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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks for hanging out with us, although maybe you have
(00:02):
no choice because you're I don't know, you're you rip off.
You heard one of those promos back in the day,
and you literally ripped off the dial. By the way,
why did we used to run promos like that? I was,
I don't know why. Maybe I'm maybe I'm throwing my
fellow radio brethren under the bus, but I never understood that. Ross.
(00:23):
I'm assuming you worked on a station where at one
point they had a promo that encouraged people to damage
their radios so they could listen to no other station.
So I don't know, maybe that was maybe that was
just me or popular where I grew up. But uh, anyway, UH,
we prefer you make the choice to listen, and UH
we'll occasionally give you the content so you can justify that.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'm going to come right to your house a port
some on your radio.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
That's what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
But how will I hear it? You know what.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
But you understand the logic problem there, right, So if
you if you hasten somal like, I may hear a
low rumbling of some sort. But I'm probably not gonna
hear what they're saying, which would defeat the purpose of
all of that.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take is
this ditty oil. Oh and I'm gonna put it all
over the dials, and you're gonna be like, oh, I
need to change, you be like slippers. I can't can't
do it.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, that's because I'm really really high on date rape drugs.
It's all. It's not a slipping slide issue. It's it's
a GHB issue.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So then I you know, I don't know where I
am start to freak out. Maybe I hallucinate, but it
would prevent me from turning the dial. However, I don't
know that I'm the most targeted consumer at that point.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna set up
this Tesla coil to to your dial when you touch it. Sapped,
He sapped, like the.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Big one he had in his place in Colorado. There, yep,
oh man, watch out for that, all right. I mean
it's all about rechain. We just had a big raw
rod meaning for you, you know, cause we have those occasions.
I'm sure you guys do too.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So I swear you touch your patriotic Yes, I swear
if you touch your dial, I'm gonna spray your face
with bear mace.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Well, I mean, do you think that that's going to
make people want to listen.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I'm just saying I don't think the promos were aggressive enough. Yeah,
don't touch the dial.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, we'll come to your house, kidnap your family. A right.
You know who doesn't you know whose station doesn't get changed?
A moss. I'm start this show off with getting fired whatever.
Uh you know what I'm saying. I bet if you
if you go to one of the twenty percent of
houses left in uh the Gaza Strip being generous, it's
(02:43):
right on that station. So yeah, you just got to
back it up. We just had to figure out how
to threaten people without doing anything about it. So anyway,
so you're a victim of you ripped off the dial
because you're a coward. But that's cool. We'll earn your business. Dude,
I saw something this morning, and don't get me wrong,
(03:04):
back in the day, I don't drink as much beer now,
just you know that doesn't mean I don't drink bourbon,
but I don't you know, gone or the days of
sitting back and just killing beer after beer. Just it's
not my thing anymore. That being said, unless I'm in
like the proper setting, like if I if it's summer,
I'm out on a boat, that's a beer issue. Okay,
(03:28):
sitting there, maybe you're maybe you know you're gonna be
playing poker for a long time, probably don't want to
drink liquor give me some beer. But that's not really
my thing as much as it used to be with
the you know, like the the Bud, the Budweiser or
the Miller Lite. And but I had to I had
to jump in the way back machine because I saw
(03:49):
this story out of Chatham County where this dude was
on his boat on Harris Lake and reportedly killed somebody ross.
Do you want to, yes, the number of beers that
they found in this dude's boat. Number of empties? Okay,
number of empties where he's still operating the boat but
(04:09):
clearly not operating it very well and is now charged
with killing somebody under the influence. What is the number
of beers they found in this guy's empties? They found
in this guy's.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Should we do Cliffhanger?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, fifty fifty.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Oh no, I'm sorry, it doesn't. It's one person man.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Like well, I have a former alcohol I'm recovering.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Week.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I am terrified by this conversation, right, go love twenty Okay,
it's higher than twenty twenty five, slightly higher than twenty
twenty seven, twenty seven, now.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
No higher the twenty seven. Oh it was thirty nine,
thirty nine. I don't care if that's the domestic of domestics.
Thirty nine? Ross you killed? Were you killing thirty nine
in a day?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Back when I drank probably easily eighteen to twenty a day?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Okay, all right, but thirty nine is like Andre the
giant numbers. Can we agree on that? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Maybe, I mean, I mean, my my, my perspective on
this is skewed, right, No, no, no, That's why I
think you're the perfect person to ask, because even thirty.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Nine sounds way too many, way too many.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You don't know if they were all done in a day,
you know they could have you know, that could be
like two and a half days.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I mean, I don't know. I don't leave empty beer.
When I had a boat, I didn't leave empty beer.
Cancel around it. But also maybe this guy has responsibility issues.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I'm not gonna lie. The cliffhanger thing is my new
favorite thing to do.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, it's fun. It's a button bar forever. So yeah, man,
because like in this case, you're not losing anything, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. If I was actually in
the show, i'd be like way too stressed. Oh yeah,
I need it. Reger price, Yeah, there's no prices. Usually
it's a horrible number. We're asking you to guess.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
So yeah, thirty nine empty beer cans on the boat
to Quentin night, according to prosecutors charged with the DW
I and UH unintentionally causing the death of another person.
Let's see. Well, i'd never been out on Harris Lake.
(06:27):
I don't realize it was a big boat in lake.
Now that Chatham County people are going to be mad
at me, dude, do do do do?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I'm trying to see if they actually imply that he
drank thirty nine beers that day. Dooo yeah, yeah, I
don't know. They're leaving at Lucy Goosey. You're probably right
he probably didn't drink thirty because I don't I don't
know how a person would function after thirty nine beers
a normal size person, I guess, Like, don't get me wrong,
(07:01):
I did you know, back back when I was much younger,
college college age, you know, me and my friends having
a contest to see if we could drink a beer
a hole, going out and playing some crappy Muni golf course.
That's not that's not a thing that didn't happen. But
(07:22):
I do remember at that Even at that point, and
these are eighteen whole courses, God help you, you still
wanted to play nine. I still don't know that I
functioned the next day. Thirty nine is kind of beer,
was it too? That's what I want to know. Well anyway, Yeah,
(07:45):
by the way, the person just just to be very
clear here, while I'm fascinating over this, I have no
patience for somebody wh would go out and allegedly do this.
The the Percony killed was a fifth grader allegedly. God yeah,
is awful. Yeah, Westlake Elementary School in Kerry. Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
And it's one of these things where, like you know,
Brooklyn Carrol, there'll be sentenced then it'll be like, oh
like five or ten years or something. Stupid.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Well, it's unintentionally. Yeah, yeah, that's probably about what it'll be.
Just he might have some uh you have previous ya
does A Night was convicted of Dui and New Mexico
and nine and and he has and he's has hit
and run charges pending in Moore County, all right, So
(08:33):
I don't know. Maybe they'll add a few more to that,
but yeah, it's you know, that's it. I will tell
you this.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
It is a.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That's the problem with owning a boat. I mean not
clearly for this guy. So when you own the boat
and then you got everyone on there, you get to
drink less because you don't want to drive in your
boat because they're all stupid. Not that they are, but
you understand. But also, yeah, it's pretty easy to get
checked depending on what body of water run. Maybe not
Harris Lake, but I wouldvot around Mississippi River up Minnesota,
(09:05):
and those guys, it's they they'd stop you and pop
ya real quick.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I've always interested when people go down to like Miami
and then they go out on a boat hammered and
then they're surprised when the police literally just boards your boat.
Yet I swear they got more water cups out in
Miami on a busy weekend on the end of the city.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
First some reason, they're like, oh, it doesn't count because
we're on a boat.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, yeah, that's the mentality. And I don't know, I
never understood that. So it's good if you have a
friend who you trust to drive your boat who doesn't drink,
which was the situation for me for a while.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
So or if you have like a if you're like,
you know, you have like a billion dollar yacht like
Jeff Bezos. Right, well, that is different.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You're right, that is the other I'm sorry, is that
the direction you went, right?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I mean, that was the goal?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
You know, you're super yacht? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I
never got yeah. But also it's you know, one, they
probably don't want you driving the super and two you
can't wait until all your friends are taking a sip
and then just completely de throttle, which is hilarious. Uh
So it's harder to do that in a super yacht,
(10:12):
I know, maybe not maybe not like in a Mangusta
or what of those those speedy yachts, but it's a
lot easier in a Malibu just FYI or Pluster's coolers
under your butt. So you got that going for you.
But yeah, I just saw that story this morning, and
I was doing that thing where it's like the first
story I see and I'm wiping the sleep out of
my eyes because I just tend to sit up in
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bed and just go through websites where I actually move,
and I'm like, I'm my eyes aren't working. There's no
way that's thirty nine. And then sure enough it was
thirty nine. So AnyWho, all right, six seventeen here on
the KCO Day Radio program. Coming up on the show,
do we have Bullock seven o five radio five h
seven o five, seven o five, all right, State auditor
(10:53):
Dave Bullock Bollock, He'll, he'll, he'll join us. He had
himself a little he had himself a day yesterday, had
himself a day after he just got done auditing parts
of the North Carolina DMV, and I am very curious
what's up with that. So we will we'll get into that.
(11:14):
We'll something called the Dave Act and a few other
things that'll be at seven o five. Lots to get to.
Let's take a break. I'll come back and give you
the big scope the reset in just a few on
the KCO Day Radio program, but understand the sentiment, dude.
It never gets more out of touch than the New
York Times dude, purportedly for the little people. And then
(11:35):
like it's just the the bubble that they live in.
And then the window I every dow and then some
of these stories emerges and it's like, clearly you you
live a very different life. Now, I'm not hacking on
airport lounges. I love to get airport lounge access. Well,
I'm not gonna pay for it per se, but I
(11:58):
it's not even, it's not even. It's just the less
stress factor. Plus, you know, if you're up in an
airport lounge, your food and drinks are free generally depending
on what your order. So that's good. But New York
Times this piece right here, when everybody has airport lounge access,
nobody does. I mean, I feel you. But also that's
(12:25):
a really good border argument. So I'm gonna hold on
to that. Right. What's special about the American dream if
it's not maintained instead of you know, dumping everybody into it. Now,
let me just divorce myself from that. Airport lounge access
(12:46):
is great. But I will tell you one of the
last times I was flying and I happen to be
on a I happen to have access because of the
ticket that I had. So when I fly, well, i'll
tell you this. When I fly to a from where
I like to go in Costa Rica, you can get
because it is a non Caribbean. And then if you
(13:07):
get a business class ticket because you use a five
hundred miler of the new one, and you get up
there and you get access to the lounge. So that's
how I achieve it. I don't have status enough yet,
but I will avail myself of it, just for the
screw route. And I was flying through Dallas. I think
to fly through Dallas or Miami and you can't find
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a seat, They can't stock the food enough. The thing is,
you don't bitch about it. I don't care, especially if
they have another one. I'll generally go to the smaller lounge,
I know, because there won't be a bunch of people there.
But people have. People have decided and they're probably right
that it's worth paying the daily fee just so their
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kids can run around like lunatics, and plus what airport
food costs. My math, I guess if you're gonna go
get ripped, which I would not encourage you to do
at the airport. Then you're gonna be in a video probably.
But yeah, but like New York Times writes this stuff,
and it's like the fact that you assume enough people
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had the ability to relate to this shows you who
your audience is. So don't give me this. We're here
for the downtrodden. This is this is rich people stuff.
I mean, you know, to be super rich, but it
is what it is, right, This is when everybody has
airport lounge access. Nobody and I'm just assuming some salty
(14:33):
New York Times person had a bad flight experience through
Laguardi or something. It's like, ah, I figured out what
I'm right about this week. ROSSI ever hung out in
airport lounge, buddy, I love.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Now because I'm a common man.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
You know, well every common man you can get upgrade.
If you get upgraded and it's on the right, well,
you don't travel internationals.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
That would never happen working for the man with my
hands common man. Yeah, but then you got to be
around the poor I was doing and I couldn't hang
out no airport loune. I was putting up that drywall,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
How do you do that when you're double gunning sniper?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Right, It's tough. It's tough, I imagine, but I lift.
So I'm okay. Oh, you want to understand it because
you're like, you know, this high falutin airport lounge guy.
When avails me of it, me, I'm putting up that
sheet rock.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Any paying the daily it'screw. That man not rich. But
since I traveled for work, I did buy membership. Look,
if you travel a bunch and and it makes sense,
I would say get the credit card. If you're gonna
do credit cards, they're not awful. The airline cards, dude.
Northwest card back in the day was like my first
airline card and that was amazing, and then Delta bottom
(15:42):
and screwed it all up. But American Airlines does have
a good card, and I am not endorsed by them,
and in fact, I am currently mad at them. But
the card isn't terrible. So uh and that'll get you access.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, it sucks when the lounge is packed. I was
at La GUARDI That's why I brought it up. You
just just if you're going to look Laguardian is such
a weird airport man.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Oh, dude, it's horrible.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
It's uh, who did you fly? We knew it up
to Laguardian.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I don't remember. It was so long ago.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
This is it.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I think this is where this is when we had
to like go from airport to airport. So it was like, oh,
Kennedy transfer, dude, that's such a scam.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, because we were on the plane and we were
super young. This had to be like over ten years
ago now or.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah, dude, that's such and they try to do it
to you on so many routes. You're like, that won't
be a problem. We had never had a problem. Inexpensive Yeah, no, no, no,
we had never encountered it before. We're sitting there and
they're like, you get like a free plane ticket, said,
we'll reimburse this one, and you get to go wherever
you want to go.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
And we're like that's a radio and know we were
on the plane and we're like, yeah, let's do that.
And we got up and we left and then they're like, oh,
by the way, you need to change airports now.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
We're like, what.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Nightmare? And the New York Metro Sure dude, yeah, yeah,
it's uh, I'll avoid that, Okay, that one or the
DC change. You're like, oh, I'm gonna go from Reagan
to Dulls. It's like the rest of your day. It's
way out there. New York's far Wars. But uh no, no, no.
