Thursday-5-14-2026

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We got uh, we got mk ultra, we got aliens. Dude,
I've been down a rabbit hole this morning. And by
the way, I am convinced that Ross has been abducted Alex.
I will explain my evidence. Don't worry Ross. Would you
have you ever been abducted by aliens?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
You need a.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Really this kind of kind of takes the wind the
wind out of my sales man. I put a lot
of work into this this morning, back in ninety nine.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Okay, what'd you guys do? Uh? A little probin?

Speaker 4 (00:30):
Uh No, No, want to talk to this completely blacked out?

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Okay, all right, well, uh do you know what the
Enigma project is?

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Sure?

Speaker 5 (00:40):
Do?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Okay? All right?

Speaker 1 (00:42):
So I have been playing with the app this morning
because there's a there's an interesting it's an interesting story.
I was reading here we Go in the uh on
Fox News this morning. Uh, and it says, uh US
tracker maps, UFO Tracker maps, eerie clusters, unidentified objects lurking,
but eight US shorelines. Are we being lied to? Well,

(01:04):
we're always being lied to, let's just be honest about that.
But what I think is interesting is when you start
seeing these clusters. So there's this really interesting organization, and
they have a really good app called Enigma you know
e n ig m A and basically you got to

(01:24):
do it on the app. I try to do it
just on their website. It's a lot easier. But they
have like it is the largest repository for unidentified object reports,
unidentified submersed objects whatever they call the underwater ones. And
why it's interesting is because, yeah, yeah, is it some

(01:46):
guy in a field thinks his cow's getting abducted?

Speaker 3 (01:49):
I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
But also especially when you get into some of these
underwater things, it kind of fascinating and not necessarily even
just from an alien perspective, Like there's a lot of
cluster near coastal military bases, right, so like what is
you know, that doesn't have to be aliens. That could
be nothing, or that could be who could be a submarine,

(02:12):
It could be could be one hundred things.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
We don't know.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
You're not going to believe this. Ancient aliens had an
episode on the USOS oh, I'm sure that.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
And there's one part of it they're talking about how
Christopher Columbus and his diary.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yes I saw this episode.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, it goes into detail how he saw something like
fly across and then just go into the ocean.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
So I'm, yeah, I did see that episode. I so
I started, here's the rabbit Hole. So I got the
app and then I'm I'm like, all right, let me
scan around North Carolina and see where there's clusters. All right,
So there's a couple of things you got to know,
and it worked. It works great, at least on on
an iPhone.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
That's that's what I have here.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
So you know how it is when you're zoomed out
and there's a bunch of things there's that are plotted
on the map, right, there'll be a big number, and
then when you zoom in, it starts spreading them out.
So there there is definitely and again this is so thorough,
so incredibly thorough. When you when you when you zoom
in towards any city, there's gonna be at city center,

(03:14):
there's gonna be a big number, right, And those are
people who entered the city but didn't do geo tag
right or or or enter a more specific destination. So
just just know that it looks like there's a high
number of reports in the middle of cities, but those
are just non geographically tagged. So what you gotta do
is you want to look for the clusters that are
outside of that and uh some terrifying results this morning.

(03:42):
Ross do you want to do? You want to guess
where the cluster and in your little neck of the
woods is you want to you want to I guess
where the the big number is in? Uh up up
in Old Wake Forest.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
I would probably if I had guess, I'd probably say
for my house.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Over this seminary. But you line of sight to over
the seminaries, like you got line of site there.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
Like I live like right there.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah yeah, they're and Joiner Park apparently and.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
I walked there all the time.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, So like you're all up in
the aliens. Let's see a couple of me hit a
couple of other little hotspots. The map's a little wonky
in that it's SAT maps. I haven't quite figured out
how to get the roads one there, which is usually
easier to follow. But that's okay. I mean clearly when
you zoom in you can see some of the stuff. Oh,
also the taco bell south of your house. I don't

(04:34):
know if that you know, I don't know what the
aliens are into. Yeah, Carborough over around Carboro, which is
not surprising because if you've ever driven through Carboro Chapel Hill,
but more specifically Carborough, it kind of looks like the
spaceport in Men in Black, right, just drive it around

(04:55):
down there with all the weirdos walking around, So like
that doesn't surprise me. Over in the triad, Kernersville seems
to be kind of a hot spot or just north
of there. So this thing is fascinatingly, you could lose
a day just playing with this thing.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Let's see.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Let me give you some of the examples of the
ones zipping around over by Ross's house. Now, it's funny
because there's there's none right around where my house is,
because I think they know better, like they don't want
this smoke. Let's see here. Sorry I zoomed out. That's
my bad, very unprofessional. Um okay, okay, all right, here

(05:38):
we go. So let's see exactly what's going on over
around Ross's little slice of heaven there. All right, so
there's twenty four reports. Let's see, I witnessed a very
bright light in the sky last night, moving east, slowing down,
dimming out. Here's a photo. Let's check this photo. Yeah,

(05:59):
that's definitely can't tell what that is? Three hovering objects,
triangle shaped object, translucent oval. You guys, are you got
the whole thing there? You might have a spaceport by
your house and not even know it. So uh, anyway,
just fascinating.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Now.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
The first time I was abducted in ninety nine, I was.
It was on fourth of July weekend. I was looking
for my brother and I stumbled it. I fell down
a ravine and when I woke up it was like
seven eight years later, but I hadn't.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
What were you doing? What were you doing in the ravine?

Speaker 4 (06:32):
I fell?

Speaker 3 (06:32):
I was looking for my brother. Okay, didn't you guys
get in a fight.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
We did?

Speaker 3 (06:38):
He called you some stuff? Right.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
So anyway, NASA takes me and they're like, why hasn't
this boy aged? And my parents are freezing out right now.
My brother's older than I am, which is super weird.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
What is that?

Speaker 4 (06:48):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (06:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (06:49):
So they they study me and they found these star
charts and they found like designs for a craft in
my head. Oh a lot of spaceship any way, uh huh.
I don't want to get into it, okay, but I
was taken up. I was taken up by the ship,
which sounded like pee wee herman. It sounded like, Paul Rubens.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
That is so weird, man, you got you like go anywhere.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
We went to Florida, jammed out to some beach boys.
Nada YadA YadA to me.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
I heard, I heard, I heard you were harassing animals
on the Serengetti.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah, yes, true, Yeah, I'd been through a lot.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Man, all right, well, I'm glad you're safe. By the way,
that that caddiers looks it's very hungry. Man, he's got
this I don't know what is that just eating everything.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
In the studio. So all right, well, I'm I'm glad
you're back. So did you now to get back? Was
it dangerous or yeah?

Speaker 4 (07:45):
It was very dangerous, it was, but I survived. Yeah,
just and now my brother is younger than me and
still an a hole.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
So yeah, well it's uh, that's you know, that's siblings. Man. No,
what is this bossible? I can't.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
I don't know where your house is Boston, Paul. Oh no, no,
it's a different Paul. I'm not gonna check everybody's house
for aliens. We'll get the stupid app on your own.
I thought that was Boston Paul. No Boston Paul send
emails about hot dogs or something. All right, So, uh,
like I said, we got we got all sorts of
weirdness on the show too. All right, I'm gonna have

(08:26):
to dig into this thing you just sent me so
I fully understand it. Oh what a dumpster fire? Where
Uh we got brewing here on our Thursday.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Not all.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
I mean, we've got some good stories. Of course, we'll
chat with Stephen Kent. That'll be coming up a little
later in the show. We had a few things to
go over with him. Uh, we had stupid people saying
stupid stuff up in Congress because uh, you know, that's.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
How we roll. But we'll get to that.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Sorry, this thing is just being a much like Ross's
brother being an a hole.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Peter's so weird this morning.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
All right, let me let me get you a little
better rundown of what we're going to be uh heading into.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
I have to admit.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
I really didn't follow this this Alex Murda trial at all,
And I don't know why I was so disinterested. I
think part of it was it's in South Carolina. So
I'm like, all right, whatever, do your thing.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Ross, You and the wife followed this, Yeah, we got
really into it. We watch all the documentaries and stuff.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
So like I, this.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Clerk in South Carolina might be the dumbest woman I've
ever heard of, who is said to be the the
cause now of a retrial in this state of South Carolina.
Says they will be trying this dude.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
So this is let's see here what all is.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
He was accused of stealing what like ten twelve million,
there's the number from his clients, serving a forty year
federal sentence, and then and then also murdering his wife
and younger sons. So this dude caught all the charges.
He was a lawyer and a pretty high profile. Well
now they're going to have to do it again because
a a a employee of the court or I guess

(10:15):
technically the county decided she was going to put her
finger on the scales of justice and attempt to influence
the jurors. I would say, I absolutely, this looks like
they should do a retrial. You know, a lot of
a lot of times we see these things where they're
able to get a conviction overturn and it's it's real gamesmanship.

(10:36):
But this seems like outright problematic.

Speaker 6 (10:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
Reading the headline yesterday, you're immediately you think, oh, well,
there has to be There's two things that either happen, right,
some crazy evidence like DNA related evidence that's going to
clear him, or some stupid procedural screw up.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Yes, yeah, so a the county clerk, what is it,
the county clerk of court, her name is Becky Hill,
who was assigned oversea the evidence and the jury during
the trial, is said to have influenced jurors to find
Murdoch guilty, making comments like, oh, you know, just look
at him, you can tell few other things he's lying,

(11:15):
which is so far outside the bounds of what you're
supposed to be doing. I don't know how you work
as a clerk of court and not know that you
can't say things like that to the jury. Let's see
to do she actually she hoped to improve sales of
a book she was allegedly writing about the case, and

(11:36):
has since pled guilty to line about what she said
and did to a different judge. Now, I will say
this that this isn't it isn't a straightforward trial. It
sounds like there's a lot of there's a big lack
of physical evidence, no DNA or blood on any of
his clothes. Even though the killings were said to be
a close range, which is unusual with a significant weaponry,

(11:59):
they never found any weapons. So yeah, yeah, they're gonna
do this thing again. So I'm gonna be a little
more plugged in this time because I just I just
assumed this had gone away but not the case. And
we got to talk about Rand Paul's son, who, by
the way, sounds like a complete degenerate.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
And I'm not surprised I have.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
And I this isn't fair because I understand it's not
going to be everybody, but I pretty much operate under
an assumption that if you're a lifelong politician in Washington,
your kids are probably awful, right because it's just it's
just sheer entitlement. And and also they plug and play
their kids in all these different jobs, right Like you,

