Thursday-10-2-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So the so the k all right, so that that
mic for some reason is sounding like garbage. Let's check
the other mic. Okay, Ross, So.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
All right, let me do this.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
All right, there we go. How does this how does
the other one sound? All right? Okay, I don't know.
This is the same thing that happened last week. So
uh anyway, six oh well, now it's six o seven
here on the k c O Day Radio program. All right,
coming up on the show. I can't believe we're gonna
have to give Sombrero updates. Oh you know what I

(00:37):
think before I give the Sombrero update, which I'll do
coming up here. And yeah, probably in the second segment,
I think I'm gonna have to get the uh maybe
some of that uh the Seco to MYO theme music
that we have in the system, just keeping with it.
But we're gonna have to give some Breau updates as

(00:58):
some sort of litmus test as to what's going on
with the government shutdown. Man, just crazy town. So that'll
be a thing, that'll be a thing that we get
to here pretty quick. I have to. I have to
admit I did see what jd Vance said yesterday, and
it was just it's just one of the many, many,

(01:18):
many moments with this administration where I'm just like, yeah,
you know, what a time to be in radio or
or really any media for that matter, but one that
is based on you know, all these fun little uh
fun little quotes and clips that we play and you

(01:40):
know the things that end up on the button bar.
What a what a time to be alive, so to speak,
because I was just just busting up laughing. Not because
it's jd Vance saying what jd Vance is going to say,
it's that it's the president, the vice president of the
United States, and it's just it's so insane, but it's
also so inflicted on the part of on the part

(02:05):
of Democrats. But I wanted to start on a more
serious side as it pertains to the shutdown, because it
made me retroactively angry going back to previous shutdowns, going
back to the one I was kind of alluding to
when I was talking to the Congressman on Tuesday. Congressman,

(02:28):
not the barricades, the shutting down of segments of the
Blue Ridge Parkway, the decisions that were made by those
in the White House at that time, Barack Obama and
his cronies to make you feel the pain in the

(02:51):
most absurd ways possible. Okay, to make you feel this
thing because it was a political game to them, and
they wanted they wanted to harm their political enemies. I
either Republicans, right, because they wanted to make things uncomfortable
with them. They wanted to make things ridiculous so that

(03:12):
the average Joe blow on the street ran into some
frustrating situation where they couldn't go to the thing, or
they couldn't talk to the person, or they couldn't drive
where they wanted to, or stare at a stone inanimate
object without a reminder that the Republicans wouldn't give the
Democrats whatever they wanted at that particular moment in the

(03:33):
government shutdown, So it was more important to inconvenience, harm, alarm,
or make angry Joe blow taxpayer. That was more important.
It was more important to get their political enemies. Because
here's the deal. A lot of those things, I mean,

(03:53):
I don't everybody's got their own thing, and maybe you
have to deal with some sort of federal office for something,
But like I'm not seeing that, I'm not seeing that
vindictiveness and nastiness. Right, There's no there's no visual There's
there's nothing that I see that the Trump administration has
done now in this shutdown to make you feel pain

(04:19):
so that they think, oh does that suck? Oh look
there's the guy who did it. They're doing stupid sombrero memes.
It's different it and it shows that you can do
this right, This thing can happen, because this was the
other fear of Democrats. It wasn't just about making their
Republican opponents look bad. If you shut the government down

(04:44):
and enough people don't notice that it's even shut down
to keep forgetting, it doesn't bode well for your arguments
that you need all of that apparatus. So I just
that's that's the thought that just permeated my brain yesterday.
It's like I'm not seeing the Oh you can't. You're
not gonna be able to go see the Fall Colors

(05:05):
because we're gonna have the Interpretive Center at the you know,
you're whatever on the Blue Ridge Parkway shut down. Oh no, yeah,
you can't go to the World War Two monument or
or any of that. You can't go see the Vietnam Wall, No, no,
we gotta have we gotta have barricades around that. In case,
I don't know, it erodes this. These are all things
that you're not seeing, and it shows how unnecessary they were,

(05:29):
which means the people who did that back in the
day wanted you to suffer more. They made an intentional
decision and that should I'm sorry, that should make you angry. Man.
At the very least, you should catalog that away in
your brain. Why would they do that? That's insane? And uh,

(05:57):
I think you'll you'll quickly arrive at the conclusion. All right,
here we go. It is six thirteen here on the
CaCO Day radio program. We gotta yeah. Can we call
it Greta's Greta Tuneberg's Ordunebergs or thumbbirds or her flowtillas
since she's not on it anymore, because they made it

(06:19):
kind kind of they kind of made it. Well, we'll
give you the the deats there. So what are the
Democrats doing to push back the Well, they got their
own memes, They got their own memes. What do you
what do you think the strategy session on this meme

(06:41):
was right? Because you remember, these are people that are
sitting around having conferences so they can figure out how
to talk to dudes. Right, and during the election, Trump's
like three random young dude meme team kick the crap
out of I don't know, it's like fifteen twenty people.

(07:02):
There were kamalas, so like, you know, the whole the
Left camp meme whatever that that is very real. So
I am I'm just wondering before and I'm gonna play
this for you when we come back. I'm just wondering
how this meeting went when they were trying to figure Okay,
so we got we got to put we got the sombrero,

(07:24):
and then there's more than a sombrero. They got a
bullhorn meme where Trump's yelling at a bullhorn and uh hakeem,
Jeffrey's face is like flapping in the wind. That's hilarious.
You got the sombrero memes. Yeah, you got all this
stuff and it's going super mega, duper viral. And so
they sit there and like, what do people like? And

(07:45):
I'm sure some idiot in the rooms say, you know,
it's popular online or cat videos, we should go with
cat videos and one of the annoying TikTok voices, and
somebody's like, all right, let's go ahead and do that
because that's what we got. And it is the cringiest
stuff you have ever seen. And uh, and and you

(08:05):
should see it. We'll retweet it, but I'll play it
for you. See you can hear it, and we'll do
it next here on the CaCO Day radio program in
the mic fix doing all sorts of stuff this morning.
I'm sure it will be reflected in our paychecks here
on the fifteenth. So AnyWho, Uh, all right, jd vance

(08:25):
audio again. It's one thing to sit here and have fun,
and it's like, oh, oh, it's you know, it's it's
it's uh, it's a shutdown, and it's immature to do
the sorry just somebody send me the weirdest email. Uh,

(08:48):
immature to do the sombrero thing. I can't you know,
how dare they? Why don't they take this seriously? The people,
you know, the the government workers suffering, And don't get
me wrong, you know clearly things that there are things
that are going to be different, things that are inaccessible.
The difference is that when when you see what's going

(09:11):
on right now and you realize that they're having like
a meme ofth and then you go back and you
think about the other shutdowns where they had they had
to sit down and have a strategy, meaning how they
could make that as hard as possible on the constituent
to own their political opposition. It just it shows you
the character of who you're dealing with there. I'm sorry,

(09:36):
and and I hope that thought occurred to everybody, even
if it's just subconsciously, so that maybe it gives you
pause next time you consider this stuff. So with that
in mind, as the sombrero memes can continue to fly,
jd Vance is uh, he's you know, he's got a
little press conference going on, and he has an olive branch,

(09:59):
which is nice. Okay, he's got an olive branch for
the for the opposition, and I don't know, sounds pretty
sounds fair to me.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
And you know, poking some some fun at the absurdity
of the Democrats themselves. And I'll tell Hakeem Jeffries right now,
I make this solemn promise to you that if you
help us reopen the government, the sombrero means will stop.
And I've talked to the President of the United States
about that.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
I mean, what what a thing to be uttered by
our vice president. Man. Look, if you if you just
open and you guys have I want to reiterate this.
What the Republicans are asking for is they were asking
for a line by line continuation of Joe Biden's last budget.
That's it. Of the things that remain. Okay, now, you

(10:48):
know there are some things that were removed under the
Big Beautiful Bill, which I just hate the name of that.
But that's what they're asking for. They're not asking for
anything that was not in Joe Biden's last budget. So
the fact that we're having discussions over sombrero memes, I'm
cool with that, the sobrera thing, I mean, and then

(11:08):
Mike shacked again. All Right, all right, well I screwed this.
I'm just gonna go back to the other one. Uh
then I'm gonna go smash something with a ham, but
I'll be wearing a sombrero while I do it. Does
that sound better? Okay? All right? Uh Ross, got me

(11:32):
a nice sombrero. I'm not gonna wear it anyway. But
you know, the fact that we're having sombrero discussions not
not how I thought i'd see it, but not also
really really really damn funny to me.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
The sobrera thing, I mean, Keem Jeffrey said it was
a racist and I know that he said that, and
I honestly don't even know what that means, Like, is
is he a Mexican American that is offended by having
a sombrero meme? And I saw one of the the
major TV stations put the meme up and then say
this is Ai generated and he had like the curly

(12:07):
animated mustache too. It's like, do the American people do
you really not realize the American people recognize that he
did not actually come to the White House wearing a
sombrero and a black, curly animation mustache. Like, give the
country a little bit of credit. We're all trying to
do a very important job for the American people. The
President of the United States likes to have a little
bit of fun when he's doing it.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Ross did you see did you see what they called
Jeffreys doing is he was leaving the White House after
the last failed negotiation? Did you see that video retied
that woman to the railroad track? Absolutely appalling? Man? What
a monster? By the way, how did that become a
thing of all the ways to you know, like if

(12:50):
if you want or dead? Why would I never understand
why that was like a staple of kids cartoons too.
Now I think about it, like that's where you first
picked up on that. I'm sure it's not now, but
for whatever reason in our generation, man, it was, it was.
And so that's why hikeem is like I gotta tie
a woman to a railroad track. And then he spun

(13:12):
the little end of his mustache. And it was very
offensive what what JD. Vance was referring to there, as
he was referring to George Stephanopolis on Good Morning America
whichever the ones he's on, and they had speaker Mike
Johnson on and they were showing in like this split
screen where he's, you know, Mike Johnson sitting there, Stephanopolis

(13:36):
is talking to him, and then over Stepanopholis's shoulder running
on loop is the I guess the two different sombrero memes.
But it was labeled this is AI generated or something
some along those lines from the wording, you know, as
though the viewers of ABC's morning show might in fact

(14:00):
think like Vance just alluded to that that's what those
dudes actually look like. And good on Mike Johnson for
not just busting out laugh and trying to explain it there.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
Let me try ask you about President Trump, he had
another deep fake video overnight? How does that help the cause?