The thing about LaGuardia is so they have that new
the new Jet Blue lounge, and I flew through there,
(17:17):
I don't know, a couple of years ago, and I'm
I when I'm traveling, I try not to use cards
because that's you know, that's where like skimmers, scammers. I'm
a little paranoid about that stuff. So I like pay
cash for stuff for little stuff, right obviously if it's
something big, I know, I'm weird. But like I was, So,
(17:39):
I flew into the new Jet Blue terminal, and one
I can't then access any of the club airport clubs
and the other ones because you've got to go out
of security. So that's it. But the whole terminal, like
all the restaurants, everything is ordered on a web on
like that you scan the code the little box, and like,
(18:00):
if I'm sitting at the bar of this restaurant, i
just want to get some lunch, which I'm gonna get
overcharged for and maybe a beer, and it was weird
because a buddy of mine was on the same flight.
We didn't know we're gonna be on there, so we're
hanging out and like you go in there and none
of the places take cash or let you really talk
to the employees. So like I'm sitting at it, I'm
(18:21):
sitting at the bar and I'm saying with my buddy David,
who was on this flight with me, swint as we
call them, and we're sitting there and the bartender walks
over and like we're like, hey, man, got some questions.
It's right here to scan the QR code. And I'm like, no, no, no,
I understand that, but like I want to do so
you got to put it in the QR code. I'm like,
(18:43):
why are you stand up behind the bar, bro What
is your job here? And like I realized that that
was the whole thing. So it's like if they can
find a way to annoy you a little more, they will.
And I don't know if it's just a COVID thing
or they don't trust their employees, but it's like every
single place in the Jet Blue terminal is is no cash.
(19:05):
Nobody uses cash for anything. I mean, is new York
City man.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Regular businesses too now like and this is why when
you run into you know, you'll encounter some kid who
doesn't know how to break change, or you'll give them cash,
and the look at it like it's some sort of
like you know, from a different planet, like what is Yeah,
and then they.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Remember remember when he used to be you'd go to
like a diner and they didn't take credit cards, remember
to bring cash.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Waffle house was what that's a waffle house? He used
to just only take cash.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, I'm trying to think how long that's been. What
was a little diner off p Street that was the
ultimate hangover place and forever they didn't take cash, and
I remember one day they started taking cash and then
they tore that down when they did all the stuff,
which is a shame. But there was whoever the There
was a dude who was the grill man there and
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I don't know what he was doing those potatoes, but
they were fired, dude. And this is when I lived
on Glenwood, so I could roll over there on a
Saturday morning after bad decision Friday and start to feel better.
But all right, I got on a tangent there. Yeah,
I was with the club when I see a line
out and say, yeah, you just screwed at that point.
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So I mean again, it's it's it's fine and it's
fun and all of that. I don't I don't travel enough,
probably pay for a membership, But I mean, if your
business requires you to travel. Back in the day, you know,
it used to be if you traveled for work, your
employer would get this for you. Remember that. Yeah, me either.
All right, six forty here on the KCO Day radio program.
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Let's see here, So we're gonna chat with the state auditor.
That's uh, that's coming up here in about twenty five minutes.
And I know I like talking to Dave because for
a state auditor, he's at least enthusiastic on the radio.
You never know what you're gonna get when with people
that work in you know, the numbers divisions of a
(21:02):
state government. But I think he does a good job
explaining stuff. So they just did a they just did
a review of the DMV and ross you sitting down
by the way, are you sitting down on the DMV
because I have some news Okay you ready? Uh it's
food Bard, So I know you're shocked. Ah, yes, so
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we'll see how food board it is. I saw some
recommendations where they're like, and I don't know, it kind
of makes sense to me. I guess unless you getting
a horrible disfiguring accident that they're talking about, like being
able to renew twice because you're renewed once without having
to go in thank God. But like every parent who's
got a kid who's coming to driving age just tells
(21:48):
a horror story. Where did AP remember Ap Dylan was
telling us about that. Where did she have to go
for her daughter? She had to go to? Like some county?
I had to look up where it is in North
Carolina as the people are doing. I've talked to somebody
who drove literally to like, oh, where do they go?
Not New Handover somewhere near there down towards Wilmington, But like, yeah,
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they drove three hours. They could take their kid for
their driver's license thing just because they get an appointment.
And that's where we are. And I'm sure many of
you have faced that frustration. So what is the answer.
I you know, is it because the DMV will tell
you that the problem is people work at the DMV
will tell you that one of the biggest problems is
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the real I D thing, which absolutely is going to
contribute to it. But also it's really hard to convince
people that a government office is operating with the efficiency
of the private sector. And that's where these things get
hung up, because that's the first question I asked and
always makes people upset because like the things that we
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do in the private sector and many of you do
where you're now basically doing well. You can look at
labor output versus wages. I mean, it's a crazy graph,
and you know, the labor efficiency in the labor output
is just a straight, you know, line upward, whereas wages
kind of go up a little and then stagnant out.
(23:18):
It's a huge divide from nineteen seventy The graph always
is from nineteen seventy two, and I love that graph
because people will talk about all the reasons that that
is except the one of the big ones. Ross. Why
do you think that all of a sudden, wages stagnated
in nineteen seventy two but labor output went up. What
(23:40):
do you think is one of the big contributors?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yeah, well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Women entering the workforce really well, yeah, I mean, just
all right, hold on for you get offended. I'm not
saying women shouldn't work, but if you have now twice
as many available people for jobs, wages don't progress. It's
simple supply and demand.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Now is not the only reason, right, because you always
have somebody else who can do the job.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, now you now you have twice as many. Maybe
not twice as many, but you have a lot more people.
It's an employer's dream, man. There's a whole conspiracy theory
that major employers were the ones behind women in the workforce,
they didn't have to pay as much, which I don't
necessarily buy into because if you believe that, then you
also have to believe based on that BS number about
(24:33):
women earning what was it a third less or something,
I don't remember what. The number is always tur around
and it's like, well, why would an employer just hire women?
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Right?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
That argument is so dumb, Right, just hire women and
they're saving all this money.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Of course they all hate each other and fight, But ladies,
why are you like that in the workplace? Not all
of you, but it's the whole thing. So I don't know.
We'll deep dive into that coming up here in just
a little bit I gotta tell you this story I
saw yesterday. I didn't get to it yesterday. So maybe
(25:08):
some of you have had to deal with this where
a loved one, as you know, you don't live where
they live, and they pass away, and now you gotta
get their remains back. That's the whole thing. Obviously, if
they're cremated, it's a lot easier, but you know, shipping
a body is a thing. But yeah, you know, the
whole experience while you're still grieving what happened is it's tough, man,
(25:33):
And for these parents, right, nobody wants to bury a child,
even if their child is fifty six. So you had
these parents up in Pennsylvania. Their son, who was fifty
six lived in Georgia and he passed away. So they
then contracted with one of the funeral homes, did a cremation,
(25:53):
and they then literally shipped their son's remains to them
in Pennsylvania. So it's a little weird if you've never
had to deal with it, but it's something happens every day. Unfortunately,
their story from there goes into crazy town and I'll
give you that coming up next casey O Day Radio program.
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All right, so this I got two stories that are
just super creepy, maybe one less, so I don't know.
So this imagine you have lost a family member. In
this case, it's two parents in Pennsylvania. Their fifty six
year old son passed away. I don't know if it
was medical or what. It really doesn't say, but it
doesn't matter. So they're having to deal with this now,
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and they want to have the funeral forum back in Pennsylvania,
and you know where he's from. So they coordinate with
a funeral home. They have their son cremated, and at
that point, the funeral home then ships the remains, not
just the remains, So they'll ship the remains and if
there's personal items that were on them or things that
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you want, you can contract that out too. So they
get a couple of boxes. I think it might have
been a car accident because they were saying the contents
of his car. So all right, so that all comes in,
the parents go and receive it. I gotta be honest.
I don't then ship to another funeral home or do
you go to the airport to pick that up. I
have no idea, but they go acquire this, and so
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they got to earn with their son in it. They've
got a couple boxes of his stuff. They throw that
in the trunk of the car, not the urn, but
the you know, the other stuff. And I understand not
wanting to dig in there right away because you know,
you're you just lost your son. Okay, So they get
the remains. The funeral is going to be a few
days later, and everything's fine, right Well, the day before
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the funeral, they go into the car. I guess they
must not drive this car much because they go to
get in the car and it smells awful. It smells awful,
and obviously it's been hot as heck out right, even
up in Pennsylvania. And at that point, I guess Dad
opens the truck because they're trying their trunk, they're trying
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to figure out what's going on, and he picks up
the box of his son's personal items and all, and
it's it's his hands or this is really gross. His
hands are covered in something. The box is wet, it's
falling apart, Like, what what the heck's going on? What
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do you think was in the box? If I could
just go, uh old Brad Pitt, what what's in the box?
What's in the box?
Speaker 4 (28:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Not Gwyneth Paltrow's head. By the way, Ross, were you
excited when that happened? In seven? Like, finally they with
Paltrow's head.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
In there.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
The funeral home. And uh, there's no real good explanation
as to why the funeral home in the one of
the boxes it had personal lined. The other box, somebody
had removed their son's brain for cremation, put it in
the box, and then shipped it to the family. It's
not labeled or anything, so lawsuit city abounding. But I'm like,
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how does that happen? I mean, you can there is
a there's a process for shipping actual medical remains or
organs right by the way, it was funny if you're
if you if you uh, if you transport organs, harvest
organs and you got a cooler, you got super priority
boarding on plates on flights. So I'm surprised nobody's just
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brought a cooler along at this point, But everybody loves
a hack. But yeah, yeah, so the funeral home had
literally removed the brain. I I don't know why. Maybe
they had to do an autopsy again, I wish there
was backstore on the death but and then ship that
in a box not labeled, and it was just ratty.
Now at that point, Ross, you gotta sell the car, right,
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you have to sell the car, because even even if
you're able to get this this smell mitigated, you're still
like you're you're gonna have that memory smell every time
you get in there.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah. That's so gross.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Ah, just awful. And then at that moment where you're
grieving your kid, let me grab a quick phone call
here Boston, Paul. What's up, sir?
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Yeah, that no cash stuff bugs me too. But I
heard that there's a bill being put up by I
think it's Kennedy and being co sponsored by some Democrats
to make these places that won't take cash find a
way to provide you a way to get a gift
card with cash to pay for the items. It's a
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way to make them take cash.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Actually, so well, here's the thing I understood back in
the day where very thin margin businesses wouldn't take credit cards.
I mean, it's pretty obscene what Visa and MasterCard make
for just a convenience fee, but it is what it is.
So I understand, especially like a restaurant, mom and pop diner,
they don't want to lose whatever that percentages the other
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way point. I don't understand. Maybe they just maybe they
don't trust their employees. I don't know what the reasoning is.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I don't know either.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
I mean I thought we start cash was king, But
in airports, I used to like the Crown Room when
the kids were young, like Baker from the Crown Room,
that adult the Crown Room, that what it's called. Well,
I wasn't a member Lenny.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Baker, remember him from the Shanana.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
He used to give me guest passes. I mean, well
he's he's passed away now. He was on my drinking
team anyway, so he used to give me guest passes
and uh, and we take you go down to Florida
with the kids, so they go to Disney or you know.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
But okay, well yeah he was on my drinking team.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
But uh he was the fun guy. And then uh,
you know se then the beer distributors they would give
me passes to the pust gardens down there, and uh
in Tampa, he.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Supposed to were your a cop? Are you aren't you
supposed to not take that stuff?
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Well, it depends on how much they were.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Okay, all right, in the in the clown.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
He's a fund, So those are gifts from a friend.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
So yeah, I back in the day, I knew somebody
who was American Airlines just to have those little single
use cards they give their high ranking members, and whenever
I saw it, he hand me. A couple was amazing
social media where they like to post the screenshots of
the website showing that you can get an appointment at
one of the DMVs in like twelve years, maybe if
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you're lucky, but it is. It's a it's a big
deal here in North Carolina. The horror stories of parents
literally driving across literally across the state to go to
some rural county up in the mountains so they can
actually get an appointment this century, these permeate, permeate people's discussion.
So we were very interested when the North Carolina State
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Auditor decided that they were gonna they're gonna look into this.
Everyone's got theories. I have my own, so let's let's
let's get into this. State auditor Dave Bullock joins us
is a Bullock or Bullock? I'm sorry, I always screw
this up. So Bullick, Okay, all right, that's what I thought,
But then my brain tells me I'm wrong. So uh, yeah,
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we're gonna.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Started hearing it.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
But your brain is your brain is at least not
in a box this morning.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
So no, no, that's what a horrible story.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
I'm sorry, I lean back into. Yeah, I just like
I can't even imagine going through that and then going
through that just everything that's going on.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
But all right, well, uh, let's let irresponsible employees maybe
to blame there. Uh that's what I think a lot
of people lean into on the d m V. But
there are a number of issues, and if you talk
to somebody who is at the d m V, they'll
generally tell you that they're overwhelmed because of things like
real ID. But we also live in a state where
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just a few years ago, our former governor basically damn
near bankrupted the DOT uh under his under his purview,
and they stop paying vendors and road projects shut down.
So they've had some problems the larger DOT and then
with the DMV. So you went in and you know
you were that guy. It's your job state auditor to
really look into this. So why is the DMV broken?
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Well, there's a lot of reasons why the DMV is broken.
And first of all, thanks for having me on the program,
I pledged to all that the D and V when
I ran for auditor, I figured somebody's got to take
a look at it, and let's start top line. The
biggest structural problem that are all that found with the
DMV is that relationship between the DOT and the DMV.
