Thursday-5-28-2026

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We'll have a good morning unless you attempt to traverse
the west end of high Woods Boulevard, which is the
which is the not the road, but it's kind of
the main road where the radio studios and Raleigh are.
Because they just shut that mofo down. Poor Ross comes

(00:20):
that way this morning and was denied entry to go
into work. I'm surprised you didn't just call it a day.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Man, I almost did you know? I have opinions on
the construction on Atlantic that's been going on for five years.
I don't know if you've heard about it. Yeah, you
heard me talking about it. Ever, Yeah, I have some opinion.
So today I am driving down the I'm like, wow,
you know that's pretty good. You know, black top seems fine.
Still trust the man holds your back at great, Yeah,
some of them. Some of them. You still gonna drive
around and I'm like, I'm gonna come down here, I'm

(00:47):
gonna take a left. I'm gonna go on to high
Woods and go to work. And know you're not buddy,
because now there's a whole construction crew there and you
can't take a left. It's clogging up the whole the
whole intersection. There's no warning sign. There's no hey, you
can't take a left coming up here, there's no hey,
you can't go down Highwoods. There's no detour signs, there's
no nothing. I'm like, hey, that's not a big deal.

(01:08):
I'm just gonna go down Atlantic. I'm gonna turn around
by the bow Jangles. It's bow time. I'm gonna go
back and I'm gonna take it right onto high Woods.
So I do that. Nope, can't take it right either.
You just can't go down high Woods from Atlantic. No
no warning, know nothing. I stopped in the middle of
the intersection. I'm like, hey, I need to go to
work there.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Well, look at least Highwoods is not a business park
where thousands of people.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
And the guy was waving me on. He's like no,
and I'm like, you guys are a bunch of clowns.
He's gonna just this is gonna take another five years
for you to do. Like, listen, I wouldn't have a
big deal if there was a warning or a sign
or a detour.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, maybe back in New Hope Church or something.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Ye, there there should be a sign saying, hey, you
can't go down a lake tour, go this way to
go to Capitol to get to Highwoods. Fine, I would
have done that, which I got up doing.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah. Yeah, I believe you could write de tour right
the tour and then you put a sign there or
an arrow, and I think people will figure that out
as long as they're not here illegally and unable to
read English or one of the California license truck drivers.
What if it's revenge, it probably is. It's personal. Yeah.

(02:21):
I think they heard what you said, because didn't have
didn't one of the guys call in.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, he said it was ridiculous. Okay, so he was like,
we don't know what we're doing while we're doing this again,
Why we're tearing up the roading a no idea?

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah yeah yeah. So so he was fine with it obviously,
but maybe some of the higher ups weren't. And finally
they got the podcast right, they sat down and listened
to it, and they're like that son of a boo,
all right, tomorrow morning, what time three o'clock, boss, Let's
send twenty dudes over to block his turn into work

(02:54):
or or And then this is the other thing I
was thinking about, What if it's a heist, how many
heights involved, like fake construction workers or like think about
like even the Ghostbusters, you'd used a fake road crew, right,
so they could get the readings down on the sewer.
So what if it's a heist where they're trying to

(03:15):
block it off so police response can't come. I don't
know what they're all. I know what they're robbing, dude,
I know what they're stealing. What's one floor away from us?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Actually on above us and below us the North Carolina
Museum of History.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
They probably have like Confederate golden their.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Stuff because they're remodeling it downtown. Like it's crazy to
look at right now, the whole side of the building's off.
You can like look into the whole side of the building.
And they've been I guess they needed places to store
all the history stuff, and they ye high woods this building.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, I think the slave cabins one floor above us, right,
did they move that? Probably didn't move that, but yeah, man,
what if there's a butt if there's a bunch of
heistable stuff and.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
They definitely moved they moved everything. That building is empty?
Is it completely empty? Telling you you look from the side,
the whole building is off. There's nothing in that building
except birds except birds.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
So basically the riches and treasures of North Carolina are
one uh uh one heating and air conditioning ducked away
from us.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah they are.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
We do have big ducks too. We probably shouldn't be
plotting this on the rate, not that we're plotting it.
I think the construction crew is part of it the best.
I think it's a fake construction crew there to thwart
police response time.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Now I don't I'm going to give them the benefit
of the doubt because when there was I don't mean
to make them look like absolute clowns, which many people
are saying.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
They are.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
All right, okay, but all right, So I don't want
them like there's this whole thing going around that this
crew are a bunch of clowns. I'm going to give
them the benefit of the doubt. Because there was a
sign up okay, going down one way is said, hey,
the left lane is closed up there. No, it said
they said the right lane is closed. So it was

(05:05):
the wrong directional sign going there. It should have said
left lane closed.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
So the one where the right lane is the one
where you would turn and go over the railroad tracks
on wolf Pack Lane, that's not closed. Though, right, you
can still go over those railroads. Correct. Oh, so they
didn't know which direction to put the sign.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
And then when you go back the other way, it
said left lane closed, but it was the right lane. Now,
many would say that would be indicative of them not
knowing which is what is left and right and that
they are clowns. But once again, I'm giving them the
benefit of the doubt here. So any any you know
idea that they're clowns. I want to just spell that
right now, right. I hope I did a good job
doing that. Not clowns at all. No, they know they're

(05:45):
left from their right, and they have every they should
be tearing up the road for at least two decades
at least.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh yeah, at least dude, Yeah, because it's four lanes
right right, Yeah, so it's it's yeah, it's one decade
per or it's five years per lane. Right, we discussed
this five years, So then you add the four lane,
that's twenty years. Yeah, you nailed it. So did you
mention to them there? So there's their signs incorrect?

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Or I know I was definitely ranting about it to
myself in the car though.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Were you blasting this as you drove by.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, amazing.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, you need to rock that out in the in
the in in your ride. Man. Maybe tomorrow, maybe tomorrow
morning when you're coming in and just pretend like you
didn't just have that experience yesterday and you're just like,
what's going on?

Speaker 4 (06:50):
Guys can't drive.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
A bunch of dude. They're still good a knife your tires.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
So finally I make my way all the way back
to Capitol. Yeah, and I'm driving down so and go
down Highwoods to get to the building.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
And I was texting with you because I was trying
to figure out how you were gonna then arrive, So
you had to go literally all the way around a
New Hope, all the way around.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
So I get there and there's a car behind me
and he's going I take a you know, left to
get to work, and he keeps going straight and I'm like,
good luck going down that way, buddy, Yeah, good luck.
That road is blocked. I don't know what you're supposed
to do when you get to the end of that road.
They ain't letting anybody in or out.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
You know how many of that people they're gonna be
in the Highwoods Business Complex today?

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Maybe maybe nice after them. Maybe you know, maybe it
was just an early morning thing. But I'm saying as
of like five thirty five forty that was the way.
That's what you said.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
You said you said they were ripping concrete. Ei're ripping asphoald.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Up there, you blacktop and stuff. Yeah, they had the
big mission.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
I don't think that's a I don't think they get
that done in a day, bro, unless unless you're completely
wrong about them and they're the most amazing road crew ever.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Maybe yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
And then you don't have to blast her, right, you
don't have to do that man brig of some Bowjangles
or something that could have done in the day.

Speaker 5 (08:19):
It's time.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Yeah, that's right there, it's right there. I and more
I think about the heist theory too. There's a cop
shop just off Atlantic there up by the up where
the speed goes from thirty five to forty five. There's
like a substation for the police right there, isn't there, Ah,
But there's also the big one down there by uh
by the Wegmans too, So I don't know. Maybe it's

(08:43):
not a heist. Maybe it's just personal. Well, I guess
if you're listening and for whatever reason, part of your
morning community is to attempt to traverse Atlantic Avenue onto
high Woods because a lot of people work back there,
but a lot of people use that as a cut
through at about ninety miles an hour. Yeah they do, yeah,
which is why coming off Capitol and trying to make

(09:04):
that left turn into where the studio is under smoke
tree there, man, and then you have the opposite traffic
coming that way. Dude, you take your life in your
hands there.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Maybe it's cleared up, maybe they opened up a lane now,
but I'm saying as a five point thirty five forty
yeah that was not the case.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, okay, all right, well there you go. If that
is part of your commute this morning, just know that
you you may be screwed or at the very least
probably should go around. All right, six sixteen here on
the CaCO Day Radio program. Hang on, so we got
construction drama to get things rolling this morning. Hold is

(09:48):
somebody else to try to drive through it? Oh? No,
they're just looking at it online. Okay. Thought we had
a little spy report there. I don't know asking what
they're doing. If somebody's listening, you're gonna be driving by
there and you got a few minute, ask them what
they're doing, and then marvel at the fact that they
don't know right from left, so that we need we need,

(10:09):
we need spy reports on that. All right, there is
this crazy story, and he asked Boston Basset, Paul is
super excited. Don't worry, Boston, Paul, I have the story.
This sounds like some crap you would have pulled back
in the day. All right, So here's the headline. Ex
CIA official charged with stealing millions of dollars in gold
bars from the federal government. That's crazy, right, forty million

(10:35):
in gold bars. So the first question I think most
people ask themselves, how from where did the guys slip
into Fort Knox with his little CIA I d which
I don't even think that works. They're pretty buttoned up
over there. Did he slip in there? And just what Keystrom?
Or did just go in one after another after oh

(10:56):
I made four hundred visits, nothings here. No, it's even
crazier than that. So here we go. From the AP story.
A former senior CIA official with top secret level clearance
is accused of stealing hundreds of gold bars worth more
than forty million dollars from the federal government and then

(11:18):
just stashing him at his house. David Rush was arrested
in charged with criminal theft of public money last week,
according to court filings in Virginia. All right, so how
did he get ahold of these bars? He checked them
out of the equipment room. From November to March, Rush

(11:40):
requested and received quote a significant quantity of foreign currency
and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for
quote work related expenses. Are you funding a warlord? I'm
just trying. I'm trying to think how you can just
go to, you know, the equipment room and you're like, yeah,

(12:02):
so I need forty million dollars. It's three hundred gold
bars by the way, roughly, uh for you know, for
this this project I'm working on. And they're like, all right,
sign here, let's see the Affidavid says, it's unclear what
Russian tended to use the funds for at the time,

(12:22):
so you didn't even have to tell them why you
need it. That's crazy. It also explains why somebody checked
the doballoons out of our equipment closet and all the
Aztec gold lives on for like a year.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
I was going to say, when it comes to this guy,
we need to hear both sides. I want to know
what he needed it for. There might be a very
good reason. And when it comes to the the blooms
and the Aztec gold in the prize closet here, yeah
it was checked out, not in the closet for the
safety of my co workers. I was concerned. Well why
why I don't understand what it Also, I can't eat anymore.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Oh it's cursed. I see. I see what you did there,
which has to be good for your way it is.
I got abs now, Okay, here's the problem. Though. People
are gonna think that you cheated. You're on nozepic because
that's just the era we're in and not a.

Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
But then you have to explain it each time because
people make assumptions.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Man, That's why I wear one of them around my neck.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Oh well, if you're trying to protect it, why would
you bring us back in it? Why would you bring
it back into the studio where all your coworkers are.
I feel like you up here, I need forty million
dollars in gold bars, And then doesn't have to explain
why he needs it.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
What you've never wanted to build a forty million gold
bar fort.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
Ever, No, obviously, obviously, but that would be dangerous, man,
I think comes crashing down golds heavy. Can you imagine
you die under your fort forty million dollars gold bar
a little fort because you didn't reinforce it? What a
way to go?

Speaker 6 (13:52):
What?

Speaker 2 (13:52):
What an obituary that would be?

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Man, you like your friends, You're like, oh man, Bob
passed away? Oh man, how'd you go? And they're like,
oh wow, power move.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Why is it so easy for everybody to get hold
of millions of dollars? Everyone from random CIA guys to
the stupidest people you've ever met or heard from in Minnesota?
How do we not have millions of doll Ross does
because he has all the doubloons. But no, seriously, Like,
how easy is it just to get a hold of
all the government's money? And why am I having so

(14:21):
much trouble doing it?

Speaker 2 (14:22):
I signed my kid up for a leering center. Okay,
the reason we picked this one is the entire center
was made out of gold bars, and I was like,
this is high scale, this is class.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
And it's run by Ross's wife, who's now double dipping.
Like they were all the Somalies were up there, so
it's amazing. Officials searched this guy's home back on May eighteenth,
seized again more than three hundred gold bars two million
dollars in US currency, doesn't say on the foreign currency,

(14:52):
thirty five luxury watches, most of them rolexes, and then
took him into custody there. So, uh, it's the FBI
said it's working with the CIA and Department of Justice
and its investigation. I think, I dude, this oh Boston Paul,
he was investigating a strip joint. Dude, do you know

(15:13):
you know how fast you get you get kicked out
of a strip club if you throw a gold bar
out a stripper. Don't do it, man, I want to
see it. Yeah, because she'd be torn, wouldn't she asually?

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Oh do it again?

Speaker 7 (15:30):
It again? I like it.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
Oh, give it a bouncer with the broom's gonna be like,
all right, go ahead. He's getting crazier and crazier on this. Uh.
The CIA guy who they found forty million dollars in
gold bars, he had literally just checked out of the

(15:51):
property room, said he needed him for a thing he
was doing. Didn't state what it was. They don't even know,
and UH just was gonna keep him. This guy had
been lying from the start. And I can't decide if
they just didn't do a background check or they did

(16:12):
and they realized this guy, like the stones on this
dude to lie to the extent that I'm gonna explain
to you. They're like, that sounds like he's perfectly cut
out for the CIA, right. So, according to the FBI AFFID,
David Guy's last name is Rush. They noted that Rush
appears to have lied for years about his education and

(16:33):
military background, falsely claiming at the time he joined the
CIA to being a Navy pilot. You tell me the
CIA can't call the navy. How does that work? I
know they call people because we somebody I went to
school with. I don't even fully know what his position was.

(16:54):
I didn't talked to him since after he left school,
but just somebody I went to school with. They called,
like they called one of our teachers, they called me
the call well they called basically they some of his
teammates and whatnot, and had some like fo like some
questions just straight up he was here this time, blah
blah blah, And I had to have Chuck Grassley as

(17:16):
the teacher. He kind of explained what was going on there.
We just thought it was really cool. Dude had been
in the military, but he left the military to do something.
He's probably CIA, I don't know, probably monitoring us right now.
So you're telling me a guy at the CIA HR
office can't call over the Navy and be like, Hey,
was this guy a pilot over there? What's going on?
He also claimed that he had graduated with degrees from

(17:38):
both Clemson University and the Renstler Polytechnic Institute in New York.
He did neither of those things. The only thing that
was partially true is they found out he did enlist
in the Navy in nineteen ninety seven, served in the
US Navy Reserves from four to twenty fifteen. He was

(17:59):
only discharged holding the rank of lieutenant, but it was
not a pilot. In fact, he didn't even appear to
undergo any evaluations as a pilot during that time, so
they he didn't even try to be a pilot, and
he did not attend either college. How does the CIA
not catch that? I'm just trying to put two and

(18:22):
two together in my head. Can you Ross? Can you
fathom putting together an entire fake resume where you're, you know,
a hero pilot, you got multiple degrees from a couple
pretty good institutions and none of it's true, and then
handing that to the CIA or the FBI. You should
think in your head, man, this isn't gonna go well

(18:44):
for me. But he did those things according to the
charging documents here. All right. M oh well, let's just
I'm gonna play this audio because I want to mock
her twice. So yesterday the governor of New York decided
she was gonna she was going She's going to piggyback

(19:05):
on the success that the New York Knicks are having
right now and also attack Trump at the same time,
because she can't just come out and be happy and
be like, yeah, I've been a Knicks fan all my life.
Is she a Bills fan? Is that what I'm remembering
about her? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (19:19):
She is?

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Okay, all right, so just come out and be like, hey,
this is great, it's fantastic, it's it's been a while. No,
she's got to turn it into a Trump thing, except
she's too dumb to do it. Get my little there,
we go. Listen, Listen to this insanity.

Speaker 8 (19:39):
I asked him to name the starting lineup from nineteen
ninety three chimps.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Okay, so she's responding to a question that Trump states
that he's a lifelong Knicks fan, which I guess makes
sense for a couple of reasons. One, he's a New Yorker. Two,
there's tons Ross, have you seen this. There's tons of
video of him literally hanging out with the Knicks, including
one where he shot a whole episode of The Apprentice
with a bunch of the current Knicks players years ago.

(20:08):
And there's pictures of Trump at parties with Knicks players.
These things exist.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah, No, I believe that he's a Knicks fan. He's
a big New York City guy.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
New York's Donald Trump Man. This is It's also stupid,
all right, So you know what the question is. Listen
to her answer.

Speaker 8 (20:29):
I asked him to name the starting lineup from nineteen
ninety three championship team to see how he does.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, Ross, can you name the starting lineup of the
nineteen ninety three Knicks champion Now?

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Once again, just like the construction people, which some people
are calling clowns, right, yes, I'm gonna give this clown
Governor Hotchel whatever, the benefit of the doubt. Yeah, is
she talking about like that they won their division? Because
they did win the Atlantic Division in nineteen ninety three, right,
but they got bound, they got bounced in the playoffs.
So she means like the championship, championship, she.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Said, championship team. I'll even give her credit if if
she they went to the championship, you know, the finals
they did, they did, didn't win, even though championship means
you got a champion.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
I believe they Chicago took them out of the East.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, so this would be here's the here's the roster
for the I guess what I guess.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
I'm gonna guess that's fun for me.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
Uh Patrick, Nope, this is again, this is a ninety
three championship team.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Oh okay, I'll tell you. You meant the Knicks in general.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
So you you have shooting guard. His name is Michael Jordan.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Sure, have you heard of that guy ball who's small
Ford Scottie Pippen, Horace Grant, Uh yeah, absolutely. Horace Grant
was the power forward. Yes, yeah, this was the this
was the nixt nineties. Oh, I'm sorry, that's the Bulls
first three peat that's the Bulls first.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Three peat when they.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Took a couple of years off and at it again.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Patrick Ewing on the Knicks, John Starks, Charles Oakley. I
don't remember if it was Anthony Mason. He might not
have been there, or he might have left. Doc Rivers,
I think, and I'm missing one. Yeah, I can't get
them all.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
She had stars Rivers, you have Oakley?

Speaker 2 (22:25):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know if I said it, but
I was thinking it.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yeah. And then Charles Smith that's the okay. Yeah, And
I didn't know that either. I just had to look
it up. So yeah, So yeah, the the Bulls won.
And by the way, here's another fun fact. Here's another
fun fact. So not only is it the first Bulls
three Pete, do you know what Michael Jordan averaged for
that series?

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Those six games against the Knicks are in the finals,
in the in the finals, Okay, So that would be
when they Charles Barkley, Dan Marley and the Phoenix Suns
Kevin Johnson kJ. I don't know, like thirty five, thirty
eight points or something. Wow, that series.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Go ahead, Lebron, tell me about Lebron' some more. Well,
tell me about me Lebron once again. I'm just defending
clowns today. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt.
So some defense that Phoenix Sun's team in ninety three.
They were all a bunch of plumbers and electricians and
you know what I mean, they all work. Charles Barkley,

(23:28):
I mean, what is that what MVP did? Please? That's
what the era was. Please? Yeah, Charles Barkley, Mark West.
Let's see who el was on that roster in the
ninety three finals. Kevin Johnson, point guard, Dan Madeor. I
never had to pronounce, yes, Dan Marley, Marley, Yeah, Richard Dumas,

(23:50):
Charles Barkley, and Mark West. Those are your starters for
that team. Ah, so what could make this stupider? All right?
You ready for this? So then after everyone started playing
this audio pointing out that she's she's a buffoon, I
think the next did go to the finals the next year?

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (24:12):
They did, because it was the Bulls won three, then
the Rockets won back to back, and then the Bulls
came back and won three more. Yeah, it was the
Knicks who lost the Rockets speed him. So that game
I went to seven games, but they won four to three.
So so what happens is her press account, right, so

(24:34):
her Twitter in turns will go ahead and call it.
They posted pretending that she knew that. But she was
setting a trap for Trump so that when he was
asked about he'd be like, oh, yeah, big fan of
the ninety three championship team. And so it's some sort
of weird four D chess things she was doing. No,

(24:54):
she just got it wrong. And I don't know if
she meant to say the ninety four team that went
to the went to the finals, but the Knicks, Knicks
didn't win it. In fact, you know, the last time
the Knicks have won an NBA championship.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Like it's like seventy something, seventy two or three or something.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, so the last time, the last time the New
York Knicks won a championship was seventy two to seventy
three season they took down the Lakers. They were very dominant,
beat the crap out of them.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
I think I think Phil Jackson was on the team,
wasn't he?

