Thursday-7-3-2025

Today's podcast is 20 minutes short because the software is a piece of crap and hates me. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, it's it's Thursday technically, so there is that, but
you know, for normal people, it's Friday because a.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Little bit of a little bit of America tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Although I saw, I swear, I thought I rossed. I
not sends you the who loves America thing? Am I
going crazy in the prep today?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
No? Okay, I did not send it to you one
of those days.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Uh yeah, no, no, no, it was it yesterday today. Okay,
maybe it was yesterday, all right. I literally when I
saw it, I was saving it for this very moment,
all right, holding.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Love America?

Speaker 3 (00:51):
All right.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Well, here's the thing. I'm gonna pull the numbers up.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
So there's a there's a new poll that came out
and they do this every fourth of July, and basically,
are you guys sitting down you should be shouitting You
should be sitting down. If you are, if you are
on the right, you love some America, big fan. Not

(01:15):
not one hundred percent, right, Uh, because they kind of
rate how much you love it, and there's different reasons,
and the number dips when you're not in charge.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
But uh, there's never been.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
A poll where people who identify as quote Republican or
conservative the majority aren't fans of this country. However, you
go to the other side of the aisle, uh, and
that number is dangerously low.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Not a fan of this country.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
And uh, I want to give you an opportunity to uh.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Here we go. All right, I got it right, here
do do do do? All right? Uh? You and your
pop ups?

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Okay, Only forty one percent of American adults report being
quote extremely proud to be an American, so to some extent,
that's a problem. However, Republicans ninety two percent say they
are very or extremely so they the majority are very,

(02:26):
very or extremely proud to be Americans. Okay, all right,
I mean that's obviously that's a clear majority.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
So how is the overall number dipping? Well?

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Way, This is a Gallup poll, by the way, and
they break it down quite efficiently by age and identified
political leaning. Forty one percent of gen Z proud to
be Americans, so the majority of gen Z not proud
to be Americans. Sixty nine percent not proud. Millennials fifty

(03:10):
eight percent are proud, which means, of course forty two
percent are not proud. So gen Z baby boomers all
that seventy one, seventy five, eighty three respectively. So the
younger you are, the less proud you are, and the
more left you are, the less proud you are.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Work tomorrow. That's it, that's the challenge. Don't spend it. No,
I don't.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
I don't want to hear I don't want to hear crap.
I don't want to I don't want to see you
shooting off bottle rockets. I don't want to see you
at the beach. I don't want to see you, you know,
having a few beers doing whatever. I don't want to
see you. I don't want to see you celebrate it
used to be. I'm like, you know what, you need
to turn this. You need to turn that frown upside

(04:05):
down and get with the program.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
However, it can be very busy.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
When you all are brunching, or you're driving somewhere, or
you're clogging the beach, or you're clogging the mountain road
or whatever it is. I think that's fair. If sixty
what is it, sixty nine percent of you in gen
Z hate being an American, then I don't want to

(04:31):
see you doing anything but showing up to work or
staying home or going to.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
School or whatever it is you do. Because this holiday
ain't for you. You're disingenuous.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
If boy, I hate this country, well then don't celebrate
it and don't get in my way tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
How's that ross?

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Are you down with this new policy? I think this
is a great policy. If you hate America, stay home
and stay out of the way. Although you're probably not
going anywhere, are you. You're not you're not like traveling
or anything, because I remember you saying anything. But yeah, no,
I think this is going to be an amazing policy.

(05:12):
If you hate America, Like if you're sitting over there
in Chapel Hill and you're just like, oh, I hate
this place, well then good stay there. Don't go down
to your beach house at Figure eight with all of
your rich Democrats who live on one of the most
exclusive enclaves on the East Coast, with your guys with AR.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Fifteen's guarding the thing. Don't do it.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Stay home, don't clog Eye forty. People love America with
flags and boats and beer. They're trying to get down there.
You don't need to be in their way.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Don't go.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Don't go to the waffle house on a drunk brunch
on Saturday morning because you had all the fun on Friday.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Stay home, Not that you're going.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
To waffle House, but don't go to any of the
boogie spots either. Stay home. You hate this country, don't
take advantage of it. Don't take advantage of everybody just
trying to enjoy themselves on this beautiful three day weekend.
That's all I'm asking from you, all right, So that's
how we're going to start the show. Good morning, eight

(06:18):
eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. This
weekend ain't for you. No fireworks, no alcohol, no travel,
no fun, try anything of what else people do on
this weekend, because mostly it's just it's it's about being

(06:40):
lazy and not where. Oh and you got to work tomorrow,
that's the big thing. Got to show up to work tomorrow.
I don't care what you do, Oh your tenured professor,
show up and preach to yourself paid protester.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Go go protest America in your yard or something. I
don't care. Glue yourself to another moonbat. Just leave the
rest of us alone, because I don't want to hear
when the pole comes around that you hate this country
in this sixty ninth percentile, And then have you be

(07:14):
an obstruction to me or Ross or any of our
listeners going to have some fun.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
It's that simple. You don't like it, prove it. Stay
out of our way. Okay.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
If you come across a bunch of dudes in a
boat flotilla, I don't know, do they still do the
boat flotilla's I haven't seen one in a while, although
I shouldn't say that. I saw a picture of one
in Florida over the over the Memorial Day. So if
you see a boat flotilla with some flags, it's probably
going to trigger you, and I don't want that for you,

(07:49):
So stay away. The inside channel over topsail, that's not
for you. That's for guys with flags and hotties and
some bruise are going to be cruising. Occasionally an ausprey
is gonna go over. Some baby dolphins are up in
the chair. You don't need that. You don't need that
in your life. Stay in your little conclave or whatever.

(08:10):
Talk about how this country would just be great if
we could give communism a try and get out of
our way.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
That's all I'm asking. Prove it.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Sixty nine percent of gen Z doesn't like America. Good,
No fun for you, all right, six fifteen. Sorry, I
don't mean to start this on an angry thing, but
I see numbers like that and I'm like, no, no, no,
screw you. By the way, it actually gets worse when

(08:43):
you start breaking it down, because you can be extremely proud,
you can be very proud, a little proud, not at
all proud. It actually are moderately proud. Those are the choices.
That's the spectrum, if you will. In gen Z, only
nine percent are are extremely proud, eleven percent are im moderately,

(09:07):
nineteen percent are only a little.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
That's embarrassing. What is guy?

Speaker 1 (09:15):
And I understand that what you're young and cynical and
all the rest. And I was young and cynical. I'm
still cynical, But at no point I'm like, ye, screw
this country in the vast majority. So if you hate it,
then this weekend ain't for you. But you had your holiday.

(09:39):
It was May first, right, you get your little COMMI
flag and you're red and you're having fun.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Stay out of our way. I don't want to. I
don't want to.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
I don't want to see you in line at biscuits
and porn down in the outer banks. That's not for you.
You don't want to be close to where the Wright
brothers use them dream to you know, invent air travel
e gross capitalism and stuff. Stay at them away the

(10:11):
original duck donuts. I don't need to see you in
line clogging up the road to Manio.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Stay out the way.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
Trying to go over the bridge in the north topsil
not for you. Getting the time on the golf course
and then you know, hitting like jackasses and now I
got to sit there and wait, and then I try
to play through, and then you don't let me play through.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
No, no, no, no, this ain't your holiday.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Go to your little commune, have your hummus and stay
out of our way. Or you ready for this? Get
with the program. It's that's simple. Six seventeen.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Hang on.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
I want people to look around, see other people having
fun and going, what's up with that?

Speaker 2 (10:53):
I don't like hypocrites.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
If you listen to the show for a minute, you
realize this, So no, I have no problem and I
hate lines. Ross isn't even leaving his house this weekend,
and I think he's on board with this. Although I
just realized you we we got to get you an
inflatable for fourth of July.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Bro.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Yeah, we just haven't picked one up yet.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Yeah, I'm assuming BUCkies makes one because they had like
the whole America section.

