Thursday-10-16-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Coming up on the show. It is Thursday. We will
chat with Stephen Kent. That will be uh you know,
aighto five ish as as we normally do. Uh dude,
I don't know what is going on with our our
next gen stuff this morning. That is crazy. All right, Well,

(00:22):
all I have to do is literally reset everything.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
And uh then it works. So there you go.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Okay, So I I have to tell you, as as
much as I'm annoyed by her, and Lord knows it's annoying,
eoc is absolutely a treasure man by it's gonna be
it's gonna be some moonbat out of that district. Anyway
you're there's you're not gonna get around that. So if

(00:51):
you're gonna have somebody and they're gonna be as dumb
as she is, it just makes just makes life so
much easier for people like me who you know, this
is what we do. We go through, we analyze the news,
we talk about it, try to have a humorous take a.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Lot of it.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Some of you can, some of it you can't. I mean,
that's just the reality of doing this job, man. That
being said last night's town hall with her and Bernie
Sanders on CNN to obsensively freak out. The whole time
was perfect, and it was stuff like this right here,
I'm only going to don't worry. I'm only going to

(01:35):
subject you to about twenty seconds because at that point
I had to tap out too.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
But it's worth it.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Rivers in rural areas were on fire because of corporations
poisoning the people who lived in those areas. Poor middle
class communities getting poisoned and dumped on by corporations like
Deloitte and three M pouring chemicals into these places. And
they want to call it a democrat a priority, right.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, Okay, Ross, do you know what Deloitte does? Three
M does make chemicals and they're based out of Minneapolis.
And I have to be honest, I lived in Minneapolis.
I well, technically I think they're in Saint Paul, but whatever,
I don't remember the Mississippi River on fire or stories
of that being a thing. So that's one thing that

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being said Deloitt. Deloitte is a financial firm. They do
like audits, and it's like it's no offense because I know.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
A couple of people were for Deloitte.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
It's it's it's pretty boring, very wonky, numbers stuff. I mean,
that's what they They're like an auditing firm. They they
come in use it. You know, a lot of the
people that are contracted are literally the government. Delite has
a lot of government contracts to essentially provide financial auditing

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and oversight services for you know, government institutions, a lot
of businesses as well. Clearly, but they don't make any chemicals.
So I don't know what this woman's on about, but
I appreciate the effort. You know, if you're gonna have
a town hall, that is going to be you and

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one other person, so you know you're gonna be talking
a lot, you might just and you kind of probably
know what direction you want to go because you know,
you take a question and then you kind of spin
it to what it is you wanted to say. Like
so arguably she had that in the bank, and I
wouldn't have it any other way.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
So thank you to her. That's it.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
That's that's all I'm gonna subject you to.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
With the.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
With the AOC audio this morning, because we got other
good audio. We got some Supreme Court audio that's uh
sounds very nineteen twenty ish. It's the best way to it, man,
sounds very Jim croweh we will play that for you,
especially with who's saying that.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
So that's amazing. Uh.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
For some reason, the Zohan is that what we're ross
is that we're calling him the Zohan, right, That's what
I call him?

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Okay, all right, And I'm well aware that in the
movie the Zohan was Jewish, but this guy running for
office doesn't like Jews, so I'm calling him the Zohan to.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Pisso yeah, no, it's funnier that way.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Absolutely. Sohan went on Fox yesterday, which normally I'd be like,
you know, credit to you going on because you know
the same. But also he's so smug and arrogant and
stupid I think I don't know, so we will will
investigate what's going on with him, and uh, you know,

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just just a bunch of stuff to get into. Would
you get Hey, Ross, you guys watched The Victoria's Secret
Show last night. Baby, they're doing it normally again. Now,
people I did see some people were like ah, because
they were like, oh, it's very diverse. They actually said
that in the way they were marketing it. And by
diverse they met smoke shows of all different races, which

(05:11):
I'm fine with the beef was not that and in fact,
the very first model that came out was like nine
months pregnant.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
And some people but but here's here's.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
The win that's clearly a woman, you know what I mean,
and and for not you know, sometimes women get pregnant.
I don't know if you guys know this, and she
looks stunning and then they you know, they had the
whole you know, the rest of the models, although they
did have like I didn't actually watch it, but I
did review several snippets most of the last hour on

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the Twitter, and uh, it's just so crazy, like the
pendulum with the Victorious Secret Show over the last like
five years. Right, Hey, what was the first year where
they're decided to go straight woke on that? I think
it was like twenty twenty one twenty Everything got weird
in twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, twenty twenty one, I think, right,

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because they were out of COVID. But we're into the
mostly burning everything down peacefully thing, and then they're like,
all right, here's some dudes, here's some morbidly obese men
and women. Here's I don't know, here's some farm animals.
Stick stick them in a boostie and send them out there.

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And now they're just like, all right, here's all the models.
Yes they're wayfishly thin. Yes, most people will never be
able to achieve that level, but.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
It's like that CNN article the other day where they're like, oh,
they were bemoaning the return of the male gaze. I
believe it is how they were to it, which was,
you know, putting hot people on TV and movies.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
It works.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
And if you're Victorious Secret, you're selling something that's aspirational.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Anyway. Okay, women, you go.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
To the Victoria's Secret there, right, most of the women
who are not shopping there are not are that are
shopping there are not internationally almost you know, a cartoonishly gorgeous.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
I mean that in a positive way.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Women, Right, they're just everyday people and they go and
they want to get something sexy and they want to
show it off to their husband or whatever.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
And that's great.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
And by the way, speaking on behalf of dudes, we
appreciate that, Oh he's not spending gazillion dollars, but we're
fine with that. Everybody knows what's up. You didn't have
to break this thing and then they put the thing
on TV. It probably did good ratings. I don't know,

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but I thought it was very important to start the
show with that today. So there you go. All right,
let me do this. It's six or fourteen. We'll hit
the brake. Now, we'll get the rundown and right into
the audio. We'll do that coming up next. Hang on,
thanks for hanging out with us on this Thursday morning.
So I think I mentioned it. Yes, So Stephen Ken
he'll join us at eight oh five. We got klingon

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skirts and teenage mutant ninja turtles and all sorts of
stuff to chat about with him. So, you know, a
lot of very adult topics. Oh, I wonder if you
saw the Victoria's Secret show. Well we can ask so
so AnyWho that's going to be a thing coming up
a little later in the uh.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
The show.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Like I said, do you have a bunch of audio
and when you get in to do this a Keem
Jefferies thing.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
I had no idea. I only learned this.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Like two weeks ago, that he is that he used
to be a rapper or aspiring rapper, because he like
he did something like a few weeks ago where he
was kind of I think it was. I think it
was right when the shutdown started, and like during the
press he starts rapping.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
I guess that's what he calls it. I don't know.
So he's doing that again yesterday.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Oh we'll get into it. Don't you worry. Don't you
worry that'll be coming up because uh just dying lay.
I think I can do a better job, to be
honest with you, I think that I can wrap battle
Hakeem Jeffries and win. You know what, I'll do it
on the show spur of the moment gonna happen. In fact,

(09:44):
here you ready, let's go aheat. Let's go ahead and
do this thing, shall we.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
First? Here is Hakeem Jeffries. Okay, all right, here we go.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
Republicans shut the government down. Then they ran out of town. Yeah,
for the last three weeks, there's nowhere to be found.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Ah sud he did there? Ross?

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Is that straight fire? I know you're a rap connoisseur.
Would you say that is straight fire? From the king Jeffries?

Speaker 2 (10:14):
There? I feel like I could do a better job.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
All right, hold on, do we have a beat? I
need a beat? Sorry, Keem didn't get a beat. I
need a beat.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
That'll be the only difference. I need a beat. All right,
here we go. I don't think.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
That's a beat, but we can use it, so let's
go ahead, all right? Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
The Keem Jeffries, which speeches so grand, thinks he's the boss,
but he's sinking in sand, leading with flair, yet his
plans never land.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Is that good?

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Or is that sound like quadrains from uh No, I
don't know? Is wrapped for Whitey?

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Here we go? Hakeem Jeffries wi swaggers so bold talks
a big game, but his promises fold running the show.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yet his moves are ice cold? How am I better
than a Keem Jefferies? Now we pail in comparison to
the goat. I recognize that.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Tracked looking for my chapsick, feeling kind of coartic as
a full Maverick.

Speaker 6 (11:35):
See that's a million dollar song, right yere?

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, I can't argue with Melbour who's most wanted? Man?

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Oh, everything's so stupid. You got the government is shut down,
one of your main constituencies are not getting paychecks. We're
getting fired, and I don't know the good paychecks coming back. YEA,
Like this is this is one of your largest groups

(12:05):
of almost die hard universally die hard supporters are Washington
DC government workers. Man, Like, we we know that the
like the district went ninety some percent for Hillary.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Everybody knows that.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
And and and yet you want to continue this and
then you want to go up and wrap battle reporters
or whatever the heck that was. Like I still I
said this yesterday we were chatting with the congressman. I
don't understand how they think they're Like, nobody's winning per se,
although I don't know if if if it eventually leads

(12:43):
to savings and downsized government, I guess that'll be a win.
But nobody's winning just in the malaise of it.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
It's just also stupid. But least of all has to
be Democrats like I.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
You can gauge the perception on this stuff, and they've
been successful previously where Republicans kind of shouldered the blame.
But I and I know that we live in a
little bit of a bubble. But I really try to
listen to perspectives. And you know that's where we get
audio from stuff like aoc here blaming Deloitte and Touche
for river fires. Uh and yes, people tell she probably

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meant DuPont. She probably did, but she didn't say DuPont,
she said Deloitte. They're not even in they're not even
in the same hemisphere. Well I guess technically they are,
but you know what I mean. And so I mean,
they're just they're just getting kicked in the teeth over
this thing every day, and and and the thing is

