Tuesday-5-12-2026

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ross, if you started giving thought about what Lofton's first
tattoo will be, or you just gonna let him say
it once he learns to speak. I'm not sure the process.
I don't have kids.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
We already did that, Oh you did? Okay, I thought
I mentioned it on the show.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Well you mentioned the lasick, did you mentioned tattoos?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well, we you know, he's still a kid, obviously, I
mean he's five months old, so yeah, you know, we
want to stay with the kids, so we went with
the bluey tattoo.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Okay, blue, all right? You don't think that'd be a
little embarrassing when he gets older.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
You know what? I you know, it's none of my business.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Can like your pee wee's playhouse cu tattoo? Isn't that
that's weird? Right?

Speaker 3 (00:37):
No?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
I think it's very manly.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Okay, all right, it's a cherry.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
I was about to say, you don't like my cherry tattoo?

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah, it's cherry. So it's a strange, strange seaction there.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I got a cherry tattoo on my left butt cheek.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Yeah, yeah, it's really Unfortunately we've all seen it at
work too. So a Wayne County woman has been arrested
for allegedly tattooing or toddler. Now she has a good excuse.
I know what you're thinking, like, this is crazy. Why
would anyone do that? Because the toddler asks for the tattoo,

(01:11):
and as you know, if a toddler asks for something,
you have to give it to them immediately, as evidenced
by some of the crap I see parents pulling grocery stores. Yeah,
so so she I guess she's a tattoo artist, and
so she is doing. She's tattooing her own leg. She's
twenty seven. Her name is Brooke McDaniel. When the toddler

(01:35):
walks up, sticks their little tiny arm in the way
of the tattoo gun is like a tattoo me, tattoo me.
And mom was like, well, I can't you know, because
there is an inability amongst some parents to say no
to their kids. This is just I guess on the
extreme example, Now, what did the child get as a tattoo?

(01:56):
Just a little dot that's right fore arm, just like
a little like little period there, just to appease the child.
But you're not gonna go crazy because then the child
start crying because it you know, it doesn't feel good,
but uh yeah, please reported the child had a black
tattoo dot on the right forearm. There was redness in
the area. Several witnesses at the scene. Yes, she's doing

(02:18):
this in front of people said that she gave the
child tattoo because the child requested it. Wait. Can you
imagine if when your kid did get old enough to
have some like cognizant but not like full thought, but
just enough to evaluate the question if we just let
kids choose their own tattoo at that first moment, the

(02:39):
amount of embarrassment and cover ups it would have to
take place within I don't know, probably just by the
time they hit their tweens and they get all angsty. Roz.
I was giving us some thought yesterday. Let's say that
during our childhood we got to just randomly pick something
to tattoo. What do you think would have ended up there?
Maybe a Holkster tattoo.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I think a lot of kids would have gotten like
a he Man tattoo. Yeah, maybe like a ThunderCats sort
of omens.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, that would be good. Like I said, I think
there'd be a lot of wrestling tattoos. I think there'd
be a lot of as you said, Saturday Morning cartoon tattoos. There,
there's some bad decisions probably right, just the just the
name of the game. By the way, tattooing your toddler
will get you a five thousand dollars cash bond in

(03:29):
Wayne County. There, let's see what is the actual charge? Uh,
fourth degree assault child abuse?

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Right?

Speaker 2 (03:39):
So so that's illegal?

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Right?

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Are are you gonna are you gonna make a point here?
I know, I mean what we're gonna say. I think
we're all thinking it, right, I mean, yeah, what what?

Speaker 5 (03:50):
What?

Speaker 1 (03:51):
What are we all?

Speaker 6 (03:52):
Or?

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Am I taking crazy pills?

Speaker 1 (03:54):
You mean you can get your kid a back haircut? Right?

Speaker 2 (03:58):
You can? Yes? Okay, No, you're right if you're anything else,
if your child asks you for anything or declares anything,
you have to go home with it. And it is
what it is. So why is this poor woman getting.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
I don't know what you're imploying.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
For a tattoo? Because worser things have happened to children
in the past, I don't know, ten years or so.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Oh, like maybe mommy dyed their hair.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
No, I don't think so made a little bit worse.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Maybe daddy dyed their hair. That's probably gonna be a disaster, right,
you know they get the little Mexican babies get their
ears pierced. They're like one.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
I was just about to say, it's the ear piercing
at Claire's. Is it wasn't that the place where they
used to get it done at the mall?

Speaker 7 (04:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, yeah to Claires And there'd be some screaming toddlers.
They's got a hole punched in their head. How do
I still remember what this?

Speaker 2 (04:39):
It was Claire's right, yeah, yeah, all right, props to
my brain. High five?

Speaker 1 (04:44):
What dude? But I players were in every mall. Yeah,
that was the that was the great unitied. But you
had it in your mall in New York. We had
in Wyoming.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
It's been forever though.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Yeah, that's where you take your child to get tortured.
So that's it. That's what you were thinking.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
There has to be it. There's not everything else. Possibly,
m it's newsworthy.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Okay, all right, what if after you chop their little
tiny thing off, you tattoo it? Is that illegal?

Speaker 8 (05:10):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Is that what you were thinking? Okay? Yeah? Yeah man, yeah,
you can't tattoo a little dot on your kid? Monsters.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
I wonder how many progressive white liberal women saw this
story and was like, oh, that's disgusting. You can't do that, right,
But at the same point, hold the position of you
need to affirm their gender career two or three and
tell you so, I want.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
To know Joe dirt tattoo, but you can chop.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, I want to see the diagram of that, like
the overlay.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Are you saying that if we did one of those
Venn diagrams where the bubbles overlay, there'd.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Be I want to yeah, I want to see what
the correlation is there when it comes to like the
middle class or upper class white progressive women their opinions
on this, because you know they're out there. They probably
saw the story and they were like, that's disgusting. Throw
the woman in prison, you know, thot, throw the key away.
But then they know somebody who all, well, so and
so down the street. Their son just said he's a woman,

(06:05):
So they chopped his sports car.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah no, no, no, they didn't wait for her to stand it.
Like he picked up a pink block, right, So he
picked up a barbie, right, so you know, give him,
you know whatever, give her testosterone. Wow, Wow, did you
just miss gender? Listen to you dang, man, that person exists.
You know they do, oh a lot of them. Do
you have to ask him? It's separate on separate occasions.

(06:28):
You won't get a straight answer, right because they'll pick
up on it. But yeah, I think if you showed
him that story and then tomorrow came around, you're like,
did you hear what Jill's son is? He wants to
be a girl, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, either that's wonderful.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
We need to listen to him. Yeah, absolutely, Man, children
know better than we do, that's right. He's so smart. Yeah. Well,
I mean, I don't know that. My brain was full
even when I was twenty, so I shouldn't say that
I was already doing this. But I still make a
bad decisions. I don't know. But any who know? Listed
court date there? All right, So that's how we're kicking

(07:05):
things out. Oh, Rachel Dolozel, she's going to be in
the news. We haven't haven't heard from her in a while.
This would be the former NAACP president of what was it, Spokane, Washington?
I can't remember. It was also dumb. She's got a
new hustle and I know many of you are going

(07:27):
to be interested. I just I can tell all right,
six fourteen back in just a few Look, I'm I'm
to the point where as soon as I we people
will people wildly speculate on what's going on in Hollywood
because Hollywood will do so much stupid crap that I
understand it. But also there's been some there's been a
lot where people just get it wrong because I think

(07:48):
there's kind of a hype, like a hype train on
this stuff. That being said, if in fact, these rumors
about the upcoming Christopher Nolan Odyssey movie are real, like
I don't, I don't even know you're you're you're trolling
people at that point, you're trolling people. So they have
this big Odyssey movie coming out, like everybody's in this,

(08:10):
Matt Damon is in this. Just I mean, the list
is just a super long list of who's who because
it's a big budget Christopher Nolan movie. I got it.
But there are a couple other rumors, and that is
about two specific characters, and one of them is Achilles,
which is kind of an important character. I would say
the most famous portrayal of Achilles and modern you know,

(08:32):
modern cinema is Brad Pitt that's a pretty good movie.
Pretty good movie. So if, in fact, for the upcoming
Odyssey movie that they did in fact cast Elliott Page,
that would be quite a deviation. So Elliott Page is
of course a former female actor who went and had

(08:53):
all the surgeries and is now a male actor, but
doesn't strike me is an Achilles. I guess maybe in physique.
So there's that. What was the other rumor, Oh, the
blonde or the bold black chick from the She's from
the Wicked movies, right, it's not the same one anyway,

(09:15):
So she's playing Helen of Troy Man. If that's the
direction they decided to go, I just assume Matt Damon
when they first announced it was gonna be Achilles and
they're like, no, he's gonna be the actual king. And
I'm like, all right, all right, that's fine. But like,
is Christopher Nolan that dumb? I guess it would be

(09:35):
my like quiet ROSSI I can't remember you, Christopher Nolan
fan or not?

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Well, first off, the Dark Knight is one of the
best movies ever made. Okay, all right, I know I'm
a big fan of the Batman movie obviously, but yeah,
he did work with Elliott Page whatever his name is
now in the Inception movie, So they have a history
working together.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Right, right, Exception movie is pretty good movie. Yeah, but
like you'd have to be you have to be actively
trolling people to cast that, right, Amaze because Achilles And
maybe that's the point.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
I don't know. I mean, I've seen that rumor. I've
seen that rumor everywhere. I don't know if there's any
truth to it.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Okay, it's so out there.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Let's see. Is there any others? Donague those are just
the two that they're kind of mad about. Yeah, lepidong
Yongo is her name, the who is rumored to be
playing Helen of Troy. I don't know. Maybe that wouldn't
be as bad a deviation because here's the thing, because
people are going to make it a race thing. But
like I think, if you cast halle Berry as Helen

(10:45):
of Troy, I don't think anyone would bad deny, right,
going back to Pea Cottness, halle Berry, she's still like smoking,
but I don't think people would have had a problem
with that. So if they're going to try to make
it a race thing, I don't know. I just I
don't know. I don't know. I think the real thing is,
in fact, if Elliott Page's Achilles just done, man, just done,

(11:06):
Which is too bad because this is the kind of
epic that I would dig normally. So uh, we'll see.
Uh speaking of people who have transitioned in this case racially,
I hol you that man. People are all like people
are explaining that when they tried to get a tattoo
as a minor, their parents wouldn't let them the different

(11:28):
tattoos they wanted. How about a night writer kit tattoo?
Ross be down with that. Huh, that'd be pretty good.
Get one of those. Oh they didn't let you get it? Well,
you turn your parents in for abuse, all.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Right, Corey, send you the diagram? Uh no, I I
just sent you a text message.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Oh gosh, what is he made?