Speaker 1 (14:17):
By the way, can we agree that deep fake is
an intent to If we're gonna deep fake should mean
something that is intended to fool people. There's no way
this is intended to fool people.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
They let me try ask you about President Trump. He
had another deep fake video overnight. How does that help
the cause of getting a deal in opening the government?

Speaker 5 (14:40):
Look, the president uses social media for humor, He makes jokes,
He does lots of things. What the President did in
showing leadership though, two days ago, was he brought in
Chuck Schumer and hawkm Jeffries to meet with me and
Leader Thune in the Senate to try to work this out.
He gave them an unlimited time they had in the
Oval Office, and they would not come to the table.
Do exactly, George, what they themselves have said repeatedly, over

(15:04):
and over and over.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
So, how do you answer to memes up to and
including on the original post in the sombrero meme, which
has like a third of the country has looked at,
how do you how do you do with that? And
then all the subsequent memes. Well, you got to get
your you gotta get your Democrat Party, and I want

(15:27):
you guys remember something. The people who are the mean
people for the Democrat Party, you know at large, are
were a bunch of them were hired from Kamala's failed campaign.
I remember doing this story. So you're you're dealing with
the same geniuses who got out memed by three dudes

(15:51):
in their twenties hopped up on zen. I believe it's
the way we chose to describe it. And so they're like,
all right, well, if people like sombreros, they also like cats, cats, cats, cats.
Internet loves cats, so let's why don't we have a cat?
And then I'm assuming somebody brought up the I'm just
a bill concept with the animation. I don't like. I'm

(16:13):
just trying to figure out the amount of hallucinogenics was
necessary to go ahead and get this thing out there,
but they decided to go for it. It is the ross.
Are you okay? I didn't even ask you cause I
was concerned you might die of cringe dubbing this in
this morning? Are you gonna be okay? You scarred for life?

(16:35):
I mean it's it's cringe. Yeah, but listen, listen to
this garbage.

Speaker 6 (16:39):
Republican and Democrat kitties cannot agree on what should be funded.
Democrat kitties want you to have health care, Republican kitties
do not. Republican kitties control the Senate House and the
White House, so they're using that to cut your health
care and give money to billionaires. Democrat kitty tries to negotiate,
but Republican kitty keeps running away.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
He has a vacation to get to.

Speaker 6 (17:00):
Oh suddenly the money you pay for your health insurance
has tripled, thanks Republicans.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
I mean, clearly almost as good as a sunburrow.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Mean, I mean, not only is it cringe, but it's
com completely as always inaccurate on everything.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Yeah. Remember remember the the nineteen hundred dollars hotel rooms
that sending Democrats are hanging out at starting what here
a few days? Well, what are you talking about? That's
why I asked. That's when we had why when we
had the conreccause this is this is the talking point
they were trying to get going, and I kind of
picked up on it towards the end of last week,

(17:38):
was that Republicans were doing this so they didn't even
have they weren't going to be in Washington. They were
going to go on you know whatever, evil layer vacations,
and that's what this was about. That's why I asked
the congressman if he was in DC, because they were
going to try to push this. The problem was is
enough Republicans. We're all over TV doing inner literally in

(18:01):
the Capitol rotunda. So it killed that narrative. Yeah, this
cat thing is uh if you're a is inaccurate. But
that's almost the least bothersome part of it. Now if
they'd have been thinking about it.

Speaker 6 (18:17):
Republican and Democrat kitties cannot be on what should be funded.
Democrat kitties want you to have healthcare, Republican kitties do not.
Republican kitties control the Senate House and the.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
White House, so that you've made it better your healthcare.

Speaker 6 (18:29):
And give money to billionaire Democrat kitty tries to negotiate,
but Republican kitty keeps running away.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
He has a vacation to get to huh oh.

Speaker 6 (18:38):
Suddenly the money you pay for your health insurance has tripled,
thanks Republicans.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
It's it's just one of the most awful things, man.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
It is just the Kamala HQ old Twitter people at
work again. It's the same you remember that photo of
the room of the people behind her Twitter twenty twenty
five year old chicks? Yeah, yeah, I do, yeah dude.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
And now and like literally you have height, you have
democrats who are like, you need to you need to
please take this down, please please please? Oh man, absolutely awful.
Uh eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.
Don't take my word for it either. What's actually at

(19:23):
play here, by the way, because they'll tell you, man,
they'll sit there and tell you we had uh, we
had the you know, the Maxine Waters where she's like
we when she was asked literally the softball questions like
are you guys tutting it down so you can give
health care to illegal immigrants? And she's like, we want

(19:44):
everyone to have health care. And and even the reporters like, ah,
you're giving away the game. Now they have this This
congressman from Detroit is weird, dude. I guess he's from
near to Track. I'm not sure exactly where in Michigan
he represents. He's the guy who looks like Ross, did

(20:06):
you ever have a wooly willie? I'm sure you did that.
That was an absolute that was an absolute must have.
Every kid had one at some point of our of
our childhood. Do you remember the wooly Willie?

Speaker 2 (20:20):
I have no idea what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Okay, so the wooly Willie was the dude's face, and
then there was a bunch of like magnetic pieces, little
metal shaving.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, okay, give mustache and stuff. Yeah, I don't know what.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
You would take the magnetic pen and then he would
place the things. He looks like a wooly Willie. But
like by if somebody was really bad at it, I
don't know why, man, It's just like it's that's this
the only way I conscribe the guy absolute lunatic. So uh,

(20:55):
he's running around saying that too. And it's like if
you have members of your own caucus who can't not
give away the game. His name is a three Shri
Tanadar tandor I don't know, I don't know how to
pronounce it, but AnyWho, Yeah, he said that they were

(21:16):
the ones that Democrats were the ones who decided to
shut the government down. Quote, if we got to shut
this government down, so be it. And also your eyebrows
haunt my dreams, sir, haunt absolutely haunt my dreams. Just
wants you to know that as well. So it's from

(21:38):
I'm just pointing all this out because from a handling standpoint,
with bad memes and you can't even keep your messaging
online and people can notice a sorry figure with a sneeze.
People can notice a visible difference between how Republicans handle
a shut down when they're in charge versus how Democrats

(21:59):
handled where they went out of their way to try
to make your life more miserable. It's just a series
of unforced errors. The most tangible shutdown thing I saw
or heard was what happens if you call the White
House Comment Line and rather than being able to perhaps
interact with somebody or you know, leave a message, have

(22:21):
it reviewed and have them get back to you, that
kind of stuff that you know that's not being done
right now because that's not considered essential to the functioning
of government, and instead you're just going to get this voice.

Speaker 7 (22:32):
Message thank you for calling the White House Comment Line. Hello, America,
this is White House Press Secretary Caroline love It. Democrats
and Congress have shut down the federal government because they
care more about funding health care for illegal immigrants than
they care about serving you, the American people. Until Democrats

(22:52):
vote for the clean Republican backed continuing resolution to reopen
the government, the White House is unable to answer your
call or respond to your questions. We look forward to
hearing from you again very soon, and in the meantime,
please know President Trump will never stop fighting for you.
Thank you, and God bless you.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
And you know what it is. It's also it's also
sticking with the pattern that is really striking about this,
his second term versus his first term. The amount of
chaos that'll probably be going on right now where nobody's
on the same page. There'd be people within the inner
circle that were leaking anonymous quotes to you know, to

(23:33):
their friends over at CNN or whatever, like it would
be chaos the first and it's just because you know, Trump,
Trump didn't get it the first time around. He had
to learn it the hard way as somebody who was
never steeped in the politics of Washington, DC. And it showed.
And it's not the case now. They're absolutely managing this.

(23:59):
And maybe it's just the Democrats are doing such a
horrible job that it looks it looks like they're doing
a really good job. But clearly, clearly they're the ones
you know what they're doing. And I'm just analyzing this
from a marketing pr standpoint, which is my you know,
which is my expertise. The end of the day. We
do radio, but we're in the marketing world and we

(24:20):
have to know how to communicate to people. And they're
doing a bang up job compared to the Democrats. And
maybe that's just where the country's appetite is. But like
all of these little things are things that consultants used
to think about. They should be high, if they were
if they were smart. You know what, I'm not gonna

(24:40):
give them any advice. There's something they could start doing
right now. The media would help them do it, but
I'm not even gonna suggest it. I'm gonna go to
break hold them a tongue and just watch this dumpster
fire roll on, so you hang on. We'll be back
call here in a moment. I want to apply a
reference the comments by Maxine Waters and by this Shree

(25:03):
Tanadar tar I he pronounce his name, the Detroit congressman.
It looks like a Willie Willie. Let me let me
play those for you, just so you can hear exactly
what they said. But it's like this is this is
clearly not what Jeffries and the Pelosis and the rest
uh we want to hear. And it like nobody has

(25:26):
control over anybody from a messaging perspective. Clearly American, excuse.

Speaker 8 (25:30):
Me, stop it right there, we're not prioritizing. What we're
doing is in simply, we want to keep the government open,
and we want to work with the Republicans and have
a bipartisan agreement to keep this government open. And healthcare
is at the top of our agenda.

Speaker 7 (25:48):
Our Democrats demanding health care for illegal aliens.

Speaker 8 (25:50):
That's right, Democrats are demanding healthcare for everybody. We want
to save lives. We want to make sure that healthcare
is available to those who would die but having the
help of their government.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
So you're good with.

Speaker 7 (26:10):
The government shutdown, even if it means giving health care
to people who aren't Americans.

Speaker 8 (26:15):
Well, you keep that's what you're pushing on. What you're
trying to do is you're standing here and you're trying
to make me say that somehow we're gonna put non
citizens over Americas.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
Quit it, stop it.

