Tuesday-3-17-2026

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jilly temperatures this morning, Uh to deal with and more
to come. Race Agic will update us as he normally does,
coming up a little later, a little later in the
the show. There, hold on, here we go. Sorry, I
just saw this, saw a very important article. Was just
getting that roll in this morning. If it will load

(00:22):
and there it goes. Okay, all right, all is right
with the world?

Speaker 2 (00:28):
All right?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Coming up on the show. Yeah, an update on the
Capitol Hill pipe bomber. I was just saying the other day, like,
isn't it weird? We had not heard anything about this dude,
like you would you would think people planet bombs and
our nations are a person who planted bombs in our
nation's capital in a very bipartisan manner, I guess, although

(00:50):
I don't know from well, you know, I don't remember
reading about the functionality of the bombs per.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Se, but.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Would be in the New o right, considering the amount
of coverage that the Jay sixers received, some for merely
walking through an open door that police were standing next to,
playing Bejeweled as they did so. But no, we really
hadn't heard anything, and now we've heard something, And basically

(01:19):
it's his lawyers trying to weasel out of the charges.
So we will get into that. Apparently there's an olive
garden controversy, and it's the dumbest thing I've ever heard,
But you know how we roll on this show. If
it's olive garden, it's in the news, we have to
talk about it to protect this national treasure, international treasure.

(01:41):
Excuse me, should probably get the language correct if we're going.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
To discuss it.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
The Burder Page back and forth is heating up as
most people assumed it would. Phil Berder not going to
go quietly. I figured this is where we would start. Now,
now we're into the arguments that there was ballot shenanigans.

(02:08):
To what extent I don't know, but I will say
that some lawyer is gonna make a lot of money.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Some lawyers are.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Going to get themselves a new beach house down at
figure eight or something. If if Burger is able to
throw everything he's got left and whatever Sam Page has
been able to round up. But it's it's I don't
think anyone's just gonna dip out so and and you
know it'll be one of the craziest political stories or

(02:37):
political upsets. I think that has happened in my time
here in North Carolina politics. I'm trying to I'm trying
to think of a bigger upset. I mean, you're the
and I've said, I've said this on the show, and
I will say it again, the Senate majority leader in
the House speaker in North Carolina because of the setup

(03:00):
right with either a proper veto override or a damn
near veto override. For much of the last ten years,
it almost didn't matter who the governor was. They were
arguably the most powerful people in the state of North
Carolina basically could do whatever, you know, whatever they wanted
to structure and get out through there. It's just the

(03:22):
it's the current geography of it. So for one of
those two people to find himself in a position where
he might be out on his patard is pretty wild stuff.
And I haven't even seen the speculation. If Phil Berger
is not in there, It's not like Sam Paige Sheriff
Page just becomes SENTI majority of leader. That's not how

(03:43):
it works. I am curious who it's going to be
and if that person will actually grow a set of
stones and get constitutional carry passed by reining in two
of their idiot members, which is really what's standing between
you and the proper ability to exercise your second Amendment,

(04:04):
which is supposedly supposed to be a hallmark of Republican thinking.
So I think it's important, and I'm just going to
implement this because everyone's kind of waiting to see what
happens with Page. Hey, because it's not like a Democrat
is going to win in that district. It's just not that,
you know, it's a pretty safe our district. So and

(04:24):
unless I don't know, they find out Sam Page has
a bunch of bodies in his freezer, and if he's
able to overcome any challenges with Berger, he'll likely be
the next state senator from there. So what you need
to be thinking about if you think that constitutional carry
is important, and I know a lot of you do,
is that whoever the person is, who they want to

(04:44):
make Senate majority leader, and you do have I guess
a little influence over that in the sense that you
can hammer your own senator. That person needs to actually
not be Phil Berger, ignoring the fact that he's got
you know, the Democrats can always rain in all their crazies,
the fact that you can't rain this in, and frankly,

(05:06):
those two idiots should be out on their their petards
too that we're holding back on this and any others
that are. But you need to make this a priority.
And whoever is going to be sent a majority leaver,
if in fact leader, if in fact Phil Berger's out,
this needs to be something that they on the record
commit to doing. It needs to be a priority. And

(05:28):
you and and the way that the way that you
do it is the way that the Democrats do it.
All right, If a couple of you want to be
a holes and you don't care about Republican principles, then
you're not getting a bill through, You're not getting any
of the stuff that you want. You're gonna you're gonna
be persona non grata. You can be over there screaming,
screaming into the void, or or you can do what

(05:53):
is within the platform of what you said you were.
Those are your choices, and so I think it's really important.
And once we start getting some names out there, if
in fact that transition happens, that you go to work,
because they'll do it so quick that you won't have
a chance to weigh in. In fact, if you if
you happen to run in, whoever you're your Senate representative is,

(06:17):
or you know, you know who your senator is and
they're Republican, you should probably call them now and just
be like, hey, if this Phil Berger thing work, you
guys gonna have to pick a new leader. That person
has to commit to doing the constitutional carry thing, because
it's not a problem over on the this on the
other side, right, they have the votes.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
So just something I.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Was mulling over as I was reading this back and
forth article entitled wrong Ballot Burger Page spar over allegations
of election mistakes ahead a possible recount. So like Burger's
camp is saying that there were some people that were
that were giving given ballots that didn't include I guess

(07:01):
their race, which is strange to me. I mean, I
know that there's overlap, but clearly in what ballots people get.
And the district includes parts of Guildford County, but not
all of Guildford County. So but you know, as far
as what that number mean, because we're dealing with twenty
three votes, they're gonna throw everything at the wall, everything

(07:22):
at the wall. And of course Page's camp is, you know,
asked for recusals from the state auditor since you know
the power that he has. Now is it pertains to elections?
And they have they've been reaching, they've been they were
texting people about possible outreach from the Burger campaign.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Effect. Let me read this.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Phil Burger's campaign is asking voters to claim they receive
the wrong ballot in an effort to challenge his election defeat.
If anyone from the Burger campaign is pressuring you to
sign something that isn't true, Lee's reply to this message,
submitting a false affidavit.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
Is a felony.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
So yeah, this thing is getting ugly off off the jump.
The Burger campaign says that page has it backwards. This
is Burger spokesman was is that Jonathan Oh, Jonathan felts Okay,
the highest ranking law enforcement official in one of the
counties in the race is threatening voters in an effort
to stop them from coming forward. Which I'm I'm look,

(08:21):
I don't care if you guys fight and work it out.
Stop acting like that whiny democrats. I'm just sick of it.
I'm just sick of it. The highest ranking law enforcement
officers threat He's not threatening voters. I just read the thing.
You may not like it, but arguably if it was
a national race, that might be worded much more problematically.

(08:42):
But it's pretty straightforward. If you don't sign something.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
That isn't true.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
I would also give you that advice in most things
in life, right, be truthful.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
It's going to be helpful.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
According to felt someone had reached out to the Burger
campaign with concerns about their ballot, prompting Burger's people to look,
and you know what, here's the thing, And this isn't
a beef with Feltz or any of that.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
I don't know that.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
I believe that, not.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
In a pure innocent way, but anymore so, we got
to figure out a way to go ahead and get
around this.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
And then but I.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Don't know who knows.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
He said the campaign had found at least one Guildford
County residence who thinks he may have received the wrong
ballot and wasn't able to vote in the Senate race
despite living in the district.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
I have a question.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
So let's say, let's say you find fifty voters, which
would be you know, basically double what is needed to have.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Will does the.

Speaker 1 (09:42):
Burger campaign believe they're all going to go for him?
And here's the other thing. This is the bigger question.
Let's say somebody did reach out to the Burger campaign
because they got that text. But if they intend to
vote for Sam Page, are they going to make the
final lists? Should this thing, you know, be a present
of here's thirty voters or fifty voters who didn't receive

(10:04):
a ballot. In the same way that Democrats when they
do vallid harvest ballot harvesting in California, they skip entire neighborhoods, right,
they want to, they want to make sure every votes counted,
but they only do ballot harvesting, and the deepest of
blue places never overrun the Republicans.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
You know. They don't go to parts of the valley.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
They don't go out to a couple of the beach
communities like Huntington Beach which have.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
A lot more Republicans. No, no, no, no, they do this
right in the middle of it.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
So just I'm just saying political shenanigans are getting ready,
well I should say getting ready to ensue, have already ensued,
and it's going to be very very irritating, uh to
watch this play out, But that's politics, right. The Guildford
Elections Board hasn't received any formal complaints from any voters

(10:54):
in the district. Oh okay, well that's interesting. So somebody
thinks they were disenfranchised, and rather than contenting the people
who literally are in charge of this, they just decided
to contact the campaign. Huh yeah, okay, all right, anyway,
six seventeen, we'll be back.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
I'm just sitting here.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
So, by the way, if nothing else convinces you that
elon Omar may have married her brother, it's Trump yesterday
once again, was sitting you know, he was just rambling on,
taking questions there. He talked about a bunch of stuff,
revealed some congressman's really horrible health diagnosis, just shooting at

(11:36):
the hip yesterday, and once again he said, somebody, I
have the quoting in front of me. He said something
along the lines of the Smalley's came here and they
stole nineteen billion dollars, and elon Omar married her brother
or may have married her brother. Again, here's the most
damning part of this. That's like the tenth time I've

(11:57):
heard him say that, And and he probably said it
a lot when he was doing rallies, and I just
never noticed.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
I'm sure he digs.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
I remember he did talk about it at one of
the rallies where I did notice, and if it was
a regular thing, probably got said fifty times.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Why is there no lawsuit? Why is there no lawsuit?

Speaker 1 (12:20):
If somebody, if the President of the United States told
reporters repeatedly that you did this thing, that is a
horrible thing, not just from a from you know on
two different fronts.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
One it's immigration fraud.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
And I told you, I told you I have a
lot of background knowledge on many of the problems that
were facing Somali community up Minneapolis, because I broadcast in
Minneapolis for a decade and we saw it. We saw
the recruiting moss. We saw young Somalis who had never
lived in Somalia in some cases whose parents came here,

(12:56):
they were born here and were or tricked or convinced
to go fight for al Shabab in Africa and they
got killed. You had these rogue boss and nobody wanted
to do anything, and you had all this immigration fraud
where people would present as stable families, right husband, wife,
one or two kids, they would get priority. They'd come

(13:17):
to Minneapolis and all the documents were fake, and they
would have abandon the kids because the kids were orphans
or whatever they rounded up or in some cases kidnap kids,
and then they get here and they would you know,
either they weren't they were a husband and wife, or
they didn't have kids and then the kids were signing
R or just everybody'd go their own way. It was

(13:37):
whole scale immigration fraud. But also it's the part where
if you marry your brother, Banjo's come out.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
You know what I'm saying. People look down on that.
And yet she's never filed a lawsuit, never never threatened to.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
File a lawsuit that I even know of, because she
knows you file a lawsuit. We're doing discovery. We might
even compel a judge to do a little blood test
because you're you want to charge it. It's not true.
It's it's it's honestly, and I'm sorry to me. It's
probably the most damning piece of evidence in this whole thing.

