Thursday-3-19-2026

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We've almost pushed through this thing, and you know, we
got more basketball today. I am like, this is the
first round. Always gets me going to the point where
I'm literally meeting two of my friends at a bar
at like mid afternoon today. I don't know that I'll

(00:21):
necessarily drink that early. I might have a beer, but
I'm not much of a beer guy. On the school nights,
I prefer the whiskey. But yeah, man, we're into it.
Take advantage of the little march madness action. We'll go
ahead and do this thing. So that's for me excited
about that. But you know, I still got a again

(00:43):
a roster. Are we doing a show tomorrow? We gotta
do a show tomorrow, don't we. I guess we don't
have to. I mean I have vacation time, but yeah,
we'll go and do a show tomorrow. So I'll give
you a little spy report on how all that went.
You know, post bad idea because it's not a good idea,
but like both of them individually tech unless it's a conspiracy,

(01:06):
like hey man, we're gonna be down there and I'm like,
I don't know, then the other one. Yeah, okay, all right,
I mean you don't want to. You don't want to
turn two people down. So uh, that's what we got
going on. And then of course we'll get games into
the nine fifteen, nine thirty slots, so I can be
upset and complain about that on Friday. All right, Uh wait,

(01:29):
where'd even start? Oh reminder, Stephen Kental joined us. And
this is super appropriate because I was just talking about sports, dude,
the amount of stories going on with like all the
gambling man all the gambling, and they're not good stories. Yeah,
not really. We got a reporter, people threatening to murder,

(01:49):
we got you know, insider gambling whatever. And then of
course we'll get into all those stories with our super
NERD correspondent Stephen Kent coming up. That'll be an eight
oh five. And uh also, hey, ros send him that
Val Kilmer story too. That'll kind of round out what
we're doing. So I texted that to you this morning,

(02:09):
just wrote the word gross. Do you agree? Disagree? Before
I tell anyone what it is, I saw it yesterday. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
I guess it depends on whether or not he had
agreed to it, and like the individual's thoughts on it.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Well, but the only thoughts we're getting here is we're
getting like his daughter. Right, So if you read this
the Variety story that I sent, you know, of course
the family's all in on it. And here's the thing,
I don't know the motives of the family are they like, Hey,
val Val Kilmer is going to star. This is not
like a quick, little awkward scene like we saw with

(02:44):
Princess Leah, which, by the way, do you remember how
that didn't look right? The Princess Leah thing didn't look right.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
No, yeah, it looks super creepy. So and that was
one scene, but it was also forever ago.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Well I know, but I'm getting pretty good at picking
out AI videos even on the twitters. So so Val
Kilmer he was set to star in a in a movie.
Of course, then he got the throat cancer, so they push,
you know, for treatment. They pushed the production back, and

(03:18):
you know, he he didn't beat it clearly, and he
passed away. And now he is going to star, not
one quick scene right to wrap up the character arc,
but star in a new movie called As Deep as
the Grave, which, boy, the titles kind of ironic. But

(03:39):
he plays He plays Father Finton, a Catholic priest and
Native American spiritualist. You know, he's played a couple Native American,
like Shaman Native American. Is he part Native American? I
didn't even realize because he just looked super white to me.

(04:01):
Not that I care about that stuff, but it's in
you know, I'm just waiting for the moon bets. Anyway.
Uh so he's gonna play a Catholic priest and Native
American spiritualist. Of course, you know he uh. I guess
they've shot all of the movie, or most of the
movie except his scenes, which is a lot of it,
because again he is he's not a super small character,

(04:24):
is by understanding in this? Yeah, even though he didn't
shoot a single scene. What is the what is the uh?
Film's writer and director? What is a court? I don't
know how to say that first name. We'll go, I
know the last one that's war He's so correct, Corretti

(04:45):
vorhees I. Okay, So yes, all right, Ross, I just
looked up. Did you know Val Kilmer is like twenty
five percent Native American? I had no idea. Well there
you go anyway, all right, So I don't know if
it's twenty five percent, but like one of his grandparents whatever.

(05:05):
All right, So yeah, So they're gonna go ahead and
shoot him in there, and he's gonna be in a movie.
And this is the thing we've talked about. Like, don't
get me wrong, would I love some more Clint Eastwood
movies or some you know, and then you know, insert
whatever it is, you know whatever actor Gene Hackman, right,

(05:27):
but I love some of those. I saw somebody say
more Robert Denier. I think he's still alive, so you
got that. But I just mean, like even a younger
version of some actors. Yeah, but also, eh, I don't know,
because then, like you see Hollywood's ability to get stuck
in a rut right where we're in this phase where

(05:49):
there's not a lot of there's very few new creative movies.
Everything's a frigging sequel. I saw the trailer yesterday that
was everybody was buzzing over. It was like the you know,
the twenty seventh Super A Spider Man, which, by the way,
trailer look good. I don't know if you guys saw it,
but and remember this is an interesting place in the
Marvel timeline in the sense that if you remember, Spider

(06:12):
Man had to do a thing and everybody forgot who
he was, so like nobody knows him, and now he's
like college age whatever, So they're going to do that.
But it's still you know, the one hundred and fifth
Marvel movie or whatever it is. So it just shows
you that Hollywood's like, well, if it ain't broke, don't
fix it. Man. There's nobody taking any chances. And then

(06:35):
I feel like once they can successfully AI these people
into it, they would be even more bereft of actual
unique ideas. Plus they don't have the actor to push
back on him, so they get to do whatever. And
so then I see the families they're excited about it.
I have to ask myself, are they excited just because

(06:58):
they know that they're relative was excited or are they
excited because money. I look, it's for some it's gonna
be one, some it's gonna be the other. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
I really think it comes down to the actor. And
I think when Val Kilmer passed, when was that It
was a few years ago? Yeah, yeah, I don't know,
you know, AI wasn't where it was. I think we're
gonna come to a point though, because of the future
of AI, where where actors are you know, passing away
or close to passing away. They're probably going to side
on Wai or some saying hey, you can use my

(07:30):
likeness in the future so my family can profit. I
think it would come like my initial gut reaction to
this is I don't it's creepy, it's weird.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, it's not there.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
But if the actor were to sign something and say, hey,
you can put me in future roles, you know, my
family gets X amount of the profits, go ahead, then
I'm fine with it.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
It would come down, Well, clearly he had signed up
for the movie, and I'm assuming he had a will
because he, you know, was fighting throat cancer for ten years.
So yeah. I but like, just because you sign up
for a role doesn't necessarily mean you sign enough to
be led.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
I was watching a video with Matthew McConaughey and he
was talking about how this was going to be the
future of Hollywood where it wasn't going to be about
going out for auditions, it was going to be about likeness.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, like, you're.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
You know, signing over your likeness to these companies so
they can use you for projects.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Well, but that but that's also the thing. How many
how many stories we heard about difficult actors right or
actor or or people who want to who was I?
Who was I? Well, there's a lot of difficult actors.
Edward Edward Norton's a good example. Everything I've heard, that
guy's a paid in the ass to work with, right, So, like,

(08:42):
is he going to be inclined to do that considering
the amount of control to the point where nobody wants
to work with them? Probably not. But also some of
the best movie scenes are or things that happen in
movies are not in the script, you know what I'm.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Saying, they're improved. But I think, right, you've got to
think even further down the road, like ten twenty years
down the road. The issue right now is we currently
have real actors who can sign over their likeness to
be in these films or future films, even when they pass. However,
eventually that pool of actors is going to dry up,
and there's a possibility that the actors you see on

(09:17):
the screen in these movies are even going to be real.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Right, that's a very good point. Yeah, that's far cheaper
to have you a fake person.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, so right now, Yeah, if you're an actor, you're
starting out, you know, you've been in a commercial here
and there, maybe you've been in a TV show, whatever.
You can sign over your likeness for future properties. But
eventually that pool isn't going to be there and everything
you see on the screen is just going to be
made up.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, but then it comes. But then you have one
less brain working. I don't know how to describe this properly.
You have one less brain. You have one less talent.
And it's not to say that, you know, producers, directors,
writers are not you know, there's not uniqueness and talent there,
but they're not actors. Do you know what I'm saying?

(10:03):
Like they don't you innately, if you are at the
top of your particular profession, it doesn't mean that somebody
is at the top of their adjacent profession can come
in and do your thing as well as an actual
actor can. Does that make sense?

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Yeah, but maybe it's not that deep. Maybe AI can
completely replace that and and fool you like you said Princeville.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Do you think Patrick Bateman was a good character?

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (10:36):
I love Patrick Bateman. You know that the crew thought
it was a ridiculous performance, Oh whole time completely, they
thought it was ridiculous. There was a gossip thing. They
thought Christian Bale was an idiot.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
I understand where you're going. Yeah, I think you're limiting
the potential of the AI.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Oh I am, yeah, yeah, yeah, I am.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
I think we're going to come to a point where
you will be able to have a Oscar quote Oscar
winning performance by a real human and not know the difference.
I think, down down the road you're gonna get there.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
All right. You have to agree that if there's ever
an AI nominated for an Oscar, you will watch it.
It's gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
It's going to happen as much as you want it
to happen, as much as you don't want it to happen.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
It's going to happen. Well, there's limitations there, like they
can't do talk radio or produce talk radio. We agree, right,
they're not able to a I'll never be able to
do that.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Sure, Okay, way listen, and I kind of feel like
there's some self preservation in your in your opinion on this.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
No, no, no, honest, I honestly there's not. I'm just
looking at it from an aspect because most actors annoy me.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Listen, five years ago, you had the AI of Will
Smith triinie Spaghetti and it couldn't do it, and now
you have a video you can. There are these videos
coming out and you cannot tell the difference of what
was real and what was not. You may say, I say,
oh I can, but a lot of times you can't.
And it's the potential of this thing is like compounding

(12:06):
each day and getting better.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
I totally agree with your year. You're every year. How fast?
We talked about that. How fast is Grocco now with
the it's not about it's not about speed, it's the
it's it's it's the human thing. I but here's what
you can still detect when something is devoid of human

(12:27):
right at the moment. Yes, it doesn't mean it's going
to stay that way. No, you're right, it doesn't. But
like maybe that's a quality that you can't achieve one
hundred percent because but maybe it is. But there I
I'm on, I'm I'm with you. It's fifty to fifty
on this. It is the thing that AI most needs
to overcome if it wants to fool everything.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
But here's the other thing. I think the AI product
and things produced by AI is going to become so
saturated that at some point people will purposely pay more
for a human create thing. It'll sort of be like
a like I don't know, I don't want to say
like like like we see this with different products now
where people will pay more money when a person actually