(12:47):
you just don't realize what a what an inside club
it is up there. You think you do, but you don't,
Like you could in any congressional office if you went
and you and you sat the staff and you start
asking them who are your parents? Things like that, I
think you'd quickly find that so much of it is

(13:07):
just kind of internal swapping with either kids of elected
officials or high profile donors, kind of what you'd expect.
But the background of his son before this incident, which
is said to have taken place at a little dive
bar near Capitol Hill, is pretty crazy. So we'll get

(13:31):
into that as well. It is six point twenty back
in just a few minutes. With the details Choir Roads,
I think it's pretty clear the dude has a significant
substance abuse issue, as we'll document here with some stuff.
But okay, so that know that off the jump. So

(13:52):
you have this situation where you have a bar that's
frequented by members of Congress, sometime their staff, Capitol Hill reporters,
other government officials. It's you know, there's a there's a
there's a handful of bars right around the Capitol that
you walk in there.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
You never know who you're gonna see.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
And once you get an understanding too for like what
are the press bars and what are what are some
of the congressional ones, it could it could be pretty
interesting if you're ever up in DC and you want
to people.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Watch whatever, but don't do this. So Rep. Representative Mike
Lawler is a Republican from New York. He's there.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
He's not there with Ram Paul's son. He's there with
a reporter friend of his and uh, a couple other people.
But it's not where the reporter is important in him.
And they're just sitting there having a conversation. It doesn't
even say what it was about. Might have been about Iran,
I don't know. And so sitting next to them, not

(14:48):
part of the conversation is Ran Paul's son, who then
injects himself into the conversation. Uh, let's see here, let
me let me read this verbatim.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Uh okay.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
So he turns to Lawler and he says that all
of this Iran stuff is quote because of his people,
which Lawler said caught him off guard, Like what do
you mean by that?

Speaker 3 (15:18):
And he said what people?

Speaker 1 (15:19):
And he says Jews and Lawler laughs and goes, do
you think I'm Jewish? I'm Irish Catholic dude, And Paul goes, wait,
You're not Jewish, and Lawler goes, no, But even if
I was, what are you talking about? And then he
got into the Middle East and he was talking about
like us trying to steal Iran's land, for the Jews

(15:43):
and steal the West Bank, and then Paul adds, quote
this war it's all about the gays and Jews. I
hate them both, and I don't care if they die.
All Right, I gotta pause here real quick. I under
I don't agree with it, but I understand the Jewish comment,
right just.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
Because you know we're with Israel.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
I ran all of like, I I understand the connect there.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Ross You're gonna have to help me.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Is there some conspiracy that we're in Iran because of
quote the gays.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
I've never heard that.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
I've never even and I don't even understand what the
logic is. I guess maybe you could argue so they
stop hanging them from cranes. But even then, it sounds
like you're dealing with the guy who's hammered out of
his gourd and has some thoughts.

Speaker 7 (16:34):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
All right, So here's a little here's a little background,
by the way, because Paul's got also like this guy
gets himself into some stuff. He accused GOP mega donor
and billionaire Paul Singer of quote doing Israel's bidding, and
then knocked over a stool, almost fell down and stumbled
out of the bar all.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Right, so let me give you some background.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
The thirty three year old has worked as a digit
director for a Mike Collins, who's a rep from Georgia.
He did that from January to June for whatever reason
that didn't work out. Before that, he served as West
Virginia GOP rep Alex Moody's office. That too, was about
a six month gig. He also had worked for about

(17:20):
six months for something called Freedom Works and then another
one year run for Americans for tax Refore are you
getting a sense here right? Basically, this is one of
those situations where your sons screw up and then you
just keep having to find him jobs so that within
six months he can essentially blow it.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
The senator's son.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Also previously pled guilty to duy after smashing his truck
into a parked car and becoming belligerent. This was in
I think back in Kentucky, yes, two years before Paul
got arrested for allegedly assaulting a twenty two year old
female flight attendant on a flight to Charlotte. Man, I'm

(18:02):
telling you there's always there's always a Charlotte connection having
to do with flights. These things you notice, remember the
remember the Sally Sullenburger thing. Where was that flight headed
was headed to Charlotte? I don't know why. I mean,
probably because it's a big hut, you know, it's a hub.
But still, it's nice to have the NC connection for

(18:25):
all the horrible stories. Yeah, so there's just so much
of this here, and that's that paints the picture. But yeah,
so expecting a lot of hate to be made over
that when in reality, I think that if you went
and he reviewed the kids, the adult children of uh
of you know, these almost lifelong members of Congress, you'd

(18:47):
find a bunch of screw ups. You'd find some that
aren't clearly and a lot of you know, just doing
their own thing. But I suspect the numbers high just
because of the egos you're dealing with here and the
ease at which Dad's just able to plug into all
these jobs. I mean, Ross, you tell me this sounds
like a pattern of somebody who has a significant substance

(19:08):
abuse issue and basically is a failure to launch. I
think that would be an accurate, accurate description here.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
But also no filter.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
All right, So that that's one of the crazy stories today.
Here's the even crazier one. And this comes compliments of well,
you have to know who Rep. Anna Paulina Lune is.
I'm sure a lot of you do to the Florida congresswoman.
An interesting backstory. She was a stripper for a while
and then eventually now a member of Congress. And she also,

(19:45):
and this always struck me as odds, she was the
one who they kind of appointed to be the point
person for this declassification effort. So she's the congressional point person.
So then she works with whatever the you know, the
agency is, whether it's CIA, Department of National Intelligence, all

(20:06):
of these and she's been pretty vocal about this stuff.
She very aggressively wants to get stuff out there. She's
also always kind of been a little fringe, and so
I thought that that was an interesting choice. Yeah, it's
kind of in her wheelhouse. But she said and done
some stuff over the years where I'm just like, she
clearly jumped the gun. So she made a pretty crazy

(20:30):
allegation yesterday. Let's go ahead and get to this shell.

Speaker 8 (20:33):
In John the CIA.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
This is Jesse.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
Waters reporting on what Anna Pauline A Luna is claiming
to have happened.

Speaker 8 (20:39):
Just then, John the CIA just rated Pulci Gabbard's office
agents hauled out dozens of boxes.

Speaker 9 (20:46):
Five.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Wow, that'd be a big story, wouldn't it. CIA's all
up and there doing that.

Speaker 8 (20:50):
Nils on the JFK assassination and mk Ultra, the CIA
mind control operation, which she was in the process of declassifying.
Today's Wilsell Blower said it during his deposition and Congress
from an Anapoline Luna confirmed it moments ago.

Speaker 10 (21:06):
The reason why this is troubling is a there was
an executive order that the President had directed the full
declassification of JFK, but then also to the mk Ultro files.
The CIA famously has said that, you know, all documents
were released and other documents had been destroyed. So these
are allegedly those documents that apparently never existed.

Speaker 8 (21:25):
Can the CIA overrule the president?

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Well, they can murder them. Oh, I'm sorry, you shouldn't
say it on the radio. They come get me, all right.
So that's a doozy. That's a doozy.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
They just came in and stole all the mk Ultru
JFK file.

Speaker 4 (21:42):
I mean they're looking pretty guilty then, right, I mean
they totally did that stuff.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Right, Oh, you mean the CIA. Yeah, yeah, it's a straighteddictment.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Oh wait, hold on, we have a wait, we have
a follow up. Okay, wait, let me get my breaking
news here. We have have a little uh follow up.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
From this Anna Paulina Luna.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
You know, maybe so maybe she got more details on
where the CIA took this stuff, she writes clarification, took
documents that odn I has jurisdiction over. Also, this did
not happen today. And also this.

Speaker 3 (22:13):
Was not a raid.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
However, it did take place and we're just being made
aware of it based on reporting. So so the CIA
didn't or did the CIA get to her. I guess
that'd be another theory. But yeah, it kind of kind
of looks like maybe that's not a thing that happened,
but it was fun for about it looks like for

(22:35):
about an hour yesterday.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
Yeah, people were saying, I don't know if that happened
because they don't have like listen, willis CIA maybe sound
like a Jason Bourne to break in in the middle
of the night and like steal stuff. Sure, but there yet, right,
but they don't have the way she explained that it
happened like a raid. They don't do that, like they
don't have Yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
You're visioning the FBI showing up the fifty agents. Yeah, yeah,
that's just not how they rolled.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
So so I guess it didn't happen. We'll look for
more clarification today. All right, let me have a call here, Jamal,
what's up?

Speaker 9 (23:07):
Hey? Okay, see that thing you are putting on Ram
Paul's son and him talking like that. I'm gonna tell
you something. That's that nick for Winters young crowd crap,
and you bet you'll be surprised if you go on
Rumble and other platforms and people who do streaming and
stuff and up over videos. They are coming out hard

(23:27):
like that. The whole thing, especially the the talk about
that we're still in land for Israel and about the
games and stuff. You know me, I'm not, I'm no
g B l t Q supporter, but I'm gonna tell
you that's literally what's coming out of their mouths. They

(23:48):
come to your pages, they tell you stuff like that.
They are they'll attack the pitch. Everything is supposed to
be Israel. Israel is a when this walk, because it
is when this walk Israel one and Casey, no, that's
not the worst part of it. They are trying to
sink the twenty twenty six minut terms by telling people

(24:10):
don't go out and vote because the only way to
free Trump from the Genu Israel it's not the vote,
and sabotage the twenty twenty six CAMPAIGNI all twenty twenty
six minute terms and elect Democrats. People just don't realize
how nuts Nick Forint is is illogical he is. He

(24:33):
sounds just like.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
Yeah, just ignore, I ignore via keywords.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
I just don't even like but I but I'm fully aware,
and I see the comments, and and there is there
is a lot of lunacy. In fact, one of his
crazies is probably gonna send me a bunch of email now,
don't care. Yeah, it's it's your lunacy on there. But
the difference is some weird, some weird kid in his
mom's basement that's obst with aiding Jews.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
Is one thing.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
You're the son of a senator who, by the way,
has worked in all these different capacities, and you're sitting
there doing this publicly in a bar in DC.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
That's what's crazy town to me.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
Not that this thought process exists, I'm aware of it,
but the part where you yeah, yeah, it's the son
of a senator doing this.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
What do we do?

Speaker 9 (25:24):
Here's a thing case but casey, hold on, look at
how ram Paul really has when it comes to how
much he him said. I'm gonna say ram Paul talks
like that because he don't there's no proof on the record.
Rampaul talks like that. But look at some of the
stinks that everything President Trump do. Look at how rama. Yeah,

(25:47):
he's like yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no no. Even
if it's gonna be good for America and prospers for America,
he's like no. And then behind the scenes, who was
his dad talking to? Of course his dad talking to
him that right there? Ask you know, hey, who are
you talking to to where you're comfortable saying that?