(13:44):
is you have It would be one thing if you
were both rushing to reopen the government, but most Republicans
don't care. They're like, hey, you want to do this,
that's fine. You can't swear in your member, so you
go have your little weird march over to the Speaker's
office even though he's not there.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Like all you all you have is stunts, man.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
But it also kind of it sounds like the media
doesn't care either. I was reading yesterday where it was
the New York Times and the Washington Post. What was yesterday?
It was like day fifteen of the shutdown or something,
And there are absolutely no stories yestera care in the shutdown.
Nobody cares.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Yeah, and the read but because they recognize that the
Democrats are losing the public perception on this. That's my
theory as to why you're not seeing stories, so to
remind people of it, we just can would make more
people angry, or continue to make people angry at the Democrats.
That's why you're not seeing stories. I saw somebody make
the comparison. They said, you know, shutting down the government

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is the same as shutting down the w NBA.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
No one's going to notice.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Did they shut I think they're did they shut them down?
They're almost done, aren't they.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
I have no idea, don't know.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, exactly see ye how that works? Don't know.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
I think they're playing, might not be, might have had
a winner already, my I don't know.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
I pretty much too well. I never really tuned in.
But uh I stopped even reading updates when Clark was out.
Oh yeah, that's somebody like my rapping. Yeah, I'm a
good rapper. Rappy rap, rap, rap, That's what I do.
I got a new career just because I'm better in Hakeem.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
So, I don't know. Maybe I'll do some more rapping later.
Uh so. Oh, speaking of hip hop and all that,
I was listening to our local news, I guess our
Raleigh version, and uh they were talking about how a
bunch of people were late getting to the Chris Brown concert.
I didn't know Chris Brown was still touring. Man. The
only two things I know about Chris Brown.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Is, uh, some people danced into a wedding one time
with his song and he put his.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Hands on on on on the women's So was it Rihanna? Right?
And my my, my misremember was Rihanna that he was dating? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (15:59):
I know at the time, Chris Brown was going to
be like the next Michael Jackson, yeah, or like the
next Usher is probably better comparison, okay, and Rihanna was
just starting up like she you know, she wasn't who
she is now, like the billionaire Rihanna, and that sort
of has switched now.

Speaker 1 (16:15):
I will say that it is one of my favorite
Bill burbits where his old you don't hit a woman
and he's doing that Rihanna things, you know, before he
went Looney Tunes.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
So I didn't know he was still touring.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
So, you know, we just found we just found a
a flyer from a radio station event we did when
I worked in Atlanta back in two thousand and five,
and it was like and it's like, here's all the
headliner's coming right, yeah, and it was like Will Smith
Backstreet Boys, and at the bottom, at the very bottom
and tiny letters it said opening performance by Rihanna because

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nobody knew who she was.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Oh, this is the I've told you the usher story before,
right yeah, yeah, Like it's because I used to wear concerts.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
You guys know, I used to wear concerts. And it
was I.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Don't remember who the headliner was was a woman, doesn't matter,
she's the headliner the second act. So this is not
even the opening, this is the second this is the
better of the other two.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
Was next.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
I don't know if you guys remember next.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
Yeah, they did this song too Close, which is super dirty.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
It is a little dirty.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
And the way that it worked is our credentials that
I'm working a concert were tied to one of the acts,
and because it was one of the first concerts I worked,
I have credentials for the opening opening act and to
be up in spot world, which is you know where
the spotlights and all that stuff are, so my credential,

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and you have to physically walk through the venue because
it's an amphitheater. It's called the Santa Barbara Bowl, and
so once you leave the backstaye Jerry. There's no way
to travel up the spot world without walking where everybody walked.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
H So my.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
Lanyard said Usher. Well, I didn't know who the hell
Usher was, and people were like asking me where their
seats were and stuff, and we just thought that was hilarious.
I still had no idea who Usher was, and he
did his big song and I remember listening to that's
pretty good, and then all of a sudden, he's Usher
one day.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
So yeah, it was funny because I'm off stage and
I had to introduce these people at this Christmas event.
So I'm off stage and I have the mic. I'm
really go on and I'm like, how do you pronounce
this person's name? I'm like, is it Riet Hannah will Smith? Yeah?
But it was written like, all right, Rihanna, so go
out there, introduc Her. I think it was at like
where did the Hawks play basketball? Is where we had

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to say, and it was like, you know, so introduc Her.
She goes out and she's just wearing like jeans and
a T shirt, you know, and she sings, if I
remember correctly, she sang the national anthem and it was
I remember she got done, and I'm staring at her
on stage, and I'm just like, on the mic, I'm like,
that was incredible, but that.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Was really good. Yeah you could tell that, dude. I love.
I love live.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Music if it were for the people, you know what
I mean. I love like, I really enjoyed that airworking concerts.
I liked it less having to be on stage and
introducing people, which you know, if you've worked in radio,
and I worked in music radio and Ross obviously has,
you know, you get tasked with because I just because
they don't want to see you, and then sometimes you

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got to go out and like fill time or tell
him about something. They're like, oh, here's some announcements like
shut up loser, put the person on we paid to see.
But man, I love I love watching somebody whose performs in.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Person is really good at it.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
I told you I was, you know, I was always
had like, Joe Cocker's good. If you've ever seen Joe
Cocker perform live, he's amazing.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
And I don't know what it is.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
I'm not some Joe Cocker simp when I'm in you know,
I'm like twenty at the time or nineteen, but I
remember just being blown away watching that dude. Perform just
that good. So yeah, absolutely, And then what's the other concert.
If you're going to the other cod's Billie Eilish, So
if you're going to that concert, you're probably screwed because
the fair starts today, or just get there really really early.

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But this is a thing that happens every year around
fairtime because there's concerts at Lenovo there.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
So I'm going to give a little hack of how
to get really good parking at the State Fair. Okay,
this is my own experience. What you want to do
when you go down there, if you're used to like
going down to the State you know the which side
and circling and looking. What you want is a media pass.
Oh yeah, So you get a media pass and when
you drive up, you show them your pass and they

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let you park right across by the water tower. Yea,
how it used to be. I know, if it's the
same way.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
It's been there, and then one time it was by
where the pond is there, right as you go in
on the north side of it.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
That was pretty good parking.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
So just get you a media pass and it's super easy.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
Yeah, it's a point to the last time we went.
What was it like three years ago now where we
won't go back anymore because we tried to park in
the handicapped spot so Lincoln could go to the fair
and they were like, nope, it's all full. There was
nowhere to park for handicap people where they were never
coming back here again.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
Well, and this year will be a lot worse because
every minority is handicapped.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
Now that's a good point.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yeah, that's gonna be it's gonna be far worse. That's
not me saying that. I would not say that because
that's sound you. I can't believe you said that.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
I can't believe I quoted a Supreme Court justice. Okay,
absolutely right, absolutely right? Which one was it? All right?
It was one of the one of the women's Ah.

Speaker 4 (21:48):
Yeah it was Barrett, the white racist.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
The one of the other ones.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
Oh it's Cavanaugh. No, I wish they should have burned
his house down and they had the chance. The racist.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Uh no, yes again, yes again, the Wise can No, well,
it's not the Wise, Okay, this Clarence Thomas.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
No, No, if you if you guess Kalia, I'm so out.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
No, how about Antons? No, he literally wasn't he reasons
some reasons. It was Jost. He came back and he
was like, Oh, I'm gonna say something horrible. It was Katanji.
It was Hey JB. Kaitanji brown Man. I didn't say it.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
She said it, and just I remember seeing it. I
saw yesterday when somebody said she said it, and I'm like,
it can't clearly be that bad. That's that's somebody on
Twitter baiting me.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
And then I listened to it.

Speaker 7 (22:56):
It kind of paradigmatic example of this is something like
the Ada Congress.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
Passed this should be clear, this is this is there,
This hearing is over the Voting Rights Act, whether it's
going to stick around or not. And if it doesn't,
because you know, North Carolina already got out from under it. Frankly,
it does not have a purpose and other than to

(23:24):
probably give Democrats a free ten to fifteen congressional seats.
So like this, if this thing goes it is devastating
for Democrats. So that's what they're discussing here that had,
you know, foreseing minority districts, all of these things.

Speaker 7 (23:39):
Americans with disabilities act against the backdrop of a world
that was generally not accessible to people with disabilities, and
so it was discriminatory in effect, because these folks were
not able to access these buildings, and it didn't matter
whether the person who built the building or the person

(24:00):
who owned the building intended for them to be exclusionary.
That's irrelevant. Congress said, the facilities have to be made
equally open to people with disabilities, if readily possible. I
guess I don't understand why that's not what's happening here.
The idea in section two is that we are responding

(24:23):
to current day manifestations of past and present decisions that
disadvantage minorities and make it so that they don't have
equal access to the voting system.

Speaker 6 (24:37):
Right, they're disabled.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
They're they're disabled. But are they are?

Speaker 1 (24:44):
Because again, let me all right, let me throw this
out eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven
four this is for my minority listeners. Okay, So for minority,
are you guys super pumped to get to park wherever
you want? Like? What, how else can you because apparently
you're disabled. I haven't seen you as disabled unless you

(25:09):
are physically disabled, then yes, But like that's insane, that's like,
that's like nineteen twenties reasoning.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
That's three fifths stuff that's gross.

Speaker 4 (25:23):
Yeah, I know, it's completely insane that a Supreme Court
justice would make that argument. That's like, she shouldn't be there. Oh,
she's just dumb. She's dumb.

Speaker 1 (25:33):
She's she's she's a dumb activist. She's like AOC, a
dumb activist.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
Are you just saying that, you know your minority black
voters are so dumb they don't they can't vote, They
can't get off their ass and vote.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Well, they can't figure out they don't. I just they
don't know where that where it happens or I don't know.

Speaker 2 (25:53):
That's crazy, but I would never say that on the show.

Speaker 4 (25:56):
The fact that they make these entire districts based bound
race out like natural boundaries or you know, yeah, nuts
like you if you were down You're like, hey, there's
a lot of white people live here, so this is
going to be the white district and this over here
is the black district. That's that's the definition of racism.
Like what are we doing here? Well it this is
called that red lighting. This isn't like the Antebellum South,

(26:17):
you know what I mean. It's twenty twenty five. We're
moving into twenty twenty six. How can this even still
be a thing?