(13:09):
sits down and make it like the craft stuff, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Well, it's the same as what you call the thing.
And you're listening to the voice tree back in the
day and you're screaming operator into the phone, right, I
just want a human. I saw lady did a video.
Uh she was She had called Hilton in Dallas, right,
and and they have this voice and it's a Southern
Texas e twang and say hello, this is Jolene. It

(13:33):
ain't no Joelene, it's an AI. And she was trying
to ask some questions about, you know, times the pool up.
She ended up making a video about it, and her
entire frustration is she just wanted to talk to a
human and the AI was playing fast and loose with
the language. Well, I'm a I'm a professional assistant, blah
blah blah. It's like, no, you ain't, you're a you're

(13:54):
a weird Texas accent AI that was selected for the
Hilton in Dallas and the frustration. She's like, you can't One,
you not answer my question. Two, you're lying to me.
Three Can I just speak to a human? And the AI,
without using the word human, is trying to argue that
it basically is so, yeah, that chick would have paid

(14:14):
some more money. I agree with you one hundred percent.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
Man.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Yeah, I think we're gonna get to that point where
people are like, you know what, I want a human performance.
There will be a craving for wanting a human performance.
But that being said, I don't think you can really
put a cap or limitation in the technology not to
produce it at some point down the road.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna refer to it at least
as as far as the discussion goes. I don't think
that AI's achieved the soul, you know what I'm saying,
the humanness of AI. I'm just soul is probably not
the proper word, but it's the easiest way to understand it.
Like it's not there and and I want and it's
kind of like if I want to get all as stoic, like,

(14:52):
maybe it can't achieve that because it doesn't have one.
I don't know. I don't know, but yeah, I'll be
doing talk radio like one year or so, as we'll
make the most of it, all right, six twenty one
here on the CaCO Day radio program. Hey, guess what.
Guess what story we had? It's not in the stack, Ross,
but I saw it this morning. We have one of

(15:15):
my favorites that repeats a dude who wanted to get
rid of all the spiders in his house. Do you
want to guess what it will happened? I hope there
was fire. Oh so much fire, all the fire. So yeah,
we'll get to we'll get to that in sanity coming up. Wait,
what is Boston Paul? You girls start? We're not arguing

(15:36):
Boston Paul. Why don't you go back to bed? Aren't
you still hungover from Saint Patrick's day? With theacks going on?
Clearly you didn't celebrate enough or you would still be
hungover from Tuesday, So don't lecture me. All right, we
got dumb newsom insanity, a butterfly bridge, but what is that?

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And we'll feast on the tears of the Governor of
New York. So lots to get into eight eight eight
nine three four seven eight seven four, We'll be back.
Here's the deal. No matter how much you want to
bust out your favorite movie line, don't do it in
court to insult to judge. Patrick Alexander was arrested Saturday

(16:22):
for trespassing down in Lesser Carolina. Excuse me, South Carolina.
I decided that. And then when it came time to
pay the bill, so the judge says, all right, this
is your bail, and the dude decides he's going to
pay what was his bail? Two hundred and fifty bucks.

(16:43):
All right, two hundred and fifty bucks. So the dude
literally fishes the money out of his pocket hands it
to the judge. Ross, what is the perfect movie line
if you want to insult a judge when you hand
him the bail money and I'll give you a h
And it's a Christmas movie and it's a very famous quote.

(17:05):
It's a quote you keep the change, you filt the
animal you are correct. Judges don't like that. I've met
a few. Not I had to appear in front of him,
although I did appear one time. When I got an
exhibition of acceleration ticket, I went to the judge and
I got it kicked. That's my That's the entirety of

(17:27):
my traffic record by the way, very good driver. So
any who, Yeah, so he hands the judge the money
and says keep the change. Handed over four hundred dollars.
I don't know why, and said keep the change. You
filed the animal. There was one other problem. They were

(17:48):
it was fake money, and it's easily recognizable because on
the bill some of the words are written in Chinese.
And we're not there yet. So now he had this
pitdly little trespassing charge. Apparently he had been he'd been
kicked out of some place. He showed up again. So

(18:11):
he's got this pitty little trespassing charge. And now did
you try to conduct business with you know, counterfeit bills? Uh,
probably going to catch a much bigger charge. Yeah. So
it's for some reason it looks mostly correct on the front,
but on the back the words are in Chinese, which

(18:31):
I believe it or not, the judge was able to tell.
So let's see here what's the here's from the story.
The judge's name. They kind of float a quote here
it last it's Judged Davis or no, I'm sorry, judge Alexander.
So Davis is the idiot Davis who told Alexander he
could keep the extra money. The judge then noticed the

(18:57):
cash is color did not look right. Then he flipped
the bill of realized it was Chinese writing, and then
he had a detention officer go get one of those
pens they do at the convenience story. Apparently they have
one at the courthouse, and sure enough, yeah, here we go.
So now Alexander was then arrested and recharged with forgery,

(19:21):
which is a felony and contempt of court. Oh, always
got a six thousand dollars bond, and I don't know
if he has enough fake money, but yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Do you think at this point he just keeps it
going with fake quotes like movie quotes?

Speaker 1 (19:37):
What do you mean?

Speaker 2 (19:38):
Well, the quote is correct, but the next time they
bring him in and he just quotes another movie, Like
he just keeps going, Yeah, what do you I think
you got to go with something from a few good
men maybe or.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Trying to give other what are some fam vinnie? Oh yeah,
two uts. Yeah, yeah, there's all sorts of quotes you
can work in there. Man. Uh uh, I'm still surprised.
I'm not surprised because like it's such a good character,
but like, remember how normal the oscars used to be.

(20:09):
There's a lot of clips that are on Twitter right now,
So if you're kind of scrolling through and you're doing
the video flip, they're showing like Oscar, you know, here's
the time that Blah blah blah did the awarded the
Best Picture. And then you see all the movies and
you realize back in the day you had watched all
those movies. Like I think I saw two of the

(20:32):
movies that were rough for Best Picture this time around,
but they had one from like nineteen ninety eight or something,
and it's it's Nicholson is doing the award, and it's like,
I've watched every one of those movies. Is a great
movie that I've watched multiple times. But like Marissa toe May,

(20:54):
do you think Marissa toe May could win a Best
Supporting Actress. Now, this is not an art film. It's
it's a I don't want to say it's a it's
a dumb film, but it's a it's a mainstream film, man.
And it's a film, by the way, because I watched
it about a month ago that is immensely rewatchable. It
is immensely rewatchable. It's great. You got the Karate Kid kid,

(21:16):
Ralph Maccio, you've got Peshi, You've got to May the
Judge is great. It's just a great movie all around,
the movie that holds up. So I did watch Smoking
the Bandit yesterday because I said I was going to
held up love that movie. Band It runs. I don't
know a spoiler alert. Band it can run. That's the thing,

(21:37):
all right, six forty. Sorry, I got distracted by the
idiot with the fake money here, so i 'llt me
do the spider thing just because I kind of teased it.
And I don't know why this keeps happening, but I'm
here for it because then we get to talk about
it again. If you find that your attic or your
garage or even your house, I guess, is it infested

(22:00):
with spider webs and your plan is to light him
because you know spider web If you never lit one,
that thing goes up like that man. But your old
house is full of them, and you light it, you
run the risk of burning your house down. So that's
what happened to a Pennsylvania man who, according to police,

(22:20):
intentionally set fire inside his Pocono This is up in
Pocono Pines, PA. Set fire inside his town home Monday
after he noticed an infestation of spiders. I guessed up
in the attic. The problem is he's in a town home,
so he didn't just burn his house down. According to police,

(22:41):
he burned his and three other units. Yeah. What is
this guy's name, forty two year old Sean McDermott. Oh Man,
that dude's having a bad year. So for those who
don't know, that's the it's him, clearly. But that's the

(23:01):
same name as the now fired Bills coach, so it's
probably a pretty good name until the guy got fired.
Ross was telling me, I just assumed he caught off
with another team, but no, he's taking like a gap
year or something, right, He's just like he's not coaching this.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
Ye, yeah, I know that's the theory. He's just taking
a year.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Off, Okay, because I had to assume teams reached out
to him, right because you know, clearly, clearly he's got
the resume there. But so anyway, Yeah, he burned the
other his house and the three other connecting townhomes, so
I guess it's four townhomes per building whatever, which is
a problem. So initially police showed up and they're like,

(23:44):
what happened, and he's like, spiders happened. Now, Ross has
a theory, and it's probably more accurate now that we
know it's a town home too, right, Maybe he's looking
out for his name. The spiders are going to be great.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
So yeah, that's what they do, but I don't understand
the thought behind. I'm gonna use like a flamethrower or
a blow torch or something in my attic to kill spiders.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
No, no, no, let me be clear. He started in the attic,
but apparently the infestation had spread, so he actually lit
three fires. One in the one in the attic, call
the orcin man man in the attic, one in a
I guess, a pantry off the kitchen, and my personal favorite,

(24:29):
apparently there was a bunch of spiders under his couch,
so he didn't move the couch. He just put the
little barbecue starter thing under the couch. And that's the
that's the fire that got wildly out of control, I guess,
because the couch, you know, old krusty couch, went up
like that. So, uh so police showed up. They're like, ah,

(24:51):
you did this thing, You're an idiot. We're gonna investigate.
They left talked to that I guess maybe the prosecutor
or something, and they're like, no, you gotta charge it
with arson. Man, he intentionally he lit multiple fires and
now people's stuff is all, you know, burn to smotherings.
Uh and and now he's a fugitive because he ran
because you realize I'm probably gonna get arrested for this,

(25:12):
so uh yeah, please say, uh let's see here. Excuse me,
it was a love seat, not a couch. Just want
to be accurate here, not that it makes a difference. McDermott,
following an initial discussion, then fled the scene in a
U haul truck. What why does he have a U

(25:33):
haul truck? Well, anyway, now he's wanted for charges of
arson causing a risking a catastrophe. That's I guess the
thing in Pennsylvania, criminal mischief and reckless endangerment because you
know clearly the neighbors are in their house. So he's
now fugitive and they're looking for info on where he
might be. So but no more spider problem, right, But

(25:58):
now you know now that he's on the run, unless
there's spiders in the U haul. Boy, if you're U haul,
you better hope there's not spiders in there. You ain't
getting your truck back, all right, six forty five here
on the CaCO Day radio program. Hang on, you're younger,
You're like, yeah, I'll sleep on a cot I don't care.
I'm very excited because I get my new I ordered

(26:20):
a new bed, new mattress and all that stuff. Well
it's well, I actually got a whole frame and everything
for it that gets delivered today. And that's the excitement
of my life.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
So it is.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
It has memory foam incorporated into it. It's a ceily.
We'll see, we'll see how it goes. Man, very excited
about that. I was just telling Ross off the air,
all right, let's go ahead and get to May. In
California is just what a cautionary tale? What a cautionary tale.
So as you know, or I guess if you pay

(26:53):
any attention to the troubles there in California, they have
a lot of boondoggles, if you want to use that word. Right.
The high speed rail is razy town right where they've
spent They have spent twice as much as the initial
budget before they ever laid any track whatsoever. Just acquisitions,

(27:19):
lawsuits for environmental grid you name it, and they and
then they did lay some track, and then that track
burned down. If you remember here last month or whatever,
it was a little short just a little short bridge thing.
The bridge burned. So yeah, now we find out there's
another bridge. And while this doesn't have anything to do

(27:40):
with the train, it's equally as let's just say intriguing
here is, here's a little newsomme for you.