Speaker 8 (26:29):
This is the kind of journalism we don't need you
have said no, you're not. You're being device said no, please, don't.
You don't need to ask that question. You're just trying
to get controversy here. You're not going to get it
from me. We want to save health care for all people.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Thank you. It's like it's like she it's like she's
I don't know. She's in an interrogation room and they're like, ah,
did you murder the person? She say, yeah, I murdered
the person, but I'm not going to admit to murdering
that person. I see what you're trying to do. Detective.
You think you're very tricky. Here's the lunatic from Detroit,
by the way.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
But returning back to Detroit this morning after the Republicans
failed to show up in the US House.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
We got to make.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
Sure Americans have the healthcare that they need, and if
that means you got to chuck this government down and
so be it.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
So he's like, hey, man, that's fine, We're gonna go
ahead and we're gonna own this one if if that's
that's what it means. I think with Maxine, I think
she's so old in this or so steeped in this business,
been doing it so long that even though it's clear
that Democrats have to pivot a little on some of
the stuff from a messaging perspective, I don't think she

(27:43):
has the capacity to do it. I don't think she's
smart enough. I don't think she possesses the intelligence to
do it. And by the way I have spoken, I
will not name names, but I have spoke to several
members of Congress over the many years where I have
asked Maxine Waters what they think, and also Sheila Jackson Lee.

(28:08):
And it's interesting because with Maxine Waters, they were of
the opinion collectively that she's an idiot, whereas was Sheila
Jackson Lee. I think they just thought she was you know,
she was she was. There's some strategy there, which it
surprised me because I thought they were both idiots. But
Maxine Waters is an idiot, and I don't know that

(28:32):
you're gonna be able to do much about that. All right,
let me grab a call here, Tony. What's up?

Speaker 9 (28:38):
Yes, I thank you for sharing the whole thing with us.
I was thinking maxing max saying Waters has a reputation
not backing away from controversy. So if she's going to
provide health care. And if the Democrats we are okay
with that, well, each one of them go back to
their constituents and say, hey, this cost a lot of

(29:01):
money to provide a.

Speaker 10 (29:02):
Health care for the whole world.

Speaker 9 (29:05):
It's inconceivable that we would require everybody in the whole
world to walk across the southern or northern border just
to be here. So we should take the stance that
we're going to provide health care for everyone, and to
do that, it's going to cost this amount. And if
we go back and I would like to see them
campaign to their constituents and say, hey, I'm sorry, but

(29:28):
for the greater good of the world, we may have
to cut back your free benefits for Americans so that
we can do this for everyone in the world, because
we're so have that moral confass that they talk about.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
What do you think the argument for USAID was. I mean,
that's a center they were arguing because they were pretending
like all of those USAID spending programs were like for
kids hospitals in Nairobi, when in reality it was for
like drag shows in Columbia and all sorts of weird, weird,
weird stuff, which we've covered extensively on this show, so

(30:05):
in a way, you know, without threatening the austerity side
of cutting back, because you know there's they're they're never
going to cut back. They have basically given away that
They've given that argument that that's why they needed US
A I D. And people have rejected that. So but
you know, maybe they should campaign harder. Sir, I appreciate
the call. I mean, that's that's what that that's essentially

(30:27):
what that argument was, we have to do this, we
have to do this for all these places in the world.
They can't do it for themselves. And and then we
find out that what was what was Vance's trey to
remember the number he gave. I want to say that
when Vance was doing the interview with THEO Vaughan, he
this is after he had gotten in and Doge was

(30:49):
doing their thing. I still remember this. Vaughan was asking
about the U S a I D stuff, and Vance
said that when they got into it, they realized that
you had so many these NGOs involved that when a
dollar would be made available for one of these programs,
there would be three or four middlemen NGOs. Right, you

(31:09):
get the big one. It gives the littler one a
little because they're all in the same business, so they
all want to rub each other's backs, and then by
the time the money actually got to that the children
at the children's hospital in Nairobi or whatever the example
I used, only twelve cents on the dollar was making
it so by that it was an absurd argument. Then

(31:33):
it's an absurd argument now. But if they want to
make it, sir, I'm with you. Let them. Let them
go out and do it and just put the final
nail in the coffin, because that's what that would be.
Should I checked out, you know it's it's in the media,
so whatever literally just found We just found this out

(31:53):
just minutes ago, and Ross has been literally trying to
figure out the totality of it. So one one of
our favorite segments on this show is the segment that
happens at the very end of the show where Jeff
Bellinger hooks up. He got all his business news and

(32:16):
then I asked some sort of question to try to
make him uncomfortable. It is an absolute fan favorite. So
we found out literally just minutes ago that Bloomberg had
a was doing some downsizing yesterday and went to check

(32:36):
the trades. As they say that, you know, the various
radio TV reports and on the on the list there
is Jeff Bellinger.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
This is awful, man, this is horrible.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
I like this so much, and the fact that this
is how we found out is pretty Uh yeah, I
don't know. Because so we had that issue with the
microphone right at the beginning and we had to changed something.
So I had a contact them and say, hey, we're
doing things on the phone to debt. It's it's a
it's a technical thing. Yes, I got an auto apply
from Jeff's email. It says your Bloomberg contact has changed.

(33:10):
Please call then the number right and we're happy to
you know, assist you. Like, what does this mean? This
is the weirdest vacation.

Speaker 10 (33:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
So Ross and I we were talking to each other
like what does that mean? And so he called and
then I'm like, I I'm upset by the way they
delivered it, but I you know, I don't want to
belittle the fact that, you know, people within our industry
just lost their jobs yesterday. I always hated people in
radio that would celebrate if like some other guy who

(33:39):
did the same job they did, Like like, you know,
there used to be another FM talk station. Uh, if
you're fairly new. It was a while ago, and they
ended up flipping that station, and I was I was
seeing people that were in the business like yeah, good,
that's and I'm like, what do you what do you
You're a lunatic that so maybe you didn't have those jobs,

(34:01):
but now those are less jobs that exist in the
field that you're in, So what if you need a
job someday? So you know, that's that's where most of
my concern lies because and look, we're big boys and girls.
That is that is the that is the media industry.
They'll just flip, they'll do this, they'll do that. It's
it's just something that you live with if you want

(34:23):
to do this business. But it's never easy, man, never easy.
But like were we expect somebody is going to be
there at eight fifty today and I'm assuming they will.
I just don't know who. And it would have been
would have been nice to know.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
But so I called up trying to find out. I'm like,
who's our contact going to be at like eight fifty
for our financial report?

Speaker 10 (34:47):
Right?

Speaker 2 (34:47):
And the woman was very she was an Indian woman,
and she was very confused as to what I was saying.
And I was on hold for about ten fifteen minutes.
In my eye got how is she?

Speaker 1 (34:55):
How is she not? Had twenty of these calls, I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
It really sounded like we were the first call that
she usually even she had not she had no idea
what I was talking about.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
So you're telling me that radio shows across the country
are gonna be going waiting for a business guy to
connect or gal to connect, and then absolute pandemonium. Man,
I mean, I look, and I don't know. I'm not
maybe I don't know Bloomberg's business model, you know, whether
it was necessary not necessary, what like, That's that's not

(35:26):
my thing. But geez tell us somebody. Man, all right,
I'm probably gonna get in trouble sitting here even diving
into all of it. But I just want to let
you know because we're very sad because even look, even
though I would cut, we'd come up with questions for Jeff,
and then there was the whole you know, Jeff's the
alien meme. We love Jeff around here, man, I love
that segment, do you know me? Times Ross and I

(35:47):
would giggle at each other earlier in the show, knowing
what question we were gonna ask Jeff later Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
The worst part is there's no contact information because the
dude is an alien, so he's not like he's on
Facebook or anything. I'm never right, but I've never heard
of them. See feacetbook.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
Maybe went back to his planet. I don't know what,
but like, I'll, dude, I'm gonna miss that. I'm gonna
miss that. We've had some people, you know, where there's
big job shifts and sometimes they just shifted to another reporter,
like Tony Jackson was our weather guy. Remember how much
we love some Patrise Sokora.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah it's fantastic, yep. Yeah, man, So but I'm still
in contact with Patrice. Could be because she's on Facebook.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
You know, right, Yeah, Jeff's not on I bet Jeff's
got a bang in TikTok with like a hundred thousand followers,
and he just never told me.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
I at least felt like Jeff was like Ross Buckingham
from the Howard Stern Private Parts one hundred.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
One hundred percent, except Jeff wouldn't get angry Ross Wie.
But no, oh jeez, man, I just hate this so much,
all right, but I just want to let you know.
So I want to let you know that at we
will not be chatting with Jeff, and hopefully we'll be

(37:04):
chatting with somebody and I'm not going to dig into
that person because there's just another employee. But ah, what
a day, What a day? Man seven to eleven here
on the CaCO Day radio program. H Now, I now
I'm like lost my train of thought where I was
thinking about this. Do do do?

Speaker 11 (37:23):
Do?

Speaker 10 (37:24):
All right?

