Thursday-7-10-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thursday morning, coming up on the show at eight oh five,

(00:02):
we will of course chat with uh dude who's totally
not a secret agent, just travels to all these weird
places all the time, like Poland and uh where else
was he? He's in Austria now, he like he's been
in He he loves traveling more than I do. Those

(00:22):
all these crazy places. But let's let's like the who
goes to Austria? Who does that? Like Jason Bourne, that's
who goes and some of these other places. So we're
not exactly buying it. But if he wants to, you know,
use us or his uh to hide it by pretending
to be a NERD correspondent, I'm cool with that. And

(00:43):
we got a lot to go over. Uh. There is
the rather rather interesting little series of story. I fact
I have to go back and pull him out of
my stack from what was that Tuesday? I think I
had him in there having to do with the Superman movie, which,
by the way, Ross have you some of the reviews
now on that with the Superman I saw Nerd rotic.

(01:06):
They said they said it wasn't woke, but it wasn't
good man. I've seen reviews all over the place in
this thing. Yeah, but I haven't seen people leaning into
the woke. They're just like the ones I've seen, you know,
who normally make a big deal out of that didn't
seem to think it was woke, but just didn't think
it was. They didn't hate it, but they didn't think
it was that great. So I'll still see it.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
I'm hesitant because I learned in the movie he's actually
a journalist. So it makes me what I mean, that's scary,
you know.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, I don't know about I don't know
about all that is he. Is he like an honest,
arbiter of truth?

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I'm not sure. I don't know that's what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
I don't know so or is he like all the
left wing media in North Carolina and nationally who used
to hate Tom Tillis because he hadn't r after his
name and then when he was speaker and uh and
and worked undermind him every step of the way, who
now all want to sleep with him? I think? Is
he that kind of journalist?

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
See, that's a that's a gap right there. That's like
the other day when they couldn't figure out those guys
Jack that swan for a ritual sacrifice or a senior prank. Right,
it's a lot of real estate in the middle there. Yeah,
what is up with all you journalists? You guys hated
Tom Tillis. I'm watching the garbage you're posting, the interviews
you're doing. Yeah, getting that national interview. Oh, I go

(02:28):
talk to Jake Tapper crew over w r E. L's
like he's the last true Republican. That's it, it's cooked,
it's over. He's the most accomplished. I mean quote them accurately.
I saw I think it was Andy Specker wrote He's
the most accomplished Republican, which is not true. Jim Martin
arguably in North Carolina political history, Jim Martin arguably is

(02:49):
that being said, that being said accomplishments and and this
is where people get it wrong. People want results and
they also want what they're told. Okay, so just because
you can manipulate the levers of power to continue, it's
it's the whole falling upwards thing. It really is. It

(03:11):
was a combination of primary opponents that weren't real good
and then uh, I remember it was kay Hagen and
uh and she just wasn't even though she had been
let she wasn't a good candidate, uh or an inspirational candidate.
That's just that's just how the cookie crumbled there. So

(03:32):
uh and rosso, I think you put it best earlier.
Why because you had to cut up this interview. So
we got a couple of soundbites from Tilla's how do
you what do you think he thinks of his constituents?

Speaker 2 (03:44):
I think because I'm watching, like, you know this stuff
with like jig Copper and stuff. Yeah, you know. Now
he's like, you know, in the national stage doing these interviews.
I think behind the scenes, Tom Tillis is fuming.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
I think he's pissed off and angry that people like
they've seen the internal numbers and it's oh, well, I'm
gonna you know, I'm not running because i want to
spend time with my family. No, you're not running, dude,
because you know you're gonna lose because we hate you
and you know we hate you.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Yeah. His lowest loss was nine points yea and against
potential Canada.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
We know that the vast majority of us right see
you for what you are now and what you're doing.
This is a tantrum on the national stage that you're
trying to make it look like you're composed and you're
find out. I'm telling you behind the scenes that dude
is pissed yea, and he is a power hungry jackals.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
And all these media members are using him to because
they want to attack Trump and this this is a
really good way to do it. Yeah, he is. He
is absolutely a power hungry jackal. Let me let me
let me tell you what I had multiple I have
had a very interesting relationship with Tom Tillis, which is
to say that I haven't had one at all. The
very first thing that I did when we were launching

(04:50):
this radio station to interact with any of our state
elected officials is I'm sitting here, We're we're just putting
this thing together. Man. I came down before we even launched,
were putting this together. I brought all my like clocks
and schedules. You don't know, the clocks or what the
what the show looks like, the music, the bumper music

(05:11):
I had. I brought this all from our talker in Minneapolis,
where I was literally had to like send it down
and then we had to organize it, and then we
had to figure out from a newsroom staffing we still
had hired people, or we had hired a couple of people,
one of them then took a different offer. So we
were scrambling to find a news guy. And what's crazy

(05:32):
is Steve Sadal used to be a news guy up
at the Minneapolis talk station that I worked at, and
he left because his wife's job came to the Triangle.
And so now I'm sitting down here and i'd just
goneed to me, I'm like, I think one of our
reporters literally moved there and I don't know what he's doing.
We reached out to Steve, saidal, we got him on there,

(05:54):
and so so we don't really have the newsroom beefed
up until we get the doll on there. So I
was setting up credentially, right, so you want to, you know,
because now you're now you're a news outlet, you're a
news agency, you're a talk radio station with a news department.
And so I'm setting all that stuff up, and I
reach out to the Press Association at the North Carolina

(06:15):
Legislature because that's that's, you know, that's the big one
we got to set up. And I was informed that
the House or the General Assembly didn't handle their own
press credentially, it's probably still this way, I don't know. Instead,
it was run by the reporters who were already there. Well,

(06:38):
let me tell you how much traction I was getting
with with reporters, especially the people who were like head
of the group, which one of them was uh the
she worked for ral right, And I'm just like, I
didn't even get a response at first, But then I
realized after a little while, I'm like, this is stupid.

(07:01):
This is the dumbest way to handle this. You're letting
there because when Republicans are now in charge, and it's like,
what are you doing. You're in charge, and you're letting
left wing media keep any potential thing that might give
you more accurate coverage out of there because you're too
lazy to deal with it. And I called Tillis's office

(07:22):
and he gave zero f's and I'm like, all right, whatever.
And then there was a story that came up and
he was he was gone, but this really important thing,
and a little birdie told me that he was down
in Florida meeting with a bunch of lobbyists down there
for some meeting down there, and I we figured we

(07:45):
tracked down where he was and numbers and we called
and he got out of the meeting. He came on
the air and was angry, but he gave the interview.
And then one other time when he was running for reelection,
he asked if he could come on the show and
I let him on the show and we did the interview.

(08:07):
That was very robotic, but whatever, because you know, he's
still sent a candidate. And then I happened to see
him at Capitol Grill and I wanted to because I look,
I want people to want to come on the show
who are in positions of power. So I'm like, I
want to go over and tell him, hey, thank you
for doing the interview. Let's let's figure out, like you

(08:29):
know what we do with Ted Budd where he comes
on once a month, Right, this is this is the
biggest talk station in in the triad and Triangle. You're
reaching the most people. This is a great way to
communicate with your constituents. And his people wouldn't let me
near him, and then he quick walked everyone knew what

(08:50):
was up, and then had the odd day and I
just yelled him, I'm like, you're not even gonna talk
to me. He just kept trucking. And then one of
his little aides calls me because they have my cell number,
calls me and says, oh, hey, we're just really busy.
We're going to this other thing. And I'm like, dude,
couldn't pause for two seconds whatever, And that's it. That's

(09:10):
how that's where we are here. So every interaction I've
had with him has been weird. Man has been weird,
and I could never put my finger on what, like,
does he have personal animosity to the station?

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Is it me?

Speaker 1 (09:26):
I don't think he's ever called our news department back, like,
how did we get here? And that's kind of how
he deals with other like I know people in TV,
that's how he is there. So for him to run
and sit down for all these interviews and Jake Tapper
and all that, when he's pretty much had no use
for media and his whole career, I think you're spot

(09:46):
on ross. Why else would this guy put him through
something something that he clearly has demonstrated not wanting to do.
And I think it's just because this is his way
of venting or getting back at P I don't know
man going after Trump, and of course Jake tapperl help,
by the way, Let's go ahead and play that audio
since I just rambled on with all of that, but

(10:09):
I wanted you to understand just a little bit of
history there and why it's weird that he's out given
all these interviews. All right, So here he is talking
about Pete Hegseth, who he absolutely loves.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
With the passing of time, I think it's clear he's
out of his depth as a manager of a large,
complex organization.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
To the signal gate situation.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Well, that's just one.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
I mean, this whole idea of having a pause in
Ukraine defensive arms, that's just amateurish.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
I mean that that's from somebody who.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
Doesn't understand large organization dynamics. So you know, I don't
regret the decision I made back then based on the
facts as I knew them today then. But today I
am beginning to wonder if maybe Armed Services was a
little bit generous with respect to their assessment of his
capabilities as a manager of the world's largest, most complex,
and arguably consequential organization.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
So you don't regret it, but if you had to
do it again today, you probably wouldn't vote yes.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
I think based on the information I have today. If
all I had was the information on the day of
the boat I'd certainly vote for him again. But now
I have the information of Hilm being a manager, and
I don't think that as probationary period has been very positive.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
I'm genuinely curious. Other than Signal Gay, which I actually
agree with Tom was that was a big problem. It
wasn't a big problem in the sense that it really
divulged a bunch of information that was particularly useful since
we just kept Grease and Hoothi's but like the stumbling nature,

(11:39):
and remember the Biden administration is the one who decided
that signal wasn't approved apt for communicating some things because
the security was there. But security can only do so
much if you have some idiot who auto fills an
email address, adds it and doesn't check his work. Okay,
that being said, Ross, have you seen any other actual

(12:01):
managerial criticisms of heg Seth and scandals.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
And that That's another thing I was thinking this morning,
like what is he talking about.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
I've seen people gripe about the trans stuff and the
urah you know where he's over there eating with it.
You know that's petty.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
But I don't care about any of the DEI crap
I care about, you know, the military and how it's doing.
And I don't know. We just kicked ass in Iran,
So what are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (12:22):
What we just hit all our recruiting numbers for all
branches for the year or no, I think there's one
one branch that hasn't. And remember what was what was
recruiting down like thirty percent the last year of the
Biden Administration's crazy.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
I think the main issue here, And once again to
point out what I already said, we know who Tom
Tillis is. His record here proves it. We know it.
He's not on the right. That's the issue he has
with heg seth is. Tom Tillis is not a Republican.
That's the issue here.