Speaker 4 (27:48):
We don't walk into a store and just take everything
we want and walk out. We have to pay for it,
and it just so happens to be that we paid
for it in the form of money. So we pay
for something that has sent or has meaning to us.
And so for us it's a form of offering. For
my particular offering, it tends to be like native tobacco,
possibly mixed in with a little bit of sagebrush, sometimes

(28:10):
white sage, sometimes pieces of my hair from when I go.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
All right, So this lady is one of five cheap
because of course they got to have five people in
charge of this thing. They were tasked with building a
bridge by Newsome over the one oh one in la
it's just north of La there to create an animal bridge,

(28:34):
a migratory bridge, and wait to hear what it's for.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
Do cut off my ends during our full moons might
be mixed in there, So still it's a form of
me being returned back to mother Earth.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
So that this is a woman being interviewed about her
position as one of five supervisors for the construction of
a bridge. You just need to understand this. This is
Gavin Newsom hand pick these people. And this woman is
talking about Native American tobacco hair offerings, which I didn't

(29:08):
know hair offerings were a thing she's they're asking about.
The News is talking to her about a bridge because
it's so fricking over budget and poorly and and so
far poorly constructed. That literally the liberal news and are
are willing to go out and dig into it and

(29:28):
possibly offend the governor who they normally dote over. And
then they got to talk to this lunatic.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
Every time we do go out, we give just a
pinch of offering before we take anything. And that's kind
of our way of asking our plant relatives and help
them to establish their best life as they continue their purpose.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Ross That seems like an over the top character in
a comedy, doesn't it, You know what I mean? Like
like what's the what's the dog? Oh? Best of shit?
That seems like the best of show interviews.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
It just seems like the type of person you'd want
to give lots of government you know, subsidies too.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Absolutely yeah, and put in charge of oh, completely multi
hundred million dollar projects, oh tell us.

Speaker 5 (30:13):
More So, seed scouting is going out into natural lands
and you're identifying populations of plants that you want to
be able to return to when they set seeds. So
I literally had months to myself to work to get
exactly what was needed done for this particular project. And
so to be able to just be roaming the Santa

(30:35):
Monica Mountains looking for seeds in that sacred solitude was
such a blessing. It was such a blessing to be
part of this particular team and group.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
Man, I cannot understand why this thing is incredibly overbudget
done poorly. I just I can't imagine. So here's the kicker,
you ready, Okay, So a migratory bridge is like, is
not a bad idea in some instances. In fact, we
have a couple in Wyoming so that elk can migrate

(31:07):
if you get over by Jackson can literally migrate over
a particular highway there. But you know that's a necessity
in California. That's not the animals they're catering to, because
they don't have a bunch of elk running around. Okay, no, no, no.

(31:27):
The bridge and I'm not making this up. This is
how it's described is for cougars. Okay, all right, forty
year old women?

Speaker 3 (31:40):
What no?

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Oh, okay, no, the actual cougars and butterflies. A bridge
for butterflies. And I know if you guys maybe don't
know this. I only know this because I spent you know,
four years living down there in Cali, southern California. There

(32:02):
they get really excited over the monarch butterflies that migrate.
It's a big thing there. Like there's places where you
can go when they're on the migration, and like just
north to Santa Barbara, they have a place up in
Gaviota and you go up there and they had the butterflies.
There is like a stopping off point where they all
gather and it's kind of cool because you got like

(32:25):
one hundred thousand butterflies zipping around you. So like that's
the thing. And then on the news they cover oh,
the monarchs are migrating. They get very excited about that.
That being said, I don't think a butterfly needs a bridge. Man.
I'm just best guessing here, because you know, they can
do this thing where they can fly. Look at this lunatic. Sorry,

(32:49):
I'm half reading something while I'm coming back. You know,
I too am annoyed by seagulls, but I feel like
this dude may have gone too far. Ross. Let's say
you and the family or down at the beach house
or whatever, trying to enjoy yourself maybe and maybe got
some food from you know, got burgers and fries from something.

(33:12):
What is the proper punishment of a seagull swoops down
and steals one of your kids French fry? You react to, Okay,
well this guy went with decapitated it in front of everybody.
The hanging judge, thirty year old Franklin Ziggler is facing
uh what nine months? Nine months in prison? Now he

(33:36):
just sentenced. He was just sentenced. So let's see here
the ninth Now it's two hundred and fifty I guess
that works out two hundred and sixty two days according
to according to the report, he's he's at he's sitting
there with his daughter. He got her some French fries,

(33:57):
try to figure out hold his daughter is. I don't
know why they put that in the story. She's twelve, Okay,
they buried in the damn story here. So anyway, he's
at Cape May there. This is in New Jersey, back
on what was his February February twelfth. Wow, that was fast,

(34:24):
and a seagull decides it really wants some of those
French fries his daughter's eating. So it swoops down, grabs
itself a fry and it didn't fly off. It's just
sitting there eat the fry. And he was able to
He literally grabbed it. And it doesn't say how he
decapitated it, but the way he was caught is he

(34:45):
then walked over to the pier and then with the
headless body of the seagull to throw it in the
trash because I guess he didn't want to litter. Yeah,
And at that point, like a bunch of people called
the police. Yeah, that might have been a slide overreaction.
They're ausie, Well, oh man, can you imagine Ozzy Osbourne

(35:05):
did that thing?

Speaker 4 (35:06):
Now?

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Well I can't, but you know what I mean. Oh boy,
they'd lose their damn minds. Yeah, so he was sendens
to eight Excuse me, I guess eight months would be
the proper math there. People are all hating in my
email on the math. Is that a picture of the
actual seagull with a friend with the French fry? Why

(35:28):
would you take a picture of that? It's pre deheading beheading.
Excuse me? Yeah, so that's you know, yes, I understand
their winged rats, but still you can't Ozzy osbourne them.
And also in front of your daughter, maybe that's the
part best part I should have seized upon. Apparently did
this right in front of his daughter. I feel like

(35:51):
maybe that that's that might be even a bigger problem here,
because like, what kind of psychopath are you raising? Now?
He's like, oh, daddy pulls heads off animals. Okay, all right,
apparently that's okay, good lord, Sorry, just got distracted by
that lunatic there. All right, So a couple things. Couple

(36:12):
things from an audio perspective, I was laughing at when
I saw this story because it's so predictable. This is, honestly,
this is what the state of Washington's setting themselves up
for two with their millionaire tax up there where you're yeah,
what is it fifty It's fifty thousand dollars for every

(36:34):
million dollars on top of the already on top of
the tax rate. Already, right, this isn't just this is
a new tax. So you have whatever your marginal tax
rate is if you're up there, you know it's in
the thirtieth percent tile and then they're going to add
this this you know, ten or whatever it is taxed,
and then for every hundred thousand you may or for

(36:55):
every million you make, you got to pay fifty thousand
in tax additional. And I know what, people go, oh well,
woe is me? Enjoy that attitude because much like with
California and all of these people that suddenly moved to Florida,
you're already seeing that up in Washington. Who was the
who was the big celebrity? Oh was the Starbucks ceo?

(37:16):
That's right, the Starbucks ceo. Just to have this thing
going in move to Florida. He's like, I'm out here, man,
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna screw with this. Well
that's what New York ran into. And of course with
Mondani good good lord buckle in. And so now the
governor of New York who by the way, By the way,

(37:40):
I want to read a quote from her from twenty
twenty two. This was her attitude in twenty twenty two quote,
jump on a bus and head down to Florida. This
is for people who are complaining about the wealth tax
up there. Jump on a bus and head down to Florida.
You don't represent our values. You are not news. So

(38:02):
her tune has changed because you're not going to believe this.
It has had a pretty significant impact on the taxes
they're able to collect. I know you're shocked. And now
at an event I think it was a Politico roundtable event.
This is her tune here in twenty twenty.

Speaker 6 (38:21):
Sixy and being conscious of the facts that I need
people who are high net worth to support the generous
social programs that we want to have in our state.
Right now, there are some patriotic millionaires we stepped up. Okay,
cut me the checks. I mean, just if you want
to be supportive, but maybe the first step should be

(38:41):
go down to Palm Beach and see what you can
bring back home. Because our tax base has been eroded.
So I philosophically don't have a problem. It is like,
I have to look at the fact that we are
in competition with other states who have less of a
tax burden on their corporations and their individuals, and I
would say remote world changed everything. There are people who

(39:02):
could only work in an office in Manhattan and work
in New York State, and they were captives to our state.
They were going to state. We saw that that's not
the case. I mean, you know, Wall Street businesses looking
at Texas. They're not going there because they have a
nicer governor, I know that for sure, but they're going
there because of the text. Right, we have to be
smart about this.