(14:15):
And I think the guys from power Line blog and
the ones up in Minneapolis who really dug into this initially,
who I think do a pretty good job. I think
it's even more convincing than what they found, which is
pretty convincing stuff. So yeah, I just just a thought
that crossed my mind as I'm sitting there looking at it.

(14:35):
She's never filed a lawsuit because she knows if she does,
it's not gonna go well. And why has there been
no legal action against it. That's a fair question too. Honestly,
she should be denaturalized if she committed immigration fraud, and

(14:56):
she can go back to the country she.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Loves so much.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
That's right, and will soapbox talk. Those of you listen
to the show for a while, we're gonna know this.
It's the only one of the holidays where you can
get ridiculously insulting graphics for when the local weather person
is being like, here's the ten day forecast. You know,
around Christmas they have like little graphics where you see

(15:20):
like Santa and the Reindeer going over the top of
the ten day forecast or whatever the week forecast. And
for Easter they might have bunnies, although usually not because
you know, God forbids you you celebrate openly a religious holiday.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
But for Saint Patrick's.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
Day, for Saint Patrick's Day is perfectly okay to sit
there and put some obviously intoxicated, stereotypical leprechaun falling all
over himself right there on the weather forecast.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah, that's right. We Irish are so oppressed. We're the
only ones. You can do it too.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
You would never on Cinco de Mayo have some like
drunk Mexican in a sombrero taking a siesta. People would
come and they'd burn your damn thing down right, Sure,
as Helen gonna put something up for ramed on you cowards.
So what do we get? We get this so you know,
Happy Saint Patrick's Day, as we do, the most racist

(16:18):
local news weather day.

Speaker 4 (16:19):
Of the year.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
We celebrate around these parts.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
Though.

Speaker 5 (16:28):
Oh meet me down there, put dream day away. Forget
your nacinality because you're Iris today. When you get there,
you'll annoy it's me. I'll be holding Michelle Alias so green,
your stupid paper hot you wouldn't want to forget about.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
It's letrick cons.

Speaker 5 (16:46):
And pots of gold, another stereo tight you know for
tomorrow morning. Here's a trick. You'll be hungover Collin second,
I like an Irish lady.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
What kin will do?

Speaker 5 (17:06):
You might be alady and but I still hit on you.
You might turn me down, but either way, lassie, Happy
Sain Patrick's Dame.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
And as you know, my name is Odey, so I
can say my version of the N word paddy wagon
and things like that, but don't you dare, don't you dare?

Speaker 2 (17:25):
And you know, the person who's most.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Insulting to the holiday apparently the President of Ireland, who's
an absolute loon, who decided to kick it off this way.

Speaker 6 (17:33):
The story of Patrick's life serves as a reminder of the.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Resilience patrick Saint Patrick.

Speaker 6 (17:40):
The story of Patrick's life serves as a reminder of
the resilience and courage of migrants, the invaluable contributions that
they have made and continue to make to the countries
they now call home, sometimes even in the face of
great adversity. Patrick's story speaks not only to the Ireland

(18:02):
of the fifth century, but to the millions still subjected
to trafficking, forced labor, and displacement today. As we recall
the life of Patrick, to invoke his spirit and acknowledge
our shared responsibilities as global citizens, we stand in solidarity
with those who find themselves in vulnerable and dangerous circumstances.

(18:27):
Patrick's story invites us to respond with hospitality and kindness
to those suffering the consequences of war and displacement, those
fleeing their countries because of persecution.

Speaker 4 (18:41):
Are violence?

Speaker 3 (18:42):
All right?

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Shut up now, and I know what you're saying, like
cac come on, that's the president of Ireland.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
She's clearly more Irish than you. No, because I liked Ireland.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
That's that. This woman hates Ireland. She's not even wearing green.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
They she should, they should pinch her. Tell she you know,
cries uncle man.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
She's the rules. She's wearing black like she's in mourning.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
She is, she's in mourning because she has to get
up there and say something nice about a saint, you know,
but without saying saint.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
That's the other thing. Forget just the whole Oh.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
He was an immigrant. Jesus was an immigrant, right, it's
the same thing. No, no, no, no, Also, I don't
know ross. Did you know this that said that religion
in Ireland was kind of a big.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
Thing for a while. I have heard that. Yeah, yeah,
but also not just one, but two. He wasn't a migrant.
He was an Englishman who was kidnapped by Irish pirates
and sold. He was trafficked.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
He would a migrant migrant?

Speaker 3 (19:33):
No, he wasn't. He migrated. She should know the two islands,
shouldn't she know this?

Speaker 2 (19:39):
How do I know. How do I know this?

Speaker 1 (19:41):
And she doesn't know this because we're more Irish than
she is. Because again, we liked Ireland. I told you
one of the biggest tragedies is I wanted. I've been
to Ireland a couple of times. I really wanted to
go back again. I don't think I will. It was
so such a great place to visit. It's been like
it's been almost twenty years. And everything I see on

(20:02):
the news tells me because the parts that I like
are the parts that I always see on fire, not
just in Dublin. Dublin's because Dublin is you know, it's
a big city. There's a lot of diversity there because
I know you guys love that word. But when you
get out to the Irish countryside, you get the Ring
of Carrie, and I know many of you have probably
done the whole Ring of Kerry Loop. You go to Kinsale,

(20:23):
you go to kill Kenny, even you go over to Galway,
which is kind of its own unique thing.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Or you go to like I said, to Kinsale down
on the.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
South coast there, which is a really beautiful little town,
great place to visit. It's I'm sure it's cooked I
saw Consale for sure as cooked because they put up
like a big dormitory thing there and there's a lot
of scuffling going on with the people who live there,
and it's a big tourist thing. You get down to Cork,
it's a whole unique thing. It's a very forward city

(20:51):
because Ireland. You know, it's not just woolen sweaters, but
they produce a lot of pharmaceuticals and stuff there. It's
a very interesting that takes you back in time the
moment you get five minutes out of town, the little
narrow roads, the green of all of it, and I
feel like this woman doesn't appreciate any of it. And

(21:13):
you're right, Ross doesn't even know the reason for the season.
And that's the Irish President. It's embarrassed by the way
where she's giving that speech. If you go and you
tour Dublin is it's a very famous park there in
in in Dublin where Pope John Paul came and it's

(21:34):
one of it was one of the proudest things of
the people who were giving the tour of that area
when I went down there about what happened when Pope
John Paul back in the day.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Came here like it was.

Speaker 7 (21:48):
It was.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
It was like guam right, everyone moved over there, and
you think the island was gonna tip over, judging from
the pictures. But you know it's not because you're not
an idiot congressman from Georgia with syphilis or whatever he
had that made his brain go all loopy. Why do
I know this? Why does rossnow that? Do you think

(22:11):
that that's something that they're proud of anymore? She won't
even say the word saint. Won't even say the word saint.
It's okay, the Northern Irish. You're not going to come
after you. The troubles are a thing of the past.
Are you trying to get him going again in your
own little way? Looks like you kind of are.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
I'm going to make up for her today. I'm going
to watch The Departed like seven times yes with the
Cranberries on loop.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Well, the best song from The Departed is the damn
theme for this show. That's right, right, But they're all
buzzing along on the highway man.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Why why we do what we do?

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Look at the commitment of this show American Irish punk.
We open the show with it every day. Do you
know how many of our older listeners. We've horrified with
that over the years because like once a month they
get an email. Hi, it's Gladys. What's that Irish jig
you have that opens the show? And then I dutifully
sing Gladys link. The problem is if you listen to

(23:12):
that song, once they start singing, they're screaming and.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
It's completely changed her. Did you see her tats?

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Oh yeah, Gladys is all waked up man. Yeah, yeah,
the blood, the she's got the uh uh what am
I thinking?

Speaker 2 (23:25):
What's do? What is you put under your eye?

Speaker 6 (23:27):
There?

Speaker 2 (23:27):
The little thing says you murdered some people. Little tear drop.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
She got like six of those. Oh no, Ross, I
was just look at this, Look at her. Look at
Gladys's sleeve tattoo. It's a Nazi SS symbol. Oh man,
you think she would have known unlike Graham plantn are
up there in Maine. Yeah, that's It's a whole vibe, man,
the whole vibe. And yeah, I know that they're the
lead singers of Moving Back.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
I don't care.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
I don't care. The song's good.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
But if you like it and you don't like screamy
punk music, I would encourage you not just to hear
it on the show and just let it be.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
All right.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
I'm gonna crack a Guinness I wish I had, so
I don't have any Guinness, but we're gonna push back today.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
I have to go get some guinness.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
We're gonna push back today on this Irish president because
that is that's just embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
That's just embarrassing. Six forty five.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Hang on, as I'm literally doing the business report, but
you know, Denise Pellegreni's reading the report there, Ross sends
me this text and he in my ear you can
hear him laugh. He's so excited, so excited, and I
started I had to like get away from the mic
because I was gonna laugh and I don't want to
screwed Denise up. So now I'm gonna do this story again,
even though we did it with like thirty seconds to

(24:41):
go in the show, because if you listened early, you
wouldn't have heard it.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
And we have Trump's reaction.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
So and that is.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
The Trump was briefed, reportedly brief that I RAN's new
Supreme leader Kamini is super gay. Probably probably gay, is
what they said. And you know here on this show
we have this running thing that we've noted, this pattern
we've noticed and it's almost undefeated, and that is whenever
you're dealing with you know, some terrorist battye right, some

(25:18):
bad guy, some guy who goes and decides going to
drive a U haul through a Christmas celebration and niece
because they did it to that dude too, Or the
club down in Florida, the club attack there where fifty
people were attacked, and so many others. And now with

(25:40):
the Supreme Leader over there, there's always this retroactive although
I guess they're a little ahead of themselves here, there's
this retroactive story that comes out and it's like, so
we were looking at some communications, we were checking his
Internet history and it's all gay porn and you know,
and it's like the theory, our theory is that it's

(26:01):
some like CIA psyop that puts other terrorists or would
be terrorists un Notice that if you do this and
you blow yourself up while you're up there checking out paradise,
we're gonna be down here telling everyone you're super gay.
So keep that in mind if that's important to you,
Which is ironic because the amount of stories that I

(26:22):
have been told or read by people who served in Afghanistan.
A lot of most of it's Afghanistan, usually about like kids.
There's a story of where they were. They had like
young boys that were chained to beds and stuff. And
actually somebody got in trouble because I think they went
after one of the Afghan soldiers who was doing it.

