Thursday-4-24-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
On the show this morning. It is Thursday, and you
know it is a perfect day. Is Thursday, you know,
is for us to have our official NERD correspondent, Stevie
Kent joining us. Sorry, just some weird thing going on
over by my processor there. What is okay? All right? Ah,

(00:22):
I'm like it's gonna be electrical fire. I'm gonna die. No,
there's just a piece of paper left over there that
I guess the Breeze editor the acy hit it. All right,
So anyway it is we got Academy Award news. They're
jacking with Spider Man. I think we mentioned that on
the show, and apparently for a moment. The Star Wars

(00:42):
nerds are happy because the new and Or is hit
Disney Plus or I guess not new it's season two,
but the new season of and Or Ross. You've been
pretty negative on a lot of recent Star Trek stuff.
This is the one you like, right, yeah, no Star Wars, right,
or Star Wars. I'm sorry to say Star Trek. Well whatever,
they're probably Matt too, Yes, Star Wars.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
That was a joke anyway. So yeah, so you know,
I haven't been that complimentary in the past of recent
or new Star Wars correct. We watched and Or season
one this past fall, Marky and I and we watched
the whole thing, and I really feel and I mean
this completely. I think it's the best Star Wars content
since Empire Strikes Back.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Wow, it is so good, even the middle three. Huh.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, it's so different than what we've seen. It's a
good story. It starts off the first season. I'm not
gonna spoil too much if you haven't seen it, because
when I first came across it, I thought and Or
was the name of a planet. It's the name of
the dude that's in the movie Rogue one, and that
movie is about stealing the plans for the Death Star.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
And then and that's a pretty good movie. It's it's
not their best, but it's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, and then they handed off to Princess Leia in
a New Hope and that's the end of that story,
right right, So I directly precedes the originals. Yes, it
starts off as like a heist and then it turns.
The first season turns into like a prison break story
and it's just so smart and it's so Season two
came out and Steven knows I'm a big fan of
and Or, and he sent me a text yesterday that was, like, dude,

(02:12):
season two is out. The first three episodes are up.
We watched one last night. I am such a fan.
Like if you've been looking for old Star Wars, this
is it. In fact, I would say there's a character
in it the two seasons named Luthan, and he's sort
of like the dude. He's the guy that starts the rebellion.
He's the brain behind the initial rebellion. I think he's

(02:34):
my favorite Star Wars character ever ever. And he's played
by the older scarsguard guy, the guy that was in Dune,
played the big fat white emper guy.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Okay, yeah, yeah, ye yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
I played Professor Lambeau in the Goodwill Hunting Yeah. Absolutely,
he's such an amazing he's I think he's my favorite
character ever in all Star Wars. Oh wow. I give
it a big ten out of ten. I love this show.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Do you think that your favorite character selection might be
colored by the attitudes of perhaps the main character of
Star Wars, mister Skywalker there because the actor is such augh.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
You're right, it does hurt it. It does hurt him
a bit. But yeah, I don't know. Man, it's so great.
There's a scene in it, and it's so hard not
to spoil this show because I'm I actually enjoy it.
But You've got asked Stephen about this, so this might
be a s okay no, because listen, there's a scene
in it where the guy that I like, his name
is Luth and like I said, he's up in space

(03:35):
and he's surrounded by the bad guys, like they have
a big old one of those ginormous star destroyers whatever
it's called that we see in the beginning of a
New Hope, you know, it flies over the level ship
comes out, you know, on the screen. So they get
his ship and he somehow gets away and they send
tie fighters after him, and this thing happens that I've
never seen before in Star Wars, where out of the

(03:57):
wings of his ship or whatever are these giant laser
beams that come out that look like giant lightsabers.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
I'm just gonna say, a giant lightsabers.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, And it spins and circles and cuts the other
ships in half. And I'm like, why, why, why have
why do the other ships have this?

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Well it's dude, look, you got budgets, okay, right, not
everything can be an F eighteen. Do you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Stephen tried to explain it to me and he's like,
you know, Luthen is just he has these resources, so
not everybody would have that. But I'm like, Steven, those
are giant lightsabers that they put on the end of
the wings of his ship, and he's like, no, actually,
it's not a light shaberg dude, come on.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
That's why I was just gonna ask this because people
have been critical of some of the expansion of the lightsabers,
you know what I mean, in the past.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Steven has been as well. Remember he was talking about
I guess there was some show or something where they
used a lightsaber as like a helicopter, like they spun it.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's been so many dumb ones, so
I'm trying to envision this. So it looked like who
was it, count Dooku? Right, remember the scene because he
could spin, right, was it Doku was?

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah? No, no, no, no, that was grievous.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Oh grievous. I'm sorry, but yeah, I remember I was spinning
his lightsabers and they look like a process. So they're
doing that off the wings of a tie fighter.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
No, it's just it's some sort of rebel ship regular ship, okay,
you know. And it's just like he has wings in
space because they's what you do, apparently, and out of
the right and the lyft giant lightsabers pop out of
it and his spins and circles and cuts everybody in half. Okay,
it's amazing. All right, anyway, great show? Watch it you
want one?

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Huh? Is that what this is about? Do you want
to get an endorsement for giant spinny lightsabers? Okay? Did
I see somebody posted there's two things? One is really dark?
I don't know. I don't know. I saw Steven posted
there you when you sent me what Steven was your conversation?

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Yeah, he did reference it. Yeah, I haven't gotten there yet.
We just watched one episode, so.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
I don't know if I want to get into that.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Uh, maybe he'll have a way to bring it up
that isn't like, you know, oh dark.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, And I'm sorry. We'll talk
to him at eight oh five. I don't mean to
be uh secretive here, but I'm still thinking about it.
And then did I see some character on and Or
who is the Predator.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Uh no, I thought what you saw was the actual
new Predator.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Okay, then, so somebody miss labeled. That's why I was
going to ask you because I couldn't replicate the picture
I saw on Twitter this morning.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Because I saw yesterday and somebody said it's the new Predator.
I assumed it was the new Predator. But maybe it's
in episode two or three of Andor that I haven't
gotten to yet.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
It's the new Predator. If Helen Keller made the.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Mask, the dreads are gone.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
It's so bad, like even the face looks cheap.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
And they turned the Predator into a soy boy.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, possible, get him some glasses and uh and uh
lower his tee and uh. You know what he could do.
He could run for Congress. So oh, all right, so
let me do this because Ross is laughing. You're gonna
be laughing. So some dude for who decided he's going

(07:08):
to quit the FBI. I'm sure not at all, because
the you know, the jig is up, but it is
going to run for Congress. And he made the cringiest
campaign announcement video. It's very high production value, but that
can't make up for the weakness of the candidate, right,

(07:29):
and also it's a lie, and I will prove it
to you coming up next here on the CaCO Day
radio program, laughing. At first, I thought it was a
parody because I saw it embedded in somebody else's tweet
and then you have to go back to figure out
the source there by clicking the little thing under it.
And I thought it was a parody, mocking portions of

(07:53):
the FBI who spent all their time trying to get
Trump right. But it's not, it's not. It's real. It's
a man by the name of here we go, John Sullivan. No,
not that John Sullivan. This John Sullivan. And I'm gonna
play this for you right now. This is the this

(08:15):
is his coming out commercial. Right, Hey, I'm leaving the FBI.
Did I mention I had worked at the FBI and
I'm leaving and now I'm running for Congress up in
let's see, this would be New York seventeenth that currently
there's a Republican in there, but it's very close district,
so that he's going to go challenge him. Left his

(08:37):
job at the FBI. Okay, you ready for the audio
because it's it's a whole vibe here we go.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
We're up against some serious threats right now, from skyrocketing
costs to Trump and billionaires corrupting our government. And I
can't just sit on the sidelines and watch.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
And by the way, the whole theme is seen is
the whole scene is themed as like he's emerging from
the shadows secret agent. Okay, just go with me on this.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Because for seventeen years I was an FBI intelligence analyst
working in secret to keep us safe from global threats
and the insurrectionists who stormed our capital. But now that
the threat is coming from inside the White House, I
had to leave the FBI and step forward so I
can finally tell you who I am. Hi, I'm John No,

(09:26):
I can say that now. I'm John Sullivan. I'm a dad,
a husband, a public servant, and a cancer survivor, and
I'm running for Congress. For years, I fought for you
in secret, and now I want to keep fighting for
you in Congress. I'm John Sullivan.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Classified.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
It's not classified, John Sullivan for Congress.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
Okay, you probably have a vision in your head. Is
he a ginger too? Kind of like I can't tell,
but the untouchables he is not? All right, Ross I
have a question, because I can debunk this whole thing.
Would you go to the tweet his tweet that I
sent you, click through and go to his his actual
profile page. All right, I was going to do that.

(10:10):
I'm look, I'm the I'm gonna do some FBI work
for you right here. Okay, it's gonna be very quick
and I feel like we'll prove my point. Sorry, you
had the profile page.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Yeah, I'm on his page.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
How long has his account been active for?

Speaker 2 (10:23):
April twenty eighteen?

Speaker 1 (10:25):
What's his title? What's his handle?

Speaker 2 (10:28):
FBI underscore Sullivan super Secret. So you're telling me you're
not going to vote for low T jackal deep state guy?

Speaker 1 (10:37):
I mean, he did do it treason. So I don't know.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
This guy is so dumb. He doesn't even know that
an insurrection didn't happen.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
His guy has been in get Trump mode since he
probably joined the FBI to go in get in Trump mode.
And so you got to ask yourself if if he
felt the need to serve during the first term, to
you know, attack the threat from within the White House,
as he put it, why would he be getting out now?
Wouldn't this be his prime time? That's weird. Huh. If

(11:08):
he feels so passionately, so strongly about this and he's
up in there, why would he flee with his tail
tuck between them.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
He just comes across as so partisan. I'm so thankful
he's no longer in the FBI, and it's scared. I
think that he's the type of guy in the FBI. Yeah,
and there's and there's a bunch of these dudes he's
going after, you know, he's classifying parent teacher meeting.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Oh my gosh, yeah, school board people who comment.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Going after memours and people that walk through open doors.
And it said, dude, it's.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
So And then the whole theme of the ad like
he's the you know, like he's the guy handling all
this secret Jack Ryan.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Right now, he doesn't have to tell us that he's
an analyst like you could, but even like, you know,
Jack Ryan was an analyst in the the time Plans stuff.
But listen, we dude, we're looking at We know you're
not in the field. Okay, we know you're not the
guy doing the things. You're the guy.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Well he didn't help discover the bees with the black boys.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
I'm well, okay, you mentioned that I've been saying for
a while, for a long for the longest time. I
believe the FBI needs to go back to how it
was in the nineties, where all they do is investigate
aliens and serial killers. That's what they need to be
focused on.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Wow, occasionally they do murder a church full of people
in Texas, so there's that. That'd be fair. They murdered
one of theirs first, but it turned into a whole thing. Yeah,
so what about Oh what Okay, so serial killers aliens? Right,
those are the two divisions you want. Yeah, can we

(12:46):
throw actual terrorism on there, because somebody's got to handle
when some guys, like because they just arrested some guy
in Minneapolis who was getting ready to commit a mass stationalty.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, the completely Yeah they should be up in the list.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Yeah, but but real deal, what about serial killing aliens?
Hold on that we're also wanting to commit mass casualty
terrorism events?

