but most of the time,
when it got the quarter was a coofit or you know,
time served if they were waiting for arraignment, everything was
dealt down a restitution for uniform and past that would
destroy or something. But I did any real crime.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Well, now you got you remember you guys made that
one kid go learn math? Uh and uh and and
go see Robin Williams. I remember that.

Speaker 5 (30:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, they didn't They didn't do
much with something about in police officers. They used that
to like make them deal to a lesser another crime,
you know.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Okay, all right? Were they mitigating circumstances like was the
police offics are harassing them about the quality of their microphone,
because then you know, Jerry's probably gonna open early.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
You know, you'd be able to have us for tomorrow's show. Anyway,
what's that we're gonna buy? Go go, go the best
buy and buy your mister microphone.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Stop it, all right, you get out of here, you know.
I go get that little play school cop set with
the little plastic badge and stuff.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
I already got one already, I see.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Okay, all right, don't freeze. Don't freeze, get to lose
the national treasure. That is your take. Uh. By the way,
Ross is vindicated this morning on avocados.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
Man.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
I uh so, if you don't know, I'm a I
love avocados. Guacamole. Ross is an avocados and guacamole or
just guacamole you don't like.

Speaker 6 (31:46):
Yeah, both, specifically guacamole, Like you can't do it right?

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Is that is that it's a visual or something? But well,
also you didn't want to eat you don't want to
eat cartel murder food, so that yeah, yeah, yeah, New
York Times. How labeling Cartel's terrorists could hurt the US economy?
What Isolating US companies from cartel activities could be almost

(32:16):
impossible given that criminal groups operate in sectors such as
avocado agriculture and tourism. Wait a second, are you did
you for there's avocado part? That's okay, that's a problem
then right, Maybe the thing is not to let the
cartels keep running the avocado racket cartel, which, by the way,

(32:38):
do you think the cocaine car like do you think
the guys the cast offs from like Escobar and the
Cali cartel, when they go to the cartel conferences they
make fun of the avocado cartel. I just feel I
feel like there's a pecking order, cartel pecking order. But
I don't know. But the second thing, tourism, do you
mean coyotes. Ross. Did you find it weird that Austin

(33:00):
Paul was kind of like being an apologist for one
of the more famous cases of officer assault.

Speaker 6 (33:07):
I mean, I mean he's pretty much calling out Goodwill
Hunting for not being accurate, which is kind of a
depressing because remember that's the one reason that Will went in.
You hit a car going in like that was.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
The r Yeah, well he tried. He tried the common
law argument from you know, the sixteen hundreds cop. The
judge was was not buying it. But eventually they worked
out a plea deal.

Speaker 6 (33:28):
So liberty is a sinko a what yahanna?

Speaker 1 (33:34):
And then he found redemption and uh, you know, a
nice little British audience. You know, it's not your fault. No,
it's not it's not your fault. There are some apples
this morning. I have a sudden craving. I'm gonna check
the kitchen here at the break all right, so you
want you want some nerd news, I got some nerd
news for you. One of my nine mice in.

Speaker 6 (33:55):
Here are they still are the the there? They still
like switched?

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah, we're in And I move him. I move them
over to the other side. Every morning and he moves
them back.

Speaker 6 (34:08):
I'm pretty sure that he has to change it now, right,
didn't Trump had an executive order or something about that?

Speaker 1 (34:13):
I think that's actually that dude. That's exactly what I
said to him on Monday. I'm like, man, nothing that
I could do. You didn't see him sign it. Ah,
you should have paid attention. No, no more left handed mice.
For those who don't know, it's not just that he
uses the mouse, because there's people who are left handed,
like Ross's left hand, there's people who are left handed
listening to the show. What I mean is he goes

(34:34):
into the settings. This is our this is our program
director for the Greensborough for WPT I JT, who Ross
and JT known each other for decades, like literally work together.
So he goes into the settings and reverses the buttons
of the mouse. So me, as a normal right handed

(34:57):
person or even a normal left handed per thinks that's
insane to physically reverse it. So your foot, you're you know,
you're flying around like, oh, let me click on this thing,
and you click your left finger and it doesn't do anything.
You're like, oh that's right. Then you got to click
your right finger. So no, now I just uh, I
figured out how to do it. So game on, blood

(35:19):
Bloodless coup. What are you gonna do? So we'll see.
But now I keep changing it back and then in uh,
this is such, this is such petty stuff. Also, if so,
if you one of our computers, at one of the
iHeartMedia Company computers, you know, the desktops are in the studios,
you log in under your own log in, and then

(35:39):
obviously your desktop is your stuff, your programs, your files,
all that. If you just walk away and it times
out and locks the computer, you can't select a different
log in.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Drop.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
You know we're a new user. You have to physically
restart the computer. If you take the two seconds that
it takes to click logout, then whoever's next doesn't have
to restart the computers like me. You know, O dark
thirty in the morning, I got to restart everything in here.
So you know, turnabout's fair play. Now I do it

(36:16):
to him. Game on, man, Yeah, petty office stuff here,
you want some petty check this out. A costco in
California broke out in a brawl. A brawl footage captured
at the Atwater Village Costco in It's a lot Los

(36:38):
Angeles area showed a group of I don't know, trying
to count here, there's easily there's easy like fifty people.
I would say ten of them are brawling. The other
ones are standing around yelling, some are trying to break
it up. A couple look like they jump in there.

(36:59):
So were why were they brawling? Did they have disagreements
over fire policy? And in Los Angeles? And no? They
were brawling because Costco got an order of Pokemon cards.
These are adults they got they got these special Pokemon
Collectors packages. I know nothing. I know nothing about Pokemon,

(37:24):
so I'm just gonna let you know. I guess maybe Pokemon.
I think Ross and I missed Pokemon by what five years,
maybe ten years. I don't even I don't even know
if my I think my little brother was into it
for a while. And he's seven seven years younger than me,
so I don't know. I I but if you look,

(37:44):
if Pokemon was your thing as a kid, great, this
isn't what this is about. This goes back to the
collector card thing that I literally lost track of for decades.
Right when I was a kid, I'd buy baseball cards.
I remember I to this day, remember opening the first

(38:04):
the rookie year and getting a bo Jackson, and I
remember I was elated forever. Damn. I wish i'd know
what happened to that, But get that was the big
thing when I was really kind of getting into cards.
And I remember, like cause we'd go we go to
a little League or was legion where the American Legion
ran it up there, and then they had like a

(38:26):
little concession thing for when the games are going on,
so you could get like, you know, chips and drinks,
and but you could buy baseball cards there. And so
every week I would buy a pack with the allowance there,
and I got me a bo Jackson and I spent
I think I spent the whole day not even concerned
about the game, just talking with my buddies about that.

