Thursday-5-21-2026

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It brings up Ross and I ever talking about something

(00:02):
we've chatted about before off the air. In fact, I'm
going to retweet this story real quick. Sorry, I was
going to start somewhere else, and then this is how
my brain works. It's like, you know, this is probably
a topic that people might want to weigh in on.
So I just retweeted. It's a New York Post article

(00:23):
and it's entitled Mindy Kaylen shares the reason behind her
weight loss journey. Now The New York Post takes now.
The La Times did a feature piece first. That's a
problem to the New York Post to do theirs, and
in it it's very uncritical of Mindy Kaylen. Well, by
the way, I just want to say this, I don't

(00:44):
know that I have beef with Mindy Kaylen. And if
you don't remember, she's the actress from the Office and
then a bunch of shows that were on for about
five episodes, so or is she on something now? And
I just don't know because I don't watch network TV.
I don't know. It doesn't matter. But Kaylene was always
uh I don't say she was always, but uh, you know,

(01:06):
basically during the run of her time on the Office,
and I think she's very funny. By the way. I
loved her character on the Office. She was never a
you know, she was never a stick thin model. And
she progressively gained more weight, gained more weight and that's fine, okay,
is what it is. And and now now she's like

(01:26):
a two and they have a side by side picture
of her. But when she was, when she was plus size,
her her opinion was, it doesn't matter, this is okay.
It was you know, it was it was body positive.
It didn't seem to be over the top. But it
was just like, see, you know, I'm I'm a chunky
girl in in Hollywood. Deal with it. Yeah, she's a

(01:47):
comedian by trade. Whatever, it's fine. But she you know,
she she had uh I think three kids during that time,
and and she was she was just telling people, it's okay,
it's not a problem. And then she kind of leaned
into that whole remember those weird covers where they're like,

(02:08):
this is healthy. And then it was some woman or
a dude who's borderline morbidly obese. All right, Now she
lost all the weight, and the positioning of the La
Times article is she lost the weight through hiking food moderation.

(02:30):
Let's see here. Yeah, a lot of stuff you would
have talked about historically. And she looks good by the
way she looks good. Good for her. The problem is
a lot of people don't think it was a combination
of hiking and food moderation, just due to the just

(02:52):
due to the drastic nature of the weight loss. And
some people are calling out the hypocrisy where she's you know,
initially was like, no, no, how dare you expect women
to uh, you know, to lose weight to work in Hollywood?
How how dare you? And and now she has clearly
run in that position. And again this isn't me attacking her,

(03:14):
but it's it's absurd to sit there and say that
you did some hiking and you moderated some food. Look,
even though that is definitely a way historically you could
lose weight, but it's a long journey, okay, especially if
you're dealing with health issues because you've been overweight for
a while, on your knees, all of these things. But

(03:36):
you just you gotta you gotta push through it, man.
But they never bring up the fact that all of
this seems to be happening in Hollywood over and over
and over again as the ozempic gets here, and and
by the way, we're way past Dozepic. They're on like
some third generation thing and it's not even approved yet yet.

(03:56):
It seems most of Hollywood can get a hold of it.
Apparently you stop just pooping your off all the time.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
It also, yeah, it also seems like they don't know
when to stop or they're doing too much, because it
looks like a lot of people in how I saw
Randy Jackson.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Do you see Jackson? Do you see him? No?

Speaker 2 (04:09):
No, you have these yeah you He's unrecognizable and they're like, oh,
look at he's a pinnacle of health. I'm like, the
dude looks like he's a Holocaust victim or has aids.
And it seems like a lot of people in Hollywood
look like that. They get this face where the face
caves in.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
It's I'm trying to remember how shocking Drew Carey was
it just from from point A to point B, because
you kind of didn't see him for a while, but
because his main show was off and they came back
with the Prices right.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Right, that was before it was epic, right way before. Yeah,
it was he looked healthy, Yes, he did, Yes, he did.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Yeah. So here's my question. Here's here's the thing. If
it inspired, look, is it fair if it does inspire
somebody who's an idiot who can't figure out the they're
all onozempic, but does decide to get much more militant
about their food moderation, to maybe walk an hour a day,
you know, the little things that you can do, and

(05:10):
it does help them from a health standpoint, Like it
is the even though it doesn't seem as though the
whole story's being told, If it hasn't that positive on
somebody's life, is it really that bad? No, it isn't.
Here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
It's great that people are like losing weight and they're
no longer morbidly obese. But there is a part of me,
if I'm gonna be completely honest, is you can tell
when somebody's on ozempic, when they get to that point
and it doesn't feel like they earned it. It feels
like cheating. Do you know what I mean? Like I listen,
I like getting my eight to ten thousand steps in
a day. I like going to the gym three times
a week. It makes me feel great psychologically, It's amazing,

(05:46):
Like I said, it's my antidepressant, all right, I've put
in a lot of work.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah, yeah. But at the same point, it's good that
people are getting healthy.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
However, I also don't know about, like I'm worried about
how it's gonna affect you're pancreas in the future. And
they say that when you get off, like when you're
on it, you're gonna be on it for life because
when you get off it. I was reading a stat yesterday.
When you get off ozempic, the weight comes back four
times faster then if you had lost a weight via exercise.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
So if you go to the.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Gym every day and you're getting your steps in and
you're you're watching your diet and you lose the weight
and put on some muscle, that's great. Now if you stop, eventually, right,
the fat's gonna come back, but it's gonna take four
times as long like ozempic. Right, the weight is this
gonna come right back on and it is like a wave.
It's just gonna hit you because you never fix the
things that got you in that problem.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
To begin with. Well, more specifically, you didn't develop muscle,
which is so important. The ozempic takes away muscle mass. Yeah.
So apparently this third one and I don't know the
name of it, actually helps build muscle, is what they're saying.
But I don't know. It's not even approved by the FDA.
Probably gives you, I don't know, super cancer ten years
from now. Yeah, right, we don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
Overall, I think I fall in the camp if I
really don't care, because it's your body and do whatever
you want. But I'm not gonna lue. When I see
somebody on a zempic. I feel like.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
It's kind of a feeling of disgust. Well, I'm only
talking about how it then is portrayed in the media
because then you know, maybe maybe some woman had just
had her third kid. Right, yeah, just sitting there looking
at Mindy and going.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
You, yeah, I understand completely. But okay, here's the thing
that discussed me. I probably phrase that wrong. I don't
like it when people try to act like they lost
the weight naturally and they're hiding the fact. If you
just come out and you say, yeah, man, you know,
I was way overweight. I was depressed, I wasn't feeling
good about myself, and now I feel great and I'm healthier,
and you know, I don't need like eighteen naps a day,
and I can hang out with my kids and get
my work done and I feel great. That's great, be

(07:39):
honest about it, right beyond. But when you're like, oh,
I'm on a weight loss journey and I'm hiking and
I'm you know, I'm eating chicken breasts five times a day.
That's how I lost the three hundred pounds that it's like, No,
I feel the same exact way when I see people
at the gym that are obviously on steroids or people
on social media, like member Liver King remembers, Yeah, oh,
I can't believe King is he was on steroids? Really, dude,

(08:02):
That dude is when you go to the gym and
you really put time into trying to change yourself physically
and mentally. You know when somebody's on steroids, because you
know the limit. No, everybody's different, but the body has limitations, right,
the limitations of the human body. And you see certain
people and you're like, that dude is on steroids, and
when they deny it, it's infuriating.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Wait do you go up and come front people? That
sounds safe? No, not at all, But I mean, but
I don't know you know this. Sometimes they get angry.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
It really pisses me off. Like people in Hollywood, Yes,
like oh, you know, how did Chris Evans put on
fifty pounds of muscle in three months or whatever it is.
It's like, oh, I did one hundred push ups a
day and I ain't chicken breast. I think that's what
Hugh Jackman said when he got you know, he's like,
what over fifty something years old, and he's.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Like, well, how about the rock Mans more ripped? Right,
it's not natural al he's genetic gifts. Yeah, I'm sure
it is, or like some extent it is, don't get
me wrong. It is really the builds that the rock
has is is like he won life's lottery.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, but what is he damn near sixty and he's
got a better body than he did in his early twenties.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
That's not normal. Yeah, that's not how it works. I
just think it would be far more helpful because look,
these weight loss drugs are everywhere. They're not going away
unless some horrific thing, like everyone starts turning into zombies.
Maybe I don't know. They look and they're going to
continue to try to refine this and likely the latter
versions they come up with will have less of the

(09:22):
side effects, right, because that's what you're trying to weed out.
And so so when is it more productive to be like, yeah,
I was in my mid forties, I had had three kids,
not as active as I was. I'd bloomed up to
two forty or whatever she said she did, And so
I talked to my doctor and yes, I got more

(09:43):
active than The reason I was able to get more
active is because this drug helped me lose the weight.
It was easier to move around. But here's the downside.
And then just be honest about no issue there at all. Yeah, No,
to be honest about it, be like, look, this is
not for everybody, but if you are, here's some rules.
Like you can need greasy foods. I think was one
of them with those epics because of the digestive issues.

(10:04):
Things like that. Just tell people.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Man with the Mindy Cantling article where they're talking about
her weight loss journey, that's like me saying I'm on
a I'm on a walking journey.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
You know, I'm on a journey.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, so today before work, Yeah, I I you walk
before the show? Twelve miles? What twelve miles what like
in the parking lot. I went twelve miles to this
my personal journey. I went from Wake Forest right here
to smoke your tower and rally.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
How long did that take?