(26:44):
It was in afghan you know, it was tactically, I
guess a pro American soldier. But yeah, I created some
and then some of the other stories that I can't
even repeat on air that I've been told that I
believe kind of falls in that category. But I I,
you know, whatever cultural thing, I guess it doesn't count.
So we then run these stories. We're like, yeah, yeah,

(27:05):
that person, oh yeah, yeah, super gay, and it just
keeps happentence.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
So here we go again.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Trump put he literally laughed out loud when he was
briefed on the intel according to sources. Others in the
room are said to have found it hilarious and joining
the President's reaction when one senior intelligence intelligence official has
not stopped laughing about it for days.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Let's see.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
The shocking claim was described to The Washington Post by
two intelligence community officials, and a third person close to
the White House. All three sources say the implausible sounding
allegation is viewed as credible by US spy agencies, so
they're backing it up rather than false information intended to
undermine the fifty six year old who we do have

(27:54):
a little bit of an update on.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
I'll get to that here in just a moment.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Uh groth, did you see this guy's nick what his
actual nickname is, not that we gave him, this is
this is literally his nickname within the IRGC.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
It's what they've called him, the power.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Behind the robes. Well, yeah, that's just that that's an
unfortunate nick dame considering the news.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
Here, it's an observation that we had that started off
as a joke, and now I'm just convinced it's actually
like we predicted that.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
We we called that from the beginning.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
We're probably gonna get a visit from the CIA.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
You guys know too much. Sorry, bang my drink against
the microphone, that's stumb Yeah, well, I mean it's an
obvious pattern that they've been doing for a long time.
You know, the terrorists yelled a lah acbar By the way,
he's super gay. You know what I mean, What's happened
forever now every time I just wait for it. Now
we have some terrorists that I'm like, all right, give
it a few. Oh, there it is, and according to

(28:59):
intelligence of Fish, a lot of it's based on a
long term sexual relationship he reportedly had with his childhood tutor,
who's a guy um who formerly worked for the Kameni family.
And now here's the update on this guy.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
Because we do have an update.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Knew Iran Supreme leader mosh Taba Comini cheated death by seconds.
Gruesome leaked audio claims, all right, obviously I could play
it for you because it's not an English but Iran's
new supreme leaders survived the Israeli strike that killed his
father because he stepped outside the compound for a walk

(29:43):
in the garden. Ross, What do you think he was
doing in the garden. Wouldn't that be wouldn't that be
a thing? Maybe he was going out to meet his
tutor for a you know, a quickie there saved his life.
Leaked audio from the meeting on February twenty eighth strike
of Kamenie's compound revealed it his son was with his
father in Tehran when he stepped out to quote do something.

(30:07):
The audio also revealed gruesome details about the strike, with
Iran's military chief blown to bits so that all that
was left to identify him was two kilos of flesh.
I Toola Kamani's son in law was also found with
his head split in two from the blow.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
There's a lot of gruesome stuff in here. Maybe I
shouldn't reading all.

Speaker 6 (30:26):
Of it.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
God, And this is what the audio essentially translated to
God's will, was that Moshtaba had to go out to
the yard to do something and then return. Now, it
doesn't deny, it doesn't deny that he's injured, although they
downplay it, saying that he suffered minor injury to his leg.
I would point out that we still haven't seen this dude,

(30:49):
So I don't know that I believe that. But then
also it calls into question if they're saying that over
the radio. Are they saying it because they think the
Americans are listening? And then is everything else truthful?

Speaker 2 (30:58):
So I don't know, But any who, that is the
That is the update. Boy oh boy, And it has
to do with a Team USA Baseball. Team USA baseball.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Who's a bunch of people, a bunch of the other
world teams are mad at because of a blown They
say it was a blown call of a pitch against
Dominican Republic. I'm sorry, runners on first and third, two outs,
full count or I guess it was two and two.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Excuse me?

Speaker 1 (31:33):
You swing the bat there, buddy got to swing the bat.
But whatever, that's not the controversy. So each of the teams,
this is not uncommon, each of the teams, before each
of the games they're playing as part of the World
Baseball thing, they have like, you know, they want to
get in the right mindset, right. You want to get
the players all, you know, ginned up, ready to go,

(31:55):
ready to roll, like every sports movie has that, you know,
win one for the gipper kind of speech. Sometimes sometimes
there's other things. All the teams do stuff a little different.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
Do the Bill do they?

Speaker 1 (32:07):
I know the Minnesota Vikings have kind of a unique
circle thing that they do. Boy, that doesn't sound good.
It's not that it's something else. I'm sure the Bills
have their own thing.

Speaker 5 (32:17):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
The Patriots go out and they to play footballs, right,
Everyone gets ready in a in a in a different way.
So because it's the World Baseball there has been some
focus on it. Like the the Dominican team does dancing.
They do like salsa or actually there's a what is
it called there's it's it's so unique thing and it's
basically salsa.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Uh, but in the d R it's called something else,
and so they like get pumped up on that.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (32:43):
What was.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Trying to think that Japan had something? I remember was
in the news. Uh, the team Italy ross dejected. You
know what team Italy does?

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Guess, go ahead, and guests guess, guess, guess, guess, because
it's it's super Italian.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
Super.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
No, they don't just kiss you and then put take
in a boat fishing. They they drink expresso. They have
serious they have an express they have like a super
expensive expresso machine. They drink an expresso man whatever, All right, hey,
whatever gets it going. But what Team USA does is
they have different They've had different people come in and

(33:18):
and speak kind of like motivational speakers, right, and some
of them are sports people like in other sports, and
some they had a couple of old school baseball players.
I'm trying to remember who it was. Was it George
Brett Well, it doesn't matter. So they come in and
the so they had a speaker. Before that, we played Canada,

(33:39):
which we crush. By the way, I just want to
point that out. And by the way, I don't know
if you know this, because it just happened. We swept Canada.
Really we won in the baseball, but we swept them
in all of the hockey. Now, because remember the men's
and women's team won in the Olympics. The Paralympic team
just Canada. I think at this point they have to

(34:03):
like gift us their moose or something I don't know,
like to get but you lost all the hockeys and
Paralympics is they don't have men's and women's. It's open,
so there's just one Paralympic team. So it's not like
they can come back with the women or something like that.
Now they're cooked for their cook This year, we owned
them harder than anyone's ever owned them since the British Empire,

(34:26):
so that feels good. But ahead of the Canadian game,
they brought in Robert O'Neill, and that has irritated some people.
Robert O'Neil, of course, is the Navy seal who was
part of the Osama bin Laden raid. He said to
be the person who actually shot Bin Laden And I look,

(34:49):
I know that some people online for whatever reason, don't
like him, but that's not the point of it. He
was brought in to simply tell the story, and he did,
and he tells it in a very animated because there's
video in a very animated fashion. He's very detailed, and
that just set people off. Man, how dare you? How

(35:10):
do look at some of these comments? Not a fan
of this thing where international sporting events are more and
more being seen as like a manifest destiny opportunity for
Team USA to assert their cultural dominance over foreigners.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
Well, one, that is kind of our thing.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
The whole where manifest destiny, right, that's kind of builting
the system. But they're talking not about foreigners per se.
They're talking about terrorist. He's talking about terrorists. And by
the way, in the video you see the team they're
locked onto this, right. If you if you went into

(35:49):
a room and Robert O'Neil's there and he's gonna tell you,
no holds barred, what happened on you know during that raid,
which there's a lot going on, right, The whole helicopter.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
They got to blow that thing up.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
They're in a Pakistan that's problematic already, and then there's
everything that went on with it. Right, I'm gonna listen.
I'm gonna listen in the same way that you get
some old timers telling you about D Day.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
You're glued to it if you have any respect.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
So, yeah, they're super mad that Robert O'Neil went in
there and told them about the thing, you know, which
I don't know man seemed to work considering the score
against Canada. Some of these other comments. American culture and
identity is war and violence.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
It's not joy.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
You know what American culture is. It's one word, one word,
and we don't always achieve it, but we strive for
it man at least except for maybe some suits in government.
Sometimes winning winning, that's what it's about. America is about winning.
Undefeated in World Wars, boom, winning the space race, going

(37:03):
to the Moon, even though we were you know, we
were down three runs in the ninth for a while there,
and we're like, screw it, going to the moon. Uh Ross,
Would you tell me how many other countries have sent
people to the moon. Would you have to ask Rock
to look that up, so I know the exact number.
I ross going to check on that. Does you have
any other countries?

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Zero on the moon? Zero?

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Oh oh, that's unfortunate.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
Oh man.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
So anyway, Yeah, the whole thing's about winning to a
bunch of players who are being asked to go out
and spend the next few hours winning. I oh man,
it's just And most of these comments I'm sure are
not from actual Americans or from people who want to
be Americans because they hate their own country.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
America war culture is so strange.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Dominican team out there dancing and blasting music, and the
US brought in the guy whose Shadowsama bin Laden fifteen
years ago to give a speech.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
And by the way, do I remember.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
From a right left perspective where this was a win
for the left because it was your guy. It was
Barack Obama who got to go and say we have
killed Osama bin Alatta. And while he didn't used I
like a dog and some of the stuff that Trump uses.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
It was a good day.

Speaker 5 (38:24):
Man.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
Uh yeah, I remember that night when he walked down
right the the dog.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Walked out from the Yellow Room on the carpet there.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Yeah. Yeah, And the big thing online at the time
was like, well he won a second term, yes because.

Speaker 1 (38:37):
He and you know what, and I remember we did
the show and there were people who had a problem
with believing it because of what they did with the body.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
But you never heard from that dude again, did you
no more videos, no more nothing. And then it was
acknowledged by other terrorist groups. So you know, whether it
happened exactly as O'Neil says, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
It happened, and you know, and and I was happy
for it. I was glad for it, man. And it
was a Democrat victory. Lap Look, we got this guy finally,
even though the investigation and all the stuff that led
up to it work through two presidents. He was you know,

(39:18):
he took credit for it because he was the commander
in chief. He ultimately was the one who had to
say go and and was entering another foreign country. I
have I don't quibble with Barack Obama over this thing.
And now it's like, oh, you know it's and it's
because we have this we have this change, man, So
everybody's got to run over to the other side. So

(39:40):
if Robert, if they want to have Robert O'Neill come
in there, and talk to him.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
That's fine.