(38:47):
It was really cool. But it was also like fifty cents.
I don't know what tops cards were at that time,
but that bo Jackson was pretty amazing. I collected the
entire eighty seven tops, which you know in retrospect they
overprinted a lot of that stuff. But that was what
McGuire's rookie bunch of others like I was, and then I,

(39:07):
you know, I figured out if you talk to girls,
that's fun, and and you know, the baseball cards kind
of went by the side, So went ahead and went
ahead and did that. And UH didn't think about it literally,
Oh well, okay, all right. I didn't think about it

(39:28):
literally until I call. I saw a video of this.
He's American, du he's like an Asian, but he's an
Asian guy, right, I don't and he I think he
calls himself a pacman or said some pun and it
just happened to catch a video, and by and by
the way, I felt it very entertaining. But the thing
that caught me was the title that got served up

(39:49):
in like the YouTube algorithm, and it says we opened
a two thousand dollars pack. I'm like, what how much
your cards? And then I went down this rabbit hole
and I did not real that, like, if you want
top tier sports cards, you right, you're you're you're paying
eight hundred dollars for a box of them that may
have ten packs in it, and that's where you get

(40:10):
the truly expected like that. It went crazy. Same with
Pokemon and UFC stuff and saw, you know, all the
different sports and and there's this whole insane industry out
there where people are doing things like paying a million
dollars for a Victor wembin Yama rookie card because it's
a one of one or something like. I don't get it.

(40:32):
But also, if you want to do that, that's fine.
That's what you're dealing with here. These were ravenous resellers,
so they're not even really in it for the love
of the game. They just realized that because Costco was
selling the stuff for cheap, that they could go ahead
and uh and and probably make some money there. And

(40:52):
I understand that, but it evolved into an all out
brawl over Pokemon cards and what's crazy? Uh, I don't know, ROI.
You had a chance to see the video. They're poor
wives and girlfriends. Now, I don't see him in the video,
but they had to be mortified. I'm sure they're all
standing off to the side right watching this unfold. I
want to get into it. And then they didn't interview
any of their wives or girlfriends either, so that was

(41:13):
that was a little strange. But these are grown adults
fighting each other over Pokemon cards. Imagine being that person.
Imagine thinking you have to punch two of your neighbors.
So you can get a what's what's the name of
a Pokemon Pikachu. That's the only one I know. I'm sure.
I'm sure there's a bunch of others, so you can

(41:36):
get a Pikachu. Another thing I know that is because
remember when doctor Campbell, Remember when a grown doctor that
we used to have on the show was trying to
capture Pokemon.

Speaker 6 (41:46):
He came in like a lunatic doing that Pokemon what
is it called Pokemon go? Yeah, I get you know,
it's g It was geographic, so so you have which
is how they ended up having to like tell people
to not come to Auschwitz to catch Pokemon. Remember that
became a thing or at the Holocaust Museum in DC.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
Like, there were so many insane stories. This is a
This is a person who went to medical school, right,
I tell you what. He went duke in University of
Virginia and undergrad at NCC. He went to three different colleges.
Highly educated individual who literally will open your chest and
make your heart work again. And he's in Ross's studio

(42:26):
trying to catch something that's that he's hallucinating, so like
it's just crazy town, man. And then we like he
was part of a group where we go up to
the mountains. We go up up towards Sparta, their high
meadows and rowing gap and all that. We play old bow,
We play a few courses. Big guys trip do it
every summer. And so there's there's like twenty of us

(42:51):
right this big trip. We rent a couple of the
big houses. And this doctor's walking around literally in people's
backswing catching Pokemon. I don't get it. I don't understand it,
and I don't understand people a bunch of virgins punching
each other for Pokemon cards in a costco like like

(43:11):
when you're evaluating that later, are you like? What am
I doing with my life? I need to go. I
need to go touch grass or get on a dating
app or something, or do you know, take a vow
of celibacy and be a monk. I don't know, do
something productive. No, I'm gonna be on video brawling with
other adults over Pokemon cards. The world has absolutely lost

(43:37):
its mind. Man. But hey for my amusement, because hey,
we're here talking about it. So there you go. All right,
So I tease this article earlier, how woke federal employees
keep d are keeping deilive in defiance of Trump's orders,
And the question becomes, what do you do if you

(43:59):
think needs stamped out and a combination of market forces
and turning off the government spigging on this is going
to be the way to do it. You got to
realize that if you unseed an entire industry full of people,
they're gonna have to do something. And just telling them
to go pick strawberries on Twitter may feel good to you,

(44:21):
but it's not gonna be reality. So, uh, we'll get
into this. We'll do it next here on the CaCO
Day radio program. What do I read? I just leave
at the call streamer? Are all those words correct? Because
I always try to in my brain figure out where
the caller is going with us. I have to know
what this is?

Speaker 3 (44:40):
All right?

Speaker 1 (44:41):
Hold up, grab the right mouse, Bernie. What's going on?

Speaker 3 (44:47):
Born and Casey?

Speaker 1 (44:49):
Morning?

Speaker 3 (44:49):
Card market? The card market is so crazy. You can
go to Walmart and call get no places by what
they call retail bosses and retail packs.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
By the way, because I did, I well, hang on, Birdie,
because I want to explain this to people. Because I myself,
I when I see something I don't know about it,
I try to educate myself a little, and admittedly I
don't know barely anything, but it seemed really scummy because
they produce two different sets basically, and they got you know,
for the Walmart for the kids, and then they have

(45:22):
these really high end hobby I think they call it,
called them hobby right where it's like eight hundred dollars
for a box, but it's where the good cards are.
So if you buy the cheapies, you can't even get
the good cards. You gotta buy thet You gotta spend
a car payment to have a chance at them. And
they're private business, they can do what they want, but
it just seems like you're taking advantage of your sports

(45:43):
fans and your card collectors.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
You can still get hit at the retail boxes retail tags,
but not the.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
Big, big big ones, right, not the big ones they
make videos about.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
Right, It just depends on the holograph of the men
car it Jersey patch card. You can get them, but
people weigh the pack just to see which pack is
ways more to get the good packs with little with scales.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
Well, if I'm the manufacturer, I would not want people
doing that because then they probably wouldn't buy your lighter boxes.
Wouldn't you stick something in there so they all weigh
the same?

Speaker 3 (46:25):
They do that, they put a piece of cardboard in there.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Work science, man, huh because a Pokemon card there's the
only thing I know about the pokem Yeah, some of
them are made of like heavy material and not just
Pokemon but cards. Right, yeah, okay, all right, that ways
around all that. What's your do you so you sound
like you're into this, sir? Do you still.

Speaker 3 (46:52):
I collect? I'm old toys, so I go to card
shows and toy shows, got you and that stuff. That
stuff there's a big business. It's not a hobby no more.
It's a business. People buy that stuff trying to you know,
turn over to make a fortune out of it.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Hey, good, good on them. It sounds like gambling, sir. Yeah, okay,
And again they're private company if their customers are fine
with that. I just from a kid's standpoint, I would
think it'd be a little discouraging because I wouldn't you know,
when I was opening cards in the eighties, if there
was a good card to be had in a set,

(47:29):
likely there was only one set for the manufacturer, and
you had you had. Whatever the odds are. Everyone else
had and honor the days. I guess so, Greg.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
I mean, they even make cards with historical signature cuts
like six seven dollars a bus and you may get
like a it would be Ruth Ruth r Graf or
at least a Gray.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
Coming up on the show, we're gonna chat with Stephen
Kent our NERD correspond and yeah, we're gonna have to
get into the little bit of the card you know,
the cards stuff and the because this is with the
Pokemon stuff, because absolutely, but also uh, let's see here. Yeah, okay,

(48:15):
so we had Netflix definitely want to talk about that,
and uh, they're going to try to do the Chronicles
and Narnia thing again. And there are some concerns that
Hollywood may Hollywood it as Hollywood do, so uh we'll
pick that. But I am learning so much about Here's
what Here's here's what I know. Ross. Did you collect
baseball cards or sports cards or is it just the

(48:39):
magic stuff? Ross worked at the Magic Show.