Speaker 2 (10:30):
It took me about thirty minutes, maybe because I wait,
twelve miles. Yeah, well, my way, my walking journey took
place in my car.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
You see.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
Oh I went the twelve miles because I was in
my car. But it's my walking journey.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Okay, hold on, hold on. When you left your house,
did you walk to your car? I did? Okay? And
then when you parked in the uh over on the
sidelot there where you park, did you walk up those
stairs and then into the building? That is correct? Okay,
well it's party. You're not lying. No, Well the journy
yeah wow, that's impressive right there.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
And and when afterward, I'm gonna go the way hold on, wait, hold.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
On, you do two a days? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yeah, I'm gonna go twelve. I'm gonna walk twelve miles
back to Wake Forest. Oh my in my car.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
But you're gonna walk from the building out to the
right and then down those little stairs, get in your car, right,
and then you're gonna park at your house. And walk
down your little yard into your house. Right, It is
the same thing.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Imagine if I had like you know, ye, I got
your fit app on your phone, right, I checked out
steps every day.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Now when you're in your car, right.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
It stops counting because it's smart, and it's like, hey,
you're going fast, you're going like forty miles and you're
not walking right now, and you're not wogging, you're in
your car. But imagine if it like what if.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
You are you saying bolt? Is that fair to you?
But are you getting screwed out of skep steps? Imagine
if it counted the steps, like the twelve miles, you'd
get home and you'd be like, I went sixty billion
steps today. I'm so good. You didn't you posted a
screenshot on social media to shame your right. But here,
here's here's the here's the other side of it. And

(12:04):
I believe that this is definitely part of it. Probably
you've you're going to feel a lot better about yourself,
right because there's a certain superficial nature. Also, you're probably
you're not hauling around an extra eighty pounds, right, which
is hurting your joints and all of these things and
you know, there is there is a lot of scientific

(12:25):
evidence that people who are able to who are able
to achieve that. I don't know if they've studied how
you achieve it versus how it makes you feel. But
it is good for your mental health and it is
something that can help people with depression. So I think
all these factors need to be in there. But damn,

(12:45):
you need to be honest. Man. I'd be so mad
if I was an idiot and a Kaling fan and
I started hiking, you know, like around Librea every day
and then eating the chicken and then just lost minimal weight.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
I mean, po It may be pissed off because you're
really trying to put in the word and you're believing
these articles, and you're like, well, I'm doing the thing,
how come I'm not seeing the same results. And then
you feel even worse. And then the emotional eating continues,
and then you ate all the cake.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
I don't like cake, but I hear what you're saying.
Heate way too much Chinese food yesterday, putting some fried stuff,
so I know I feel bad about myself. Thanks. Oh no, wait,
hold on, I walked this morning. Did you not see
right before I walked from the bathroom to the microphone.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Here.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Well, I'm happy that you're on this journey with me.
Yeah yeah, and probably probably I'll walk to the kitchen
at one of the breaks and make a little something,
little breakfast something. Yeah, it'll be fun. So all right, sorry,
I didn't mean I wasn't gonna start there, but that's
where we started today because the picture is I mean,
wildly different thing.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
It's like, you know, going back to the Hollywood actors
because it really does bug me, and you do, like
going back to your your recent comment. You know, you
just said, like you know people that are gonna believe
this stuff. So you see like pictures of Christian Bale
when he's in the Machinist and he weighs like nothing
and he looks like he's on his zempic now. And
then he's in Batman right with the with the Batman body,
like six months later and he's like, oh, you know,

(14:04):
all I did is I just did push ups and
lifted and had a personal trainer and ate I ate healthy,
I ate clean out. You're a liar, You're a liar,
but also loved you in Batman, right, Yeah, just be
honest about it. Be like, oh yeah, I shut up, man.
I had to put on like eighty pounds of muscle.
I weighed two pounds.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Did Yeah? I believe he lost that weight without Ozemk.
That's PreO Zepic. Oh yeah completely did. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah. Because he's a crazy person in a good way. Yeah,
yeah he is. He is a bit obsessive.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
All right, Well that's like I said, that's where we
started this morning. It wasn't my intent, but you check
out the photo. It's that part of the story. And again,
at least in New York Post article is like questioning it.
They're like, did you really just hike? You just really
food moderate? Because I don't know about all that. I
have a question. I have a question for anybody in
the medical field right who maybe interacts with somebody who

(15:00):
could be it could be literally in a physician's office,
it could be one of these weight loss centers. Uh,
your personal trainer, right, somebody somebody is in the getting
a healthy side. You work at a gym, but if
you have a client who comes to you and the
and they hold up that mindy Kayalene article and they're like,
I want this for me, do you explain? I mean,

(15:21):
would you recommend that, do you, I mean, do you
tell people, hey, look, if you want to do it
in all honesty, yes, there's gonna be you gonna have
to get an exercise routine, right because you still have
to tone to some extent, and you know, let's look
at your diet. But also, if you really want to
lose weight, you want to lose in that fashion, here's
the current g O one or whatever they call these

(15:42):
drugs that are out there, and then you help coach
them through. Then, like, do do medical professionals outside of
the Hollywood doctors, right, who will give you all the
ketamine you want? If you're Matthew Perry, right, is this
your normal Joe blow doctor? Would they sit there and
recommend this stuff for very obese patients in the same

(16:03):
way they would do stomach stapling. I don't know the answer,
but you can let us know eight eight eight nine
three four seven eight seven four Hang on question, We
need to figure out who did this? Why haven't even
met Ross? Who were you the one who asked for
a Betty boot movie? Was that? Who's asking for that?
Who's requested a Betty boop? I hadn't thought about Betty
booping man, I've been waiting so long for this. This

(16:26):
is your passion project. Okay, all right, and of course
Hollywood's gonna do it. Hollywood's gonna do uh and uh.
Look there's a lot of background info here. But so
they have cast who will be Betty Boop. Her name
is quintab Brunson, and some people pointed out that she
is she's black. Also, she does not appear to have

(16:49):
Betty Boop's figure, and that's not a knock on her.
Betty Boop is a I understand it's a cartoonish figure,
but like it's not even close. And then the part
where they decided that it's going to be played by
a black actress that raised some eyebrows yesterday, and I
saw all these people who were like trying to community
note these things where they're like, well, actually, Betty Boop

(17:11):
was based on a black singer. No, she wasn't right.
There was one article from PBS that as part of
a retrospective, made that claim. But if you go to
the article and you drill down into the article, they
actually wrote a whole correction article on it, and the
reason was is this stuff is trackable. Betty Boop was

(17:33):
the creator would tell you that it's not a spitting
image of anybody in particular. However, when Dave Fleischer was
pitching this, he actually he had a graphic art, you know,
an illustrator. He showed him a picture of a singer
whose name is Helen Kane. And this is all you know.

(17:54):
This is post twenties, this is jazz era. This is scat,
which I always thought was just creepiest name for a
type of singing, but so it exists. But that's what
this was, and Cain was very good at it. And yes,
did you have a lot of black singers, Absolutely absolutely,
you're in the jazz era there, but specifically what this

(18:15):
guy was going. And by the way, the very first
Betty Boop was an anthropomorphic I can say that word,
an anthropomorphic poodle, and then they and then she was.
She kind of morphed within a very short order into
the Betty Boop that you're envisioning in your mind right now.
She'd a white chick and I don't really care because

(18:37):
she is an animate But it's the point that Hollywood
keeps doing this because you know, she isn't made up character,
but she's a character who was made up specifically, just
like we just had this thing with Helen of Troy.
If you look at yes, not a real person, but
if you look at the descriptions within the odyssey, there

(18:57):
are two or three references to uh, to her complexion, right,
which I think is kind of important there, right when
you're trying to figure out if she's very very black
or very or very very white or somewhere in between.
And so people see this with Betty Boop and they
start the conversation. But if you read the whole thing,
and we'll tweet out the PBS article gets very long,

(19:20):
very lengthy, and we'll armu with a lot of good information,
the fact remains that this this is not The two
are not the same. And in fact, it was so
close to that singer that she filed a lawsuit which
would be roughly equivalent to about six million dollars in
today's currency, saying that they had used her likeness and

(19:44):
she lost because it wasn't it wasn't quite her, but
it is kind of pretty close to her. And more specifically,
she had a routine called the Boop boop, a doop routine.
I feel silly saying that, but yeah, yeah, then and
then you know clearly you're remembering what also ross Have
you seen some of the old Betty Boop cartoons? Oh, buddy,

(20:07):
have I? I don't know if you're gonna be able
to portray a lot of that, because, like I watched
a little snippet of one on Twitter this morning. She's
up on stage singing and then all of a sudden
three h three of exactly what you're envisioning. The black

(20:29):
dancers came out with the big exaggerated lips, right, and
they kind of look like monkeys, which is clearly what
they were going for. And then in the audience there's
there's two more of them, a mom and a baby,
and the baby's crying, so she keeps feeding the baby watermelon,
and then the baby's spitting seeds at every like yeah,

(20:50):
so they're gonna have to go in a different direction there,
I suspect. But Hollywood, you know, Hollywood man, let me
grab a call, Yes, Jamal, what's up?

Speaker 4 (20:58):
You know what? KC. Yeah, I'm so glad you did
a simple Google search to let people know Betty Boop
was not based off a black woman. It's a simple
Google search. But I hate to say it.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
My tease is social there's a lot I'm gonna say this,
it's not so simple. There's a lot of bad information
on a lot of yeah leftist sites out there. I
really got to drill down, which is why I pulled
the PBS article because let the lefties weirdos argue that
because that's there.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
Do you know what, casey, Yeah. I wanted to say
this real quick about because I'm on a shot called Manngero.
I use Monngrero, and I just want to say that
if you are on those shops, you have to change
your lifestyle. You're right. It is a cheat code. It
is a cheap code because so many people do get
on these shots and this stall like because me I

(21:45):
was last year, I will get three hundred and five
pounds today I'm at two hundred and fifty five, okay,
And this is what I had to do to make
sure I had to change my lifestyle. When I mean
change your lifestyle, I stop eating for McDonald's, stop eating well,
if I do, I eat on a Friday, but I
don't eat McDonald's during the week. I cut out print

(22:08):
fries unless it's on a Saturday. And I love Tho Jingles.
When I go to Bojangles I get pento beans. I
don't get print fries. When I eat, when I drink
a drink, I get zero sugar. Zero sugar works I get.
I don't get diet. I get zero sugar. People say, well,
what's the difference between zero sugar diet zero sugar? Actually
like a zero sugar doctor pepper tastes like a doctor pepper,

(22:29):
but it has no sugar, no calories. You have to
do those things to change, and you have to tell
people the truth. Don't get out there and be like, oh, man,
like y'all say this from all and exercise. No, you
really have to get out there and make the changes
in sacrifice. And what it does it for some people
when they do the sacrifice, it don't push good enough.

(22:51):
You may be doing all these life changes and you
only barely see twelve ounces of change. And what this
does is once you start doing these changes in your body,
started setting those changes. No sweet tea like one of
the things I had to do. I had to crash myself.
I had to go to bull Jamers ordered me a

(23:13):
chicken sandwich with beans and unsweet tea. That's the first
thing I had to do was crash myself.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
Then once I did here. I want to pause here
because I mentioned two weeks ago that I like to
drink a combination of unsweet and sweet, and people wanted
to kick me out of the South. So you know
you're drinking unsweet. So the fire your hated him.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
Yeah, I do. I have to like when when I
get anything, like when I go to bout Jamas, I
get sweet unsweet tea. I have to combine them. But
I had to crash my body first for a whole
two weeks and drink unsweet tea. Why because my body
had to get rid of that craving for the sweetness.
And by drinking sweet unsweet tea combined half and half,

(23:59):
my body was able to drink and say, oh wow,
I'm getting something that's comfable. And that's what I do.
When I go to Chick fil A, I get buy
it on lemonade, or I get a half and half.
Whenever I get a tea, I get a half and half.
And you have to do those changes. You have to
like me on Saturdays is my movie night, well my children,

(24:20):
I may eat from McDonald's then, but I don't eat
from McDonald's during the week. I don't do that. Why
because I know McDonald's is not gonna be help, and
then you have to write loss. I do a step count.
I do maintenance, So I'm always out here doing maintenance
when i have to put out like I have to
put out signs when they put an extra upcoming center
election stuff like that. So you have to do the work.