Speaker 1 (39:22):
Yeah, yeah, So you told everyone to leave GTFO and
then you're like, oh, this thing that is so predictable
that people who are opposed to this kept pointing out.
I'm sure, I'm not you know, I don't know all
the political discussions up there in New York, but I'm
sure it's the same as it is everywhere. If you're

(39:42):
going to do that, if you're going to lay that tax,
people are going to react. And this is honestly, this
is the thing that kills me about politicians. Man. I'm
not some I mean, I guess I am a political
analyst in some ways, you know, for what I do.
But I'm not inside the machine. I'm a guy who
just sitting there looking out. And and by the way,

(40:02):
you can ask most of the politicians I like, they'll
be like, ah, you know, we should get together some time.
I don't even respond to that stuff. It's true because
it's just I don't I don't want any of that
on me. And it's not necessarily because I hate everybody.
It's just so from the outside looking in, as somebody
who's not in the mechanism, you can immediately predict what

(40:25):
was gonna happen. I'll give you an example. One of
the most predictable decisions was when Barack Obama decided that
so that they could capture more people into the employer
employer mandate under Obamacare, they were going to ray lower
the requirement of full time to not forty hours, but

(40:47):
to thirty hours. And I remember that story breaking that
day and being on the radio the next day and
pointing out that you just screwed a bunch of people
out of ten hours of work. Right. These these are
the people that work somewhere where they were getting thirty
eight or thirty nine hours and then that mandate came

(41:09):
and then the you know, their employer decided, now you
get twenty eight or twenty nine hours per week, and
and it immediately happened. And Barack Obama knew it was
going to happen. I don't believe any of these politicians,
but pretending like they didn't. And then after it happened,
he then had to, you know, like some scummy scam

(41:31):
artists get up there and be like, Oh, these people
are just greedy, all these horrible, horrible employers. It's just
pure greed. You knew exactly what was going to happen.
People are gonna they're gonna follow the rules and they're
going to plan according to what the rules are. You
made the rule, you guy. You and Nancy Pelosi decided
you were going to put this thing through. And it

(41:52):
was so predictable. California with their wealth tax, Seattle with theirs,
New York with you know what they did with taxes.
I guess it'll technically call it a wealth tax, but
they have you know, they greatly increased the state and
eliminated a lot of ability to lessen that burden. People left,

(42:12):
They left when they saw this lunatic getting elected up
there in New York. And it's not just remote work
when you're talking about what's really hitting you, like the big, big,
big money. Those people could have gone to Florida and
operated out of there previously. Many of them did. Ross
who was the highest profile person years ago who left

(42:33):
New York from Florida for Florida because of New York's
tax situation. Donald Trump, No, I'll give you a hint.
He does what we do or he did? Oh Rush Limbaugh,
Rush Limbaugh, Remember that was like a national story. When
Limbaugh literally ceased his operations in New York, his main

(42:53):
control center was still in New York for the network.
I just know that because I was involved with a
friend of mine and filled in on his show one time.
But yeah, he left, and he said, I can't take
the tax anymore, the taxes anymore. I'm going to Florida.
And like New York Times wrote a big op ed
about how he's not a patriot, you know, all the

(43:13):
crap that you expected. So it's not a new thing.
People were already doing that. People were already going to Texas,
more so out of California. So uh, you know, color
me surprised that this is the find out phase of
what she was five minutes ago in support of her

(43:34):
quote jump on the book. Well, hold on, let me
read the quote jump on a bus, head down to Florida.
You don't represent our values. You're not New Yorker's all right, Well, we're.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Gonna say a lot of this stuff is so predictable,
like you were saying. But her incentive for them to
come back is come back so you can pay for
the government programs that you're not going to be using.
But but how did she describe him? Like really great
program Yeah, really great social programs. So you need to
support these programs by coming back. I don't understan why
any listen. As somebody who was born and raised in
New York, right, I don't understand why anybody would because

(44:05):
I have friends there still they're like, when are you
moving back? And they can't comprehend the fact that I'm
never moving back to New York. There's no part of me.
There's nothing there that I would want to really go.
But there there what a what a why?

Speaker 1 (44:17):
Why?

Speaker 2 (44:17):
So I could pay more taxes? The law, it's the
whole culture of the state. It's the laws, the paper straws,
the over reaching, there's no reason once you leave New
York and experience a different state like North Carolina or
or especially Florida, that you're like, yeah, I need to
go back there and give you more of my money
so I can pay for these programs that I'm never

(44:37):
gonna use because my net worth is through the roof. Like,
why would you what a dumb thing for her to say, Well,
she said, because what else can she say?

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Right, she's at this she's at an event. She's at
this event, and she's already she's already spatting with Mondani.
And you know that's because remember he was he initially
wanted I can't remember what the first thing he was
he wanted to do. And she's like, yeah, not doing that.
Does she realize, like she realized that these dumb decisions
which she and her party supported over it was she

(45:07):
ran on initially, which she ran on, she ran on
that increase that really kind of spurred a lot of
people to go, all right, three more percent or three
and a half percent more on top of what what
was it? Six percent? So you're damn you're paying ten
percent if you're wealthy. They're gone, They're going to Florida. Man.

(45:28):
And also what's so striking is ross you've been to Florida,
you've been to New York. Forget the overarching politics of
it all. Yeah, this is what I was saying about it.
It runs, you know, Florida runs, and you feel like
you're in you know, New York in the sense that
they have roads.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
Well, yeah, it's the culture overall. Yeah, the taxes too,
that's a part of it. But it's the culture. And
it's by the way, when you live up in New York,
there's a lot of snow and it's very cold and
it can really suck, and the people tend to be rude,
and the sky is gray, and the pollution is bad
and the traffic is bad.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
Why why?

Speaker 2 (46:04):
And then when you do have people that for some
reason are choosing to live there and they have a
huge net worth, then you chase the amount of town.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
Why you think that.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
It's like you see these stories online, people posting pictures
of pizza right or or and they're like, well, you know, uh,
you can't get this anywhere else. There's peacha, this culture
of New Yeah you can, and in a lot of places, dude,
it's a lot better because of the culture surrounding the thing.

Speaker 1 (46:31):
You know, what's even let me let me add on
to that. What's crazy. The thing about Florida that I
find from a food standpoint really appealing and it's very
interesting is Florida because of the amount of transplants, which
used to be when I say trams, used to be retirees, right,
that's who they were catering to. Now these are working people.
You damn near any chain restaurant in the US that

(46:53):
you know, like Portillo's, which is a big Chicago one
that does the and it's great. It's amazing, the Chicago
beef thing, the Cincinnati chili skyline, right, they they they're
really in their little areas, but they have like one
they'll have They're in Florida too, Like so you're not

(47:14):
even leaving that they have great New York pizza down
in Florida because there's so many former New Yorkers. Some
guy from New York moves down. It's like, I'll just
open a pie shop here, less competition, and he's making
and you know how I know this, by the way,
thanks to Portnoy, thanks to da exactly. Yeah, this guy
is an absolute pizza connoisseur. I will give him that respect.

(47:36):
And I recently he's been you know, he lives down
in Florida, by the way, himself, he's been doing a
lot of Florida pizza reviews and he's just like I
saw one the other day. He's like, this is as
good as almost everything in New York. So you're not
giving it up. It's there because so many of you
left that some guy figured out how to make money
by coming down and catering to you. So you're right, yeah,

(48:00):
screw the snow, but you still get the pizza. Amazing.
Sign me up for that all day and twice on Sunday. Man,
that would be great. Now you still got to run
into some traffic. But you know, I don't know, maybe
it's prettier to look at. And don't get me wrong,
there's things in New York that are not going to
be transferable, just the vibe of a city that size,

(48:20):
those things. But you've overcome those objections from people are
like I don't really want to leave this by stealing
more money and then just giving it to people in
the dumbest ways possible. And then you look at Florida,
like I said, where all the basic functions of what
a state should provide to you. Florida provides and yet
they don't take any of your income. They have higher

(48:42):
property taxes, but still it's a no brainer at that point.
That's why North Carolina so appealing. Anyway, we'll be right
back finding me of a story I saw yesterday. Here
it is this isn't New York, but it's Connecticut, so
it's basically New York. But like this is this is
a New England disease, right, and a West Coast disease

(49:03):
for the most part. Like when you see these states
doing this, and it's just death by a thousand cuts.
So in in Connecticut right now, lawmakers have a bill
it's expected to pass by the way, that is going
to change. Well, according to restaurants, it's going to put

(49:24):
some of them out of business. So they're going to
pass a bill that will make it illegal to send
takeout food in styrofoam, and then also would not allow
them to send utensils, napkins, or straws. So you order

(49:46):
take out and if you're at your house, I guess
that's why again I think styrofoam is king like dude,
especially in the middle of summer in North Carolina, getting
a drink put that in styrofoam. Man, so like my
cup holder is in a pool that I can swim in.
But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Tyrophone is just great.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Yeah, it's all that kind of stuff that you know,
you you it just adds on top of each other
and then you're like, oh, well, you know you have
to still live with all this crap, but then also
pay more money. It's like when I went home to
visit two years ago whatever it was, and I'm checking
out of the grocery store and you know, they only
have the the paper bags. They know, have plastic bags.
Plus when you buy the bag, you have to pay

(50:29):
per bag. You're like, oh, I'm gonna you know, three
or four bags and it's like five cents a bag
or something stupid.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
Then in California it's fifteen cents an hour quarter or it's.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Just ridiculous stuff like that. Or you go out to
eat the food was great, but then you have the
dumb paper straws.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
It's like it's like living on Mars. Yeah, it's and
people just you just when you can't even if you think,
well it's just a little thing, well we got to
do it. For the plant again, but there's so many
plastic thing for the US is so dumb considering we're
less than one half of one percent of any litter
because we're not frigging India or you know Bangladesh. Right,
that's that's their trash plan, to just put it in

(51:04):
a ditch so it goes out to the ocean.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
But that's how New York got to the place it
is now, because it was one small thing, and then
another small thing, and then another small thing, and then
it's like, where am I living? Why am I living here?
What is what is the benefit of living here?

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Again? That I I agree with you, you know people
going back to the pizza thing. You don't have to
be up there for that. What was the other one?
Bodegadga catchy gas stations in Florida too. I don't know.
Do you guys know this right? Right?

Speaker 2 (51:33):
It's so yeah, you see this online leg How do
you guys live without Bodego's? Can you imagine living somewhere
without a bodea? Yeah, it's called a convenience store, man, Yeah,
there everywhere, so.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
You could go buy soda and chips and a rude
Usbekian dude will be mean to you in Florida. That's
a thing too. Okay, you don't have to give it up.
But no, like no styrophone, no utensils. What if you're
you know, what if you're getting delivered where you work, man,
and you don't have like a kitchen like we do.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
Yeah, But like I said, it's everything. It's the entire culture.
It's the environment. Like when you go up there and
you think the news down here is bad, you think,
like the mainstream media, like the TV news is bad.
Oh yeah, you're like, oh, this is like propaganda, brainwashing stuff.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
You.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
I go up to New York and I visit my
mother and want we watch the news, and it is
twenty times worse and coming from the outside and looking
at it, you know, not being used to it. It's
so obviously over the top. Everything is about the environment,
and it's all about race, and it's all about DEI.
Every story, every story, one after the other. It's like,

(52:38):
why would I ever want to come back and live here? Yeah,
oh dude, anytime I see it.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Well that we had that clip earlier about the crazy
lady who's in charge of a butterfly bridge, right, and
you got kt LA and this other news site like
they're unwatchable way and they would I guess they would
say that they're catering to their audience. Yeah right, I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (53:01):
It is so bad, like over the top obvious propaganda
where I'm just sitting there, I'm like, how can people
watch this every day? And then you realize they don't
even know it because they don't have anything else to
compare it to.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
You should have smashed all your mom's TVs as a
favor to her, right, so she doesn't have to suffer
through that. Well, then she couldn't watch the views so
or baseball by the way, she pumped for this season.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
Uh, she's not a Yankees fan anymore. She stopped rooting
for the Yankees. Oh she's a Mets fan now. Oh
that's a thankless job, isn't it. Right there, that's good.
Aaron Judge just craped the bed in the baseball clubs.
Do you know how crazy that is to be a
Yankees fan your entire life and then in your mid
seventies being like, I'm a Mets fan now?