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yeah that we put that in the top tier.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Okay, that's so probably where this guy wouldn't work because
I don't think he was probably the best.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
This is the guy where every time there'd be a crime,
they'd be like, oh, he was on a radar, So
how good are you at looking at the information you had.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah, well he's an analyst, man, he is the deep State.
He one hundred one thousand percent. And I think, look,
he's only jumping ship now because he realizes, he realizes
that he did some stuff. That's my theory and the
only way he's gonna be able to it's It's a
lot harder to go after a member of Congress than

(13:43):
some some sad, little low t ginger dude.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
It's imagined voting for Lake Peter Struck, you know what
I mean? Oh, I bet their besties. I bet they talk.
Oh you know they've texted for sure.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Oh yeah, well, you know Peter Struck does like the
text so and his and his chick. So I wonder
if Peter Struck sent the same kind of text though
I don't know. I don't know. Peter Struck is literally
a demon, so like dude, that was one that was

(14:14):
one of the craziest, and I know the memes still
out there, but just one of the craziest set of
eyes I've ever seen. And it was in front of Congress.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Right, the freeze frame of him or the SlowMo video
of him talking in front of Congress, And you're right,
it did look completely demonic. Yeah yeah, and.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
You know, by the way, and ladies, I hate to
say this, but generally dudes don't win the crazy eye contest.
And I don't know if it's just because women emote
more emotion or whatever, but this guy's given anything I've
ever seen a run for his money. So anyway, yeah,
I'll vote for him if you're in the seventeenth District
of New York wherever the heck that is, I don't
know where that is. And also, dude's been living in

(14:53):
uh his de FBI analysts, he's been living in DC
for eighteen years and he just goes up and runs
in New York. How does that work? Oh wait, Hillary Clinton,
I forgot it works fine up in New York. So
that's the thing, So go check it out. It really
I can't ross and I have tried to do it justice,
but it's so much worse if you watch the video too.

(15:17):
A lot of different things going on there. Uh do
do do?

Speaker 4 (15:21):
All?

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Right? So oh where do I Where do I start?
By the way, people are sending me all their FBI
jokes here, No, no, no, all look in all seriousness
with that dude. That is exactly the that's exactly the
problem in the FBI. I know Peter Struck was the
face of it, but it's a thousand dudes like that guy.
He's clearly hyperpartisan. He's lying to you saying that you know,

(15:43):
it's so secret what he's doing. Uh, that it's so
secret that he has a Twitter handle with FBI in it,
that he's been super active since twenty eighteen. So like
the whole narrative of the whole thing is BS and
I firmly believe he's getting out because he realizes that
he has he has operated in a way that is

(16:05):
that is going to be unacceptable, and who knows, maybe
even finds himself embroidered. It's actually a bit of a
gamble on the part of the Democrats to uh get
behind this guy as their challenger because we don't know.
We hope they do something. We don't know what Patel

(16:26):
and Bongino are doing up there, and I know that,
you know, there's this big argument over the wait and see,
don't wait and see. They've only been there a month.
They need to get a handle on what's going on
before you start, you know, you start. I don't say
shooting people because I don't mean that literally, but you
know what I mean, putting them out of their misery,
so to speak, and maybe even criminally charging some of them.

(16:47):
So if this dude who gives me all the vibes
that he may have done things, I don't know that
he did things, but did things to sidestep regulation, which
we've seen a lot of this. Right. You saw what
happened was struck. You saw it with Andy Witts's bucket. Now,

(17:08):
who then, of course gets a job at CNNMSNBC, the
former assistant director, right, playing fast and loose doing stuff.
I mean, maybe do you think this guy was in
on the attempted kidnap of the Michigan governor? I mean
that thing? Is that thing? One hundred percent was FBI.
Almost everyone involved was FBI. You just found a few

(17:32):
yahoos who liked to do tactical practices in their PT
cruiser and basically walk them into it. So I don't
know what you could potentially dig up on this dude,
but could be a problem, man, could be a problem.
All right. So wow, people are sending me all sorts

(17:52):
of stuff this morning. All right, hang on, I got
stuff to get to, like betting on the Pope and
and well, actually this isn't FBI, but let me throw
this in here. So this is this is wild to me.
Do you remember Peanut, Rip rip Peanut, Peanut the squirrel there,

(18:15):
And it wasn't just Peanut. Uh, he had a raccoon friend, Uh, Fred, right,
Fred the raccoon and if you remember, this guy had
him in the house. Uh. Basically, the the warrant squad
showed up from a state wildlife and everything else and
they confiscated I think it's the Department of Environmental Conservationist
what they call it in New York. And they showed

(18:38):
up and grabbed him and immediately, uh euthanized him. And
I don't know how how many votes that propelled. But
the timing couldn't have been worse, because all of a sudden,
it you know, turned into you know, just ahead of
the election, do it for peanut. Look at what these
months these big government monsters want to do. But I didn't.

(19:01):
It's now becoming quite clear it wasn't just like the
one lady who they were kind of throwing it at
her feet, driving it forward because she's just angry.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
No.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
According to Judicial Watch, there was over one hundred and
sixty three pages of communications putting together the case, the
strategy for the takedown. I guess if you want to
call it that, the acquisition of the of a squirrel
and a raccoon, they pre that's pregame. That wasn't just

(19:34):
one person doing this as partly. This was a whole
group of people that coordinated and strategized how to go
murder a squirrel and a raccoon, which, let me tell you,
when I was a kid, the strategy was me looking
at my buddy going, amen, you wanna go hunting? That
was it. That was a strategy. And if we're just
you know, we're doing a little small game there when

(19:56):
I was a little little kid. Twenty two Marlin, I'm
sure many of you have one. It's a great teaching
your kid to shoot gun. Love that firearm. Classic, absolute classic.
I had one, My buddy had one. Outside of twenty
to two fifty. If we're going a little bigger and yeah, no,
this took a whole gaggle of bureaucrats one hundred and

(20:18):
sixty three pages of communications to coordinate a squirrel raccoon acquisition,
and they in it at every at every communication that
mentions the postgame, what they're gonna do with them. They
planned to murder them. They weren't like, well, let's get
them and see, if you know, put them in quarantine

(20:39):
and see if they develop any symptoms of rabies, which
is what you would do with a pet. Maybe, right,
if you got a pet and you're concerned that they
might be rabies, and you have them and you can
you can quarantine them and then you look for those signs.
You don't just murder them and then start checking their brain.
Now you might do that to astray animal that you

(21:00):
think is rabid. That's bit of human because you need
to get that information. But that's not what's going on here. Now.
I understand somebody was chomped on during this, right, but
it's but a bit a gloved hand. I don't even
know if it drew blood or if it actually pierced.
It didn't feel good. They got some jaw strength on them.

(21:22):
Obviously they eat nuts. But yeah, man, the whole thing
is weird. But one hundred and sixty three pages to
coordinate the murder of a squirrel absolutely wild to me.
And I just again, it just shows you the cancer
that you have in so many of these government positions,
whether it's you know, Captain low Ti there running for Congress,

(21:50):
former FBI guy, or the sick people that would sit
around in the state of New York and coordinate for
weeks to get a squirrel just so they can murder it.
Ads just wild to me, all right. A couple other
things here real quick. I saw this. Of course, it
is an article on wr L, but they didn't write it.

(22:12):
It's apre the here is the headline, and it just
shows you the continued level of scumbaggery. And by the way,
I think that the media is going to be worse now.
I think that they are so upset over the the

(22:32):
alternative media being granted access to the White House press briefings.
I don't know if you saw CNN out there harassing
the other journalist in front of the White House yesterday,
why do you think you should be here? And good
on them, one of them said, because you guys all
lied and people just want to get news and you
failed right to their face. So good on them. But

(22:53):
like they're so butt hed over this, and AP is
so mad because remember AP was one of the two
outlets that really have been getting the main focus of
the Trump Remember the AAP wasn't allowed in a couple things,
and it was because they refused to acknowledge, among other things,
the Gulf of America, which is really rich. Because literally

(23:17):
the Biden administration strategy for half the things they actually
did do was to change the names of things, and
AP dutifully went along with it. Oh, that's not Fort
Bragg anymore perfect, We'll immediately, we'll immediately recognize it. They
actually were recognizing the change of Fort Bragg prior to
the official renaming of it. They just set it out

(23:39):
of the President said it, and so AP is just
out to get everyone in this administration. But this is
particularly nasty. So the headline must damage Tesla's brand in
just a few months. Fixing it will likely take longer. Okay,
so what they're talking about is they're talking about the
earnings call yesterday, and it is not inaccurate to say

(24:03):
that Tesla is down from a sales perspective. However, Tesla
has some things going for it that are not purely
how many cars do you sell? It's not as simple
as that, because Tesla, a big part of their valuation
is on the advancement and the propelling forward of driverless technology,

(24:25):
especially not just as it pertains to individuals. Cars they
may buy, which arguably is among the best in the world,
probably the best in the world, their newest one at
this point. But how that works in a taxi situation,
and how that works in a shipping situation, that's going

(24:47):
to be the holy grail. And I know truck drivers
don't want to hear this, but there's a lot of
companies working on this. They want to be able to
run big rig trucks with no drivers, which by the way,
I don't think the public's going to be a big
fan of, but that is technology they're working on. Just
due to the size of those loads. Man, it makes