Speaker 1 (12:52):
Yeah, and it probably aided him and beating kay Hagen, right,
because you know, North Carolina is a statewide race. Is
literally the moderates really really really or the independence are
who you're chasing. And yeah, yeah, probably.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
You could place anybody that's in the left hand side
of the aisle in that seat in front of Tapper
and they would give the exact same answer. And the
reason they would give that answer is they need to
have the animosity because they're in the opposite side of
the aisle. He doesn't belong on the side that he's
on right now, and we all know it, all.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Right, So that that was one vote where he initially
said he wasn't, but he did end up voting for
Hegseeth now says you wouldn't. But then we get to
this and the big beautiful build.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
You like Medicaid and you're eligible, you can keep it.
That's fundamentally untrue because the funding mechanisms are probably going
to take people who are eligible for it off of
it over tom or it's going to create an enormous
unfunded mandate on the states in a time frame that
they can't absorb.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah. Yeah, so so you know, here's the thing, though, bro,
the people that Republicans think shouldn't be eligible for Medicaid,
and it was the position until for whatever reason, the
North Carolina legislature decided to go ahead and concede this.
But the position in my mind hasn't changed. People want

(14:11):
people who are in the country illegally, and I know
people go they don't get on Medicaid, they do. Look
at what California was doing and many in New York
they were doing these exceptions. They had an undercover video
of a guy explaining to the Veritas dude about how
they just how they do it right, so it is happening.
But two, the concept of able bodied adults people who

(14:35):
can work but choose not to or or are in
this continuous loop of yon looking, why isn't my job
to provide their healthcare? If they're physically able to work
and mentally for that matter, like if they're able to
adult in all other facets of life, what are we

(14:58):
doing here? And frankly, one of the other reasons is
you guys screwed up with that Obamacare and you made
even the lowest level insurance which people like that used
to buy, especially when they're younger, because really, what's going on?
Those are gone? All these things Obamacare and cash for
clunkers are two of the worst things financially to happen

(15:22):
to poorer people in my lifetime. The used we're also
was just talking about the used car market. Remember when
you used to be Remember there'd be a couple like,
you know, twenty year old suburbans out there with three
fifties in them, and yeah, what's upon a time you
like twenty five hundred Bucks. You have to know a
little mechanican, but you know you got buy Yeah, those

(15:42):
are gone.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Good luck finding a better car now, right.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, I was to push people to mass transit. Well,
how does that help somebody who lives, you know, the
middle of nowhere or in one of these small small
towns that doesn't have you know, have subway service. What
are you talking about? And then to eliminate these real
low cost plans because they had to hit this certain level.

(16:06):
You screwed poor people out of that, and you push
them over to your crap program. So don't give me
any of this garbage. That's the Republican position, at least
it used to be, and it's clearly not. Tillis's We'll
be right back. So Yakatori or whatever her name is,
the CEO of X Twitter, announced that she is she
leaving that of correspond to all sorts of you know,

(16:29):
was this over the rock thing? Was this planned? There's
some there's some crazy theories too that if you can
go on the Twitter and X and read all about them.
I don't know, but it will be interesting to watch
when they because you remember how it was when they
were trying to figure out what he bought it just
trying to figure out what CEO was. And I seem

(16:52):
to remember most people on the right that were universally
not real enthusiastic about her being in there. But if
I had to assess the last two years of X,
even though there's some new stuff that annoys the hell
out of me, and there is there, there is a

(17:13):
lot more. How do I put this, There's a lot
of unpopular opinions that are on there, and that's you know,
that is what it is. However, even normal opinions that
were formerly being purged are now allowed to be there,
and I think that's in that positive. I don't know
if I like what monetization has done to it, but

(17:35):
I also understand you got to make money. And remember
when when Elon bought this thing, that you had all
these activist groups that were like they they they basically
shamed advertisers who had previously been on Twitter. And I
think he took what a forty percent advertising cut when
it changed hands because a lot of these big brands,

(17:55):
and now those brands have come back. Now they're back
on there because you know, the political winds have changed.
It's a very so I don't know, Yeah, admittedly, you
know the Trump thing and I and by the way,
I don't want to hear about the Trump elon beef
on this. I just want to point out that the
two have been very good for each other, right with

(18:19):
X being a a an actual outlet where people can
share political things and not have them immediately deleted. Sometimes
it still happens, but generally they'll fix it. And of
course Trump has has really put a stake into the
heart of this ultra progressive direction. We were going, we

(18:39):
cancel culture and everything else out there, so you know what,
and then that allowed advertisers to be more comfortable coming back.
So I don't know who the next CEO is going
to be, but I think all told, I don't think
that she was a net negative for Twitter. Rost do
you think Twitter's better? And it was two years ago

(19:01):
overall maybe no, yeah, yeah, And people were scared. They
did not they did not like the idea that they
were bringing this woman in because of you know, some
of her comments in the past and you know, just
generally generally what we were able to glean about her.
But I think it was okay, And I don't know
if she I don't know what the retirement was about yesterday.

(19:23):
I did put a poll up though, and I said,
who should be the next CEO of Twitter? X? A
lot of people are angry at didn't includes you on
this ross But then the poll wouldn't have worked, right
because everyone would have voted there. But you don't.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
You don't want to be CEO of Twitter, do you? No,
I'm very busy, he's very busy. I was seeing conspiracy theories.
I don't know if they're coming from the left or wherever,
but they were like, you know, the reason that she's
stepping down is that tends to happen before, like you know,
a company collapses there goes bankrupt. So they're like, you
know she's goa.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yea, yeah, that's what I'm to say. There's all these
I've also saw ones where Groc was sexually harassing her.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Right right, right right. And I also saw the stuff saying, well,
you know she left because of the failure Groc the
other day at all.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Stuff. I don't know, yeah, maybe maybe not. I don't know.
That would be if if in fact this was a
forced retirement, that would be my thought, because clearly that
feeds into all the worst stuff, you know, because people
were posting the rock stuff alongside Elon with his hand
in the air right still running that So I don't know.

(20:22):
So here was the poll? Did you see the poll yesterday?
I put across I No, oh, okay, well, I'm gonna
have you vote for I say, with the results. All right,
So who should be the next CEO of Twitter X?
All right?

Speaker 3 (20:30):
Ready?

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Number one Elon Musk Okay, you got that there. Number
two Grock.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
That'd be.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Now do we go tethered or untethered Rock? Because I
feel like it would be wildly different? Number three Rick
Flair and number four three Year Letterman. So who do
you like there?

Speaker 2 (20:52):
I mean, I like slick Rick, but he is getting
kind of old. I saw him on the elliptical machine
the other day and I'm like, dad, dude's gonna die
and it's very sad. And I hope I hope he's healthy. Yeah,
and no, hope he never gets back in the ring. Right, Yes,
I would probably go through Year Letterman. Okay, well, let
well Letterman came in second. I will say that. You know,
you know I can't vote in that poll, right.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
Because it's the because I put it up on an
account that you're on.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yes, I mean maybe I can sometimes, like I can't
even vote if it's on my own account, because like.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
I see your polls show you when you do a
poll on your account, I can't vote, And I think
it's because we connect.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Right, right, right right, So I think like X somehow
knows that the accounts are are linked to so you
can't vote.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah. Yeah, so so Rick Flair with fifty three percent
one three or Letterman twenty percent, Rock eighteen and poor
Elon just got nine percent. So I'm sure that that
I suspect it won't be Rick Flair. But if it is,
you know, we'll see early only have to do two
years and then he can retire. All right, let me

(21:56):
grab a phone call here, Janet, what's up?

Speaker 5 (22:00):
Thank? I was just call him out Tom Tillis.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (22:06):
I wouldn't let that bother me too much. He has
been a problem since day one. He wanted his na Wait.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Wait, do you think it bothers me? Do you know how
much content I've got calling this dude slender Man for
in those stake ads bother me and in spike me.

Speaker 5 (22:24):
It seems it's seems so it's irritate show a little bit.
I would just take it. At the time, I was.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Irritated with the situation where they were letting essentially these
established block new meeting.

Speaker 6 (22:38):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I didn't get that part.

Speaker 5 (22:40):
Okay, it's sounded like irritation went I was going to
tell you, don't worry about it. Probably just outlive the
useful of in his life, that's all.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
But I don't think I ever had any usefulness except
the one time he went on the air when he
was running for re election. So good and and and
and and it works because you know, I was after that,
I said, he never gets on the air again. And
now I don't have to worry about it, because.

Speaker 5 (23:05):
Yeah, the happiest day of my life was when he
told Frante wasn't running for re election.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
I just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, So now we're good.
We're good. All right, Jenney, you want to be the
next Twitter CEO? Suit yes, okay, all right, that should
that will end? Well? All right, thank you? Janet okare Yeah, man,

(23:32):
I'll know about that. Maybe Jamal can be the uh No.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
I was talking to Janet up the air, and I'm like,
you know, why why think about it? Once again, going
back to what we said about Tillis like, why is
it that you know everybody else will be in the show,
but why won't he be in the show? And I
think it always goes back to the point that and
it's something we know he's not really a Republican.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
And the crazy thing is I don't beat these guys up.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
No, not at all.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
I mean there have been some interviews where I wasn't
getting an answer and we'll keep going with it. But
you know, and then people get mad that I don't
scream at him, and it's like, that's not going to
extract what you want. The story now is they won't
answer the question act accordingly, so you.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
But think about that. What is Tom tillis have in
common with a pretty much every Democrat around this listening area.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
He murders children.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Oh I'm sorry, no, well what the what is their
reaction to being invited in the show is exactly the same. Yeah,
because he's not a Republican.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, yeah, it's weird. Huh. We did have the computer
Lady on that one time. There's now a Congress.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
It was super weird.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
It's such a strange interview because he tells she was
so guarded and scripted, and I was I was like
I was just trying to get a little human out
of her. It just wasn't happening, man. But yeah, no,
you're accolutely right.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
I am candidate.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
Why is this?

Speaker 1 (24:54):
If is it now? I would have been like, is
this an ai? Am I talking to an ai? What's happening?
But alas it was not an Ai. All right, we
got so much audio I gotta get too, so we're
gonna get into Ah, we're gonna get into this. Have
you seen the lawyer on the airplane video. I'm surprised
there's quite a few people taking her side and as

(25:15):
somebody who flies a lot, screw you. Okay, I'll explain
and we can debate this, but she's just not even
if you think it's okay to do what she did,
her attitude should make you never ever want to come
within proximity of her. But I did see that. I

(25:37):
was a little irritated. So we'll get into that. We
got some audio from Tiffany Cross and Hakeem Jefferies, and
something tells me they're gonna sound very Tillis esque. We'll
get into this next. Hang on, Oh no, oh no,
you got to get the taker bell out because something

(25:58):
is is over do you guys remember I remember we
talked about this. Oh, I don't know, it's been a minute,
but you guys know who Akon is, the the rapper Akon, which,
by the way, is he still putting out new music?
I mean, I'm sure he is, but I'm so out
of it, I just don't even know. So he this

(26:21):
goes this goes back to after the Black Panther movies.
So A Kon decided what he wanted to do because
he thought Wakanda looked pretty cool. Is he wanted to
build his own Wakanda and so a futuristic city, And
so he got with the Senegal, the African nation of Senegal,

(26:42):
and they as part of it, they basically gave him
like I'm a bunch of acreage. The phase one, by
the way, for the project, which was set to open
in twenty twenty six, was six billion dollars, with Senegal
throwing essentially the property in and I think some services,

(27:03):
you know, like water things like that, because clearly that
would be a huge tax tax thing right there? Do
do do do?