(24:43):
Now for those people who don't do it and they
just take the shot, will end up happen as soon
as they don't take the shot. You know what happens
they do them. No way about you all very soon
you gained it back. No, because you didn't put it
in the work. You didn't go to the gym. You
didn't use it and go to the gym. You just
use that as a cheap code. So you are one
hundred percent right. And I tell people truth. I'm bonus.

(25:05):
I knew the shot, and I'm on the lowest middle
ground because I didn't want to get the highest right
the the ten Miller grams and then ask a question.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Let me ask you, Let me ask you a question
on this. Did you so you did this through a physician?

Speaker 4 (25:19):
Right?

Speaker 1 (25:21):
We won't.

Speaker 4 (25:22):
My doctor prescribed it for me because he told me
that my diabetes numbers were still in the OA and
you want to do today.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
Let me let me ask the question. So I just
want to be clear here. So when you have this
conversation with your doctor, clearly you're dealing with diabetes or
pre diabetic. I don't know what you are, but you're
dealing with your own unique health challenges. Did your doctor
have view a time frame for how long you'd have
to be on it or is it just one of
these where it's just say, all right, we'll just stick
with it until we don't anymore? Or how does that

(25:51):
what expectations do they say?

Speaker 4 (25:54):
Well with the insurance companies, insurance companies by accepting and
just let you stay on it, because you have the
show it is actually not just something you just saying
take You have to show that you on its actual
You see your body now that my weight is down,
and now that my diabetes numbers are weight it's like
my diabetes to the point now because when anybody who's

(26:17):
a diabetic will tell you they want you when you
wake up in the morning, your numbers should be about
one hundred between ninety and one hundred and ten. Right now,
when I wake up every morning, when I live to
see my wake up with numbers of one hundred sometimes
ninety six, So that means technically my diabetes are to

(26:37):
the point my blood pressure. They want to take me off, Manjoring,
which is your diabetes medicine, because I've made the change.
And yeah, once this shows, they're going to take you
off of you're insurance something want to demand it. Yeah,
but do your doctors do talk to you about it
and tell you, especially someone who's like me, I was
fought overweight, and so.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
The specifically more specifically, more specifically you're dealing with diabetes, Jamal,
I'm gonna leave it there just because I got some
other dollars, but I appreciate this morning. And as Ross
just chirped in my ear and it's a I think
it just in my ear. That's a very good point,
like Jamal, is the is the intended use right? Because
these were developed as for people diabetes or diabetes as

(27:21):
we say here on the show, and then they just
figured out, well, even if you don't have it, hey,
look who it will do for you. It's the viagrass story, man,
What was Viagra's supposed to be something else? And then
they figured out everybody in the test kept, you know,
having that issue developed, and then they realized they could
make a gazillion dollars outfit. So yeah, look I'm curious

(27:41):
about it. And this is this is why, like that
discussion I just had with Jamal was far more substantive
than anything I saw in the Mindy Kayalene article, even
the New York Post one calling her out, because like people,
people need the anecdotal stuff they need, they need to
know because it's very tempting, especially when you see your
favorite Hollywood star looking like they are twenty two again. Uh, Jake,

(28:06):
what's up?

Speaker 5 (28:07):
Hey, I'm gonna put a little Devil's advocate on the
on the Betty Boop race swapping deal, it doesn't really
bother me too.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Much because it's old history and it's like.

Speaker 5 (28:18):
Hey, you didn't make anything recent like for you know,
the last fifteen years with baby Boop in it and
it being a white person. But well, I mean Billy
Dean Williams played Dent on the original Batman with Michael Keaton. Yeah,
so it's like it's not a big deal back then,

(28:39):
and it shouldn't really be a big deal right there
as far as I'm concerned with me, because it's just
it's old, old, old history. I mean, William's the last
Betty boot movie made. Last thing with Betty Booping it
that I know of was Roger Rabbit.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
I was just gonna say she was in a Roger Rabbit.
Don't sleep on that movie, man, Yeah, yeah, here's here's here.

Speaker 5 (28:58):
Anybody here know what Betty Boop looked like. It was
the the old lady from Naxal Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, the
one that was senile towards the end.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Well, and so here. But here's the thing. The way
that they're going to do the movie is not just
here's Betty Boop living her best life singing in clubs
all that. The way that they're positioning this movie is
it is an examination of the It's an examination of
the development based on the how do I say this? Sorry,

(29:34):
I'm stumbling all over this? Oh here we go? All right?
The way the movie is being positioned. And by the way,
thank you very much for the call there, sir. Let
me get this out there is it's going to be
not about Betty Boop as much, even though she'll be
portrayed by this actress, but more so the development and
you know how the character evolved over time, really focusing

(29:57):
from the perspective of Max Fleischer, who is the guy
who came up with Betty Boop. Here's what it says.
The film will trace the origin and evolution of Betty
Boop through the perspective of creator Max Fleischer, examining the
relationship between the artist and the creation as he navigates
the creative and commercial pressures of building one of the
world's first animated icons, particularly as that icon begins to

(30:21):
take on a life of its own. So what remember
what I just told you about. If you look at
some of the old Betty Boop cartoons, they are they
have the racial characteratures that would make Al Jolson uncomfortable.
I feel like we're gonna have a little struggle session
in this thing. Do you get what I'm driving at?
And you know whether the information should be all accurate

(30:42):
or not? I don't know, And I guess I would
kind of liken it too ross. What was the Disney
movie about Mary Poppins? The live action one had Colin
Ferrell in it and Tom Hanks played Disney. Do you
remember that movie from I don't know, ten years ago
or yeah, I don't remember. What it was called. But yes, yeah,
so it wasn't necessarily it was. I mean, it was

(31:05):
about Mary Poppins, but it was more about the author
of Mary Poppins and you know, really her personality what
Disney was attempting to do. And it's a good movie,
by the way, And it's a combination of you know,
nineteen sixties Los Angeles and nineteen thirties rule Australia, which is,

(31:28):
you know, where she was from initially, and so I
feel like they're kind of going to go for one
of that, but the callback scenes will be this woman
playing Betty Boop in whatever capacity it is. So I
don't know, I don't know. And frankly, it's also a
movie that I might have been interested in because I just,
you know, I like some of those historical perspectives, even

(31:50):
over kind of silly stuff like this. I find I
thought that, Like I said, I thought that Mary Poppins
movie was very good, even though it was not about
Mary Poppins. You know, it's like ten seconds fifteen seconds
of Mary Poppins actual video in there from the movie,
but that's all they needed to really set up that story.
So we'll see where they go, all right, look at this,

(32:14):
all right. Let me just say this, just to save
ross phone calls. We are fully aware that for some
weird reason, the signal on one oh six point one
is being real weird right now, and our engineer is
looking at it. But sometimes we have weather issues, just
weird atmospheric things, especially when there are abrupt temperature changes

(32:36):
that can impact FM signal. There's sun spots, even though
we're not in those, but yeah, we know, and you
know they're after it. They're looking at it. So I'm
sorry that's going on. I guess my recommendation would be
if you can try to stream, you know, for the
next couple of days or whatever. Well, either the weather

(32:56):
fixes itself or engineering has some solution, but we are
on it, okay, all right, eight eight eight nine three
four seven eight seven four We'll be right back. Hang on.
So we will check in here in one hour with
mister Stephen Kent from our official NERD correspondency there and

(33:19):
Geeky Stoics. By the way, his is his brand, if
you want to look that up. We've got a few
things to talk about the Lord of the Rings action.
The reviews are coming in for the new Mandalorian movie
and it immediately explains why it doesn't feel like there's
been any promotion or marketing for this movie, right, because

(33:41):
as you know, with modern big budget films, now, whatever
you're going to spend making the damn thing, you're probably
going to spend the same amount marketing the damn thing.
So that's really how you if they spend tw hundred
million dollars, they're probably spending four hundred million in marketing
or between the creation and the marketing promote Ocean. So
that's how you gauge how much money they need to

(34:03):
make back. So if you put the and by the way,
these reviews are not haters on the internet. These are
the standard film critics that the haters tend to usually hate.
So yeah, yeah, let me let me read you some
of this real quickly. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna
touch on one and we'll get more into it with Steven.
This is from The Independent, and I think he does

(34:24):
a good job summing up what I was reading in
the La Times one and I can't remember it was
a New York Post whatever the other one was. I
saw headline the Mandalorian and Grogu review stick of Fork
and Star Wars. It's done, which is five minutes of
Pedro Pascal in a completely dispirited voice performance from Jeremy

(34:45):
Allen White as Job of the Huts Sun. This is
the dullest and most inconsequential Star Wars ever made. The
movie Van Learn and Grogu merely stitches together what is
clearly three episodes of the previously planned fourth season of
The Mandalorian and calls it a day, and and they

(35:06):
just they just go through it and death by a
thousand cuts this thing throughout just had a bug drop
off the ceiling right onto my computer in front of me.
Don't like that? How did you get it in here?
Go away? That would do? That's an infestation?

Speaker 2 (35:23):
Yeah, man, we have to yeah, I have to burn everything.
We need to call somebody in and get off the
air right now.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
No, no, no, we got two more hours to do, man,
and then one more and then tomorrow three hours and
then boom three day weekends. So okay, but my concern
is a infestation. B they hitchhike away back to Wake
Forest and then suddenly my home, oh my and my
baby who can't even crawl away from the bugs, right
because covered in just covered in bugs. So yeah, you

(35:51):
know what my concern, Well, you just want to spray
your baby with raid, right, isn't that what you do?
I don't have a baby. I don't No, can you
not cut? Can you not spray raate on them? To
keep the bikes? I will have to check the can Okay,
I'm just asking, man. I thought there were no stupid questions. Sprays.

(36:12):
Get the bit, you know, twice a day, hit the
baby with some not in the mouth or the eyes, right,
you get them. You gotta get one of those little
you ever see the the the nets you can get
the hat nets for like hunting in the woods when
it's all buggy there right goes over your head and
then it pulls down like this, uh you know, netting
around you and you can tie it, tie it off
so they can't get to your face. Yeah, you go

(36:33):
that route with the baby below that.