Speaker 1 (25:29):
And that was strange because the Lakers Knicks were the
finals for two consecutive years, and then the Lakers won
in seventy two in five games, and then the Knicks
beat the Lakers the next year in five games, so
and you know they had a lot of success. Knicks
also won in sixty nine against the Lakers. I mean
this is and then of course you just have the

(25:50):
Boston Celtics, who you know, three peats are nice, but
what if you can win eight in a row. You know,
that's a pretty dominant performance. So yeah, there's there's all
sorts of clown work going around. All right, hold on there,
you have too much faith. There is an entire department

(26:10):
that does security clearance backgrounds for the entire government. And
guess what, there is a backlog, so approved shortcuts have
been approved or shortcuts have been approved over time. The
CIA doesn't do their own background checks for the majority
of the roles you apply via USA jobs like all
of oh yeah, so so just just governing. Okay, well, okay,

(26:30):
here's my question. Then who else is in the CIA
that's full of crap? If this dude could just walk on,
he's like I did these things. There's some guy running
around who's like, I was an astronaut and then nobody
checked it, right, just I was part of Operation Blackbriar,
That's what I Yeah, yeah, I did that. I did that.
Oh do you don't have to check it? That's fine, No, no, no,

(26:53):
Look look here's a totally not photoshop photo. That's that's
kind of terrifying. And again just being able to check
out forty million dollars in gold, that's a crazy flex dude.
All right, six forty six. Let's take a break. We'll
come back. We got so much stuff to get to

(27:13):
this morning. Do not go anywhere, by the way, I
just want you to envision how if, if the moonbats
ever took control enough to accomplish this in North Carolina.
I think it'll look like the Civil War again. And
I don't know how it's going to play out in Oregon,
but they're getting ready or attempting, I should say, to
do something insane. I don't know if it's I don't

(27:35):
know from a lawsuit perspective, if they actually accomplish this.
But Oregon, Oregon, there is a petition. So Oregon is
like a lot of states where if you can get
enough signatures for a petition, you can get a ballot initiative.
California does this all the time, so Oregon has that

(27:56):
as well. And so they had a group who won
to put a ballot initiative that would and now has
the threshold number of signatures to be added to the ballot,
that would ban hunting, fishing, and breeding of animals in Oregon.
I want to repeat this. They would ban hunting, fishing,

(28:20):
and the breeding of animals. That one's really important too.
I know people are getting immediately outraged on the hunting
and fishing, because that's what my family did. And by
the way, once you get one millimeter to the east
of like the Wilmette Valley and you know, basically the

(28:40):
run where Eugene and Portland are right that little swat
to land there, you get one millimeter to the east,
it's rednecks. I know this. I know a lot of
people from eastern Oregon, eastern Washington. When we all left
and my mom actually moved, she moved up by Core Lane,

(29:01):
which is technically an Idaho, but her property line, the
back of her property line was literally where the state
of Washington started. And so I got to know quite
a few of those people up there. They're just like
people in Wyoming, for the most part, a lot of
cattle ranchers. You had some mutton operations, some sheep operations

(29:22):
up there, they hunt, they fish, you know, they love
the outdoors, got you know, beautiful places to do it.
So if you were to if you were to ban
this one, you would decimate half of your agricultural industry
just gone. No, can't breed cows, no more, can't have
any cattle ranchers. So that's cooked, and then not hunting

(29:46):
and fishing. I hope you enjoy smashing your car into deer.
A lot of people don't realize this, that there's a
lot that it isn't just as simple as we're gonna
have a deer season and then for you know, this
month or these two months or three months or whatever
it is in whatever state. In Wyoming, we have a

(30:08):
very long like you can physically, you could physically murder
a deer from depending on where you are from like
September first to January fifteenth. We have a huge hunting window.
You know why because we've got a crap ton of animals.
But when you get into more where there's more people,

(30:30):
the management of the deer is done via hunting because
it's done very effectively. And if you don't manage deer populations,
but you still because this is the thing, these nitwits.
Just to show you the bright brains you're dealing with.
These nitwits that are running this thing. They probably think
that if they just stop hunting and fishing and having livestock,

(30:51):
you know, the breeding of animals, that somehow nature is
just going to course correct into this perfect utopia, you know,
like some like it's some Disney movie. But the reality
is that's not what happens. Chronic wasting disease is what happens.
Blue tongue is a thing that happens, and and that

(31:11):
can be very very problematic. The CWD stuff is crazy
about in some places. And also you got a gazillion
deer running around and you still have you know, millions
of nitwits that live over in western Oregon zipping around
in their you know, electric vehicles or whatever. And if

(31:31):
you don't call any of the deer, they're frigging everywhere.
This is the problem the states that they run into
up in the northeast. We've talked about this on the show.
The way that they solve it is because not even
hunting can keep up with it, that they hire They
hire these these companies that are just snipers that sit
there all night just whacking deer. Man, just whacking deer,

(31:54):
just whacking and stacking so they can get the numbers down,
so that they can decrease the number of motorists who
were killed because there's so many deer. And by the way,
have you've ever been There's a beautiful, beautiful town in
Oregon called Astoria, and it's the one that sits all
the way by the way. Rost's where they filled a
bunch of the goony stuff too, that's its other claim
to thing. But it sits out there right right where

(32:17):
the river you know, empties out in the Pacific Ocean.
And I've like I've been there. I'm sure some of
you have been there. It's this beautiful little town. It
has a fishing fleet like they have you kind of
feel like it's it's one of those you know towns
in Maine right where they did you know, they have
all the the fishing fleet there. They have that in Astoria.

(32:39):
So that's done. Also, sometimes people breed fish. Give me
a little sip o water. Uh geez, sorry, one more
there There is a crazy video floating around and we
have a resolution uh to this now, I guess, but

(32:59):
I'm just it's like, bro, take the l and what
it involves is down in Florida. It's is Palm Beach County.
The officers are running one of these specialized it's not
a checkpoint operation, but basically one of these targeted enforcement actions.
And what they're what they're looking for is they're looking
for people who are driving around with their cell phone

(33:22):
in their hand right right, not using the hands free. Now,
you're in violation of the law down there, and they're
gonna pull you over and they're gonna write you a ticket.
So you know, they got a bunch of cops sitting
there and just waiting for it, and then they got
the chase vehicles and they go get people. And that's
what they did. One of the one of the deputies there,
because again it's the sheriff's office, decided that he was

(33:45):
gonna stop this woman. Her name is Kathleen Thomas, she's
thirty six. And I'm just gonna let you hear the
initial approach right. This is right when he walks up
via the body cam, the exchange that's happening. But there's
there's an important visual thing that I will explain to you,
but I want you to I want you to hear

(34:05):
how this started. Okay, here we go. Hey, good morning.

Speaker 6 (34:08):
I know he gets ohlid with the pumps kind of
shares office.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Oh this is so quiet, rosk. We cranked the level
just a little on that. Thank you.

Speaker 6 (34:14):
Hey, good morning, I wad he gets olid with the
pumps kind of shares office. This is the way you're
being pulled over in the city of Lagwarts today. We're
doing an operation for the stricted driver. And you drove
past me and holding the phone with your right hand
when you laid in the phone, I mean I saw you.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Okay, all right. So you hear him pause there, And
the reason he pauses is right after he says to her, Hi,
I'm you know, deputy, whatever, the reason I pulled you
over today is I saw it. I observed you driving
while holding your cell phone with your right hand. And
the reason that his cadence pauses is because she then

(34:48):
proceeds to hold up her right arm, which stops at
the elbow or just above the elbow. She's got a stump.
She has no right hand, so.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
She holds it up.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
By the way, She's still kind of in good spirits
here she holds it up. She's kind of like smiling
because she because she realizes this is what are we
doing here? Clearly I could have been holding this with
my right hand, and but but he keeps going.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
So you call this a day.

Speaker 6 (35:20):
I don't want to call it right.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
She's in great spirits.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah, she's like, this is funn there's gonna be a
great story later. So you just want to call it
a day. And I think the officer should have said, yeah,
let's call it a day, because because here's the thing. Well,
let me let me finish playing the audio and then
i'll give you a little analysis.

Speaker 6 (35:44):
I thought, with the right hand perhaps.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Not right, but no not perhaps not with the right hand,
apps afresolutely not unless she owed the hand in her
glove box or something I don't know. And what's even crazier,
And again, visually you got to see this thing, so
we'll tweet it out for you. He then has her swear.

(36:13):
And you know how you swear right used to like
you swear on your swear on the Bible, swear on
your mother's grave. What do you have to do? You
raise your hand, so he has her swear, She raises
the stump, and then he forces her to raise her
actual left hand. It's all so dumb. I know what

(36:36):
I said, I know what I said. I'm asking you
not did you did you know not funny? You did
not have funny? Hand to God, you did not have
funny in God. The other hand, a guy you don't
have funny in And then he proceeds to go through
just walk away man. Yeah, yeah, he wrote her a

(36:57):
whole citation to the reason. The reason that we're doing
the update is believe it or not, they threw it
out of court. So but to your point, yeah, yeah,
take that opportunity where she's smiling and going, ah, can
we just be done now?

Speaker 2 (37:12):
Listen. Possibly, I mean we had a story about to
do with no arms on no legs being a corn
hole champion that shot some people. So yeah, possibly, maybe
she had the nub on the wheel and she was
looking at the phone in her left hand. The problem
is she asked you why you were there, and you're one, Yeah,
you're on video saying well, I pulled you over because

(37:33):
you were clearly on the phone with your right hand.
She holds up the nub, says that's not that ain't
gonna fly here because I don't have a hand, and
it proceeds to go forward with the ticket and everything. Listen.
In a court of law, words mean thing things. And
if you pulled her over and the claim was right
hand and she has no right hand, you have no
case there. It's dead on arrival. What are you doing?

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Yeah, yeah, and it's not and it's on this body cam. No,
not even jack. You know, old days they would have
argued in court and be like, oh, maybe I said that,
Maybe I said this. No, no, we know what she said.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Maybe if when she rolled down the window you said, hey,
I saw you on the phone, but you spent you
specifically said the right hand right that you pulled her
over because of the right hand, she does not have
a right hand, So take the l and walk away.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
And that's the other thing too. If her phone appears
to be on her right side because she reaches chikai,
she has to like physically reach over to grab it.
I don't know. That's a little later in the video,
but like it's it's it's emotion, you know. One of
the things, and I can't remember the term for it
is fervent. I think there's another term for it, where basically,

(38:39):
if an officer is going to pull you over and
then one of the things they're looking for. Is they're
looking to see, is everybody in the vehicle like freaking
out digging through things? Right, Because now an officer is
going to note that and say, hey, I saw this,
this motion, this action, which leads me to believe that
maybe they were ditching drugs, they were hiding a weapon,
any of these things. Like that's a very real thing.

(39:01):
So this officer is observing her, he's trained to observe people,
and I kind of feel like her. It would it
would be a much more visually aggressive motion for her
to have to reach all the way across her body
and then to get down to over where the phone is.
So like, yeah, you're right on all fronts. Even if

(39:22):
she did have it in her left hand that that
ship has sailed, man unless sailed in the first five.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
Seconds, possibly she used the force to take her luke
skywalk her hand off and move it through the air
into the glove car.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
Right.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
But once again, she's the third third possibility there.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
Now, well, hold on, if you are levitating the phone
with the force, is that a violation? I don't know,
because you're still hands free.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
Full disclosure, I am not a law enforcement officer, right,
I'm just a bitbawlling here. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
I don't know, but let me let me, let me
ask any because I'm sure we got a sworn officer
or trooper or somebody listening. At that point, you're ten
seconds into this and the following let me play the
first ten seconds the following exchange has happened. Hey, good morning.