Speaker 2 (11:51):
The ven diagram of the overlay? Oh really? Yeah? It
checks out.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Both hate the Casiod radio show united in opposing traditional voices. Okay,
that is the crossover of women who allow toddlers to
get tattoos and crazy liberal women to let toddlers choose gender. Yeah, yeah,
that's it, man, That would be the only crossover right there.

(12:18):
All right, so you guys, remember Rachel Jolson, Rachel Dolizzel.
What does she go by? Now? Get some uh oh
Nikachi Diallo. So she's back in the news. That's right,
she's got herself a new gig. And to set us
up for it, is that your dad?

Speaker 4 (12:35):
Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
To get this out of the chives. Is this man
right here is your father the whitest white chick photo
you've ever seen from Montana?

Speaker 4 (12:43):
Yes, ma'am, I was wondering if if your dad really
is an African American.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Man, that's a very I mean, I don't I don't
know what you're implying.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Are you African American?

Speaker 4 (12:56):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
I don't understand the question. I did tell you that, yes,
that's my dad. Are your parents.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
A perman a son?

Speaker 5 (13:08):
Ten?

Speaker 9 (13:09):
Is all that you need to lead the spoken in
double ACP. Get your white pear rents, then find you
a black guy.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Call him your father.

Speaker 9 (13:21):
Now your live's one big like permniscen ten. Hey, maybe
this means white folks are not as bad as we're
made out to scene. Or it may be that their
strategy up there's kind of wonky because to lead their advancement,
they hired a honky permaniscen tan. It almost did the trick,

(13:44):
except for those photos of her as a white chick.
But you get involved. Apparently a perman son ten is
all that you need.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
So she is. You know, she's tried to reinvent herself
quite a few times, including a stint as she was
on OnlyFans. Wasn't it feet though? Wasn't her thing? Feet?

Speaker 5 (14:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (14:10):
I think it was feet. But now she's got a
new gig. According to reports, the forty eight year old
mom says she has completed a three hundred hours certified
sex coach training qualification and will now transition from an
OnlyFans foot person to a full fledged sex coach or

(14:35):
I guess you can pay her to coach you to,
you know, do dirty stuff. Who's signing up for this?
That's what I want to know, Rosz. I got you
a gift card, by the way, for your birthday. I
hope you're happy.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
There, man, it's super early for my birthday.

Speaker 8 (14:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
No, I just wanted to get on this when I
saw the I assume the demand's going to pick up.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
You really care? Apparently I do?

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (14:59):
Do?

Speaker 1 (15:00):
I don't know, And I don't mean this to make
fun of you. I don't know if I've seen you
this sharp in like six months.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yeah. I got seven hours of sleep last night.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
First thing he said this morning.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
It is glorious.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
I like that the first time in like months where
I was driving to work at like four in the
morning and I didn't feel like groggy.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, just whistling a tune. Yep. Yeah. At that point,
at that point you're seven hours in, you have to
like check on the baby, right, like make sure you
didn't get stolen like Limburgs or something. You know what
I'm saying, raising Arizona. Yeah, you come in as the
windows open, You're like, what happened to my baby? All right,
I'm glad to hear that. Does it? Does?

Speaker 2 (15:38):
It?

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Does slingshot? Then where he won't sleep at all to
night or.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Well, like you said, we were going through this like
sleep regression thing, which is a thing that happens around
this time. Yeah, and like hopefully you've taken a turn,
so hopefully, Okay, I put him back in. He woke
up around like three seventeen, and then like I fed
him and changed his diaper and then put him back
in around four fifteen or something like that. I don't know, yeah,
and Marky woke up, but like her alarm worker up,

(16:03):
but she's like he's still sleeping. She's like, my body
doesn't know what's going on right now. It's like what
is happening?

Speaker 1 (16:09):
Okay? So yeah it's good, okay, all right, good good?
You know who do you like for the PGA Championship?

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Oh? Is that this weekend?

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yes, I would have to go Lee Trevino, don't do.
I would have to go with the Yeah, Big he's
not in it, Big Lee, He's not in it.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
Could I say? How about an Auburg?

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Can I I'm going Big Lee with Lee Trevino?

Speaker 1 (16:36):
How about min Wou Lee? Because I think that's the
only Lee used in it?

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Are they related?

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Sure? Yeah, Min Wu Lee is related to Lee Trevino. Absolutely,
Then put all your money in Wing Lee. Uh a,
min Wu Lee.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
It is what I said.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
It's Irish Syottie Shuffler odds on favorite not surprised. Roy
McRoy number two. I don't know. I could see John
Rahm sleeking in there. I kind of I'm kind of
interested to see if one of these live guys is
going to come in there and just kind of rain
on the parade. Just because that's the thing. So you
got like Champeau's guys, the LAA, the lav Tour, the

(17:21):
one they just get canceled. The Saudi's were running okay,
because now there's this whole drama. It's like, do you
let these guys who left the PGA come back in?
And if you don't, can you then claim the best
golfers in the world are competing on your tour if you,
you know, don't let a couple of these guys back
in who are clearly you know, top ten, top twenty

(17:41):
golfers in the world. So interesting to watch that that
that playout. I'll tell you who I think would be
a sneaky pick and it would be interesting because I
want to see how people are going to react to it,
and that is Matt Fitzpatrick because like everyone makes fun
of Fitzpatrick because he kind of comes ac is like
a twelve year old boy. I don't mean that to

(18:04):
pick on him, but like you look at me like
that guy is a top tier golf but he is
he is, and he's a very good golfer. And I
think it would be rather interesting because I want to
see how people would react. So uh so I'd say,
John Rahm and uh and Fitzpatrick would kind of be
my picks. I think it's just lazy to pick Shuffler
or macelroy, even though I'd be super happy to see

(18:26):
Scheffler win again because I love how much he irritates
everyone because he is. To go back to an example
we used the other day, he's Bruce Willis in the
fifth Element when the DJ is trying to sit there
and talk to him. They can't get one word out
of him. Remember he's the guy who won the British Open.
And they're like, all right, you're gonna go to all
the pubs, right, And he's like, I think I'm gonna

(18:48):
go back and hang out with my wife and Mike
am my baby. And by the way, we're also gonna
leave the UK early. And they could, like they could,
They can't get him to get interesting enough for him.
There's no conscient aversary there. He's just a guy who's
centered in religion and his family and that's all he
wants to do. He just he just wants to hate.
You have just really really good at what I do.

(19:09):
I'm gonna go out and do that, and then I'm
gonna go spend time with my family. That's that's me,
and so there's no real controversy there. I suppose if
there ever is, it's gonna be a doozy because that's
just how that goes. But he's just really good at
what he does. But if I have to pick outside
of those top two, I always get picked. I think
it would be Rom and Fitzpatrick. Sorry, Boston Paul sent

(19:31):
me the the email he sends before all of it.
Who you pick it? Let me guess you're picking day
Shambau again because you're a broken record, all right, have
fun with that. So this is interesting. I just saw
this this morning, so ros hasn't even seen this in
the stack. So apparently this is from Fox eight in

(19:55):
the triad. Here's the headline. Greensboro mother slams Virgini Dan
Fox Congresswoman Virginia Fox for response to ten year old
son's essay. A Greensborough mother is upset at a North
Carolina congresswoman who responded, that's weird how you would write
it like that if it was written locally, why would

(20:18):
you write it like that? You would say a local congresswoman?
So is this a national story? You guys just repurposed
it's fine. I just it's curious. Greensborough mother is upset
at a North Carolina congresswoman who responded to a letter
from her ten year old son Christine or Christian Mango, Okay,
that's the son's name. Christian Mango says he received a

(20:40):
letter from Congresswoman Virginia Fox. He says, I couldn't understand
half of I could understand half of it, but not
all of it. His mother, Emily Mango, says the reply
from Fox was regarding an assignment from Christian's teacher at
Canterbury School in Greensboro. Here's the Apparently the the assignment,

(21:03):
Christian and his class were set to We're supposed to
write a persuasive essay of their choosing, then mail it
off to a representative CEO whoever the decision maker was,
so that they can review the influence of their This
is written so poorly. They mailed it off to a

(21:24):
representative of CEO whoever the decision maker was, to be
influential in their face and persuasive essay points man I
cannot read this morning. Christian says. The topic he chose
was electric vehicles, and he wrote to the congresswoman arguing
that there should be a five thousand dollars tax rebate
for electric cars because they're better than normal cars, they're

(21:45):
better for the environment, they pay less. And there's no
guess to which I would say, Christian.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
What.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
You're not even done with the story. It's the first
I've heard of it, Like you said, yes, And I'm
reminded of the dumb kid in California that wrote the
stupid essay on paper straws that completely, like up here,
upended their policy in the state.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
You know what I mean, This National International Science.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Fair, some dumb in California and he just he's making
up facts about plastic. Well, we need paper straws. And
these idiots in the legislature, like little timmy five year
old has a good point.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Let's up.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
They weren't even quoting him at first they were, and
then it turned into scientists where they were clay, well,
this is what you know. Research says the straws are bad.
And then the research was literally people quoting like a
ten year old write and stuff. I don't want to know.
By the way, I don't want to knock on him
being ten right, he's ten.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
No, there's no issue with that, and you're your taking
part and you're science fair and you're trying to make
some points. What I'm saying is your ten and you're
probably wrong on a lot of stuff because you're ten.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
And the paper straw thing was the U ended somebody
at the U ended something and I think he got
to visit. Yes, and yeah, it's reminding me of that. Yes.
Oh so so this is what he writes. Again, he's ten,
so getting into a discussion about yes, well there's no gas,
you still have to have power, and power gets made

(23:12):
a lot of times by using fossil fuels. So there's that.
He's ten. Whatever Christian says. In April, he mailed the
essay to Fox in a Canterbury school envelope with fourth
grade on the return. On the return address, again, who
wrote this? The ten year old?

Speaker 3 (23:26):
No?

Speaker 1 (23:27):
I think the ten year old probably was more coherent.
A few weeks later, the school received the letter of
response from Representative Fox. While the congresswoman thanked the ten
year old for contacting her, she disagreed with the proposal okay,
and at the end of her response attacked Christian's teacher.

(23:48):
This is a quote. Ask your teacher to explain propaganda
to you. I will never be able to know. My
guess is that your teacher will not be able to
give you a good educational experience by helping you, because
they are too interested in in doctrinating you. Wow. After
Christian's mother explained to him what Fox's response meant, the

(24:10):
ten year old says he's upset Fox went after his
teacher when Christian was the only one who chose the
topic of his essay. I think that was wrong. The
school didn't do anything. Emily Mango slam Fox's response on
social mediing is now demanding an apology. All right. I
have a couple theories on this, and I don't know.

(24:32):
I could be true, it could be not true. First
of all, I have to wonder if he's the only
one who mailed the congresswoman's office, and I'd be very
interested in the other topics.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Why would you ever think that?