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D and V is actually part of DOT, right. The
dots primary mission is to build roads, bridges, infrastructure projects
across the state of North Carolina. The D and V
itself is not funded by appropriations. The tax payers pay
for the D and V by these and the D
and D actually collects more than three point three billion
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dollars a year. Now, a little north of a billion
of that goes toward your property tax that gets remitted
to the counties. But there's north of two billion dollars
the DMV collects and fees and and and various taxes
and and and they run on a two hundred million
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dollar year budget. Now, I know those are big numbers,
the big numbers to me, but that's a you know,
that's a ten x business case, and they're a small
portion of the DOT. First things first, I mean, and
I sort of said this, and I'm kind of going
to day two. Since we released our audit, I'm going
to kind of go a little further. You know, when
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something is clearly not working, the time is now to
sort of blow it up. Un let's start over. I mean,
it just can't get any worse. And so our recommendation
is to pull it out of the dot. Let it
be its own agency. That enhances accountability as well, because
the D and B commissioners should answer directly to the governor.
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There shouldn't be a layer between. I mean, it's like
you said, it's what folks across North Carolina, and I've
traveled from one end to the other end of this state.
It's what people are talking about. They're talking about the
inconvenience of being able to get their kids. We had
a nice lady who had called our office and she
agreed to go on stage with me yesterday and talked
about having to take four days off of work. Well,
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that hurts the.
Speaker 8 (36:34):
North Carolina economy. Yeah, so that's step one. I mean,
but they've got to be separated.
Speaker 6 (36:40):
We've got to blow it up. You know, doing things
the same way you get the same result, and it's
just time to start fresh.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Now, have I gotten into a rather lengthy debate on Twitter,
which I try not to do because it's Twitter whatever,
and people call the show if they want to talk
about it. And here's what I realized, because then other
people were chiming in. People are frustrated by the DMV.
Think the employees are lazy, right, and you know, because
that whole narrative is there, and that that's the only thing.
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I tend to take a larger view of this, I mean,
and that is the technology doesn't seem to be great,
and they the DMV people, because I had some woman
who clearly worked at a DMV was really mad at me.
She said that the reason it's like this is because
of the real id thing and that the legislature is
intentionally not giving them more money so they can look bad,
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to make the governor look bad. So now we're into
conspiratorial stuff. The thing is, I don't care what it is.
I want it fixed because I got to renew my
license next year, so it's very selfish on this day.
Can it be fixed? And is the legislature a part
of this?
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Amen to let's get it fixed. I mean, that's the
top line, right right, look for me, I mean, maybe
it's bad for a politician to start off like this,
I kind of am where you are. I want to
get out of the blame game and I want to
get down to fixing it. And I really think that
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the governor should immediately get together with the leadership of
the legislature and let's move forward to get it fixed.
I said that yesterday in our press conference, because it
is causing people real pain and real problems, and it's
hurting our economy. Look, I think there's plenty of blame
to go around, but it did get worse over the
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last eight years. I mean, it's been the last eight years,
and that's what our data shows that it's got progressively
worse over the last eight years. And there could be
a lot of reasons for that. It's hard to pinpoint
the exact reason. But sometimes when you just don't pay
attention to something, it just kind of gets worse and
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worse and ultimately gets to a tipping point and falls
off the cliff. And I think that what's happened with
our DMV.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Because here's here's it can be. Yeah. Well, and I'm
sorry to interrupt you, but I just I want to
clarify here because this is what I'm trying to understand
from you because too often, and I'm sure you recognize this,
when there's a problem with something in government, something they
want to do, you got one teams like let's just
throw a bunch more money at it, and then you
got the other side like you don't need more money,
You got to handle your resources correctly. I'm wondering on
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the scale where you're at, because I look, I've been
to the DMV in North Carolina and I've witnessed what
I would classify as inefficiencies versus like private sector. I'm
getting blown up with stuff where people here's this guy's
a cop who had to take the whole day off
to go to Jacksonville, who and get his daughter a
driver's license. So now they got police or day off
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to go to Jacksonville. So is it just a more
money issue? Will more money solve it? Is it? Or
is there efficiency that you can find within the DMV
that will be part of this solution. Because nobody, nobody
I know, is going to claim that DMV is working
in a hundred percent efficiency.
Speaker 6 (40:02):
Yeah, and I don't know that we're ever going to
get a D and D working at one hundred percent efficiency.
But I'll tell you, and this is probably not the
answer everybody wants to hear, but I think it's a
combination of the two. And let me say it like this.
One of the biggest issues that I have found so
far in the first seven months of being in office
is the lack of what business today calls KPIs or
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key performance indicators and metrics to measure success. Our government
lacks that across the board. I'm not saying it doesn't
exist in pockets across state government, but we see it
in contracts that our agencies have with vendors. What private
industry offers a lot of value to state government, but
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private industry contract without metrics and performance indicators to let
us know the success and what kind of return on
investment you're getting is not a that's really not a
productive contract. And that goes for the D and V.
The D and V has a lack of performance metrics,
and you can go back to twenty and eighteen. My
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elected predecessor, Beth Wood, actually did an audit in twenty
eighteen and that audit recommended that the D ANDV put
into place performance metrics so that they could actually measure
what was going on, not only at the license office,
but at the management level, and they just never did it.
They never put any real metrics into place, they never
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put a strategic plan into place, and so you're sort
of rudderless at that point. And yeah, you know, if
you're a frontline D and V license examiner, you're frustrated
because you're not getting support from the top, right, and
the legislature's frustrated because they're being asked to appropriate money
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without any direction, without any performance indicator, without any ability
to have the management of the DMV come back to
the legislature and say this is what we did with
the money that you invested in the DMV. I think
that's really where we've got to get down to brass
tax and that is what are the performance metrics. We've
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got to put some more resources there because it is
an emergency situation for parents, as you said, who have
to travel across the state to get their fifteen year
old to permit get their sixteen year old a driver's license,
for commercial drivers who need to drive a big rig
to get our Amazon packages from place to place. You know,
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we've got to solve this problem immediately. But I'll tell
you what it really comes down to starting fresh with
some metrics and let's pay some incentives. Let's give the
employees just like we would in private industry. Casey, that's
how private industry would do it. We want success and
we want to see immediate success. Let's give our line employees,
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people on the front line, some incentive to increase production.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Yeah, we just had a we had a meeting, a
regional meeting for iHeart yesterday and the whole thing was
them explaining, Hey, if you guys do this, then you
can make more money.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
It was.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
It was an incentive based discussion. I'm not any of
the details of it, but uh, that's just how the
private sector works. When you when you need to.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Do that, so you say it's fixable, you'd like to
get it fixed quick. If people took your advice, and.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
I don't know, I haven't read your whole thing there,
but if they took basically the top line of your advice,
establish something, put those metrics in. There's still a timetable.
Do you how quickly a turnaround? And can you say
by October of next year when I got to go renew.
Speaker 6 (43:48):
Yeah, I'll think first, I think if we Yeah, if
we pulled D and d out of d O T
put in some real solid metrics, get with the legislature,
get the right funding with the right incentive packages for
our team, Get get a couple of recruiters hired to
get really quality folks who want to work at the
DMV and serve people. I think within twelve to thirteen
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months we could solve this thing and get it, get
it moving down the line, and get it to where
there's some reasonable wait where you're not having to camp
out for eight hours just to hope and pray that
you get in the building.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
It doesn't look like you're at thirteen morning.
Speaker 6 (44:24):
Man. If they look like recommend yeah, yeah, to your point,
if they take our recommendations, I think twelve to thirteen
months we can get there how many how.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
Many different parts of government? And I know you've not
been on the job that long back like it. There's
so there are some method I don't want to just
sell like I'm trashing on government. And I will say
that the two times I've had to be in the
North Carolina DMV, the people have helped me have been
very good. Although one of them was at the State Fair,
which is a shortcut by the way. People at the
state Fair. If you go to that little DMV thing there,
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I had my license was damaged. I got to replace
right away. But like how many different divisions of government
would just thrive. This is the thing that baffles I
think a lot of people on the right would just
thrive with a more business focused approach. But it's uphill
to its convinced people. So well, what have you seen?
Is DMV the most broken that you've seen so far?
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Of there are other areas of concern.
Speaker 3 (45:18):
Or D and V is by flaw of the most broke,
but it's one.
Speaker 6 (45:24):
It's just one example of a lot of issues that
we have. You talked about technology. Look, technology is not
a silver bullet that's going to just stix things right.
You can't just throw a new computer program into a
functional area of government and hope that it's going to
be fixed. But the technology that runs our dm V
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is really I mean, I said yesterday, it's like one
or two steps up from a TRS eighty. I mean,
I mean, it's really. It's written on cobalt and they've
stacked macros on top of this to make it work.
But it's just been a lack of attentions, like not
mind in the store over the years and we just
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have to think more forward.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (46:12):
And that's the way business does. But you you you've
got the operations going. But if while the operations are running,
you have R and D running on the on the
sideline to build the next iteration of how the organization
is going to run. And that that mindset just doesn't
exist right now in state government by and large. Uh.
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And I'm not sure it can ever one hundred percent
exists like it does in private industry because there's not
a pure profit motive. But on these high service areas
like D and D that touches every single adult in
the state of North Carolina, every single voter, every single taxpayer.
I mean really, this is almost a Manhattan Project type
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moment for our D M D.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
Now, just real quick, I just got a couple of minutes.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
I was kind of leaning into the larger accountability and
that's this Dave Act.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
So what is this that just passed?
Speaker 6 (47:08):
Well, the Dave Act is an effort by the legislature,
UH to to look at government efficiency and DAVE stands
for a Division of Accountability, Value and Efficiency. Uh. Some
people say it's named after me. I won't take credit
for that, but we'll we'll run with it. But it
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gives us additional resources to go agency by agency, institution
by institution, and and really spread out across government like
we've done with this d m V Audit, and we're
going to get better and better at it because we're
also going to use AI because I think it's here.
Got to use it. We need to use it responsibly,
but we've got to throw jet fuel on it, get
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it running, make it work for people, and we're going
to We're going to find these efficiencies and give some
recommendations to your point where we can take creative solutions
and make government more efficient. I really think we can
make an effort and make a dent, and that's that's
been our theme all along, is to make the Auditor's
Office relevant to everyday North Carolinians.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
Well, I look, I'm all for improvement, and I understand
people are gonna be frustrated. We get frustrated in the
private sector, but if it turns out better and it
makes their job easier, then everyone should be on board.
All right, Dave, appreciate it. I got to go, but
we'll talk soon.
Speaker 6 (48:25):
Okay, Jacy. As always, thank you, my friend. Have a
great day.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
There you go, State auditor Dave Bullock on the CaCO
Day radio program. So nowhere to go but up, I
guess with the DMV. We'll be right back. People are
just like I had to drive to here, and I
had to go here and where this this woman went
to Little Washington. Yeah, man, you gotta I try to
remember our reporter friend ap Dillon said she had to go.
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And then my cop buddy, he just he said he
had to drive his daughter to Jacksonville. He's in the
Raleigh area. So it's like, yeah, we need to we
need to do something about that. Probably, although here's the
one thing I would warn I ran out of time
with Dave. But there there's efficiency metrics, but you still
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got to make sure people are following through on their
work because if it becomes all about the speed, that's
that is a without proper quality controlling. I don't think
he was implying that you don't have the QC and
I'm sorry. I was going to ask if it should
be privatized, and then it just slipped my brain. So
I apologize to some of your email in that, And
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I don't know that needs to be prioritized. It is
a ten x business. So yeah, like there there, there's
wiggle room there. But if you make it all about speed,
then people can cut corners. And maybe you're like, well fine, whatever,
just gets a license in my hand. But when ross
what Now when you were were you there for a renewal,
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I'm assuming.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
You're one of the where you had to go and renew,
because yeah, every second renewal. So yeah, if you went, yeah, yeah,
I had to dry like forty five minutes away right
to go there and then take the test. Then first off,
everything on the website was wrong. They're like, yeah, you're
gonna have to take like a written driver's test.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
Off, Oh okay, so it was your first NC. Yeah,
I was blown away too. I had to sit there
and take the computer test. Yeah no, no, no, here's
the thing.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
The first time I got my license, Yes, I understood that,
But what I was saying when I went to go
renew after the eight years, So with the first eight
years you can do online and then you get to
go you have to go in person the next eight
years like the next cycle. On the website it said
that I was going to have to take a test
again when I went there. That was incorrect.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (50:34):
So it was just division test, which is no big deal, right,
But I remember sitting there and there was a woman
taking your test. She could not speak any English. Oh no,
and she was take she was taking the test like
looking at it. You have to look at the science
and explain to them. Yeah, yeah, there was a sign. Yeah,
and she's like, you know, it was like family guy,
it was it was it was like know, and the
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woman behind it was like giving her like mass of
hints as to what to say the dent.
Speaker 3 (51:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
And it went on for like ten fifteen minutes on
this one sign, and then.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
Finally she was like, oh that's a year. That's a year.
Speaker 2 (51:09):
She's like, that's right, stamped that one correct. Let's move on,
Like what is happening here?
Speaker 1 (51:14):
What is going on?
Speaker 2 (51:15):
If you don't know what a yields sign.
Speaker 1 (51:16):
Is, I mean she probably she probably knows what it means.
It's here. Here's the one thing I will say up anywhere.
If she's from she was Hispanic, you think, yes, okay,
all right, the sign. I just I've driven in Mexico,
I've driven in Costa Rica and the signs like the
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stop signs while they say Alto instead of stop. They
still look like a stop sign. The difference is nobody
stops at them, so you take your life in your
hands driving those two countries. But like so there is
some but no, that's a big problem because it's a
big problem for a lot of reasons because some of
the signs are clearly not that well.
Speaker 2 (51:56):
The thing it pissed me off because, like, you know,
I had read on the online that I was gonna
have to take the actual test again, which it's always
absolutely insane because like I've had my driver's license forever now,
really no tickets, Like, I'm fine, I haven't gotten in
any you know, accidents. Just give me my license again.
