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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight
seven four. Easily the weirdest emails that I get are overnight. Sorry,
we would just send me the strangest stuff, dude. All right,
so coming up on the show, well it is Thursday,
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so you know, got that going for us. Obviously, got
some big weather stuff to talk about. We'll be checking
in with Ray Stagic a couple times this morning obviously
seven forty eight forty five, So folks obviously getting ready
down there in Florida, and ain't gonna be no joke
some parts of North Carolina what we're going to be seen.
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So in addition all the political stuff and the wacky
stuff and things like that, we will we will be
getting into all of that coming up as as the
show unfolds. All right, let's see here, I was just
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looking at this this morning. We got Steven at eight
o five, right, all right, yeah, yeah, yeah, So we'll
we'll check in with uh NERD correspondent uh uh are
are are are? I call him that out of affection,
just so we're clear, Stephen Kent. But yeah, we got
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we gotta talk yet another intersection of culture and uh entertainment.
But is it entertainment or the message. As a critical
drinker likes to say, so, uh, even if you don't
play video games, a lot of this is gonna be
comparable to what you saw with Disney. Okay, and the
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snow White movie if you remember obviously all that like
that was one of those that should have been in
easy putt for you know, these live action remakes, but no,
the actresses, one in particular, although both were out there
doing it. Uh. The two main actresses then did a
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sit down which was just disastrous, right with the the
one who plays snow White. I don't even remember her
name right now, and I'm okay with that, you know,
out there basically trashing on the story and then and
then telling everyoney, oh, it's going to be different, and
here's how it's going to be different. And the whole
thing was not received well. And if you remember, Disney
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had to like stop there to change out the whole
dwarf mechanism in it does that turned into its own thing,
and then you know, eventually we found ourselves with the
delayed movie. This is on the video game side of things,
but one of the big produced video game companies out there, Ubisoft,
They make Assassin's Creed, and we talked about this on
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the show previously, But if you don't remember, each iteration
of Assassin's Creed has been thematically set somewhere in time,
So I admit I don't remember all of them. Are
what are a couple of the examples. Sorry, I'm not
an Assassin's Creed player. Well, it's been set in like colonial.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Times was one of them, right, And you know, but
the first game was like a Jerusalem, then it went
to Italy, like Rome, I believe in Venice.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I just remember watching people shoot Red Coach.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah recently, Yeah, I recently played that game.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
It takes place during you know, in the Thirteen Colonies.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah yeah, so. But but what the game was screaming
out for, according to fans, at least from what I
can you know, what I can read and understand is
the whole game felt like it had to have a
Samurai thing, right, and so the idea that this current
one that they're getting ready to release, although things have
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changed to getting ready to release, would be set in
feudal Japan, right, the the the era of Samurai, of
Shogun of all of that. Uh, the fans were really excited, right,
because this is this is what the game felt like
it was anyway, and now it's going to be. And
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then they decide to go with a fictional story. Not
that the not that the the small pieces of it
weren't somewhat accurate. Nobody can tests that there wasn't this
dude who was literally gifted essentially to the Japanese emperor
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at the time, largely due to the fact that he
was black and he looked so different and at the time,
anyone who was foreign who got into Japan, they just
killed you. This zup, you're done. But he was received
as a gift. I believe it was from merchants or
travel from Africa or no, I don't remember where they
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were from, but anyway, they gifted him. And there is
small historical record of this individual showing up but fighting
in some instances. But it was then romanticized by a
professor who looks like I think he's British or something,
but he teaches over in Japan. Maybe he's an American,
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and he basically created this whole story about how he
was the secret first black Samurai and you know he
was he was out leading things and all of that,
and that like none of none of that is backed
up by what we know, which the answer is we
don't know a lot. And but also that was the
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wokest decision. And it's not just that it's a bunch
of stuff, because once you irritate the face and remember
this game was expected to be super duper extra big
in Japan, right, And so once you tell your Japanese audience,
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forget the Americans just going, you just had to put
the woke stuff in there, didn't you. Once you told
that to the Japanese, they damn near are revolting over
the game.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I mean, this wasn't complicated. You had a game that
was based upon stealth and parkour and hiding in the shadows. Right,
it's an assassin. It's an assassin game. All you needed
to do is put it in Japan and make it
like a ninja thing. That's all you had to do.
And they went, I think there is like a ninja
in the game, but it's like you said, there's a samurai.
But they got every literally everything wrong. They got the
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language wrong, they got the customs wrong, the culture wrong,
they got the arch culture wrong, the season's wrong, everything
is wrong. So the Japanese people not all of but
a lot of them are like revolting. They don't eve
want to play the game.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
They're like they well wait, but what I'm saying is,
here's the give you an example of the little stuff.
So there's a scene in the trailer where there's bags
of rice open, spilled out on the street and they're
kind of fighting through there. And I think if you
hadn't irritated people with screwing around with the whole main storyline,
you wouldn't have had people in Japan nitpicking it going.
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You understand that during that time, rice was a form
of payment to cover your taxes. We would never leave
at willy nilly in the street, or those are the
wrong trees to be in bloom that time of the year.
Those are the things that audiences will kind of put
up with, except for like the really really hardcore. But
once you once you get them triggered over the one thing,
now they're going to chew your game up.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Just it makes no sense. Like I said, the first
game took place in the Middle East at Alta Air.
He was Middle Easter, right, and then then the second one,
Enzio was from Renaissance Italy. He was an Italian and.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
We know he was Italian. Well they work at Olive Gardener.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
He did. Yeah, oh, because breadsticks move was amazing. But
there and does the third game. The third game, you
had somebody come over from England and he was, you know,
an an English guy in the colonies.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Oh and now.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And now this game you've got right, the main protagonist
is a black dude in feudal Japan. But everything about
it is wrong.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah. So it's so bad that Ubersoft yesterday they're under
attacked by their own shareholders. And you know what, good
good that's because here's the thing. It's not government, it's
it should be the free market. And when you uh, well,
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we have news now that they're going to be delaying
the launch of the game at least until February. I
don't know how much you're gonna screw with it. I
don't think you can. I don't think you can take
a big, big, big game like this and rewrite the
whole main protagonist. Can you in in in five months?
No way?
Speaker 2 (08:53):
No, especially when they are like three thousand people they
said we're making this game. Yeah, three thousand.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
You could just swap that person out, plus the storyline side.
So I don't know. Maybe they're like, maybe they'll forget
by February. I don't know. But this statement is everything
that's wrong that these companies fail to realize. I mean,
the investors are realizing it. Ubisoft got kicked in the
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teeth yesterday and that's what prompted this. Ubisoff's executive Committee
and Board of Directors will launch an investigation and a
review of the company. This following the company's release of
a financial statement and update, which included the delay of
Assassin's Creed. Well what do you think that did to
their stock price yesterday? And shockingly, the announcement that Star
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Wars Outlaws may have underperformed, which is a very nice
word when you actually realize how much it underperformed. But
let me read this right here we go, I gotta
read their whole statement. Uh, this is from the CEO.
Let me address some of the polarized comments around Ubisoft lately.
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I want to reaffirm that we are an entertainment first company,
creating games for the broadest possible audience, and our goal
is not to push any specific agenda. It is it is,
But I here's what I think. I think. I think
it is so baked into what Wall Street or companies
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have convinced themselves is the normal. And I'll give you
an example. You ever try to argue with somebody who's
all right, so it's you know, some leftist moon bent
on there and they're arguing the thing, and you're not
even pushing back. You're just kind of you know, you're
using examples of you know, uh, like, here's my opinion,
(10:58):
what's your You're have an actual disco worse, And then
rather than discussing the point, they say something like, look,
this isn't politics, this is human rights, okay, which is
which is an absolute communist intellectual tool. By the way, right,
you want to you want to separate your cause, right,
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so it's not comparable or it's not comparable contrastible to
somebody who may have an opposite opinion. Their opinion is
is bad. Your opinion is you're championing human rights that
you you've heard that a thousand times, right. And I
think that there's there's just too many of these idiots
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up in management, especially in middle management. I think the CEOs.
Obviously there's some that are cooked, but for the most part,
it's you know, it's so beaten into people's brains at
the university level, within the middle management, you gotta be
down with the DEI all this stuff that they don't like.
It's not normal doing that to a video game. It's
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not normal. Giving press uh you know, press conferences, crapping
all over the storyline which is a beloved storyline of
your movie. It's not normal. And yes, if a CEO
or leadership, if they want to go out and they
have some cause azure, then they better be able to
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react to people who feel that it is literally screwing
up your product, unnecessary or heavy handed. Look, you know,
iHeart we're a big company if that. Every year they
put out a report and an annual report which is
a public document, and it highlights what was the company
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up to. And it also focuses on the charitable stuff,
right and and iHeart does a ton of it, and
and yes we do LGBTQ stuff, but we also do
like police stuff and in girl Scouts and boy Scouts
and and you know it's it's it's a real you
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could beat somebody to death with this document. And then
there's some there's some bigger things that that are company.
I'm not speaking on behalf. I'm just pointing out that, like,
we do a lot of this, but also, if you know,
if our CEO decided his pet project is f them kids, right,
And so every every week it's just us highlighting kids
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in need and go and f those kids. Right, Maybe
pull your bootstraps, get some gumption, you know that kind
of crap, right, you'd be horrified. Got to be fair,
some kids need to motivate, but it would be it
would be mind numbingly stupid, because for the most part,
people like kids, and for the most part, video game
players like video games that make sense and are not
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political because they want to play video games. And so
I think that what I honestly, I think the person
who probably penned this, which wasn't the CEO, but you know,
somebody in that you know, that c suite communications thing,
that person probably can't understand why people are upset. And
when your company's build up with that, you're just asking
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for this to be a problem. How much money is
Ubisoft gonna lose? How much money did Sony just lose?