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Now she made that argument, which is clearly dumb eight
eight eight ninety three four seven eight seven four.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
I just again, are you pumped about your park? Is
just from my minority listeners? And do you not know
where to vote?

Speaker 1 (26:33):
I'm so confused because if you don't, I will personally,
because I want you to vote, I will personally help you.

Speaker 2 (26:40):
Find voting press.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
But that is a thing that it doesn't matter what
your racis. You can lots of young voters will be like, Hey,
I'm really interested in voting in this election. Where is
a Where where do I vote? You pick up your phone,
you go to your computer, you go to Google, you
find out and you go there.

Speaker 8 (26:54):
Now.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
No, apparently, if your minority, you just sit around trying
to bite your own ear or something.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
I don't know. Yeah, not me. Kaitanji Jackson Brown here
with deep thoughts, and she had more.

Speaker 7 (27:06):
I don't understand why your answer to Justice Kagan's question
about is this a compelling state interest is no. The
answer is obviously yes, that you have an interest in
remedying the effects of racial discrimination that we identify using
this tool. Whether you go too far in your remedy

(27:26):
is another.

Speaker 6 (27:27):
Issue, right, John, I think step zero in all these cases.

Speaker 7 (27:30):
It was certainly step zero in the Robinson litigation is
the plaintiffs came in and said, we want another majority
black district. I thought they came in and said we
are not receiving equal electoral opportunity because our votes are
being diluted.

Speaker 6 (27:42):
Which is the same way of saying we deserve a second.

Speaker 7 (27:44):
No, it's not because that again, just trust me on this.
It is the second electoral or second.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
By the way, Ross her strongest argument was right there.
The trust me bro which is something that trust me
bro is a hell of an argument for Supreme Court justice.

Speaker 7 (28:03):
Strict is a remedy that one could offer for a
problem that we've identified. And the whole Robinson litigation was
about identifying the problem. Is this really happening? In many,
many Section two cases, the court says, you're wrong, You're fine,
there is not an electoral opportunity being denied to you.

Speaker 6 (28:23):
Go away.

Speaker 7 (28:25):
In this case, the court said, I see, I'm looking
at the factors.

Speaker 6 (28:29):
I appreciate what you're saying.

Speaker 7 (28:30):
You've proven that we have this problem, and so the
next question is how do we go about remedying it.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Right, Okay, well, one, what's the problem we still have?

Speaker 1 (28:43):
The simple refusal to dilute is an absolutely dumb argument.
You're going to be deluded if you are a small
enough percentage, and it doesn't just go for people who
are black or Hispanic or white for that matter.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
It goes for people with red.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Hair, right, people with and then insert something else that
afflicts you know, five to ten percent of the population.
Why is it only done in this one instance. And
you can talk about historically why you think it was necessary,
But in this day and age, why would we do that.

(29:20):
Some of these districts are crazy, the ones we used
to have in North Carolina crazy, the Snake District that's
that was a result of this, the Greensboro to Charlotte monstrosity,
Alma Adams Old District.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Geez man.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
So she's arguing, well, you can't dilute. There's nothing that
says you can't dilute. And if you're a you know,
thirteen fifteen percent of the population, you're going to be deluded.
Gay voters are diluted unless they all choose to live
in San Francisco. I guess you understand the point that
I'm making so this is this is where we are,

(29:59):
and this woman is people are essentially the same as
disabled people.

Speaker 9 (30:06):
Jac Kac it was it's only been said, KC. Did
you know from my own because of my blackness, I'm
able to part him. He ain't the cap parking everything
because Saints and Cartantia Jackson Brown. She has basically went
back to an argument that said black people can't thrive
the airplane. Why I can't brom people by airplane, KC?
Because we got different blood business and say we can't
cake anymore, we can't captain ships anything. This woman is

(30:31):
single handedly proving every white race is correct. This is
what she does. She's living proof why people say they
shouldn't be up there. Thank god for Currence Thomas. But
did you hear the other argument that she did not address,
and none of them ben addressed when the guy said
about well what about white voters in West Virginia. I

(30:54):
don't know if you heard that quip, but he was like,
in West Virginia there's no Democrat representation. Are we gonna
say white democrats need representation? And they nobody answered that question.
She didn't say a word, but just hearing her yesterday
case just hearing this woman compare black folks to handicapped people.

(31:17):
It was just so I'm like, oh my god, there's
gonna be some black folks right now listening to you
that's gonna be mad because you talking about the sister.
You're talking about that from madhole way to the top.
You're talking about someone that's a d e I Supreme

(31:37):
Court justice, and every time she opens her mouth, she
shows it. If people want to know why they question
whether or not a black Democrat not a black Republican.
People don't question Black Republicans on DEI stuff like that,
or whether or not we got that hired for the

(31:57):
simple fact they know we are screwed Mas and the
stuff we have to go through to get the position.
Democrats all they have to do is show up and
be blacks, and they get positions. They truly don't deserve.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Kick off for the state fairs. So if you want to.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
Go gorge yourself, feel free. The weather will probably cooperate
for much of the state fair. This is kind of
like perfect state fair weather. You know the parts that
will be dry. We'll talk to Ray Stagic about all
that coming up a little later, but there's nothing worse
when it's still a billion degrees. Because we've had a

(32:37):
couple of state fairs where it was like really hot
late October I met was that the one ross you
and I had to go sit together with a big
bowl of candy?

Speaker 2 (32:44):
It one was that you and I who did that?

Speaker 1 (32:47):
Trying to remember where somebody came up and was just
like taking all the candy and we didn't care.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
CO did that? Yeah, yeah a few times of thing.
Definitely once, Yeah, but I mean that, yeah, they should
they show up and they take everything you got.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah, and we're fine because we running the assumption if
we ran out of candy we could go right.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
But yeah, so we're encouraging. We're like, ah, why'd you
get a bag? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (33:10):
And it was it was a super big bull. We
were being tortured. But anyway, now this would be this
would be great. So you know, beats it. Giant turkey leg. See,
that's the That's what I wrestle with right there, because
you don't you know, the giant turkey leg is not
normally available another although I have they have them, you know,

(33:31):
like at the I refuse to call it the Carolina Classic,
the Dixie Classic, which was that's you know over in
Winston there that giant turkey. I had to go do
a thing there for Greensboro Station eight. Two of those
things so worth it. So but if you are going
to head out, yeah, it'll be a traffic nightmare. But

(33:53):
you know, if you're into it, probably worth it.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
So there you go. All right.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
So I played some audio of Katanji Katanji Jackson Brown,
our newest Supreme Court justice, on this Voting Rights Act
the case, and I'm gonna play the audience one minut
I'm gonna play it again because apparently people don't feel

(34:17):
that I'm interpreting what she's saying correctly. So I want
you to hear it, and then I will explain more
thoroughly why she absolutely is saying that okay, even if
she doesn't mean to a.

Speaker 7 (34:29):
Kind of paradigmatic example of this is something like the
Ada Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act against the
backdrop of a world that was generally not accessible to
people with disabilities, and so it was discriminatory in effect
because these folks were not able to access these buildings,

(34:53):
and it didn't matter whether the person who built the
building or the person who owned the building intended for
them to be exclusionary. That's irrelevant, Congress said, the facilities
have to be made equally open to people with disabilities,
if readily possible. I guess I don't understand why that's

(35:14):
not what's happening here. The idea in section two is
that we are responding to current day manifestations of past
and present decisions that disadvantage minorities and make it so
that they don't have equal access.

Speaker 6 (35:31):
To the voting system. Right, they're disabled.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
All right, so here's all right. Let me use her
example to explain why that's exactly what she said. That
wheelchair analogy, whether it's in the nineteen fifties.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Or today, holds. Do you understand what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (35:53):
So, if I have a building and it's a precinct,
a voting precinct, and the only way to get the
voting precinct just to go up a flight of stairs,
the person in the wheelchair, whether it's nineteen fifty or today,
still is dealing with the same exact obstacle because they

(36:14):
are disabled. A black person showing up to a voting
precinct in nineteen thirty's Alabama does not face the same
obstacles that they had showing up to a voting booth
in twenty twenty five Alabama. It's an absurd comparison, right,

(36:37):
for all the reasons we know, all the reasons we
know where you had these counties that even though they had,
you know, twenty five fifty percent black populations, where you
had no Blacks registered to vote, like.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
That was a thing. That was a thing. That's not
a thing.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
Now there's more souls to the polls and all the
rest of us like, So, the comparison is garbage. Unless
you're claiming that they are still facing that obstacle they
are disabled for the purpose of being able to cast
a vote.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
That is not the case.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
So to make that claim with such a dumb comparison
and then tag it with they're disabled. Drawing back to
her comparison is clearly what she's saying. She thinks the
two things are equal. They are not equal. And I
would challenge you on the other side of this. If
that had been pick one of the if that had

(37:37):
been John Roberts saying what she said, that same train
of thought, there would be no other story on the
news today.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
That's the other side of this.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
If it was one of the quote unquote Republican or
conservative justices, and they made that same argument. The only
thing you would be hearing is that a evil, racist,
Republican you know, Supreme Court justice just compared black people
and saying that they have a disability.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
That's why it's so absurd.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
So for those two reasons, I'm not giving her the
benefit of the doubt because I was able to process
those things in my brain while I was drifting off
to La La land last night. These are sitting Supreme
Court justices, So I guess we'll agree to disagree if
you don't think it's a fair comparison, but I do

(38:35):
at the very least, it's incredibly stupid. So there's that,
all right, Hang on, Anthony, what's up?

Speaker 6 (38:46):
Hey?