Speaker 4 (11:23):
It's one they definitely do. It's just amount of when
we travel, you know, we tend to travel around like
you know, the holidays, like Christmas and stuff, so they
have the Christmas stuff out yet.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah, okay, all right.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
All right eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seven four. So that is my that's my proposal this morning.
If you're one of these all right, I hate this country, well,
then this weekend in for you, okay, and then nobody's
gonna care. Dude, I love the nobody cares attitude that's

(11:56):
breaking out.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Let me give you an example.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
So yesterday a bunch of doctors in lab coats went
down to the Capitol to hold a doctor protest, right,
and I want you to remember the first Trump term, right,
what do they do? They're like fifty one intelligence professional
sign this letter. One hundred four hundred doctors signed this thing, right,

(12:22):
and the media would act like that was literally the
Bible and you better follow it even though they were
a bunch of atheists and you were supposed to care,
and they would they would It would be like the
lead news on ABC News. They'd be like, twenty doctors
went to the Halls of Congress today and held a

(12:42):
press conference because and then you know, insert whatever the
Democrat talking point is. Or remember when William Barber, the
Reverend Barber, Reverend soul Glow, the buffets Layer, would go
and literally do an insurrection based on the current but
I'm told is the current definition. And he would have

(13:04):
you know, five clergy members and it was always like
they all had rainbow frocks on.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
It was the one.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Lesbian preacher, chick from I think Hillsborough was always there,
and then you know a smattering of others and they'd
be like, well, you know, North Carolina's clergy opposes what
the GOP is doing. And it was always such disingenuous reporting.
It was the same ones, but they'd make a big
deal out of it, and it was all disingenuous. So

(13:38):
a beautiful thing happened yesterday. They had exactly that. They
had a bunch of doctors that went down to hold
themselves a little.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Press conference.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Down at the down at the Halls of Congress, and
let me tell you, nobody gave a crap. That is
six thirty five, Casey Ode Radio program phone number eight
eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. Oh,
that's not good. I hope she doesn't think I was
referring to her. So might so my cleaning lady who

(14:13):
comes on Thursdays literally just texted me so she can't
come today. It's gonna come tomorrow because her kids say, well,
that's okay. I didn't mean you. You're fine, Kimberly.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
She's so sweet. It's it's okay, it's okay. I didn't
mean you.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
She she's fine, okay, all right, Sorry the text in
her back there, and now you're all in on the business.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
So do do do do do do do doude?

Speaker 1 (14:40):
All right, So a few things you got to know
on this fine Friday slash Thursday morning one, he was
off fighting communism or glamping, we don't even know. But
Stephen Kent will join us today at eight oh five.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
And what a day.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
I even if you're not into gaming, what happened yesterday
is kind of important and I'm very curious his analysis
on this. In fact, it was so important that Ross
texted me about it and that don't happen. Basically, it

(15:19):
was armageddon at gaming companies yesterday.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
Is that is that fair? Ross? And my over am
I over exaggerating what happened here in the.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
Last time, I mean Xbox and Microsoft like Slash like
something like nine thousand jobs. But also happened was these
major cuts across different gaming companies like these woke companies,
and a lot of these Wolke games were just canceled
or completely delayed or completely canceled. This is a crazy
day yesterday.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Dude.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
They're just done with it. And look, I want to
assign it to They're sitting there and they're just they're
just reading the numbers. They're just looking there, going every
you know, we keep putting these games out and and
you all keep you know, inserting all of this garbage
in there instead of just trying to get the best

(16:07):
game out.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
And we also do you think that I saw this.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Analysis yesterday that Elon must started this. Do you think
there's any truth to that or Elon when he remember
he came in and he gutted Twitter and Twitter still works.
So if you're one of these tech companies and you
keep churning out products where you invested, I'm trying to
think of the last big bomb, what they invested.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
In them, and there's so there's been so many of them, Yes,
so many of these bombs and these woke games, and
some of them cost, you know, hundreds of billions of
dollars to make, which is.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Out hundreds of billions, hundreds of millions.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
No, no, no, no, I'm I'm talking, dude. I saw
one game was two hundred billion, was canceled two hundred billion.
That number is correct?

Speaker 2 (16:54):
What is that? Ye, dude?

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Is that like the is that that's the rest of
the games they were gonna It's just ridiculous. Yeah, I
you gotta look at that. And I you know, at
the end of the day, you can be as woke
as you want, but the numbers don't lie.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
It just come to the point now, like if I
if I'm looking for a game and you know, they
have the thumbnail of the game, like, hey, check out
this game. You might want to play this time sales
twenty five percent off and it's brand news, so it
has to be super good if it has a certain
color scheme to the game on the thumbnail.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Oh we were talking about.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
Yeah, I automatically know to avoid it. But even if
like my suspicions are I don't know about this game,
and then I go check it out. I'm like, yes,
it's like a super wol game. I'm not going to play.
And the color scheme is like pink and blue and
white and shades of red and purple and it all
merges together. And if you play games and shot for
games and the stores are in Steam, you know what

(17:46):
I'm talking about. If the thumbnail has those colors, it's
going to be a super woke game. And I don't
know why that is.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
And it happens to be what other colors are those?
What would that be?

Speaker 4 (17:56):
What was the game I sent you yesterday where it
was super like? It was? Oh yeah, I remember it was.
But like the entire color scheme, it was the trans Flag.
It's the transflag colors on these thumbnails of these games.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
It's super weird, which is which is not an accident.
You brought this up, and I actually, although, to be fair,
is it Grand Theft Auto kind of has that color?

Speaker 4 (18:19):
Yes, that's why there some people that are sort of like,
you know, getting suspicious of that game.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
I don't know. The trailer didn't look woke to me.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
Though, No it didn't. But they did change the character
model of the female character because she had like that
Manchin sort of thing going on, and it was she
wasn't very attractive, and yeah, yeah, yeah, Now there's theories
that the reason this game's been delayedalized because they've had
to make some make some changes.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
That's fair anyway, Yeah, Microsoft, what was it nine thousand?
Now it's not all in gaming, I just want to
be clear, but a lot of it is. And Microsoft
they bought what Blizzard and a couple other smaller studios,
but they're not alone. But it was just it was

(19:04):
Hatchet Day yesterday, and it's like, what was the movie
we talked about earlier this week?

Speaker 2 (19:11):
Eloh? Right?

Speaker 1 (19:13):
So l e oh is the latest Pixar movie that bombed.
And initially this movie was going to come out and
the main character, who's eleven I believe is eleven year
old in the game or in the movie, excuse me,
was gonna be a gender queer and there's gonna be
a whole storyline about that, and somebody of Pixar's like, yeah,

(19:34):
we're not going to do this cause look what happened
with the other stuff. And I was reading something yesterday
that there was like internal chaos because they fired the
director of the gay or of the movie. They redid
the movie, and you had all these really woke employees

(19:56):
at Pixar who were staging like mini protests.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
They weren't showing up to work there.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
And they are of the theory that Pixar changing it
to remove the sexuality storyline is why the game tanked.
And I'm like, if that's your mindset, if you think
that's why it tanked, and not the part where you
essentially you never set out to make a good I

(20:23):
keep saying game to make a good movie, and and
so you blanded it as a result of your own
errors on the front side. Then I don't know how
those are effective employees in doing what Pixar used to do.
Remember when Pixar first came on and it was a
guaranteed billion dollars.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
So you're talking about toy story, yes, monsters, inc. All
these movies. I mean, they're so so good. And the
art style now has to change too, because they've started
embracing this art style that you saw in on There
was the Going Red whatever the Red movie was, it
was like it was to be like coded for like

(21:01):
a female puberty movie. It was like a super cringe movie.
And it was awful. But there was this art style
that came wrong with came around with that, and now
you're seeing the same thing in Eliot and they need
to get rid of that art style. It's just bad.
But these people are now pathological. They can't stop themselves.
They just can't. No matter what, you know. They should
be thinking about the company's bottom line and what do
the majority of people want to see, But they keep

(21:22):
catering to this small community and losing money, and like
I said, they can't stop themselves. It's really weird.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
But of all the things that happened yesterday, the funniest
and the thing I like the most was the cell
of Kataku. And if you guys don't, I just want
you to think about every woke gaming story we've brought
you over the near decade and a half on this show.