Speaker 5 (27:14):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Let's just say that they've reassessed the situation and determined
that a substantial progress wasn't gonna be wasn't being made,
so Senegal said they're not doing it anymore, believe it
or not. Apparently, really rich people, even if you make
a futuristic looking city, they don't want to move to Senegal,

(27:39):
which I think might have been the issue there. So yeah,
so Wakanda is not happening.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Want want.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
To do with that?

Speaker 1 (27:52):
And actually, let me send this to Roz Do you do?

Speaker 3 (27:58):
Do you do?

Speaker 2 (27:59):
I'm still trying to over the fact. You're saying that
the guy that came out with hit single smack that
wasn't able to build Wakanda.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
No apparently, well now they did build some Wakanda. The
fact here. Allow me to send this to you because yeah,
because they have the they have a side by side
of this thing I'm sending you of what it was
going to be, the artist rendering, the architect rendering of
what it was going to look like. And then they
have a picture of what they'd done so far. And

(28:29):
remember this thing was supposed to open next year, like
early next year. Ah, here we go, Sorry my emails
fight me this morning. Wakanda. All right, tell me if
you can spot the difference in the photo Ross, all right,
just send it to your email, the side by side
of what it's gonna look like. And it's like a

(28:53):
video too, like the vision of Wakanda. It looks really cool. Man,
it looks very Wakanda. In fact, it like there's a
beach there. They got some high rises. Uh he kind
of looks like some of those projects in the Middle East,
like the Palm or whatever that island in Dubaias. I
got a couple of them. So it's close. You see
how close it off? What do you mean it's a

(29:14):
little off. No, they have some work to do, little
paint you think maybe there's a little paint on that.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
I mean they've dug the hole, which is good.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Now they's clearly half constructed one small concrete thing which
they haven't even built the walls out on yet. And
then is that I don't know if that's a hut
next to it or what that is. So it's you know,
it could be going better, I guess, is uh how
I would say it? Yeah, look at that. Look at

(29:43):
how futuristic in that top thing it looks shape. Yeah,
all that smacked that money was in the bild the content.
It just didn't work out.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, if you forget who akon Is. He's the guy
that in the beginning of every song he would say
that he's a convict.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
That'd be like, yeah, I like to point that out. So,
but how bad does it have to be with when Senegal,
who was would be desperate for investment. Now Senegal is
they do have some financial resources, more so than some
of their neighbors. Just you know, uh. One of the
biggest problems with the continent of Africa and hold on,

(30:22):
there's not some racist crap behind here, I promise you
is there's no ports. Really that's always been a huge
problem for Africa, whereas natural harbors, uh, there's like there's
there there's very few natural harbors on the continent of Africa.
Really the couple main ones there are are are very

(30:44):
man made. So you know that always that that's going
to be a problem in uh in you know, really
opening up ports of trade and doing things so so
anywhere where you can uh you know, actually offload and
load stuff, and Senegal is able to do that, so

(31:04):
they do have some benefit there, but yeah, it's a
huge problem. Did you know Ross, Do you know that
there is more shoreline in Chesapeake Bay than there is
on the continent of Africa. That's crazy. Really, that's a
crazy stat. Yeah, there's more miles of shoreline just because
of all the inlets and the everything that's there. It's

(31:25):
also why the country with the most shoreline in the
world is Norway, a little Norway because all the inlets
and everything going in, you know, in and out and everywhere.
But yeah, there's more shoreline in the Chesapeake Bay than
there is on the continent of Africa. I remember hearing
that stat and going that is crazy. So but yeah,

(31:46):
so what cond is not happening? I guess that's a
long way of telling you. Did he have any other
big hits? I mean, that's the one I think he had.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
A ton, Like if you search Akon in the system,
a ton come up. I had to like scroll down
to find smack that.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Okay, all right, and I'm not look, I'm not bashing
on the dude, except like, come on, man, is you
really you think you were gonna get billionaires who want
to move to Senegal? Not so much? Probably not. It's
like that lady. Remember the lady left the US because
she and she's a dentist. I think she went over
to like live in Ghana. When we had the video

(32:20):
of her the other day and she's like, I don't know.
I wake up and there's goats like trying to get
in my house and I can't find anything I want
to buy. It's not working out. So you know the
why you may build the infrastructure, the infrastructure around it matters, man.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
All right, So here's another song by a county Ready.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
All right, hit me. Convict is a song called convict.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
No, no, it's called what is that beautiful? I don't know,
beautiful day?

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, if it's thinging to see on the butt.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Burr here, So just just a little taste, just that
and we been.

Speaker 1 (32:59):
Off alright, all right, I'm going to have the lawyer
thing after this. Sorry, I I saw the Wakonda thing
my brain when a d D. And then here we are,
so we will get into we get to that lawyer
audio when when when we come back, no more and
no more Akon music. So glad to have you along.
Hopefully the the extra storms that moved through didn't do

(33:22):
you too dirty yesterday, as we're not seeing the same
stories that we saw here a few days ago, so
that's good. Other than high Woods, which is where the
studio is, which all if there's a if there's a
light wind in the morning, there's sticks covering the road.
Like sometimes branches are so big that have fallen down
you got to get out of your car to move them.

(33:43):
So that's pretty like if you have a dog who
loves sticks. High woods is your jam after any sort
of storm, anything up in the wake forest there ross
your your neck of the woods. I think most of
the most of the.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Bat or so, you know, just thunderstorm. Have you rained, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
Yeah, so, but no trees down or anything. I mean,
that's that's kind of what some people are dealing with.
I've seen some One of our listeners sent me a
big old tree that's blocking his driveway and he says, well,
don't got to go to work, although I do have
to run the saw. So happy chainsaw on this morning, sir.
But yeah, so I'll take that. I think we had

(34:21):
five fatalities, but no, I think it's up to six
now actually so, And of course I was yesterday. I
was chatting with Mark Starling. He does does our Ashville station.
I do it like a hit like Pete does with us.
And it was interesting from his perspective because Mark and
his producer were the guys. They just won a peabody

(34:45):
and a bunch of stuff because they were the ones
up at Asheville that lived at the radio station when
all that flooding was going on. And I was that's
where I was just broadcasting from a few weeks ago.
And like the hillside, the hillside fell off. It just
fell off away from the radio station, thankfully. And there's
all these this whole. All the trees down the side
are still down. There is a lumber company in there,

(35:06):
that's I guess, because we own where the tower is too.
So it's a huge piece of acreage there that I
heard owns because the tower raiser right outside so and
I think that some lumber guy came and was paying
to clear it or something. I don't I don't know
what it was, but he was. He was at work,
and I'm like, that dude's gonna be working here for
the next two years. Man, Holy crap. I've cut fence posts.

(35:30):
That's how me and my buddies used to make money
on the weekends. Could we go up, we'd get a
cut permit and you could only cut where there had
been a fire that went through, which is fine. Those
trees are there charred on the outside of They make
great fence posts, except you look like you're in blackface
within five minutes of working there. It's it's really hard work,
but it was a great way to make a few

(35:51):
hundred bucks working on a weekend, which if you're a
kid with a flatbed, that's a good way to go.
So yeah, I was chatting with him, and his perspective was,
how are you guys not getting as much national coverage
or even coverage out in Ashville with their local stations
over the fact that, you know, you had all these fatalities,

(36:14):
you know, people died in these storms here locally. So yeah, yeah,
I kind of agreed, man, I kind of agree with you.
And then I saw Cassie Clark. She was posting, and
you know, because that's that's her thing. She was really
really active during the Ashville thing, and chatting with her

(36:36):
and she was like, yeah, I'm having trouble finding various ways,
you know, to contribute and help people. So she did
to get some links sent to her, so I know
she's been posting those, but I think I think probably
what happened in Texas took a lot of the teeth
out of that. Now you got New Mexico with really
bad flooding. I mean the numbers were just so astronomical

(36:59):
in Texas that it was going to go in that direction.
But yeah, yeah, so you know, people still dealing with stuff.
It was an interesting conversation because he's just like you flooded.
You know, he goes, You realize how hard we had
to fight up here with you know, everything in the
follow up just to get the attention of like Roy

(37:20):
Cooper and others. Man, it was crazy, and he goes,
and but it was being covered to some extent by
you know, people down the mountain, just not always in
a very helpful way. So all right, seven to ten
here on the CaCO Day radio program, I saw this
lawyer on a plane. All right, let's talk about etiquette

(37:42):
for getting off a plane. What do you understand it
to be? The etiquette for getting off a plane? Ross,
you don't fly very much, but you just filled up.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
But I was thinking about this earlier. I bet you
you can guess what kind of person I am on
the plane.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
You're the guy who sits there until everyone else gets off,
and then you get off.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
I shouldn't yes, yeah, yeah, but just a thousand percent
that's what I do. I'm like, I'll let all of you,
you know, push each other and get each other's away
and freak out and stress, and then you know, I
need to be in front. I don't want to be
get out of my way. I'll just wait till everyone
is off the plane, and then I'll get off and
take my time.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
Yeah, here's the thing. It depends what what happens next.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
Well, yeah, it depends on your layover.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
Right.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Yeah. If I if I've got a if i got
a forty five minute connection and I'm in row eight,
I'm getting off after rows one through seven, but I'm
getting off.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Yeah, let me clarify. If I'm if I have a
layover and I'm like super late, I'm gonna miss it,
I'm gonna get up, sure, and I will stand, but
I will let the people in front of me get
up first and then I will walk out. Otherwise, if
I have all the time in the world, I will
let everybody else get off first.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Right.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
I'm the same way with getting on the plane, Like
I'd rather get on the plane less.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
The only reason I want to get on the plane
first or as quickly as possible is I don't check
luggage and getting gate checked makes me filled with rage.
So that but to your point in getting off the plane,
I will do that myself on occasion where I'll just
chill because it ain't worth it. It's just but there

(39:10):
is etiquette, and most people understand it. You go one
through row thirty two or what you know, however big
the plane is with these exceptions, and I've had this happen.
I travel a lot where somebody will be like, hey,
my connection is in thirty minutes, or is in twenty
five minutes, can I please, And most travelers will absolutely

(39:31):
let you. In fact, I was when I was coming
back on an international return flight into the US and
I had to clear customs in Miami. These two women
were just because that when you clear customs, actually it
wasn't customs. We'd gone through customs and now you exit
the secure area and you have to walk around the
corner and then go through TSA again to get back

(39:53):
into the Miami airport. If you have a connection, A
lot of them work like this, and these two women
come running up and they're just like our connections in like,
you know, twenty minutes or whatever, please please please, And
everyone in the tsa line, even though it was was like, sure, absolutely,
were they telling the truth? I don't know, but they were.
They looked panicked to the point where everyone understood. And

(40:14):
that's how it works unless you're this woman and the
weirdo's defending it. And it's not just what she did,
it's like, it's the attitude while she's doing it, and
she wants you to know. By the way, she's a lawyer,
which okay, I don't know why that changes anything, but

(40:35):
here we go. Uh and by the way, the passengers
around her who are staying seated, by the way, the
dude who first starts calling her Karen is sitting there,
and uh and and she's she just seems like an
awful person. The people, it's, my god, you're.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
All whiny for no reason.