Speaker 6 (48:42):
I collected boxing cards. I was really big into boxing cards,
but also wrestling cards.

Speaker 1 (48:46):
Okay, well absolutely, but the wrestling stuff. So I understand
here's what I here's what I knew. Tops were what
I wanted Donnris was for the pores. What was then
the Flare Flair whatever. I don't remember if we had those,
but then I remember, and this is one the last
things I remember. I remember because I wanted Jordan Michael

(49:07):
Jordan cards, and at some point he decided he was
only going to be in upper deck. But upper deck
was like the they were like they were the premium cards.
And then I after that I discovered girls and stuff.
But yeah, but it's it's a it's a rabbit hole, man.

Speaker 6 (49:26):
I actually it's sort of a humble brag. They also
had a lot of the big collectible Star Trek cards.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
So see, obviously you found girls earlier because they're naturally
attracted to that, right green ones, Yes, yeah, yeah, love
that is the board Queen's not green, you perve he's
got a board queen thing. All right, let's go, let
me grab two calls real quick. I know, I know
some of you're like, why are we talking about you

(49:55):
know why? Because I screamed yesterday my voice hurts. Okay,
oh horrific. Thought that last call was like you could
get the cards with and I just somebody sent me
a link to this and there's like there's packs of
cards where it could have like Serena Williams or George
Washington in it. The company that does those, I mean
the cuts is basically like they get a hold of

(50:15):
a check they wrote or contract or whatever, they cut
it out, then they make a card out of it.
So see in case I didn't, I didn't know what
the terminology exactly meant, but that's what it is. The
problem is I'd buy this thing and then I'd get
nothing but Till's cards, and I'd be so upset. Right,
and the bike spokes right, the bike spokes with those. Jake,
what's up?

Speaker 4 (50:36):
Hey, good morning?

Speaker 1 (50:38):
If you want to have a riot, Jammy, I can
hear you. I don't know that I want to have
a riot, but sell me hunt sir if you want.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
If you want to have a riot, you could go
right here in Durham have it as They make a
lot of those cards right here in Durham.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
Which what what do you mean just all of them
in general? Or is there one of the companies it's
like tops have a planter or something.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
Well, no, there's just a printing company that does a
lot of different cards right here in Durham.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
And uh, they do magic cards. They do the Pokemon cards,
and security inside there is pretty crazy.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
They make me put a stick girl for my camera
on my phone, even though I need my camp my
phone for work to take pictures of stuff I'm doing.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
But uh, it's it's pretty tight in there.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
Well yeah, we're considering. I literally I read it. I
read an article where somebody paid a million dollars for
a rookie card of the dude down in San Antonio,
the when min Yama and so like, you're sticking a
million dollars into a little pack and putting it in
a box and sending it out and who knows where.
That's crazy?

Speaker 3 (51:39):
Man, eat golden ticket.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
Is coming up? Hey, man, that would be I'd be
down with dad. You give me a chance at oopa
lumpas absolutely, Bob, what's up.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
Hey, Kasey? Good morning?

Speaker 3 (51:56):
Yeah, uh yeah.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
Out there in Durham by the air, they make seventy
five to eighty percent of the world's Pokemon cards and
magic cards. They also do baseball cards with like the
jerseys and like pieces of the fat or whatever.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
Is it?

Speaker 6 (52:14):
So, what do you mean?

Speaker 1 (52:15):
How do they wait? How do they what do you
mean the jerseys? They you win it like you can
win a jersey or something.

Speaker 4 (52:21):
No, just like a like a little clip, like a
little like a little piece of the jersey that the
guy wore in the game on the card.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
Oh okay, So they so they get one jersey as
some guy wore, and they probably make twenty cards or
fifty cards out of it.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
Or a thousand cards because it's just you know, the
cards aren't big. So the jersey piece yeah big?

Speaker 7 (52:41):
Oh okay, all right, slender Man, you were a saying
Senator slender Man. Yeah, he has a problem with Trump's partons,
but he never had a problem with Biden's partans.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
Come on, I don't know that he didn't.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
I don't know that he didn't have a problem. But
here's here's the Johnny Come Lately side of this is
the passion wasn't there. He was very passionate in what
I saw, which is what set what triggered me the
other day. And he, like everybody else, knows and knew
what was going on with the absolute rolling abuse of power,
and he doesn't seem to want to address that other

(53:14):
side of it. And I don't have any time for that.
And uh, the NCGOP needs to purge them because I
need a hobby because I don't collect cards, because I
can't afford to pay eight hundred dollars for a box
of cards. So my hobby will be making sure this
dude never goes back to Washington. So the you know,
real estate party, figure it out.

Speaker 4 (53:31):
You know, what are you gonna do if he If
he's not in Washington, then your hobby's gone. You gotta
find a new hobby.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
Noh, fine, don't worry. There's a there's dirt bags of
plenty up there, sir.

Speaker 4 (53:40):
Okay, y'all have a wonderful day in case you thank
you too. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
Absolutely, they don't stop making dirt bags. Never gonna, never
gonna run out of dirt bags in Washington. Come on, man,
that's too that's too easy. Oh wait, hold on, wait
a second, hold on, stop it. Ross. I just got

(54:06):
a text from a mutual acquaintance of both doctor Campbell
and myself who told me that last week Campbell was
still catching peekachs. I don't have to text him after
the show. Oh man, absolute crazy town. All right, seven
forty two here on the KCO Day radio program. All right,

(54:28):
so back to this, what are federal employees. What are
federal employees doing to keep DEI alive? And it's pretty interesting.
So as you have, you know, you have the purge
within the government obviously with truck, you know, with Trump
sign putting them on leave, and then we'll see where

(54:49):
it goes from here. I just think you're trying to
figure out if they can you know, what you can
do based on the different employee classes. But I look,
if the government doesn't have the flexibility to eliminate the
apartments that are unnecessary, redundant, or no longer needed because
things have changed without an Act of Congress, then government
is not nimble enough to do anything above and beyond

(55:13):
the bare minimum right because that is that's that's a
logistical problem. And if if you're a big company and
you're unable to do that, we've seen examples of this,
you know where a company was running to the ground
because it was held hostage by and then you know,
insert whatever the whatever it is. You know, unions is

(55:34):
the one like, oh, the unions are doing it, but
you know a lot of times it's a lot more
than that. So what do you do with people who
have over educated themselves honestly believe that everything is inherently
racist and and you know, white people of the perpetrators
have been paid tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars
to go give day long seminars that you're forced to

(55:54):
if you want to be employed to ten so that
you can be told you're a giant pile of crap,
and then to create scenarios where you also realize that
upward mobility is going to be a long shot for
you because you don't tick any of the diversity boxes.
You got to really believe in it. You got to
be died in that. Plus you got student loans coming