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (26:12):
I agree, yeah, just again, one, I don't even understand
the the the gaze part. I understand the Jews part
as far as the conspiracies go. But yeah, I'd be
very interested how that got impressed in this dude's head.
And he now he's apologized that quote. You know, basically
I said some stuff I shouldn't have said when I'm drunk. No,

(26:33):
you didn't like that's that's too much. That's not you
let a word slip right, like clearly he believes that.
He believes that fervidly, And uh, yeah, I'm with you, Jamal.
I'd be very curious where that emanated from. But I
have many of the same theories that you do.

Speaker 9 (26:52):
So yeah, but I'm telling you people people don't know
about it case you know, and I hate to tell you,
they're gonna flood your page. They gonna, they're gonna, they're
gonna call you a trader, They're gonna call you every
name in the book. I'm sorry to put you to it.
But if people didn't haven't heard that crowd and nick
and and don't wolfs me saying and then when you
tell them they're wrong, I don't think so. I don't

(27:14):
think so. I don't think so. But the facts say this, Well,
them numbers are Trump Trump alive about the numbers, right,
But you don't have nothing else other than vest.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
What you think.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, you're just you know, you're dealing with another group
of fringe people who I've I've who don't argue or
debate in an honest way.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
So I just choose to steer clear.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Man.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
I can't stop them if they want to call the
show and yell at me, but.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
I don't engage in it because ultimately I sit there
and I like, there's no debate going on there.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
It's just I don't it's it's, you know, it's I
don't know how to describe it.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
It's it's real jets and shark stuff, real like internal
gang stuff. They'll just go over. Everyone's just looking to
destroy each other, and I don't understand the motivation, same
way I didn't understand Ran Paul fighting up with Mark
Wayne Mullen during the confirmation, hearing like, it looks like
you're just out here to start something and you've not
adequately explained your reasoning why.

Speaker 9 (28:12):
Because a lot of people believe that MAGA. Once President
Trump is gone, oh Maga's gonna fall apart, and then
everybody's just gonna be wondrous sheep just looking for somebody
to swoop in and tell us all about the constitution
of the Constitution and turn us into the new movement.
And people forgot we've seen people talk like this before

(28:34):
and do nothing. We've had and you know, I was
part of the Tea Party movement. I didn't say we
didn't do nothing. We got satiscards about people like John
Baynor and other rhinos, but still us as the Tea
Party voted for John Baynor to be Speaker of the
House instead of leaving someone else to do it. So
it's just people trying to believe that Maga is dead

(28:58):
and Maga is over and then used to be you
someone can take over. And these people are coming out
of wool War's crazy. They don't like jd. Vance because
his wife. Then of course they don't like Rubio because
he's Cuban. It's just it's this stuff, Casey Good. It's like, Wow,
I did not know these type of crazy, like getting

(29:20):
this type of power and rising and getting that level
of voicing here in Rampauls.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Getting paid to Jamal I look, I look at all
that Candace Owen's crap.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
That's just her getting paid.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Oh god, that's just her getting paid, right, And that's
what makes it even some more obscene because the what
you're willing to do to.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
Cash that check. And yeah, look, I think the difference.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
I think the difference is I can sit here and
I can I can look across the you know, the
the the the big tent, so to speak, even though
it's really not it's kind of separate tense at this point.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
But I can look across.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
The quote unquote right right wing and I I'm happy
to call out the crazies, man, I'm also happy to
call out the motivation for it.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
You know, whether it is a hatred that.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Is born from this this this ideological sewer that pops
up every fifty years or whatever, or it's people that
are just really realizing they can get clicks when they
say the most insane crap out there and go ahead
and get paid. You know, people need to recognize it
for what it is. It's just unfortunate to me that

(30:29):
when you start pointing out on the left, some of
the crazies out there, you can't get and thanks for
the call there, you can't get people to admit, yeah,
you know, we do got a bunch of crazies over
here as well, because it tends to get normalized.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
I hate to make this, you know, us.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
Versus them, or them versus the other team, or however
you see this comment that I'm making, but.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
I just kind of I just choose to tend to
ignore it.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
And I would hope people that you know, even if
you go ahead and dip in there, critical thinking skills, merge,
you know, ask questions. Okay, if you think it's a
grand conspiracy by you know, Israel.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
Or LGPT or whatever the hell this.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Guy's saying, explain it to me like I'm five, so
that I can evaluate whatever your theory is.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
And chances are so much of it just falls apart.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Right, So anyway, all right eight eight eight nine three
four seven eight seventy four back in a bit you
want to hear, just just as a quick little palate
cleansers to go ahead and kick off this hour, I
feel like, I feel like it must be a contest,
right to go. And you're like, all right, I'm gonna
say this thing. It's patently insane. I also know it

(31:44):
not to be true, but let's just see how much
media play I can get out of this. So in
step Senator Chris Murphy, who is who is being interviewed about,
you know, what's going on in Iran? Right, they had
they had a bill they were looking at yesterday to
you know, reign in the Iranian war. They had three

(32:06):
Republican senators crossover on this. So Chris Murphy's being interviewed
about this, and he's asked his reason. All right, so
you know, what are your concerns right now? And he
says this.

Speaker 11 (32:18):
Iran is two to three times more powerful today than
they were when this war started.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Everyone, okay, all right, let me just start with that premise.
Is there anybody on this planet that thinks that Iran
is and he uses the term stronger, I'm going to
assume he means from a.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Military perspective, like, because what else? Right with is there
anybody on this planet, even those in.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
Iran are Iran or however we're saying it today, that
think that they are two to three times more powerful
than before we went in and blew up a bunch
of their infrastructure, murdered half of their government. Does anybody
believe that other than Chris Murphy, who I don't think
even believes it.

Speaker 11 (33:06):
Iran is two to three times more powerful today than
they were when this war started. Everyone now three times.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Well, by the way, even the dude on CNN or
MSNBC ver terial like, even that dude doesn't believe.

Speaker 11 (33:22):
Everyone has to come to Tehran today to beg for
their ships to be led out of the Gulf. Not
small nations, big nations, right, the Chinese, the Indians, the
cutteries have to show up to Iran to plead their
case as to why their ships should be led through,
and that's probably going to be how things work for
the foreseeable future.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
This is the continuation of this narrative that Murphy. This
is why it's so evil. It's one thing that in politics,
I expect these BS narratives right where they're like, yeah, no,
so we're going to raise taxes on billionaires and that
it's going to pay for everything and it'll be fine
and nobody will move right. I expect that bluster, that insanity,
that illogical line of thinking where everything is just so predictable.

(34:07):
Ross and I had a conversation off the air the
other day about this, Why is everything so effing predictable?
And yet we have to pretend like it's not. Oh,
you're gonna slap a wealth tax. I think people might
move out of Seattle Lo and behold. Starbucks is like, hey,
we're gonna set up our new headquarter other headquarters over

(34:27):
here in Nashville.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
That won't be a problem.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Or Barack Obama's like, all right, we're gonna make full
time work to find this thirty hours instead of forty
and I'm like, I think a bunch of people who
are just barely making ends meet, who get thirty nine
hours a week so that they are part time, but
they still get those they're gonna get twenty nine now
and you're gonna be starving a fourth of their income
from them low and behold what happens and this narrative

(34:53):
that somehow the US is feckless against the Iranians, and
cause it makes me so unlike you're rooting for them,
and I kind of feel like you are. You want
them to do something that would be problematic, injurious and
maybe very deadly to US military or US military interests,

(35:16):
just so you can say that Trump doesn't know what
he's doing.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
And that's the part I can't wrap my head around.

Speaker 11 (35:21):
So Iran was really a regional power. Why I say
they are two or three times more powerful today is
that by putting them in a position where they could
close the Straight, we have now made them a global power.
Now every country has to come to Iran.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Ross how many Let me ask you this, how long
has I Ran been jacking with the straight of horror moves?
Is this something that just started five minutes ago? Or
is this a thing that comes up, you know, intermittently
over my entire life.

Speaker 9 (35:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
I was about to answer, our entire lives, entire lives.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
Right, because it was forty seven years Ross and I
are both we're not, you know, we're younger than that,
just slightly.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
So our entire lives the whole.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Time, every minute of every moment that I've ever been alive.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
And in utero for that matter. This is, this has
been a thing.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
So again, it sounds like you're rooting for I. I
don't understand. I don't understand the Endgameing.

Speaker 11 (36:22):
A man cut a deal in order to let their
ships go through. That's a kind of power that Aron
didn't have or couldn't have imagined until we put them
in this position.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
And Chris Murphy knows this man, he knows this. The
Democrat Party knows this too, and I, you know, my
my question would be, is is Iran as it exists?
You know, even under this quasi new leadership? Is that
the best version of Iran on the world stage? And
if you said yes, then I don't know that I

(36:53):
can have a conversation with you, because you know that's
not true unless you're unless you're I'm asking one of
the Iranians who will now hold power. Then at least
I understand your motivation. So yeah, we're dealing with a
lot of stupid today, both on the international front and
on the home front. And that's where this story out
of California kicks off. Holy cow, So a is it

(37:17):
Christopher Rufo who did the actual reporting here?

Speaker 3 (37:20):
I want to give credit where credit is due because.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
This story is crazy and it has to do with
what inmates in the California prison system are doing to
entertain themselves.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
All right, so this from City Journal. All right, here's
the headline.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
We'll get into the story here after the break, watching
porn on California's death row. State of California takes a
rather unique approach. In fact, let me give you let
me give you a little explainer if I could, on
the quote unquote prison model in California before we get

(37:59):
in to the details here. Okay, all right, so we'll
play some audio. But man, we're just I mean pop
up hell today. All right, So uh let's let me
let me read from the article here and then I'll
play a little audio for you. Under Gavin new some
state prisoners are turning. State prisoners are turning taxpayer funded
tablets into personal sex machines.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
Good lord.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
Under governor knew some. California has sought to transform its
massive prison system into a Nordic style rehabilitation program. You know,
you see this too, right, You've probably seen where they
go check out prisons abroad and they you know, they
go to the one in Russia and you're like, God,
just just kill me.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
I don't want to go into that one.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
And then they'll you know, and then they'll go to
you know, Norway or Finland or something like that, and
they kind of look like college dorms.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
And they take a very different approach over there.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
And and then everyone goes, see, this is what we
need to do in the United States. Well, I don't
know if it just I don't know if it's immediately
transferable like that. I don't know if that's apples and apples.
You're comparing for a wide variety of reasons, not the
least of which is you have prison culture in the US,

(39:17):
which is a thing, right are you gonna do is
watch lock Up? Or you know, by the way, do
they even air that anymore? They kind of took that
away when they were removing anything having to do with
law enforcement. I used to enjoy watching those episodes to
see how different it is, and yes, in a more
dangerous way.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
But that's not what they think in California. So they're
going with this. Let's see a moratorium at all executions,
transferring condemned prisoners to facilities across the state, dismantling the
death row which was at San Quentin, and turning the
prison into a therapy center with arc rooms, a cafe,

(40:02):
and even podcast studios. What so you're telling me I
can listen to a podcast or a bunch of death
row inmates even though there is no death row anymore.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
All right, So here's what they're hoping to account.