Speaker 10 (38:46):
I was just gonna say that, you know, we should
be making the same argument as if black folks voted Republican,
because yeah, she's basically saying, there a bunch of Uncle Tom,
They're all voted the way we want them to vote.
That's why we need some redistrict and white.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Well it's again, do you do you think at one
time laws that made it easier for blacks to vote,
especially in the South, which is where this is targeted. Uh,
we're we're necessary considering that you had the same Yes, absolutely,
do you think that that exists today?

Speaker 2 (39:21):
No?

Speaker 10 (39:23):
But the thing is the thing is that the fact
that she votes to a d A which is about
physical disabilities. Yeah, nothing about the people prevent you from
getting to a Yeah it doesn't. You know, they can
go to foot locker or about her two hundred dollar sneakers,
but you know they can't get vot.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
You can go wherever you want, I mean for the
within reason, like you have to sneak onto a military base.
But you know, look, if it's a public accommodation, if
it's a voting booth, if it's a church, if it
is any of those, you can go and look, yeah,
there the voting.

Speaker 10 (39:59):
The voting in my county at the public elementary school.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
Yeah, by my precinct is their church just down the
street from my house and every Sunday on Sundays. That
church is very diverse. I will say, so clearly there's
not a problem.

Speaker 10 (40:15):
I have a bigger problem with that because you have
and then put the voting in the well.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
But my point that I'm making is that church is
so old that there probably was a time where it
wasn't diverse, if you understand what I'm.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Saying, right, oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. So like this,
this is the thanks for the call, Anthony. This is
the absurdity of it.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Right, But if you're in a wheelchair and you got
to go up the fly stairs to vote, you are
in the same boat you were back in the fifties
or or whatever.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
That's the example I keep using. But you understand, so.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
So so glad that she's on the court, and so
glad she'll probably be on the court for forever.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
God help us.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
All right, let me let me kick out to the
this thing is this is so bad. Have you guys
seen the trailer for the new Amadeis?

Speaker 8 (41:15):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (41:17):
First of all, why are we redoing Amadaeis? Ross?

Speaker 4 (41:20):
You love this movie, by the originally it's one of
my favorite movies ever. Yeah, Like, it's easily like top
five with Joe Dirt. I will Godfather one to Joe
Dirt Amedeis. I'm not sure what five would be. I'm
not Joe Dirt too. I mean, okay, sure, Joe, No,
it's no really, It's one of my favorite movies and

(41:41):
it won like every Oscar ever, why are we making
this movie?

Speaker 2 (41:43):
It's a great movie, because.

Speaker 4 (41:45):
What you're going to create is not gonna like come
anywhere near the original, which won every award ever. Yeah,
so what are we doing here?

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Well, look, if you just give it a good effort,
stick to the formula, I don't know, maybe it's like, uh,
maybe you can have a true grit moment, you know
what I'm saying. Or the first one was really good,
the second one was really good. The remake was pretty good.
I still like the first one more. But both are
acceptable movies. But they've made some changes, just little ones,

(42:17):
just little ones. Like the guy who plays Mozart is
half Japanese, so.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Which also pushes back on.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Jackson Brown's argument, because now a Japanese guy can play Mozart.

Speaker 4 (42:34):
So I started watching the trailer on X and I'm
like twenty seconds. It's only like a thirty five forty
second trailer or something, And so I'm watching it. I'm
like twenty seconds and I'm so confused. Yeah, So I
had to rewind it to watch it because it wasn't
computing in my head what I was seeing, right, because
I'm like, where's Mozart? I was like Okay, I get it.
The guy who plays Jarvis from The Iron Man in

(42:57):
Marvel Movies, he is Saliari. I get that, But where's
mom because Paul.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Benteney looks Italian too, by the way, which is Soliary was?

Speaker 4 (43:04):
But I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, the the Albino from
the Da Vinci Code completely looks early Italian, super Italian. Yes,
So anyway, watching that, but I'm like, it's not computing.
I'm like, where's Mozart?

Speaker 11 (43:18):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (43:19):
You did think it was on the street.

Speaker 4 (43:20):
I was so confused.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
It's like, where's Yeah, he's there. And then then it
like clicked and I was like, really, dude.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
Yeah, Tom is the guy's name. You'd recognize him if
you saw him. Well, yeah, in the original I'm talking
about in the remake, it wasn't computing. In the remake,
I'm like, what am I looking at? Where's Mozart?

Speaker 2 (43:43):
It's right there, Will Sharp or whatever? What is the
guy's name is Sharp?

Speaker 9 (43:46):
Right?

Speaker 2 (43:46):
I don't even know the actor's name, but yeah, man,
it's like and by the way, how does the costume
look worse?

Speaker 4 (43:53):
It does? The whole everything about it looks worse. It
looks and the video looks washed. But if you don't
know how to just you, I've seen it. So they
have like an Asian American playing Mozart. I think he's British,
actually is he? But still okay? Yeah, but he's of
Asian descent.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
Yeah, he's half What happened? What is happening here?

Speaker 4 (44:14):
They're doing the needs, they're doing the meme, and are
they doing it intentionally?

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (44:19):
I mean clearly. When did they start producing this movie?
Probably well over a year and a year and a
half ago, right, probably took some time to shoot at it.
Now you're getting ready to release. Here's the trailer, by
the way. Oh and there's a tag at the end
that's priceless.

Speaker 6 (44:36):
Very expensive.

Speaker 5 (44:41):
Oh yeah, this repulsive creature playing song exquisitly.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
You mainish the man.

Speaker 6 (45:01):
Believe in a reach in my story.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
Once it is original. Once I heard the tag at
the end, after computing what's happening in here, I'm like,
all right, so they did the switcher Roo thing with Mozart,
and then I hear the tag and I'm like, and
I've never heard of I'm like, I don't know what
sky is And I'm like, is this some sort of
AI creation? Is this all fake, no British people, but

(45:27):
I google it and search it because there was Once
again I was confused again. I'm like, is this an
AI creation? Is this like not a real thing? You
see this all the time now with trailer's coming out
like here's a new thing, but it's completely AI and
it's not going to be a thing. And then I
find out this is reel, this is a thing, and
I got me mad, got mad.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
This is how mad Ross was. He texted me the
trailer and wrote that he's angry. Yes, he doesn't text
me really much. What's the afternoon rolls around? So you
know he was fired up over it.

Speaker 4 (45:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
No, that's the direction we're going right there.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
Uh now, so is it gonna I think it's Is
it a movie that airs on the Sky network though, right?

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Or is it gonna be in theaters?

Speaker 4 (46:14):
I think it's just on the network, like Netflix thing
or whatever Sky is.

Speaker 8 (46:18):
I try.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
I remember Sky is actually tied in with someone a
streamer over here, and I can't remember who it is,
so it'll probably stream in the US too, so but yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
Believe in original stories.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
It's again it's that you're you're this is a worse
idea than back during the George Floyd thing, when that
chick on CNN or MSNBC was arguing that now was
the top to remake problematic movies, and the example she
used was Gone with the Wind, because remember the cancel
Gone with the Wind, Right, that was canceled.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
It's canceled.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
And then she's like, no, no, no, we have to
remake it so that it's it's not offensive. How dude,
just light scarlet and rent on fire in the first minute.
I mean, frankly, my dear, I do give a damn
I'm on fire. Credits Yeah, yeah, credits. What do you

(47:14):
what do you? How do you remake God with the Wind?
You absolute lunatic?

Speaker 4 (47:19):
Well, I saw some people making the argument with Fred
the Amaday's thing. They said, well, you know it's not
you know, it's not a biopic, right, so.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
We're right, right, ramanization, But he uses all the real people.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
But he was a real person, Yes.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
The real person. He was a real person who died
at the age of thirtyive. I don't think they know
how he died still, like that's all speculative, but he
died at thirty five.

Speaker 4 (47:42):
He was poisoned by Saliary. We saw okay, now he
got like a bad cold or something. I mean it was,
you know, the seventeenth I don't know.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
I even because I was before I before I came
on the air today. I just wanted to refresh myself
because I couldn't remember how he died. Remember he died young,
and I wanted to see how young. And even on Wikipedia,
they're like, nobody really knows how.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
He was thrown in a pauper's grave, which is yeah,
absolutely insane.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
You can go visit the house he died in, by
the way, you ever go to Vienna, the tourist attraction,
and then if you're justin Bieber, you can write in
the book that you think he would have been a believer,
because that's what you do, touring your famous houses in Europe.
Apparently he did that at the Anne Frank house. If
you guys don't know, some people got mad. So yeah,

(48:28):
wrote eight hundred pieces of I'm exhausted reading that.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
That's what he did. We'll be back. So yesterday I
was yesterday.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
I was cooking some I like to make like a
big pot of black beans, spicy black beans, because then
I can just eat him as a side to whatever
I make throughout the week, so because you know they'll
they'll be just fine in the fridge all week, and
they are delicious. So you just get dry black beans,
get one onion, get a bulb of garlic, some cuban,

(48:59):
a little sour cream, and then I like to add
a pepper because I like, I'm spicy.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
So I was.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Normally I get like a hob and arrow that I
wanted a little spice, or the jalapeno. But there was
this orange pepper I wasn't super familiar with, called a
manzano or rocoto, but it said it was like medium
spicy all that. So but I'm smart, so I did
the thing right before I chopped it up to throw

(49:27):
it in the mixed or I cut just a little
of the flesh off it ate it, and it was
it was right between a hobb and arrow and a jalapeno.
And I'm like, okay, so I cut the thing in half.
And what's interesting about this pepper is the seeds. They're
not little white seeds like he would see in a
kilipino or hobbin naro. And you know with most peppers

(49:49):
that's where you can get the real spice. They're like black,
and they're big, I mean, much bigger than jalapeno seeds.
So what does my dumb butt do throws one of
those in my mouth? Last night, Ross, when I say
I was dying for like twenty minutes. I don't think
it was bad as when you chugged hot sauce on
your stream, because I didn't wake up in the middle

(50:10):
of the night, like the chest burster from Alien was
trying to get out, but.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
It was I'm so glad I checked the seats.

Speaker 4 (50:18):
It's not fun, not.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
Fun at all. So literally in the last segment, and
you know, and I had washed my hands after right
with with nice hot water. I took a shower this morning.

