Thursday-9-18-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A lot of people are getting a lot of stuff
wrong about this, and I understand there's a certain complexity
to TV affiliates and and maybe knowledge of who those
affiliates are and how they operate. So I'm gonna arm
you with the correct information so that when some lunatic
at work today is like, can you believe they fired

(00:21):
Jimmy Kimmel or put his show on holding? Definitely, I'm
pretty sure they still got to pay him. I bet he.
I'd be very curious what his contract looks like. Ross, dude.
And that's a funny take, all right, so ask what
you asked me just for the show.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, no, I just woke up and I saw the news.
I'm like, he must have been shot in the neck
or something.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
He's he okay, right, because it's literally the top story everywhere.
And that's so he's had his show, uh, indefinitely suspended.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Oh okay, because the reaction I was seeing from the left,
it was it's like somebody died or something like something.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
He said something and then somebody murdered me for it.
Yeah no, that didn't happen.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Okay, So he was the show was suspended.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
So so basically instead of leaving his tens of million
dollar mansion, uh, you know, late morning so he can
go tape I think they tape around four or something
for those shows and then hanging out in his dressing
room and then hob nobbin with Hollywood elite and then
going back to his tens of million dollar mansion. He

(01:26):
can just sit in his tens of million dollars mansion
and like order grub Hub and the game and.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, congrats some the Emmy win I guess, yeah, like
col Beer won it, right, Yeah, but I mean now
we know Kimmel is gonna win one.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
That's a good point. Yeah, he'll get it next year.
That's a good point. All right. So let me let
me start let me just correct disinformation on this, Okay,
let me let me well, actually, let's start here because
we did not necessarily didn't play the audio from Jimmy
because I just I just can't, man.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
I mean, we didn't have a discussion about it, but
I think we were on the same page about it.
We didn't play it because it was just more of
the same from him that we heard over and over
and over again. This is like, please stop.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah, I just I'm done. I was done I'm done
giving air to people like Kimmel. But now that now
that that, now that something else has happened, Right, he
didn't just get to say something, and then the seven
hundred thousand people actually tuned in saw it. But since
they're all in lockstep a lockstep, nobody cared. Like there's
real repercussion.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Ben And it is different though, the more I thought
about it from what he's previous trump jokes, it's not
just a Trump joke.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
No, it's really really evil. It's really because it's it's
also a joke about people you listening to show, Yeah,
because I mean what.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
He really did was lie about a crime. Yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
And this isn't this isn't this. This happened Monday, So
this isn't like the story was breaking, you know, last
week and then what day did that happen? Wednesday? So
this would been It's not like he's getting ready to
do the show. We're just a couple hours after the
event because he you know, he's West coast, so and

(03:17):
then he's taping and so he just starts, this was Monday.
We knew what was up come Monday. So he made
a decision, all right, here we go. We hit some
new lows.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
Over the weekend with the Maga Gang.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Way, hold on, that's the short word. Let me play
the full version, just because we haven't played it.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
We hit some new lows over the weekend with the
Maga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered
Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and
doing everything they can to score political points from it.
In between the finger pointing, there was grieving. On Friday,
the White House flew the flags at half staff, which
got some criticism, but on a human level, you can

(03:56):
see how hard the President is taking this.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
I don't fit on the lot of your friend. Charlie Kirk,
asked sir personally, how are you holding up for the.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Last day and a half third?

Speaker 6 (04:06):
I think very good. And by the way, right there
you see all the trucks. They just started construction of
the new ball room for the White House, which is.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Something they've been trying to.

Speaker 6 (04:15):
Get, as you know, for about one hundred and fifty years,
and it's going to be a beauty.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Yes, he's at the fourth stage.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
Of grief construction, demolition.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Construction.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
This is not how an adult grief's The murder of
somebody called a friend. This is how a four year
old morn's a goldfish, or.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Or if I could just offer a theory here, and
I'm sure it occurrege to some of you. Maybe maybe
the president doesn't want to talk about an assassination five
minutes after an assassination.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, but what to go back though. It's not about
the Trump joke. It's not about the construction. He's been
doing Trump jokes NonStop since twenty sixteen. It's about the
first part of that audio where he's lying about crime
and acting like Maga did this when it was very
obvious on Monday what was going on, even though there's
a big segment of the population putting there after they
heard the news that oh we had a Maga family,

(05:11):
they put their their their fingers in their ears and
with la la la, la la la, I'm not gonna
hear anything else about this case. And then everything else
came out, which made it very clear that is not
who this kid was. Jimmy Kimmel knew this. He purposefully
lied about it, and he deserved what he got.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that and then and then again
on the Trump thing. The baby doesn't want to talk
about an assassination because he himself was basically almost assassinated.
I don't know if you I don't know if that
thought occurred.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, no, And I mean yeah, We've had two attempts
on Trump's life, right, very familiar, up close and personal
with this sort of thing. He lost his friend and
Jimmy Kimmel is still living in twenty seventeen.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, all right, so let me let me explain the
logistics and then we'll get to some reaction as well.
But so I saw people are like, oh, and it
was because the FCC director did He did go on
TV and say that you know, they're looking at ABC.
He didn't say anything definitive and specifically Jimmy Kimmel there

(06:17):
to see if there were violations, because there are community
standard requirements for networks. This is there are for radio,
like so I like a lot of this stuff is
very relatable in how you would game plan if you
were going to talk about something controversial. So we'll get
to that, but you need to understand the FCC did
not cancel Jimmy Kimmel. Okay, so reject that. Here's what happened. ABC,

(06:42):
just like any broadcast network has affiliates, and some are
one offs, right, some are owned twenty some cities, and
so ABC's broadcast, well, the first the number one local
ownership of ABC affiliates, including the one in Raleigh, is

(07:03):
Disney itself, And a lot of people don't realize that
even though Raleigh is a mid thirties radio market, as
far as the top fifty ranks go, it's actually substantially
larger TV market. And you see that a lot because
a lot of TV covers a much wider footprint, and
then they just call it one market. So even though

(07:24):
it's Raleigh Durham, it's actually like the twenty low twenties,
twenty second or twenty third TV market, all right, And
so that's important here. So the company that made a
decision starting yesterday to not Eric Kimmel's show was next Star.
And next Star is a big company. And in fact,

(07:46):
I looked this up because I wanted to be clear
if they were the first, if they were the largest
independent ABC affiliate owner, or the second or third largest.
They are the second largest by just like two markets,
and they have decent sized markets. Most of the big, big,
big markets, A lot of the you know, the affiliates
the local company will retain them because that's where the

(08:08):
profit center is. So but they had like they had Nashville,
they had Salt Lake City, which is a big market.
People don't realize how how outsized Salt Lake is compared
to a lot of Western markets. Let's say they had Nashville,
they had that, they have New Orleans. I think they
got a whole big list. Oh oh, I'm sorry, does

(08:28):
it okay? Okay? Russ has telling me something in my
in my ear here, all right, well I'll let here,
I'll let Brian Stelter line it out for you.

Speaker 7 (08:37):
Kimmel was expressing what we've heard some other liberals say
in recent day is that the motives are unclear and
that maybe the suspect in this case was a Republican
or what.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
By the way, he did not say the motives run clear,
But what do you expect from Brian Stelter.

Speaker 7 (08:51):
Has some sort of far right fringe figure. Of course,
there has been a lot of discussion about that in
recent days. There's a lot of evidence pointing in other
directions about this. But Kimmel was on the air talking
about this, making a very serious commentary amid his jokes
in his monologue Monday night. Here's where it became interesting.
Earlier today, the SEC chairman, Brendan Carr went on a

(09:12):
far right webcast and condemned Kimmel and urged ABC to
suspend him. He also talked about possible regulatory punishments of
Disney because there are lots of different stations that have
licenses with the FCC. Within the past hour, we've heard
from a big owner of stations that have affiliations with ABC,
a company called Nextstar, saying that they were going to

(09:33):
suspend Kimmel's show on their station. So, in other words,
about two dozen stations were refusing to air Kimmel's show
tonight as a result of this controversy, and then, following
word that some of those stations were basically revolting against
Kimmel at Disney, the parent company of ABC, decided to
yank the show entirely.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
Okay, all right, So that gives you a little bit
of a rundown. But here's why this is important because
and Sheelter does rep for instant. These stations have local licensing,
and so if they're sitting there, they are under the
same obligation for the decency standards that you know ABC
at large is and with NEXTR being the second largest

(10:15):
private affiliate ownership group, you have to keep in mind
who the first is. And this is very interesting and
you've probably heard of this company, Sinclair Broadcasting. Now why
is that interesting because Sinclair is widely regarded as a
very conservative company. In fact, if you remember Sinclair's the

(10:39):
one where they mashed together all the different local anchors
basically reading that statement about toning down the rhetoric and
getting things accurate a few years ago, and then they
mocked it. And what people don't understand is when you
are affiliate, like we're an affiliate basically right. We're one
of the many, many, many stations that iHeartMedia, which is

(11:00):
the largest public broadcast company owns, And just like I've
had to read and Ross's had to read things like, hey,
we're promoting the iHeartRadio app. I'm sure you guys have
heard about it. They send us a script, we read it.
You could easily pull audio from every on air personality
in every market day near and put together something like that.