Speaker 1 (53:44):
Oh yeah no, It's like that's like, dude, I have
a buddy in Minnesota who was literally in our tailgate.
He married a girl from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Oshkosh and he's
a Packers fan. Now all people do is give him
crap because his because his father in law has like
season tickets to Lambo whatever. But yeah, like the first

(54:06):
the first time he was seen wearing a Packers thing,
it was relentless.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
Relent that that seems. I can't even comprehend that. Her
reasoning for the Mets thing was, and we had a
serious conversation about this, was she felt, and you're not
gonna believe this, she felt that the Yankees players had
a bit of an ego and she she sorry, yeah,

(54:33):
so she doesn't agree with that. You know, you shouldn't
have any ego.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
The Yankees think they're better than everybody else. And I
can't stand it anymore. Okay, all right, I don't under
it would be like you know what that would be like?
That would be like, let's say, hypothetically, let's say you
were a Patriots fan and then all of a sudden
you were a Buccaneers fan. Right, that was That's what

(55:01):
we're talking about. What would spur such a change? Though
I can't you know what I mean, just I can't
even I can't even fathom someone who would do that.
Oh gross, All right, let me grab a call here, Yes, Jake,
what's up?

Speaker 7 (55:15):
Hey, good morning. I just wanted to get on the
story is that they're well, they're all leaving New York
for Florida and all that jet uh and the broad's
name was saying.

Speaker 8 (55:26):
Hey, it's not patriotically, not patriots. Do you do you
realize that's the most patriotic thing you could do. I mean,
we had a war and we succeeded from land where
we have no king now because of breakfast drink.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
Yeah, original patriots. I had some thoughts on taxes that
didn't align with hers. You are absolutely right, Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 (55:50):
And that's one reasons why I moved from California to here.

Speaker 1 (55:54):
Where'd you live in California?

Speaker 9 (55:56):
Orange County?

Speaker 1 (55:58):
So you know about the stupid monarch butterfly fascination?

Speaker 9 (56:01):
Oh yeah, well I enjoyed it as a child. I
used to go out for the hills and watch them,
watch them go by when I would go mountain biking.
It was fun.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
Yeah. Yeah, they really love some blood. That's why they
got their own bridge that costs ungodly some boy.

Speaker 9 (56:17):
All right, Jake, I don't think I would have spent
the money on a bridge for something that could fly.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
Yeah, well that was my thoughts as well. That's why
you had to leave, Jake, because you would have made
too much sense as an adult. So all right, appreciate
you agree.

Speaker 8 (56:28):
But I'm going back in two weeks.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
So okay, well try not to get murdered by a
crazy homeless person. All right.

Speaker 9 (56:35):
Yeah, I'm on going for one week, so I am
not going anywhere else.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Okay, all right, we'll have fun, my friend, thank you
for the call today. Yeah. The two the two things
that they get super excited about, and I'm not knocking
on it because it's kind of cool. Is the butterflies.
Like I said, you go to that place in Gaviota
where they have where they like all hang out, and
it's like it's like a dream sequence when you kind
of like stroll through there and you go a thousand

(57:00):
butterflies zipping around you. And also, uh, the humpback whales.
Oh man, when the humpbacks are migrating off the coast
of California, they got they have humpback tours. You go
out in boats, which, by the way, I never thought
was a good idea. That's again that's just me because

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you know they're gigantic and and and uh, don't get
it twisted boats have been incapacitated and uh in one case,
I remember the story where it got flipped over because
it got broadsided by a whale. But like, people will
set up telescopes. So go out to like one of
the cliff edges, set up telescopes and watch the humpbacks
go by. Which again, that's fine. We should probably build

(57:43):
them a bridge.

Speaker 7 (57:45):
Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
Yeah, he's gonna have to be huge and really expensive
because you know, they're a lot bigger than butterflies. All right,
raced agic from the weather Channel. He's hanging out and
he's gonna he's about heard out on you. This is
it's one of the four nerdiest times of the year
for you, because he's gonna tell you about the transition
of seasons and they's gonna come minute it does.

Speaker 10 (58:03):
It the minute the second body knows yes, yes, no,
right now they will though, right, did you.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
Enjoy to yourself? Go ahead?

Speaker 10 (58:12):
All right, all right, well that's tomorrow right ten forty
six am Eastern time, see you, yeah, and we'll have
just in time. It's almost like somebody knows something just
in time. The milder weather coming back this morning. Numbers
are already up from twenty four hours ago a few degrees.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
I mean, it's still chilly.

Speaker 10 (58:32):
You're up by four, six, seven, even eleven degrees further west,
but actually towards the south are actually a little bit
cooler because there's a little less cloud around that there
was yesterday morning, so that kept us a little milder.
But everybody's gonna have a real nice day today. There's
some clouds, especially toward the mountains. Other than that, sunshine
upper fifties, low sixties tonight, close to forty, so notice

(58:53):
our trend. And then what's tomorrow, first partial day of spring,
I call it sunshine near seven any degrees, beautiful day,
and then well into the seventies, maybe eighty by the weekend,
partly to mostly sunny, with Saturday being the partly Sunday day.
The next frontal come in about Monday afternoon to bring
some showers, and after a day again where we could
get near eighty by Tuesday, could end up back in

(59:15):
the fifties. So not quite done yet with the cool weather.
Don't expect it to be but a real nice weekend
coming up, and with spring arriving tomorrow, everything happens just
right on Q.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
What's your uh, what's your big game to watch? Well,
Dukes Sienna probably.

Speaker 10 (59:28):
Right, yeah, Duke Sienna, that's probably the one.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
Yeah, utterly meetings and friends at the bar at like
what you know, one o'clock or I see I don't
in the game two fifty or something.

Speaker 10 (59:43):
Yeah, yeah, two fifty, two fifty for that, and then yeah,
I was just really yeah, there's not much out there.
I mean, at least for me. Tomorrow's Clemson, Iowa. That
would be good. That's six fifty.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
I don't really we got we got high Point playing
from the triad. Is there a second year in it?
They're super excited. They're power Wisconsin. Yeah, okay, yeah yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:00:08):
Down here, Yeah there is there isnt's see Gonzaga, Kennesaw State.
That's where my daughter goes. So, I mean that's ten
o'clock tonight, though, who's.

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
Going to do that?

Speaker 10 (01:00:16):
Clemson all the other ones. There's there's another daughter, you know.
I know she would say the same thing.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
You got like twenty children, you're like the doggers. I
don't know, she would say the same thing.

Speaker 10 (01:00:27):
To be like, Dad, you know I'm here.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
I'm like, yeah, I know you're here.

Speaker 10 (01:00:31):
You cost me a lot less, but then you pay
attention to.

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
See you and see plays tonight. So lots of a
lot going on, friend, lot going on. There is there
is all right, Uh, Kennesaw is gonna get drilled by Zaga.

Speaker 10 (01:00:45):
I hope you think you think so. I actually picked that.
They're one of my upsets.

Speaker 1 (01:00:49):
That is one. He asked me yesterday. I know you
don't big for an upset, right, or do you do?
You do you a lot points based on the spread
for upsets? No, I just doing my one. Brack, dude.
I one of my brackets is wild because like the spread,
if you pick an upset, you'll get points based on
the spread. Different.

Speaker 10 (01:01:06):
Oh yeah, I think it's I think it's just how
close you get to the final four and how many well.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
We do it. It's not that complicated. But yeah, no, yeah,
to complicate everything.

Speaker 10 (01:01:21):
It's I'd like to keep it simple. That's the way
I'd like to do it. I'm just like, you know what,
let me just pick the winner and we'll see how
it goes. But yeah, I'm still trying to figure out
how this first four played in because I did my
picks before those games.

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
Yeah, like they have a station bracket that I said,
that's and they did. Those aren't due till you know,
this morning, later the night morning.

Speaker 10 (01:01:44):
Yeah right, yeah, whenever. Either way, mine's in, so I
guess I'll have to go checking in.

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
Okay, well look, chatting an hour, let me know how
it works. Okay, all right, there you go. Race from
the Weather Channel. We just talked about. Oh no, we
got a chat with Keith Stephen Kent. He probably is
he a basketball guy. I'm gonna assume he's not, because
I've never heard him mentioned sports when we've talked ever,
but maybe he is. So that'll be coming up eight
oh five. And we got lots more to get into.

(01:02:15):
Uh it's more audio two I gotta play for you.
And who is actually in running the Democrat Party. We'll
get into that coming up next here on the CaCO
Day radio program. The new Cheetos suck. So that's there
you go. It's a very very short, uh professional review.
There the the n k D which is you know,

(01:02:36):
the Naked Cheetos or whatever. Uh so they removed artificial
coloring and any artificial flavoring, which removed all the flavor
it and there's like less powder in there. It's just
a it's an awful experience. I had some yesterday at lunch.
I tried a little bag just to see. Not a
fan give me the MSG, which is one of the

(01:02:56):
things they removed. When did we When did we decide
SG sucks? MSG is amazing? Ross? Do you do you
have MSG in your house? Do you ever use it
for anything?

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:03:07):
Dude, especially if you're making any like Asian kind of dish,
you gotta have the MSG in there. Sorry, got a
little distracted there. All right, let me get over to
this audio. So this is interesting. By the way, I
was watching some of the Mark Quain excuse me, Markwan
Mark Quain, like the Queen Peel, Yeah, the key Peel

(01:03:28):
squist gotches. I was watching some of the hearing yesterday
and I didn't realize there was a blood feud with
Mullen and ran Paul. I guess that. I guess I
missed that. But ran Paul was like, he was nastier
than any other Democrats in there. It was kind of crazy.
And then he's and then he was being a big
old hypocrite because he got mad at Mullen because he

(01:03:49):
talked about a duel, right, Oh, I'd have to have
an old timey duel, like I say, if dueling was legal,
blah blah blah. And and so ran Paul approach that,
like Mark, Wayne Mullen really wanted to get in an
old timey duel with people. And then a reporter pointed
out that Mark that ran Paul actually asked the asked

(01:04:12):
some media he was mad at to if they wanted
to agree to a duel, so, in pure hypocrite congressional fashion,
that the whole thing was just a mess. But that's
not what I'm talking about. It was interesting because while
the Democrats were on attack, John Fetterman was like talking
about how much he enjoyed hanging out with Mullen and
his wife, and you could tell the other Democrats were

(01:04:34):
super not happy about that. But what was even more
interesting is I saw an interview with Fetterman where he
was asked, who controls the the Democrats? And let me
go back to what Kamala Harris said a few months
ago when she was asked that, oh, why is my
button mart not working? What happened? But you're not running
for office right now you're stepping away from that life

(01:04:57):
right now.