Speaker 4 (50:30):
It's a rookie move. Rookies make that move. You'll go
out and you'll be like, give me the spiciest wings possible.
A right, give me the you give me your hottest wings.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
I want.

Speaker 4 (50:38):
I want to be crying and my wings are so hot.
And then you know, nature calls and you have to
go go to the bathroom and you make your way
into the bathroom there at the bar wherever you're having
your hot wings, and you didn't wash your hands, and
suddenly you're in a world of pain. Yeah, yeah, got a.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
Pain there, ladies.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
You don't know wash your hands first?

Speaker 2 (50:57):
Well no, no, no, So here's the deal.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
Right when I got done up in the pepper and
throwing it in there, I immediately went over to the
kitchen sink, you know, hot water wash the hands.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
Thought it was fine.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Well, and you know, I went to the bathroom after that.
But I'm right handed, so that's fine. So literally, in
the last segment, I just took my left hand.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
And I'm so dumb.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
I'm literally doing it right now, physically recreating it and
almost touched my eye again. Yeah, and for the last
two minutes last segment, I don't know if you could
tell my eye was on fire.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
It's so bad.

Speaker 4 (51:32):
Yeah, I've made that mistake too. And it's like Marky
comes in and she's like what are you doing? Like
why is your eye?

Speaker 2 (51:39):
Why?

Speaker 4 (51:39):
What is that milk coming in? And I'm like, dallasing
my head and milk.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
Yeah, milk, magnesia or milk will do it. Man.

Speaker 4 (51:45):
I'm one time I was out of milk and I'm like,
I guess I'll be dipping my eyeball in like reinch
dressing or something.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
Hey, man, it's got to get sour cream would work too, yep,
something to mitigate it.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
So anyway, that sucked. So then I just I just went.

Speaker 1 (51:59):
I think I burned myself the skid up price, but
at least I probably won't light my eye on fire,
so that's the trade off. But yeah, I mean, we'll
tell you. The pepper was very good and the beans
came out.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Great with it.

Speaker 4 (52:10):
Just I will say when, but I did not put
the seeds in for obvious reasons. When I drank the
quadruple shot of Carolina Reaper Sauce yes and went to
bed and then woke up, that was the worst pain
I've ever experienced in my I really thought it was
going to die. I was like, I'm dying. I am
going to die. I am an absolute moron. Yeah that's

(52:33):
all you can just still, which is still the case.
But I did survive.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
I mean, I kudos to you for not blaming somebody
else because that.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Was just like my eyeball, that was.

Speaker 4 (52:48):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
So now I'm gonna I just touched my eye with
the same thing and it's fine. So although my eye
still hurts, but it doesn't hurt more so that's good.
So I guess if you ever cut into one of
those and you see that the black they're black seeds.
They're they're quite a bit bigger than the little white seeds. Uh,
those are those are on fire man? And I don't know,

(53:09):
maybe I just got a hot load, because sometimes you
get peppers that are you know, you get a jalapeno
and one's just immenseally spicier in the others there's you know,
that happens. So I don't know if these are all
like that, but holy cow, man, watch out for that.
I'm looking at the description of the peppers says a

(53:29):
slow building heat. That is a lie. A person who
wrote that should be in jail.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
Man perves absolute pervs.

Speaker 4 (53:44):
I mean, I was thinking the same thing when you
said it, Bob, but I wasn't gonna say it on
the air because I'm a professional. Well, don't worry the
emailers are saying, right, I can't imagine what they're saying,
because as soon as you said it, yeah, I said,
is that what you like?

Speaker 2 (53:59):
Bit you do? Everyone driving right now going I know
what he's talking about. I'm talking about produce. I'm sorry,
you know what, No more cooking tips for you guys.
That's that's the end of that. It's all black beans
for me. All right, We've got to move away from

(54:19):
this subject. Ah ha ha ha.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Yeah, No, it's that's self inflicted wound right there. That's
what we were just talking about. Uh, check this out.
So that nor'easter that popped through ended up canceling a
couple races, uh, the Staten Island Marathon, and then they
have one called the what is this the LBI this

(54:42):
is this is down on the Jersey Shores. They end
up having to cancel the Why am I telling you
this not because I think any of you were running
in it, but because they decided to do something kind
of amazing. So after having to cancel it, they sent
a they sent an email to all the people who
had signed up, and we're talking, what is the number
I saw on this nine five hundred registered runners and

(55:06):
uh to explain that they're not going to do refunds
because when you when you signed up I think it
was ninety dollars, or's no, seventy five dollars, but your
entry is good for next year, which is not uncommon
for a race like that. But they then pointed out,
we know that many of you are absolutely disappointed. We

(55:27):
share that frustration. To help ease the blow of the cancelation,
every runner who signed up will be provided a participation medal,
which you get when you do those. So my point
is we're now giving out non participation trophies, which is

(55:48):
this is I wish I'd have signed up, because then
I'd have one to be like, hey, did you really
run a marathon?

Speaker 2 (55:53):
Hey man, here's the medal right here. You just got
to time it out.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
So yeah, so they're sending everybody a non participation trophy.
We have absolutely jumped the gun. All right, Yeah, let
me know when raised there, because this is gonna be
a little longer discussion with him.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
What up, I'm here?

Speaker 1 (56:14):
Oh morning, So today kicks off the North Carolina State Fair,
Day one of ten, and so like this is this
is your time to shine, buddy.

Speaker 12 (56:28):
You know it's possible that it doesn't rain for the
next ten days.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
Okay, that's possible.

Speaker 12 (56:35):
Oh so I'm shining like a bright, little starry Yeah,
a great comfortable morning. Yeah yeah, tomorrow morning, a little
cooler daytime highs today probably going to be upper sixties
for most of us, a little breeze around. I mean,
you head towards sunset. In the evening hours, it might

(56:55):
get a little chilly, so maybe a jacket the north breeze,
maybe ten to twenty miles an hour at times. And
then Tomorrow morning a little colder than this morning. I'm
upper thirties and low forties. Those upper thirties probably going
to be west of the Triad, but either way, chillier
than this morning. And then another day in the upper sixties,
mostly sunny, Tomorrow weekend, mostly sunny again, warmer load to

(57:17):
mid seventies, maybe into the upper seventies for the Triangle
by Sunday, and then it's just Sunday night. There's a
real small chance of a few showers. I don't even
think it's gonna happen with the way the models have
been trending. And then we're back into sunshine and seventies
as we get into early next week with lows in
the forties, and I'm even kind of going ahead, where's
ten days put us? When's the next chance of substantial rain?

Speaker 2 (57:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (57:39):
We could go every day.

Speaker 12 (57:42):
Yeah, there's not more train even for the rest of
the month if I want to go that far. So
I think it's going to beautiful. So for for fair time,
pleasant temperatures, nothing too extreme terms of temperatures, and just
gonna be real nice.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
Are you a fair guy? Do you guys go to
the fair down there? Believe it or not.

Speaker 12 (57:59):
When I was back get home, I did go to
the Duchess County Fair this year. It was more to
go see a concert than anything else.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
But yeah, what is Duchess Ken? Is that a New
York thing?

Speaker 12 (58:09):
Yeah, it's upstate. It's in Hudson Valley, cross from where
I used to live. It's on the other side. We
would call it the other side of the river.

Speaker 2 (58:16):
What's you That's how we're driving in.

Speaker 12 (58:18):
What's your favorite sausage and peppers? Yes, all right, that's
top three for me.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
Giant turkey leg sausage and peppers, cheesebirds.

Speaker 4 (58:28):
Yeah, we walked out.

Speaker 12 (58:29):
We we had already had dinner. Then after the concert
we walked out, and I walked by the sausage and peppers.
I'm like, yeah, I'm grabbing a roady I am grabbing
a roady sausage and peppers, no doubt about it.

Speaker 4 (58:40):
And I did.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
Dude.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
You know, I will say the thing that the thing
that makes me laugh every time I go to a
fair is if they have a midway, right, if they
have carnival games, do you know what the saddest booth is.
It's right at the end. It's always right at the end.
So if you could go to the midway where you'd
walk in, it's right there where you'd walk out.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
It's right there.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
It's the I'm so bad at all the games. But
so I couldn't win a stuffed animal and my kid
won't shut up. So then you can buy one for
like forty bucks for some probably cost two dollars. Yeah,
just try and yeah, just take your man card right there.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
You should just trade it in for that man.

Speaker 4 (59:16):
Yep, that's satisactically it.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
Is all right, cool, cool, well good.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
We like good news on that front, so take good news,
great news. All right, we'll chat in an hour, thank you.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
Race Stagic from the Weather Channel, all right, coming up
here in about oh twenty minutes, we'll chat with Stephen Kent,
our NERD correspondent. We'll see if he's punk for the
new Amidais as much as we are. We're also speaking
of swappy characters. We we're gonna do that again with
teenage mutant Ninja turtles and uh what was Oh the

(59:51):
cross dressing klingons. Every time I think Hollywood's getting it,
I realized now they are. There's still death spasms in
this DEI garbage. So all that more coming up. So
I'm forty six saying on who audio cuts of reporters
asking idiotic questions, and it'll be up to you to

(01:00:11):
decide who who is the biggest idiot here? Okay, all right?
So Ross, where do you want to start? Boats or football?
I'll let you pick the order here. Boats, boats, boats.
Everybody loves boats, all right. So this is a reporter
asking Trump about I guess the six I think it's

(01:00:33):
the six Venezuelan cartel drug boat thing that we blew
to Smitherings and the reporters clearly she's like, oh.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
What do you have to do? You have to listen
to this and listen to Trump's response.

Speaker 8 (01:00:47):
President on Venezuelan's voats, I want to ask you, why
not have the coast guard stopped them, which it is
empowered to buy a lot to do. You know, this
way you can confirm who's on the boat and the
shore that they're doing what.