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Let me let me just kick over to another story. Okay,
I'm not gonna sit here and dwell upon this. Uh.
The Raleigh teenage are accused of killing five people and
injuring two others. This is the this is the the
shooting that took place, which, by the way, once again
and I maybe it will come out more, but I

(37:47):
have it on very good authority, the general law enforcement
of folks that I trust to provide me details that
this Austin Thompson is his name, had actually he had
cobbled together information that led them to the belief on

(38:09):
one of his devices that he actually intended perhaps to
shoot up one of our local schools, and that the
reason he killed his brother is or at least one
of the reasons, because his brother found out, and so
that basically kickstarted whatever happened. So I thought that was
a pretty pertinent piece of information, and I think, you know, here,

(38:33):
as this trial moves forward, maybe we'll get a bigger glimpse.
But I was really surprised that they didn't talk about that,
even if it was some politician just trying to use
its score points. I was very interested to not see
that come out yet. But we have a sense of
what his defense will be, all right. The defense team

(38:55):
for Thompson filed notice yesterday that they would use a
diminished capacity and voluntary intoxication of prescribed medication defense whatnot.
I don't know what he's on. I'm assuming it's probably
some sort of either antidepressant or ADHD kind of thing,

(39:19):
and so he's taken his prescription medicine. You know, really
they I don't lawyers aren't filing this defense thinking that
they're going to get their person off. They file this
to basically help them out for the purpose of adjudication, sentencing,
you know what that may look like. So, but that's
the direction they're going to go. Trial scheduled to begin

(39:43):
in February more than three well it's been three years,
more than three years after the crimes. Doing large part
According to this report from w r L, Thompson's ability
to participate in his own defense has been a factor.
His attorneys have used his brain injury, that he had

(40:03):
a gunshot wounded the head when he was captured, and
his long recovery and asking for the trial delays. Yeah,
they did mess him up, man, when he went and decided,
he went to that surrender shad of that barn thing,
and they pumped a few rounds into him. I'm really
surprised he lived based on the actual injuries he sustained

(40:24):
while they were well he was hold up there in January,
Thompson's lawyers argued, while he has since been declared competent
to stand trial, he's still a brain injured adolescent. Why
aren't they all further He's being held an hour from Raleigh,
and those issues all require additional time and resources. I'm sorry,

(40:44):
three three years, three years. There's victims' families, the family
of that police officer, the woman that was just going
for a run or should walking dogs or what I mean,
just all just sitting around waiting for this. He's charged

(41:05):
with multiple counts. This is an attorney, Daniel Meyer, who's
quoted in the story he says, he's charged with multiple
counts of first degree murder, and to prove first agree
murder you have to prove that he had specific intent
to kill and premeditation. Well, I'll tell you what if if,
in fact, the information that was provided to me that
this was, you know, that he had plans to go

(41:27):
shoot up a school and his brother found out. I'm
assuming that would count because now now you could argue
that he's doing he started the killings to cover up,
you know, for this information that would have stopped him
from being able to do the killings he wanted to do.
So there's gonna be a lot to digest as this

(41:48):
whole thing unfolds. On October thirteenth, twenty twenty two, please say,
Thompson killed first his brother James inside their Headingham neighborhood home,
then fled through the neighborhood to the nearby Greenway, shooting
four other people along the way. Nicole Connors and marcell
Lynn Gardner were shot. Connors is the one who died.

(42:10):
I was the one I referenced. Gardner survived. It's spent
weeks in the hospital. Gabriel Torrez, a Raleigh police officer,
was on his way to work, was shot right outside
his house. Mary Marshall and Susan Karnits were shot on
the Greenway. Police officer Roley Police Officer Casey Clark was
injured during the search for the shooter. Yeah, so he's

(42:31):
gonna go, He's gonna go. And you know what, you know,
a lot of people anytime we talk about these, especially
these younger shooters right where they're just like, what kind
of prescription drugs were they on? So I'm not surprised
his defense would lead into this. All right, seven seventeen
Casey O Day radio program, Hang on these law enforcement

(42:56):
these undercover operations at gentlemen's clubs, right, and then we
just joke because it's like there's so many where they're
like and they were investigating the club for six months,
and it's like it so the way to say you
found you found investigation where you just had to go
hang out at a strip club for six months, probably
should have drug that investigation. Now that's the joke, right,

(43:18):
So this is one. It looks like it moved quite
a bit faster, but an undercover operation. Nonetheless, Ice. It
was done by ICE in the Dallas area. According to ICE,
following investigation. So they received a tip that and this

(43:38):
is the name of the cabarets Chica's Bonita's Cabaret.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
Which I believe it means Spanish for the crazy banana, right,
full disclosure, don't speak Spanish.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
Banano, loco or loco I guess in this case, No,
it just means pretty girls.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
Okay, okay, but close.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
You were very close, which again is probably a good
name for a They received a tip that a bunch
of the employees were illegal, the dancers, the people work
in the bar, just everywhere, and so they snapped too.
Ice agents in Dallas also seized approximately thirty thousand in
US currency and various business ray. It's actually smart if

(44:19):
you think about it, because if you if you are
there and you know that the strippers illegal, and you
know that you may have to take her into custody,
you'll be able to determine that she doesn't have a weapon.
So this is really an officer safety issue if you
think about it. Now, here's the question, and then you
gotta wait. You gotta wait for the you know, the

(44:40):
rotation too to fill so that you can you know,
identify all the people you're gonna be taken into custody,
very time consuming. So when it was all said and done, Ross,
how many illegal immigrant strippers do you think that ice
arrested at Chica's Benita's the Crazy Banana Cabaret yesterday And
how many total strippers?

Speaker 2 (45:01):
I don't know the economics.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
It was stripped, fine, Bob, Fine, No, it's gonna.

Speaker 10 (45:05):
Be more than that.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
No more ten Bob, No, No, it's abnc spat.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
Apparently were twenty strippers, Bob, twenty.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
No, that sounds like a lot, but no, it's finally higher,
actually thirty five, Bob. Unfortunately, while that also sounds like
a lot, you're gonna have to go, oh jeez, I'm
so sorry. It was forty one, forty one strippers snatched
off the stage or whatever. I don't know how they
actually conducted the simultaneous forty one strippers of the Crazy Banana.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
It's nuts.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Yeah, yeah, sounds like a place I wish, I wish
I would have heard of. That's a yeah, variety, man,
gotta have variety there. Uh No, I shouldn't say they
were all strippers. Apparently. Let's see here they do have
a breakdown and the bigger concern, one of the bigger
concerns too, is and this is why they arrested Let's

(45:59):
see here basically ownership five of the people who were
not I guess bartenders or managers actually at that moment,
and they have arrest warrants for some others that they're
looking for. Is they were they were trying to determine
if some of these women were traffic which they probably were,
or this way when I say trafficked in the sense
that we've told you that what happens with these with

(46:22):
these cartels or these other criminal organizations is the you know,
they charge a certain amount of money. If you don't
have that amount of money when you get to the US,
you may be put to work. This is how you
work it off. And it can be in some of
these these horrendous bordellos that they find, and it can
be in these strip clubs. So I'll be interested to
see what the ownership group was here. But yeah, here

(46:44):
we go forty one illegal aliens. Oh okay, so that
is the strippers. They also arrested twenty nine workers at
the club. As you can imagine, there's some extensive criminal
records on some of these cats and previous order for
deportation that were already existing. So I bet those You

(47:07):
know what, if you're a Dallas Ice agent, you deserve
this after what you guys been going through here the
last couple of weeks, because all that craziness, Uh, what
is that? Okay?

Speaker 2 (47:22):
All right?

Speaker 1 (47:23):
I don't I don't know how would they do the
I don't know how exactly they did it. I mean
that's a good question, like how do you simultaneously make
the all of those arrests? I don't know the answer
to that. Clearly it was a team effort. I think.
I guess maybe you do, like you you know those things,
you see those stings sometimes, so though now everyone kind
of knows about them, so maybe they don't work anymore.

(47:46):
But like back in the day where they'd send a
bunch of people who have warrants like you won a TV,
you won football tickets. I remember there's one where they
was for Washington Redskins tickets back in like the eighties,
and I've seen that video flow around on Twitter. And
so all these dudes show up and they put them
in like a like a hotel conference, like if you
ever go to a conference ballroom kind of thing at

(48:08):
a hotel and they're all sitting in there and there's
some guy and they got like you know, football logos
and stuff, and then all of a sudden, all of
the doors because you know, there's usually like twenty doors
to those rooms, open up and it's just agents cops
and everybody's going to the pokey because you all got
a warrant. So I don't know, maybe they maybe they
change the champagne room, right, yeah, I would like a

(48:32):
private dance.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
I mean some of these clubs i've heard have like cages,
right yeah, yeah, like dancing the cages I heard. Yeah, yeah,
so you know that would be convenient.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Well it would, but they're very visible, so they I
think that everyone else would be like why are they
not able to get out of that cage when they're
you know, when they're shift is up or their dances up.
So I think you got to go champagne room with
a secret door. There's any floor, right, not a trap door,
but just you know, and then you just take them
out the back and then the guy comes out, he say, oh,

(49:07):
I'm gonna get another Uh. I would like a private
dance with you, ma'am.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
I'm surprised. I guess you're not allowed to record obviously
in a place like that, But can you imagine the
scene though, and that it did go down, like they're
just starting to arrest everybody that's naked on the stage.

Speaker 1 (49:21):
They do I think that you have to do. I
think maybe you would have to wait for the one,
the thing where they bring all the girls on stage, right,
you know, like once an once an hour, once every
two hours or whatever, because then you know everything's contained there.
So I don't know, man, I don't know, Boston, Paul,
how did you guys used to mass arrest strippers back?

(49:42):
And I'm assuming you volunteered for that detail. Share it
with us, Share it with us normies. We don't know.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Imagine like it's your night out, is your bachelor party
or whatever, and that happens, especially especially.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
Like it's your bachelor party. And also you got your
eye on one and you're like, oh, yeah, your buddy's
gonna get your private dance.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Right, the ice comes out and takes howt all the strippers?
God's trying to tell you something at that point.

