Thursday-8-14-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah, any who, it is six oh six. Glad to
have you along here on the CaCO Day Radio program
phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seven four. You're eating kind of a crazy story this morning.
Hang on, all right. I want to make sure that

(00:23):
I have the propervert because there's two different outlets who
wrote on this and I thought it was kind of interesting.
So apparently there's some there's some charity in Durham that
here we go. This is this is pretty credit by
the way, this is good journalism. Let me give credit

(00:45):
where credit is due. Aril did this Durham nonprofit accused
of not paying employees, use logos testimonials that were not legitimate. Basically,
there's a nonprofit in Durham and I had to look
up what this nonprofit does, which I think would be
the only lacking part of the reporting here. It's an
anti poverty charity, so it's anti poverty initiatives, or at

(01:11):
least it purported to be called the the c j F,
the Courtney Jordan Foundation. All Right. So basically r L
went down because on their website they had these logos
for all of these you know, these seals of approval,
these partners, which included Duke Energy, Durham County, the City

(01:33):
of Durham, Duke University. They had testimonials from former Senator
Richard Burr, for former Durham Mayor Bill Bell, and a
bunch of others, and basically nobody knew anything about those.
None of the people were purported to write these letters

(01:54):
of recommendation or these little things on there had any
known relationship. They didn't even know about the organization, the
the these the municipal entities, so they had nothing. Then
I guess somebody claimed at the organization that those were
pre existing from the former iteration of this particular charity.

(02:14):
The problem with that is or existing relationships, I said, say,
the problem with that is is this thing wasn't formulated
until twenty twenty three. And uh it, you know, it
looks a lot like looks a lot like. I don't know,
somebody decided to create themselves A Yeah, some would use

(02:38):
the word scam, but sometimes it's just about creating these
a creative job. And then it's a job that you
pay yourself, apparently not your employees, but yourself a whole
lot of money. And I'd be very interested to see
who we're talking about here, But ross, can you believe
that that somebody would just wholesale kind of make up
some sort of charitable initiative.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Und it's absolutely disgusting. I mean it's shameful. It's shameful
that that is a good word for it. Yeah, right there,
What do you keep looking at me that way?

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Not that I I just asked you if he thought
it was bad? I do. Oh did you think I
was talking about the Hayes Global Initiative?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
But no, I thought you were talking about my charity
that the Hazey Lambo for the Children. Well, that's an
offshoot of the I have an infressial. I have an
official tweet quote here. Yes, I'm a little flustered because
I didn't know it's gonna be called out like this,
but I have.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I didn't call you. I think you're conscious. But anyway,
we look.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
At this right here. Got this quote from Timmy. It
says the Hayes for Sheriff Lambeau for the Children Fund
changed my life because I'm a child and I love Lambos.
And that's from Timmy and Jimmy Downtown sand I believe
so yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Okay, okay, you got a last name there or is that?

Speaker 2 (03:51):
Here's another Here's another quote I have from a local
celebrity case O day, I approve of the Hayes for
Sheriff Lambo for the Children fund. Wow, what a charity
I'd stake. There's three exclamation points three. I've never heard
of that guy, so that's not particular. But look, I'm
not hacking on you.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Look for those who don't know, the Haes Global Initiative
and the and the Lamdbow funds have only because it
matters how charities use their money. Did you know, uh
that that small little h the Haese Global Initiative, much
smaller than the Clinton Global Initiative. Yet you guys have
only built six less houses in Haiti than they have, right,

(04:30):
So that's really impressive, right, only six less for one
of the largest uh scam I mean the charities in
the uh uh in in recent memory. So I mean
you know where where that with the badge of a hunter?
So apparently they stripped all the logoing and stuff there. Man,

(04:52):
I don't know. This thing sounds like even if it
was even if it was met with good intentions, Uh,
it's sound it was please according the reporting here that
you all were willing to lie about a bunch of stuff,
keep the get those dollars flowing in, and provide credibility

(05:13):
for it. So it'd be very interested to see how
this pans out. But perhaps maybe we've seen the last
of the reporting on it. You know, this would be
a really good thing for our state AG's office to
involve themselves with. You know, they just New York Times
just came and did a big puff piece on our

(05:35):
Jeff Jackson, our AG, who talked about how he's super
non political, just here for the people. Never mind that
he's part of this gaggle of like twenty some state
ags that all banned together about every week to sue
Trump again over something as a collective. But he wants
you to know he's not political. So maybe this might

(05:56):
be a good use of some of that energy that
pent up, a non political energy, because you don't want
people who are you know, who truly want to help
to be taken in by any dishonest charitable organization, So
you know, maybe maybe concentrate on that. So, uh, didn't

(06:19):
you guys also have the entire Hogwarts lego set for
the kids initiative? Wasn't that one of your early ones
as well. I soon you to remember that, oh that
was a go fund me, okay, AnyWho? All right, yeah,
this thing sounds super sketch, dude. And and not even
to mention that there's people. It wasn't just people who

(06:40):
maybe donated or I wonder, I wonder how much, because
here's what here's what ends up with these charities. This
is why you get things like the firefund out in
Malibu where all of a sudden, the money, the hundred
mill or whatever that was supposed to go to the
fire victims, like none of the fire victims can find it.
Because when you're in the when you're in the ritable world.

(07:01):
And this is not to detract from people who are
doing this legitimately, but there's too often these situations where
you have your charity and you got like ten of
your buddies that have their charity, and even though your
charity could feasibly handle whatever, this this particular thing is
you want everybody wants to help and keep all their
buddies charities up and running, So you become the parent

(07:23):
and then you you then put it down through all
you know, all these different smaller charities because you want
to make sure that they can stay running. The problem
is is every time, just like anything else in this world,
you have another layer of bureaucracy. Uh. You know, some
of that money gets siphoned off for administrative costs and
to paying employees. It is right, because the charity's got it.

(07:44):
You know that you have certain percentage has to go
to that, which is why you have sites like the
Charity Navigator stuff where you can go look up how
much of the money actually makes it there. That's by design. Yeah, right.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
A lot of times they send the money leg to marketing. Right,
That's why I have stopped giving this, Yeah, because I'm like,
I want to give to this cause, but then you
find out like eighty percent of their proceeds go to
like marketing of the cause.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Right. Yeah. So there's there's one hundred different ways that
that dollar that you think you're donating to somebody gets diluted,
which is why you know, if you if you really
want to help, you have to find those first ring charities.
Is it's good to let's not say there's not good
national charities, but you have to understand how the how
the dollars are being used. But you know, localized, local

(08:27):
charitable stuff is great. Also, people who ban together and
decide that they're going to do projects, maybe through their church,
where they raise it among the you know, among the
members of the church, and then they go and do
the project, you know, like they go to Guatemala and
build wells or any of those. I know a lot
of you participate in stuff like that, right, That's how

(08:50):
that's how you know, because generally you're going to be volunteers.
It's going to be very minimal what it costs you
to go ahead and do those things, and so you're
gonna have maximum impact with what you're doing. So you know,
just just have have to say at local homeless shelters
or another good example, if they're being managed correctly. We
have some good ones around here. Durham's got a great one.

(09:14):
Probably a better use of your stuff there. So anyway, yeah,
these things seem super sketch man, But yeah, that's how
I wake up. That's what I wake up and start
reading this morning. So there you go, all righty, coming
up on the show, Coming up on the show, we
do have a slight adjustment. Stephen is locked in at
eight thirty five, right, yep, at eight oh five. I

(09:35):
just want to make clear. Our official NERD correspondent, Steven
Stephen Kent will join us at eight thirty five Ross
Where is he? I think this is funny. Mount Saint
Helen's you know that's gone, That's gone bad a few times, right,
I don't know if you know this. I think he'd
prefer to risk of that over the crime in DC.
That's my guess is that is uh, that is true

(09:59):
because he's from the DC area, So he went to
the exploding mountain. By the way, I will always I
will always know the uh. Now, there's been subsequent eruptions,
but the big Mount Saint Helens eruption, my mom went
into labor during it for me, and I was technically
I was born on the nineteen I was born the

(10:19):
day after, so literally the day after it erupted. So
I think that like that's like demigod status, right or something.
You go by the old Roman stuff. If there's a
huge seismic event and then I emerge, the problem is
where I emerged from, so you have to do the
math there. So I'm gonna gohe and claim that. But yeah, yeah,

(10:41):
Mount Saint Helen's safer than DC. Dude. My favorite thing
yesterday was watching somebody on Twitter get absolutely bodied, who's like,
there's no crime, it's not like this is Fallujah. And
then somebody pointed out that the stats in Fallujah are
safer than Washington, DC. Right now. I saw that.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, yeah, I'll come back to you with like stats
in math and it's like, actually, you know the crime
in DC, like you know the homicide rates higher in
DC than in Fallujah.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yeah yeah, yeah, how do you follow that up? You
just got to delete your account. Man. It's like, all right,
I guess I don't do social media anymore. All right?
Coming up on the show. In addition to that with Steven,
you guys have probably seen some iteration of this this
viral video out of Heywood County. In it, the way

(11:29):
it was sold is that you have a bunch of
super racist truck drivers or landfill workers or whatever standing
around threatening some poor innocent black guy with a gun.
That's the narrative there. That's what we saw. This is
in Haywood County. And I remember when I first saw

(11:49):
that video, like, I'm like, what the hell happened leading
up to this? Right? Because it was shockingly it was
super low on details. Well, imagine my surprise when another video,
because there were multiple videos, but another video of Amerge
that emerges that is much longer and has a lot

(12:11):
more detail as to why there may have been this
confrontation where you see these dudes kind of circling or
surrounding this guy. And thank god I was next to
my fainting couch. What I found out it wasn't because
they're all clan members or you know. However, the Internet
was portraying them. There's a lot more to this story,

(12:33):
so we will we'll get into that. We got some
school stuff to get into audio, you name it. But
for now, eight nineteen or excuse me, six nineteen, will
take a break, be right back on the CaCO Day
radio program. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The
induction ceremonies coming up the seventh, would I say the
seventh of November, No, November eighth, okay, And this year,

(12:58):
one of the people that is going in is a
somebody who has literally been eligible since the day they
started doing this back in nineteen eighty five, and that
is Chubby Checker, who yes, is still alive and is
still outperforming, still doing his thing, and he's finally getting in.