(56:14):
out your petard on this thing. And where do those
folks go, Well maybe they go into some other part
of it, and that ideology isn't part of what motivates them.
But they're believers. Man. That's like taking somebody who's a
you know as a preacher and you know, really really
believes it and wants them to work in another capacity
and then asking them to divorce themselves of you know,

(56:37):
divine influence or prayer or any of the rest. It's difficult.
This is the woke religion. And as companies don't feel
shackled because operating capital is now available to them without
a score talking about how diverse they are. Then what
incentive does a publicly traded company have to one that

(57:00):
in their office? If it's it's an unnecessary department companies
maximizing profit. Love it or hate it is something that
companies strive to do all of the time. So now
you're talking thousands, tens of that, hundreds of thousands. Perhaps
if you get into the all the underlings in these departments,

(57:22):
what are they going to do? Sure, some are going
to have applicable skills that work in other capacities. And
yeah they're educated. So you know, if you had a
basic liberal arts degree and then you got a post
you know, post grad degree and that spun you into DEI,
you probably still have marketable skills. So do they just
pretend none of it ever happened. People have suggested that

(57:44):
you need to make a list of all current DEI
associated employees that other employers when checking can literally check
that name. Well, that's just what Democrats did to Republicans,
maybe not as official, although they do have lists. Oh
they love lists, block lists mostly, but they have these lists.

(58:05):
Do you want done to them? What was done to you?
If you think it's inherently wrong. I don't know the
answer to that. I do know the answer to your
your weather troubles live with raced Agic from the Weather Channel.
Who needs to fix stuff. So I gotta look, dude,
I gotta drive down to the coast for on Saturday.

(58:27):
Man Beau for North Carolina knew.

Speaker 8 (58:30):
Yeah, Well, here's the good news. There's no additional snow
on the forecast.

Speaker 1 (58:37):
Gotcha, gotcha right, so roads improving.

Speaker 8 (58:41):
The Weather Service did hang on to the win your
weather advisory just parts of the triangle in points east
because of previous snow. There still may be some black
ice in spots cold morning though, a lot of teens
and middle teens at that even a thirteen right now
at Chapel Hill twelve as you get up your way
and then back into the triad Lewisville fourteen degrees. You

(59:03):
go further north in Rockingham County Reidsville eleven and there's
a single digit up there caswell. So it's very cold,
but temperatures will start coming back, no precept right through
the weekend until about Monday. Now we'll have to watch
it timing. On that Monday, there's a chance of rain
in the morning and if temperatures are still around freezing,
we'll see. Doesn't look like it's going to be a

(59:24):
big mess, but we'll worry about that in the next
couple of days.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
So a lot of clouds from.

Speaker 8 (59:29):
Sun today, mid upper thirties tonight in near twenty so
we are a little better there, and then sunny Friday,
upper thirties to low forties and probably in the mid
forties by Saturday with sunshine, and then wrap it up
the weekend Sunday with sunshine and back to normal as
we're on either side of fifty depending on where you are,
so upper forties probably tryad and low fifties for the triangle.
So getting better, and it looks like next week we

(59:51):
may actually get some spots close to sixty degrees, so
also be gone. Yeah, yeah, see it's over. No more winter, Yes,
Texas going away. It's over and we're looking forward now
to springtime.

Speaker 1 (01:00:04):
By the way, I want to congratulate you because you
have you guys, you count you and the your your
your team are now second in my list of NFC
East teams that annoy me. So what did we do?

Speaker 8 (01:00:18):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
Did you see the mayor of Philadelphia at the playoff
rally she held yesterday or two days ago. No, I
did not. Okay, play a little audio for you, ready, Okay,
tell me if you can see why this is really bad.
We've got to do this.

Speaker 9 (01:00:33):
Let me hear you all saying he owe, No, let's
go back.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
She misspelled the team name. She misspelled the team name,
and I don't even have a complicated team name.

Speaker 8 (01:00:53):
She was so excited, right, and so no, I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
I get it. Do you know that fifty two of
Philadelphia this is true, fifty two percent of Philadelphia adults
are functionally illiterate or completely illiterate.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
I know that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
So like maybe half the fans didn't notice. Probably not,
probably not. Man, all right, so there we go. Yeah, yeah,
you're not the mayor at the rally with the team, right,
So there's there's that. All right, man, we'll talk in
an hour. I appreciate it, all right, seven forty eight.
Hang on, we got a lot of people listen to
this show. Speedal, you just send me that money, because

(01:01:30):
like it sounds like a lot of times you're just
you're just sticking it in a wood chipper. Holy cow,
I've here's the guy's he buys boxes at seven hundred
and fifty dollars apiece. Oh again, it's your money, do
what you want with it. But as somebody who just

(01:01:50):
really wasn't clocked in on this stuff, it's just it's crazy,
not as crazy as what all these politicians claim they're
getting ready to do, and then like will immediately back
down if a pair of bracelets, you know, come out
by federal law enforcement officials, like the mayor of Denver
who's keying up to martyr himself for people in the

(01:02:13):
country illegal legal disobedience.

Speaker 10 (01:02:15):
You've mentioned that a couple of times. Now, would you
be willing to participate in those as the mayor of Denver?
Would you be willing to go out and protest these things?

Speaker 11 (01:02:22):
I would if I believe that our residents are having
their rights violate, if I think things are happening that
are illegal or immoral or an American in our city,
I would certainly protest it, and I would expect it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:33):
And you'll notice these cats don't just say yes. They
throw a lot of qualifiers in there. I suspect that's
for later when they need it going. Well, it's not
it's wrong, but it's not immoral.

Speaker 10 (01:02:44):
The residents will do the same Trump's new borders are.
Tom Holman has said that he is willing to arrest leader.

Speaker 1 (01:02:51):
He's like my Tom Holman is easily one of my
favorite characters in all of this, not just because I
had a chance to interview the guy and actually hung
out with him and some other radio hosts at a
broadcast event that we did, and he's just he's a
really interesting dude to talk to, and he has zero
bandwidth for bs either. And also we share an affinity

(01:03:14):
for a finer scotches and or whiskey. So that being said,
dude ain't screwing around, and so he you know, he's
going to be the villain in a lot of these.

Speaker 10 (01:03:24):
Interviews, like yourself for standing in the way of these
policies that they want to enact. Would you be willing
to go to jail for these things?

Speaker 11 (01:03:32):
Yeah, I'm not afraid of that, and I'm also not
seeking that. I think the goal is we want to
be able to negotiate with reasonable people how to solve
hard problems.

Speaker 1 (01:03:42):
But that's not because this is a cut and dry issue.
If you're not in the country legally, it is the
position of this administration that you will not be in
the country.

Speaker 12 (01:03:50):
If there's Massachusetts struction requests, it would the Massachusetts State
Police assist in mass deportations.

Speaker 7 (01:04:00):
Absolutely not.

Speaker 9 (01:04:01):
But you know, let me say this. I do think
it's important that we all recognize that there's going to
be a lot of pressure on states and state officials,
and I can assure you we're going to work really
hard to deliver Some realities also need to be, you know, noted,
and that is in twenty sixteen, we had a very

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different situation in the courts, and while I'm sure there
may be litigation ahead, you know, there's a lot of
other ways that people are going to act and need
to act for the sake of their states and their residents.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
There's yeah, okay, and I'm just going to cut her
off because she's alone. And remember this woman did use
state police to deport it's still cold outside cause you
haven't stepped out. There a spoiler alert on that, but
that's what this segment's about. Sometimes spoiler alerts, although maybe
I don't know that we'll have any this time around.

