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Speaker 1 (00:00):
As we get things cracking on this uh on this
wonderful morn. Uh. Hey, Ross, I got a question for you.
What is your favorite flavor? Potato chip? What? What is
the you know, you're you're at the you're at the
sandwich shop. You got to pick one. Do you have
a particular favorite flavor? Is it O G sour cream
(00:21):
and onion?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I mean, I could go with what I I know
it's super weird, But what I like to do is
just take like the old Ruffles chips, like plain ruffles chips,
and put them right and put them in some sour cream,
like dip them. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Man, I totally get down with that. But if you
just have let's say it's you don't have all the
dips and all that you just got, looks like you're
like Jersey Mike's where you get the sub and the thing.
What flavor you're grabbing?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I probably just go plane.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
You can go playing. Okay, not barbecue. You know, the
pickle ones are pretty good too, or the sun chips
with the garden harvest. But I think my new favorite,
and uh is a bag of Benjamin's. Have you had
that flavor? Have you had the bag full of Benjamin's
it's a new I'm reas I'm asking because apparently it's
(01:05):
a New York thing, and you're from New York. So
I didn't know there is a story in New York.
This morning is great, So I'm just thumbing three. I
flip over to the New York Post and they have
this woman who is a I guess a former Eric
(01:28):
Adams advisor. I don't know what the heck's going on
with this check Like, how do you think this is
gonna go well for you? So her name is Winnie Greco.
Oh wait, hold on, we gotta deal with seventy two
thousand pop ups, all right? So she was, or should
(01:49):
say a top age. She used to be an aid
for Eric Adams, and she is now an advisor to
his current re election campaign. And yesterday, for no reason
that anyone could understand, she she like flagged down a
reporter by the name of Katie Honan who reports for
(02:14):
the city. I'm not super familiar. I guess that must
be a or of a New York thing. And so
she she like flags her down on the street just
like a block from where the campaign office is and says, hey,
follow me or I actually she texts. She text her,
she flagged her down, sheasar her, and then she texts
her because she's her go by and said, hey, can
(02:37):
you meet me across the street over at the TD
TD bank. The reporters like, uh, yeah, okay, So meets
her over at the bank. I guess she assumes maybe
she's gonna get a little dirt. It sounds like they
at least know each other passively. I guess working for Adam,
so that would be the case. And she's like, all right,
(02:58):
hold on, and then she like disappears into the bank,
which is actually in a Whole Foods too, and then
comes out a few minutes later, and she's got a
bag of a bag of chips, like a snack bag
of chips, specifically sour cream and onion rippled potato chips.
And she hands the reporter the bag of chips, and
(03:20):
the reporters like, at first, I thought she was trying
to give me a snack. And then they and then
they parted ways, and Honan said she opened the bag,
uh and discovered inside was some chips, but also a
red envelope full of money. And the reporter was like, yeah,
(03:46):
uh no, yeah, you're not gonna you're not bribing me.
I don't know if it wasn't because it was enough
or maybe so there's some journalistic stuff there. But yeah,
so that's the story now. And uh they at first
she said she she messed up. She actually meant hander
the chips, but she forgot that she had stuffed an
(04:07):
envelope full of hundros in there. And then later she
now has a lawyer and she yeah, the lawyers saying
it's a cultural mix up. And I don't know, I
don't know what Greco's culture is. Let me look at
the picture here where where she's from. Yeah, yeah, so,
(04:28):
I mean, I guess kudos to the reporter there. But
the fact that you just think it's normal to hand
ross how many envelopes full of hundreds stuffed and food
have you received over the years being members of.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
The media, And I'm not gonna lie. Not enough?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, yeah, so you know, and it doesn't have to
be chips. I I you know, I like beef jerky,
especially because it's you know, it's the cost of a
small car. Now, even if you go to sheets and
get the big the trappers bag the big one, what
is that? What is that? Now? It's like forty bucks
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or something. That's the real crime. Everyone's talking about egg prices.
But I I follow more of the jerky.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
That's how I gauge how things are going so and
in the world a jerky it ain't going well. Man,
jerky's crazy expensive. Yeah, or the Uh, I'll tell you
that there's a couple of good jerkys. There's a C's,
but you can only for whatever reason, you can only
get it once you get like West of the Triad.
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I think they're out of Wolkesboro. That stuff. That's the
really thin, crispy kind, which is my favorite, like the
real real jerky. And then the other one is the
no Man's Land jerky, which pleasantly surprised with that, but
it doesn't matter. It's still a gazillion dollars. So anyway, Yeah,
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she said I uh when Greco also said uh, because
she first she kind of denies it like it was
an accident, but then she says, I just wanted her
to be my friend. Attorney Stephen Brill claims that Greco
is purely innocent and shocked the incident up to a
misunderstanding based on cultural differences. She Okay, she's Chinese, so
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money is often given to others as a gesture of
friendship and gratitude. Yeah, but again, you're you're a political
advisor and you work for a campaign, and that's a reporter,
right I I how you how you mix that up
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because of quote unquote cultural differences. By the way, I
have a couple of friends who are of Chinese heritage,
and I know they ever given me any money? What
the hell I'm gonna have to have a tie, buddy, Mike,
he's never given well, I mean, he shouldn't say he's
giving me any money. He's been forced to because I
went in Nassau. But he's not handing it over in chips.
(07:11):
So Mayor Adam said he had no prior knowledge of
the matter. So yeah, yeah, that's so New York man.
Just a bag full of chips and full of money
right there. But that you think you're gonna get away
with it, I don't know. I think Adams Adam says
what he's third right now? If you in the polling,
(07:34):
I think Cuomo's actually higher than him. So I don't
know that it's really going to impact his reelection at
bon Dami's Like, what else could that guy do to
get people not to vote for him, at least same
thinking people. I don't know the answer to it, So
that's that's that's probably pretty much a done deal there.
(07:55):
So anyway, just just letting people know. I think the
old the story is ross and I like chips, big
fans of snack foods. There in moderation, of course, right,
But that's why you take some of the chips out,
You put the money in there, and then boom, you
don't need as many chips. It's the easy peasy, all right.
(08:19):
I gotta tell you, man, I don't know if you
guys have been watching this, the uh the cracker barrel thing,
this is this. I've never seen people so fired up
over this Ross. Do you guys have a cracker barrel
up in your direction?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, yeah, I couldn't remember. I didn't know if there
was one up there, not that I could remember. Obviously.
He goes south like down towards Benson. Boom, cracker barrel
right there, go out towards the airport. Cracker barrel out there,
crackerberry of course. The one if I'm gonna eat it
a cracker barrel, likelihood is it's gonna be the one
like in MEVN. Graham there right on the interstate, mostly
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because you can get you can clock a visual on
how busy it is and then decide whether you're gonna
get off the exit if you depend on which direction
you're going. But I I'm down with some cracker barrel.
You're not opposed to cracker barrel, right, that's pretty good. No.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I was a fan, like a fan of the store front.
I saw some people yesterday criticizing the food, like calling
it like hospital food. I'm like, dude, what, Yeah, I
don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
That dude, that potato, that breakfast potato cast role is elite.
I could go and just eat that. No, no, no, no,
you can't trash on the food. But apparently they've decided, hey,
what we need to do? And I don't know, there's
just this thing, there's this this need by brands now
to quote unquote declutter, and it's like crack. Look, cracker
(09:51):
Barrel's thing is clutter. Do you know what I mean?
You what? What? What? What is going on the moment
you walk into a cracker Barrel?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
But like I said, there's the store and there's stuff everywhere,
and then the lighting is very dim, which I like,
I'm not a bright light guy. Yeah, and then you
sit down and they're they're very cozy, right, the puzzles there.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Right, yeah, you know, the food's gonna be pretty good
when it comes out. And uh and ten the logo, right,
and this is this is killing people. So the logo
has both a barrel and a cracker on it, right,
I'm assuming that's a white dude in the rocking chair there,
and it says cracker barrel. They're like, all right, we're
gonna bring in one of these New York marketing geniuses.
(10:32):
All right, let's go on revamps. Let's revamp. Let's let's
remove the soul from our stores. All right, what do
you want to do with the logo? Well, what if
we take both the barrel and the cracker and the
wheelchair off of there or in the wheelchair in the
rocking chair. And I bet somebody got paid to get
zillion dollars for that too. They even they even change
(10:53):
the font, it's the same. It just still says cracker barrel.
They just got just got rid of the I don't know,
the the the country store feel, which is I don't know,
kind of the brand kind of the brand, And then
and and look, I don't know anything about the woman's politics,
but uh, and then you put the oversized ceo glass
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lady up there, who then is like, no, everybody loves
the changes. I don't know. Do you have Twitter, ma'am?
Nobody's loving the changes. But if you're gonna do it,
I might as well cash in. I would like to
propose if you're trying to refine and dumb this down,
I think it's still too busy. The logo, Yeah, you
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got rid of the graphics. You just have the words.
But do you need all those letters? Let me let
me help you out here. Ross, we're starting a marketing agency.
In our first big pitch, crack bar. Okay, right, they
already removed all the logo in let's get rid of
half the letters.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I think we people would be lined up down the
street for crackbar.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, man, who would want to go to crack bar?
Which again the potent castro kind of crack man. Maybe
it's got some of that parmesan in it we talked
about earlier in the week, crack bar. And look that
he got a single syllable for each word. It's really
instead of four syllables that your customers have to remember.
(12:19):
I'm gonna make this as simple as possible. So if
you want to sterilize your stores and sterilize your logo, uh,
people are not going to respond well. Plus a craw
loyal cracker barrel audience. Man, those are the folks that
are out there before it opens on a Saturday. They've
already hijacked. They hijacked. They're welcome to use them. They've
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got all the rock and chairs on lockdown. They know
every waitress in there, and I, you know, I apparently
it's bothering some of them. If you happen to look
at people's reaction, I just didn't realize because it's not
the most aggressive rebranding we've seen. Right. Arguably, bud Light
really set the bar where they're like, what if we
(13:02):
tell everyone who gives us money every week traditionally for
thirty years, uh, that they are a bunch of hicks
that need to go away, a bunch of frat boys,
a bunch of toxic masculine people. That admittedly was a
much harsher rebrand, but like, why would you screw with it?
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It's like you're doing something to do something now, whether
it has impact on the sales, I don't know. You
know how people like to get on the internet and complain,
but I don't know if I've seen as much people
simultaneously complaining about something in a while. So if you
can't beat them, join them, crack bar, send me a
million dollar consulting fee. I just solved this for you
(13:44):
six point twenty. Hang on. You gotta be able to
read the room. And when I say read the room,
you have people that I have watched many many great
brands have the soul kicked out of them. And look
when you're once you get up to big national brand,
there's there's less soul there. I gotta keep using the
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word soul. But I think you understand what I'm saying.
People are willing to accept that. And uh and and
so when you see the visceral reaction that people have
had to what ross? What would you say that the
three worst rebranding things we've seen recently are bud Light uh,
Jaguar Right, that was an absolute disaster. There's been some
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others what uh what? But but when you see you
see this negative visceral reaction to whether it's woke rebranding
or it's we're gonna take something that's not really broke
and and and then unfix it. Somehow.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I thought the Angelia thing was stupid.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, one hundred percent because even
right formally and Jemima on the box, they just don't
have the picture what's it called the Pearl whatever?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, And obviously in Jemima was a character, but it
created like the woman that played her was based off
she became like super rich, Like yeah really, and there
are people in the black community that still miss that
that product, right, And you've seen the meme where it's
like you're taking all of these things off and they're like, yeah,
you're taking the Indian off. You're taking you know, in
Jemima off and all your left with those right yeah,
(15:24):
all you have, all that's left on the shelves are
white people, right, like anybody? Yeah, like what's going on there?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It's like a nineteen fifties Democrat dream, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
But you're right about reading the room because one thing
that's really powerful right now. I mean it's always been powerful,
but especially in the past few years because things have
really started to suck, was nostalgia.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah, and you could even.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Say that, like the right was really pretty good at
cashing in on that nostalgia. Right, we want to go
back to when it was amazing, like the eighties and stuff,
and now.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Make America great was the last word again?
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Right? Right?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, So nostalgia is very powerful. And when you're taking
something that people are comfortable with and completely this drawing
the brand for reasons, people are gonna be outraged by that.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yes, and who when you go to a cracker barrel?
Who's in there? You go to the one and if
you go to the one in Benson, right is that
if it's technically it's I guess it's in Benson. Yeah,
it's right across the highway, if you guys. So if
you go to that one down there, you go to
the one over by the airport, or if you go
to the one out there in Graham and Mevan, or
you go to you know, they get a couple around
the triad. What do you when you when you go
in there, and you go in there on a Saturday morning,
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what do you got? What do you got in there?
Is it a bunch of youngins? It ain't a bunch
of youngins unless they're with their grandparents. And let me
tell you, grandparents taking you to Cracker Barrel is a
core memory for some people. That's a great place to
take kids. I know y'all think that I don't like kids.
That's not true. Cracker Barrel is one hundred percent. Or
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you should take the grandkids. That's amazing. And so you
form that core memory you grow up, you take your
own kids there because you know what you're gonna get, right,
you gonna you're gonna get the you're gonna get the
They've got a good kids menu. It's gonna be it's
gonna be consistent pretty much depending on which one you
go to. Yeah, it's gonna be crowded, but it's fun
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to sit in the rock and chairs. People enjoy that,
drink some coffee. You got a hundred of those old
I call them the old man groups. It's not you
know what the old man groups are, right, Go to
any diner you got that core group of like eight
retired gentlemen who meet there at like oh dark thirty
twice a week just to talk about whatever. That's a
hallmark of a local diner that still exists at places
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like Cracker Barrel. You see at McDonald's sometimes too, coffee
clubs or whatever they and and and so you have
all that and people get set in their expectations there.
But these are the same people that come and spend
money with you all the time. And and yeah, you
could argue the front's a little it's it's kind of
a maze getting up in there, and so it looks
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like they've removed a bunch of merchandise to open it
up in there. But that was also kind of the
core charm. You know why, because half the time, if
you go to Cracker Barrel, you're not walking into a seat, right,
You're not walking in and getting seated immediately. If it's
a rush time, you got you you get on a list,
you got thirty minutes to kill whatever. But you don't
mind doing it because you're gonna look at the jelly
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beans and I'll look at this thing they have. And
but yeah, kids want a toy or I wanted. I
I bought a shirt there for somebody one time, kind
of as a like a gag gift, but I was
in praying it was it was an inside joke. But
like I remember buying the shirt and I thought it
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was a little expensive and I realized it is decent
quality too, and then before you know it, Hey, there's
your name. Time to go sit down and bring me
all the potato castrole thing. I mean, I'm really addicted
to that.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
No, it's good.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Now.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
They're making all these changes, and so there has to
be obviously, like I would imagine, like a revenue problem,
and they're looking at the revenue the bottom line, right
would Yeah, so anyway, and they're like, oh, we have
to make changes because the revenue is down. But I mean,
I don't think those are the changes. I mean, I
don't think people aren't coming to eat anymore because of
the store in the front, or because the lights are
dim or because of the logo. Right, people aren't coming
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to eat anymore because things are more expensive. So I
don't know how you handle that, But I don't think
it's by drastically changing everything that people love about when
they do go there.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, No, this is yeah, to your point, this is
not just a cracker barrel problem. It's it's a fast
it's a people diving out less problem, because holy hell,
you want to charge me what for what? I'd love
to see? There's I saw a bunch of side by
sides of menus from like Ross. Do you remember way
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back in twenty nineteen somebody had side by sides of
basically the food menus at like all these restaurants. I
don't remember Cracker Barrels was there. I'm wondering how much
they've raised prices over the last five years, and it's
not insignificant in most cases.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Right, So, now you've made all these changes, when people
do say, hey, let's you know, bite the ball and
let's go out to eat in a you know, let's
spoil ourselves a little bit, where do we want to go.
In the past, it might have been maybe somebody would
have said, hey, let's go to Cracker Barrel. I just
like that vibe. I want to go there, you know,
you know, and I'll pay the bill whatever it is.
But now they're gonna see like into the store is
it even there anymore? And now the I'm sure you
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saw the video of the lighting, oh, everything is completely changed,
like the ball.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Walk through there. I'm like, oh, yeah, you know what,
you know, this sounds horrible. I remember thinking, ah, I
wouldn't want to. I would have you that you could
go to Cracker Okay, this is not for the kids. Dude,
cracker barrel is a great hangover cure, but no place
that has super bright lighting is where you go to
get your hangover cured. Okay, that's the last thing you want.
(20:47):
You just want you to give me all the grease.
I made some bad decisions last night. More potato cast role,
I'll die on this hill and uh and now you
go in there and it has Yeah, it's it's it's
like it's you know what, it feels like fluorescent lights
at an office and if you're once you have a restaurant,
it feels like fluorescent lights at an office.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
You're not doing the the vibe is off. Okay, so yeah, good.
I hate fluorescent lighting. Like my house is always super dim.
And it was like that even before Lincoln because we
feel like, oh, well, you keep your house dim because
of you know, Lincoln's autos. I've always been that way.
I always say that, I think and my sister says
this too. She's a special education teacher. She up in
New York. She teaches autistic children. And she actually said,
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was the first one to say it to me. That great.
She's like she believes that everybody in some ways in
the autism spectrum like in some way, even if it's
a small, tiny way. My way is I'm really like,
you know, weird around people, like big groups, like a
very uncomfortable. But also if the lights are bright, like
like they are down in sales, like yes, I said,
there are times and it sounds crazy, I feel like
it physically hurts, Like I hate that sort of bright lighting.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I love that in our studios. So we have fluorescent lights,
but we also have on a dimmer like these can lights,
and you can, like you can make it so it's
just light enough in there that you're not banging your
legs into everything. And that is the perfect broadcast light
right there, broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Like yeah, I know there are people that disagree with
both of us. And you'll walk well, you'll walk by
Keithy and we have several studios here in radio stations obviously,
and you'll walk by and they'll be working and it
looks like super bright, like like a dentist office, you
know what I mean, Like that crisp white super light,
like they're looking in your mouth with that light, and
I don't know how you can work with that, Like
I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
One of the salespeople came to popped into the studio
one time. It's a it's a former cellar, and I'll
just say ross, it's one we were talking about yesterday,
you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
So she like comes down the hall and she's a
lot of times she was way too perky to come
on our side of the building because just don't it's
too early. And she pops in, like right after the
show on time, just walks in by the way, and
she's like, I why I didn't even I've been looking
for you. Why is it so dim? And and I'm like,
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she goes, I can't even see you, and I'm like,
that's why it's so dim in here, so salespeople can't
see that I'm in my studio and come in here.
And she just looked at me, and I'm like, all right,
maybe that was a little aggressive. I'm trying it was
a joke, but.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Well, I mean for me too, I mean this is
like inside baseball enough the audience out of care. But
it also if my lights are dim in my studio,
it helps me see what lights on the borderre on
because they stand down. If your studio is super bright.