(13:20):
And in fact, this has kind of been an ongoing saga.
I wasn't fully up on this. Ross has a strange about.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Knowledge what it will become. One of Lincoln's special interests
as a child with autism for a while Chubby Checker.
So I know so much about Chubby Checker, more so
than I should know, and know every song and like
other albums, and I've heard them over and over again
on repeat for months at a time, and it's super weird.
When you told me that I'm blown away, I could.
I don't know how to digest it, because here's.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
What he's blown away about. It's not that Chubby Checker
is getting in, although it's been a long road. It's
that Chubby Checker has opted not to come to the ceremony.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Which is crazy because he's been trying to get into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for decades, decade
eighty five.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
He's ineligible.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah, I'm talking like organizations and like self made charities
and like message boards and websites and petitions, and this
dude has been trying to get into this thing for
like thirty or forty fifty, like a ridiculous amount of time.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
Oh, nineteen eighty five, Yeah, and by the way, this
is the first time he was even nominated, and now
to be like, hey, I'm not gonna go that's nuts.
This is beef.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, this guy feels slighted and he's like, screw you.
People ain't going yeah, which.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
One end, but I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna at
this point and never nominated, never nominating him, that's actually
that's that kind of blueing.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
I think a lot of that has to do with
a lot of his songs when you look into them,
and I didn't know this before Lincoln got into them
or into him. A lot of the songs are covers
from Chubby Checker. There's not a there are, but a
lot of the songs a lot of that's kind of
the era too. A lot of people that covers were
kind of the thing when he was kicking off there.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
But oh man, but like I understand that, like kisses
in and they're not even a real rock band. That's
a good point. That's a theater show. So phone number
eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four
do do Oh. I'm gonna have to digest this story
so I can share with you. But let me get

(15:19):
let me tell you what the headline is, so you
can start thinking of what you think. The answer is
ross the four states most likely that psychopaths are most
likely to live in. That's interesting. Yeah, they've ranked, they've
they've ranked these the states on personality disorders. So basically

(15:43):
the four states with the most sociopass psychopaths in them.
Because I will tell you, I'm looking at the top
four and these four are you know, normally be top
five of these four are far removed from the others.
Interrestine Roz. You want to venture a guest, what do
you think one of those states might be?

Speaker 2 (16:03):
I don't know, New York, California, Illinois, maybe Washington.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
You got one? Really? What about Ohio? You got New
York as one of them? Yes, that is correct. No, no,
And the other three. I don't think people will guess
the other three, but they kind of make sense when
you get into it, though, Well two of them do.
Nevada Okay, I don't know, man, people you ever don't

(16:29):
they have one of the on patrol where they're in,
like Rule Nevada.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
I don't know if they still cover there, but they did. Yeah,
that's a different breed of people completely. Yeah, it's a
different breed of people. Also Texas.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Again, I'd be interested in the parameters here, but you
know there's some rule Texas again. This one I didn't
understand though. The fourth South Dakota. Oh no, man, South
Dakos always just struck me as pretty vanilla.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
I'm curious as to how they get the results right, because, like,
is a study of people that are currently incarcerated that
they know have been like, you know, diagnosed as being
like a psychotic person or I say, yeah, I'm.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Gonna I'm gonna drill down into this thing. But basically, okay,
so basically they what they did is they wanted because
again now you're putting a whole label, what they're actually
looking for is they tried to find societal circumstances and
recognized traits right that contribute to this. So it doesn't

(17:30):
necessarily mean you're a full undiagnosed sociopath or whatnot. But
what they wanted is they they they did polling of
psychologists who asked the number of patients who they have
noticed these particular traits with them, like narcissism, achabeliism, things
like that, and then they extrap those numbers to get this.
So again it's only as good as data in But

(17:53):
so they were just looking. They were just looking for
things traits that psychopaths essentially exude. And like the New
York thing makes sense to me because they what is
the thing where they say that if you're a CEO,
there's a high higher propensity if you're at upper level.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Dude, they always come out with that list of like
professions that are the most like you know, where the
most psychopath And I don't know how accurate it is,
but it's always like, uh, ceeos, politics and like media.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah, we ended up in that bucket there. I think
anything where there's uh where there's where you have to
have a pretty big ego attached, there's going to be
some of this. Again, I just don't know how to
get to South Dakota. But the other side of it is,
you know, being anti social is one of the hallmarks
here on the list. So you get into rule Nevada,
Rule Texas, that's there's a reason you go live out there,

(18:45):
you know, want to be your own people. I guess
ross you'd be on this list, right buddy. Oh that's
the media part of this thing too. Let's see here,
DoD do do do do? All right, So what are
the four states? Well, this is right calling question. All right,
So what are the four states least likely? Utah? Okay,

(19:08):
I guess that kind of makes sense. I would have
guess Utah. Yeah, Vermont, Maine. I'm sorry. In Maine, doesn't
everyone get murdered by monsters all the time? Or is
that it's a very dangerous area.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah, kids get murdered by big spider clowns like SUPERNATURALI
is scary stuff.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, yeah, okay, so not so this is more human.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Don't even like, if you're vacationing there, don't go into
a pawn shop. Do not go into like one of
these like old antis. What if I need things though, don't?
But I heard they have, you don't they have like
exactly what I need?

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Don't? All right? If I want to go to a
beautiful village on a small island just off the coast there,
I would say no, But it's beautiful and it's right
off the coast there.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
You know what, just skip that area. It's go to Buffalo.
Buffalo's beautifulest time of.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Here is by the way, do you see what did
you see the dude with the buffal Airport yesterday. Nope,
Oh my gosh, I just assume people would all send
you this video. So some dude, and I don't know
what triggered it, he just kind of lost it, which
I understand if you ever been to an airport or
been on the cusp. So he took one of those

(20:17):
you know, those those golf carts with like the six
seaters that they drive around old people and also lazy people. Dude,
the amount of people that could absolutely walk from one
end of the airport to the other that are abusing
that system. And the wheelchair on the plane system, it's
not a hand So he he saw one of those

(20:39):
and he and he took it. But it was even
crazier is rather than just ripping down the the the
main corridor of from gate to gate, at one point,
he at full speed drives it onto a moving escalator
and it doesn't quite fit in there. So it's this
slow thing of him with the thing at a slight angle,

(21:02):
having to keep giving it fuel or you know, give
it a juice to get it to go, and eventually
he gets the other end and then just escapes in
this thing. Man just absolutely flipped out at the airport.
I'll see if I find the video for you. I
watched it yesterday and he's just stonefaced the whole time,
and there's like employees are kind of tracking him and
walking with him, but nobody wants to getting near him,
right because now he's on a movie escalator. He's kind

(21:23):
of got it jammed in there, and who the hell
knows what's going to happen. But yeah, it was pretty crazy,
all right. And then the final So those were four states,
and we gave you Maine, Vermont in Utah the final one.
And I don't know that I'm believing it is reportedly
organ I'm assuming that Portland's not in that because I

(21:44):
feel like Portland is full of psychopaths. Yeah, I would say,
like both Portland and Bend. Yeah, so I don't know
how they escape that, but whatever. So there you go,
little news. I don't know if you can use, but
is there for you? Nonetheless? All right, let me get
a little audio for you. Oh wait, oh my next

(22:08):
gen just skits out. Well that's great, we'll have to
figure that out. All right, Well, let me do this.
What is it the computers? This morning Ross's call screener
was being a jerk. Now, my next Gen's like, dam
I'm just gonna be inoperable for you. I'll probably have
to reset that. Okay, wonderful, Well let me do this.

(22:29):
We'll go in and hit the break a little early
because I want to come back and get in some audio.
Hopefully we'll do it next. Hang on, Well, his last
name is Sinning and he's now stolen a golf cart
or a transit cart. And you're right, ross I said
moving escal I meant moving walkway and he tries to
write it down. But if you've been on those you
realize that those carts are a little whiter than the walkway.

(22:50):
And but like he's not even reacting and that thing's
grinding down and bouncing around down this thing. Also, I
just noticed this from Wyoming, So Wyoming represent look at
that so uh shot. Look they Rossa didn't let him
board his flight after a bunch of monsters. I think

(23:10):
he's probably on the no fly list now at that point, right,
But any who, you want to see that that crazy uh,
that crazy little video from the Buffalo Niagara Airport or
whatever they call it up there, It's on the Twitter
account at Casey on the radio. Go check that out.
So let's see where do where do we even start here? Oh? Well,

(23:32):
we're talking entertainment, So let me throw this in. I
love that people are seething over the Kennedy Center Honors
this year, so for for too often, the Kennedy Center
Honors or the the the the little gaggle of And
you don't have to be just a singer. You can
be an actor or a sports person, somebody of notoriety.

(23:58):
It's but it's usually just full of woke garbage, right,
or stuff that doesn't have mainstream appeal. I guess that's
probably more accurate, stuff that doesn't necessarily in individuals that
aren't necessarily mainstream appeal. Not always. Biden had a few
that are clearly mainstream, but a lot of it's just
filler of nonsense, kind of like the Academy Awards right

(24:19):
where it's not the movies that you know that were
the blockbusters everyone went to see. It's some weird art
house film that they got to go ahead and give
the awards to as kind of an f you to
the rabble that are the movie going audience, which is
what I think a lot of people Hollywood think of
everybody else like uncultured, awful, folks. So that's not the

(24:47):
direction that Trump's going this year. I think you've probably
heard of all these people. Let's hear is on the list.
Nineteen seventy eight.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
The Kennedy Center Honors have been among the most prestigious
awards in the performing arts.