(11:23):
But because of Sinclair's attitude, I ABC had to know
that they looked at what Nexstar did and we're probably
I wouldn't be surprised if somebody at Sinclair made a
phone call to ABC saying, you know what we're thinking
about this too, Did you hear what they're going to do?
So that would have been I just want to point
that real quaier. I want to finish this up. So
that would have been over fifty broadcast markets not airing

(11:47):
a show that already is in financial distress. Okay, so
understand how you know the pattern of events here and
how we got here anyway, what.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
We're going to see here with Sinclair bro Casting announced
what they were going to do in this in the
place of Jimmy Kimmel's spot you mean Next Next Star, No, Sinclair's,
Oh Sinclair Okay they they they announced, I'm gonna retweet
it on the show account at Casey on the radio.
Oh they yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, I read this this morning.
So they're gonna be airing in that place of where
Jimmy Jimmy Kimmel would be a Charlie Kirk memorial show.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
You know, I saw somebody suggest that they just run
his his college events. I don't know how much how
many hours of content there are, so they're going to
mash something up what it is probably gonna be like
a bunch of those.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah, I'm retweeting it right now.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Okay, all right, so you're ABC and you're looking at
your top two customers. Now, let me let me just
break this down from a broadcasting perspective. You're looking at
what is you know, I don't want to say it's
a profit center because it has to be losing money.
The numbers just don't number. Okay, the math doesn't math.
And we saw what Colbert was losing, and then we

(13:00):
can kind of extrap because the contracts are similar, the
audiences were similar in size, and you're not making money,
and that's really important. That's called leverage in this business,
and so it's something you have to balance with what
you're going to do. If you do something that is profitable,

(13:20):
it's good ratings. Profitable is almost more important, right because
we're you know, publicly traded companies are publicly traded companies,
and people will protect you more. Why do you think
that even with everything they tried to throw at Limbaugh,
they never got them. I've seen Limbaugh's ratings over my

(13:43):
many years in radio in many many radio markets, and
that dude was basically going to be untouchable. Why because
he was a license to print money. Because he was
so good at what he did. He had such a
loyal audience. He had audience levels that I don't know
that we'll see again and radio.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
But that's also a reason why they could let Jimmy
Kimmel go. Because Jimmy Kimmel, as well as Stephen Colbert,
the opposite the numbers I saw yesterday. I think Stephen
Colbert when they canceled his show had like two point
three million something. Jimmy Kimmel for the longest time has
had less viewership than that. He's at one point seven million.
So he was, he was, and there's a staff. You

(14:26):
don't know how expensive those shows you to put on
because they don't look like much. They're really expensive, right,
So summer something, you know, it could be just a
budget issue, and they were looking for a reason to
get rid of Kimmel.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Well, no, no, no, this is I was going to get
into this a little later. I think what you're seeing
right now is all of these networks figuring out how
they can shed these loss centers yep, and basically pin
it on you know, Trump, or cancel the culture or whatever.
Just just escape a little bit of the blame there,
but get it off their ledger. So ross, what book
of the Bible you're at right now?

Speaker 2 (14:56):
I'm in Proverbs. This morning I read Proverbs twenty to
twenty four, which is.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
All this is going to be so appropriate.

Speaker 8 (15:02):
You know.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
It was interesting because it was the first time I
tackles alcoholism. It's pretty fascinating.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Well, I want to jump back, and I think it's
sixteen or seventeen. Does it say anything about pride goethene
or comethine?

Speaker 2 (15:12):
I believe soe I've read. I've read a few things
about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
So it's usually it's a lot the verse is longer.
But we generally say Pride cometh before the fall, but
it's actually Pride goeth before destruction, I think. But whatever,
Remember I talked about the smugness tadah, this is it
because Kimmel was so damn smug about this. He was
the the one of the celebrity versions of that, that

(15:39):
little crappy smile like the girl painting over the rock
the other day. Had right, this is just it on steroids, man,
this is it. And no, ABC was not going to
lose fifty affiliates on a show they're losing money on already,
it was not going to happen, all right, So a
little long there, I wanted you have the details. There's

(15:59):
clearly more. We got more sound as well. It's all
coming up KCO Day Radio program, KCO Day Radio program.
So I was just looking up some of the markets.
Sinclair Broadcasting has ABC affiliates in. Yeah, this would have
been doomsday for that show because they have Seattle, Portland, Washington, DC. Like,
so you're getting into major major markets now, and yeah,

(16:22):
they people I saw people like, well, oh no, we're
not gonna be able to watch in Billings, Montana, right,
And maybe ABC doesn't care about Billings, Montana as much
as they do DC. But that's the numbers thing. But
you start adding fifty, it's actually would be twenty eight
and twenty four. So you start adding, you know, fifty
two markets in there, and some of them a couple

(16:45):
of them are top ten teat well is Seattle top
fifteen markets, DC would have been the largest. And then
the other thing too is I feel like if they
did lose it in DC, Trump would film himself watching
whatever was preempting Kimmel shown tweet it out. Oh, I

(17:09):
mean that's what I would have advised him to do. So,
uh yeah, yeah, the whole thing is just crazy. Now,
as you can imagine, some people are not reacting well
to this.

Speaker 7 (17:22):
Summer your reaction to this, it is outrageous.

Speaker 9 (17:25):
It's a page right out of She's playbook. This is
just despicable, disgusting and against democratic values. Trump and his
allies seem to want to shut down speech that they
don't like to hear. That is not what democracies do.
That is what autocracies do. And it doesn't matter whether
you agree with Kimmel or not. He has the right

(17:47):
to free speech. And so it is just outrageous. It
is indicative of autocracy and I am just outraged by it. Again,
this is what dictators do. This is what she would do,
This is what poop would do. We are not that country,
all right.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
So, and Chuck Schumer, who has uh, he's been around
law making, look before I was born, and he knows.
He knows because he has over the years had to
in some way, shape or form, contemplate licensed radio or

(18:23):
TV affiliates. Chuck Schumer has come after radio licensing over
Limbaugh stuff. But I know you're not surprised by the hypocrisy.
The funniest one was Van Jones. Is he in the
CNN cut or not. I don't think he No, No,
I just read it off air just so Van Jones.
He said red line has been crossed in their industry. Yeah,

(18:46):
which is here's why that's extra funny. Van Jones, former
Obama administrative official, should not be talking about red lines
because you guys are all in one if you remember.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
And once again, it's not about the joke though, going
back to Chuck Schumer or Van Jones.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Ski, that's not immunity standards thing.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
It's not about the joke. They listen. If he had
done this on YouTube like Destiny, he would be fine.
But you're on a television station, you're on a radio station,
whatever it is. You have FCC rules and you can't
purposely lie about a crime like that. That's why a
lot of times we have to say allegedly on things
right because we don't. We'll get into there are rules.
And you purposefully because this wasn't done on like a
Friday right when we didn't have all the facts, you

(19:32):
knew what the facts were. You purposely pointed your finger
at half the country and said these people are guilty
when it was clear they are not. You lied about
a crime, You're being disingenuous. You deserve to be fired.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
A thousand. If somebody tries to make what's called a
safe harbor rule, and I'm not going to get into
all the safe harbor stuff. You can look that up.
That is a thing in radio and TV and it
is instructive in what you can and cannot do. But
the exemptions there do not include lying.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
They're like all these people that are like these other
people in these other industries that are being canceled for
celebrating this assassination. Because you're not getting fired because your words.
Your employer is firing you, because your other people around
working with you no longer feel safe because you're coming
across as a psychopath. You do not celebrate that.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
It's I think, I think this safety thing is really important.
It doesn't get stressed enough because people talk about the
monetary thing, and that's definitely part of it. But if
you have somebody who fundamentally people are like looking over
their shoulder over that's a huge issue and like you're
the operation of your business.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Yeah, listen, I mean if I'm walking down the hallway
and I hear somebody here laughing and joking and being
giddy about this guy having his neck blown up for
speaking his political issues, and I feel the same. I
don't feel safe around you.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Nope, one thousand percent.

Speaker 8 (20:46):
Man.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
And don't get me wrong, there's uh, we're gonna radio,
You're gonna you're gonna run across some weirdos. Man, you
just are. There's you know, there's egos, there's there's depending
on how far you go back in this business, there's
people that probably are just high out of their minds
that you're dealing with, right, But I don't think I've

(21:07):
ever been around somebody, even if I thought they were
the biggest a hole on wheels, that I ever felt
unsafe about. And that's a really important distinction here, all right.
Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four.
That is the phone number you want to weigh in
on any of this. But I hope that, I hope

(21:29):
the rundown is instructive, just really for the purpose of
combating people who are who I'll say, they're going to
be misinformed today. The FCC did not do this. This
was ABC staring at fifty some affiliates not running a
show that's already hemorrhaging money. So from a business perspective,

(21:51):
this is a no brainer, and anyone is in broadcasting,
including all of these pundits on CNN. Maybe CNN wouldn't
believe it because apparently the rule that you have to
make money to keep your job and have ratings really
hasn't applied to them much. But it's true. It's true,

(22:12):
And as you can imagine, this is what they're going
to be talking about all day probably, So I think we.

Speaker 10 (22:18):
Really need to make very clear the formerccment does not
allow us, the FCC to tell broadcasters what they can broadcast.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
That's not true. It is absolutely false. That is one
hundred percent not true. You have to take, like, unless
my employer's been lying to me for twenty years.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
How many tests online tests do we have to take?

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Everything?

Speaker 2 (22:40):
I just did it yesterday, making sure we are compliant
with what the FCC tells us we can and cannot do.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
Yes, well, I just took my ethics and stuff yesterday.
We have three things throughout the year that we have
to do every year. Yeah, and it runs the gamut.
I don't know if you know this ross and I
are not allowed to bribe portals. There's the thing in there.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
You know every year, every year, you don't bribe the
port official. Man if you have, I come to bribe
you every every single time. And then they take the
test and I go, thank god, Oh.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah that's right, I should do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
there's there there. So this is drilled into you. So
the FCC can absolutely tell you what you can or can't.
Let's go on the show or do. And I would
encourage people to remember a certain super.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Bowl, yes, yeah, or there's been you know, past broadcasters, right,
like you can't. You can't just air audio from like
a porno, right, you can't.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
It would be a non lurid parts when you can't
dwell on it. I'm using their exact this is exact
FECI language. You can't dwell for the purpose of making
it salacious.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
It'd be completely indecent, and they'd be like, we're going
to take your license or find you a lot of money,
like it would be bad.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah, there's there. There's there's tons of regulations that are
very specifical. Me, why do you think we have a
dump button? That's a very good point. Too, we got
the lunatic button. That's not for Ross and I. I've
never sworn on the air. I don't know how that's possible,
but it's not happened that I can remember.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Ross.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
You ever just dropped an fbom on the air? I've not. Yeah,
So like there are.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
I have an amazing story about a guy who did.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Though. Oh right, well, hold on, hold on, hold on,
let me finish this audio.

Speaker 10 (24:37):
So I think we really need to make very clear
that the First Amendment does not allow us, the FCC
to tell broadcasters what they can broadcast. Personally, I'd rather
not speak ill of the dead, but I understand Jimmy
Kimmel is a satirist and a comedian. I saw the clip.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Wait, wait, hold on, what do you mean speak He's
not dead, ma'am. He's not dead.

Speaker 10 (24:59):
He did not make any unfounded claims, but he did
make a joke, one that others may even find crude.
But that is neither illegal nor grounds for companies to
capitulate to this administration in ways that violate the First Amendment.
We must be careful not to allow the government to
punish critics simply because of content. This that's a dangerous
new president and companies must stand firm against any efforts

(25:23):
to trade away First Amendment freedoms.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
This really shows you too, how unqualified many political point
I do.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
I was saying the same thing loading that audio this morning.
He said, how is she ever in that position?