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But to help us do it, we invite our NERD
correspondent in Steven Kent joining us doing this morning.

Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
I'm doing really well.

Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
I was super excited to hear about the executive order
being signed extending your show, so congratulations.

Speaker 1 (01:05:09):
Yeah, we tried to get pardon so we didn't have
to do it, but that's how these things go.

Speaker 2 (01:05:14):
But Ross is still going away, man.

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
Well yeah, although I did see a tweet yessay that
said that Ross was freed, but it turned out to
be a different Ross. So sometimes selling drugs on the
internet or something were ran a site that did yeah,
pored of us. Hey, man, dude, that guy's got a
crypto wallet with I guarantee it hidden away with some

(01:05:38):
serious dollars. He's going to port himself on a yacht
to the Bahamas probably. So question, you weren't in La yesterday?

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
Were you not? That I know of?

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
Okay, I just want to make sure you weren't in
the Pokemon did right? Did you see the Pokemon riot
at the Costco.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
The Pokemon rye.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
No, I've not heard about this.

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
You're gonna have to catch me out.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
Oh you know, yeah, I'm sorry. That was my bad.
I forgot to tell Russ to send that over to you.
So yeah, apparently Pokemon produced some collect some I know
nothing about this, so bear with me. I don't know
how much you're into collectibles, but they put out some
special Pokemon packs the collectors or resellers really wanted. And

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of course, like any good Black Friday style shopping event,
there was not as many for the number of shoppers,
so grown adults fought each other in a giant melee
in the isle of Costco over Pokemon cards and Shoppingly,
it was all men. Apparently all their wives and girlfriends

(01:06:43):
weren't there with them, So what are we doing?

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
I kind of wonder, I kind of wonder if, like
ancient Greeks and Romans did this over the latest tablets
that had been drawn up. You know, you couldn't you
couldn't get people's writing super easily back then, thousands of
years ago, and maybe people brawled over tablets because they
just really wanted something to read. And fast forward to
twenty twenty five, you know, people are just really searching

(01:07:08):
for the next Pokemon. They wanted blast toys, they wanted Venosaur,
and then they fight over the cards.

Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
You know those those are Pokemon Pokemon.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, I'm more of a Charmander guy.
I grew up in the nineties, so Pokemon is part
of my culture. I don't believe that I would fight
in a costco for the cards, but there are some
very unhappy people who are on their second or third
marriage out there who really need some new cards.

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
I feel like you think you're flexing knowing all of.

Speaker 6 (01:07:39):
These I.

Speaker 1 (01:07:43):
Mean, and I know, and I know you're not a
single guy because I saw the picture you posted with
your wife going to movies, So like, you know, its
just in this case, it was all it was all dudes,
and it was just it's like the most embarrassing thing.
It's like, why were I you arrested and you got
to go to the jail right where there's some guy
who like cut his drug dealer's throat. He's in one cell,

(01:08:06):
and here's a guy over here just robbed the bang.
Like what did you do? I punched a guy for
a Pokemon card. I yeah, I gotta go well for you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
So yeah, and you know that the real truth that
people who used to be into these cards understand is
that you Geo cards were always better than Pokemon cards. Pokemon,
you know, it was the show, it was the game
Boy video game, but U Geo cards were better. I
might fight somebody over a dark magician or a Blue Eyes,
White Dragon card Casey, but not over a venusaun a Blastois.

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
I have to move on because I'm not looking up.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
These viewers and then I'm never coming back on again.

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
No, no, no, you can, but I've just I refused.
I only have I only have limited brain space, so
I'm not I'm not going to memorize any of this stuff.
Let's let's let's talk about something that equally can hurt
your brain, and that's pro wrestling. Man, this year they
moved was it just Monday Night Raw? Or is there
more over to Netflix? I haven't watched any, but I

(01:09:07):
have seen it when I've been flipping through Netflix. So
and this is part of a bigger thing. Like for
the playoff games this last weekend, there were four different
streaming services you would have needed to have to be
able to watch each of those each of the four games,
right because ESPN did one, Fox was another, NBC was one,

(01:09:30):
and then CBS and I had only two of them,
so feasibly, unless I had a TV in Frontery, which
thankfully I did, I wouldn't have been able to watch
two of those games had I been, you know, trying
to do it on my phone. This is the future
of it. Is this real? Let's talk specifically about WWE
and how it's impacting Netflix is a stock price, but

(01:09:52):
this is the future. Is this any better than when
we had cable because it seems almost as damn expensive
and less convenient sometimes, Yeah, I mean, well.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
When you put it that way, no, it's not much better.
But we are talking for WWE RAW like this is
very exciting for them because they are actually going to
be able to vastly grow their audience and cultural cachet.
And Netflix is super, super excited about WWE RAW. Investors
have absolutely rewarded Netflix for being nimble and keeping things

(01:10:24):
fresh by adding things like live events and sports in
the form of WWE.

Speaker 3 (01:10:29):
But you know, their viewership.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
Was down thirty seven percent. That is like two million
people compared to the folks who watched the first episode
or night one of WWE's new season here. So this
is a bit of a problem. If people are going
to have to switch between different platforms to watch these things,
you're going to get major atrophy frustration and people will

(01:10:55):
start watching over time. So they're going to have to
fix this. We can't be a platform hopping or season
one and season two of different shows.

Speaker 1 (01:11:03):
Yeah, well, and the other thing. And this is why
I get annoyed this. And generally I don't watch a
show if it's being released episode by episode until the
whole first season's there, and a lot of times until
they've announced a second season, because I cannot tell you
the number of shows where I've invested time they seem

(01:11:23):
to be popular and then they just don't make them,
or they take five years to make them again, and
and so you get, why would I get emotionally invested
in this thing if I'm just gonna get screwed on it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:39):
Yeah, I mean I think a lot of people feel
that way, But by and large I think that this
is good. We need to get things like WWE sports
live events. We need to get these things onto streaming platforms,
and really just try to break up what remains of
the cable cartel. Consumer are spending so little time on

(01:12:01):
cable TV packages, and sports really is the last frontier
that needs to get broken up and distributed out. But
in the end, what you're going to have is people
who are carrying multiple twenty dollars packages, probably adding up
to one hundred and fifty to one hundred and eighty
dollars is sort of the average. If you have all

(01:12:22):
of these things and then you end up worse off
than when you had a really expensive cable package, and
that's just going to be a problem. Or you could
also argue that people will just stop watching as much
television all together and just spend their time scrolling YouTube.