Speaker 1 (24:57):
I wanted one. I was never able to get one
this year. It's true. Actually I would have taken it
if they would have called me. I waited and waited
and waited, and I said, the hell with it. I'll
become chairman. I'll give myself an honor. Maybe I'm gonna
honor next year, we'll honor Trump. Okay, all right, So
he's you know, he's joking around with him. So this year,

(25:21):
this year they decided to go with some folks you've
you've probably heard of, including why is this thing meaning
a jerk? Here we go? Uh, George Strait. How George
Strait hasn't been in here yet is beyond me. I
don't know if you know this, even if you don't
listen to country music. George Strait has like seven billion

(25:42):
number one songs. Okay, slight exaggeration, but not much. Helly
had an album that was called twenty five number ones.
Most artists will never be able to put an album
together called twenty five number ones, and that was decades ago.
So George straight, Yeah, that's a pretty good choice. How

(26:03):
about Sylvester Stallone, Roz, have you heard of Sylvester Stallone?
Been around for been around for a minute. Not only
have I heard of him, but I'm kind of a fan.
Oh wow, how are we only getting to sly now
two of the most iconic movie franchises in all of cinema.

(26:26):
It's not it's not even close. The stage show that
pretends to be a rock band kiss all right? Whatever?
How about Gloria Gaynor? Also is the fourth one there?
Gloria Gaynor and Michael Crawford. Now that maybe Michael Crawford
is somebody not everyone's gonna know, but Michael Crawford is

(26:48):
the uh was the originator of the titular role in
The Phantom of the Opera, which I don't know. Phantom
of the Opera is still the most viewed Broadway show
in history. It was at one time, just due to
the fact that it's been around forever. But yeah, so
Michael Crawford the og there. So yeah, those are the

(27:14):
names going in this year and I suspect you've heard
of all, or at the very least all but one
of them. Just a you know, a little bit of
normal will some for us the rabble, if you will.
What is this? Huh? Is it a bad airport? I've
never been through, right, You've never thrown through the Buffalo Airport?

(27:35):
What up there? Right in Niagara? Buffalo, Niagara? You have
no reason to fly up? No, no reason. Yeah, I've
never been in that airport. Somebody, just one of our
listeners who travels a lot, says he's wanted He said,
I've wanted to go Michael Douglas every time I'm there.
I'm assuming that's I'm assuming that's a falling down reference. Yeah.
Some airports will do that to you, like the Orlando Airport. Man, Yeah,

(27:59):
the Lando Airport. You're just like I need to, I
need to just I don't want to say anything. We'll
get used against me in corporate. You're not pleased to
be there.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
I've heard bad things about Orlando, but I feel that
way about Atlanta. That's the Yeah, Nope, you'll pass on
that one like an avoid it. Atta airport can't stand it.
I'm happy when we had to make an emergency landing.
I didn't die either, so that was good because they
do have a lot of potholes in Atlanta, but apparently
not on my runway. Yeah, it could be a pain.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
I don't know. I don't want to get into airport fights,
but it's pretty crazy. I yeah, And I will say
this RDU Airport's pretty good. PTI's airport. Look, there's just
obviously there's not as much traffic through there. But uh,
if you like, you can get I shouldn't say I
don't anyone taking this literally, but depending on what time
you're flying, you can be you can be through and

(28:50):
it's your gate in like ten minutes so and and
you know, that's pretty helpful for people who are I
guess procrastinators sometimes. I didn't test that theory, but yeah,
it's it's a lot easier to get in now already.
Use fine, I'm trying to think of the worst airport
I've ever traveled through. I mean, Orlando is just a mess.

(29:13):
I don't understand. Oh, I know, I know exactly the one,
and it's and it's if you're traveling internationally, so if
you're returning to the US and never fly into Fort Lauderdale,
because they have this weird quirk and I don't know
if it still is, but it was the two times
that I threw flew through and said I would never
do it again. They have this quirk where you go

(29:36):
through and I never check luggage, so I've just got
I've got my bag and my you know, under the
seat in front of you thing, and you go into
this customs hall and they and you have to stand
there and it's not really customs hall per se because
you're not at the customs hall yet, it's like a
staging hole and you cannot proceed then even you cannot

(29:58):
proceed from there into the actual customs process until every
single bag from the flight that you just came in
on has been removed and processed. So you have to
stand there, even if you'd have no checked luggage, and
you cannot move in this hall with nothing. It's like

(30:20):
a big empty It's like it would be like an
empty convention hall at like a big hotel thing, and
you just stand there and then only once they get
everything unloaded are you allowed to proceed to the actual
customs process. It's the dumbest thing that I've ever seen.
And again, it doesn't matter if you have no bags
that you're waiting for. If one person has any bags

(30:42):
checked on that flight, you're not going anywhere. And the
it was hot in there. It was just miserable. And
I don't know if it's still like that, but it
was pretty bad. And then I told you I didn't
like Leguardia as Jet Blue terminal because you can't pay
cash for anything. Everything is a card. And also you
don't really interact with anybody. Everything's done through a QR
code on your phone, like it's still COVID. And if

(31:04):
you even asked the guy, you're sitting at a bar
with a bartender dressed as a bartender, and you can't
even if you want to describe like a drink you
wanted to make, No, you got to write it down
in the thing. So dumb. Anyway, I didn't mean to
turn this into airport hate, but that's that's how it goes,
all right, real quick? Yes, Janet, what's up, hey, Casey?

(31:28):
I think that that study still.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
Tells more about Oregon than any of the other sites,
like accidentally, I think that it really shows that there's
more liars in Oregon than anywhere else in America.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Well or there's a there's a lot of psychopaths that
aren't seeking medical treatment. Is probably more likely, right, because
they just know they get wrung up. Yeah, forcibly committed
with the level.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Well, I think we may send Sheriff hay.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
Is out there craziest bits of NASA lore. I I
think I've stumbled across. I had no idea about this story,
and they're they're actually interviewing the dude, who who who?
Who did this? And I don't know, maybe I missed
it somewhere. I'm calling him sex on the Moon guide.

(32:19):
If you don't know that story, you're gonna want to
hold on for that. Okay, all right, very good, But
this morning, let me go ahead and start here this hour.
Maybe you guys have seen this story over the last
I don't know, two weeks, week and a half ago,
where you have video of what looks like some guy
who's who's scared, uh and he's had a dump landfill.

(32:44):
This is in Heywood County, and the narrative was, look
at these look at all these white guys here trying
to harm this this black truck driver who showed up
to the dump. People were going so far as to
essentially say that Heywood County was a sundown county. If
you don't know what that is. Basically, if you're a

(33:04):
person of color, you can't be can't be there or
outside after sundown. It's a but I keep seeing this,
this sundown town's thing emerge. It's very popular among like
woke TikTokers now because I think they all just discovered
what it was, and now they accuse everywhere of being
sundown towns. And it was really funny, ross because I
was watching this video of this chick who lives in

(33:25):
like one of these little mountain areas of Oregon, who
had clearly just discovered what it was, and she was
bawling her eyes out because she says she accidentally moved
to a sundown town. But it's like one you didn't
know what that was until five minutes ago two a
little rock climby, small town community in rural Oregon. Being

(33:47):
a bunch of white people is not necessarily mean it's
a sundown town. It's kind of a common thing. I
don't know if you know this out in the you
got the Western United States, we're all those little small
mountain towns are pretty white, pretty white. Not a lot
of diversity there. I know, I grew up out there.

(34:08):
Wasn't because Buffalo, Wyoming was keeping people of color out.
It was just that's what it was. It's a ranching
community there, but whatever. And so she's bawling and I'm like, listen,
you didn't know what that was. But you had to
have known when you moved there that everyone there was
white and you didn't have a problem with that. So anyway,
So but that's the accusation they're throwing around with this thing,

(34:31):
and uh, it was. It was pretty brutal, and and
it went. This went viral nationally, and so basically Haywood
County and the crosshairs of national social media IIRE after
inflammatory videos went viral alleging that a black truck driver
hauling chipped flood debris to a private landfill in Canton

(34:51):
was bullied by unhinged workers. Uh oh, you know who,
we should have got you. We should have I should
have had wood on for this. Cassie isn't she from Canon, right?
Her family's from Canton. Yeah, So obviously this is not
a good look for the for Canton there because everyone
just assumes that Canton is a sundown town and the

(35:14):
video whipped up all sorts of vile attacks against the workers,
and I'm talking like death threats, horrible, horrible stuff. Over
one million was the view count on the initial video,
and let's see, that was quickly eclipse after more than
forty thousand comments were posted, most concluding that Heywood County

(35:35):
and Canton specifically is nothing but good old boy clan members. Okay,
and oh they also accused the private landfill of where
they where they essentially get rid of the bodies of
all the people of color they murder. Oh yeah, the
internet did what the internet does, but it was all

(35:56):
based on this really short video where yeah, absolutely it
looks like the guys in the video are clearly honed
in on this black truck driver and they're not happy
with him. So what really happened? Well, interestingly enough, another
video has emerged which has another narrative, and again it

(36:22):
is a narrative that is seemingly backed up by the video,
and that is what actually actually may have happened. All right,
So new footage shines light on this. So why these
workers were aggressively yelling at a black truck driver. The
original video, which showed five white men shouting at a
black man in a threatening manner, ordering him to get

(36:44):
back in his truck until police arrived is what started this. However,
with the new video, we find out what led to
that moment, and it also corroborates a statement that was
filed by the people on the landfill. A truck driver
carrying a gun had gone rogue within the landfill. According

(37:04):
to other sources, the driver was running around out of
his truck. This is the driver that they say was threatened,
threatening workers and then at some point tried to hijack
the truck of a female driver. And in the video,
the follow up video, you can hear her screaming for help.
And that's what gets the workers, these other you know,

(37:25):
the boy, these guys that are in the video just
standing around, that's what gets them honed in on this
dude driver run around and tried to hide. In fact,
let me play some audio for you if I could,
for just a moment. Yeah, I know, I am shocked
as well that there is seemingly a lot more to
this story.