Speaker 1 (25:35):
How are you an FCC commission? Yeah, and you just
got everything wrong. One she went to the joke and
not the statement. Two she made it sound like the
FCC was the one doing it, that did it, when
in fact it was. And then she pretended that there's
not FCC rights. If there's not, Ross, send that audio
to our corporate overlords because they're going to be really

(25:57):
happy because this will probably cut a bunch of compliances.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
I mean the fact that's like a forty three second
cut and there's so many things wrong in it. It's
for her to be in that former position of power
is scary.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Just embarrassing. Absolutely. Oh man, all right, Uh so that's that.
That's the skinny on all this, and it's I find
it probably more fascinating too, just because of the amount
of inside knowledge the Ross and I possess from years
years in this business to hear people up to it,

(26:29):
including a former FCC commissioner to get it so wrong.
But I'm sorry anyone who works anyone that training that
Ross and I just talked about that applies to anyone
who has any control over anything that goes on the
air physically. So if you are, if if you are

(26:49):
the lowliest for it's your first day on the job,
board operator, you take that training because you have an obligation.
Even if you never crack a MIPE, you have an
obligation to do things like run the dump button screen
callers to make sure they're not gonna say stuff. Why
do you think when you call in, we just don't
put you on the air. Ross picks your brain for
a moment. One quality control, but two they want to

(27:13):
make sure you're not a lunatic. So like, yeah, I
can't tell you the number of times I picked up
a call and they were making a good point, but
every other word was the F bomb. And I'm like,
I can't put you on the air if you're if you're,
if you're swearing while telling me what you're gonna say,
there's no way I'm putting you on the air because
I have an obligation. So keep all of this in mind,

(27:35):
all right, Coming up on the show. Definitely. I'm assuming
this will be a Stephen Kent topic for sure. For sure,
we'll chat with our NERD correspondent. That'll be at eight
oh five, and just lots more audio to get to.
We'll take a quick break. We can get some calls
as well. Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight

(27:55):
seven four. I saw another people suggesting that ABC, although
ABC really doesn't have the library because you know, they
weren't the they weren't Letterman and Leno Show or Carson Show.
But like, maybe, you know, maybe that would be what
CBS should do when they get rid of Colbert run
old Letterman stuff. I wonder if it would get.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Better ratings or I guess I bet you it would
just for the Nostalisha factor.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Yeah, top ten list. Heck yeah, now you're gonna have
an older demo, but whatever, you'll you'll have people watching
who know who James Earl Jones is. I guarantee that
all right? And that story coming up? Hang on, so Anthony,
you're up first, Go right ahead, Hello, Anthony.

Speaker 11 (28:42):
Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say that. Chuck Chumer talking
about not having a right to be canceled because of
free speech. Yeah, Charlie Kurk was killed for free speech,
so hey, would he rather have that outcome?

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Well, also, neither of them I had the thing inflicted
on them by the government, well that we know.

Speaker 11 (29:00):
Of, Yeah, exactly, That's what everybody people.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
Yeah, this is really important.

Speaker 11 (29:06):
It's not the government and miss companies.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Yeah, yeah, and and and again there like it's really
in Thanks for the call to Anthony. It's really easy
to explain, like I did at this the beginning of
the show, why a corporation would make that decision. The
amount of revenue loss and you're already losing money is
not does not bode well for you staying in this business.

(29:30):
That's just the reality of it. We all understand it.
That's why Ross and I we choose to get really
good ratings so that we can do dumb stuff occasionally.
Let's see here, Janet, you're up next.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Go ahead, Thanks moaning.

Speaker 12 (29:45):
I'm just listening out the Kyle Spramer and situation there,
and I've just had Kyle and thank Rossford trusted me
so much, because I know I've dropped at least one
or two miles on him, I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
And you know, if we know you and you've been
on the air before, although I'm ross I think we've
had to dump Channet before.

Speaker 12 (30:06):
Oh yeah, you definitely had a dump me at least one. Yeah,
so you know, the stories may make that angry sometimes.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah, And but here's the thing, and in serious town here,
if that happens, even if it's a caller, we like
it happens a few times, we won't put you on
the air anymore. That's just a guy in Minneapolis who
was a great caller, and we just eighty six to
them because he just occasionally would oh wow, yeah, so,
uh you got one strike. You're okay though, Channing.

Speaker 13 (30:34):
All right, I'll keep that in mind.

Speaker 14 (30:36):
Thank you for waiting.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
All right, Yeah, there you go. Yeah, and you got it.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
You know, this is all.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
This is all what employees are expected to do. I
bet there were people sating around the Kimmel Show that
were like, we should not do this. No, no, no,
all right, Jamal, who is in a really good mood.
I guess this morning? What's up, Jamal?

Speaker 3 (30:55):
Good? That's celebrat They're the party going on right here.
Let's celebrate. It's all right, you know what I'm hearing
all these people doing all this boogles going, but we
tuck across and got fired. In the last one of
them said that truck across and should have got fired
because he quote unquote lied about January the CIT. So

(31:19):
now what we are seeing is what why people like
me voted and supported Donald Trump. We finally wanted a president,
a Republican who's going to get down when instead of
just turning the other cheek to the Democrats, know when
you slapped truck, he bought his fence up and he
swinging back. And this is what so many Republicans have

(31:43):
been begging for. We just wanted to fight back. And
this should have happened a long time ago when he
was lying about the the ruction collusion, when they lied
about George Floyd, when they sat down and said he
didn't have any drugs in this system. Then when they
found out nobody went back on air corrected when they
lied about their people they have constantly put and got

(32:05):
away with. Yeah, so I'm happy it's good they got
looked when they got rid of calls. You saw Jimmy
Kempbell celebrated, Charles Stephen Gobert celebrated, and now and let
me say he's taking real quick. I wish a lot
of people on the outside stopped giving them the benefit

(32:25):
of a doubt. What they don't know. They know exactly
what they don't They know exactly why this man got
fired up. They know exactly why they mean assassinated.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
People know if you're calling, if you're trying to call
the show right now and you're getting a busy signal.
Ross was working on some stuff because there's a piece
of equipment in another room that neither of us have
access to, and so we're trying to get in there
and Ross won't even phase through the wall. So even
though he just.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Told me he can pass yourself, it's been sort of
problematic the last fifteen minutes. There's a piece of a
equipment that isn't working right, so I have to go
in and fix it. But they put these new digital
locks in the door that are accessible via this app
on the phone, which is how we get into the studios.
Right when they did the remodel, they put up these things,
so but it's not giving me access, so I can't
get in there to fix the thing. So I'm I'm

(33:17):
on the phone with engineering and they're like, okay, you
should have access now, Mike, I do not He's like,
did you use the Apple? I guess I did. He's
like the same app you used to get into the studio. Yes,
what other what?

Speaker 8 (33:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (33:26):
I want to stare at.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
It, that's our app. Yeah yeah, man, you have to
face through the wall. Sorry, probably want to get a
run at it, get up in there. So yeah, so
intermittently for not able to get through. It's because engineering
keeps having them do stuff. Because here's what will happen
if we can't get the It's that piece of equipment.
When we talk to raced Agent and Jeff Dollander, it's

(33:48):
going to be on the phone and not on their
comrax unit. It's just what it's called. So I don't know.
Sometimes the thing just glitches and you got to reset
it and that actually works. So but yeah, with the
new lock, they cut ross out, so I assume I
cut out too. But I have no need usually to
go in there. All right, seven o eight Cacoday Radio program.

(34:11):
Going back to the Kimmel thing too, I would remind
people that he is not the first person to basically
lose their gig for lying about the Charlie Kirk thing
and of a public variety, right, I don't even mean
college professors. I mean people within the media who should
know better. Two days ago, they Washington Post canned one

(34:34):
of their writers. Was her name Karen. Her name's Karen.
She's probably soundly. She's one of the bad Karens, though
a Taya I pronounce her last name. And the reason
they fired her, in fact, here is the actual because
she then wrote a scathing substack article about it. According
to what the Post told her, based on a post

(34:55):
that she made on Blue Sky, because of course she's
posting on Blue Sky. The post was deemed unacceptable gross misconduct,
and I'll explain specifically what they mean by that, and
of endangering the physical safety of colleagues, charges without evidence,
which I reject, complete, which I reject completely. Okay, that's
part of her statement. So the first part was the quote.

(35:17):
The gross mis conduct is the lying provably lying, because
what she did in her Blue Sky post is she
included a quote, and I mean it is end quotes,
and then it has the little you know slash Charlie Kirk.
It is clear she is quoting Charlie Kirk. The quote

(35:38):
is black women do not have the brain processing power.
To be taken seriously. You have to go steal a
white person slot, which clearly sounds exactly like something Charlie
Kirk would have said. Of course he didn't. In fact,
here's the quote, and it's only half of that where

(36:00):
this emanated from. And it shows you the decide, because
here's the deal. Even either she knowingly lied or she's
so bad at her job knowing that you have to
vet things like this, that she just didn't do it.
So she is deficient in her ability to be a
reporter under the standards that Washington Post purports to have.

(36:26):
That's not what he said. Here's what he said. He
said that Joy Read, Michelle Obama, and Kantanji Brown Jackson,
the Supreme Court justice do not have the brain processing
power to be taken seriously. He was specifically talking about
those three individuals when he was reacting to various various
stories about that. This was around when Brown was going

(36:48):
in there, and that was his opinion of these three individuals,
Katanji Brown for what she wrote, Michelle Obama for how
she reacted, and Joy Read for the analysis she did
on her show. Those three, and I would add another
name to that list, the former FCC commissioner who was
on CNN, who for forty three seconds lied or misconstrued

(37:11):
or actively pretended like things didn't exist. Doesn't sound like
she has the brain processing power to have held that position.
So I'm on the record with that. There you go,
quote me, but quote me accurately. And she didn't. And
the last part about the last line, which was, oh,

(37:32):
hold on, wet, go back to it. You have to
go steal a white person slot. He never said that. Ever,
somebody took something, rewrote it scathingly, added a part to it,
and this nitwith posted it as true as a Washington
Post reporter. You got to lose your job. Maybe you
would have lost your job a few years ago, but

(37:52):
you're gonna lose your job right now. This is too
hot a potato. Well, I'm saying, let's see here. Oh wait,
hold on, yes, Jake, what's up?

Speaker 8 (38:05):
Hey? Yeah?

Speaker 13 (38:06):
About me? Once because I said the f wort on
the radio, I remember.

Speaker 8 (38:09):
Exactly what it was for.

Speaker 13 (38:10):
It was remember when the queen died and they had
to tell the bease. I got ran off the road
right in the middle, like right when you.

Speaker 15 (38:18):
Picked up the phone.

Speaker 11 (38:19):
I got ran off the road.

Speaker 13 (38:20):
And I drive a big giant Fox truck.