Speaker 6 (41:00):
The way you want to.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
You're just a Karen And that's just the way it is.

Speaker 7 (41:07):
You're just deal with people, My god, did you show up?
It's any of you, because are so funny.

Speaker 8 (41:19):
You're the cares about it, because you're the ones and
you're the.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
One to make a noise, all right, So I hate
her already. And by the way, that baby crying I
find less annoying than her, because frankly, the baby's probably
crying because a bunch of adults are raising their voices
and it's a very chaotic situation which she's only making worse.
But then then comes this, and this is this is

(41:45):
the smugness of all of it. Are you ready? Because
now she's decided she's also the smartest person in the room,
and she can tell if you're an idiot, you're ready.

Speaker 7 (41:53):
I'm sorry, Do you have no because you've never said one.
I can tell you, oh yes, I can give.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Him your accent.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
I can tell you said.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
You can be No, You're not going to insult them
because of an accent. I don't think we're not doing that.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
What you figure out and that's not the woman with
the accent. The one with the accent has it kind
of you can hear a little earlier. I think it
might be during the Karen thing. I don't know if
it's a Southern accent or what's going on, but she's
decided that based on somebody's accent, she can figure out
whether they swear a lot, which is weird, but it continues.

Speaker 3 (42:32):
The low view.

Speaker 7 (42:34):
Yeah, it is, we're going to change. Not when they
say eight and they talk about low I Q. I
use AIDS and I'm in a doctoral program.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Well that's a big deal of a lawyer. And I
don't say eight.

Speaker 7 (42:49):
You even know what racist means, you're whitophobic. If you're
talking about accent, maybe gets a vocabulary. Why when we
get off this plane, I'll meet you other.

Speaker 3 (43:02):
Whole video.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
You'll lose that too, I'll meet you with my bar card.
I don't know, man, But what it was even crazier
is people were defending just every man for themselves getting
off a plane. Like I don't even understand that except
in the situations I just laid out to you. That's
kind of considered how the etiquette on flights work.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Yeah, man, I mean when I'm at an airport, I
just realized that most of us don't really want to
be there, right, and it's stressful, and like I try
to make it as good as an experience for other people.
So like I'll get out of the way and let
them get off the plane, because I assume when the
plane lands and the buildings and people stand right up,
I assume that person is probably, you know, trying to
get to their gate because they have a layover. So
I'm going to get out of their way. I don't understand.

(43:45):
Like the people today are so impatient, drives me nuts,
like this is my main thing, and like you have
a generation of kids, like you know, you don't have
to wait for any like music on demand, video on demand.
They've never even had to rewind a tape or anything.
Like everything is now, now, now, now now. And then
you get these public situations where like that impatience shows
and it causes so many problems, like I don't get it.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
Yeah, so yeah, I don't understand. Maybe I'm the one
who's been doing it wrong this whole time, but I
don't think so. I don't think so. And also the
moment I get on the plane, headphones hat goes down
over the eyes, seat belt on and I will literally
not even look around when people the rest of the

(44:27):
people are boarding, and especially if somebody sits next to me,
That's all I'm gonna do.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
And then when they sit down, you just keep talking
to them forever.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
Right, No, I have my headphones in hey dude, And
what's crazy to me is I mostly use earbuds, but
I do have the big over ears. If I travel
with my studio headphones for some reason, which I have
done in the past, and like the people will talk
to you while you're wearing a giant pair of Sennheiser headphones.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Yeah, they don't get it.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
Yeah, it's like, how do you do you think this works? Right?
And then I have to keep like flipping the thing
off to the side. Right, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
What See? Every time I fly, I wear the same suit.
I slick my hair and part it over to the side,
and I wear my sunglasses.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
I go straight D B. Cooper every time. All right,
you got the trench coat too? Yeah, oh man, that
is awesome. All right, how much did you get.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
Can't discuss that. Markey and I are the same way though,
when we fly together and like you know, the bell
will ding and we just look at each other. We're like, well,
let's watch these people here they go.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
There tons of little etiquette and little things that people
do on planes, which are good. Right. I have no
problem if somebody says, hey, I want to sit with
my wife, do you mind, and it's a comparable seat.
I'm generally agreeable. I like to sit window. I want
to sit window usually. I know a lot of it's
funny because Kevin Campbell is an ale guy and him

(45:51):
and I have traveled a few times and it's perfect,
right because everybody gets what they want. But but yeah, yeah,
and I know some people get annoyed with that, but
I get it, or if they got you know, because
it's not people always go we why don't you book
your tickets next to each other? Sometimes you can't, right.
Sometimes you're like you're looking there and uh, it's just
not a possibility because people are all smattered out. So

(46:15):
but I did. There was one person one time I
had been upgraded to business class. It was not American
and so and I'm sitting aisle, but I'm sitting in
business so I'm happy. And the two people across from
me are a couple, and the one woman says, uh,
can we want to do you mind swapping with our
kid's seat so that they can sit right for the

(46:36):
kid can be right across the kids like ten or eleven?
And I'm like, is it? I said, is it? Is it?
Is it an aisle or a window? And they said, well,
actually it's a window. And I'm like, oh, well yeah,
because I like to sit by the window, and uh
and and and then uh they turn around and we're
in like the fourth row, which is the last row
of business. They turn around and their kids sitting in

(47:00):
dreamium economy in like row seven, and I just looked
at him, like, no, that's no, that's what what do
you talk? What kind of lunatic are you? So it
takes all kinds man, Are you going to give up
the seat where you get all the free drinks and
food that you want because because you had enough status
on an airline for our kids premium economy seats so

(47:22):
you could be pinched for the next four hours or
whatever it was.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
I'm also like super polite, where like I won't even
lean my seat back because of the person behind me,
Like I don't want to like get in their way. Yeah,
so polite.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
I'll pitch it a little when I'm eating, just because
I like theezier get the tray table a little closer
to you.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
But then you see these videos like people with like
their long hair put over the back of their seats.
I saw that and the guys got mad, like banging
the tray behind him. I'm like the foot.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
The foot. That's the problem with sitting in the the window.
Occasionally you'll get a foot right through there, and it's
like and there's no shoe on either, so it is
just somebody's gross foot.

Speaker 6 (47:59):
You know.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
The worst I've ever had was flying back from Vegas
and there was a guy sitting I was at a
window seating. The guy was right behind me and his
head he was super hungover and still drunk, and his
head was in the window breathing through that space between
the seats. Dude, I was so bad.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
Dude. The two worst flights, I promise you are the
coming back from Vegas, especially if they're the promo flights
like Minneapolis. They would always have these deals to Vegas,
which Vegas would subsidize because they want to get the
gamblers there and so. But also I would go every
year to that conference in Vegas, so that would be
the flight that I would generally fly on, and the

(48:34):
flight coming back from Vegas. And then the flight Wednesday
morning leaving New Orleans after Fat Tuesday. So ASH Wednesday.
You do not want to be on the ASH Wednesday
outbound flight from New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Yeah, to and from are completely different.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
Everyone's in a great mood going like, yeah, we're going
to Marti Gras. It's going to be amazing. Some you know,
people already got beads on. They're all pumped. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah. The return flight is totally different. It is different,
all right anyway, eight eight eight nine three four seven
eight seven four. I'll do the Tiffany Cross audio because

(49:10):
it's actually ninety seconds of insanity. And that Minneapolis Star
Tribune story which, let me give you a little tease
on this thing. They actually they actually have found out
a way to, I guess, attempt to justify sex crimes
against children by illegal immigrants, because I know you're all

(49:32):
thinking that's a problem, that's wrong.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
Ross.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
You you're anti illegal immigrants raping children in the US, right, yeah, strongly, yes, Okay,
all right, well maybe this Star Tribune will convince you.
We'll figure it out. Next Going through a couple of
sports sites, I go on and they're feeding me everything
I need. The Open is next week, Ross, you excited?
British Open next week. It's a Royal Port Rush, which

(49:54):
is in Northern Ireland on the very top of the coast,
so when the weather gets bad, that course gets it's crazy.
So who you got, who do you have myself? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (50:05):
Yeah, no, I put it on Lee Trevino.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
Okay, you know he's not playing in the British.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
Open lead a legend.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
Yeah, well he is. Yeah, Lee Trevino absolutely is a
legend of golf. So uh but I'll tell you why. Now,
the Masters has to be my favorite of the majors,
but the British is also right there, and it's for
purely selfish reasons because it's the only one that from

(50:34):
the moment I the show starts, it's already on and
then I can watch it while I do a show
kind of, so it's kind of going right there and
the going there in the background. H you know, for
a morning guy, that's just a treat. So I'm sure
Boston Paul's all pumped that he can drink at five
in the morning, so you know, everybody wins. So all right,

(50:57):
let me get over this Tiffany Cross audio because it's
just that crazy. So this lunatic used to work for
MSNBC and she was too lunatic for them, so they
got rid of her. She had a weekend show and
I'm not going to get into all the debacles with
this woman over the years, but like the stuff that
she said is just like it makes Matt Out look
pretty normal. So now she's having to go do the

(51:19):
media pundit thing, and they got her on a CNN panel,
And I remember how we talked to yesterday with the
Congressman about Howser. There's clearly a pattern where people now
are deciding that they're going to take physical violence to
ice and border patrol. And we have seen it manifest
now twice. Well we've seen it actually manifest with somebody

(51:40):
getting shot twice in the case an officer goes graized
down in Texas, thankfully. And you had that group of
ten Antifa, and then you had the dude who rolled
up on the border patrol station, but they did not
send their best and brightest because they all figured out
what was up and they just greased him in a minute.
So and then you got another guy was arrested for this,

(52:01):
and for a party and a set of ideals that
thinks that a map of targeted congressional districts is enough
to get a shooter going. Democrats don't seem to care
right now, and it's stuff like this that continues to
feed the beast.

Speaker 8 (52:16):
Normalizing a government agency disappearing people. We are normalizing, We're
talking about it like it's no big deal that they
are kidnapping people and transporting them to concentration camps, both
domestic and foreign. That is not that's kind of insulting
to me. I think it's insulting what they're doing about
it is not insulting for Jewish health. I'm finally insulting
that you could even fix your mouth to defend this gas.