(21:49):
Most of it emerged from one gaming site. And I'll
give you an example when when the PS five.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Came out your gaming site, So like one of your
banner days is reviewing new consoles, because it don't happen often, right,
there's only really what would you ross? How many consoles
are there? Pretty much three? Right, the main ones?

Speaker 4 (22:15):
Yeah, I sure you have switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and of
course you have the PC Master Race.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
All right, let me throw PC in there. That's fair.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
So there's four main ways to play a game, and
they you know, PC.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Updates as games update.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
But the other three, to have a new console happens
what once every five to ten years. It's not even
I'm trying to think of the PlayStation. But from PS
four to PS five, what was that almost ten years?

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Right?

Speaker 4 (22:44):
Yeah, it tends to be a ten year life cycle,
maybe a little bit over so recently it's like less
because they're like doing like software updates and it's not
like all old school console update.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
It sucks, all right, but but but to get a
new console out is really a banner thing. And the
review they wrote of PS five started with, and I'm
paraphrasing because I don't have it in front of me,
the world sucks, America sucks. I don't even know if
I can because I think the review was during the.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Summer, mostly peaceful protests.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Right, They're like, I, how can I review a game
when so many people are marginalized?

Speaker 2 (23:21):
We are a gaming system. Yeah yeah.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
It also one of its main points was, you know,
you shouldn't buy this console because of the child lab
or the labor you had to put into making it,
the sweat shops and the over in China. That's what
their point was.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Right and then and then at the very end they're
like they talked about actual speed a little and stuff
like that. That's what you got from this. It was
it's a Gawker site.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
I always point out the one that I remember that
it was like a big turn where you could tell
things that really changed it that website. Instead of focusing
on games, they were focusing on politics and woke culture,
right before we even knew what woke culture was. It
was this weird thing that was happening. It didn't really
have a label then, but it was a list. The
article was like a BuzzFeed sort of list, going into

(24:05):
a little bit more detail than say your average BuzzFeed article.
But it was like the top ten radical soundtracks and
video games. So then you would have like, you know,
number one it was an actual game and hear the
songs in the game, and two. But so no, it
started at ten, it went down to one. The number
one song on the list, the most radical video game
soundtrack was a video of a Bernie Sanders campaign speech.

(24:27):
It had nothing to do with the game, and they
just slipped it in as a way of saying, hah,
get it. That was the point of the article. Radical
say radical Bernie Sanders, radical leftists, but.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Much I preferred what radical meant for you and me and.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
Ji like the Ninja turtles Yeah, Bill.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
And Ted Yeah, Ninja turtles. Yeah. So that was it.

Speaker 4 (24:48):
That was the point of their article. That did entire
article just so they could post a Bernie Sanders campaign
speech on a video game website. What are you doing?

Speaker 1 (24:58):
So the company that used to own Goker, which itself
was sold, The only website they still have is The Root,
and I would encourage you not to go there. So
the Root is a They describe it as a black
culture site, but it's not. It's a black supremacy site
for all practical purposes, and it's just hot garbage.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
So that's what they're still rolling with.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
So Kataku, what is crazy is they sold it and
in the report here it says the editorial staff will remain,
but they plan to hire more senior talent. I don't
think that editorial staff because the model can't be good.
I remember seeing Kataku's numbers what they were and what

(25:43):
they are from five years ago, and it's like ten percent.
They've lost like ninety percent of their audience because people
just got even people probably agree with them, and they're like,
I just came here to hear about the game. I like,
I agree with you, but can you tell me about
the game? They're just done. So they did not disclose

(26:06):
the price here. We'll get into more of this with Steven.
But even if you're not into gaming here was my point,
Even if you don't care anything about games, it's another
piece of what is happening culturally.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
No, it's a pendulum swinging back to sanity, is correct.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah, so this is just gaming's version of it. You're
seeing it with other stuff, too, right. You're seeing it
with you know what's happening with the Title nine stuff,
with the colleges, some of the court rulings. You're seeing
it with the companies who really didn't participate in a
lot of the Pride Month showmanship, which, by the way,
I know a lot of people, a lot of people

(26:44):
who are in the lgbq LGB community who describe themselves
as that.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
I just want to be clear.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
You notice what I didn't add any of the rest
of the letters, and frankly who are in the entertainment
industry who openly talk about this, how they wish it was.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Just the LGBs. They feel like companies.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Basically, it's a show thing that they do in June,
and it's kind of disgusting, right, And so you always
kind of had that mindset there, but it was thrust
upon you, right.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
They just want to go do their thing. They don't care,
and like.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
There's animosity now to the t's and everything else. It's
very interesting if you actually dive into it, because they're
just like, you know, we had a good thing going
and then you wanted to neuter kids.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
And now that reflects poorly on all of us. And
I agree with them. I agree.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
I don't care how you feel about you know, from
a biblical sense about people being gay. You have to
admit from the LGB side, everything was really it wasn't
really a thing. And then then we got into women's
sports and kids, and you came from women and who
came for kids, and all of this has contributed to

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where we are. This is Gamings version of it.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
You were insulting people because it was like, oh well,
now you're not a woman. You're a cis woman right now,
I being an actual man, but calling myself a woman,
I have the rights to everything that you had before.
In fact, I'm going to push you out of your
space and own it.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:21):
Oh and by the way, I'm gonna come after your kids.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, which women love. By the way, they're big fans
of that.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
Right.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
You know this, there's a reason Mama Bear is a thing. Man, dude.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
It's so the pendulum, the course, whatever you want to
call it. This is gaming's version of it. And the
fact that it just it hits so heavy over the
last two days, it's pretty crazy. So yeah, I know
we talked just a bunch about it, but I'm sure
Steven's gonna have some good insight.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
All right. Six pity when we come back.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Apparently somebody got a free flap, which that's not good.
That's not good parts of a plane finding that in
your yard, I'm assuming finders keepers it applies here, but
I'll give you the details coming up next here on
the CaCO Day radio program Ross What is today? Can

(29:18):
I just check it? I need to check them with
the Ross work?

Speaker 2 (29:20):
What is today?

Speaker 4 (29:21):
Thursday? The third?

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Okay, but what is but also what is it?

Speaker 1 (29:25):
What would you describe today as from a work perspective?

Speaker 2 (29:29):
It feels like Friday? Right, but what is it? Actually?

Speaker 1 (29:34):
You can't turn your auto reply on an hour into
the show. This keeps creeping.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Now.

Speaker 4 (29:39):
I told you it's not for you, but it sort
of is. So you could leave.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
But I send you emails during the show if I
see something that I want posted, so you have it
to post.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
Well, that sounds like you didn't do enough prep the
night before.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
Personally, things come up.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
I just I don't know about that. So anyway, it's
for sales, so they don't send me stuff to do.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
The story was published at four point thirty this morning.
How could I have sent that to you last time?

Speaker 2 (29:59):
You can't.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
What if I missed the deadline?

Speaker 2 (30:03):
Man?

Speaker 4 (30:03):
Sorry? Ah, No, it's for sale. So they'll leave me
alone because they're gonna be like, hey, you need to
do this commercial.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Man, I know I don't understand.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
No, No, I'm off the clock. Leave me alone.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
You know.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
I send an email out reminding them that they have
to have it close the business five o'clock.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
And does that Does that work in your experience?

Speaker 1 (30:24):
But it doesn't matter. They're on notice you're just putting
them on notice again. Okay, so Ross is already not
here in spirit physically here, but not you know, in spirit.
So any who, good morning hour number two. Boy, it

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is dragging today.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
I will give you that. Do you think it goes
faster if I turn my out? It replies, So let's
see if that works.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
See you say that, and then somebody, there's somebody from
Sale is going to send you something. You're gonna be like, damn,
Ross is right.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
They're gonna say no, They're not gonna Well maybe they will,
I don't know. The problem is they'd have to put
it through our new traffic department, and good luck with that.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
So we'll see how that goes.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
So what I'm laughing about is have you seen the
new Houthy hype video?