Speaker 2 (36:38):
We've been covering the baby in that net thing when
we go for our walks because of the bill Gate
ticks soon. Yeah, you know the bill Gate tis thing
or the China ticks thing, where like farmers are discovering
boxes of ticks on their property.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
And like all right, so I saw some of it
here's the here's the problem. I saw a lot. I
saw some coverage on this, get in the conspiracy of it,
and then they're like, oh, well, what about the u
NC thing. The problem is with the with that the reference,
because I saw Mike Ben's was running with that yesterday
and I think somebody tagged us on Twitter and it.
Those are two different types of ticks. The government did

(37:11):
release radioactive ticks. That's a real thing, but it's not
those Texas ones that where you can't eat red meat anymore.
But that's still a problem. They've clearly spread from a
much more refined little area to basically covered half the
country now. And that's honestly one of my worst fears. Man.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Yeah, I was about to say, yes, that is a
real fear, like you can't eat steak or meat anymore.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
It's it's the modern version of like I pointed out,
when Ross and I were kids, our biggest fears were
quicksand spontaneous human combustion. Uh, there's one of amnesia. Amnesia. Yeah,
at any point you could be struck with one or
all three. You didn't know. Can you imagine getting amnesia
while you're in the quick sand? You have no idea.
What's going on? Yeah, you can't. You're like, where am I?

(37:57):
And then constantly you know that thought crossing your brain? Yeah,
I I don't know. And you know, part of it
I blame on was choose your own adventure books for
the quicksand yep, because that was that was that was
the lazy part of the writing. On the choose your
own adventure books. You're like, all right, I'm gonna go
in here quicksand right, do you which path do you

(38:17):
want to go down and save the princess or whatever?
You're like, oh, in the left pad that dead quicksand
quicksand again quicksand everywhere. Never seen quicksand in my life,
but uh, in those books, man, it was everywhere.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
I'm at the point now I think if I did
come across quicksand I would be super excited, Like I
wouldn't step in it, but I'd be like, finally.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
I would throw stuff in it. I would same. Dude,
that's a guy thing. Oh, let's put this log in
there and see what happens. That's entertainment for hours. Dude,
where's the men are so easily entertained? Sometimes, I'm telling
you're sat around a campfire, and you're like, let me
just throw stuff in there. See what happens. That's taken
me three hours of your night. Just or just stir

(38:59):
the logs around even though they don't need storry you
just you know, you want to manage fire. I get it.
So yeah, if I came across some quick sand, I'll
be throwing everything in there.

Speaker 6 (39:09):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
I just got a very important text message which sounds
concerning going back to my the infestation thing.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
Yes, you're very real, you're a very good friend. Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
It says infestation is right before zombies, which are right
before ghosts, going back to the aliens in the I
mean they're next, go back to yesterday.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
So for those of you are wondering what that reference is,
So yesterday we had an amazing story about a man
in West Virginia who called the Sheriff's department called nine
one one because he said his house was being simultaneously
attacked by zombies, ghosts, and a UFO. And then we
tried to figure out which those is worse, which you
fight first. We had a big, big discussion over this.

(39:53):
So that's that's what that is. Yeah, man, that's true.
You got to start somewhere we're gonna have. First it's bugs,
and then we're gonna have to take a four day weekend.
Is four days enough because you got you got one
day to deal with the bugs, one to deal with
the zombies, one to deal with the ghosts, one to
deal with the aliens. Now you didn't even have a
day off, so you got to have at least one
day off. We'll take a half day. So four and

(40:14):
a half day we're out now. Even God after six
days was like, I'm out right right, you need to rest.
I'm gonna take one from me. So we got to
have one for us. All right, five day weekend, it
is all right. Let's we'll let management. No, I'm sure
they'll be super stoked about that. So well, like I said,
we'll get into more of the Star Wars stuff and
and all of that with you know, Steven as we

(40:37):
normally got a package deal those things together. All right,
you ready for some audio? Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy?

Speaker 3 (40:47):
Wait?

Speaker 1 (40:47):
What is this? Don't actually put raid on your baby?
What is the Oh you put it on your dog?
I don't think that's good.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
Now.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
I don't get me wrong. There is there is stuff,
especially when it comes to ticks. You gotta manage that
kind of stuff. But I know you guys know all right,
let me get back to this because I saw this yesterday.
So you know, there are when you get into some
of the the stranger kinks out there. One for a
lot of people is furries. You're just like cause you know,

(41:24):
you're just like, why is an adult want to dress up?
Is a raccoon? What is going on here? And then
another one, the one I find far creepier, by the way,
is the the baby play where a grown adult will
pretend to be a baby, like have adult diapers, they
have like this weird built adult crib, and then whoever

(41:46):
their partner is is the parent, and so they pretend
to be a baby. And then and like the whole
thing is weird. But then apparently somebody's like what if
somebody decided to do the Reese's right where you got
a little chocolate on my peanut butter, Little peanut butter
on my chocolate. And before you know it, we have
what's called the baby fur community. And I want you

(42:10):
to listen to a couple of things. One the description
of it, because they have their own little like ranch,
little camp. They go to little community and then two
the amount of times they want to tell you that
they're not pedipus, which is a disturbing amount of times.
So listen to this. We'll tweak the video out if

(42:31):
your eyes can stand it at Casey on the radio,
But check this out.

Speaker 7 (42:34):
Camp Crinkle is sort of this camp where everyone is crinkly,
everyone's wearing diapers. We've built out zesty cheese ranch. This
kind of interesting little.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
Baby by the way, No, a camp where everyone is
wearing diapers used to be called a nursing home. Sorry,
I know not all of you are. These are These
are twenty somethings.

Speaker 7 (42:55):
Camp crink Cole sort of this camp where everyone is crinkly,
everyone's wearing diapers. We've built out zesty cheese ranch. This
kind of interesting little baby fur camp site. So baby
fur is the segment of ABDL just adult baby diaper.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
By the way, do his dress as a baby, he
dressed as a baby, and then the other guy you're
going to hear his dresses a fur robber.

Speaker 7 (43:17):
And furry combined, so it's often furry, so cute animal characters,
but there they usually will role play as younger characters.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
There is ross do you know who likes cute cartoon characters?
Do you know the demographic for cute cartoon characters? I would, uh, kids? Yeah, kids? Right,
so weird? Huh so weird that like all of this
seems to be geareded exactly what kids have.

Speaker 7 (43:43):
Sort of like that stigma within the furry community, right,
and I get from the outside there is a consent thing.
Sometimes it gets misunderstood where people assume that because your
role playing is a younger character, that you want to
hang out with younger, you know, with children, which it's not.
It's all con unting adults that they you know, it's
people who want to be the children. They want to

(44:03):
be cared for, they want to be looked after.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
There is this belief that baby furs equals it has
no connection at all your average baby, for one, not
about two. They probably hate more than most people. Why
are they bleeping the word out? I don't. I think
it's because it's one of those words that gets your
account led, all right, you know, like why they say rape.

(44:26):
You know that everyone goes, oh, grape instead of saying rape.
So I think that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
But I hear what they're saying, But I don't know, man,
I kind of feel like when you're dressing up as
a baby and pretending to be a baby and having
sex well dressed up as a baby, it's not a
slippery slope to say.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
That maybe you might be into babies. Yeah, I don't know.
I mean you get that vibe. It's a theory. It's
a natural, uh progression of thought, I guess. And then
the furry component too, So the one dresses a baby,
then some dude dresses a furry comes in and has
you know, with the baby. Like, I don't even understand

(45:05):
the order of operations from that video. And I'll be
damned if I'm going to do any more research. I'm
going down that rabbit hole. I don't want that on
my permanent Internet search history.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
The people are doing stuff that's you know, crazy, looney
Tunes crazy, and then when you point out, hey, this
kind of nuts, they're like, well, how dare you.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
How dare you judge right? And and like yeah, I
mean in the sense that technically you are too adults, right,
so you're not committing any crime there, But don't tell
me not to judge that. When I get judged for
the stupidest stuff on the planet every day.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
I mean, but crazy people can also be attracted to
one another. Yeah, they're like, Wow, I'm into this crazy
thing too. We're meant to be.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
Well, it doesn't have to be crazy things. You ever
have two friends that are both looney tunes that date? Yes, yeah, yeah,
Like she's got daddy issues, she's out of her mind.
He's a piece of garbage and he's out of his mind.
And yes they date, and it's just the most volatile
thing you've ever seen. All right, whatever, OKR. But yeah,
so now we're doing crossover. What what do you think

(46:09):
would be a more disturbing crossover if you had, like
if you had to think of some of other weird
things that are out there, Like, what do you think that?
Because I think the weirder one would be the necros
and the baby Do you know what the necro stuff is?
I'm not gonna get too people, and I don't want
to know. That's the first thing I want to know. Oh,

(46:33):
you're gonna find out, because that is where one of
the partners essentially may medicate themselves so that they're passed
out so they appear to be dead.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
What maybe you can have like one of those pony
people and that like genuine pony. This is the pony. Yeah,
the brony's.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
Yeah. Maybe there's like some sort of.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Weird, you know, niche thing where like you have people
that are like, you know, turned on by horror paste
or something you have, yeah, like glue, mm hmm, yeah,
I don't know. Yeah, but then the horse is dead.
Does that crossover again?

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Right? Yeah, it's really really really so uh anyway, they
have a whole camp. Man. That's the other thing too.
It's not just two guys who thought this up or
some guy in gallery, you know, whatever the combination is.
There was enough interest they bought land. Yeah, what do
they call it camp? What are they say in the
beginning of that Cutlet.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
Camp cheesy crust or something crunchy somebody because of the
sound of the diapers crispy or crunchy cran on.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Let me yeah, let's let's revisit.

Speaker 7 (47:38):
Camp crinkle sort of this camp where everyone is crinkly,
everyone's wearing diapers. We've built out zesty cheese ranch.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
This kind of okay, zesty cheese ranch. See if Camp
crinkle on Zesty cheese ranch. You bought land, man, you
put up infrastructure, so that you could do your thing
with your weird giant cribs and and your your little
furry duck. You know, there's a furry due there right there.
It has to be. But they really really want to

(48:06):
make sure that you don't think they're pedophiles. In fact,
they hate pedophiles more than you, which I read that
as dude hates competition. But I'm an a hole like that.
I mean, that's fair. But also, let's check the hard drive.
Well you know, what do you mean, like the registration
computer or like every device of digital variety that is
currently on that ranch, right, yeah, the second one. Would

(48:31):
you want that job though, device checker?

Speaker 5 (48:33):
No?

Speaker 1 (48:33):
I would. Yeah, I was trying to think of that.
That's that's worse than That's about anything I could think of,
especially if you're not into it, you're just some random
like because that's the thing. If you've got a facility
like that, you're gonna have to have staff, and not
all of your staff's going to be into that, you know, Yeah,
like your housekeeping crew shows up and they're just like, well,

(48:54):
it's work, it's worked, or if you actually I don't
know if they have a functioning ranch, I don't must
be terrified if they did. But you're also going to
have I don't know, ranch hands. And let me tell you,
if somebody grew up around a bunch of ranch hands
was one myself, They're gonna have some thoughts on this,
I promise you, all right. Anyway, creeping up on seven

(49:15):
twenty three here on the Cacoday radio program, there is
a BBC piece that came out here a few days ago,
and the framing of it is insane. So basically the
crux of it is they go to the really really
poor parts of Afghanistan, which like if you're if you're

(49:36):
the poorest part of Afghanistan, that's pretty poor man. You know,
not a lot of job prospects, really nothing going on
over there, and really no proclivity to kind of build
your own thing either, you see there. But yeah, it
is a different world from a technological standpoint, from a
financial standpoint, I understand all of that. But the premise

(49:58):
of the story is to focus on these men who
basically they gather every day kind of like you know,
waiting for somebody to come by and give them work,
and then when they can't get work, they sell their
daughters off to have money to go ahead and be
able to in the way it's position is feed the

(50:19):
rest of their family, and the BBC thing just kind
of normalizes it that they're the victims here, like they
have no choice, they got to And I'm sitting there
and I'm like, well, how come the reporter never asks
why they don't sell their sons? And even more creepy
as you find out as you go through this article,
do you know who they're selling their daughters to? Ross?