Speaker 11 (01:00:59):
They would because we've been doing that for thirty years
and it has been totally ineffective. They have faster boats.
Some of these boats are seriously I mean, they're world
class speedboats, but they're not faster than missiles. But we've
been trying to do that for years, and so much
of the drugs twenty five to thirty percent would come

(01:01:20):
in through the seas.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
An absolutely absurd question, why do you blow them up
versus interception with the coast guard? Trump is absolutely correct.
We have been intercepting, but there are caveats with that.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
One.

Speaker 1 (01:01:34):
We have to intercept them when they're nearly here, so
that's one right, whereas we're blowing them up right there
off the coast of Venezuela, and once they get out
on the ocean, even though yes, we can track them,
this is far easier. And two, in those instances, most
of the time when we'd intercept those boats, the penalties

(01:01:57):
were a lot of times being sent back to your
country and if you're country's corrupt, and Venezuela I believe
is doing what North Korea is doing, and I think
our US government believes this as well, and they are
trying to This is part of bringing money in for
the regime, right North Korea is famous for smuggling drugs

(01:02:19):
in diplomatic satchels and then literally selling them in Europe.

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
That's that's a known thing.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
So so if it's between getting sent back to a
country where you may not even be in trouble when
you get there versus getting turned to missed, I feel
like one is a better deterrent than the other. So
that's dumb, idiot question number one. Number two is a

(01:02:46):
question that was put to Travis Hunter. And if you
don't if you don't know what Travis Hunter is, he
was I think number two. I think was number two
overall pick in the last draft. He is an absolute stud.
He plays for Jacksonville. He's playing wide receiver, but he
can play like three different positions. The guy is immensely talented.
And uh, right before his game last weekend, he did something.

(01:03:12):
It's Sunday, right, he went and got baptized. Okay, all right,
So of course that's going to turn into a reporter
having to dig into this guy's faith.

Speaker 13 (01:03:27):
Yes, why did.

Speaker 14 (01:03:31):
I get that Sunday Sky's Day? And I've been planning
to get baptised for a minute. You know, I want
to change my life over become a better man.

Speaker 9 (01:03:42):
What do I mean too?

Speaker 14 (01:03:44):
Means a lot, you know, becoming a better man, leaving
my old flesh, and he's becoming a new.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
Traviser, all right. And some people are saying it's not
fair to call the reporter down for that, but I'm sorry,
I'm just I don't trust reporters, even in the sports thing,
because I've been there. I've sat in those press conferences
and you're rounded by moon bets, and some of the
questions they ask have nothing to do with sports. And
it's the also the part she goes, why'd you do that?

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
I don't know, Maybe I'm reading into it, maybe I'm not,
But in what other era would you be questioning the
faith of pro athletes and not their you know, their
physical prowess there.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
That's just weird, man, and she and it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
Struck it clearly struck the reporter as such an oddity
she felt she needed to ask about it, which is crazy,
because ross what happens when somebody wins something in sports?

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
Who do they think? We who do they think? Most
of the time?

Speaker 4 (01:04:38):
Their mom their dead?

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
And God, yeah, yeah, God gets a lot of there's
a whole bit that somebody does. I can't remember where
the comedian is where it's like, how come they only
thank God when they win, never blame him when they lose? Right,
But it just plays on the fact that invoking God
after winning something is pretty commonplace in sports. So if
this guy wants to get baptized and he thinks he's

(01:04:59):
he you know this is this is the direction for
his life and he wants to be a better man.
Leam Malone, you're a sports reporter. Why don't you figure
out if he's gonna you know, how many records rookie
records for Jacksonville he's gonna break because it's gonna be
a bunch of them. Jacksonville is for some reason, is
actually kind of good.

Speaker 2 (01:05:18):
So it is eight oh six here on the CaCO
Day radio program. It is Thursday, and uh, other than
me popping my mic, there, we welcome in our official
NERD correspondent, Stephen Kent. Good morning do you sir? What's up?

Speaker 8 (01:05:34):
Good morning, Casey, enjoying my morning coffee and happy to
be with you.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
Okay, I heard a I heard something pretty bad about
you just a moment ago.

Speaker 8 (01:05:44):
Yeah. Here on pe, host is very angry at me
because as even though I am, even though I am
your nerd correspondent. He thinks that I should have seen
some Mozart movie from nineteen eighty five. I don't know
anything about that. I was raised on a ninja turtle.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
Oh well, we'll get to the ninja turtles, but damn it,
we're starting with amadayas you after this show, and I
just looked it up. I don't think it's streaming for
free anywhere, but it's you can rent it for like
a dollar ninety nine. You need to watch that movie.
It's a fantastic movie.

Speaker 8 (01:06:17):
But why why is it a fantastic movie?

Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
It just is everything about it. Yeah, yeah, it's it's
a great movie.

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
And it's not like.

Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
Yeah no, it's a it's a very good movie and
it holds up because it's a period piece. It's well done,
and arguably the trailer for the new one they're doing
where they've decided that Amadeis is half Japanese.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
Now, which man that is. But this is like so you.

Speaker 1 (01:06:48):
Don't have to have watched it to recognize that clearly
it's the British and this is something that they keep
doing with these movies that are made by the British
networks over there because it didn't they make the King
like a black dude in a wheelchair from.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
He did that.

Speaker 8 (01:07:05):
Yeah, the British. British authorities have been pretty much the
uh setting the standard for like wokeness and race swapping
in the world.

Speaker 1 (01:07:13):
Yeah, so I'm not surprised. But also it's one of
those movies where I don't understand how you redo it right,
Like you wouldn't take a stab at something that one.
What did it win like eight Oscars or something. I'm
trying to think of other examples where a movie won
all the Oscars and then they redid it, And I.

Speaker 8 (01:07:32):
Think Twilight won eight Oscars.

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
Well, but they haven't redone it, so thankfully, I don't
know did win So it's so sad to hear that.

Speaker 8 (01:07:45):
So no, no, I didn't win any Oscars, but you know,
maybe I should have.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
I can't, like, dude, between this and what they're doing
to Harry Potter, the just needs to stop. Man, It's
got to stop going to teenage mutant Ninja Turtles, the
poor April O'Neil.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
What did that? What did that woman ever do to anybody?

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
This is now two different times we just had there
where they race swapped her once and now they're going
to race swap more and it's just like, and here's
the thing. I saw somebody and I think he was serious.
He's some guy I saw it on Twitter, but I
think it was a TikTok where he's a streamer who's redhead,
and he was greatly offended because he said that there's

(01:08:28):
not a lot of positive redhead representation in movies.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
Most of the time. If a redhead's in a movie,
he's like the bully.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
And I heard thinking, and I'm like, he's right, kind
of like there's I'm trying to think of positive redheads
other than like Pippy Long stalking right from.

Speaker 8 (01:08:47):
You know, thelond Blonde women have always complained about Star Wars.
Star Wars offers no blonde representation, only brunette. All look
the same. You know. I generally try to resist these
kind of arguments, don't I don't care about redhead representation,
and I just don't really buy those sort of complaints

(01:09:11):
from some streamer who has red hair and feels that
they want to see themselves on screen, Like that's not
that's our that's what our opponents say. They are the
ones who say that you can't empathize with characters unless
they look like you, and I don't agree with that.

Speaker 1 (01:09:26):
But he's right in the sense that where the Redheads
generally do play the roles, which is what I thought
was funny because then it made me think about it
and I'm like, yeah, yeah, so, and again I don't
know how serious you are. He seemly he was serious, though.
I tried to find the video this morning and I couldn't. Again, So,
because you know how it goes with Twitter. By the way,
I'm going to ask you about this, and I didn't
tee you up on this. Did you see the murmurings

(01:09:49):
with Twitter where they were talking about maybe getting rid
of monetization. One of the one of the muckety MUCKs
at Twitter kind of said something that made people think,
do you think honetization was a good thing for Twitter?

Speaker 8 (01:10:04):
I can't say whether or not it's been good or bad.
It just doesn't affect me. I think the thing that
has made Twitter objectively worse has been the purchasing of
verification verification process and getting the blue check mark. I
really think that it used to be better when it
was a little bit more meritocratic and sort of hierarchical.

(01:10:29):
It doesn't work as good now and.

Speaker 1 (01:10:31):
It clearly was an a meritocracy. There were a lot
there were a lot of very high profile conservative accounts
that couldn't get one. Do you know that we got
one for the show account. I submitted for my personal
account and they didn't give me that, but they gave
it for the show account. So we had one for
like a month, and then they took it away when

(01:10:52):
they changed everything.

Speaker 8 (01:10:53):
So now I get it. They only wanted to give
it to public figures on the left, and that sucks
and that's no good. But still I just don't like
the verification in blue shack mark system that it's no good.
But the monetization, I don't know that many people who
make money off Twitter. Maybe I need to get more
powerful friends.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
Yeah, you know there's people. I know some people.

Speaker 1 (01:11:15):
They don't make a ton of money off of it,
you know, one hundred bucks a month maybe, which is nice, right,
But there's also but I also know of some people
who quit their jobs because they went on Twitter and
they're able to monetize and replace it. There's a couple
people who did a lot of tweeting around the hurricane
that really caught went viral when the hurricane ravaged western

(01:11:38):
North Carolina and they saw their accounts blow up. Those
people quit their jobs and now all they do is Twitter.

Speaker 8 (01:11:46):
Okay, but I think those people are foolish. And if
you quit your job because your Twitter account was booming
and business is good on x and you think truly
that this is going to be your life, now you
are you are living in wonderland where companies never fail,
money will always be made on this stupid website. That

(01:12:09):
that is deserving of a bump in the road for you.
I'm sorry you don't you don't find a job for Twitter?

Speaker 1 (01:12:16):
Well, you know what, I'm gonna have to disagree with you, Steven. Look,
I don't know, I don't know what necessarily. Maybe they
hated their jobs. Maybe an hour of their effort on
Twitter pays five times as much as an hour of
their effort at whatever job they quit.