Speaker 1 (39:47):
The other thing is, too, I've gotten to interact with
a lot of Minnesota Twins players because of just the
nature of my work when I was in Minnesota and
some of the events that we did. There was a
lot of fundraisers where you had the media people and
you had these retired Twins grades and then of course
you had you know, kat Herbeck and others who were

(40:08):
like TV hosts after they were out there a lot
of and I'm gonna tell you something, and I'm not
gonna name all the names, I would say seventy five percent.
Kirby Puckett is included in this.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
He's dead.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
So I'll tell you seventy five percent of the baseball
players that I interacted with probably vote for trump Man.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
And I'm talking.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
Dozens and dozens and dozens of Twins players that I've
that I've gotten. I've been fortunate enough to actually be
able to have not interview conversations. But like where you're
out of the way, there's multiple fishing events because they
just love fishing up there. So I don't know the
makeup of everyone in that room, but they're probably responding
well to what he's laying down.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
So yeah, you know, cry more tears. Who cares? We
won w on the scoreboard.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
That's what matters a bunch of whiney babies. And I
hope we win the whole thing. Don't know if we
will a lot of tough teams out there, considering the
amount of baseball player, especially you know, coming from Japan
and coming from a lot of the Latin American countries,
and that's great. Whatever they got to do to get
them all fired up, do your thing. I'm not going

(41:21):
to criticize it, but I want my team to win,
and if we can find a way to somehow be
Canada again, that'd be great. Is the Italian team? Is
the Italian teams banquet catered by Olive Garden? I don't
know that's a good question. I would assume it would
have to be right. You know that there's an olive
Garden controversy, right, that's right. You might want to get

(41:45):
in on the class action lawsuit. So I saw this
story yesterday. I didn't get to it, but we're going
to talk about it. Let's just talk about it right now.
What the heck, we'll run it up to the drop
dead here, So you know, how sometimes you come across
people who really need a hobby or subdate or anything
in their life because they've just latched onto the dumbest

(42:07):
thing possible. Let me introduce you to this lunatic from
New Jersey. What is this woman's name or she called?
What does she call herself?

Speaker 4 (42:14):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (42:14):
No, here we go.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
Her name is Summer Pepitone. Pepitone an interesting last name. Anyway,
she's she goes to the Olive Garden and she now
feels that Olive Garden has been scamming her.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
I'll let her lay it out.

Speaker 7 (42:30):
Time. I thought Olive Garden was using parmesan cheese, and
I would always ask for so much too. I started
grading my own parmesan cheese and I was like, that's
not Olive Garden cheese. So if this is an Olive
Garden cheese, what is Olive Garden cheese?

Speaker 1 (42:48):
That's right, it's the big cheese conspiracy says. This woman
is under the impression that when you go to Olive
Garden and that moment of truth arrives and we all
know it right where the we and you, by the way,
you can buy the grater they use at Olive Garden.
You know you can buy the dress. You can buy
the greater right, the white one where they spin it
around and they hover it over your salad or your

(43:09):
soup or whatever it is, and they go say when,
And then you sit there for like a minute, right
because you're a cheese whore, and you're just like, yes,
they never said it was parmesan cheese, because it's not.
It's romano and it's fine.

Speaker 3 (43:26):
Ross.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
Do you feel cheated? Is it Olive Garden of ficionado?
They've scamming you.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
I don't understand these people, Like you know, I've been
there a bunch and I also will partake in a
lot of like a mountain of cheese. Yes, but it's
what you do. I've never been like what kind of
cheese is this? Or what kind of tomatoes are you
using in the sauce or what kind of where does
this meat come from? I'm like, this is delicious and

(43:54):
I want to put it down my face. Holey, she
needs this, woman needs children or a hole or.

Speaker 2 (44:00):
Something else to do.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
Like how does it get to the point where you're
going up the corporate ladder of Olive Garden or complaining
because of over the cheese and have you?

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Which I'm sure she's got she looks like she's gobbled
a bunch of it. By the way, I'm just saying, like,
clearly she's a cheese. She talks about how she goes
there and gets the cheese, so and she keeps going back.
So it's literally not a problem.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
But it's clearly not. I've never thought about it. But
that's not great.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Yeah, when you buy it.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
In the like the when you buy the one parmesan
that's in like the little tub, the little butter tub
to see through, you feel how hard it is because
that's parmesan. The other one's romano, which is a fine cheese,
which has a more delicate flavor. You know, Olive Garden.
I saw a breakdown of this Olive Garden. They do
a few things to their salad, which is why have

(44:50):
you ever you ever stopped to think why the olive
garden salad is so good?

Speaker 3 (44:55):
Because it's not. It's not like it's.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
Crazy ingredients in there, but it's a really good salad
as far as fast casual salads go. It's always I've
have you ever seen brown lettuce in your in your
salad at olive Guarden? It always feels so fresh man
and The reason is because Olive Garden does a couple
They do two or three things to their salad, which
are which you can do.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
At home, by the way, which they learned in Tuscany.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Yes, yes, yeah, I've straight out of Tuscany.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
Absolutely.

Speaker 8 (45:22):
So.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
One is they ice, bath, salt their salad, their lettuce.
And if you've never done this, if you go get
let's say, you get the bag of lettuce, chopped lettuce,
or you chop your own lettuce, and and it feels
just a little it doesn't feel as crisp as you
want it. Chop it up, put it into like a
big bowl, cover it with water, and put about a
tablespoon of salt in there, and let us sit in

(45:45):
there for about ten minutes. It gives you a slight
bit of flavoring, but more importantly, it rehydrates all the lettuce.
That's how you get really crispy lettuce. It's why when
they bring the salad out it's on the cusp of
being wet. Okay, Two, and I do this to all myself.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
I love this stuff. I put it.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
I also put it in bloody Marry. It's my favorite
bloody Mary ingredient. And that is the pepper chini juice
or pepper chini juice, right, stuff that comes in there
with the yellow peppers which you get. They put a
little bit of that juice and they and they toss
the salad in it before they add the other ingredients,
and so that coupled with the sauce, it just gives

(46:24):
it a little hint of flavor there. And then if
you ever wonder why they're dressing so good, they that's
where they put cheese in it. They put cheese in it.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Now, that is the parmesan cheese. I believe, yes, that's
where you get the parmesan cheese. They put that.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
That's why if there's little like harder flex in there,
and some of it's chopped vegetable, but it's also parmesan cheese.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
That's why that stuff's like crack man.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
Like I said, I've never thought about it, but when
I did start to think about it, I'm like, obviously
it's not parmesan cheese. Just like this is a delicious,
good cheese.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
I don't know who can put a pound to that
on my feacini and let me go. But no, she's
a she's on an olive garden. She's jihat here so
she can get clicks. Man, and I, for one, am offended,
and I second Ross's thing. She needs something, so collect
POGs ors. I don't care whatever, Just dude, we at

(47:20):
least that'd be like retro. Is that what all these
guys are going for and galas are going for on
the TikTok to show how unique and different they are?

Speaker 2 (47:27):
AnyWho, we will be right back hanging out. Want to cancer.
We haven't canceled somebody in a while, and it's a
person you know. Are you ready?

Speaker 3 (47:36):
We got to cancel Boston Paul? Why would he do?

Speaker 2 (47:39):
He just sent me a Trader email.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
So, in his attempt to criticize us for talking about
Olive Garden, he wrote the fott so the subject is
you're talking olive garden, and then he writes, I like
Coleman's English mustard on my corned beef, English mustard on
my you. So you're taking an Irish product and you're

(48:06):
smothering it with their oppressors.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
Listen, I don't trust the guy. He's been lying about
Whitey Bulger for years. Yeah, and I'm the one here
that's been trying to call him out for decades now.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
Right, Yeah, that's true. That's true. And now you're letting
the English top your Irish thing.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
Do you even do?

Speaker 1 (48:26):
I have to go through the history, it's not fun.
They're gonna get all Prima Docta up in there too.
It's not just the Scots man. So wow, that is
quite the emission. I'm actually affording this to the authorities
and it's all gonna unravel. Man, Ah, I can't believe
we had to do that. Oh man, there is another

(48:48):
canceling too we gotta do, so.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
I will get to that.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
Well, let's just go ahead and pair them. Since we're
already doing this. And I got the taker Bell all
ready to go, and not the tinker Bell, as somebody
asked me in my email last week. It's not the
tinker Bell. It's the taker Bell, as in the Undertaker.
So just in case you're wondering and I'm speaking, I'm
slurring or something, it's taker Bell.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
How could that be like tinker Bell in anyway? I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Somebody sent me the email and said why do you
call it the tinker Bell? And I wanted to write
a really smart ass response to it. Then I thought
I'll just mention it on their next time. We use
it so I was lazy. Uh and uh boy, you're
gonna hate this. What is being canceled eating bugs? But
that's being canceled by consumers. Yes, very very sad news here.

(49:40):
For years, of course, the New World Order, whoever you
think's doing it, has been like, ah, hey, you know what,
You're all gonna eat maggots and botflies and it's gonna
be amazing. You're all gonna let I mean, not us,
we're gonna eat We're gonna eat regular stuff. But you
just eat the bugs man eat go ahead. Well, look,
if you cook them this way, you can eat them.
This tribe eats them, why won't you eat them?

Speaker 2 (50:01):
And it's it's just insane.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
But now, unfortunately, the farming, the farming of insects for
food apparently is going bust at a at a an
alarming rate. In fact, this line right here, the past
decade has shown that even if you build an insect farm,
the global market may not come. Of the twenty or
so largest insect farming startups, most have gone or will

(50:29):
go belly up, including the very largest insect which ceased
operations in December.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
It's almost as if nobody wants.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
To eat bugs.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Also if you're putting together a farm ranch operation, right,
and you know you're like, all right, do I want
to grow corn?

Speaker 2 (50:50):
Do I want to raise pigs? Do I want to
raise cows?

Speaker 1 (50:54):
Who's the lunatic going, I'm gonna raise insects so we
can eat them?

Speaker 3 (51:01):
What a horrible and vegans some cows? Bro, who's the
absolute mora on investing all their money in people eating bugs?
I don't know, but I didn't go well, didn't go well,
you know what else is going horribly?