How much money did Disney lose? And I look at
it and all I can think is, are we on
the verge of a potential course correction on some of
this stuff, because at the end of the day, you
can say, I'm not going to do business with this
company anymore. But maybe you like stuff. Maybe you like
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the Assassin's Creed game. That's the thing too. They're like
the people who are the most critical. They're saying don't
like the game. No, they do, or they wouldn't care.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
They like the way it was. The problem is they're creating,
whether it's movies or video games, they're creating a product
for an audience that doesn't exist well, insulting the audience
that played it.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Yes, started the Star Wars I should call it this
Star Wars strategy or something. I don't know, but like
it's so if I if I just asked the random
person give me five examples this, you probably could. Even
if you're not an entertainment reporter. Somebody's particularly plugged in
because you watch it unfold in real time. So yeah,
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I think that the leadership at Ubisoft probably thinks, no,
everything's normal, what's their problem? But the financials don't lie.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
The Tokyo Game Show kicks off today. It's for the
next three days and.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
They're going protesting there.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
What they took. They took away the booth for this
game on the floor that it's not going to be.
That's bad.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
These are all really big deals that maybe don't mean
as much to you know, be and you and all that.
But that's that's insane. I don't know if you know
this Tokyo pretty good video game market, big show, right.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I believe that's also in Japan. Correct, let me check
this game is a Japan.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
I was a pretty finalist in the geography, that is true,
and I was, but it was also Wyoming, so you know,
Pulse got you there, all right anyway, So yeah, that's
a dumpster fire. We'll be back, that's right, hanging out
with that crew that I probably couldn't pay any of
you a million dollars to spell you probably for a million,
but you know what I mean. And you know these
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they talk about all the different issues. They should have
a whole laundry list, and and you know, frankly with
Joe Biden right now, just you know, just spending the
ten minutes or whatever you have, like who's running things,
what's going on? That would be a good use of
ten minutes. And then Stephanie Rule from MSNBC caught herself
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a not live pre recorded interview with Kamala Harris, and
we'll get to that. Ross won't stop using the word
holistically though this morning, and it's getting obnoxious. So how
many times you could think you could work the words
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just on a normal day? How many times a day
do you think you could work the word holistically into
whatever conversations you have without people going that's weird.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
So you want to do like the super Troopers me
out thing.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yes, I'm just how many before people go gosh, he
uses that word a lot? You know, that's a thing
in radio, h the word crutches or speech crushes, not
just in radio. And literally if a radio guy, here's
another radio guy using a word a lot more than usual,
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they'll tell them.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I pointed this out to you about a month ago.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Yeah, the word wild was using wild too much because
because it becomes a crutch and then it like clicks.
The thing what I used to do is I'd write
it down on a piece of paper in front of
me and I'd be like, oh, don't use that word
and what You're just trying to normalize your speaking because
it sounds weird.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
I know, I've got like, how many notes do you
think I have here, my boy, I'm counting like at
least like fifty seven or something. They all say olive garden.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
All that, though, is watching a fill in the first time.
Look at your board and it's you know, eighteen hundred's quality,
and also all your toys and all your notes, and
it's it's got to be deeply terrifying. So anyway, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
olive garden is written everywhere and yet won't shut up
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about it. So when I'm listening to Kamala Harris at
a softball interview, do this and.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Assistance to state and local governments around transit dollars and
looking holistically at the connection between that and housing, and
looking holistically at the incentives we in the federal government
can create for local and state governments to actually engage
in planning in a holistic manner. That includes prioritizing affordable housing.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Holistic but affordable housing. Right, What does that answer even mean?
And that's not even the dumbest one, that's just the one.
What's like, how did you use holistically three times in there?
Unless this, unless you were talking about the word and
its definition, you used it too many times without ever
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answering the question. I'm telling you, are you? Are you
ready center yourself? Center yourself.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
For this?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Although hold, I gotta get them over on different channels
due to do Sorry, important technical thing should have been
thank you? All right? Ready, let me get the well,
get the zither music here?
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Expanding that child tax credit?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
No too loud? Here we go, all right, Kamala, say
something even worse.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Spanding that child tax credit? Or you mentioned housing before
giving that extra money for a first home. If you
can't raise corporate taxes, or if GP takes control of this,
where do you get the money to do that? Do
you still go forward those plans?
Speaker 1 (20:03):
And all right? And I'm gonna I'm gonna stop at
what we play, but I need i because I want
you to make no bones about what the question is.
The question is, and it's one that has been asked
a thousand times, a thousand different ways throughout our political system.
If you find yourself in a situation where your party
doesn't control all the levers of government, specifically in this case,
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the the Congress and more specifically the House, which has
to originate spending bills, or at least should They've got
a bunch of tricks, But how do you accomplish these
things you say you want to do, they are going
to require a lot of money. That's an incredibly fair question.
What do you want to do if you're not able
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to have control of funding and bills, how do you
how do you attempt to accomplish it? And the correct
answer is, you know, we're gonna have to partner, We're
gonna have to uh, we're gonna have to horse trade
or whatever that's used to be what you'd say, and
then people call you a rhino or whatever the Democrat
version of it is, and nobody'd be happy. But you
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better have an answer for it, even if it's one
about you know, we have to convince Republicans what we're
doing is that's I know it's boilerplate, but at least
you're addressing the question.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Here we go expanding that child tax credit, or you
mentioned housing before getting that extra money for a first home.
If you can't raise corporate taxes, or if GOP takes
control of the Senate, where do you get the money
to do that? Do you still go forward those plans
and borrow?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Well, but we're gonna.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Have to raise corporate taxes and we're gonna have to raise.
We're gonna have to make sure that the biggest corporations
and billionaires pay their fisher That's just it. It's about
paying their fair share.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Well, I I think Biden could have put a more
coherent answer. I'm serious. It depends on the time of
the day and what's going on around him. I think
I think Biden just with his years and years though
it might be automatic, but you know, he could approach
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it in a well, look, I've formulated relationships over the years,
and we're gonna work on those relationships. And if we
need to change the tax coach is I think Congress does,
then we'll make our case. Or he could do the
angry thing. He's like, well, we won't let him, and
we'll hold postage their pet projects. Right, Those are the
two normal Washington answers. She was just asked, if you're
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not able to do this thing, what do you do?
And she's like, we do the thing, yeah, but you're
not able to do the thing, So how do you
still accomplish the other thing? Well, we got to do
the thing, and rules like I good enough. Next crazy question.
But if you thought the softballs were getting slung over there,
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it took a much weirder turnover on the view. First
of all, Joe Biden, if you're any of kamalists people,
you had to hear this and do the thing like
off stage or go his second air through your gritted teeth. Oh,
don't say that. And his vice president.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
There wasn't a single thing that I did that she
couldn't do, and so I was.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Able to delegate her responsibility on everything from foreign policy
domestic policy.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I'm Donald Trump and I approved this man. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
take that bad boy. Wait, so the person who is
the vice president who is now running to be president
may have been delegated literally what did he say? A
foreign and domestic policy? So that's all the stuff, right ross,
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would you check foreign policy and domestic policy? Would that
encompass all policies?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Sure, let me put that through the AIO machine. Yes
it does, Yes, it does.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Oh wow, So everything pretty much? So the border, right,
But you.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Know what's important as we move forward, but.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
The boarder, I just want to make sure I understand
all your policies foreign and domestic. So the border, right,
that would be one that's arguably that's a little bit
of both. So you know obviously that one's going to
be square Afghanistan withdrawal. Does that fall under foreign policy
or domestic policy? At least one of them? I believe it.
(24:41):
It falls under one of them, and probably two of them.
Since you're talking about US troops, dude, you want to
talk about the size of that bus. Is is not
a small bus and Kamala Harris loves talking about buses.
So you just got thrown under one. And then when
he wasn't doing that, Joe Biden was pretending to squash
Trump like a bug. Though he he didn't. He didn't
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start it. And I again, I know we're in this
crazy time and obviously there's assassination attempts and words have
meaning and all that stuff. Do I think he's calling
for for Trump to die? No, I think he's going
along with what the uh cackling hens on the on
(25:27):
the view have to say. But it's still not a
good look right now.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
He just wouldn't go.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It was like a bug. He just kept this is
by the way, whoop he's referring to Trump.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
He just wouldn't go.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
He was like a bug.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
He just kept being there.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Who was like a like a bug right there? So
you felt and then Uh, obviously it's radio. So what
you see is you see Biden slap his hand like
you slap a fly that landed on the counter in
front of you, although you'd have to have my ninja
(26:02):
like skills to get it. But anyway, so yeah, yeah,
that's what he was doing. So let's see specifically, uh
whatever the whole setup here, I mean again, it was
it was said joking, it was uh whoopee was complaining
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that while hosting that Trump was an annoying insect that
no one had been able to successfully show away. I
gotta play the guy from Idaho again, talks to heaven
and things. You know. No, so if you believe that again,
every little bit counts, Every little bit counts. Yeah it was.
(26:48):
There was nothing of substance that really came out of
it other than some fun audio cuts. By fun, I
mean uh so flagellating. Really all right, six forty six
case O Day radio program and not the only Politico
throwing out some interesting verbage. And remember how I told
(27:08):
you my favorite thing currently watching like CNN or MSNBC
is when they go to the black barber shop or
we get a pay The MSNBC just had a panel
of undecided black voters. Right, and whoever's whoever's doing the
roundtable or hosting the group right, starts asking them questions
and it's clear the answers are not what they expected.
(27:30):
Right from the CNN. Dude it went and got himself
a new Jordan shirt, right, it showed up at the
black barber shop and they started talking about Kamala Harris.
I heard she wasn't black, like that whole thing was
off the rails. We played that audio for you. It
happened again, Yeah, kind of. We'll get into that coming
(27:51):
up here on the KCO Day radio program. We got
Daisy Ridley has got thoughts. We have some other game
developer and whatever it's. This is part of the larger discussion,
a larger question. At what point you get kicked in
the teeth enough financially you go, you know what, maybe
(28:12):
what we're doing is not working. Because what happens is,
especially if you're a publicly traded company, you start to
you start to delve into fiduciary responsibility stuff, right, and
the responsibility that people in charge of these companies have
to shareholders, and you know, the shareholders will let you
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know they're upset a couple of ways. They'll not invest,
but they'll sue you and I. That is what in
this case, ubersofs wanted to get in front of and
literally on the day that's going on, I'm reading all
of these folks in entertainment are just like, Noah, screw you.