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 8 (01:12:30):
I'm sure, I'm sure it was a gold rush, you know,
for like a period of time. But I think even
even when you pursue passion jobs and you dump the
job that you don't like, you got to be building
a more sturdy ship, a more reliable ship. But you
have control over and uh, you know, if Twitter decides
to pull back because it's like not making that much
money or it's not financially stable, like you have no

(01:12:51):
control over that, so you can't you can't make gambles
of that kind.

Speaker 2 (01:12:56):
Yeah, I think I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
I don't think it's a monetary issue as much as
it's it's really it's kind of poisoned feeds, right because
you have there is a huge and I'm sure you've
noticed a huge growth, and it's these accounts. They're generally
out of India and all they do is just repost
this everybody else's videos they somehow have like eighty ninety

(01:13:18):
thousand followers, or they post clips of movies and TV
shows then intentionally don't label what it is, so you
have to go dig in the comments. So now they're
getting multiple sorts of interaction and it's just really scummy crap.
I block them whenever I see them. But there's there's
a never ending stream. There's just too many people playing

(01:13:39):
that game. So the other proposal, this one is a
more tangible proposal because Elon was talking about it, is
that they you can identify the country of origin so wherever, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I think that's a lot smarter, and I think that
if you can block by country, that would go a

(01:14:01):
long way, absolutely long way.

Speaker 8 (01:14:04):
I'm completely agree. I hadn't really thought about why the
country of origin market would be useful, but that could
be a huge quality of life upgrade for Twitter.

Speaker 1 (01:14:14):
It would be the death of who's that guy who
lives in Malaysia that everyone I haven't blocked. I think
he's obnoxious ross Ian Miles Chong. That dude's never been
to America and somehow he's a thought leader on American politics.

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
It's just the whole thing.

Speaker 8 (01:14:28):
Yeah, I thought I thought he was some sort of
like nat coon Jdie Vance aligned influencer.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
And then it.

Speaker 8 (01:14:34):
Occurred to me I learned over X that he's like,
never been here before.

Speaker 1 (01:14:38):
Never been here, just sits in Malaysia. And it's like
that could be that could be very bad if people
are like, all right, I'm blocking Malaysia. Uh, let's let's
talk about some people maybe looking for jobs. I'm curious.
We talked about it yesterday on the show. But as
a Virginia resident, you know you're dealing with again this
amazing turn General's thing where nobody will condemn him or

(01:15:02):
ask him to get out of the race, and then Politico,
of course, UH gets the UH gets the scoop on
this private chat between you know, large flass of Republicans
from like five different states. You got some college Republicans,
some young Republicans, there's even some older people in there.

Speaker 2 (01:15:20):
And and.

Speaker 1 (01:15:23):
It's you know, it's pretty awful stuff, right, but clearly
it's it's yeah, you call it dark humors. I saw
some people did, But there's like that, there's gonna be ramifications,
and I like, I I care, but I have a
hard time caring when what's going on in Virginia. When
I hear a Democrat line about it yesterday, Do you

(01:15:43):
know what I'm saying?

Speaker 8 (01:15:46):
Yeah, I know what you're saying. And this is this
is a really tough position to be in. This is
why politics, UH makes us all so freaking crazy, because
it is it's like turn about his fair play. But
at the same time, the double standards are impossible to
get away from. Look, I think none of these these
kids who were busted in this telegram chat engaging all

(01:16:08):
sorts of weird racism and funning over Hitler and talking
about slavery in some sort of light context. I think
all of them should basically just be on no higher
lists for Republican and conservative politics for a long long time.
I mean, you just these kind of mistakes are not,
I think welcome when you're trying to be future leaders

(01:16:30):
of the country. You don't have a right to some
sort of future in politics. That being said, this is
not really indicative, of course, of how most people feel
or talk about these issues. But these kids are part
of a flamelord edgelord generation who think that ironic humor
that they learned on Reddit and four Chan is somehow
going to be acceptable in the real world.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
And it is not true.

Speaker 8 (01:16:53):
And somebody has to learn a lesson, and I don't
care if it's them.

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
Yeah, no, I would. I think if you have a
key campaign, you would be an idiot to hire one
of these kids to work on your campaign.

Speaker 1 (01:17:04):
Yeah, you can't do it because it literally the reporter
would google it. Oh, and then that would be the
story of your campaign. It would be suicidal to bring
one of them on, and it's self inflicted. Is there
any movement on the age thing though, because like by
the way Stanberger sears exchange at the end of the debate,

(01:17:24):
where she's just stared free ahead and ignoring her was
that was so weird.

Speaker 4 (01:17:29):
Man.

Speaker 8 (01:17:30):
You know, I live in northern Virginia. Stanberg is probably
going to be my governor. I didn't have a very
strong opinion about her up until this October, and that debate,
Boy did that turn me after her. She just seems
like the most emotionally dead woman I have ever seen,
unwilling to actually engage with the issues, and just creepy

(01:17:52):
in the way that she talks about this stuff and
tries to dodge around the most pressing issues, ranging from
the transgender stuff to polite violence. There's something wrong with her,
and so I exchanged my opinion. I'm now fully in
support of when some fears, because she at least seems
like she has some feelings going on with politics. But

(01:18:13):
the race is titan for j Jones. He is actually
now underwater to the current incumbent my Eras and Abigail Spamburger.
She used to be about ten twelve points ahead and
now she's barely three points ahead. So I think they
have just tried to make a calculation of whether or
not it helps them to dump Jay Jones or hold
on to them. And I think they've chosen the road

(01:18:34):
of just pretend like nothing happened and get to November,
and that might work out for him. I just hope
it doesn't.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
The only thing I'll say about Spamburger is I do
think she's emotionless, with the exception of smugness. Yeah, you know, yeah,
I mean just the smugness up there. And you know,
I guess you're you're running Virginia. Your poll numbers are good.
I have a real prime and it's not just with
Democrats have a real problem with candidates who feel entitled

(01:19:02):
to the seat. There's nothing that we turn against you
more if you if you exhibit that attitude, I don't
care if you're the incumbent, right and you're probably gonna win.
Acting like it's yours because it's yours is one of
my biggest turn offs. And she was just exuding that yesterday.

(01:19:23):
And we have a senator here named Tom Tillis who
we just were not fans of, who's a Republican who
has a lot of that same attitude, and it's why
I just like that man so much. All right, let
me pivot over this because we just got a couple
of minutes. I know, you're more of a Star Wars guy.
Why are we putting Klingons in skirts? What are we

(01:19:44):
doing here? What is CBS doing well?

Speaker 8 (01:19:48):
Because Star Trek was always a little dobinan, a little gay,
But you know, I think that's just just the fact
of the matter. Can see no Star Trek. This is
our of the chorus with their aggressive, more utopian vibe
as a fan base. I'm not surprised by this all. Now.

(01:20:09):
I am told by people who are more well read
on Star Trek that there was some episode, you know,
many many years back that focused on gender equality in
which several of the male captains were wearing skirts on
the ship. You know, because I guess gender equality means
wearing the same clothes rather than treating each other with respect.

(01:20:33):
But yeah, yeah, yeah, it's you know. In the in
the article where this was being reported, there's a screenshot
from an old episode of one of the Star Trek
shows in which some captain is wearing a bus skirt
and episode was about gender equality.

Speaker 4 (01:20:49):
That was the first episode, and it was just a
guy walking down a hallway. There was an episode later
on where the genders were switched and the females were
more powerful and Riker had a dress up like guys
like a as like a seleucty switch.

Speaker 2 (01:21:03):
It like space dust or so, I mean did it
or was it an experiment the men we're just primarily
used for breeding.

Speaker 1 (01:21:10):
Okay, so it was a whole storyline where it was
a twist because of something yeah, rather than okay.

Speaker 8 (01:21:17):
Yeah, this is this is why I don't like Star Trek.
It's basically just the twilight Zone for utopian lefties. I
get why. There are some good episodes and it has
the philosophical qualities to it, but it's it's.

Speaker 1 (01:21:31):
I'm sorry, I got like six seconds. I gotta cut
you off there, dude, the whole thing. Plus it's Starfleet Academy,
so it's probably gonna be like teen drama.

Speaker 5 (01:21:39):
So after the show, it's on the iHeart radio app
searched Casey O Day or the podcast on the iHeart Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:21:46):
App, and you could this is this is the you
just know this is gonna happen. Every time we start
talking about redistricting in North Carolina. Uh, we get the
app stro turfed. Oh what about an independent redistricting commission?
You know this thing that democrats would have never ever
ever wanted or talked about prior to Republicans taken over

(01:22:11):
about twelve years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:22:12):
That thing.

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
Yeah, and by the way, there are a handful of
states in the US that have these and you're gonna
be shocked to learn that in each of those states,
states like Colorado, California, and others, the percentage of the
population who identifies as Republican or votes Republican is not
matched by representation within either at the state level or

(01:22:36):
federal level. They in each of those states it has
an independent redistricting commission. They are Democrat heavy.

Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
So like, this is it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:49):
It's almost turned into communism right where everyone's oh, man,
we just haven't done it right yet. So I look,
I don't know what they're gonna do. There's a couple
really really interest ironic things that you need to know
about redistricting, though. One and this is this is a
doozy because I think most people don't know this. Why

(01:23:10):
because I keep seeing the argument, well, look, everyone's just
reacting to what Texas is trying to do. Why did
ross Do you know why Texas decided to mid decade redistrict?
Do you know why they decided to do it? No
idea blind partisan power, political they were ordered to by
a series of lawsuits and a decision by Biden's DOJ.

(01:23:33):
So literally, democrats made them do this. They just don't
like how they're doing it. So with that in mind,
here's fun fact number two. Did you know that in
North Carolina, the redistrict the maps are not vetoable by
the governor. Josh Stein does not have the ability to veto.