Speaker 6 (40:13):
I know where he gets olid with the pump's kind
of shares office. There's the way you're being pulled over
in the city of Lake Horse today. We're doing an
operation for the stricted driver. And you drove past me
holding the phone with you ry hand. When you played
in that phone, I mean, I saw you.

Speaker 4 (40:26):
So you want to just call this a day?

Speaker 7 (40:29):
I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
Do you just call that a day? Do you just
the eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven
four anyone is your police officer, were even retired police officer, whatever,
But like at that point, knowing that this is on bodycam,
knowing what you just said, and knowing that things are
still positive right here, right, she's laughing. She thinks it's funny,

(40:54):
like this isn't a lady who's gonna come down and
file a complaint? On you later. She's gonna tell the
story to her friends later. That's that's gonna be extent
of it. Do you just be like, all right, have
a good day, man, right.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
It seems at this point it's an ego thing. It's
what it seems.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
It kind of it does read that a little ways. Yeah, yeah,
And I'm looking in the comments that seems to be
a lot of people's opinion there. Just sometimes you just
got to take the l you'll get them next time.
Maybe she did have it in her left hand, but
you're just like she pulled the ultimate trump card for
the situation. My right hand, you say, my right hand

(41:32):
is I keep it in a box at my house
or something like, it's not here? Yeah, and it's And
by the way, the other thing is or if she
demonstrates that she has a prosthetic right if if and
she may have taken it off or something, and and
you can investigate that then fine, but like none of

(41:55):
that appears to be the case here. It just it's
just it's just an l. You just got to you
gotta take the loss here. So uh yeah, And again
they eventually did go to court. What all did he
write her for? Ummmmm? Doo do do do do do do. Sorry,

(42:19):
there's a lot going on in this story, all right,
So here we go. So the officer reviewed her license
and registration before issuing her a citation for violating Florida's
Wireless Communications while driving law. It was her first defense.
Would have cost her one hundred and sixteen dollars. Is
the penalty that's almost affordable. To no surprise, she challenged

(42:39):
the citation in court. Um who asked for the dismissal.
It looks like the officer actually did. Yeah. Yeah. Court
hearing schedule for Wednesday was canceled when the officer involved
in the traffic stop requested a dismissal due to lack

(43:00):
of evidence.

Speaker 7 (43:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
I think at that point, I think it was an
ego thing, and I think at that point this cop
realized how bad it would look for him to come
into court, you know, sit there in front of a
judge or a jury or you know however that's adjudicated
in Florida. You got a court room full of people.
You probably have some reporters because the story and the
video went viral, and you got to go in there

(43:24):
and sit on the stand and argue that you didn't
say it was in a right hand or recognize that
she couldn't have done it in the right hand. He
didn't want any of that smoke. Didn't want any of that. Andrew,
what's up?

Speaker 9 (43:38):
Thank good morning, Katy. Yeah, I just wanted to just
kind of reality.

Speaker 7 (43:43):
Which year going on?

Speaker 9 (43:46):
I would stop, you know, I get I live up there, Virginia.
I don't have you ever been pulled over? But they
drew up.

Speaker 7 (43:52):
Here, but they're not And pretty much one time I
got pulled over.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
I was interview. I was in a vehicle. Yeah, I
was in a vehicle that got pulled. I wasn't driving.
I was in my buddy's truck while you got pulled
over up there, and I would say the officer was
very nice to us. Actually I did give him a
ticket though, but to be fair, my buddy was driving
like a jackass. So that's what you get.

Speaker 9 (44:14):
Yeah, every stay true.

Speaker 7 (44:15):
And I've been pulled over by it's I've been every
which grief.

Speaker 9 (44:19):
It had been many times, but still but yeah, pretty
much you pulled me over. Said I didn't have my
handle the wheels. I tried to explain how, yes, I did.
Pretty much.

Speaker 7 (44:30):
He told me, hey, you need to be quiet, listen,
how right I am?

Speaker 9 (44:34):
And all a y'all. So you know, of course that
it's hard that I just sucked up and took it.

Speaker 7 (44:39):
But I don't know about everyone else, but I've been
seeing it. It's not the majority of cops, but it's
it's been an up ticket cops.

Speaker 9 (44:47):
That kind of have that you know power, you know,
I am the all kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Yeah, I don't think anyone's saying you're saying it's all
of it. Look, I'll sit here and tell you had
uh interactions with many police officers, and I thought that
they were giant a holes. The interactions weren't even necessarily
where they were enforcing crime. It's just a personality thing.
But I know a lot of police that are that
are not, So I just try to judge them as

(45:16):
they come. In this case, I think that this because
here's this is what This breeds two things, and thanks
for the call, Andrew one. It breeds the whole all right, Well,
this is an ego thing, but also it breeds the
age old where these these enforcement actions are just money grabs, right,
They're just doing and Florida has a history of this.

(45:36):
There is a town where I think they ended up
basically purging every law enforcement person and city council member. Yeah,
what was the name of this town. It was it
was to the point where it was criminal, but it's
it's a it's a back highway you can take to

(45:58):
cut through to Gainesville. Yeah, Waldo, Yeah, between Jacksonville and Gainesville.
Waldo and Lottry, located on US Highway three oh one,
historically infamous is Florida's most notorious speed trap, to the
point where the Feds or excuse me, the state actually
came in and like purge what they were doing. So

(46:19):
people get that thought in their head and then they
see this enforcement actions where they're just like this, this
is just this isn't about safety, this is about money, right,
And then this feeds people's idea that that is all
that this is about, which may not be fair. It
may very well be about safety. You could, you know,
Palm Beach County's probably a bunch of entitled jackasses driving

(46:40):
around on their phone not paying attention. Probably a thing.
But now the narrative goes in a very different direction. Yes, Lenny, what's.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
Up, Yes, sir, good morning.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
I had a quick comment.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
I would say the officer was not completely out of
line with what he was doing. I'd say he went
a little too far.

Speaker 9 (47:02):
But my next question when she told me.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
That she didn't have a hand would be, do you
mind if I see your phone? Because she could have
a case that allows her to pick up the.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
Phone with uh, yeah, yeah, I'm totally with you. It's
like I said, with the prosthetic hand, right, if he
can visually lokate that she had a prosthetic hand and
took it off, this is a different thing entirely. But
he doesn't go that. He didn't go. He didn't do
any of those. So it's like, hey, man, if.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
You didn't know where to go, he was not expecting
to see what he saw.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
In no, would you right? Would you just like no, No,
I would not. Yeah, it's not very it's not very
often somebody's gonna be in a position to do that.
Rebuttal and again, also she was in good spirits, right,
she didn't start screaming at the guy. I think at
that point, again, you either, like you said, investigate those
other two possibilities or just take the l and then

(47:53):
go back to where the rest of the deputies her
stage and be like you're not gonna believe what just happened, right,
and then everyone has a laugh and then everyone goes
about their business. All right, Lenny, thanks for the call
this morning. All right, look at the clock here, we
were winding up your Yeah. You know what, though, we'll
tweet the video out. You gotta watch the video. It's
it's longer. It's actually about a three minute interaction there,

(48:15):
but most of the GISTs there is just the first
forty five seconds, So check that out on the Twitter
at Casey on the radio. All right, coming up on
the show. Uh you update on what's going on with Iran.
The governor assigned a new executive order and I'm okay
with this. By the way, I'm okay with this. You know,

(48:39):
maybe the it's one of these things where things, you know,
things evolve technologically and then laws have to catch up
to it. So that's just the reality of it. Like
cell phone laws. Never used to need those, now you do.
Unless you have one hand. We'll be right back. I
grab one more call on the that story out of
Florida where the woman is accused of using her cell

(49:01):
phone with the right hand and then the officer rolls
up and says that and she holds up where what
used to be a hand and is now just a stump,
and and yet still got a ticket. And it wasn't
until that officer, probably in his mind, realized I have
to go to court and explain this to a judge.
They threw it out, but the bodycam footage is crazy.

(49:22):
All right, Jay, what's up?

Speaker 10 (49:26):
Hey, good morning, Kasey and Ross.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
Yeah. I just wanted to call.

Speaker 10 (49:28):
In and comment on that real quick. I think the woman,
being in good spirits, was was pretty good. I respect
out of her. So I was hoping, you know, the
cop would proceed with his you know, his normal cop duties,
so he could you know, he would have asked the woman, hey,
do you have any weapons in the vehicle, and she
could have said, you know, obviously, sir, I'm unarmed, and

(49:49):
that will just been.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
You would have been late for me. I would point
out it's Florida, though, so she probably is armed, correct, Yeah,
I mean, but it's probably not a handgun. So but
ump bum Okay, all right, that's enough buns. All right,
get out of here, Jay, I'm gonna get in trouble
there now. It's funny because you would have made you

(50:11):
would have said that and then she'd got all butt hurt,
then they probably would have sued or filed a complaint
or something. But yeah, it's a wild story, all right.
Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.
So I talked about this that sometimes you know what's
going on technology things like that, the laws haven't necessarily

(50:31):
caught up, right, and you have to eventually evolve those laws, right.
You know, is it different to search somebody's hard drive
than it is to search a bunch of papers you
see on a desk. Well, yes, right, depending on what
the situation is. But it wasn't until the laws caught
up with that that you knew. And one of the

(50:52):
things that the laws I don't know that they've caught
up with yet is these predictions markets, and specifically people
who are public employees who may have access to information
that could be used to you know, make a bunch
of money on them. And you saw this with that
contractor that tried to make what four hundred thousand dollars

(51:14):
on the Maduro capture, and we've seen other things like that.
So yesterday Governor Josh Stein signed an executive order that
bans state employees from using information that they've gained at
work to place wagers on prediction markets such as polymarket
or calls or any of those. And and by the way,

(51:35):
I'm okay with this, I'm okay with this. That shouldn't
be happening, not at all. But also I'm for the
much more, the much bigger version of this, which is
the utilization of information not just to make money on
prediction markets, but also I don't know on Wall Street, right,

(51:57):
And I understand that's more at the federal level, but
happen at the state level. Two, like we should make
all of it against the law. You should not be
able to use your position to do that. And I'll
you know, and I'll tell you this. I work for
a private company, Ross and I work for a private company.
But if we were to use proprietary information that iHeartMedia

(52:17):
had to enrich ourselves, that is that is literally in
our code of conduct training that we can't do that.
And that's probably the same way where you work as well.
And I understand why, because you may be making that money,
and you may making it on the back of the
company who then doesn't make the money or twists something

(52:40):
that causes a Probably there's one hundred ways that can
go wrong. And if that's expected of me as as
an employee of you know, a big conglomerate company, which
we are, right, we're the biggest, then it should be
an expectation of people who work in the public sector
as well. Right, go ahead, do your job, do your

(53:00):
job well, advance to where you can. I hope, I hope.
I hope you make good money. I hope you get
the if you're if you're a good employee, I hope
everything works out for you. But you can't use it
radio basically, you can use it enough to get like
free T shirts. You can have a whole bag of
them in your closet. Ross, how many bags of station
T shirts are currently haunting your closet or attic right now?