Speaker 11 (38:22):
And almost killed somebody.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
Well, so you called in a brag about that.

Speaker 8 (38:29):
Apologize I've been I've been waiting forever to apologize to
you in person. But it hurts your ears.

Speaker 16 (38:36):
I remember that, and I still apologize for it.

Speaker 11 (38:38):
And I can't wait to meet him person to apologize.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
Okay, Well, they're they're feverishly planning some events later in
the year. So where do you Where do you? Where
do you live.

Speaker 14 (38:51):
Currently?

Speaker 13 (38:52):
I'm in Wilmington right now, but I live in Durham
House in Durham.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
I will tell you We're gonna have event coming up
the first week of December for three days at the
Walmart and carry killed their farms. It's our stuff, a
bus event. I'll be out there basically for most of
the day for three days, collecting toys, all right, kids
for the Marines and whatnot.

Speaker 8 (39:15):
So just go.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
You'll hear it, You'll hear us talking about it. Then
we'll have some other events I'm sure coming up that
Sales is planning, so.

Speaker 8 (39:21):
I'll see what I can do to meet there.

Speaker 13 (39:23):
And I wanted to add one more thing. I want
to take the death penalty off for Charlie Kirk. I
just want him locked in a patted room with a
video screen that shows complete Charlie Kirk not not hit
it anything.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
No, I'm sorry. We're going with the bull thing where
they roast you inside. It's already been decided, sir.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Well that's a possibility too.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
All right. Well, look as long as you're opening and
thanks for the call there, sir. Yeah, just keep listening.
We'll do the stuff a bit. But if you do
come out to see me, you got to bring a
toy for the kids. Sorry, them's the rules about you.
It's for the children. It is for the children. If
you want to bring that Lambo, that would be even better.
I always bring it out to place that park right

(40:07):
at the curb.

Speaker 8 (40:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
No, but if they want to bring another Lambo, and yes,
because what okay, So what would make a child happier
than having not one Lambo but two Lambos drive by?
That'd be amazing. In fact, I just saw a video
one of those it's dusty in here videos where they
had some kid who was really into lambos, but he's
also got like all the cancers, and some lambo dealership's like,

(40:30):
why don't we bring every Lambo on the lot over
and drive by the kid's house in a parade, and
everyone's out there happy except for one neighbor who's very
upset that a bunch of lambos are driving five miles
an hour through his neighborhood. What so he goes out
to yell at the cancer kid's parents or somebody you
call me.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
I mean, let's not do that.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
They It's one thing to go, why is there a
bunch of lambos in my in my neighborhood? And maybe
like be inquisitive about that. But once you figure out
that this little Jimmy down the way, you know, the kid,
the kid he doesn't have any hair anymore because of
his treatment, or just wants to see lambos because he
loves them, you probably just go in your house and
put your headphones on. You absolute, Oh moron, Sorry, hold,

(41:15):
I need a sip of water. Ah, there we go,
all right? Uh let me uh well, let me do this.
We'll go in at the break when we come back.
Tim Wall, dude, I'm getting so much text message from

(41:36):
Tim Walls. I get some I am super spammed by
this guy. Just haven't worked in Minneapolis so long. And
I thought it was very interesting because we talked about
this the other day. Ross this is the subject. This
is the lead line of the of his his pitch, right,
it says Tim Walls here holy s word. Yesterday I

(41:57):
launched my reelection campaign. So they're not just swearing at
press conferences or during interviews or at you know, while
they're eating tacos. They're even sending out fundraising things with
an expletive right in the subject.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
That is so embarrassing. Yeah, and this comes back to
that focus group that came back to the people that
left the Democrats and to the problem is you don't
speak like humans, and you got to speak like humans.
And then the Democrats decided what that meant was they
have to swear all the time.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
Now, Yeah, basically they did their research in a bar
in Norfolk, righte, Like, oh, this must be normal anyway,
All right, seven sixteen, Hang on, Ross or all your
pets accounted for? Buddy, All all your pets accounted for?
Apparently there's a monkey on the loose.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
Oh no, my monkey, Yeah, my pet monkey's gone. Oh man,
I was just about to say they were fine, and
then you reminded me of the month. Oh I did
not see my pet monkey this morning.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
It's oh yeah, I've got to be devastating. Yeah, he crying. Man,
all right, hold on, where is this not a little monkey?

Speaker 3 (43:02):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (43:02):
It's a little monkeys, isn't it. That's that's good. So
this is Irondale County, so that's gonna be Mooresville and
then up north like you're going to the triad there.
Let's see here. Oh dude, yeah, this thing is. Oh
it's playing on the power line. Well, of course it is,
but that could end horribly. U video surface of the

(43:24):
animal making a break for it, uh, climbing on power
poles and lines, before the disappearing into the woods. I
love I love this. I love when they just go
ask random dudes about crazy stories. Billy Hickman, a local residence, said, man,
I thought my eyes are playing tricks on me. This

(43:44):
is a very rare sight. What rare implies that it's
happened before. How many monkeys are on the loose down
in Irondale County? The heck's going on? Man, let's see here,
he goes.

Speaker 15 (44:04):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
Yeah, when it came to a stop, out of the
corner of my eye, noticed something on the power line.
Initially thought it was a squirrel. It's a capuchin. It's
the just it's one of those justin bieber monkeys. They
could be very aggressive, very aggressive, those little, those little
white faced capuchins. If you've ever if you've ever been
to like southern Mexico or Central America or South America

(44:27):
where they have these things, they especially if you're near
like a tourist resort, they'll just be a line of
these little bastards sitting there and if you leave anything
on your patio, bye bye, bye bye. In fact, I
was a couple of friend of mine from Raleigh and
I they came. We were all down in Costa Rica
together and she had never been there, and the first

(44:50):
thing that we told her is like, don't leave anything
on the patio. And so what's the first thing she
does after a few drinks, leaves at least something on
the patio, her phone, and that was a little bugger
grabbed it, went up a tree, realized he couldn't eat it,
and dropped it and the screen broke. It was was
no good. But yeah, they'll still beer everything. So they're

(45:11):
they're very mischievous. But you know, so we'll need to
get Ross's monkey back. Uh. They're claiming it escape from
someplace called zootastic I don't know you'll be able to
prove that that's not Ross's monkey. I don't think so.
It says people are searching for it, all right. Well,

(45:35):
I don't know how friendly it is. Clearly it's like
this is better than where I was because in the
video looks like the monkey's having a good old time.
All right. A few other things. Oh, I wanted to
read just one more quote here. I didn't have Ross
ripped the audio in, but I saw it in the
quote form here. I can just find the dang thing

(45:57):
distracted by the monkey man. You know, very rare sight,
but apparently happens more than you think. And that's from
Scott Jennings. So Scott Jennings yesterday on CNN said quote,
I expect to get fired every day. Here's I want
to push back on Scott Jennings for this, and I
think Scott Jennings knows this. And there's a certain it's
a little bit of a humble thing there. The reason

(46:21):
that CNN show does any sort of decent numbers, and
when I say decent, I mean by CNN standards. Plus
the watchability after this is more inside baseball. But a
lot of times if you consume broadcast media, radio or TV.
Even if it's not live, but it's done within a
certain amount of time, it still is meaningfully impactful for

(46:43):
ratings without getting into all the details of it. So
Scott Jennings drives a lot of clicks even if people
don't watch that live. Okay, So there's a lot of
bonus stuff that they get for having Jennings on there, arguably,
and I don't know what they're paying him. I'm sure
it's not as much as the host, who is absolutely atrocious.

(47:03):
Every time Jennings gets a you know, makes a good point,
she wants to interrupt. If Jennings wasn't there, I think
that the ratings and revenue that that show is able
to derive would suffer. So and that's that's an important component.
He said, this is a tough business. If I were
Jimmy Kimmel, I mean, I'm surprised that a guy who
once wore blackface and caused large breasted women to jump

(47:26):
on trampolines lasted this long. All right, Scott, I really
enjoy watching your videos. You keep the Juggies name out
your mouth. Okay. Juggies were a fort were part of
my formative years. I will not have people attacking the
juggies Ross. You remember how much fun the juggies looked
like they were having.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Yeah, I know, a lot of good exercise too.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
Yet yes, you know that promoted health and trampolines, and
you know women who like dancing are jumping on him.
And I mentioned Tim Wallas. Let me just play this
audio because again and he's running for he's running for
a third term as governor up there, got helped the

(48:09):
state of Minnesota. Will probably win, but he'll win, continuing
to say really dumb stuff like.

Speaker 17 (48:16):
This, they should be partners with Well, this is.

Speaker 1 (48:18):
About national guards coming into UH cities and uh, you know,
trying to uphold the rule of law or immigration enforcement,
a little combination of both. And it's been mentioned that
Minneapolis could be among those cities. But I kind of
think Trump did that. It wasn't even Trump, it was
Stephen whatever his buck, whatever that guy's name is, the

(48:40):
one they think is evil incarnate. Stephen Miller had Minneapolis
on a laundry list of cities he listed. So this
is Tim Wallas basically reacting.

Speaker 17 (48:47):
They should be partners with us, just as they cut
our counter terrorism funding money that we could use to
protect schools.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
Well, it might be because when your city was rioting,
you guys gave the stand down order and let them
take a police station, which then just made it worse.
And then they continue to take businesses all up and
down Lake Street there. In fact, they burned down one
of my favorite places to eat in all of the
Twin Cities. And then when they had money to help

(49:17):
some of these businesses rebuild, the owner didn't get priority
because the owner was too white.

Speaker 17 (49:26):
So there's that they could use it to help fund
our police, making sure we could hire more the police.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
You cut out of the budget by millions and millions
of dollars and literally hundreds of officers. Those police.

Speaker 17 (49:39):
But I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe.
A tank next to Chipoltle. It's stupid, and it's for
the cameras, and it's you know, you can get into
the legal aspect of possecommatitis, but it's foundations. Keep saying, Jen,
where are the don't tread on me people? We were
told for years that we needed to be prepared about
an overbearing federal government that would step in over local

(50:01):
control and actually put troops on the streets. I mean,
where are those people and I would just ask them
to rise up.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Okay? A couple a couple of things here. One, the
fantasy of going full like military control. The what had
people concerned is like, what was that movie with Bruce
Willis and Samuel L. Jackson a number of years ago
where they basically went full full military control in New York.

(50:32):
That's what the people are less concerned about. Dudes walking
around smiling and standing there as a deterrent. Okay. And
then the immigration stuff is something else entirely. Secondly, I
would do you understand what a draw a tank is?
If you knew?