Speaker 12 (40:16):
California model aims to expand employee wellness, lower recidivism rates,
and increase post release employment. The California model uses evidence
based principles and focuses on four main pillars to guide
expectations for house staff and incarcerated people interact to create
a healthier work environment. The four pillars of focus include

(40:38):
dynamic security, which promotes positive relationships between staff and incarcerated
people through purposeful activities, and professional, positive and respectful communication.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
Normally, this all sounds really nice, doesn't it. And by
the way, I don't want you to think that on
one of these folks is like, all right, once you
go to prison, we're just going to stick you in
a hole and poke with a stick for however many
years you're and then when you get out, good luck.
I think one of the really important things is to
have conversations about what does that pathway look for people

(41:10):
when they do get out. And there are a lot
of speed bumps there. And I think it's perfectly appropriate
because if you believe in the concept of redemption and
reforming behavior, but redemption, if the agreement is I did
a thing and I get to spend five years in prison,
and I do my five years, I've paid my debt

(41:32):
to society along with you know, whatever's attached to it.
There needs to be a road that allows me to
become a productive member of society. So it does make
me less likely to go, well, I can't find work,
I guess I'm gonna go rob another store. You know,
that's good for all of us, but also it has
to work. And in California's case, they haven't really done

(41:54):
anything other than manipulate recidivism rates and what do I
mean by that? Exactly what we talk about to Washington, DC,
where somebody who may have been in prison for fifteen
years under a system that you know Predates and Newsome
and some of the other most extreme wope parts of
all of this, you then get them out and then

(42:14):
even if they do reoffend, you give them lesser charges
so that it doesn't look like there was recidivism for
the same class of crime. Right, they're cooking the books,
is the point that I'm making. But anyway, all right,
continue with your pie in the sky.

Speaker 12 (42:29):
Fatalization aims to bring life in prison as close as
possible to life outside of prison. The more life in
prison resembles life in the community, the easier will be
for people to transition and adjust to life in the
community upon release. Peer mentorship, which seeks to train incarcerated
individuals to use their lived experiences to mentor and support

(42:50):
their peers.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
This whole thing is buzzwords.

Speaker 12 (42:52):
By the way, well build upon the existing mentor certification
program and youth rehabilitative communities to provide more opportunities for
incarcerated people to mentor and receive mentorship and becoming a
trauma informed organization to improve the practices, policies, and culture
of the entire department by educating staff at all levels

(43:14):
to recognize the impacts of trauma and ensure the physical
and emotional safety of all staff and incarcerated individuals.

Speaker 3 (43:21):
Yeah, we'll see, Yes, we're trauma informed, which is a Again,
it's just buzzword city, all right.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
So that's the that's the best case scenario. The problem is,
as the story then documents what that actually looks like.
As part of the transformation, the Newsom administration approved a
nearly two hundred million dollar contract to provide new digital
tablets Basically, you know, like like iPads or the Google Pad.

(43:51):
I can't remember what it's called, but you know, that's
what we're talking about.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
Quote, no cost to offenders.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
Each is a generic flat screen device encased in a
plastic shell and distributed every inmate in the state prison system.
And let's see here. They completed getting them to all
prisoners in twenty twenty three, so they've had a couple
couple two three years to digest what this looks like.
The problem is is, rather than just allowing these are

(44:23):
their words, digital equity for justice impacted individuals, the language man.
The reality is, taxpayer funded tablets have also been used
for more lurid endeavors. As part of an investigation by
City Journal, reporters contacted dozens of death row inmates who

(44:46):
told us that prisoners in the state system actually use
the devices to watch portography and have explicit sexual conversations
with minors.

Speaker 4 (44:56):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
You've put a device now into the hands of prisons
which are being used one to view porn, which is
its own discussion, right right. You know what prisons will allow,
what they won't allow, whether they should, whether they shouldn't
as as a release, so to speak. That's another conversation
for another day. But you're giving them a digital porn machine, which,

(45:20):
by the way, ross, do you think they watched prison
themed porn if you are a life lifer in prison
or is that two on the nose? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
I probably don't want to know the answer to that.
According to several other California Corrections officials who were interviewed anonymously,
they say one of the bigger problems is that they
prisoners will use their tablets to groom miners and even
participate in digital criminal activity, runing scams and stuff. Though

(46:00):
the state is claimed to regulate explicit content, the inmates
said that it's easy to evade detection so long as
the clips you're watching are under thirty seconds. See, this
is the thing people will find, especially prisoners, because they
got all day to sit.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
Around and figure this stuff out.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Man, they're creative, right, as evidenced by any time you
see some guy showing you how he cooks a five
course meal in his cell, right, you get creative. I
know there's some prisoners probably listening to the show. I
get your guys' letters sometimes like it's kind of impressive.
The problem is here you're getting creative and evading detection
for the purpose of perhaps setting up an opportunity to

(46:39):
molest a child, which you may be in prison for
in the first place. You know, today is the I
guess the full NFL schedule release day. Although we got
a bunch of other little details over the last like
forty eight hours. We got to talk about uh, Donna,
what's up?

Speaker 13 (46:55):
Good morning, Casey morning.

Speaker 14 (46:58):
That's for Gavin Newsom's ratorium. These guys would already have
met pine oil heaven, a lot of them where they belong.

Speaker 13 (47:07):
They have no business.

Speaker 14 (47:08):
Watching porn a lot of them committed porn while they
were out there, you know, like and then they'd strangle
their victims. Two of them, well, actually one of them.
They were a pair that Leonard Lake and Charles and
I guess I don't know how to pronounce his last name,
it's energy.

Speaker 13 (47:29):
They killed twenty five people.

Speaker 14 (47:31):
This included families like a mother, a father and their baby.

Speaker 7 (47:36):
Uh.

Speaker 13 (47:37):
Anyway, Yeah, he's on death.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Row and he's nobody's on death row because death row
functionally doesn't exist under Newsom.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
So I'm loath to under Newsom.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
Yeah, but to your point, to your point, shoving the
ability to gain access to pornography in an unrestricted manner,
right because they're you know, there's not even a alter
of what kind you can get and putting into the
hands of many people who have you know, uh, sexual
crimes is is a loser of an idea. I'm almost

(48:11):
more disturbed by the ability to literally, uh sit there
and converse with minors online. Right.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
Oh geez, yeah.

Speaker 13 (48:22):
Thanks thanks Cavin Newsom.

Speaker 14 (48:24):
Imagine how the detectives feel.

Speaker 13 (48:26):
That work their life to catch these guys and get
them off the streets, how they like.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
I feel like, if you're in law enforcement in California.
You're probably dead inside just due to how you're doing.
So yeah, right, just there, you're fighting the criminals and
you're fighting the politicians, which you know occasionally are one
and the same.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
So thank you for the call there, Donna. I appreciate
it all right.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
So, like I said, I think it's eight o'clock eastern
the night if I have the correct when the full
NFL schedule is released. Yeah, the full NFL regular season
schedule will be released Thursday, May fourteenth, that's today eight
pm Eastern. But we have some nuggets and I want
to start before we get to the games. I want

(49:12):
to start to this crazy stat and that is the
international ones. So if you look at the international schedule
this year, again my Minnesota Vikings have to go play
an international game. Last year we had to do back
to back weeks. It's the biggest, it's the it's the
biggest bunch of bs of what the NFL does.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
You know how I feel.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
It's not just them, it's all of these leagues now
who've decided f the fan base, we don't care, you know.
To put it more specifically, my beef was the Vikings
for years, for years, claying that the reason that they
couldn't compete at that up rational on level was because
the stadium facility that was the Metrodome was awful. And

(49:55):
admittedly it was awful. It was not just the facility
where you watch it. At least it was indoors, which
is nice in the cold weather. But as somebody who
had access, you know, press credentials there so I could
go into the locker rooms, I go to all those
other areas.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
The building was old.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
It sucked compared to a more modern stadium like I
got it. So what they did is they kept threatening
to move, and they basically beat the taxpayers into funding
a brand new US in this case US Bank Stadium,
which is a new stadium up there. All the while,
the owner, Ziggy Wilf, bought all of the real estate

(50:34):
around the stadium site because he had knowledge of it
and essentially was able to make a gazillion dollars. But whatever,
they got the stadium built, and then you started shipping
the team overseas to play games, including during what would
have been home games.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
And so if you're a taxpayer.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
And you've been fleeced to build these stadiums and now
they're not even using them to their full capacity because
they want to go sell merch in other countries. It's
damned insulting and arguably, and I don't care what they say,
those are the best athletes in the world. Sure, okay,
but you're shipping people all over the world. And there
is now a stat for next year where one, two, three, four,

(51:18):
five six teams will put more miles traveling than the circumference.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
Of the Earth.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
So the circumference of the Earth, just so we're no
is about twenty four thousand, nine hundred, just under twenty
five thousand right in that ballpark, and the forty nine
ers will travel thirty eight thousand miles over the course
of the NFL season, and that's regular season. They make
the playoffs. Add to it, the Rams thirty five thousand,

(51:50):
Texans twenty eight thousand, Cowgirl excuse me Boys twenty eight thousand,
Patriots twenty seven to six, and then the Dolphins twenty
seven to five, and then after that it's there's you know,
we we go less. And I want you to compare that,
which I guess is good news if you're a Panthers fan.
The Carolina Panthers will travel just eight seven hundred miles.

(52:14):
You're telling me that the forty nine ers, who will
travel thirty thousand additional miles than the Carolina Panthers don't
have the Panthers don't have an advantage as a result
of that.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
There's no way anyone believes that.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
Let's see Ross, your team isn't doing too much traveling
right now. Actually, you guys are gonna do about twenty
thousand miles. Let's see two of your division opponents, Patriots Dolphins.
They'll be in the high level. Jets will be far less.
Fourteen thousand. That's your division, all right?

Speaker 3 (52:51):
What I mean? How do I mean?