I've seen like younger people like starting out in the
business do this, and their studio will be super white, bright,
like they're broadcasting from the sun and they can't tell
what's on or off because everything is super bright.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
You just gotta you just gotta learn. You start with
bright lights and less loud headphones, and then once you're
a veteran, it's damn near dark in your studio. You're deaf,
so you have to have like the ample fire for
your headphones. Tell me there's any lies in what I
just said. Nope, there's no lies. The amount of people
that work in this business that if you know, they
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don't have to wear their headphones to here perfectly what
is being said. They could be sitting on a counter
on the other side of the room. So that is
the natural progression of things.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
But let's be honest, it just looks cool with the
bright lights. Is the first time I ever walked in
a radio station, like a real radio station was like
nineteen ninety six. It was Flying ninety two up in Albany,
and I went in there for like an internship position,
and I like the studio. The night DJ's studio was dark, right,
it kept the lights very dip and I remember walking
in that studio and seeing that board with the lights
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on it, and it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, it's like it's like, uh, it's well one, it's
it's it's it's almost like the way you drive at
night where you want to, you know, like lower the
lights in your car and it gives you better better
night vision. But also to your point, there is a
there is a there is a certain coolness factor because
at any given time in Roster's studio, more so in
Ross's studio because that's where the main board is, there's
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probably a thousand, i don't know, thousand, several hundred different
bulbs illuminated between the boards, the rack room stuff that
we have to use, all of the support equipment, all
of the PCs, you know, the the that are in
the various racks, the eas machine like it's it's the
(25:12):
it's the deck of the enterprise man.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
So yesterday, this is very funny. So you know, Marky
has obviously been tired, you know, she you know, we're
having a November, so she was like, hey, can you
do some cooking? And I said, yeah, I mean I
don't do much, but I've been doing more, right, Okay,
I actually kind of enjoy it. So I'm in the
kitchen and I'm making her dinner, and I'm making my
dinner and I'm making Lincoln's dinner. Right, They're all completely different.
(25:39):
So I've got one thing in this thing, i got
one thing in the air, thing in the oven, and
I'm like going from one thing to the next, and
I'm just and Markey comes in and she goes, man,
you are you are really good at multitasking. And I'm like,
do you have any idea what I do for a living?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Right? Yeah? And I said, I said, I'm multitask for
a living. I'm running a board, screening a call simultaneously
and communicating on air when when asked, right, simultaneously. That's
what I do. That's I do. I'm fund you there
is something that is so endearing about your wife's uh not,
(26:15):
like the amount of stuff that you realize she doesn't
know it and then you get jealous. Oh completely, yeah,
they would newse stuff. She's like, oh is that a thing?
You're like, what, Yeah, yeah, it's a thing.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
But it was great, Like that's what I Yeah, I
kind of do that for a living.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, And let me tell you if we put an
air frar and Ross's studio right now. That way he
would be doing that as well. He could do four things,
or he could take the microwave from the floor put
it in there. He got options anyway. All right, So
just to say I was blown away by the uh
all the cracker barrel insanity. All right, let me play
this chick's audio for you. Sorry, we've got a little
(26:51):
sidetracked there. So this woman went to Berkeley. She has
a PhD. And so she's a soil scientist and and
she got all the degrees and now she's got to
go be a soil scientist and lo and behold, she's
striking out trying to find these jobs, which which struck
(27:12):
me as a little weird. Soil scientists are most definitely,
most definitely in demand, and and you work with them
in a wide variety of ways. And I thought, well,
maybe it's just me. Having a bit of an agricultural background,
I understand how we interact with soil scientists a little more.
I wonder what the deal is why this woman is
unable to find work. And then I let her explain
(27:34):
it to me, and then I figured and then I
heard who she's blaming, and I'll give you a teaser.
She's blaming Trump and capitalism. But I feel like there
may be another component as to why she can't find
a job. Let's see if you can figure it out
in her little rant here, what may be another problem
(27:54):
for her career search.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Getting crushed by capitalism. It's like so craned, but it's
like it's happening to me, and like.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I got everyone's a victim. I'm sorry, just remember everyone's
a victim. This is the least endearing quality of younger
generations right now, and it's not unique to them. It's
like a phase, but now it's more visible because everyone
has to make a video of it. And honestly, I
think this is what drives a big divide with generationally
(28:26):
because it's not like you know, ah, the younger generations
lays and the younger generations like the older generations out
of touch. That's not new. It's that now rather than
just listening to your grandkid complain where you kind of
like internally roll your eyes but you want to be supportive,
now you get a fire hose of everybody who you
(28:47):
know who just wants to be in that victim culture.
This is this looks like a well to do white
girl who is able to go to Berkeley and has
a PhD. She probably hasn't had a lot of struggle
in her life, so this is her victimhood getting.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Crushed by capitalism is like so cringe, but it's like
it's happening to me. And like I got a PhD
from Berkeley, and like I can't get a job to
save my life. Like I got a soil biology PhD.
And like now I'm a tutor and a babysitter and
(29:25):
a dog setter, and like part of that is because
like I don't want to like move to some random
place in the middle of nowhere. But like the other
half is like they cut all the funding for science,
and like the biotech market is just like absolutely cratered,
and like I have long COVID, so it's difficult for
(29:47):
me to work like a full time job. And just
like I got on here to rant a little bit,
but like, oh my god, like what do we do?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I just have to work? Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, So.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
The long COVID thing is so annoying.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Dude, every liberal white woman has long COVID. What a
what a horrible, bigoted disease. That is right, man, long
everyone's got long covid ros. Okay, the long covid aside. Uh,
were there any other clues that maybe you picked up
in there that might be styming her job search that
we could help her out with.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Yeah, I think where she doesn't want to move.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
But specifically where does she not want to move to
where the dirt is, where the dirt is correct? Yeah,
because I don't know if you know this rock. You
were raised in Schenectady, you know a little more city.
I was raised in the wilds of Wyoming. Who do
you think had more available dirt if you had a guy.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
If I were to look at a map and critical assessment,
probably say you did.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, You're like, oh no, it was
ground everywhere. Not to say not the same because a
whole lot of that that soil biology stuff is directly
interspliced with the agricultural stuff. And I'm sorry, they're not
doing eight hundred acres a golden rod next to Ross's house,
(31:11):
So you can't there's there's no help for you. Man,
that's like that, You're gonna have to move quote unquote
to the middle of you know, you have to go
to the middle, middle of nowhere. You can go work
at an extension office, do a regional thing, get it fixed.
We'll be back. That Christy Dome is doctor Evilman. Watching
people react to this, I don't know if you've seen
(31:33):
what they're doing down on the southern border, and then
of course the moonba reaction to it. But I'm sorry, like,
this is not she's this isn't. This isn't sharks with lasers. Okay,
it's not what this is. So they want to make
a little change to the existing border wall. And when
(31:53):
you find out, you know the because at first people
are like, well, if you make this change, then what
you don't understand is this is gonna happen. And I'm like, no, no, no,
that's clearly their plan for that thing to happen. What
is that thing? Well, let's go ahead and hear from
the secretary, shall we.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
There's no nation at all, and we're so thankful that
we have a president that understands that and understands that
a secure border is important to our country's future. Now,
if you look at the structure that's behind me, it's tall,
which makes it very very difficult to climb, almost impossible.
It also goes deep into the ground, which would make
it very difficult, if not impossible, to dig under. And
(32:30):
today we are also going to be painting it black.
That is specifically at the request of the President, who
understands that in the hot temperatures down here, when something
is painted black, it gets even warmer and it will
make it even harder for people to climb. So we
are going to be painting the entire southern border wall
black to make sure that we encourage individuals to not
(32:53):
come into our country illegally, to not break our federal laws.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Yeah. So I saw people are responding to just the
story and they didn't hear what Nome said. They're like,
these people are so stupid. What they don't understand is
if you're paint it black because it's in the desert,
it's gonna be a thousand degrees and then the people
trying to climb over, they're gonna burn their hands. I'm like, no, no, no,
that's that's what they're going for. That's it, because I remember,
(33:20):
the wall is supposed to be a deterrent. It shouldn't
have it. It shouldn't be air conditioned. It defeats the
We know what we need is we need climb, we
need steps, that's what we need. No, No, it's it's
a it's the wall. And I don't know. It would
be really funny too, by the way, Ross if the
they just thought of it, because Trump was sitting around
(33:41):
the Oval office listening to the stones or something and
that's not pain of black comes on. He's like, that's
a brilliant idea. It's going and do that. No, that
is why they're doing it. You just heard the secretary
say so. Because now in addition to the height, in
addition to the depth, in addition to the slippery nature
of the wall. And it's not like they haven't been
(34:02):
able to climb it. They got they got the old
timey rope hooky thing. They're still finding ways to do it.
It's not easy. But you know now it's so hot
that you know, you can't touch it with bear skin.
That's gonna make it a little it's gonna make it
more of a deterrent. So it just makes it more
(34:23):
successful at its job. And there is a really easy
way not to get burned on the pitch black border
wall rost. You know what you know how to not
get burned on the pitch black border wall. If you
had to strategize, if you had to come up with
a heist scenario, you know, how to avoid getting burned
on it.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
It's very simple, you know, I don't don't try to
climb it.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Oh yeah, all right, there you go, easy peasy.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
What if you go under the wall. Can we go
under the wall?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Well, it's very deep, although you can. I mean every
now and then they do find one of these tunnels.
But in reality, unless you're like a big ill Chapo
or Choppo or whatever, U does it, you know, or
you got a bunch of workers so you can put
a motorcycle tunnel underd Yeah, that's generally too much work
for just your standard run of the mill person wanting
to go, you know, go through the fence. You're generally
(35:11):
gonna have to go over because you don't have the
time to dig. You're gonna get caught. So yeah, so yes,
I guess it is a possibility, but it's not really practical.
Speaker 8 (35:22):
No.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
What you might have to do is go through a
legal port of entry. I know, crazy crazy town around
here this morning, but uh, hey we do what we do. Okay,
all right, very good. So I just want to I
just want to clear that up, because people are like, oh,
they're accused them, they like they have some secret agenda
because they just they're trying to just trying to make
(35:43):
the wal hot. And I'm like, it's not a secret.
She said it, because they're clearly excited about it too.
They're not hiding anything from you. It's not forty chess.
It's a it's it's a feature, not a bug, as
as you guys like to say. And I'm here for it. Hey,
I have a question, Well, how the hell does this happen?
(36:07):
What a headline Maine police officer arrested by ICE agrees
to voluntarily deport What a police officer in Maine was
arrested by ICE and has now agreed to voluntarily leave
the country. Old or old orchard? Or orchard? Uh? Orchard?
(36:27):
I guess. P Beach Police Department officer John Luke Evans, right,
Where's John Luke Evans from Jamaica? Is from Jamaica? Actually was?
Speaker 8 (36:41):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah? It was arrested back in July as part of
the agency's effort to step up immigration enforcement. Officials with
the town and department have said federal authorities previously told
them Evans was legally authorized to work in the US.
Wait and this, look, this is the other part of
it too, because I know a lot of people. People
are like, ah, the town's trying to pull something here.
(37:02):
The town is adamant that they went they E verified
this dude. So and I really don't like the response too.
By the way, by whoever, the one of the people
at ICE actually commented on this. Yeah, all right, so well,
hold on, an ICE representative reached by telephone, blah blah blah.
(37:26):
I want to go back into the permitting part of this. Okay,
here we go. Chief of police at least charged has
said the department was notified by federal officials that Evans
was legally permitted to work in the country, and the
town had submitted information via the Department of Homeland Securities
E verified program prior to his employment. Here's the comment
(37:46):
that I'm not a fan of. Assistant Secretary of Homeland
Security Trisia McLaughlin then accused the town of quote and
I've never heard this term reckless reliance on the Department's
E verified program. What the hell does that mean? And
by the way, what a way to tell people not
(38:07):
to do the everify which, while it's not perfect, is
at least a sign a step of due diligence on
the part of an employer. I'm almost if if they
went and did the everify with this stuff, if they
did their due diligence and the Feds told him that
this person was legal to work, I don't know that.
(38:29):
I'm mad at the city. But also I don't know
if that's one hundred percent true because the way you know,
but don't tell, what do you mean reckless reliance? So
I was reckless to rely on you, who I'm supposed
to consult with telling me that it was okay. You
can't look, especially when you're going through everything that you're
(38:50):
going through and you're trying to in some cases force
municipalities to work with federal authorities on immigration. You gotta
hey good faith the effort that when they do work
with you, you guys are going to try to get
this stuff right and it's not going to turn into
finger pointing. Yeah. But also I just I don't I
(39:12):
don't know how how it gets to that. I guess
he was trying to buy a gun too, and I
think maybe that's what tipped him off. Ice official say
in July that Evans overstate is visa and unlawfully attempted
to purchase a firearm, but now says he will voluntary departure.
Then obviously he won't have a deportation. Now, don't get
(39:33):
me wrong. Clearly, I you know, you know these visas
have dates on them, and you know and and and
maybe at that point he has a responsibility to go
ahead and figure it out. I don't know what the
department has, but uh, I really hate the FEDS going, Nah,
that's reckless reliance. So it's reckless to rely on the
(39:56):
system that I'm supposed to use. What a stupid statement,
but also what a stupid situation. I'm almost yeah again,
this guy should have known because they have dates on
these things. And I'm sick of people claiming that it's
too complicated. It's not. Look, dealing with government could be complicated.
But uh, let me explain something to people who would
(40:17):
come here and want to become a citizen. That's what people,
that's what we all put up with, right the irs
where you have to you have to know exactly how
much money, down to the penny you're supposed to give
the Irs? They and can they tell you what it is?
No they'll tell you after if you don't pay the
(40:39):
right amount, and then they'll add more to it. But no,
that's up to you to figure it out. You go through,
you go to retire, and you find like I work with,
you know, retirement clients, financial advisors, and when they explain
how social Security works, I just assumed you turn sixty
five and check start showing up when I was younger.
That's not the case. The whole thing is, like, you
(41:01):
gotta have perfect timing if you want to get the
most money from it. You got to you gotta understand
the system. It's so complex that it you know, compliance
and understanding it is like it's it's like taking a
college course, man, But that's what you do. So I
don't have a lot of sympathy if you're coming here
and all you have to do is pay attention to
a date on a on a visa, like I know
(41:26):
that maybe in the country you come from, they they
they transposed the month and day, you know, like we
do it one way in the US with the month
first and most other countries the days first. But even
then you got to get you know, you gotta have
it figured out with you know, within a few months,
even if you if you transpose it in most cases
(41:47):
now no sympathy here, but not helpful from the Feds
that we're getting. It's some some guy who clearly didn't
have work authorization, if in fact that is what the
city was told. And I don't see them pushing back
when you make the statement that, oh, well, they were
just dumb for relying on us, Well, then people are
going to want to work with you. If working with
(42:09):
you doesn't mean that they're actually covering their butt on
these things. Did every arrest the officer made since his
visa expired get thrown out? I don't know, And frankly,
I think he was. I think he's been in a
reserve role up to this point because and then he
was trying to get his firearm, and then that's what
triggered this. So I'm not sure how many arrests he
may have made. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was exposed me
(42:33):
trying to put down it. No, I understand Boston Paul
is now very invested in this story. Wait, is Boston
Paul an illegal rashid have we considered this? Why would
somebody call themselves Boston Paul? Right? Remember how the media
was making that illegal from El Salvador the Maryland man, Right,
you just attach a US geographic location and then that
(42:55):
makes you there. Why would somebody call themselves Boston Paul
unless they're trying really hard. Yeah, now I got questions.
It's all coming together. We're gonna need an investigation here,
so uh but yeah, no, it looks like the epistol purchase,
which again is why the whole Everify thing is really weird, right,
(43:18):
because you're like, well, okay, well, I mean, if that's
what they're if that's what they're supposed to do, and
I don't know how it is for law enforcement versus
I don't know, staffing at a country an old country buffet,
but maybe it's different. Maybe it's not. I mean, it's
probably is just due to the level of background check
they're probably running on you. But like if they if
(43:38):
they did the thing they're supposed to do and then
he relied on it, don't call it reckless reliance. It's
the whole thing just annoys me. Man, dude, what is
it with Ross? I know you think you get savaged.
I'm telling you there's there's some about these ESPN reporters,
and I don't know why they hate the Vikings. It's like,
why why are you picking? Like there's been two or
(43:59):
three stories this week where I just kind of because I,
you know, the Viking stuff ends up in my feed
where it's just like they have some vendetta and I
don't know if it's against the ownership there or what
it is, but like now they're like, why would you
put a list out of Minnesota's big bus this year
and not big bus like that chicken Tennessee who you
(44:20):
know vandalyzed the car. Not that kind of bust uh,
but like crapping on Dallas Turner man. But one of
our linebackers here, always a buddy the guys, it's his
second year. Get over it. Although Ross I saw you
guys are in trouble up there in Buffalo. They had
a list of how much to cap room everybody had,
(44:41):
and everybody's got some cap but Vikings have a bunch,
so you know we won't actually spend it. There's only
one team in the NFL is over the cap and
it's you guys. By about see, I think it's six
hundred thousand. Are you guys? Who you gonna cut? Man?
You guys gonna have to cut somebody up in Buffalo,
because you know, I don't know when that exactly has
(45:01):
to be done. I suppose here in a couple of weeks.
But I thought that was kind of interesting. So you're
all in, man, Raven's all in the Buffalo. Bill's all in,
just like right there at the cap. So they're spending
everything they think they got to spend. Well, how much
did you guys? Just give your running back? That's probably
why you're there, because that deal just got done here
like what maybe a week ago with James Cook. Sorry,
(45:25):
I just get frustrated when I'm sitting here and it's like, dude, oh,
here's here's another here's another story about well, the Vikings suck.
I'm aware, I'm aware that we have an immense amount
of talent on the team and just can't get over
the hump, got it? Sorry, just some trip slipped into
my feed there, and then I just went off on
a tangent because that's what I do, all right, Going
(45:48):
back to the Uh, this guy who's screaming while they're
taking him into custody, I'm here, I just want to work.
I'm gonna be with my family. He's crying or he's
yelling he's hysterical, and immediately all the worst parts of
journalism just decided to take everything at face value. It's
like these remember the idiots where they go and they
think they're disrupting an ice raid when in reality it's
(46:10):
a giant drug raid. Like that's what happened to Minneapolis.
I don't know if you guys remember that. Or they
took to the streets and it's like, oh, they're snatching
people off the streets, when in reality, they were busting
one of the biggest meth ventanylu distribution things that was
going on in the city of Minneapolis. That's what they
were doing. But nobody stops to ask any questions. They
(46:33):
just get all triggered by the video on And there
was one little problem because they didn't wait, And had
they waited, they would have known that the man being
taken into custody by the name of David Perez Tiofani.
(46:56):
This is not his first arrest. I don't know if
you know this. In fact, it's not even his first
illegal entry into the United States. No, no, no, David
Perez Tiofani, according to immigration officials, has a final order
of removal. It's not his first he's actually this is
(47:17):
his third time illegally entering the US, getting kicked out
of the US, and then illegally entering the US again,
so like he's familiar with the process. And oh, by
the way, what did we kick him out for last time,
other than just the fact that he'd be kicked out
twice previously, the part where he was arrested in outside
(47:40):
of d C last year, charged with aggravated sexual battery
of a minor under thirteen. So to all of your
reporters out there yesterday who are standing for this dude,
as they say, that's a that's a child molester, that's you.
(48:05):
Try anyone who celebrates sister takes joy. I don't know
about you. I do take joy. I will your accusation
is accurate. Terry Moran, former ABC news person who was
just fired because he's a bias piece of garbage. Yes,
I do take joy in watching pedophiles put in handcuffs.
I could watch it on loop all day. I'm a
(48:27):
big fan. If they had a TV network where they
just arrested pedophiles and I got to watch that, I
got to watch them just lose their minds over it.
I'd watch that that's the kind that's the kind of
feel good family programming this country needs. Oh but he
just wants to be with his family. Who goes to work.
(48:48):
He's not a criminal, he said, So he goes. She
just goes to work, and he wants to be with
his family. Okay, all right, So he's raping tweens after
five o'clock. Okay, okay, you said, I don't understand what
your justification is here. Yeah, ross that you imagine that man,
This guy puts in a full day's work, gets home,
(49:12):
kicks his boots off, and then rapes tweens. But not
before five because if you know, if you if you
do it before five, much like you know, drinking, probably
if you're drinking, you know, if you're day drinking, that's
probably not good. If you're raping kids in the middle
of the day when you should be at work, that's
not very American.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
Jessica Tarlav was like, what does she say, Jessics Tarlav
the lunatic fox lady. So the cruelty is the point, Yes,
it is the point when apprehending rape a child rapist.