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Dude? I love these.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Do you remember the Do you remember when Venezuela put
out their their Special Forces video and it was just ridiculously.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
Put out these like sizzle reels.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Yeah, yeah, we call them.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
I don't know if you guys use that term, but
in our company, when they want to put out like
a two or three minute like supers, hey, let's get
excited about this thing, they call it a sizzle reel.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
Sometimes sometimes they are actually like real people doing things
in like a video collage or montage of their troops
or whatever their big accomplishment. But sometimes it's like this
horrible animation, like generated animation that it's just awful looking.
Look at it looks like it's from like the mid nineties.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
All right, so hold on, I'm sending this to you
as well. I will expect to be notified of your absence. Okay. Yeah,
So there's a.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
New houthy sizzle reel, which is interesting because didn't we
just trick him into walking into a circle and turning
them to mist like less than a month ago. You
guys don't remember that story. It's literally one of my
favorite houthy conflict videos. So we figured out and we didn't.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Trick Actually I shouldn't say we tricked them. They did it.
So some some.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Bright brain in the h houthy uh management there, said hey,
we need to have an old hands meeting for leadership.
Uh So, let's go meet out in this open I
don't want to say field because field implies there's foliage
there this uh you know, ragged piece of garbage desert.
Let's go stand and then we're all standing in a
circle like it's one of those corporate retreats, and some

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dude running a drone outside of Vegas there went, holy crap,
it's my lucky day. And there's video where they just
you know, they just dropped the big one right in
the middle and no more leadership.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
So good stuff.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Very efficient stuff, and uh really just some of the
some of the worst strategic planning I've ever seen. Well,
not to be outdone, all right, hold on, I'm trying
to send this to Ross Do Do Do do?

Speaker 3 (33:29):
All right?

Speaker 1 (33:30):
Oh, let me send it to both ears. Roz has
a secret email as well.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Yeah. No, it just happening right in the middle of
the show because I want to get it to you
as quickly as possible. So we'll just call it sizzle
all right. On the way check this bad boy out.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
So I don't even know how to describe it. It's
like a motocross sizzle reel.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
So what the goys.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
They got a line of people on motorcycles and then
a bunch of dudes like cut run and jump on.
So there's already dudes sitting on the motorcycles and then
dudes jump on the back standing with firearms in their hands,
and then the motorcycles take off across the desert in
like a V like Canadian geese fly, and they're all

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in black, which has to be really hot in the desert,
and they're shooting at like metal targets, like you go
shoot steel at a range. And then they have some
like point of view where the guys wearing like a
go pro and they're just showing how badass they are
the but the steel they're shooting is painted the American flag,
and it's just so sad because they're doing all this

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formation stuff in a V, which also would be a
really good place to drop a giant bomb in the
middle of but it doesn't look like that happens here.
So it's very short sizzle real it's not as pathetic
as Venezuela's because they didn't go as long, but they
just want you to know. And then there's there's other
ones they have like gun the Gun of Rambo, or

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the guy's double fisting the two M sixties, although those
are an M sixties, what are they, Well, they're they're
essentially chain fed, and it's funny because they're running cut
shots where the guys shooting, and then there's then they
have a close up of the target where he's hitting
like really tight groups.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
And clearly you can't hit tight groups holding two M
sixties like that. They're not M sixties.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
But I just envision the big gun of Rambo where
he's shooting it with both You're not hitting groups like that,
so they have to like like they have to do
these cut shots where it ain't true.

Speaker 4 (35:38):
The dumbest thing I've ever seen, so the one where
the motorcycles are lined up. Yeah, like they're lined up
and there's a driver obviously getting ready to ride the motorcycle,
but they jump on the back seat with their with
their rifles and they're standing up on the back of it.
They're easy targets. A little bit shit that guy off
the motorcycle.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
Scroll down, scroll down to the rune where they're gut
the gun of Rambo one.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
Yeah, no, I saw that one.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:02):
What are they doing? It's it's like a mad max
is what it's like. Oh, it's so bad. That's I'm
so scared. Oh I can't now, I gotta go into
the fourth of July holiday.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Just terrifying these guys. Dude, how's there no camels. Where's
the camel one? But you can't shoot off a camel?
What's going on here?

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Yeah? And and and and this.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
I'm actually more annoyed by the one where they're where
he's double.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Fisting the uh, the the heavy weapons, and then they
keep cutting to the target where they're putting some decent
groups together.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
You're not they're not doing that. Look, let me just
ask you guys. Any of you ever go to the
range and try to shoot simultaneously two different firearms and
let's go heavy firearms and let alone belt.

Speaker 4 (36:58):
Fed rather two belt fed machine guns.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
Right, you're not putting And look at the angle that
the guy has.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
He's like at a forty five degree angle shooting into
the air. Like you wouldn't do that unless you were
trying to target something I don't know, gazillion miles away.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
You know.

Speaker 4 (37:13):
It reminds me of the scene in Tropic Thunder when
Ben Steelers's characters in the jungle and he's got like
the two like the two rifles and he's just got
him like out out to his side, right, yes, and
like failing around like doing these poses and stuff or like, ude,
you're not hitting anything if you are it's accidental.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
I think for you gun guys, I think they're pks.
I can't really tell. Yeah, I think they're pks, which
is a seven six too, but it's it's a heavy weapon,
especially when you got full chain in there like that.
But yeah, I think they're a PK. Trying to look
at it. Yeah, I'm almost positive.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
Yeah, no, No, these things are garbage. Things are garbage.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Can you did you retweet the story or you can
retweet both videos and make ye all right? So go
to case on the radio on the Twitter and then
go laugh at these things. That's what I was laughing
at when we started. I just hadn't watched him yet,
so I am terrified. Dude, in the world of military height,

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have you seen good US military hype videos? We don't
even have to do anything. One of the greatest military
hype videos that we've ever done.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
Just happened a few months ago. Well do you remember
the one where.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
They just had like the dude who looks like a
WWE wrestler US Army guy. Right, he's in the he's
in the PT gear and he's just he's putting I
don't know what was he put a five hundred pounds
on the bench.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Just crazy stuff. And what do he says strong people
are harder to kill? Is the only is the only
line in the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (38:46):
We don't need hype videos because what we do is
we fly into your airspace and the dead of night
without you knowing, destroy all of your nukes, and then leave.
We don't need a hype video. Man, Well that's video
some idiot balanced in the back of a motorcycle on
the desert. So stupid. Why don't you also get one
of those one of those ball things that you drive
the motorcycles around in at the circus, you know what
I mean?

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Yeah, yeah, those are fun. Problem is they kill all
their confrades.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
They're in, they're in the ball, they shooting the rifle
and yeah, oh how did this happen? Complete more runs?

Speaker 1 (39:26):
All these things are amazing. I need more of these, dude.
They tweet them off like their own site. Hold on,
hold on, because I want to go and just I
want to like the video. Where did they actually post them?
I want to be like, good job guys, more more please.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
That is great?