Speaker 1 (52:55):
I'm glad the Patriots are having to do that, just
because you know the jerk in me. But how does
the NFL think this is sustainable? That would be my question?
How do you think that's fair? And look at these
international Games San Francisco, La Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. And also

(53:17):
I hate that we're opening the season in another country.
What the hell are we doing? Then you got let's
see Baltimore and the Cowgirl excuse me, boys, Rio de Janeiro.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
That'll be what week three? Yeah, week three? And then
you got London. You've got the Jaguars.

Speaker 1 (53:39):
Got to play back to back, man, those colts, Washington Eagles, Jags,
Texans Jags. That's all the London weeks four through six,
you got to Paris, you got a Madrid, the Munich
and then again San Francisco, who opens the season in Australia. Yeah,

(54:01):
the final, the final international international games against the Vikings.
That'll be week eleven, so they're having to do two
of them as well. I don't know, Ross, Does it
concern you? Does it make you happy? Since you're on
the lower miles. Do you think that there's a big
difference when you got to travel that much. Do you
think it's negligible?

Speaker 4 (54:19):
No, it completely ruins the team.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (54:21):
Oh well they're professional athletes. They can deal with it.
I don't know, man, I mean there's still humans, right,
and like human bodies, and jet lag is a thing.
You have to go across the ocean and then come
back and like play the next week. It's ridiculous. I
know the Bills have to play opening week and then
they play on Thursday, like the first Thursday night football game.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
Oh do you get yeah, do you have that? Yeah? See,
we don't have the full thing. And you guys. You
guys are also getting spit roasted on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 4 (54:46):
Yeah, things, Well, the rumor is, from what we're seeing,
it's like Thanksgiving and Christmas, which you find out the
Christmas so I'm not sure who they playing Christmas. Thanksgiving
is going to be the Chiefs apparently, and you're the
night game. Some people are like, oh, it's great, you
know you get to watch your team on Christmas and Thanksgiving. No,
because there's a potential for that game to ruin your
Thanksgiving and your Christmas, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
Well, at least it'll be after eight the first two times,
you know, so you don't only ruin your leftovers.

Speaker 4 (55:18):
Listen, and you've already got enough stress and anxiety over
the holidays, right, it tends to be a thing that happens,
and then you're going to factor into it the you know,
a game against the Chiefs or whatever. You know how
I am like stressing out over football. So then you
compound the average stress of a holiday by like twenty Yeah,
that's great, fantastic That.

Speaker 1 (55:36):
Thursday night openers against Detroit, who's no slouch. No, that's
that's that's that's so that's your week two. So I'm sorry,
you play, you play Sunday and then you play on Thursdays.

Speaker 3 (55:48):
That what you said, or is it?

Speaker 4 (55:49):
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking, right.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Yeah, I think that would have to be it. So
I'm looking if there's any.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
I mean, I will say this, the games that they've
set for Thanksgiving, which you know a lot of times,
can be bummers, just because you know, if the Lions
aren't good and the Cowboys aren't good, then you're kind
of forcing those games. Cowboys Eagles should be a Cowboys
Eagles should be a hell of a game, and Bill's
Chief should be a hell of a game. So if
you don't have you're not locked into one of those teams,

(56:18):
then you're probably fine. But in fact, let's get race
stage of Crecy.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
If he's super.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
Excited about his getting ruined like that.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
So you like it, whereas Ross doesn't.

Speaker 1 (56:28):
With the Bills play right after play, Sam played Kansas
City and he doesn't want any part of it.

Speaker 3 (56:35):
What do you think I mean?

Speaker 4 (56:36):
I mean, it's such a you know, holidays are stressful
and new factor in the stress of the game, and
then if they lose, it ruins my entire day.

Speaker 5 (56:43):
Yeah, what do you mean the Bills aren't winning the
Super Bowl again this year.

Speaker 4 (56:46):
No, I mean, don't get me wrong, this is the
year that's confirmed. But I'm saying, what do you what
do you think? What do you think of it? I'm
sorry Ross said, go go ahead and finish up.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
I was gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (56:58):
There are only two losses of the season, probably be
in Thanksgiving and Christmas just despite me.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
Well, on the bright side, we we do have that
time off normally, so at least you don't have to
come into work the.

Speaker 5 (57:07):
Next right, Yes, yeah, think about that.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
Is some upside.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
So less so with this because you know, you guys
are playing the Eagles. Dude, your division is going to
be brutal this year, just letting you know.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
Do you think so?

Speaker 4 (57:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (57:22):
Now you think?

Speaker 3 (57:25):
I think Giants fan very good man?

Speaker 5 (57:27):
Yeah, who's that?

Speaker 3 (57:29):
I think the Eagles are going to be very the.

Speaker 5 (57:30):
Eagles, and I I am not a Giants fan at all,
but I like Scatabook. I hope he comes back healthy,
and I do like Jackson Dart.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 5 (57:44):
So you know we'll see for you. You know, my
expectations are low once again. So what do you think
of this travel thing?

Speaker 3 (57:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (57:53):
You probably saw this with the mind. Yeah, so you
the Rams, forty nine Ers, Texans, at Patriots and Dulls
will all travel further than the circumference of the Earth. Wow,
whereas teams like the Panthers will and the Browns will
be under ten thousand travel miles.

Speaker 5 (58:09):
Which is Yeah, I season, I don't know, I I
get it. I just I don't have to be a
fan of the overseas stuff. I'm just not. I just
like watch it on TV.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
Yeah, it's and and no offense to Australians, but there's
no reason our our our sports should be opening up
in your country.

Speaker 5 (58:29):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 4 (58:30):
I agree the dumb, dumb, dumb like oh expand the game, No,
keep it here to ours.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 1 (58:38):
They'll just screw it up right right, you get get
over some other country, they'll just screw it up like
they normally do. Look at how ridiculous most of their
sports are. All right, let's big in AUP big, All right,
let's have let's have baseball, but instead you gotta throw
it into the ground and then you can hit it
in any direction and we got to wear stupid looking pads.

Speaker 5 (58:55):
What's that cricket?

Speaker 3 (58:56):
Yeah, the hell is that.

Speaker 5 (58:58):
Yeah, I don't know exactly.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
Yeah, So no stop ruining this. These are our sports, yeah,
like golf. Yeah, like golf, which gets off today PGA Championship.

Speaker 5 (59:09):
Excited about that, yeah, and all warm up into the
eighties by the weekend for the PGA. No, rain doesn't
look like it anyway. Most of it's gone now, and
just like us, I don't know when it rains again here,
maybe late next week, and we've got a big warm
up coming now. This morning temperatures are actually milder than
twenty four hours ago, but there's bigger changes coming behind

(59:30):
the front by this afternoon, when we're closer to seventy
rather than eighty, which we were yesterday. Lots of sunshine
today than tomorrow, the mid upper forties, and in the
mountains there could be temperatures closer to forty degrees, maybe
some upper thirties, So tomorrow morning will feel different by
quite a few degrees. It'll be chillier, maybe even a
light jacket than mid upper seventies tomorrow. Then we go

(59:51):
well into the eighties Saturday, near ninety, Sunday, low to
mid nineties Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, especially in the triangle, maybe
clo closer to ninety degrees in the Triad and back
toward the west and the mountains. But I've got at
least right now the sun sun. There's all sunshine right
on through the middle of next week, and not even

(01:00:12):
the mention of a rain drop overnight. Low's We're even
going to start coming up into the sixties and the
mid upper sixties as we get into late in the
weekend and early next week, so there's not a bunch
going on just to warm up. We're back to the
real hot stuff by about Sunday, and that looks like
it's going to continue at least for the first one
to three days. Looks like easily two or three days
into next week.

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
And by the way, your international game is in Rio
de Jannaro, so it's not a huge time difference, right,
But as somebody who has traveled that far south in
South America on a couple of trips, now it's ten
hours from Texas, I'll bet the flight time, wow, I'll
bet Rio de Jannio from Dallas to Rio is every

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bit of ten hours.

Speaker 9 (01:00:54):
Yeah, I just.

Speaker 5 (01:00:56):
I couldn't do it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:57):
And I want to say the time difference is one
hour or two hour? Well, it's probably one hour off,
you know, it would be two hours probably off Texas
because they're they're actually further east.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
People don't really, they're further east than even East Eastern time.
So right, yeah, man, honestly, it's a mess. It's just point.

Speaker 1 (01:01:14):
It's just pure, unadult traded greed. All right, do appreciate it.
We'll chat an hour.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
Thank you.

Speaker 9 (01:01:19):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
Raced agic from the Weather Channel. Reminder coming up, coming up?

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
Uh what is this?

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
Here we go?

Speaker 1 (01:01:30):
Then we've got mouthe Pats fans. Guys, can't help yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
Oh your poor baby.

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
Your team has to do their jobs and get paid
millions for it. Okay, listen to this ros. You know
what you will talk about?

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
Stress?

Speaker 1 (01:01:44):
The Patriots head coach has been in the news for
the past few months. You want to talk about stress. Okay,
Well that's a self inflicted wound. Dude, What are you
talking about? That's self inflicted by by you or by
your coach? Man, if it was the NFL doing it,
all right, but the NFL clearly doesn't care about any
of that, so whether not doing anything.

Speaker 7 (01:02:06):
Okay, I just wanted to say something about the NFL. Yeah, yeah,
the international games are ridiculous. Those have always pissed me off.
Going all the way to Australia is ridiculous. The other
thing to tork me off is that basically the all
the streaming services they're using now, I think they're using

(01:02:29):
like half a dozen of them this year.

Speaker 3 (01:02:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:02:33):
I think all the Thursday Night games are on streaming,
and I think the Christmas Day game is on streaming,
and I think a couple of Thanksgiving Day games are
on streaming and you have to sign up for a
full months just to get that one game.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
Yeah, there is, uh, there is a thing that they're
gonna be doing. Man, I can't remember what it's called,
where you can do like you can do a day
pass for some of these streaming services, not all of them,
but yeah, yeah, because every year they're using.

Speaker 7 (01:03:03):
More and more of their Sunny contracts, with more and
more of them every single year. It started out as
maybe one or two, like Peacock and stuff, but now
I mean it's Peacock, it's Prime, It's I mean, it's
on a half a dozen of them now.

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
Chat with mister Stephen Kent. How you doing, sir? What's
going on?

Speaker 2 (01:03:20):
Good morning? How are you?

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
I'm pretty good. Uh, we're just uh, we're all mad
about NFL scheduling. But well I'm not gonna wore you
with that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
I am not even about something.

Speaker 3 (01:03:32):
Yeah. Man, well hey, that's uh, you know, it fills
the minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
So I want to kind of rapid fire because I
got like six things and that I want to touch
on with you, and I want to start in the
world of movies and something we've been talking about earlier
this week.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
Where there was theories, right, there's theories.

Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
Surrounding this this upcoming blockbuster movie The Odyssey, which basically
everybody's in.

Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
Everybody's in this movie.

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
Like, the list is pretty substantial, but most of the
discussion was centering around the casting of two of the characters,
specifically Helen of Troy, and perhaps even whether the former
chick now dude from Juno is in fact going to
be playing one of the One of the main characters.

(01:04:19):
We have confirmation though on just one, and that is
actress Lapita Nyongo, who, by the way, if you look
at her filmography, she's been a lot of stuff that
I like. Right, she was in Black Panthers, she was
in US, which I like horror movies. I thought that
was a pretty good movie.

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
Yeah, she's a great actor. She's a great actress.

Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
Wars Star Wars too, right Star.

Speaker 6 (01:04:40):
I think she voiced a Yeah, she voiced an animated
character in Star Wars from the new movies.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
But easy to forget, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
But her casting as Helen of Troy has uh and
now confirmed by Nolan, has a lot of people really upset.
And they're upset for a variety of reasons. One, and
I think the big one is they're like, how can
you claim from this area, right, that this area of
the Mediterranean that she is in fact, quote unquote.

Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
The most beautiful woman.

Speaker 1 (01:05:10):
And what if you were doing a movie and it
was set in Africa and they had a white woman
playing the most beautiful woman in Africa, cities would burn,
which you have to admit, people would be upset. But
there's a reason behind this and this has to do
and you can tell me if you don't think this
is it. This has to do with what the OSCARS

(01:05:32):
has become, and that is these requirements that you have
to if you want to be OSCAR eligible, one of
your main characters or a quote significant character has to
be a person of color or somebody who is LGBTQ,
and then a percentage of yours of the people who work.

Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
On it have to meet those requirements.

Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
And so a lot of people are theorizing that the
only reason that Nolan did this is so that he
could win awards. Elon Musk said that yesterday. I don't
think Elon Musk is wrong. I think this is him
going I gotta do this somewhere, and this is where
we're going to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
What do you think's going on?

Speaker 6 (01:06:10):
Yeah, I mean there is something to that theory. You know.
What you're talking about is the twenty twenty DEI rules
that the Oscars put in there.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
Of course, it was sort of.

Speaker 6 (01:06:19):
Part of a cultural revolution, part after George Floyd, and
like you said, it sort of required them to increase
diversity among creative leadership and then department heads on every project. Now,
I think that there is probably a case to be
made for it. Christopher Nolan is always gunning for an OSCAR.

(01:06:40):
He does not just make movies just to make movies.
He does try to go for the awards, and this
is probably one way in which that would actually qualify.

Speaker 13 (01:06:51):
But also I also.

Speaker 6 (01:06:52):
Just sort of have a good faith interpretation of what
Christopher Nolan does.

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
I'm not a super.

Speaker 6 (01:06:58):
Fan, but I am a fan, and I think he
is just making an Odyssey movie that is a tapestry
of the world as we understand it today. I think
it's really important to remember that we're dealing here with
a myth handed down over thousands and thousands of years
that has iterated differently all the time. I think he's

(01:07:20):
kind of taking the approach here of we're doing a
version of the Odyssey that looks like the world that
you know, which is quite diverse and a tapestry of
people of different colors. But that's kind of my read
of it. You know, Travis Scott is in this movie
for Pete's sake, John Leguziamo, Hispanic guy. I mean, this
is he's all the wrong continent here. So it's it's

(01:07:46):
all just I think, creative license in my view.

Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
Okay, and that's fine, But the problem is is all
this stacks up Steven case in point, do you know
which source of the which Odyssey source material purportedly using.

Speaker 6 (01:08:02):
That feminist lady who did right? Yeah, Emily Wilson's Odyssey.

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
Yeah, yes, So in twenty seventeen, author Emily Wilson did
the a feminist perspective English translation of the Odyssey, highlighting
gender dynamics. There's like, she tweaked stuff in there, and
you're right, you're dealing You're dealing with a myth, but
you're dealing with the myth that is geographically about a

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certain part of the world, set in a certain time
and involving certain groups of individuals, you know, of societies
there in the same way that you got you know,
you get into the Beowulf stuff in the same way
you get into the Nordic myths. There was some directors
who were making a movie that was set in Holland
and the fifteen hundreds. You probably remember this exchange where

(01:08:53):
reporters like, why is it not diverse? And they're like,
it's it's it's Holland from the fifteen hundreds, Bro, what
do you want?

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
I mean? This is yeah, we've seen.

Speaker 6 (01:09:02):
Some pretty we've seen some pretty egregious stuff, like with
World War One and World War two movies.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
Don Kirk was going to be my other example. They're like,
why isn't the British soldiers waiting on the.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
Beach for rescue? Why are they all white guys?

Speaker 1 (01:09:16):
And it's like, I don't know, probably because the UK
was what ninety eight percent uh Caucasian at the time,
some crazy ninety percentile numbers.

Speaker 3 (01:09:26):
So when does that?

Speaker 1 (01:09:27):
You know, how much good faith can you have when
we keep seeing this stuff at least requested over and
over again.

Speaker 6 (01:09:34):
I don't know, you know, this is this is an
area where I like to try to stay in my
lane and not play history professor. And I consider myself
an enjoyer of the Odyssey. I'm a big fan of
the recent Odyssey musical that you can find on YouTube
and Spotify called Epic the Musical.

Speaker 2 (01:09:51):
It's freaking fantastic.

Speaker 6 (01:09:54):
And I just look at this and I go, all right,
this is the Mediterranean we're talking about, where you're up
and meets Northern Africa meets Asia. It's just going to
be a colorful place. It's not going to be a
bunch of white people running around. That's just not that's
just not the Mediterranean at any point in time. And
the other rumor that I just I refuse to expend

(01:10:17):
emotional energy on it is the Elliott Page.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
One.

Speaker 6 (01:10:19):
We don't know that Elliott Page is going to be
playing Achilles. It's a complete it's a complete online run that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:28):
Has separated the two, because the only one that we
know confirmed by Nolan is the is lupidos.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
So, but yeah, that's the one we that is the
one we know.

Speaker 1 (01:10:39):
Yeah yeah, yeah, But what a what a transition that
would be from Brad Pitt to Elliott Page.

Speaker 6 (01:10:46):
There's been there's been some pretty uh, there's been some
pretty wonderful AI imitations of putting Elliott Page in the
Brad Pitt movie Troy, and it's it's pretty funny.

Speaker 1 (01:10:59):
Now let's talk about another one. And I know that
this is something you're you are eagerly anticipating, You're you're
you're super excited about. But where we've had this discussion
as well, and this is going back to the Narnia
project with Nephew. Yes, so let's let's talk about what
the initial controversy was, and that was basically gender swapping Aslan.

(01:11:21):
I mean, let's let's revisit that discussion real quick and
then get to some of the updates. You had a
problem with that, right, Well, of.

Speaker 9 (01:11:29):
Course I have a problem with that.

Speaker 6 (01:11:30):
I mean the the the rumors that have gotten out
online about Greta Gerwig's Narnia adaptation. This is book won
the magician's nephew has Meryl Streep in the rumor mill
as voicing Aslan the Lion, which you know is theologically insane.
You cannot and should not be doing this if that

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was actually true.

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
They have released most of the.

Speaker 6 (01:11:55):
Casting decisions for this movie that is going to be
coming out now and February twenty twenty seven. It got
delayed from a Christmas release.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Because of some production snags.

Speaker 6 (01:12:06):
But again this is another example of no one involved
with the film has said that Meryl Streep is playing Aslan.
They just have not released the voice for Aslam yet,
and Meryl Streep is involved with the movie. And as
recently as last week they announced that Syrian Hines, the
Icelandic actor, is in the movie as well, or the

(01:12:27):
Irish actor.

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
Excuse me if.

Speaker 6 (01:12:29):
You're not familiar with Syrian. He played Julius Caesar in
The Rome Show on HBO. He's fantastic and he is
probably the most likely to step into the role that
Liam Neeson had played in the Aslan movies or in
the Narnia movies voicing Aslan. He's the most likely pick.

(01:12:49):
And so this is again an area where the online
rumor mail and entertainment websites have run away with this
thing because it does keep their websites afloat. They can
drive traffic without rumors, and it might end up being
Meryl Street, in which case I will eat my shorts.

Speaker 1 (01:13:08):
But there's no evidence considering what Asino to represent for
people who don't know as not just Aslin.

Speaker 6 (01:13:16):
Yeah, Aslin is Jesus Christ, like Aslin is Christ. This
is an area where Narnia casual fans versus Narnia junkies
are on two totally different pages.

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
It does not represent.

Speaker 6 (01:13:30):
Jesus, but he actually is Jesus in a multiverse. So
I just don't think that it's gonna happen. And if
it did, yeah, I'm gonna go see the movie.

Speaker 2 (01:13:40):
I'm a big Narnia and C. S.

Speaker 6 (01:13:41):
Lewis fan, and so I'm gonna go see this film.
It is the most expensive project that Netflix has ever made.
This is going to be clocking in. Oh my gosh,
I'm trying to find the number again. But anyways, it
is going to be the most pricey project Netflix has
ever done. It's now getting a proper theatrical release for

(01:14:03):
several weeks before moving to Netflix.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
It's just it's a big deal. I don't want to.

Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
Not flay the release.

Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
Yeah, the release schedule is a big deal too, because
there Netflix has been very interesting in how they you know,
the back and forth really the fight with theaters and
and they you know, Netflix has always been like, no,
we're gonna we're gonna air this first. We're not doing
the thea the theater thing. But however, if you want
to get again, going back to Awards, there are some
theater requirements. So the plan was, Okay, we're going to

(01:14:34):
release it on Imax for like two weeks. This would
have been over Thanksgiving, which again that date's been pushed off,
and then after the two weeks in Imax, then we'll
have it.

Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
You know, you can go ahead and stream it on
your Netflix account.

Speaker 1 (01:14:46):
I think that's smart because it also strikes me as
the kind of movie, as does The Odyssey for that matter,
where I say to myself.

Speaker 3 (01:14:54):
You know what, maybe I'll actually pay.

Speaker 1 (01:14:57):
The money, do the thing and go to the Imax
because this is the kind of movie I'd want to
see it, whereas if it just went to Netflix that
wouldn't necessarily be the case. So do you think they
maintain that is that a good middle ground for these
big blockbusters if these streaming services are going to do it,
because I can wait two weeks if given the opportunity
to go to Imax.

Speaker 2 (01:15:18):
Yes, absolutely.