You guys. Remember Mackelmore? Remember Mackelmore. I can't remember his
(28:56):
real name. It's like the most Irish Scottish thing ever,
but whatever. So he is a a musician from Seattle
and his big baby is his only hit or his
big hit? I admit I don't know. Is thrift shop? Right?
These are the days? Well? That's a cover, right, is
(29:18):
it the same as? These are? Okay? As who's sang that?
Trying to remember who's sang these are the days? Now? Now,
these are the days of our lives? That is, queen,
these are the days Lauren Daigel. Yeah, somebody else did it.
(29:41):
So I don't know. Is that a cover of a cover?
Speaker 5 (29:43):
All? Right?
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Here we go, Oh so it's not. It's not Van Morrison's.
That's that's what I was thinking. Okay, it's not cover. Okay,
all right, different same title. That's always wondering, which, by
the way, if you want to cover Van Morrison, that's fine.
I dig on some Van Morrison. But and if it's entertaining, great.
The problem is he was doing a concert the other
day and decided to Jack Black himself a little, which,
(30:07):
by the way, I noticed something ross I never saw
on the streaming all the Jack Black movies and now
there's like a Jack Black collection on one of the
streaming platforms. Do you think that's a coincidence considering the
problems he just had down and self inflicted. I might
add where his partners out there like, oh, they should
(30:29):
have shot Trump again or what. I can't remember what
that idiot said. But I just think it's interesting because
I'm like, you know, you have a Jack Black collection
on this streaming service. It's like School of Rock and
some other stuff. And by the way, I had no
appetite for it. But also I wonder if his people
are like, oh, we need to get our stuff streaming out.
There's the Remember that I'm not a lunatics. Sometimes I'm funny.
(30:51):
I don't know the answer to that. So anyway, Maclamore
is on stage and he's screaming or attempting to get
the crowd to chant it. So he's not just saying
he's trying to get the crowd chant f America. That
not received well. And in fact, the music fa is
not our music festival. It's another one called Neon City,
(31:12):
which is a big music fest going on in Vegas.
They have removed mackelmore from it, and so then by
people say, oh, it's free speech. The organizers of that
are not government. So one, you're an idiot, but two,
this is the culture that you want it. And also
(31:33):
I don't know that I think people are getting tired
of it. I think most people for the most part,
over the years have rolled their eyes when some artists
is up there getting an oscar right and decides to
use it as a minute to well, we just learned
to tune it out. The problem is you've all done it,
and you've also done it to the point where now
you're accusing people of not doing what you want because
(31:55):
your ego is not in check of you know, being
domestic terrorists stuf and for you're one of these lunatics.
So now people are listening to what you're saying and
they're reacting to it.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Oh no, I kind of feel like that woke wave
has sort of started to pull back.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
No, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
It's what it feels like.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because you're seeing consequences out there. I
how Disney doesn't like talk to their artists before they
do interviews. I mean to the extent that you can.
But is this productive? Imagine being somebody who's who's who
the return which a lot of a lot of times
(32:31):
when you get compensated in Hollywood, a big chunk of
it is return based. They caught you to get points
or any of that. Can you imagine being somebody who's
got who's got a little skin in the game, and
one person in the whole project can essentially financially tank you,
but they're so rich they don't care. All right. This
is the guy you probably saw it who was like,
(32:52):
he heard a bunch of dudes hooking up in a
room and he's outside of that, and you could tell
he kind of had a problem with it. So he's
he's one who did the audio taping through the door
of one of the freak offs with I don't know, man,
but dude every time, and a big chunk of what
(33:13):
this guy talked about in is one interview we now
know to at least be part of the charging documents,
so I don't know. So anytime I see this guy's
name is Gene deal, I am anytime I see a
little snippet of him on Twitter or whatever, I'm gonna
go click on it because uh, yes, yes it is
an indulgence, but it's also insane. And by the way,
(33:37):
on this story, you used my joke as your actual explanation.
I I was gonna pull the I just I space this.
I was gonna go back and see if Ross could
find it. But I could remember exactly what do you
remember we were talking about the thousand bottles of lube.
(34:00):
Obviously we brought that up, the baby oil loube they
had on his property, and you know, we're doing the
things that too much. I mean, hell, you know what's
up with that? And like the offhanded, dumb joke I
made was, no, it's you go to Costco and they
only sell them like that. Are you guys ready for this?
(34:20):
Did He's lawyers? Did these lawyers attempting to explain why
the fifty four year old rap artist had so many
bottles of baby oil and lube, roughly one thousand according
to documents. I didn't want to get into the free
call for any of the rest of that stuff. So instead,
(34:43):
what is this guy's name? Agna Fio, it's the lawyer's name.
I don't know where that number came from, the US
attorney said at the reporter said, I'm not really sure
what baby oil has to do with anything, said did
he's attorney. He has a big house. He buys in bulk.
I think there's a Costco nearby Ross you ever got
you guys shop at Costco or BJ's or any of
(35:05):
the club things or Sam's Club.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Yeah, I think we do. Sam's. I think we have
a membership there.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
How many times have you actually only bought a thousand
count of baby oil?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
I've never actually been inside, so probably if I were
to estimate none, I've never done that yet.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
But Barky's come home obviously with thousands of bottles.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
Right.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
It's never happened though, because you want.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
One or three and I only sell them in a
thousand Who I'm sorry. Costco's got some insane packaging on
some stuff, right, Like I, why do I need three computers?
But you can buy that on their website. I realize
was just shot. I was looking at a computer. I
was reviewing it for somebody who's gonna buy it, and
(35:43):
I'm like, wait, you have a three. You have a three,
which makes sense if you're using that to buy for
like an office or something. But it's like they'll package
deal PCs man things. Sticking a thousand bottles of baby
oil or lubricant together may mean Costco. Shut up, you
went to Costco. Now, don't get me wrong. Any of
you who have ever shot at the Costco or Sam's
or DJ's or whatever. We've overspent and it's especially painful
(36:09):
now you roll that giant, oversized cart full of things
you probably don't need, but there it is. How do
you think I ended up with a caggurator look nice,
good price man. I didn't go in. I didn't go
in to buy a cargerator, but I bought one. I
(36:29):
think I went in for gum or side. I don't know.
I'm sorry, Like, you know, just standard stuff. That's that's Costco.
Those are nobody's come home with a thousand bottles of
baby oil. Anyway, back to the uh, the ex bodyguard.
This is why I'm bringing it up, not just because
he stole my excuse, all right, So uh jeene doo
(36:58):
claims multiple polot Titians or on videotapes of the freak
off parties, which sometimes lasted for days. Basically, he was
running around like a like an orchestra conductor, and you
had a mix of party goers musicians. Now they're claiming
politicians paid sex workers and literally like Diddy would, according
(37:22):
to the documents, he would force them to perform all
these acts and do so for such an extended period
of time that they had to have ivs available. And
there's there's multiple lot of exotic dancers and whatnot. Who
you know who are also prostituting, who who've already been
(37:43):
interviewed about this, and it's insane. I'm not going to
get into all the details, but I want you to
understand the scope of what we're talking about. It's it's
it's Caligula on cracked minus. I guess the orgy boats,
but the politicians things interesting like because if you google
Sean Combs and then with politician, just go look at
(38:08):
the Google image library now for a lot of them.
I don't want you to think about stuff. I don't
want you to try to get that image in your head,
but can you imagine.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
Yeah, because I mean the rumors, they're like, he that
he was doing what they say that Epstein was doing, right, Yes,
like the same, the same sort of thing. And then
I was reading yesterday they were saying that there's a
rumor that he was he's actually been working with the
FBI for a while, like as an informant.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Now do you think and this is this is a
good comparison, Like, I think there's a much higher likelihood
that names get dropped here than Epstein. But why why
should it be any different? But now that you're telling
me politicians are in on it, I wonder if they don't. Right,
It's one thing if like some rap artists basically had
(38:55):
some embarrassing stuff or you know they're not out, but
there was you know, they were having gay sex or
with some of the gay escorts, and you know they
didn't want that from an image standpoint whatever, That's not
what we're talking about here. If you're telling me politicians
are at a thing called a freak off that inherently,
according to prosecutors, included a bunch of illegal stuff. Now
(39:17):
I'm thinking we aren't going to see it depending on
who those politicians may be.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
But you never know.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Right back to the story. He claims to spied all
of the alleged crimes that did he committed in California
and Florida. There's a reason why he was charged with racketeering,
sex trafficking, and the transportation to engage in prostitution in
New York. You know who else they're doing investigation on
during this whole time period, the mayor of New York City.
(39:52):
Oh that's why I'm trying this story in If you
guys didn't see yesterday the mayor Eric Adams was indicted.
Now they're referring to it is not unless ros you
haven't seen anything that has come out identifying the individual charges, right,
I've not. Okay, yeah, I that the document itself. We
(40:13):
just know that it involves racketeering.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Can you imagine the one way I take that bad.
The one thing I saw maybe you mentioned it and
I wasn't paying attention to my bed, was the they
said there was some sort of rumor I was reading
about and this was from a physical actual or Didy Adams.
They were saying, like the Turkish government was somehow.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Yeah so so yeah, basically this is this is like
the more localized version of working as a foreign agent.
Without registering. You know, you hear that sometimes you heard
it with whenever they want to go out and get
somebody in your administration, A lot of times that's what
the allege that they've done. So in the case of Adams,
(40:57):
I think it's twenty some different countries where there were allegations.