Speaker 6 (51:14):
I was.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
I saw a news report I think it was last week.
We didn't get into I don't can remember if we
got into this on era if I mentioned it. And
that is the two largest producers of fake beef for
fake meat, which is beyond and impossible.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
Their their hand.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
I saw one of their stocks is down like ninety
percent from a high, which basically it went way up
when they first I think when they got into no,
it was beyond that went down that much.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
I'd have to go back and look.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
One of them did and the other one's crap two
to the point where they're wondering exactly what that looks like.
And in the in the news article or in the report.
I think it was a CBS report. I watched on Twitter.
That's where this was. They like one of the one
of the people who's like, who's very pro you know,
fake meat, literally accused the cattle industry and he works

(52:06):
for one of the companies, accused the cattle industry of
subterfuge and a secret campaign to warn people that it's
not real meat. What are you talking about? I guess
that was their entire marketing campaign, right, yes, And so
now they're literally like they were talking about changing the

(52:28):
name of one of them because it was I guess
it was telling people it wasn't meat.

Speaker 3 (52:34):
We know it's not meat.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
As Ross pointed out, that was your marketing campaign. Remember
all the burger king commercials.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
Yeah, that was their whole thing, like, hey, this isn't meat,
but it tastes like meat. So if you don't want
to eat meat, but you want to taste meat, eat
this not meat. Yeah, and you almost killed Ross.

Speaker 8 (52:48):
No.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
I tried it once once, that Impossible opera, and it
sat in my stomach for like two weeks. My stomach
had no idea what to do with it.

Speaker 4 (52:56):
It was like, what is this?

Speaker 3 (52:57):
I mean, I don't know what to do.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Oh yeah, it's only so you're like blaming the cattle
the Cattleman's Association or which I think that's who it was,
for running an ad, say, and that's not meat. He's
been running an ad going this sky is blue and
you get mad about it. Now all the bug people
are losing their butts.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
What are you doing like that?

Speaker 1 (53:22):
That's an even worse decision because, like veggie patties have
been a thing, there's always going to be a segment
of people, but it's not going to be a large
enough segment for what they were valuing those companies at.
Because like just like Ross died, I'm sure people probably
did try it because it got mainstreamed. With Burger King,
that's much more mainstream, it's much more affordable, Like you're

(53:44):
in a more affordable situation where you're like, all right,
i'll take I'll take a run at this, and and
then people went, yeah, no, I'm gonna get the I'm
gonna get the real stuff. And also they're more expensive
than meat to produce, quite a bit more expensive.

Speaker 3 (54:03):
Yeah, and I think the carbon footprint is ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
Now they were saying, look, if they were able, they
were saying that it was going to be more green,
but only if they got like a much larger share
of the market, because then he can really, uh, you know,
you can make you can make it a lot more efficient.
But that required like a third of the country to
eat these things. There's some crazy number, and that's just
not going to happen. People are not fooled. They don't

(54:31):
want the bugs. They you know, some of them want
the fake meat. There's always going to be a market
for that, but they were just never able to achieve it.
With the current taste, it doesn't taste the same. It's
arguably gotten better, and there's you know, and there's other
different ways that they're going about trying to craft. I
know somebody in the Raleigh area who works with one

(54:52):
as a consultant with one of these companies, one of
the smaller companies, and from what the conversations I've had
with him, it's a much we're kind of refined, specific
thing that they're doing. But they seem to be targeting
the hotspots where people do want this stuff. All right, well,
that's a good business model for it. But you know,
this whole you got to eat bugs, you got to

(55:13):
eat fake meat thing people are just like, yeah, we're
not going to do that.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
Nope.

Speaker 3 (55:20):
Yeah, so here we go.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
Beyond Meat literally removed the word meat and now their
company is just called Beyond. I want to look it
up because I remember one of them was doing this,
or at least from a way that they're marketing, so
like they're having to make and look, here's the thing too.
I don't wish the entrepreneurs will. I think the people
who opened bug farms, that's just dumb. But whatever, I

(55:45):
don't If you know, if they want to go out
and they're able to make a profit and go do that,
that's fine. It was the government people and these people
who think that they somehow have to in the media.
They got to try to like propaganda you into it. No, no,
And I would point out too, one of the companies
that opened a bug farm is Tyson Foods.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
So no, it's just protein.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
I've had a listener before. Try to tell me because
you're talking about eating protein. They're like, you got protein?
You do like eat crickets. Crickets are high Okay, counterpoint.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
Though, growth, Yeah, yeah, what is how much protein if
you're getting when you throw it up? You know what
I'm saying does it do you get protein? If it
touches your stomach to get all the protein and then
you can get rid of it.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
No, got to digest it, man.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
Yeah, and if Tyson wants to do it, at least
they're big enough, we probably won't kill their business. But
come on, man, Yeah, I'm okay with this right here.

Speaker 4 (56:46):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (56:46):
Most of these are in Europe too, by the way,
because they push it a lot harder. All right, let's
do this seven forty four raced agic for the Weather Channel.
He's going to be shocked by this information. Apparently the companies,
the company with the fake meat, and the companies who
were farming bugs you could eat them or all losing
their butts right now because apparently nobody was bugs or

(57:08):
fake meat. Not nobody, but most people.

Speaker 9 (57:12):
You ever had a man, Oh yeah, my mom's a
big veggie burger person.

Speaker 3 (57:18):
Mm we had one.

Speaker 4 (57:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
Oh you only had one bi one bike. Yeah yeah,
that was the.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
Rossey one at the Burger king one and it almost
killed he couldn't digest.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
Well, I'm glad he's still here with us.

Speaker 7 (57:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
Yeah, Well, it's.

Speaker 9 (57:36):
It's a different spin on what cardboard would taste like.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
There you go, that's good. Spoke a little bit better
than the article here. Yeah, all right, so we're doing
winter again.

Speaker 3 (57:49):
Huh, that's fun. Yeah, doing winter, did spring yesterday.

Speaker 9 (57:55):
A little surprised that we didn't see more severe other reports.
I mean, there were quite a few only tornado reports
so far, believe it or not. In met Glenburg County,
a brief touchdown from e f zero. It wins at
eighty five if you don't know. That's the home county
to Charlotte. Across the Triad triangle. Few reports speckled here

(58:17):
and there about some wind and a couple of trees down.
And now we've settled into winter time once again. Now
it is still winter, but temperatures in the upper twenties
to low thirties, some teens out in the mountains, and
cold day today relative to the time of year, mid
upper forties.

Speaker 3 (58:33):
Mid forties Tomorrow.

Speaker 9 (58:34):
Tomorrow Tomorrow may actually end up a degree or two
colder as in the morning we may be a few
degrees colder too, in the low to mid twenties. So
staying chili and then we kind of reset and we
start this nice run. There's gonna be a big ridge
building across the southwest. It's gonna kind of influence here
further east. Sunny sixty Thursday, near seventy Friday, low seventies Saturday,

(58:57):
then near eighty by Sunday, and no rain. Lots of
sunshine over the next several days. Wednesday, maybe a few clouds,
but other than that, looks pretty good over the next
several days. Might back off a little bit by Monday,
but at least at this point, don't see any more
Arctic air intrusions. And I don't know do I want
to say for the rest of until next winter.

Speaker 2 (59:21):
I don't really know if I want to say that
yet or certainly certainly trending.

Speaker 9 (59:30):
I would say in that direction as yeah, towards the
end of the month, maybe trying to get a little
cooler again, but let's just enjoy what we're going to have,
slow recovery. Probably two more days of this chili stuff
than real dice on the weekend. Right now is looking great. Okay,
We'll wait and see.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
Maybe I'll bet some money on Calshi about it or something.

Speaker 3 (59:50):
I don't know. You can bet on anything.

Speaker 4 (59:51):
Now.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
You're ready to kick off. You got your brackets all studied.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
I have to do it today. I know I've got
to do it this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
Yeah, okay, all right, well good you can do the
screw the doppler.

Speaker 3 (01:00:04):
Just get that done.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
Very important though, all right, thank you sir, appreciate it.
By the way, Boston, I forgot I was gonna mention
this on the Boston Paul. You know they make Irish
muster too. In fact, there is a there's one called Finnigans.
That's Pilligans. I think it's Pilligans, which is really good.
So there you go, Trader. Maybe make a switch and
we won't report you seven forty eight. Hang on, Well,

(01:00:27):
that's another new excuse.

Speaker 7 (01:00:28):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
My favorite ross I've talked about this on the air.
Among my favorite.

Speaker 1 (01:00:31):
Excuses on like on patrol or cops is when they
find some drugs and then somebody's like, oh the wind
blew it in through the window and it lended in
my purse or those are not drugs that you found.
Those are not my drugs. Yes, I know you found
them on my butt, but not my drugs. Authority's in
Arizona recently busted a woman, a twenty year old woman

(01:00:52):
who had fifty eight kilo bundles of meth strewn like
hidden all around in her car, a car, and she's
claiming know that the car was a gift from her
boyfriend and she didn't know about any of the drugs.
M yeah, I feel like I because again that's implying

(01:01:13):
then that your boyfriend, by the way, they're still together,
so so they're probably not gonna be for very long.

Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
About to say so he bought her a car and
she threw him under the bus.

Speaker 1 (01:01:23):
Yeah yeah, But also why if he's the big drug guy,
he's not letting you drive around?

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
This is gonna get me in trouble.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
I would not.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
I don't care whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
I'm not getting led a twenty year old woman drive
around with my stash, right, just like because you get
in an accident, you get pulled over because you're texting
while blow drying your hair, while putting your maskar on
or whatever. Right, then they're gonna find all the drugs
like they did.

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
It's also dumb though, I mean, if you're a Walter
White or a Gus, you're not going to be driving
around with you're stash in your car, right, is that?

Speaker 7 (01:02:04):
I know?

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
Probably not right? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:02:07):
I never watched. Now you have like people for that
unless the people maybe that's his job.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
Yeah, so I don't know if that's good.

Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
And she got busted at one of those interior border
protection things in uh uh An Interior. Yeah, it was
one of the interiors there in Arizona, so you know,
because there's some of them. If you get like near Yuma,
you got to go through one. There's I think there's
one or two more of it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
Yeah, and she was trying to she drove this is
this is the point that I'm making.

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
The reason they end up searching her is she was
passed and then her dumb ass drove over to the
inspection area and they then they searched her. She had
not been sent to the inspection area. She's just stupid
or doesn't listen or whatever. So yeah, I think she
knew it was in there. She was so nervous going

(01:03:01):
through there, and then just I think that caused her
to make a mistake.