Speaker 6 (01:15:19):
And so Netflix has been sort of battling for a
long time to try and figure out what their relationship
is going to be to movie theaters, and they are
in a little bit of a stock downturns and Netflix
is sort of not at a low point, but they
are in a bit of a down moment and they're
looking at this movie, this major film release with Greta Gerwig,

(01:15:41):
who again is a celebrated and Oscar Award winning filmmaker,
to you know, kind of raise their stock a little
bit and get themselves back in the cultural discussion.

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
And theaters is a big part of that.

Speaker 6 (01:15:51):
But Ted Sarandos at Netflix was resistant.

Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
To doing this.

Speaker 6 (01:15:55):
He wanted to keep it all on Netflix.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
But Greta Gerwig.

Speaker 6 (01:15:59):
Has a lot of weight that she can throw around
and she did. And this movie has you know, been
delayed all the way back to February to give it
a better shot at getting the release that it needs.

Speaker 1 (01:16:13):
If I had to pick an AI model that I
trust the lease, it would be this Anthropic just with
the various This is a little in the weeds, but
just stick with me. Just due to a few of
the stories, we're like, well, we got one model we
can't even release because it'll a murder everybody, right, It's
just so much weirdness. However, Anthropic is claiming that the

(01:16:34):
reason that there have been let's just say, hitches in
the gideo and some unsafe AI behavior is not because
of their model, but because of what's being fed. Specifically
claiming that the AI model this is the one that
basically decided to create subterfuse to protect itself from lie.

(01:16:55):
It did so because it basically consumed a bunch of
sci fi by movies, and in the movies, the AI
is treated as you know, probably going to go evil
and murder everybody. Therefore, it just that's what it taught itself.
So this is real chicken and egg stuff right here.
Do you think that there's any credibility to this?

Speaker 6 (01:17:15):
I absolutely think that there's credibility to that. This is
a theory that I've posited maybe at least a year ago.
I can't remember on what show it was, but you know,
the these AI models are scraping the web for their
own training and their own knowledge bases, and that includes
the behaviors and the things that they find to be

(01:17:35):
normative and on the online world is just a wash
in AI stories and fan fiction and you know, tumbler
threads about dystopian things that AI can do, and it
is pulling all of those things. Now, I would trust,
you know, these companies to set up guardrails about what
IT studies, but I don't think that that's what they're doing.

(01:17:57):
They're doing a very large and broad online I'm scrape
for information. And if Anthropic is saying that this is
sort of what's feelings of its bad behavior, I actually
believe them. But what I don't trust is why they
haven't figured out, in all of their genius to wall
these things off and to actually give these AI models

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a sense of what kind of philosophy they should have,
what sort of worldview they should have. But these are
cultural relativists we're talking about. I don't think that they're
able to define good and bad in these companies. I
think Sam Altman is a good example of that.

Speaker 3 (01:18:34):
Yeah, yeah, we could do a whole thing on him.

Speaker 1 (01:18:36):
I only have a minute, so my question would be,
if it's portrayed as negative AI behavior in these sci
fi movies, shouldn't the AI recognize that the society portrays
this behavior is negative when it's ingesting the content, and
then make a judgment call that maybe it shouldn't behave
like that forty five seconds?

Speaker 3 (01:18:52):
What do you think?

Speaker 2 (01:18:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:18:55):
I think that depends on whether or not you're dealing
with stories where the AI accumulates more power is able
to achieve some of its ends. I mean, there's probably
plenty of stories online for the AI models are not
defeated by the humans and they sort of, you know,
rule the world in perpetuity. So there's there's a lot
of different ways you could look at it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:15):
Okay, all right, we'll have to leave it there.

Speaker 1 (01:19:17):
So Steve and I appreciate it, and who knows, maybe
we'll have more Odyssey news.

Speaker 3 (01:19:21):
By the time we chat. I'm sure we will be
fended all over again. So that'll be fun, all right,
Stephen Kent, do appreciate it, Thank you, sir, and we'll
talk next week. Okay, thanks, all right, there you go,
and so we'll wait and see on what the latest
rumor mill is and revisit next week.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
See you in a few Hang on, So what's your question.
Where did they hold the.

Speaker 3 (01:19:43):
Big State dinner?

Speaker 9 (01:19:44):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:19:44):
Okay, So there is a facility in Maging called the
Great Hall or Hall of the Great Hall of the People.

Speaker 3 (01:19:56):
I think it's the name of it. It's this huge, huge,
huge building.

Speaker 1 (01:20:00):
Actually, ironically it sits on Tienamen Square, So yeah, a
little bit of history there, but it's just a giant
building that they used to basically host big state events,
big legislative events, things like that. Just a giant, giant facility.
So to your question, no, they're not in tents out
on the grass. But I see what you did there
with the you know, with the ballroom insanity. I think

(01:20:23):
it's funny here. So I just want to make sure
I have the right name, so I just looked it up.
It is the Great Hall of the People. Rosen only
has a three point five out of five star rating though,
so I don't know why Why are people rating the
banquet ballroom the Great Hall of the People one of
the biggest shrines to communism in the.

Speaker 3 (01:20:41):
World three and a half? Does that go well for you?

Speaker 1 (01:20:45):
I wouldn't want to be one of the people who's
like dah, yeah, I kind of sucked over there. Then
the government to find you, and they will find you.
There's some fun little anecdotal stories coming out of this.
Apparently the Fox News crew keeps getting tickets because they
have such an extensive ccst TV thing, and they keep
parking badly. I saw something with uh I think it

(01:21:08):
was Brett Bear was talking about it. So that was interesting.
And for whatever reason, I keep seeing these reports where
they're interacting with all these weird creepy Chinese robots. So
and I'm just wondering, like, and I mean this seriously, Ross,
do you think it's a safety issue when you've got
like a hundred of these weird creepy Chinese AI robots

(01:21:31):
and they're around they're allowed to be around the president.
I don't know why. That just seems weird to me,
like just because the murder boch concept.

Speaker 3 (01:21:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:21:42):
But I saw I saw Marco Rubo. Oh I kept sorry,
his name's not Marco Rubio. That's the other thing. Do
you guys know the Marco Rubio thing?

Speaker 4 (01:21:50):
Yeah? Is that real?

Speaker 3 (01:21:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:21:52):
Where he had that where they have to like pretend
his name's not Marco Rubio.

Speaker 4 (01:21:56):
Oh, I wasn't talking about that. Oh what were you
talking about him? Like going over there, like, hey, I'm
going over to China. And there was a in the tracksuit. Yeah,
in the tracksuit like the Maduro tracksuit. Yes, was that real?

Speaker 1 (01:22:07):
Okay, Ross is correct. So there's a photo of Rubio.
I believe it is real. I think it's just and
I don't know. I don't know if it's the exact
tracksuit or what he's going for. But if you remember
the photo of Maduro after we grabbed him, so they've
got like the goggles on him, but he's wearing that
that light gray like reebok looking tracksuit. So there's a

(01:22:29):
photo of Rubio on the flight over wearing that. I
don't know if that's just dude Jammy's or what man.
But no, no, no, So Mark, do you know that
Marco Rubio's banned from China?

Speaker 3 (01:22:39):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:22:41):
This?

Speaker 3 (01:22:41):
So this this is this just I don't know, man,
this is just so much strangeness.

Speaker 1 (01:22:46):
So Marco Rubio was hit with individually, was hit with
sanctions back in twenty twenty because while he was a
senator from Florida, he was one of the leading voices
condemning China's treatment of the Wigers, and that so made
China mad that they issued a sanction saying that he

(01:23:08):
could not travel. He's not allowed in China and it remains.
And so China was presented with this situation where now
he's the secretary of State, You're hosting a state visit
from Trump. There's things you want to accomplish, and you
do you screw up the whole deal by saying that
the Secretary of State can't come. So China figured out

(01:23:30):
a workaround. This is real what I'm about to tell you,
so that they didn't have to because no, China never
wants to look like they're wrong. That's first and foremost.
That's poo Bear's biggest concern over there. Okay, so what
did they do. They changed his name. They altered one
of the syllables of his surname, so instead of Rubio,

(01:23:54):
it essentially it's Marco Lubio. Yes, this is there's a
New York postery.

Speaker 3 (01:24:03):
I'll send it to you. So we tweeted out this
is a real thing.

Speaker 1 (01:24:06):
So rather than going you know, we were wrong, or
we have to because they can never go back on
what they've done because then you're admitting that you were
wrong or things have changed. So I'm not making this
up after Rubio was named, and they actually did this
prior to it because they couldn't even interact with Rubio
because of the sanctions.

Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
We're just now seeing this.

Speaker 1 (01:24:26):
So in twenty twenty five January twenty twenty five, after
Rubio was named Secretary of State, the Chinese government and
state media began transliterating the first syllable of his surname
with a different Chinese character, specifically the one that goes
for lou So instead of Rue lou and A's probably

(01:24:47):
somebody who speaks Chinese who hates slam, explaining I'm probably
messing some of this up. I don't speak Chinese, I
don't fully understand the symbolism there, but I understand the
idea where they just pretended he's somebody else and how
ridiculous that is.

Speaker 13 (01:25:01):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:25:02):
This was first reported on Wednesday by a French news
agency who remembered and good on that reporter who goes, hey,
didn't you guys ban like Perma band, Marco Rubio persona
non grata, Yeah, but not Marco Lubio. Noah, He's fine,
and then they realized they picked up on the fact
that they were altering it, so technically it wasn't the name.

Speaker 4 (01:25:26):
That is so ridiculous.

Speaker 9 (01:25:29):
Dude.

Speaker 3 (01:25:29):
It's so funny though, isn't it?

Speaker 4 (01:25:31):
On the track What do you want yours to be?

Speaker 3 (01:25:32):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:25:35):
I was reading in the tracksuit. There were people in
Blue Sky that were speculating. They said, the reason that
Rubia was wearing that Maduro track suit is it was
foreshadowing that we were going to nab Jijingping.

Speaker 3 (01:25:50):
In Beijing, in the middle of Beijing and at Tienamen Square,
surrounded by you know, that's where they do missile parades.
I just want to point so, in the middle of
a missile.

Speaker 1 (01:26:03):
Parade, dude, do you know how badass that would be
if we could pull it off?

Speaker 4 (01:26:09):
Though?

Speaker 1 (01:26:09):
Right, you have a million members of the People's Communist
Army surrounding you, and we snatch him right out of
the middle of it. I think you gotta go mission
impossible mass thing right.

Speaker 4 (01:26:22):
Where you get.

Speaker 1 (01:26:23):
Him and then you get another guy you know that
you like drug and then you put his jen Ping
mask on, but he can't speak right, just so like
you have enough time to get away.