I'm one hundred percent. Have you heard of the wood
chipper have you heard of the wood chipper? I don't
(49:53):
know's there's a lot of people when they see child rapists,
they don't necessarily just want to put in handcuffs, they
want putting a wood chipper. So this is this is good. Yeah,
by all means, Man, I'd love watching the child rapists
get apprehended. It's screaming cry channel. I'd watched that every day. Boston, Paul,
(50:16):
what's up?
Speaker 3 (50:18):
Hey? That ja making the guy the cop there from
Old Orchard Beach.
Speaker 1 (50:23):
Yeah, he was.
Speaker 3 (50:24):
He's just doing the job most Americans won't do, you know,
but Jo.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
He tried to. He never really kind of got up
there because he couldn't get a gun.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
So well, see that's the thing up there. You know
that area is any even Massachusetts to a lot of
the tourist he towns will hire summer cops and some
of them do arm them and they only go to
a two week police academy.
Speaker 1 (50:48):
Oh what are they? What are they dealing? What crime?
Are they dealing with? Kids doing ding dong?
Speaker 5 (50:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (50:55):
No, no, no, they could be dealing with any crime.
Speaker 1 (50:58):
Rich rich poles, double parking, I mean.
Speaker 3 (51:01):
No, no, no, no. They some of the towns they
act just just like a full time Swool police officer.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
And some of the time I understand that, but when
you get when you get into one of these little
hoity toity like like what what you know like blowing rock? Right,
what do you what do you think high crime and
blowing rock is? So? Is it kind of one of
those little towns. It's a little tourist postage stamp thing
where city folks go on the weekend and stare at
leaves and stuff or what.
Speaker 3 (51:26):
Old Orchard beach Now it's turned into a it used
to be like that, you know, it's turned into almost
like a myrtle beach for a few a few weeks
out of the.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
Oh okay, you know I was. I tell you one
thing that was really amazing to me when I spent
some time up in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine is
how much everyone in that state hates people from where
you're from.
Speaker 3 (51:48):
Oh yeah, yeah, Well because they bring they bring their
their their politics with them. You know, they kind of
escape the politics, but they bring it with them like morons.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
It's it's just always interest staying to see which states
hate which states, and like those three were all like, oh,
we hate people from Massachusetts, and I'm like, well, what
do you do to you? What about New Yorkers? Like, ah, no,
it's the mass it's the massholes. You'll watch out for them.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
And you were questioning my, my, my loyalty.
Speaker 1 (52:16):
To the well, I just noticed you got Boston in front.
And that sounds like you're trying too hard, much like
the Maryland man who was actually from El Salvador. Is all.
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (52:25):
I am, I am a triple citizen, but my loyalties
with the United States first.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
Wait, people don't know that he's not joking. He has
other passports.
Speaker 3 (52:35):
Yeah, I'm a US, Irish and Canadian citizen.
Speaker 1 (52:41):
So some would say that that is the same as
saying that you're a fan of a football team and
then when one player goes to a different team from
your original team, you throw your other team out and
then you go to your hot new team. It's like
you just kicked your your wife in thirty years to
the curb.
Speaker 3 (52:57):
For the No, it's too differ like.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
Loyalty issues, man Ross, Does this man sound like he
has loyalty issues with three different passports and citizenship?
Speaker 2 (53:07):
I mean, I was thinking it, but I want to
you know, I got it back to blue, so I
don't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
Yeah, man, Boston, I were citizens of the United States only.
I mean, that's problem. That's where our loyalty lies.
Speaker 3 (53:20):
This is that I thought about working for Intopol, but
then I you know, I can't speak any of the language,
so I kind of do it.
Speaker 1 (53:28):
Yeah, you kind of do though, you kind of do, right, yeah, right,
Well the hell is that Bostonian or whatever?
Speaker 5 (53:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (53:37):
All right, get out of here, all right, Oh, I'm
gonna go to Canada. I want to go to Ireland.
What are you, Rosie O'Donnell.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
He's probably running shine.
Speaker 1 (53:47):
That's a good point, man, shine out. And I don't know.
But what opium in? I don't know. Keep doing.
Speaker 2 (53:53):
I mean you've seen his car, right, It's like an
old timey car.
Speaker 1 (53:55):
I mean yeah, yeah, yeah, dude, like all the clues
are there, all right, Race Agic would never smuggle narcotics.
Just do the weather. Yeah, probably if you did, I'm
sure you'd be good at it, because you strike me
as somebody is smart enough not to have a car
full of crack. And then the dude with your light's
not working. Dude, those stories blow me away. It's like,
(54:18):
you can't walk around the car just before you smuggle
your interstate narcotics.
Speaker 9 (54:24):
Yeah, just make sure there's no like reason besides the
narcotics that you're gonna get pulled over, right right.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
Yeah. The number number of times where they pulled some guy,
he's like it was on the interstate doing one hundred
and his lights were off in the middle of the night,
and it's like and he had one hundred pounds of
fool in his car. Jeeze, man, what do you do?
It's like it's like a guy driving home from a
bar and he's like, I'm just gonna hold the can.
That'd be great. Yeah, that'll happen ship anyway. So yeah,
(54:54):
so all right, we had our closest pass, We had
our water rescues because people are stupid. So right, let's
go ahead and turn this franchise arounds. What are we doing, man?
Speaker 9 (55:04):
Yeah, A bean still impacts for the outer banks. Some
areas seeing some of the highest water rise that they've seen,
if not ever. I saw one report that maybe some
spots seeing most flooding they've seen with a two to
four foot surge than maybe they ever have, but pretty
close to it. So the damage is all along the coast.
This is why we tell everybody we don't just concentrate
(55:25):
on the center of a storm which is well offshore,
but a big storm with a wingfield of about four
hundred and fifty to five hundred miles across, so that's
still not close enough to give us any impacts here
this far inland, partly sunnying to mostly sunny next couple
of days, little mid eighties for the Tryad and west
into the mountains. There may be a couple of showers thundershowers,
but all in all looks pretty good even for the weekend.
If there is a shower thundershower, really not going to
(55:48):
be much sunny clouds otherwise, and heiseel stain the little
mid eighties, then I think we'll see another cool downcome
about Tuesday Wednesday of next week, adding the Atlantic to
other systems. At this point, nothing to worry about at
least over the next seven ten days and maybe even longers.
That second one may become a name storm, but looks
like it's going to turn out to see much way
much of the way that Aaron has.
Speaker 1 (56:08):
Did you see Hollywood's latest reboot?
Speaker 5 (56:11):
No, I'm a little nervous.
Speaker 1 (56:13):
Ready, basic instinct.
Speaker 5 (56:17):
Oh really, you're starring.
Speaker 1 (56:20):
Why would why would that matter? You mean? And I
have no idea what I mean? In the Michael Douglas
role in the Mail.
Speaker 5 (56:25):
Detection, I want to know was playing Michael Douglas. Absolutely,
that's who I want to know.
Speaker 1 (56:29):
Oh, okay, because some would say that, Uh, you know,
people might want to want see he was playing. I
don't even know what you're talking to, Gramble or whatever
her name was, Sharon, have.
Speaker 9 (56:40):
No idea would I don't have no idea what you're
you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (56:43):
Are there any scenes that you would recommend they don't
cut in the reboot?
Speaker 8 (56:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (56:49):
Yeah, it's a good point. What is your favorite part
of that movie?
Speaker 5 (56:51):
Ray?
Speaker 1 (56:51):
Yeah? What what stands out to you?
Speaker 9 (56:54):
Well, what stands out to me is when they solved
the mystery.
Speaker 1 (56:58):
I see not anything of the nothing else, No, nothing
at all about interrogation or an You know what's crazy
is that there were two movies whose entire reputation lived
on that moment and but went in wildly different directions. Uh.
And that was basic instinct in the Crying Game.
Speaker 5 (57:21):
Didn't see the Crying Game, so I can't.
Speaker 1 (57:23):
Yeah, let's just say that that goes into an entirely
different direction. Okay, okay, all right you sure, yeah you should.
You should google that immediately. Okay, perfect, thank you Gray
Stage there for the Weather Channel. Yeah, Rossa, what do
you think they claim it's going to be non woke?
I heard it's going to be Goredlock the Destroyer. Oh geez, yeah, man?
Speaker 2 (57:48):
Sure is that a rumor? I just made up that?
Speaker 1 (57:51):
I don't know. I heard it on the radio. So yeah, yeah,
so watch out for that. I give you a few
more details on this coming up, either a Basic Instinct.
Joe Ezerhaus, who's eighty now, he's eighty now, has announced
they're doing a reboot of Basic Instinct, and he said
(58:14):
that being politically correct has stripped films of real dialogue.
So he promised that the reboot will not be woke,
because that would be the terrifying thing, right, because that's
that's all these discussions we have. They're like, all right,
we're gonna remake this movie, but instead of Sharon Stone,
it's Dylan mulvaney. What do we doing?
Speaker 5 (58:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (58:36):
Now, Ross, did you have a favorite scene? I noticed
you asked Ross that from the movie, anything that stood
out to you?
Speaker 2 (58:42):
You know, I'm a fan really of the entire movie
from starting to finish, are you yeah, the entire thing?
Speaker 1 (58:47):
Yeah? Do you remember what happens in the movie?
Speaker 2 (58:49):
Yeah, there's a murder of almost like an ice pick
or something.
Speaker 1 (58:53):
Right, there's a nice pick. Yeah, we'll see you in there.
Speaker 2 (58:55):
There's an interrogation.
Speaker 1 (58:57):
Oh did they do an I didn't notice? Yeah, they
doing of those? Did they learn anything, find anything out?
You know, don't recall did anything reveal itself during the interrogation? Yes, okay,
all right, Well I like a good procedural crime.
Speaker 2 (59:10):
Throat, especially for when the when the movie came out,
like the Ara, it was pretty stunning at the time.
Speaker 1 (59:15):
Yeah, shocking. Yeah, I remember. I remember it was playing
in the theater's opposite. I think it was Batman Returns.
Might have been my cousin something that I went to
watch then and like twelve year old or like you know,
because we're twelve. I'm twelve at the time, and I
remember like it was a discussion topic among twelve year
(59:35):
old boys. Except our theater had two had two screens,
and uh, the theater owner was like he was a
huge he was a very nice guy. Passed away quite
a number of years ago. But he was like super
family guy. Like a lot of movies he wouldn't show,
so the fact that he was showing the movie was
kind of crazy. But like he would like if there
(59:56):
was an R rated movie, there was not a chance
a kid was getting into that, and so he a
movie like that. I remember me and my friends got
in Trouble try to sneak into seven when it came out.
He wouldn't have any of that. But we talked about it.
We talked about it, and I'm sure there's more than
one person who broke their VHS machine trying to fix
(01:00:16):
the tracking and from posing it too much. So maybe
but yeah, they're gonna go ahead and they're gonna they're
gonna redo it. So but it won't be woke. So
take that for what it's worth. I guess maybe he's like, ah,
this will get people to the theaters. And after surviving
a trek to the top of a volcano, in this case,
(01:00:39):
Mount Saint Helen's, our NERD correspondent Stephen Kent, joins us,
good morning, sir, how you doing.
Speaker 8 (01:00:45):
Good morning?
Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
Doing all right? Case you didn't fall in the cold era, Huh,
that's good.
Speaker 8 (01:00:51):
No, I did not reporting myself as safe.
Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
Well, and and you're back in DC where it is
reportedly safer, so that's good.
Speaker 8 (01:01:01):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to going down to Union Station
today and taking some selfies with the soldiers. You know,
should be a good time.
Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
Well, now the question is would you rather take you
with the soldiers or the giant hobo encampment that generally
was right in front of it.
Speaker 8 (01:01:16):
So you know, I think there there's a hobo encampment,
but there's also the hashtag resist encampment that has been
there now for at least a year there to call
out fascism. They are somewhere in between hippies and hoboes.
It's hard to tell the difference.
Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
And I also remember I was I happened to be
in d C on staying in that same hotel right
across from there because I always stay at the Phoenix
Park there. And like I was also there when those
Eco moon bats were blocking all the roads one week
when I was there. It was a few years ago,
and so you have, Yeah, you had the hoboes, and
(01:01:55):
then you had the Extinction rebellion glue myself to the
street losers, and then you had your general of vagrance
and criminals and clearly they don't necessarily all like each other,
even though they're all contributing to a lower quality of life.
So it was interesting to see the hobo's mad at
this extinction rebellion people. I just kind of love those
(01:02:17):
little subplots.
Speaker 4 (01:02:18):
Mans have to stick together, yeah, man, But there was
no unity there all right, speaking of people lessening quality
of life, I have to admit I don't know much
about Roadblocks, or at least I didn't.
Speaker 1 (01:02:34):
Just never a game that really interested me. I understood
it to be a kid's game. But I see all
these stories about parents who are eventually filing lawsuits because
some would have you believe to let your kid go
play Roadblocks as a kid, that taking them to the
park when there's a sex offender reunion picnic going on.
I don't know if it's quite that bad, But the
(01:02:56):
reason I'm bringing it up is now you have this
story that has emerged where I just put it over
here on the other thing, where now you've got politicians
getting involved because Roadblocks is taking legal action against visual
anti predator hunters, which is a whole thing. Chris Hansen
(01:03:17):
probably started the trend, and there's all these YouTube channels
where people trick them in. I don't know how many,
how many are real and fake, but there's a couple that,
you know, bring them in to like grocery stores to
meet them, and then they shame and chase and apprehend people. Basically,
people were taking that to roadblocks, and I guess roadblocks
beef among other things. As I understand it is the
(01:03:39):
way that they were they were violating terms of service
because they were pretending to be like little kids when
they were adults, and so that that violates terms of service.
Never mind the reason they were doing it was to
essentially catch people that are preying on children.
Speaker 8 (01:03:56):
So yeah, cat cat fishing in pursuit of justice.
Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
Right right, And it's like that's not from a pr standpoint,
that's probably not what you want to do, right, at
least not very publicly, because now people are having a
very visceral reaction and this is how and you've you
got the politicians interested. So what's going on here? Man?
With the with the roadblocks that us in.
Speaker 8 (01:04:19):
Yeah, you know, I'll do my best roadblocks. One of
the things that I've taken notice of just being in Washington,
d C. And spending too much of my time unfortunately
on LinkedIn as any as any respectable professional in my
mid thirties, I've seen that, you know, Roadblocks staffing up
a huge a huge amount of people joining their government
(01:04:40):
affairs teams in this area, a lot of people moving
between Meta and Google and Amazon and hopping over to
Roadblocks for government affairs. And I was going, what's going
on here? Like why why is this particular game in
need of so many new lobbyists to go out there?
And it's exactly what you're talking about. This is a
game where you essentially have a virtual world. It's a
(01:05:03):
social hub where people, the users, can create their own
little subworlds and games. Everybody is a subcreator within Roadblocks,
and so different users have created these little worlds where
you can play games and activities and socialize with other users.
And of course some people use it for evil. There
(01:05:24):
was a report in People magazine that someone had basically
come up with some sort of public bathroom simulator game,
you know, basically just some pervy game that takes place
in a bathroom, only bad things happen there, like the
Robin Williams episode of Law and Order SVU. And so
this has created a situation where creepy adults are hanging
(01:05:47):
out with children and facilitating and appropriate relationships. This happens
quite a bit. And then you also then have the
instances of what you described as the Warriors for Justice
trying to trap some of these people. But this is
this is where it gets tricky. There is sort of
this weird and delicate balance, particularly these online spaces, between
(01:06:09):
in trapping and trying to create situations with other users
of the game, and also and then just genuinely catching
people in the wrong when they are praying on underage users.
There's a little bit of both going on, and so
I think Roadblocks is trying to figure out how to
navigate this situation.
Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
Would you like, would you let your kid on Roadblocks? No?
Speaker 8 (01:06:33):
Yeah, we we just we don't do internet in my
house and social media platforms of any kind, so that
would be a no.
Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
I had.
Speaker 8 (01:06:41):
I had experiences when I was about thirteen fourteen years
old playing online games. I used to play City of
Heroes and City of Villains, and I had experiences with
other users on that that were unpleasant and just the
nature of how people, you know, reach out to one another,
(01:07:01):
and then they want to join you on aim and
join you in chat rooms and then it turns out
you're dealing with creepers. That's very real. I experienced it
myself and I definitely am not repeating that in my household.
Speaker 1 (01:07:13):
So where is the balance for because look, the idea
of having a big open world game or a metaverse, right,
that's you know, that's that's metaslast Facebook's whole thing, Right,
You got to be able to balance. You want people
to be like to. What makes those things extraordinary is
the same thing that made the first open world game extraordinary.
Remember how crazy it was for the first time to
(01:07:35):
play a video game where you could go and really
do anything you wanted. It was a crazy game changer,
and it was my.
Speaker 8 (01:07:42):
High high school life with tends on games like that.
Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
Dude Diablo blew me Away. Even though it was mission based,
it was just so different than any you know, really
any video games. It's really kind of it's really the
only one that kind of stuck with me. I'm not
as big a gamers as you were, Russ, but like
that was that was crazy play in that game versus
kind of what you had come from, especially when you
got into the later versions of A World of Warcraft,
was and I never really got into it, but I
(01:08:06):
had friends that were into that. But I do remember
that as soon as you were able to play online,
there were creepy people. There were scammers, like because if
you want to represent the world, that's part of the world.
So what responsibility does a game have to not lock
it down so aggressively so as to remove some of
(01:08:27):
the fun And who determines that? It seems like the
will of political change and roadblocks is smart? Do you
know this? Living in DC? Do you know? Do you
know what triggered all of these tech companies to set
up these lobbying and office hubs in Washington, DC? It
was a singular incident. You remember what it was Microsoft
(01:08:47):
with the antitrusted Microsoft. You can look at the stats.
Almost none of the big tech companies had I mean,
they might have had a lobbyist, but they didn't have
what they have now. And after what happened with Microsoft,
everybody set up shop in dcvore.
Speaker 8 (01:09:03):
You know, I'll spin off a personal story here. You know,
I mentioned that I used to play City of Heroes
and Villains when I was a kid. You know, my
experience was not World of Warcraft. My major online game
that I played with Star Wars Galaxies. It's basically just
the Star Wars version of World of Warcraft. And my
best memories in high school were just playing that game
with my my buddy Will. We spent countless hours exploring
(01:09:27):
worlds in that game and going on missions together and
you know, just talking on the phone while we would play.
Will met his wife on that game. You know, another player,
just acute redhead on the game. You know, they talk,
you know, you share messages, you get to know each other,
and then eventually you move to text messages in aim
just so happens that the person is actually your age
(01:09:48):
and they ended up, you know, meeting in person and
getting married. But there are all sorts of relationships that
break out on online games. People simulate marriages. You meet
another gamer, you meet another their player, and you sort
of imitate or play a romantic relationship because you want
your character in the game to be married or something
(01:10:11):
like that. And so people will have, like you have
work wives and work husbands, you know that kind of joke.
You'll have online relationships.
Speaker 1 (01:10:19):
They may character how does that work?
Speaker 8 (01:10:22):
I mean, I don't know how that works. That's crazy,
But this is this is stuff that happens like this
is this is what happens on online games. There is
no way to moderate this short of maybe aggressive artificial intelligence.
I mean you'd have to have AI just sort of
unleashed on the entire gaming atmosphere. And they do already
(01:10:43):
for content moderation, but it's not going to be able
to detect the subtle differences of appropriateness between underage players
modeling relationships which they should be free to do with
one another, and an older age player stimulating relationships with
underage players. It's just like there's no real clear dividing
(01:11:07):
line between when it goes from playing a game online
to in real life inappropriate and dangerous conduct.
Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
Yeah, I don't disagree with you. That's why I'm wondering
where the line is. And unfortunately, in Washington, a lot
of the line is what's Congress paying attention to today
and what are they not? And that's the woodchipper. I
think Rollblocks is about to find themselves in and we'll
find out. I gotta do because they got two other
things I want to get to. This is a little wonky,
but it's I think it's a bigger issue. So there
(01:11:40):
is a game out called Wu Chang, not not the band,
but yeah, Wu Chang Fallen Feathers, and you know it's
a standard. I'm sure there's a a a classification for
this type of game. But part of the game is
you're fighting, among other things, actual historically Chinese figures, including
(01:12:01):
the main boss who's the former Emperor of China, but
it's his zombie. Is like the way that you finish
this game up. And so they released this game. People
were apparently enjoying it, so they patch. They put a
patch out, and rather than just fixing bugs, they essentially
nerved it so that you can't kill any historical Chinese figure,
(01:12:24):
which is the bosses in the game, which you're supposed
to kill. And it's clearly it looks like they're probably
doing this so they can release the game in China.
And I'm sorry, man, I'm getting sick of China dictating content,
But what a rug pool on your customers. Man, why
would you release the game and then change it so
you can't kill the final bosses?
Speaker 8 (01:12:44):
Oh yeah, this is this is fascinating. I'm not going
to pretend to be an expert on Chinese history, but
basically what you have here is a conflict between historical
narratives about the Ming Dynasty and the Ching dynasty hundreds
i'mundreds of years ago. Uh, the Qing dynasty is considered
to be by Chinese people today and by the current
(01:13:08):
government an embarrassment and a sort of a shameful period
in the Ming dynasty more favorable. And so basically you're
just not able to destroy, kill, or name these Ming
Dynasty characters because it's very important to the current Chinese
CCP narrative around their country's history. And this is kind
(01:13:29):
of what happens when you're in bed with game studios
and movie studios that have these, you know, cross specific
relationships with China. There's no way out of this. You
have to play by their rules and we're going to
have to find ways to make a balance here.
Speaker 1 (01:13:46):
If you want their money and their gamers, you do well.
You can. Or you could be Tom Cruise telling a
pound sand over the Taiwanese flag on his jacket with
the new Top Gun movie. Yes you can, it works,
you can all right. Let me just for us as
you're working on a new book, is this about all
your spy missions? I kind of wanted to pick your
brain on this last time we talked, but what's going on?
Speaker 8 (01:14:08):
It's a tell all, of course, about every mission I've
been on. Note this is just announced yesterday by post
Till Press. My second book is coming out in twenty
twenty six. It's been a little bit a time between
my first book that You Know How the Force Can
Fix the World and my new one is called Your
Focus Determines Your Reality. Yes, it is a Star Wars
(01:14:29):
reference and it is all about the philosophy that you
can find within Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Avatar,
The Last Airbender, Marvel, a lot of your favorite stories.
So really excited to be working on this and it's
going to be my most nerdy project yet.
Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
Well all right, so give me a teaser. So what
is the most if you had to pick from start
from all the nerd stuff out there, what would you
say is the most helpful message or thing that you
can extract from one of those that will actually serve
you in your life other than going around tending to
I don't know, mind control, stormtroopers over the droids they're
(01:15:04):
looking for.
Speaker 8 (01:15:06):
Well over on geekystoics dot com, where we pilot most
of these ideas and write about them. I have a
piece up today about Howell's Moving Castle. This is an
old anime studio Ghibli film from the early two thousands,
and this movie basically features a young girl who doesn't
consider herself very pretty, and so she starts to see
(01:15:28):
herself in the mirror as an old woman, you know,
sort of devoid of any youthful beauty. And she has
to go on a journey in that movie to realize
who she is inside, build that strength, and then she
sees herself on the outside once again as beautiful and
young and all that kind of stuff. And you know,
this basically just goes to a very common takeaway that
(01:15:51):
you'll see a lot in stoicism, which is that the
way in which you see the world is going to
reflect on the kind of experiences that you have. Your
focus does determine your reality in many ways. So you know,
if you have a positive attitude about things that are
happening to you, even bad things, you can you can
endure those things. It's sort of a half glass full
(01:16:13):
versus half glass empty sort of way of engaging with
the world. So you can read all about that right
over at a geekystoics dot com. It'll actually be in
the book when it comes out next year, and that's
a good place to start.
Speaker 1 (01:16:25):
How much do you have? How much do you have
written so far? I could never write a book at
this point, you know.
Speaker 8 (01:16:30):
Sign You sign a deal based on the outline of
a book and you actually don't write it before. So
I'm only a couple chapters in, but should be done
by March of twenty twenty six and on Barnes and
Noble bookshelves maybe in the fall.
Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
Yeah, I think there's a lot of positive messages. It
used to be a hallmark of a lot of these
big uh, these big productions, and too much Hollywood's missing
that these days, man, some real I agree. Yeah, so
it's really nice to get back to it. All right,
Steve and I do a pre sh a geekystoics dot
com is the website, by the way, if you want
to check that out and we'll chat next week, sir.
Speaker 8 (01:17:06):
Have it go one, all.
Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
Right and we will be right back. No, the number
right now, well, the high profile number right now is three.
That is the number of high profile Democrats who are
under investigation for essentially mortgage fraud, and like Letitia James
(01:17:31):
is one of them, which is crazy because part and
parcel of her persecution of Trump was that he he
overinflated the value of assets. And then you know, then
the banks did due diligence. They were comfortable with his value,
and they gave him the loans, because that's how it
works and has always worked up in not just up
(01:17:52):
in New York. Right, the bank's going to make an assessment,
they're going to do their due diligence, and oh, by
the way, they got paid back all their money, and
we're really happy because they made a crap ton of
money with Trump. And yet that was one of the
things James went under and so there is deep irony
that she may have falsified what was her primary residence
(01:18:13):
for the purpose of saving money on a mortgage, which
is a different thing entirely because now you're lying about
something that also is irs impactful. But I digress. And
again it hasn't been proven yet, but like the amount
of documents that are out that clearly show that that's
kind of what happened is far more damning than this
(01:18:35):
narrative that we're going to prosecute Trump for this thing
that nobody's ever been prosecuted for. And there's no victim.
Nobody feels there's no victim there. So Letitia James also
the same thing with Adam Schiff, and those documents are out.
And now add a third one. That's right, a FED
(01:18:58):
Board of Governor's appointee. There was a point under Biden.
Her name is Lisa Cook, and that story has risen
here in the last few days. All right, so here
we go. The director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency
aleegend a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi. The Cook,
who was nominated by Joe Biden, falsified bank documents and
(01:19:21):
property records to acquire more favorable loan terms, particularly potentially
committing mortgage fraud. So how does NBC choose to write
this up? Here's the headline in recent weeks, the Trump
administration has targeted Democratic Democrat officials over allegations of mortgage fraud,
(01:19:44):
a new front in his effort to undermine critics. That's
how you choose to write it up, Because if I
go back into the NBC headlines where it's like Trump's
an evil criminal and poor Leticia James has to handle it. No, no, no,
So these three didn't do this thing where there's a
giant paper trail of public records that are already floating
(01:20:05):
around you and going to look at him. I mean,
you're still not guilty until you're proving guilty. But it's
pretty damning stuff. But it's what, that's just Trump targeting
his enemies. Perfect. Yeah, yeah, NBC doing doing everything you
can to rebuild the public public trust in your reporting. Man. Now,
I don't know whether they're going to be successful in
(01:20:27):
getting them. Maybe maybe not. I think some of it
will have to do with is it a federal thing
or is it a state thing? Because I think you're
gonna have a hard time in New York in California
going after these cats, but and in DC with Cook.
But we'll see. But using the term targeted like it's
a dirty trick on Trump's especially because it's Trump and
(01:20:51):
you're accusing him of targeting his political enemies in a
variety of ways. He might. He might have been the
most persecuted president of my lifetime. I don't even think
it's a contest, ross, do you No, it's not even
a contest, So give me a break on this stuff.
(01:21:12):
If they committed mortgage front and do I think that
they would yes, and not just because they're Democrats, because
I have zero trust in the powers that be up
in the upper restaurants of government to not enrich themselves illegally.
And all I have to do is look at their
stock portfolios, or I look at that video of that
(01:21:34):
age up in where's that New hampsh No, not New Hampshire,
Rhode Island.
Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:21:41):
The woman who was arrested on camera being trespassed out
of that business. It wasn't just that she was drunk.
Her and her friend's attitude was clearly, do you know
who I am? You can't do this. I'm an ag
That's especially insane for somebody who's in a law enforcement position.
(01:22:01):
What happened, and nobody's above the law, So I don't
have a hard time believing that this stuff is happening.
This is a persecution. I think that I think that
they're willing to do it because as nobody ever really
gets busted for it. You got to really be over
You got to have a fridge full of a freezer
full of money, or you gotta be Bob Menendez with
(01:22:23):
your give I need gold baballoons, right. I think if
you'd have just stuck to like bitcoin or cash, we
wouldn't have been here, but no, he had to go
old timey pirate treasure to be bribed, bross, Would you
prefer to be bribed with a pirate booty or bitcoin
if you had your choice.
Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
He's a pirate treasure cursed, Yes, it's pirate treasure. Oh yeah,
I gotta go with the curse.
Speaker 5 (01:22:48):
Gold.
Speaker 1 (01:22:49):
Yeah yeah, this is gold, yeah, more than anything. But
I don't understand bitcoin so well, you should right now.
You know it's well over one hundred thousand right now,
just saying so, uh anyway, yeah, yeah, so like the
like to get busted, it has to be so crazy,
which there's then there's no deterrence. So of course, people
(01:23:12):
who invested in the Pelosi uh if you there's people
there are people who just invest in Pelosi's investments and
they're doing pretty well. And that's just that's kind of
the steroid example. But there's a lot of this and nobody,
nobody in these in the in these halls of power
(01:23:32):
ever really gets held accountable for this stuff. So I
saw Susan Rice doing any you want to talk about
having no shame. I saw Susan Rice doing an interview
over the weekend, and every response was that Russia corrupted
the election and Trump is a man Turin. She's still
on this. She's still on this and had no shame
(01:23:56):
in her game, uh talking about it. The No, I
have no problem believing this. And the fact that NBC
News is like, well, purely, this is just Trump being
mean shows me that they are even further disconnected from
all of this than previously suspected, and that is that
(01:24:20):
is crazy. All right? Hold on, where did I put
this story? Oh? Damn it? Oh yeah, here we go, Ross,
I thought you would like this story.
Speaker 5 (01:24:32):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:24:33):
So apparently there's a new gen Z fitness fashion faux
pas and I'm like, oh god, what is it now?
And that is apparently the younger, the much younger set
are expressly rejecting the pants that are so tight I
(01:24:54):
can see your womb that women wear. What what do
you mean? What do you mean? It's right here? They
just said it right here in the article. Is that
not the case?
Speaker 2 (01:25:07):
I mean, I guess it depends on the individual, but
I you know, there's if it's.
Speaker 1 (01:25:12):
True that now they want to go back to I
guess bag your more normal.
Speaker 2 (01:25:16):
Which which I would prefer you shouldn't dress like you're
at the club orlin. I've talked about this before, like
you're a whore when you're at Planet Fitness or whatever.
Speaker 1 (01:25:24):
It's kind of distracting. And then they film a video.
Speaker 2 (01:25:27):
You're like, Oh, I'm going to be a fitness influencer
and I'm going to stand here in the machine wearing nothing,
and then if you look at me, I'm gonna shame
you in social media forever. And then Swell has to
make a video on it. Now if he even does
anymore on it, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
You still do.
Speaker 2 (01:25:40):
I saw one yesterday put on a baggy shirt and
some sweatpants. I would prefer that, but yeah, I mean,
if you're there's still a proliferation of people dressed, you know,
in the hole in the whole category at the gym
for sure, uh.
Speaker 1 (01:25:52):
Jim ho, Yeah yeah, yeah. So I was just That's
why I want to put this in here, because if
it is in fact a trend, that I that you
like this, But I'm curious as to whether it is
in fact a trend where the younger ones are rejecting
the tight leggings and are now coming in with the
baggy clothes. So I don't know. I think a very
interesting too in a lot of countries, and and like
(01:26:18):
especially when you get over into like Asia, because I
saw I saw a video. There's a guy watch who
lives in Japan, and he's like, he did a whole video.
He's like, yeah, this is the hope. The whole thing
isn't a thing. If you show up to a gym
in Japan as a woman or a man for that matter,
and you're showing a bunch of skin or you're wearing
something tight, they'll throw you out of the gym and
(01:26:38):
they'll shame you. From a societal standpoint, it doesn't happen.
And he was showing what his wife wears to the gym,
and she's wearing like baggy sweatshirt, you know, sweat pants,
all of that.
Speaker 2 (01:26:49):
That's what she works out in, you know. And I mean,
yeah that I would prefer that. And it's fair, you know,
even if you want to wear something more fitted, that's fine.
But like sometimes it's like over the I told you
when I first started working out, like what back in
two Yeah, I remember the first day it was at
the gym and I saw I was like, what is
going on here? Because I didn't expect that, and I'm like,
I feel like I'm at the club. This is super weird.
Speaker 1 (01:27:11):
Yeah. So I again, if it's a trend, that's fine.
The problem is is the gym influencers aren't going away,
and I just you don't get the clicks as much
unless you're wearing the shorts that are sucked up into
both of your areas. So any who, All right, coming
up on the show with chat with Jeff Bellinger. Also
apparently we figured out who would have hated Trump the
(01:27:33):
most if he was still alive and fought him or something.
Superman I'll explain, But first let's get Race Stagic from
the Weather Channel. So trying every day? What's going on? Man?
Speaker 5 (01:27:47):
That much? Man? How are you?
Speaker 1 (01:27:49):
Yeah? I just I read these these headlines from like
Hollywood Reporter or whatever, and I was just like, it's
just it's just bait. It's just RACI white man, because
it's my job and I have Yeah, that's true, that's true.
Why do you look at it?
Speaker 7 (01:28:03):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:28:03):
Yeah, exactly, A great point.
Speaker 1 (01:28:05):
Great, yeah, all right, So what does the doppler say
when you look at it?
Speaker 9 (01:28:09):
Well, the doppler tells me further inland you get, the
better the weather is might get a little breezy from
the Triangle to the Triad, but I'm like fifteen to
twenty mile per hour winds, as everybody's probably been alerted
erin now pulling away north northeast at the AM advisory
ad seventeen miles per hour, but some pretty significant impacts
in the coastal areas. In the outer banks inland flooding
(01:28:30):
really not much of a threat, but in and around
on the area's hardest hit now seeing soundside flooding likely
with the winds going back north northeast. But as you mentioned,
pretty decent weather here. Partial sunload of mid eighties today, Tomorrow,
more sunshine Saturday sunshine, maybe some showers by Sunday. I
think we'll stay basically in the mid eighties with lows
in the sixties. There may be a shower thundershower chance
(01:28:52):
better today tomorrow, try it and especially west endto the mountains,
but I think the Triangle will stay dry, So don't
be surprised if you hit a little wet weather here
and there. But again, the only thing I've emphasized this
morning to everybody about Aaron is again this is why
we don't concentrate just on the center where these storms
are impacts being felt well out from the center. Tropical
(01:29:14):
storm force winds may hit the outer banks, and that's
about two hundred plus miles from the center of the storm.
So well way for the next one that could be
named in the next couple of days out of the
central Atlantic. But it looks like that one will turn
away in another wave coming off the coast too, that
has a chance of development. So getting into case, that
busy time of year in the Atlantic, and anything we
need to know will certainly pass it along. But right
(01:29:35):
now looks like we'll be in pretty good shape over
the next several days.
Speaker 1 (01:29:38):
All right, thank you, sir, and we'll come back with
Jeff Bellinger next.
Speaker 10 (01:29:41):
Hang on, Well, good morning, case, quite a lot going
on actually this morning, Walmart's quarterly results are in. They're
mostly upbeat, though the giant retailers adjusted profit fell short
of Wall Street forecast because of higher insurance claims, revenue
and total comparable sales top estimates mark raised outlook. Sources
(01:30:02):
tell Bloomberg Boeing is closer to finalizing a major deal
to sell jets to China. It will be a complex
deal and there are still eyes to dot and tees
to cross, but the sources say it could be for
as many as five hundred airplanes. It is a done deal,
a more than twelve billion dollar done deal that we
told you about earlier this week. Toma Bravo is buying
(01:30:23):
the human resources software provider day Force for seventy dollars share.
Johnson and Johnson will expand its presence in North Carolina.
Jay and j will add a manufacturing facility at Fujifilm's
new biopharmaceutical site in Holly Springs. The company says the
move will create about one hundred and twenty jobs. Target's
(01:30:43):
Chief operating officer, Michael Fidelki, held an internal meeting shortly
after the retailer announced he will be in the company's
next CEO. In a recording reviewed by Bloomberg News, Fidelki
said all workers will have to work to get Target
back to growth. He said workers must be willing to
embrace change. He challenged staffers to prove Target's critics wrong.
(01:31:05):
The Federal Reserve's annual Symposium opens today in Jackson Hall, Wyoming.
FED Chair Jerome Powell will address the gathering tomorrow. Investors
are hoping for some guidance on the path for interest rates.
Speaker 1 (01:31:17):
We know.
Speaker 10 (01:31:18):
We found out this morning there was a bigger than
expected increase last week and the number of workers signing
up for unemployment benefits. The Labor Department counted two hundred
and thirty five thousand first time claims. And Casey, Spirit
Halloween has started opening its seasonal pop up stores around
the country. It expects to have about fifteen hundred outlets
(01:31:38):
by the end of September. More than half of them
will be opened by the end of this month.
Speaker 1 (01:31:42):
Casey, Yeah, it's so strange. Literally last week we were
wondering aloud on this show when they were going to
start opening those, because we thought if Spirit Airlines goes bankrupt,
you could just use those. There you go, Sorry, you
got that has half the signs there would be amazing
see reuse, recycle. All right, thanks, Jeff, appreciate it, take
care of Yeah, there you go, Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg News.
(01:32:06):
By the way, there is a there's a bit of
a running contest. I saw one of the dumbest tweets
yesterday and I want to share it with you. I
forgot to get into it yesterday. So Molly Cantillian, who's
a stabfished professor at Stafford and media pundit. And I
guess now she works for some big tech company anyway,
so this is this is not a woman who has
(01:32:28):
not at least attempted education. Okay, and she tweets the
following nothing screams, I am the main character more than
America having the plus one phone code, because you know,
it's all about new and interesting ways to hate America.
And apparently her beef is that when you go to
country calling codes, US is plus one. I would point
(01:32:52):
out to her that the US is not the only
plus one country, by the way, but maybe she doesn't
know this. Ross. Can you think of why we might
have the plus one calling code whereas some countries are,
like I have like three digits?
Speaker 2 (01:33:05):
Right, there's so well, yeah, I would think, I mean,
if I had to like think about probably, I don't know,
because we invented the telephone, you know, because it came
from here.
Speaker 1 (01:33:15):
Yeah. Wait till this woman finds out that airline pilots
around the world have to know English and the NATO alphabet. Ross,
do you any guesses as to why piloting and flying
around the world in commercial situation, well, not just commercial
people need to be somewhat proficient in English. That's a
tough one. Yeah, that's a tough one. Running through ross a.
(01:33:37):
I see if it's got an answer.
Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
Is it because we invented the airplane?
Speaker 1 (01:33:41):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, it's almost as if we invented a
lot of stuff, all right. So like look if like
if if it has to do with steam engines and
the UK goes first, I'll be okay with that, and
then I don't know other stuff invented in other countries.
It's fine. Crumb the old castles or something, whatever they happen. Yeah, yeah,
(01:34:02):
if you want the plus one crumbly old castle code,
that's yours, man.
As we get things cracking on this uh on this
wonderful morn. Uh. Hey, Ross, I got a question for you.