Speaker 1 (24:46):
I don't know. I don't know what would prompt me
to wonder if that was the thing that happened, because
it's happened before. So what I'm wondering is did Fox
or her staff, I don't know who wrote it, wrote
the response. Maybe they received I don't know, ten letters
from this particular class, and they were all like, we

(25:07):
should have open borders, we electric cars are king you
know where the topic matter all seemed to trend in
one direction. At which point that prompted that observation by
Fox or one of her staff members, or maybe she
just read it and just assume that's what it was.
I don't know, but I don't think the first part,
let's get away from the teacher part of it. I

(25:27):
don't think the first part where she actually argued back
against it is inappropriate. Isn't that what you want? You
want a response, and her response was I disagree with you,
And that was the point of the assignment. If everyone
just acquiesced to what the ten year old wants, that
doesn't really show. That doesn't teach you any life lessons

(25:48):
on how you have to be compelling and convincing in
the argument that they're making. I think that's far more
useful for a ten year old, twelve year old, eighteen
year old. Figure out how to make strong, compelling our arguments,
how to sway people's opinions, and you'll go far in life.
So so much success is about your ability to communicate

(26:09):
and change people's minds. And it's not just in congress
or in activism. Uh, it's interpersonal relationships. If you want
to get into sales, that's going to be really important
to you. There's a there's one hundred useful reasons for it.
But the observation about the teacher, that's where all of
a sudden, I'm like, I wonder if they got about
ten letters and it's all woke garbage, And if that's

(26:33):
the case, I don't know that that's inappropriate. But so
my question is does she owe the ten year old
and I guess her mother an apology? Was it inappropriate
to go into the part about the teacher? Ask your
teacher what indoctrination is? You know, frankly, that's going to
be something that's kind of important to know because you're

(26:56):
also when if you're in the if you're of the
opinion that you have to learn how to shape minds
and change people's opinion. You have to understand when when
you're getting propagandized, you're having people try to sway your opinion,
so you can evaluate whether you know what their motives are.
All right, so should the Congress? Was it was that

(27:16):
too much of a response for to a ten year
old from a member of Congress eight eight eight nine
three four, seven eight seven four. And do you think
there's more to the background of this story, because of
course the media just ran out and they're like, oh, stude,
she wrote this letter and it could be construed as mean,
So we're gonna we're gonna run this l.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
She's just sitting there and she, you know, nothing to do,
and the letter comes across her desk and she opens
it and she's like, I'm going to completely decimate and
crush this thing.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
Yeah, debate, Yeah, She's sitting there crocheting or whatever you do. Right,
she's a letter? Oh is it a letter from a
young boy? What is this? Oh? How dare she or he?
I don't know what the teacher is teachers male or female,
So I don't know. You can weigh in on that
eight eight eight nine three four or seven eight seven
four if you want to be on the show. All right,

(28:05):
we got to talk sausage and old mean gypsies or
bond villain. I can't remember. I can't figure out what
I prefer to couch this woman as. But we got
some scary crap for you. Six forty eight hang on,
quick phone call. We'll get to a few other things. Yes, Mike,
what's up?

Speaker 4 (28:23):
Hey?

Speaker 7 (28:24):
I have an idea. You know, I think that the
Trump administration should pass a law, you know, to the
House and the Senate and all that that makes it
illegal for any politician to pander and offer free things
to the American people. I think the longer this goes on,

(28:44):
the more damage it does to our country. And you know,
people need to have self worth and they need to
get up if they can and go to work and
not be sitting around waiting for free items. It's kind
of like, you know, how how.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Do you police that? Is? What is cannsidered?

Speaker 7 (29:00):
A free You're just you know, you just they can't
go on TV and they can't you know, campaign and
offer people free stuff.

Speaker 4 (29:08):
You know.

Speaker 7 (29:08):
It's like they give people free health care, they give
them free cell phones. There's all this stuff that they
and then you know that.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
A tool understand, but I understand, but some teams are
some things are going to be free to some that
are not free to others. Here's what I mean. Well,
hold on, let me, let me let me put this out. Sorry.
If let's say the guy gets on, he's like I'm
going to make sure we have good roads. Is that panderin?

Speaker 7 (29:32):
Uh No, I'm talking actual like tangible items.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Well, but roads are tangible. And if I have negative
tax liability whereas you do, because let's say, let's say
you do have tax liability because you pay the gas
tax because you have a car, whereas I don't, then
it's free for me and not free for you. You
get what I'm saying. I'm just I'm just trying to fuss.

Speaker 7 (29:52):
But I think I think your analogy isn't where I
was going with this. You know, I'm talking actual giving
people free stuff and then you know, more people line
up for free stuff, and then the people that are
working hard, you know, pay extra taxes. Yeah, it is,
and I think you know, people, like I said, people
need to get up if they can, Like, we need

(30:13):
to protect and help people that are like mentally ill,
legitimately disabled. We should be taking care of our veterans
and our elderly people, you know, not the average joe
that's just looking for an easy out, and they need
to you know, investigate more people. Yeah, and make sure
that people that are receiving any type of stuff from

(30:36):
the government are legitimately worthy of it. You know, it's
not just someone that's looking to work the system, because
we know there's a lot of people working the system,
and at the end of the day, it hurts our
country and the economy and the people that are out
there trying to make things work for themselves.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
I agree. I just think it's going to be it'll
be very difficult to parse because it already is right because,
like you at your point, we know there's people who
are clearly taking advantage of the system. You see it
with it, you see it within the snap benefits right
where you see all these videos of people going, no way,
I'm getting a job. Can you believe they're making it
so I can't buy sugary drinks? Why did I have?

(31:16):
I mean, if this doesn't work versus the.

Speaker 7 (31:18):
Guy that was like that, you know I had. I
had a guy in New York. I moved to North Carolina,
but you know, he left Georgia to come to New
York because they were cutting off his disability. And one
day he was out cutting the grass and he's like,
I went out there. I'm like, hey, your back is bad.
You shouldn't be doing that. He's like, my back's perfectly fine,
you know, and so you now you know that he's

(31:39):
lying and he's just working. There's a lot of people
like that. That's what I'm I.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
I'm just saying, it's it's very difficult because it's twofold.
You got to you gotta identify him, and you also
have to hold politicians right, and like I gotta, I
gotta go to break. So I appreciate you calling it
either uh an insanely insanely effective bond villain very terrifying,
or the old gypsy lady that'll curse you and tell
your drug to hell or you lose a bunch of weight.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
Cauz.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
We're going a whole segment here of crazy people making
videos calling for harm to their political opponents or Trump
for this segment of the show. So I don't know
what's going on with this woman. She's got one of
those dead eyes. I don't know how to describe it
where it's all milky, which already has given you kind
of a bad guy advantage, as that's a little bit
of a trope within movies, right ross, Have you ever

(32:31):
seen a good person with the milky eye in a movie.
I'm just talking about portrayal. I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
There's good people with milky eyes sha exist, but nothing
comes to mind.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
But we have the whole cataract Overiye. Usually when you
see that, you're like, that person's a bad person in
this movie. That's that's a henchman, or that's maybe even
the leader here.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
I mean, every time you hear you know, as the
old gypsy woman foretold, this is the person that comes
to mind.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
This is it right here? In fact, let's go ahead
and listen to her, shall we, Run of the Rose.

Speaker 8 (33:02):
I have ordered you to speak the truth.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Her delivery is even old gypsy lady. That's what's even crazier.
It's not just the look, it's the delivery.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
Still, Run of the Rose.

Speaker 8 (33:15):
I have ordered you to speak the truth. It is
time for the whistlebilt blowers to start whistling and screaming
the truth. Huh, mister Trump, I will assassinate you where
at peace? Get ready, mister Trump? Every day you played its.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Game, rosh, what do you think her weapon of assassination
of choice is.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
I've heard that Trump already lost fifty pounds. Oh and
it span he's looking slim, he's looking spry, and he
golfs a lot so it's probably what it is.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
It's very se Yeah. Oh wait, he's up to seventy
five pounds.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
He's lost seventy five pounds, probably too fast. It's a zempic.
I think it's eye of newt We are onewenty pounds,
he's lost a twenty All right, continue, crazy old gymcy lager.

Speaker 8 (34:03):
I will eliminate one of your family members. Oh that
will be a proven fact. Last warning, Trump, barn will
be executed.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Oh no, for every day.

Speaker 8 (34:19):
You played a scam, I will eliminate one of your family.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
And that is the truth.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Okay, all right? Is it only family he likes? What
about that? What was it the sister? Now that's sister
who's the one where they always? Is it a cousin?
That woman that's always on their bashing Trump? The media
just made her a darling. Is she on the list
or because she thinks like you, she's not on the list.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
Now, obviously this woman should be investigated, like the FBI
needs to go to her house or secret service or whatever.
But is she threatening?

Speaker 1 (34:49):
She lives in a house, she lives in a candy
it's made of candy right in the woods.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Is she threatening like physical violence or I'm thinking this
because she does look like the old gypsy woman. Yeah,
who foretells her and puts a thinning curse on you?
Or is she threatening Trump and his family via like
voodoo magic curses and stuff like is she a witch?

Speaker 1 (35:15):
Well that she looks like a witch, and I don't know.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Like, how is she threatening?

Speaker 1 (35:20):
I see? This is the problem because if she's threatening curse,
I don't know that you could just move against her.
Right if she was on there clacking an M four
round right or an AK forty seven, you know, speed
loading it or you're like, all right, that's clearly a threat.
I think that would be one thing. But if she's
claiming that she's gonna get you with her cauldron, I'm

(35:41):
not sure you can initially do something. Now if one
of the family family members start dying, then.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Maybe, yeah, I've never thought about I remember the old
wrestler Papa Shango. Have you never thought about, like, hey,
who is Papa Shango's mother? However, this is yeah possibly?
So is is she like gonna curse him? Or like
is she saying, hey, I'm going to like, you know,
shoot you. Either way, she needs to be investigated. I
just want to know.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
And what let's say that you hypothetically went on and yeah,
because what you're arguing is essentially what Moses said to Pharaoh.
You know what I'm saying, if I could just tie
in the religious part, and she's like, if you don't,
let but people go, bad stuff that's gonna happen. And
then then then all the firstborns were murdered. Right, is