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
Yeah I am. I'm more likely to watch a movie
even if I don't have enough time for a full movie.
A lot of times I just won't stream anything because again,
it's the episode investment, and while they do produce a
lot of movie I'm trying to I was just in
my head trying to think of all the different streaming platforms,
like I don't even know that I know all the

(01:13:05):
ones that I have, cause like my HBO, my HBO
is rolled into my phone bill because AT and T
did an offer and it still does that. I've got Prime,
but that's a shipping thing that happens to come with
that peacock paramount. I don't have Hulu anymore. I don't
have Disney anymore because I don't need any of the

(01:13:25):
kids stuff. But it was only when there was a
new Marvel movie. And now I'll just wait and dip
in once a year, watch them and be done with it.
So like you adapt, You're right, I've adapted how I'm
doing it, and you kind of game it. It's just
like this was supposed to make things easier and more available,
and I just feel like it's it's more complicated. I

(01:13:46):
used to know that if I want to watch the NFC,
it was going to be on Fox. If the AFC
was going to be on CBS Monday Night, it was
going to be on ABC. That was it for for
like a decade. And now the where I listed plus Prime,
you know Prime has the Thursday night stuff, so we'll see.
And also it comes down to the quality of what

(01:14:08):
they're producing. And there's a lot of people very nervous
because they're going to tackle the Chronicles of Narnia stuff again.
And from a religious standpoint, there's a lot of people
and their right to be suspect because Hollywood's Hollywood, who
are sitting there looking at that, going are they going
to try to pull all of the religious iconology out

(01:14:30):
of this? What are they going to do? Greta Gerwig
is tied into this. She's she's she's been a vocal
leftists in but she's made some movies that are good,
So it's like, where do you come down on this?
Should people be nervous?

Speaker 3 (01:14:50):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
So I expect that there's going to be a lot
of controversy with Greta Gerwig's Narnia leading up to it.
What I expect more than anything is the usual round
of bad hype and actors saying things that they really
shouldn't say when they're doing interviews, and producers saying stupid things.

(01:15:11):
We've already had one of the executive producers for Greta
Gerwig's Narnia series say that Greta is going to be
having a quote very fresh take on Narnia and it's
going to be quote rock and roll.

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
What does that mean?

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
What does that mean? We don't really know. But if
you get into the sort of YouTube hype space for
this stuff, that's really bad because that sounds like revisionism,
that sounds like modernism, that sounds like sort of an SJW.
Whitewash of Narnia. So I want to lay all that

(01:15:48):
out there, But then I want to tell you that
I am optimistic about what Greta Gerwig could do here
with Narnia and I'm happy to tell you why.

Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
Yeah, please? Did I have a follow up question that'll
probably track with the so why are you optimistic?

Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
Gerwig does not have a hugely problematic track record of
saying bizarre leftist things in interviews. Her movies are typically
focused on women and women's issues and all that stuff,
which okay, fine, But Narnia is a place where she
has just expressed through interviews a really detailed.

Speaker 5 (01:16:26):
Knowledge of C. S.

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
Lewis's take on theology or reverence for it. She grew
up Catholic, in my understanding is that she is no
longer a person who believes in God, but she loves
and misses Church is something that she has talked about.
She thinks it's a beautiful system of ideas, and I
think that she is someone who really really wants to

(01:16:48):
believe in what those ideas are about, and Narnia is
sort of her expression of that. If we are charitable,
I think that she's actually going to take this quite seriously.
And I don't think it's going to be some sort
of far left redoing of Narnia.

Speaker 4 (01:17:06):
I really can't.

Speaker 1 (01:17:07):
I and I hope you're right. And here's and here's
the thing too, you don't have to. I don't think
you have to necessarily be a believer. And maybe some
people would disagree with me to be able to be
loyal to source material, right, because even if you just
break it down to words and characters and you better
make sure they're in there, that that's fine. It reminds
me of the Henry Cavill with the Witcher stuff, right.

(01:17:30):
But that ended up getting him in trouble. I ended
up getting him in trouble because the director producer lady
was I saw the interview where she you could tell
she hated that he liked the material because he would
he would speak up and and be vocal about it,
whereas he was the actor. Gerwig is the producer, right,
and the director probably the director and producer. Yeah, so

(01:17:55):
there's there's a little more control. But I saw Gerwig
doing an interview years ago with who was Harvey Weinstein's
assistant who decided to give.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
The accolade and Star Wars, Yeah, Leslie.

Speaker 1 (01:18:10):
Headland, Headland. Yeah. I saw her in Headland talking about
all that feminist stuff, and so I don't know, I
don't know. But the difference is people think that the
fans won't give them a chance. To your point, if
you just don't do an interview where you tell half
or most of your intended audience that they're dumb prior

(01:18:32):
to it, that would probably go a long way.

Speaker 5 (01:18:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
I mean, this is where I think most movies go
awry is in the press tour, where actors and directors
say just really bizarre things about the audience and about
their intentions behind the movie.

Speaker 3 (01:18:48):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
You and I debated when Barbie came out whether or
not this was a super woke movie or if it
was just feminism one point oh, And I think it's
really importance to distinguish between woke politics and feminism. I mean,
woke politics hates feminism, where like feminism.

Speaker 1 (01:19:10):
It's just tell you, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:12):
There are things that are just for women, and that
men and women are very different and they have different
interests and men are sometimes very bad to women.

Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
Wokis hate that stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
They think that women don't exist, and that I think
is sort of important to give Greta Gerwig that creative
space to be a feminist one point zero and not
accuser of being woke. But this is going to come
out in twenty twenty six on Thanksgiving on Netflix it's
going to be a blockbuster for Netflix if it is good,

(01:19:43):
and it will, I'm sorry. It will first be in theaters,
excuse me, theaters November twenty twenty six. It will be
in theaters for two to four weeks, and then it
will hit Netflix for Christmas. And it is it is
a Christmas movie Narnia.

Speaker 5 (01:19:58):
But I got to tell you, I.

Speaker 2 (01:20:00):
Think there will be a little bit of disconnect if
it's not the Lion, the.

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
Witch and the Wardrobe.

Speaker 2 (01:20:05):
And Gerwig has said that that's not where she intends
to start.

Speaker 1 (01:20:09):
Well, I've read all I've read the whole series. As
a kid, we were that thing out. So I look,
if you're a true fan and there is some loyalty
just because they people have been bait and switched so much,
it'll probably go a long way. And around the Christmas
season is probably very smart marketing.

Speaker 3 (01:20:25):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:20:26):
I didn't even get into video game stuff, but maybe
we'll do that next week. Real quick, thirty seconds. How
insane is DC right now? Around you? Everyone just losing
their minds.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
Yeah, things have calmed down quite a bit, but yeah,
there are a lot of people I think looking at
their savings accounts, their investments and their pensions and wondering
if they can retire early, and that is part of
draining the swamp.

Speaker 1 (01:20:50):
Well, all right, drain away. We'll chat soon. Appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:54):
Have a good one.

Speaker 1 (01:20:55):
All right, there you go, Stephen Kent, you're here on
the KCO Day radio program. I mentioned video game. I'll
mention what I saw because I had to have Ross
confirm it for me. We'll do that coming up next.
Hang on, dang it, I hate that Ross. You ever
do that where you're like you're just reading something you
accidentally pulled down too far and now it reloads and
whatever you were reading is never to be found again.