Speaker 2 (50:52):
I was gonna say, like I haven't. I can't remember
last time I was in a Chipotle, But if there
was a tank parked in front, you're going right.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
Bringing the boy, Yes, you're gonna go to the tank.
We do you know, we tried to rent a tank.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
Yeah, we want to do stuff, a tank full of
toys and yeah, stuff with us. We wanted to, you know,
do our version, and we found one. I guess it
was up Danville, the Danville the Tank Museum. But federal
regulations they couldn't transport the tank or something, or they
didn't put the tank on like a special.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
It would have been very very because of the weight
of it. We basically would have had to do like
well you truckers know, we would have had to do
the It would have caused us an arm and a leg.
But like we looked into it, we're just sitting around
into promotions. Meaning one time with.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
I said, I said, let's let's stuff a tank full
of toys, and we all said that'd be amazing, And.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
He's like, where are we going to get tank? And
I'm like, bro, we got a whole museum full of them,
just like on the edge of the listening area.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
We did something similar when I worked at a radio
station back in like ninety nine because the station was
very close to Fort you know, can't let shoot. Yeah,
And we did a lot of work with the Marines
down We had like different military vehicles that we stuffed
full of toys or toys or tots. But I mean
a tank, I guess was different.

Speaker 1 (52:06):
Yeah, And logistically I can't remember if we talked that.
For whatever reason, maybe it was because of how far
it was, the Marines didn't seem interested in getting us
a tank, but I kind of understood that they probably
don't loan tanks out much, but like that would be amazing.
So like we almost we almost had a tank for
an event, because a tank is a draw man. Even

(52:27):
you people get mad at me when I claim something's
a tank but it's not a tank for some weird
technical reason. Don't care. I think people think it's a tank.
They want to come see it, So you are way off, sir.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
I think they got super weird over the stipulation we
put in the contract that we could we could have
full a possession of the tank for two years after
the event. They were frowned upon that for some reason.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
And it had to be fully loaded, correct, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
so we need the children right right, and we weren't
going to do anything horrible with it. We're just gonna
do some demos, right stuff, unless somebody cut us off.
But that was also a different time because that was
who was in office, and was it Obama or Biden?
It was Obama. I mean, it was a different time,
so they would look that fly, you know, was it

(53:10):
or was it under Trump on the first n I
don't know. Yeah, well whatever, it came to fruition. But
but really the whole point is the whole point is
if if if people got win that at the local Chipotle,
there's a friggin tank there that Chipotle is going to
do brisk business. I'm sorry, it may not work if
you just keep it there all the time because people

(53:30):
but like if there's a limited window to go see
the tank and get yourself a burrito.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
But are you surprised that General jazz Hands would have
that tank that that take though after his whole you know, Madden,
let's run the pick six, I mean he has he's.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
So grossly misinformed in an opinion about something that should
be super obvious.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
Remember, this is the guy they chose because he could
relate to men.

Speaker 1 (53:54):
Yeah, yeah, he was. He was remembering because he drank
the mountain dew and not the water, right, so dumb,
because that's what men drink. They do the do I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
In case people don't know what you're talking about. So
they did some sort of like they brought them.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
To Shapiro him and I think maybe it was the
senator from New Mexico, but whoever it was, there was
three of them. They brought him in and you know,
to one place. And then one of the first things
they did when they walked in is they offered him
something to drink. They had a cooler there with like
you know, water and SODA's and everything, and uh, you know,
Shapiro and whoever the third one was picked water and uh,

(54:34):
I can't remember if it was Kamala or one of
her staffers who was bragging about this.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
They were like, yeah, we went with the guy that
chose the mountain dew because he chose because you know, yeah,
that's more relatable place.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
That's because that's what they think. They just assume everyone
who doesn't live on the coast, who they're you know,
actively trying to pursue with this decision, is just some
some big redneck who just sits there and shovels mountain
dew in his face.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
And but it was like some sort of in depth
psychological evaluation, like you're looking at will Smith and Men
in Black when he drags the table across the room.
He's a super genius, and they're like, look at fatty
mcphatterson here moving his jazz hands. We're gonna go with
the guy that chose the mountain dew.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
Yeah, that's the guy we're gonna go with. And he's
they forgot to add and he's not Jewish, if we're
gonna be real honest here, and you can't convince me otherwise.
The Shapiro thing was about anything but that. By the way,
I keep seeing people bring up the fire at the
Governor's mansion in Pennsylvania, including Shapiro, as some sort of

(55:38):
response to the Charlie Kirk thing. That was a Palestinian,
a pro Palestinian nutjob who tried to let your house
on fire because you're Jewish or among other things. It
has literally no correlation to any of that other stuff.
All right, so Stagia will be calling in on the phone. Huh, okay,

(56:01):
does he know that the piece ross was able to
actually get access to the room, And what happened is
that the help center was giving him access to all
the other cool rooms. So now he basically he got
in the money room, I think.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
And yeah, that's what the Matt Engineering was saying. He's like,
I'm pretty sure they give you access to every room
on the floor in the building except that one.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
Yeah, so now now he's able to get in, but
apparently the piece of equipment still being a jerk. So uh,
but we'll truck on. That's what we got phones for
so it'll be okay, all right, And then a reminder,
Stephen Kent will be joining us our NERD correspondent. We're
going to talk about the Bethesda Studios thing that we
mentioned earlier this week where they posted a clip from

(56:43):
the Indiana Jones game and it said like good is
a good kiddy on it And it's a little scene
of indie indie petting a cat saying you something about
you don't like the fascist either, or something like those lines.
And it clearly is not a coincidence right after what
happened with Kirk No, no, and you can even read

(57:06):
further into it with the furry stuff, but I think
they were just going for the fascist line, so that
was that was not a good look. But clearly this
Kimmel thing, I think is going to be the top
of mind discussion. All right, all right, let's get raced
agent here from the Weather Channel. Yeah, your comrex exploded,
so well our version of it, Oh your comrax man,

(57:28):
it's all like, I don't know, it's the hamster died
that spins it.

Speaker 8 (57:33):
Nobody nobody said the well, either way, we could still
get the message across, right, dude, there's.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
A monkey on the loose, is it will that monkey
survive if it stays out the next few days. It's
a capuchin. It's a capuchin monkey, which is like South Mexico,
Central America, North South America. So that's the touchures it like. So,
oh yeah, well.

Speaker 8 (57:54):
I'd be warmer than normal, but I don't. I don't
think it's going to be quite that warm. A little
cloud or fog in some spots this morning around Ashborough,
Salisbury south and west of the Triad and Greensboro Winston South,
but I don't think it's gonna be all that bad today.
Load of mid eighties, might get closer to ninety for some, Tomorrow,
mid upper eighties for most, and a sunny weekend little

(58:16):
mid eighties. Even early next week. I see more dry weather.
It might be a change coming later next week to
a little bit wet weather pattern. But right now, Jacy,
this is a tough one because I've got a lot
of time to basically say, not too much is going
to change over the next few days, So why don't
we jump into the tropics. Gabrielle did form a tropical

(58:36):
storm with fifty mile p hour maximum sustained winds as
of earlier this morning they put out they may have
the eight o'clock advisory out, but either way it's gonna stay,
maybe even east of Bermuda and become a hurricane. But
at this point it looks like it is going to stay.

Speaker 3 (58:53):
Well.

Speaker 8 (58:53):
Yeah, winds are still at fifty miles per hour and
then unusually quiet tropicos blandic in September, so that's good news.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
Okay, all right, well we will speak to you via
phone probably an hour from now. All right, yeah, all right,
there you go, racedagic from the Weather Channel. If I
remember to hang up the phone because I don't have
to do that with the comrades because Ross does that. AnyWho.
All right, coming up before we chat with Steve and
just a couple of quick things. We have an update

(59:21):
on the Defour Defoe singer. Some people are telling me
it's David, but it clearly says Defour VD there, so
I don't know why David's pro VD, but whatever. If
you remember, he's the dude who authorities found a decomposed,
dismembered body in the trunck of his test.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
Surely it can't get any worse than that, you know,
it surely can, and it will get worse next.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
You got to be loving this whole access trying to
access the door thing now that you've tried six times,
because you love video games, right, and I feel like
this is clearly out of mist So are you a
play missed?

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
I have not, but yeah, I know it's like some
sort of stupid puzzle and like Resident, Yeah I got
it this time.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
And he got the ruins where they need to be
and then he tried it for the doors.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
Well that's why. That's what I disliked about the New
Indiana Jones game, where I was like, hey, you know,
you're having a good time and then you run into
some puzzle and some tomb and that's your next like
two hours because I'm an idiot and I can't solve
the puzzle. It's annoying.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Yeah, you just just can I just shoot Nazis? Yeah,
Like then you gotta throw you know, you gotta throw
Wolfenstein back on, but you have to have like an
earlier version so you can still murder Nazis. So yeah, AnyWho,
All right, Well, if you weren't in a miss then
you gotta be hating this. We told you earlier in
the week about singer did d for VD or some
Saints pronounced David but whatever, I'm not familiar with them.

(01:00:44):
But they found a dismembered corpse in his rotting corpse
in the trunck of his tesla. Now he's he is
on tour, I think over in Europe or something where
he was. But now there's more deats.

Speaker 2 (01:00:58):
And at first, at first they were like, you know,
remember the reporting was he's cooperating with police. Yeah, yeah,
which is like, what isn't he supposed to do? Like
is that a yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
No? I mean, I mean technically you don't have to.
You know, you can a lawyer would tell you not
to talk to him. But that being said, no, they're like,
he's been hullow, he's cooperating, and you know, there's also
the part where he has an entourage and he has
a lot of cars and people use his cars and
so but this is like, is this worst case scenario

(01:01:31):
they've identified the body? Is this worst case scenario A
fifteen year old girl? I think, all right, half of
a fifteen year old girl might be a magnitude worse,
but this is this is top tier worst case scenario.
And then it gets worse from there. They identified the
remains of a fifteen year old girl by the name

(01:01:53):
of Celeste Reeves, who actually had went missing two years
ago when she was thirteen, from her California home. And
at the time they had said that she had a boyfriend,
but the parents had never met him, whose name was David.
And on her finger and on his finger are matching

(01:02:18):
tattoos with the word shush, just sh like that. That
sounds really bad, man, Like I know they're not calling him,
like the main suspect is somebody who's cooperating with authorities.
But like he would have been I looked at up.
He would have been eighteen, she would have been thirteen.