(36:28):
there liability there? I mean, clearly Pharaoh thought because he felt,
you know, with his army, he thought there was a
real threat there. But I don't know the videos and
sad like, I can't even do justice to how absolutely
terrifying this woman looks like, if you don't know, if
people believe somebody could do this, that's somebody. I'd be like, maybe, yeah, people.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Think we're kidding, We're not kidding. That's what she looks like.
She looks like the old gypsy Papashango mother that she
looks like that. So it's a legit question. I think
she's trying to curse him.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
I would be kind. Let's say, hypothetically, you're in public
and I don't know, you don't give you don't yield
right away to this woman, or it wasn't that what
happened in Thinner? Did you like hit her with a
car or something? Or am I am I misremembering the
plot leading up to that.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Yeah, let's don't remember.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Yeah, let's say you didn't yield right away. I would
be kind of even if this woman physically threatened me
in the way that she's threating Trump in person, right
after she's wagging her finger grinding up some stuff, I
would be legitimately on the fence kind of worried.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
I'm saying, if she like takes out like a doll
or whatever, like a like an effigy, yes, made out
of like tumble weeds or something, and then throws out
chicken towons and spits at you, I would You're in danger.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Yeah, yeah, so I don't know how you handle this,
but it's getting handled because case in point, if you
guys probably don't know who these people are. I didn't,
but I've been forced to learn who they are so
I can tell you about it. There is a musician
by the name of Kelly Holliday. I guess this is
like em stuff, which isn't really my bag, but if
it is yours, good for you. And he is dating

(38:06):
a woman by the name of Abby Chatfield, and you
probably don't know who they are because they're Australian, but
apparently they're pretty well known in Australia. And in fact,
Kelly Holliday is part of a duo that decided to
do a North American tour because their music is picking up.
The tour started in Canada and then was set to
continue in the US. I believe the first show was
going to be in Brooklyn. They had played the previous

(38:29):
day in Toronto. They got a tour bus, the whole thing,
and so Holiday along with the rest of the band,
they make it to the border right because they're driving
from Toronto to Brooklyn to do the show. They get
to the US border and Holiday is informed that he missed.
Chatfield and several other members that they are entourage are

(38:51):
banned from the US. And the reason they're banned is
because Abby Chatfield, who by the way, she is a
social media influencer that's pretty well known in Australia. I
don't know what her background is. I don't really care.
She seems like a pretty vile person watching some of
these videos. She decided to make a series of videos
begging in cells in the US to assassinate Trump, and

(39:15):
then she, along with her boyfriend, would make these you know,
just random videos because she's you know, she's blogging every
part of her life, uh, calling for the jailing and
physical torture in one video of people who speak words
she doesn't like. She's full on authoritarian up to an

(39:36):
including calling for the assassination. Again, she'd never even been
to the US. Yeah, this was the big break for
her boyfriend. His band was picking up dates in major
markets and as a result, they sat at the border
before they essentially were returned back to Canada and had
to go back to Australia because now all of their
tours canceled. And now she's making these videos where she's like,

(40:00):
we were just kidding. It was just I run my
mouth sometimes I can't help myself, but it was. It
was one of the more satisfying find out moments I
think I've seen in some time. And it doesn't sound
like officials really care. So, yes, you can't make videos
calling for the assassin. See, this is the audacity of

(40:21):
it right here. These people would purport to hate the US,
the politicians and things going on there, and yet the
first thing they want to do is to suck up
to the teat of large s that is this market.
You ever watch Ross, you ever watch they call it

(40:41):
something different? What do they call it? They called shark
tank in the US, but do they I think they
call it something different in the in the Australia, maybe
it's called shark tank there too, But in the UK
it's something different. But they have their own version of
shark tank there, right, And if you don't remember, shark
tank is entrepreneurs show up, you know, mister Wonderful is there,

(41:01):
Mark Cuban's there, a few others and they pitch their
ideas and you know, maybe maybe they strike a deal,
maybe they don't. In Australia, I've seen clips of their
version of it, and the main focus. It's very interesting
because the main focus in every negotiation description is how

(41:23):
are we going to get this into the US market?
Because Australia is a small market, even though it's a
you know, it's a big, wide continent. All of that,
they have less people in the entire country of Australia
than they do California. So to really make money on
an idea, you can't just limit yourself to selling in Australia,
you have to how am I going to target Europe?

(41:45):
And then the cherry on top, how can I get
this in the US market? And almost every discussion you
see on the Australian version of this is the sharks
asking the person and you know, how are we is
this viable in the US market? Have you sought US patents?
Because they recognize that if you want to make real money,

(42:07):
you have to get into the US market.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
It's like that with products, but it's like that especially
with entertainment. Sure, yeah, you know, like the Beatles were famous, right, yeah,
they were known, but they weren't like the Beatles until
they came over.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
Here, correct, right, yeah, absolutely, So for you know, for
this purpose, if you want that, and yet you'll call
literally for the assassination of the leader, don't be surprised
that they're not going to let you in. And imagine
being in the music industry because now these record labels
they realize that this guy's band isn't viable in the

(42:40):
US because they can't tour. And this happened to that
British dude. Remember who was calling for he was calling
he was like rooting on the death of Israelis right,
who was at that concert in the UK and then
was really shocked, and we will let him into the US. Nah,
this chick straight up, it's like we need to assass
you need to assassinate the president for us. She'd been

(43:01):
doing this for over a year, so oh, it's so
delicious watching the fan. And again because her boyfriend participated
in this too, he didn't make as many videos, but
when he would appear there, he would agree with this crap.
So no, I'm not sympathetic at all. Your music's probably
garbage anyway, but this is what you get. These are

(43:23):
called consequences of your actions. And watching her make crying
videos now because she realized she ruined. Not only she
didn't ruin just things for her, she ruined things for him,
his bandmate, because again they're a twosome, plus any of
the support staff. All this because you couldn't shut your
face hole. You just had to sit there and be
an awful person. And now you get to reap the

(43:45):
rewards of that, which is you're not able to make
money out of the US with live touring and eventually
people will forget who you are. Record labels ain't going
to deal with you. They're not going to to distribute
your stuff. This is the this is what happens you
you ft around and now you're finding out. And I
hope she makes more videos because I enjoy watching every

(44:07):
single one. Seven eighteen hang on. So what you have
is this is in your Belinda, California. You have a
group of say four students, maybe one teacher. They decide
they're going to hold themselves a little a little protests
and got themselves a bullhorn just to describe it. The
focus of it is men and women's sports, right, So

(44:29):
they're there and the person on the bullhorn is a
body positive transactivists in this case transition female to male.
But it just looks like a really fat woman with
a beard in a jean jacket. And so the idea
that anyone has a problem with them participating in men's

(44:50):
sports transitioning from female to male, that's not really the issue. Plus,
even if this person was not a trans transition it
was not had not transitioned. They don't pose a threat
in any sporting event. You catch my drift. That's why
they're a body positive activists. So they're holding signs like
bullying has no place in sports. Let all kids play

(45:12):
and again that's so dishonest because all kids are allowed
to play. This is just a question of which bracket
you get to play in based on what you were
assigned at BIRST, so to speak, or whatever the verbiage is.
They like, all right, So that's not why all this
is funny. It's wildly hypocritical. But that's not why this
is funny. This is why this is funny.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
So Sophia Laurie and Sonya Shaw and Chad Bianco and
Steve Hilton and all of these other mouthpieces for the
anti trans movement are trying to convince people that this
is a grassroots movement. Sorry, my fun got tired.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
So you're promoting sports, but you skip thumb Day. Apparently
you don't even have You don't have a physical stamina
to hold down the button on the little walkie talkie
part of the bullhorn. Thumb Day for twenty seconds.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Some day is so important, though, is it?

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (46:11):
I've been doing that. So go to Planet Fitness and
they got a new thumb machine, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
thirty sessions this week alone. It's only two a new
thumb machine.

Speaker 4 (46:18):
Where is that?

Speaker 2 (46:19):
It's a you live with your thumbs, it's a new thumb.
Come on, man, dude.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
By the way, everyone's thumb should be buch butcher than
it's ever been in history, considering smartphones, you know what
I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Plus the thumb machine at Planet Fitness.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
Plus yes, of course the thumb machine at plant is
there a big weight usually to get on there.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
It's so frustrating. Get off the machine.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
Man. I didn't realize i'd have to ask you this,
but apparently this stuff is so blatant, so rampant. I
should say. You never know, h you're not, by chance
a Chinese spy, are you?

Speaker 2 (46:55):
I mean, why would you say that?

Speaker 1 (46:57):
Because like, apparently they're everywhere, and you've been manipulating on
the board this morning with chopsticks, so kind of disconcerting.
The former mayor of Arcadia, this is in Los Angeles area,
resigned after admitting to acting as an illegal foreign agent
of China. In a federal plea deal unsealed yesterday. Elaine

(47:20):
Wang agreed with prosecutors that she worked for the Chinese
Republic of China to boost propaganda. So basically, not only
is she a city council member, then eventually the mayor
of China. During that same time, she's running a website
called US NewsCenter, which she claimed was a news source

(47:40):
for Chinese Americans, but in reality was directly being populated
with articles that were written by Beijing. And of course
we're very propagandish in nature. Let's see here, I would
include news articles as well as Chinese authored essays, and
not in the existence of genocide and forced labor, this

(48:04):
would be the Wiger stuff, just just basically everything. In
a bunch of text messages that were presented as part
of the indictment, you can see Wang communicating with her
handler and actually complimenting them on the speed at which
they're able to give her these BS articles so she
could post them. She faces a maximum of ten years

(48:25):
in prison. So between Fang Fang, the mayor of Arcadia,
they had another council member in the San Francisco area.
Do the amount of Chinese spies that are in here,
and I mean this seriously, coupled with the thousands of
attempted hacking things that are literally happening all the time
with China, I don't know that we even know. It's

(48:46):
not as a debt, Like you can't just sit there
by the way and go all right, let's look for
someone in one of those rice field hats, right like,
there's so now that was all right? That was?

Speaker 2 (48:57):
That was what now you're mocking my hat?

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Well, well you said it's a sun. That was clearly
a rice field workers had.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
I don't think that was I think that was intentional.
What you just did?

Speaker 1 (49:08):
You have a dragon is a paper way?

Speaker 2 (49:10):
I don't take. I don't teach guy loo. Okay, all right,
Ross is in there doing weird like uh, crouching tiger
hitting dragon flips and stuff too.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
Clearly there's a wire there, but you just can't see it.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
Yeah, the engineers put it in the wire didn't then
you could see it.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
Yeah. Wire foo, man, that's the whole thing. Look it up.
Oh but yeah, you got dudes. You gotta wonder like
how infiltrated?

Speaker 3 (49:35):
Is?

Speaker 1 (49:35):
What lengths is China willing to go to? What we
need to do is sell them more land next to
military installations. Should we should we do that?

Speaker 2 (49:42):
We need to do that.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
Can we also sell him a bunch of land up
er Our missile silos are in Montana?