Speaker 1 (50:09):
You know what, Now that I think about it, this
is not what I voted for. Yes, the human trafficking, yes,
yeah you got to stop that. But I'm talking about.
You know, come on, man over at the Crazy Banana.
You can't pull this.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
It's a temporary clothed. That reporter you said the name
of the bar was, it was the Crazy Yeah, were
the Crazy Banana. That's a weird name for a straight club,
isn't it.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
Well, I mean pretty girls, Crazy Banana. Yeah. Oh I
see what you I see what you're saying there now.
It looks like it's your standard running the Mill Texas
strip club. Just uh a Mexican theme. Were any of
them wearing sombreros? Maybe, but if they were, probably that's
all they were wearing. I don't know. I've never been
to the Crazy Banana, sir. Been to Dallas, haven't been

(51:03):
to this particular. You think somebody reported that, like called
into ice. They were like, hey, somebody did. It was
a tip line sort of thing. Really yeah, so I
bet they had a really good time or whatever. But
then they like they thought that the drinks were too expensive,
and they're like, I'll show them.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
That's what I'm saying. Like, you go there, you sit
down right, you're at a strip club, and you're like
you get so angry and you're looking at me like
the strippers.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Are legal right like night but a cool boy. Yeah,
it says they got a tip. It doesn't say exactly
what it was, what triggered any of it, just that
they got a tip. I bet you I did investigating.
I'm shocked you got a tip and immediately investigation. I
would be absolutely shocked. It was somebody like a customer,
like a dude sitting down getting so and like calling

(51:48):
Ice while they're on the stage. It was probably, now
that you think about it, a competing stripper who was
legalissed off and they're like, you're years ago, you're stealing
all my tips, You're stealing all my dollars. I'm gonna
call Ice on you. And now they've got a monopoly
on the stage. So an American citizen is just getting
a little long in the twoth doesn't list it's the
younger upstar girls or I'm maybe man, I don't know. Well,

(52:13):
also maybe it's a disgruntled employee. I think the tip
was more closely associated with the fact that basically there
was a lot there was, you know, clearly other criminal
stuff going on there, including allegations of trafficking, but it
doesn't say that exclusively. So maybe you're right, I don't know.

(52:33):
Let's see here. Yeah, I'm just going back to the
line about the tip. Here just says that they got
a tip and I chose to act on it very
very quickly. So not not altogether unexpected.

Speaker 10 (52:46):
But what is that?

Speaker 1 (52:48):
Okay? All right, now, enough on that. I don't I
don't have any more details, but I promise you I'll
do some research later. So I just want to make
sure that I have you know the whole story. That's all.
I tell you what today will bring for you though.
So maybe you were planning on heading to the crazy
Banana lator and now that's not going to work out.
So sit home and watch the slashing begin. According to

(53:11):
the budget director Russ vatt Voait, however you say his name,
they are they're getting going on slashing, and they are
taking the scalpel seemingly first and foremost to leftist pet projects.
The one thing they did announce is nearly eight billion
dollars in green new scam funding to fuel the left's
climate agenda. This is a tweet this dude sent out.

(53:34):
I'm reading to fuel the left climate agenda is being canceled.
More info to come tomorrow. So this was yesterday they
announced this late in the day, and then today we're
going to find out a lot of these programs. And
if you're the Democrats, man, this is all worst case
scenario stuff for you. The difference. The difference is they're
going after programs and they're not running around erecting barricades.

(53:58):
They're taking a different tact on this. So like, I
don't know what an agreement look. I mean, at this point,
the Republicans have no reason to yield because they haven't
changed their position or point on this. We're going to
continue funding at the exact same level and the exact

(54:19):
same programs. Democrats are trying to pretend that they are
cutting program I mean they are now, but that they
were cutting programs in this proposal. But they weren't. The
programs that Democrats were mad were programs that were cut
as part of the big beautiful bill that's already done,
that happened, that got the votes that needed, that was
signed into law. They're just trying to rehash that. So

(54:42):
understand what this is about. Now, they're going to go
after your other stuff. They're going to go through and
they're going to go after your other stuff and employees
and departments and programs. And this will impact some states
because a lot of this green new funding stuff is
moneies that would then trickle down for energy production in

(55:03):
the various states. I see North Carolina is not on
this list, but about fifteen states are. So they're going
to have to then figure out what they're going to
do if they want to continue those programs, and in
some cases at the state level, those programs may go away.
That's how these thing's that's how this thing's gonna work,

(55:24):
all right, seven forty three here on the KCODA Radio program.
Coming up on the show. Hey, you know, just in
time for you know, the holiday season. I know a
lot of you. I know a lot of you love
putting the giant inflatables in your yard. That's just God,
that's gotten out of control, man, I mean you do

(55:45):
you But like there's a house near my house in
Raleigh that says, or real they have a snoopy that's
literally bigger than the two story house. It's crazy to
be thought of dinosaurs. So we have an opportunity for you.
I'll tell you about that coming up and that Harvard story,
I promise, and it's a banger. But first let's get

(56:08):
mister ray Stagic from the Weather Channel via phone because
one of our toys. How you doing this?

Speaker 10 (56:13):
Be Hey, I'm doing well. I'm doing well. How about you?

Speaker 1 (56:17):
I mean the fact the temperatures, it's like you almost
need a jacket, like an actual jacket jacket.

Speaker 10 (56:25):
If they're kind of like say to your said, well,
I wish I would have brought a jacket today and
you didn't. Here tomorrow morning because it might be actually
even cooler. We'll see a lot of upper forties and
low fifties. That's basically the average right now across the area.
So cool morning, beautiful afternoon, expecting lots of sunshine. All
it might be some areas of low cloud and fog

(56:46):
and spots, especially west and the mountains today, but I'll
go away for everybody. It's gonna be in a little
bit seventies, same thing tomorrow. Might that get added the
upper sixties in some spots, especially the further west you
go sunny Saturday mid seven the upper seventies and then
maybe a little more cloud coming in here Sunday. It
still getting milder bit the upper seventies to maybe eighty degrees.
So it's kind of one of those tip back, relax,

(57:08):
and I guess enjoy this fall time weather because we're
going back into the eighties probably or close to it
as we get into next week. Caseee, so we get
another little shot coming in just not really any they
called hang time with the tillier air, but this is
actually more seasonable and more reflective of what we should.

Speaker 11 (57:28):
Do this time of the year.

Speaker 10 (57:29):
Hold on while I stall, So I'm trying to find
the average high low. Yeah, the average high is still
in the upper seventies for the triangle, seventy eight. Yesterday
was seventy six. If a the triad, it is seventy
six for the average high, so close to or slightly
a little normal for a couple of days before we
get close to normal and back above it as we
get into the weekend. The end of the weekend, especially

(57:51):
in next week, that will be our next rain chance
too as we get into the first part of next week,
as some moisture going to get drawn up from the
south week low pressure off the southeast coast of Florida,
which a Hurricane Center says maybe a ten percent chance
of something developing there. But either way, some of that
moisture looks like it's gonna get John North and we
get a little wet weather early next week. So he

(58:12):
got the jacket this morning. Don't forget it tomorrow morning,
all right, put it on your list.

Speaker 1 (58:17):
Okay, all right? By the way, yes, why is your
backup quarterback trying to murder fans? What's up with that?

Speaker 10 (58:24):
Oh? No, what happened?

Speaker 1 (58:25):
Now? Who Joe that?

Speaker 10 (58:28):
Yeah? Joe Mellen?

Speaker 1 (58:28):
What did he do? He? So he's he goes out,
he's playing playing catch with a fan. A fan wants
him to throw him the ball, and he the dude
dies because Milan throws the ball so damn hard almost
it literally almost took his head off.

Speaker 10 (58:43):
Man.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
It's the video's flowing around out there if you want
to check it out. So my team's never tried to
murder me as a fan, so I'm.

Speaker 10 (58:51):
Just well, well you'll have that right. So yeah, looking
forward to looking forward to the Jets this weekend. Got
a couple of cousins back in New York that got
offer tickets and they turned them down.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
Oh wow, dude, I just what a thankless, thankless fan
base man.

Speaker 10 (59:08):
I just.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
Ah, you hate to see it? Not really all right,
We'll talk later, thank you, sir.

Speaker 10 (59:15):
Appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (59:15):
There you go, Race Stagic from the Weather Channel and
we will be right back to Casey O Day radio program.
And they sent a press release out over this too.
Harvard University announced a new visiting professor who will, uh,
we'll teach in these studies of gender and sexuality programs, specifically,

(59:40):
who will be giving lectures on Let make sure I
get this absolutely correct. Let's see here queer a roup politics,
drag race and desire, queer ethnography. We got cut off there.

(01:00:02):
I think that's the one they're going for, roupe politics.
See what they did there, drag race and desire. The
name of the visiting professor though, ross you know Pakistan?
Do you know what the big city in Pakistan is called? Lahore?
All right? Lahore, Pakistan. So the Harvard professor's name is Lahore,

(01:00:26):
but instead of just spelled h O R E, the
W is there and last name? I don't know can
I say that on the air. Here's what I would
tell you. It's rhymes with Pakistan, but instead of p
A K at the beginning, it's v A G. You see,
you see what they did there, So it's Lahore, Pakistan,

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but not a P A K, but A V, A G.
And now here's the thing. They just did it. The
Trump administration just announce an agreement with Harvard earlier this
week that would make about two and a half billion
dollars a lot of its research funding available because they

(01:01:11):
were willing to make some changes to you know, student vetting.
Remember they were waiting it making it harder for Asian
students and white students. So they were going to stop that.
The DEI stuff. This, Look, this is a college campus.
And if they want to have a so he drew
a drag class, it's a private college. Whatever. We're not

(01:01:32):
forcing the kids to take it. But it's absolute ridiculousness.
Do you know when I was when I was down
at school, was the first they started offering a class,
but you had to be a film studies major. But
I remember we having we were laughing our butts off.
So they added a class at you see Santa Barbara
back in the late nineties, early two thousands. That was

(01:01:55):
it was a film studies class. It was for it
was a multi semester thing, and it was the study
of pornography. And as predicted, like it was almost impossible
to get in on that class. I knew a kid
it was in that class, and he said it wasn't
as exciting as you think. But still, man, you know
you're gonna have the weirdness on college campuses, but that

(01:02:17):
one is that one's a little over the top. By
the way, this very same professor just was a guest
professor tough. So this is kind of a rotating thing
here for Lahore there probably if your kids go into Harvard,
just know that that's going to be an option for him.
I guess if you want all right, yeah, I got,

(01:02:41):
I got time. We go ahead and slip one other
quick story in. So, if you're looking for a new
yard decoration but the inflatables are just too much, how
about a life size, motorized in some cases dinosaur, because
that's the thing that's available now if you so desire
so up a new there's apparently they have like a

(01:03:03):
it's called Dinosaur Field Station, and so basically it's animatronic dinosaurs.
And then you take the kids there. It's an amusement
park and they're going out of business. So now they're
selling all their animatronic dinosaurs, and they're selling them kind
of cheap. The problem is, though, you gotta you gotta
go get them. You gotta disassemble, you gotta haul them
and then reassemble. So you know, if you're gonna buy one,

(01:03:27):
just know that it's gonna cost you probably at least
double what you pay for it. But they got some,
they got some good in's here.