Speaker 5 (37:42):
Got a gun and the he got a gun and
then I'll say the tolayoff right there. Here we go.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
We got something, Hi, don't let it in that truck.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Hur Hi, Nope, stop there, you're down?

Speaker 5 (38:01):
Are good on the door?

Speaker 1 (38:07):
Yeah, you can kind of hear the woman just a
little bit there at the end, but yeah, yeah, there's
a whole lot more going on. Here is the statement
from the landfill quote. A third party contracted truck driver
violated site policies and engaged in aggressive behavior. I don't
know if it was a beef over who's supposed to
pull in somewhere first, whatever it is, but the point

(38:30):
is that you don't get out of your vehicle. And
this is, by the way, this is the rule of
a lot of landfills for any of us who've ever
had the haul stuff to a to a to a landfill.
You either stay in your vehicle in totality or there's
very specific places you can drive you can't whether you
can get out, whether you can't get out. This is
not unusual, right, and it's and it's all liability stuff.

(38:53):
It's all liability stuff.

Speaker 5 (38:56):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
The driver the video being circulated omitst critical elements of
the incident. According to the statement, the worker ultimately used
a skid steer to disable the cab of the truck
by blocking the truck with heavy equipment quote. Our staff
acted swiftly to protect others. Thankfully no injuries occurred. Law
enforce it was called immediately and we appreciate their quick intervention.

(39:19):
This actually happened in late June, but it wasn't until
very recently it went viral. In the video, the driver
claims the workers flipped over his truck, intimidated him with
obscene yelling, and made him fear for his life. But again,
now that we have more more videos or I guess
another look at it, but a longer version of it

(39:42):
that does not appear to be accurate. It sounds like
the threatening and the blocking of him happened only after
he had violated the rules and started aggressively, had brandished
a gun, was aggressive to the workers, and then attempted
to enter the cab of this other driver, this woman.
So once again, once again probably good to wait for

(40:07):
context on this stuff, just saying, all right, uh, Bernie,
what's up?

Speaker 5 (40:14):
Born in Boss and Kathie h. After the after the
flooding down in Texas, each sports team and the state
donated a million dollars you know to the fund.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
M M.

Speaker 4 (40:27):
George Street donated three million dollars by him.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
Good for him. Yeah, I love you some, Georgia. I
love you.

Speaker 5 (40:38):
Because you know he's from that area. You know, he
maybe about maybe one hundred miles from that area.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
Yeah, yeah, that's uh George. And he has a history
of doing stuff like that too.

Speaker 5 (40:50):
And also I found out yesterday that I heard yesterday
that Dolly Pardon paid for most of the funerals for
the little girls that died, and that came.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
That's, that's, that's that doesn't surprise me all the stories
we've heard about Dolly over the years. But again, what
a and thanks, thank you for the call there, Bernie
with Dolly Parton man just impugnable, right. I keep thinking
they're going to try to do something to her and
figure it, you know, figure out some way to try
to drag her into the muck and the politics of stuff.

(41:21):
But she just she They never get her there, and
thank god for that. And what does she do. She
shouldn't hold press conferences any of this, and she just
does this stuff, just gives back every chance she gets.
George straight too, he doesn't get enough credit for it.
I'll tell you one of my favorite, one of my
favorite songs. I know it's probably a little a little
bit of h Amarillo by Morning is one of the

(41:46):
greatest songs ever. Man, I can't I can't tell you
the number of times I've been driving down a road
in Wyoming, Montana, North Carolina caba blasted, I've blasted out
of my truck in southern California. Amarillo by Morning is
one of the best songs country songs in my opinion, ever,

(42:07):
and George Strait has quite a few others as well. Clearly,
all right, seven seventeen, all right, we got some weirdness
to get to. We'll wait into that coming up next
cac O Day radio program. The Democrat to Senate members
down there in Texas, they're off on little VAK. I
think I thought it was pretty rich when the one

(42:28):
dude was doing interviews from Illinois and his background that
he hung behind his webcam was the Texas state flag,
And it's like, can you flee the state and then
hang the flag to like localize that you're a Texan?
I don't know. I guess that's not polling well either.
But also the Republicans said there who have threatened to

(42:52):
take legal action, none to this point has actually been executed.
So we show we'll see Hey, I have a question
if you were going to I don't know. Let's say, hypothetically,
if you were going to commit a felonious assault against
a federal agent with a subway sub, which subway sub

(43:16):
would you go for? Ross? What would your preference be?
If you're going to assult federal law enforcement and probably
get yourself to your prison sentence, what would you What's
what flavor sub do you think would be best to
throw at the federal agent before they slap you to
the ground. I'll probably go tuna fish. Yeah, that would
be the most offensive, wouldn't it. I don't know. What's

(43:37):
that Asian chicken one too?

Speaker 2 (43:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
I don't know. I don't like that one. Some people
like that one. That'd be pretty good. Meatball sub would
be messy, but it's all that it would also be
a waste of delicious meatballs, whereas the tuna. Yeah, probably tuna,
and mostly because tuna already famously is a a news

(44:02):
related subway sub feature. Flavor having first made its appearance
up in Chicago with the this is Maga crowd, This
is Maga country crowd, right with all that stupidity, Oh
juicy Smolier so, but that's what happened. A man I
used a subway sandwich as a weapon to attack a

(44:23):
federal officer deployed up on the streets of DC is
now charged with felony assault. Sean Dunn. That's an appropriate
last name. Announced here's by the way, can I point
this out about Janine Piro. Let me just say this.
I have Janine Piro as a host, has never really

(44:45):
been one of my favorite hosts up there at Fox News.
I finally I found her a little grading sometimes. I've
seen her live in person at one of the events
one of the radio events I did too, and I
got the impression she was nice enough. But it's but
damn is she good at this? Do you know what
I'm saying? Wait, even if I didn't like her necessarily

(45:08):
as a Fox News host, her as a a pit
bull gives zero f's a district or district a US
attorney for this case, the District of Columbia. This is
her calling. Man. She is absolutely brutal, and I'm here

(45:28):
for every minute of it. It is a pleasure to
watch this woman work there. So because she is she
telling this reporter basically to pound sandly. She has zero
bandwidth for stupid but anyway, so she announced that the
police are not out there to get pushed around or
beat up, and they mean it, so they're gonna throw
the book at this dude. Doun allegedly captured on video

(45:51):
shouting that a federal group of officers were fascists because
of course, before whipping his Deli sandwich at them and
striking a US Customs and Border Protection agent in the chest.
It also sucks if that agent was hungry but hadn't
been able to take a little break yet, because now
you kind of get you know, it's like the genie thing. Really,
I wish I had a sandwich like ah, not like

(46:12):
chat usually with their NERD correspondent Stephen Kent uh each
Thursday at eight oh five, slight adjustment today just because
he's doing some traveling. He's uh, he literally has decided
that he's going to Mount Saint Helen's and up top
and that'll be safer than DC, which is where he lives.
So I don't know that I blame him, although it's

(46:32):
clearly improving. I think they just they wrested about one
hundred people in the first couple of days, so uh,
making way some of those videos are remarkable too. Like
they were they were resting some dude on on some
pretty serious stuff and uh, like the neighbor neighbors are
all watching this, and the dude like he cannot fathom

(46:53):
that this is happening. You scream it, you know, screaming
at the police. He's trying to get him too. He
was doing the why don't you be a real man
take off your badge because then I guess that makes
them not a cop and you can hit him. I
don't know how that. I think you've seen too many movies, bro,
But like you can tell, you can tell that like

(47:15):
he hits hey, his brain is still trying to process
how in the world he got locked up. And the
only way or he's getting locked up, and the only
way that that happens is he has been so trained
to think that it's not coming. Why ever would he
think that he can operate with the impunity around DC.
How does one get that thought in their heads so

(47:36):
as to be so offended when you actually do get
arrested is a question people should be asking themselves. So
you know that's going on, everybody's everybody's trucking away on
all of that and I am one here for it.
So all right, let me get into this right here.

(48:01):
This is a weird little story. Man. Oh wait, hold
on one other piece of audio I wanted to put
in there. No, no, no, no, no, I'll get that. I'll
get that when we come around on the other side.
So I get this dang thing to open. Here we go.
This is the craziest nat one of the craziest NASA

(48:21):
stories I think I've ever heard. And it happened years ago,
twenty three years ago in fact, and I guess maybe
I vaguely remember that there were a couple interns at
NASA who stole a bunch of space rocks. But the story,
the narrative that I understood, was they were trying to

(48:42):
sell them, and that's how they ended up getting busted,
because there was some guy in Belgium or something who
responded to an ad they had for moon rocks and
was going to pay them a bunch of money, but
got a little suspicious because they had so much and
moon rocks, by the way, go for at that time.
I don't even know what it is inflation up to
five thousand per gram. If you can get a moon

(49:04):
rock for collectors and so the guy ended up actually
contacting law enforcement in the US. They set up a
sting and that's how they busted these two. But that's
not the crazy part. So this guy's name is Thad Roberts,
so he's an intern. He ends up meeting another intern,

(49:25):
this this young woman whose name is Tiffany Fowler, and
they start a romantic relationship, and he hatched a plan
to steal seventeen pounds of moon rocks and a meteorite
from the space the Johnson Space Center, so in Houston,
and they were in this big six hundred pounds safe

(49:46):
total value at the time twenty one million dollars. And
initially it wasn't about it wasn't just about selling the
rocks because he's in love. He's twenty three, she's twenty two.
They're both intern and they're you know, they're they're young
and hot and uh so this is in Romeo and
Juliet kind of stuff here, and so she's like, yeah,

(50:10):
let's go ahead and just steal the safe. So the
two literally steal the safe. By the way, weigh six
hundred pounds, and they just kind of walk it out
of the space center. They take it to a hotel,
and he decided that he and her were going to
be the first people to ever have sex on the moon. Yeah,