Speaker 2 (53:24):
A lot?

Speaker 1 (53:26):
That's just radio, man. But like this stuff right here
where they're making, you know, four hundred thousand dollars on
the Maduro capture, which is what that guy was attempting
to do. Hell no, no, no, no, we're not doing that.
I say, contractor, but support is what I met with
the guy down there at Bragg. But yeah, man, it's

(53:46):
just crazy. Although there was another incident with a contractor
as well, So no, I'm cool. With it. Uh. The
executive order is a natural extension of the North Carolina
State Ethics Act, which prohibits public servants and legislative and
from using or disclosing non public information. Ross. Have you
taken our current Code of Conduct training that's due here
on the fourth? Have you have you? Have you taken

(54:09):
the training? I see it's not due until yes I did? Yep?
Did they I'm I I would not and I haven't
seen it because I'm always last minute guy, which the
boss loves. But like I could see because we do
an annual Code of Conduct training, I could see this
being incorporated into updated versions of Code of Conduct training. Basically,

(54:30):
if you have, if you have inform and I'm trying
to think of what information a radio you know what?
You know, what information a radio person could have that
they could probably profit off. Is something having to do
with music release.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
Yeah, that's just what I was about to say, or like, yeah,
I'm going to make a bet and as to every
artist that's going to be at the iHeartRadio Music Festival,
right there you go, yeah, and then it comes out
like wow, you got every single one right, here's a
billion dollars. It's the equivalent of insider trading. So yeah, yeah,
absolutely so.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
No, I'm I'm fine with as critical as I am
normally of Steined and by the way, his fault most
of the time. No, I'm cool with this. And maybe
the legislature and one of their fix it bills, if
they can actually accomplish anything, could incorporate that in there.
But then also, let's put apart where you all can't
use information to profit off the stock market. That'll be

(55:20):
helpful as well. Or I don't know, hypothetically, let's say
that you own a bunch of land down in eastern
North Carolina and you just so happen to be wheedling
in all of these I don't know, solar projects, basically
forcing the hand too of the companies that provide power

(55:40):
through various meandering. Let's say, hypothetically your governor, and then
all of a sudden, when you want to lease your
land for a bazillion dollars, you then formulated so the
land gets put in your brother's wife's name so that
people don't notice. So we shouldn't do that as well,

(56:00):
Roy Cooper, that would be that's that's problematic. Oh I'm
sorry he did that. Oh that's so weird. Yeah, and
what is this? Yeah, I have restricted windows when I
can trade my company stock. I'm on an insider trading
list because of access to information. Yeah, so it all
makes sense absolutely. But to Ross's point, yeah, that's a

(56:23):
great example. Uh yeah, we before they announced before we
should I get into all the details, Ross, and I
have the ability to hear who's all going to be
at that iHeartRadio Music festival before you do, because we
do as we do this big simultaneously announcement on all
the stations, but that gets plugged in just prior, so

(56:44):
you'd have that window to try to exploit it, and uh,
I would firmly understand that would be a firing offense.
One PC or Ray Ray Stagic from the Weather Channel
can predict the weather and then bet on it, and
if he notices it, then you can make money. Can
why you know, hold on, hold on. Something just occurred

(57:06):
to me. Every weather man should be filthy rich if
they're any good at their job, because you can bet
on all these predictions markets. If you're a guy who
claims to be able to predict the weather, you know,
like one of these TV psychics, right, shouldn't you also
just be able to go on poly market or call
she and just be like it'll rain today in the

(57:27):
afternoon and then just clean up to the point where
you're all just driving yachts around.

Speaker 11 (57:32):
Well, let's go back to your original statement, okay, where
you said you know, if you could predict the weather accurately.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
So I'm just saying if if, if, if you believe,
and not just you, I just mean in general, if
you're a person who believes you can predict the weather accurately,
and then why wouldn't you be filthy rich off of
the uh, the prediction markets.

Speaker 11 (57:54):
Well, because it's how the house wins, right, So some
of the apps I've scene where he can actually bet
on temperature and you know if your a degree or
too often it's really measuring at one point too. So
you know, on the days like you have these isolated showers,
thutter showers, and you're betting it's going to rain at
the airport in Raleigh. That's a tough that's a tough forecast, o.

Speaker 5 (58:16):
Right.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
So the solid guy in France did to fleece him, right, No, oh,
he hopped the fence at Charles de Gaulle Airport in
Paris and he went over to where the weather station
is and then he put a blow dryer on it
because he had put a he had put a bet
that it would go over twenty two degrees celsius or

(58:37):
whatever the bet was, so he hopped the fence at
Charles de Gaulle. I did not put a heated ser
on the on the thing so that it slowly went
over the twenty two degrees so he could win the bet.

Speaker 2 (58:49):
I did not see that. Yeah, isn't that amazing? Didn't
get busted because he tried to do it twice. He
tried to do it in another Yeah, because he did
it one success. He got away with the carls. Okay, yeah,
how do you not see that story? I did not listen.
I get I get done doing this.

Speaker 11 (59:06):
I go live under a rock, so I a'll put
the news on for a few minutes, and I'm just
kind of I'm good. You know, nothing outside of the
world is all that exciting to me.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
That was raised on a yacht with the Russian Ballet company.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
Right now, the entire ballet company, right did they have
to cancel the shows they did? Oh my god? Oh no,
all right, Well good on you, buddy.

Speaker 11 (59:26):
Yeah, Well we've canceled a lot of the rain. If
you're betting on it today, good luck. We're seeing more
of the way clear sky. Now we've seen some clouds.
There's still some less, but this afternoon maybe obviously a
lot more sunshine than cloud same thing tomorrow. Mid upper
eighties today, low eighties tomorrow. So actually a little bit
better feeling air mass for tomorrow. And the rain's going

(59:48):
to be close over the weekend, but right now we're
keeping it south mainly cloudy Saturday, upper seventies to low eighties,
and then in the seventies on Sunday, and Sunday morning
is going to be a little bit fifties. So all
in all, it looks like it's going to be another
dry stretch of weather. We'll get a little bit of
wet weather Monday, and then next week it looks like
we're going to go into another long, dry stretch with
pleasant temperature. So the committee is going to go away.

(01:00:10):
The rain's gonna go away. And I can't believe I'm
saying for many of us they got a good soaking
and they're actually welcome to see the ring go. But uh,
you know, we're probably gonna need more in the eastern
half of the state because Raleigh didn't do so well
as it did the Triad and then further west unfortunately
they did a lot better, which was for the worst

(01:00:30):
with a flooding, so pretty variable. And we'll see what
the changes in the drought monitor. How that's gonna line up.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
By the way, Ross, fun fact, the name of Ray's
yacht is under a rock, so he was saying, yeah, good, gotcha, yeah, Sorr, Right,
all right, busted, we're talking an hour. Thanks, there you go,
rased agic from the weather channel seven forty seven, No
steven today. By the way, I probably should have mentioned

(01:00:57):
that a little earlier on he's what's the secret mission
or something? Does he have forty million dollars in gold
bars too? Or is it a wedding thing? I don't know,
but he's not able to make.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
No, it's his wedding anniversary, his trip to Budapest and
then Siberia.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
Mm hmmm hm. You know it sounds sus right, a
little bit, a little bit okay, all right? AnyWho, good
old loving him post? All right, So Ross has sent
this to me. Headline reads, the President's Official Committee booked
a disgraced pop act for the National mall all right,

(01:01:35):
and the Rosses making me guess I did not guess
who it was correctly because I was thinking a little
more modern something like that. No, no, no. One of
the acts announced for this summer celebration of the nation's
two hundred and fiftieth anniversaries left plenty of people scratching
their heads. Freedom two fifty, the organization created by Trump
to spearhead the events, announced on Wednesday. The the music

(01:02:00):
line up, all right, well listen to this, all right,
So we got Martina McBride, Okay, I'm cool with that.
Vanilla Ice? Sure? Why not see and see music Factory? Ross?
Did they have more than that one song? Are they
considered a one hit wonder?

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
Uh, Morris Day in the time, all right? Look at
that run in the Gamut? Uh oh yeah, there's one
more Milli Vanilli and that's what they're referring to, which
I'm like, aren't they dead? And so I looked it up.
They're half dead? Right?

Speaker 2 (01:02:39):
So is Milly going to be there? Vanilli?

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
Which one I don't I don't know who was million?
Who was Vanilli? Rob Polaitis won't be there because he dead,
he died, He went out rock star style. He died
in a hotel room like in Germany, on a bunch
of fistful of pills and alcohol or whatever. All right,
so he's out. But the other dude, fab More van
or whatever, he tours and and I didn't realize this,

(01:03:02):
so I looked it up. So for a while Bab
was out touring as Millie Vanilli and it was him
and the two original studio singers who actually sang the
milliev And by the way, if you're young and you
don't know who Milli Vanilli is, Milli Vanilli was this
They took over that summer of music, right, Milli Vanilli

(01:03:24):
was fricking everywhere. This was like New Kids on the
Block era. And then you had this Milli Vanilly and
they had these really really catchy songs. And how many
Grammys do they win? Like I think they want. They
want a crap ton of Grammies to end up having
to give give them back. But for like, in this
is like late eighties, you have girl you Know It's True,

(01:03:48):
blaming on the Rain all or nothing. They had a
bud but Girl you Know It's True and Blaming on
the Rain were probably two of the biggest songs of
of eighty eight eighty nine, and so they they piled
on the Grammys and then they turned out, Oh baby,
don't forget my number. That's right. Yeah, they had some

(01:04:09):
really successful songs. They had a bunch of them. I
think I've even done parodies of their songs. And then
they found out after they had a lot of these
dudes with all the awards and did everything, they didn't sing.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
Yeah, it a big controversy and it was crazy because
they would do these interviews when they weren't singing, and
they had these really thick accents, right, and then they
had sing and it would be like, you know, smooth
and they're winning Grammys and you know, something just didn't
add up.

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
Mmmm, let's see here how many Grammys did they win.
But then when it all blew up that they you know,
they didn't even sing their own thing, you know, it
was it was It was a crazy It was one
of the craziest music stories in my lifetime. Just just
the audacity. I mean, they had the look, they could dance, right,

(01:05:00):
they had a couple, but you know, dudes, big dreadlocks
or whatever out there doing their thing. And then everybody
was loving them, and it was the right era for him.