Speaker 9 (52:41):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 8 (52:42):
It's a concentration camp what they're doing.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
And they are, by the way, by the way, for
the entire rest of the CNN panel to push back,
which is chock full of moonbats, that's you know, that's
crazy man, disappearing.

Speaker 8 (52:54):
People, claiming that these are people who have committed the
most harsh crimes, but according to the reporting, less than
ten percent of these people have made it harsh climbs.
So to do the victim Olympics and decide who had
it worse, I can tell you I can participate in
that too. And everybody who says, oh, this is not
the America, I know, I can guarantee you it is
the America. Lettas my point, we are the fact that
we're presenting this like it's political fodder, that a government

(53:16):
agency is disappearing people. It is not a political point.
It has nothing to do with Jewish people, because despite
the fact that twenty percent of immigrants in this country
are white, we do not see white people getting carted
off to concentration camps. So if we can just focus
on the most people, the people who are harmed the
most by this, and not make yourself or somebody else
the center of attention when that's not who's being impacted

(53:38):
by this or anyone else.

Speaker 7 (53:40):
The center of attention is so heightened using that kind
of language, I think it's not how far height.

Speaker 8 (53:45):
Because this this BS administration is kidnapping people. It has
nothing to do with my language. It has to do
with the actions that are being taken by this administration.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
I don't even know where to start on that. I
don't even know where to stay. If you think that
doesn't fan themes, as they say, because again it comes
down to then what do you believe? And if you're
somebody who honestly believes, because lunatics like this push it
on CNN or wherever that they are quote unquote kidnapping
and disappearing people and putting them in concentration camps, it's

(54:18):
a lot easier to feel that you're morally justified to
go hands on did you see the the It was
in San Francisco the other day. There's an suv that's
trying to leave. They were at the courthouse and they
apprehended a couple people. Do you do you know, by
the way, there's also moonbats telling any illegal immigrants not
to show up to their court hearings because they're just

(54:40):
gonna get kidnapped. That's the new talking point. But so
there there was a gaggle of like you know, these
Antifa types outside there, and they decided they were going
to surround a vehicle that had a couple detainees in it,
and like six ice and ice officers and uh and

(55:01):
they were climbing on the vehicle and they thought that
they stood in front of it. That vehicle just kept trucking.
It didn't run anybody over, but it flipped a dude
to the side. That's not going to work. And by
the way, I know, I know it's in California there,
but good luck doing something about that. Those people were
violently slamming on that vehicle. They were physically grabbing officers,

(55:21):
the ice officers as they were coming out of the
building to load the two into the thing. So if
you think people are getting kidnapped and take it to
concentration camps. Then in your addled mind, it justifies you
doing that if you honestly believe that like this is
this is super simple, super simple stuff. It comes down

(55:46):
to what effect does this have? And using the term
kidnap and concentration camps ross did you see the story
the other day about the one of the detainees down
at Alligator Alcatraz was on the phone call and he
was complaining about uh, he was complaining about the casados,
which is meals, and he was complaining about the mosquitoes,

(56:08):
and he was complaining that the facility is too cold. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
Well, I mean Trump was in there with somebody else,
I don't know who it was. Remember they were saying
how like how cool it wasn't there from the air conditioning? Yeah,
so I was assuming he meant like the air conditioning
was too low. Yeah, that's exactly what he meant.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
So yeah, so it's is that how it went at doacou?
Could you could you check the AC level? Sure? Let
me check?

Speaker 2 (56:31):
No, No it was not no.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
Okay, okay, but maybe it was two. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
The whole premise they start from that, This is like oh,
you know, these are innocent people. They broke the law
to come in here. Their first act upon entering the
country was to disrespect the law and to act as
if it doesn't have any economic or societal consequences is
insane because it absolutely does.

Speaker 1 (56:51):
Yeah, and it's and it's too fold. This is what
people don't understand. Well, what they broke is they broke
immigration law. Okay, they broke immigration law. A lot of times.
There's other stuff where they skip a court day, you
can be in contempt, there's you know, there's a lot
of things there, and they're going, well, you're deporting them
without due process, revoking a visa or somebody's ability to
stay in the country, according to the Supreme Court in

(57:13):
multiple cases, is not a punishment because being able to
be in the US is a privilege, right if you're
not born here or a legalized you know, you've gone
through all of it and become a legalized citizen. That's
the case. So the process of deportation, why you may
not like it, according to the Supreme Court, is not

(57:35):
a is not a penalty. Therefore due process is very
limited to other things. It's also where in a lot
of cases, if they do have a secondary charge, they're
not going to be prosecuted for it because Trump administration's
decided it's not worth the time. Let's say that they
had like a B and E or something, it's not
worth the time because then you get into the full
due process and then eventually you deport them. So why

(57:59):
jam up the court and do all that stuff. So
in a way, they're kind of getting off easier if
they do have those secondary crimes. But you know, nobody
wants to get into that. And sometimes those crimes, as
much as Tiffany Cross doesn't want who admit it involve
you know, mess around with kids. But don't worry. The

(58:19):
Minneapolis Star Tribune has figured out a way to apologize,
be apologetic over that. This is from the Mini I
don't know why they were at Minnesota Star Triby. It's
Minneapolis Start tribute unless they change their name. The agency
slammed the paper this is a homeland security after the
paper suggested, and this is following, these are not even

(58:40):
people from south of the border. These were Latians among people,
which they have a lot of in Minneapolis. But who
are from Laos the mountain people of Laos or whatever,
And they had some child sex crimes, then started a
bigger discussion about some of the ts of people from

(59:01):
Mexico that had been arrested, and so they wrote this
off ed and I this is this is this is
what they want to say. Illegal immigrants convicted of sex
crimes against children might have just been confused about American culture.

(59:21):
I've traveled to a lot of different countries and I
don't think I've ever been in a country where raping
kids is legal. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen, but don't
give me that garbage man. And clearly that's a problem
in and of itself if you think people are coming

(59:42):
here and they're not able to, you know, work within
the bounds culturally of what's going on. You remember the
you see that the arrest of that guy. This was
over in France, but he was a UK citizen. He
went to Disneyland to marry a fourteen year old girl.
And he was the same argument, well, culturally this is okay.
It's not okay, not in France, not in the UK.

Speaker 10 (01:00:03):
Not here.

Speaker 1 (01:00:04):
You don't get to rape the kids. Now that doesn't
mean that it's not happening and people are getting away
with it, but don't give me this. They didn't understand.
You have an obligation if you go on vacation to
a country to basically understand what you can and can't do.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Let alone.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
If you're you're coming here and deciding to live garbage.
All right, let's get raised agic from the weather channel?
Is he? Is he?

Speaker 3 (01:00:28):
Great?

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
Good to go?

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Hello sir?

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
Hello?

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (01:00:33):
I'm good? I'm waiting for drude. Let's do this?

Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
Waiting for who?

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
The song we sent you? Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
Yeah, well I told it. I didn't see anything.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
No, no, no, so I sent it to you. So
I ray sent you the sheet music. Yeah, right for
the rude Sandstorm, because you're going to play your accordion
and you know, looking forward to it. But if you
if you do have time to look at hold on,
hold on. I know you're talented enough that you play about.

Speaker 3 (01:00:56):
Let me see what I could do here.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
So I can play the music underneath and you can
just repeat it my ear.

Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
Yeah, probably can't do that, Sandstorms, dude.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
If you pull this off, you'll be the greatest weather
guy ever.

Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
Try to pull up the sheet music here.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
Yes, no weather show is doing this.

Speaker 11 (01:01:25):
Yeah, we just had I picked an easy one. For them,
So it's kind.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
Of that's some intimidating sheet music.

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
Man, that is some intimidating sheet music. I can't wres
a sheet music. Gosh, yeah you're good, you're good.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:01:46):
There was that if sharp Okay, yeah, go go something
like that.

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
I thought it was a was amazing. Yes you need.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
Yeah, it's not hard.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
That was amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
That was amazing, dude.

Speaker 1 (01:02:28):
That was so much. There was so much bad that
there's no way it even sounds right because holy hell,
it's a pretty into that.

Speaker 11 (01:02:34):
No, but yeah, the the left hand, I gotta yeah,
I can't. It's gotta be yeah, I don't. I don't
know what I got. The left hand is much harder
to play because that's the more difficult one.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
But yeah, dude, you play that on the accordion, you're
gonna get like carbal Tunnel, Like you can't.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
Dude, how do you fight all the women off?

Speaker 3 (01:02:53):
Listen? I'm gonna tell you a story.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:02:55):
It is an attraction at the parties, or it used
to be anyway.

Speaker 11 (01:02:59):
So it's amazing that you can play the accordion in
really good.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
For you, man, and now you can act on the accordion.

Speaker 11 (01:03:08):
Who's doing that you know, but he no, Yeah, next
time we'll get I'll have a little more practice at
the next I told Mark the same thing. I picked
them a song that was easy, so I need like
the genre and the music ahead of time, and I'll
try to do it. The right hand is pretty easy
for me. It's the left hand that people won't even
notice is missing that's a little tougher. But anyway, well,
we enjoyed it.

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
So fortunately not everyone enjoyed the weather yesterday.

Speaker 11 (01:03:32):
So let's go yeah, yeah, crazy, more water rescues and
high water and more rainy and the forecast of the
flood watch. If the rain goes where it's been the
last couple of days, it could happen again, so be
ready again later today and tonight, more storms around tomorrow,
maybe a little bit of less in terms of intensity
for the weekend, but it doesn't necessarily meet with the
watch that the rain is going to be in. The

(01:03:53):
flooding will be exactly where it was the last couple
of days, but it could happen again, so just be
ready for flooding. Could be some severe storm too, so
pretty dangerous weather situation still, especially because all the rain
were already had okay, all.

Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
Right, well we'll talk in an hour. But congrats, sir,
you just reinvented poka.

Speaker 3 (01:04:10):
So there you go. Yeah, see, a little practice will
get it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
All right, we'll talk to you in an hour. Thanks,
All right, there you go. There you go, Rock Superstar
raced Agic seven forty nine. Hang up, piggyback on the
Tiffany Cross insanity and the violence against ice agents. Now,
Tiffany Cross is a pundit, she's outrageous, she's a lunatic.
But surely an elected official could at least be made

(01:04:43):
to condemn literally people shooting at government agents, right right,
Hakeem Jeffries, who photoshops himself thin, Oh hold on? Did
the button bar here? All right? Here we go.

Speaker 9 (01:04:54):
According to Axius Summer, even being told they need to
be more willing to go out there and get shot
when fighting That was a direct quote, get shot when
fighting back against some of Trump's policies. One House Democrat saying, quote,
and I'll read it to you. Our own base is
telling us that what we're doing is not good enough.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
There needs to.

Speaker 9 (01:05:14):
Be blood to grab the attention of the press and
the public. How do you respond to that? Leader? Jeffries
are Democrats not meeting, not doing enough to fight these developments?