(50:32):
I know, I know they're not on the moon. I
understand that. So, according to Roberts was being interviewed here,
they decided to go ahead. They took the moon rocks
out of the safe, scattered them on the hotel bed,
and like a holiday inn, threw a comforter over the
top and then proceeded to uh hook up on top

(50:55):
of it so they could quote claim to be the
people the first per the first people to ever have
sex on the moon. Dude, you're not on the moon. Also,
how uncomfortable did that have to be? What do you
you Those things are pretty jagged. I don't know, man,
I don't care if you put a comfort over the
top of them. Roberts placed the moon rocks between the

(51:17):
bed covers, later claiming the couple had sex on the
moon is a symbolic gesture when when asked, and he's
been interviewed by CBS News here, it wasn't that uncomfortable,
and he said it might have been for her, Okay,
so he's a gentleman, but she never said anything. Also,

(51:38):
if the moon's hollow and people live up there watching it.
I'm sure they're hooking up. So there's there's that as well, sir,
so I you know, I don't know if that's true,
but yeah, now it's like now it's some legendary status
and it's like, dude, you try to steal twenty one
million dollars from UH from US taxpayers. But no, this
is this is the narrative for the CBS and about

(52:00):
the romantic nature of what he was doing there. Oh yeah.
In the end, Roberts Fowler and then I think they
had a third accomplice. All pled guilty to conspiracy to
commit theft and interstate transportation. How long do you do?
Eight years in federal prison, serve six. She got off
with only one hundred and eighty days in the house

(52:22):
she helped steal the damn safe but sadly when they
did get out, the two have never seen each other again.
But a weird thing to try to make some sort
of romantic story. All right, So I told you I
had two weird stories. Here is the second one. We

(52:44):
had the story earlier this week where one of the
big makeup lines Lareel had hired one of the big
OnlyFans creators to market cosmetics to, you know, essentially adolescent girls,
which is insane, right Is that who you want? You
want an OnlyFans creator who is a hard look in

(53:06):
twenty four By the way, those have been twenty four
long years to be marketing to your teenage daughter about
makeup stuff and and do. So we played the ad
for you in one of It's a very very sexualized
ad too. She's making a lot of jokes about how
the makeup holds up during her her work as a
mattress actress. So there you go. Uh, just in case

(53:29):
you didn't think the of was creepy enough. There They
did a profile here on one of the big rising creators,
who's somebody who has a pretty unique angle marketing angle
because instead of how do I put this, instead of
having just one garage, she's got two. If we're going

(53:52):
with the sports car reference as the U as we
have done in past years on the show Ross, I'm
not a streamer, you're a streamer? Can you charge double
for that? How does that work? If there's two different Hey,
that's it. You get to charge. That's probably how she's

(54:13):
making all the money, right, because you can you can
double dip your your clientele. They're subscribing to your weird
little service man. But I don't know, She's about to
make a lot more money and I'll probably make in
my career. So just because uh, that's how she was born,
I bet she was really I bet that was really
tough until of came along, because you're like, what what

(54:36):
are you gonna do with my life? Oh? Well, what
is the purpose of this h this thing, this this
condition that I have. And then one day it's like, oh,
oh yeah, that's that's the thing now, So maybe maybe
we'll try that. All right, seven forty three coming up
on the show, because we're gonna chat with Steven at

(54:57):
eight oh five. We got to talk about this from
the State Board of Education. They are mulling over a language,
new language where students in North Carolina will no longer
fail a class solely based on the fact that they
don't show up to it. I'm going to read that again.

(55:19):
If the language, this language is changed in how they're
proposing at the State Board of Education, a student in
North Carolina can no longer be failed in a class
solely based on not showing up. I would like, can
we get this into the radio contracts. So how does

(55:41):
that where you don't have to show up and yet
you still get whatever. In this case, for me, it'd
be pay, that'd be that's a sweet loophole. But I
think people are being a little dishonest on what exactly
the motivation is here, because I see people like, oh no,
this is for the gifted kids. This is not for
the gifted kids. It might it might help a gifted child,

(56:04):
but that's not why this that's not why this language
is going in here. And I'm sorry, How in the
world can you expect that people don't show up are
going to be in a position to receive a grade
saying that they've mastered the information, because it's not simply
about being able to test, but also part of part
of the process is the showing up part, you know why,

(56:26):
because it's very helpful later in life. So I'll explain
what it is they're attempting to do or what they're
proposing to do coming up here in just a few minutes.
But first let's get raced agic from the weather channel
to standing by. All right, my man, what's going on?
We unfortunately yea or rain? Yeah? Saw that.

Speaker 6 (56:48):
Hopefully about the Ariaes yesterday morning. That got it with
some leftover flood warnings here Cape Fear River at william
A husk Lock Dam three that's a light and Cumberland
Counties also, Yeah, some other flood warnings still left over
here from yesterday, even down further south and east. And

(57:11):
this rain coming in through more Montgomery, Scotland Counties, Richmond
Counties now is coming east and maybe a little bit
more north, so that can mean Triangle here in the
next few hours. Looks like it's weakening a bit now
near the triad, most of the rain staying south of
the line from about let's say Ashborough towards Salisbury as
you get into Davidson and Randolph Counties respectively, so Seagrove

(57:36):
and down near Blaine and Troy and areas like Locust
in Norwood area is getting rained this morning, and this
batch a little bit smaller than yesterday, so don't think
the intensity, but the ground saturated won't take much and
more scattered showers than thunderstorms and this very human air
mass as we continue to push on through not only
today but maybe tonight again and tomorrow. Though the rain

(57:56):
chance I think toward the weekend does less than a bit. Still,
it's a little bit higher Saturday than Sunday, so I'd
say Sunday is going to be the better day of
the weekend. So keep the ring your handy. It just
heads up at times some localized flooding, not only around
area creeks and rivers and streams, et cetera, et cetera,
but also on some of the roadways in the low

(58:17):
lying areas that typically would flood. So it's not a
bunch of rain, and don't see too much changing until
maybe this upcoming weekend.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
Saturday is still a little iffy.

Speaker 6 (58:25):
Sunday certainly looks better.

Speaker 1 (58:27):
Okay, all right, thank you sir, appreciate it. We'll talk
in an hour and we will come back and I'll
tell you what The State Board of Education is contemplating
a rule change that frankly, I don't think people are
being too honest about that's coming up CaCO Day Radio programs.
If a new policy from the State Board of Education

(58:50):
that they are mulling over, it's not it's not official
official yet, but it's definitely looking like they're in favor
of this. It would allow or would would prevent students
from receiving a failing grade solely based on attendance. Now,
there's a lot of situations, you know, because everyone's mileage
may vary. You may have students who are dealing with

(59:11):
some sort of significant illness, right, and then you know,
generally accommodations to be made. We had we had a
student who got in a really, really nasty car accident.
It was a sophomore junior year. We really didn't see
him for a year, but he tracked, he worked out
of the hospital. I mean, he was significantly injured. He's
still I believe he's still partially disabled to this day.

(59:34):
But you know, it was was in the spring, so
there was a few months of school left, and essentially
we didn't see him again that year. He came back
the following year. But I think I get that, I
understand that, and I understand there's also students who basically
they already know it. They're in a class that's far
too easy for them. And I used to get I'm

(59:54):
not bragging, but I used to get frustrated with some
stuff because I was naturally curious, especially in like history
classes and not where I found the homework really repetitive
because I already knew all this stuff because I if
I get I get keyed in on these stories, and
I'd want to go research on myself and and really
know this stuff. So especially when we got into like
Western history, which is required course there, like I'm I'm

(01:00:17):
down with this stuff because you're covering like bat a
little big horn, you're you're you're you know, the settling
of the West, manifest destiny if you're allowed to say
that out loud, and various other things. So being there
and and and specifically doing like busy work homework, I
don't think really was a benefit to me, but understandably
it was part of the process because I knew this stuff.

(01:00:40):
But that's not that's not generally when you're talking about
large amounts of absences, who you're talking about those are
those are the non traditional things there. What you're talking
about is uh school school districts who have these you know,
who have these truancy issues, who find themselves we're having
too essentially de enroll a student. There By the way,

(01:01:05):
it'll be September before they actually figure out if they're
going to do this thing. So the language will make
it abundantly clear for schools and districts across the state
that just because they're not attending does not mean that
you can go ahead and necessarily fail them. I don't
know how one doesn't then, like you know, roll into
the other though. What you know what this feels like.

(01:01:26):
It feels like because of the amount of days that
a student misses, especially if it's sequential days, that uh,
you know, we're generally now the money's going to stop
flowing in. I feel like that's probably more of the
concern here, But I don't know. This is why I
want to throw it out to you, because I can't
think of every single scenario, but chronic absenteeism is a

(01:01:50):
big problem in North Carolina. In fact, twenty five percent
of K twelve students fit the definition during the twenty
three to twenty four school year of what is now
is chronic absenteeism. That's ten or more of school days
missed in a year. And those aren't all geniuses who
know all the material. Those aren't all students who have

(01:02:12):
now found themselves afflicted with some significant physical ailment and
medical challenge. It's probably some of them, but that's not
the majority of them. Let's see here. I'm not going
to break down all the numbers for you. The districts
with the largest the absentee problems include Wake Chatham. Actually

(01:02:39):
i'm looking at the list here. Hold on, Yeah, it's
the bigger district. As you can imagine, this chart's a
little weird to read. So the state Board pushed the
vote on the language to a September meeting so it
can get some go ahead and get some input. Yeah,
I feel like this is more about protecting dollars and
also some of the wokeness, right you like you're trying

(01:03:00):
to work out whatever the chronic aps and teaism about.
And sometimes look, sometimes it's not about the kid.