What is your favorite flavor? Potato chip? What? What is
the you know, you're you're at the you're at the
sandwich shop. You got to pick one. Do you have
a particular favorite flavor? Is it O G sour cream
(00:21):
and onion?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I mean, I could go with what I I know
it's super weird, But what I like to do is
just take like the old Ruffles chips, like plain ruffles chips,
and put them right and put them in some sour cream,
like dip them. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Man, I totally get down with that. But if you
just have let's say it's you don't have all the
dips and all that you just got, looks like you're
like Jersey Mike's where you get the sub and the thing.
What flavor you're grabbing?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I probably just go plane.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
You can go playing. Okay, not barbecue. You know, the
pickle ones are pretty good too, or the sun chips
with the garden harvest. But I think my new favorite,
and uh is a bag of Benjamin's. Have you had
that flavor? Have you had the bag full of Benjamin's
it's a new I'm reas I'm asking because apparently it's
(01:05):
a New York thing, and you're from New York. So
I didn't know there is a story in New York.
This morning is great, So I'm just thumbing three. I
flip over to the New York Post and they have
this woman who is a I guess a former Eric
(01:28):
Adams advisor. I don't know what the heck's going on
with this check Like, how do you think this is
gonna go well for you? So her name is Winnie Greco.
Oh wait, hold on, we gotta deal with seventy two
thousand pop ups, all right? So she was, or should
(01:49):
say a top age. She used to be an aid
for Eric Adams, and she is now an advisor to
his current re election campaign. And yesterday, for no reason
that anyone could understand, she she like flagged down a
reporter by the name of Katie Honan who reports for
(02:14):
the city. I'm not super familiar. I guess that must
be a or of a New York thing. And so
she she like flags her down on the street just
like a block from where the campaign office is and says, hey,
follow me or I actually she texts. She text her,
she flagged her down, sheasar her, and then she texts
her because she's her go by and said, hey, can
(02:37):
you meet me across the street over at the TD
TD bank. The reporters like, uh, yeah, okay, So meets
her over at the bank. I guess she assumes maybe
she's gonna get a little dirt. It sounds like they
at least know each other passively. I guess working for Adam,
so that would be the case. And she's like, all right,
(02:58):
hold on, and then she like disappears into the bank,
which is actually in a Whole Foods too, and then
comes out a few minutes later, and she's got a
bag of a bag of chips, like a snack bag
of chips, specifically sour cream and onion rippled potato chips.
And she hands the reporter the bag of chips, and
(03:20):
the reporters like, at first, I thought she was trying
to give me a snack. And then they and then
they parted ways, and Honan said she opened the bag,
uh and discovered inside was some chips, but also a
red envelope full of money. And the reporter was like, yeah,
(03:46):
uh no, yeah, you're not gonna you're not bribing me.
I don't know if it wasn't because it was enough
or maybe so there's some journalistic stuff there. But yeah,
so that's the story now. And uh they at first
she said she she messed up. She actually meant hander
the chips, but she forgot that she had stuffed an
(04:07):
envelope full of hundros in there. And then later she
now has a lawyer and she yeah, the lawyers saying
it's a cultural mix up. And I don't know, I
don't know what Greco's culture is. Let me look at
the picture here where where she's from. Yeah, yeah, so,
(04:28):
I mean, I guess kudos to the reporter there. But
the fact that you just think it's normal to hand
ross how many envelopes full of hundreds stuffed and food
have you received over the years being members of.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
The media, And I'm not gonna lie. Not enough?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Yeah, yeah, so you know, and it doesn't have to
be chips. I I you know, I like beef jerky,
especially because it's you know, it's the cost of a
small car. Now, even if you go to sheets and
get the big the trappers bag the big one, what
is that? What is that? Now? It's like forty bucks
(05:06):
or something. That's the real crime. Everyone's talking about egg prices.
But I I follow more of the jerky.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
That's how I gauge how things are going so and
in the world a jerky it ain't going well. Man,
jerky's crazy expensive. Yeah, or the Uh, I'll tell you
that there's a couple of good jerkys. There's a C's,
but you can only for whatever reason, you can only
get it once you get like West of the Triad.
(05:39):
I think they're out of Wolkesboro. That stuff. That's the
really thin, crispy kind, which is my favorite, like the
real real jerky. And then the other one is the
no Man's Land jerky, which pleasantly surprised with that, but
it doesn't matter. It's still a gazillion dollars. So anyway, Yeah,
(05:59):
she said I uh when Greco also said uh, because
she first she kind of denies it like it was
an accident, but then she says, I just wanted her
to be my friend. Attorney Stephen Brill claims that Greco
is purely innocent and shocked the incident up to a
misunderstanding based on cultural differences. She Okay, she's Chinese, so
(06:24):
money is often given to others as a gesture of
friendship and gratitude. Yeah, but again, you're you're a political
advisor and you work for a campaign, and that's a reporter,
right I I how you how you mix that up
(06:44):
because of quote unquote cultural differences. By the way, I
have a couple of friends who are of Chinese heritage,
and I know they ever given me any money? What
the hell I'm gonna have to have a tie, buddy, Mike,
he's never given well, I mean, he shouldn't say he's
giving me any money. He's been forced to because I
went in Nassau. But he's not handing it over in chips.
(07:11):
So Mayor Adam said he had no prior knowledge of
the matter. So yeah, yeah, that's so New York man.
Just a bag full of chips and full of money
right there. But that you think you're gonna get away
with it, I don't know. I think Adams Adam says
what he's third right now? If you in the polling,
(07:34):
I think Cuomo's actually higher than him. So I don't
know that it's really going to impact his reelection at
bon Dami's Like, what else could that guy do to
get people not to vote for him, at least same
thinking people. I don't know the answer to it, So
that's that's that's probably pretty much a done deal there.
(07:55):
So anyway, just just letting people know. I think the
old the story is ross and I like chips, big
fans of snack foods. There in moderation, of course, right,
But that's why you take some of the chips out,
You put the money in there, and then boom, you
don't need as many chips. It's the easy peasy, all right.
(08:19):
I gotta tell you, man, I don't know if you
guys have been watching this, the uh the cracker barrel thing,
this is this. I've never seen people so fired up
over this Ross. Do you guys have a cracker barrel
up in your direction?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, yeah, I couldn't remember. I didn't know if there
was one up there, not that I could remember. Obviously.
He goes south like down towards Benson. Boom, cracker barrel
right there, go out towards the airport. Cracker barrel out there,
crackerberry of course. The one if I'm gonna eat it
a cracker barrel, likelihood is it's gonna be the one
like in MEVN. Graham there right on the interstate, mostly
(09:03):
because you can get you can clock a visual on
how busy it is and then decide whether you're gonna
get off the exit if you depend on which direction
you're going. But I I'm down with some cracker barrel.
You're not opposed to cracker barrel, right, that's pretty good. No.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I was a fan, like a fan of the store front.
I saw some people yesterday criticizing the food, like calling
it like hospital food. I'm like, dude, what, Yeah, I
don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
That dude, that potato, that breakfast potato cast role is elite.
I could go and just eat that. No, no, no, no,
you can't trash on the food. But apparently they've decided, hey,
what we need to do? And I don't know, there's
just this thing, there's this this need by brands now
to quote unquote declutter, and it's like crack. Look, cracker
(09:51):
Barrel's thing is clutter. Do you know what I mean?
You what? What? What? What is going on the moment
you walk into a cracker Barrel?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
But like I said, there's the store and there's stuff everywhere,
and then the lighting is very dim, which I like,
I'm not a bright light guy. Yeah, and then you
sit down and they're they're very cozy, right, the puzzles there.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Right, yeah, you know, the food's gonna be pretty good
when it comes out. And uh and ten the logo, right,
and this is this is killing people. So the logo
has both a barrel and a cracker on it, right,
I'm assuming that's a white dude in the rocking chair there,
and it says cracker barrel. They're like, all right, we're
gonna bring in one of these New York marketing geniuses.
(10:32):
All right, let's go on revamps. Let's revamp. Let's let's
remove the soul from our stores. All right, what do
you want to do with the logo? Well, what if
we take both the barrel and the cracker and the
wheelchair off of there or in the wheelchair in the
rocking chair. And I bet somebody got paid to get
zillion dollars for that too. They even they even change
(10:53):
the font, it's the same. It just still says cracker barrel.
They just got just got rid of the I don't know,
the the the country store feel, which is I don't know,
kind of the brand kind of the brand, And then
and and look, I don't know anything about the woman's politics,
but uh, and then you put the oversized ceo glass
(11:14):
lady up there, who then is like, no, everybody loves
the changes. I don't know. Do you have Twitter, ma'am?
Nobody's loving the changes. But if you're gonna do it,
I might as well cash in. I would like to
propose if you're trying to refine and dumb this down,
I think it's still too busy. The logo, Yeah, you
(11:34):
got rid of the graphics. You just have the words.
But do you need all those letters? Let me let
me help you out here. Ross, we're starting a marketing agency.
In our first big pitch, crack bar. Okay, right, they
already removed all the logo in let's get rid of
half the letters.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I think we people would be lined up down the
street for crackbar.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah, man, who would want to go to crack bar?
Which again the potent castro kind of crack man. Maybe
it's got some of that parmesan in it we talked
about earlier in the week, crack bar. And look that
he got a single syllable for each word. It's really
instead of four syllables that your customers have to remember.
(12:19):
I'm gonna make this as simple as possible. So if
you want to sterilize your stores and sterilize your logo, uh,
people are not going to respond well. Plus a craw
loyal cracker barrel audience. Man, those are the folks that
are out there before it opens on a Saturday. They've
already hijacked. They hijacked. They're welcome to use them. They've
(12:40):
got all the rock and chairs on lockdown. They know
every waitress in there, and I, you know, I apparently
it's bothering some of them. If you happen to look
at people's reaction, I just didn't realize because it's not
the most aggressive rebranding we've seen. Right. Arguably, bud Light
really set the bar where they're like, what if we
(13:02):
tell everyone who gives us money every week traditionally for
thirty years, uh, that they are a bunch of hicks
that need to go away, a bunch of frat boys,
a bunch of toxic masculine people. That admittedly was a
much harsher rebrand, but like, why would you screw with it?
(13:22):
It's like you're doing something to do something now, whether
it has impact on the sales, I don't know. You
know how people like to get on the internet and complain,
but I don't know if I've seen as much people
simultaneously complaining about something in a while. So if you
can't beat them, join them, crack bar, send me a
million dollar consulting fee. I just solved this for you
(13:44):
six point twenty. Hang on. You gotta be able to
read the room. And when I say read the room,
you have people that I have watched many many great
brands have the soul kicked out of them. And look
when you're once you get up to big national brand,
there's there's less soul there. I gotta keep using the
(14:06):
word soul. But I think you understand what I'm saying.
People are willing to accept that. And uh and and
so when you see the visceral reaction that people have
had to what ross? What would you say that the
three worst rebranding things we've seen recently are bud Light uh,
Jaguar Right, that was an absolute disaster. There's been some
(14:32):
others what uh what? But but when you see you
see this negative visceral reaction to whether it's woke rebranding
or it's we're gonna take something that's not really broke
and and and then unfix it. Somehow.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I thought the Angelia thing was stupid.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, one hundred percent because even
right formally and Jemima on the box, they just don't
have the picture what's it called the Pearl whatever?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, And obviously in Jemima was a character, but it
created like the woman that played her was based off
she became like super rich, Like yeah really, and there
are people in the black community that still miss that
that product, right, And you've seen the meme where it's
like you're taking all of these things off and they're like, yeah,
you're taking the Indian off. You're taking you know, in
Jemima off and all your left with those right yeah,
(15:24):
all you have, all that's left on the shelves are
white people, right, like anybody? Yeah, like what's going on there?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
It's like a nineteen fifties Democrat dream, you know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
But you're right about reading the room because one thing
that's really powerful right now. I mean it's always been powerful,
but especially in the past few years because things have
really started to suck, was nostalgia.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah, and you could even.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Say that, like the right was really pretty good at
cashing in on that nostalgia. Right, we want to go
back to when it was amazing, like the eighties and stuff,
and now.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Make America great was the last word again?
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Right? Right?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, So nostalgia is very powerful. And when you're taking
something that people are comfortable with and completely this drawing
the brand for reasons, people are gonna be outraged by that.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yes, and who when you go to a cracker barrel?
Who's in there? You go to the one and if
you go to the one in Benson, right is that
if it's technically it's I guess it's in Benson. Yeah,
it's right across the highway, if you guys. So if
you go to that one down there, you go to
the one over by the airport, or if you go
to the one out there in Graham and Mevan, or
you go to you know, they get a couple around
the triad. What do you when you when you go
in there, and you go in there on a Saturday morning,
(16:25):
what do you got? What do you got in there?
Is it a bunch of youngins? It ain't a bunch
of youngins unless they're with their grandparents. And let me
tell you, grandparents taking you to Cracker Barrel is a
core memory for some people. That's a great place to
take kids. I know y'all think that I don't like kids.
That's not true. Cracker Barrel is one hundred percent. Or
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you should take the grandkids. That's amazing. And so you
form that core memory you grow up, you take your
own kids there because you know what you're gonna get, right,
you gonna you're gonna get the you're gonna get the
They've got a good kids menu. It's gonna be it's
gonna be consistent pretty much depending on which one you
go to. Yeah, it's gonna be crowded, but it's fun
(17:08):
to sit in the rock and chairs. People enjoy that,
drink some coffee. You got a hundred of those old
I call them the old man groups. It's not you
know what the old man groups are, right, Go to
any diner you got that core group of like eight
retired gentlemen who meet there at like oh dark thirty
twice a week just to talk about whatever. That's a
hallmark of a local diner that still exists at places
(17:30):
like Cracker Barrel. You see at McDonald's sometimes too, coffee
clubs or whatever they and and and so you have
all that and people get set in their expectations there.
But these are the same people that come and spend
money with you all the time. And and yeah, you
could argue the front's a little it's it's kind of
a maze getting up in there, and so it looks
(17:51):
like they've removed a bunch of merchandise to open it
up in there. But that was also kind of the
core charm. You know why, because half the time, if
you go to Cracker Barrel, you're not walking into a seat, right,
You're not walking in and getting seated immediately. If it's
a rush time, you got you you get on a list,
you got thirty minutes to kill whatever. But you don't
mind doing it because you're gonna look at the jelly
(18:12):
beans and I'll look at this thing they have. And
but yeah, kids want a toy or I wanted. I
I bought a shirt there for somebody one time, kind
of as a like a gag gift, but I was
in praying it was it was an inside joke. But
like I remember buying the shirt and I thought it
(18:34):
was a little expensive and I realized it is decent
quality too, and then before you know it, Hey, there's
your name. Time to go sit down and bring me
all the potato castrole thing. I mean, I'm really addicted
to that.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
No, it's good.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Now.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
They're making all these changes, and so there has to
be obviously, like I would imagine, like a revenue problem,
and they're looking at the revenue the bottom line, right
would Yeah, so anyway, and they're like, oh, we have
to make changes because the revenue is down. But I mean,
I don't think those are the changes. I mean, I
don't think people aren't coming to eat anymore because of
the store in the front, or because the lights are
dim or because of the logo. Right, people aren't coming
(19:09):
to eat anymore because things are more expensive. So I
don't know how you handle that, But I don't think
it's by drastically changing everything that people love about when
they do go there.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah, No, this is yeah, to your point, this is
not just a cracker barrel problem. It's it's a fast
it's a people diving out less problem, because holy hell,
you want to charge me what for what? I'd love
to see? There's I saw a bunch of side by
sides of menus from like Ross. Do you remember way
(19:41):
back in twenty nineteen somebody had side by sides of
basically the food menus at like all these restaurants. I
don't remember Cracker Barrels was there. I'm wondering how much
they've raised prices over the last five years, and it's
not insignificant in most cases.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Right, So, now you've made all these changes, when people
do say, hey, let's you know, bite the ball and
let's go out to eat in a you know, let's
spoil ourselves a little bit, where do we want to go.
In the past, it might have been maybe somebody would
have said, hey, let's go to Cracker Barrel. I just
like that vibe. I want to go there, you know,
you know, and I'll pay the bill whatever it is.
But now they're gonna see like into the store is
it even there anymore? And now the I'm sure you
(20:21):
saw the video of the lighting, oh, everything is completely changed,
like the ball.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Walk through there. I'm like, oh, yeah, you know what,
you know, this sounds horrible. I remember thinking, ah, I
wouldn't want to. I would have you that you could
go to Cracker Okay, this is not for the kids. Dude,
cracker barrel is a great hangover cure, but no place
that has super bright lighting is where you go to
get your hangover cured. Okay, that's the last thing you want.
(20:47):
You just want you to give me all the grease.
I made some bad decisions last night. More potato cast role,
I'll die on this hill and uh and now you
go in there and it has Yeah, it's it's it's
like it's you know what, it feels like fluorescent lights
at an office and if you're once you have a restaurant,
it feels like fluorescent lights at an office.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
You're not doing the the vibe is off. Okay, so yeah, good.
I hate fluorescent lighting. Like my house is always super dim.
And it was like that even before Lincoln because we
feel like, oh, well, you keep your house dim because
of you know, Lincoln's autos. I've always been that way.
I always say that, I think and my sister says
this too. She's a special education teacher. She up in
New York. She teaches autistic children. And she actually said,
(21:31):
was the first one to say it to me. That great.
She's like she believes that everybody in some ways in
the autism spectrum like in some way, even if it's
a small, tiny way. My way is I'm really like,
you know, weird around people, like big groups, like a
very uncomfortable. But also if the lights are bright, like
like they are down in sales, like yes, I said,
there are times and it sounds crazy, I feel like
it physically hurts, Like I hate that sort of bright lighting.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
I love that in our studios. So we have fluorescent lights,
but we also have on a dimmer like these can lights,
and you can, like you can make it so it's
just light enough in there that you're not banging your
legs into everything. And that is the perfect broadcast light
right there, broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Like yeah, I know there are people that disagree with
both of us. And you'll walk well, you'll walk by
Keithy and we have several studios here in radio stations obviously,
and you'll walk by and they'll be working and it
looks like super bright, like like a dentist office, you
know what I mean, Like that crisp white super light,
like they're looking in your mouth with that light, and
I don't know how you can work with that, Like
I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
One of the salespeople came to popped into the studio
one time. It's a it's a former cellar, and I'll
just say ross, it's one we were talking about yesterday,
you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
So she like comes down the hall and she's a
lot of times she was way too perky to come
on our side of the building because just don't it's
too early. And she pops in, like right after the
show on time, just walks in by the way, and
she's like, I why I didn't even I've been looking
for you. Why is it so dim? And and I'm like,
(23:00):
she goes, I can't even see you, and I'm like,
that's why it's so dim in here, so salespeople can't
see that I'm in my studio and come in here.
And she just looked at me, and I'm like, all right,
maybe that was a little aggressive. I'm trying it was
a joke, but.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Well, I mean for me too, I mean this is
like inside baseball enough the audience out of care. But
it also if my lights are dim in my studio,
it helps me see what lights on the borderre on
because they stand down. If your studio is super bright.