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Yeah we probably should.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
Yeah. Now Ted Turner's dead, there's gonna be a bunch available.
He's The single largest land private landholder in Montana was
Ted Turner. He had a crazy amount of acreage. Yeah,
especially especially if you get into the areas around the
Missouri River which's going through there. He owns tons of that.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
Now I'm just remembering the stupid balloon they had, Oh
this by balloon. Yeah, hey, there's this spy balloon. List
is let it just dude's thing.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
That's what I'm saying. The audacity that they're I mean,
just how blatant in your face they're willing to be.
It is really, it is really a troubling thing because
I don't think people fully appreciate how cold war this
whole thing is with China, how dangerous it is. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
No, they don't see as as friends.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
No, not at all, not at all. You know, maybe
you'll run into, you know, people from China that do.
I understand that. But from a government standpoint, from an
official policy standpoint, they want all they want this the
audacity of the things that they'll do, claiming the entirety
of the South China Sea, up to and including essentially
harassing people like the Philippines and people in Singapore and

(50:55):
all these other countries that want nothing to do with them, Well,
they'll just openly attack their fishing fleets. The absolute raping
of the oceans that is going on all across the
world by these Chinese fishing fleets. If you've never seen
a map of what they're doing to the coasts of
South America, it's bad stuff. Man.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
There are people that are just completely oblivious to that fact.
And I'm happy that Trump isn't one of them. And
what you're seeing what when it comes to Venezuela or
the Panama Canal, or what's going on now at the
Strait of Horror moves, And a lot of it comes
down to the fact that we are sort of like
crippling China.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
Yeah, China. China used to control both ends of the
thing now and now they're openly threatening Panama because Panama
basically there's a company at least to the Chinese right,
so having a Chinese own company, and then they found
a better lease deal with one of these European countries,
and they are actively like sabotaging ships, they're sabotaging locks,

(51:51):
they're threatening Panama that a Panama doesn't give them exclusive
lease rights basically created so that the company who owns
it has to give them them that they they threatened
a cripple trade in the Panama Canal because they don't care.
They'll do whatever they want. And they cut these deals
and and like I wasn't fully versed on it until I,
you know, decided to actively learn about it. This is

(52:13):
why they go to these other countries. And I've explained
this one hundred times, not explaining one hundred more because
people need to understand. They go to some poor country
in Africa, right, and Uh, there's two things that are
hoping to accomplish. One they need they need to find workers. Uh,
they need to find jobs for Chinese workers where money
can also be skimmed off the top and brought back

(52:35):
to the Chinese government. This is why when you had
the initial COVID outbreak, there was remember the second country
that had the biggest COVID outbreak that it was in Italy, Italy. Yeah,
and that's so weird, right, People like what that? What
the hell's going on? Why would Italy have this? And
the reason is is because China went into Italy and
they had this tanning, they had this leather trade. Right,

(52:57):
there's part of the fashion trade. And northern in Northern Italy, right,
we're talking Milan down to Ross's favorite part of Italy,
home of the olive garden, Tuscany. And so China came
in because the market was being pressed because in Italy
it costs more to produce it, and they were being
out Basically, they were being pushed out of the market

(53:21):
by cheaper Chinese tanneries and everything that was going on.
And it got to the point where China realized there
was an opportunity. They would essentially buy the entirety of
the leather trade in northern Italy. They would maintain it there, however,
state it had to be staffed half and half by
Italians and also Chinese workers. And that's the reason why

(53:42):
you had this quick transference from Wuhan to Milan. Because
to facilitate that, because now you get one hundred thousand
Chinese in Italy working, they had to create a series
of daily flights between Milan and Wuhan. You had this
is a strange out right, but they had like six

(54:02):
daily back and forth flights between Wuhan and Italy to
accompany this, and that's why you have this transference so quickly.
It was one of the easier ways to track it back.
So they play that game. They go into poor countries
in Africa where you have some deskbody wants money, and
they go, hey, how about we build you a train
so you can look like you're doing magnanimous things for

(54:22):
your people, or a soccer stadium. They do this all
over Central and South America. We'll build you a soccer stadium.
The deal is, though, you have to agree to have
half the workers b us. We'll give you a bunch
of kickback money, but we get to then skim off
the top for any trans you know, anything that's being
transported on this train. And going forward, we have to

(54:43):
be able to bid for road construction and other construction
projects by Chinese companies who will be allowed to bring
their workers in. Well, if you're ahead of that hell hole,
you'll agree to that because you're gonna put a bunch
of money in your pocket. You don't care what happens
to your people. And the third thing in there that
China wants is they want your allegiance for things like

(55:07):
un votes. And so what they've done is they've created
dozens of proxy votes that however, on a controversial issue, however,
China wants people to vote the head of the you know,
gunese whatever deskpot hellhole will then vote with them. This
is why China is so financially overextended, why they're getting

(55:27):
so desperate that they have to steal intellectual property. They
have to force these things, and you know, the more
money that gets pulled from there, the better. The more
frantic they're going to get. And that's what you're seeing
now that they would have the audacity to fill city
council chambers with their own spies. Man, it's bad, evil

(55:48):
stuff and people better wrap their head around what's going
on well before it's too late, because China's going to
keep doing it with a smile on their face. So
that's why I wonder, is Ross a Chinese spy? We
don't know? Is raced age at a Chinese spy? It's
hard to tell. Apparently it isies it is. Let me
ask you a question. Do you like dumplings?

Speaker 4 (56:09):
I do?

Speaker 1 (56:12):
How about General So's chicken?

Speaker 10 (56:14):
Oh my favorite?

Speaker 1 (56:17):
What a spy would say, That's exactly.

Speaker 10 (56:20):
What they would say. That is one of my favorite.

Speaker 3 (56:23):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
So, if you if you start giving us things in Celsius,
we're gonna know.

Speaker 10 (56:27):
So Yeah, that'll be a hint. I don't even know
if I would know how to either way. Let's jump
first to rain. Yesterday worked out like we had expected.
I mean, a lot of it was northwest of the
Triad had a half inch three quarters of an inch
just over the border up in southern Virginia. Got into

(56:47):
the Triad, we saw anywhere from a tenth on your
north Buffalo Creek at Secondary Road to a few hundreds
of an inch quarter inch to the northwest as you
get out near a Higlot Mountain into the triangle, not
much nothing, a couple of tenths to hundreds of an inch.
And now we're settling in for a little bit drier
weather pattern as we hit on through the next several

(57:08):
days there are rain chance is actually just one, and
then it's gonna heat up too, so we'll start feeling
like summertime. A little fog around this morning, and looky there.
The Weather Services even slapped now a dense fog advisory
on some of us until nine this morning, so some
of that fog is thick, and then we'll see the clouds.
Good way to sunshine, especially this afternoon, little bit seventies
fifties tonight near eighty Tomorrow, probably stay in the upper

(57:30):
seventies with sunshine around everywhere. And then as we get
into Wednesday night, that's the front coming in. Showers and
maybe a few thunderstorms, but not a bunch of rain.
A tenth to a quarter of an inch, that's it.
And then low seventies and a little cooler on Thursday,
mid upper seventies, Friday, mostly Sunday both of those days,
and then warmer over the weekend. We get close to
her maybe even above ninety degrees, could have some low

(57:53):
nineties by Sunday and Monday, especially in the Triangle. And
I didn't forget you, Casey for the PGA. Yeah, the
weather's going to be dry in a warming trend. First
round Thursday, low's of the morning near fifty, afternoon high's
low sixties, and seventy Friday near eighty. Saturday, final round

(58:13):
Sunday close to ninety degrees and staying dry. So the
weather looks great right now. It looks like they should
be in pretty good shape. Very low chances of any
rain and hardly any win. Maybe a little breeze around
Thursday Friday less than fifteen miles an hour.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
I mean it would fine for the weather. But if
they accidentally go into Philly they might get murdered.

Speaker 10 (58:31):
So and you can do that too. Steer clear of that.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
So all right, thank you, sir, I appreciate it. All right,
I'll let you get back to Spye or whatever. There
you go, Erace ag from the Weather Channel seven forty seven.
Hang on, what is going on here? Ross had just
texted you a picture of these things. A oh, a
career criminal who was arrested for stealing seven hundred and
seventy thousand dollars worth of Tiffany diamonds, in this case

(58:59):
two sets of diamond ear rings. So yeah, these are
he said, pretty What is the carrot weight on these things? Well,
it's a lot, clearly because it's you know, just these
four earrings, two sets are worth four hundred and forty
thousand dollars. Here are seven hundred and seventy thousand here.
What's so crazy about this? They're set diamonds, meaning they're

(59:20):
not four loose diamonds like you'd see in a heist film.
They are set into a solitaire setting, and then they
have the you know, the giant prong that you push
through your ear before you put the clasp on it.
That's what was in his digestive system. Ross, I just

(59:41):
texted you the picture. That's far worse looking at that.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Yeah, that's gonna be some damage.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
And the back's not on him, that's what's The back's
not on him. It's just you know, it's a half
inch spiky thing.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
What did he think was gonna happen besides a lot
of pain?

Speaker 1 (59:55):
Well he didn't because he was set up. What. Yeah,
So he said that he went to the Mall of Millennia,
which if you've never been there, you've probably been. Have
you been there in Orlando? This is like it's like
an outlet store is but a crack, right, So the
Mall of Millennia has all super high end stuff. It
ain't your standard mall. So you know Tiffany has an

(01:00:17):
outlet there, You're gonna have like uh Blentciago, uh, you know,
all the big fashion names. So he said he was
just there browsing, you know, just checking on some stuff
when somebody must have slipped this into some food that
he ate at where the food court is. I don't
know if it's a food court, if it's regular restaurant.
So yeah, yeah, he didn't mean to and I don't

(01:00:40):
know what the plan was, where they're going to follow
him around away for him to go number two or what.
But yeah, so Mark, you never had that happen where
somebody was just a million dollars worth of diamonds against
your will.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
So I was at the Olive Garden, of course you were.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
I was there a.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
Little celebrating, you know, end of the week. It was
a Friday, Yeah, and I went. They got unlimited salad there.
I don't know if you know this, yeah, with the
bread yeah from others yea. And anyway, I took a.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
Big bike salad as your giveaway.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
I swallowed a Faberge egg.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
Oh my gosh. Yeah, no, I gotta be fair that guy. Honestly,
I don't think he meant to steal that Faberge egg,
that story from a few weeks ago. Yeah, he just
meant to steal a purse. So you so you were
inadvertently served a Faberge egg and in a in a salad.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
Yeah, someone from the cooking staff in the back where
they're trained in Tuscany. Yeah, I don't think they teach
you to do that. I nearly choked.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
H This dude's initially for excuse me, Texas. It's his name,
Jathan Gilders.