But I'm like, you know what, I'm responsible. I've done
my homework. I'm going to study for this dumb test,
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download all the materials again, take the online course over
and over again. And that was me, and then the
information on the website was wrong, and then this woman
stumbles in knowing absolutely nothing and passes the test. Just
because that's annoying to me.
Speaker 1 (52:29):
I've been reading, I've been reading on and I don't
know the I don't know the full breadth of it.
But yeah, I think it's just because we have a
lot of truckers who listen, then they follow the Twitter
account and then I see stuff. Is it really a
big problem in the trucking community that there's a bunch
of drivers who don't speak any English and they're getting
cracked down on now, because I've been reading stuff about
this where they're like, and I don't know if it's true,
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like where they they were at a way station and
they had state troopers there or not state troopers, like
DOT officials who were going, we're actually interviewing the drivers
came through it. If you didn't speak any English, they
were literally could grab your CDL from you, And I'm like,
how does he have a CDL? What the hell's going
on if you don't speak any English? Because now you're
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driving an eighteen wheeler down the road, You're just so like,
that blows me away. Let alone this little passenger car
that this woman's tooling around Raleigh in now. So again,
I don't know how much truther there is to that,
because I've seen some stories, but it's a lot of comments.
But I imagine, I imagine that's problematic. Although probably that
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is a problem that is decrease now with everything's Trump's doing. Ross,
did you hear the statues say that we're we are
set to have negative immigration this year.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
Yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
And keep in mind that includes legal immigration, and we
let in over a million people a year legally, right
the legal pathway, So it is to decrease is not
just to stop all the illegal immigration, but to also
have it so drop and have so many people out
(54:07):
that it then negates the the in the influx of
the legal immigration. That's a crazy number. And I just
want to make sure people understand this.
Speaker 2 (54:14):
Stat was going back saying like it hadn't been this low.
It was some stupid fifty years.
Speaker 1 (54:18):
Yeah, fifty years, and a lot of that had to
deal with because it was so do you know why
just poor Reagan? It was because it's actually more than that.
Why there was that trend downward, Because the economy was
such crap. That's how bad the And I wasn't here
for it. I was conceived for it, I guess, but
I was born in eighty. But people who lived through that,
(54:39):
like people, that's how bad the economy is. When people
live in third world countries don't want to sneak in here.
Speaker 2 (54:45):
They're like not things, holy crap, man, But it also
like completely destroys what we've heard for the past twenty
five years from you know, both parties, right, but specifically
the left, where well, we'll look into the problem. We
need comprehensive immigration reform and we need Yeah, no, you
don't fix it.
Speaker 1 (55:07):
Prior to that, it was they only want immigrants so
that the big business, greedy fat cats can use them.
That was Bernie Sanders' position, like fifteen years ago. I
saw a video of him, and that was a shared
position on a lot of Democrats. It's just, oh, it's
the big, evil corporate guys who want to exploit labor.
And don't get me wrong, that's some of it. Now
you're seeing you're seeing that exploitation through the H one
(55:28):
B visas. That thing is out of control. Right. I'm
not saying it's all got to go away, and I
understand the reason for it, but it's clearly being abused.
And now it's like this reversal. It's just politics, man,
But it's so frustrating. Hey, I go and screen that
call because if it is a truck driver, I want
(55:49):
to throw that in this segment. I'm just curious. I'm
just curious if that's if that is in fact the
thing that's happening, So could I read about it? And
then I try to research it and I don't see
anything really on the nose. But you know, that's that
is one of the frustrations too, with the level of
media bias we have. Because we had a bunch of
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people driving around giant you know, forty six thousand or
however many seventy six pound metal missiles on the highways. It's,
you know, seventy miles an hour, but they can't read
any of the road signs. Most people would think that's
a problem.
Speaker 2 (56:25):
And yet getting the media to cover it because of
the partisan nature stuff is, it's not easy.
Speaker 1 (56:31):
Scott, what's up?
Speaker 8 (56:33):
Hey, I'm a driver for Buster Brown. I'm actually right
now up in West Virginia talking about drivers from other
countries that are.
Speaker 6 (56:43):
Here that can't speak English.
Speaker 1 (56:45):
It's down a character from other countries. It's the speaking
English part, considering that's what we write our road signs in.
Speaker 8 (56:51):
So absolutely, and I actually, when when I'm at a
truck stop, I'm a very friendly person. I speak to people,
and a lot of hews I do this is just
to see where people are from and there is quite
a few, a lot a few people that cannot even
speak English that Katy speak to me.
Speaker 1 (57:10):
Are the FEDS doing something about that? Because I see
these stories where they try to make a guy and
I don't know if it's true. They literally they were
testing them like can you read the cat in the
hat or something. It was some really insulting thing, and
then they just jerk the guy's CDM. How the hell
do they get a CDL in the first place?
Speaker 6 (57:24):
Is my question?
Speaker 8 (57:25):
Well, that's that's the question that all of us, we
get all the party line, a bunch of US drivers, and.
Speaker 6 (57:33):
We talk about that all the.
Speaker 8 (57:34):
Time, like, how in the world did these guys, even
you know, you get their CDL?
Speaker 6 (57:39):
To begin with?
Speaker 1 (57:40):
Can you can you come in from again, let's just
say that you speak English. Can you come in from
another country where you're driving. Let's say you drive over
in Europe, you emigrate to the US legally. Is that
just immediately transferable? Like if I go to another country,
I can drive, I can get a rental car because
they just carry over my US license. Is that how
it works? Or do you still got to go through
the whole thing here?
Speaker 7 (58:00):
That's all I know you're supposed to go through the
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (58:03):
Okay, yeah, this is so I don't know, man, I
piqued my interest in this story and then I just
remember to throw it out. So but I'll keep an
eye out for it and if somebody is actually doing something,
which maybe the Trump administration should.
Speaker 8 (58:16):
Uh recently have we recently have we seen? Uh you know,
there's a lot of stuff on the internet about how
they're supposed to crack down and they're pulling people over
and uh, you know, if you're pulled over for a violation,
if you don't speak English, then that's another issue right
then too.
Speaker 1 (58:33):
So okay, yeah, I think this was at way stations
they were checking guys. I can't remember what's fully what
it was. All Right, we'll drive safe, sir, because West
Virginia is a super curvy and uh, you know, enjoy
hopefully you don't enjoy one of those runaway truck ramps, man.
Speaker 6 (58:46):
All right, absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (58:48):
A good one, dude. The runaway truck rams, you've probably
seen them. We don't have many in North Carolina where
most people drive. In Wyoming, they're everywhere because you're going
up hill, going down a hill, and every year I'd
see this dumbass tourists in summer that would come and
thought it was a park, a pull out spot to park,
and uh, they would be blocking that. He didn't know
(59:09):
what the hell it was. Yeah, it's a big gravel
thing then goes upwards so that the truck driver can
literally stop and not murder himself and everybody else. And
then people park and go, you know, hiking. And I
remember lighting up some dude. I was polite at first,
and he got mad at me, and I'm like, dude,
if a truck doesn't have if his brakes are on fire,
(59:30):
he doesn't carry that. Your car's there. That's the other thing.
Even if you want to approach us from a selfish
he's going up that runaway truck ramp and your car's
going with it. Dumb ass. So anyway, raced agic from
the weather Channel. He's here. Uh not a dumbass, No, no, no, no,
you know what a what away truck ramp?
Speaker 6 (59:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (59:47):
So I used to blow oh ya on Highway sixteen.
It's just the mountain pass right where I grew up.
You have, you know, you're like ten runaway truck ramps,
just the elevation change.
Speaker 9 (59:57):
And I there's a bunch on eighty one to.
Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
Yeah, so his tourists park right on the like, oh
it's a gravel pullout, Yeah not really, not really, No
you think that thing?
Speaker 9 (01:00:07):
Don't park there, please right right, well you'll see right yea, yeah,
I care.
Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
I didn't want Himonet to be in it. Wanted him,
but I kind of wanted some jackass to basically have
his car demolished so that they would learn. Right, that's
just me being a horrible child. What's going on?
Speaker 9 (01:00:25):
Weather was, Ah, well, it's gonna get wetter right now,
some of the moderate and heavy rain coming into the triad,
just getting into maybe west and northern parts of Orange
and getting into Chatham Counties and getting ready to come
into the triangle. So going to be a wet morning,
some moderate even heavy rain. Wouldn't be surprised if we
pop a couple flood advisories here. As a rain down
(01:00:48):
into Randolph County, Davidson County pretty steady to heavy, so
places like High Rock, Dinton, Martha, and as you get
into random In and Ashburo, those are places getting heavy.
Raine extends on back to the south and west of that,
so ocasional rain and this batch of rain lasts for
quite a few hours here this morning, and we'll go
into the afternoon instead of see more occasional rain, some
(01:01:09):
heavier times, could be some localized flooding. Probably gonna hold
us in the seventies today, and still a chance of
occasional rain and showers tonight and tomorrow, probably even on Thursday,
but we will start seeing tens come up, upper seventies,
maybe eighty tomorrow. By Thursday about the same upper seventies,
low eighties, and as we look ahead towards the end
of the week, more scattered wet weather around. I think
(01:01:29):
the weekend though, it's gonna have a little bit more
of a sound and a feel like it should be
this time of year.
Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
Maybe still a little bit below.
Speaker 9 (01:01:37):
Normal in terms of temperatures low to mid eighties, but
scattered mainly afternoon showers and thunder showers. So kind of
in a wet weather pattern right now case, and again
emphasizing some of this rain coming in right now could
be heavy for many of us. There's a big swath
of it coming through Davidson Randolph Counties right now, just
south of Greensboro. If you're not getting into the heavy
(01:01:57):
rain yet, you will and eventually here the triangle. As
you go further east though, east of Raleigh, somebs actually
miss a lot of this rainfall. So the further east
you go, the less of a chance you'll have of
seeing this batch of brain getting you.
Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
Oh well, you got to reverse. You suppose the bad
one is supposed to be east of ninety five? Man,
how do you not know?
Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
Sorry about that? Okay, yeah, sorry, we'll try again. And
another All right, there you go, raced agic from the
weather channel. All right, coming up, we'll grab a call
or two. What is the most annoying speech pattern where
you hear somebody using it and you immediately realize you
never want to be around them again. Like if you
don't understand what I'm asking, let me give you an example.
(01:02:37):
Somebody who says like every other word right, that would
be an example.
Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Or people who use hashtags verbally they go hashtag blah right,
and it's like I those pale in comparison to what
I experienced this weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
I was ross, was horrified when I just told him
what it was. So just wait for it. I'll explain that.
We got some audio to play as well, and calls next.
Speaker 6 (01:03:01):
AKC, I enjoy your show.
Speaker 10 (01:03:04):
I drive locally around the Raleigh area, have been driving
probably about thirty five years, and we have a lot
of drivers that don't speak English, and some of from
Jamaica of course, a lot from Mexico, some Honduras, you know,
so it makes it very difficult to try to help
(01:03:25):
them find directions, especially around Raleigh Durham. You know, while
we do a lot around Raleigh and it's all the
construction and the low clearance bridges and all.
Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
That stuff, truck advice just because I was going to say,
because those people go yeah, but it's different for you guys.
Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
So yeah, because.
Speaker 11 (01:03:45):
Everything around Durham happens so quick, you know, so you
have to be able to read react, you know, because
it's really busy, and with the new eight eighty five
that cuts through there, I mean, you got to make
decisions quick, and if you can't read the.
Speaker 6 (01:03:58):
Signs and make it very hard, you know.
Speaker 11 (01:04:01):
So but you try to help him and it just
makes it difficult.
Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
Yeah, this is Uh. I was wondering the scope of
the problem, but I'm not surprised. Hey, Billy, I appreciate
the call.
Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
Yeah, especially where that the can opener bridge over there,
Durham is man. They got one in Greensboro, tour by
the coliseum. They'll bust it up. So all right, so
ross this weekend I go visit. I have only I
have like two or three friends that I actually hang
out because we're excited about football season. When I was
get together on Sunday, and so two of them are there.
One guy shows up and he brought his neighbor and
(01:04:34):
I guess I don't know who the other if he
was a neighbor or whatever. And and so the guy
comes over. He starts talking to us, and he has
the most obnoxious He doesn't listen. He had no idea.
He clearly doesn't listen to radio. So I'll tell this story,
but I don't care if he hears it. So he's
ever talking to us, And well, let me do this,
and I'm gonna I'm gonna tease this, just giving exam
(01:04:57):
a couple examples because we're gonna want to discuss this.
He starts talking to me, and it's fine normally in
that setting. What will end up happening is the question like, well,
what do you do for a living? And I know
Mike listens to the show on the iHeartRadio app and
he I don't know if he told him. And then
a lot of times then you're not having a fun
(01:05:19):
conversation anymore because it turns into big political They want
to have a big political discussion. And look, I appreciate
meeting listeners out there, but sometimes I just want to
drink a beer and stare at the TV. So and
within thirty seconds he said something and I'm he seemed
nice enough. He said something, and I'm like, it caught
my attention. I'm like, did he just verbalize that? So
(01:05:43):
it's not that the guy said like every other word
the hallmark of fifteen year old valley girls. It's not
even that he would do air quotes way too much. Right,
there's certain things that bug you, and I will tell
you in radio, you try to be cognizant of this, like,
but not to the extent like Sometimes times you get
into like a verbal trap where you keep using the
same phrase. Well, ross, what is it? Because Russill called
(01:06:06):
me out. Radio guys will call each other out because
you don't even know you're doing it. I'm trying to
remember what it was. I had to make a conscious
effort not.
Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
To you The last one you were. It was you
kept saying the word. You were saying wild a lot
saying wildlife.
Speaker 1 (01:06:18):
That's what it was.
Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
There was something else before that, but I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
Now. There's always something over the years, and you just
try to pattern around it. And so I don't know.