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Or you just reply post the picture of their leaderships
and and in that circle turned to miss yeah this
is so you got to go see these I don't
care what you're doing. Be late for work. It's worth
the laugh. Congrat This is like like, dude, if you
were finding somebody in the Bronze Age, they wouldn't be

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impressed by this.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
Okay, like the Spartans would laugh at you. Look at
these guys. Yeah, you want to you want to ensure
people know you're from the third world. This is how
you do it. Good job.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
All right, I'll give you a chance to go check
those out coming up the New York DMV.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
Let's just say, uh, given the uh North Carolina DMV
a run for their money. But in all the worst
ways we'll get into uh get into that O way.
Somebody just told me that they have double mounted peeks
and put decent groups together.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
No, you haven't, shut up, You just haven't. Just especially
when you go look at the video the angle of it. Okay,
I'm look and ross either Rambos listening or some guys
lying to me in his email. But you know what,
fourth of July, So America, Okay, all right, seven eighteen,
hang up the resistancy. They're all like buck five, dripping

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wet dudes who were in the woods doing like weird
Steven sigall like ninja training, and it was just ridiculous.
I can't tell if the Houthis are sadder than that.
I almost have to think the other dudes are, because
at least the houthies have firearms.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
Oh it's pretty bad man, all right.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
Now, now I'm filled with people telling me they put
decent groups well, double fisting firearms.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Shut up, No you didn't.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
You know, me and a buddy used to have the
Gangster shootout every year. There's actually videos floating around from
uh when I worked in Minneapolis. We go to the
range and then so the deal was we'd have a
shoot it. We'd go to the range, we shoot a
bunch of stuff, we do some trap and we have
a great time out there.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
But where the money was was the.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Gangster shootoff or gangster shootout, and so that required you
you can pick the pistole of your choice, however it
must be you must hold it sideways, and it must
be above the top of your head, and then you
have to shoot at the target.

Speaker 4 (42:13):
What yeah, yeah, you're you're talking like Rick Grime style,
the way he go sideways.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
And then it hass to the including the thumb because
your thumb's down.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
It has to be above your head.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
If it's not above your head, because you have to
you can't have it in your field of vision.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
And then you have to shoot. Now. I know some
of you're gonna get very mad.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Be like, oh, that's very responsible because you don't know
where you're shooting. We're shooting at a private range with
with a giant berm and nothing behind it, out of
the middle of nowhere, and it's fine, So just deal
with it.

Speaker 4 (42:45):
Darren walking dead. That was one of the things that
I remember people like in the in the fandom being
upset about and saying it wasn't realistic. Was the way
that Rick would hold his COLT forty five up above
his head, pointing down like sideways, like when he would like,
shoot somebody, You're like a zombie. They're like, oh, he
couldn't shoot like that. It would break his wrist or whatever.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
It's not gonna break your wrist. It's just incredibly hard
to hit your target with accuracy. So if I unloaded him,
if I unloaded nine or eleven rounds, depending on which
pistol I was holding, if I got three in the circle,
that would be really impressive. If you got half of

(43:24):
them on the paper you were doing. Okay, So but
you're telling me Rick Ryan, it's somebody I never really
watched The Walking Dead.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
That's how he was shooting people. Yeah. No.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
He would walk up and he'd be wearing his jacket
or his you know, and he would just his big
beard there and he'd be like coral, coral, and he
would stick out of his hand coral above his head
at an angle, pointing down like sideways, and he'd be like,
I'm going to shoot you. You Yeah, that's how you
do it.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
You're not gonna he shooting zombies like that, right, yeah,
like the whole Hord zone. Dude. No, no, No, here's
the deal.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
Like, if I'm having to shoot something that might eat
me or bite me or whatever, you would never do that.
I'm squaring up in a proper grip. Although I'm a
sideway shooter and I know that annoys some of you
with right foot forward because a lot of guys like, no,
you got to square up a shoot like that, that's great.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
I just that's not me.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
But there is no way in hell if it was
a life or death situation, then I would attempt to shoot.
Check this out. FAA is investigating after an airplane part
was found blocking a Raleigh driveway. It was an entire
wing flap from a seven three seven, which is not
tiny that would block your driveway. Could you imagine coming

(44:39):
home Ross and there's like an airplane part?

Speaker 4 (44:41):
Literally No, I can't No, I can't imagine like getting
up at like three in the morning to come to
the station and I'm like, I can't leave because there's
a gen wing in my driveway.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
There's a turbine there.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
What is happening now?

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Now they think it belongs to Delta. But weren't you
telling me Lincoln just lost his pet flap?

Speaker 4 (44:58):
Yeah, it's a little lumpy, a little flappy. Yeah. It
was so sad. He said, Papa, where's my wing flap?
And said, yeah, yeah, the.

Speaker 1 (45:06):
Wing flap from what they suspect was Delta flight three two.
And by the way, I shouldn't joke, because there is
a pretty good at least as I understand it, there's
a pretty good possibility that the the electrical system failing
on that Air India flight, which is what they think happened,
also failed to deploy the flap, which is kind of important.

Speaker 4 (45:30):
He said. I was gonna I was gonna ask that
because I'm not, you know, an expert in aviation. So
is this part of the plane.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
Is very useful? Is it like when you're putting just
for takeoff and landing? Okay, so it's not gaining altitude
and decreasing altitude.

Speaker 4 (45:43):
Yes, okay, So it's not like when you're putting together
piece of furniture and you're like, ah, that's decorative.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
Oh like an Ikea or that extra stuff. No, no,
you don't want to. Well, to be fair, like when
they put the door on that Alaskan Airlines flight, right,
they had extra screws.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
Remember that. Remember that's what we found out or there
came out off They're like, yo, there was leftover screws.
All right, Well it's probably okay, No, No, you kind
of need flaps on there. They're pretty important.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
And I'm not a pilot or anything, but I do
fly a bunch and I have a couple of friends
who have small airplanes that they've let me screw around
in before, and I've noticed that they do use the
flaps a lot during very very important times, just the
times when most airlines crash, so you know, right after
takeoff and very important times because once you get altitude,

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and you know, once you get altitude, especially in a
small plane, if you've got a place to land in
the engine.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
Dies, you're probably okay, believe.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
It or not.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
I know, as terrifying as that sounds. If you got
a place to land and you got a good enough
glide slope, yeah, you're you're good to go.

Speaker 4 (46:47):
I mean Sully landed in the water.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
Well, that wasn't a flap issue.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
Well, I think the most important parts, right are the
wings and on the wings, yeah, right, the wheels, the walls.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
I come on, I landed in a jet with no
wheel well minus the front wheels, so I'm still here.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
I don't know if you guys know that.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
I got to do the full brace brace brace emergency
landing in Atlanta on a flight from Tampa to Atlanta
was a connection back to Raleigh, and that was fun
because it was the only time I've ever seen a
flight attendant who was newer clearly losing it because she
was terrified. And when the flight attendants terrified, that's not good.

(47:32):
And I said something to her because I was sitting
up there and I don't know. So I don't know
if you guys know this. If they have to do
one of those landings where you got to do brace
brace brace, they pick people and generally they want people
who are flying alone to come up and learn how
to work the front door. And the reason is is

(47:55):
if we land too aggressively and all the flight attendants
are killed or in some way incapacitated, you then have
the responsibility, if possible, to open that front door. And
I happened to be among the three people that were
selected because I was sitting literally in the front row
like one A and they're like, you're traveling alone. I'm

(48:16):
like yeah, and they're like, all right, come here, And
I had to walk us through it. And that was
the older flight attendant who was gangbusters.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Good for her man. She'd clearly had been through this before.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
The girl who looked like she started Wednesday, was not
doing well and she was trying to make announcements and
I just told her, I'm like, look, you look so nervous.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
You're probably making everyone else nervous, which I don't know
if that helped, but at that point, and they landed
that thing because it was an MD eighty or eighty eight,
the McDonald douglas was the aircraft, and we when taking
off in Tampa, all of us said, you know, when
you hit the rumble strips on.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
The highway, you hear this hard noise and you feel
this jerk, and then it feels like the plane on
those rumble strips. But we were right in those few
seconds before we got lyft, so at this point they
can't stop. So we take off in Tampa, and clearly
everyone knows something went wrong. And I had been on
a plane that blew a tire before, and I thought

(49:16):
that's what it was. But I didn't realize that there's
two tires on that front of that of that plane,
and they did not know if they blew one or both.
And I'm like, with all the technology.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
Today, how do you not know that?

Speaker 1 (49:32):
And so they did a visual fly around and they
determined that they thought one tire was there but was
like it wasn't turning anymore.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
And that did turn out to be the case. So
we went through the whole thing, man, and then land
in Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
But I've never gotten to Atlanta that fast, so I
guess the secret because Ross, you hated Atlanta, right, I
believe you were saying this.