Speaker 5 (01:01:36):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
By the way, he's been now awaiting trial for a while.
His attorney was just okay, so he's gonna go pro se.
Oh perfect. Yeah, probably because his attorney refused to argue
that theory. That's that's my theory on why he's getting
rid of his getting rid of his attorney there because
I met the attorney when he's like, all right, so
you want me to argue to the court that you

(01:01:58):
were you want to the cibarro and they put some
diamonds under the pizza or whatever. Ross everybody used to
work at Toaborrow. Ross used to work at Toborrow. Yeah,
of course I forgot about that, ye though you don't know.
He made a joke about working at Saborrow on Twitter
and then Saborrow's official account welcomed him as the newest
Sabarro appoint It's great. Yeah. So eventually, let's see. Guilder

(01:02:25):
was arrested six hours after the heist as he traveled
out of Florida Interstate about three hundred miles from Orlando
in a rented Mitsubishi Outlander. He was eventually they did
a felony stop was yanked out of the vehicle by
Florida Highway patrol. Oh, I forgot to pay the Florida band. Well,
he's not at Florida by He's from Texas. This is,

(01:02:45):
by the way, this is how you know that he
totally wasn't in on it, according to authorities. When he
would after he was drug out of the vehicle and
they had him in handcuffs, he on his own asked
the police quote, am I going to be charged with
what's in my stomach? While sitting in the squad car?
That's what that's what police call evidence. Bro. I can't

(01:03:07):
believe you're a career criminal and you didn't know that.
By the way, it took him two weeks under police guard,
because he's been in custody now for like a month.
It took two weeks under police guard for him to
pass the stolen merchandise. And this is this is what's
even crazy. Oddly, as police were waiting for the four

(01:03:28):
Tiffany diamond earrings, they say he passed two other earrings
they didn't realize were stolen. I want to point this,
I want to reiterate this. So they're waiting for him
to defecate the four earrings he's accused of stealing from
the Tiffany shop and they find two other earrings. I
haven't had a chance to chat, probably for I don't know,

(01:03:49):
a few weeks. So let's go ahead and rectify that.
Senator Ted Budd joining us this morning. How you doing, Senator, I.

Speaker 4 (01:03:56):
Do great, good to be with you.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
Hey, I was gonna starts somewhere else, but this is
just kind of fresh on the brain. One of your colleagues,
a mister Senator Kelly, is in the news for some
comments he made having to do with I guess I
don't know what would be the best way to describe this. Basically,
whatever capacity that the US remains as it pertains to

(01:04:21):
weapons stockpiles, some on the hill and I'm trying to
pick your brain if it's much ado about nothing. But
some are saying this is a verbal violation of some
classified information that he may have had access to, because
you guys, you know, as part of your Senate committees,
are presented with info that you're supposed to keep secret.

(01:04:43):
Do you think that Mark Kelly commenting on the US
weapons stockpiles quote being drained in an attack on hag
Seth is a violation of your guys' obligation to keep
certain things secret because it might aid the enemies, which
I think would be pretty useful to know whether we
have a certain amount of missiles or not. So where's
your head at on this, Senator?

Speaker 4 (01:05:05):
Yeah, look, you've got to be super sensitive. I mean
North Carolinians sent me here, you know, with a trust
not to leak this stuff. I'm now on that committee.
I'm on the Intelligence Committee. He serves on that committee.
I'm on the Armed Services Committee. He serves on that committee.
And look, this guy has you know, a story passed.
He was a test pilot, he was in Desert Storm,

(01:05:26):
he was a you know, he was an astronaut on
the Space Shuttle. So he's got shops in that regards.
But you still can't be loose. It doesn't matter what
your history is. You can't be loose with the stuff
that folks are entrusting us with, you know, in those rooms.
All that said, there's a lot of public information that's
been published about you know, if it's defense articles. Wall

(01:05:48):
Street journalis said, talking about munitions, even before you know
the recent issues with Iran, before Midnight Hammer last year,
they're oh my goodness, we got a wht term munitions.
We need to and enhance our defense industrial base. I've
been beating that drum. But when it gets into specifics,

(01:06:08):
you know, on on tomahawks or you name, you know,
the Aim one twenty missiles, you can't speak specifically about
those things. Those things are classified. I got to go
back and look and see exactly what he said. But look,
you can't be loose with the specific numbers. We are
producing them, but we are using him at the same time.
You just got to be so careful. And you know,

(01:06:29):
he's gotten himself in hot water by this kind of
illegal orders thing he did with five other Democrats House
and Senate, and it's just I think it's just, you know,
they try to be edgy, and it's just it's crazy.
The stuff that gets attention on the Democrats side is
just crazy right now.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
Well, but here's the thing. If he has real concerns
about Golden Dome missile defense in China's growing space, these
are all legitimate concerns if he actually wants to air them.
But the process is, you guys have public facing meetings
and you guys have private meetings right where every time, Yeah,
explain this people, how it works well.

Speaker 4 (01:07:07):
The hearing is split. Like sometimes let's say, like Tulca
Gabbard comes and sees us, we have an open hearing,
and sometimes we'll do the closed hearing first. Sometimes we'll
do it after the open hearing. And there's things we
say in more generalities in the open because the public
deserves that. But there's things they also trust us with.
If there's a member. We're not a democracy, we're a republic.

(01:07:28):
We represent the people. North Carolina sent me here. They
give me stuff in these rooms that you just can't
share with the broader public because if it goes to
the public, it's going to our adversaries. It's going to China, Russia, Iran,
North Korea. We can't do that. So you've just got
to be real, You've got to be real careful with
the specifics. But there are things on those committees, and

(01:07:49):
those are the two main committees that have a lot
of time. In the skiff, which is the nickname for
the room. It's like a secret compartment in Porestionion facility.
And that's just a room where you go in, you
take off your Apple Watch, you take off you know,
you leave your phones outside. No fit bits or anything
like that, and you just go in and you just
you read paper and you talk with the brass, the military,

(01:08:12):
the intelligence community that comes in here, and you dig
in and you push back on them and you get
to the bottom of things. On behalf of the folks
you know back in North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (01:08:21):
It's my understanding that these committees are pretty good gets right,
A lot of a lot of a lot of you
and your colleagues. These are a kind of committees you
want to be on because this is where the coolelt
stuff happens. Whatever your motivation.

Speaker 4 (01:08:30):
Yeah, but look, I mean, if you're on the Intelligence Committee,
ninety percent of what you do is not on TV.
So they're great. I mean, while it might be interesting
and helpful and very useful for the security of our country,
at the same time, you can't go out and talk
about it. I mean, this is I'm kind of up
against the edge of what we can even talk about
r right now here with you, Casey. So you know,

(01:08:51):
people in politics they tend to like going on TV
and you know, with you on radio, getting their name.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
Out of there.

Speaker 4 (01:08:56):
But you just got to you got to do it
for the sake of the country and that you hope
you go in there with the right motives.

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
Well, and so this was gonna be my question, and
I'll keep a generic when you finally did get on
those committees. I can't remember what your House committees were,
if you had comparable committees, But when you first walk
into that environment, Yeah, when you first walk into that environment,
how crazy eye opening is it? Is it a little
overwhelming when you start getting to read the stuff people
don't get to see.

Speaker 4 (01:09:22):
Well, I do remember after the first week, going into
a meeting, they said, how's Intel or Intelligence committee? I go, well,
it's very interesting, and thank god that nothing goes wrong
each and every day, because they can go drastically wrong.
And they were like, never ever say that, because you
know it just it's a depressing thing to say. But
you just see, you know how dangerous the world is,

(01:09:43):
and how grateful we are that those that are on
the on the wall for us in this country. You're
grateful for our military, You're grateful for our intelligence, You're
grateful for those that you know that are that are
that are keeping us safe at night. Safe at night.
You got to watch against internal threats, external threats, adversaries,
technological threats. So it's all around and man, I am look,

(01:10:07):
you got some bad actors. You've got the John Brennan's
of the world. You got the call Me's right, and
those guys are being investigated as they should. But once
you scrape off that small layer, right, You've got some
really good folks out there that really they love our country.
You know, they love they love their families, and they

(01:10:28):
want to keep our country going for another two hundred
and fifty years and do their part to do so.

Speaker 1 (01:10:32):
I believe it. I think that we wildly underestimate, or
at least the public has a misconception about how and
these are my words. You can agree or disagree how
immensely evil China is. We just had this mayor in Arcadie, California.
She's a Chinese spy Swallwell's Chinese spy. Thousands of fishing
and hacking attacks every day by China, plus all the

(01:10:55):
gamesmanship China pools in the world trying to exert influence
through proc see votes with hell you know, healthscape nations
in Africa that they give money to and like, Do
people have a firm enough understanding of how bad China
is of an actor on the world stage, And do
you agree with that.

Speaker 4 (01:11:13):
By and large, most people are naive. I mean they like,
you know, cheap toys, everything that's pretty convenient. That's sort
of an elixir that kind of puts people to sleep,
that like, oh, it's you know, it's just China, but boy,
they have it. Here's where it is. It's not just China.
It is the totalitarian impulse. You see it come out

(01:11:35):
through radical Islam. You see it in Iran, you see
it in North Korea, you see it in the holdovers
from the old Soviet Union in Russia. It's just that
they not only that's why China and Russia don't actually
even like each other. They got a long border, but
they both would want to take each other over if
they could, so they want to control everything. We America, yes,

(01:11:59):
we have a presence around the world, but we do
it to protect our own shores. You know, we're not
hur That's our reason for our military is to protect
shipping lanes, to protect the prosperity of the US and
to provide for our own defense. We we don't want
to take over the world. We just want the world
to be at peace and don't mess with us. We

(01:12:21):
want to live a great life here and take care
of our families and loved ones. That's that's really what
we're about. We want to grow a business, we want
to have relative prosperity, an opportunity. That's why America is
very different than these totalitarian countries, whether it's religiously totalitarian
or whether it's politically toutalitarian, you know, and if they're

(01:12:41):
if they're atheistic like a China, and then that's that's
a religion unto itself.

Speaker 5 (01:12:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
Do you think it's helpful then for the president to
be talking about a fifty first state again in this
case of Venezuela, You think that undermines that idea because
I don't know. It kind of creeps me out, Senator,
it does.

Speaker 4 (01:12:59):
Sure, But look, if you understand the president, he's going
to say somewhat provocative things as a test case. It's
like it's like rolling trial balloons. Yeah, he's going he's
going to poke a little bit and see the response
and the reaction and then adjust according he's got his beliefs.
But yeah, I think he knows exactly what he's doing.

(01:13:21):
It's just in a somewhat unconventional way.

Speaker 1 (01:13:24):
Yeah, but if that would be financially devastating right to
the US just because all of a sudden you would
have an entire country that would all qualify for benefits
based on the powerful right the entire country.

Speaker 4 (01:13:36):
Yeah, well maybe as long as they don't get on
the North Carolina autism list, we should be good.

Speaker 1 (01:13:41):
Oh, we're going to get into that. We're going to
get that here at the environment. Yeah. In fact, let's
let's go ahead and make that pivot. So this is
a crazy stat we talked about yesterday. We're basically over
the term of what was it five years we went
from we had a forty seven thousand percent increase this
stuff of of funds that were being utilized basically for

(01:14:03):
reimbursement for autism therapies, mirroring what we saw in Minnesota, California,
and Ohio. This is really serious stuff. How did we
get here? And how are what are you and your
colleagues doing because it's a state issue, but it's also
a federal issue. And am I the only one who's
not drifting the system? And how can I get free money?