Maybe this guy can be cured, but I'm not going
to stick around to find out. So here's what it was. Well,
let me give you an example. Ross says something that
you want me to respond that I think you're correct. Okay,
So say put a fact out that you think I'm
going to.
Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
Tell you is correct. Okay, okay, but the sky is blue?
Speaker 6 (01:06:44):
You know?
Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
Donald Trump gift correct? You know, the one who's leaning
the microphones goes correct? Right yeah, Donald Trump gift correct.
Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
Olive garden is authentic Italian cuisine, Donald.
Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
Trump gift correct.
Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Say something where you think somebody's justified in what they're doing.
I give you another example. Uh, what do you mean,
like the guy the guy murdered the guy he caught
uh trying to Uh, I don't know, murder his son, right, whatever.
Just give me some where you think it's justified, and
we'll give you that example. Judge Joe Brown gift not guilty.
Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
He did this like three times, so this is something
that cannot be something that I do not want this
to become popular, saying that again.
Speaker 1 (01:07:31):
The wave structure, it has to be I guess a
known gift, which those two. He did a third one
and I can't remember what it was. And because by
that time, I'm like, how can I be as far
away from this person as right?
Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
So I'd be like, oh my god, the Bills are
winning the super Bowl and be like, Michael Scott Gift,
it's happening right. Oh, he used that was one of
the other ones I tell ross off theear. So he
used the Donald Trump one, and then he went to
he did Michael Scott Gift.
Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
That's what she said. If somebody I'm just like, you
can just say that's what she said, I'll still think
you're like ten years too late. But what the hell?
Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
If I encountered that in a wild I don't know
how I'd react. I really would have to distance myself
from that person. I'd probably be really confused, like what
is happening here?
Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
I just kind of digging around on my phone, But
now I'm like, now I'm not having fun over there,
and I want to Oh, you know, I don't. I'm
not super chatty because like we're on the same page.
We're there to drink beer, lie to each other, and
you know, watch sports whatever. We're watching the window. And
but now I'm like, and I talked to my buddy
(01:08:32):
who it's his neighbor. I don't know how well they
know each other. And I'm like, bro, you got to move.
Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
If you if you risk walking out of your house
and encountering that man every day, you got to sell
your house. You already try to avoid your neighbors. And
now they're speaking to you in gift talk or whatever
it is.
Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
Yes, yeah, gift Now how does that happen? Has anyone
ever heard that? I thought he was putting.
Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
I thought the first time it was an inside joke.
That's why I talked to Mike. I'm like, is that
Am I missing something that the end is? Nope, that's
he says that all the time.
Speaker 6 (01:09:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
No, The Internet was a horrible mistake. Yeah, and it's
made us so dumb. And now you know, because you said,
now people were speaking hashtags or emojis or lols or
and now they're adding like gift talk to it. That's crazy. Yeah,
Like I so, I was watching a video on social
media before the show, and it was people getting out
of the theater in nineteen eighty four after.
Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
Returning this so where they got the young black man
is the first guy they interview and then yeah, I've
seen that.
Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
Yeah, they're getting everybody's comments on it. But the main
point of the post was the poster couldn't believe how
people back then quote all spoke in the same cadence
where people are saying like, oh, they're all speaking in
complete senses and it's loud and it's clear, and they're
inflecting properly and they're using proper grammar, and what happened?
How can people don't do that anymore? Because now people
(01:09:51):
mumbo and.
Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
Now or they talk and they use abbreviated like lol
yeah or yeah yeah yeah. Gift things new though, So
to your point, it's getting worse. So the Internet we
need to repeal? The Internet? Is that where we're at.
Let's get rid of it. I guess now. I did
think about this though, What if you could weaponize it?
(01:10:13):
So like, let's say every time I interact with any
of our sellers, I use gift talk, so none of
them want to ever talk to me? Then, you know, yeah,
I don't get called down there to do stuff. I
don't drop into the state like I don't know. Or
maybe you're at a workplace and you're one of those
people who just wants to work. You don't like the
office politics, use the gift talk. They'll probably leave you alone.
Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
They'll make up, they'll probably tell stories about you and
think you're a serial killer, but they'll leave you alone.
Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
So uh, yeah, I had never heard anything like that,
And uh, maybe I don't know. Maybe, uh, you need
to have my if Mike's listen, yeah, he's probably listening.
You need to have an intervention with your neighbor.
Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
Just like reply to the guy. But like you know,
Samuel Jackson and gifts staring, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
I mean or Game of Thrones gift shame, shame shame, right, yeah, yeah,
weaponize it. Just very clear this is probably a forty
year old adult.
Speaker 2 (01:11:14):
It's unacceptable. Nope, I was understanding it, right, I could
understand like a teenager, like fifteen sixteen, there's some new
thing the kids are doing. This is crazy and I
don't approve of that. And nope, wanna step Nope on
that one. That a forty five year old dude. That's weird.
Speaker 1 (01:11:27):
Yeah, this is a There is a man with a
wife and I think two or three kids he said
he had, or Mike said he had, because his kids
are the same agent. How does that happen? How does
one get into that?
Speaker 2 (01:11:39):
Maybe he got it from his kids.
Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
Maybe it is the kids that all their kids are
really young. I think Mike's oldest is eight, So I
don't know. Man, crazy crazy. I just never heard it,
and I just wondered if anybody else ever heard that,
because it immediately it immediately made me the second time.
The first time he used it, he was talking to
directly to me, and I thought I was just it
(01:12:02):
was the Trump thing, and I'm just like, okay, all right,
And I thought it was a one off or some
weird thing. And then he said it again. But he
was talking to like two of the other guys, and
I was passively listening, and all of a sudden, I
do nothing but listen to this dude when he's talking
to anybody, because I just have to make sure I
didn't mishear it while positioning myself is far away from
(01:12:22):
whatever conversation he's in as possible. Oh, We're so broken, man.
All right, let me really flip over to this. You know,
here's another fun part of the Internet that somebody like
this not only has a platform, but is able to
go super viral while being one of the dumbest people
(01:12:45):
I've ever heard make an Internet video. So check this
woman out. So she not a fan of Trump, and
she's not a fan of Alligator Alcatraz. But if you
think it's just Alligator Alcatraz, she would like you to
know that she's she's got some sources and it's way
worse than you thought. All Right, you ready for this?
(01:13:05):
Here we go, because there's just so much to unpack here.
All right, tell me more. Lady, crazy lady in Florida.
Speaker 4 (01:13:15):
This girl on TikTok said one of her neighbors got
a government contract to install incinerators at Alligator Alcatraz, which
is already crazy because that place is on protected indigenous land.
Speaker 1 (01:13:28):
And then well, okay, all right, so that's the first charge.
And so she literally posts a picture of these incinerators. Dude,
I don't know. Rossby saw it on Twitter the creepiest comment,
as one of our listeners wrote, those incinerators will incinerate
a whole body? What what?
Speaker 4 (01:13:43):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
How do you know that? And I wanted to ask,
and if you said, well, I work at a funeral home,
I'd be okay, fine, or at creemator. But like it's
such a random comment. Ah, those won't even do the job.
But I guess it's a defense, all right, So what
else are they doing?
Speaker 4 (01:13:58):
People started noticing migrants wushing up on shore wearing shackles,
actual shackles. That's where we're at right now. There's another
girl tracking government flights leaving from detention centers, and they're
literally all.
Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
Right, So I want to these two are connected, even
though she tries to separate them. So you're going, we'll
wait to say, now you have you know, brown people
in shackles washing up on the beaches of Florida, which,
by the way, is not a thing I've heard about.
Not that people don't drown in Florida, but they're not usually.
It's not like they just fell off the amistad, you
know what I'm saying. So anyway, so how are they
(01:14:33):
getting out there?
Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
Man?
Speaker 4 (01:14:34):
Tell us more just flying out over the ocean and
turning right back around, no destination, just out, turn around,
come back. That doesn't make any sense. Two those two
is not equaling four. Well, and then there's this guy.
He's an American citizen, white, but with the Spanish last name.
He got pulled over, showed multiple IDs and the cops
(01:14:55):
told him they couldn't find him in any system. Then
they said, you can thank your friends at ICE, Like
they're removing people with Spanish last name from the database
just so they can say you're not documented and detain them. Oh,
that's what's happening. If you're not paying attention right now,
you really need to be. This is not a conspiracy.
It's happening right in front of us.
Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
Okay, all right, So three big allegations. They're one there
they turned Alligator Alcatraz into Auschwitz. Two they're shackling detainees,
flying them out over into the Bermuda Triangle, I guess,
and then just dropping them off in the ocean. And
then they're washing up on shore. And then ICE is
(01:15:40):
somehow accessing the fifty states that DMVs and removing anyone
named Gonzales or whatever, and so that they get popped
and then they get detained. I I mean, it's all
crazy town. I don't even know where to start. I
will say this on the flights, because she had a
(01:16:00):
little map with some flights. You can look up the aircraft.
And I see one of our listeners already figured out
what this is. Do you know why planes may take off,
fly around out over the ocean and then come back
without going to some other destination. Therement bigger government planes.
I don't know if you know this man weather stuff,
(01:16:21):
but also you know there's some military stuff too, right,
But the type of plane she's looking at our weather
is stuff that they use for weathers, weather stuff, So
they go out. I don't know if they were observing
the hurricanes. I don't know what date it is, but uh,
that's something they do. That's a thing. So and I
see you didn't google it, but let me ask you this.
(01:16:42):
If their thing was to load up prisoners in shackles,
I notice she didn't use handcuffs raw. She used the
term shackles. If you put them in shackles and you
fly them out and then you just drop me into
the ocean, and that's what you're doing because you're evil.
Wouldn't you do it where? Because we know current flows, right,
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I don't know if you know this, wouldn't you fly
somewhere where the body's not gonna float right back onto
Miami Beach, because I would feel like that would be
something that you know, this evil government would understand and
be able to mitigate against. So uh, I don't believe you.
But then you see the number of people that have
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liked that video and you lose faith in society. So shocked, Gift. Sorry,
I will refrain from doing that. All right, Oh we
got Denver Paul. We had Boston Paul. Now Denver Paul.
What's up Denver Paul.
Speaker 7 (01:17:45):
I've got a speech pattern or the way people talk
to just absolutely rubs me wrong. When people fail to
purl or you know, pearl and posessive, like oh he gone,
oh he over there? Okay, you don't want to say
he is over there or he is gone, but you
could say yeah, yeah, oh my god, it just right, man.
Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 7 (01:18:08):
Apparently, and people didn't grow up the way we did.
Speaker 1 (01:18:10):
But anyway, I would say this, I was reminded of
one just because you're Denver p did you where did
you live in Denver?
Speaker 3 (01:18:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (01:18:16):
It was actually a Denver police officer.
Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
Okay, all right, yeah, so balking Ridge, for I lived
in Breckenridge for a year, which in Summer County up there,
which is not affordable if you just got out of college, which.
Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
I learned, and I was. I was blown away with
like the the ski bum thing because they sound like
surfers in California. But somehow it's more obnoxious. Yea, I
was just reminded. So it's a yeah, it's just very disconnect.
I don't know how to describe it. All right, Well,
thank you sir. Yeah, that is uh is abdoxious and
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it's just the mashing down of our language. Man. Oh wait,
oh ross did he is that? How he said it?
Speaker 6 (01:18:57):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:18:57):
Come on, man, hey Marshall, what's up?
Speaker 3 (01:19:01):
Good morning, mister Casey o' Day's still on the radio.
Good for you man.
Speaker 1 (01:19:07):
That you were surprised. Why did you say you were surprised?
What's up with that?
Speaker 3 (01:19:12):
Well? I had I suppose I was just when I
heard the voice and I heard what you were talking about,
I said, I know that voice. I remember that that's
Casey o Day from back in the day. And he's
still on the radio and he's still he's still getting
the truth out there for robbery Heights. And it was
great today. I got an idea, make a mack A
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great again, make the homeless great again. Believe it or not,
it's a possible resilience factor homeless versus tax payer. Make
the best worker win. How about these homeless encampment sights?
How about all of that? How about all the tracks.
Speaker 1 (01:19:50):
You want to? You want to? You want a d
m V at the homeless encampment under the five forty bridge.
Speaker 3 (01:19:54):
There no, sir, I want to clean it. I want
God's green earth to cleaned. And I want the other
tax payers to be able to drive through the city
and see that it's cleaned up, and then there's no
more litter, and then then the homeless in this issues
like how about the city bus stops? You see transh
is overflowing and greater volunteers is. It's something that I'm
(01:20:18):
starting up. And the idea is to go around and
for the homeless and the poor and those that are neglected,
that the rires up and take things so high level
and out do the tax payer competition. It'll lead to production.
Speaker 5 (01:20:32):
Which got it.
Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
Well, you know what, sir, If if that picks up
steam and something improved covers a call back and let
me know.
Speaker 3 (01:20:40):
Okay, copy that take care and see your day in
the house.
Speaker 1 (01:20:45):
All right, going there, sir, will you that we're retro?
Speaker 3 (01:20:51):
Now?
Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
What we're retro? Did I just use the word surprise?
I think, yeah, I know right back. I can't believe
you're still alive and still are you not in jail?
Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
Right?
Speaker 2 (01:21:02):
How did you not explode or something? But like, one
of the biggest, like craziest things I heard from somebody
is that they had listened to me or listened to
us between kindergarten to graduating college because their dad used
to drive them to work and they used to listen
to us every morning, and then after that they listened
to college. And think about that, said, I screw them up.
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The kids are listening once again. You turn it, you know,
it's that if we're talking gift talk, right, it's Matt
Damon turning old gift or whatever from saving private Ryan.
It's like, how is that happening sixteen years?
Speaker 3 (01:21:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (01:21:36):
Man?
Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
All right, well, I'm glad so I heard it was
only ten. So that's why I was confused. I'm like,
did he skip some grades because the promo clearly said
it was ten, So I don't know. No, It's cool, man,
I'll take that all day, So just a surprise thing,
all right, So what do we learn? Apparently there's these
evil conspiracies with incinerators and dropping people from planes in Florida.
(01:22:01):
Who knew we'll be back?
Speaker 6 (01:22:03):
Is ross?
Speaker 1 (01:22:04):
Is it about the moon fan? I see you added
a story here? Is it the moon fan? Somebody's got
to power the moon fan? I think it would be
the good tease. So we'll get to that here in
a moment. But first I have a question, what the
hell's wrong with the Dutch? What's going on here?
Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
I mean, that's a question that's been asked for centuries.
Speaker 1 (01:22:22):
I'm me all right? So check this out. So in Denmark,
who I was always I was really hoping other countries
would follow suit and leave Brexit or leave the EU.
And then so we come up with names, and I
was excited because then you could call it Denmark and
it'll leave I spent we spent a whole day coming
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up check out for Czech Republic. Yeah, and nobody nobody
else did. But so they got a big zoo there
in Denmark, not surprising, and they're trying to figure out
how to get more financially straight with this thing. So
they put a post out, and they want they want people.
They want the citizens of Denmark to help mitigate their
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feeding expenses. By the way, how much how much food
do you think an average size zoo spends or how
much money they spend on feeding the animals every year?
I never really thought about that. I saw this number
here Ross What do you think the number? What do
you think the I don't know that this is the
North Carolina Zoo's number, but this zoo sounds about the
same size. So what do you think it costs to
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feed all the critters annually? It a zoo?
Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
Ah, dude, I have no idea seven hundred thousand. I
was about to say maybe like a million or something. Yeah,
that was like too high.
Speaker 1 (01:23:39):
Yeah no, but yeah, so and it makes sense. By
the way, they have a breakdown on animal by animal.
What do you think it average zoo spends to feed
one tiger? This is crazy?
Speaker 2 (01:23:51):
Eighty thousand No no, no, no, it's not no.
Speaker 1 (01:23:54):
One tiger. Tiger roughly ten pounds of meat per day.
So so they're but they are among the most expensive,
the big meat eaters. So here's what the zoo is
asking the Dutch citizens to do. You ready bring your
old pet, Bring your pet, donate it to the zoo
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so we can feed it to the tigers and polar
bears and lions, and they get some other big cats
and some other stuff. Now I know what you're thinking.
You're like, well, I mean, if your pet passes away,
that's a little morbid. By the way, if you donate
a pet, you get to come to the zoo and
watch who's doing that. Who's doing that?
Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
Yeah, Marky sent me the story yesterday, and my immediate
reaction was, if you have to like feed your animals
at your zoo people's pets, maybe you should put the
animals back where they came from. Because if you can't,
you can't do you know, you can't do this responsibility.
Speaker 1 (01:24:53):
Now, let me be very clear, because I know a
lot you were thinking. You're thinking like, oh, your dog died,
you were going to bury it, and now you're gonna
do names to the zoo. I want to be clear
because in the post they talk about they talk about
wanting to make sure that the feeding experience, how do
they word it? It needs to be.
Speaker 2 (01:25:15):
All right, where is this line?
Speaker 1 (01:25:18):
Because it's just it's it's nuts. The zoo said, it's attorney,
the public for this very unique approach to meet the
needs for feeding the animals, which includes meat eaters, lions, tigers,
polar bears, links. I think they have some some grizzly
bears too, And here we go.
Speaker 2 (01:25:37):
They want you to donate, and they remind you, yeah,
here's the line that they have a responsibility to imitate
the natural food chain of the animals.
Speaker 1 (01:25:48):
So they encourage not just donating your pet that died
and I'm going to read this verbatim, but also bring
any healthy animal that has to leave here for very reasons.
So I guess if you're gutting youth and I or
you're just sick of it, you can bring it to
the Denmark Zoo and then watch them feed it to
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a tiger. This is serial killer stuff, like dude, And
that's the only thing I think. And I'm thinking, maybe
this is like that thing we talked about last week.
I can't remember what the subject was, where you just
see if people show up, so you know who the
serial killers are or the bad people, or like when
they tell felons with warrants that they all want Super
Bowl tickets and then they nab them. I that is
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the only way this isn't the creepiest damn animals store.
I've seen them forever. But I guess maybe if your
wife's cat's annoying, you know, like, ah, I ran away,
there'll be no evidence. I'm kidding, don't do that. But
who's who's doing this? People want who want to save
money on zoo tickets and apparently feeding their animals. Now
(01:26:56):
they they won't throw the live animal in there. I
just want to be very clear on this because it
keeps building on the horrific. You can take the animal
there alive and the zoo staff will euthanize it moments
before they then hand it to the tiger. So because
that would that's the only way this could get crazier
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if they'd throw it into like the live animal in there.
I know this is you animal people are probably freaking out.
I am a little, but I just want to be
very clear. They're not throwing live animals in there. And look,
people euthanize pets for right. We had to euthanize her,
one of my favorite dogs when I was a kid.
She got distemper. We thought she had all her shots.
It was the whole thing with the vet too, But yeah, man,
it was a sad, sad moment. I couldn't fathom going like,
(01:27:39):
all right, let's go to the zoo. See that tiger's
up too. Maybe it's that's nuts.
Speaker 2 (01:27:46):
Just it's just just to even put the proposal out
there is insane. Yeah, like, let's let's tell the public
that we want our animals to eat their pets.
Speaker 1 (01:27:56):
I mean, I know they got to eat something, and
and and ironically they are eating my pets, right, although
we probably don't sell low enough grade beef that they're
probably buying them in masks, but you know, eading a
cow by the way, they want small pets. But also
we'll take horses because apparently they can cut those up
pretty good. And the critters are all happy. Uh and
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then the story like oh that well, they have good intentions.
It has rubbed some people the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
No, no, no, everyone I've seen that talk about the
story with they've recoiled would be the word for it.
Speaker 1 (01:28:28):
Yeah, it's horrible, that's horrible. And don't mistake this. But
North Carolina, zo, you go to the zoo where the
polar bear exib it is and toss your dog in there,
You're gonna get arrested. But it won't get eaten, will it? Ross?
So there is that, So it has to be a
polar bear. See what we did there? All right? Uh
they grab a ross is green and a call fit.
(01:28:50):
That's in probably before we go to uh yeah, John,
what's up?
Speaker 6 (01:28:56):
A friend of mine wants to know if you get
any tax benefits for doing this?
Speaker 1 (01:29:01):
You know, people showing up with like a bag of
kittens or something.
Speaker 2 (01:29:05):
But then I'm out.
Speaker 6 (01:29:05):
I mean he's out. That person's de friends out. That's that,
so then that friend is out. I think it was
an at tax, a tax benefits sort of a.
Speaker 1 (01:29:16):
Mark. Does I know you get zoo tickets? I guess
they probably?
Speaker 6 (01:29:20):
Well at least you get something. Yeah, that's nice of them.
The experience.
Speaker 1 (01:29:24):
Yeah, you come watch your peck getting I'm not making
this up. You can you can get you they'll give
you zoo tickets and then you can come wonder what
the your your sweet little your your your little sweet
dog get consumed by a polar bear. Yeah, bring the family, absolutely,
they'll love it.
Speaker 6 (01:29:41):
Just make sure we watch the amount of pit plane
tickets that get sent over and didn't walk recently.
Speaker 1 (01:29:48):
I don't know, man, I don't know. That's probably it's
probably another way that it takes for the call there,
so it's ross. I just thought this is probably another
way that Trump is, uh, the evil Trump people are
murdering migrants.
Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
That's absolutely say you're yeah, you're gonna hand over our pet,
you know, handover Fido to the zoo. And then you're like,
your kid is balling in front of you, like how
could you do this? You monster? And you're like, no,
but we got free zoo tickets.
Speaker 1 (01:30:08):
Now you want to watch? You want to watch? Yeah,
that's no, that's the part that really blew my mind.
I mean, one, they ask for live animals, but at
least they're euthanizing them, and I guess if you were
euthanizing your animal, you could justify it, you know, if
that what's the difference between the that and the zoo? No, no, no,
it's the part where they then throw your beloved pet
in there and you have to watch a pride of
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lions devour it. Who wants that? And that's how you
know that person is a serial kill.
Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
I know that needs to be one of those sting operations.
Speaker 1 (01:30:38):
Yes, that's what I was just saying.
Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
Man, oh you brought this random? Also, how do you
prove it's yours? But you just get a little dark here.
I mean if you just show up with the zoo
at the zoo with some little yappy dog and you're like, ah,
this is my as my yappy dog. Yeah, you know
he keeps trying to bite me. Oh he's very sick.
Here you go, and then your neighbors like what happened
(01:31:01):
to my yappy dog? Like this could go really sideways.
Speaker 1 (01:31:04):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (01:31:05):
He's got a text from Ryan, my buddy, and he said, yeah,
a lot of people are going to grab their neighbors
annoying pets. Yeah, I'm not encouraging it, but like, you
ever live next door to a really yappy dog. What's
the name? You're like, there is a little Yappers?
Speaker 6 (01:31:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:31:23):
Oh his caller says Bill what no Ah, that's his
Christian name, that's his his nickname is a little Yappers.
He just said he hates me, but he's very sick,
very sick, very sick. All right?
Speaker 2 (01:31:34):
Is racetagic there for the Weather Channel? But I just
had the creepiest story out of Denmark. Then the zoo
there is asking people to bring their pets to be
consumed by the the large cats.
Speaker 1 (01:31:47):
Of the polar Bear. Give zoot tickets can watch. Yeah,
they will even take live pets, but they'll euthanize them
first for them annoying dog my neighbors. I just found
a one way trip to Denmark. Yeah, you go.
Speaker 9 (01:32:04):
What's up man a lot in terms of outdoor weather
unless you go east. Not gonna use ninety five. I'm
not gonna use eighty Well, yeah, I guess right around
eighty five where some of the heaviest rain is right now,
not really getting into the Triangle as we speak, but
(01:32:24):
starting to. But I really think there's modern heavier rainfall
going to extend from person Cast Well down through Alamance,
Randolph Counties, Davidson County, and around the Tria. But as
you go west of that, still see more rain. So
we might get some flooding here, maybe some advisories coming
out over the next couple of hours. And it looks
like the further east you go of Raleigh and Durham
(01:32:44):
and wake Forest and even down there Fayetteville. East of that,
there's not gonna be much rain at all. And from
about there in points west, steady or heavier rain this morning,
which may continue on and off into the afternoon. So
someone get a bunch I think closer to the try
and someone get less closer to the triangle. Temperatures will
be in the mid upper seventies and more chance of
(01:33:05):
rain this week Wednesday through Friday. Scattered areas of rain
and showers at times. We even get a few thunderstorms,
not all day rain. I think today will be the
heaviest of it if you do get it, and then
toward the weekend more typical weather for this time of year,
with milder temperatures coming back. We'll get back into the eighties. Casey,
we didn't talk about topics earlier, so we will. A
(01:33:25):
couple of disturbances. Were looking at Dexter's going away, so
no threat from that as it heads out to sea.
An area off the southeast coast does have a forty
percent chance of developing over seven days, so I'll have
to keep an eye on that see if that increases
our moisture and becomes anything. And then a wave coming
across the Atlantic has a fifty percent chance of developing
in seven days, so tropics starting.
Speaker 1 (01:33:46):
To heat up.
Speaker 9 (01:33:46):
We've got some rain around, unsettled weather continuing here over
the next several days. Don't have a day here through
the weekend that we don't mention at least a chance
of some rain.
Speaker 1 (01:33:56):
Okay, thank you, sir, appreciate it. Yeah, and we'll come
back with Jeff Bellinger next.
Speaker 12 (01:34:00):
Well, Good morning, Casey. This report is sponsored by Fidelity A.
Stocks rebounded in yesterday's training. Wall Street had its best
days since May. Stock market futures are mixed this our.
SMP and Nasdaq futures are higher. The Dow futures are
down twenty one. Could be partly because of Caterpillar. Shares
of the heavy equipment maker could weigh on the Blue
(01:34:21):
Chips today. Caterpillar posted a smaller than expected profit for
the latest quarter. Caterpillar said total sales and the construction
and resource industries were down. The company's energy and transportation
unit posted higher sales. Clares Stores may be close to
a Chapter eleven bankruptcy filing. Sources say the jewelry and
accessories chain has missed rent payments on some stores for
(01:34:43):
the last couple of months. Claire's has been exploring restructuring
options for a possible sale. A couple of stories indicate
that Drinker's tastes are changing. Diagio Chairs saw their biggest
surge in nearly five years. The spirit's company expects to
maintain sales growth while making more cost cuts. The Johnny
Walker maker predicts its organic sales growth for this year
(01:35:06):
will match last year's increase. Diagio says it's seeing robust
demand from younger consumers, but Americans are drinking less beer.
Molson Cores lowered its outlook for a second quarter in
a row. The brewer says its bottom lines being pressured
by a weak consumer, declining market share, and rising costs
due to aluminum tariffs. In Casey, a phenomenon known as
(01:35:28):
climate inflations hitting our wallets, droughts, heat waves, floods, and
wildfires are pushing up the cost of everything from home
insurance to groceries, and experts say beef prices illustrate the
impact of the food system. Dry pastures don't produce enough
grass to feed cattle, so ranchers have been sending animals.
Speaker 1 (01:35:46):
To slutterhouses earlier.
Speaker 12 (01:35:48):
They're cutting back their herds even though Americans are eating
more beef, and Supply and Demand says that's pushing beef
prices up, and that's the reason. Part of the reason anyway,
that beef prices are through the right now, casey, Well, that's.
Speaker 2 (01:36:01):
Clearly not from people who produce beef telling you that.
So I'm I'm from a cattle ranch. That is one
part of the issue. There's much bigger issue, but that's
it's part of it. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Sorry, I
get angry about that stuff.