I've seen like younger people like starting out in the
business do this, and their studio will be super white, bright,
like they're broadcasting from the sun and they can't tell
what's on or off because everything is super bright.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
You just gotta you just gotta learn. You start with
bright lights and less loud headphones, and then once you're
a veteran, it's damn near dark in your studio. You're deaf,
so you have to have like the ample fire for
your headphones. Tell me there's any lies in what I
just said. Nope, there's no lies. The amount of people
that work in this business that if you know, they
(23:57):
don't have to wear their headphones to here perfectly what
is being said. They could be sitting on a counter
on the other side of the room. So that is
the natural progression of things.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
But let's be honest, it just looks cool with the
bright lights. Is the first time I ever walked in
a radio station, like a real radio station was like
nineteen ninety six. It was Flying ninety two up in Albany,
and I went in there for like an internship position,
and I like the studio. The night DJ's studio was dark, right,
it kept the lights very dip and I remember walking
in that studio and seeing that board with the lights
(24:28):
on it, and it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, it's like it's like, uh, it's well one, it's
it's it's it's almost like the way you drive at
night where you want to, you know, like lower the
lights in your car and it gives you better better
night vision. But also to your point, there is a
there is a there is a certain coolness factor because
at any given time in Roster's studio, more so in
Ross's studio because that's where the main board is, there's
(24:52):
probably a thousand, i don't know, thousand, several hundred different
bulbs illuminated between the boards, the rack room stuff that
we have to use, all of the support equipment, all
of the PCs, you know, the the that are in
the various racks, the eas machine like it's it's the
(25:12):
it's the deck of the enterprise man.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
So yesterday, this is very funny. So you know, Marky
has obviously been tired, you know, she you know, we're
having a November, so she was like, hey, can you
do some cooking? And I said, yeah, I mean I
don't do much, but I've been doing more, right, Okay,
I actually kind of enjoy it. So I'm in the
kitchen and I'm making her dinner, and I'm making my
dinner and I'm making Lincoln's dinner. Right, They're all completely different.
(25:39):
So I've got one thing in this thing, i got
one thing in the air, thing in the oven, and
I'm like going from one thing to the next, and
I'm just and Markey comes in and she goes, man,
you are you are really good at multitasking. And I'm like,
do you have any idea what I do for a living?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Right? Yeah? And I said, I said, I'm multitask for
a living. I'm running a board, screening a call simultaneously
and communicating on air when when asked, right, simultaneously. That's
what I do. That's I do. I'm fund you there
is something that is so endearing about your wife's uh not,
(26:15):
like the amount of stuff that you realize she doesn't
know it and then you get jealous. Oh completely, yeah,
they would newse stuff. She's like, oh is that a thing?
You're like, what, Yeah, yeah, it's a thing.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
But it was great, Like that's what I Yeah, I
kind of do that for a living.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, And let me tell you if we put an
air frar and Ross's studio right now. That way he
would be doing that as well. He could do four things,
or he could take the microwave from the floor put
it in there. He got options anyway. All right, So
just to say I was blown away by the uh
all the cracker barrel insanity. All right, let me play
this chick's audio for you. Sorry, we've got a little
(26:51):
sidetracked there. So this woman went to Berkeley. She has
a PhD. And so she's a soil scientist and and
she got all the degrees and now she's got to
go be a soil scientist and lo and behold, she's
striking out trying to find these jobs, which which struck
(27:12):
me as a little weird. Soil scientists are most definitely,
most definitely in demand, and and you work with them
in a wide variety of ways. And I thought, well,
maybe it's just me. Having a bit of an agricultural background,
I understand how we interact with soil scientists a little more.
I wonder what the deal is why this woman is
unable to find work. And then I let her explain
(27:34):
it to me, and then I figured and then I
heard who she's blaming, and I'll give you a teaser.
She's blaming Trump and capitalism. But I feel like there
may be another component as to why she can't find
a job. Let's see if you can figure it out
in her little rant here, what may be another problem
(27:54):
for her career search.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Getting crushed by capitalism. It's like so craned, but it's
like it's happening to me, and like.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I got everyone's a victim. I'm sorry, just remember everyone's
a victim. This is the least endearing quality of younger
generations right now, and it's not unique to them. It's
like a phase, but now it's more visible because everyone
has to make a video of it. And honestly, I
think this is what drives a big divide with generationally
(28:26):
because it's not like you know, ah, the younger generations
lays and the younger generations like the older generations out
of touch. That's not new. It's that now rather than
just listening to your grandkid complain where you kind of
like internally roll your eyes but you want to be supportive,
now you get a fire hose of everybody who you
(28:47):
know who just wants to be in that victim culture.
This is this looks like a well to do white
girl who is able to go to Berkeley and has
a PhD. She probably hasn't had a lot of struggle
in her life, so this is her victimhood getting.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
Crushed by capitalism is like so cringe, but it's like
it's happening to me. And like I got a PhD
from Berkeley, and like I can't get a job to
save my life. Like I got a soil biology PhD.
And like now I'm a tutor and a babysitter and
(29:25):
a dog setter, and like part of that is because
like I don't want to like move to some random
place in the middle of nowhere. But like the other
half is like they cut all the funding for science,
and like the biotech market is just like absolutely cratered,
and like I have long COVID, so it's difficult for
(29:47):
me to work like a full time job. And just
like I got on here to rant a little bit,
but like, oh my god, like what do we do?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I just have to work? Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, So.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
The long COVID thing is so annoying.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Dude, every liberal white woman has long COVID. What a
what a horrible, bigoted disease. That is right, man, long
everyone's got long covid ros. Okay, the long covid aside. Uh,
were there any other clues that maybe you picked up
in there that might be styming her job search that
we could help her out with.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Yeah, I think where she doesn't want to move.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
But specifically where does she not want to move to
where the dirt is, where the dirt is correct? Yeah,
because I don't know if you know this rock. You
were raised in Schenectady, you know a little more city.
I was raised in the wilds of Wyoming. Who do
you think had more available dirt if you had a guy.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
If I were to look at a map and critical assessment,
probably say you did.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, You're like, oh no, it was
ground everywhere. Not to say not the same because a
whole lot of that that soil biology stuff is directly
interspliced with the agricultural stuff. And I'm sorry, they're not
doing eight hundred acres a golden rod next to Ross's house,
(31:11):
So you can't there's there's no help for you. Man,
that's like that, You're gonna have to move quote unquote
to the middle of you know, you have to go
to the middle, middle of nowhere. You can go work
at an extension office, do a regional thing, get it fixed.
We'll be back. That Christy Dome is doctor Evilman. Watching
people react to this, I don't know if you've seen
(31:33):
what they're doing down on the southern border, and then
of course the moonba reaction to it. But I'm sorry, like,
this is not she's this isn't. This isn't sharks with lasers. Okay,
it's not what this is. So they want to make
a little change to the existing border wall. And when
(31:53):
you find out, you know the because at first people
are like, well, if you make this change, then what
you don't understand is this is gonna happen. And I'm like, no, no, no,
that's clearly their plan for that thing to happen. What
is that thing? Well, let's go ahead and hear from
the secretary, shall we.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
There's no nation at all, and we're so thankful that
we have a president that understands that and understands that
a secure border is important to our country's future. Now,
if you look at the structure that's behind me, it's tall,
which makes it very very difficult to climb, almost impossible.
It also goes deep into the ground, which would make
it very difficult, if not impossible, to dig under. And
(32:30):
today we are also going to be painting it black.
That is specifically at the request of the President, who
understands that in the hot temperatures down here, when something
is painted black, it gets even warmer and it will
make it even harder for people to climb. So we
are going to be painting the entire southern border wall
black to make sure that we encourage individuals to not
(32:53):
come into our country illegally, to not break our federal laws.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Yeah. So I saw people are responding to just the
story and they didn't hear what Nome said. They're like,
these people are so stupid. What they don't understand is
if you're paint it black because it's in the desert,
it's gonna be a thousand degrees and then the people
trying to climb over, they're gonna burn their hands. I'm like, no, no, no,
that's that's what they're going for. That's it, because I remember,
(33:20):
the wall is supposed to be a deterrent. It shouldn't
have it. It shouldn't be air conditioned. It defeats the
We know what we need is we need climb, we
need steps, that's what we need. No, No, it's it's
a it's the wall. And I don't know. It would
be really funny too, by the way, Ross if the
they just thought of it, because Trump was sitting around
(33:41):
the Oval office listening to the stones or something and
that's not pain of black comes on. He's like, that's
a brilliant idea. It's going and do that. No, that
is why they're doing it. You just heard the secretary
say so. Because now in addition to the height, in
addition to the depth, in addition to the slippery nature
of the wall. And it's not like they haven't been
(34:02):
able to climb it. They got they got the old
timey rope hooky thing. They're still finding ways to do it.
It's not easy. But you know now it's so hot
that you know, you can't touch it with bear skin.
That's gonna make it a little it's gonna make it
more of a deterrent. So it just makes it more
(34:23):
successful at its job. And there is a really easy
way not to get burned on the pitch black border
wall rost. You know what you know how to not
get burned on the pitch black border wall. If you
had to strategize, if you had to come up with
a heist scenario, you know, how to avoid getting burned
on it.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
It's very simple, you know, I don't don't try to
climb it.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
Oh yeah, all right, there you go, easy peasy.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
What if you go under the wall. Can we go
under the wall?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Well, it's very deep, although you can. I mean every
now and then they do find one of these tunnels.
But in reality, unless you're like a big ill Chapo
or Choppo or whatever, U does it, you know, or
you got a bunch of workers so you can put
a motorcycle tunnel underd Yeah, that's generally too much work
for just your standard run of the mill person wanting
to go, you know, go through the fence. You're generally
(35:11):
gonna have to go over because you don't have the
time to dig. You're gonna get caught. So yeah, so yes,
I guess it is a possibility, but it's not really practical.
Speaker 8 (35:22):
No.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
What you might have to do is go through a
legal port of entry. I know, crazy crazy town around
here this morning, but uh, hey we do what we do. Okay,
all right, very good. So I just want to I
just want to clear that up, because people are like, oh,
they're accused them, they like they have some secret agenda
because they just they're trying to just trying to make
(35:43):
the wal hot. And I'm like, it's not a secret.
She said it, because they're clearly excited about it too.
They're not hiding anything from you. It's not forty chess.
It's a it's it's a feature, not a bug, as
as you guys like to say. And I'm here for it. Hey,
I have a question, Well, how the hell does this happen?
(36:07):
What a headline Maine police officer arrested by ICE agrees
to voluntarily deport What a police officer in Maine was
arrested by ICE and has now agreed to voluntarily leave
the country. Old or old orchard? Or orchard? Uh? Orchard?
(36:27):
I guess. P Beach Police Department officer John Luke Evans, right,
Where's John Luke Evans from Jamaica? Is from Jamaica? Actually was?
Speaker 8 (36:41):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Yeah? It was arrested back in July as part of
the agency's effort to step up immigration enforcement. Officials with
the town and department have said federal authorities previously told
them Evans was legally authorized to work in the US.
Wait and this, look, this is the other part of
it too, because I know a lot of people. People
are like, ah, the town's trying to pull something here.
(37:02):
The town is adamant that they went they E verified
this dude. So and I really don't like the response too.
By the way, by whoever, the one of the people
at ICE actually commented on this. Yeah, all right, so well,
hold on, an ICE representative reached by telephone, blah blah blah.
(37:26):
I want to go back into the permitting part of this. Okay,
here we go. Chief of police at least charged has
said the department was notified by federal officials that Evans
was legally permitted to work in the country, and the
town had submitted information via the Department of Homeland Securities
E verified program prior to his employment. Here's the comment
(37:46):
that I'm not a fan of. Assistant Secretary of Homeland
Security Trisia McLaughlin then accused the town of quote and
I've never heard this term reckless reliance on the Department's
E verified program. What the hell does that mean? And
by the way, what a way to tell people not
(38:07):
to do the everify which, while it's not perfect, is
at least a sign a step of due diligence on
the part of an employer. I'm almost if if they
went and did the everify with this stuff, if they
did their due diligence and the Feds told him that
this person was legal to work, I don't know that.
(38:29):
I'm mad at the city. But also I don't know
if that's one hundred percent true because the way you know,
but don't tell, what do you mean reckless reliance? So
I was reckless to rely on you, who I'm supposed
to consult with telling me that it was okay. You
can't look, especially when you're going through everything that you're
(38:50):
going through and you're trying to in some cases force
municipalities to work with federal authorities on immigration. You gotta
hey good faith the effort that when they do work
with you, you guys are going to try to get
this stuff right and it's not going to turn into
finger pointing. Yeah. But also I just I don't I
(39:12):
don't know how how it gets to that. I guess
he was trying to buy a gun too, and I
think maybe that's what tipped him off. Ice official say
in July that Evans overstate is visa and unlawfully attempted
to purchase a firearm, but now says he will voluntary departure.
Then obviously he won't have a deportation. Now, don't get
(39:33):
me wrong. Clearly, I you know, you know these visas
have dates on them, and you know and and and
maybe at that point he has a responsibility to go
ahead and figure it out. I don't know what the
department has, but uh, I really hate the FEDS going, Nah,
that's reckless reliance. So it's reckless to rely on the
(39:56):
system that I'm supposed to use. What a stupid statement,
but also what a stupid situation. I'm almost yeah again,
this guy should have known because they have dates on
these things. And I'm sick of people claiming that it's
too complicated. It's not. Look, dealing with government could be complicated.
But uh, let me explain something to people who would
(40:17):
come here and want to become a citizen. That's what people,
that's what we all put up with, right the irs
where you have to you have to know exactly how
much money, down to the penny you're supposed to give
the Irs? They and can they tell you what it is?
No they'll tell you after if you don't pay the
(40:39):
right amount, and then they'll add more to it. But no,
that's up to you to figure it out. You go through,
you go to retire, and you find like I work with,
you know, retirement clients, financial advisors, and when they explain
how social Security works, I just assumed you turn sixty
five and check start showing up when I was younger.
That's not the case. The whole thing is, like, you
(41:01):
gotta have perfect timing if you want to get the
most money from it. You got to you gotta understand
the system. It's so complex that it you know, compliance
and understanding it is like it's it's like taking a
college course, man, But that's what you do. So I
don't have a lot of sympathy if you're coming here
and all you have to do is pay attention to
a date on a on a visa, like I know
(41:26):
that maybe in the country you come from, they they
they transposed the month and day, you know, like we
do it one way in the US with the month
first and most other countries the days first. But even
then you got to get you know, you gotta have
it figured out with you know, within a few months,
even if you if you transpose it in most cases
(41:47):
now no sympathy here, but not helpful from the Feds
that we're getting. It's some some guy who clearly didn't
have work authorization, if in fact that is what the
city was told. And I don't see them pushing back
when you make the statement that, oh, well, they were
just dumb for relying on us, Well, then people are
going to want to work with you. If working with
(42:09):
you doesn't mean that they're actually covering their butt on
these things. Did every arrest the officer made since his
visa expired get thrown out? I don't know, And frankly,
I think he was. I think he's been in a
reserve role up to this point because and then he
was trying to get his firearm, and then that's what
triggered this. So I'm not sure how many arrests he
may have made. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was exposed me
(42:33):
trying to put down it. No, I understand Boston Paul
is now very invested in this story. Wait, is Boston
Paul an illegal rashid have we considered this? Why would
somebody call themselves Boston Paul? Right? Remember how the media
was making that illegal from El Salvador the Maryland man, Right,
you just attach a US geographic location and then that
(42:55):
makes you there. Why would somebody call themselves Boston Paul
unless they're trying really hard. Yeah, now I got questions.
It's all coming together. We're gonna need an investigation here,
so uh but yeah, no, it looks like the epistol purchase,
which again is why the whole Everify thing is really weird, right,
(43:18):
because you're like, well, okay, well, I mean, if that's
what they're if that's what they're supposed to do, and
I don't know how it is for law enforcement versus
I don't know, staffing at a country an old country buffet,
but maybe it's different. Maybe it's not. I mean, it's
probably is just due to the level of background check
they're probably running on you. But like if they if
(43:38):
they did the thing they're supposed to do and then
he relied on it, don't call it reckless reliance. It's
the whole thing just annoys me. Man, dude, what is
it with Ross? I know you think you get savaged.
I'm telling you there's there's some about these ESPN reporters,
and I don't know why they hate the Vikings. It's like,
why why are you picking? Like there's been two or
(43:59):
three stories this week where I just kind of because I,
you know, the Viking stuff ends up in my feed
where it's just like they have some vendetta and I
don't know if it's against the ownership there or what
it is, but like now they're like, why would you
put a list out of Minnesota's big bus this year
and not big bus like that chicken Tennessee who you
(44:20):
know vandalyzed the car. Not that kind of bust uh,
but like crapping on Dallas Turner man. But one of
our linebackers here, always a buddy the guys, it's his
second year. Get over it. Although Ross I saw you
guys are in trouble up there in Buffalo. They had
a list of how much to cap room everybody had,
(44:41):
and everybody's got some cap but Vikings have a bunch,
so you know we won't actually spend it. There's only
one team in the NFL is over the cap and
it's you guys. By about see, I think it's six
hundred thousand. Are you guys? Who you gonna cut? Man?
You guys gonna have to cut somebody up in Buffalo,
because you know, I don't know when that exactly has
(45:01):
to be done. I suppose here in a couple of weeks.
But I thought that was kind of interesting. So you're
all in, man, Raven's all in the Buffalo. Bill's all in,
just like right there at the cap. So they're spending
everything they think they got to spend. Well, how much
did you guys? Just give your running back? That's probably
why you're there, because that deal just got done here
like what maybe a week ago with James Cook. Sorry,
(45:25):
I just get frustrated when I'm sitting here and it's like, dude, oh,
here's here's another here's another story about well, the Vikings suck.
I'm aware, I'm aware that we have an immense amount
of talent on the team and just can't get over
the hump, got it? Sorry, just some trip slipped into
my feed there, and then I just went off on
a tangent because that's what I do, all right, Going
(45:48):
back to the Uh, this guy who's screaming while they're
taking him into custody, I'm here, I just want to work.
I'm gonna be with my family. He's crying or he's
yelling he's hysterical, and immediately all the worst parts of
journalism just decided to take everything at face value. It's
like these remember the idiots where they go and they
think they're disrupting an ice raid when in reality it's
(46:10):
a giant drug raid. Like that's what happened to Minneapolis.
I don't know if you guys remember that. Or they
took to the streets and it's like, oh, they're snatching
people off the streets, when in reality, they were busting
one of the biggest meth ventanylu distribution things that was
going on in the city of Minneapolis. That's what they
were doing. But nobody stops to ask any questions. They
(46:33):
just get all triggered by the video on And there
was one little problem because they didn't wait, And had
they waited, they would have known that the man being
taken into custody by the name of David Perez Tiofani.
(46:56):
This is not his first arrest. I don't know if
you know this. In fact, it's not even his first
illegal entry into the United States. No, no, no, David
Perez Tiofani, according to immigration officials, has a final order
of removal. It's not his first he's actually this is
(47:17):
his third time illegally entering the US, getting kicked out
of the US, and then illegally entering the US again,
so like he's familiar with the process. And oh, by
the way, what did we kick him out for last time,
other than just the fact that he'd be kicked out
twice previously, the part where he was arrested in outside
(47:40):
of d C last year, charged with aggravated sexual battery
of a minor under thirteen. So to all of your
reporters out there yesterday who are standing for this dude,
as they say, that's a that's a child molester, that's you.
(48:05):
Try anyone who celebrates sister takes joy. I don't know
about you. I do take joy. I will your accusation
is accurate. Terry Moran, former ABC news person who was
just fired because he's a bias piece of garbage. Yes,
I do take joy in watching pedophiles put in handcuffs.
I could watch it on loop all day. I'm a
(48:27):
big fan. If they had a TV network where they
just arrested pedophiles and I got to watch that, I
got to watch them just lose their minds over it.
I'd watch that that's the kind that's the kind of
feel good family programming this country needs. Oh but he
just wants to be with his family. Who goes to work.
(48:48):
He's not a criminal, he said, So he goes. She
just goes to work, and he wants to be with
his family. Okay, all right, So he's raping tweens after
five o'clock. Okay, okay, you said, I don't understand what
your justification is here. Yeah, ross that you imagine that man,
This guy puts in a full day's work, gets home,
(49:12):
kicks his boots off, and then rapes tweens. But not
before five because if you know, if you if you
do it before five, much like you know, drinking, probably
if you're drinking, you know, if you're day drinking, that's
probably not good. If you're raping kids in the middle
of the day when you should be at work, that's
not very American.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
Jessica Tarlav was like, what does she say, Jessics Tarlav
the lunatic fox lady. So the cruelty is the point, Yes,
it is the point when apprehending rape a child rapist.