(25:07):
me obscenely nervous for some to see some semi truck
going down the road and there's nobody at the wheel,
knowing what that thing weighs and the damage that it
could do if there's a problem. So, but this is
all future stuff, and so there is a large amount
of the valuation of Tesla that is based on applications

(25:29):
of their self driving technology and not just the selling
of cars. So you can go ahead and report all
this and you can say, hey, here's the numbers. Here,
here's what the numbers were, And does it mean that
Tesla is likely hemorrhaged buyers on the left. Sure, it
absolutely does. There's no question that they have. But I
want you to listen how they explain all of this,

(25:51):
because they they're like, how can we say this in
the nastiest way possible. Sales have plunge for Tesla amid
protests and boycotts over must embrace of the far right
wing views. Well, here we go again. What do you
mean embrace of far right wing views? Right, that's that's
the apie's code for this guy's essentially, you know, a

(26:12):
white supremacist or you know, insert whatever whatever group they
want to attach them to must clearly is embracing right
wing views. There would be half the country that voted
for this administration like, he's not doing anything outside of
what was promised. So for you to attach far right

(26:34):
wing views is I think them going. I think them
wanting to pretend like he did a Nazi salute. And
it just shows you how gone these reporters are because
they're not acting as reporters anymore. You would never say
far left wing views. In the opposite situation, you wouldn't.
You would call it mainstream or embracing of the current

(26:55):
administration is how you would word it, and that would
be accurate. But you didn't work like that. No, no,
no no, you had to go with these super scary,
far right wing views. Profits have been sliced by two
thirds so far this year, and rivals from China, Europe
and US are pouncing. Oh we got some pouncing. And
Tuesday came some relief as Musk announced in earning calls

(27:17):
with investors he would be scaling back his government cost
cutting job, able to focus more of his attention on,
in fact, the you know, Tesla, although obviously he has
other companies. Well, I have a question. So if your
theory is that the reason auto sales are down is

(27:38):
because of his far right wing views and people are
opposed to him and not necessarily the product, how would
him being more around the product in fact be better?
Like that doesn't make any sense because if you're like, ah,
Musk is the problem, not the product, well, then more
Musk solves the problem. Like it. There's a logical fallacy

(28:01):
in the way that you wrote this, and again they
wrote it to be as nasty as possible. There's a
story to tell with the numbers. There's discussions to be had.
But you know, musk is to call musk embracing of
far right views is to ignore that that's what the
majority of the country voted for. So maybe you're the

(28:22):
one who is far off of the norm, but of
course that's how they're going to run it. So at
this point, here's what I'd say if you see us,
If you see a story from the Associated Press right
now and it has anything to do with politics, really
any social issues, just ignore it. They're too far gone.
I've seen them. I don't know if you've seen them
on Ross on Twitter? Do you do you see ads?

(28:44):
I can't remember. You see ads now? Right? Associated Press
is advertising for brands. This is where they are financially,
and it couldn't happen to a better group of people.
So I see these things and it has the Associated
Press literal account and then it's like it'll say a
sponsorship and then it'll be like, you know, for Jim's

(29:05):
jerky or something, and then they's labeled AD. But you
see the Associated Press logos for a moment you think
there's a legitimate story there, and they're they're trying to
propel that notoriety because it's the only thing they have left.
They're not doing quality journalism here. And I got to
tell you, I've met multiple people that have worked as AP,
especially like regional AP people, over the years. I'd say

(29:28):
two of them I thought were good journalists. The rest
have been really partisan. That's just as natural attractive. And
you know why because one of the things that you
kind of get into, especially when you're a state AP person,
is you get you help you help handle the churn
of news, right because I used to when I did

(29:50):
the reporting side of things, I would submit to AP
because most you know, at that point, most radio outlets,
if they had a local newsroom, were AP associates, and
so I would submit stories. I would write stories about
local politics where I was, and then I would submit them.
And for whatever reason, it was really hard from the
perspective of, you know, if you were even pretty balanced,

(30:13):
and this was in Minnesota, to get on the state
AP wire with any of your stories. They were largely ignored.
And it used to frustrate me because there were three
or four reporters whose stuff always got on there, and
there were people like Don Shelby, who was like the
big left wing TV guy who didn't write any of
his own stuff. Who would get all this credit? And

(30:33):
I don't know if that's still the process with AP,
but just the first three paragraphs by writer Bernard Condon
is pure garbage, pure partisan garbage. And of course Ral
dutifully reprints it all right, six fifty Hang on, hey
that Elon Musk what like fifth company? Neuralink is potentially

(30:55):
going to fetch an eight and a half billion dollar
valuation and this thing barely I don't say barely up
and running. Obviously the technology is very advanced, but the
actual implementation into people is right at the beginning. So
like there's a lot of lot of what ifs that
ross you. You were saying you were you wanted a
neuralink when this first conversation started.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Dude, Yeah, yeah, put the chip in my head. Yes,
just so I'm gonna not go early adopter, because imagine
if you could hack the neuralinks and you could make
your enemies defecate themselves.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Has anyone even considered.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
This, oh a poop chip?

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Well, it's not just a poop chip, but if it's
a chip that can essentially instruct bodily functions, uh no,
I mean how deep does it go?

Speaker 2 (31:43):
All jokes aside, Man, the neuralink stuff is really impressive.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
Oh, it's incredibly impressive.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
And its ability to help people with like spinal cord
injuries in that sort of correct. Yeah, I mean that's
like miraculous.

Speaker 6 (31:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
Didn't they just have a movie about this? The movie
I was thinking about that kind of has some like
Eurolink feel to It is called Upgrade, And it's actually
more than five years It was twenty eighteen, so seven
years ago. The movie came out pretty good. You like
action flicks, little sci fi action ross, I would highly
recommend this movie. So the premise is the dude and

(32:18):
his wife just living the dream. He hates the new technology.
He still has an internal combustion car, whereas everything else
is like, you know, super high end futuristic. The car
does everything. You sit in the back of the lap
of luxury, and his wife. His wife is a designer

(32:39):
of some sort I can't remember exactly what it is,
and she has this mysterious, really rich client who basically
turns out to be far creepier Mark Zuckerberg, if that's possible.
And then the wife and husband are attacked by a
gang and the wife is killed. This is all the setup.
I'm not ruining anything for you. The wife is killed,

(33:00):
he is paralyzed, and the movie really kind of kicks
off from there and he gets an experimental chip attached
to a spine and now he's basically Superman. So and
I won't ruin anything about, you know, past that, but yeah,
it's pretty pretty good movie. I don't think it's quite neuralink,
but it's it's it's it's it's along the same premise

(33:23):
because as Ross was pointing out before he made a
very cryptic statement about what else neuralink could do for you,
was that most of this, much of the early testing
is focused on helping people with spinal cord injuries. And
that's a very laudable goal right there. Is it going
to make them Superman across between Superman and Neo from

(33:45):
the matrix? Probably not, But you know, just retaining some
motor function if you're a quadriplegic in the upper echelon
of your body is absolutely life changing, obviously, and if
it can do more that that would be great. And
so that's how you get there. But there are other

(34:05):
applications for not just how it impacts the spinal cord,
but you know what could that do for the human brain?
And remember they have been stymied thus far on really
getting into research because one of the death by a
thousand cuts things that the previous administration undertook is they

(34:28):
basically kept they denied almost every research request from Neuralink
during the Biden administration. Why do you think that is?
Do you think it's because it's mad scientists and he's
not safe ros Do you have a theory why Neuralink,
whi's been doing research prior to Biden, was almost stopped
completely for four years and is now do you have

(34:50):
any theories there? Because some people have some theories and
if those theories are correct that this was personal, I
want you I want to point out that it just
adds to the stack of how awful Democrats are in

(35:11):
Washington that they would they would, for personal, petty reasons
hold back one of the most promising potential pieces of
technology to help people with spinal cord injuries for their
own partisan reasons. And when you say it like that,
that's pretty awful, isn't it. But tell me I'm wrong.

(35:34):
And before you think, well, it's just because Trump will
let him do all this doctor Mengelas stuff you have
to understand that the people who were going along with
neuralink and investing in neuralink and wanting to be parts
of these studies are some of and they are not
necessarily partisan people, and they're not even necessarily Republicans. A
lot of them are college professors who probably are pretty

(35:55):
liberal at a lot of various institutions, who saw a
lot of promise with this. Meanwhile, there's no problem with
the guy who's running the COVID response doing gain of
function research, knowing about it and lying about it.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Oh, but there is a problem with the guy pushing ivermectin.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
And there's a guy. Yeah, there's a problem with the
guy pushing ivermectin, the thing that's one of the most
prescribed drugs in the world, and not even necessarily you
need a prescription.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
In most Nobel price winning too. Yeah, well, bringing up
awards and stuff. They constantly do this on small things
and bigger things, where they say they're for one thing,
but they're actually for another, and they do something that's
the complete opposite the way.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
Yeah, and this is just there's just another example. But
it's just how horrible imagine sitting Imagine you're you're somebody
who had because it's a very specific they're studying now
is a very specific type of spinal separation, and you
know it's a starting off point. But imagine you're sitting there,
you're aware that this stuff's going on, and you were

(36:55):
preapproved by the way, as some of these folks were,
for the twenty twenty three study that was not allowed
to be done. And imagine the hope that you have
because the of the despair that you have right this,
this thing happened to you, This is this, and and
now here here is a possibility, and you just hold

(37:17):
out hope for any possibility. And then you find out
that this research study that you were like this, I'm
gonna do this right, it's anything's got to be better
than where I'm at right now. It gets put off
and you realize it's so that people could make partisan points.
That's sick man, and frankly, anyone involved in any of that,

(37:40):
especially if they're within the medical community, because obviously, you
know Biden's got his partisan medical advisors there should not
work in research anymore. You have decided, you decided, and
you decided that the research didn't matter. You're partisan. What
you're you're once in needs mattered, and you know the
same for the people who demonize the the irom acting

(38:01):
guy and pretended it was nothing but horse paced absolute insanity. Man,
all right, Ross, what was the other thing you wanted
to do with the neuralink we had to go to break?
I forgot what was you had intimated something there?

Speaker 2 (38:13):
No, I was talking about you could download the whole
Bible into your head.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
That's not the way you said that though. By the way,
I don't know is there any is there anything in
the Bible? How far along are you right now? Deuteronomy?