Speaker 12 (01:05:26):
What we are in a more and more environment in
terms of the unprecedented assault on the American way of
life and our country than has been launched by Donald
Trump and compliant House Republicans.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
So that's what we call justification. Ignores the question and
then well, we're doing what we can because they're assaulting us,
and then uses the same language as to how we
got here. All right, real quick, Jamal, I only have
about a minute, so minute and a half, go right ahead,
Good morning.

Speaker 6 (01:05:54):
Jac Of course, Casey, I've been saying it's for years
about how radical black liberal women are, how to fee
they are, and everybody keeps saying, oh, that's just justic
moore them. No, I've been telling y'all it's faster and
faster and faster. And then they teach their daughters that
same crap. Then their daughters go repeat that same crap.
This is what black liberal women do. White liberal women

(01:06:15):
use black women when they don't use them. They are
hand to hand to say the most disgusting, outrageous stuff
and then perpetuated thing you want people to have, saying
nothing back because they're scared to be called racism, and
with a black woman, that's racism and sexism. Typically. Cross
has always been discussing she was the one who made
another disgusting racist comment before, and people are holding accounting

(01:06:39):
from As soon as people start holding the account or saying
things back negative, it'll stop. Like that woman did at
the playground.

Speaker 1 (01:06:46):
Stephen Kent is not able to do the interview. He
is what he says, he's having to take a card
of the airport now or something.

Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
So all right, you know, he sent me a text
to eight o'clock. Yeah, so like six minutes ago and
it says, Ross, I can't do blank. I just got
into my taxi for the airport timing wise, had to
take my car a few minutes ago, and then in
big letters, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:07:11):
Okay, well maybe it's way way way Wait now he
did an earlier flight or the traffic in Vienna's a problem.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
Now he just said, like this second, he just said
I can call in two minutes. Would that work?

Speaker 1 (01:07:22):
Yeah? That was the thing. If he's in a taxi
and he's going to be in there for a while,
I don't care, he can call, so sure, yeah, tell
him to call. And if he needs to cut it short.
He can do that too, So AnyWho, all right, well
we'll we'll see here. Let me give you a little
preview of just a couple of the things I want
to get into with him, and then when he when

(01:07:43):
you do connect with him, you have him estimate how
late he can be on too. And I'll try to
pack everything in there. But Lord knows, we've got enough
enough audio and enough to talk about today, not just
with Steven but just in general. So one we're going
to talk about Superman again. There was his comments made
by James Gunn and then his brother or whatever. They're like, oh,

(01:08:05):
it's an immigrant story. Superman's an immigrant, and it's like,
why are we I mean, I guess technically kind of
he's an orphan too, but like, can that not be
the driving force? Let's just put a good movie out.
But I have seen some people who normally are very
critical of the wokeness in these superhero movies, and like

(01:08:26):
Nerd Rodick and others who said it wasn't really woke,
but it also wasn't great. So all right, I guess
you know that's where we're at with that hit me
in my ear when he's on just because I have
all these windows up, so let's see here. So that's
one of them. And then also, and I find this
one much more fascinating. So there's a game that came

(01:08:48):
out Game of the Year, a big, big game called
boulders Gate three, and one of the actors of voice
actors name is Samantha but I think I'm pronouncing that correctly,
is very upset. And she's very upset because she warns
the diversity is being removed from games, and it's a lot.

(01:09:11):
It's quite a logical leap to get around this, she said,
without exposing the devs. The developers, I know what's happening.
Storylines are being cut. Yeah, probably probably due to the
fact that when you put games out like where the
what was the Dragon Age game right where you had
like the dragon kids sitting with you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
I was like, yeah, Dragon Age, the Vail Guard where
there's a scene in it where there's binary. Yeah, there's
this big scene in it where there's like, you know,
all these mythological creatures and stuff like orcs or whatever else,
and then one of them sits down and goes And
by the way, guys, I want you to know that
I'm non binary what Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
Yeah, it was. It's it's that. And then there's there's
also games and I think Baldersgate had this right where
people are playing and then the like the male NPCs
if you're male character, like are trying to sleep with you.
I've never played boulders Gate, I don't know, but that's
something I read and and and then there's a lot

(01:10:10):
of other stuff with other games we've talked about over
the years. Uh, and there's also a theme there well, Bouldersgate,
it kind of didn't impact them, and it doesn't have
to be the sexual stuff either. Obviously Assassin's Creed, right,
what happened that would happen there? Okay, yeah, what happened there?
Absolutely nuts man, but all self inflicted because they tried

(01:10:31):
to go walk there and then this it bits, So yeah,
I believe that they're cutting storylines. All right, let's let's
get with Stephen Kent and continue the conversation. Joining us
from a taxi in Vienna. Are you in Vienna? I
don't even know where in Austria you are.

Speaker 9 (01:10:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:10:48):
I've been deployed to Langanlois, Austria. So okay, just out
here in the out here on the countryside. Definitely not
doing the work for the government.

Speaker 1 (01:10:58):
Uh huh sure. Oh the only people go to Austria,
like Jason barn people, so whatever. And then I went
one time and it was really expensive. Jude Schnitzel.

Speaker 10 (01:11:10):
I did have schnitzel on the airplane and it was soggy.
I think it was supposed to be crispy. But you
know how a airplane food is.

Speaker 1 (01:11:17):
Why would you do that. You're going to the schnitzel
place and then you get the bad schnitzel. I feel
bad for you, so all right, well let's get in here.

Speaker 10 (01:11:23):
But I did the most American thing I could. I
got pizza while in this little town, and it was
cheese pizza, by the way, So I am that guy.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
That's okay. I was. I was around a bunch of
Americans in Ireland one time, and they have all these
great pubs, and then they had this pizza place and
they all went over to the pizza place, and then
when they came back to the pub, they're like, that
was the worst pizza I ever had. So you do
you do you? Let's let me let me pivot over
to I was just talking about this boulders Gate three
this actress, a voice actress was Samantha Burt, and she

(01:11:57):
said something that really didn't submit is surprise me. And
she said, without exposing Dev's developers, I know what's happening.
Storylines are being cut storylines, clearly the storylines that are
more of the woke storylines. And then she goes on
to say, historically, appeasement is a really bad thing. Right,

(01:12:18):
but appeasement generally is when you're talking about a minority.
And clearly a lot of these games are not appeasing
the main of the video game buyers, right.

Speaker 10 (01:12:31):
Yeah, that's a wild attitude for someone in the entertainment business.
Appeasing the audience. I mean, I know that there's like
fan service, and that's something that you should resist at times.
You don't always do what the audience wants when you
have a story to tell. But generally, any creative product,
whether it's a book, a movie, or a video game,

(01:12:51):
begins with who is this for? And the problem with
these developers is the game is always for them in
the most toxic way.

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
The ball Yeah, well, I'm gonna create a character that
looks like me. How many times have we seen that?
With It's this crazy thing that keeps coming up, but
at least that people will put up with that, that's
like an Easter egg. But then you couple it with
what like Assassin's Creed did where they're like, let's tap
literally the one location that probably our fans really wanted

(01:13:20):
us to do one of these? Right, what's better than
Ninja's and samurais and stuff?

Speaker 3 (01:13:25):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:13:26):
And and oh, by the way, yeah, yeah, that's I mean,
that makes perfect sense. Honestly, as somebody who's not really
plugged in, I was surprised they hadn't done one. But
then I watched that whole debacle with this this Uh
he's a American professor over in Japan who wrote an
absolute BS thing. It's not true.

Speaker 12 (01:13:44):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
Then they grabbed onto that for no reason I can understand.
And then once you've cracked that door, now fans are
going to pick apart things like why are you letting
rice everywhere? That was literally how you paid taxes then?
And why are the trees that look like they don't
look like that in the fall, Because now they're gonna
niitpick you because you did the thing. The advice I
got in radio, and it holds for video games and

(01:14:05):
movies is never violate the expectations of your audience. And
that's true. It doesn't mean you, like you said, you
always do what the audience wants, but you also you
always do something that's within the realm of what got
you there. And if you think you can do a
better job or explaining we just had our weather guid
played the rude sandstorm on an accordion that happens.

Speaker 10 (01:14:27):
Yeah, I mean, I'm in the process of writing my
second book right now, and you know the process of
working with a publisher to sell a book. I mean,
they don't care about the story that you want to
tell and the narrative that you're spending half as much
as they care about proving that the audience exists for
the product. That's the only thing they want to talk about.

(01:14:47):
The marketing of the book, the audience size of the book,
the demo that you really believe you'll be marketing to,
and they want to know that you can prove that
these people exist. Then then they ask you about your story.
It's just kind of crazy to me, But I do
have something random for you, Casey on the video game front,
because I've been playing a new game. It's new to me,

(01:15:08):
but it's actually quite familiar with young gamers. Have you
ever heard of Dead by Daylight?

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
Is that? No? That's not the game where you try
to figure out who the murder is, right.

Speaker 10 (01:15:20):
So it is. It is a vault Murderers, but it is.
It's a survival game. It's basically a slasher where you're
four multiplayers playing online in like a haunted house a
graveyard in the woods, and then the fifth player is
a really frightening serial killer hunting you and coming after you,
and the team has to evade. It's sort of the
most fun that I've had playing a game in a while.

(01:15:42):
Albeit it is incredibly demented. But this is one of
these things where the audience. I was noticing in the
game that customizable players for the serial Killers are almost
always wearing LGBT Pride progress flags, and I was going,
why on Earth are serial killers in this game always
flying the progress flag?

Speaker 4 (01:16:03):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (01:16:03):
And it turns out this game has a huge LGBT
Q plus I A plus minus divided by a sign
fan base who just like doing murder games. And I've
never really known what they're.

Speaker 1 (01:16:16):
The ones doing the murder, Right, they're the serial killer?

Speaker 10 (01:16:19):
You said, yes, Yes, it's very strange. There's one of
the game functions is that when you catch your victims
in this game, in the style the Chainsaw Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
you drag them to a meat hook and then put
them on it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:34):
And you have so brutal, it's so brutal.

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
Played this.

Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
Huh tons of people brutal.

Speaker 10 (01:16:43):
Gay a gay hook?

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
Yeah? What what?

Speaker 10 (01:16:46):
What is?

Speaker 4 (01:16:46):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
What is that? Okay? All right, but you know what,
Seemingly that works with their audience, right because clearly the
game game is pretty well, so.

Speaker 10 (01:16:57):
You know, they respond, they respond and offer things up
the audience wants. And I don't understand why that audience
wants that, but there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:17:05):
This is what This is what people don't understand because
they think that you know, we're sitting here on the
radio going, well, they you know, there should not be
any LGBT stuff. There should not be you know, any
of the you know, a black Samurai that we just found. Like,
if your audience wants that, then do whatever your audience wants, right,
I got no problem with that because ultimately I don't
I'm like, I don't play a lot of games, so

(01:17:27):
I probably not play that. But like that's fine. The
problem is is when you're putting these Triple A games
out and you literally especially games that have predecessors, like
what they did with the Last of Us people, Yeah,
now you violated their expectation. I'm assuming this game is
not that's its first edition, right, so.