(50:41):
Who do you think these men are selling their like
eight year old daughters to if you had to come in,
I don't know the other relatives? Oh yeah, isn't that far.
For some reason, that just blew my mind. Yeah, a
bunch of the guys focused there and they're selling these
girls to become child brides or sex slaves or quote

(51:03):
domestic servants or whatever.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
I was kind of picturing like the fat chkh at
the end of taking Yes, yeah.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
I'm sure there's some of that, but no, for the
most part there it's some guy, you know, like who
who wants to sell his his six e fact, let
me play some audio for you real quick, just you
can kind of hear how they're positioning this thing.

Speaker 8 (51:24):
Man del Rashida Zimi's home. We're suddenly confronted by the
devastating impact. He calls for his daughters, Rokia and Ruhila
are twins seven Abdulaziger to explain why he's making unbearable choices.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
By the way, if you're buying, if you're buying, you
don't just buy one of the twins, you got to
buy both. Right. I don't know, I don't know what
the etiquette is. I'm having to sit here and analyze
what the etiquette is because the BBC is trying to
make this sound like it's they have no choice and
and uh, you know this is this is and to
some extent it's our fault and you know, any other

(52:04):
force that's ever been in Afghanistan, it's all that fault
and not the society at large. That's what That's what
irritates me the most out of this. They're trying to
deflect from the fact that there is a cultural rot
with it, and not just within Afghanistan. Dude. The number
of horrific stories that I have heard, both firsthand from

(52:25):
people who served over in Afghanistan of things that they witnessed,
children getting kept on chains was was a big story.
I wasn't told to me firsthand, but you remember that story, right,
because you had a service member who went and just
pummeled the Afghani military guy who was keeping a kid
chained in his bedroom. Uh, and got in a bunch
of trouble uh by the US military for pummeling this dude.

(52:49):
And like it, and and you see it in many other,
many other cultures. Dude, some of the stuff in Pakistan
having to do here here you want it, you want
a fun exercise, google Pakistan river dolphins. Go ahead, go ahead,

(53:09):
don't do it at work. And it's just culturally a thing.
And that's you know, that's the real problem here. But
the BBC in this effort to go ahead and limit
any responsibility. Look, is he responsible that he's poor because
he lives in one of the poorest places in the world.
Not necessarily. I understand that that's the reality there. But

(53:32):
ultimately you still make these decisions. And these practices, by
the way, are including people who are poor, yes, but
also the people buying the girls not so poor poor
by our standards, not necessarily by Afghani standards, and they're
they're taking these children for sexually exploited purposes, or to
make of another wife. But again, they're not selling the boys.

(53:53):
And this reporter is never curious about that. It's a
permission structured. It's let me just say to see, it's
a permission structure, societal permission structure to rape young girls.
That is as refined an observation as I can give you. Well,

(54:13):
I paid for her, of course, Uh you know I
could do these things. She's mine. I just bought her.
Would you buy her? Fine? My brother, yeah, he lost
his job.

Speaker 8 (54:23):
Sell my daughters. I'm poor and in debt. I come
home with parched lips, distressed and confused. My children come
to me saying, Baba, give us some bread.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
And this is the human side of it. See, there
must be It must be awful to sit there and
your kids are begging for food and you can't do
anything about it, not in that moment. So to that
I am sympathetic. The problem is is we are normalizing
this absurd way of solving the problem through through pieces
like this.

Speaker 8 (55:03):
But what can I give? Where is the work so
I can own? It breaks my heart, but it's the
only way to feed my other children.

Speaker 1 (55:14):
Just horrific stuff, man, And again, did talk to somebody
who spent three tours in Afghanistan, ask them about the
stuff they saw as they were moving around countries they
were interacting with Afghans, even afghany military force that was
proportedly on our side. I'll tell you the craziest crap

(55:35):
man stuff I don't even know if I get into
on the radio. In some instances having to do with children,
having to do with animals, having to do with there
is a whole thing, and it's got a name where
essentially a bunch of dirty old men get together with
a bunch of very effeminate, like eleven, twelve, thirteen year
old boys, and there's clearly a sexual component to it,

(56:00):
but in a like a group setting, so you know,
don't sit here and act. I'm honestly, ros's the thing
I'm only. The thing I'm most surprised over is that
they didn't blame it on us a I d cuts, which,
by the way, I don't know if you know that.
Apparently that's why the ebola is here again.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
Yeah, I mean that day they did sort of warn
us of this right when the cuts happened through DOSEE
they were like, oh, everyone's going to dive AIDS in
like two months, right, well, no one, And it was
two weeks later they were blaming people for AIDS two
weeks like that that the current month's expenditure of money
hadn't even rent out.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
They're like, ah, I don't see now, a bunch of
people and you've gone to got AIDS and it's all
your fault. And I'm like, really two weeks I don't
know about that, But yeah, you're right. The Ebola stuff. Yeah,
they told us the bowl is coming for you. You know,
we just we just refused entry to uh one or
two international flights because of a bowl of concerns. This

(57:00):
is Look, this is the other big problem. Then the
other big problem is now you've got to sit here
and you've especially with COVID going back to the first
e bowla thing. I think people at the governmental level
are going to be much more inclined to essentially just
cut the spigot off of people coming in from a
lot of different places in the world. Remember the whole

(57:23):
debate over how you know, whether we should close flights
coming in from China and then when they finally suggested it,
like Trump's always a racist. Oh, there's so much absurdity
to review on the COVID front, but it's definitely impacting
decisions they're making. You know, where those flights came from.
It didn't come from Africa, didn't come from the Congo

(57:45):
Where where? Which is the epicenter of this current epidemic
of ebola? Over there? They shut they refused entry to
flights from France because they were able to track back
people who had traveled from Africa to visit relatives in France,
because you have such a high population of people from

(58:05):
the African continent now living in many of these European countries.
And then the spillover was this plane or the people
that they interacted with where they went? Were they at
the airport? They were at the airport. So now we've
got to sit here and track that back. Who are
they around?

Speaker 4 (58:19):
Now?

Speaker 1 (58:19):
We got to track that back contact tracing, as it's known.
And the first flight that you reject over Ebola is
from Paris. That's crazy, all right, Let's get mister headhunter here.
He's collected a lot of record scalps this week. So
I said, you said it into it.

Speaker 6 (58:40):
Three day weekend, not bad, right, Hey, It's not often
you get to push your chest out as a meteorologist.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
But we have here's the problem. You're screwing up our
radio signal. Oh, I'm sorry. We have been dealing over
the last few days with as some atmospheric conditions ross.
What's the technical term? Met said? What if rain knows
anything about this? You know?

Speaker 2 (59:03):
He said it was an atmospheric damping Yeah, and yeah.
It was like get a Tarboro an umbrella.

Speaker 4 (59:09):
Man.

Speaker 1 (59:09):
I just yeah. What was the thing that used to
sell on TV that would absorb all the liquid? Oh yeah,
the sponge thing? Oh yeah, yeah, little thing. Yeah, we
need a big one of the squeegee.

Speaker 6 (59:23):
They didn't call it a squeegee, but yeah, big one
of those.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
Yeah big. So what what is that? Even? I don't know,
if you know, I.

Speaker 6 (59:30):
Don't really damping isn't something really I've heard of it. Technically,
I'd be I'd be wrong if I do. What it
was class that day that was one of those nights.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
I mean, no, sham wow called a sham wow sham wow. Yeah,
because Vince was selling it.

Speaker 6 (59:46):
Yeah I remember, yeah, and yeah we may need some
sham wows in the coming days. Need multiple inches of
brain to break any type of drought across the state
and like double digits through the next five to seven days,
get several inches of rain in some spots as we're
going into a pattern shift. Now we'll get away from
the record heat. Still close to ninety on either side

(01:00:08):
of it. Try it up er eighties to the low
nineties in the triangle today, clouds and sunshine around throughout
the day, with a few showers thunder showers later. So
I really think the rain'll hold off until late. Then
we get into Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. Just put all
those days together. Now you're gonna look, You're gonna look
at your app or whatever you can see like ninety percent,
and you're gonna say, oh my gosh, it's gonna rain

(01:00:29):
all day. That's not what that means. It's gonna be scattered. Yeah,
but it's fun to say it is. It is, and
it's fun for me to correct everybody too.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
No, no, no, because then it justifies you planning on staying
inside playing video games all day or watching movies.

Speaker 6 (01:00:44):
Right yet exactly you could say, well, the app said one,
but no, it's mainly afternoon stuff. That doesn't mean it
may not rain in the morning, but it'll be biased
toward the afternoon each day, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, we'll.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Probably keep ourselves in the seventies.

Speaker 6 (01:00:58):
Tomorrow them back closer to eighty, and if you get
enough sunshine, could get into the middle eighties any of
those three days for the weekend. And as I said,
a scattering of showers, thunder showers, they'll be dry hours.
I think it's going to be tough though, to get
multiple hours of dry weather for multiple days. I think
by Tuesday when we're chatting, everybody probably is at least

(01:01:19):
gone some rain, hopefully some heavy rain. There will be
some totals that will exceed maybe one to three inches,
possibly more in some spots. But we really need a widespread,
moderate rain or heavy rain over several days. We're going
to get some of that. We just need and hope
that everybody gets some. I know it room's a holiday weekend,
but again desperately need the rainfall. We really need ten

(01:01:41):
fourteen inches of rain to say what would settle the drought.
We're not going to get that. So even next week,
with the new drought monitor that comes out on Thursday
at nine a m. There probably would be some changes,
but they should probably won't be all that big.

Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
Okay, but we don't need it all at once.

Speaker 6 (01:01:57):
I don't think I don't think it all comes inches
a problem right as we are, right, So we get
if we get there three six inches of rain through
Tuesday morning or Wednesday morning, it comes in round, so
you might get a quarter. Then you might get a
downpour in one spot that does drop an inch or
two pretty quickly.

Speaker 1 (01:02:12):
Did you see Atlanta yesterday? Speaking of no no, yeah,
thats right.

Speaker 6 (01:02:18):
Well, yeah, it sucked even more when this big thunderstorm
blew up right over the city and sat there and
dropped real heavy round. We had cars underwater and everything.
It was awful. There could be some isolated cases where
we get some downpours like that through the weekend, So
travel cautiously.