Speaker 8 (01:03:04):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
Ummm, let's see here.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
And I think she's not a citizen too, by the way,
so there's that as well. Yeah, she doesn't look like
I think she's not a citizen, which is crazy. She
got through the checkpoint because that's what they ask you there.
I guess maybe I guess who knows. But they said
they did not send her there. She made a wrong
turn and then that's how she got busted. How long

(01:03:30):
they've been dating three months? Yeah, I'm not buying this
unless he's some weird super genius. Is like, I'm just
going to get her to inadvertently move this for me, dude.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
My in laws were in Albuquerque this past weekend and
they were sending me photos of the Walter White House.
They were driving around and like taking photos of all
the breaking, bad stuff. And the Walter Whitehouse is crazy
because the people that bought it can't stand it. The
so many people are always like driving up and taking
photos of stuff. There's big signs outside the house that
say go away private property. I read that, Yeah, move along, But.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
I'm like, why'd you buy that?

Speaker 8 (01:04:02):
Why?

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:04:02):
Why'd you buy And it's a fifteen hundred square foot
house that they paid like one point five million for.

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
Our number three phone number eight eight eight nine three
four seven eight seven four.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
You want to be on the show way in I
have a question.

Speaker 1 (01:04:19):
So you probably saw this story either yesterday or you'll
see it today at some point, because yesterday was the
date that a new rule went into effect. Trump administration
rule took effect on Monday, and it's addressing immigrant truck drivers.

(01:04:41):
And you know, clearly we've had these high pro Even
in the Washington Post article, they said the rule bars
immigrants who were asylum seekers, refugees, or recipients of DACA,
DACA or whatever from obtaining commercial driver's licenses. It's part
of the Trump administration's widening campaign against immigrant truck drivers
following several high profile accidents last summer.

Speaker 3 (01:05:04):
You're damn right, it is.

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
My question is it didn't just cancel their licenses. And
I'm starting to wonder why if the problem is big enough,
why And they asked me, there's like two hundred thousand
of them, why wouldn't you if if it's a problem,
cancel their licenses. All this does is not allow them
to renew them. So how often do truck drivers have

(01:05:29):
to renew their licenses?

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
Is it more than the aver? I should looked this up.
I don't know. Maybe a truck driver can help me out.
How often?

Speaker 4 (01:05:37):
I say?

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
Maybe it's state by state or is it different because
it's a federal there's a federal thing attached.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
I don't know. But if you think this is a problem.

Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
Why would you not just say, all right, these licenses
are no good anymore, because you can cancel people's licenses.
We do it all the time. Somebody gets a dui,
they get enough tickets, whatever it is. If you think
this is a problem, you're just gonna let the clock
run out, which means everyone who's got one right now
can keep driving. I understand that it will, you know,
eventually work itself out, but maybe not because you get

(01:06:11):
let's say some Democrat gets in there. This is probably
one of the things they executive order right back into existence.

Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
And I think I think we know the answer.

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
If there's two hundred thousand truck drivers you pull them
off the road, there's gonna be some impact.

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
Of course, the media will play it up.

Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
They'll be like, your.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
Baby couldn't get food because the dude from India wasn't
able to drive the truck.

Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
Why do you hate the babies?

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
Right? They'll do the big you know articles that they do.
But this is a problem.

Speaker 4 (01:06:43):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
When you're having a guy try to read you curious
George and away stations, you can determine if he can
read English signs. I'm not made was it curious George?
What was the one that guy was making them read.
It was like a kid's book or Thomas the Train,
whatever it was. You're testing a guy with eighty thousand

(01:07:04):
pounds attached to his rig or whatever it is, to
see if he can read something.

Speaker 2 (01:07:09):
You read, your fit, your five year old, so they
go sleepy time.

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
Will you find the monster at the end of the book?
We don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
We don't know. Clearly he won't because he couldn't get
past the first page.

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
Did you do double take when you saw that number? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
Yeah, two hundred thousand. That's crazy. What is uh?

Speaker 1 (01:07:27):
Let's see, let me let me check this. How many
commercial truckers are in the US.

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
That this is the part.

Speaker 3 (01:07:35):
I should have looked this up. Here we go. That's trucks,
I said, truckers in the US.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
Google's so dumb. I should have asked croc all right.

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
So three point seven million, two hundred thousand is not
an insignificant percentage that's from that's the number from twenty
twenty four, according to the American Trucking Association, three point
seven million professional truck drivers in the US. And I'm
sure that number day is not just over the road guys,
because you know you can be a professional truck driver

(01:08:06):
and more localized capacities, but still all right, good, we
got I can always count on a member of the
military or a trucker listening to get us answers.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
That is the nature of talk radio. Ryan, what's up?

Speaker 7 (01:08:20):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (01:08:21):
So, yeah, I'm a city older feed driver and for
North Carolina you have five years? Do you have to
renew it every five years?

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
Okay, you have to go in person?

Speaker 8 (01:08:34):
Uh, you do the online person?

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
So what is the met why do why do you
have to go in persons?

Speaker 1 (01:08:40):
There something extra you guys have to do rather than
me going and just getting my regular license renewed.

Speaker 8 (01:08:47):
Well, you have to like me, I have my hat,
my endorsement if I have to pre take that every
five years, but you have to have your medical card
updated either every year or every two years. And uh,
it's just a I believe it's a centeral regulation that
all TDL drivers have to go in person, and I

(01:09:09):
believe that all the states.

Speaker 3 (01:09:11):
Yeah you are so.

Speaker 1 (01:09:14):
So if a guy got his license last week for
a CDL and he's he's one of these people we're
talking about, he'll be driving for five more years unless
he does something crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:09:24):
So, yeah, how how big of a problem is this?

Speaker 1 (01:09:28):
Because I see a lot of videos the truckers post
where they seem very irritated with because there's a culture there, right,
you know, don't block things when you park, you don't
park at the gas pump, go in and take a shower.
And I see all these videos with truckers just out
of their minds at foreign drivers, man, like some real
confrontational stuff. Is it really that bad or is that

(01:09:49):
just the internet interneting?

Speaker 8 (01:09:52):
I have heard. I haven't seen it personally, but I
do have that have been driving for a very long time.
I believe have about three years. But yes, there it
is becoming a huge problem the videos that you're seeing.
Obviously the high football cases, but there's a lot of
videos that are not even getting covered by the you know,

(01:10:14):
the legacy media, so to say, because it does not
fit the narrative. And Yo, there's.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
Norms and there's norms and customs that you guys have
with you know, as trumps man.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
It's hell. It made for all a bunch of great
movies from the seventies and eighties.

Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
Last question, do you do you think you know?

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
I'm sorry, go ahead, do you want to answer that.

Speaker 8 (01:10:39):
What I was gonna say, do is the the big
thing that they're doing now is the when you have
a rows that inspection or a inspectionally in the waystation,
they are doing the English proficiency test.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
So they make you read a paragraph and you have
to read what you have to read was a good
night boon or what was it?

Speaker 8 (01:11:00):
And it was not that it was just it was
just a paragraph of you know, I forget it was.
But they even made you read the traffic signs to
uh and did you get out of if you do
not that they can't put you out.

Speaker 1 (01:11:18):
Yeah, and they should they should, Man, that's crazy with
what you guys are calling. All right, Ryan, did you
pass the test?

Speaker 3 (01:11:26):
Did you did?

Speaker 4 (01:11:26):
You did?

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
Good, all right, thanks for listening, man, appreciate you calling in. Okay,
have a good one there, all right, So he daled it. So, yeah,
that's that's what they should be doing that.

Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:11:39):
Honestly, wherever you're gonna drive, man, you should you should
be able.

Speaker 1 (01:11:42):
To understand the basics the the the basic I I
didn't drive in a Latin American country until I had
a basic understanding of the Spanish surrounding the signs.

Speaker 3 (01:11:52):
Yeah, you need to understand the science, and you ask yourself,
how is it possible that they're passing these tests? And
I'm reminded of the last time that I took you
to renew my drivers here, and I remember sitting there
and I told the story on the air. The person
was doing the road says Tom. You know, you put
your eyes in the thing and the viewmaster and you
look at those signs, and that person did not obviously
did not know what the sign was. And the person

(01:12:14):
giving the test just kept coaxing and pushing the person
along until they got the answer right. They pretty much
gave him the answer, And I'm sitting there like, how
is this possible? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:12:23):
They were speaking Spanish, right, and then yeah, yeah, yeah,
like you got you gotta have an understanding. And look,
a lot of stuff looks the same. Signage in different
countries looks the same. But man, you may you see
one thing you don't understand and then you you don't
do the uh uh thing like uh like me. So
if you're if you're going into a big curve, I'll
just give you a little tip. If you're going into

(01:12:44):
a big curve and they want you to slow down
for it, those are signs that you see in the US.
It's just remember that stupid Timberlake song Desposito, and then
you'll know that you're supposed to. If you don't know
what that means, you may hit that ramp in that
curve so fast you could you could hit somebody, your
car could fly off the road. So like you have

(01:13:04):
an obligation. And also, and I didn't bring this up
with our call o Ryan, two hundred thousand people who
are largely working for probably you know, the lowest truck
rates there naturally is going to impact what you guys
are able to get when you drive. It's suppressing your wages.
And I know these guys know it, but it needs

(01:13:26):
to be said.

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:13:27):
So I don't know why we're gonna wait out the clock.
There's some legal reason, but like, if this is a problem,
maybe you should.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
Deal with it all right.

Speaker 3 (01:13:35):
Sorry, spread fake news. It's a timber like you meant
Justin Bieber.

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
Or Justin Bieber. I'm sorry, I can't keep my Justin's.
I don't listen to.

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
Clear so but don't listen to Justin Bieber songs either,
or no, you should listen to that one. But or
remember that one for the purpose of it. To be fair,
it wasn't a Bieber song until it was because that
song had been out for a few years and the
Latin artist, but with all the Latin artists in there,
with Mayo and all the rest, and then they'd like,
let's put Bieber on it released in the US, and

(01:14:05):
well you saw what happened, all right, eight sixteen back
in just a few Hey, this other thing too, just
because it was my experience. The craziest driving, well, let's
see that there's two places. The craziest driving that I
ever saw in my travels was in India. India is
a wild country. And that's not to say I just
think you're bringing somebody over and then putting them in

(01:14:27):
a truck the next day. It seems problematic to me.
I think they have the highest rate of accidents to
in India among their commercial drivers too. I remember seeing
that in the story, like you should have to be
here for a while, learn the language, and then fine,
I don't care where you're from at that point, but
that's not what's happening here.

Speaker 3 (01:14:47):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:14:48):
You got guys that are being brought over and putting
a semi.

Speaker 1 (01:14:51):
Truck that you know in a very short order. Let
me grab one more call on this, Kyle, what's going on?

Speaker 4 (01:14:58):
Hey, I am a semi truck driver in Ohio and
we renew our licenses up here at the same time
as our regular driver's license every four years.