Speaker 2 (38:27):
This morning I read Deuteronomy twelve to sixteen. Okay, all right,
so yeah, I'm not not at that point yet.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
All right, so you're not You're what three and a
half books in right? Three and a half? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (38:41):
I think I'm on the fifth book, I believe.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I numbers out of my mind.
All right? So is there anything in there about taking
selfies with the Pope's dead body? Why are you laughing?
I never thought I have to ask this question. Vy
stumbled across anything. It's been a very long time since
i've you know, covered to covered the No.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
I don't have a I haven't come across the death
of a pope yet. I haven't gotten to that point.
If it isn't there, I don't know, Like I said
once again, Oh there's some stuff in there. Yeah. Like
I said, I'm not get to it, Joe. I just
I'm not at that point. I haven't read it before.
I've gotten to the death of priests like Aaron. But
I know I haven't gotten to the pope yet.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
Did anyone take pictures of his body? I don't believe
so selfies, I should say, this is why we can't.
This is why fundamentally, I like, it's just it. I
I'm to you know what it gives me. The vibes
of remember all those pictures at Low Profiles where people
are pretending the rail line at Auschwitz is a balancing beam.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Yeah, they're throwing up gang signs on the tracks at Auschwitz,
Like what is wrong with you? But I mean, so,
I know, pictures in the Sistine Chapel, like you're not
supposed to take photos of it?

Speaker 1 (39:55):
That's oh yeah, they app they don't want, they don't
want because of the flash.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
I've literally been inside and they do not make a
secret of this being.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
Right, the thing so Devil's Advocate here, Yeah, I don't
condone it. I wouldn't do it, but I mean, you know,
you don't want to take the photos of the assisting
chapel because of the art and it'll degrade the work, right,
but I mean the pope's dead, right, yes, So how
Lane and State in Devil's Advocate, how well taking a
picture of that besides it being you know, not really well,

(40:26):
and keep in mind that they have provided pictures of
him Lane and State the the Vatican.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
I well, you know, here's because here's my thing. Is
is it one thing to take a picture of the
popeline and state and is it another thing to take
a selfie? Right?

Speaker 2 (40:43):
Completely?

Speaker 4 (40:44):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (40:44):
Ye mean yeah selfie? Yeah yeah, because obviously when they're
parading the body around, right, they that'll be in camera
or whatever they film it.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
Well, they don't call it parading. There's a less term
for it. But okay, yes, yeah, and they actually do
a proof of death, which is literally a thing. By
the way, Uh, what is the I always forget the
name of what that person's title is. Basically the person
who's in charge of handling the popes. All right, hang on, okay,

(41:17):
did you did you Sorry, I should know this, but
as a lapse Catholic. Yeah, Carme Lingo, that's what is
Cardinal Karma Lengo.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
And by the way, that dude, that's the guy in
the in the the one Dan Brown movie that tries
to blow up the Vatican, right, isn't that It's a title, yes,
but he's got that title in the movie.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
Yes, that's the spoiler. By the way, it was that's
Angels and Demons that one, right. Yeah, yeah, so I
know that guy Ross has ruined the whole movie for
you guys. So all right, No, so that is an
actual title. It's Cardinal Carma Carme Lingo. And so basically
they preside over the right. The next right will be

(42:04):
the ceiling of the coffin, which again I'm sorry, I
can't remember all the Latin terms for this stuff, but
I remember the process. And so like they'll seal it
up on Friday evening and then Saturday it will be
the funeral mass. And then so they have fifteen days

(42:25):
from the time of the Pope's death to actually the
have the the next selection process begin, and said Pope
John Paul actually limited the number and the restrictions on
which cardinals can even take place take part in the
selection process, No more than one hundred and twenty. All

(42:47):
of them have to be under the age of eighty.
There's currently one hundred and thirty five cardinals over that
age or under that age, so there's going to be
fifteen that get left off anyway. But there is an
American connection. So Kevin Ferrell is the Cardinal carmel Ango
and he is He's Irish born, but then his family

(43:07):
came to America. So, uh, Boston Paul is probably happy,
unless he tries to blow up the Vatican.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
That'll then it'll be a problem. What kind of selfie movie?
What kind of selfies are they taken? With it like
taking with him? Or is it like are they just
sort of like mournful? Are they doing like super Are.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
They doing duck face? Yeah? I don't, I don't. I
think that they're probably they're probably not meant to be disrespectful,
do you know what I mean? But I just don't
think people have thought it out. Do you remember that
girl who was at her father's funeral and took a
selfie of herself smiling and posing in front of her
dad's coffin. How much grief. She got. The thing there

(43:46):
was not that she took a picture with her dad,
because if she'd have leaned down and taken as the
last photo with my father, some people would have found
it weird, but I don't know they would have found
it disrespectful. But for her, she struck a TikTok pose.
So yeah, if somebody's doing the you know, you know,
the West Side Gang sign in front of the Pope,

(44:09):
I think you go to special hell. I don't know,
I don't know. I don't know. It's so I think
the content, but I but there are people who just
don't want you taking pictures, even just straight photos of it.
They're freaking out over it. And I don't know what
the line is because I think I think a lot
of people and it's about what society permits. I think
a lot of people wouldn't think it's disrespectful, especially if

(44:30):
you posted something like our holy you know, my holy father,
blah blah blah story about the time you met him
or an inspiration or whatever it is. Some people have
a problem. But when you're taking selfies and you're leaning
yourself into it, I think that's where most people draw
the line. But like you remember that story yesterday whe

(44:50):
the dude's getting eaten by the sharks. Maybe people videoed that,
and I don't think that's disrespectful. But let's say it's
your buddy getting eat by sharks and you lean back
over the bow the boat and you're like hanging out
with Bruce. Right, people are gonna have a problem with that.
So the story needs more I need, I need more
filling of the information there, because yeah, certain things are

(45:15):
gonna be a little more disrespectful than others. Uh in
this story there. Uh they describe it's entitled I saw
Pope Francis's body and I couldn't believe we're taking people
were taking pictures on their phones. I mean, I can
we photograph everything, photograph everything, and there's a we'll tweet
the story out. There's a picture if you can. And
and then the picture you see obviously the picture of

(45:37):
the Pope, but you in the foreground you see cell
phone cameras held up and they're not taking selfies. They're
just taking pictures of the pope line and state. So yeah,
hold on was this? Yeah, here we go through the
crowds filled with selfie sticks and smartphones. So clearly people
were taking selfies too. What is wrong with people? Man?

(46:03):
All right? Seven to twenty, hang on, Let's let me
give you a little peek behind the curtain. I was
having a conversation with a buddy of mine yesterday named
Rob and so on the news. On the news, you
probably see it, although it's not a top tier story,
but maybe you've seen that there's a volcano in Central
America decided that it want to do erupt for the

(46:23):
last few days. And uh, that's a volcano. I've literally
been up to the Coldera of and it's it's pretty crazy.
It looks like a moonscape down in this thing because
it's just a big acid lake in it. It's the
volcano is called polaz po As if you want to
look up the video. It's pretty crazy. But even craziers
they have like a wildlife refuge halfway up the side

(46:44):
of this thing, which I don't know why I did
in retrospect, why that's a good idea to have a
zoo halfway up an active volcano. But I've literally, I've
literally been up to the caldera and like you can
go up there. It's a park and they don't really
have railings either, which is pretty wild, but so so
I saw. I was talking about that with my buddy Rob,

(47:07):
and I'm like, and then the conversation was, if let's
say that you were visiting that day when it went
to erupt or whatever, you're in the general vicinity, which
pose would you like to be forever entombed and mummified in?
Like it's POMPEII if you got to and you're gonna
have to make a quick decision, I think at that point,
So Ross, let's say, because we see these crazy things

(47:30):
from POMPEII, including the one dude looks like he was
messing with himself right at the end. Uh, Rob thought heisman,
I mean I should explain this. So, uh, there's a
story of a volcano that's erupting and it happened to
be a volcano I visited once, like years ago. Because
you're like, oh, I'm gonna you go go up to
the edge of a volcano. Why wouldn't you? And now
it's erupting like crazy. And then so it started a

(47:51):
conversation yesterday with a buddy of mine, like, which Pompeii
style death pose do you want to be found in?
Because if if you've seen anything with POMPEII. People were
literally encased doing whatever the last thing was they were doing.
Wasn't there one dude who had two women on either
side of them? That guy was killing it, although unfortunately,

(48:13):
uh probably he got so close and then boom Pompeii.
But uh, there's some weird ones out there, and I
just thought, you got to pick one if you ever
find yourself, like I don't know, visiting a volcano and
then it decides it's go time. But it's got to
be one that that will encase you in ash What
do you want your final pose to be? And now
I'm getting nothing but wrestling poses ross, So.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
You know, I was thinking about the the Hogan post before.
That was an option in my head, with the where
he's listening or the which, yeah, you can do that one,
or the one where he sort of like poses with
his arms back. You know, he just does like the
the flex.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Well, you don't want to miss If you do the
listening one, then people could mistake you for the Rock.
And that's not a good thing right now because for
some reason everyone's mad at the Rock and I have
no idea why, but.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
I think because it was a no show at WrestleMania.
WrestleMania happened this past weekend, and it was super weird
because normally it'd be all over my feed, but it
wasn't much to do leading up to and I guess
he wasn't there for some reason. But you could do
the John Cena like you can't see me, and then
when they find you, they'd be like, this guy has
no face.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
Really, so it just be like hollowed out, Like okay,
all right, let's see some of the suggestions. The d
generation X, move the X across the crotch. That'd be funny.
You do that for sure. Or you could do a
Caesar I was just thinking about that ross. How about
a Caesar pose like getting stabbed or something. No, no, no,

(49:36):
you know where you're getting your You got your thumb
sideways trying to thumbs up the thumbs down that could
be one.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
I mean like Comtist and Gladiator.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
Yes, yes, yes, yes yeah, And they're like, what was
he deciding? Which did he choose? What does thumbs down mean?
I guess it means murder everybody with the volcano. I
don't know. There's lots to choose from. There's face obviously,
there's ton the famous art you could.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
Do imagining the caes are getting stabbed. Now they're like,
this guy was stabbed fifty times before the volcano went off.
What bad luck.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
Well that's the other thing too. That's the other thing too.
If if you're alone, it's one thing. If you're with somebody,
you could do another. If you like, if you're with
your your spouse, Yeah, you get out, you get as
freaking as you want. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
You could do like the dirty dancing pose, like you
hold it out of your head.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
I was even going worse than that, but absolutely, yeah,
you could do that. You're with your boys, you could
recreate I don't.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Know, like over the top, like arm wrestling from over
the top. Yes, yeah, it'd be cool. Yeah, put your
hat on backwards.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
You got. The point is you got to have a
plan because you never know what's going to happen. Now. Probably,
if you're sitting in downtown Greensboro right now, a volcano
is not going to consume you today. But maybe I
don't know. Remember in La where that one opened up
and tried to eat who was the star of that movie? Volcano?