Speaker 10 (01:04:59):
Who's leaving the demo crag Party? I'm just curious.

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
There are lots of leaders, and she does she never
names one, by the way, So there's lots of leaders.
That's not what John Fetterman thinks.

Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
Who do you think leads the Democratic Party today? Oh,
we don't.

Speaker 1 (01:05:12):
We don't have one.

Speaker 9 (01:05:13):
I think I think the the TDS.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
I think that's the leader right now. Glad to have
you along, and we're gonna get We're gonna get all
up in the gambling and a little bit of Hollywood,
a few other things with our correspondent, official NERD correspondent,
mister Stephen Kent, who joins us. Now, how you doing, sir?
What's going on?

Speaker 9 (01:05:33):
Good morning?

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
Just steadily monitoring the situation here in DC.

Speaker 1 (01:05:37):
Okay, Ross told me you were monitoring all the situations,
So that's very good.

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
I monitor your situation as well.

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
Let me guess, if I had to guess up in DC,
A bunch of people are bloviating and nitpicking and yelling
at each other and accomplishing nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:05:52):
Is that? Yes, something something like that. A lot of
cat fights and personal feuds playing out on the Senate
floor or but we are keeping track from it. I
guess this weekend from a poly market, a poly market
prediction markets bar. So that's that's gonna be definitely going.

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
I saw that, and I'm like, Steven's gonna go to
this thing. You're gonna go to You're gonna check this
thing one hundred percent, all right, So if you guys
don't know what he's talking about, this is the nice
poly market story. So let me start. So poly market
call she These are the sites where you can go
gamble on anything, although it depends where you're got anything,

(01:06:33):
well almost anything, although if you might need a VPN
depending on where you're listening from.

Speaker 3 (01:06:40):
Yeah, not regime change. That's not allowed anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:06:43):
Oh no, uh so uh. In fact, it's so so
many people enjoy it, kind of like it would be
like the sports book. If you ever been to a
Vegas casino, you go into the sports book right where
you got all the odds and everything, you got all
the TVs and uh that's in fact, if you're this
time of the year, today in Vegas is going to
be crazy because all the March badness. But this is

(01:07:04):
a bar called the Situation Room, hence the situ monitoring
the situation coming to DC, and it's the world's first
bar dedicated to monitoring the situation. So yeah, now you
can go hang out and chug bears and bet on
stuff you never thought you'd be able to bet on.

(01:07:26):
I guess this means that we're in this for the
long haul, no matter what.

Speaker 3 (01:07:30):
Right, Yeah, we certainly are in this for the long haul.
This is polymarket, which is still not completely rolled out
in the United States. They are not currently under full
CFTC regulation and they are working on crossing that threshold
and getting Americans back onto their platform. CALC is already

(01:07:51):
compliant and gets most of the US market. But this
is gooding to be just a pop up bar in DC.
It's only going to be for a weekend. So this
is like when you know, like a Dungeons and Dragons
will do a takeover of a bar and they'll basically
rent it out for a week and they'll decorate it
the way that they want to. I've been to at
least three pop up bars before, like a Star Wars

(01:08:12):
pop up.

Speaker 1 (01:08:14):
Yeah, Star Wars pop up Dungeons and Dragons do they
not want?

Speaker 4 (01:08:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:08:18):
They what are they doing?

Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
You've never you've never been to a Game of Thrones
pop up bars.

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
No, no person would intentionally go to a bar where
you know, there's not women, but you get.

Speaker 3 (01:08:28):
To take a picture on the iron throne. Casey.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
Yeah, well how'd that work out for everyone involved with that?

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
So you know, everybody just lives and lives and prospers.
But let's talk about the let's talk about the prediction
markets bar. Yeah, this is this is gonna be pretty fun.
We're we'll probably go on Sunday, so I will offer
you some correspondence from the situation roup.

Speaker 1 (01:08:53):
Oh, you post some photos on your Twitter there, I'll
check it out for sure. For sure, I will go
on Sunday.

Speaker 3 (01:08:57):
I'll let you know.

Speaker 1 (01:08:59):
It's it's it's strange. It probably Look here's the thing,
you'll probably be busy as hell, right because, yeah, just
because of what's going on there. So that's the nice
polymarket story. Here's the one that just creeps you out.
So one of the things you're able to gamble on,
I don't know if you still are, but one of
the things you're able to gamble on is whether Iran

(01:09:22):
would successfully strike Israel with a missile that was literally
a bet and and you could bet for it, you
could bet against it. And here's where it gets weird.
So a missile hit a city in Israel. It didn't
hit anybody, but all it has to do is touch ground,
so to speak. And it hit in a field in

(01:09:44):
the city of biet Schemesh and probably butchering that. And
of course the reporter for the Times of Israel reported
the story on his you know, and it's it's it
didn't hit anybody, so it's not even a big story.
What happened next is the story. So he by the way,
and it had to be a missile that struck. It
could not be debris from a destroyed missile. It was

(01:10:06):
in the rules. So he reported a missile struck. Then
the phone calls, in the emails and the social media
contact started to ensue and people were did you just
get shot? What happened? BC is so dangerous?

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
I'm under fire?

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
Okay, all right? So so he reports this missile hit,
no big whoop, and then people started getting mad with
him and demanding that he changed his reporting to say
that it was debris from a missile, which because they
had all bet on the it won't happen, and they
were all about to lose their butts. So whether they
did lose their butts and in fact it got so

(01:10:45):
bad the threats started to escalate. He started to receive
death threats from people who had bet on this and
based on his reporting, which was cited by Pauly Market,
they had lost their bed, demanding that he changes. This
is one of the things man, this right here, Yeah, I'll.

Speaker 3 (01:11:06):
Go ahead and just like con see that's really horrible.
What we're seeing a lot of right now is people
in entertainment and news media receiving harassment, phone calls, death threats,
where people are trying to coerce them into saying or
doing certain things. There's a you know, probably one of
the most popular markets on calcier mentions markets. So it's

(01:11:29):
what is a person going to say in a press
conference or a Senate hearing and all this kind of stuff,
And so people are taking upon themselves to harass individuals
of note when they do or don't say certain things
to trigger these markets. Now what you're talking about though,
with the missile strike hitting Israel, I'm going to steal

(01:11:51):
man the case for this kind of thing. Something tricky
about prediction markets is that they make explicit what traditional
stock trading suggests by way of implication. What I mean
by that is buying oil futures at any moment is
actually an indirect bet on whether war is going to

(01:12:13):
break out between key regions, whether or not there's going
to be an invasion, and a place that produces oil
no different than investing in Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing company that
is also an investment in there is not going to
be an invasion by China in the next five years,
you know. So we already move money based on these

(01:12:35):
kinds of predictions. But the thing about polymarket and some
of these other place is that it makes explicit what
we normally are just winking at.

Speaker 1 (01:12:44):
Well but all but it's it's arguably still in most
situations a much larger swing. Right, either the thing happens
or it didn't happen, you lose all your money or
you make all your money. Whereas with oil buy oil futures.
I you know, I may bang around, you know, fifteen percent,
twenty percent swing over the course of whatever we do
over in Iran, but there's very there's no way those

(01:13:06):
oil feate the oil future short of something I can't
even think of. We're going to go to zero instantaneously.
So it's it's much more. It's it's not as safe
probably as buying I don't think that's what you're claiming,
but I think you make a fair point because when
you think about buying oil futures or investing in the video, right,

(01:13:26):
you then start thinking about all the things that go
along with it, and uh, you know you're not you're not.
You don't want to invest in Polaroid once the digital
camera came out, so then that that's bankrupted that company.
The problem though with the mentions market though, and this
is this is why it's I don't I don't want
to say if it's more corruptible, because there's a lot
of corruption in business and commodities as well. But if

(01:13:49):
I'm a report, if I'm a pool reporter, all right,
if it's like they want to know what Josh Stein,
our governor here is going to talk about, or you're
a lunatic governor. Let's just go with Spamberger here. If
I'm a port or who's able to ask a question
what's to stock and she you know, she's got to
say the trigger word, then I'm going to ask her
about it. And then if I'm corrupt, I'm just going
to bet on it. It's much easier to manipulate for

(01:14:12):
people who are in these positions of Powerscar people are
wondering what's going on with the oscars, there's another story.
Did gamblers on the oscars no more than they let on.
Insiders are encouraged to show their hands, says expert. If
if it's mentioned market from the OSCARS, and I'm a
dude who's being a presenter, and I just have to

(01:14:32):
say a buzzword, why wouldn't I risk two million dollars
on it and go say the word.

Speaker 3 (01:14:37):
It's a. It's a. It's a completely valid concern. What
I what I would say, though, is that there's already
been a lot of busts. We've talked about this, like
the mister Beast employee, as well as some Israeli military
contractors in the in the Nation of Israel have already
faced legal actions and steep penalties for being busted for

(01:14:58):
insider trading because they do actually track your accounts for
suspicious activities. So I do think it is easy for
people to do these kind of things like what you're
describing with the mentions market. But there's pretty strong evidence
that you are not going to get away with this
stuff for very long. And I think that that says a.

Speaker 1 (01:15:17):
Lot well, but those were obvious, you know what I'm saying,
we don't know what we don't know. There's probably there's
probably a lot of things people have gotten away with
because the crazy thing, though is that.

Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
There's also there's also just free will involved. I mean,
like a reporter the other day there was a mentions
market for Donald Trump giving remarks at a pharmaceutical plant,
and one of the mentions markets is that he will
say most favored nations and trump our ex While he
is talking to cameras at the pharmaceutical facility, he said neither,

(01:15:48):
and then doctor Oz shouted from the sidelines. He went,
mister President, why don't you tell people about most favored nations?
Because it was like he had forgotten to talk about it,
and the President was like, oh yeah, yeah yeah. And
then he talked about the policy, but he did so
without saying the words, so it still did not trigger

(01:16:09):
this market. It was just a reminder to me that, like,
you can't make people say things, you know. You know.