I don't know that they're part of the indictment, but
I think most people were thinking it was that or
just basic corruption. You want to hear an insane fact
that came out in that story, No mayor, sitting mayor
of New York has ever been indicted.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
How that doesn't even seem possible.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Tammary Hall, what do we what? How is a mayor
of New York never been indicted. I'm almost embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
For you because because maybe they none of them pissed
off the fence enough.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Oh I think so. Yeah. So the other theory with
Adams is because he has although it's not a very
effective one, is because he's raised alarm about you know,
a trend lay a trend day Aragua, which is the
Venezuelan gang. I can never say Ragua, uh, you know,
(41:53):
is the Venezuelan gang that people are worried about. But
even just the motorcycle robberies, all this stuff midtown men
and turn it into a giant migrant shelter. Like He's
been critical of this stuff, and I saw people speculating
that because you wouldn't fall in line on immigration, they're
going to take him out. That seems like a bit
of an overreaction for that.
Speaker 2 (42:14):
I think what it was is he introduced trash can
technology to New York City and the Feds were like,
you've you've flown too close to the sun.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
We've got to take you out right. You don't know
what they are. They're getting be trapped in the trash mans.
All right, So I was gonna do a pole and
I'm not putting your trash can thing on.
Speaker 5 (42:34):
A pole man.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
I just say I've had the timing is suspect, you.
Speaker 1 (42:37):
Know, because one it can't be true, and two because
you just brought up on the air, you know your
your minions will go vote for it, and it's totally
screwed up my mouth. So all right, So it could
be trash can stuff. It could be that, or you know,
it could be in a three way with Meek Mill
and uh uh puffy h. But we shall see now
(43:00):
as far as the charges go, Adams did release a
pre recorded video. I guess who is ready for this,
fellow New Yorkers.
Speaker 7 (43:08):
It is now my belief that the federal government intends
to charge me with crimes. If so, these charges would
be entirely false, based on lies, but they would not
be surprising. I always knew that if I stood my
ground for all of you, that I would be a target,
(43:31):
and a target I became. For months, leaks and rumors
have been aimed at me in an attempt to undermine
my credibility and paint me as guilty. Just this past week,
they searched the home of our new police commissioner looking
for documents from twenty years ago, just one week after
(43:54):
he joined my administration. Enough, I would fight these injustice
is with every ounce of my stint and my spirit.
If I'm charged, I know I am innocent.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Look and let me say this, they are going full
guns blazing on this dude. And so when the big
reveal comes it, I'm expecting it to be just insane,
right you know where it's like, you know, basically, my
new commissioner got the job because he paid me this
and I was charging I want to hear blaguevich stuff, right,
so I want to hear selling Senate seats with F
(44:29):
bombs every other word. Or however, because it's New York,
you better talk like a New Yorker too. If there's
not a bunch of F bombs, I'm.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Not even listen. If I have to pick one thing
that I do like about Eric Adams, right, like you
have to pick one thing gun to my head, I
what I enjoy about him is he does sound like
he's from New York City. Yeah, I think if you
are the mayor of New York, you should have a
thick accident like build the Blasio. No Giuliani. Yes, he
took down the mob. He was an amazing governor, but
(44:57):
but he doesn't even compare to Eric adams accent. That
is what a New York mayor on the may of
New York, that's what he should. You know what I
mean that that sounds right?
Speaker 5 (45:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (45:08):
But if so, it better be a bunch of stuff,
because if it's willy nilly, then that's that's crazy. Man.
You go after this dude because you know, normally, especially
when your party is controlling the judicial system, which is
you know, Mary Garland is the ag this is a
federal indictment, right, they're gonna cut you a wide berth
(45:32):
on stuff. Blaguyevitch, you know in Chicago he was governor,
but you know, trying to sell Obama Senate seat. What
was amazing was that was the impetus. But if you
remember like they had, they were easily able to document
years of corruption with that dude, which is why I
never understood why Trump entertained the idea of him. You
(45:54):
know that me and friends. The only reason Trump liked
it is because Blaguoyevitch was so mad of the Democrats
room under the bus that he was sucking up to Trump.
It was all weird, but like the level of corruption
within Chicago and Illinois politics, it was everything you thought
it was, and probably more because obviously I'm not going
(46:16):
to put stuff in there that starts to nick you
know people they're not mad at. Plus, I want him
to do it so we can play the game again.
I want there to be crazy the B word, set
me up tapes, Okay, I want Marion Barry's stuff so
I can play. And I wanted to swear a lot
because when Blugoyevitch came out, we played a game on
(46:38):
the radio called Blogoyevich or soprano, and I had audio
or not audio. I had audio cuts, but they were
of our voice guy reading quotes, and then people have
to decide whether it was a Tony soprano or Blogoyevitch quote.
And it was an insanely difficult game. I want those
things to fall into my lap. Again, we had a
(47:00):
lot of fun with that. So I don't know what
the atoms. I don't know, you know what the totality
of it will be. But if it ain't the diddy
freak off and it's just like political stuff, it's got
to be a bunch because again, you're not You're not
gonna go kneecap your own people unless it's risen to
(47:23):
a level that you feel it's uh, it's it's unnecessary.
And and you start seeing those political changes, you know
the fact, the fact is, and this is what has
things fractured and turmoiled. And however you want to describe it,
you are watching you're watching three distinct camps on Mark Robinson.
Happened right now on the Republican side, or at least
(47:47):
the uh, the independent side, or however you want to
describe it. Right You're seeing three very specific camps for him,
not just with you know, people might vote for market,
people work for them, and people around found him who
has decided I don't want to tell their campaigns near
him anymore. You're watching that divide going on and and
(48:08):
to some extent, that's that's what you're seeing here. What's
gonna be crazy is if that Eric Adams stuff comes
out and it is the Diddy stuff, which I can't
I can't even fathom. Oh man always not our politicians.
(48:30):
I mean, I have confidence that Virginia Fox is not
down there. So that being said, there's been some corrupt
Florida stuff. Who is the guy ran for governor they
found in the meth hotel room. I can't remember his name.
That dude, That dude after that story, bruh, that dude sounds.
Speaker 2 (48:47):
Like he's down for a Oh you mean the guy
that lost to a Disantis.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. Remember right after, he's like, oh
we found him. We found him basically in a medical emergency,
all messed up at a hotel room, naked with feces everywhere.
Voters got that one, right, That dude wants to come
for a freak off. Well, some say they didn't and
they drove them to it. We'll be back. So there's
a video What's TV stations is from w c NC
(49:16):
if you ever took this video there at Chitola and
that is damn terrifying. Ross. This is on wr L
on the front there if you just if you need
a link there, all right, so headlight excuse me? Possible
tornadoes Senior blowing rock ahead of Hurricane Helene. Yeah, that's
(49:36):
that's scary looking. Oh you know what that's you know,
that's just a few miles from Boone. From Boone, this
is gonna be a wonderful opportunity for Boom Big Beer
truthers to explain why it's not there. All blew away?
So do you know if your fake big Beer is okay?
(49:58):
Did you check in on it?
Speaker 2 (49:59):
And we they were attracted into the ground.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Doesn't that that seems wildly expensive and unnecessary.
Speaker 2 (50:04):
It's worth it. It's like the retractable roof North Carolina tradition,
the Boon Big Beer preencils too or yeah those they
left those up, yes, otherwise they blow off the top.
Come on, what's the last time you went there?
Speaker 1 (50:20):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (50:20):
When's the last time you went there.
Speaker 1 (50:24):
The blowing rocker never because it's not a thing. But
in the area. Uh, let's see about a year and
a half ago. Yeah, yeah, it would have been fall
to I took. Yeah, I got the fall color pictures too. Uh.
From where we're staying. That was nice, the big beer,
(50:45):
lots of colorful leaves. Although, to be fair, like if
you guys do it like blowing, that's like blowing rock
stick right, the whole thing is based on weird weather phenomena.
So you're been to the blowing rock Ross. You've never
been a blowing rock or Boone in general.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
Right, I mean I went to Boone to see the
Boone big beer.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
But but you've never been a blowing rock right, I'm
not okay? All right, So blowing rock has traffic? Is
it real?
Speaker 2 (51:12):
Or is this like a thing you're making up?
Speaker 1 (51:13):
Obnoxious obnoxious other people, lots of good people. But it's
it's a whole it's a whole thing. They got some
decent restaurants. But in time I go to the area,
I'm not staying in town. I'm me get out of there.
Although I do like going to the English pub there.
That's just me so anyway. But the tourist attraction is
(51:34):
there's uh, there's the blowing rock, and basically it's just
it's just a situation where you get wind currents that
act in a very odd manner, and sometimes if it's snowing,
it's snowing upwards because you're getting that wind gust up there.
So I think a tornado. I don't even know if
that's stand out, but I look at this video and
I'm like, no, that stands out.
Speaker 5 (51:54):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (51:55):
C NC meteorologist Brad Panovitch uh showed the storm or
the video. This is again right above Shatola Resort, which,
by the way, I've ever told you my Shatola Resort story.
So you guys, you've never been to Chitola, which is
as you're coming in on was a three twenty one.
(52:16):
As you're coming in from boone, go past tweet see railroad.
Make sure your windows are up so you don't have
to hear any of that nonsense. Sorry, I had kids
dash across that highway in front of me one time
tweets see will be the death of them, right, I'm kidding.
But when you get into blowing rock, just although they
have kind of reformulated the lanes you go past the
(52:38):
go past the outlet stores, which never do you guys,
remember when the sinkhole opened in the parking lot of
the outlet stores a few years ago and he couldn't
gain access to him. I the girl I would scene
(53:00):
at the time. I sent that to her because we
were gonna we were going up and we're gonna be
at Shatola. We were going up there, and she want
to stop it, and I thought it was the funniest
damn thing. I'm like, oh man, oh no, a sinkhole
open and the only ingress or egress into the into
the outlet stores that you expected we'd spend an entire
(53:22):
day at. That's a shame. Boy, oh boy, you hate
to see that. So anyway, yeah, you got that going.