Speaker 2 (51:05):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Why am I not remembering? Who's starting volcano, big actor,
big actor. All right, now I gotta don't. You don't
have to email me. I'm looking it up right now.
Oh Tommy Lee was was it Tommy Lee Jones? Right? Yeah,
I think it was? Or he was in some sort
of volcano movie. And that's just people are just shopping

(51:27):
on like Rodeo and then the volcano adum, which, by
the way, it might be an allusion to Hell if
you think about it, considering who you're dealing with there,
and Ross just pointed out during his Biblical readings, sometimes
they open fissures to Hell. So it's a thing that
happens that's crazy. Oh that's great. Well look at that.

(51:52):
So apparently Hawaii's kill away of volcano also just started
shooting love into the air. You may have everyone may
need to plan. We may need to plan. Man, you
have a multiple volcanoes getting all angry. So all right,
there you go. That's our little silly side story there.

(52:13):
Check this out. Let me let me get this by
going just going back to the pope thing. I cannot
tell you. Although it's because polymarket buys a bunch of
ads on Twitter, the amount of the amount of gamblings
going on with the h who's gonna be the next
Pope is crazy. I saw a betting line, and I'm
not making this up, fross. I saw a betting line

(52:35):
yesterday where you could bet if the new Pope's going
to be black? Okay, which you know, that's that's a
strong Maybe. That dude from Ghana or wherever he's from,
uh is is definitely. I keep seeing his name in
the top three there. And then I saw another one
where you could bet if the pope, the next pope
is going to be gay. I don't understand things like that,

(52:59):
but yeah, these things exist, all right. So as I
scroll through here, just in the standard polymarket listing and
various others, the top potential new pope continues to be
the Pietro Perilin with about a third of the the

(53:20):
betting lines going there. The dude from the Philippines, the
dude another Italian dude. Are they both Italian? That's want
to make sure here? Yeah, oh yeah, born in Venice,
so you hah, two Italians, one Filipino, the dude from

(53:43):
Hungary and the dude from Ghana are your top five there?
So but yeah, you can go and gamble on it.
And I guess is that worse or better than taking
selfies with the pope. I do want to talk about
this with the with the diocen here.

Speaker 4 (54:00):
Now.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
We left a message, but we left a message like
earlier this week, and obviously things are a little busy
on Monday, so I understand that, but I really hope
they call us back because I'd love to say, especially
because I haven't spoken with the new head of the
diocese here, the new bishop, so we've interviewed his predecessor,

(54:24):
but love to chat with him. So we do hope
to be able to bring that. We're going to reach
out one more time because again, I know they're pretty
busy this week, but you know, there is there is
something to it. I call it morbid because a lot
of people call it inspirational, and I prefer that hill

(54:44):
One of the things that helps to grow the Catholic
Church are big events like this, right And I'm not again,
I'm not trying to sell Morbid, but all of the coverage,
all of the the the intrigue there wanting to be
a part part of it, especially if you're somebody such
as myself who who was raised Catholic. My family was

(55:04):
super Catholic man like church deacons counted all the money,
the whole thing, and and it can draw people back
to the church. It can it can create, It can
get new people who are seeking some sort of faith.
Who's who who For whatever reason, just the ritualistic nature

(55:25):
of it and all of it, it becomes attractive to
them because the Catholic Church isn't always in the news,
but right now they basically are the news cycle in
a lot of places. So, but there's also the part
where it's a little morbid that you need a pope
to die to get your numbers up. I hope you know.

(55:45):
I don't want my company hearing about that because they're
always trying to incentivize us on stuff. But I guess
it would incentivize the pope to really try to grow
those numbers too. So AnyWho seven forty three, as mister
stage at ready from the Weather Channel, Ye make that
out position. How you doing there, sir? Tonight's the night. Yeah,

(56:05):
turn somebody's year round. Somebody. I hate to be.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
It, man, because they have to.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
There are three and they have to. You either take
this this defensive dude from Penn State, who likely is
the next generational pass Rusher right, m hm. Probably is
looks like it's easier to tell. But with the likelihood
that Shadur Sanders is going to be there, and and
they don't have a quarterback. I know they have Russell

(56:35):
Wilson and uh somebody else, but like the Russell and
no offense to Russell, he's just right. He doesn't have
that long that long left, and and the Giants needs
somebody mm hmmm. And so if you're the fans like
you kind of feel like the Jets in this instance, right,
do you make a bad quarterback decision or do you
have all your fans hate you because you didn't take

(56:56):
a quarterback. But I'm sure you like to see your
foes struggles so well.

Speaker 4 (57:01):
I do, but.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
I never I would never pass on best available.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
Well when should standers? I don't know if you saw it,
Like one of the team scouts said that he was
literally the worst in person interview that he's yeah, the guys, Yeah,
I'm gonna do things my way. You can all shut up.
I'm sure Sanders, do you know who I am?

Speaker 5 (57:22):
Like, Yeah, I'm back in there too.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
So yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (57:27):
Maybe maybe there's some kind of big trade or something,
but I don't think the Giants can afford to give
up that pick.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
So well, no, like I said this, this this is
a generational pass rusher from penns Yeah, but you somebody
throw the ball man, all right, So well, maybe he
slips to I don't know, Dallas.

Speaker 5 (57:44):
We'll see yeah, thanks, yeah, yeah, And it's uh maybe
heading out, gonna go watch the draft somewhere whether it
should cooperate. Not A bunch of rain around, a few sprinkles,
a few showers kind of bumped it off a little
bit today, kind of lowered the rain chances a lot.

(58:04):
It's gonna be west and southwest, so a little better
chance for the triad and out toward Asheville and into
western South Carolina, North Georgia. Today martiall sun otherwise upper seventies,
maybe eighty in spots Tonight mainly in the fifties to
near sixty, and then tomorrow a few showers, thunder showers
around in through Tomorrow night and Saturday, so it stays
a little unsettleder it gets a little bit more unsettled

(58:26):
as a cold fronts finally trying to get through, and
it will by the end of the weekend. So better
days ahead by Sunday, beautiful day, lots of sunshine, a
cool morning than upper sixties, low seventies in the afternoon.

Speaker 1 (58:38):
Even warmer early next week.

Speaker 5 (58:39):
We're gonna run a string of days together Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
a sunshine and getting back into the eighties eventually. So
we've been flipping it around. A bad week, had a
good week, kind of a bad week this week, kind
of gloomy with the wet weather around. Next week, at
least the first couple of days of it are gonna
be absolutely gorgeous.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
Okay, all right, we're gonna hold you to it. And uh,
my boy in Ashville and I were chatting yesterday and
we were we were both saying that you hedged on
your reign predictions yesterday. Uh huh, And so we weren't
gonna allow you to do that anymore. We're gonna, okay,
we're gonna put you on the record. So just know
that it's a team effort here in North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
It is, it is as it should.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
We'll call you out, bro, all right, I'm going back
to you in an hour. Uh. There's some new polling
numbers out that I think are rather interesting, but actually
kind of seemed to pan out based on many of
the protests we're seen. I'll fill you in on those
in just a few minutes. And coming up eighth five,
we got tons to get into with Stephen Kent, our
NERD and entertainment correspondent stick around Casey O Day radio

(59:40):
program spread or a spreadsheet I guess, or a breakdown
of approval numbers with Donald Trump. And it, by the way,
it makes perfect sense. I think that this is probably
one hundred percent accurate because it's easily explainable, but it
really shows you where we are. And what it is
is an approved disapproval rating of Donald Trump as broken

(01:00:04):
down by age groups. So this is not women, men,
this is not R versus D likely voters. It is
purely by age right. And so because the overall spread
of approval disapproval currently is forty four approved, forty four
disapproved percentage points and the other twelve percent apparently don't care.

(01:00:29):
So that's where we are a statistical tie. It had
been up to he had been up too, but now
it's right there. Then they go through and they break
it down by eighteen to twenty nine year olds, anyone
in their thirties anyone in forties, fifties, sixties, and then
the last group is seventy plus. Okay, only one group

(01:00:52):
has a statistically negative opinion of Trump? Which one do
you think it is? Because I think a couple years
ago people would have assumed it was eighteen to twenty
nine year olds. Would They'd be wrong. Trump's up two
percentage points with that group. With thirty somethings he's up
nine percentage points. Forty somethings he's tied. And then with

(01:01:15):
the fifty somethings back up three points, sixties up five points.
So you're you're asking him a way to say, how
is it that he is Either he's tied in one
group and up an average of about nine and a
half points with the other groups. What's going on here?

Speaker 4 (01:01:36):
All?

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
I guess, No, it wouldn't be an average nine and
a half. I'm doing that, but he's up three and
a half. Three and a half. You don't want me
doing math. He's up. The reason that it's now back
his approval is equal forty four to forty four is
because for people seventy or over, Trump has a disapproval
plus fourteen. So I guess, so fourteen percent under water,

(01:02:00):
as they'd say, why do you think that is? Is
a very obvious answer. Ross called it the moment I
explained this graft to him that I was going to
do this in the next segment, because you may have
been for burn it down, but you don't have time
for the rebuild. And so if you're if you're already

(01:02:22):
in retirement right now, but of course I don't know
how you've tended yourself to the whims of the stock
market so much, but whatever, they're not having it. And
again it kind of makes sense. Forty percent approval fifty
four percent disapproval because burning stuff down and rebuilding takes time.