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
You know, I would.

Speaker 1 (01:05:10):
So they're booked for the National they weren't best new
artists too.

Speaker 2 (01:05:14):
I'd be curious to see that though, just you know,
just as a curiosity thing. I'd like to see that.
Like the guy just does he just stand there and
dance while the backup people sing.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
Yeah. Now the two original backup people, those people both died,
so now it's two other studio singers doing the singing.
He just shuction jives. I don't know, man, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
See you have like a kind of like a journey
thing going on where you have people that sound like
the original people that were actually the people behind Milli Vanilli.

Speaker 1 (01:05:40):
Yeah, I'm sure they probably sound pretty close. And again
the songs are seemly catchy. Ross is now in a
blood feud with roadworkers. So so this we talked about
the beginning of the show. I think it's funny enough
we got to talk about it again. So you have
heard it mentioned on this program, and I don't know
recent weeks frustration because the way that Ross commutes to

(01:06:06):
work is normally to go down Atlantic Avenue, you know,
north to south, make a left. Remember by the way.
These visuals I'm explaining to you they will be very
important here in a moment. Make a left off Atlantic
onto high Woods, which of course is where the high
Woods Business Park is. You got you know, all the
radio stations are here, and there's a bunch of government

(01:06:30):
office treasure's offices right there, and you know, a bunch
of people, bunch of healthcare stuff, people work back back here.
And so you make a left. That's how you get there,
and then you can pull into the radio station about
halfway between Atlantic and Capitol Boulevard. And so they've been
doing work for the last ninety years or I think
since reconstruction on Atlantic just north of the station, and

(01:06:55):
that's where you had the manhole where they had it
all done, and then they ripped it up again and
the manhole stick like a foot it off and we'll
rip the underside of your car off. So we pointed
that out. We didn't quite understand that. In fact, even
one of the guys who worked on the crew said
he didn't understand why they were re ripping the road out. Well.
Lo and behold, let's fast forward to this morning. As

(01:07:17):
as Ross is coming, I texted him something because like
sometimes we'll see some audio in the morning. Be like, hey, man,
it's good. Let me let me give you the link
over there. So I texted it over and then he's
like he's like, I can't even get into the studio,
all right, so explain, explain what you encountered this.

Speaker 5 (01:07:34):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
So I'm driving by and we even around the manholes
that are still kind of sort of raised, and I
get to the point where I'm going to take a
left onto high Woods. Right, I can't take a left
because there's a construction crew and a black top crew
and there's just a million set up.

Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
At like five in the morning, yeah, thirty five in the.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
Morning, five fifteen, five thirty in the morning, And I
can't take a left there. And I'm like, well, there
was no sign. There was no because by a Hope
mil there could have been like, hey, take a left
here if you need to go to high Woods, because
is down the road. You're gonna be sol the road
is closed. You can't go anywhere. But there's no detour sign,
no warning, no nothing. And I'm like, no problem, I'm
just gonna go down the road. I'll make a U
turn by the boat Jingles. It's bow time. And then

(01:08:13):
when I come back, I'll take a right, So I
do that. Nope, it's it's closed that way too, And
I stopped and I'm like, dude, I need to go
to work, like.

Speaker 1 (01:08:22):
Right there, and you see how you're at work.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
I gotta get yeah, like I need to be right there,
and you're like, Nope, can't go that way. And I'm like, well,
where's the signs, where's the warning? You just took like
fifteen to twenty minute. What are you doing here? And
then what's even worse is I realized driving down when
you drive there one way, it was like, you know, hey,
right lane closed and this is important.

Speaker 1 (01:08:43):
So this is north to south. And remember I told
you it's a left turn into high Woods. So for
the right lane to be closed makes no sense. Yeah,
of course it's not, because that would turn you up
to wolf Pack by Way and that's open.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
The sign was wrong. You should have said left lane closed,
but it had right lane, and coming the other way
said left lane, but it should have been the right lane.
So these clowns don't even know they're left from their right.
Put up a sign, put up two signs.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
Yeah, yeah, I mean they put them up on the
wrong sides, right, but they went through the effort, but no,
put a detour sign at New New Hope Church Road
right up there, and then you would have been able
to cut across. And by the way, it's not just
literally the hundreds, perhaps thousands of people that work in
this giant business park right right there on the belt line.

(01:09:30):
Y'all know where it is, see it there. But also
that's a main cut across for people who are attempting
to go between Atlantic.

Speaker 2 (01:09:37):
And Capitol right to either go down Capital.

Speaker 1 (01:09:39):
Usually ninety miles an hour.

Speaker 2 (01:09:40):
YEA like to do it order get in the belt line. Yeah,
maybe it's open now. I mean it's been a few hours,
but I'm saying at five fifteen, five thirty you there's
no way you could have went down high Woods. Just
absurd man put up a sign. It's just annoying.

Speaker 1 (01:09:53):
Do you trust her to put up a side when
they don't even know they're left from the right, No, No,
I don't. Yeah. So my theory is I have two theories. One,
this is retribution for what Ross was complaining about with
the manholes right somehow up the food chain some I
don't know, some supervisor heard it and he's like that
son of them.

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
I got him, and I'm fine. I'm fine with that
theory because everything, as you know, revolves around me, right,
so it's definitely conspiring against me. I would agree on
now one.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
Yes, Okay. The other theory is, uh, it might be
they're they're not actual road workers, they're part of a
heist crew, and they're they're part of it is to
obstruct police response because on in the in the very
same building as the radio studio, the Museum of History
I think has all of their doubloons and stuff and
Confederate gold or stored here or something. I don't know, right,

(01:10:47):
because the History Museum's gutted, and then all of a
sudden they have two floors, and so why did that?
You know, maybe you heist something there, maybe you steal
that slave cabin or something. I don't know, uh whatever,
But I think the first theory is probably better. Well, Ibby,
I'm assuming that's how you're gonna leave after the show today,
so I'll be very curious.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
No, I definitely am not. I'm going down Capitol.

Speaker 1 (01:11:09):
Well you're not even gonna go check it out?

Speaker 2 (01:11:11):
Sure, I'm not.

Speaker 1 (01:11:14):
But but then we need we need an update for tomorrow, Everyboddy.

Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
Yeah, nop, but I'm busy not going that way?

Speaker 10 (01:11:20):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
You're gonna try to come to work that way tomorrow though, right?

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
Nope, sure him not.

Speaker 1 (01:11:23):
I'm just proud of you because, honestly, I think you
would have been well within your rights to text Trevor
a photo and go home like I really want, boss,
I wanted to come to work. Look look what they did.
I had no choice. I had to go home and
go back to sleep. So but if I again, we
don't know if it's still up. Maybe they were just

(01:11:44):
trying to do something quick, trying to do it early,
you know, ahead of the morning commute. But if you're
still morning commuting and that's part of your pathway there,
just know that you may end up having because it
it may. It took Rossnelly fifteen minutes because you had
to go do the turnaround, go up there, go all

(01:12:05):
the way over, then cut down a Capitol Boulevard, deal
with all the stupid lights on Capitol Boulevard, and then
eventually make the turn into the Highwoods Park there so
that it could be an issue. I don't know if
it still is all right, eight eight eight nine three
four seven eight seven four you want to be on

(01:12:25):
the show. Oh, we're just let me real quick, just
because I fill out this segment with it. So there's
a Martin short Netflix documentary. Ross, just tell me about
this and you watch this is what you watched yesterday
because I could told me I.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
Watch maybe like thirty minutes of it. Twenty thirty minutes.
It's sort of like watching while doing prep.

Speaker 1 (01:12:45):
Okay. I think it's called Life is Short. Okay, And
they least I've seen it on there, I just haven't
clicked it. It goes I didn't know this about three
A meg.

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
I didn't either. So they're going through his entire you know,
career and SCTV and SNL and then he gets to
his movie career. In his first movie ever was Three
Amigos with Chevy Chase and Steve Martin, which I had
know idea it was his first movie. Yeah, and he
starts talking about how the movie was a massive failure
and how it was panned and how Roger Ebert told
chevy Chase on Carson that he thought it was a

(01:13:16):
bad movie and Chase, well, chevy Chase was sitting behind
him while Ebert was looking at Carson and Chevy Chase
looked like he wanted to stab Ebert in the face.
It's Chase, you probably, Yeah, he was super you could
see he wasn't not happy with that. And they show
all these clips, like these headline clips like you know,
funny legends or funny people can't make movie funny, you know,

(01:13:38):
just how the movie isn't funny, And I am, I am,
I am yelling at my television like this is absurd,
this is insane, this is nuts. How can you say
that movie isn't funny? And then they go to Martin
Short and he goes, you know, Through the years though,
the movie has now become revered, especially by forty year
old boys. Yeah, and I'm like, yep, that's true.

Speaker 1 (01:14:02):
Yeah, I'll o that. Yeah, one d percent. Dude, man,
they should have had Olguappo come out kick the crap
out of Roger Ebert in costume. Of course.

Speaker 2 (01:14:12):
It's crazy, though, to learn about these movies that were
panned at the time that become like cult classes, like
The Jerk or With the Jerk, or like The Big Lebowski.

Speaker 1 (01:14:20):
Yeah, yeah, imagine imagine hating on those I I'm not
the best person to talk to. I came to a realization.
I explained this to Ross yesterday, and now he thinks
I'm an alien. I realized as I was flipping through
one of the streaming services the other day because it
recommended the movie Step Brothers. I realized, I have never
watched step Brothers. And I don't know how that happened. Yeah,

(01:14:43):
because that was at the peak that's like peak around peak.
Will Farrell, I've probably seen step Brothers. I don't know roughly,
and asked him that probably a million times. Really, Yeah,
like in the theater. I think I saw that movie
like four times. And that started up there with with
when he was on Fire there with those movie like
Talladega Nights, and yeah, this is why I don't know

(01:15:06):
how I missed it. And then but the problem is
now again, I find myself so off put by so
many of these Hollywood people that it subconsciously influences my
desire to see their stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
Yeah, and you haven't seen that before. It might affect
how you view it now because of how you view
Will Ferrell, or because of the sort of.

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
It's Ruffalo, it's Legizamo, Legzamo annoys the crap out of me.
Did you know they're redoing uh, Legamo and that I
think he's in that. Did you know they're redoing the Exorcist?
I just saw this, yes, said, did you know they're
redoing the Exorcist?

Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
No idea?

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
Do you know who's the woman who's going to be
the star woman in the Exorcist?