And but that's you know, right those outlet stores. The
area of the wraps around north of it is Chatola
and it's a big, big resort. They got a lake
there with some decent fission if you know what you're doing,
(53:43):
lots of condos, you got the hotel, they got a
steakhouse bar up there. So anyway, I did an Airbnb
on one of those condos one time because I want
to stay at Chatola had never stayed there, you know,
it is good. But so I'm down in the restaurant
and the lake I told you about a Chatola La
has a peninsula that sticks out into it. And it
(54:04):
just happened as I'm sitting up in the Timber Lake
Steakhouse or whatever it's called there. I'm sitting at the bar,
which is kind of on the end where you can
walk out, but you can see the lake, and there
happens to be a wedding going on, which, by the way,
looks like a lovely place.
Speaker 2 (54:19):
For a wedding.
Speaker 1 (54:20):
And so the wedding's going on, they're doing their thing.
I'm sitting there, I'm talking to the bartender, watching sports
or whatever. It's a weekend, and even though they have
bathroom facilities, guests from the wedding, who are getting increasingly
more drunk because it's reception now, are coming in and
using the restroom facilities inside the building there. And so
(54:43):
you'd seeing they'd walk through the bar and you know,
here comes part of the you know, the bridesmaids, and
then all of a sudden the bride. Here comes the
bride and she is not walking on her own, which
it wouldn't be the first time somebody consumed too much
(55:03):
of their wedding. I didn't think much of it, and
I think I was joking with the bartender like, oh,
looks like they're having a great time, and he was like, oh, yeah,
you see what they're going through, uh liquor wise, And
I'm like, oh, okay, well, awesome, right, Well, I don't
think anything of it. And then all of a sudden,
like I get this sense, like fifteen twenty minutes later
that like a lot of people are in that restaurant,
(55:24):
but they're but their their attention is on something. And
you then I hear like wailing coming from the where
because there's a hallway you got to go down so
little ways over to where the bathrooms are. And I
see what I now know is the bride's bother come in.
(55:45):
I see the groom come in. They all head down
that hallway. You hear some like here's some noises, but
it's hard to hear down there. And then all of
a sudden, the groom comes storming out of there and
goes outside and he starts talking to I don't if
it's his mother or her mother or whatever. And they're
having a conversation right outside. I'm really not trying to
pay attention, but there's just too much going on. All
(56:09):
of a sudden, two of the bride'smaids come in, and
then the father comes back in and they go back
in there forever. So after that, I really didn't see
a whole bunch until the ambulance showed up and they
come in, the EMT crew comes in, they're doing whatever
they're doing back there. I'm trying to get information at
this I'm in news mode, but it's just everything's just insane. Meanwhile,
(56:31):
everyone's just still drinking away down at the lake over there.
And eventually they come out. They have her on a stretcher.
They load her in an ambulance at her own wedding
and take her away, except there is a god awful smell.
(56:52):
And here's the story, which I got the next day
from one of the people works there who i'd kind of,
you know, buddy budded up with. And so the story is, yeah,
she got really hammered. She came in to use the bathroom,
was so drunk. Even if they dropped her there, she
was unsuccessful and actually gaining access. So in the wedding
(57:16):
dress and I mean everything in the wedding dress, which
would explain that when it when somebody noticed what was
going on, her brand new husband went up there. She
started screaming at him because she wanted her daddy. That's
your husband now, that's why he stormed out. And then
(57:36):
dad had to show up and you know at this
wedding he paid for and watch his daughter get hauled
off by EMTs with a poopy wedding dress. Tadah. So yeah,
that was that was my first and only shitola experience.
So there you go, all right seven four? Are we
(57:58):
all better for that story? But ross wouldn't that be
a memorable wedding? I mean, what do you do at
that point? You have to do a do over? Because
I just assumed that a bride would not want that
to be the wedding, like like, oh, they are married.
This was a reception. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's why what
she threw her what is now her husband out. Yeah,
(58:20):
this was the reception of the wedding. That's why everyone
was tanking. Tuther Mine. They got married earlier in the day,
but then all that went down, So I think he
gave me a free drink though for the smell. Anyway,
seven forty four raced agic. We were talking about all
things blowing Rock area and the resort up there, but
(58:41):
there's this video of what they're claiming may have been
a tornado that touchdown. Confirm or can't confirm.
Speaker 8 (58:49):
I haven't seen anything on the storm reports, but I
won't deny. I mean, if there was a weather service,
I would have to get out there and confirm that.
Speaker 1 (58:56):
Are you up in New York right now? Or where
are you?
Speaker 2 (58:58):
I am ask?
Speaker 1 (59:01):
Ok So, Yeah, it just sounded different. You sound over modulated,
is what it is? So at Okay, it's okay, any better?
I just kind of yeah, Ross, I have to potch.
It's another It's well, let's do it now, We'll figure
it out. But it's okay, man, Yeah, it's h Are
you in jail? Do you need bail? Are you making
(59:23):
a wrap?
Speaker 8 (59:25):
I had to come in and believe it or not,
I'm supposed to be in a better facility here in
the office, but clearly that's not the case. Yeah, let's
see heaviest rain right now a west of the tryad
into the mountains are already flood warnings.
Speaker 1 (59:37):
This is not Heleen.
Speaker 8 (59:40):
Triangle faring. Okay, but I really think you should be
wrapping up preparations for wind, especially just west of the Triad,
and more heavy rainfall catastrophic flooding in some cases, I'm
not going to be out of the woods until sometime
tomorrow morning. So although triangle flooding, one to three inches
of rain and gusty way still some impacts I think
(01:00:02):
the worst from basically let's just say the try it
and west, especially into the mountains where it's raining now
and it will continue to rain. There's heavy rain when
the warnings come. That's when you are expected to take
cover and take higher ground. There be also some severe weather.
That threat's gonna be as we head toward tomorrow morning
and during the at least first part of tomorrow, so
(01:00:23):
you know, more rain and thunderstorms. Right now, the severe's
threat is limited, but the rain threat is continued.
Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
By Wilkes.
Speaker 8 (01:00:29):
Alexander County is catabo down toward York and west flood
to watch. Tropical storm warnings started about Charlotte and north
and west of that for tropical storm conditions. So officially
Winston Salem, Greensboro Rally not in the watches are warnings,
but that doesn't mean we may not see that change
or see substantial chances of flooding and severe weather, especially
(01:00:52):
as we head through late tonight and tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
All right, thank you very much. Yeah, Okay, it's fine, dude,
it's fine. It just sounds, you know, sounded different from you.
And you know how we audio guys are, I know, yeah,
so you sound good now, so just whatever, Yeah, okay,
all right, thank you sir. There you go, Racetagic from
the Weather Channel. All right, reminder, we're gonna get into
(01:01:18):
the clash of politics and entertainment with Stephen Kent our
NERD correspondent. That'll be coming up at eighth five. Also,
let's talk about aerial advertising for just a moment. That
story coming up next. Case O Day Radio program.
Speaker 6 (01:01:34):
Ross.
Speaker 1 (01:01:34):
You've been around enough years. You've probably been doing enough
big events where uh oh you look up overhead and
here comes the uh here comes the blimp, right, Goodyear
blimp or the met Life one with the peanuts. You've
seen those before, right, yeah, of course, and uh and
so you might look up at it maybe if you're
with your wife your kid, like, hey, look at that, right,
and that's the extent of it. Well, you know, blimps
(01:01:55):
are for advertising, so if you're good, you're a met life.
You got to ask yourself, am I getting my money's worth? Well?
What would you say? Is the most famous blimp you
can think of? Uh?
Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
Probably the Good Year?
Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
Well really the most due the Hindesburg, the Hindenburg right,
which required a disaster. So uh any who, so long
story short? Uh, yesterday in Sapoulou? Was it in Brazil?
Where you? Sapalo Brazil? A Uh, a blimp that was
outfitted to promote one of the big soccer teams. I
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don't know if you know this. They're kind of into
soccer down there. Rather than just flying over this neighborhood,
which technically is a neighborhood where one of their rivals
fans live, decided to slam the blimp into the neighborhood,
not killing anyone amazingly, uh, not on board or on
the ground, but uh, basically you know how big those
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things are. That's a that's several city blocks covered in
a blimp.
Speaker 3 (01:02:55):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
So they're just buzzing around out there. I don't know,
somebody shot at the thing or what. That's why I
wouldn't fly a blimp over certain places, because I know,
I know idiots shoot it stuff you can't tell me.
Some redneck or some gangster or you know whomever, at
some point never thought what happens if I shoot at
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that and shot at those things. In fact, I'm sure
it's a thing they don't even talk about. So I
don't know how this thing crashed in Brazil, but I
don't know that they're converting to your team either, although
that is aggressive. Remember this is the country where somebody
smuggled in a full sized porcelain toilet to a stadium
and then killed multiple people by throwing it onto the
(01:03:41):
from the second level to the first level. They take
the soccer seriously. So anyway, again, nobody nobody killed. I
think the the pilot had some minor injuries there. All right,
don't grab a quick call, Yes Donna, what's up?
Speaker 9 (01:03:56):
Good morning, Casey. Just how do you tell about a
blimp because it kind of ties in what I have
to talk about. I used to work from Monster dot
Com and we had a blimp. And when I worked there,
I had a nice desk calendar and on it it
would have a word of a word of the day.
(01:04:17):
So me and my favorite coworker we would play a
little game where we would try to incorporate that word
while talking to our other co workers throughout the day,
and whoever got to use it the most would win.
Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
You know, you have to use it properly. This is
how we end up with a presidential candidate using the
word using.
Speaker 9 (01:04:35):
The word holistically. Well, it's either that or you know,
her head is an empty vessel filling along in.
Speaker 5 (01:04:42):
The sea of Aphasia.
Speaker 9 (01:04:44):
You know, however, we do have a commerce secretary who
is a master of language, who yesterday on MSMBC said
Trump needs to be extinguished.
Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
Yeah, we have that audio. We're gonna I'll go ahead
and play that teased at and then I got distracted
by the Diddy stuff here. In fact, Donna, thank you
very much for the call. Let me let me hit
this audio before we go to break, and then we
chat with Stephen Kent coming up to do all right,
So here's the audio from our commerce secretary. Donna's referred to.
Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
What he says is the opposite.
Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
It's just another lie, Like, how did we get here.
Let's extinguish him for good. We have an answer. We
have a remarkably talented candidate, who is sincere, who's pragmatic,
who's open.
Speaker 5 (01:05:29):
Let's just get it.
Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
Done all right, thank you. And look, people are coming
to me like, oh, you know, don't be on that
trap where you you know, you acquiesced that this is
the thing, and you're sounding like the moonbat's running around
complaining about everything. I'm not. I don't. I fundamentally, I
don't see anything wrong with saying that, because I'm an
adult and I understand that. However, all of the people
who keep saying this are the ones that say that
(01:05:51):
you are literally trying to commit murder when you say
these things. And then if we talk to our NERD
correspondent Stephen Kent about anything makes you mad, that he
can call in yell, but not now, because we're gonna
chat with Steven. How you doing, Steven?
Speaker 5 (01:06:06):
I am well as always good to hear from you. KC.
Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
Yeah, you made Ross jealous this morning. You know that, right?
Speaker 5 (01:06:13):
Ross wakes up jealous every day. He envies my aura.
Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
You get to go hang out with Rob Schneider this
weekend or something.
Speaker 5 (01:06:21):
Rob Schneider, Yeah, he's made a real comeback as a
new sort of conservative dissident intellectual. So Rob Schneider, you
can find him on the Joe Rogan podcast.
Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
So I was just looking at the line up here.
Do you like going to these things? Man, I gotta
tell you, I'm not. If I'm doing a radio row
M that's one thing, right, And there's one we do
annually up in DC, although they didn't do it this year.
But but like you know, just going to the big
conventions where you got three thousand speakers. I've done some
(01:06:53):
in the past. I actually was on a panel up
at Washington Hilton one time for Americans Prosperity, and I
think I did two for them, and I feel like
I feel like sometimes it's it's it's just a real
life digital echo chamber. Do you know what I'm saying?
So what are the value I want to talk about
(01:07:14):
in the broader sense? What value do you find obviously
in your work? But like that's what I feel, and
I the is it productive for organizing? I mean, what
would you say? Are you just going to go fan
girl over Schneider and FK and Tyson Gabbert.
Speaker 5 (01:07:31):
I fangirl over no one. And I hate all celebrities,
including political celebrities, but I do love to people watch.
And so you know, this Rescue the Republic event being
put on by doctor Brett Weinstein, headlined by RFK and
Russell Brand, and I imagine Jordan Peterson and Charlie Perker
showing up. You know, they're also being headlined by the
(01:07:53):
band to skill It. I want to see who. I
want to see who shows up to this thing. Casey crime.
This is crime people watching.
Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
Yeah, and so some seventy year old, some seven year
old no offense, some seventy year old GOP woman sitting
there in amash pit. I'm here for it. So you
better take a video if that happens, man.
Speaker 5 (01:08:15):
Yeah, I mean, and I will. And you know, these
events are I think an interesting measure of how much
the political scene has gotten turned upside down. I mean,
the agenda for this rally that they're having on the
mall is about vaccines, about fighting the war machine, about
organic food. So this should be a lefty political rally
(01:08:39):
from the year two thousand and three. But yet the
entire lineup is you know, right wing figures and sort
of left leaning liberal comedians who have jumped ship with
the Democratic Party. It's just bizarro world. But this is
the political realignment. There's a lot of people we're finding
(01:09:00):
themselves on the right side of politics now because they
were pushed forcefully out of the Democratic Party in the least,
and I just think it's interesting to watch. But I
also to get frustrated by these kinds of events because
Brett Weinstein and the likes they act like this has
never been done before. I hear them talk about this
Rescue the Republic event. They're holding them the mall, how
(01:09:21):
many the Glenn Beck's been doing this for years exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
Yeah, I mean Glenn Beck had, Yeah, it's not new.
I want to say something because it's interesting on that,
because I think perception is that when you start talking
about organic foods, oh, it's the hippie culture. But like,
I think that's unfair, and I had I had a
discussion with a sponsor we had on this on this
show for years, right, and part of their job was
(01:09:46):
selling solar panels, and I remember talking to our salesperson
and initially the client was hesitant because they're like, you know,
because that scene is hippie, dippy green energy. And I
had to literally have this conversation with them. I grew
up using solar panels. Solar panels keep our water wells
open for our couch to drink. We have solar on
our cabin is an alternative. The difference is is the
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government didn't mandate that we put the solar panels in.
So the outright perception of the rejection of technology, which
may not make sense for the totality of our energy
needs but makes perfect sense for somebody who's got an
off grid cabin is I feel I feel like sometimes
we're too quick to put everything in one box, you
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know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (01:10:33):
Yeah, someone like Congressman Thomas Massey, Republican from Kentucky. You know,
he lives off the grid, completely fueled by alternative energy sources,
including solar. You would think he was some radical, you know,
left wing hippie from two thousand and two, But you know,
he's just a self sufficient Republican who doesn't trust the
(01:10:53):
direction that we're going as a as a people, and
that sort of leads you to go out there and
be self sufficient. Panels and stuff like.
Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
That are all part of our Our cabin could run,
could run for six months now. Granted we have giant
propane tank that we keep filled. But like, but the
whole point of that is, you know, it's just you
never know and and is and so when you see that,
like here's the only thing where it gets cringey. You
ever see when Trump first came into office, and they
(01:11:22):
were like they were doing like, all of a sudden,
the preppers were now like Democrats, right, They're like building
their Trump survival bunkers and all that. And what used
to kill me is I saw like CNN and they
go out and do stories and it's like, you know,
these two college professors which eat nothing but soy, right,
they built their bunker like even their MRIs look bad.
But like they also were anti gun, and I'm like,
(01:11:44):
you're building a survival bunker. I feel like maybe if
you think that that's a dystopic end times thing, you
might consider at least a shotgun or something. But when
it comes to you know, when it comes to the
reasons that people might want to do that, whether it's
just independence or in our case, a warmer place to
sleep while we're hunting elk, like it's about the government
(01:12:07):
versus not the government, which is why And we transition
into this, I'm curious your thoughts. I got a whole
stack of stories here. Now these aren't government things, but
rather it is the power of the of commerce. And
let's start with Ubasoft, and specifically the development of something
we've talked about, which is the latest iteration of Assassin's
(01:12:30):
Breed set in Japan, Beudal Japan. You're thinking samurai ninja stuff,
let's go, and you kind of get that, but you
also get a story that was faked by a college
professor or at least a fiction, right, a fanfic piece
of work that was then taken as historical gospel. And
now you have a black samurai and all of Japan's
(01:12:51):
upset they did. They took their spot away at the
big Tokyo show, right, they're not even having the gup there.
And yesterday Ubisoft issues a statement and in the statement
says essentially, we favor no one. We're not trying to
do anything. And the only reason they got this statement
saying that, well, no, we're not woke, we're not injecting this.
(01:13:11):
We want to be as broadly as possible is because
essentially this the c suite folks are probably going to
get ousted or at the very least potentially sued by
shareholders over the decisions to do things like you know,
like have been done with other games, and so do
you think they don't realize that politicking is being included
(01:13:34):
in there or is it the argument, Oh, it's not politics,
it's human rights. Because I think that that infestation and
the ability to recognize that you guys screwed up here
and you could pivot away and to not take that
opportunity is crazy to me. So do they know or
they really that clueless because they're surrounded by the DEI stuff?
Speaker 5 (01:13:55):
Yeah, I think it has to be cluelessness caused by
DEI are more typically ESG standards, so that means environmental
social governance because this.
Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
Has to do real quick. I'm sorry to do and
when when you say ESG. One of the things that's
really important is there is an apparatus where companies that
need float money and capital basically have to play this game,
or have had to play this game to be able
to do it. And companies who are not able to
access those funds at appropriate rates could have potentially gone
out of business. It's so insidious. I'm sorry, go right ahead, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:14:29):
No, I mean, and it is. It is insidious. It
also confuses people's understanding of what is political and what
is not. So when you have companies that are adopting
ESG standards, and they're receiving outside money to adopt, you know,
policies and viewpoints that advance social positive socially positive impacts. Well,
(01:14:49):
who defines what is socially positive? So they look at
this and they go, okay, well, then we need to
have a story that features, you know, a black samurai
from some random professors. But that's not what people want.
I mean, just look at how Shogun, the TV series
about Japanese samurais performed on FX, winning eighteen Emmys in
(01:15:11):
the most recent awards cycle. An absolute blowout, and it
was completely historically accurate and not a whiff of what
you might call equity when it comes to casting. This
was purely a Japanese show and no hamdhanding of anyone
in there who didn't really belong in the middle of
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fourteenth century Japan. You know, it's the mindset of the
Last Samurai where you have Tom Cruise in there. You've
got to have a white samurai in order to have
a story about Japan in this video game.
Speaker 1 (01:15:45):
The perspective. Here's the thing, this black quote unquote samurai did.
This is a real individual, right, it was the romanticized
role in what he did. Tom Cruise's character is a
combination actual set of like that's a real dude. And
then you get into the romance sizes the Portuguese.
Speaker 5 (01:16:03):
The Portuguese were in Japan. There were white people wandering
in Japan.
Speaker 1 (01:16:07):
They were all wandering around. Let's be about it. Clear,
they weren't wandering around with they You know, you couldn't
go to Japan without the permission of the rulers there.
They killed you on site during this No foreigners were
allowed there. And and so when you when you're sitting
there and you're watching that, I think that you still
saw with with the Tom Cruise movie, even if you
(01:16:28):
don't like some of the stuff that was added in there.
And I'm here for it because I love history, you
could tell that they then didn't not give a crap
about the other stuff, do you know what I'm saying?