Speaker 4 (49:57):
The city and the airport. Yeah, but it will be
the airport I'm in. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
Sorry, I wasn't trying to get beef with the city,
but the airport.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
But if you want the quickest experience direct into Atlanta,
just come in emergency. Yeah that's my that's my travel
hack for you today. Right, just do something so they
have to declare an emergency and you get right in there.
So and it was funny because we land and all
the emergency vehicles are there because they want to they

(50:26):
want to make sure there's no fire. And it was
clear the tire was was not spinning properly because it
kept jerking when we landed.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
But thank god, it was theirs.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
We were landing on that stick and then they sprayed
something on it, and then they actually they backed like
a tow truck.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
Up to this thing. I did not know they could
do this. It's essentially it lifted and then they taxied
us to the gate. It was crazy. I got in
there and now they're gonna have to We got in
like thirty minutes early. It was amazing.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
And we go in there and it's like nine five,
nine fifty and at ten o'clock the restaurant's closed.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
In that part of the where we were, and I
go in there. I'd like, cause I'm look, my nerves
are still shot over this. So I go in there
and all I want is a drink and just to
not think about that plane I was on. I walk
over into the restaurant and the poor girl is like
putting everything up. She's like, oh, I'm sorry, we're closing,
and I'm like, oh, I just can I just get

(51:26):
a beer or something? And she's like, yeah, that's okay.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
She goes, did you know there's a there We just
had an emergency landing over there, And I'm like, yeah, yeah,
I did.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
So that was a fun conversation. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
That was like three or four years ago around Christmas,
So good times, all right. Anyway, So anyway, Yeah, you
need a flap. That's that was the point of this story.
And you need tires apparently, but not all of them.
The portion of the left wings trailing edge flap evidently
separated from the aircraft prior to its safe landing.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Let's see here, I wonder what how big what is
one of these way?

Speaker 1 (52:04):
I can't even imagine what that because even though it's
a small part of the wing, it's still gigantic. It's
a seven thirty seven, the probably seven thirty seven Max.
I mean it's a big plane, man, So anyway finders
keepers what looks like the dude gave it back, all right?
Speaking of airline stuff, you want to hear about a

(52:25):
horrible human being a nurse in Pennsylvania who was on
her way to a six day, all inclusive Mexican vacation.
All right, So she's doing where she's going, cancoon or something,
it doesn't matter, it's just that she was headed to Mexico.
Has has pled guilty to what is this a few charges,

(52:49):
but basically pet abandonment and animal cruelty. So here's what happens.
So she's got a French bulldog which she pretends is
an emotional support dog.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
Dude, I can't any.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Of you who fly regularly, I can't tell you. You know,
the amount of people with fake vested emotional support dogs
is out of control at airports, and most of the
time they won't challenge them. And honestly, most of the
time the dogs are not a problem. But every now
and then, like I saw one poop in the middle

(53:21):
of like the gate area one time, clearly not an
emotional support dog. But whatever, So she shows up with
her French bulldog. The problem is, well, you'll get away
with that flying from like Raleigh to DC or up
to New York or something. Airlines don't want to deal
with you. It's a different thing when you're going into
another country. You can't just haul pets in there. You

(53:42):
can't just you can't just hold livestock in there. You
can't haul animals. That's why customs checks for fruits and
vegetables like it's on lockdown. So getting your dog there
is a process. So she just showed up thinking it
was like any other flight, and they're like, nah, you're
going to You're going to Mexico.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
Man, you can't. So what did she do. She hatched
a plan and she told police this. So she figured,
all right, so what I'm gonna do is I'm just
gonna leave the dog here, somebody will find the dog,
they'll send it to the pound, and then when I
get back, I'll just go pick it up with the pound. Genius, right,

(54:20):
Not so much? So she did that.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
And then in her defense when she was explaining this
to police, she showed a text message she sent to
her mother that said, hey.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
Can you do me a favor.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
I called the pound and they have not received the dog,
can you? And then she explained to her mom what
she did. She said, can you call the airport and
tell them to take the dog to the pound and
I'll pick him up when he gets back. And God
bless this woman's mother. She said, you're horrible. You'll be
arrested for dog abandonment. You are not above the law.
So good on, mom, And there you go. So and

(54:57):
she was again she just played guilty. So I'm not
sure what she's gonna get.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Oh, here we go.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
Here, here's the So she'll pay three hundred and fifty
dollars in court, costs one hundred and fifty dollars fine,
and she'll just to take a.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Now how would that now? Does that impact her nursing license?
I guess not.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
That's awful. All right, raced agent from the Weather Channel.
He's hanging out, Ah happy Friday, sir.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
All right, what do you mean?

Speaker 5 (55:27):
You had quite a long soliloquy there, and do service
dogs not poop?

Speaker 2 (55:33):
But not in the middle of.

Speaker 4 (55:37):
Well, I mean you gotta go, you gotta go, right.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
It was the gate next to the Nathan's Hot Dogs.
The American Airlines lounge. Yeah, and then we.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
Were trash talking your airport because I had to make
an emergency landing there.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
Oh yeah, yeah, then you had a flap.

Speaker 5 (55:52):
I saw that that was in your Where where was it?

Speaker 2 (55:54):
That was n't? That was all right? Raleigh? Yeah, yeah,
it was actually nice station. It was almost ours. So great.

Speaker 5 (56:02):
That's that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
That's awesome. Everybody lived, it's fine. Yeah, that's good. That's good.

Speaker 5 (56:07):
And you know, stuff like that happens.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
Let's get to the importance stuff. We're not here, A
lot of people are not here tomorrow, and they're expecting
three days of beautiful weather. Don't screw this right, all right,
don't go to the beach this morning. Some fog in
the area, especially around the Triangle. Looks pretty clear out
near the Trya. So it's about from Sandford toward Oxford
and points west where it looks a little bit better,

(56:30):
give or take. And then around Rallying points East, Goldsborough, Fayetteville,
a little fog and cloud.

Speaker 5 (56:35):
And everybody's into the sunshine. And as we get into
the afternoon, looking a lot better. As we get close
to ninety tomorrow, beautiful day, beautiful Independence Day, I'm almost
guaranteeing no problems for fireworks or any outdoor plans. Close
to ninety degrees once again, beautiful during the evening sun Saturday.
Maybe some showers and thunderstorms Sunday if you are heading
to the beaches. Keep an eye on the tropics now

(56:56):
sixty percent chance of development with low pressure on a
weak front out along the southeast coast. So we'll see
what happens to that's certainly gonna increase the ripkurr risk
and the shower storm chances.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
Okay, So tonight in the Triangle about seven o'clock, beautiful,
they have a big risky drone show thing, so yeah,
you know what.

Speaker 5 (57:16):
I forgot to say. Some some places are doing some
of their stuff tonight too, So if their celebrations tonight,
the weather's going to be great too.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
Okay, all right, very very good, Thank you, sir, appreciate it.
We'll dropping an hour, all right, coming up on the show,
Stephen Kent will join us. That'll be at eight o five,
and uh I will say that they seem to be
more efficient up at the DMV up in New York,
although of a criminal nature. We'll explain coming up next

(57:43):
Sean Combs is still a garbage human.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
And and that's like, that's the deal.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
But he's not a racketeering garbage human. And that was
probably the wrong way to go about this and what
he did. And there's video of this to his ex
girlfriend Cassie. On the video in the hallway, he also
hung her over a seventeen floor balcony.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
I got nothing for that, that being said.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
Clearly the prosecutor who, by the way, Ross told me this,
who was the prosecutor ross A.

Speaker 4 (58:13):
Maureen killed me calling me, huh yeah, marine kill me.

Speaker 1 (58:18):
Yeah, that's that's his daughter, by the way, Just so
we're all clear, Uh, clearly overcharged here.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
Screwed this whole thing up.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
And uh, I can't even imagine the party this dude's
gonna have when he gets out.