Speaker 9 (01:03:32):
Ross.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
Do you want like a giant raptor for your yard?
Go with the inflatables, dude, that'd be amazed. There's a
Lincoln like dinosaurs. You ever go through a dinosau.

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Yeah, definitely went through a phase. Yeah. I think you
would probably prefer something you could use as like a slide,
like a bronosaurus or something.

Speaker 1 (01:03:49):
Oh, they have a big brachiosaurs here. I think that. Yeah, Yeah,
it's even I'm looking at the picture of it's kind
of posed in a way you could slide down it.
I don't know. I think if I if I was
forced to choose one, I get this giant pterodactyl, which
is only eight hundred and fifty dollars. But then you
got you know, you got the other cause and then
what you do is you put that right on the

(01:04:10):
crown like the capstone of your house. A phone number
eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four
is we get things rolling here on our final hour.
That's how you can participate in the show, or you
can you know not and just listen. That's okay, but
we got We've got quite a few things I want

(01:04:30):
to get to. First of all, this this story. I
was just laughing at this story this morning, although there
is a I guess it's somewhat unfunny side too, because
the President is involved. Kind of kind of all right, so,
as you know, the Ryder Cup was last weekend frigging

(01:04:53):
in Europe one, but that aside, on Friday, the President
and his granddaughter or Kai went to the Rider Cup,
and what was I gonna say? Oh, and I was
just remembering the pictures with the idiots, and that's when

(01:05:13):
the people thought that he had landed Marine one at
the golf course. Never mind that the Washington monuments in
the background, because you know, I guess with TDS, it
just your reasoning goes out the window for picking up
on clues. But that aside, while Trump was there on Friday,
and this an NYPD detective his name is Melvin Ang,

(01:05:38):
decided he wanted to go to the Rider Cup, but
he wasn't working. He wasn't assigned, and he didn't have
the the money for a ticket, and those tickets were
not cheap, by the way, like five six hundred bucks,
depend on what you wanted to do. And so he
came up with a plan, and according to reports, he
got all of his tactical gear on, showed up at

(01:06:02):
Bethpage Black and told the people that he was part
of security detail for you know, for the fact that
Trump was there, and they let him in. They let
him in until he encountered and and and then he
so he gets in, I guess, which you know is
a problem in and of itself because the President of

(01:06:22):
the United States is in there, and he actually would
have gotten away with all of it, but he dropped
his gun magazine in the grass in front of the
the actual detail for the president of the secondary detail,
and they went over talked to him, and they figured
out what was up. But yeah, so he went on
Keystone Cop. Even though he's a detective, he's a detective

(01:06:44):
in the NYPD. He just threw on the tactical gear.
It's funny though, because he's wearing tactical maybe isn't the
best word. Upper body. He's got all the gear but
he's also wearing cargo shorts. So anyways, so now he's
on administrative leave because he can't do that. I don't

(01:07:04):
know if he'll be fired or not. I mean, clearly
that is a security issue, not that they think this
guy had any ill intent or was going to do
anything to the president. The guy just wanted to go
to the golf thing for free, and this was the plan.
It just dudes being dudes. But it's backfired. I don't know.
Maybe he won't be a detective anymore. Then he won't
get to do those sweet sweet strip club undercover operations. Aang,

(01:07:29):
who's forty six, as president of the NYPD Asian Jade Society.
I'm just looking at a picture of him. He clearly
looks Asian. Okay. Ang claimed he was working for the FEDS.
This is from the NYPD paperwork, which was enough to
get him into the popular tournament until he dropped his
magazine and got booted. He was suspended Monday for the stunt.

(01:07:53):
So now we're getting the getting the rest of the story.
What if he was looking to hurt someone? He got
in there with a gun, pass secret service past eight police,
I know, So why would him dropping a magazine suddenly
be the kick the kicker there, the disfigured. He's apt.
I mean, clearly he is an officer. He can prove

(01:08:13):
he's an officer. He's got his badge and his ID there.
So I don't know. And at this point they're going
to do an investigation. So that's probably the last we'll
ever see of that story. But I thought it was
kind of interesting. Oh. I mentioned the dumbest thing I
had seen in a while, and Ross and I hadn't

(01:08:34):
even talked about it, and when I brought it up,
he immediately said the same thing. So I'm glad we're
on the same page. I don't does this work for brands.
I've tried to remember if did they get Did I
hop get a boost when they did that stupid I
hob thing? They probably did because they were getting tons
of pub on it. This one feels a little stupid

(01:09:00):
or a lot stupid. So Maxwell House. Maxwell House has
announced it will change its name for the first time
in one hundred and thirty three years. Now. Is it
to not be associated with jis Lane Maxwell?

Speaker 11 (01:09:15):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
No, no, no, It's much dumber than that. According to
is this guy's or this chick's name Holly Ramsden, head
of Coffee, Head of Coffee North America at Craft Hinds.
That's who owns Maxwell House. They decided that since nearly
a third of Americans live in apartments rather than purchasing

(01:09:38):
full size homes, the coffee giants wants to reflect that
stat with its temporary rebrands, So this is not permanent,
so it's a stunt. So instead of Maxwell House, the
brand will now be called Maxwell Apartment. This is from
the marketing statement. Maxwell House believes no one should have

(01:10:00):
to go without great tasting coffee, and Maxwell Apartment delivers
the same delicious taste people know and love at a
value that celebrates all our fans are doing to make
smart choices. Then they say, and they're gonna offer some
special I think it's forty bucks for basically a year's
worth of coffee, and but they're marketing saying you could

(01:10:22):
they'll save you a thousand a month or one thousand
a year, referencing daily you know, going to Starbucks and stuff,
which I get that. People are very clear that making
coffee at home is immensely cheaper than going to Starbucks
every morning. But Maxwell Apartment, do you what do you know?
Are you going to expand it? Ross had a good idea.

(01:10:42):
I'm on board Ross.

Speaker 10 (01:10:43):
What was it?

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
Maxwell parents' basement?

Speaker 10 (01:10:47):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
I think that's great.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
Have you tried the parent basement brew?

Speaker 1 (01:10:53):
I have not, Although don't most people drink coffee as
a way to get themselves ready for the day to
go to work.

Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
It's a good point. Yeah, uh yeah, or maybe just
to get caffeinated up and stew in the world. I
guess about a big coffee drinkers. I don't know all
the rituals. Yeah, it's got like a taste of like
a slight taste of kind of like chocolate and poverty.
Oh okay, Maxwell, house parents' basement and virginity.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
Probably we'll hint into that. Hmm, tastes like inseell oh,
that's great. Let's see here. You know what, Maxwell, how apartment,
whatever your name is. If you're listening, Maxwell extreme, all right,
and you go after the gamers because if there's one thing,

(01:11:40):
some game or in front of some big system when
once when they crash out and start throwing stuff, it's
a steaming cup of coffee right there. But if you
add extreme, that's all you gotta do. Ass Mountain de
do fuel. You just you just be the non energy

(01:12:01):
drink of that man, because you're naturally caffeinated. I guess
that deal I told you about is available on Amazon,
So there you go. They just got some free marketing
out of us. But I think most people are just
gonna laugh at this. This is dumb, man.

Speaker 10 (01:12:15):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:12:17):
Somebody probably stated their career on this too. All right,
what is the.

Speaker 10 (01:12:24):
Dude?

Speaker 1 (01:12:25):
The amount of emails I got about the Jeff thing. Okay, Ross,
we know who's going to be doing the report.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
Yeah, but I emailed them back, okay to let her
know about the phone issue.

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
So got you, got you, gotcha? All right, And I'll
just I'll let you guys in on this just because
we're very sad around here. One of my favorite segments
that we did on the show was the very last
segment of the show that we did, and that was
when we come back from break. We're bumping the music
of the song money and we go talk to Jeff

(01:12:56):
Bellinger and at some point I try to find some
question and then I'm gonna ask Jeff Bellinger. And I'm
telling you, there's there's times Ross and I would be laughing,
laughing off the air at like six thirty in the morning,
and we couldn't wait to get to eight fifty because
we had to ask Jeff that we loved us some Jeff,
And unfortunately it appears that it's in the trade. So

(01:13:18):
I'm not telling you anything that is not already in
the out there in the in the news cycle. Uh,
Bloomberg did a staffing they did some staffing cuts yesterday,
and unfortunately Jeff was among them. So we are we
are very bummed here on the show, obviously, and and
then we realized that like we don't even we don't

(01:13:40):
even know how to reach out to Jeff because like
there's no there's not a social media footprint there because
he's Jeff, right, Jeff doesn't have social media. I mean
maybe he does, I don't know. Maybe he's got a
YouTube chair of TikTok Wheada's challenges and dances. I don't know.
I just don't know what it is. But so sadly

(01:14:01):
that era seemingly has come to an end. So we'll
talk to Dan Schwartzman, who was filled in for Jeff
before he'll be talking to us at eight fifty. Clearly,
we're not going to get into that, but I just
want to let you know because Jeff is definitely or
was definitely a part of the show Man, and you
guys would send me emails when we do a story suggesting, Hey,

(01:14:23):
you got to ask Jeff about that, so he will
be sorely missed. And I got a ton of emails.
People are very bothered by this. But I just want
to let you know, full disclosure all that stuff. Okay,
all right, let's go. I'll let that sink in, We'll
take a break, we'll come back. Apparently if you eat
this particular food, you're all gonna die. Although I questioned

(01:14:45):
the methodology and I'll explain why. Stupid study alert coming
up casey O Day radio program. Got I had mentioned
this yesterday. But that is not impacted. Yeah, so it
is up to the administration Herman what they consider essential,
and the White House considers the immigration crackdown and everything

(01:15:07):
that's going on as essential, So that is not impacted.