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
It's funny though, because if I if I'd have seen
that bet that he was going to mention Trump r
X wouldn't doing anything about healthcare. I'd have been in
the affirmative because he loves talking about that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:25):
So I'm not I'm not saying I lost ten dollars,
but I might have lost.

Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
We're gonna have to get you a hotline or something.

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
You're gonna need to get me into Rea.

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
I can't speak. Today's the first big day of the
NCAA bracket. You don't even want to know what position
I'm in. So I'm sitting sitting here during the show
calculating which bets I want to take. So yeah, tomato, tomato.
Everybody's got their thing, all right. Let me transition over
to something here real quick. It has been and Ross

(01:16:58):
brought up a very good point. We have been steadily
getting here. We got here with Paul Walker right when
he died, and then they shoehorned a non speaking moment
of him into a Fast and Furious movie. And then
of course Princess Lea, which didn't look right, didn't it
Just it didn't human well in the movie. And now
we're on to a few years down the road. To

(01:17:21):
this article from Variety, Val Kilmer who died almost one
year ago today. It was April First will star in
a new movie. It's got a bunch of star a
bunch of big names in this. It's called As Deep
as the Grave. He plays a Catholic priest and a
Native American spiritualist. Is actually a true story. This is
a kind of movie I might actually watch, but he's

(01:17:42):
going to be starring in it. He's dead, but his
family's all for it. Is this gross? Are you down with?

Speaker 4 (01:17:47):
This?

Speaker 1 (01:17:48):
Is the inevitability? Ros seems to think that this is inevitable.

Speaker 3 (01:17:53):
It is inevitable. There's a certain amount. There's only so
much pearl clutching you can do so before you're like, yeah,
this is going to happen. They've been doing deaging for years.
I think the first time that I saw deaging as
like a technology and it still looked really uncanny Valley
was X Men three when they d aged Ian McKellen

(01:18:14):
as Magneto to see him as a young man. And
they still are doing this in like the Fallout show.
But you know, bringing people, of course back from the
dead and then trying to place them at a certain
time in their life, a certain age. It doesn't look
real I'm looking at this screenshot from the movie, and
I'm sorry, but it just doesn't look real. And the
thing that's remarkable about bringing people back from the dead

(01:18:37):
in this way on screen is you can't quite articulate
what's wrong with it. I think again, the words are
uncanny value, just like what is this? Yeah? What am
I looking at here? It's so realistic, but there's something
about it that's wrong, and I don't even know the
word to describe what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:18:56):
Yeah, Rosa, correct me if I'm wrong. He was. He's
saying it's inevitable that we just you're not even dealing
with real stars anymore if they get that good at it.
And for the studios, you gotta love that because free money, right, Yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
Mean, we certainly do. You're gonna You're gonna buy and
buy and sell your likeness and your voice. And I
think there are gonna be a lot of actors who
are completely content to do that because they can take
on multiple projects at once one. I mean, one reason
an actor can't do as many movies as they might
like to any year is because they can only grow
a beard right and get their body in shape for

(01:19:33):
a certain role and then they can't take a different movie.
But AI is going to make it so that people
could take multiple roles at a single time by selling
their likeness and their voice.

Speaker 1 (01:19:43):
Well, nobody told Pedro Pascal that no, no, no, I
forgive me. I didn't articulate it as well. I'm saying
that there's not even a real there's no real or
or or a copy of a person who is real.
They'll just make up an AI actor because then you
don't have pay the AI actor, and we're going to
have Hollywood movie stars who are people who never existed.

(01:20:05):
It's not even their likeness. Do you think we get
to those ones? I think. I think for extras you
could do that, or people with small rules, they are
already doing that.

Speaker 3 (01:20:17):
Look, I think that it is going to happen. I
am sort of a doomer about this, and I believe
that laziness and greed is going to win out the
day in the end, but it is just a matter
of time. I'm deeply concerned about it. You know, the
Val Kilmer thing, like his family signed off, and I
guess that's their right, but you know, you don't know

(01:20:37):
these people, and you go like, well, what are their motivations.
How much money did Dad leave behind? Do they just
want to pay day or is this really about that
he really deeply wanted to be in the movie as
deep as the grave? Was it really that important to him?

Speaker 1 (01:20:51):
Because I asked the director in the story. But yeah,
if you asked.

Speaker 3 (01:20:55):
The director, it's like he really wanted to do this,
you know it meant a lot to him. Well, of
course you would say that.

Speaker 1 (01:21:01):
Yeah. And you know in Radio Man, they had a
radio station in Australia. They have about thirty seconds. Let
me just tell us, because they had a radio station
in Australia had a very popular afternoon female host and
she would never do appearances. And newspaper looked into it.
They realized that this radio station was using an ai host.
It was a music station. So still that strikesphere man

(01:21:23):
in Hollywood and in radio world. But we're gonna have
to leave it there. So have fun at the bar.
Let us know next week how it went, and we'll
talk soon. Okay, thanks, All right, there you go, and
we'll be right back. I saw a little I was
just wanting to edumacate myself on this ross. You heard
that the X is twining with the idea of putting
a dislike button on there. How do you feel about that?

(01:21:46):
I don't know, not a fan.

Speaker 2 (01:21:46):
I've been looking for it though, like I keep checking.

Speaker 1 (01:21:49):
Yeah, well, so there's a little more here. Like to me,
the first thing I see happening is bought attacks of dislikes,
and I think that Twitter also had that opinion, because
I'm reading here that Elon says it will be only
for premium subscribers to avoid that thing basically bots. Right, yeah,

(01:22:13):
and by the way, you know politicians would do that.

Speaker 2 (01:22:16):
So the premium people are the ones that can thumb
stuff down, or you the only grab the thumb down
if it's on your profile, if you're a blue check.

Speaker 1 (01:22:24):
Oh that's a good question. One. Let me reread it
here real quick. Ummm, let's go. I'm sorry to try
to find his his quote here. They scrolled all the
way down. Ummm okay, all right, okay, here it is. Well,

(01:22:51):
it's said that the feature will only be available to
paid subscribers, but to prevent span bot attacks, so it
doesn't clarify that. So what you're asking is is if
you're not premium people, will people be able to dislike
your Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
If you have a regular account. Will there be the
option on your posts that thumb it down?

Speaker 1 (01:23:08):
I think that I think there probably will be. But
also will you be able to see who disliked it? Right?
Remember how they remove? I mean you can see it
on your own, but you can't see it on others,
in the same way that I can't see likes on
other people's posts.

Speaker 2 (01:23:24):
I think I'm against it for the reason that I'm
already against social media in general, where you already have
an area or a space that is so toxic and negative,
and now you're going to be adding something on top
of it to make it even worse. Yeah, if you
don't like how hard I see tons of stuff online
that I don't like every day, or opinions I disagree with.
I don't interact, I don't give them any engagement. I

(01:23:45):
don't click like, I don't comment. I just keep scrolling
and go on with my day. But now you but
a lot of people can't do that, and now you're
just gonna have more people just piling on.

Speaker 1 (01:23:55):
If they want to make it. Well, if somebody said
that you're you're redditing Twitter, and I think that's accurate
it right, because like the dislike over there is a
whole thing. Plus you get that for very toxic reasons.
And also we already have ratioing.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
I was about to say, ratio ing is still a thing,
which is kind of like a dislike.

Speaker 1 (01:24:11):
So yeah, you know that's everybody knows what's up there.
They see that. Haha, you got ratio that's an L.
It's an L for you. So you already have it. Huh, Sammy,
hold on? Uh what is this? Sorry? Whole thing just read?

(01:24:31):
Was this one? I have it on a browser and
I just decided to reload the whole thing. Oh somebody,
somebody said you have ratioing and the Frog of Shame.
That's fair, you do have the I'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (01:24:42):
I just discovered the Frog of Shame and I'm a fan.
Oh yeah, I just saw it the other day. I'm like,
that's great.

Speaker 1 (01:24:48):
Yeah, you get the Frog of Shame and you get
ratioed by it. That's two l's go home. No Twitter
for you the rest of the day, dude, I'll tell
you if I'm sure Elon listens to the show. So
here's the thing you could do first, and it would
immediately improve Twitter. Give people the ability to Since you're
gonna have your little you know, geographic tag on there,

(01:25:12):
give me the ability to turn off Nigeria.

Speaker 2 (01:25:14):
And that is going to be a thing. Though they
made that announcement.

Speaker 1 (01:25:17):
It needs to be a thing because every other look,
I'm sure there are people in Nigeria just doing the
regular Twitter. I am absolutely assaulted all day by two
things when I scroll Twitter. One if you go to
any big news site right under and it's not just
people in Nigeria, but I can't tell you that ninety
percent of the time when I go look at the
locations from Nigeria or India, and that is ai recaps

(01:25:42):
of what was just said in the tweet they're responding to,
you know what I should or should you go find one
just because I want to be clear about what I'm
talking about. And the other thing is and I don't know,
and I don't know why they all seem to be
coming from Nigeria. They post like two minute snippets of
TV movies and then don't put the title in there,

(01:26:02):
so they get fifty comments of people that are the
first they get like fifty fake comments that make no sense.
There are like two words, and then the rest are
aggravated people going what's the name of the movie? What's
the name of the movie? And they're intentionally doing it
to get the traffic.

Speaker 2 (01:26:16):
And no, they'll say something vague like wow, we all
love this scene, and then you'll watch the scene and
it'll be two minutes or something like you said of
a movie that you've never seen before.

Speaker 1 (01:26:26):
Yeah, and they may have an AI voiceover describing it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
To you, right, and the rest of the comments are
just like, what is this? What movie is this?

Speaker 1 (01:26:34):
Why? Yeah, they're doing it people last rock inevitably right, Yeah,
and it's just for the engagement one hundred persus. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
But soon you're gonna be able to turn off certain regions.
That's what I was seeing yesterday. So if you don't want,
you know, certain countries or people from certain countries commenting
on your stuff or seeing their stuff, you can just
turn it off and don't shove in your feet.