Speaker 1 (01:02:34):
Okay, all right, thank you sir. I do appreciate it. Yeah,
there you go, raised agic from the weather channel. All right,
somebody's calling me a monster. Let's check the email here.
How can you not be sympathetic with these fathers are
going through regardless of the cultural background of it. Here's it, okay,
let me let me explain to you, well, just real quick,
ask yourself this, why is the emotional language of the

(01:02:56):
men the only angle in this story? Why is the
anguish of the men, which I understand that component right,
or you're feeling that you failed your family? Why is
their anguish the only focus of this story? I would
argue that those little twins, the little eight year old
little girls, the little adorable girls here in the picture,

(01:03:17):
I'd say, they're probably going to be dealing with some anguish.
And you didn't spend one minute talking about it, not
a moment. So I'm sorry, miss me with that criticism.
Read the article, watch the video, then come back to me.
Coming up here in about ten minutes with mister steven Ken.
I'm very interested on the Betty Boop things. I saw
he posted something on Twitter and sounds like we may

(01:03:43):
have a may have a rather interesting discussion. So I
don't know exactly what he means, but we'll be chatting
with him here in just a few minutes. All right,
where do they put this story? This was rage inducing
this morning? And then I can't find the damn thing?

(01:04:04):
All right, here we go, found the damn thing. So
the company, let's see here, what's the company that handles
little debbies? Now I don't know the name of it,
doesn't matter. Basically, they they did a bit. They asked Americans,
over a thousand Americans to rank the best and worst
Little Debbie snacks. And I want to punch my monitor ross.

(01:04:27):
What is the what is the premier Little Debbie snack
for you? For me? The cosmic brownies? Oh wow, those
did not do well. Out of the shit Little Debbie products,
It's ranked the thirteenth. That's garbage. Yeah, they're amazing. The
only thing worse than those, according to the list, were
the fig bars, which I like fit. I like the
Fig Newton kind of thing, you know what, I take

(01:04:49):
it back. The list is right. The cosmic brownies are gross,
They're vomitous. They killed my neighbor. Don't eat them, leave
them all for me? Which name all your neighbors?

Speaker 4 (01:05:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:05:02):
All of them up? Oh wow? Yeah, unfortunate. So the
Fig Newts are worse. The fudge brownie with English walnuts
is fifteenth, and the worst ranked Little Debbie is something
called banana marshmallow pies. I don't think I've ever seen these,
and thank God for that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
Yeah, I wouldn't try that. I would probably say, my
personal opinion the worst. And this is gonna go like
some people are definitely disagree with this. I hate the
honey buns. The really taste like they're just poverty in
a box. And I can't stand the oatmeal cream pies.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
Let's go down. Let's let me go down to the
all right, so we had we had your favorite at thirteen,
the thing that killed your neighbors, yep, all day. So
let me go. This is gonna be going progressively better
just because I'm short on time, number twelve, glazed donuts
number eleven, iced honey buns, powdered donuts at ten. I
don't like powdered donuts. I'm not really a sweet guy,

(01:05:53):
so I'm the wrong person for this. But we did
eat these growing up. My mom would buy them in bulk.
So zebra cakes nine, frosted donuts at eight, I get
down with those cupcakes at seven, chocolate marshmallow pie six,
Swiss rolls at five. Honey buns are number four. Seah,
I would have thought they'd win, just because everybody honey

(01:06:15):
buns everywhere. The worst little Debbie thing is number three.
Birthday cakes? How gross are the birthday cakes? Eight o six?
It is Thursday, and it's also the final day. The
final episode ever of the Stephen Colbert Late Night Show.
That is. Yeah. I know, I know you probably all
have it on your calendar. You're super excited to go

(01:06:37):
ahead and watch that later. I know, but I saw
the dumbest Variety article on this. So we're going to
get into that discussion and quite a few other things
with our next guest, mister Stephen Kent, who joins us
this morning. How you doing, sir?

Speaker 3 (01:06:51):
You know what, I woke up on a cold sweat
this morning. I had a nightmare about missing your show.
So I got up. I got up real early x
am because I was like, I can't let it come true.
I won't oversleep, not again.

Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
I'm glad you're emotionally connected. That's good. So as a
reward for that, I'm gonna do something because I always
end up shorting you on the thing you really wanted
to talk about. So let's do this. Let's go ahead
and start with the Lord of the Rings stuff. Then
we'll get Star Wars and Betty Boop and Stephen Colbert
and all that. So but yeah, well we'll start with
this thing. So let's talk Lord of the Rings. What
you got?

Speaker 3 (01:07:25):
Well, so it's Lord of the Flies, actually.

Speaker 1 (01:07:29):
Lord Ross told me Lord of the Rings. I thought,
So that's right. I'm not blaming Ross. I'm saying I
thought that's what he said.

Speaker 3 (01:07:37):
So that's okay. I've been I've been evangelizing this past
past couple of weeks about the Lord of the Flies
adaptation on Netflix. So I love to give people a
recommendation on something a lot. So this is a BBC
adaptation that then got distributed through Netflix. It's wonderful. I

(01:07:57):
just really really want to just let everybody know that
this old classic novel by William Golding has like a
new leg of life here on streaming, and it is
a wonderful four episode adaptation with just a lot of
classical beats and some high drama. I really love it.
Do you do you remember that book? Did you ever
have it?

Speaker 5 (01:08:16):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:08:16):
No, no, no, that was one that was That was a
book that I read actually multiple times. It was right.
It was perfect because I found it right in that
window where I was just reading everything. Man, Yeah, yeah,
that's good.

Speaker 3 (01:08:29):
This is a nice piece of art. So this this
adaptation is bucking a couple of different trends and that
it really adheres a lot to the dialogue of the book.
It sticks to it sort of nineteen forties lexicon of
rhetoric that people might have used at the time. They

(01:08:49):
also go with really classic music, so you wouldn't imagine
a movie being scored like this. It sounds like a
nineteen seventies film in terms of the music that they
use for this movie. And then it's also saturated, so
in the era of everything being washed out and having
no color, you'll hear this often lobbed at, like The

(01:09:10):
Odyssey by Christopher Nolan that's coming out this year, that
it's a completely devoid of color. This movie or this
series is turned up to eleven in terms of its color.
It's a beautiful, beautiful show.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
Is Jack still an a hole?

Speaker 4 (01:09:25):
Jack is a monster?

Speaker 1 (01:09:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:09:26):
Jack is a monster?

Speaker 3 (01:09:28):
And Piggy Piggy is just just about as adorable and
socratic as always. What a wonderful series.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
So I just last night, Yeah, and I would say
this even if you've never read the book and you
don't understand that reference. I was just asking Jack Mary
Doo is the character's name you If you don't, even
if you've never read the book, I'm assuming this will
still be good to go for you. Right.

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
Oh yeah, absolutely, Now this is just a very classic
survival story and you know, the breakdown of civilization on
an island of boys under the age of fifteen. It's
a wild, wild story and psychological thriller. I think this
series does a great job of bringing out the horror
elements and sort of begin you begin with.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
What happens, Yeah, what happens?

Speaker 4 (01:10:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
Two episodes of adventure and then two episodes of the
breakdown of civil society on this island. It's pretty wild.

Speaker 1 (01:10:26):
What are the parallels we should draw a modern society
from this? Because I see people try to hyper analyze
this stuff and yeah, I don't know, stay away from Roger,
probably that'd be good.

Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
I'm working, Yeah, I know, Roger. I'm working on an
essay for this for my Geeky Stoics YouTube channel actually
right now. And you know, when I was watching the
UK Free three the Country or whatever marches over the
last week, they had that big rally by Tommy Robinson
in the UK. There were all these people out on

(01:10:58):
the streets of Britain just really chanting their patriotism.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
And othering immigrants will slow down.

Speaker 3 (01:11:05):
Yeah, And there was a side by side of a
little girl about twelve years old being interviewed by the
press about why she was out doing this march and
waving her flag and all that stuff. Very articulate, a
classic young British girl. And then they cut to the
counter protest, the Antifa people, the leftists, and there was

(01:11:26):
a twelve year old little girl with her SJW mom screeching,
just screeching at the news cameras, unable to form coherent
sentences and just screaming about killing Nazis. And for me,
I was watching Lord of the Flies at the same time,
and I was going, Lord of the Flies is about

(01:11:49):
civilizing children. It is about sort of the thin line
between barbarity and civilization when it comes to the conch
and order, and how we articulated ourselves systems and what
kids do in the absence of adults. And that's a
lot of what Lord of the Flies is about is
the role of adults and civilizing children. And so I

(01:12:12):
think that's mainly mainly the thing. There's no wisdom of
the babes, there's no wisdom of children. Children get everything,
you know, we're salvaging from adults and parents in their lives.

Speaker 1 (01:12:26):
Yeah, one hundred percent. By the way, the video that
will always stick with me as far as screeching moonbats go.
Do you remember the woman who started screaming at the
baby and the stroller and even her fellow protester. You
never saw the woman screaming at the baby. Even her
fellow protesters looked at her and went, that's a baby,
what are you doing? But it just shows you how
how fervently you can get caught up in this insanity.

(01:12:48):
It's yeah, sure, and that was an adult that was
in a little girl doing that. All right, So tonight
is the final episode of the Stephen Colbert Show. You know, clearly,
I don't think I have to set up all of
the background there. But I did see this crazy, this
crazy headline from Variety this morning, and it's again just sick.

(01:13:13):
It's so dumb and the irony that they wrote it
the day before his final episode, and the headline is
if it will load, here we go. Has Stephen Colbert's
push into politics hurt the late night format? So I
guess now we're willing to have this discussion. What do
you think the future of the format is? And clearly

(01:13:33):
I think it's undeniable that the approach taken by Kimmel
and Colbert primarily those two some of the others to
a lesser extent, I think definitely contributed to the death
of this brand. And I don't know, if we see
these on the air five years from now, what do
you think.

Speaker 3 (01:13:52):
Yeah, So, I won't comment on what the future of
the format is because I haven't spent a lot of
time thinking about that, but I will say that Stephen
Colbert did eventually lead the pack in terms of late
night's show hosts, and that's because during the first Trump administration,
he saw on opening to start transitioning late night towards

(01:14:12):
political punditry and commentary, and that did elevate him to
the top. I think you could say that during the
Trump era and a hyper polarized climate, there is a
higher demand for clapter and political commentary and dunks than
there ever have been in the past, and he saw it,
he leveraged it, and then all the other late night

(01:14:32):
shows followed because they needed to keep up and try
to follow that same market. But what everybody is seeing
now is the flame out the limitations of that in
terms of the profitability of your show, but also in
terms of you know, actually like maintaining your sec licenses
and you know, staying compliant with your network. So I

(01:14:56):
think there's going to be a shift towards neutrality again,
as even Colbert's era has flamed out.