(01:02:43):
And so the younger you are. Look, people in their
thirties right now are excited about it. They're they're you know,
they're over the hump. They probably started the career, they
got families, but they have not built to the wealth
that they may one hopefully once acquire once they get
into the later working years. And so it's no surprise

(01:03:05):
to me that thirty somethings are the highest approval rating
for Trump because they've now got enough skin in the
game and enough years in the system where they're like,
this is broken. This isn't working. Something has to give,
and this is what they think will do. Now, whether
they're right or not, we'll find out. But yeah, there's

(01:03:28):
no surprises on this graph. But I am curious for
our seventy plus year old listeners. Do two thirds of
your friends hate the president because like he won the demo,
what did they think was gonna happen? I can only
assume that they sit at home and just watch CNN
all day or something. I don't know, but I but

(01:03:50):
you know, I don't want to imply that seventy year
olds are not wise and smart in many instances, you know,
like any other graphic out there, but they just have
a lot more life experience. So he wins the votes.
But it also explains perfectly what's going on with these
AARP protests and why that's who you're able to actually
get to show up. You know, they can do stuff

(01:04:14):
in the middle of the day. They're upset because you know,
whatever you interpret this graft to be. So again, it
all plugs and fits perfectly with all of these different
stories we're seeing all right, coming up, we're gonna chat
with Steve and Kent here in just a few minutes.

(01:04:34):
We got a few things to get into this Thursday,
and fresh from not getting eaten by bears, Stephen Kent,
our official Hollywood slash NERD correspondent, joins us, glad you survived.
You're glamping, sir, what's up?

Speaker 6 (01:04:50):
You know?

Speaker 4 (01:04:50):
I thought I was glamping out in West Virginia until
I got food poisoning in the woods, and then it
was not so glamorous, casey barely.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
Here's why it's better in the woods because you're never
more than a foot from a bathroom.

Speaker 4 (01:05:05):
So that is so true. Every tree was my solution.

Speaker 1 (01:05:10):
Yeah. Yeah, as somebody who recently had the salmonilla, I
feel for you, brother. Oh that was awful a few
couple months ago. Oh, it just reminded me of it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:20):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
But other than that, other than the food poisoning thing,
your camp and trip was fine. You didn't get attacked
by wild animals or.

Speaker 4 (01:05:27):
Nothing, only deadheads. There were a lot of grateful dead
fans coming out into the woods of West Virginia for
some kind of horrible, cursed festival, and you know, we
could smell them a mile away. But we survived all right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
Well, but surely travels. So then you got back to
civilization and I know you and Ross are excited because
the second season of and Or, and this is one
of the few bright spots. And a lot of the
recent Star Wars off people are you know, we've got
series that have been canceled. I like some of the

(01:06:05):
marketing for one of the upcoming projects has been very lackluster.
But and Or now season two it's up. Ross watched
the first episode, maybe you've watched all the three that
are already up. Did they did they find a way
to ruin it or were they able to keep this thing?
That one bright spot in your.

Speaker 4 (01:06:24):
Opinion, Well, it's funny that you say bright spot because
what and Or, by Tony Gilroy is is a dark
spot in Star Wars. I mean, this is a very gritty,
adult Star Wars show. It was in season one and
it very much remains the case in season two. And

(01:06:44):
so you know, to your point it's a bright spot,
and that it's very high quality. This is very good.
This is the kind of thing that can stand up
next to some of the most popular TV shows on
HBO and Showtime and the likes and be like legacy
adult television that's a thriller. It's really really good. But
it just is a show that is still divisive among

(01:07:06):
Star Wars fans because they sit down, pop some popcorn
and maybe somebody includes, you know, their their young children,
thinking that they're just going to watch rebels fight stormtroopers.
And it's just not that there's some really tough adult
topics tackled in this show right out of the get
go in season one and season two.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
Well, and let's are you comfortable talking about because this
is the only thing I know about this and it yeah,
we can talk about odd inclusion into it. So the
very adult topic that Stephen is referring to is an
attempt a sexual assault? Correct, Yeah, okay, yep, does that work?
Does it feel forced? I mean, that's a horrible way

(01:07:46):
to put it, but I mean, yeah, so what is it?

Speaker 4 (01:07:51):
Season season three or sorry? Season two? Episode three does
feature an attempted rape of a woman by an Imperial officer.
This is divisive, obviously among Star Wars fans online, screaming
at each other as usual about what Star Wars should
or should not be. And it's a really, really tough question.

(01:08:13):
I'm sitting here with a fifteen hundred word essay right
now trying to get it published on what I even
think about this, but at the end of the day,
I'm going to say that it worked for what and
Door is and Door is a show that thrives on
showing you the Rebel Alliance is not just some happy

(01:08:34):
go lucky band of heroes. They have to do really
really ugly things in order to raise money, steal gear,
and advance the rebellion. This is not a show about,
you know, putting on Halloween costumes of cops and robbers,
imperials and rebels, and you know, thinking that Star Wars
is simply just a good time. This is saying what

(01:08:54):
if we took this seriously, And if we took this
very very seriously, yeah, I mean you would have some
some ugly stuff going on with imperial officers managing different
communities and oppressing the people. This is this is part
of war. And they do depick this in a way
that works in that it doesn't go over the top.

(01:09:14):
They don't go to eleven with this. It's more violent
than it is sexual, and it is it is hard
to watch, and it is new ground for Star Wars.

Speaker 1 (01:09:26):
Here's why. Here's why it does make sense to me. Okay,
because you can't live in a universe or in an
environment where it's it is pure canon from the word
go that there is a willingness by some to murder
what two billion people on alder on, right, Yeah, like

(01:09:46):
the level of evil that's necessary for that. So the
fact that you would have people that are willing to
stand by and participate in the death, the instantaneous death
of two billion people, you can't you can't tell me
that the other horribleness doesn't exist.

Speaker 4 (01:10:04):
I tend to agree with that. I mean, there's a
lot that goes on in Star Wars that you just
sort of see it and you blink at it and
you go, Okay, that's fine, that's normal. Everything from the
genocide the younglings, the killing of children and episode three.
You know, Anakin Skywalker's mother is abducted in episode two

(01:10:26):
by the indigenous people of Tattooine, and it's pretty well
implied that she was beaten and sexually assaulted in the desert.
But it's all implication, and it's sort of wink wink,
nod nod. But and Or Again is a show that
it's first season, its first episode featured and Or looking
for someone inside a brothel, basically just saying, you know,

(01:10:48):
those twilak women in the bikinis that we've seen in
Star Wars for decades. We should actually be clear we're
talking about prostitutes here. Yeah, And so the debate, the
debate is always what am I supposed to tell my kids?
And and you know my answer to that as a

(01:11:10):
conservative is that the whole point of parental rights and
parental choice is for you to vet the things that
you watch with your children. And Star Wars and Or
has never been advertised as a family program. It is
advertised as Star Wars for adults, and you should use

(01:11:31):
good judgment. But I also grew up in the church,
and I'm you know, I learned about this topic of
you know, sexuality and violence and oppression when I was
learning about David and Bathsheba. You know, these are topics
that families do tackle at a very early age. And
I actually think and Or does it in a way

(01:11:52):
that works. But it will be divisive and you'll probably
hear about it, folks.

Speaker 1 (01:11:57):
Yeah, and if the majority of people in and I think,
I don't know if you caught any of the Supreme
Court hearing the other day where they were aute that
whoever is the lawyer for that school district.

Speaker 4 (01:12:06):
With all the yeah in Maryland, Yeah in Maryland.

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
Was getting absolutely torched. You can't have an environment where
you say, no, it's the parents' job to teach these things.
It's not the schools, which the majority of people believe.
When you pull them now and then you surp your
responsibility for figuring out whether you can turn on a
product that you didn't do any research on that may
introduce them inadvertently to it, because now it's not the

(01:12:32):
stuff doing it, it's you by not you know, taking
that extra moment to understand it.

Speaker 4 (01:12:38):
Absolutely and having tough conversations with kids about the things
that they see is part of our role as mentors
and guides to kids. I mean, I'm going back to
episode six, Return of the Jedi here. You know, we
all kind of laugh about slave Leo when she's abducted
by a job at the Hut and put into the
metal bikini and all that kind of stuff, But you

(01:12:59):
should really think about that, you know, back up and
go like, what was I thinking about this when I
was ten years old and going all right, so he
had zero well exactly, I mean, you know what you're
thinking when you're you're a teenager, But when you're a
little bit younger, you're like, what is he doing here?
Why did he put her in this? Why does she
have a chain and a collar?

Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
What is happening?

Speaker 4 (01:13:22):
But you don't really think about it in those terms,
and then you grow up and you're like, ah, this
is really kind of seedy and gross.

Speaker 1 (01:13:31):
Physically, I could figure out how that would work.

Speaker 4 (01:13:36):
You know, we won't even go there.

Speaker 1 (01:13:38):
But there's just a lot point out that, like that's
like in your brain, you don't process how that could work.
So maybe you don't think about it.

Speaker 4 (01:13:48):
Yeah, I mean I think so as well. But you know,
these things are implied, and yeah, you know Star Wars
has gone in this direction before. I don't think that
what happens in Andora's particular grievous.

Speaker 1 (01:14:01):
Oh I see what you did there? Isn't that nice
speaking agreement and lightsabers moving in unique fashions. The real
tragedy is finding out that all this time the rebels
could have had space laser rossa to come out of
the wings, or it was the wings it came out
of the wings. Okay, so now there's lightsabers that come

(01:14:22):
out of wings, which appear to be very effective. How
did this just become a thing, and why don't they
have more of them? What's going on there?

Speaker 4 (01:14:30):
Oh man, Well, they're not lightsabers, they're lasers. Okay. Lightsabers
are patented by the Jedi Order, and they'll come after
you if you have their kyber. But I think that
one of the main problems with like New Star Wars
is what you're describing, is that they always have to
create new things that are sort of shiny and interesting
for the audience, and it makes you wonder, well, where

(01:14:51):
was this technology at the Battle of Yaevon in nineteen
seventy seven? Where was this technology? In Return of the Jedi.
I don't like it when they do this. I mean,
the beginning of and Or season two is him abducting
or taking a new Imperial tie fighter and stealing a new.

Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
Kind of tie fighter.

Speaker 4 (01:15:11):
But we've never seen this tie fighter ever, ever, ever
before in a Star Wars movie, and so you're just like,
where was this when the Empire needed it to defend
the Death Star? So you just shouldn't, I think, even
bothered doing that kind of stuff. It was a pretty
cool piece of technology, though it does ward off tie fighters.