Speaker 4 (58:28):
My first reaction yesterday besides the same thing. He's a
garbage human, right and right, but they went after they
did it all wrong, was damn it. He's going to
write a song about this. He's going to release a
song about this. And also if you are within like
five feet of him when he gets out, you better
get away because he's going to.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
Be he covered in oil.

Speaker 4 (58:45):
Right, did you see the protesters outside the courthouse covering
themselves a baby oil, but not the protester but the
Diddy fans.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
Yeah, well, I mean they're protesting his prosecution. Yeah they were,
These were the Diddy supporters.

Speaker 2 (58:58):
No, no, no, they were protesting his protesting he was
going through this. Yes, yeah, they were in support of him.

Speaker 4 (59:04):
They're outside taking their shirts off, like scorting the baby oil,
like baby oil showers outside the courthouse.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
So basically they convicted him of prostitution and then specifically
traveling the prostitutes across state lines, which he I mean,
he find there. There is time he could get. He's
probably gonna get time served. I'm actually surprised they didn't
give him bail considering he'll likely get time served or

(59:32):
maybe another month or two.

Speaker 4 (59:34):
Well, they're saying in the Fox and His report that
he could he faces up to ten years in prison.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Right, no, no, no, but like I yes, I did
see that.

Speaker 1 (59:42):
But everything I've seen analysis on this is the likely
sentence will probably be a combination of time served in
maybe a couple more months.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
So we'll see.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
There's a There is an interesting line here though, in
the thing whereas yeah, okay, so here's the reporting.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
I'm not gonna play the audio now we'll get back
into this because there was some more stuff after we
talked to Steven. Uh yeah, here we go. According to
according to the suits, Oh no, where's the good line.

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
Yeah so yeah, so so Combs was transporting prostitutes were
then expected to perform sex X to his pleasure.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
Isn't that what a prostitute does? Well, I don't. I
don't understand. I mean, yeah, no, it's it's all. It's
all awful.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
But like you just you're more mad because he expected
the prostitutes to perform sex xx to his pleasure.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
I feel like that's what he thought he was paying for.
So anyway, Yeah, but to Ross's point, steer clear.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
You covered a baby oil back from glamping or saving
the world from communism?

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
Is our nerd correspondence? Even Ken, How you doing, sir?

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
We're doing all right?

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
He see a casey, which was it fighting communism or glamping?
What were you up to last week? Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:01:11):
Can you not fight communism while glamping in Kentucky?

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
Probably not so.

Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
No, it was definitely definitely rough camping. We were out
there and the boonies during the heat wave, dealing with
like one hundred and two degree temperatures in the woods
of Kentucky. It was actually pretty brutal.

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
Why didn't you go up?

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
I just was wondering why we couldn't fight climate change
and just like make it cooler, you know, Like I
was out there struggling trying to drink all the water
to not die of heat exhaustion, and I was just
wondering why we couldn't cool The.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
Thought, why didn't you go higher elevation?

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
Like when I was broadcasting in Nashville a couple of
weeks ago, it was very nice, and then when I got.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
On the parkway climbed a hill.

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
Does that count?

Speaker 1 (01:01:57):
No's that's not really it's a little bigger, all right, Well,
enough of that, let's talk. You want to talk about
a segment that populated with stories all on its own yesterday.
Let's get into this because it is absolute bloodbath in
the gaming industry right now. So set the scene for
the listeners. We talked a little about what Microsoft was doing,

(01:02:19):
rosso pointed out a few other companies, and then we
can get to the Kataku stuff. But one of the things,
I'm curious what you think of this because we spent
an awful lot of time talking about how video games
seem to be on the wrong direction, whether it's woke
content or bad decisions. I remember when Blizzard, like Diablo

(01:02:40):
is the only bigger game that I play occasionally, and
I remember the BlizzCon where they were like, hey, what
if we make it all mobile?

Speaker 2 (01:02:46):
When people lost their crap. So it seemed to have
come to a head because a.

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
Lot of people are out of work today over some
decisions that were made yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
So I'm curious what you think is going on.

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
Yeah, I mean, well, there's nine thousand people, about four
percent of the company's total workforce, has been.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
Shown the door.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
This is the largest round of cutoffs or cuts that
they've done since about twenty twenty three, and AI is
considered to be sort of the unknown factor in the
room about why these people were no longer necessary. There
were a lot of layoffs targeted at the Xbox teams,

(01:03:28):
and I think one of the main factors here might
be with Microsoft's Xbox. You know, you don't need people
at a certain point to run maintenance on games once
they come out. A lot of Xbox titles are just
sort of cut and paste sequels. They are multiplayer action
games that people play for years on end just out

(01:03:52):
of enjoyment. They don't need original designers just hanging around
the offices. They just need less servers upkeep the games
that people enjoy, like Call of Duty is kind of
like the big One. So I don't know. I'm just
thinking that this is not so much a creative enterprise anymore.
It's about keeping the lights on, do.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
You think some of I remember I remember when Red
Dead Redemption two came out, Rossell was very excited so
he could go, yeat horses, which.

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
He's very good at.

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
Right, Ross what number a Little Black Year are you
up to right now? It's in the hundreds, right or.

Speaker 4 (01:04:29):
At least two and seventy or some Yeah, yeah, he's
a he's a.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
Horse eating machine. So he said.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
When that game came out, there was all these stories.
And it's not the only one where they're like they're
basically turn the developers into slaves, right, And several other
games have been through this, and I think some of
the companies, if there is ai possibilities on the development side,
they may feel that this is a way to avoid that,
and it's like it's one of these be careful what
you wish for.

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
Do you think that's part of it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
I mean, if if there were employees being treated like
slaves and the making of Red Dead Redemption two, than
I am for it because it's one of the most
beautiful works of art, not just in gaming, but really
in modern storytelling. I mean, there are games that are
true actually like again, works of art, and then there

(01:05:19):
are games that are just content. Uh. And you need
massive teams with incredible dedication and tons of hours put
in to make a game like Red Dead. But they
are going to find ways to get rid of that
workforce if they can just generate landscapes and create the
worlds in which, you know, Red Dead Redemption might exist

(01:05:40):
just using artificial intelligence. Maybe you don't need a big
team of coders to make a mountain range in your games.
You can just you know upload.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
Well, and then you don't and then you don't face
the possibility the press coming up because it's AI.

Speaker 3 (01:05:56):
So it is you know, yeah, because they complain, They
go to the press and they complain.

Speaker 2 (01:06:01):
Yeah, you know, Ai'll just undermine you and then try
to murder you with missiles like that Air Force test.
You know, I was reading something I want to get
too inside baseball. There's also this there's also this movement
now where a lot of these game companies and Ubisoft
is really in the crosshairs for this. You talked about
being able to maintain.

Speaker 1 (01:06:18):
These servers, where you know, gamers are getting very upset
because these games come out they don't have a solo,
non online option, and then they you know, they they
sunset these servers and it you know, essentially they're like, well,
I paid for this game, and now I can't play
it anymore. And there's a term for it, and I

(01:06:40):
can't remember what it is because I literally wasn't going
to bring this up, but it dawned on me. Maybe
that's a solution to it, because now you don't have
to necessarily have people monitoring the servers. So maybe that
makes gamers happy because they don't get their game sunseted.

Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
Yeah. I think the only games that are good for
kind of avoiding the online only features are Minecraft, There's
Wallaheim and Terraria. I mean, these are again just niche
sort of survival and building games. But there are a
huge amount of people out there.

Speaker 4 (01:07:11):
Yeah, who are who are looking for Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:07:14):
They want games that they can actually just download and play.
I mean, I just used to spend all my time
playing Age of Empires and Empire Earth. But these are
games that you didn't need an Internet connection to play.
And then I think that there's going to be at
some point the worm is going to turn back towards
games that you can play in privacy and without a

(01:07:35):
Wi Fi connection. But everything has become an online shared experience,
and there are people who are revolting against that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:43):
You yourself have written for game sites and a variety
of other sites. If I had to pick the one
that annoys me the most, though, it was Kataku, which
also was sold, but they're maintaining It looks like they're
maintaining the staff, you know where they really lost well
a lot of ways, but the one that put me
over the edge was the PS five review. Are you

(01:08:05):
familiar with Kataku's PS five review when it came out?