Speaker 1 (01:26:53):
I just don't want it to show up in my
I don't like, I don't care. And again, it's not
you know, I've seen accounts from people over in India Nigeria.
Who are you know, they're actively participating whatever. But those
two situations I just told you about, you're just you're
getting just waterboarded with it when you scroll through Twitter. Effect.
Let me go, here's an ABC News article. I'm sure
there's one under here. I shouldn't, you know what, I

(01:27:15):
should have screenshot on one of these. It makes me
so angry. I take the I block the accounts, like
that's going to do any good because there's a gazillion
of them, but I just hate it, and then it
makes me not want to use the product, which is
why you should change that. So they are going to
do that because I saw people say who are blowing
up that it's racist to do that, that you're disenfranchising

(01:27:37):
third world countries or something, you know, and you're a
bigot if you do it. So I expect if they
do roll that out, we'll have to deal with all
that garbage. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:46):
No, you'll have the free speech people and they'll be like, oh,
you're a hypocrite because you're from the United States, but
you're turning certain people off listen just because you have
it right. There's a freedom of speech, but it doesn't
mean that I have to be forced to listen to you.
If you are out in the on the on in
front of my house and you're screaming stuff. I have
the right to close the window and pay you no mind,
right yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:28:05):
On yeah, it's it's the the and and by the way,
it's not and on the AI rewrite. So that's the
scam with the comments where they just they just have
they they say sub What they're doing is they're selling
rock to summarize the tweet or the article, and then
they just cut and paste it, likely because you know,

(01:28:25):
English is not a first language there and and so
you know there's not a bunch of misspellings and stuff,
but you read it and then it just says the
same thing that's up there, and then they post it
and and then I I don't know where they getting
the likes from it, stupid people maybe I don't know.
And there's a third thing, and this isn't a Nigeria thing.
I see a lot of UI. Maybe it's being created

(01:28:46):
there and I don't know, I'm picking on Nigeria, but
it's almost exclusively Nigerian India. When I see these things
is the amount of people who are US, real deal,
actual US. And in some cases it's like have a
lot of followers are writing these big long posts because
they have the premium that is clearly written by AI,

(01:29:08):
because AI has a certain way that they word things
that you can pick up on the tells, and so
they're so lazy they want to write these long diatribes
where people think they're brilliant geniuses and they have AI
just you know, spit this garbage out and people are
too stupid to realize what's up. And then the other one,
since I'm on this soapbox, is the amount of fake

(01:29:32):
police interactions and courtroom things that are not real, never
happened that I saw one the other day where they're like, ah,
a neighbor saw his neighbor, the neighbor's son fall into
the pool and sink to the bottom, so he jumped
over the fence and saved the boy, and now the
parents are suing him for a half million dollars for trespassing.
That was an actual thing. The cameraver feet and you

(01:29:54):
can tell the whole videos AI. None of the courtroom
stuff looks right. Nobody talks like that. And it's got
like five thousand likes. So it's a combination of people
who are are are uh posting all this crap and
it's disingenuous. And then you couple it with the fact
that there's a lot of stupid people. They can't tell

(01:30:15):
the difference. It's almost it's almost swallowed Facebook hole. Would
you agree with that?

Speaker 3 (01:30:20):
Ross?

Speaker 1 (01:30:21):
Facebook is unusable, It's unusable. The amount of fake crap
pictures and videos that gets that is one hundred percent
AI tug at the heartstrings generated it's if I can't
I can't remember the last time I scrolled the timeline
on Facebook. I mean that, I don't think I've done
it in a year, maybe two, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:30:40):
And a lot of the AI is like you'll see
like something on x that's obvious AI, and people in
the comments section will be like the SAI. And you'll
see the same posts on Facebook, and you'll have people
in the comments going.

Speaker 1 (01:30:50):
Oh my god, help.

Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
Like they'll show like a girl with like four heads
and like five arms, and they'll be like, this is Tina.
She's from Bangladesh or something, and she was born an
Indian guy whatever, Yeah, she was born with all these
extra you know, appendages. Please, you know, can I get
like a thumbs up or prayers for her? And you
have all these people in the comment section on Facebook like,
oh that poor sweet girl. Oh yeah, she reminds me

(01:31:14):
of my granddaughter, Like, what.

Speaker 1 (01:31:15):
What, what's wrong with your granddaughter?

Speaker 2 (01:31:18):
Yeah, it's like it's it's I know it's overused, but
it is AI slop.

Speaker 1 (01:31:23):
It really is one hundred percent. So I will say
that YouTube had a real problem with it. I've noticed
it a lot less, especially in the documentary stuff where
they they tamped down or required you to notify if
you you know, you can still use AI, but you
have to put something in there. And that has cause
Oh look at this, I gotta go to race staging. Sorry,

(01:31:43):
I mean to short him in here. You don't have to.
I mean, yeah, well it's literally part of my job.

Speaker 10 (01:31:50):
So well bright, but you know your show man, So
it's it's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:31:54):
Yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 2 (01:31:55):
That's not even right, that's not right. It's a I rate.
So I it's two heads.

Speaker 1 (01:31:59):
Oh yeah, you don't even know it coming right. He
didn't even say not both on the top of his neck.
That's the part. There's one out there somewhere else, right,
coming out back. I didn't mean the other thing. So no, anyway,
I know what you meant. Yeah, let's go, let's go
something that won't get me fined. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 10 (01:32:16):
It's uh, it's weather and it's all good, and it
includes us some eighty degree temperatures maybe for everybody over
the weekend before the next cold front comes in sometime
early next week.

Speaker 1 (01:32:27):
I'm not really sure we're.

Speaker 10 (01:32:29):
Quite done yet with a cold air meaning another freeze
or something. The model's trying to do something towards the
end of the month. Maybe not as cold as this
last air mass, but uh, yeah, we're getting there.

Speaker 1 (01:32:39):
We're getting there.

Speaker 10 (01:32:40):
Sun a few clouds today, especially west, near sixties, so
it depends on where you are either side of that
forty tonight with some thirties around, so we are milder
there than what you're seeing this morning. And our first
day of spring tomorrow is that what time?

Speaker 1 (01:32:53):
Right and right?

Speaker 10 (01:32:56):
You were close sunshine up for sixties, maybe seventy in spot.
We're near eighty over the weekend Bartley, Sunday, Saturday, mostly
sunny Sunday. I still think we get close to eighty
on Monday with a chance of showers before we are
back in the fifties, in the fifties by Tuesday. So
a little bit cooler there.

Speaker 1 (01:33:14):
Okay, thank you, sir, appreciate it, and you'll come back
with Bloomberg and I will explain why it's time to
send the military in and conquer Canada. We'll do that next,
Denise PELIGRENI, Denise, what's happening?

Speaker 11 (01:33:25):
Yeah, I was surprised this took so long, Casey. But
now the US is warning against cyber attacks. This warning
going straight to businesses from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Agency telling businesses to secure their corporate accounts within this
popular Microsoft management tool. After that cyber attack on the
medtech company Striker last week, that's medical technology, cybersecurity, and infrastructure,

(01:33:50):
the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is telling companies to
really make sure that they update the tool in tune
that manages employee and strative account access across the organization.
After the pro Iranian group Handla claimed responsibility for that
attack on Striker, which not the company really you know,
kind of out of operating business for weeks. Uber plans

(01:34:14):
to invest as much as one in a quarter billion
dollars in Rivian Automotive to launch a robotaxi fleet. Uber
or its fleet partners will buy ten thousand autonomous Rivian
R two robotaxis and make them available exclusively on the
uber app. They're going to start this in San Francisco
and Miami in a couple of years, and then of
course they plan to expand all over the place. A

(01:34:35):
study shows ozempic casey helps your mental health, and there's
another study that shows stopping GLP one drugs is dangerous. Okay,
the first study.

Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
First.

Speaker 11 (01:34:46):
The study says people with depression and anxiety who took
Novo Nordis blockbuster shot at zempic or also with gov
we're less likely to see their mental health get worse.
Semi Glutide is the main ingredient in both drugs, linked
to a forty four present lower risk of worsening depression anxiety.
Similar stats there. Separately, a study of veterans affairs patients

(01:35:07):
found those who quit the weight loss medication reversed health
gains from weight loss and had a higher risk casey
for heart attack, stroke or death. Here comes the new
le Boo Boo movie. PopMart International is now teaming up
with Sony Pictures Entertainment to bring Labuboo Dolls to the
big screen, with director and screenwriter Paul King and others.

(01:35:29):
Project is planned as a hybrid of live action and
computer generated imagery. Stock futures right now, they're not looking
so good. Down futures down three hundred points, SMP losing
forty seven on the Future's Nasdaq plunging two hundred and seven.
Applications for unemployment benefits fell, so the job market looks
stronger than expected. That's just adding on to the whole

(01:35:51):
idea that inflation is too high because of what's happening
in the Middle East with all the energy prices surging,
fertilizer prices as well, and the Fed can't cut rates.
So now we did have this headline on the Bloomberg
terminal saying that investors are just giving up on a
rate cut at all for this year. So that's kind
of weighing on things. But if you're looking to save

(01:36:12):
money in retirement and maybe the stock market, this isn't
quite turning out to be what you hoped Forget about
retiring to France or Costa Rica, Casey. Some people are
actually living on cruise ships, these big ones. The Villa
v Odyssey has hundreds of residents. Its founder says about
two thirds are retired or semi retired. They are living

(01:36:33):
on the ship. The ship has hobby groups, housekeeping laundry facilities,
medical facilities, kind of just like your average you know,
independent living facility for retirees. The average age is fifty
nine and they claim it's only two thousand dollars per
person a month.

Speaker 3 (01:36:49):
You know.

Speaker 11 (01:36:51):
Place for Mom Organizations says it's at least three thousand dollars,
you know, in a landlocked living facility. So go see
the waves live out in the ship.

Speaker 1 (01:37:00):
I don't know about that pricing. I've paid for two
cruises and two thousand I just can't process that. So
all right, I can buy.

Speaker 11 (01:37:09):
You can buy an interior cabin on the Odyssey for
one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. It's not easy to
get a condo for that price, and you know, all
expenses paid. Of course, can't go for a bike ride
when you want to.

Speaker 1 (01:37:23):
No, I hear it, Denise, thank you very much, appreciate it.
Have a good one. Talk to you tomorrow, yeap, Denise
Peligreeney there from Bloomberg News. All right, here's why we
have to We're just gonna have to conquer Canada. So
you remember, of course, Jack Hughes a very famous photo
of him missing a few teeth after he scores the
winning goal for the Olympics to defeat Canada. Well, traditionally

(01:37:45):
in hockey the puck whoever's the winning team will give
the puck to whatever player they kind of decide amongst themselves.
They do it with football is in the NFL all that,
So that's the tradition of all of it. However, as
Team USA was out celebrating on the ice, a representative
from the International Hockey Hall of Fame grab the puck
and has it. It took it to the Hall of Fame.

(01:38:07):
It's in Canada, it's in Toronto. The Canadians stole the
USA's winning puck, and so when Jack Hughes said, hey,
I'd like to have that puck, it's you know, they
issued a statement and I'm gonna read it to you
because it's just so absurd, absurd. Unfortunately, in the easiest words,

(01:38:27):
it was never Jack's puck. It's ours now, so so
screw you is essentially what they said.