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:15:11):
And the non English speaking drivers, they are everywhere. I
even had one a few years ago. A non English
speaking lady paid me twenty dollars to back her truck
and trailer into a doc because she couldn't understand the signs.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
Hey man, that's good thing I'm backed to. I've parallel
parked the car two for like the.

Speaker 3 (01:15:35):
Girl I was dating.

Speaker 2 (01:15:36):
I didn't know I could charge her, So that's a
good yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:15:39):
Wait wait wait when they pulled out the cash, I'm like,
well that's easy money.

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
Yeah man, But still, like, that's got to be troubling.

Speaker 4 (01:15:48):
What is? So?

Speaker 1 (01:15:49):
Let me just ask you, from a trucker's standpoint, how
much do you think having two hundred thousand drivers fresh
off the boat per se has impacted the rates that
you guys are able to get. Because I'm assuming they're
take there, they're working for next to nothing, and that
of course impacts what you guys are able to charge.

Speaker 4 (01:16:07):
Oh yeah, absolutely. I mean, right now rates are the
lowest that they've been I think ever. To be honest,
we're getting practically nothing for things. And then you add
on the rising cost of the diesel fuel. It's really
hard to do business.

Speaker 1 (01:16:24):
And then one other thing, just because I want to
understand this, and I see a lot of truckers post videos.
They'll post a video of some guy getting out of
his truck and he's got a magnetic square with his
dot number and the company name and then just like
putting it over the other one. That's so that they
can basically double their hours or what is that? I mean,
it looks illegal as hell, But what is that we're watching?

Speaker 4 (01:16:47):
Sometimes the truck drivers they'll borrow trucks off of another
company if there's is down, and they can just put
a magnet over top of the other company's logo.

Speaker 3 (01:16:58):
Yeah, because I've.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
Seen it was that it was some way shape or
form trying to get around the hour restrictions for you guys.
I didn't understand it, so I wanted to ask before
I talked about it on Oh.

Speaker 4 (01:17:09):
Yeah, yeah. I actually I actually discovered that there's an
old federal law that screws truck driver is even more.
Uh there's a federal law that says that truck drivers
are not allowed to be paid overtime rates unless the
company says it's.

Speaker 3 (01:17:24):
Okay, wow, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:17:26):
Well so if you're if you're an hourly truck driver,
then you work fifty hours, you're not getting paid overtime.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
Oh that's fun right there. Well, after the crap and
the band pulled, I mean you guys.

Speaker 4 (01:17:38):
Got to come. Yeah, yeah, it's a good time right there.

Speaker 5 (01:17:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
Oh man, all right, Kyle, sorry to hear that, but
thanks for calling in. Appreciate it. Well, there you go. Man,
I want to Ross eating smoking the band it holds.
That's gotta hold up.

Speaker 3 (01:17:51):
I want to are you ever?

Speaker 2 (01:17:53):
What's that?

Speaker 3 (01:17:53):
I would hope?

Speaker 2 (01:17:54):
So yeah, Ross is on this watching old stuff because
do everything new.

Speaker 3 (01:17:58):
Sucks kick right now?

Speaker 1 (01:18:00):
So like off the air where he's like filling me
in on the Perfect Strangers he was watching yesterday, and
then the movies et and everything we talked about the
other day.

Speaker 3 (01:18:08):
There's just something about new media and new movies and
new shows. It's just not the same. And I don't
think it's just a nostalgic factor. I think it's just
a quality factor.

Speaker 1 (01:18:18):
I don't know, man, Yeah, I mean it's not to
say there hasn't been some good stuff that comes out
every now and then. But we've talked about this, like
when you look at the movies going back like ninety
ninety one ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:18:31):
Two, they're all bangers, dude.

Speaker 3 (01:18:33):
Yeah, it's not all trash on a but a lot
of it is. A lot of the new stuff is trash,
and it's stuff. How many movies recently you watch a
new movie and you'll finish it and ten minutes later
you don't remember anything about the movie. I turned one
off yesterday.

Speaker 1 (01:18:48):
I went to watch the new Allen, which is Alan
Rickman or Richter or whatever his name is, Reacher, the
guy who played Reacher, the big dude. He's got some
new movie called War Machine. I turned it off and
it's about military dudes in aliens. This is so in
my wheelhouse, and I turned it off. Didn't even make
it halfway. It's on Netflix if you want to torture

(01:19:10):
yourself and it's like, oh man, what are we doing here?
So not all man, what did I watch the I
watched here a week ago or so? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
I watched the Ruth Superman, the one with Kevin Spacey, right,
so not Superman, not Man of Steel, but the one
that came out like eight years before that or whatever.

(01:19:32):
It's it's insane how it didn't hold up. It just
felt so cheesy. Compare it's like watching the First Spider
Man's with Toby Maguire.

Speaker 3 (01:19:44):
They're just so cheesy, dude, you know. It's it's kind
of our big day.

Speaker 1 (01:19:48):
Let me go and give a speech here, you know,
talking all about Saint Patrick in Ireland, and and and
then just absolutely turned into a moonbat here we.

Speaker 3 (01:19:59):
Got the story.

Speaker 6 (01:20:00):
Patrick's life serves as a reminder of the resilience and
courage of migrants, thee invaluable contributions that they have made
and continue to make to the countries they now call home,
sometimes even in the face of great adversity. Patrick's story
speaks not only to the Ireland of the fifth century,

(01:20:22):
but to the millions still subjected to trafficking, forced labor,
and displacement today. As we recall the life of Patrick,
we invoke his spirit and acknowledge our shared responsibilities as
global citizens. We stand in solidarity with those who find
themselves in vulnerable and dangerous circumstances. Patrick's story invites us

(01:20:48):
to respond with hospitality and kindness to those suffering the
consequences of war and displacement, those fleeing their countries because
of persecuit or she.

Speaker 1 (01:21:01):
Had to shut shut up. You had to make it
all about this, the differences. I like Ireland, how it was.

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
Right, I I I I like going around and pretending
it was. Uh, what's that.

Speaker 1 (01:21:14):
Show on Star Outlander? Man, you're a show on Stars
called Outlander for his woman like time travels back and
you know, to like half of Ireland, Scotland.

Speaker 2 (01:21:25):
It still looks like that. And that's what's so cool
about going around and she's over here. He was a migrant,
was he? I mean Ross technically came over on a boat, right, So.

Speaker 1 (01:21:35):
That's I mean, that's that's there's that. Uh he didn't migrate.
Uh and Ross had to literally correct the president.

Speaker 3 (01:21:42):
Yeah, No, No, he was English.

Speaker 2 (01:21:44):
He got shanghaid. Yeah, but Irish pirates and uh, you know,
trafficked into slavery. Now, she did make a reference to that,
but she also called him a migrant, which is not true.
And she forgot the saint part. In a country where
Catholicism is you know. I don't know if you guys
know this.

Speaker 1 (01:22:00):
There's been some there's been some bickering over the religious
side there, and they just keep they keep electing one
moonbat after another. This one, this one just got in.

Speaker 2 (01:22:13):
She just got in.

Speaker 1 (01:22:14):
The last one was the same way. The one before
that was the same way. So I guess if they
want to.

Speaker 2 (01:22:21):
Suicide themselves, they can go ahead and do that. All right.
Couple other things here Florida. I just want to thank Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:22:30):
This isn't over a Florida man necessarily, so I'm not
going to play the song, but this will undoubtedly.

Speaker 2 (01:22:39):
Help with the Florida man bit, I think so. In Florida, they.

Speaker 1 (01:22:44):
Attempted to pass a bill last week, but we're not
able to get it passed. You ready, The bill would
ban cousin marriages. Apparently in Florida that's not illegal right now,
and they all so apparently couldn't get enough votes to
pass it. So I feel like this will be helpful

(01:23:06):
for future Florida man stories for quite some time to come, right,
just with the whole you know, potential for some issues there.
And speaking of Florida, there was a mass panic yesterday
at in Daytona Beach. It's spring break and they I
don't know, somebody screamed that they heard a gunshot and

(01:23:27):
all of that, they figured.

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
Out what the noise was. By the way, it was
not a gunshot, and.

Speaker 1 (01:23:31):
Then you just see the sea of people, hundreds of
people all trying to you know, how hard it is
to run in the sand too, So there's that running
it somebody crushed a water bottle, you know, made that
sound and apparently it's set off a mass panic there.
But those beaches are full full, so that spring break

(01:23:54):
is in full swing there. So that also means I'm
sure there's gonna be some other fun stories that emerge
because we always get in sanity during spring break. Man, Ross,
you remember spring break how MTV presented it back in
the day. Just smash mouth, rocket it out, girls on
dudes shoulders. Everyone's having a good time. And now it's

(01:24:17):
like cities are like actively distancing themselves or they're they're
putting in these crazy curfews because it just gets so
out of control.

Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
I mean, oh, what is this?

Speaker 2 (01:24:28):
Oh, cousin marriage is legal in Virginia too, Okay, well,
all right, we'll get some Virginia man stories.

Speaker 3 (01:24:35):
Fun.

Speaker 1 (01:24:37):
That's crazy considering they're making everything else illegal. Or well,
they'll probably tax it, is what they'll do. So you
tax the cousin marriages, because that's the new way they're
doing things up there in Virginia. All right, check this out.

Speaker 7 (01:24:51):
Ross.

Speaker 1 (01:24:52):
You didn't make off with four advanced military drone systems
from Fort Campbell, did you?

Speaker 3 (01:24:58):
I you know what, I'm very busy. Yeah, you are
very busy because you.

Speaker 2 (01:25:01):
Just had the drone.

Speaker 1 (01:25:02):
You just got the drone security for your for your
estate up there, and just think it's a coincidence because
now you've got missiles.

Speaker 3 (01:25:11):
I don't think the story that you're talking about was
in the prep, but I think I'm familiar with it.
I did hear about how some drones were stolen from
a base, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:25:18):
Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Yeah, I didn't put in the stack.
I'm gonna use this to go to the other story.
But yeah, So the Department of Army Criminal Investigation Division
announced that they're offered a reward for five thousand dollars.
All right, So I look these drones up. They're called
Skydio or skydio. I don't know how you pronounced it.
X D At ten x ten d drones and they yes, yes,

(01:25:41):
I'm gonna get to the streetlight thing. I promise, I
just gotta get these two stories in.

Speaker 3 (01:25:45):
People look at that.

Speaker 2 (01:25:46):
People are wanting to know.

Speaker 1 (01:25:47):
What I found on the street lights, and I will
are on the movies and I will tell you. But anyway,
going back to the drones, let's see here they are ruggedized.

Speaker 2 (01:25:57):
Hey is that a word? AI driven defense?