I'm one hundred percent. Have you heard of the wood
chipper have you heard of the wood chipper? I don't
(49:53):
know's there's a lot of people when they see child rapists,
they don't necessarily just want to put in handcuffs, they
want putting a wood chipper. So this is this is good. Yeah,
by all means, Man, I'd love watching the child rapists
get apprehended. It's screaming cry channel. I'd watched that every day. Boston, Paul,
(50:16):
what's up?
Speaker 3 (50:18):
Hey? That ja making the guy the cop there from
Old Orchard Beach.
Speaker 1 (50:23):
Yeah, he was.
Speaker 3 (50:24):
He's just doing the job most Americans won't do, you know,
but Jo.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
He tried to. He never really kind of got up
there because he couldn't get a gun.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
So well, see that's the thing up there. You know
that area is any even Massachusetts to a lot of
the tourist he towns will hire summer cops and some
of them do arm them and they only go to
a two week police academy.
Speaker 1 (50:48):
Oh what are they? What are they dealing? What crime?
Are they dealing with? Kids doing ding dong?
Speaker 5 (50:55):
No?
Speaker 3 (50:55):
No, no, no, they could be dealing with any crime.
Speaker 1 (50:58):
Rich rich poles, double parking, I mean.
Speaker 3 (51:01):
No, no, no, no. They some of the towns they
act just just like a full time Swool police officer.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
And some of the time I understand that, but when
you get when you get into one of these little
hoity toity like like what what you know like blowing rock? Right,
what do you what do you think high crime and
blowing rock is? So? Is it kind of one of
those little towns. It's a little tourist postage stamp thing
where city folks go on the weekend and stare at
leaves and stuff or what.
Speaker 3 (51:26):
Old Orchard beach Now it's turned into a it used
to be like that, you know, it's turned into almost
like a myrtle beach for a few a few weeks
out of the.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
Oh okay, you know I was. I tell you one
thing that was really amazing to me when I spent
some time up in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine is
how much everyone in that state hates people from where
you're from.
Speaker 3 (51:48):
Oh yeah, yeah, Well because they bring they bring their
their their politics with them. You know, they kind of
escape the politics, but they bring it with them like morons.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
It's it's just always interest staying to see which states
hate which states, and like those three were all like, oh,
we hate people from Massachusetts, and I'm like, well, what
do you do to you? What about New Yorkers? Like, ah, no,
it's the mass it's the massholes. You'll watch out for them.
Speaker 3 (52:12):
And you were questioning my, my, my loyalty.
Speaker 1 (52:16):
To the well, I just noticed you got Boston in front.
And that sounds like you're trying too hard, much like
the Maryland man who was actually from El Salvador. Is all.
That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (52:25):
I am, I am a triple citizen, but my loyalties
with the United States first.
Speaker 1 (52:31):
Wait, people don't know that he's not joking. He has
other passports.
Speaker 3 (52:35):
Yeah, I'm a US, Irish and Canadian citizen.
Speaker 1 (52:41):
So some would say that that is the same as
saying that you're a fan of a football team and
then when one player goes to a different team from
your original team, you throw your other team out and
then you go to your hot new team. It's like
you just kicked your your wife in thirty years to
the curb.
Speaker 3 (52:57):
For the No, it's too differ like.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
Loyalty issues, man Ross, Does this man sound like he
has loyalty issues with three different passports and citizenship?
Speaker 2 (53:07):
I mean, I was thinking it, but I want to
you know, I got it back to blue, so I
don't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (53:10):
Yeah, man, Boston, I were citizens of the United States only.
I mean, that's problem. That's where our loyalty lies.
Speaker 3 (53:20):
This is that I thought about working for Intopol, but
then I you know, I can't speak any of the language,
so I kind of do it.
Speaker 1 (53:28):
Yeah, you kind of do though, you kind of do, right, yeah, right,
Well the hell is that Bostonian or whatever?
Speaker 5 (53:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (53:37):
All right, get out of here, all right, Oh, I'm
gonna go to Canada. I want to go to Ireland.
What are you, Rosie O'Donnell.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
He's probably running shine.
Speaker 1 (53:47):
That's a good point, man, shine out. And I don't know.
But what opium in? I don't know. Keep doing.
Speaker 2 (53:53):
I mean you've seen his car, right, It's like an
old timey car.
Speaker 1 (53:55):
I mean yeah, yeah, yeah, dude, like all the clues
are there, all right, Race Agic would never smuggle narcotics.
Just do the weather. Yeah, probably if you did, I'm
sure you'd be good at it, because you strike me
as somebody is smart enough not to have a car
full of crack. And then the dude with your light's
not working. Dude, those stories blow me away. It's like,
(54:18):
you can't walk around the car just before you smuggle
your interstate narcotics.
Speaker 9 (54:24):
Yeah, just make sure there's no like reason besides the
narcotics that you're gonna get pulled over, right right.
Speaker 1 (54:30):
Yeah. The number number of times where they pulled some guy,
he's like it was on the interstate doing one hundred
and his lights were off in the middle of the night,
and it's like and he had one hundred pounds of
fool in his car. Jeeze, man, what do you do?
It's like it's like a guy driving home from a
bar and he's like, I'm just gonna hold the can.
That'd be great. Yeah, that'll happen ship anyway. So yeah,
(54:54):
so all right, we had our closest pass, We had
our water rescues because people are stupid. So right, let's
go ahead and turn this franchise arounds. What are we doing, man?
Speaker 9 (55:04):
Yeah, A bean still impacts for the outer banks. Some
areas seeing some of the highest water rise that they've seen,
if not ever. I saw one report that maybe some
spots seeing most flooding they've seen with a two to
four foot surge than maybe they ever have, but pretty
close to it. So the damage is all along the coast.
This is why we tell everybody we don't just concentrate
(55:25):
on the center of a storm which is well offshore,
but a big storm with a wingfield of about four
hundred and fifty to five hundred miles across, so that's
still not close enough to give us any impacts here
this far inland, partly sunnying to mostly sunny next couple
of days, little mid eighties for the Tryad and west
into the mountains. There may be a couple of showers thundershowers,
but all in all looks pretty good even for the weekend.
If there is a shower thundershower, really not going to
(55:48):
be much sunny clouds otherwise, and heiseel stain the little
mid eighties, then I think we'll see another cool downcome
about Tuesday Wednesday of next week, adding the Atlantic to
other systems. At this point, nothing to worry about at
least over the next seven ten days and maybe even longers.
That second one may become a name storm, but looks
like it's going to turn out to see much way
much of the way that Aaron has.
Speaker 1 (56:08):
Did you see Hollywood's latest reboot?
Speaker 5 (56:11):
No, I'm a little nervous.
Speaker 1 (56:13):
Ready, basic instinct.
Speaker 5 (56:17):
Oh really, you're starring.
Speaker 1 (56:20):
Why would why would that matter? You mean? And I
have no idea what I mean? In the Michael Douglas
role in the Mail.
Speaker 5 (56:25):
Detection, I want to know was playing Michael Douglas. Absolutely,
that's who I want to know.
Speaker 1 (56:29):
Oh, okay, because some would say that, Uh, you know,
people might want to want see he was playing. I
don't even know what you're talking to, Gramble or whatever
her name was, Sharon, have.
Speaker 9 (56:40):
No idea would I don't have no idea what you're
you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (56:43):
Are there any scenes that you would recommend they don't
cut in the reboot?
Speaker 8 (56:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (56:49):
Yeah, it's a good point. What is your favorite part
of that movie?
Speaker 5 (56:51):
Ray?
Speaker 1 (56:51):
Yeah? What what stands out to you?
Speaker 9 (56:54):
Well, what stands out to me is when they solved
the mystery.
Speaker 1 (56:58):
I see not anything of the nothing else, No, nothing
at all about interrogation or an You know what's crazy
is that there were two movies whose entire reputation lived
on that moment and but went in wildly different directions. Uh.
And that was basic instinct in the Crying Game.
Speaker 5 (57:21):
Didn't see the Crying Game, so I can't.
Speaker 1 (57:23):
Yeah, let's just say that that goes into an entirely
different direction. Okay, okay, all right you sure, yeah you should.
You should google that immediately. Okay, perfect, thank you Gray
Stage there for the Weather Channel. Yeah, Rossa, what do
you think they claim it's going to be non woke?
I heard it's going to be Goredlock the Destroyer. Oh geez, yeah, man?
Speaker 2 (57:48):
Sure is that a rumor? I just made up that?
Speaker 1 (57:51):
I don't know. I heard it on the radio. So yeah, yeah,
so watch out for that. I give you a few
more details on this coming up, either a Basic Instinct.
Joe Ezerhaus, who's eighty now, he's eighty now, has announced
they're doing a reboot of Basic Instinct, and he said
(58:14):
that being politically correct has stripped films of real dialogue.
So he promised that the reboot will not be woke,
because that would be the terrifying thing, right, because that's
that's all these discussions we have. They're like, all right,
we're gonna remake this movie, but instead of Sharon Stone,
it's Dylan mulvaney. What do we doing?
Speaker 5 (58:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (58:36):
Now, Ross, did you have a favorite scene? I noticed
you asked Ross that from the movie, anything that stood
out to you?
Speaker 2 (58:42):
You know, I'm a fan really of the entire movie
from starting to finish, are you yeah, the entire thing?
Speaker 1 (58:47):
Yeah? Do you remember what happens in the movie?
Speaker 2 (58:49):
Yeah, there's a murder of almost like an ice pick
or something.
Speaker 1 (58:53):
Right, there's a nice pick. Yeah, we'll see you in there.
Speaker 2 (58:55):
There's an interrogation.
Speaker 1 (58:57):
Oh did they do an I didn't notice? Yeah, they
doing of those? Did they learn anything, find anything out?
You know, don't recall did anything reveal itself during the interrogation? Yes, okay,
all right, Well I like a good procedural crime.
Speaker 2 (59:10):
Throat, especially for when the when the movie came out,
like the Ara, it was pretty stunning at the time.
Speaker 1 (59:15):
Yeah, shocking. Yeah, I remember. I remember it was playing
in the theater's opposite. I think it was Batman Returns.
Might have been my cousin something that I went to
watch then and like twelve year old or like you know,
because we're twelve. I'm twelve at the time, and I
remember like it was a discussion topic among twelve year
(59:35):
old boys. Except our theater had two had two screens,
and uh, the theater owner was like he was a
huge he was a very nice guy. Passed away quite
a number of years ago. But he was like super
family guy. Like a lot of movies he wouldn't show,
so the fact that he was showing the movie was
kind of crazy. But like he would like if there
(59:56):
was an R rated movie, there was not a chance
a kid was getting into that, and so he a
movie like that. I remember me and my friends got
in Trouble try to sneak into seven when it came out.
He wouldn't have any of that. But we talked about it.
We talked about it, and I'm sure there's more than
one person who broke their VHS machine trying to fix
(01:00:16):
the tracking and from posing it too much. So maybe
but yeah, they're gonna go ahead and they're gonna they're
gonna redo it. So but it won't be woke. So
take that for what it's worth. I guess maybe he's like, ah,
this will get people to the theaters. And after surviving
a trek to the top of a volcano, in this case,
(01:00:39):
Mount Saint Helen's, our NERD correspondent Stephen Kent, joins us,
good morning, sir, how you doing.
Speaker 8 (01:00:45):
Good morning?
Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
Doing all right? Case you didn't fall in the cold era, Huh,
that's good.
Speaker 8 (01:00:51):
No, I did not reporting myself as safe.
Speaker 1 (01:00:55):
Well, and and you're back in DC where it is
reportedly safer, so that's good.
Speaker 8 (01:01:01):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to going down to Union Station
today and taking some selfies with the soldiers. You know,
should be a good time.
Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
Well, now the question is would you rather take you
with the soldiers or the giant hobo encampment that generally
was right in front of it.
Speaker 8 (01:01:16):
So you know, I think there there's a hobo encampment,
but there's also the hashtag resist encampment that has been
there now for at least a year there to call
out fascism. They are somewhere in between hippies and hoboes.
It's hard to tell the difference.
Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
And I also remember I was I happened to be
in d C on staying in that same hotel right
across from there because I always stay at the Phoenix
Park there. And like I was also there when those
Eco moon bats were blocking all the roads one week
when I was there. It was a few years ago,
and so you have, Yeah, you had the hoboes, and
(01:01:55):
then you had the Extinction rebellion glue myself to the
street losers, and then you had your general of vagrance
and criminals and clearly they don't necessarily all like each other,
even though they're all contributing to a lower quality of life.
So it was interesting to see the hobo's mad at
this extinction rebellion people. I just kind of love those
(01:02:17):
little subplots.
Speaker 4 (01:02:18):
Mans have to stick together, yeah, man, But there was
no unity there all right, speaking of people lessening quality
of life, I have to admit I don't know much
about Roadblocks, or at least I didn't.
Speaker 1 (01:02:34):
Just never a game that really interested me. I understood
it to be a kid's game. But I see all
these stories about parents who are eventually filing lawsuits because
some would have you believe to let your kid go
play Roadblocks as a kid, that taking them to the
park when there's a sex offender reunion picnic going on.
I don't know if it's quite that bad, But the
(01:02:56):
reason I'm bringing it up is now you have this
story that has emerged where I just put it over
here on the other thing, where now you've got politicians
getting involved because Roadblocks is taking legal action against visual
anti predator hunters, which is a whole thing. Chris Hansen
(01:03:17):
probably started the trend, and there's all these YouTube channels
where people trick them in. I don't know how many,
how many are real and fake, but there's a couple that,
you know, bring them in to like grocery stores to
meet them, and then they shame and chase and apprehend people. Basically,
people were taking that to roadblocks, and I guess roadblocks
beef among other things. As I understand it is the
(01:03:39):
way that they were they were violating terms of service
because they were pretending to be like little kids when
they were adults, and so that that violates terms of service.
Never mind the reason they were doing it was to
essentially catch people that are preying on children.
Speaker 8 (01:03:56):
So yeah, cat cat fishing in pursuit of justice.
Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
Right right, And it's like that's not from a pr standpoint,
that's probably not what you want to do, right, at
least not very publicly, because now people are having a
very visceral reaction and this is how and you've you
got the politicians interested. So what's going on here? Man?
With the with the roadblocks that us in.
Speaker 8 (01:04:19):
Yeah, you know, I'll do my best roadblocks. One of
the things that I've taken notice of just being in Washington,
d C. And spending too much of my time unfortunately
on LinkedIn as any as any respectable professional in my
mid thirties, I've seen that, you know, Roadblocks staffing up
a huge a huge amount of people joining their government
(01:04:40):
affairs teams in this area, a lot of people moving
between Meta and Google and Amazon and hopping over to
Roadblocks for government affairs. And I was going, what's going
on here? Like why why is this particular game in
need of so many new lobbyists to go out there?
And it's exactly what you're talking about. This is a
game where you essentially have a virtual world. It's a
(01:05:03):
social hub where people, the users, can create their own
little subworlds and games. Everybody is a subcreator within Roadblocks,
and so different users have created these little worlds where
you can play games and activities and socialize with other users.
And of course some people use it for evil. There
(01:05:24):
was a report in People magazine that someone had basically
come up with some sort of public bathroom simulator game,
you know, basically just some pervy game that takes place
in a bathroom, only bad things happen there, like the
Robin Williams episode of Law and Order SVU. And so
this has created a situation where creepy adults are hanging
(01:05:47):
out with children and facilitating and appropriate relationships. This happens
quite a bit. And then you also then have the
instances of what you described as the Warriors for Justice
trying to trap some of these people. But this is
this is where it gets tricky. There is sort of
this weird and delicate balance, particularly these online spaces, between
(01:06:09):
in trapping and trying to create situations with other users
of the game, and also and then just genuinely catching
people in the wrong when they are praying on underage users.
There's a little bit of both going on, and so
I think Roadblocks is trying to figure out how to
navigate this situation.
Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
Would you like, would you let your kid on Roadblocks? No?
Speaker 8 (01:06:33):
Yeah, we we just we don't do internet in my
house and social media platforms of any kind, so that
would be a no.
Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
I had.
Speaker 8 (01:06:41):
I had experiences when I was about thirteen fourteen years
old playing online games. I used to play City of
Heroes and City of Villains, and I had experiences with
other users on that that were unpleasant and just the
nature of how people, you know, reach out to one another,
(01:07:01):
and then they want to join you on aim and
join you in chat rooms and then it turns out
you're dealing with creepers. That's very real. I experienced it
myself and I definitely am not repeating that in my household.
Speaker 1 (01:07:13):
So where is the balance for because look, the idea
of having a big open world game or a metaverse, right,
that's you know, that's that's metaslast Facebook's whole thing, Right,
You got to be able to balance. You want people
to be like to. What makes those things extraordinary is
the same thing that made the first open world game extraordinary.
Remember how crazy it was for the first time to
(01:07:35):
play a video game where you could go and really
do anything you wanted. It was a crazy game changer,
and it was my.
Speaker 8 (01:07:42):
High high school life with tends on games like that.
Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
Dude Diablo blew me Away. Even though it was mission based,
it was just so different than any you know, really
any video games. It's really kind of it's really the
only one that kind of stuck with me. I'm not
as big a gamers as you were, Russ, but like
that was that was crazy play in that game versus
kind of what you had come from, especially when you
got into the later versions of A World of Warcraft,
was and I never really got into it, but I
(01:08:06):
had friends that were into that. But I do remember
that as soon as you were able to play online,
there were creepy people. There were scammers, like because if
you want to represent the world, that's part of the world.
So what responsibility does a game have to not lock
it down so aggressively so as to remove some of
(01:08:27):
the fun And who determines that? It seems like the
will of political change and roadblocks is smart? Do you
know this? Living in DC? Do you know? Do you
know what triggered all of these tech companies to set
up these lobbying and office hubs in Washington, DC? It
was a singular incident. You remember what it was Microsoft
(01:08:47):
with the antitrusted Microsoft. You can look at the stats.
Almost none of the big tech companies had I mean,
they might have had a lobbyist, but they didn't have
what they have now. And after what happened with Microsoft,
everybody set up shop in dcvore.
Speaker 8 (01:09:03):
You know, I'll spin off a personal story here. You know,
I mentioned that I used to play City of Heroes
and Villains when I was a kid. You know, my
experience was not World of Warcraft. My major online game
that I played with Star Wars Galaxies. It's basically just
the Star Wars version of World of Warcraft. And my
best memories in high school were just playing that game
with my my buddy Will. We spent countless hours exploring
(01:09:27):
worlds in that game and going on missions together and
you know, just talking on the phone while we would play.
Will met his wife on that game. You know, another player,
just acute redhead on the game. You know, they talk,
you know, you share messages, you get to know each other,
and then eventually you move to text messages in aim
just so happens that the person is actually your age
(01:09:48):
and they ended up, you know, meeting in person and
getting married. But there are all sorts of relationships that
break out on online games. People simulate marriages. You meet
another gamer, you meet another their player, and you sort
of imitate or play a romantic relationship because you want
your character in the game to be married or something
(01:10:11):
like that. And so people will have, like you have
work wives and work husbands, you know that kind of joke.
You'll have online relationships.
Speaker 1 (01:10:19):
They may character how does that work?
Speaker 8 (01:10:22):
I mean, I don't know how that works. That's crazy,
But this is this is stuff that happens like this
is this is what happens on online games. There is
no way to moderate this short of maybe aggressive artificial intelligence.
I mean you'd have to have AI just sort of
unleashed on the entire gaming atmosphere. And they do already
(01:10:43):
for content moderation, but it's not going to be able
to detect the subtle differences of appropriateness between underage players
modeling relationships which they should be free to do with
one another, and an older age player stimulating relationships with
underage players. It's just like there's no real clear dividing
(01:11:07):
line between when it goes from playing a game online
to in real life inappropriate and dangerous conduct.
Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
Yeah, I don't disagree with you. That's why I'm wondering
where the line is. And unfortunately, in Washington, a lot
of the line is what's Congress paying attention to today
and what are they not? And that's the woodchipper. I
think Rollblocks is about to find themselves in and we'll
find out. I gotta do because they got two other
things I want to get to. This is a little wonky,
but it's I think it's a bigger issue. So there
(01:11:40):
is a game out called Wu Chang, not not the band,
but yeah, Wu Chang Fallen Feathers, and you know it's
a standard. I'm sure there's a a a classification for
this type of game. But part of the game is
you're fighting, among other things, actual historically Chinese figures, including
(01:12:01):
the main boss who's the former Emperor of China, but
it's his zombie. Is like the way that you finish
this game up. And so they released this game. People
were apparently enjoying it, so they patch. They put a
patch out, and rather than just fixing bugs, they essentially
nerved it so that you can't kill any historical Chinese figure,
(01:12:24):
which is the bosses in the game, which you're supposed
to kill. And it's clearly it looks like they're probably
doing this so they can release the game in China.
And I'm sorry, man, I'm getting sick of China dictating content,
But what a rug pool on your customers. Man, why
would you release the game and then change it so
you can't kill the final bosses?
Speaker 8 (01:12:44):
Oh yeah, this is this is fascinating. I'm not going
to pretend to be an expert on Chinese history, but
basically what you have here is a conflict between historical
narratives about the Ming Dynasty and the Ching dynasty hundreds
i'mundreds of years ago. Uh, the Qing dynasty is considered
to be by Chinese people today and by the current
(01:13:08):
government an embarrassment and a sort of a shameful period
in the Ming dynasty more favorable. And so basically you're
just not able to destroy, kill, or name these Ming
Dynasty characters because it's very important to the current Chinese
CCP narrative around their country's history. And this is kind
(01:13:29):
of what happens when you're in bed with game studios
and movie studios that have these, you know, cross specific
relationships with China. There's no way out of this. You
have to play by their rules and we're going to
have to find ways to make a balance here.
Speaker 1 (01:13:46):
If you want their money and their gamers, you do well.
You can. Or you could be Tom Cruise telling a
pound sand over the Taiwanese flag on his jacket with
the new Top Gun movie. Yes you can, it works,
you can all right. Let me just for us as
you're working on a new book, is this about all
your spy missions? I kind of wanted to pick your
brain on this last time we talked, but what's going on?
Speaker 8 (01:14:08):
It's a tell all, of course, about every mission I've
been on. Note this is just announced yesterday by post
Till Press. My second book is coming out in twenty
twenty six. It's been a little bit a time between
my first book that You Know How the Force Can
Fix the World and my new one is called Your
Focus Determines Your Reality. Yes, it is a Star Wars
(01:14:29):
reference and it is all about the philosophy that you
can find within Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Avatar,
The Last Airbender, Marvel, a lot of your favorite stories.
So really excited to be working on this and it's
going to be my most nerdy project yet.
Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
Well all right, so give me a teaser. So what
is the most if you had to pick from start
from all the nerd stuff out there, what would you
say is the most helpful message or thing that you
can extract from one of those that will actually serve
you in your life other than going around tending to
I don't know, mind control, stormtroopers over the droids they're
(01:15:04):
looking for.
Speaker 8 (01:15:06):
Well over on geekystoics dot com, where we pilot most
of these ideas and write about them. I have a
piece up today about Howell's Moving Castle. This is an
old anime studio Ghibli film from the early two thousands,
and this movie basically features a young girl who doesn't
consider herself very pretty, and so she starts to see
(01:15:28):
herself in the mirror as an old woman, you know,
sort of devoid of any youthful beauty. And she has
to go on a journey in that movie to realize
who she is inside, build that strength, and then she
sees herself on the outside once again as beautiful and
young and all that kind of stuff. And you know,
this basically just goes to a very common takeaway that
(01:15:51):
you'll see a lot in stoicism, which is that the
way in which you see the world is going to
reflect on the kind of experiences that you have. Your
focus does determine your reality in many ways. So you know,
if you have a positive attitude about things that are
happening to you, even bad things, you can you can
endure those things. It's sort of a half glass full
(01:16:13):
versus half glass empty sort of way of engaging with
the world. So you can read all about that right
over at a geekystoics dot com. It'll actually be in
the book when it comes out next year, and that's
a good place to start.
Speaker 1 (01:16:25):
How much do you have? How much do you have
written so far? I could never write a book at
this point, you know.
Speaker 8 (01:16:30):
Sign You sign a deal based on the outline of
a book and you actually don't write it before. So
I'm only a couple chapters in, but should be done
by March of twenty twenty six and on Barnes and
Noble bookshelves maybe in the fall.
Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
Yeah, I think there's a lot of positive messages. It
used to be a hallmark of a lot of these
big uh, these big productions, and too much Hollywood's missing
that these days, man, some real I agree. Yeah, so
it's really nice to get back to it. All right,
Steve and I do a pre sh a geekystoics dot
com is the website, by the way, if you want
to check that out and we'll chat next week, sir.
Speaker 8 (01:17:06):
Have it go one, all.
Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
Right and we will be right back. No, the number
right now, well, the high profile number right now is three.
That is the number of high profile Democrats who are
under investigation for essentially mortgage fraud, and like Letitia James
(01:17:31):
is one of them, which is crazy because part and
parcel of her persecution of Trump was that he he
overinflated the value of assets. And then you know, then
the banks did due diligence. They were comfortable with his value,
and they gave him the loans, because that's how it
works and has always worked up in not just up
(01:17:52):
in New York. Right, the bank's going to make an assessment,
they're going to do their due diligence, and oh, by
the way, they got paid back all their money, and
we're really happy because they made a crap ton of
money with Trump. And yet that was one of the
things James went under and so there is deep irony
that she may have falsified what was her primary residence
(01:18:13):
for the purpose of saving money on a mortgage, which
is a different thing entirely because now you're lying about
something that also is irs impactful. But I digress. And
again it hasn't been proven yet, but like the amount
of documents that are out that clearly show that that's
kind of what happened is far more damning than this
(01:18:35):
narrative that we're going to prosecute Trump for this thing
that nobody's ever been prosecuted for. And there's no victim.
Nobody feels there's no victim there. So Letitia James also
the same thing with Adam Schiff, and those documents are out.
And now add a third one. That's right, a FED
(01:18:58):
Board of Governor's appointee. There was a point under Biden.
Her name is Lisa Cook, and that story has risen
here in the last few days. All right, so here
we go. The director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency
aleegend a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi. The Cook,
who was nominated by Joe Biden, falsified bank documents and
(01:19:21):
property records to acquire more favorable loan terms, particularly potentially
committing mortgage fraud. So how does NBC choose to write
this up? Here's the headline in recent weeks, the Trump
administration has targeted Democratic Democrat officials over allegations of mortgage fraud,
(01:19:44):
a new front in his effort to undermine critics. That's
how you choose to write it up, Because if I
go back into the NBC headlines where it's like Trump's
an evil criminal and poor Leticia James has to handle it. No, no, no,
So these three didn't do this thing where there's a
giant paper trail of public records that are already floating
(01:20:05):
around you and going to look at him. I mean,
you're still not guilty until you're proving guilty. But it's
pretty damning stuff. But it's what, that's just Trump targeting
his enemies. Perfect. Yeah, yeah, NBC doing doing everything you
can to rebuild the public public trust in your reporting. Man. Now,
I don't know whether they're going to be successful in
(01:20:27):
getting them. Maybe maybe not. I think some of it
will have to do with is it a federal thing
or is it a state thing? Because I think you're
gonna have a hard time in New York in California
going after these cats, but and in DC with Cook.
But we'll see. But using the term targeted like it's
a dirty trick on Trump's especially because it's Trump and
(01:20:51):
you're accusing him of targeting his political enemies in a
variety of ways. He might. He might have been the
most persecuted president of my lifetime. I don't even think
it's a contest, ross, do you No, it's not even
a contest, So give me a break on this stuff.
(01:21:12):
If they committed mortgage front and do I think that
they would yes, and not just because they're Democrats, because
I have zero trust in the powers that be up
in the upper restaurants of government to not enrich themselves illegally.
And all I have to do is look at their
stock portfolios, or I look at that video of that
(01:21:34):
age up in where's that New hampsh No, not New Hampshire,
Rhode Island.
Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:21:41):
The woman who was arrested on camera being trespassed out
of that business. It wasn't just that she was drunk.
Her and her friend's attitude was clearly, do you know
who I am? You can't do this. I'm an ag
That's especially insane for somebody who's in a law enforcement position.
(01:22:01):
What happened, and nobody's above the law, So I don't
have a hard time believing that this stuff is happening.
This is a persecution. I think that I think that
they're willing to do it because as nobody ever really
gets busted for it. You got to really be over
You got to have a fridge full of a freezer
full of money, or you gotta be Bob Menendez with
(01:22:23):
your give I need gold baballoons, right. I think if
you'd have just stuck to like bitcoin or cash, we
wouldn't have been here, but no, he had to go
old timey pirate treasure to be bribed, bross, Would you
prefer to be bribed with a pirate booty or bitcoin
if you had your choice.
Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
He's a pirate treasure cursed, Yes, it's pirate treasure. Oh yeah,
I gotta go with the curse.
Speaker 5 (01:22:48):
Gold.
Speaker 1 (01:22:49):
Yeah yeah, this is gold, yeah, more than anything. But
I don't understand bitcoin so well, you should right now.
You know it's well over one hundred thousand right now,
just saying so, uh anyway, yeah, yeah, so like the
like to get busted, it has to be so crazy,
which there's then there's no deterrence. So of course, people
(01:23:12):
who invested in the Pelosi uh if you there's people
there are people who just invest in Pelosi's investments and
they're doing pretty well. And that's just that's kind of
the steroid example. But there's a lot of this and nobody,
nobody in these in the in these halls of power
(01:23:32):
ever really gets held accountable for this stuff. So I
saw Susan Rice doing any you want to talk about
having no shame. I saw Susan Rice doing an interview
over the weekend, and every response was that Russia corrupted
the election and Trump is a man Turin. She's still
on this. She's still on this and had no shame
(01:23:56):
in her game, uh talking about it. The No, I
have no problem believing this. And the fact that NBC
News is like, well, purely, this is just Trump being
mean shows me that they are even further disconnected from
all of this than previously suspected, and that is that
(01:24:20):
is crazy. All right? Hold on, where did I put
this story? Oh? Damn it? Oh yeah, here we go, Ross,
I thought you would like this story.
Speaker 5 (01:24:32):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:24:33):
So apparently there's a new gen Z fitness fashion faux
pas and I'm like, oh god, what is it now?
And that is apparently the younger, the much younger set
are expressly rejecting the pants that are so tight I
(01:24:54):
can see your womb that women wear. What what do
you mean? What do you mean? It's right here? They
just said it right here in the article. Is that
not the case?
Speaker 2 (01:25:07):
I mean, I guess it depends on the individual, but
I you know, there's if it's.
Speaker 1 (01:25:12):
True that now they want to go back to I
guess bag your more normal.
Speaker 2 (01:25:16):
Which which I would prefer you shouldn't dress like you're
at the club orlin. I've talked about this before, like
you're a whore when you're at Planet Fitness or whatever.
Speaker 1 (01:25:24):
It's kind of distracting. And then they film a video.
Speaker 2 (01:25:27):
You're like, Oh, I'm going to be a fitness influencer
and I'm going to stand here in the machine wearing nothing,
and then if you look at me, I'm gonna shame
you in social media forever. And then Swell has to
make a video on it. Now if he even does
anymore on it, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
You still do.
Speaker 2 (01:25:40):
I saw one yesterday put on a baggy shirt and
some sweatpants. I would prefer that, but yeah, I mean,
if you're there's still a proliferation of people dressed, you know,
in the hole in the whole category at the gym
for sure, uh.
Speaker 1 (01:25:52):
Jim ho, Yeah yeah, yeah. So I was just That's
why I want to put this in here, because if
it is in fact a trend, that I that you
like this, But I'm curious as to whether it is
in fact a trend where the younger ones are rejecting
the tight leggings and are now coming in with the
baggy clothes. So I don't know. I think a very
interesting too in a lot of countries, and and like
(01:26:18):
especially when you get over into like Asia, because I
saw I saw a video. There's a guy watch who
lives in Japan, and he's like, he did a whole video.
He's like, yeah, this is the hope. The whole thing
isn't a thing. If you show up to a gym
in Japan as a woman or a man for that matter,
and you're showing a bunch of skin or you're wearing
something tight, they'll throw you out of the gym and
(01:26:38):
they'll shame you. From a societal standpoint, it doesn't happen.
And he was showing what his wife wears to the gym,
and she's wearing like baggy sweatshirt, you know, sweat pants,
all of that.
Speaker 2 (01:26:49):
That's what she works out in, you know. And I mean,
yeah that I would prefer that. And it's fair, you know,
even if you want to wear something more fitted, that's fine.
But like sometimes it's like over the I told you
when I first started working out, like what back in
two Yeah, I remember the first day it was at
the gym and I saw I was like, what is
going on here? Because I didn't expect that, and I'm like,
I feel like I'm at the club. This is super weird.
Speaker 1 (01:27:11):
Yeah. So I again, if it's a trend, that's fine.
The problem is is the gym influencers aren't going away,
and I just you don't get the clicks as much
unless you're wearing the shorts that are sucked up into
both of your areas. So any who, All right, coming
up on the show with chat with Jeff Bellinger. Also
apparently we figured out who would have hated Trump the
(01:27:33):
most if he was still alive and fought him or something.
Superman I'll explain, But first let's get Race Stagic from
the Weather Channel. So trying every day? What's going on? Man?
Speaker 5 (01:27:47):
That much? Man? How are you?
Speaker 1 (01:27:49):
Yeah? I just I read these these headlines from like
Hollywood Reporter or whatever, and I was just like, it's
just it's just bait. It's just RACI white man, because
it's my job and I have Yeah, that's true, that's true.
Why do you look at it?
Speaker 7 (01:28:03):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (01:28:03):
Yeah, exactly, A great point.
Speaker 1 (01:28:05):
Great, yeah, all right, So what does the doppler say
when you look at it?
Speaker 9 (01:28:09):
Well, the doppler tells me further inland you get, the
better the weather is might get a little breezy from
the Triangle to the Triad, but I'm like fifteen to
twenty mile per hour winds, as everybody's probably been alerted
erin now pulling away north northeast at the AM advisory
ad seventeen miles per hour, but some pretty significant impacts
in the coastal areas. In the outer banks inland flooding
(01:28:30):
really not much of a threat, but in and around
on the area's hardest hit now seeing soundside flooding likely
with the winds going back north northeast. But as you mentioned,
pretty decent weather here. Partial sunload of mid eighties today, Tomorrow,
more sunshine Saturday sunshine, maybe some showers by Sunday. I
think we'll stay basically in the mid eighties with lows
in the sixties. There may be a shower thundershower chance
(01:28:52):
better today tomorrow, try it and especially west endto the mountains,
but I think the Triangle will stay dry, So don't
be surprised if you hit a little wet weather here
and there. But again, the only thing I've emphasized this
morning to everybody about Aaron is again this is why
we don't concentrate just on the center where these storms
are impacts being felt well out from the center. Tropical
(01:29:14):
storm force winds may hit the outer banks, and that's
about two hundred plus miles from the center of the storm.
So well way for the next one that could be
named in the next couple of days out of the
central Atlantic. But it looks like that one will turn
away in another wave coming off the coast too, that
has a chance of development. So getting into case, that
busy time of year in the Atlantic, and anything we
need to know will certainly pass it along. But right
(01:29:35):
now looks like we'll be in pretty good shape over
the next several days.
Speaker 1 (01:29:38):
All right, thank you, sir, and we'll come back with
Jeff Bellinger next.
Speaker 10 (01:29:41):
Hang on, Well, good morning, case, quite a lot going
on actually this morning, Walmart's quarterly results are in. They're
mostly upbeat, though the giant retailers adjusted profit fell short
of Wall Street forecast because of higher insurance claims, revenue
and total comparable sales top estimates mark raised outlook. Sources
(01:30:02):
tell Bloomberg Boeing is closer to finalizing a major deal
to sell jets to China. It will be a complex
deal and there are still eyes to dot and tees
to cross, but the sources say it could be for
as many as five hundred airplanes. It is a done deal,
a more than twelve billion dollar done deal that we
told you about earlier this week. Toma Bravo is buying
(01:30:23):
the human resources software provider day Force for seventy dollars share.
Johnson and Johnson will expand its presence in North Carolina.
Jay and j will add a manufacturing facility at Fujifilm's
new biopharmaceutical site in Holly Springs. The company says the
move will create about one hundred and twenty jobs. Target's
(01:30:43):
Chief operating officer, Michael Fidelki, held an internal meeting shortly
after the retailer announced he will be in the company's
next CEO. In a recording reviewed by Bloomberg News, Fidelki
said all workers will have to work to get Target
back to growth. He said workers must be willing to
embrace change. He challenged staffers to prove Target's critics wrong.
(01:31:05):
The Federal Reserve's annual Symposium opens today in Jackson Hall, Wyoming.
FED Chair Jerome Powell will address the gathering tomorrow. Investors
are hoping for some guidance on the path for interest rates.
Speaker 1 (01:31:17):
We know.
Speaker 10 (01:31:18):
We found out this morning there was a bigger than
expected increase last week and the number of workers signing
up for unemployment benefits. The Labor Department counted two hundred
and thirty five thousand first time claims. And Casey, Spirit
Halloween has started opening its seasonal pop up stores around
the country. It expects to have about fifteen hundred outlets
(01:31:38):
by the end of September. More than half of them
will be opened by the end of this month.
Speaker 1 (01:31:42):
Casey, Yeah, it's so strange. Literally last week we were
wondering aloud on this show when they were going to
start opening those, because we thought if Spirit Airlines goes bankrupt,
you could just use those. There you go, Sorry, you
got that has half the signs there would be amazing
see reuse, recycle. All right, thanks, Jeff, appreciate it, take
care of Yeah, there you go, Jeff Bellinger, Bloomberg News.
(01:32:06):
By the way, there is a there's a bit of
a running contest. I saw one of the dumbest tweets
yesterday and I want to share it with you. I
forgot to get into it yesterday. So Molly Cantillian, who's
a stabfished professor at Stafford and media pundit. And I
guess now she works for some big tech company anyway,
so this is this is not a woman who has
(01:32:28):
not at least attempted education. Okay, and she tweets the
following nothing screams, I am the main character more than
America having the plus one phone code, because you know,
it's all about new and interesting ways to hate America.
And apparently her beef is that when you go to
country calling codes, US is plus one. I would point
(01:32:52):
out to her that the US is not the only
plus one country, by the way, but maybe she doesn't
know this. Ross. Can you think of why we might
have the plus one calling code whereas some countries are,
like I have like three digits?
Speaker 2 (01:33:05):
Right, there's so well, yeah, I would think, I mean,
if I had to like think about probably, I don't know,
because we invented the telephone, you know, because it came
from here.
Speaker 1 (01:33:15):
Yeah. Wait till this woman finds out that airline pilots
around the world have to know English and the NATO alphabet. Ross,
do you any guesses as to why piloting and flying
around the world in commercial situation, well, not just commercial
people need to be somewhat proficient in English. That's a
tough one. Yeah, that's a tough one. Running through ross a.
(01:33:37):
I see if it's got an answer.
Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
Is it because we invented the airplane?
Speaker 1 (01:33:41):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, it's almost as if we invented a
lot of stuff, all right. So like look if like
if if it has to do with steam engines and
the UK goes first, I'll be okay with that, and
then I don't know other stuff invented in other countries.
It's fine. Crumb the old castles or something, whatever they happen. Yeah, yeah,
(01:34:02):
if you want the plus one crumbly old castle code,
that's yours, man.
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