(01:21:18):
I mean, I can go, I'll search. In fact, so
Benjamin net and Yahoo tweeted a defense of Elon Musk
over salute gait or whatever. I didn't. I didn't think
it was funny. Yesterday, Scott Jennings was on CNN calling
his panelists salute truthers. I don't know why. All right,

(01:21:39):
So net Yahoo tweets out, I'm gonna find this because
it's just so damn funny. All right, here we go,
here we go. All right, So this is one hour ago.
He said, Elon Musk is being falsely smeared Elon's a
great friend of Israel. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's not that

(01:22:01):
that's that's not the funny part. What do you think
the comments underneath it are retweeting this now? All right?
So just repost that if you go to Casey on
the Radio or it's the top thing on net now
Who's Twitter account? If you want to head over there,
Ross you haven't seen this one. If you had to guess,
what do you think the comments are to Benjamin nett

(01:22:22):
Yahoo saying that it wasn't a Nazi salute Elon's a
friend of Israel.

Speaker 6 (01:22:27):
Mean the craziest thing that they're probably saying that Benjamin Netanya,
who is a Nazi.

Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
There's a little of that, but he also doesn't understand.
He didn't get it. I remember one of the funniest
thing exchanges I ever saw on Twitter. There's an author
I think his name is Chase Noa no Savage, Luke sav.

(01:22:56):
All right, so there's an author who wrote he wrote
a book or I wrote an article like an elongated article,
and he posted he posted a link to it, and
then somebody under it was like, well, here's what the
author really meant, and then it was just woke garbage
right where it was clear they were clearly trying to

(01:23:17):
interpret which was not not a woke thing. And the
guy's like, actually the author means this, and Savage, without
identifying himself, goes, well, no it doesn't. He goes, I
know the comedy. I goes, I know the author, and

(01:23:38):
it was. And then when the guy, when the dude
told him he was the author, the guy doubled down.
He goes, well, here's what you really meant. So, yeah, man,
that's hilarious watching some Luna lunatics that they're telling net Yahoo.
He doesn't understand anti semitism. Okay, all right, if that

(01:24:01):
works for you, all right, real quickly. I mentioned the
video game thing, and here's why, because again I I
don't have zero knowledge of video games, but compared to
like Ross and probably Steven to some extent, it's very limited.
And I saw this poll and it was done by
like PC gamer or something whatever, and it was about

(01:24:21):
the upcoming GTA title and it but in the end
it it said, so the game, the minimum costs for
the game is expected to be one hundred dollars. And
that's of course, you know with games, they tear it,
so you can spend the minimum or you can spend
a whole hell of a lot more. Do will you
be purchasing it? Now? This isn't scientific, but what I

(01:24:44):
found wild one. I didn't realize they were in charge
of one hundred dollars for a game minimum, But also seventy
percent said no, not touching this, Like twenty percent said yes.
The rest are mushy middle a game like that, I
would assume saturation is far in excess of thirty percent
in the market. So what's up with that?

Speaker 3 (01:25:08):
Right?

Speaker 6 (01:25:08):
Is that really the attitude they've been saying for a
while that it's going to be like a like a
one hundred dollars game. Now, their games have already gone
up in the past few years, like what was sixties
now seventy, And what you've been seeing is a lot
of games have been coming out with that's the standard now.
So the typical cost of a game is sixty nine
to ninety nine. That's how much is going to cost you,
and like the.

Speaker 1 (01:25:27):
Yay, yeah I did, I just went through the Diablo
thing now, but.

Speaker 6 (01:25:29):
They also release versions that are one hundred dollars or more.
You've seen this with like Space Marine and other different
games where it's like you can get that that version
of the game, or you can get this version of
the game that comes with like all the future dealc's
less micro transactions, but it's like over one hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:25:48):
So it's pay to play upfront, yes, yeah, okay, yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:25:52):
So the theory is in the gaming industry because there's
some people in the gaming industry that are like, well,
this is really good for games because players people would
rather pay the one hundred dollars and not have any
micro transactions then buy a game for sixty seventy bucks
and then you know, you end up spending even more
on that in the micro transactions, whereas I say, I
don't like playing any of the games that have any
of the micro transactions when I find out there. But

(01:26:13):
the other thing about the GTA game is there's big
rumors that it's going to be woke, which.

Speaker 1 (01:26:18):
Is and this was where I was going to go
with Steven, because if DC's doing what they're doing, college
campuses who want public money are also going to have
to divorce themselves a lot of this DEI stuff. The
military is going to be purging it. If what Trump
is hoping to do is accomplished. And if companies aren't

(01:26:38):
beholden to ESG scores so that they can get working
capital to literally stay in business, they're not going to
be incentivized because now it's just a carry costs that
you don't need. How long before it it like, if
you're a video game development company, how many times have
we talked about insanity like the Dragon game where they like,

(01:26:59):
I'm non binary like all this stuff. Yeah, I mean
that's like we just talked about all of this stuff,
and so does it de incentivize the game companies?

Speaker 6 (01:27:10):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:27:10):
Like where is that trickle down effect? If in fact
GTA six is woke because of all the massive losses
they're taking, this seems like the easy answer. I don't
know the answer to that. Speaking of CNN real quick,
CNN is uh, hold on, Mark, here we go. H

(01:27:31):
new report out CNN plans left hundreds of employees to
cut costs. NBC as well, Uh, there's there, there's a
lot a lot of changes, changes coming down the pipe.
And I'm sitting here and one don't fire Scott Jennings
if you keep anybody there, but people like Jim Acosta, like, listen,
this guy doesn't get it. He's doing nothing to try
to retain his position.

Speaker 4 (01:27:52):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:27:52):
I gotta think of costa real quick.

Speaker 12 (01:27:53):
Let's listen to this covering the first Trump administration when
they had riding outside uh of the White House. I
mean that was covered on CN on what you're saying
this is, this is not.

Speaker 1 (01:28:04):
Starting to Republican Congress.

Speaker 12 (01:28:06):
Just spin a tail and pull the wool out of
people's eyes.

Speaker 13 (01:28:09):
Now, this is CNN, this is the news.

Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
We're a By the way, I just said, you can't
spin a tail and lie to Rep. Tim Timber for.

Speaker 14 (01:28:18):
Truth, and that's why more people are watching the cartoon
network SpongeBob reruns right now. Jim, Look, I left the
White House hearing a riot. My life was threatened. My
life has been threatened within the last few weeks. Yet
there's no coverage of that, and you all continue this
narrative of trap attacking Trump. You just can't stand the
fact that he won.

Speaker 1 (01:28:37):
Yeah, yeah, so some big changes might be coming there,
so I don't look. My point is, whether it's video games,
CNN or any of the rest, are they or aren't
they going to follow suit. That's the thing I'm going
to be very interested to keep watching. All right, let's
get let's watch the weather, shall we with race? Yeah sure,
all right, watch away, sir, go ahead, Yeah yeah, well

(01:28:58):
let's just go.

Speaker 8 (01:28:59):
Because now final totals east of us where they were
heaviest to come in, and it was nine at the
right BROTHERERS National Museum nine inches of snow, and I
got an eight and a half at Lowland, North Carolina
and Hatteras eight inch. I mean, just crazy numbers. Even
South Carolina, the beaches they had snowfall. And now we're

(01:29:19):
still getting something from the weather services. There still may
be some patchy ice in spots, especially the shady areas,
but the recovery we'll continue with temperatures mid upper thirties today.
I'll probably be around forty on either side of that
on Friday, and then Saturday in the little mid forties,
and we'll crack fifty by Sunday. And all these days
under high pressure. It will be sunny, even though overlight

(01:29:40):
lows are gonna come up, still going to be in
the teens in some spots the tryad West Tomorrow morning
near twenty for the triangle, and then we'll keep that
for Saturday morning. Then Sunday load to mid twenties and
probably near freezing for an overnight low Monday morning, which
may lead to some light frozen precipitation. We have to
see on that doesn't look like it's going to be
all that aggressive, but temperatures are going to be marginal.