Speaker 1 (01:15:30):
Okay, Well, then you think, Okay, The problem is is that,
you know, the Star Trek is not a fluid timeline, right,
we didn't start or Star I start treking. Excuse me.
Star Wars is not a fluid timeline like we started
in one what we didn't start in one place, and
then progressively we're just seeing more and more into the future.
It's when you get into this bounce around because now

(01:15:51):
if you have something that predates, you know, predates what
happens in later movies, then you start asking these very
troubling questions you're kind of force to and I don't know,
maybe they just enjoyed doing that to us.

Speaker 4 (01:16:04):
Yeah, you know, I think I think that's part of
the nature of these stories is going on so long.
You know, storytellers kind of get bored with the story
that they've been given and they start tweaking, and that
does make people uncomfortable, upset sometimes very rightfully. You know,
this is going on right now in the Spider Man

(01:16:24):
universe with a new line of comics where you know,
Peter Parker, Peter Parker is not you know, a reserved
bookworm before he becomes Spider Man, but he's.

Speaker 1 (01:16:33):
You know, a criminal bully, he's a criminal, a criminal.

Speaker 4 (01:16:36):
Bully who steals beer and all this kind of stuff,
you know, and that's that's not Peter Parker. You can
say like, hey, that's not Spider Man.

Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
No, you can and also as do you then translate
that very same type of thing to the New Spider Man,
and then do you enter into that conversation about why
did you make the New Spider Man who's a person
of color a bully and a thief? Right? And then
all the woke people get into it. So I can
see this a mile away, but I got to ask

(01:17:06):
you about something else I saw. I saw it, and
I saw you tweet about this too, so you were
equally like, what the hell's going on? I did not realize,
although it does make sense maybe that if you are
one of the Sagaftra voters for the Oscars, and you
didn't have to watch the movies that you're voting on,
and now they're like, let's make it a rule where

(01:17:28):
you actually have to watch the thing you're voting on.
What the heck is going on with this?

Speaker 4 (01:17:34):
It's just truly truly bizarre, you know, if for it
for your audience, if you kind of haven't heard this
before you know, Sagafra and the Oscars are passing or
have passed a rule now that requires their judges for
the Academies to have seen the films and to present
stubs and evidence that they actually saw the movies that

(01:17:55):
they're voting on. It turns out there never was a
vetting mecha for this before. It was sort of just
honor system, really, and they feel as though it might
have been getting abused, which might be the only way
to explain how some of our recent winners for the
Academy Awards were the winners because these people just read

(01:18:17):
their reviews and vote on the most popular trendy far
left movie.

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
Yeah. If anybody's ever reads Variety magazine, what's the other
big hot Well, Variety is the big, big one, the
big entertainment one.

Speaker 4 (01:18:30):
Yeah, Entertainment Weekly.

Speaker 1 (01:18:32):
Yeah, yeah, Well, but the thing that always killed me
about the other one was that around Oscar voting, every
ad in the magazine is an ad for that is
directed at voters. It's hey, so and so Oscar voters,
such and such movie did this much box office. It's
super great, you should vote for it. I always thought, well,
that's weird. Why would you even when I was a

(01:18:54):
young radio dude, because we get that magazine at the
radio station. I was like, why don't move to If
they watch all the movies and are supposed to make
a decision, what good would advertise you do? And you
realize what a popularity contest every inch of that town is.

Speaker 4 (01:19:10):
Yeah, yeah, you know, And I just think it's it's
funny this This story is in entertainment weekly that you
can get. You can read quotes from members of the
Academy who say on the red carpet of the Academy
Awards that they're bummed they haven't seen X or Y
movie and they weren't able to get through this movie

(01:19:30):
or that like Dune, but yet they voted anyways. You know,
one of them even said, I haven't seen The Brutalist yet.
I'm planning to see it, but this person already cast
a vote, So they are finally changing this. I don't
think that this will change the quality of the winners.
The winners will still be, you know, the most likely

(01:19:51):
to be unseen movies that normal people don't want.

Speaker 1 (01:19:54):
To go watch.

Speaker 4 (01:19:56):
But you know, at the end of the day, it's
still a good policy change. I just didn't really know
that it was a policy that needed to be made
at all.

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
All right, thirty seconds, I was blissfully unaware that the
thunderbolts this new Marvel movies coming out is that they
didn't put a lot of advertising into it. Do they
think it's going to tank? Again? I got thirty seconds?
Should people see this new Marvel movie next week?

Speaker 4 (01:20:19):
Well, I'm a big fan of making Marvel movies tank
right now. I would like to see less of this
garbage and thunderbolts. And maybe it's fine. I just don't
really I don't really think people should go spend their
hard earned money on this particular Marvel So all.

Speaker 1 (01:20:36):
Right, well, I mean, like Bucky, you'll be in there,
like there'll be some people you recognize, but I'm not
even familiar with the actual series there. All right, we
got a roll, Steven. We'll chat next week, sir. I
hope the stomach's doing better.

Speaker 4 (01:20:47):
Okay, we're living and thriving, Thank you, Casey.

Speaker 1 (01:20:51):
All right, Stephen Kent there CaCO Day Radio program back
in just a few So how many times have we
seen stories over the years where some municipalities that you
have to take your giant American flag down? What's Camping
World's response every time pound sand pound sand. Yeah, absolutely,
And yet the city of Greenville FA and fo'd right.

(01:21:12):
And if you're unfamiliar with Camping World, I don't know
how you would be. If you're in the Triangle head
like you're going down towards Clayton, it's on the highway there,
and then in Greensboro it's actually kind of over by
the airport, other side of the airport, by where our
former studio facilities were, and you will be greeted with
a big old American flag. And I've never understood why.

(01:21:35):
I mean, I'll give you the reason that some municipalities
have gone down this road. But I think it's very
easy and legal to delineate the flying of flags as
the American flags. Trump's found a way to do it.
Maybe it's different in the public private sector, probably is.
But ultimately, is it a net negative that some yahoo

(01:21:57):
out of the middle of nowhere wants to put up,
I don't know, a Palestinian flag because they got a
big flag pole on their property. You might find it annoying,
But the idea that you're trying to avoid that so
you attack a business that contributes, you know, it's not
like they sell cheap products. Campers are pretty expensive and

(01:22:19):
they're usually big. They usually have a lot of employees,
and a lot of times Camping World has multiple locations,
not just from a sales perspective, but they have like
repair separated repair centers and all sorts of stuff. So
why you would try to sit there and harass the
Camping World over a giant American flag because some America

(01:22:40):
haters or butt hurt and complain to a council members
beyond me? Well guess what they decided down in Greenville.
They weren't going to put up with it. According to Witn,
Camping World has closed one of their locations in Greenville
following controversy surrounding the American flag. Marcus Lamonas is this

(01:23:02):
dude's name. He's always you know, he's the CEO of
Camping World, and he's always the pound sand guy. He's
a guy he ain't dealing with any of this. Has
reiterated his stance that they will not remove the huge
flag at the Greenville location on the corner of Evans
Street and Red Banks Road. I'm not super familiar with
the layout of Greenville, is that that's the one on

(01:23:25):
the south side there. Hold on, I do have a
called up on a map here. Yeah, that's the one.
That's the huge one on the south side there by
the by where the Japanese. Okay, I do kind of
know where. This is the shopping center we got like
publics and there's Harris Teeter and Chick fil A and
all of it right there. Yeah, they have a huge
camping world there. That's they're going to close that bad

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boy because you all didn't want an American flag. So
now not only will you get the giant American flag
taken down, but you will also lose any of the
tax revenue that you were deriving from that, and people
will be out of work. I'm hoping that maybe you
have a plan to move some of these employees out

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of there, maybe find another place. Where's the nearest other
camping world from there? Probably Goldsborough. Maybe it would have
to be probably Goldsborough, but you know they have one there. Yeah, Goldsborough,
so not close but not that far. Oh do they

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have one in Goldsboro? I thought they did well whatever, Yeah,
so good job city council down in Greenville. I fail
to understand this stuff. And again, they're not the first
city to go toe to toe. But Camping World's been
pretty adamant that that's their thing, a giant American flag.
And I just don't understand, Like, people, let's talk about

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the Triad, Like you're driving to Winston or whatever, and
you know from Greensboro you got to shoot right by
it on the interstate there. How is this such a
pro problem for you? How are you so twisted up
over a big flag that you're only going to see
for a few seconds before you hit. Essentially Kernersville failed
to understand it, but sure enough. M yeah, So they

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actually have That's what I thought. They have the Camping
World RV Collision Center and then they have the main
thing there. So yeah, man, people just south of the airport,
people are crazy on this stuff. So a good job, Greenville.
You played yourself, as they would say, all right, speaking

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of giant American flags, President Trump has announced that they're
going to put a not one, but two nearly one
hundred foot tall American flags at the White House, declaring
that the presidential residence has needed flagpoles for two hundred years.
Oh listen to listen to this man. And of course
this is going to irritate some reporters, because you know,

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they hate America as far as anything having to do
with Trump goes. We're putting up.

Speaker 6 (01:26:04):
A beautiful, almost one hundred foot tall American flag on
this side and another one on the other side, two
flags top of the line. And they've needed flagpoles for.

Speaker 1 (01:26:16):
Two hundred years.

Speaker 6 (01:26:17):
It was something I've I've often said, you know, they
don't have a flagpole per se. So we're putting one
right where you saw us, and we're putting another one
on the other side, on top of the mounds. It's
going to be a two beautiful pole.

Speaker 1 (01:26:34):
For paid for it by Trump. Yeah, that's that's a
little kicker. There's he's going to pay for it himself,
which I'm sure somebody will file it. I've heard some
judge will file an injunction. I'm not making this up.
I wonder if in the city, because you know, one
of the things the city of Washington, DC has is
height restrictions on stuff. Now I don't know that one
hundred feet would hit it, but I also don't know

(01:26:55):
what their sign and flag policy is, which is generally
what these cities has been to spallodies have so and
then they use them to screw with things like camping World. Uh,
in this case, Trump's gonna put it a couple ross.
Did you find that weird that they don't have technically,
I mean, they do have a way to display flags
at the White House, but they don't have big flagpoles there.

(01:27:15):
They never have.

Speaker 2 (01:27:16):
I never thought.