(01:02:41):
So this is like, this isn't even a Romeo and
Juliet stuff. As far as I'm aware, I think usually
it said for a lot of states it's like three years,
because you know, he could be an eighteen year old senior.
But but now you and I know in Wyoming, I
think it was three years. Yeah, I'm almost positive it
was three years. And I don't know what it is

(01:03:03):
in all states, but yeah, eighteen and thirteen year old.
Then she runs away or is taken. Now she got
matching tattoos. They his name matches the name of the
boyfriend the parents claim she had. So I don't know
where he is right now, but he may want to
stay there. M all right, Okay, so he is back

(01:03:24):
in the US. He canceled. He had a show Wednesday
in Seattle as he returned from some European dates, and
he had canceled then. And where is this. He's supposed
to be performing in Minneapolis this weekend, so we'll see.

(01:03:44):
Oh wow, he's already and he already has sponsors canceling. Yeah,
that's that's gonna go. That's probably not gonna go well
for him. All right, real quick, Kevin, what's up?

Speaker 14 (01:03:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
I just wanted to.

Speaker 14 (01:04:00):
Say about comment about Kimmel. Uh, it looks like it, Well,
it should be against the law to just outright lie
like he did, which I had heard or read a
few days ago that Obama had changed the law that
the media outs could.

Speaker 1 (01:04:19):
It's not against the law, but it's definitely against standards
and practices and perhaps FCC requirements. But we didn't go there.
He's the FCC did not cancel his show. ABC did
because they were about to lose fifty affiliates.

Speaker 14 (01:04:32):
Yeah, I know ABC did, but you know, this which
this whole thing makes me makes me think of the
Communist way, you know that the saying that if you
repeat a big enough lie enough times, people will eventually
accept it as the truth. And you know, I wonder
how well it takes ignorant people to to not to

(01:04:56):
just hear things and not quite look up. Today. You know,
everybody has a smartphone, but you had people get dumber
and dumber.

Speaker 1 (01:05:05):
Where I was going to start with our Thursday guest,
mister Steven kent NERD correspondent, extraordinary, Stephen, how are you
doing this morning?

Speaker 8 (01:05:13):
I'm hanging in there, Casey.

Speaker 16 (01:05:15):
This has been a bombers seven days and I feel tired.

Speaker 1 (01:05:20):
I dude, I feel you as well. But I was
you know, I was going to start off with the
Bethesda stuff, but we're going to put that to the back.
This Kimmel stuff is nuts. You would have thought, uh,
with the reaction that Jimmy Kimmel had been assassinated, with
the way the media is reacting, and all he got
was a business decision. And I laid it out for

(01:05:44):
about two segments earlier in the show, So I'll just
do a very brief thing. The FCC did not cancel
Jimmy Kimmel, Next Star the second largest affiliate owner private
affiliate owner, and Sinclair the largest affiliate owner accounting for
fifty some ABC markets. We're going to refuse to run

(01:06:04):
a show that is already hemorrhaging money because of the
immense cost of producing it. That is unsustainable in a
broadcast media environment. That's why Jimmy Kimmel doesn't is not
does not have a show anymore. Agree, disagree. I mean,
this is your world, you swim in it too.

Speaker 16 (01:06:24):
Yeah, I do agree with that, And this is a
nuanced position that I'm glad you're bringing to your audience.
You know, the role of Sinclair and Next Star here
and other managing partners in these large, large companies that
all have to haggle about the kind of content that
they're going to put out on air.

Speaker 5 (01:06:41):
You know.

Speaker 16 (01:06:41):
My take initial hint on this was, Yeah, Brendan Carr
is like a very sassy individual at the SEC. He
loves to own the libs and talk a big game.
But at the end of the day, this is this
is like business for all these networks who have to
air the content that ABC is allowing to put out
and Jimmy.

Speaker 8 (01:07:00):
Kim A Live.

Speaker 16 (01:07:01):
Look, you can be political, you can be political, but
the stuff that he does, like Colbert, it just sounds
like cable news garbage. Like if you want conspiracy theory
and of unsubstantiated remarks in slander, you can turn on
cable news at nine pm. That's what that is for.

Speaker 1 (01:07:20):
Jimmy Kimmel lied too. This is and this is the beginning.
This was This was not dancing vaccine syringes. This was
not Trump jokes. Kimmel chose two even before he made
the Trump joke about Trump not feeling Well, let me
just play the audio for everybody, since this is what
we'll be talking about for the next few minutes. All right,

(01:07:40):
So here is here's the extended cut, and you'll hear one.
You'll hear the lie at the beginning, but then you'll
hear the Trump joke, which again is not really the problem.
It's not really there. It's a dumb joke because it
doesn't take into account the fact that maybe Trump acts
weird in response to a political assassination, because he himself
was almost politically assassinated, and you wonder if maybe that's

(01:08:04):
stuck with him. But anyway, here's what Kimmel said, we
hit some.

Speaker 4 (01:08:06):
New lows over the weekend with the Magga Gang desperately
trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as
anything other than one of them and doing everything they
can to score political points from it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:18):
In between the finger pointing there, that's the lie, all right,
that's the inherent lie anything him. Even though by this time,
because this was not moments that they were taping after
the event and we didn't know what was well, they
still thought that old guy did it. This was after
an entire weekend of things coming out that clearly showed
us what was up. And then the joke is this

(01:08:40):
was grieving.

Speaker 4 (01:08:41):
On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half staff,
which got some criticism, but on a human level, you
can see how hard the president is taking this.

Speaker 5 (01:08:50):
I do the loss of your friend, Charlie asked their personally.
How are you holding up for the last day and
a half third?

Speaker 3 (01:08:57):
I think very good?

Speaker 6 (01:08:58):
And by the way, right there, all the Trumps. They
just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House,
which is something they've been trying to get, as you know,
for about one hundred and fifty years. And it's going
to be a beauty.

Speaker 4 (01:09:11):
Yes, he's had the fourth stage of grief.

Speaker 1 (01:09:14):
Sorry, all right, then we'll just cut it off there
because you get the gist of where he's going. So yeah, yeah,
there's two different things here.

Speaker 16 (01:09:23):
Which you know, to that point, I mean that that
remark that Trump gave did alicit of chuckle. I mean,
it's such an amazing and weird deflection. But you know, Trump,
at the end of the day, the cancel culture, people
who think that their censorship going on on the main
networks have to eventually answer why south Park is still
on air and Colbert is not and Kimmel is not.

(01:09:46):
South Park's ratings for almost every episode of their new season,
which depicts Donald Trump as being in a sexual relationship
with Satan and walking around naked with his junk out
there to see nets just barely more viewers per episode,
about one point five million than does Kimmel, which is
now down to the third place in late night ratings,

(01:10:10):
also around one million viewers per episode. You know, it's
it's kind of pitiful, and nobody is talking about south Park,
which goes so much over the top. They don't have
any sort of concerns nobody is concerned about the vulgarity
of the jokes. Jimmy Kimmel is another victim here of
what's going on with mergers between major companies that have

(01:10:34):
business moves and they've got dead weight to cut. And
he gave the ma reason. He gave the reason, which
you're in broadcasting right, like you know how it is like.

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
This is great because you and I didn't talk before this,
and that is that is my main subtext here, because
it goes for Colbert, it goes for Kimmel, it may
go for Fallon, although Fallen I don't I don't strike
me as very political. Who knows. Maybe he picks up
viewers over there because these two ones out and ones
on his way out. But they all hemorrhage money. They're

(01:11:04):
very expensive to produce. And while there is a mark,
you can't just look at the revenue drive from ads,
because there is there you can market your other products
on there, which is useful, less and less eyes to
do it, and it's all impactful. And if you're set
to lose fifty two affiliates, then it's a no brainer. Automatically,
it's just done. You can't justify it anymore. But each

(01:11:29):
version of this. Colbert had his, ABC had theirs, maybe
the other networks will do it with theirs. These guys
see an opportunity I think at the network level too,
as you said, shed this dead weight and maybe be
able to kind of act like they didn't do it.
They had their hand force, which is that's just a
pr thing. But I think that's what you're seeing here, Nop.

Speaker 16 (01:11:50):
I think that's absolutely right. You know, we've got a
thing going on right now, another discussion about cancel culture
in this country. A lot of people are finding them
selves on suspension or losing their jobs or the things
that they post online. And we've got a lot of
late night show hosts who are figuring out that their
mediocrity can only be subsidized for so long. People need

(01:12:13):
to actually carry themselves with some sort of decency to
manage the things that come out of their mouth and
choose wisely. The left always said that there was no
cancel culture, that there was only accountability for the things.

Speaker 3 (01:12:27):
That you say.

Speaker 16 (01:12:29):
I think now what we're actually seeing is accountability has
become bipartisan, and that might actually be somewhat good.

Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
Overall.

Speaker 16 (01:12:38):
The best way to end cancel culture was mutually assured destruction.
And I think we might be reaching the equilibrium where
that is happening.

Speaker 1 (01:12:46):
Right, But I want to be careful because and I
know it's easy to sit there and sound really partisan
on this stuff, but I happen to agree with people
like the Speaker of the House. We played his audio
yesterday where canceling people because they didn't they you know,
had a religious belief and didn't want to use somebody's
pronouns versus canceling somebody for celebrating a political assassination. Really,

(01:13:12):
because here's the deal. If I they claim, if they
won't use my pronouns that that person, I'm in danger
because words are violence, right, this garbage that campus is.
But if somebody in the cube next to me or
down the hall is gleefully laughing watching a guy's neck
explode because they disagree with him politically, now I don't.

(01:13:33):
I don't feel comfortable in that workplace with that person. Yeah,
that's a different thing. That's a safety thing entirely.

Speaker 8 (01:13:41):
No, it very much is.

Speaker 16 (01:13:43):
I Mean, we've got a debate going on in my
very small little town about a guy about the barbecue
place who employs a political radical, and everyone like, you know,
like this guy.

Speaker 8 (01:13:54):
Might spin on my food, you know, like, what are
we going to do here?

Speaker 16 (01:13:58):
That's that's a real concern. I mean if you were
doing a job interview for somebody and you were like,
by the way, how do you feel about the assassination
of X, Y or Z And your answer is, yeah,
that's awesome. I watched the video ten times. You're not
getting that. You're not getting that job. And that is
a whole world of difference between your colleague pulling up

(01:14:21):
pictures of you in high school where you did something
embarrassing and then you having your life ruined over it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:26):
Yeah, that's not true. That guy would get the job
at this bookstore in Asheville that's promoting an event called
b Gay Do Crime because there's just a bunch of
comedy insane people, but probably not at Chipotle or something, right,
So yeah, man, that's and the food thing's funny. If
I go to a restaurant, there is zero chance unless

(01:14:47):
I become a regular and get to know people that
they get to know what I do for a living.
And I know a lot of police officers the same way.

Speaker 16 (01:14:54):
And what is with all the overlap between the amount
of people who lost their jobs this week and social
workers and educators.