Speaker 1 (01:15:03):
Do you think if somebody had seen what Colbert was
doing and didn't follow the pack and I kind of
I put Gutfield to the side just due to the newness,
And it's just I don't think it counts in that group,
even though the ratings are far superior in some instances
to them. But if one of them, and let me
just real quick, Jimmy Fallon Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Myers,

(01:15:25):
and then you can throw I guess John Oliver in there.
Maybe every single one of them have been doing their
shows before Trump was elected, so they were all there
to watch the transition, every single one. In fact, Colbert
was the latest of the two, the most recent. He
started in twenty fifteen September of twenty fifteen. Everybody else's
bar before that. But the net effect of it was

(01:15:48):
you took an audience going back to like Leno that
probably ran the political gamut, and then you trained half
the country to not want anything to do with this.
Do you think that there was a moment in there,
maybe on the part of Jimmy Fallon or Seth Myers,
where if they had pivoted back to just doing a
Jay Leno esque Johnny carson S type of show, that

(01:16:09):
perhaps they could have benefited by those people who want
this kind of programming who left, who maybe would have
transitioned over there. Or do you think it was cooked
from the get go?

Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
So I think it was cooked, and it's probably because
of the demographic who are still watching network shows in
the evening. I don't think that a lot of younger
Americans are tuning in to watch these shows at all.
They're getting the clips online through social media, and they

(01:16:41):
are watching their favorite online comics in their Netflix specials
and then just YouTube and Instagram platforms. So I think
that the audience here is your older gen X and
then your younger boomer audience who still watch these networks
and generally want political commentary and hashtag resistance against Republican anything.

(01:17:05):
So I think it was just sort of always going
to go this way demographically for who's going to bring
in the ad revenue. But I think Conan O'Brien was
one person who sort of he was doing a lot
of interviews over the.

Speaker 1 (01:17:16):
Past couple of years. I love O'Brien clips man.

Speaker 3 (01:17:21):
Yeah, and he did a lot of interviews over the
past couple of years where he seemed to be dunking
on this, where he seemed to be suggesting that his
colleagues in this realm had gone astray from telling jokes.
But then he hosted the Academy Awards, you know, this
past year, and he kind of was like the same
as them, And I think that's because he knows the game.

(01:17:42):
He knows how to stay popular in Hollywood, and that's
his first priority.

Speaker 1 (01:17:47):
So I've read now, and I want to be clear.
These are not reviews from random haters on the internet,
right this or you know as there as Hollywood would
call them anytime they disagree with the project they're doing.
These are the quote unquote critics, right so New York
Post La Times. Here's one from The Independent, which I
think sums up and it's on the Mandalorian Grogu and

(01:18:10):
they are not positive. In fact, it all makes sense
now why we didn't see any marketing, because they just
didn't want to flush more money down the money hole.
I want to read just the headline two paragraphs and
then get your thoughts the headline. The Mandalorian and Grogu
review stick of Fork and Star Wars. It's done two
out of five stars, which is five minutes of Pedro Pascal,

(01:18:34):
a completely dispirited voice performance by Jeremy Allen White as
Jabla Hut's son. This is the dullest and most inconsequential
Star Wars ever made. The Mandalorian Grogu merely stitches together
what is clearly three episodes of the previously planned fourth
season and then calls it a day. Not a whiff

(01:18:56):
of effort here, And they also point out that a
lot of the characters from the man Laurian series, like
Katie Sakoff's Bocaton or whatever her name was, they're not
in there. Many of the most of the other characters
are not in there. You barely see page bro there's
a Sigourney Weaver cameo for a minute. Is that about
the right read here? And can you believe it's been

(01:19:18):
seven years since a Star Wars movie?

Speaker 3 (01:19:22):
Yeah, it's it's hard to believe.

Speaker 4 (01:19:24):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
The last Star Wars theatrical release that we had was
the Rise of Skywalker in twenty nineteen. Boy the time
has gone by, and I think nobody was really missing it.
And that is a testament to how much Star Wars
storytelling has bottomed out when it comes to theatrical releases.
Of course, we've had some television shows in that period

(01:19:45):
that have generated some buzz. But you know this is
this is sort of looking like the end here unless
Dave Filoni, who's going to be taking over in the
next year and starting over the creative direction of Star
Wars can write the ship. You can just look at
the marketing for Mandalorian and Grogu and you can tell
that they had no story here. All of the marketing

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was baby Yoda, Baby Yoda, Baby Yoda. Look it's baby
Yoda at pro wrestling. Look it's baby Yoda on this billboard.
Because there was no story.

Speaker 1 (01:20:16):
There was no story here, and the Mandalorian was one
that got buzz. Mandalorian was one that got buzzed. Remember
the buzz when Mandalorian first came out. Even yes, I
understood the baby, But here's the deal. Can you guys
just make more and or how about that? How about there?
You go put all the money there.

Speaker 3 (01:20:37):
It's hard to wrap your head around how you could
blow something so popular. The Mandalorian was a cultural phenomenon,
but they missed their moment. You know, Mandalorian Season three
was what three four more years ago, and they let
the flame die. And I'm sorry, but culture moves very

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very fast these days. The Mandalorian is not on anybody's
minds anymore, and not a movie is coming out, and
it's just like a couple of episodes smashed together for
a theatrical release. It's deeply embarrassing, all.

Speaker 1 (01:21:14):
Right, last ninety seconds. So the new thing. People are
mad about casting for the Betty Boop movie because we
all were asking for a Betty Moop Boop movie. It's
a black actress and she's clearly not spelt. But I
understand that also, Betty Boop is a very unnatural portrayal.
The problem is if you dig into the history, and
even PBS had to correct themselves on this, it was

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clearly modeled after a white singer though of the jazz
era and the scats singing, which clearly you ran the
racial gamut there. Well, why are we doing this? One minute?
Why are we doing this?

Speaker 3 (01:21:49):
Okay, we're doing this because Betty Boop has now entered
the comments and when you have a property to enterest
the commons, and you want to tell a story, do
all sorts of things with it. I think we at
this point had like a Mickey Mouse horror movie. Some
horror movie. It depends on who's interested in watching it.

(01:22:11):
And I'm sorry, but I don't hear. And I have
seen black online subcultures, particularly on Instagram, claim a lot
of ownership and interest in Betty Boop as sort of
like a cultural icon. She I always thought she was black.
She's like a white skinned black woman. To me. It's
what I always thought she was based on that hairdoo.

(01:22:31):
And I'm sorry, but the only thing I find offensive
about Betty Boop remakes is when they put her in
jeans as Rosie the Riveter. So when the feminist white
ladies adopted her, that's when she was really So I
think this is.

Speaker 1 (01:22:44):
Great, Okay, Steven, I got to leave it there. I
appreciate it this morning, and we will be right back.
It's anecdotal to some extent, but I want you to
listen to the series of coincidences that took place, and
in fact, because it did take place in a particular state,
Let's go ahead, Oh, ross I can't decide should I
play the Florida Man song or should I play the

(01:23:06):
illegal immigrant song for this one? Because I don't know
illegal alien song I get. I think we play. We
played the Florida Man song a lot for these, so
maybe I'll get this one since it doesn't get as
much play. To go ahead and set this up? Shall we.

Speaker 9 (01:23:42):
Got out of bed and I'm being so good with
my wallet, bigerity.

Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
And a no vera juice.

Speaker 9 (01:23:48):
I dropped my seven ges off at the school. My
bringing wife is out the emergency room.

Speaker 2 (01:23:54):
Boom.

Speaker 9 (01:23:55):
Looks like my cousin was arrested again. He will was
out drinking, smash into a minivan, has no insurance. Body
still can mcmeil Sanctuary City can check your status in
jail now, I don't care.

Speaker 1 (01:24:12):
I'm gonna do what I wanna do.

Speaker 9 (01:24:15):
My gigirl babies that it's like to gimme kirt bunch
and I'm gonna fast all the cost onto you because
it's so fun being an illegally.

Speaker 5 (01:24:26):
On.

Speaker 1 (01:24:27):
I tell you, it's so fun being.

Speaker 9 (01:24:31):
An illegal lately on.

Speaker 1 (01:24:35):
Yeah, I think that was the right decision here. So
check this out down in Florida. Uh, and I have
to explain the series of events to you, and you
have to understand they're on a highway in Florida. As
you say, which highway doesn't really matter. They're on a
highway and the highway is under there's construction work going on.

(01:24:57):
So you have in the breakdown lane, you have like
orange cones, you have those, you know, the cinderblock dividers
there that they move around so they could do lane control.
And you get some dirt there. It looks like they're
on five ninety five. I can't tell they're on the
Florida Turnpike. It doesn't matter. So here's what happens. So

(01:25:19):
there's obviously when you have the construction stuff, you're gonna
have traffic. And so you have a work van, standard
white van, got ladders on the top, some sort of
you know hard you know, plumber or whatever, it doesn't matter.
And it looks like the van had attempted to cheat
the traffic, so it jumped into the breakdown lane. The

(01:25:39):
problem was there's it's right where the ramp is there,
and there was a car that had been abandoned on
the side of the road, you know, broke or whatever.
And so the van then tries to go around that
clips that. Okay, so now the police show up. The
problem is the driver in the van is here illegally

(01:26:00):
and it's Florida. So guess what You're going into custody?
The car that they hit police believe had been left
there or had been driven by You're ready for this
an illegal alien and you're thinking this is crazy already, Casey,
what more could be here? Well, as the police are
literally taking this guy into custody, according to authorities, another

(01:26:26):
illegal immigrant in another vehicle who either wasn't paying attention
or was gawkan or whatever, then bounced off one of
those concrete barricades and slammed into the other car.

Speaker 2 (01:26:42):
It's like a clown car, one of those Russian nesting downs.

Speaker 1 (01:26:45):
Yes, but like, just think of the proximity of illegal
immigrants you have to be surrounded with at that moment
to have this story be possible. Dude, I'm just imagining
it and just hearing the Benny Hill music. Yes, now
you're that cop man. You look so good at your job.
Right is standing there? They're coming to you. You don't

(01:27:06):
have to go anywhere, so to in custody, and I
guess one they're looking for. I don't know. And that's
Florida too, where they actually do attempt to crack down
on some of this stuff. You guys heard the statu
I think I mentioned on the show, but if I didn't,
so you saw them bemoaning Fairfax County up in DC.
What would happen if they arrested all the people in

(01:27:27):
that county in that county illegally, they estimate they would
lose twenty percent of their population. I'm going to reiterate
that in Fairfax County, Virginia, they estimate that twenty percent
if they were to crack down on if they were
get rid of all the illegal immigrants in Fairfax County,

(01:27:47):
you would lose twenty percent of the population. Now, twenty
percent of the population isn't necessarily illegal, understand how they
get to that number. What they're saying is what would
happen is if you deport did you know, mom and dad,
and then the kids would probably have to go. So
you got to count those numbers too. So it's not
as drastic as you think, but still that's a significant

(01:28:09):
part of the population, who, by the way, on average,
on average has a negative tax liability, is a gross
user upon services, especially with the school districts up there, right,
they have a negative tax liability. Even if they pay taxes,
they still don't pay enough to where they're compensating for
the services that they're using. So keep that in mind.