Speaker 4 (01:14:26):
Yeah? Incredible? First of all, I want to thank auditor
Dave Bullock, who's doing incredible job. Like, who is the
auditor before Dave Bullick. He is doing an incredible job
of holding folks accountable and exposing things. But you don't
want to just expose it. You got to deal with it.
You need prosecutions here. There are folks out there with

(01:14:46):
legitimate needs who have a child or family member with
autism that definitely need care. We want those dollars to
be there. You know, if it's Minnesota, I'm sure there
are people that with legitimate needs there. But when you
have a grit built into the system and it goes unprosecuted,
that's why it explodes forty seven thousand percent. It goes
from one point four million dollars, you know five years

(01:15:10):
ago for autism therapy does six hundred and sixty million
dollars in five years. That's that's insane. Yeah, you know,
we got to look into this, and I think there
needs to be some investigations and probably prosecutions once it
gets there.

Speaker 1 (01:15:25):
It will there be though, Like, yeah, because I just
saw a plea deal that Keith Ellison it up in
Minnesota for somebody who stole eleven million dollars and it's probation.
Another guy who stole twelve million allegedly he didn't take
his passport. He just left. California is fighting tooth and nail,
so there won't be so the feasibility of people actually
being held accountable. Do you honestly believe that exists? When

(01:15:47):
it's kind of up to ags like Ellison, like our
own age to really get the ball making, and it
doesn't seem the political will is there.

Speaker 4 (01:15:55):
You mentioned the committees that was on when I was
in the House. It was an intel or Armed Services,
Financial Services, Great committee for North Carolina. But Keith Ellison
was on that committee with God in the US House.
So I overlaped with him for two years and now
he just moves to back home to continue the grift there.
That's why AG's matter. Look at governor matters, Attorney general

(01:16:19):
matters for your state. You've got to look at the
Council of State. You need people that have the qualities
like Dave Bollock does, but you need that in the
attorney generals. Right now we don't have that. Why is
you know, why are we not prosecuting these things? I
don't know if it's a TikTok issue or what, but
you know, you've got millions and millions of dollars, and look,
a state cannot print money like the federal government can,

(01:16:41):
which I think is unfortunate for the federal government because
it leads to nearly forty trillion dollars in debt. But
you're going to hit a wall really seriously if you
don't reign in this fraud, and it leads people not
to trust the system, which is very unfortunate.

Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
I get the impression, and I there's so much fraud.
I don't know that we were going to handle on it.
Like every day I'm introduced to a new way in
which people are enriching themselves and and and they talk
about it within their circles. I hate to just come
down on the Somali community because it's all over but
when you have really tight knit communities like you do,

(01:17:17):
very insular communities, it's easy to see how the fraud
spreads within those communities because everybody kind of just keeps
to themselves and they're willing to share this information. So
like I, I'm sorry if I don't believe we're going
to get to the bottom of it, never purge all
of it. I just think there's too much of it.

Speaker 4 (01:17:36):
Well, here's the problem mentally, right, we're just now aware
of it. What is the what's the thing? I think
it's alcoholics anonymous. Awareness is the first step, So all right,
we're in that awareness step right now. It's really ugly.
But you can't get to prosecute. You can't get to
investigations and prosecutions without awareness. And awareness is like, oh
my gosh, you know, I can't believe this is going on. Well,

(01:18:00):
when you have the right people in office, if that's
a Dave ballt locally in North Carolina, if that's a
President Trump and his administration and Todd blanche and you're
going to expose a lot of crap. And that's what's
happening right now, is a lot of crap is being exposed.
But you must endure and you must keep the pressure on,
whether that's from talk radio, whether that's from elected office,

(01:18:21):
whether that's showing up at the polls. You cannot be dispirited.
Left would like nothing more than for us to be
dispirited and go We'll never get to the bottom of us.
I'm not going to vote, I'm going to give up,
forget it. That's what they want us to do. But
we must, we must press on and continue the course
and press for justice on these things. Right, But half
you're cannot let us.

Speaker 1 (01:18:42):
Half you're calling I'm sorry to interrupt you a goat
ninety seconds. Half of your colleagues, the only crap that
they're concerned about is the goose crap that Trump spent
thirteen million to remove from the reflecting pool, which I
don't know, what do they want to put back in there?
Like I don't understand this.

Speaker 4 (01:18:56):
All right, They're going to spread it on the polls
around the country, you knows. But but they worry about
a billion dollars for security, and then you've got billions
plural you know, of grift and fraud. So they really
depend on uninformed, uneducated, dispirited people that are really bad
at math.

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
And that's not us, right, but they but they also
depend on and and forgive me for throwing it in there,
they forgive or they depend on the political will on
your part, right if your constituents who call you and
ask you, hey, we're going to get to the bottom
of this, of you guys carrying it through or having
the ability to do so. And I think that's where
a lot of the frustration is born, because they don't

(01:19:36):
feel like it's being done. Even though you know you're
just one cog in the wheel, people see it overwhelmingly
continue to exist. So I hope you're right. I only
got twenty seconds. We'll have to leave it there, and
I'm not throwing it all at your feet, but man,
it would be nice to get a win that inspires
people on some of this stuff. And who knows, maybe
that's coming me in the form of Brennan or Komy.
We'll see. But we'll leave it there, Senator, and we'll

(01:19:57):
chat here very soon.

Speaker 4 (01:19:58):
Okay, you got stay in the bike.

Speaker 1 (01:20:00):
Are you all right? There you go? Senator Ted Bude
joining us here on the Cacoday radio program.

Speaker 2 (01:20:05):
Yeah, let's get a w on the board. Man, let's
get a purp walk. I think that that'll inspire people.
All right, we'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (01:20:11):
The Christian Stephan and Melissa and Stephen they're gonna be
they're gonna be doing three years in prison after authorities.
Let's see here. Let me be very clear on what
the charges were, dude, this is six stuff. The parents
who made the decision once COVID kicked off, to essentially

(01:20:34):
remove their three children from society, keeping them locked in
the homes. The problem is they were not doing anything.
They were not doing homeschooling or any of that. They
became so fearful over COVID that from late twenty twenty
one to April of twenty twenty five, their ten year
old and eight year old twins, So they have one

(01:20:55):
ten year old and then two eight year olds were
kept in the home in authorities say was unsanitary conditions
and provided no developmental support. So as a result, they
basically just frozen in time as ten and eight year olds.
Let's see, were they ten and eight when they locked

(01:21:17):
them in? Now they were ten and eight when they
rescued them. Oh, this is awful. So imagine this. You
have eight year olds that essentially have been frozen in
time since they were three and a ten year old
since they were five. Eventually, and I don't know why
it took five years, but eventually some neighbors like, something's
wrong here, like they used to have kids and I

(01:21:38):
don't have kids. What's going on? Authorities were called eventually
making it to the home. Listen to this. The ten
year old when authorities did finally come to free this
individual doesn't say male or female, was so amazed that
they immediately knelt down and once they got outside, onto
the ground and started just hugging the ground because like

(01:22:01):
they hadn't been allowed outside for years. Ross do you
think three years is punishment enough for this monster of
parents here? Just just shuddering the ability of your kids
to essentially develop in society because of the COVID fears.
I also blame people that were running around and and

(01:22:23):
you know, basically beating this into people's brains. That's just awful.
Now who are they staying with? They give them to
other family members, now their wards of the state. Now
that is awful. And you and they get three years,
And it was some arguing that you're now, what are
you gonna do? You're gonna take their parents away for longer? Yeah? Yeah,
I feel like they've probably demonstrated they shouldn't be parents here.

(01:22:46):
It was bad enough the learning loss that kids were
picking up because the schools didn't want to do anything.
Now were they going out themselves? It sounds like they
were pretty isolated as well. Imagine still because there's people
out there still living in that mindset, don't I don't
think you can go to the grocery store and not
see somebody fully massed up still and people say, well,

(01:23:10):
you know what you're seeing with people with they have
immuno deficiency problems, and that's what you're seeing and you
shouldn't judge. I don't think that's the case for all
of them. I think people got into this mindset and
just never came out of it. The fact that they
projected it on their kids and now their kids have
all this learning loss. Uh Clear authorities say that they
found a bunch of disturbing drawings that the kids were

(01:23:31):
making too. It seemed to be part and parcel from
this just awful awful stuff, all right. Closer back to home,
does anyone know what's going on with the nie sausage thing?
Because I like nieces, and I understand that everyone's gonna
have they're like their little niche sausage maker, right, Because

(01:23:51):
there's a lot of great great sausage, pork sausage that
you can find in North Carolina, and there's a little favorites.
You know, there's there's probably five or six really good
spots if you drive from like Raleigh to like to
the beach where you can kind of go in uh
and uh, I know in Washington they got a good

(01:24:13):
little place there. There's lots. I'm gonna move, I'm gonna
miss some. Kingston's got a good place and people want
to get that. But as far as statewide distribution, really,
if you go into any grocery store, you're presented with
what Jimmy Dean's or nieces And if you don't know
what nieces is, nieces is the brick sausage comes in
the square packaging and that was pretty much my go to. Well, uh,

(01:24:35):
they just they may not exist anymore. There's not a
lot of answers here in North Carolina. Breakfast Institution for
more than a century has a fully halted production at
the Greensboro plant. Now they have two different production lines.
They have what you call ready to go and then
they have the traditional and it covers a variety of

(01:24:58):
different flavors. Of course, you have the sauce. You have
some of the more interesting stuff right that a lot
of people are like, what is livermush? What is that? Well,
they produce it with sell it in stores and now
they're just not there. I think I may have some
in a freezer. I'd have to check. But according to

(01:25:18):
here's what happened. The Trouble's been building for more than
a year. Documents obtained by the Charlotte Observer through a
public records request show the environmental testing first detected listeria
in the livermush production line. That was in September twenty
twenty four, and so one of the production lines shut
down the other one was allowed to continue. However, as

(01:25:39):
of last week, neither side is in fact operating, and
the way that they're able to determine this is not
because of comments from Nice, but rather the company has
stopped requesting inspectors, which is part of the process should
you have a production line issue. Let's see here. The

(01:26:00):
sticking point, according to the USDA official USDA officials is
that Nieces has not submitted a corrective action plan that
satisfies requirements uh and restarting the ready to eat production line,
and until that plan has approved, they cannot reopen. Retailers
and restaurants across North Carolina began noticing a shortage during
the holiday season at late last year, right because you

(01:26:23):
got you gotta make the sausage balls. Oh those are
so good.