Speaker 1 (01:15:02):
And healthcare workers. Oh yeah, it's.

Speaker 16 (01:15:05):
These professional empathy people, the empathy professional class. They're just
dropping like flies because it turns out most of these
people have a very murderous ideology associated with empathy, where
if you are not in their clean, clean minded class
of empathetic people, you're just marked for death. That's kind
of scary, Like these are your healthcare workers and teachers.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
Yeah, A little bit, man, a little bit. We had
We had a college professor in Greensboro. She got asked
she she literally was doing it in front of her class.
She was having a she was, you know, talking about
the killing in a positive way in front of her class.
And it's like, that's the other. But that's the thing too,
What an environment that exists out there that people who

(01:15:48):
are purported to be smart, right, college professors died that
doctor up in New Jersey, People who are are supposed
to be among the most intelligent and with the ability
to reason, our own police chief and duor North Carolina,
and yet they misread the room so much on this
And it just shows you how permissive it was to

(01:16:09):
be on one side and evil to your political opponents
without repercussions. Generally it went in one direction. A lot
of these places like they got so comfortable. It really
is instructive of what we've been dealing with for the
last few years.

Speaker 16 (01:16:25):
Absolutely, this was a dark time, and I understand everybody
out there is stressed and feel like there's no road forward.
But I think we're going to come out of this tunnel.

Speaker 1 (01:16:34):
Yeah, And I think that it's easy to concentrate on
the literally thousands of people. I think the number of
where they're put a clearing house together of this was
twenty two thousand different posts, or twenty two thousand different
people who openly posted with their names. But I the
number that I'm more interested in, and I'm curious what
you think it is, is the number of people who

(01:16:56):
went I can't believe I aligned myself with these folks
and maybe are rethinking. Even if they're not going to
go join the GOP, at the very least they're going
to distance themselves from the current state of the Democrat Party.

Speaker 16 (01:17:10):
This is going to be a major turning point. The
culture is actually changing. And if you thought that the
Republican Party conservative movement had sort of peeked with Donald Trump.
I think we're all going to look back at this
time and realize this was just the beginning of a
right wing turn in America.

Speaker 1 (01:17:28):
Now there's one other little story that is the Bethesda story.
So Bethesda Video Games is very, very, very successful. Indiana
Jones Ross was just talking about playing where he had
to go figure out how to find jewels for Noah's Ark,
which is weird. But they have Skyrim, they have what
other they have a bunch of big fallout. Yeah, that's

(01:17:48):
a big one I'm thinking of. So they posted a
little snippet on the social media account for Bethesda, and
it was just like a little cut shot in Indiana
Jones or India Indy reaches down a pets a cat
and says, you don't care much about those fascists, do you?
And then they wrote good you know over it, and
clearly because of the timing, it didn't feel like a coincidence.

(01:18:12):
And now it's gone. So do you think somebody it
was a whoopsie or do you think somebody with social
media access decided that they were gonna get political.

Speaker 16 (01:18:21):
I mean, that's definitely the case. Indiana Jones in sort
of the world of nerd culture, and fandoms is often
sort of used as one of the ultimates you got
to punch a Nazi pieces.

Speaker 8 (01:18:34):
Of fiction, and that's true.

Speaker 16 (01:18:36):
You know, like Indiana Jones, he says, yeah, yeah, Nazi Nazis.

Speaker 8 (01:18:42):
I hate these guys.

Speaker 16 (01:18:43):
It's one of his it's one of his best lines.
And so he's sort of a figure and you know
anti fascist circles online and at comic cons. So this
is absolutely what that was. They were posting this as
a comment about the death of Charlie Kirk, and they
should have taken it down. That's they were using it
to be crafts and it's inappropriate.

Speaker 1 (01:19:04):
But this is another one of those things where it's like,
do you are you paying attention to what's going on
in your industry right now? If I worked at a
video game company right now, I would be on my
best behavior. I would try to find ways to be
as productive as possible, because you just how many well
Microsoft and the other companies that just did the layoffs,

(01:19:24):
how many did how many they just fire from them
thousands right within the various game companies that they own.

Speaker 16 (01:19:33):
We're losing track of the casualties at this point. But again,
I'm just going to hit hit the same point, mediocrity
will be subsidized for only so long.

Speaker 1 (01:19:41):
Yeah. Absolutely. Do you play the Indiana Jones video games?
Do you like it?

Speaker 5 (01:19:45):
No?

Speaker 16 (01:19:46):
I didn't play it. It wasn't on my radar things
to do this year. I'm working on a new book,
so I don't get much time for gaming anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:19:53):
All right, yeah, what's the title of the book again?

Speaker 16 (01:19:56):
But people focus determines reality. It'll be out next here.

Speaker 1 (01:20:00):
Okay, all right, there's one other thing I was gonna
ask you, sorry, and then I got deep into the
ah the other stuff. All right, well, no, that wasn't
it either. What did Ross send you any other stories
from us? I'm sorry, I'm so disorganized this morning because no,
I mean.

Speaker 16 (01:20:18):
Are Those are definitely the things on on my radar.
The only other thing that I'm keeping an eye on,
which is uh the beginning or the reboot of the
Anaconda film Anna, I gotta I gotta just riff on it.
You know, Ana Conda is one of my favorite movies
from when I was a kid. This is I don't know,

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like Owen Wilson, ice Cube and j Lo out of
the the Amazon, and they are doing some sort of
nature thing, and of course, yeah, they come across a
big stake and it kills everybody. And John Voyd is
in it.

Speaker 8 (01:20:51):
He's crazy, so.

Speaker 16 (01:20:54):
Yes, he was the meta redo where a couple of
people want to make their own Anaconda movie and go
out into the jungle. It's Jack Black, and of course
it goes all wrong. I cannot wait for this movie.

Speaker 1 (01:21:06):
In the in the trailer, they have the snake, they're
already and then they accudentally kill the snakes and now
they go another one and that's where things go wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
I guess.

Speaker 1 (01:21:13):
So well, I'm here for it, all right. Thanks for that, Steven, Yeah,
I appreciate it. We'll talk next week, sir. Okay, thank
you all right, and we will be right back. Hang on,
So this happened, well, this happened in Irondelle. What's going
on in Irondale County? They got the escape monkey running
around and now maybe a hate crime or somebody who
likes to decorate early. I don't know, you'd be the judge.

(01:21:38):
So a doll that was hung near an election sign,
so well it's tether. It's tethered to a poll out
on you know, out alongside the road here and uh
it happens to be in proximity to a you know,
one of the candidates signed for one of the count
people running for council. I guess this would be in Statesville, Yes, Statesville,

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who is a black candidate. The problem is the doll
is hung up and so, you know, with a rope
around its neck to hoist it up under the signe.
So then you know, that's that's where we go. The
doll was hung you're an election sign, and that prompted
an FBI investigation along with Irodeau County officials. So they
got a joint local federal investigation going on. No arrests

(01:22:26):
have been made. Please let's see here said when they arrived,
they reportedly found a doll hanging from a street sign
with a rope around its neck, and the doll was
you know, and it's a corner. So you got election
signs and one of the elections sign. I guess in
this case it's for Doris Allison that it's closest to
I suspect because we just had the primary elections, you know,

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down in Charlotte and quite a few other cities, and
then we're ramping up into actual elections municipal elections, and
I'm assuming states bills. Like everywhere else in North Carolina,
there's probably a bunch of these signs. In fact, some
intersections way too many. But I digress reports stated that

(01:23:08):
the property owner, well technically the property owner in this case,
because is it a public sign. It's a public sign,
so I the property owner would be the adjacent property
owner told police he believed the doll was intentionally placed
to target Allison and represented a hate crime. Well, could

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you include in the article why he believes that. Is
he an activist? Is he some old guy who saw
it and didn't like the looks of it? Did somebody
tell him? I'm very curious. I genuinely want to know
officials say the doll and materials used to suspend it
or seized as evidence that here's the problem. Here's a
couple of little things that where I'm like, maybe it's

(01:23:52):
not what you say it is one. It's one of
those it's the doll is white, if that matters, and
it's one of those creepy Annabelle looking dolls. And I
don't know if you know what's coming around the corner here,
and just a little over a month Halloween that could

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just as easily be a Halloween decoration. I'd care whether
the other were there are other things hung up in
the neighborhood. Was it a one off look? It may be,
and maybe they thought, or maybe it was somebody who thought,
if I use a white doll, even though I'm sending
a message because I hate this woman for whatever reason,
but if I use a white doll, I could pretend
it's a Halloween thing. All of these are very potential possibilities.

(01:24:38):
But we do this every year. Every year. Somebody hangs something.
It's in many cases it's clear that it's a Halloween
decoration because it's surrounded by fifty other Halloween decorations. And
then some lunatic goes to the media, and of course
the media dutifully runs out there and they're like, clearly
he's calling for lynchings. I'll tell you what right now, man,

(01:25:00):
just prepare yourself. I just had a horrible thought cross
my head. Ross. Do you have any semblance of what
the horrible thought was that just crossed my head as
to what types of Halloween decorations somebody who wants to
send a message I.

Speaker 2 (01:25:15):
Can imagine.

Speaker 1 (01:25:18):
And so.

Speaker 2 (01:25:20):
Or or tasteless Halloween costume. Yea too.

Speaker 1 (01:25:24):
Yeah, you know it's going to happen, even if even
if that, because that thought just occurred to me, there
are going to be people showing up with you know,
tp USA shirt on with blood all over their neck.
It's going to happen. People are gonna put up. Just

(01:25:45):
prepare yourself for it. But Ross, you saw the picture
I sent it to you. That's definitely a creepy doll
that would be in fitting with Halloween. Yes, I got
the old Victorian raggedy dress.

Speaker 2 (01:25:59):
Look too, I want of the creepy possessed dolls.

Speaker 1 (01:26:02):
Yeah. And also isn't wait, isn't the Conjuring just which
of course you know the Animal's part of the Conjuring universe,
aren't there isn't the final movie literally in theaters right now?
Hold on? Or it was just in theaters so I'll
totally watch it when it comes to streaming streaming. Yeah,
here it is the Conjuring Last Rite. Yeah, I know
it was in theaters because I was I almost went

(01:26:23):
and saw or I was looking to see what was
in theaters the other day when I was in Greensboro
and out some downtime. Yeah, so so you have that
I'm just pointing out because it was really weird around
when it came out with all the creepy clowns that
were there and then weren't there. But I don't know. Again,
I'm just speculating. But his property owner says he's pretty

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sure it's this thing, and I just would like to
understand why he says. Is he sure that that's his thing?
Why think believes it's a racist and not just Halloween?
Because I don't know. Here's the other thing too, I
don't I don't know if you guys know this. There
are large swaths of people that will decorate for various
holidays and then leave those decorations up or either start

(01:27:06):
them way earlier than most people or leave them up
way later than other people. Ross had you heard of
this phenomena where it doesn't have to be Halloween, sometimes
it's Christmas or Thanksgiving or whatever, where people rather than
just putting decorations for like the two weeks around there,
that like start a couple months early, maybe in some
cases leave all the stuff up till I don't know,

(01:27:27):
March or something.