Speaker 5 (01:03:06):
This.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
If I had to pick up the most messed up
story of the day, I think this might be it.
So there is a documentary it's creating a lot of
buzz and it's called The Road between Us, The Ultimate Rescue.
And the documentary is a collection of surveillance footage, live

(01:03:32):
streamed things and you'll understand here in a moment what
I'm talking about, and a and a telling from a
single perspective of the narrative of what transpired on October seventh,
or twenty twenty three, when Hamas decided they were going
to go into that music festival and go into surrounding
areas and start murdering as many as many Jews as

(01:03:53):
they could find. Take another two hundred and twenty five
hostage or two thirty or whatever the number was. And
it's it's it's told from the perspective of a grandfather
and retired Israeli general. His name is Gnoam Tibbin, and
so it documents the larger aspect of what was going

(01:04:13):
on that day, but it also concentrates on his family's home.
They have more of a family compound with all their
extended family, and it was one of the places that
Hamas went up into, and so you have all the
surveillance footage from what's going on there as he rescues
his family from the specific Kamas dudes who came up

(01:04:33):
on there, came into their home, all right, So that
all got put together in this documentary, and the documentary
created a lot of buzz and was set to be
premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, which is a pretty
big one. Toronto's a pretty big one. You tend to
get some big films there. It's not quite Cans or anything,
but it's a biggie and it was just announced that

(01:04:57):
they're not going to be showing it there withdrawing it
and will not be premiering the road between us at
the at the event. So where's the super outrageous part. Well,
that's what I'm getting to right now. The reason they
chose not to air it is because, according to festival organizers,

(01:05:20):
filmmakers were not able to get legal clearance from Hamas
for the footage because within within you remember, one of
the hallmarks of what was going on there, I hate
to use that word, was you had Hamas that was
filming their own atrocities. You you saw it, you saw

(01:05:40):
snippets of it, hopefully you didn't see more than that.
It's how they were able to put together that big
video that they then that the State Department showed members
of the media who some of which who got physically
ill after watching it because they filmed it the terrorists
filmed themselves doing terrorists. Uh. And now the film Festival

(01:06:01):
says that the filmmakers don't have legal rights to use
the terrorists own footage and that as a result, they
can't show the documentary, which is one of the most
insane things I've ever heard, Like, you know, how many

(01:06:22):
documentaries there are where the Japanese film what they were
doing in the section I can't remember what it was,
basically their Mangola operation there, which, by the way, if
you didn't know the Japanese were running their own medical experiments,
most people understand the medical experiments that were going on.
You know, from a Holocaust perspective, that's pretty well documented.

(01:06:45):
The japan Japanese, Uh, they might have been worse with
with the with some of the experiments. It was. There
was definitely a lot more of them, and it's it's
some of the it's some of that stuff where you so,
how does a human think of this? That kind of
stuff and archival footage exists because the Japanese filmed it.

(01:07:08):
You don't have to go and get permission from the Japanese.
It is what it is, just as there's film that
the that the Nazis took, just like the bin Laden
stuff where he's putting out you know, how many times
have you seen that clip? Have bin Laden talking about
what they were gonna do. They didn't secure rights from
the al Qaeda. No, you're out doing terrorist stuff and

(01:07:30):
you're filming it and you're putting it up there on
the internet. People are gonna documentary about it's going to
use it and who's going to sign the rights thing that.
You know, most of the Hamas leaders have been turned
to missed. I guess there's some that remain, obviously, but
there's and they're sure. So I'm not going to give
you clearance on that. Shame on, shame on this right here.

(01:07:51):
Oh I'm sorry. Yeah, I know. The terrorist who was
michetting the baby says, we don't you wouldn't sign the waiver.
We're not gonna be able to use it. I told you,
it's one of the most messed up stories I've seen
in a while. Also, when pressed on at Toronto Film Festival,
spokesman also indicated that the objection was twofold. Not only

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was the footage of the atrocities not signed off from
a legal permission standpoint, but they were also concerned of reprisals.
So you simultaneously want the filmmakers to get a waiver
from the terrorists, but also you're concerned that the terrorists

(01:08:36):
are going to come try to murder you if you
let the film happen, Like do you hear yourself? So yeah,
that story is that story is crazy man that you
would you would bend the knee in this situation. All right,
let me flip back over to this, since we're already

(01:08:58):
up in Canada, let's go ahead and finish this off. So,
I don't know if you've been watching what's going on
in Canada where they've literally barred people from going into
the woods in some areas citing fire concerns. The problem
with that is is when you get into places like Nova,
Scotia and stuff, all the stuff's in the woods, man,

(01:09:20):
with excess of some of the coastal stuff, and people
are in the woods all the time. So like the
amount of people who literally can't access property they may
own or conduct business in, you know, logging or any
of the other things, is it is a big problem
up there. And so they've started finding people. They find
some dude like was it fourteen thousand dollars for going

(01:09:44):
into the woods, you can't even go hiking. Well, as
you can imagine, the locals are not pleased about this,
and so the officials did what officials do and decided
they were going to go ahead and and double down
on them. And so we'll get to that here in
just a moment. Let me grab a call on the
school stuff. We were just talking about Jay, how you doing.

(01:10:05):
Thanks for hanging on. What's up?

Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
Yeah, Kasey talking about the kids in the school. Man,
we're failing our kids. My wife's the teacher, and this
year they've passed all kinds of rules. You know, the
sixty is now passing grade. When I was in school,
anything blow, seventy was failing and now you can miss fifty.
The lowest grade you can possibly get if you don't
do anything is a fifty. So my wife in the

(01:10:30):
intellectual acrobat she is asked the principal if she could
stay home and she'd get fifty percent of or pay.

Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
Yeah, but what so what is what? Where's the fifty
percent come from? Because you said the lowest you can
get his fifty, So you're starting with fifty. So what
is that for knowing your name? I mean what breathing? Exactly?

Speaker 3 (01:10:50):
All you have to do is breathe and be alive
and have two bucksing brain fails and you get a fifty.

Speaker 1 (01:10:55):
Oh and yeah, this dinner question.

Speaker 3 (01:10:57):
Dinner question was that he wanted to go to a
doctor that only made two in medical school.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
Yeah, I mean it's yeah, going back to So a
sixty is a passing grade. I'm trying to remember. I'm
trying to remember this this scale when I was I
think when I first started school, you can only get
an A if at ninety two or above, and we.

Speaker 3 (01:11:20):
Had like an eight point scale.

Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
Yep, yeah, yep, yep. And then I remember by the
time I got to high school, anything that was a
ninety was an A. But then it just broke down
from there, and you're right, anything under a seventy now
you're in the D category and d's not gonna not
not passing, right, So all right, well that's that's perfect.
Thanks for that. Jay. Is that Ross? Is that Lincoln's

(01:11:42):
grade scale two? Or is it probably different for him?
I don't know, completely different. Yeah, yeah, what was it?
I'm assuming in Schenectady, if you got a fifty you
probably didn't pass.

Speaker 2 (01:11:53):
Failing was sixty four. You had to get a sixty five,
and that would be like.

Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
A D sixty five. Okay, I know in the.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
Regions it was you had at least get a sixty
five to pass. Sixty four is failing.

Speaker 1 (01:12:02):
Yeah, we had, we had. I can't remember what they
called the test. I remember Wyoming's test was the same
as Idaho's. Montana four or five of the western states
had the same one, and I think sixty five was low. Well,
actually the way it worked was it was it counted
as a big percentage of your final grade, and if
you had a certain number, if you had a good

(01:12:26):
enough grade, it couldn't possibly lower you a letter grade.
And so a lot of people, depending on how the
math math would show up, just write their name on
it and then walk out of the test. So my
mom told me I couldn't do that even though I
qualified for it, because I don't know she's she was
a decent parent. I guess she's like, you're gonna take
that damn test. I'm like, Mom, I don't have to

(01:12:47):
won't affect many things, so you're gonna take the damn test.

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
Now, it just seems like they want to churn the
kids in and out, Like just go in and out.
We don't really care about it if you're actually learning anything,
so you can go to college and use AI to cheat.
Have you seen that chart of the chat GPT trap
off when summer vacation started.

Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
Yeah, and I tried to play like there was something else.
It was like, I don't know, man, Yeah, it shows.

Speaker 2 (01:13:07):
All the queries that were asked to chat gpt, and then,
you know, around like July or whatever it is, when
a June when school comes out, you know, yeah, it
just craters and nobody's anymore because they're all using it
to cheat on their on their homework or their tests.
It'd be funny. It'd be funny if the owners of
chat gpt, like a week before final papers were due,

(01:13:29):
just turn the whole app off.

Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
Just tell them you're taking a micro retirement, right, Yeah, yeah,
I'm gonna use this thing to write my final paper,
my thesis or whatever. And I a duel a week
from now, and you open up chat gpt and suddenly
it ain't there and you actually have to write a paper.
You know, who'd really love that? TikTok? Yeah? Do you

(01:13:51):
know how many insane freak out videos and how much
traffic could be funneled through TikTok of people losing their minds?

Speaker 4 (01:13:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
But but you know, here's the here's the thing, and
I'm not downplaying it at all. How many people in
high level positions say, I don't know, presidents of high
ranking universities like Harvard. Have we found out that essentially
plagiarize some of their stuff. And you know clearly before
AI it's not a new thing. It just makes it
incredibly easy. Now, I did see a thing. I saw

(01:14:22):
a news package the other day where there's a program
now that some universities are using and it kind of
runs in the background. It's almost like a VPN where
it's a window within a window, and so you can,
you know, you could use word or whatever, or a
lot of the universities have their own built in kind
of Microsoft Office stuff and while you're when you're doing

(01:14:47):
homework assignments or writing papers, you're required to do it
inside of this program. And it's it's it's it's a
it's a much bigger and more robust key logger for
all practical purposes because what it's tracking is not necessarily
what you're writing specifically, but it wants to see that
you're writing and words are appearing in a normal speed

(01:15:08):
of typing, rather than giant chunks of something getting lopped
over and cutting paste into it like that's how you
get busted. And it kind of averages how much time
a normal person what's been on the paper, corrections you're making,
and and it logs all of that. And I remember
they they talked to two or three students and you

(01:15:29):
could tell they had not figured out a work around yet,
and they and the one was like he was bragging
that last year he wrote a paper in six minutes.
And I'm like, you're not hiding your face, idiot, do
you just you just said that last year you used
Chad GPT so you could do a paper because he
did it. And then he just kind of rewrote it

(01:15:49):
little parts here, a little parts there, to kind of
I just make it his own. And now they can't
do that, So I guess that'll work for a while
until somebody gets a program to trick the thing. Like
do you remember what was happening during COVID. Do you
remember the big, the big technological trick that lazy workers
figured out the thing that you could buy a thing

(01:16:11):
that moved your mouse around?