Speaker 10 (01:15:10):
Here.

Speaker 1 (01:15:11):
They're gonna still be raiding strip clubs and uh doing
the Chicago operation Midway or whatever they're calling it there.
That's still going on, a good question though, But yeah,
I did that was something that was addressed in a
story that we did the other day very interesting. So

(01:15:32):
I'm just looking over at this some of the others,
some of the other program well they uh okay, so
they're just speculating on these We're gonna we're gonna start
seeing some some some cuts come to light today. It's
gonna be And so I would say, if you're gonna
follow or semi follow the news cycle, there's gonna be
a lot of clips because immediately if something gets cut,
the media is gonna run to whichever Democrat thing get

(01:15:54):
in front of a microphone and uh, they'll they'll have
a melt down over it. And so if I guess
if that brings you joy, you should have a lot
of joy today because I think a lot of those
videos are going to emerge. But there is something they
could do. There's something they could do. It's very simple,

(01:16:15):
as laid out yesterday as the Vice President joined the
White House Press briefing and.

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
Shared this with everybody, and you know, poking some fun
at the absurdity of the Democrats themselves. I mean, I'll
tell Hakeeen Jeffries right now, I make this solemn promise
to you that if you help us reopen the government,
the sombrero memes will stop. And I've talked to the
President of the United States about that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:40):
The Vice President of the United States uttering that phrase
is nothing I would have envisioned five years ago, ten
years ago, but it's perfect here. And because Vance knows
he got them. Do you see they tried to do
Advance meme with that stupid fake Vance, you know, with
the ball, the chunk, the chubby Vance. The newsomb or

(01:17:03):
newsomce people did it, and it's like he's pretending to
be like an expert on couches. It's the dumbest crap ever, literally,
just to show you how low the ability to meme
has sunk. On that side, the Democrats official Twitter account
yesterday put out a meme, a cat meme kind of

(01:17:26):
I don't I don't know what they were going for
where it's kind of like the Tour of Washington thing
with I'm just a Bill kind of has that vibe,
but it's it's a cat's but using one of the
TikTok voices, listen to this.

Speaker 6 (01:17:41):
Republican and Democrat kitties cannot agree on what should be funded.
Democrat kitties want you to have health care. Republican kitties
do not. Republican kitties control the Senate House and the
White House, so they're using that to cut your healthcare
and give money to billionaires. Democrat kitty tries to negotiate,
but Republican kitty keeps running away.

Speaker 2 (01:18:00):
He has a vacation to get to.

Speaker 6 (01:18:01):
Uh oh, suddenly the money you pay for your health
insurance has tripled, thanks Republicans.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
That's it. That's the response to these multiple sombrero memes
which have been viewed by like or I mean, I'm
sure people have viewed him multiple times, but where they
have impressions in the hundreds of millions, that's what they're
going to combat it with. And it's just the cringiest
crap ever and it's not true parts of it. Parts

(01:18:27):
of it are just flat out not true. And that's
what they're going to counter vance with. And you know,
he doesn't care the sobrera thing.

Speaker 3 (01:18:34):
I mean, ha Keen Jeffrey said it was a racist
and I know that he said that, and I honestly
don't even know what that means. Like, is he a
Mexican American that is offended by having a sombrero meme?

Speaker 2 (01:18:46):
And I saw one of the major TV.

Speaker 3 (01:18:48):
Stations put the meme up and then say this is
AI generated and he had like the curly animated mustache too.
It's like, do the American people do you really not
realize the American people recognize is that he did not
actually come to the White House wearing a sombrero and
a black curly animation mustache. Like, give the country a
little bit of credit. We're all trying to do a

(01:19:09):
very important job for the American people. The President of
United States likes to have a little bit of fun
when he's doing it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
Yeah, and by the way, everyone's laughing in that room.
But he's talking about ABC News, who during an interview
with the Speaker of the House by George Stefanopolis, had
this sombrero meme running on a loop but with AI
generated written on it.

Speaker 4 (01:19:26):
They let me ask you about President Trump. He had
another deep fake video overnight. How does that help the
cause of getting a deal in opening the government?

Speaker 5 (01:19:35):
Look, the president uses social media for humor, He makes jokes,
He does lots of things. What the President did in
showing leadership though, two days ago, was he brought in
Chuck Schumer and Hawking Jeffries to meet with me and
Leader Thun in the Senate to try to work this out.

Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
He definitely talked about here on the show. Were those
handy dandy cards. In fact, I think I referenced these
the other day when I was talking to the congressman.
But you know, the info cards. I was referencing that
you know, your staff may give you those if you're
at a hearing, maybe with I don't know, the family
members of people have been killed by career criminals that

(01:20:10):
were on the streets, so you don't conflate a father
with the wrong victim, Deborah. But like the ones that
Biden was given, Like we saw those where they had
the reporters questions on them, and then everyone pretended like
the reporters weren't pre uh you know, giving the White

(01:20:30):
House Press Office the questions in advance when they clearly were.
Like the fact that they were able to just all deny,
like like we didn't see that thing is very nineteen
eighty four ish. And then we saw the ones where
it would literally tell Biden when to sit and where
to sit. Those were those were the ones like this

(01:20:51):
dude is gone well. Fox Fox Digital was able to
get a hold of five more of those. I don't
know if somebody left him in the house somewhere. They're
in a file. Uh, And so they were. They were
doing some reporting, and a holy crap on these things. Man,
it's far worse than you thought, far worse than you thought.

(01:21:12):
Are you ready for this? Unearthed note cards from the
Biden era show the administration detailed the names and photos
of high profile Democrats. He had a One of the
cards includes a photo and the name of Hillary Clinton.

(01:21:33):
He had to have a card so that he knew
who Hillary Clinton was if he saw her in person.
And by the way, let me just say this, of
all the beef I have with Biden, nobody should be
forced to look at a photo of Hillary Clinton. So
that's on the staff. But more importantly, like if you

(01:21:54):
it's this isn't some random state remp from you know,
New Mexico. This is Hillary Clinton, man. And they had
to have a card for that. Five different palm cards,
the hand size note cards used by politicians as quick
reminders or talking points, were uncovered HIMID an investigation of

(01:22:16):
the National Archive. Okay, that's where they got them. I
missed that when I first read this. This is part
of the investigation into all the auto pen insanity. Four
of the five obtained by Fox Or stamped with the
disclaimer reading President has seen while a fifth card and
this is the interest. This is an interesting one too,
which detailed an ABC News reporters question to Biden during

(01:22:38):
a press conference, did not include that stamp and also
said number three on it. There was kind of handwritten
on there, so so that he knew to call on
her third, which leads me to the conclusion that he
also had cards for one and two and then however,
many numbers after that. Again the press. This is just

(01:22:59):
a should just to show you how it is absolutely
impossible for all of these hacks in the press to
claim in any way, shape or form they didn't know
something was wrong. Submitting your questions in advance is a
major thing, is a that's a major ask in journalism.

(01:23:23):
Ross What happens when we do what happens a lot
when we book an interview with a politician who's never
been on the show before. What it not always been something? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:23:31):
Some of them will send, like, you know, a question like, hey,
so what questions will be asked or what topics will
be on?

Speaker 1 (01:23:35):
Yeah? And I'll tell you if I want to talk
to you about something specific where there's gonna be where
I want numbers on something. I may tell you, yeah,
you know, we need to talk about this transportation bill.
I'm not gonna tell you what I'm gonna ask you,
but I will not give you the question.

Speaker 2 (01:23:47):
Now, it happens all the time, like when somebody will
get like a new like communications director or somebody.

Speaker 1 (01:23:52):
Yeah, it's usually yeah, I should correct it. It's usually
their staff asking yeah, And it's like, you know, yeah,
it's never the candidate. It's like the communications person, right,
So what questions are we going to be asking them?

Speaker 2 (01:24:01):
Like, yeah, we don't do that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:03):
Yeah, we've never had questions with question marks at the end.
Oh ones you should answer, I mean, and most of
them to be all right whatever, but like, yeah, you
just don't do that. And and you know, I'm slightly
different in the sense that I'm you know, I'm editorial.
I guess if you will, but if you are, if
you purport to be a journalist, the idea that you

(01:24:25):
would submit questions because it does two things. Okay, here's
what it does. One, it allows a team full of
people to come up with an answer, practice it get
it out there spin it, however, they want. Part of
the reason and part of the reason you're going to
ask that question is you want an honest, instant response,

(01:24:45):
hopefully from somebody who has the cognitive ability to cobble
an answer together. That's number one and number two it
allows you to not take questions you don't want. So
if I've got twenty reporters they send me twenty QUI
questions and five of them I don't want to answer,
then guess who's not getting questions during the press or
that day.

Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
But they would do that. They also do it during
town halls.

Speaker 1 (01:25:09):
Yes, yeah, that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:25:11):
I mean, I don't you know you're supposed to be
able to ask the candidate something. It's like they're all
like picked and they know what's coming.

Speaker 1 (01:25:17):
And some didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:25:17):
They supply some questions for the town halls. I thought,
I remember that happening.

Speaker 1 (01:25:22):
Well, there was Donna Brazil who gave Handed Clinton the
CNN questions for their town hall. Now, I will say this,
there is a way town halls. Why you might want
to do that is the reason. You may want to
do that, but the candidates don't get to see it.
So if you're the if you're the organizer for the
town hall. You're the one asking the questions. You may

(01:25:42):
have or are facilitating it. Right, so you're all right,
here's here's Joe. He's a plumber from Muskoki, and he
has a question. And you may have seen his question
in advance because you're supposed to be a fair arbiter.
But you want to make sure that the questions the
very least are relevant and perhaps are good questions. And

(01:26:04):
but you don't tell the candidates, right, you get those submission,
you pick the ten or fifteen they're going.

Speaker 2 (01:26:09):
To come up.

Speaker 1 (01:26:09):
The problem is we're human, and so many in the
media are so biased that you know that's a way
to get biased. So I don't like the practice at all,
but in a town hall, just trying to do it
for crowd control or for tiny or.