(01:30:03):
We'll see if the presep gets in here Monday morning, Casey,
before we see temperatures rise above freezing. But other than that,
the warm up continue next week. We've got a shot
at least a shot at maybe sixty in sub spots
by Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (01:30:15):
I'll feel like ninety. All right, Thanks, appreciate it, Have
a good one and we'll come back. Chat with Jeff
Bellinger next. Jeff Bellinger with us, Jeff, what's happening?

Speaker 13 (01:30:24):
Welcome morning, Casey. Stocks advanced in midweek trading. The major
affages had gains that range from three tenths percent to
one and three tenths percent. The stock market futures have
been mixed all morning. S and P futures down six
points and the NASDAC futures down one hundred and three.
The Dow futures, though, are up forty two points now.
Shares of Alaska Air moved higher and after hours trading

(01:30:47):
the carrier began, became the latest airline to post better
than expected fourth quarter results. Alaska Air's first quarter guidance
also top forecasts. The median price of a home here
in the US increased nearly five percent and twenty twenty
four to a record three hundred fifty thousand dollars. This
according to ADAM, home values went up and just over

(01:31:08):
ninety percent of the markets that were reviewed. Couple of
reports out this morning suggest many Americans' personal finances are
tight right now. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphias as
a record share of credit cardholders are paying just the
minimum every month, and bank rates. Latest survey found a
majority of Americans could not cover an unexpected one thousand

(01:31:30):
dollars expense from their savings. Just forty one percent of
respondent said their emergency savings were enough to handle such
an expense, and a proposed class action casey accuses Apple
of hiding the fact that the bands on the company's
smart watches contain excessive amounts of forever chemicals. The suit,
filed in a California federal court, says Apple leads watch

(01:31:53):
buyers to think the devices can improve their health, but
chemicals in the watch bands can be harmful.

Speaker 1 (01:31:59):
Casey, all right, thank you, sir, do appreciate it. We'll
chat tomorrow.

Speaker 13 (01:32:03):
Sounds good talk to you then.

Speaker 1 (01:32:05):
All right, there you go. Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg News. This
is interesting. So how do they think people aren't going
to be able to figure this out? So the sister
in law of Pete HeiG Seth's second wife, the one
who swears that this thing happened even though haig Seth
and the former wife both deny it, that is being

(01:32:27):
used to attempt to hold up his nomination. Are you
guys sitting down? Everybody's sitting down. It's gonna be very shocking.
You know where she works or who she works with?
And for the Democrat ranking member on the Armed Services Committee,
I'm gonna repeat this, the ranking member who is that?

(01:32:50):
Adam Smith? I think the carterssman from California. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
works as a partner of the law firm with the woman.
Is it a coincidence? I don't know, maybe, but that's
an interesting little nugget there. You can still go over
the page and see their smiling faces there. That's interesting.

(01:33:14):
I'm sure that's just a coincidence. I wouldn't worry too
much about that.

Speaker 2 (01:33:18):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:33:18):
You know. One of the things too, is Trump sat
down for a first interview. I guess he's done well.
I mean he did do some Q and A obviously
in the Oval office. Who remember that telling that reporter
to hush. The reporter apologized to by the way, that
was kind of a funny exchange. But Trump's dropping some
little hints in there and some little of this, a
little that people trying to pick up where we're headed

(01:33:38):
for this thing, and this was a rather interesting one
if you want to try to read into this, or
maybe you don't even have to.

Speaker 5 (01:33:46):
Sky want to run giving everybody partons and you.

Speaker 1 (01:33:48):
Know that talking about Biden.

Speaker 13 (01:33:50):
Obviously Skut wont to run giving everybody partons. And you
know the funny thing, maybe the sad thing is he
didn't give himself a part.

Speaker 5 (01:34:01):
And if you look at it, it all had to
do with him.

Speaker 1 (01:34:06):
I'm now more convinced that Baron, that's what Baron Trump
told him something along those lines were coming for you,
or you didn't pardon yourself. I did see the because
you can only see his lips for a few moments
because of how Baron speaks, where you kind of see
it on the angle and then he turns his head
and then you can see the last part of what

(01:34:27):
he says. And they were trying to do the lip
reader thing. And I don't know, man, because a lot
of times with lip reader stuff, once they tell you
that this is what you should look for, your brain
may try to attach to it rather than being, you know,
trying to evaluate whether it's accurate. But I don't know.

(01:34:50):
Maybe I'm sure Trump when he's sitting in a room
somewhere and Baron's in there, maybe Milania's in there, and
a couple advisors, maybe the chief of staff, I'm sure
he opened he says this stuff. And I'm sure as
they were sitting on the campaign trail there and then
they were in DC, you know, for everything with the inauguration,
his whole family's there. You know, we saw there was

(01:35:13):
that video that emerged of Trump sitting there with his
now comms director, the White House Press director who is
his comms director at the time, who we interviewed Miss Levitt,
And you saw the process in that video of how
Trump tweets, where she's sitting there with the laptop and
he's just he's watching stuff and I think he was
watching Kamala A Kamala's speech or something, and he's just

(01:35:35):
barking out the tweets. She's typing them. He's making comments
to everybody who's in the room. So he talks. Sure,
that's going to permeate the brain of the people around him,
especially people who have suffered indignities because of Trump's position.
You know, this is what happens with kids of president's
man or kids of famous people for that matter. It

(01:35:58):
goes they either resent the who attack them unfairly or
the people that they love, or they end up resenting
their parents for putting them in that position. You see
this stuff all the time. So yeah, I'm sure that
Trump has brought this up just in conversation around there

(01:36:20):
and they It wouldn't surprise me, to say the very least.
All Right, one more quick thing. Oh, it's right, because
we hit Jeff early. I actually got a couple more
minutes than I used to or than I normally do.
Why is this not loading? Okay, here it goes, so
we'll get into this more. Do you think it's worth

(01:36:42):
the time to do another January sixth panel? In this case,
it would be to invest the investigate the investigators. But
remember the investigators who were on that committee themselves got pardons.
Although the one chick who is said to have lied
at the behest of chaining, she was not on the
pardon list. Former staffer for Trump who ended up And

(01:37:08):
you saw this whole exchange message message exchange, and so
you know there are pieces to it, and that was
a big Remember this is the woman. Her name escapes
to me, it doesn't matter. She's the one who claimed
that Donald Trump tried to punch the Secret Service driver
of the Beast or attacked you remember that insane allegation

(01:37:30):
that he was attacking. It was part of the January
sixth narrative because I don't remember the motivator. He wanted
to go over there, he didn't, and he physically accosted
a Secret Service member, which does that make any sense
to you? But you could see that Cheney was the
one really leading that to fruition. So even though the

(01:37:52):
committee members may be covered, jack Smith's not covered. There
was a report out yesterday that Jack Smith had requested
a pardon and that either Biden or some of his
top staff said, no, you failed us. You're on your own.
That's cold. Man