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:16:13):
I remember that, Yeah, Yeah. Because what the businesses were doing,
because the productivity was going down the tubes, is they
were monitored. They wanted to make sure that the mouse
was moving. So some guy figured out, you know, for
like five bucks in a factory in China that could
make these things that moved the mouse around and then
it would trick the program and it's like, all right,
well that person's clearly working, so you couldn't just log

(01:16:35):
in and walk away. So technology, it's just a battle
of technology. We'll get there.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
I mean. Plagiarism right has always sort of been an issue.
Remember Kamala Harris where they went over her, like, you know,
her college papers and they found out that a huge
percentage of them were all like plagiarized.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:16:53):
I saw a video recently. It was a guy that
graduated from whatever university and he brought his laptop with
him and he opened up his laptop after he got
his degree, and he showed all of his chat GPT work,
all the work that chat GPT had done to give
it to, you know, help him graduate, and it was
like all of it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:10):
It was like I liked. I'd like to think that
if I had chat GPT available, especially in the early years,
were really universities in high schools for that matter, hadn't
had a chance to adapt to it, that I wouldn't
have availed myself of that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
I can't even imagine having the Internet while I was
in high school because we didn't have the internet. We
didn't even have a computer. I had to go to
my sister's boyfriend's workplace, who had like an actual place
where I could write and use a keyboard to like
type up papers. He's not my brother in law. I
can't even I mean, I had the Encyclopedia Britannica from letters.

Speaker 1 (01:17:46):
A to H. We didn't even have the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
So when we had to, like, you know, choose subjects
for papers, I had to choose the subject between A
and H.

Speaker 1 (01:17:56):
Yeah, the teacher randomly assigns you something about the Soviet Union.
You're like, I can't do that. There were several courses.
How about Haiti? About Haiti? I write about?

Speaker 2 (01:18:06):
Yes, that is what I had to do, let alone
having the Internet or a smartphone or chat GPT.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
It's yeah, man, no no, But I'm saying, do you
think that you would have been able to resist the temptation?
Absolutely not typically, you know, but I will say this,
because you could still plagiarize. You have to type it out.
I will say this, and I mean this. I never
plagiarized a paper that I had to write. Ever, ever, ever, ever,

(01:18:34):
never dawned upon me because I think maybe I justified
it as it's just as much work typing it out.

Speaker 2 (01:18:38):
It's just my brain working. But I wouldn't have done
that because they feels like cheating. Yeah, it feels wrong,
and I don't know if that exists anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
But now, if you want to write something and you
want to, you know, you write it yourself, but you
don't have your grammars. Not great asking chat, gpt houl
You make me sound a little smarter. I think that's
how people dip their toe in that water. So you
know how much that's going on with employer stuff where
this stuff really really matters. I don't know the answer
to that either. So but yeah, the grating scale and

(01:19:08):
all this stuff. Man, it's just, oh, how things are different. Meanwhile,
Ross is just turning in reports on Auzure by John
over and over again. Anyway, all right, Stephen Kent will
join us next from Mount Saint Helens. Hang On once
again on the road, traveling this time atop Mount Saint Helens,
which he's deemed safer than the district of Columbia. Stephen Kent,

(01:19:29):
what's going on, sir?

Speaker 4 (01:19:31):
Good morning, casey, come and see you from the Seattle
area this week?

Speaker 1 (01:19:34):
Oh are you in Seattle itself?

Speaker 4 (01:19:36):
Man, I am this morning and then we'll be out
visiting the town of Forks, which was the home of
the Twilight movies. So that should be interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:19:47):
Oh okay, is that your idea?

Speaker 4 (01:19:49):
The way I brought, I brought I brought a poppet,
pull of sparkle.

Speaker 1 (01:19:55):
Are you glittering? Yes? You have to glitter while you're there.

Speaker 4 (01:19:58):
Were loaded to the for the bream leap gletter.

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
Was that the life's idea or yours?

Speaker 4 (01:20:04):
Absolutely the life idea, because them then they're out of control.

Speaker 1 (01:20:08):
All right, man, well hey you want to you know,
you want some Mount Saint Helen's lore. Yeah, time it
blew to Smitherings about forty five years ago, and uh
it was a big deal.

Speaker 4 (01:20:20):
I do I remember it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:22):
Yeah, I was born that day, so all right, my
mom wanted to later today. Yeah, so, uh, you know,
very cool.

Speaker 4 (01:20:28):
I'm pretty sure now that my dad was My dad
was a TV broadcaster in North Carolina in the eighties,
and that he was sent out to this area to
go cover that story when he was a young journalist.

Speaker 1 (01:20:41):
So yeah, a lot of yeah, a lot of crazy stories.
And I visited, I've actually visited. There is beautiful, man,
It's just gorgeous, So you're gonna have a good time,
all right. I made the little tongue in cheek on
the district thing. But I've been really wanting to talk
to you because that's what you call home. And so
either crime is out of control or everything's fine and

(01:21:01):
trumps a fascist monster, We're somewhere in between. So I'm
curious with somebody who lives and works there says about it.

Speaker 4 (01:21:10):
Yeah, I've been dying to talk with somebody about this
because you know, the answer I do think is is
somewhere in between. And I say that because the crime
issue in d C. You know where I live and
spend most of my time. It is unsettling. It is uncomfortable.
It makes you think twice of that every time you
need to go out to the store, every time you

(01:21:31):
need to go get something from the CBS. Make sure
that you always are traveling too. Is like all this
kind of stuff. DC is not a pleasant place to be.

Speaker 5 (01:21:39):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
Nothing has ever happened to me. I've never experienced anything
along the lines of a violent crime, a muggling or
anything in DC. But one of the things that you
have to consider when people are talking about crime issues
in any areas. How many friends do you have to
have stories? How many people around you and your orbit
can tell you that they have, you know, had their

(01:22:01):
car broken into, how to wallet still and all that
kind of stuff. And you know, I've got to tell you,
it's it's just quite high. I can count that number
on two hands.

Speaker 5 (01:22:11):
And the reason that that is.

Speaker 4 (01:22:13):
Is because d C, I mean, just one of the
main drivers of not catching criminals is that they don't
even have a forensics lab. This is pretty shocking. And
this is one of the highest crime cities in the
country and DC does not have an accredited baalistic testing
lab and hasn't for many many years. They lost their
accreditation over bad handling of evidence corruption within the police departments.

(01:22:37):
And they can't even run crime scene tests for at
least the past four years. And so they don't never
catch anybody who commits crimes from d C, and particularly
the worst crimes that requireabalistics lab in the first place.
So this is just one of the main factors driving
this issue. But to the fascism question, and I mean,

(01:22:57):
like the thing about Donald Trump is that when the
wild leaders say like Daddy is home, they're not wrong.
I mean, he just sort of has that kind of
energy to solving all problems, and it can solve this
problem for a time. The question is how long will
it continue? And I don't really trust him on his
temperaments to left this and we row and be done

(01:23:20):
the right way, and so I do worry.

Speaker 1 (01:23:23):
Okay. I think one of the most complex aspects to this,
and you can agree or disagree, is the juvenile aspect,
because of the way courts police people's sensibilities all look
at a thirteen year old versus a nineteen year old
sticking a gun in your face, pistol, whipping you for
your purse, or kicking you in the head which happened
literally to one of our interns at station, former interns.

(01:23:47):
And it's also the criminals know that, which is why
when you get into you know, one of the things
that gangs will do is if there is something where
they need where they can use a thirteen year old
to do it, they do it because they are also
knowledgeable about the fact that that thirteen year old will
face much more limited consequences. So how do you get

(01:24:08):
out of that run? How do you solve that while
also recognizing that, yeah, you are dealing with the thirteen
year old and maybe people think, hey, if you want
to do an adult crime, you're going to do adult time.
So where are you at?

Speaker 4 (01:24:20):
Yeah, I think you have to start charging more people
like adults, and then people will stop very quickly. But
that's what happens. You know that you're going to actually
have to go hard in the short term to get
these these crimes to stop, because, like you said, the
incentive for a lot of preteen and teenage criminals in
DC is to do these things very quickly for their gangs,

(01:24:43):
go through the system, and then get released alcohol out
onto the street at night. So I think there's most
shocking of courses that you've got democratic strategists and in
cases lawmakers joking about the fact that people are scared
of pre teams. There's this guy named saw Or Hackett
who is a Democratic strategist in DC, and he's advising

(01:25:03):
Congressional Democrats on their message regarding crime in DC, and
he tweets two days ago crazy that DC is going
to become a military police state because an in cell
named Big Balls got his butt kicked by a bunch
of preteens. They approach this issue with contempt and they
think that it's fine, and this is going to continue

(01:25:26):
to cause them to lose. And these are the people
who they pay money for advice to on how to
talk about crime. It seems like the only smart person
in DC when it comes to this issue is shockingly
Mayor Muriel Bowser, who is plying nice over this entire
thing and sort of allowing it to happen because she
knows this problem with ratic her hands at this point.

Speaker 1 (01:25:49):
Yeah, I don't get in. I don't subscribe to the
forty Chess on a lot of things, but I agree
with that. I can't believe I'm going to say this.
Mika Brazinski, that's right. I just said I agree with
Mika Brazils from The Morning Joe and she said that
what this is is a trap, and she's right. Whether
it's intended to be or not, it is a trap.