Speaker 4 (01:08:09):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:08:09):
Because it was during the George Floyd stuff and they're like,
we shouldn't even be thinking about gaming blah blah blah
blah blah. And then the one that made Ross mad
is they put a list a listical out of the
what was it, the most radical soundtracks right of games?
And they don't mean radical like they meant in the nineties.
They mean like, you know, radical, And then the number

(01:08:29):
one was Ernie Sanders speech. It wasn't even a game,
So wow, I'm surprised. Yeah, what what's going on with that?
How do you keep the editorial staff after you've I've
seen their their clicks. They've been decimated over the last
five years and probably more so I have to assume

(01:08:49):
this was a fire cell. Why would you hold on
to the senior talent who got you here?

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
Hmm. You know, this is a tough one. I don't
want to speak out of school on some of the
details of this story, but basically, what I have seen
with Kotaku is no different than what you're seeing inside
major production shops U arranging from Disney to Disney's Pixar.
I mean, the people who are in the building and
making the stuff for the consumer hate the consumers. They

(01:09:18):
hate the gamers, they hate the family audiences who they
make this stuff for. In both the case of Kotaku
and then Pixar, and there is no appetite on the
staff level to actually serve things to the consumer that
they might want. It is to lecture them to serve
them something that they wish they wanted, and it was
only a matter of time before you know, this game

(01:09:40):
company got sold in a fire sale. It's it's great.
I mean, this is a huge win. It is a
win for the gaming jugs. That is absolutely true because
these people again hate gamers and this is for the best.

Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
Yeah, you reference Pixar. Let me just reset this for people,
because there's a lot of layers to this. So we
talked about this earlier in the week. The latest Pixar film,
this Leo.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Is it Elio or Ilio?

Speaker 4 (01:10:06):
It doesn't you know, don't I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
I think it's Leoh, okay, we'll just go with Eleo.

Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
So this this game kind of or this game, this
movie comes out, and it used to be when Pixar
was going to release a new movie, print a billion
dollars there you go back in the day, and that
has not been the case as of late.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
And this, this movie it focused on was like a
ten year old boy, eleven year old boy and.

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
Initially what's that yeah, yeah, yeah, initially he was going
to be gender queer or there'd be a gender queer storyline.

Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
And he was his hobby was making Fashi.

Speaker 1 (01:10:41):
He was a fashion easta from garbage and it had
it had all this stuff jammed in there, and clearly
somebody at Pixar went yeah, no, and they they ran
it in front of a test This is the craziest
thing they put in front of a test audience. And
they asked a question of the audience that said, raise
your hand if you would pay us see this movie,
and nobody raised their hand. So internally they fired the director,

(01:11:04):
who was like a gay Latino director.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
Guy.

Speaker 3 (01:11:08):
By the way, did Coco like this guy a track record?

Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah? And uh.

Speaker 1 (01:11:16):
That caused like a little internal revote, a revolt among
some of the more woke folks there who are now
giving interviews after this movie tanks saying that if they
had just left it what it was, it would have
been fine. Nobody believes that based on the focus group
that clearly.

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
Didn't raise their hands. Does so make sense of this
for me? And does it mean.

Speaker 1 (01:11:36):
Pixar might be getting the message a little bit that
maybe they should go back to what brought him here?

Speaker 3 (01:11:42):
You know, I don't know. We've we've definitely had this
conversation before about wondering whether or not they've gotten the lesson,
but then there are more lessons to learn. We're talking
about Pixar again, because they keep releasing movies that they
don't even believe in. You know, theyeople in the C
suite are not excited about that. Maybe you don't need

(01:12:03):
the executives to be excited about every movie, but they
knew this movie was not good, and they put it
out anyways. And I think it's because of sunk cost.
I think it's because of ideology. They believe they have
some sort of moral duty to put this story out there.
One of the most shocking quotes from the team that
quit and again, Adrian Molina walked away from the movie

(01:12:25):
and was replaced by Domi Shees as the woman who
did the Turning Red Pixar movie, which I am an
apologist for. And some of the staffers said that if
you strip the identity story, meaning the gender queer identity
element out of l e O, then the movie is
about nothing, and that says everything you need to know

(01:12:50):
about these projects. They're not about virtues, they're not about
courage and humility and learning wisdom and all this kind
of stuff. It's just about not scissistic identity obsession. And
then when you take it out, the movie is about nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:13:05):
No, no, no.

Speaker 1 (01:13:06):
And I'm gonna push back because I half agree with them.
Here's the part that I agree with and I raised
to fix this movie. They they did strip out the
character identity. You still have to have character identity. You
have to have somebody that you bond with and root for. Right.
It doesn't have to be a gender queer or an

(01:13:27):
identity that's born on sexuality at all.

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
Right, the identity of the character matters.

Speaker 1 (01:13:32):
So when you're purging that part of it and you're
not actively replacing it with elements of the identity that
you like, going back to like the kid from Toy Store,
the actual human kid. Right, he's got an identity and
you're following what's happening in his family through what four movies, Right,
you bond with him, you like this, let alone the characters.

Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
So to some extent, they're half right. Because they had
to purge it. It sounds like they just didn't replace it,
and he's just kind of a character that nobody cares about.
Would that be accurate?

Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
I would say that that is accurate. The people who
are telling these stories, I don't get the sense that
they are doing it for kids and four families. They're
doing it for themselves. And I get the artistic drive
to tell stories that are personally important to you and
autobiographical and all that stuff, But you know, that's that's

(01:14:28):
really not the best way to approach telling a story
that is going to be a blockbuster hit for one
of the biggest studios in the world. You have to
consider who's your audience, and they never do because they
resent the audience.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
The other example we haven't had a chance to talk
about it is Ironheart. So I tried, I did, I tried.

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
I was in a hotel they had the Disney thing
on there. I gave it about the first episode about
thirty minute shot. So Ironheart, if you guys don't know,
is uh it's it's it was something that was filmed
what four years ago, so right in the middle of
they started production like four years ago. So it's it

(01:15:10):
like there's literally like BLM posters in the episode there,
and there's a real hard push on where we were
four years ago, and this thing's been sitting in the can,
and you know, Disney finally decided this is you know,
now's the time we're going to go ahead and get
this out there, and clearly they they realized that it

(01:15:31):
didn't age well from the time of filming.

Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
And there have you.

Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
Watched the first three episodes, I'm curious your thoughts and
the now finding out that they've been sitting on this
for a few years and seeing how it aged from
the time it was filmed.

Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
And now, I hate to leave you hanging on this one,
but I've not watched Ironheart.

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
Okay, all right, Well that's the backstory there.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
So they they essentially they filmed it really, you know,
right in the middle of the summer, on the tail
end of the peaceful protest. I guess it would have
been the year after started production, and it's got a
lot of that storyline in there. And you know, they
didn't do reshoots. They put it out there for what
it is. But it's very interesting just to watch it
and realize that it probably would have done okay if

(01:16:14):
you had released it, you know, right around that time,
because if you to release a tail in black panther hype,
it probably would have done.

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
Okay. That's probably a little too far back, but and.

Speaker 1 (01:16:26):
It just shows the changing you know, the changing attitudes
of the consumer.

Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
Man. I got it like forty five seconds, but I
think it's a very good example.

Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
No, I think it definitely is. There's a lot that
has been changing with what people expect from these stories.
I would love to see we need a revival on
original storytelling, and I think this maybe is why I
go back to video games. Video gaming is where the
most original storytelling is happening. There is a time when

(01:16:58):
Marvel and Star Wars Is and all these these great
things were fresh. But you know the place where news
stories are happening is on on the Xbox.

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
There, I got like five seconds. All right, Well, we'll
rejoin it next week. Have a good fourth of July,
and we'll be right back