Speaker 8 (01:36:14):
Not that.
Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
Hey, has Caterpillar thought of you, Sydney Sweeney, to like
sit in one of their pieces of equipment.
Speaker 1 (01:36:21):
I don't think that's occurred to them yet. I think, Oh,
she can run a back home. All right. That's just
my advice. So all right, thank you, I appreciate it.
All right, have a good day. Yeah yeah, sticker in
some heavy equipment.
Speaker 2 (01:36:35):
I mean you saw the video of her working in
the car, right yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah the Mustang
thing yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:36:42):
Does that she shoots? Why can't she run a digger
or a greater I mean, what's going on here? Man,
Let's do it? Hey, maybe she can help with the
New Moon based construction. Roskeet's really excited about this stuff apparently. Uh,
former Congressman Duffy's now the interim administrator is now excuse me,
(01:37:08):
sip of water. But I got a short time here.
Basically they're talking, they want to announce they're gonna they
want to build a nuclear plan on the moon.
Speaker 9 (01:37:15):
We will have the first permanent base on the Moon,
and it will be American.
Speaker 2 (01:37:22):
Yeah, he didn't win, but I still remember this day
when he said that in that debate, and I'm like,
I got to vote for that guy.
Speaker 1 (01:37:29):
Yeah, man, Yeah, Well anyway, Yeah, so look, obviously, in
all the discussion about further you know, exploring further out
in the system, it requires almost excluded, almost every plan
requires to have a base outside of a resort of
it because of the amount of energy that is needed
to escape. So if you want to throw it on
(01:37:51):
the moon, it's probably a little more practical than space
station you're further out. Yeah, okay, but can I can
I make a suggestion Instead of a nuclear plant, how
about we go old timey like turn of the century
coal plant just to own the Libs. They would can
(01:38:11):
you imagine ross they put one. You're like London in
nineteen hundred where you can't see anywhere, and they just
put some of those up on the moon. Oh, they'd
be so pissed, but they wouldn't show up to protest.
So you got that going for you, Or all right,
other idea instead of coal because some of you are
going to like that, or or a nuke plant. We
it's it. Basically, we use people's pets to create energy.
Speaker 2 (01:38:37):
We're gonna need a lot of pets though, so and
the Denmark Zoo's probably not gonna like the competition.
Thanks for hanging out with us, although maybe you have
(00:02):
no choice because you're I don't know, you're you rip off.
You heard one of those promos back in the day,
and you literally ripped off the dial. By the way,
why did we used to run promos like that? I was,
I don't know why. Maybe I'm maybe I'm throwing my
fellow radio brethren under the bus, but I never understood that. Ross.
(00:23):
I'm assuming you worked on a station where at one
point they had a promo that encouraged people to damage
their radios so they could listen to no other station.
So I don't know, maybe that was maybe that was
just me or popular where I grew up. But uh, anyway, UH,
we prefer you make the choice to listen, and UH
we'll occasionally give you the content so you can justify that.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I'm going to come right to your house a port
some on your radio.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
That's what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
But how will I hear it? You know what.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
But you understand the logic problem there, right, So if
you if you hasten somal like, I may hear a
low rumbling of some sort. But I'm probably not gonna
hear what they're saying, which would defeat the purpose of
all of that.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
You know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take is
this ditty oil. Oh and I'm gonna put it all
over the dials, and you're gonna be like, oh, I
need to change, you be like slippers. I can't can't
do it.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well, that's because I'm really really high on date rape drugs.
It's all. It's not a slipping slide issue. It's it's
a GHB issue.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So then I you know, I don't know where I
am start to freak out. Maybe I hallucinate, but it
would prevent me from turning the dial. However, I don't
know that I'm the most targeted consumer at that point.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
You know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna set up
this Tesla coil to to your dial when you touch it. Sapped,
He sapped, like the.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Big one he had in his place in Colorado. There, yep,
oh man, watch out for that, all right. I mean
it's all about rechain. We just had a big raw
rod meaning for you, you know, cause we have those occasions.
I'm sure you guys do too.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So I swear you touch your patriotic Yes, I swear
if you touch your dial, I'm gonna spray your face
with bear mace.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Well, I mean, do you think that that's going to
make people want to listen.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I'm just saying I don't think the promos were aggressive enough. Yeah,
don't touch the dial.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, we'll come to your house, kidnap your family. A right.
You know who doesn't you know whose station doesn't get changed?
A moss. I'm start this show off with getting fired whatever.
Uh you know what I'm saying. I bet if you
if you go to one of the twenty percent of
houses left in uh the Gaza Strip being generous, it's
(02:43):
right on that station. So yeah, you just got to
back it up. We just had to figure out how
to threaten people without doing anything about it. So anyway,
so you're a victim of you ripped off the dial
because you're a coward. But that's cool. We'll earn your business. Dude,
I saw something this morning, and don't get me wrong,
(03:04):
back in the day, I don't drink as much beer now,
just you know that doesn't mean I don't drink bourbon,
but I don't you know, gone or the days of
sitting back and just killing beer after beer. Just it's
not my thing anymore. That being said, unless I'm in
like the proper setting, like if I if it's summer,
I'm out on a boat, that's a beer issue. Okay,
(03:28):
sitting there, maybe you're maybe you know you're gonna be
playing poker for a long time, probably don't want to
drink liquor give me some beer. But that's not really
my thing as much as it used to be with
the you know, like the the Bud, the Budweiser or
the Miller Lite. And but I had to I had
to jump in the way back machine because I saw
(03:49):
this story out of Chatham County where this dude was
on his boat on Harris Lake and reportedly killed somebody ross.
Do you want to, yes, the number of beers that
they found in this dude's boat. Number of empties? Okay,
number of empties where he's still operating the boat but
(04:09):
clearly not operating it very well and is now charged
with killing somebody under the influence. What is the number
of beers they found in this guy's empties? They found
in this guy's.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Should we do Cliffhanger?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Yeah, fifty fifty.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Oh no, I'm sorry, it doesn't. It's one person man.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Like well, I have a former alcohol I'm recovering.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Week.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I am terrified by this conversation, right, go love twenty Okay,
it's higher than twenty twenty five, slightly higher than twenty
twenty seven, twenty seven, now.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
No higher the twenty seven. Oh it was thirty nine,
thirty nine. I don't care if that's the domestic of domestics.
Thirty nine? Ross you killed? Were you killing thirty nine
in a day?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Back when I drank probably easily eighteen to twenty a day?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Okay, all right, but thirty nine is like Andre the
giant numbers. Can we agree on that? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Maybe, I mean, I mean, my my, my perspective on
this is skewed, right, No, no, no, That's why I
think you're the perfect person to ask, because even thirty.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Nine sounds way too many, way too many.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
You don't know if they were all done in a day,
you know they could have you know, that could be
like two and a half days.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I mean, I don't know. I don't leave empty beer.
When I had a boat, I didn't leave empty beer.
Cancel around it. But also maybe this guy has responsibility issues.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I'm not gonna lie. The cliffhanger thing is my new
favorite thing to do.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, it's fun. It's a button bar forever. So yeah, man,
because like in this case, you're not losing anything, you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. If I was actually in
the show, i'd be like way too stressed. Oh yeah,
I need it. Reger price, Yeah, there's no prices. Usually
it's a horrible number. We're asking you to guess.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
So yeah, thirty nine empty beer cans on the boat
to Quentin night, according to prosecutors charged with the DW
I and UH unintentionally causing the death of another person.
Let's see. Well, i'd never been out on Harris Lake.
(06:27):
I don't realize it was a big boat in lake.
Now that Chatham County people are going to be mad
at me, dude, do do do do?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I'm trying to see if they actually imply that he
drank thirty nine beers that day. Dooo yeah, yeah, I
don't know. They're leaving at Lucy Goosey. You're probably right
he probably didn't drink thirty because I don't I don't
know how a person would function after thirty nine beers
a normal size person, I guess, Like, don't get me wrong,
(07:01):
I did you know, back back when I was much younger,
college college age, you know, me and my friends having
a contest to see if we could drink a beer
a hole, going out and playing some crappy Muni golf course.
That's not that's not a thing that didn't happen. But
(07:22):
I do remember at that Even at that point, and
these are eighteen whole courses, God help you, you still
wanted to play nine. I still don't know that I
functioned the next day. Thirty nine is kind of beer,
was it too? That's what I want to know. Well anyway, Yeah,
(07:45):
by the way, the person just just to be very
clear here, while I'm fascinating over this, I have no
patience for somebody wh would go out and allegedly do this.
The the Percony killed was a fifth grader allegedly. God yeah,
is awful. Yeah, Westlake Elementary School in Kerry. Uh.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
And it's one of these things where, like you know,
Brooklyn Carrol, there'll be sentenced then it'll be like, oh
like five or ten years or something. Stupid.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Well, it's unintentionally. Yeah, yeah, that's probably about what it'll be.
Just he might have some uh you have previous ya
does A Night was convicted of Dui and New Mexico
and nine and and he has and he's has hit
and run charges pending in Moore County, all right, So
(08:33):
I don't know. Maybe they'll add a few more to that,
but yeah, it's you know, that's it. I will tell
you this.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
It is a.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That's the problem with owning a boat. I mean not
clearly for this guy. So when you own the boat
and then you got everyone on there, you get to
drink less because you don't want to drive in your
boat because they're all stupid. Not that they are, but
you understand. But also, yeah, it's pretty easy to get
checked depending on what body of water run. Maybe not
Harris Lake, but I wouldvot around Mississippi River up Minnesota,
(09:05):
and those guys, it's they they'd stop you and pop
ya real quick.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
And uh.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
I've always interested when people go down to like Miami
and then they go out on a boat hammered and
then they're surprised when the police literally just boards your boat.
Yet I swear they got more water cups out in
Miami on a busy weekend on the end of the city.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
First some reason, they're like, oh, it doesn't count because
we're on a boat.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yeah, yeah, that's the mentality. And I don't know, I
never understood that. So it's good if you have a
friend who you trust to drive your boat who doesn't drink,
which was the situation for me for a while.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
So or if you have like a if you're like,
you know, you have like a billion dollar yacht like
Jeff Bezos. Right, well, that is different.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You're right, that is the other I'm sorry, is that
the direction you went, right?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I mean, that was the goal?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
You know, you're super yacht? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I
never got yeah. But also it's you know, one, they
probably don't want you driving the super and two you
can't wait until all your friends are taking a sip
and then just completely de throttle, which is hilarious. Uh
So it's harder to do that in a super yacht,
(10:12):
I know, maybe not maybe not like in a Mangusta
or what of those those speedy yachts, but it's a
lot easier in a Malibu just FYI or Pluster's coolers
under your butt. So you got that going for you.
But yeah, I just saw that story this morning, and
I was doing that thing where it's like the first
story I see and I'm wiping the sleep out of
my eyes because I just tend to sit up in
(10:32):
bed and just go through websites where I actually move,
and I'm like, I'm my eyes aren't working. There's no
way that's thirty nine. And then sure enough it was
thirty nine. So AnyWho, all right, six seventeen here on
the KCO Day Radio program. Coming up on the show,
do we have Bullock seven o five radio five h
seven o five, seven o five, all right, State auditor
(10:53):
Dave Bullock Bollock, He'll, he'll, he'll join us. He had
himself a little he had himself a day yesterday, had
himself a day after he just got done auditing parts
of the North Carolina DMV, and I am very curious
what's up with that. So we will we'll get into that.
(11:14):
We'll something called the Dave Act and a few other
things that'll be at seven o five. Lots to get to.
Let's take a break. I'll come back and give you
the big scope the reset in just a few on
the KCO Day Radio program, but understand the sentiment, dude.
It never gets more out of touch than the New
York Times dude, purportedly for the little people. And then
(11:35):
like it's just the the bubble that they live in.
And then the window I every dow and then some
of these stories emerges and it's like, clearly you you
live a very different life. Now, I'm not hacking on
airport lounges. I love to get airport lounge access. Well,
I'm not gonna pay for it per se, but I
(11:58):
it's not even, it's not even. It's just the less
stress factor. Plus, you know, if you're up in an
airport lounge, your food and drinks are free generally depending
on what your order. So that's good. But New York
Times this piece right here, when everybody has airport lounge access,
nobody does. I mean, I feel you. But also that's
(12:25):
a really good border argument. So I'm gonna hold on
to that. Right. What's special about the American dream if
it's not maintained instead of you know, dumping everybody into it. Now,
let me just divorce myself from that. Airport lounge access
(12:46):
is great. But I will tell you one of the
last times I was flying and I happen to be
on a I happen to have access because of the
ticket that I had. So when I fly, well, i'll
tell you this. When I fly to a from where
I like to go in Costa Rica, you can get
because it is a non Caribbean. And then if you
(13:07):
get a business class ticket because you use a five
hundred miler of the new one, and you get up
there and you get access to the lounge. So that's
how I achieve it. I don't have status enough yet,
but I will avail myself of it, just for the
screw route. And I was flying through Dallas. I think
to fly through Dallas or Miami and you can't find
(13:28):
a seat, They can't stock the food enough. The thing is,
you don't bitch about it. I don't care, especially if
they have another one. I'll generally go to the smaller lounge,
I know, because there won't be a bunch of people there.
But people have. People have decided and they're probably right
that it's worth paying the daily fee just so their
(13:50):
kids can run around like lunatics, and plus what airport
food costs. My math, I guess if you're gonna go
get ripped, which I would not encourage you to do
at the airport. Then you're gonna be in a video probably.
But yeah, but like New York Times writes this stuff,
and it's like the fact that you assume enough people
(14:10):
had the ability to relate to this shows you who
your audience is. So don't give me this. We're here
for the downtrodden. This is this is rich people stuff.