Speaker 2 (01:27:28):
I can't imagine that. Yeah, surely I would not. Okay, listen,
to be fair, yea. We have had our indoor Halloween
decorations up for a few weeks now, but we have
not moved to the outside. But we have the inflatables
ready to go.

Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
Ready to rock. Yeah, how about Christmas? When do you
start for Christmas?

Speaker 2 (01:27:47):
I mean that sort of like starts in June.

Speaker 1 (01:27:50):
I see, got those inflata.

Speaker 2 (01:27:53):
Now we're gonna have an extra room for another tree.

Speaker 1 (01:27:57):
Oh that's a big decision. Our years are all art
official or do you have one live one?

Speaker 14 (01:28:01):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
No, yeah, artificial?

Speaker 1 (01:28:03):
Oh yeah, you get cat in there too, so oh
well that must be he must be in heaven loving plastic.

Speaker 2 (01:28:08):
Yeah, dude, you have no idea.

Speaker 1 (01:28:10):
He's just he's got to look like Garfield by the
end of Christmas. He's event it's a big roly poly cat.
Oh I've eaten all the plastics. Oh anyway, Oh yeah, dude,
just thinking about the Charlie Kirk costumes. Oh yeah, and
some moon bad neighbor man will probably do a whole
motif there, the whole motieth and you know, frankly, uh

(01:28:36):
probably that's another good way to get canceled. Man. Maybe
not with the costume, because they cut a pretty wide berth, right.
I can't tell you the number of priests with the
small child facing their crotch that people thought was real amusing.
You always see one of those every year at any
big gathering. That's a but if you're Catholic, yes, even

(01:28:57):
realizing all the stuff man pretty insensitive. But Halloween's not
a good day to be sensitive, not really, So we
shall we shall see alrighty, here we go eight forty three? No, no, no,
ray yet. Okay, I just got Jeff's thing there. Uh
did you guys see the heisted Disney?

Speaker 6 (01:29:18):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:29:18):
I almost forgot to do this this morning. This is crazy.
So if you've ever been to what do they call
this part of Disney where the lake is something? Springs?
What is it? What are the springs called there? Disney,
mister Ross, Disney Springs? Oh duh, I'm an idiot. Okay,

(01:29:38):
what are the springs at Disney called? I don't know.
I thought maybe they had a different name. So if
you go to Disney Springs, they're shopping and dining on
Lake Buen of is stuff, beautiful view and one of
the restaurants is like an old paddle wheeler, like Mississippi
paddle wheeler, and it's a restaurant called Paddlefish Seafood restaurant.
I don't know anything about it, what very popular, and

(01:30:02):
so some dude went all Navy seal. He waited till
it's very late at night. It's just before midnight, so
they just closed the restaurant, but they're still counting the
money and people are exiting, and he literally rolled up
to the ship in scuba gear and he's got the

(01:30:23):
full Navy seal black motif, scuba your thing, wet suit, gloves,
the hood goggles, everything you need. And he rolls up,
jumps onto the boat, takes off. I guess it's heavier equipment,
and then he has he literally has black spray paints,
spray paints the security cameras and then proceeded to hold

(01:30:46):
for robbery. The three employees that were in there, including
a manager as well as two closers, kind of put
him in a little room and took all the money
because the manager was literally counting it out before they
went and put in the safe and got away with
like ten thousand dollars. But I'm not surprised. It's Disney
that there's a bunch of money floating around and then
just put all his equipment back on, jumped in the

(01:31:09):
water and scuba it away. Crazy stuff. Man, Ross, what
ride do you think would be the guest getaway ride
at Disney?

Speaker 6 (01:31:17):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:31:17):
Probably for like relaxation, Probably the people mover.

Speaker 1 (01:31:20):
I feel like you'd get caught on the people mover.

Speaker 2 (01:31:23):
Because it's not It probably would, but you'd be so relaxed. Well,
all right whatever. Yeah, but this guy went full scuba.
That's that's interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:31:31):
I raced agic from the weather channels and he didn't
even get eaten by gator. That's that's form. Don't know, Yah,
don't had a.

Speaker 8 (01:31:41):
Much deal, you know, just trying to be creative and
how we kind of get into this right. The weather
has been fairly quiet last day or so, had a
little bit of rain before that with that low pressure
in the Atlantic, So I'll go there first. Eeveryell's a
tropical storm well out in the central Atlantic, but it
looks like it's teers well east of maybe even Bermuda

(01:32:01):
as it becomes a hurricane. So there's nice little lull
as we get out now, just over a week ahead
of the University of Helene, and it's a good thing.
It's nice and quiet. Don't see anything tropical, beautiful weather
in the eighties, probably mid eighties next couple of days,
maybe pushing the upper eighties in some spots by tomorrow.
The weekend should be pretty decent too, load of mid
eighties Panthers home opener Sunday against the Falcons. The weather

(01:32:25):
should be pretty nice, lots of sunshine around too. So
if we are heading that way, it looks like sunny
grabbed Sun's green temperatures in the eighties, and I don't
see much changing. Even early next week, we may get
into a little weater weather pattern. Casey, as we look
ahead toward the end of next week.

Speaker 1 (01:32:39):
Who's Clemson playing this week? They don't play this.

Speaker 8 (01:32:41):
Scuse, right, you know the seventeen and a half points
that you should take to the ban So off next
week and then we'll see.

Speaker 1 (01:32:52):
So you gonna hang in there, right, I mean, yeah,
you're not off next week, they are, just to be.

Speaker 8 (01:32:56):
Clear, so right right they are.

Speaker 1 (01:32:58):
And by the way, I just realize that if we're
still doing this on phone tomorrow because they're having to
send somebody to fix it, then we'll probably can't do
the accordion on the phone, So no, I wouldn't yeah,
help it all right, we'll see we'll talk to you tomorrow, sir.
Have you go on and we'll come back with Jeff
Bellinger next via phone with Jeff Bellinger because we broke something,
but we'll get it done. Jeff. How you doing this morning.

Speaker 15 (01:33:20):
I'm doing well, Casey, Good morning. The federal reserves interest
rate cut didn't do a lot for the stock market yesterday,
though the futures indicate we will see a positive start
on Wall Street this morning. There was a steep decline
last week in the number of workers signing up for
unemployment benefits. The Labor Department counted two hundred and thirty
one thousand first time claims, reversing a surge from the

(01:33:42):
prior weeks two hundred and sixty four thousand. Tesla is
working on a redesign of its door handles. Bloomberg News
reported last week that people have been trapped inside Tesla
vehicles after crashes or fires because the doors, which normally
opened electronically, stay lockeds have manual releases, but they are
not easy to find, especially in a panic situation. Now,

(01:34:05):
Tesla says it plans to combine the electronic and manual
door release mechanisms. Gen Z is dragging down the average
American credit score a fair ISAAC reports as the average
PICO score registered the biggest overall drop since the global
financial crisis. Gen Z borrowers saw the biggest decline, in
part because of the resumption of reports on student loan delinquencies,

(01:34:28):
something we talked about before. Case Starbucks still dealing with
employees who don't like the dress code that the coffee
company put into effect last spring. Starbucks workers in California, Illinois,
and Colorado have filed lawsuits over the dress code, which
simply requires them to wear black shirts under their green aprons,
and Starbucks provides two black shirts to every employee. And

(01:34:52):
if you don't tip your lift drivers or you keep
them waiting when they arrive, rights could become harder to get.
Lift is testing a new policy. In addition to the
information about what a trip will pay and the time required,
drivers taking part in the test will be told whether
customer's requesting rides are tippers and whether they're punctual.

Speaker 1 (01:35:11):
Casey, All right, thank you very much, Jeff. Hopefully we
get the comrax back working tomorrow, but we'll talk to
you then.

Speaker 15 (01:35:18):
Okay, sounds good.

Speaker 1 (01:35:19):
To have a good day, all right there, you go, Bloomberg,
Jeff Bellinger, do appreciate it, all right? I got a
bunch of stories I've been sitting on. Let's go ahead
and get to the ease. Oh this is great right here.
It's not Florida, It's in California. So check this dude out.
Police in California said they used to drone to help
track a suspected thief who they eventually found hiding behind

(01:35:44):
one of those giant Teddy bears. Ross it's the giant
Teddy bear from the Valentine's Day commercials. Somebody finally found
a use for one. The shirtless suspect who had been
at what did they accuse him? I guess he tried
to shop list a drill or something. I don't know.
Police been tracted with the drone after he allegedly left

(01:36:06):
a home depot with the stolen items, which he had
discarded along the way when he figured out they were
chasing him. Let's see, he then ran onto a private
property again the drones following him. According to authorities, they
could see him just inside the house, go into the
fridge and avail himself with some ice cream I guess,

(01:36:29):
and then eventually by the time the officers on foot
got there and made entry to the house. He's on
a top bunk bed. There's video of this. There's literal
video of the bodycam video of this. He's on top
of his bunk bed, hiding behind one of those giant
teddy bears with no shirt on, but you can kind
of see him. So there you go. He had himself

(01:36:50):
a day, as we say, and most of the attention
went to, of course, the Maryland man. But here we go, oh,
what is this nice? All right? Us just sent me something.
Oh jeez, we'll do that tomorrow. So but the other

(01:37:12):
guy who was really at the center of what they
said was Trump retaliating was this Columbia University student Umad
Ma Mood Khalil, right, and the State department said, no,
you got to go basically organizing what turned into violent
protests or Columbia University, which is under the purview literally

(01:37:32):
is in the Immigration Naturalization Act. But of course they
fought it well. Now a judge has ordered final removal
of Khalil, however, is limiting where they can deport him to. Now. Khalil,
I believe is Palestinian at least partially, but lived in
Turkey for a while. Those are not among the choices,
not that she probably want to go back to Kaza.

(01:37:53):
So the judge said he can select, or maybe the
government and his lawyers can select from Algeria or Ross.
You gotta pick one, Algeria or Syria. Where you go
with me?

Speaker 2 (01:38:07):
Or if i'm him, well him, probably Syria, but me,
I'd have to do my homework and find out which
country have the best chance to survive a lot, or
like it hates me the least