Speaker 1 (01:26:00):
Featuring superior sensors, module payloads, and a high autonomy for
tactical missions. So these are not your I'm gonna go
take some pictures drones.

Speaker 3 (01:26:10):
Let's see here.

Speaker 1 (01:26:10):
They fly forty five miles an hour, they fold really well,
they weigh only five pounds, and they can fly for
forty five minutes also, I guess, and they.

Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
Could be equipped in a variety of ways. So yeah, man, somebody,
but think about this.

Speaker 3 (01:26:26):
Somebody went onto a military base stole the drones and left. Well,
what kind of a person or people have the capability
of doing that? That's the same.

Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:26:40):
I was looking at some comments on Twitter on this
from military people and they said that stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:26:44):
Gets stolen, and I so, okay, man, I don't know
what they mean by that. Yeah, maybe there's somebody on
base or something. You're like, man, I'm going to put
it under my shirt and leave, put it, put it
down my pants and just walk out with a drone.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
But we don't want that to turn on if he's like,
who does that's the blade spinning? That doesn't sound like
a typical sort of robbery? Is it like a cartel thing?

Speaker 7 (01:27:05):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:27:06):
You know before and somebody from I ran? That sounds insane.
You're gonna walk in on my military base and steal
a drone?

Speaker 2 (01:27:13):
How much these things cost? Oh my gosh, Oh my
gosh for a little tiny five pound drone? All right, ross,
what do you think?

Speaker 3 (01:27:23):
Oh man, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars?

Speaker 1 (01:27:26):
Oh god goes Oh no, okay, twenty thousand, bob, Yeah, yeah,
you're close. Twenty seven thousand higher, thirty two thousand, nope're
too high.

Speaker 3 (01:27:35):
Twenty eight thousand.

Speaker 2 (01:27:36):
Oh you nailed it, dang it fall off?

Speaker 3 (01:27:39):
Yeah, I get a free drone.

Speaker 2 (01:27:41):
What's that?

Speaker 3 (01:27:41):
When I win?

Speaker 2 (01:27:43):
I held fire missile from the drone? Yeah, you get
to keep it too. AnyWho. Yeah, So they would ahead and.

Speaker 1 (01:27:52):
Hacked those all right, real quick, all right, real quick.
On the on the why movies look different now, because
I found this fascinating. This guy did a great, great
article explaining it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
So what happened.

Speaker 1 (01:28:03):
What happened was when it was the transition of city
street lights. So it used to be that city lights
the yellowish orange kind of hue. Think of a shot
in like an eighties movie where they're looking at where
they're looking out, you know, over the LA skyline at night,
and the color that it was.

Speaker 3 (01:28:22):
Because LA had these two.

Speaker 1 (01:28:24):
In most cities they had the sodium lights and that's
what it had character. And so what happened is they
switched over to all these LED because they're cheaper, but
also LED lights sucks, not that it doesn't provide light,
but it's really unforgiving man, and I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:43):
I like the old one.

Speaker 1 (01:28:44):
And what happened then was the movie companies both wanting
to save money but also to reflect people's experience so
that it familiarly the light that they were familiar with
when they walked around their cities who had switched to LED.
That's why they switched, and that's why there is this
this fundamental change and why the color of modern movies
looks so remarkably different. From movies up to about two

(01:29:07):
thousand and five when they started switching.

Speaker 3 (01:29:10):
So one of those I wondered about it.

Speaker 1 (01:29:13):
Ross wondered about it, and then I saw this, and
I'm like, I got to share the news, and it's
not good news. Go back to the other ones. Anyway,
raced Agic from the Weather Channel. He's here and uh man,
oh man, the good days of just about a week
and a half ago are now will be here for
a minute.

Speaker 9 (01:29:29):
So yeah, a couple of days they'll be back. Though
we must not think that, you know, we're not just
about out of this stuff, right. I'd imagine some pretty
close may even saw a few snow flurries yesterday after
the cold there came in, or at least last night.
I know the mountains had a couple of inches in
some spots. But now we're in for some brisk mornings

(01:29:50):
coming up this morning, upper twenties, a low thirties. Tomorrow
we may all be in the mid umber twenties and
you have to do in mid upper forties today and
probably stay in the mid forties tomorrow, and then we'll
start a nice climb starting Thursday. As we're near sixty,
we're closer to seventy on Friday and in the seventies
over the weekend, partly to mostly sunny, so looking real good.
Even the overnight lows will come up into the forties,

(01:30:12):
so still chilly in the morning hours late week, but
we'll start that recover with no rain in the forecast
over the next seven days, so that's good. Not a
lot of or let's put it this way, not as
many severe weather reports yesterday as I thought that there
would be, and that's a good thing. One tornado report

(01:30:32):
is actually Mecklenburg County thinking right now is that EF
zero with winds to eighty five miles per hour. Did
see numerous reports though across the area in the state.
Rutherford County some tree damage and even into Mecklenburg County
saw some tree damage too, So there were some Forsyth
counties in here, Davidson County, but not a lot, so

(01:30:53):
that's good thing.

Speaker 1 (01:30:53):
Casey, okay, all right, And you had asked that I
got duke going up into who I have went in,
So I do two brackets.

Speaker 4 (01:31:02):
In it.

Speaker 1 (01:31:03):
If they they have to battle their injuries now in
the two early games, but then that should level out.

Speaker 2 (01:31:12):
And and the other one I think is going to
be either Houston or Arizona. I have not decided.

Speaker 3 (01:31:17):
Yeah, I got them both going to you. I took
I went with Duke almost.

Speaker 9 (01:31:23):
I almost took Sianna in the upset Joe Ross's Day,
so I know.

Speaker 3 (01:31:30):
And then I took the Iowa Clemson one to me.
I've told you, I did take Clemson. I do believe.

Speaker 9 (01:31:38):
I think I was going to beat him though, so
and then I took clemsonto like the Sweet sixteen and
then losing, and then so I think I have Arizona
in the final four.

Speaker 3 (01:31:46):
No real shocks, I don't.

Speaker 9 (01:31:47):
I don't like picking like the real upsets because then
they never make it really anyway most of the time.

Speaker 1 (01:31:52):
So yeah, well look, if I pick Houston, I guess
that'll be considered an upset we'll find yeah, probably probably.

Speaker 2 (01:31:58):
All right, man, appreciate it, then, thank you, and we'll
be back with Bloomberg News next. Think what Denise Pelgreen and.

Speaker 10 (01:32:04):
Hey Casey, good morning.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
I always gets I don't see your email. I'm like, oh,
I hope I don't call.

Speaker 3 (01:32:09):
The wrong name. But that's why I sent you an email.

Speaker 2 (01:32:11):
I know I have to see it though. It's like me,
I've been called.

Speaker 10 (01:32:14):
Worse things than the wrong name.

Speaker 3 (01:32:15):
It's a kind of tough.

Speaker 2 (01:32:16):
Okay, all right, Well what you got for today?

Speaker 10 (01:32:19):
Restaurants and bars could see a lot of green today.
Get really lucky. National Retail Federation says three and five
consumers Casey actually planned to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day today,
even though it falls outside of weekend. Total spending on
the holiday expected to reach a record seven point seven
billion dollars, up from seven billion last year. I was
thinking about it. It's a Tuesday, right, so why is

(01:32:43):
spending going to be at a record high. One of
my colleagues was saying, maybe it's just inflation. Probably that's
part of it. But also I have a feeling and
maybe you can corroborate this that a lot of people
are just making it a four day weekend. That is
what on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, right, and that's why
spending on Saint Patrick's Day is going to be a
record high. Amazon is introducing this one hour and three

(01:33:06):
hour option for delivery for more than ninety thousand products
case He, including things like pantry, staples, clothing, over the counter, meds,
cleaning supplies, electronics, you name it. It's available in major cities,
but also in some smaller cities. I haven't figured out
if it's available in Rally Durham yet, it will be.
There will be a charge for four dollars ninety nine

(01:33:28):
cents if you're a prime member, fourteen ninety nine if
you're not. But of course you know, they have those
distribution centers, the big ones in Garner and in Morrisville,
so they're just ten and twenty minutes away from some
parts of the triangle. So I think if you log
onto Amazon today you might see that you have that option.
Open Ai is delaying launch of erotic Adult Mode in

(01:33:51):
chat GPT. It would allow erotic conversation, but they're pausing
this due to intern concerns, you think, and technical challenges.
Company does still plan to release adult Mode, which will
allow text conversations with adult themes, but it does plan
to restrict chat gpd's ability to generate erotic images, voice

(01:34:15):
or video as it works to address all the concerns
over the risks of adult mode, including you know, the
potential for compulsive use, emotional over reliance on the chatbot,
and of course access by minors. There's a new mac
and Cheese thing I've got to tell you about craft
Times rolling out PowerMac macaroni and cheese with seventeen grams

(01:34:38):
of pea protein is serving six grams of five or
about two and a half servings a box. The box
will be about two dollars ninety nine cents. It'll go
on sale next month. You know, protein. Of course all
the craze with protein crust pizza, Starbucks has those new
protein lattes, Subways got the protein pockets, Chipotle has that
whole protein cup thing. So they know, oh that with

(01:35:01):
all the GLP one drugs that people are really going
for the protein. So they're trying to get on that bandwagon.
And of course, stock futures right now they're positive after
yesterday's gain. Style futures up one twenty seven, as in
P futures getting thirteen, Nasdaq futures up thirty one. Crude
oil futures they're also higher. Interestingly, it is Fed day.

(01:35:23):
The Fed kicking off a two day meeting on the
economy and interest rates. Not expected to cut interest rates tomorrow.
They do meet again next month, but right now they
are not probably going to cut. That means that people
hoping that the Fed would cut so that they could
get a little bit maybe lower mortgage if they're out
shopping this spring home buying season. Probably not going to

(01:35:44):
get it, but could get it later this year if
they want to hold off.

Speaker 1 (01:35:48):
All right, hey, Denise, I appreciate it, Thank you very much,
and we'll chat to talk to you tomorrow. There you go,
Denise Pelagreeny, Bloomberg News. All right, I've saved the worst
for last you ready. What's what's more terrifying than a
big AI data center becoming you know, the one from
the terminator. The fact that you can't even get in

(01:36:10):
there to shut it down because they are now using
the robot murder dogs to guard the data centers. What
a dystopian hellscape this is, man, Right, So now you're like,
oh my gosh, it's went sentient.

Speaker 2 (01:36:24):
We gotta go do something.

Speaker 1 (01:36:25):
And while you're going try to go shut it off
or unplug it or whatever you're gonna do, you get
murdered by a dog with a flamethrower and an oozy
on it or whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (01:36:34):
So yeah, like you don't even have people there really