Like the other details they did a good job of.
And like once you get away from the casting of
the main character in here, because people are incense, they're
(01:16:48):
chewing it apart. Like I see Japanese posters pointing out
that the rice wouldn't be blowing around because it's how
we paid our taxes, and those trees would have been
in bloom and and and then I see people react
to it, to criticism like the where is this Sorry,
I'm trying to do nine different things here. I've seen
them react to criticism like the founder of the Dragon
(01:17:11):
Age series. What is this guy's name here, flipping back
and forth, David Gator? Right, So, David Gator, the franchise
creator of Dragon Age, which may be a little too
inside baseball for some people, but it's a big deal,
and it's a big ip who is out there and
he's sending tweets out literally yesterday that say, apparently the
(01:17:35):
usual suspects are upset at how woke the new Dragon
Age is an apparent sudden and unexpected development in the
series efing tourists. He called him effing tourists. And this
is over a lot of it's over the character creator
where you can literally have like top surgical scars for
your chest and you can give your female character a bulge,
(01:17:58):
but you can't give her a proportionate cup size or
oh my gosh, right, so wow, this dude. How many
people are their financial livelihoods are attached to this dude's
franchise and rather than just shutting up and do it.
He called people quote effing tourists and told them, we
(01:18:19):
don't need you. This is just what happened to the
acolyte with the actress and others. How do you see?
Speaker 5 (01:18:25):
This is what happens when you loathe the market incentives
of capitalism. You don't appreciate consumers, You take them for granted.
You think that people have to eat the gruel because
you are cooking and serving it. You don't care about
what people want. And you know that goes right over
to Ubisoft's kind of other game, which was well reviewed
(01:18:47):
but performed pretty poorly on sales. Star Wars Outlaws. You know,
Star Wars fans have roundly rejected and I really don't
think it's about, you know, the female lead necessarily, but
you know, the last Star Wars bology starring ray Or
Daisy Ridley was not great. It was not well received,
and their follow up to that is to then serve
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Star Wars fans another female lead story in Star Wars
Outlaws and not acknowledge the fact that your majority group
of gamers are probably going to be middle aged or
you know, twenty something year old males, and they probably
do want to play with a han solo like character
(01:19:28):
and not be forced to play with you know, twenty
something year old lady. That's just a fact of being
a video gamer. Red Dead Redemption would have suffered in
the very same way if you didn't have this kind
of character that you did to appeal to the majority
of the gamer base. You don't care about what consumers want.
Speaker 1 (01:19:46):
You mean, somebody that looks like they appropriately would you know,
fit in around the turn of the nineteenth start.
Speaker 5 (01:19:51):
Yeah, when you think, when you think about it, yeah,
I mean that's absolutely the case. And if you want
to you know, embrace diversity or you know, people being
able to to have a character that looks like them,
you create a game in which they can design their
own character on the front end of the game. That's
the best way to do it. But they don't want
to do that because they believe the consumer will make
wrong decisions play with a character they don't want.
Speaker 1 (01:20:16):
Yeah. Do you see her quote? Since you brought Daisy
Ridley up again? No, responding to criticism of her character
in Star Wars, she said, let's see here, I can't
let's see no attention. I don't pay any attention to
negative criticism of the character. I cannot change the way
that men see women. Again, this is the Ghostbusters thing again.
(01:20:39):
If she's determined that the only reason anyone was critical
not even just of her, but rather the character. Right,
she's an actress. She's going to do what she's paid
to do. So the blame lies with the developers there
and the producers. But if you think the only reason
people didn't like it is because of that, you're never
going to change your mind on this stuff, and you're
gonna end up. Would we found out with a four
(01:21:02):
hundred million dollar flush down the toilet, which Sony just
did with that game, complaining about toxic positivity, which is
a new phrase. I had to learn this.
Speaker 5 (01:21:11):
Yeah, talk to positivity where you are not allowed to
dissent or speak out against the thing due to a
culture of fear. You know. This is this is what
communism gets. Ye, I'm sorry. That's what all these people
are stewing in inside of these companies and they don't
know how to break out of it, and it ends
up being financial boondoggles, you know. And I do want
(01:21:35):
to just put out one note about.
Speaker 1 (01:21:36):
Daisy thirty seconds, but it's a Daisy.
Speaker 5 (01:21:41):
Ridley by and large has handled this kind of stuff
the right way. She's sort of a Hillary Clinton feminist.
She says, you know, men, men don't want to see
women in these roles. However, I have been very well received,
and that's true. A lot of people love her and
she does focus on the positives.
Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
Yeah. Again, it's just if that's your only line of thinking.
Maybe it is for some. But if you think it's
only then your cat. You're painting people who might, you know,
have a legitimate beef about something they didn't like. But
we'll get into it another day. Hey, if Ryan Lizon
or if Ke get near each other photo that okay,
that's your thing, all right, thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:22:13):
Still, I'll get a selfie for you.
Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
Kamloop City council and city staff have been assailed by trolls. Man,
it's it's become apparently a thing for folks to show
up or in this case, virtually show up for the
public comments session and just start playing porn movies. And
it keeps happening and it doesn't look like very exciting
(01:22:37):
stuff either. But yeah, that's Canada whatever. Yes, and now
the city is wrestling with the fact that they have
a under provincial in Canada, under the provincial regulations there.
They have an obligation to hold this event and they
have to make it available for people who can't get there.
So what do you do, I don't know, maybe not
(01:23:00):
have video. You know, you can do that virtually with
an avatar, like you know when when we got to
jump on a teams meeting. Half the time, you know,
Ross has his own little savor logo. Everyone else does.
It's a fifty to fifty shot whether I see him,
same with me. I don't know if I'm turning my
camera on. So, yeah, you want people to stop playing
(01:23:22):
a porn in the middle of your meeting over and
over because they're trolls and now Reddit's after you. That's
how you go about that, all right, I'm helping. Uh,
this is crazy, all right. So you know, it's fire
season kind of on the tail end of it, but
it's fire season, which is a big deal in North
(01:23:43):
Carolina sometimes, but out west every year they wildfires. Are
a lot of fires, man a lot of fires, and
there it's very easy for them to grow pretty big,
you know, because especially when you get our Colorado Wyoming
places like that large. What they're burning is is forest there.
(01:24:04):
But like you keep an eye on it and you
just you go with what you know. The closest I
ever been to a fire was I happened to be
in Yellowstone when part of that was going on with
my uncle in eighty eight. Then I had to leave.
My grandparents came and got me as that thing was breaking.
And I remember the fire line burning up to Cook City,
which is just across the northeast entrance to Montana, literally
(01:24:27):
the back of the houses, and I, you know, even
though I had grown up around fires out west, but
it's always interesting how they happen, and I had not
heard this one. So in Colorado, the big problem fire
there is the Bucktail Fire, largest fire in the state
of Colorado this year, which is saying some there's lots
of fires and let's see now, thankfully nobody's been killed
(01:24:50):
and they really haven't had to evacuate much, but it
is burning up a chunk of property. Well, they finally
figured out how it started and have issued in a restaurant.
Public officials would like you to know you can't go
in the national forest and build funeral pires and burn
your loved ones in the middle of a forest, or
(01:25:14):
your beloved pets, which in this case the guy wanted
to build one of those weird vikings or I gus
and you know which you see in the movies around
the funeral pyrates. So he built one and then to
cremate his dog. And it had something to do with
some wicked thing. I don't know, but that's how the
(01:25:34):
fire started a funeral pyres. So uh, but I just
found out you're not allowed to do that on your
property with people, but you can do it with some
pets in certain places. But yeah, that's he must have
loved that dog man. Unfortunately, they say, as he was
putting the dog in the pit with the wood, he
had sprayed the dog with some sort of accelerant and
(01:25:59):
it quickly Yeah, of control. I don't think you got
to pour gas on who you're burning there, just get
the fire hot enough. So anyway, and then they say,
if you are going to do a few some tips
for your funeral ROJ, you're doing a funeral pyre at
all time you're doing any funerals there, you want to
make sure that you're at least one hundred yards from trees.
(01:26:19):
And if the wind is it's winny that day, you
should not have a funeral pyre. But otherwise burn away
with your pets there. Sorry, just some of the just weird. Man,
it's colorade. There's a lot of weirdos out there, which
is entertaining for much of it. All Right, So I
mentioned one of the things I really enjoy is watching
(01:26:41):
every single one of these reporters who puts together like
a focus group or a panel, and you can tell
they're trying to stack the deck. They're like, ah, here's
a group of undecided voters. I'll look at that. They're
all black. Let's hear what they think of the presidential election.
And then you know, Donni, Donnie d Bag, they're the reporter.
(01:27:01):
He starts asking him questions and like they start saying
things like I heard Commona wasn't black, and before you know,
you get that amazing audio. This is kind of like that.
They had to think this is what was going to
This was gonna be easy. You're gonna go to the
rust belt, You're gonna get the union guys there. Remember
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the Teamsters union didn't even endorse anyone for president, not
because there are people didn't vote. They did, and the
Teamsters overwhelmingly said that they support Trump. The leadership of
the Teamsters like many of these big unions give zero
craps what the rank and file think. So rather than
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doing what they normally do and say the majority of
our members want this, they just say, yeah, we're not
gonna endorse anyone. Now, I don't know why you would
stick with those people what is essentially a criminal organization
historically in many ways, but that's beyond that's that's beside me.
But anyway, that's who they're going to go talk to.
Let's see what they think. And clearly it's not going
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how MSNBC thought it was going to go.
Speaker 2 (01:28:08):
You talk a little bit more about that?
Speaker 8 (01:28:10):
What what mostly just immigration?
Speaker 1 (01:28:13):
Can you talk a little.
Speaker 2 (01:28:14):
Bit more about that? What what about immigration is have
you been paying attention to There.
Speaker 10 (01:28:19):
Are thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants come across the
border every day and the vice president has done minimal
work to fix that based on what I've seen, so
I'd like that.