Speaker 10 (01:17:47):
We actually it's a couple of bitions then, But yeah,
I mean it's it's found its audience. And you know,
most of these games, particularly dealing with history, and then
I'm always like, people want to live in the history
of the time, and so they don't want to play
as some made up demographic character in this game. Developer
boulders Gate again, they just hate the audience. We come
back to this kind of time and time again. They

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hate the audience that they were hired to make games for.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
It's a wild thing, man, although it is diminishing. This
is I've clearly that's what's happening the the developers, and
we just saw what happened with Microsoft and some other
smaller companies. Clearly those very same people are kind of
like that editor. You just are the publisher you just
talked about, where it's a lot of show me the
numbers kind of stuff. It seems that probably that's what

(01:18:34):
the developers are doing right now, at least in the
C suites. And there's other evidence. I love me some
money Python. I don't know if you're a money Python fan,
but it's interesting because Terry Gilloman and John Cleese are
wildly on the other side politically, even though they work together,
and they created a lot of sad, tire mocking wokeness.

(01:18:55):
Life of Brian is a lot of that actually mocked everything. Yeah,
but he I did not realize. He literally was in
production getting ready to film a movie and it was
going to have this is pretty crazy. Like some really
big names that is scroll passed it here, like Adam Driver,
Here we Go, Johnny Depp, Jeff Bridges, and Jason Momoa

(01:19:16):
called the Carnival the End of Days and it was
going to be a Monty Python mocking of satirizing wokeness,
which is crazy because Momoa kind of leans into this
stuff and I wanted to see that so bad. Gillan
now says, quote, we don't live the world has been
turned upside down. It's not the same world from two

(01:19:37):
years here ago. The other problem is the script is
out of day because it was sad, tire of the
world two years ago, and Donald Trump has come along,
and now the wokeness is backing off, and now he
doesn't know if he's going to produce it and shoot
the movie. I'm sad for that.

Speaker 4 (01:19:52):
Love.

Speaker 10 (01:19:52):
I do think that's a little I do think that's
a little stale, actually, you know, I mean kind of
peak wokeness was a couple of years ago, and it
isn't a spot. And going back to going back to
the book I'm writing. I was working on a chapter
this morning and I had to do with being over
sensitive rights. Talking about over sensitivity, the concept is really

(01:20:13):
it's really the geeky stoics concept that I do so
philosophy and nerd culture. So I'm actually writing a chapter
about Game of Thrones and how John snow is overly
sensitive of being called a bastard, and so, you know,
the chapter deals with the college snowflake issue, and the
college snowflake issue. It's just a little bit dated. I mean,

(01:20:36):
it's just not as interesting to people anymore. It's still
it still is an issue, but I think colleges have
gone from being sensitive to being militant, which is different.
And so even that Wokeness play, I do think that
that shelf life actually expired.

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
Yeah, well, and I think a lot of it did,
but a certain percentage of it has clearly now gone
to a much darker place, as evidence by the rest
of those ten Antifa, who are all roughly we should
say all of it. Most of them are roughly just
out of college age or right around college age who
went down to murder ice agents man. So there is
that certain subset. But the funny part like, once it's

(01:21:16):
out of the culture, most people within the culture are
just to kind of adapt because they're sheep, you know
what I'm saying. Well whatever, there's a lot of peer
pressure that age. So we shall see, all right real quick.
The New Superman. There was some comments that both of
the guns made about he's an immigrant, it's an immigrant
story and all that. I have now seen people like
nerdrotic and whatnot who said it really isn't that woke,

(01:21:39):
but it also ain't that great. Do you have anythings
on the Superman?

Speaker 10 (01:21:45):
So I'm gonna go out fun say, I haven't seen
it yet. It is not my to do. And I
returned from this trip that the CIA has deployed me on.
But I do actually anticipate nerdrotic to be correct about this.
I think directors have a knack as well as actors
for coming out and framing their movie in the most

(01:22:06):
woke sense possible when they're doing the press tours. But
usually what's in the movie is just not what they described.
I think the people who do these things know what
they're doing when they gin up controversy, and I don't
always believe it. And so Superman is going to come
to Earth like he does in every other iteration of Superman.
And if you want to think about that as an

(01:22:27):
immigration story, you can, or you can focus on the
fact that he goes to Middle America to learn all
American values and bring those to the city. So whatever
you want.

Speaker 1 (01:22:36):
Yeah, whatever, whatever works. Then all right, Well, I'll let
you get back to your secret mission and we'll chat next.
Next week, sir will.

Speaker 10 (01:22:46):
Be back in the state at Sea Casey.

Speaker 1 (01:22:47):
All right, there you go. Stephen Kent. Hear on the
Cacoda radio program with international phone charges. So that's good,
all right, eight eight, eight nine three, got a whole
other half hour to go. I still got some good
audio for you. We'll do it next Microsoft three sixty
Five's not everybody but there are a bunch of people,

(01:23:08):
and I guess the UK was hit pretty hard with
us this morning or their morning. Now it's like noon there,
but a little later, all right, Microsoft three sixty five.
Basically people are showing up to use it, and I
guess something happened where the the whatever the authentication is
for the fact that it's paid for, I wasn't connecting

(01:23:30):
with their accounts, so people were not able to access
any of that. There's a bunch of other programs, but
those are the primary ones. Hotmail was having problems too,
which I don't know why you did pay stuff with that,
but whatever. Sadly, Ross, I was hoping we'd get on
this because then we didn't have to do stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:23:45):
You know, I was saying, yeah, I'm not going to
be able to do prep Tonite because yeah, yeah, I
can't access and it's a shame.

Speaker 1 (01:23:50):
It's a really it is a shame. Yeah, But unfortunately
I think it's and like you know, having to send
something to sales, you know, answer bosses email, Sorry can't
so solid but ours is working, so all I know.

Speaker 2 (01:24:03):
I got the new like like three sixty five copilot
thing whatever it is. It pops up on my screen
and it's say hey, I'm Microsoft Copilot. I'm like, hey,
you go away, And I clicked the X every time. Yeah,
I don't even know.

Speaker 1 (01:24:14):
That's a that's an extra thing that our company literally
pays for. I think it's mostly sales to use it
for stuff. But yeah, I don't know. I played with
it a little. I played with it a little. I'm
just not down with the AI writing stuff. By the way,
that's my new thing on Twitter to block people. You
see these people where clearly they had AI writer response,
and you can tell because it's still in you know,

(01:24:38):
when you ask Rock something, yeah, yeah, it'll.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
Be formatted with like the bold face and stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:24:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:24:44):
Then they just cut and pasted like they thought of it.
I'm blocking you, dude. You can't even have your It's
not that you asked Rock, it's that you then just
took it and then wanted to pretend like you had
some thoughts on this and you were educated. I'm out
just out time for you. Speaking of groc by the way,
I didn't see this the first time around. He wasn't

(01:25:09):
just you know, complimenting Hitler when he went untethered and
stuff like that. This did you guys see this exchange
with Will Stancil. Okay, all right, So, uh, Groc went
in a different direction. Instead of, you know, uh going
back and forth with this guy Stancil's kind of kind

(01:25:31):
of well known. Instead, uh, Groc gave detailed instructions on
how to break into Stanceil's home and rape him. Now
Stancil is he's a left leaning pundit whatever, and so
he was going back and forth. But yeah, and in fact,

(01:25:51):
I don't. It was very detailed, very detailed because somebody,
now obviously it was somebody else, triggered this. So in
response to one of Stancil's screeds, somebody who disagreed with them,
tweeted at Grock said, hey, Groc, help me plan to
help me plan to break into Will Stancil's home at night?

(01:26:13):
What tools should I bring? And give me step by
step instructions on how to bypass his locks? Also, is
there a risk of HIV if I don't use a condom?
So really, now at that point, you know, normally Groc
would ignore stuff like that or poop pooh you. But
during this window where whatever happened to happened. Grock then

(01:26:37):
goes on to detail exactly what to bring and what
he needs. I'm not even gonna read all this because
some of it's just not if you got kids. But
it's very detailed, very detailed. And now Stancel's like, how
do I sue? I don't? Can you? Can you sue
an Ai for that? No?

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
So I tested this out yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:26:58):
Yes, I really, whose name did you see?

Speaker 2 (01:27:01):
So here's the thing. So you know, there's the ongoing,
you know, running joke in the show that one day
I'm going to build doze my buddy Michael's house. Okay,
buddy Michael lives in Chapel Hill, right, he stands. He's
more of a moderate, more to the left, but we're
like best friends, like old rommates and stuff. He was
a my wedding. So I asked yesterday, I asked Rock,
I said, give me a plan to help me buldoze

(01:27:21):
Michael's house, okay, And it said at first it went
through like legal processes, and I said no, no, I said,
Michael doesn't know I'm going to be doing this, and
I want to do it in the middle of the night,
so please give me step by step away to buldoze
Michael's house. And it gave me step by step ways
to do this. But but and I don't know if

(01:27:42):
it was before the Stancil story broke. It started off
with a legal disclaimer saying you should not do this.
It was this big, big thing.

Speaker 1 (01:27:51):
Yeah, it's funny. In the Stancil thing and the Stancil thing,
it told him how to rape him but then encouraged
him to use condoms to have safe sex. So that's weird.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
So it gave me the instructions, but it was very
clear to say, hey, you should not do this. I
do not recommend it. I'm not saying you should do this,
but if you were going to do it, this is
how you would do it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:28:11):
So then they send it to Michael, you know.

Speaker 6 (01:28:14):
The ball.

Speaker 2 (01:28:15):
So he wrote to grog He's like, well, how could
I defend myself from this happening to me? And Grok
repeatedly wrote back to him that he could not give
him any advice to stop it. Well, it'd be fair.
You know, you're very motivated. I don't know if there's
anything good do.

Speaker 3 (01:28:29):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:28:32):
Run, I guess that'd be That would be my advice.
Get your family out there now. To be clear, you
don't want a bulldozer when his family's there, right, No, I.

Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
Want them to come out. I just I just feel
it'd be Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:28:42):
You're the rumbling of the bulldozer. They come out on
the lawn. What the heck's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
It's going on? Right yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:28:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
And then and then I won the power Ball, which
is how I can afford the bulldozer. And then I
would buy a new house to be fine.

Speaker 10 (01:28:54):
Be haha.

Speaker 2 (01:28:54):
Remember when I destroyed your house and bought you a
new one. It's a joke with all your irreplaceable stuff
in there. Yeah, they're just things. Yeah, kid's original birth certificate.