Speaker 7 (01:15:46):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:15:46):
Who? Scarlet? Joehansson? Oh yeah, Okay, it's gonna have leg Wizamo.
It's got a bunch of people in there. And I'm like,
I would be inclined because I like horror movies. They're
saying it's not just a reboot of the original because
they've had like seven to rate Exorcist movies and about
half of them have been gone awful, maybe more than
Lincoln brought that movie up yesterday, and he's really big
into cinema and the history of cinema and films, and

(01:16:08):
he likes to memorize like what year they came out
and in what order and who who directed them and
how long they are.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
And he was going through his list yesterday of movies
and he did not know how to pronounce Exorcists. It's
kind of you know, it's just it's a weird word. Sure, yeah,
I can't remember how he said. He was like, he's like,
what is the oxers? What expell it? It's the Exorcist.
I'm like, that's a scary movie, buddy.

Speaker 1 (01:16:29):
I mean, eh, the effects don't really hold up, you know,
but I think for a kid it might be scary.
Oh sure, ye yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
And he's like, what's it about him?

Speaker 1 (01:16:42):
Like you see whatever that is?

Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
He's like, what's it about him? Like, aha, it's about
this demon that gets into it. And then I'm like
I need to stop. I need to see.

Speaker 1 (01:16:50):
Yeah, you don't want him to, you know, want I'm
going down that road, man, because you'll fix it on right. Well,
he kind of, I don't know. He already went through
with dark Souls, didn't he? Is there a bunch of
demonic stuff with.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
That's just that's just a classic you know nights, you know,
fighting dragons and good guys and bad guys sort of thing.
But I don't want him up at night not being
able to go to sleep because he thinks the demon
is going to get into him or something.

Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
Well, maybe those guys shouldn't have asked the demon to
help him with their stupid rain dance or whatever. So
oh man, all right, speaking of things that need to stop,
you know what I have? Ale, You know, I just
realized I was gonna have two things. I have three things. Okay,
one of them is a little ridiculous, but whatever, We're
making this list something that things the media needs to
stop doing. We'll get into that. Got like I said,

(01:17:35):
two or three things covering both the Grand Plantner right,
this lunatic running up in Maine, and what's going on
over in Europe. I'll get into this. Sam, what's up, Hey, Casey,
how are you this morning? I'm good, sir.

Speaker 5 (01:17:50):
I'm just came through forty westbound. That round next at
two seventy five. I think there's a bridge that the
soorrow's anarchists, like the protestone.

Speaker 1 (01:18:01):
Oh yeah, it's the rate trail, the rate trail.

Speaker 5 (01:18:04):
So they're protesting. Yeah, they're protesting ice and you know,
everybody needs to be for you, whether you're criminal or not.
But the problem is they've created such a distraction on
eastbound forty four cars rear ended one another, and then
subsequently another bunch of cars rear ended also as a

(01:18:25):
result of the first crash. So I'm like, let's see
the police go over there and write these people some tickets.

Speaker 1 (01:18:32):
I'm then they can free conful. Why aren't these people
at work. That's so weird that we work.

Speaker 5 (01:18:39):
Soros is funding them.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
Oh that's that's right, silly me. So so they're stunning.
Bravery caused a multi car. I love perfect multi cars.

Speaker 5 (01:18:49):
So all of these working people now have to pay
to have their cars prepared. So these people can stand
up there.

Speaker 1 (01:18:55):
And dollars to donuts. I'm sure one of the people
and one of the cars is probably his, So I
hope they're very proud of themselves. All right, thanks, I Sam. Yeah,
but I'm gonna I'm gonna have fun by not driving
over there. Be a hoot. Ross, Are you also gonna
not drive over there? Look at that? Ross is also
not going to drive over there, So all the funds

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for everybody else. Yeah, I don't know what the rules
are if you can go up there, but touching them
up on the protest thing, I'm assuming it's the rape trail.
I know it's not called the rape trail, but there's
been some incidents, so there you go. All right, here's
a few things that need to stop. I just saw
this with ABC News. Now Ross I don't know if
you're seeing this with Graham Plantner. Now, when they do

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the stories, how do they refer to his tattoo? I
keep seeing him do this, They refer to the problematic
Nazi tattoos, so they can just pass by it as quote,
a tattoo he accidentally received, you know, like he woke
up when and instead of being in a bathtub with
ice and his kidney missing, they had he woke up

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with a with a fresh Nazi tattoo. The dude chose
the tattoo. Whatever you think of it. Stop referring to
as the accidental Nazi tattoo. That implies that people accidentally
receive ross how many accidental Nazi tattoos do you currently have? Uh?
Currently Yeah, you can round it to the nearest ten.

(01:20:19):
That's fine, Yeah, that would be none. Oh okay, all right,
so you never accidentally got just caught a Nazi tattoo,
all right, So that's number one. Stop that number two.
Shut up, Europe, stop going it's another heat way. Nobody
saw this coming. Every damn year we do this and
then it turns into the big stupid air conditioning debate,

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which they can't afford, but they don't want to admit that,
so then they have to get all but hurt saying
they don't want it. Meanwhile, twice as many people die
from heat in First World Europe then from guns in
the US, and then when you pull suicides out of
the gun numbers, then it's crazy. It's like six or
seven times. If you have said seventy thousand people and
you are a first world nation just dropping dead of heat,

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you got a problem. So we need to stop doing that.
And finally I got this text from my neighbor inviting
me over. He's grilling this weekend, and it says I'm
gonna be making some steaks and some glizzies for the kids. Rod,
do you ever hear the term glizzy?

Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
Never?

Speaker 1 (01:21:24):
Apparently that's the current young slang for hot dogs.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
Shut up what, I'm happy we're both in agreement there.

Speaker 1 (01:21:32):
Shut up. More on the Graham, Platner and a few
other things. Just due the list of the hits keep
coming on these the Democrats that are gonna be on
the ballot this time around, you have you have, of
course Platner, right lunatic there. This sounds like there's some

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internal issues with the National Democrat Party, who are kind
of like it's causing a bit of a riff, and
it'll be interesting to see if because they thought Maine
was a pickup right from Susan Collins, and I think
they have it as their second best option. And I

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think they're realizing now that that's probably not gonna happen,
So maybe it will. I don't know. So you got him,
You got this lunatic down in Texas, this tall Rico
god is non binary. Jesus invented abortions too in Texas,
And I just like, here's the thing. Texas is the
second most popular state. You're telling me the Democrat party,

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remember who their last Senate hopeful was, Beto Furry O'Rourke.
You're telling me the entire state of Texas you can't
find one Democrat man who resembles a man, because I
feel like that would play well in Texas. You know, Platner,
for all of the insanity and the fact that he's
a lunatic with his Nazi tattoos, at the very least

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presents as a man. But like, there's no manliness with
this tel Rico dude or any of the rest. And
I'm sorry, Oh, that's not important to politics. Yeah, kind
of his people kind of want to see themselves or
what they consider themselves in politicians, especially when you're asking
Texans to turn your state blue right, you want to

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be able to gather those people in the middle who
are generally going to be described as moderates. And you're
throwing mister Vegan mixed stupor stupid shirt out there, who
has who posted a photo of himself eating a giant
turkey leg to prove that he doesn't hate meat. It's insane.

Speaker 2 (01:23:41):
And then I'm not even Texas Texan, and I was
offended by the napkin.

Speaker 1 (01:23:45):
Yeah, what are you doing?

Speaker 7 (01:23:46):
Bro?

Speaker 2 (01:23:47):
He's got the big old you know, state Fair turkey
leg whatever barbecue and he's like, big old napkin. I'm like,
what are you doing? Man?

Speaker 7 (01:23:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:23:54):
Yeah, you don't order this because you want to stay clean.

Speaker 5 (01:23:57):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (01:23:58):
Well, now we have this leading New Jersey DEM congressional
candidate Adam hamwy Mawi. I don't know how to say
that he used to volunteer for an al Qaeda group.
Past man Tima. We worked with the Benevolence International Foundation,

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which was which is a known al Qaeda front group.
In fact, the end of the FEDS came in and
shut it down. Man, this dude's literally working for an
Al Qaeda group and now he's running for Congress in
New Jersey. By the way, did you know Ross, You
know the senator from New Jersey ended up going to jail.
Bob Menendez or whatever, right he had older he had

(01:24:43):
a bunch of gold. I don't know why gold keeps
coming up on the show, just corrupt af Did you
know his son is a congressman now from New Jersey?
And and I saw video some counter protester rolled up
and just kept repeating while the guy's trying to do
a like a hit with a reporter, how's your dad?
How's your dad? And the dude lost his cool and

(01:25:05):
tried to chase down and beat the crap like Bob.
Remember Bob Ethige back in the day Bob Ethridge was mild.
This guy was gonna go murder this dude, and like,
thankfully for him, one of his I don't know, campaign
stat or cat campaign staff, congressional staff or whatever literally
grabs him. So the lunacy runneth over all. Right, let's

(01:25:28):
grab some calls. Jamal, you're up first, go right ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:25:31):
Well, not surprised Democrats do that. But caseye, I just
want to let everybody know, especially Ross, whenever y'all come
up on the road and you see something shut down,
and especially a road or interest is like that shut down,
call North Carolina dot. Because when you're dealing with any
type of things on the road, the North Carolina dot
has to be unless it is an emergency, unless you

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have like a sinkhole something like that, and then North
Carolina dot I'll let you get away with it. But
if you're doing a project on a road, let's say
like you're putting down cable or anything like that, and
North Carolina dote don't know that you're shutting the road down,
North Carolina dot will make you peak that operation up
and shut it down. Usually I tell people called the

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share and then North Carolina dot, because you're not supposed
to shut interests down, Like if they shut the whole
interest down they didn't get a warning or any type
of detour, then yes, Ross and called a Most Carolina dot.

Speaker 1 (01:26:30):
It sounds like, look the impression. We don't know for sure,
but our best guess is after they finished the Atlantic work,
or at least that part of it, the road grade
is lower than the grade on high Woods because high
Woods was redone here not that long ago, so I
think they were just trying to bring the grades even.
I think is probably best guess. I don't know how

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long that takes. But high Woods is a four lane road.
It's two lanes in either direction, so you didn't have
to shut all four down. You do half at once,
push the traffic to the side like they do any
other time, and it would be a very short run, right,
It'd only have to go about fifty yards before you
could pull traffic back over. But they just had it
all shut down. So I'm going to go with it's

(01:27:12):
personal to attack Ross. That's my favorite theory.

Speaker 3 (01:27:16):
Getting up well, I said, I did Kissey because they're
supposed to have signs that say low shade. Because I will,
I am deal. I am North Carolina on traffic control certified.

Speaker 12 (01:27:29):
I did it.

Speaker 3 (01:27:29):
I got certified back in twenty thirteen. I was working
for a company called PSI all the way up until
I left and went h back and plumbing. But when
you do any type of traffic control, you're supposed to
have your message blowing out. Then you're supposed to have
your signs that you're supposed to have it all the
way and dealing with that full way that area. Because
I've seen Ross over there, Rossini driving my company truck before.