(01:26:09):
And it just so happens that the Trump and his
people are able to be on the catch and side
of this because they've now forced people to either be
a Sawyer Hacket or to acquiesce and say, all right,
well we got to do something. Let's just monitor what
that is. And too many people are falling into that
Hacket trap. And it's pretty crazy to me, Bob.

Speaker 4 (01:26:28):
Doron, Donald Trump is really good at getting Democrats to
take the worst possible positions on the areas in which
they are most unpopular. So Mika Presentski's absolutely right. If
you didn't notice, Donald Trump for the first time in
his political career, lost control of the news cycle in
the past thirty days, and he finally had it back,

(01:26:49):
and he has it back on. He has it back on.
His turns on an issue that he wants to talk about,
and they are walking right into it yet again. You'll
love to see it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:58):
So all right, one last things, Yeah, I'm sorry, go.

Speaker 4 (01:27:01):
Ahead, no, yeah, we'll see what happens with them.

Speaker 1 (01:27:05):
Okay. And then one last thing just because we got
to do one tech thing here because it's a little
shorter segment we normally have. Is it super creepy or
super cool that you can take a dead relative's photo,
run it through this new grock feature and then make
them dance? How are we feeling about that?

Speaker 4 (01:27:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:27:24):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:27:24):
One of the first episodes of the hit Netflix series
Black Mirror touches on this issue, where dom Al Gleason
is a boyfriend who dies and then the woman reanimate,
you know, artificial intelligence to have conversations with him. She
basically uses large language models to go through all his
old Facebook posts and develop a voice for him. And

(01:27:46):
this is probably the most real and functional use of
AI that we're going to see go viral here in
the years to come. And I'll just be a little
bit personal. I mentioned mentioned my dad earlier. He died
a couple of months ago. And you know, I've been
thinking a cup is very issue. The pictures that you
can bring back to life of brock imagine. I thought
about it, you know, I looked at a couple photos

(01:28:08):
and I went, ash, should I do this? And these
are real things that every person is going to be
thinking about as soon as the technology is and in
their pocket. I have opted not to do that, but
I have reanimated a couple of other other photos. And
I got to tell you it's scary, not because it's good.
It's scary because it's actually quite bad. It does not

(01:28:28):
know how to animate your love and smiles. It gives
them perfect teeth in all cases, their smiles are very
fake and their eyes look completely dead. And I turned
a couple photos and the living ones and honestly, as
soon as the faces start to move that it stops
looking like people.

Speaker 3 (01:28:47):
That you love.

Speaker 1 (01:28:47):
So yeah, if you put the most beloved dead person now,
you might just be arming yourself with nightmare fuel. That's
what you're saying.

Speaker 4 (01:28:55):
And could I add the sound that is generated by
brocka mad is horrify when it animates one of your
photos into a video. There is this snap crackle, popping
sound that comes with every video and a humming noise
and it just sounds straight up demonic.

Speaker 1 (01:29:12):
That's great.

Speaker 5 (01:29:15):
Yeah, yeah, it's really awful.

Speaker 1 (01:29:17):
Okay, all right, well we'll leave it there. Hopefully Mount
Saint Helens doesn't do its thing, and uh we'll chat
next week, sir, Thanks Casey. All right, there you go, Stephen,
Stephen Ken joining us here on the CaCO Day radio program.
All right, let's get rased agic by the way that
I did see ROSSI that the Roka Imagine is free

(01:29:38):
right now for people to try, so they didn't have
to have a subscription. They want to give it a
little whirl. Ray, you're going to take a dead loved
ones photo and reanimate it with roc Imagine to creep
yourself out or not?

Speaker 4 (01:29:49):
No?

Speaker 6 (01:29:50):
Yeah, no, part of it yeah, just kind of you know,
try to hold off as long as I can with
anything like that, but I know I'm going to be
sucked into it eventually, but I'll wait.

Speaker 1 (01:30:02):
I love it, man. I went from early adopter to
hopefully never adopt on a lot of this older I guess.

Speaker 6 (01:30:10):
Hey, yep, I guess so all right, I guess so.

Speaker 1 (01:30:13):
Unfortunately, it doesn't matter whether you're earlier or never, you're
going to be adopting some rain today.

Speaker 6 (01:30:17):
So yeah, And the good news is that I'm not
seeing the intensity of the coverage like we saw yesterday morning.
This weakening area of rain just south or near Ashborough
over toward Pittsburgh, trying to get further east to north.
So there may be a little bit of rain now
coming into the triangle, getting toward and let's say, Heywood
now and eventually apex up in your Durham over the

(01:30:38):
next couple of hours. So I don't think any additional
advisories though. This area showers last for a couple of
hours and it's done, but we'll scatter more this afternoon.
Adds up downpours again could lead to additional flooding or
ponding water on roadways. Very humid war mid upper eighties,
rain chance stays with us tomorrow backs off just a
little bit, and it could help us get in your ninety,

(01:30:59):
especially around the triangle. And then the weekend looks like
some more isolated stuff, more typical of this time of year.
Do you want to mention, Aaron, what about this time
next week? May actually be east of us, but at
that point, if it's not closer to the US coastline,
it may be close enough to create problems at the beaches,
meaning from the Atlantic water coming in, surf, rip currents, flooding,

(01:31:23):
especially in the Outer Bank. So that'll be something we'll
be talking about over the next to several days. Not
one hundred percent going to rule out it getting anny
closer to the US coast, It's just foolish to do
that right now. But it does look like it will
at least the center stay well away from making landfall.

Speaker 1 (01:31:39):
Okay, all right, thank you sir. We'll chat tomorrow and
we'll come back with Jeff Bellinger next Oh, good morning, Casey.

Speaker 7 (01:31:46):
Looks like our two day rally on Wall Street is over,
at least for a day. The amount of inflation in
the pipeline was greater than expected last month, the Producer
Price Index, which tracks wholesale level inflation, jump nine tenths
percent in July, Economists were looking for a two tenths
percent increase. The PPI was up three point three percent

(01:32:07):
from July of last year, and the labor market still
holding up. New claims for unemployment benefits fell by three
thousand to two hundred twenty four thousand last week. The
number of continuing claims also declined, and those reports taken
together suggest the Federal Reserve may be hesitant to cut
infestrates next month. Futures are pointing lower. Right across the board,

(01:32:28):
the Dow futures are down one hundred and fifty four points.
Walmart's going to help its workers stretch their grocery dollars.
The giant retailer is extending its ten percent employee discount
to include just about all grocery items. Apple reportedly has
several artificial intelligence products on the drawing board. Sources say
the centerpiece of the AI strategy will be a table

(01:32:51):
top robot that's targeted for twenty twenty seven. A new
smart speaker with a display is expected to arrive next year.
The company also said to be planning a push into
home security. Consumers will have more American made appliances to
choose from in the coming years. Ge Appliances will invest
three billion dollars to expand operations in South Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama,

(01:33:15):
and Tennessee. The company plans to move production of refrigerators,
gas rangers, and water heaters to the US and add
more than one thousand workers and Casey. Paramount Skydance CEO
David Ellison plans to increase film and television production at
the media company that he just took over. Ellison plans
to create more content for the Paramount Plus streaming service

(01:33:36):
and produce as many as twenty movies a year. Expect
The Top Gun three and more from Star Trek.

Speaker 1 (01:33:42):
Casey. Yeah. By the way, I think, did we talk
about the deal they just did with the MMA? Were
they going to show it on the streaming That was
a huge deal. I don't know if you're an MMA
if you watch any of the fights there, but I
am not. But yeah, so you're not do pay per V.
You're going to do that now And they just announced
they're going to stream the MMA match live from the
lawn of the White House during the two hundred and

(01:34:04):
fiftieth celebrations. So okay, yeah, man, that's gonna yes, yeah,
some people are upset, but that's the politics or whatever.
All right, Jeff, thank you very much. Okay, have a
good day. Yeah. I think I have to Ross. I
have to thank the founding fathers. If they had the
ability to stream fist fights from the lawn of the
White House, they'd be down with that, right they remember

(01:34:25):
these guys used to duel, so like they'd be all
about that. Imagine you just sit at home if a
Newfound country and you're like, oh, Aaron Burr and Alexander
Hamilton are gonna fight live at seven, so, uh that
will be interesting. Uh. By the way, I forgot to ask,
did you and the fam go bang your pots last
night at eight o'clock?

Speaker 3 (01:34:43):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:34:44):
Was that last night? Yeah? That was like we missed it.
Oh No, Apparently the thing to do last night if
you wanted to go full moon bat was to go
out on your porch at eight pm and bang pots
for five minutes to show Trump you're not afraid or something.
I don't know. So apparently a bunch of people miss
oh real quick, just because I never this has never

(01:35:06):
happened to me ever, ever, ever, And I'm just curious.
Have you ever had a bag of microwave popcorn explode? Ever?
Just you know, just I've had it obviously burn. When
you've had it burn, I'm talking like dude, So I've
never had it. I throw a bag like pop secret
in or whatever. It's the extra butter because you know.
And uh, and I was so excited last night was

(01:35:28):
the last little pouch thing I had, and I put
it in there. I know the exact time it's going
to take, so I started, I walk into the other
room and all of a sudden, I hear that pop
and I think it's the pop of the bag expanding
you sometimes here, And then like twenty seconds later, I
smell burnt popcorn and I ope. I stopped my microwave
the bag when I guess it popped, you know, to expand.

(01:35:49):
It literally just blew apart. And the entire inside of
my microwave is yellow. Right, and my poor cleaning lady
comes over today, so not a good I got most
of it cleaned up, but now the whole house smells
like burned popcorn, and uh, you know that'll that'll be
like a week. But I have never had a bag
explode ever, and I just realize that I've been microwaving

(01:36:13):
popcorn like that since I was a kid man.