(01:28:34):
But yeah, this Florida thing where it's just a chain
reaction of illegal immigrants.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
I remember that being part of the store. I remember
during the presidential campaign where they were like, hey, they're
eating the cats, they're eating the dogs.

Speaker 1 (01:28:43):
Wherever that was. I remember a major part of Ohio.

Speaker 2 (01:28:46):
Major part of that story was they had dumped like
a huge percentage of people into this small town it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:51):
Was like about eight thousand.

Speaker 2 (01:28:53):
Yeah, where they were taking whatever the population of that
town was. It was like, hey, here's an extra twenty
percent or thirty percent, you know, on top of what
you have here, which.

Speaker 1 (01:29:01):
Causes just chaos. Yeah. Absolutely, you don't have the infrastructure
for that. This is always the disingenuous argument where they'll go, well,
they pay taxes sometimes, and and they do, but the
fact remains, and there's and by the way, there's a
whole lot of you know, natural born US citizens that
also have negative tax liability. It's just because you until

(01:29:21):
you hit a certain point and then a lot of
people live under that level. And I'm not I'm not
even begrudging, But if you already have that as a
as an issue as a class within the US, why
would you then welcome in a group that is more
than likely also going to be in that bracket. You're
not adding things to your service, You're you're you're taking away,

(01:29:43):
you're taking away resources. So just you know, keep that
in mind when anybody brings that up. Uh, Florida, Florida,
going to Florida, Man, what are you gonna do? Um?
All right, let's yeah, that's if we can fit this
in here. You want to hear more horrible ideas? Did
you see what the city of Cambridge Massey Chusetts did?

(01:30:05):
So they had or had I should say, ah, but
they had would be the right word. They had shot spotter, right,
you know what this is? This was like a big
debate over in Durham. But basically these are devices that
have you know, listened for a particular range of audio
for things that sound like gunshots, and then they they
tell the police basically automated call into nine one one,

(01:30:28):
our spot shot, our shot spotter at the corner of
you know, twelfth and fiftieth whatever it heard gunshots and
then police can go over there. So the city of
Cambridge had these and just voted to get rid of them. Ironically,
they did so right after an incident where a gunman
opened fire indiscriminately in Cambridge. It just happened. And even

(01:30:51):
more damning stats, they say that roughly fifteen percent of
gunshot reports nobody so these were the only ways that
officers were able to figure out that there had even
been gunfire there because again nobody in the public bothered
to call nine to one one. But this is part

(01:31:12):
of the bigger program and I think that we've gone
full circle on this. I think that we are going
to see Ross tell me what you think, because already
the lobbyings against this because it's racist or it keeps
the prison pipeline going. All the dumb excuses, right even
though these are gunshots happening in your neighborhood. I think

(01:31:34):
that we're going to see moon Bat city councils like
this one that voted five to two to get rid
of this thing, which clearly was working right because police
were able to find gunshots that nobody knew and take
a bunch of felons, the majority of which that were
arrested following these shot spot of reports were felons and
possessions of fire in possession of firearms, so feasibly what

(01:31:55):
you want to crack down on. I think the next
step is you're going to have, because it's backfired so spectacularly,
you're gonna have city councils reversed body cams.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
Know yet, I did not know where you were going
with this. I was about to say my only thought
on it before you finish. Your thought was they are
against the shot spotter for the same reason they're against
the police body camps the exact same reason.

Speaker 1 (01:32:19):
It's backfired horribly, horribly horribly on them, these body cams.
And so I think, I think, because there's people who
are already mad about it, I think you're gonna have
some major municipality that removes body Yeah. No, it completely
destroys their narrative that they've tried to build for decades.
And and you know, don't get me wrong, it's also
captured some behavior by the police that frankly was criminal, right,

(01:32:42):
just due to the sheer nature of it. But they
they promised it was going to be nothing but a
video after video of police just randomly shooting minorities. That's
what we were promised with this, and it's so gone.
In the other direction. I predict, I predict by the
end of this year, we'll do a story about some
decent size or crime ridd municipality that does away with

(01:33:03):
body camps. Mark my words. I got my swamy hat
on also making predictions, mister rased Agic from the Weather Channel.
He's got his swammy hat. So predict away, mister weather guy.

Speaker 6 (01:33:15):
All right, Well, with a little more cloud starting to
come in today and work chances going up, I we'll
start to see a small dropping temperatures, so not ninety
six ninety seven records this week already in the Triangle,
or low nineties at the Triad where we didn't see
any records, more like upper eighties to load nineties, so
still hot for this time of year. I will start

(01:33:36):
to see if your showers thunder showers come in west
east mid to late afternoon through this evening and potentially
rolling around overnight as we dropped into the sixties. And
then we really kind of ramped the chances up tomorrow
and over the weekend of scattered showers thunderstorms. Tomorrow, the
coolest day, we'll have a bit of a northeast breeze
load to mid seventies. That's right seventies tomorrow, and probably

(01:33:57):
on either side of eighty upper seventies, mid eighties over
the weekend. That does include Memorial Day with scattered showers
and thunderstorms at times. A good rainfall, could be some
heavier rain at times, but they'll also be some dry
periods too mixed in. So yeah, it's a tough forecast case.
There's nobody that's going to be able to answer the
question that if you say, well, my barbecue is at

(01:34:18):
two pm at this address on Sunday, is it going
to rain, I can't tell you, and if somebody can
bring them to me, I know there'll be storms around,
but whether it's hitting one particular spot at any given
specific time, that's going to be tough. But I will
tell you this, I think the coverage is better and
by the end of the holiday weekend, everybody gets some
rain and some may get a bunch of Some of
the guide it's actually most of it suggesting we could

(01:34:40):
have several inches of rain over the weekend, But good
news is it doesn't all come at one time.

Speaker 1 (01:34:44):
Okay, all right, Well, thank you sir, appreciate it. We'll
chat tomorrow and we'll be back with Bloomberg News next.
Denise Peller Green here, are you back?

Speaker 10 (01:34:53):
Nope, not yet, but Rix is in for her.

Speaker 1 (01:34:55):
Oh I'm sorry. I didn't see an email from anybody,
so I got I was like, oh no, he.

Speaker 10 (01:34:58):
Probably it's that's okay, she'll be back tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:35:01):
Okay, Well, what do you got going on, Monica.

Speaker 10 (01:35:04):
Well, Walmart reported earnings this morning. Casey empowered through another
quarter of solid sales growth, with comparable sales and US
tours of four point one percent in the latest quarter,
which was slightly better than what Wall Street analysts were expecting.
The company continues to gain market share across income levels
with a focus on low prices and fast deliveries, which
likely alleviates a lot of anxiety that consumer spending was

(01:35:25):
weakening amid rising inflation and a lackluster job market. Now,
speaking of little change on the jobs front, last week,
the Labor Department just reported initial claims fell by three
thousand to two hundred and nine thousand, signaling that layoffs
remain muted despite some recent job cut announcement. From high
profile companies like Meta, Starbucks and Walmart. And I know

(01:35:45):
I keep talking about Walmart, but Kroger's new CEO says
it's looking at big price reduction on thousands of products
to win back market share and take on competitors like Walmart.
The company plans to test price cuts by importing merchandise
directly and then slowly phasing them in. Samsung reached a
tentative deal with his labor union this morning, avoiding a
potentially crippling strike that was supposed to start today. As

(01:36:08):
part of this deal, the company is giving chip employees
massive bonuses, more than most of us making a year casey,
averaging three hundred and forty thousand dollars each according to
Bloomberg calculations. Those payouts are poised for early next year.
Eli Lily says nearly half of patients who got a
high dose of the company's next generation obesity shot lost
the equivalent weight of bariatric surgery. This is a big deal.

(01:36:31):
About forty five percent of participants who got the highest
dose in a late strial late stage trial lost thirty
percent of their body weight or more. Lily Shot zep
bound is already the most popular weight loss medication on
the market, but they're working to develop others that are
more effective and maybe have fewer side effects. In case
you missed it, SpaceX has officially filed publicly and for

(01:36:52):
initially for initial public offering, which could be the largest ever.
The company also revealed billions and losses in the filing
and a super voting share plan that allows Elon Musk
to keep control. His goals include data centers in space
and a human settlement on Mars with at least a
million people. Open Ai is also preparing to file an
IPO soon. They're targeting a public debut sometime in the fall.

(01:37:16):
The company's been laying the groundwork there to go public
as part of a broader effort to raise more capital
and pay for its costly push for more chips, data centers,
and talent.

Speaker 4 (01:37:25):
We know.

Speaker 10 (01:37:25):
Reuters reported back in October that its IPO could value
the GPT maker at as much as a trillion dollars.
And finally, Casey Zara's betting on bad Bunny again. The
brand dressed him for the Super Bowl earlier this year,
and made a custom suit for him for the Metcala
here in New York last month. But they just launched
a new collection together called Benito Antonio. That's the pop

(01:37:46):
star's real name. The collection includes one hundred and fifty items,
including pants, t shirts, caps, bags. They may not be
for us, but there's a lot of people who are
big fans of Bad Bunny, and those items are available
on line and in stores worldwide.

Speaker 1 (01:38:01):
Now, can I ask a question just because I'm curious
the New York perspective? All right? Because from a from
a non New Yorker looking in, when I see that
Metcala uh uh train of freaks. Oh gosh, Okay, you
know what I'm saying. Because you're just sitting there watching,
You're like, put stick all these people in a padded room.
What the hell is going on?

Speaker 10 (01:38:19):
All these rich people have had room.

Speaker 1 (01:38:20):
Yeah, but you guys seem to have a real affinity
for it. When I talk to New Yorkers, I.

Speaker 10 (01:38:25):
Tell you, I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:27):
I love it. I watch it.

Speaker 10 (01:38:28):
I watch it every year just to kind of see
what kind of wacky creative outfits they come up with.
You know, a lot of them are missus obviously, but
a lot of them are really cool and they really
benefit the Costume Institute there. They raise millions of dollars
every year and to keep that museum open and running.

Speaker 1 (01:38:46):
So it's working for you great. I'm just giving you
the outsider's perspective. I'm like, does that Letty have money
tape to her face? What the hell is going on? Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:38:55):
Maybe some some people did.

Speaker 1 (01:38:57):
Yeah yeah, Okay, all right, Monika, I appreciate it. Have
a good rest of your day, have a good one.

Speaker 10 (01:39:01):
See you, Casey.

Speaker 1 (01:39:02):
Yeah, there you go.