(01:27:53):
When when you over there that area where y'all are
at that four lanthway, you're supposed to at least have
it in times out, especially if you're gonna shut off
and you running it greatly supposed to have a detail
or a pilot car that's gonna tell you weight we're
about to do it, say hey, wait and get us
about five six minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:28:12):
And when they could have done this with they could
have done this with one flagger. It's because they were
only working on the edge of it. They could have
done it with one flagger, I'll tell you. And thanks
for the call there, Jamal. I just realized something Ross.
You know where the DOT is right over off Capital there,
right right when you go on the south side of
the belt line. Feasibly, if there are Dot State DOT

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employees that are that live in any of the neighborhoods
there where they would traverse down Atlantic Avenue, the way
that they would go to work most likely is to
then cut across high Woods, then make a right on
Capitol and then you know, get off and go to
work there. So, like I, I find it hard to

(01:28:54):
believe that a DOT employee, if that thing is still up,
wouldn't pass through that insanity. But I don't know. The
Treasurer's office is right across the street from where they's
doing it, so who knows.

Speaker 5 (01:29:06):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:29:06):
Oh, look at this Boston Paul. What can I do
for you?

Speaker 12 (01:29:10):
Hey? I see Governor Stein's got his panties in a
in a wad there because he's all against this three
point five cap on the income tax, saying that isn't
that economic downturn? But you know he may have to
raise taxes. Well, if is it an economic downturn, where
does the tax do you find the money to go?
You know, to pay his increase?

Speaker 1 (01:29:32):
You got to sell your kids?

Speaker 12 (01:29:33):
I don't know. Well, oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:29:37):
You do it over pants stand they'll be all sympathetic
to you. I wouldn't it worked here? I don't know.

Speaker 12 (01:29:42):
Well, so I don't know what his deal is. I
don't know, you know, just put it on the little guy.

Speaker 1 (01:29:47):
So you guys hold on. So let me. I got
to ask you, is your a cop or you're a cop?
So this you heard the story about the woman with
no right arm right or no, right hand?

Speaker 12 (01:29:57):
Yeah, yeah, you just let that, You just let her
go right, oh big time, yeah, because you don't want
to that's embarrassing to take that into the courtroom. And
I don't know how it even made it that far
that it she had to show up at court.

Speaker 1 (01:30:12):
Well, she didn't end up having to show up because
again the court, after the court date was getting ready
to go, the police, the officer notified the judge that
they would not be pursuing it, so she didn't never
had to go. But I think the idea of him
having to go probably didn't sit well and that's why
they scrapped it.

Speaker 12 (01:30:28):
So they need they need to go after these guys
that are crossing over the double yellow solid because they're
texting and driving and I mean, I almost causing head
on collisions one hundred times a day on one of
the roads I travel.

Speaker 3 (01:30:41):
I'm like, it's insane.

Speaker 1 (01:30:43):
Yeah, I need to do There are these people who
stop fifty feet short of a trave of traffic light
because they just can't wait to pick their phone up
and text the more. Oh I hate them here.

Speaker 12 (01:30:55):
Right, Well, there's a state state cuffler in the big
trucks there. They don't hanging around in big trucks and writing.
But the writing more speeding than they already infections for
cell phones.

Speaker 1 (01:31:07):
But any who, well, you have fun. There you go,
there you go, Boston Paul weighing in. Oh, I was
going to ask Boston Paul if he calls it a
glizzy too. God, every time I hear that word, I'm
more offended and ross. I'm sorry. If somebody called me
a glizzy guzzler, we're fighting at that point.

Speaker 2 (01:31:24):
You know, you have to burn down their house.

Speaker 1 (01:31:26):
Yes, Oh, who's a glizzy gob gobbler now? Or guzzler
or whatever the hell the word was? No, no, no,
race agic for the Weather Channel. Did you know there's
lunatics out here referring to hot dogs as glizzies glizzies.
I don't even know what that means, the new hip term.
I guess it is kid. The kids are doing it.
And I'm sorry if now if people use the word
glizzy around me, I'm throwing a hot cold at you.

Speaker 11 (01:31:46):
Oh I'll try that one on my twenty year old.
See what she says, glzzy. It's probably and I wonder
if it's going to make the dictionary.

Speaker 1 (01:31:55):
It's it's already in the Urban Dictionary, that's rights. Look
it up. Yeah, Grona Dol texted me. Instead're making their
drilling steaks and lizzies. And now I'm not going to
his cookout. No, I would refuse. I would refuse. Is
it cookout weather though?

Speaker 11 (01:32:11):
Yeah, I mean it's gonna be It's gonna be pretty
decent next few days. I want to talk about rainfall
totals just so everybody's kind of like where everybody stands.
So Charlotte over the last for this month has had
just about five inches. Places like Fayetteville have had three

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point seventy three. Now we get closer in and we
get into Raleigh.

Speaker 2 (01:32:38):
You've had less.

Speaker 1 (01:32:40):
One point five to four.

Speaker 11 (01:32:43):
Now these are only points, but it just gives you
an idea how widespread the rain has been, how variants been.
Three point one seven at the triad. But we go out,
we go into Asheville, they've had over eight inches of
rain this month. So when we get to this release
of the drought monitor nine am coming up in a
couple of minutes, Casey, it's probably gonna if there have
been changes because eastern parts of the state haven't seen
as much as the western parts of the state. Those

(01:33:05):
are some of the totals, and over the next few
days we'll have sun and clouds. There's some isolated showers
out in the mountains this morning, but I think they're
going to stay there today mid upper eighties, tomorrow low eighties,
and then on Saturday, mainly cloudy, keeping it dry. For now,
highs at are just above eighty degrees, and we may
even squeak out a dry Sunday with temperatures getting back
into the seventies with a front actually going south of us.

(01:33:27):
And then by Monday we'll have a chance of showers
and the letter showers for returning. So we are trending dryer.
But again it's been like the haves and have nots
around the Triangle really haven't seen at least at the airport.
There hasn't been as much rain as there's been in
other spots. That's really my point. So there might not
be a lot of change in eastern parts of the state,
if any, for the drought monitor to the west, or

(01:33:48):
maybe a little bit more.

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
Okay, all right, I appreciate it, sir. I got a
rolled But we'll chat tomorrow one more time and we'll
be back with Bloomberg News. Next, Bloomberg Update now with
Denise PELIGREENI, Denise, what's going on.

Speaker 13 (01:34:00):
Caesar's Entertainment Casey is getting sold. It's agreed to be
bought by Fortita Entertainment. This is a five point seven
billion dollar deal. And you know, Fortita's been talking about
doing this for a long time, wanting to combine his
operations with that. He looks like he's finally getting that,
although there is still going to be sort of a
discussion period where they could look at other offers. Forget

(01:34:23):
about theme parks for kids of all ages. Universal is
opening its first park design for those age three to eight.
It opens in Frisco, near Dallas July one. The men's
fragrance business is smelling profits. I don't know if you're
a big fan of fragrance Casey or if you know,
you know people are. My son has these vials all

(01:34:43):
over the house. Now, they're from Scent Bird. They smell good,
but he's got like two dozen of them and I
keep putting them in ziploc bags because they really smell struck.

Speaker 1 (01:34:54):
I mean, yeah, I don't want to stink. But also
if it's if it's not high quality stuff. It's just
the worst.

Speaker 3 (01:35:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:35:02):
Usually when you get into younger men, it was that
axe body spray everywhere. Yes, yes, it was like nuclear Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:35:09):
Well, over spray Jay has now become one of the
top sellers of men's fragrances on TikTok and over spray
Jay encourages men to layer fragrances and spray themselves one
hundred times with different blends, you know, to get your
own unique scent as the trend takes off on social media.
Probably not helping that people's scent is a sort of

(01:35:32):
limited post COVID which messes with people's noses, and they're
maybe putting this stuff on even like more than they
used to. Just what you always wanted. Stay in a
kapsule hotel in Hawaii. Japanese hotel chain First Cabin International
Hawaii has opened its first US outpost in an office
building your Waikiki beach with capsules for about sixty bucks

(01:35:52):
a night. You have to share a bathroom with somebody else.

Speaker 1 (01:35:54):
Though.

Speaker 13 (01:35:55):
Right now, stock futures are pointing to a lower open
amid the new fighting in the Middle East. Down down
eighty points on the Future's s and p futures down
to nastag futures. They've just flipped to the positive and
they're up five and the horror Parity. Scary movie is
leaning into stoner culture even more with its bong inspired
popcorn buckets. Each bucket Casey includes a downstem attachment filled

(01:36:20):
with liquid that food Beast says might be butter, though
the design kind of leaves out a bowl, and no
major theater chain is officially backed this merchandise yet, so
it's not clear if this is just another gag, might
be a gag and not really an actual item, though
you can see it on social media and on videos.
Possible the whole thing is just a joke, considering it's

(01:36:41):
made of plastic, which might not would stand the heat anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:36:46):
Could don't get me wrong. If we find out you
can vape popcorn butter from a movie theater, I'm in.

Speaker 13 (01:36:52):
I inhale popcorn butter myself.

Speaker 1 (01:36:56):
I got it so good. Now your son smells like
nine different colognes and popcorn, one.

Speaker 13 (01:37:03):
Hundred different colognes, and literally I have them all stuffed
into one drawer, each in its own ziplock, and then
all of them together in one more ziplock, and I
press it tight, like really closed it and keeps putting.
He just put two of them out yesterday and I
was like you, I picked him up with my hands.
I put him back upstairs in his drawer, and then
my hands smell and I can't get the stuff off
my hand.

Speaker 6 (01:37:22):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:37:22):
The kids call it it's scent maxine. Everything's maxing.

Speaker 13 (01:37:25):
Yes, yes, And it's probably a lot of fun for them.

Speaker 1 (01:37:28):
No, not for people around him.

Speaker 13 (01:37:30):
Not for all people in closed spaces with them.

Speaker 6 (01:37:33):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:37:34):
Yeah, Oh man, I can't even imagine what a modern
high school smells like. All right, I gotta leave it there.

Speaker 13 (01:37:38):
It's probably nice cafe.

Speaker 1 (01:37:41):
Yeah. Denise pelagreeny there from Bloomberg News and do appreciatable
chat tomorrow. And by the way, I just retweeted something
real quick. This seems like a problem.

Speaker 9 (01:37:52):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:37:52):
The photo is pretty crazy. Six Chinese nationals who are
now flagged a special interest detainees. We're apprehended near Eagle Past, Texas.
They're attempting, Uh, I guess to you know, travel from
Mexico into the US. They're all wearing military fatigues. Now
they're where again. I don't know if that's an assigned

(01:38:15):
military if they get something from like a surplus story.
They all match, and also your camouflage wasn't you know
that's that's great, But the fact that it's six Chinese nationals,
all military age males, all in camo garb, I'd be
very curious. I don't know that we'll ever find out,
but i'd be very curious to know what's uh, what's

(01:38:36):
going on here man