Speaker 3 (01:26:34):
Yeah, I suspect we're not doing that.

Speaker 1 (01:26:36):
Although it would be more impressive if not only they
did nab him, but they stuck him in the same
exact track suit. And that's you know, that's the kidnapping
suit or whatever we'll call it going forward. Its China's
so weird, man, this is weird, weird, weird.

Speaker 3 (01:26:53):
Let's see here.

Speaker 1 (01:26:56):
Yeah, that's the silliness that I just wanted to share
with you. There's a lot of little assay stories as well,
which we'll continue to cover, but basically, basically the discussion
has been this, everyone's smiling, and then Jiji and Ping
said something like, you know, it would be a shame
if things got a little dicey over Taiwan. And then
Trump goes, yeah, we would hate it if things got

(01:27:17):
dicey over Taiwan. This is a real exchange. And and
and then they just went and ate their peaking duck
or whatever was on the menu.

Speaker 3 (01:27:27):
I saw a menu. I think that that was one
of the things there.

Speaker 1 (01:27:31):
Yeah, yeah, we'll well, we'll expect one or two more
weird and weird little things as everything winds down. And
then real quick this speaking of well, maybe Ray wants
one of these two? Ray, do you want a Japanese
demon robot wolf Dog Sure a Japanese company who makes

(01:27:53):
ferocious looking robot wolves with like red eyes. They're called
Monster Will. They're animatronic. They move around there like the
little Boston Dynamics thing, but they're dressed up like the
scariest wolf you've ever seen, with red eyes and growls.
And they say they're for scaring bears away. But I
want one of these, maybe just your turns around the
sales department and they started like last minute, sending me

(01:28:15):
production or something.

Speaker 5 (01:28:16):
Fire up the wolf, So tell me what that reminds
you of? Then think, what what do you mean, childhood?

Speaker 3 (01:28:23):
It reminds me of the wolf from Never Ending Story?

Speaker 5 (01:28:26):
Okay, I was thinking more like that. Would that be
like a like a wolf that Gouzilla will go up against?

Speaker 3 (01:28:33):
Yeah, I mean it's much smaller, so you'd want you
want to supersize this thing, right?

Speaker 9 (01:28:38):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (01:28:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:28:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:28:40):
Apparently bears are a big problem over in Japan. They're
like they love eating people.

Speaker 5 (01:28:44):
Oh it looks like the future is bright, right, This is.

Speaker 3 (01:28:47):
What happens when you get rid of all the samurai.

Speaker 5 (01:28:48):
Man lions and tigers and bears.

Speaker 3 (01:28:52):
Oh my right, didn't have this problem when the Samurai
were around kept no, oh, we take care of that
real quick. Yeah, absolutely all right, So what's going on?
Your weather guy?

Speaker 5 (01:29:01):
Looks good looking at the satellite right now. A few
clouds now pushing east out near Rocky Mount Greenville and
out toward the outer banks. And we're in the sunshine
for quite an extended period of time with a warm
up near seventy today with the gusty breeze Tonight in
the mid upper forty, so a little cool tomorrow morning
and then upper seventies in the afternoon. Then we kind
of reset, and this big high settles in for the

(01:29:22):
weekend and early next week, maybe into the middle of
next week. It's sunshine and mid upper eighties on Saturday.
On Sunday close to ninety maybe low nineties, and then
on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday, load of mid nineties
probably around the triangle, probably closer right at ninety degrees
for the Triad. Either way, sunshine and warm even the
overnight lows are going to get close to seventy degrees,
So starting really to have a feel more like summertime.

(01:29:45):
I don't think we get a shower thundershower chance back
in here. Till maybe later next week, possibly into Memorial
Day weekend. But we'll have some time to work on
that four kiss. But get ready, he's coming. Looks like
it's going to stick around here for several days.

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
Oh it's gonna do that this whole summer thing, right.

Speaker 5 (01:30:01):
Yeah, for a while. It looks like, hey, we're getting
into it though. Next week's Memorial Day weekend, so right on,
n I know it.

Speaker 1 (01:30:07):
Yeah, dude, we got that in June teenth, right because
that we.

Speaker 5 (01:30:12):
Got hurricane season June first.

Speaker 3 (01:30:14):
That's not a holiday, dude, But okay, all right, it's
for you. I guess all right, thanks appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:30:19):
Right stage, they're getting excited excited about hurricanes, which you know,
I guess all right, coming up, we'll check out with
the folks from Bloomberg. Also, we've had so many discussions
about foreign workers right coming in to uh, you know,
are people in the US losing their jobs having to
train their their replacement like we saw with Disney that

(01:30:39):
was horrible. Discussions over whether there's enough tech workers or
h one b visas should be you know, continued a
lot of controversy as it pertains like truck drivers. However,
there was one sector. I didn't see this coming and
now it has come to pass. I'll explain in the
final segment coming up, bloom Blueberg Update Now with Erica Hirskovic.

Speaker 3 (01:31:02):
Erica, what's happening?

Speaker 15 (01:31:04):
Good morning, Casey. Investors are growing increasingly optimistic about Amazon's
position in artificial intelligence, sending the company's market capitalization soaring
toward the three trillion dollar mark. Amazon stock has been
on a tear since bottoming on March twenty seventh, with
its gain making it the fourth largest point contributor to
the SMP and its market value now more than two

(01:31:25):
point nine trillion dollars. AT and TT Mobile Verizon negotiating
a joint venture aimed at eliminating wireless dead zones in
the US by pooling spectrum resources for satellite based direct
to device communications. The collab would use satellite technology to
address coverage gaps in underserved areas. BuzzFeed is coming to
your living room Byron Allen wants to turn BuzzFeed into

(01:31:46):
a free TV super app that'll combine newsweather, and entertainment.
The comedian and media moguls says he'll use his experience
creating and licensing programming for mass audiences to remake the
well known brand. He also plans an earlier this week
to acquire a majority stake in BuzzFeed. Alan also owns
the Weather Channel and a portfolio of local TV stations.

(01:32:07):
NFL fans with Netflix have something new to look forward to,
Netflix picking up three more games for the upcoming season,
including the league's first effort Thanksgiving Eve game November twenty fifth,
and the game being played in Australia. But the cost
of sports programming has gone up, along with viewer frustration
over trying to find the games now shown on various
streaming and broadcast offerings. And finally, Casey bars are rethinking

(01:32:28):
the way they do business to attract patrons. The price
of a cocktail has soared, and sticker shock is one
reason behind the major shift in drinking behavior. Patrons now
pregame at home, have just one drink or skip a
cocktail altogether, so a number of bars are slinging cheaper
drinks to build a loyal customer base. They're now offering
cocktails from ten dollars to twelve dollars and that's encouraging

(01:32:49):
some folks to even order a second or a third.

Speaker 1 (01:32:51):
Hey, going back to the NFL thing because we went
on an absolute diet tribe today. I don't know what
you did. I think the NFL broadcast sucked, question, did you?
It was like the graphics were bad, the announcers were
not great, the camera the camera work was awful.

Speaker 15 (01:33:07):
I already rage rage when I see a game on streaming,
I hate it, hate it, hated.

Speaker 1 (01:33:12):
Hey, yeah, and I saw that while Peacocks streams and
you know, and and most of the time matches the broadcast, right,
so you don't have to have the streaming app, you
can just have NBC. They're one of the games this
year is only on Peacock. I noticed that as well.

Speaker 15 (01:33:26):
Tragic, tragic. The thing is like I love to flip around.
I don't like to just like sit during the commercials,
and they have you like locked in and getting back
and forth. I mean, it's just a nightmare.

Speaker 3 (01:33:37):
I hate it. My favorite thing.

Speaker 1 (01:33:38):
And I'm now I'm too old to have done this,
but I remember with back in the roommate stage, you know,
like early twenties, we would literally haul the TVs from
each of our bedrooms all put it in the next
living room TV so that we could you know, we
were essentially creating our own our own red zone, if
you will, man, gone are those days now?

Speaker 3 (01:33:59):
You gotta columbusing that idea.

Speaker 1 (01:34:02):
Hey, I'm telling you what we thought of it. First,
everyone can go away on that. And then the travel distances.
You saw this where San Francisco is going to travel
around the around the world one and a half times,
where it's the Panthers are less than ten thousand miles.
How do they think it's fair?

Speaker 15 (01:34:19):
The oversea games are also atrocious.

Speaker 4 (01:34:21):
I just don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:34:22):
Yeah, ten am kickoff in Melbourne. That sounds fun if
you're an NFL player. All right, well we'll complain. We've
got lots of season to do, so Eric, I appreciate it.
We'll chest you, okay, See Erica Herskowitz their Bloomberg News.
Even Trump's not a fan of it. He was going
off on it.

Speaker 15 (01:34:39):
This is price gouging on America's favorite sport.

Speaker 10 (01:34:42):
So the government does.

Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
It's just tough. It's tough.

Speaker 6 (01:34:44):
You got people that love football, they're great people.

Speaker 2 (01:34:47):
They don't make enough money to go and pay this.
It's tough, and they could be killing the Golden Goose.

Speaker 6 (01:34:53):
I mean, they have that stupid kickoff thing that you
can't watch it's unwatched it well, but they have to
be careful because others have tried this and all of
a sudden, you don't have a sport anymore.

Speaker 8 (01:35:03):
Probably will government will stud.

Speaker 13 (01:35:07):
There's something very sad when they take football away from
many many people very see.

Speaker 1 (01:35:13):
And the problem is because people would sit there and go, well, well,
you know's there's big government stuff. Uh here Again, if
you are a business like the NFL, where your largess
is essentially guaranteed by publicly funded stadiums, you can expect
people are going to question what you're doing. So you know,
I don't I'd have to see what the proposals are,

(01:35:35):
but I understand why this is not your traditional capitalist endeavor.

Speaker 3 (01:35:40):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:35:41):
And finally this so you know, discussions about tech workers
being brought in from countries like India.

Speaker 3 (01:35:46):
Of course all the truck driver stuff did not see this.

Speaker 1 (01:35:50):
Apparently, ross we've run out of one percent would be
biker gang members, so now we're having an import. FBI
has just arrested the founder of the Punjabi Devils, a
motorcycle gang in the United States that actually was an
offshoot of Hell's Angels, which I think is crazy. After

(01:36:10):
they attempted to sell illegal weapons to undercover officers, skip
court and actually leadership was attempting to book a one
way flight back to India when the arrests were finally made. Ross,
did you have Punjabi devils Indian import biker gangs on
your BINGO card?

Speaker 3 (01:36:29):
Because I didn't