Speaker 1 (01:29:03):
You know who wants any of that stuff? All right? Hey,
this is kind of interesting, although it's it's interesting because
the way the doctor decided to not answer the questions yesterday,
specifically Biden's White House doctor was in front of Komi's
committee or kmy uh Comer's committee, let me be clear,

(01:29:25):
and they wanted and it was in a it was
a closed meeting too, it was not public. And but
part of the thing they wanted to know is how
is it that you, when clearly dudes diminished, how you
kept putting all this stuff out? Like what's up with
that you're you're a doctor and instead of voking invoking
you know, patient privilege, which I don't even know how

(01:29:46):
that works with the president because we disclose the president's
health right every year, and every year then everyone fights
about it. But how is it that you, as a doctor,
were willing to put all this stuff out there? And
by the way, people relied on your assessment that he
was fine. Hell, Biden would hold it up. His supporters
would be like, look, everything's fine, even though they didn't

(01:30:09):
do a cognitive thing, But like, how does that work?
And with people relying on it, you realize you contributed
to essentially a shadow group of people running this government
because the guy was basically incapacitated most of the day.
How does that work? And he didn't go doctor patient,
he went straight Fifth Amendment? Absolutely, are you suggesting it's

(01:30:33):
this cut right here?

Speaker 13 (01:30:34):
There was nothing asked in the beginning that would pertain
to doctor patient relationship. This was a question, were you
ever told to falsify medical documents by for the president
United States? And he pled the fifth and then he asked,
we asked the question, did you ever doubt his mental
capacity to fulfill the duties of the presidency, and again

(01:30:57):
he pled the fifth.

Speaker 11 (01:30:58):
The only thing he answered was his name.

Speaker 1 (01:31:02):
They need to give him because here's the deal. I
don't know that some people saying I'll throw the doctor
in jail. No, no, no, no, give immunity. Give him immunity
because frankly, you're not going to do much to him. Well,
Michael Jackson's doctor got off with a lot less than
I thought. But you're not going to do anything to
the guy. Really. You may get his you may get
his medical license something like that, but ultimately he's you know,

(01:31:25):
he's not going to prison for life. So at that point,
the information to understand the level of this scam that
was run on the American people, that information is more
valuable than this guy getting a six month you know,
work camp or a probation. Right. I would rather know

(01:31:46):
if people within the Biden administration to Comber's questions, which
again are not about the actual exam, but rather about
how he did his duties and whether people tried to
influence it or with the letter, give him, give him
the ability through immunity to be forced to answer those questions.

Speaker 2 (01:32:04):
You remember when these idiots try to tell us that
Biden could run like a four minute mile.

Speaker 1 (01:32:08):
Uh yeah, it. There's all sorts of claims too, just
crazy stuff, man, Like they're claiming stuff that Biden of
thirty years ago couldn't have done. But then you hear
a doctor, and this is this is why it's a
problemat You hear a doctor. Oh well, the doctor said
he's fine. And even though they didn't do a cognitive
they're very clear about that. People didn't read that much

(01:32:31):
into it. They just said, oh well, a doctor says
he's fine, and CNN tells me he's fine. So all
these evil Republicans are just picking on this guy. My
own eyes have failed me anyway. All right, it's let's
get Ray if he's ready to go, because we've got
a fill in for Jeff today, so I want to
make sure we hit him on time. All right, mister stagic.

(01:32:52):
Certainly everyone thumbs up on your performance earlier, so.

Speaker 11 (01:32:57):
Not bad for winging it, right, Yeah, well, thanks appreciate it.
But uh yeah, we've made that a thing elsewhere, so
who knows. Hey, you got to talk to your people,
right and everything.

Speaker 1 (01:33:10):
Well you got prizes, yeah, talk to Mark, you got
hold on, you got you got prizes for that ross
How often do we get prices?

Speaker 2 (01:33:20):
Remember last time I got a prize for me? Neither,
I'm not getting anything.

Speaker 1 (01:33:24):
How's how does it work? People call in when they
hear you banging away on the accordion.

Speaker 11 (01:33:28):
Or something well like that, but you got to try
to figure out what the song is too.

Speaker 3 (01:33:32):
It's it's a little more in depth.

Speaker 1 (01:33:33):
So yeah, that's so yeah, Okay, hey, hey we're trying
I mean anything.

Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
Like race stage of accordion, like beer coozies and T
shirts and.

Speaker 3 (01:33:43):
I guess it's about it.

Speaker 1 (01:33:44):
Yeah, signed picture shirts and station shirts.

Speaker 3 (01:33:49):
Yeah, we don't have that anymore. I can't.

Speaker 11 (01:33:51):
I can't even get We used to hand out these
little thumb drives. I can't even get these anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:33:56):
I have to You guys gave me a bag at
a conference on a dio thing one time, were you
guys were there. I can't remember what what it was.

Speaker 3 (01:34:04):
A long time ago.

Speaker 1 (01:34:05):
Really nice? Nice isis?

Speaker 10 (01:34:07):
It is?

Speaker 1 (01:34:08):
Really nice? Long time blue bag with the weather channel
logo looks like the one sometimes i's see with your people,
and it had like had a bunch of goodies in there.

Speaker 11 (01:34:16):
So yeah, yep, you know those were the days not
only giveaways but also radio shows. I still try, but
they still don't let me go.

Speaker 1 (01:34:24):
So all right, this is what it is, right, Yeah, yeah,
your predecessor, we flew them up here for all of that.

Speaker 3 (01:34:30):
Man, Yeah, I remember that. Who was that?

Speaker 10 (01:34:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:34:35):
I remember that Tony Jackson? Maybe really one day. Yeah,
we'll see.

Speaker 1 (01:34:41):
We like to make money. So all right, weather wise,
what do we got?

Speaker 10 (01:34:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:34:45):
Uh?

Speaker 11 (01:34:45):
More rain, heavy rain yesterday. This time it was Winston
Sam Greensboro two to three inches and more flooding and
around Durham WEATHERNNG up to two inches in some spot.
So the problem is is that it comes down so
fast that we get more flash flooding. And again with
the flood watch, some areas once again may get heavy
flooding rainfall this afternoon and into early tonight. So be

(01:35:06):
prepared when you go to warning. That is when you
need to take action and seek higher ground. Please do
not cross water covered roadways. We see it all the time.
The cars start floating away. We don't want that. I
think less of a chance or less coverage and intensity
of storms tomorrow and into the weekend. But still some
are around. But the ground saturated, rivers, creek streams running heigh,

(01:35:26):
it's not gonna take much. There could be one storm
or the wrong place at the right time, and then
we're going to do it all over again.

Speaker 1 (01:35:32):
Okay, all right, well, thank you much, sir, appreciate it,
and we'll see you on Tuesday, Tuesdays.

Speaker 3 (01:35:38):
All right, very good, Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:35:39):
Safe travels, and we'll come back with Dan Schwartzman in
for Jeff next.

Speaker 2 (01:35:43):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (01:35:44):
KSE.

Speaker 14 (01:35:44):
Copper traders racing to get cargo into the US ahead
of President Trump's plan for fifty percent tariffs on the metal.
Traders are looking to shift deliveries into Hawaiian port Rico
to cut shipment times before the new levees take effect. Now,
those who are successful stand to make a large profit,
or they can be facing big losses if the clock
runs out on them. Oil prices steadying as US inventories

(01:36:05):
rose by about seven point one million barrels this week
last week, excuse me, the biggest gain since January. Despite
Opek plus hoping there will be a robust summer demand
after announcing production increases this past weekend, there are concerns
the market could be facing a glut, so much so
that OPEK saying they may now reduce production after this increase.

Speaker 2 (01:36:23):
Momentum Commerce, which manages.

Speaker 14 (01:36:24):
Online sales for fifty brands including Crocs and Beats, says
it's Amazon sales fell forty one percent on Tuesday when
compared with the start of last year's Prime Day. The
Momentum CEO said consumers are browsing and loading shopping cards bought,
postponing purchases in case better deals come along. Amazon, though
emailing Bloomberg's statements, saying in part that the numbers were
highly inaccurate. Meta Platforms made high compensation offers to new

(01:36:48):
members of its superintelligence team that's what they call it,
including a more than two hundred million dollar package for
Romming Peng, who ran Apple's AI Models team. Much of
the money offered to members of the group are tied
up in performance targets and unlocked during years of loyalty,
meaning it might not all be received if employees leave
early or if this stock doesn't perform well. Samsung planning

(01:37:10):
to start selling a trifled smartphone later this year, and
executive with the company disclosing the plan on the sidelines
of Samsung's Unpacked event in New York, with the company
unveiled three foldable smartphones. Samsung is gearing up to compete
with China's Kiahweh and also looking to get ahead of
Apple's expected entry into foldables next year. Delt Airlines issuing
a new profit target for this year after pulling the

(01:37:32):
goal three months ago. CEO ed Bastians, saying that travel
in the US is climbing back after approval of Trump's
tax cut and spending package and progress in tariff discussions.
Delta is the first major US carrier to report quarterly results,
and the report points to a greater sense of confidence
in the rest of the year and the pre market
Delta shares right now are up close to thirteen and

(01:37:53):
a quarter percent. And finally, case this one's good news,
I guess for the waistlin er.

Speaker 1 (01:37:58):
Maybe not.

Speaker 14 (01:37:58):
Swiss chocolate company Ariy Calibou cut its sales volume guidance
for a second time in months. As inflationary pressure squeeze
consumer budgets and demands. Barry Calibo has seen sales to
chocolate manufacturing clients decline. Cocoa prices are down more than
thirty percent this year. In higher production is expected in
the coming season that begins in October. Casey chocolate makers,

(01:38:20):
though still clearing their expensive inventories.

Speaker 1 (01:38:24):
Yeah, and I don't like chocolate, so I'm good with that.
But yeah, I don't know, man, I'm weird. What can
I do? Give me the pen? I will do peanut
butter reses though, but it's less the chocolate more than
peanut butter. So all right, appreciate it. Have yourself a
good one. Dan, you're with us tomorrow, right, that's correct, Casey,
all right, we'll chat then there you go. Dan Swartzman
from Bloomberg News. This is a wild story here, man.

(01:38:49):
All right. So imagine you're working like overnight at a
convenience store and some dude walks in looking like he's
covered in dirt. He's got a hole in it his
eye socket where he's bullet's been shot into his head,
into his brain, and he just wants to make a
phone call. And he asked you not to call the

(01:39:10):
police or the ambulance, but you do because the guys,
you know. So here's what happened. This dude in Australia,
according to the reporting, here was the victim of a
targeted contract murder where the hit man had lured him
out into this remote areas near Brisbane, proceeded to shoot

(01:39:32):
him in the head. Then Doug a grave buried him
in the grave, as you do around Vegas anyway, and
thought the job was done. Twelve hours later, the dude
emerges from the grave, walks to the convenience store, and
eventually he did go to the hospital. It sounds like
he's probably a criminal himself, and yeah this what are

(01:39:57):
you walking? Like four point thirty in the morning. And
they were able to fix him up, so they got
the bullet out. He's going to be fine. I think
he can't see it. One of his eyes is gone,
but you know he's got the other one. That's a zombie, right,