Speaker 1 (01:28:30):
To change, okay, And and there was a lot of that,
But how did they think of I mean, I understand
how they think it was going to go, but like logically,
you're talking to a group of individuals and this is
not me detracting, by the way, from team stirs or
drivers or folks that are doing blue collar jobs. But
you're you're looking at jobs because not you know, they
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don't necessarily require a degree. Yeah, the people have them
now are going to be a little suss of others
who don't, who also seem to be getting a giant
helping hand because now you're in the world of human nature.
And for some reason, his reporters think the union ties
that binder are going to be stronger than self preservation.
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If they had one hundred thousand people that did descended
upon the state of or one hundred and forty thousand
I think it was a number in New York, descended
upon the state of North Carolina, and they were all
talk radio hosts. That's going I'm going to have some
thoughts and yet is that selfish? Yeah?
Speaker 10 (01:29:34):
So what.
Speaker 3 (01:29:36):
So what.
Speaker 1 (01:29:39):
I could be selfish in this case. It's the reverse
of the government doing it. They're letting it happen. Man. Anyway, Yeah,
so I do enjoy watching those eight forty three raced
agic from the deepest basement hole we got bunker. We're
harding us with his weird new mic. What's up man?
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Not much yet, at least locally.
Speaker 5 (01:30:03):
Oh, does it?
Speaker 8 (01:30:04):
You know, you know, I only had to move the
butt the knob like a notch. I mean, these old
things said the technical No, no, it's not technical, it's
what I call I moved it from one to one
and a half on the shore.
Speaker 1 (01:30:16):
So that changed things up.
Speaker 8 (01:30:18):
Who knows that whatever is supposed to be the better equipment, right, Yeah,
I got a twenty dollars microphone stuck into a PC
back at home and it sounds better.
Speaker 1 (01:30:26):
Imagine that, right, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (01:30:30):
Gotta take a breath, try to sort everything out because
they'll be varying conditions across the area triangle east. Less impacts,
but still some that you know, could damage lives or
could damage property and you know, threaten us with power
outages and threatened lives too, especially if you get the
tornado element of this later tonight and into tomorrow morning.
You know, try it. Already seeing some moderate rain, some
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heavier range just to the west of Winston Salem in
to Yatkin County and points south and west of that,
and that rains continuing with something warnings and then west
of that is going to be the worst of what
we get from not only the rain right now ahead
of Helene, also when Helene finally gets here, that's gonna
be late tonight tomorrow. So this is all not Helen,
what we've seen so far, and they've really been getting pounded.
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West of a line let's just say, is that seventy seven, Yeah,
Interstate seventy seven in and around that and points west,
and that's where the tropical storm warnings are and the
flood watches. So Yatkin down toward down into Mecklenburg County
not in the floodwatch, but east of that there still
could be heavy rainfall and two to four, maybe up
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to six inches try it points west more than that,
double digit totals catastrophic flooding for some into the mountains,
especially triangle one to three, maybe some isolated totals that'd
be higher. I really do think there will be a
flood risk for everybody, But again as you go from
east to west, it goes higher. And then overnight tonight
into tomorrow morning, the severe weather risk and the stronger
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winds as some of the winds could get to tropical
storm force plus and some of the bands that come
through as the main logoes to the west of US.
Looks like that's probably going to be you know, taking
a look at the latest guidance that's going to be
sometime tomorrow morning before things start tapering off tomorrow afternoon.
So really from this point forward, everybody should be ready
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not only for the flooding and severe weather, also for
some scattered power outages, but most of that with the
power outages and the stronger winds coming as we head
on through late tonight and early tomorrow morning. So gonna
be a mess, Casey, and already for some especially west
of US and west of the Triad, it already is.
Speaker 1 (01:32:32):
So to talk to my buddy and lives on the
Bay down in Tampa there. I remember he said video
that one storm and that hitead on and it sewed
all the water getting sucked out in front of his house.
Are you gonna, you know, not be there? And he's like,
we're gonna have a party.
Speaker 5 (01:32:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:32:46):
Right.
Speaker 8 (01:32:47):
There may be some good news for Tallahassee. There's metatrend.
They did adjust the track a little bit further. Resource
fits the center just about on top of Tallahassee. Before
it was to their west and would really put them
in the unfavorable quadrant. But some of the it's been
suggesting maybe a little bit further west, and if that
does happen in tallahasse to can get on the west
side of the low or the hurricane, they may fare
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better than points to the east of them, which could
mean worse conditions from the big bended down toward Tampa Bay.
So a lot to sort out. They do change the
forecast track, it would be minimal, but could have big
impacts even from county to county in the Panhandle. But
still Fork has to be a Cat three with one
fifteen maximum sustained winds. Again, the intensities could fluctuate, but
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even if it's a strong Cat three or a low
end Cat four, don't let that really change your mind.
What the impacts are going to be really negligible in
terms of what the difference is between you know, the
wind and the surge. Those values won't change much. Now
if you go to Cat five and I'm not saying
we're going to but you know, then you know you're
talking about a different ballwax. But conversely, I mean it
may we can. It doesn't look like if anything is
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going to hold its own or maybe get stronger.
Speaker 1 (01:33:54):
Okay, And if it gets bored, go to Miami and
get Nitty's house because that thing gets strubbed. Yes, yeah,
all right, gott to go, thank you sor right man, Yeah,
imagine the hurricane to say go still not enough man,
still ste Anyway, we got to take a break. Come
back with Jeff Bellinger. Hang on with Jeff Bellinger, who,
as I understand, not named in the Adams indictment. How
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you doing, Jeff? What's up?
Speaker 2 (01:34:19):
Unindicted?
Speaker 1 (01:34:20):
Unindicted?
Speaker 11 (01:34:21):
Broadcast near The federal numbers machine cranked up this morning, Casey.
Speaker 1 (01:34:26):
Starting with the labor market.
Speaker 11 (01:34:28):
New claims for unemployment benefits fell by four thousand to
two hundred and eighteen thousand last week. The numbers were
better than expected, but demand for big ticket manufactured products
was down.
Speaker 1 (01:34:39):
Last month.
Speaker 11 (01:34:40):
Orders for durable goods fell two point six percent. In August,
economists were looking for no change, and the government took
one last look at how the economy performed in the
second quarter. No change from the prior estimate that the
gross domestic product expanded at a three percent annual rate.
Stock market futures look very good this morning. S and
P futures OR up forty seven, Nasdaq futures OR up
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three hundred and twenty now futures or up one hundred ninety.
Looks like the texts are going to lead an early.
Speaker 1 (01:35:08):
Rally on Wall Street.
Speaker 11 (01:35:09):
After Micron Technology posted very excellent second quarter results, there's
mixed news in the latest home affordability report from ADAM.
Single family homes and condos remained less affordable than their
historical averages over the summer, but third quarter affordability was
up slightly from the second quarter. ADAM says the home
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price spike eased and mortgage rates ticked down.
Speaker 1 (01:35:33):
And this is probably a case not news.
Speaker 11 (01:35:36):
For anyone who works in the restaurant industry, but Americans
have become less generous when it comes to tipping. Pop
Menu says the number of diners who tip at least
twenty percent is declining, and there's been an increase in
the number of customers who tip less than ten percent.
This trend reflecting tighter household budgets and general tipping fatigue.
Speaker 1 (01:35:56):
Casey, they did it to themselves. Do you know there's
a gas station where you don't even interact with people.
You type in your food orders. I don't know if
you have I guess wah wah up around you or whatnot? Yes,
we do and they have a tip shark. Yes, you
don't see anybody. I don't even know the I don't
know there's people back there. I know the food comes out,
but I don't know. And so where's that money go? Yeah,
it's fatigue? All right? All right, thank you, Jeff, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:36:17):
Okay, have a good day.
Speaker 1 (01:36:18):
Yeah, all right. I hate it when I do this.
I have seen this story is gonna be great. We're
gonna get into this tomorrow. But I'll tell you what
it is. I I saw the headline this morning and
I emailed it myself, and I just got distracted with
the show today. So check this out. Rossetts and Carrie
roam where the spray paint gangs and the rabbit fox
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room and so anyway, so there's a lot of intricate
detail here, which I'll get into tomorrow. But the gist
is this, how many of you have ever lived in
a home that has a walking path through it and
as a result, has an easement or just have an easement? Right?
I know a lot about I know a lot a
lot about eastments because it's a big deal from an
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agricultural perspective. You know, Montana doesn't have them. Did you know,
in the middle of Glacier National Park, a federal park,
there are parcels of private land that the owners can
they can access but only on foot because they just
went no, eas we're gonna We're gonna put a national
park around you. That's a fun fact. You should look
that up. So anyway, so this guy's got a house
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and it's got a walking path, as so many communities do,
especially in and around Kerry. Probably walk anywhere from anywhere
between Kerry and Morrisville all you wanted, and uh it
happens to go along a sewer easement that is his
property line, which is not unusual. There is a complexity
here because there's an h o A. But we'll get
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into more of that tomorrow. But here's what's amazing. So
I've lived I've lived in a house that was literally
on a walking path. It's a thing you gotta deal with,
right Or if you if you have a beach house
and there happens to be public access, that's that's just
how it works. Ross, does your timeshare have public access
next to it? Or do not let the pores?
Speaker 5 (01:38:06):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:38:07):
Okay, good, yeah, right, there's no Ross isn't dealing with
the porest, but some of you have to.
Speaker 3 (01:38:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:38:13):
And so anyway, this dude literally got a jackhammer and
chiseled up the walking path and put like cinder blockades
across it. And as you can imagine, the neighbors in
the h o wa to set not as much as
the city because again I get into it. Why it's
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on the plat. They have the copy of the plat here.
It clearly shows the easeman. How do you live there?
One day? And just you know, oh, those morning joggers
come through here every day. I'll show them. You have
to go get a jackhammer. Most people I don't have.
I would have to borrow or rent a jackammer, which
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you can do