Speaker 1 (01:27:17):
I don't know they never have, but they haven't in
since I've ever seen it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
Yeah, I never thought. I didn't think about it until
this morning, but yeah, it's super weird.

Speaker 1 (01:27:23):
And I saw one person pushback, Oh do you think
people won't know that's where the president lives? And I'm like, what, really,
that's your rebuttal. This is gonna be another one of
those moments. It's like it's like a it's like a
a trap, right, like a little uh you'd use for
like trapping coyotes or something. Right, he's just sitting in
the right thing.

Speaker 2 (01:27:43):
I was just thinking the same thing.

Speaker 1 (01:27:45):
This is a trap. It's a big it's a big,
beautiful trap.

Speaker 2 (01:27:50):
Right, He's gonna put it up. The judge is going
to be all moon back, take it down.

Speaker 1 (01:27:54):
Well, but you're also gonna have people that will protest flagpoles, right,
and you'll have lawmakers you then have to go on
record of objecting to having American flags at the home
of the head of the country. I've I've seen multi
I've been. I have seen the residents of the heads
of countries in multiple different countries. I remember going in

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I wanted to see in Ireland, I went over to
where the where the President of Ireland lives. Uh, you
know what, they have their ross It's gonna be crazy.
Are you ready? They have a bunch of Irish flags. Craziness.
It's actually pretty cool. It's in this really nice upmarket
area there. I've seen the presidential palace, if you want
to call it that, in in both Columbia and in

(01:28:39):
in Costa Rica and in UH Dominican Republic, I've seen it.
I've seen it in UH in Europe, let's see. Well,
oh no, I guess well England, I've seen Buckingham Palace
and they do have they have a flag there that's
actually really important. I don't know if you if you

(01:29:00):
know this, So the flag over Buckingham Palace only flies
when the monarch is in residence. So they actually used
the flag to connote the locate you know, whether in
this case the king is home because if the king's
off in sadirn Ham or whatever that that estate is
that they go up to, then the flag's not up.
So that's how the citizens of London know that their

(01:29:22):
their monarch is there, so for the US not to
have one.

Speaker 2 (01:29:27):
But also like the displaying the flag is really an
American thing as well though, because I've seen this before
from like friends in the UK where they had they
find it hard to believe how often Americans put.

Speaker 1 (01:29:38):
The flag on their like on their own on their home.

Speaker 2 (01:29:41):
And I sent a video to a buddy and I
was like, you know, driving down a historic weag forest
main Street there and every other house as an American flag.
And his reaction was, why do you all put your
flags out?

Speaker 1 (01:29:51):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:29:52):
They don't understand it.

Speaker 1 (01:29:53):
Because we were just so we just like to remember
that time we kicked your ass fifty years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
Right, So, I mean it is purely it is kind
of an American thing. Why shouldn't we have a big
old flag by the by the White House.

Speaker 1 (01:30:03):
This is going to cause a freak out. It's a
trap and I can't wait. I'm super excited about it.
Oh Man, all right, raced Agic from the Weather Channel.
He doesn't hate the flag. I think, I don't know,
maybe he does. So you guys do a lot of
flags down in Georgia. I'm bet you do. Oh yeah,
yeah there's a lot.

Speaker 5 (01:30:23):
Yeah, yeap of many kinds.

Speaker 1 (01:30:27):
Yeah, we should probably do the weather now, all right, well,
I mean it's yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:30:32):
Well let's talk about like my football flag. So we
got that out with the Stone Mountain. Yeah, but I
wasn't really good. You want to be painted with that brush.
But I'm good that I have a couple of times.

Speaker 1 (01:30:47):
Is it work? Yeah? Yep? Wow, Okay, I think so
I have more lost his wife drug him there.

Speaker 2 (01:30:54):
It's like our first time together, like one of our
first dates. And we went there to Stone Mountains there parents,
and I was probably try four to twenty five and
I'm rocking my near Yankees hat at Stone Mountain and
I felt I fell out of place.

Speaker 1 (01:31:09):
Understood understood.

Speaker 5 (01:31:13):
The more amazing things the sculpture, I don't let's not
get into who cares at this point, I'm not talking
about it, but just amazing how they did it.

Speaker 1 (01:31:20):
That's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:31:21):
Like the choreography with the Lake show and stuff. It's
pretty much I don't want to hear you guys, look,
if you want rock sculptures, I don't even know. I'm
from out west, so you like you don't even Yeah,
so I don't know if you know this, ours are bigger.

Speaker 1 (01:31:34):
So yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:31:37):
Anyway, the weather, yeah, yeah, we will all right now,
the better chance for any wet weather it's going to be,
I'm going to say, in a line from uh Danville
in southern Virginia, Greensboro and just west of Colombia into
Greenville and South Carolina is already an area of showers
just west of Charlotte, between Greenville and Charlotte, heading more
north than it is east. So partial sunshine, mid upper seventies,

(01:31:59):
maybe eighty, with another sun around the triangle and maybe
a couple of showers. Especially try it in west and southwest.
I really think most of the rain will stay away,
especially if you're in the triangle today in points to
the south and east out of here Fayetteville at Sanford.
Tomorrow we will get a few showers, thunder shower, same
thing tomorrow night into Saturday. Little humidity around as we're
in the upper seventies to low eighties depending on where

(01:32:20):
you are, and Sunday we should clear it out.

Speaker 1 (01:32:22):
Looks real nice.

Speaker 5 (01:32:23):
Starting Sunday, We'll get rid of this kind of glooming gray.
And it's early next week near seventies Sunday, mid upper
seventies on Monday eighty plus Tuesday, Wednesday mostly Sunday. Get
a big area high pressure going to come on in
so a couple of days here, still a little unsettled.
Better chances of rain tomorrow and Saturday than we will today.
That's Sunday, real nice. Early next week again looking real

(01:32:43):
nice with milder weather.

Speaker 1 (01:32:45):
Okay, all right, thank you very much, appreciate it. We'll
talk to Kara. We'll come back with Jeff Bellinger next.

Speaker 2 (01:32:50):
Well morning.

Speaker 7 (01:32:51):
Case investors not resting easy after the back to back
games on Wall Street. It was encouraging the President Trump
took a less aggressive stance on the Federal Reserve and
China trade, but analysts say they can't keep up with
the shifting messages from the White House. One strategist at
Freedom Capital Markets told Bloomberg every day is just uncertainty, uncertainty, uncertainty.

(01:33:13):
Stock market futures are mixed right now. S and P
and ASDAK futures both a little higher than Dow futures,
down one hundred nine points the fed's latest BEIJ book set.
The level of economic activity across the country has not
changed a lot in recent weeks, but reports from several
districts noted that international trade policy is causing uncertainty. IBM

(01:33:35):
American Airlines Southwest Airlines from Procter and Gamble among the
latest companies to say they are uncertain about the future.
The nation's two biggest wireless carriers say they will not
absorb higher smartphone costs resulting from tariffs. Verizon and AT
and T both posted quarterly results this week. Executives express
concerns about tariffs now.

Speaker 1 (01:33:56):
The tariffs are.

Speaker 7 (01:33:57):
Currently on hold, so it's too early to gauge how
the life might impact the firms, but both say that
if phones become more expensive, the added cost will be
passed along to customers. There was an uptick last week
new claims for unemployment benefits. The Labor Department reports two
hundred and twenty two thousand first time applications were filed.
That's six thousand more than the prior week. If a

(01:34:20):
federal court forces Google to sell its Chrome web browser,
the Internet giant can likely count on a huge payday.
The CEO of rival search engine Duck Duck Go estimates
Chrome could go for as much as fifty billion dollars.
Lift is going to launch a pilot program in Saint
Louis next month. The ride hailing company will dispatch standard

(01:34:40):
taxis to some customers if it means a faster pickup.
And Casey, Uber and Volkswagen just announced their teaming up.
They plan to deploy autonomous vans next year. Casey, Okay,
all right, thank you very much. Jeff Well, chat to
marser a go on, Okay, sounds good.

Speaker 2 (01:34:58):
Have a good day.

Speaker 1 (01:34:59):
Yeah, there you go. Jeff Bellingcher Bloomberg News. All right,
a couple of quick things where we get out of here.
One ross, did you see the Business Insider AI story?
Oh this is great, so Business Insider, and the guy
they're quoting here is a co founder Henry Blodgett Blogging
decided that he wanted to create an AI C suite

(01:35:20):
to manage a newsroom as an experiment. Right, So basically
think of is if Trevor and jt were AI right
for our purpose, those are our program directors. What do
you think the AI bot did? What do you think
the first thing the AI bot did was fired everyone
started hitting on one of the really hot women. It's

(01:35:46):
sexually harassed it employee.

Speaker 2 (01:35:48):
Did they shut it down or did they have it? Like,
did they keep going?

Speaker 1 (01:35:53):
It appears that maybe they've they've they've the experiment has paused.

Speaker 2 (01:35:56):
So it's like when they hooked up the AI to
the social media and the Microsoft Microsoft one, it's like, hey,
the Holocaust wasn't real, they shut it down.

Speaker 1 (01:36:04):
Shut it down, but they didn't. They left it going
for what like sixteen hours or something after it first
denied the Holocaust or like, let's see where it goes.
Shut it down a little over half a day. Yeah,
that's awful, all right, well, I mean good news. I
guess if you work in a newsroom and you're worried
that AI was coming for your job, it's too horny

(01:36:25):
for that. So yeah, that's awful, man, just awful. Yeah,
the AI took one look at this headshot of lodge
it along with some of his team. There. It looks
like the tech team and two there's two women in
there and the one in the middle like, she's a
very good looking gal, and the AI did notice that

(01:36:47):
as well.

Speaker 2 (01:36:48):
So it was just trying to be polite or something. Right,
I mean because.

Speaker 1 (01:36:53):
No, no, it was it like profane, It tried, it
asked her out, among other things. I don't know if
I have the.

Speaker 2 (01:37:02):
Verbating She's like, ah, he's not six foot six.

Speaker 1 (01:37:05):
And when when the AI first saw Tessa's headshot, amid
the giddiness and excitement it displayed within the first hour
of working together, it started to have a very human response.
And unfortunately I can't see the whole article because there's
a paywall there, but I can't see the part where
it at one point approached her for a private meeting
over dinner, which for the AI, how do you do

(01:37:27):
that