(01:23:55):
They're one of the carve outs. North Carolina is very unique.
We were one of the last states to really put
together how the governor's veto works, and it was by
design limited in certain areas. And one of those areas
where the governor does not get to say is on
congressional maps or assembly maps.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
Do you know do you know who the lawmaker was
who did that? Roy Cooper? Yeah. Roy Cooper was the
chief author of the bill that made a point because
the reason they wanted to do this is right because
they controlled the legislature at the time. So they just

(01:24:42):
they figured they would always control the legislature, because why
wouldn't you You'd been doing it for what one hundred
some years? So they put this thing into hamstring. If
there was the possibility that a Republican might get in
there and now it's literally going to eat them. Oh
it's the delicious ironies of this stuff is just ah. So, uh,

(01:25:05):
you are armed with those two facts now and if
you and by the way, I would encourage you to
double check those facts. They're absolutely accurate.

Speaker 1 (01:25:12):
In fact, I tweeted out the uh, the the veto
thing yesterday or the day before. So if you scroll
down on there, you can you can literally find the
story and the text and everything. Yeah, so all Josh
can do is wine, which he's doing.

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
Oh yeah, he's doing, uh, doing a lot of whining
about a lot of stuff. But he didn't. You didn't
get to say here, So they'll do they'll do the
lawsuit thing.

Speaker 4 (01:25:38):
Again.

Speaker 2 (01:25:39):
The difference here is that I don't think the DOJ.

Speaker 1 (01:25:42):
Is going to come in and uh do what they
did to Texas, And none of it may matter clearly
with what happens at the Supreme Court hearing, and then
I don't know how that would impact Texas. Would negate
the order of the Biden DOJ? I don't know, or
the judgment they were able to secure by totally not
judge shopping, I don't know, all right, By the way,

(01:26:07):
do we know that those tattoos that you've now placed
on my face on my Twitter photo are not obscenities
of any sort.

Speaker 2 (01:26:13):
No, it's just gibberish. Already, Look why is my Why
have you taken me so last week? I was Columbus.
Prior to that, I was wearing a sombrero with a mustache,
And now I look like an MS thirteen man.

Speaker 4 (01:26:27):
No, no, no, you're you're like posting alone like jelly
roll because you were rapping before.

Speaker 2 (01:26:33):
And I did because I had to show Haquem Jeffries
what was right.

Speaker 4 (01:26:37):
And that's why the bio says spits hot fire slash host.

Speaker 1 (01:26:40):
Well, that's glad that that's what the bio says and
it doesn't quote anything else I said this morning. Okay,
some of our emailers thought was very funny. No, I
was demonstrating that Hakeem Jeffries, when they're in the shutdown
at a press conference, who decides to go all slam
poetry or wrapping or whatever it is dumb because he's

(01:27:03):
not good at it. Hold on, give me my button,
mar here we go.

Speaker 5 (01:27:08):
That's Republicans shut the government down. Then they ran out
of town and for the last three weeks there's nowhere
to be.

Speaker 1 (01:27:17):
Found, dumb, right, And I just said that I could
do better. Ready, the keen Jeffreys with pompous decree struts
like a king, but his thrones up a tree, his
grand plans collapse like a bad comedy.

Speaker 2 (01:27:35):
Straight fire. So that's all I was just.

Speaker 1 (01:27:38):
I was demonstrating my mad skills, all right, raced agic
from the weather channel. He can wrap the weather or not.
I don't know, no what rhymes with nor'easter. I don't know, keister,
That's right, I said to you.

Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
I won't even try.

Speaker 12 (01:27:56):
Yeah, yeah, okay, take a look right now, karth thermometer,
all right, quick, look, take about seven to ten off
of that, right, So that's probably where we're gonna be
tomorrow morning. That's probably one of the bigger changes, some
of this cooler air getting in here. Yesterday, for example,
still mild fayevel hit seventy seven. Role you were up

(01:28:19):
there too, in the upper seventies.

Speaker 2 (01:28:21):
It might even hit eighty.

Speaker 12 (01:28:22):
Give me a second here, take a peak now, seventy
six and I'll tryad temperature was seventy seven, so above
average by a few Today will be the same, but
maybe down just a couple in some spots on either
side of seventy now Tonight will be in the low forties.

Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
In most places. We'll be shocked if there's some upper thirties.

Speaker 12 (01:28:39):
So again a little different, upper sixties tomorrow, and then
seventies over the weekend when sunshine and maybe some showers
Sunday night. But for the fair mentioned in an hour
ago casee, the next ten days, I don't see any
problems in terms of weather. I mean that sun angle's
still high too, so if you're gonna be out there
all day, I'd even recommend the sunscreen, especially if you

(01:29:01):
know that this time of year, you think you're not
gonna get sunburned. You know, you go inside and you're
like out all day and you're like, holy cow, I
got sunburned.

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
That can happen. It's the lightest person possible. I get
some See, I've.

Speaker 12 (01:29:13):
Got the half Italian heritage in me, so I don't
burn a lot and I don't have that problem really,
so so lather up.

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
If you got to the fair, all right, thank you much, sir.
Do you appreciate it?

Speaker 9 (01:29:25):
All?

Speaker 2 (01:29:26):
Right? There you go, and it is a forty six.

Speaker 1 (01:29:29):
We'll come back with the Denise Pellegrini from Bloomberg Next
and your Bloomberg Update Now with Denise Pellegrini. Denise, what
is happening today?

Speaker 13 (01:29:38):
Well, what's not happening today? I wanted to start with
all this cyber security stuff because China is being blamed
for this new crazy catastrophic cyber attack, with officials saying
that hackers gained long term, persistent access to systems and
stole files from the Seattle based cybersecurity company F five.

(01:30:00):
And on top of that, there's also this other crazy
story about how apparently Chinese hackers were in the UK
government system. Okay, you think about it, all this secret
files and also in their IT system for a decade
before they figured it out. So whoever these hackers are,
China or out, they're going for the nerve center. Other

(01:30:21):
customers are going to be vulnerable now and it's just
a mess. Of course, I assume that the US does
the same thing in China. Who knows. Also, we got
a lot of people looking for work or extra work
over the holidays. Job searches. Our soaring job platform indeed
says searches for seasonal jobs are up twenty seven percent

(01:30:42):
at the end of September compared to a year ago
search fifty percent from twenty twenty three. The demand for
job seekers compares with only amount its two point seven
percent pickup in holiday job postings from employers that suggest
even temporary holiday roles will be hard to come by.
But Casey, I kind of wanted to ask you because
I've worked for the post Office between high school and college,

(01:31:02):
the overnight shift at the post Office, and everyone there
except me, that was their second job. They were working
a second full time job over the holidays on top
of their you know, regular gig that they had as
a teacher or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:31:16):
I mean.

Speaker 13 (01:31:17):
This is not new people having not just a side hustle,
but like literally two jobs.

Speaker 1 (01:31:22):
No, you have to understand. The stories keep coming out.
We actually make fun of them on the show, where
they're like it's usually from the New York Times, and
they're usually like gen Z invented living together but not
being related, and you invented roommates, good for you.

Speaker 13 (01:31:38):
And they invented polycules.

Speaker 2 (01:31:40):
Right the one the other day they invented. We were
mocking them. They invented I can't it was so stupid.

Speaker 13 (01:31:47):
You know what a polycule is. It's when people, you know,
they date around within their friend group, right they invented that.

Speaker 2 (01:31:54):
Oh okay, we can put that on the list. Yeah,
yeah they No.

Speaker 1 (01:31:58):
That was the other one. It was as it was
vacation from work. They called it what do they call it?
A micro retirement where they'd step away from work for
a week or two and then come back refreshed.

Speaker 2 (01:32:11):
And I'm like, oh, good for you. Go that's idiots.

Speaker 13 (01:32:14):
That sounds nice though. Yeah, I wanted to talk about
K pop Demon Hunters. They'll be back on the big screen.
See Netflix bringing back Halloween themed sing along screenings at
three major chains AMC Regal Cinema on Halloween weekend. If
you're thinking of going, Casey costumes are encouraged. You're working

(01:32:35):
on your version of Golden there, singing it to yourself,
and you know.

Speaker 2 (01:32:38):
No, I would rather think I would rather if you
invited me to this, or or I could go hang
out in Gaza for the two hours. I'm picking Gaza.

Speaker 1 (01:32:47):
There's nothing that sounds worse than a two hours sing
along with strangers in a theater.

Speaker 13 (01:32:52):
Got a Golden though atop the Billboard Hot one hundred.
I mean that's not nothing. It was a lead single
from the.

Speaker 1 (01:32:58):
Bay had had Cape ruining the Victoria's Secret show last night, so.

Speaker 13 (01:33:04):
Yeah, and they're going to have WNBA Stars and Victoria's Secret.

Speaker 2 (01:33:08):
No, they already did. Yeah, how was it Angel Reese? Yeah,
now I know why.

Speaker 13 (01:33:13):
My husband didn't come to bed last night.

Speaker 2 (01:33:16):
Well, does he have any Angel Reese?

Speaker 13 (01:33:19):
Apparently he might.

Speaker 2 (01:33:21):
Oh no, I think it might have been everyone else there.
So all right, real quick, market, what do we se
stock futures?

Speaker 13 (01:33:27):
Yeah, they're higher. Traders are betting on the potential for
more aggressive policy than other market watchers currently. Foresee recent
activity showing a build up and position for a half
point cut in the Federal reserve interest rate. So some
optimism about that could get that cut later this month
quarter point or half pointer? Maybe no cut, but investors
are betting on a bigger cut than and maybe we

(01:33:48):
think casey.

Speaker 1 (01:33:49):
Okay, all right, Denise, appreciate it. Oh real quick. What's
your favorite fair food? Because today is the first day
of the North Carolina State Fair and rask.

Speaker 13 (01:33:57):
And everyone deep fried twinkies?

Speaker 2 (01:34:00):
Okay, all right, yeah, anything fried's probably good.

Speaker 9 (01:34:03):
Good.

Speaker 10 (01:34:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:34:04):
And by the way, a twinkie you can put it
in your desk yard. It'll still be good ten years later,
so that's.

Speaker 2 (01:34:08):
Kind of not comforting. That's not comforting, but all right,
thank you,