Speaker 2 (01:26:23):
Whatever, no, screw that. It would be a lot more
entertaining if people could just get up there and ask
their question at the point blank. Would know nothing because
let's see.

Speaker 1 (01:26:31):
How you do you know why they changed a lot
of that up.

Speaker 2 (01:26:33):
I'm sure, I mean, I can imagine it could be
like some bad stuff, but I want to see how
the candidate handles that.

Speaker 1 (01:26:38):
I agree. I agree a hundred percent because do it
and I can tell you why. They started doing it
with a lot of town halls and it's a very
famous thing that happened, and it happened to Bill Clinton.
Do you remember what happened to Bill Clinton? Maybe the
Rock there was the Rock to Vote town hall on
MTV and he got asked boxers or I do remember that? Yep, yeah,

(01:27:01):
and they changed the format.

Speaker 2 (01:27:03):
That's so dumb though, because his answer was good. You know,
when you when you are in a position of power
like that, right, especially that high you're the president of
the United States, you're gonna there's a lot of chaos
and there's a lot of things that are unexpected. And
how are you going to react to that? Are you
gonna be able to keep your cool and answer the
question and joke around and have a sense of humor,
you know? Or are you gonna be able to freak out?

(01:27:23):
Like which one is going to be? I want to
see what your reaction is going to be as a
human being. So yeah, a lot of times it's not
to your point. I'm gonna agree with you on the
very last thing you just said.

Speaker 1 (01:27:33):
It's the human being part, right, You do you me
when we had Trump on and I spent half the
interview talking to him about blood Sport, how well did
he roll?

Speaker 8 (01:27:44):
That?

Speaker 2 (01:27:44):
Stuff?

Speaker 1 (01:27:44):
Is right?

Speaker 2 (01:27:45):
And that's what I'm saying like that is, yes, it
endears you to a person because you realize they're human.
Because sometimes when you do that, you get the opposite,
which is like Deborah Ross, where we had her on
and there was no human there. It was like NPC
robot and you're like, what is going on with this person?
And that exposes the person for who they really are.

Speaker 1 (01:28:04):
Anything, Well, it didn't work because you know, she got
in there and then was able to go just Redestroy
some dude's life here about a week ago. Still that's
just still so cringey. But yeah, but when you're the reporters,
you're the White House. But this is there's no question,
this isn't a town hall. You're trying to manage none
of that. So shame on them for submitting those questions

(01:28:26):
because they know they know exactly what was up. It's
just like the It's just like the criticism I had
for a lot of the reporters here in North Carolina
during COVID, the ones who kept getting all the Roy
Cooper were able to ask Roy they saw what was
happening to their colleagues, and they said nothing. They said
nothing because they were getting access and frankly, you know,

(01:28:48):
so the people weren't they probably they probably don't like
them because politics or whatever. They said nothing, and it
was just so disgusting.

Speaker 10 (01:28:56):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:28:56):
If you guys don't remember Roy Cooper, basically they had
they there were partitioning reporters who wanted to ask questions
and these two little camps and one never got questions
and the other were the you know, the the ones
you would expect, right and who weren't gonna ask challenging
questions any of the rest. It was such a scam man.

(01:29:17):
All right, let me grab racetagic from the weather chance
and make myself angry thinking about it again. And good morning, Zen,
make it zen for me? Could it be zen today?
I think so well.

Speaker 10 (01:29:30):
I mean, this time of the year doesn't get too
much better than this load of mid seventies, A little
cloud around with sunshine, seeing some clouds and fog well
west of the triad that's going away too, So everybody's
going to be into the good stuff. And probably about
the same tomorrow some areas a low cloud or fog.
Otherwise mostly sunny, most likely seventy to seventy five and
maybe a little mild rough over the weekend. A little

(01:29:52):
more cloud at the end of the weekend, but staying
mildd maybe upper seventies. The next shower chance probably not
rolling in here till about Tuesday or Wednesday. I suite case.
So you got a small air low pressure trying to
develop down off the coast of Florida. Hurricane Center kind
of throws a ten percent chance of it developing as
it moves into the eastern Gulf over the next seven days.
But still some of that may moisture, may try to

(01:30:13):
get drawn north and good use the rainfall, especially western
parts of the state and now across parts of South
Carolina and Georgia. We'll see we may see increased shower
tampons by that Tuesday Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (01:30:24):
Okay, all right, well, we'll enjoy it while we can
serennedy four now, yeah, and that would be good. We'll
chat with you coming up tomorrow, sir.

Speaker 10 (01:30:32):
Have it good one, all right?

Speaker 1 (01:30:34):
All right, there you go race agic from the weather
Channel and we'll come back. Dan Schwartzman will be joining
us from Bloomberg News. We'll hear what's going on with
business next. Hang on good morning.

Speaker 11 (01:30:46):
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And that's just bought six point six billion dollars worth
the stocks from Carrent and former OpenAI employees to drive
the price well passed its previous three hundred billion dollar level.

(01:31:07):
That chat GBT owner is currently negotiating with Microsoft to
convert itself into a more traditional for profit company. Apple
has decided to pause it's planned overhaul of its Vision
pro headset to focus on developing two types of smart
classes to rival Meta products. One of the smart classes
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while the other will feature display that can challenge metas

(01:31:28):
Ray banglasses. Smart classes casey had become a critical component
for tech companies who are developing AI centric devices. Apple,
though far behind Meta right now. They released their first
smart class back in twenty twenty one, Goldman Sachs predicting
that gold prices could rally even higher than its own
forecast of nearly five thousand dollars announce due to interest
from private investors. Gold is currently up twelve percent from

(01:31:51):
just August twenty ninth, and was trading at three eight
hundred and sixty five dollars announced today. The run came
as the US government shut down, reinforcing fiscal concerns and
putting pressure on the dollar. McDonald's is looking to aggressively
expand its store count. The fast food giant wants to
have fifty thousand locations around the world by adding almost
ten thousand stores to its count over the next four years.

(01:32:13):
McDonald's is zeroing in on areas where it has fallen
behind population growth, such as Texas, for instance. Despite offering
meal deals in tweaking as many, McDonald's has been struggling
to get more people through its stores than Shane is
hoping these new restaurants will bring in more customers. A
notorious ransomware group is extorting executives and technology departments at
large organizations after claiming to have stolen their data from

(01:32:36):
a suite of popular Oracle applications. A group of hackers
that claimed to have breached oracles E business suite and
are demanding ransoms as high as fifty million dollars. The
group says it is affiliated with a criminal outfit called SSYOP.
Bankrupt Donald motive parts supply of First Brand has been
provided with four point four billion dollars of rescue funding

(01:32:56):
by a group of lenders to save the company from imploding.
Board committee is investigating the company's use of off balance
sheet financing. That is ruled it's creditors for us Brand's
roughly twenty six thousand employees. And finally, Casey, let's look
at the futures. They are currently mixed now. They just
cannot get into positive territories. Down to tenth to one
percent nazak though that's up over half a one percent.

(01:33:18):
SMB currently sitting at a gain of a quarter of
one percent.

Speaker 1 (01:33:23):
Alrighty, Dan, do appreciate it. We'll chat with you tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:33:26):
I understand absolutely.

Speaker 11 (01:33:28):
I'll be in tomorrow as well.

Speaker 1 (01:33:29):
Okay, all right, there you go, Dan Schwartzman, Bloomberg News.
To appreciate it. I did the motive seem different every
time I see these, But we see too way too
many of these stories. I mean, it's not like it's
an epidemic, but like there's easily one or two of
these a year where a grown adult decides, hey, you

(01:33:52):
know what was fun for me high school? And then
somehow they're able to just do a role in the
high school. And we've had some where purely like clearly
they were targeting kids, you know, they did it so
that they could then be in relationships. So that's that's
the super creepy. This guy in uh, this is a
suburb of Minneapolis called White Bear Lake was just found.

(01:34:15):
He's twenty two, was posing as a high school student
because he wanted to play high school football again. And
by the way, he was really good at it, probably
because he's twenty two. But like, how does this happen?
I mean, the like when you enroll a kid in school, ross,
is it just one thing and then you just bring
your kid there or whatever? Or did you guys have

(01:34:37):
to fill out some paper. I've never rolled a kid
in school, you know, so it's kind of complicated, Okay, yeah,
as it kind of should be. I mean, some of
it's probably stupid, but you want to make sure, right,
So I like maybe he was just he was making
enough tackles and they're like, don't look into anything. I
don't know. But like we've covered many of these stories,
there was a move. There was a movie I remember,

(01:34:58):
I think it was I don't know. I was like
on the couch and then like a Girl's Day was
watching it, and I remember being creeped out. I think
it had Drew Barrymore and she was an adult, but
she somehow enrolled it a high school and then she
started there was a relationship with a teacher who still
thought she was a student and that's supposed to be

(01:35:20):
the happy part.

Speaker 2 (01:35:21):
I was so creeped out for that movie. I believe
was called Never Been Kissed, and she was a reporter
who went undercover at the school to talk about school
things or something, and uh yeah, the teacher fell in
love with her, and that's a problem, right right, And
that's an issue because he believes at the time that
she's younger. R I don't think she knows that she's
a reporter.

Speaker 1 (01:35:43):
So and like again, it's just a long list of things.
It's I call it the I'm just gonna call it
the Punky Brewster effect, right where you know, things seem
so although I remember being immediately creeped out with I'm like,
explain this to me. Against so she he doesn't know
she's it's not a little girl or a high school girl. Okay,

(01:36:03):
have fun with your movie. But like the Punky Brewster
thing like that was. That's one of my favorite shows
when I was a kid, ross two and and yet
the idea that an old guy lives by himself found
a twelve year old or whatever she was, and I'm
eighth or whatever. I'll keep her. I won't tell nobody. Dude,
that's like, that's how you get that's how do you

(01:36:24):
go to supermacs.

Speaker 2 (01:36:26):
At least you find that you bind a five year
old in the trash can. I'm pretty sure you get
to keep them right. And yeah, the lessonepers right? Is
that how that works?

Speaker 1 (01:36:34):
I don't know