Speaker 4 (01:26:27):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:26:27):
Since then, the company's silence has added to the uncertainty.
Multiple reports and news outlets attempting to contact Nie by phone, email,
or in person have gone unanswered, and in fact, the
company's website gives a four O four not found there
and Google list the business is permanently closed. All right,
I clearly somebody's got to know what happened. Are we

(01:26:49):
just done? His nieces just done? I mean, just this
great North Carolina brand. Well, a lot of signs are
pointing to that. I don't want to I don't want
to stick a fork in it. No pun intended this point.
But you did have the patriarch of the company who
passed away, Thomas Niece Junior, who died back in April

(01:27:10):
at the age of ninety two, who for the last
six decades has led the family business. And so you
got that, you know, you got that upheaval going on
within the family. Yeah, and the history's crazy. So let's
see here. The grandfather of the of Thomas Niece, who
just passed away, founded the brand by selling sausage from

(01:27:31):
a covered wagon in Greensboro back in nineteen seventeen. His
wife Annie Smith Niece laid it added her liver pudding recipe,
which became equally as popular. I did not realize that
and by nineteen thirty, the business was flourishing. Has remained
in the family through four generations. And of course it
looks different, right because it's in that it's in that brick,

(01:27:54):
that brick of sausage or liver pudding or scrapple. I
think they made bacon to a variety of things. However,
while activity was reported at the plant as recently as
April May eighth, so last week, no statement from the
company has followed. Man, that's gonna be really sad. I
don't even know how many people work there, but you know,

(01:28:17):
this financially impact a lot of people, not to mention
people like myself who enjoy the Nie sausage, especially when
making you know, sausage gravy. I would usually go with niece,
So let me start that fight. What should I be
looking at instead of Niice if niece is gone? But yeah,
I mean, you can go Jimmy Dean's and that's fine,

(01:28:38):
But I don't know. There's just some about the way
that they produced the pork sausage in North Carolina. Is
Jimmy Dean's produced it all in North Carolina? I should
I look that up and brand? What is Jimmy Dean's
under is that that's son of the Smithfield brand? Is
it parent company? What do we got here? I don't

(01:28:59):
think so. Yeah, they're Tyson, So not surprised. There were
Sarah Lee and then that was brought in by Tyson.
All right, so you know that's what I throw out.
Somebody's got a spy report, they can share it with me.
And I'm just being selfish because I like the sausage,
but also I hate some brand that's been around literally
for one hundred years, just to you know, poof doesn't

(01:29:21):
exist anymore, especially one that I enjoyed. All Right, it
is eight forty four, speaking of people who enjoyed pork
sausage raised agic to the Weather Channel. I'm assuming I do. Yes, yeah, yeah, Mike.
Do they have Nie down in Georgia? Did you know
what that brand is?

Speaker 8 (01:29:36):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
I don't.

Speaker 10 (01:29:37):
I never heard of that.

Speaker 1 (01:29:37):
Oh man. Yeah, they just kind of like disappeared. They
were a big brand here in North Carolina and just
went out of business. Maybe I don't know, but I'm
very sad about it. Anyway. Well, pork sausage, it said
it's a sad day.

Speaker 10 (01:29:48):
That is a sad day. We do some my cousins
and my uncle, my godfather. They do pretty good homemade sausage. Yeah,
do a little with venison too, so they kind of
do both. Yeah, delicious. My cousin will occasionally bring it
down on the airplane with them, so it's it's nice.
It's a nice little treat, nice little yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:30:08):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:30:08):
What do we got, We got a weather we get
some weather treats or what.

Speaker 10 (01:30:12):
Yeah, it depends driving around this morning near high Point, Ashborough, Greensboro, Burlington,
do you have some lower visibilities like this pocket of
fog where they put the dense fog advisory out quarter
mile visibility, half mile visibility at the Ashborough Airport out
at Rowan County two point five, So there is some
fog in the area. We'll go through the day and

(01:30:33):
that's all going to go away. Actually ends up being
a pretty decent day, as we'll get a little bit
more in the way of sunshine, especially by this afternoon
little bit seventies, low fifties tonight tomorrow closer to eighty degrees,
but I think most of us will fall short and
a nice sunny day tomorrow before our next front comes
in tomorrow night scattered showers, a few thunderstorms, not going
to be a bunch of rain, and behind that front,

(01:30:54):
we'll clear out for Thursday and Friday be back into
the load to bit seventies. We'll really see a drop
in the overnight low, especially by Friday morning, could be
in the forties, mid number forties in many spots, and
then over the weekend a nice warm up could be
as warm as ninety three in the Triangle on Sunday
and Monday closer to ninety up or eighties in the Tribe.
But you get the picture.

Speaker 1 (01:31:14):
We get it.

Speaker 10 (01:31:15):
The Saturday, Sunday, Monday looks like some early summertime heat
coming in.

Speaker 1 (01:31:18):
Okay, all right, thank you sir. We'll chat tomorrow and
we'll come back. We got some calls on very important
sausage stuff, so we'll get those and we'll chat with
the folks from Bloomberg.

Speaker 4 (01:31:27):
Next.

Speaker 1 (01:31:27):
Hang on, update now with Erica Herskovich. Erica, what's going on?

Speaker 6 (01:31:31):
Hey, good morning, Casey. Sentiment among small business owners remains
in the dumps. The National Federation of Independent Business latest
Optimism indexes holding close to an almost one year low.
Inflationary concerns and economic uncertainty due to the Iran War
continue to hangover companies. The next share of owners who
expect business conditions to improve declin for a fourth month

(01:31:53):
to the lowest levels since October twenty twenty four. eBay
has rejected the fifty six billion dollar takeover offer from
games to calling the unsolicited bid neither credible nor attractive.
Gamestop's market value is about ten billion dollars, less than
a fourth of the value of eBay. Many investors have
been skeptical about the deal because GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen
hasn't fully explained how he'd actually pay for the acquisition.

(01:32:16):
Netflix has been on a spending spree, shelling out one
hundred and thirty five billion dollars over the past decade,
making films and TV shows in over fifty countries. The
production employed over four hundred and twenty five thousand people,
hundreds of thousands of extras and day laborers. The stats
are part of a new website called the Netflix Effect
that the company is using to demonstrate how it boosts

(01:32:36):
local economies. It seems Meta isn't doing enough to stop
scammers who use Facebook and Instagram to prey on senior citizens.
A new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate
finds that thirty of the most active scam accounts drew
more than two hundred million impressions on Facebook, most from
people over the age of sixty five.

Speaker 4 (01:32:55):
Well.

Speaker 6 (01:32:55):
The fake ads often use pictures of celebrities ranging from
President Trump to bread Pit in an effort to get
someone to click on a link or call a phone number.
Ham's and Hers Health has been moving away from the
copycat versions of weight loss medications that help to fuel
its growth. The telehealth company has recently made a strategic
pivot to branded weight loss medications from Novo Nordisk and

(01:33:16):
Eli Lilly, but that comes at a cost. Him's reported
a quarterly loss and sales that missed Wall Street's estimates,
and shares are dropping in early trading. And finally, Casey,
the last time malls were in the iPhone didn't exist,
but it seems gen Z is bringing them back. Mall
owner Simon property groups as teens and tweens are visiting
their malls, driving traffic at their shopping centers. The company

(01:33:37):
says that it is investing in updates it select properties,
helping to make them more enticing to young shoppers. Simon
adds that new brands that target young consumers are opening
mall stores along with legacy junior brands, which are also
doing well right.

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
Now, Yeah, I saw a thing where malls are in again.
There's this weird thing, Erica, where like there's gen Z.
There's these articles where like gen Z figured out out
that if non relatives want to live together, they can
save money on rent. And I'm like, you all just
invented roommates. And there is there is actually a term
for this now because they kept seeing these stories, and

(01:34:11):
it's called columbus, see, which I think is very clever. Yeah,
pretend like you discovered something that previously was discovered. So
keep an eye on that. So that's one of my
paper all right, Eric, I appreciate it this morning. I
have a good one. Yeah, Erica Herskowitz their Bloomberg News
joining us. Yeah, we're all about the Columbus in here
on the show. And the sausage. Let's get to some

(01:34:32):
sausage calls. All right, rapid fire, here we go. Presston,
you're up first, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (01:34:38):
Okay, See, I just wanted to give you a quick
tip on your salsage there. You can find this all over.

Speaker 8 (01:34:44):
The brand is.

Speaker 5 (01:34:45):
Bass Farm Salsages comes in kind of a square paper wrapper.
The hot version of it makes a terrific salsage ball.
I mean delicious.

Speaker 1 (01:34:57):
If somebody's got sausage balls, I'll eat the whole damn
tray man. I had their dangy brother. All right, I
appreciate the recommendation.

Speaker 5 (01:35:06):
Check it out.

Speaker 1 (01:35:07):
Okay, Yeah, I'm getting inundated, actually my inbox because there's
so many there's so many great sausage makers here in
North Carolina. Man killing and eating the pig. I don't
think there's any state better than North Carolina at perfecting that. Anthony,
what's up?

Speaker 5 (01:35:22):
I gotta I gotta concur with him. I'm I'm a
bacon guy, but basketball is the best saucer, and the
maiden can spring over up on the other side of bun.

Speaker 1 (01:35:30):
Okay, all right, well I will look into it because
I am again. I love me some some pork sausage there.
All right, one more, Brandon, go right ahead.

Speaker 7 (01:35:41):
Hey, yeah, your previous caller, he got it on the
nose of bast room sausage out in Nash County.

Speaker 4 (01:35:46):
That's exactly what I use for my falsege.

Speaker 1 (01:35:48):
Only one doesn't know about this. I'm sorry when I
couldn't believe it.

Speaker 7 (01:35:53):
I was like, man, bathbarm all right.

Speaker 1 (01:35:57):
Caroline there, I'm looking at the pack. Maybe I am
aware of it and it's just one of those things
where it's not clicking.

Speaker 4 (01:36:04):
It's hard to get around the holidays.

Speaker 1 (01:36:07):
Oh man, they've got all the stuff that they offer.
Holy cow. All right, I'm gonna dig into this. Thank
you for the call there, Sir appreciated. I think it's
gonna have to happen rossa is. People are gonna have
to send a delicious pork sausage to the station. Then
we'll just have to test it there sausage hang on,
all right for which stores they have it in? Okay,

(01:36:28):
all right, I'm familiar with the label got it, got it?
Got it? Yeah? So they hot? Yeah. I think I've
had the hot sausage from here because they got it.
I think food line, Yeah yeah, PF okay, all right.
Sometimes the name that I have to visually see stuff, so,
uh there you go. And then finally this just because

(01:36:48):
I think it's so damn amusing. Uh Saan Franz Cisco
has announced that they are exploring a ban on outdoor smoking,
specifically in these what are called toortlets and outdoor patios
so in San Francisco, if you're a bar and you
get a permit, even though you're not on city property,
you're still on technically the property of the business. They

(01:37:10):
could create these little smoking environments, but now they say
they want to get rid of those