I mean, you know, to be super rich, but it
is what it is, right, This is when everybody has
airport lounge access. Nobody and I'm just assuming some salty
(14:33):
New York Times person had a bad flight experience through
Laguardi or something. It's like, ah, I figured out what
I'm right about this week. ROSSI ever hung out in
airport lounge, buddy, I love.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Now because I'm a common man.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
You know, well every common man you can get upgrade.
If you get upgraded and it's on the right, well,
you don't travel internationals.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
That would never happen working for the man with my
hands common man. Yeah, but then you got to be
around the poor I was doing and I couldn't hang
out no airport loune. I was putting up that drywall,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
How do you do that when you're double gunning sniper?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Right, It's tough. It's tough, I imagine, but I lift.
So I'm okay. Oh, you want to understand it because
you're like, you know, this high falutin airport lounge guy.
When avails me of it, me, I'm putting up that
sheet rock.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Any paying the daily it'screw. That man not rich. But
since I traveled for work, I did buy membership. Look,
if you travel a bunch and and it makes sense,
I would say get the credit card. If you're gonna
do credit cards, they're not awful. The airline cards, dude.
Northwest card back in the day was like my first
airline card and that was amazing, and then Delta bottom
(15:42):
and screwed it all up. But American Airlines does have
a good card, and I am not endorsed by them,
and in fact, I am currently mad at them. But
the card isn't terrible. So uh and that'll get you access.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Yeah, it sucks when the lounge is packed. I was
at La GUARDI That's why I brought it up. You
just just if you're going to look Laguardian is such
a weird airport man.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Oh, dude, it's horrible.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
It's uh, who did you fly? We knew it up
to Laguardian.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I don't remember. It was so long ago.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
This is it.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I think this is where this is when we had
to like go from airport to airport. So it was like, oh,
Kennedy transfer, dude, that's such a scam.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, because we were on the plane and we were
super young. This had to be like over ten years
ago now or.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Yeah, dude, that's such and they try to do it
to you on so many routes. You're like, that won't
be a problem. We had never had a problem. Inexpensive Yeah, no, no, no,
we had never encountered it before. We're sitting there and
they're like, you get like a free plane ticket, said,
we'll reimburse this one, and you get to go wherever
you want to go.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
And we're like that's a radio and know we were
on the plane and we're like, yeah, let's do that.
And we got up and we left and then they're like, oh,
by the way, you need to change airports now.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
We're like, what.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Nightmare? And the New York Metro Sure dude, yeah, yeah,
it's uh, I'll avoid that, Okay, that one or the
DC change. You're like, oh, I'm gonna go from Reagan
to Dulls. It's like the rest of your day. It's
way out there. New York's far Wars. But uh no, no, no.
The thing about LaGuardia is so they have that new
the new Jet Blue lounge, and I flew through there,
(17:17):
I don't know, a couple of years ago, and I'm
I when I'm traveling, I try not to use cards
because that's you know, that's where like skimmers, scammers. I'm
a little paranoid about that stuff. So I like pay
cash for stuff for little stuff, right obviously if it's
something big, I know, I'm weird. But like I was, So,
(17:39):
I flew into the new Jet Blue terminal, and one
I can't then access any of the club airport clubs
and the other ones because you've got to go out
of security. So that's it. But the whole terminal, like
all the restaurants, everything is ordered on a web on
like that you scan the code the little box, and like,
(18:00):
if I'm sitting at the bar of this restaurant, i
just want to get some lunch, which I'm gonna get
overcharged for and maybe a beer, and it was weird
because a buddy of mine was on the same flight.
We didn't know we're gonna be on there, so we're
hanging out and like you go in there and none
of the places take cash or let you really talk
to the employees. So like I'm sitting at it, I'm
(18:21):
sitting at the bar and I'm saying with my buddy David,
who was on this flight with me, swint as we
call them, and we're sitting there and the bartender walks
over and like we're like, hey, man, got some questions.
It's right here to scan the QR code. And I'm like, no, no, no,
I understand that, but like I want to do so
you got to put it in the QR code. I'm like,
(18:43):
why are you stand up behind the bar, bro What
is your job here? And like I realized that that
was the whole thing. So it's like if they can
find a way to annoy you a little more, they will.
And I don't know if it's just a COVID thing
or they don't trust their employees, but it's like every
single place in the Jet Blue terminal is is no cash.
(19:05):
Nobody uses cash for anything. I mean, is new York
City man.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Regular businesses too now like and this is why when
you run into you know, you'll encounter some kid who
doesn't know how to break change, or you'll give them cash,
and the look at it like it's some sort of
like you know, from a different planet, like what is Yeah,
and then they.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Remember remember when he used to be you'd go to
like a diner and they didn't take credit cards, remember
to bring cash.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Waffle house was what that's a waffle house? He used
to just only take cash.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, I'm trying to think how long that's been. What
was a little diner off p Street that was the
ultimate hangover place and forever they didn't take cash, and
I remember one day they started taking cash and then
they tore that down when they did all the stuff,
which is a shame. But there was whoever the There
was a dude who was the grill man there and
(19:53):
I don't know what he was doing those potatoes, but
they were fired, dude. And this is when I lived
on Glenwood, so I could roll over there on a
Saturday morning after bad decision Friday and start to feel better.
But all right, I got on a tangent there. Yeah,
I was with the club when I see a line
out and say, yeah, you just screwed at that point.
(20:14):
So I mean again, it's it's it's fine and it's
fun and all of that. I don't I don't travel enough,
probably pay for a membership, But I mean, if your
business requires you to travel. Back in the day, you know,
it used to be if you traveled for work, your
employer would get this for you. Remember that. Yeah, me either.
All right, six forty here on the KCO Day radio program.
(20:39):
Let's see here, So we're gonna chat with the state auditor.
That's uh, that's coming up here in about twenty five minutes.
And I know I like talking to Dave because for
a state auditor, he's at least enthusiastic on the radio.
You never know what you're gonna get when with people
that work in you know, the numbers divisions of a
(21:02):
state government. But I think he does a good job
explaining stuff. So they just did a they just did
a review of the DMV and ross you sitting down
by the way, are you sitting down on the DMV
because I have some news Okay you ready? Uh it's
food Bard, So I know you're shocked. Ah, yes, so
(21:26):
we'll see how food board it is. I saw some
recommendations where they're like, and I don't know, it kind
of makes sense to me. I guess unless you getting
a horrible disfiguring accident that they're talking about, like being
able to renew twice because you're renewed once without having
to go in thank God. But like every parent who's
got a kid who's coming to driving age just tells
(21:48):
a horror story. Where did AP remember Ap Dylan was
telling us about that. Where did she have to go
for her daughter? She had to go to? Like some county?
I had to look up where it is in North
Carolina as the people are doing. I've talked to somebody
who drove literally to like, oh, where do they go?
Not New Handover somewhere near there down towards Wilmington, But like, yeah,
(22:12):
they drove three hours. They could take their kid for
their driver's license thing just because they get an appointment.
And that's where we are. And I'm sure many of
you have faced that frustration. So what is the answer.
I you know, is it because the DMV will tell
you that the problem is people work at the DMV
will tell you that one of the biggest problems is
(22:35):
the real I D thing, which absolutely is going to
contribute to it. But also it's really hard to convince
people that a government office is operating with the efficiency
of the private sector. And that's where these things get
hung up, because that's the first question I asked and
always makes people upset because like the things that we
(22:57):
do in the private sector and many of you do
where you're now basically doing well. You can look at
labor output versus wages. I mean, it's a crazy graph,
and you know, the labor efficiency in the labor output
is just a straight, you know, line upward, whereas wages
kind of go up a little and then stagnant out.
(23:18):
It's a huge divide from nineteen seventy The graph always
is from nineteen seventy two, and I love that graph
because people will talk about all the reasons that that
is except the one of the big ones. Ross. Why
do you think that all of a sudden, wages stagnated
in nineteen seventy two but labor output went up. What
(23:40):
do you think is one of the big contributors?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yeah, well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Women entering the workforce really well, yeah, I mean, just
all right, hold on for you get offended. I'm not
saying women shouldn't work, but if you have now twice
as many available people for jobs, wages don't progress. It's
simple supply and demand.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Now is not the only reason, right, because you always
have somebody else who can do the job.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, now you now you have twice as many. Maybe
not twice as many, but you have a lot more people.
It's an employer's dream, man. There's a whole conspiracy theory
that major employers were the ones behind women in the workforce,
they didn't have to pay as much, which I don't
necessarily buy into because if you believe that, then you
also have to believe based on that BS number about
(24:33):
women earning what was it a third less or something,
I don't remember what. The number is always tur around
and it's like, well, why would an employer just hire women?
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Right?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
That argument is so dumb, Right, just hire women and
they're saving all this money.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Of course they all hate each other and fight, But ladies,
why are you like that in the workplace? Not all
of you, but it's the whole thing. So I don't know.
We'll deep dive into that coming up here in just
a little bit I gotta tell you this story I
saw yesterday. I didn't get to it yesterday. So maybe
(25:08):
some of you have had to deal with this where
a loved one, as you know, you don't live where
they live, and they pass away, and now you gotta
get their remains back. That's the whole thing. Obviously, if
they're cremated, it's a lot easier, but you know, shipping
a body is a thing. But yeah, you know, the
whole experience while you're still grieving what happened is it's tough, man,
(25:33):
And for these parents, right, nobody wants to bury a child,
even if their child is fifty six. So you had
these parents up in Pennsylvania. Their son, who was fifty
six lived in Georgia and he passed away. So they
then contracted with one of the funeral homes, did a cremation,
(25:53):
and they then literally shipped their son's remains to them
in Pennsylvania. So it's a little weird if you've never
had to deal with it, but it's something happens every day. Unfortunately,
their story from there goes into crazy town and I'll
give you that coming up next casey O Day Radio program.
(26:15):
All right, so this I got two stories that are
just super creepy, maybe one less, so I don't know.
So this imagine you have lost a family member. In
this case, it's two parents in Pennsylvania. Their fifty six
year old son passed away. I don't know if it
was medical or what. It really doesn't say, but it
doesn't matter. So they're having to deal with this now,
(26:38):
and they want to have the funeral forum back in Pennsylvania,
and you know where he's from. So they coordinate with
a funeral home. They have their son cremated, and at
that point, the funeral home then ships the remains, not
just the remains, So they'll ship the remains and if
there's personal items that were on them or things that
(27:00):
you want, you can contract that out too. So they
get a couple of boxes. I think it might have
been a car accident because they were saying the contents
of his car. So all right, so that all comes in,
the parents go and receive it. I gotta be honest.
I don't then ship to another funeral home or do
you go to the airport to pick that up. I
have no idea, but they go acquire this, and so
(27:22):
they got to earn with their son in it. They've
got a couple boxes of his stuff. They throw that
in the trunk of the car, not the urn, but
the you know, the other stuff. And I understand not
wanting to dig in there right away because you know,
you're you just lost your son. Okay, So they get
the remains. The funeral is going to be a few
days later, and everything's fine, right Well, the day before
(27:45):
the funeral, they go into the car. I guess they
must not drive this car much because they go to
get in the car and it smells awful. It smells awful,
and obviously it's been hot as heck out right, even
up in Pennsylvania. And at that point, I guess Dad
opens the truck because they're trying their trunk, they're trying
(28:07):
to figure out what's going on, and he picks up
the box of his son's personal items and all, and
it's it's his hands or this is really gross. His
hands are covered in something. The box is wet, it's
falling apart, Like, what what the heck's going on? What
(28:28):
do you think was in the box? If I could
just go, uh old Brad Pitt, what what's in the box?
What's in the box?
Speaker 4 (28:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Not Gwyneth Paltrow's head. By the way, Ross, were you
excited when that happened? In seven? Like, finally they with
Paltrow's head.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
In there.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
The funeral home. And uh, there's no real good explanation
as to why the funeral home in the one of
the boxes it had personal lined. The other box, somebody
had removed their son's brain for cremation, put it in
the box, and then shipped it to the family. It's
not labeled or anything, so lawsuit city abounding. But I'm like,
(29:07):
how does that happen? I mean, you can there is
a there's a process for shipping actual medical remains or
organs right by the way, it was funny if you're
if you if you uh, if you transport organs, harvest
organs and you got a cooler, you got super priority
boarding on plates on flights. So I'm surprised nobody's just
(29:29):
brought a cooler along at this point, But everybody loves
a hack. But yeah, yeah, so the funeral home had
literally removed the brain. I I don't know why. Maybe
they had to do an autopsy again, I wish there
was backstore on the death but and then ship that
in a box not labeled, and it was just ratty.
Now at that point, Ross, you gotta sell the car, right,
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you have to sell the car, because even even if
you're able to get this this smell mitigated, you're still
like you're you're gonna have that memory smell every time
you get in there.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah. That's so gross.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Ah, just awful. And then at that moment where you're
grieving your kid, let me grab a quick phone call
here Boston, Paul. What's up, sir?
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Yeah, that no cash stuff bugs me too. But I
heard that there's a bill being put up by I
think it's Kennedy and being co sponsored by some Democrats
to make these places that won't take cash find a
way to provide you a way to get a gift
card with cash to pay for the items. It's a
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way to make them take cash.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Actually, so well, here's the thing I understood back in
the day where very thin margin businesses wouldn't take credit cards.
I mean, it's pretty obscene what Visa and MasterCard make
for just a convenience fee, but it is what it is.
So I understand, especially like a restaurant, mom and pop diner,
they don't want to lose whatever that percentages the other
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way point. I don't understand. Maybe they just maybe they
don't trust their employees. I don't know what the reasoning is.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I don't know either.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
I mean I thought we start cash was king, But
in airports, I used to like the Crown Room when
the kids were young, like Baker from the Crown Room,
that adult the Crown Room, that what it's called. Well,
I wasn't a member Lenny.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Baker, remember him from the Shanana.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
He used to give me guest passes. I mean, well
he's he's passed away now. He was on my drinking
team anyway, so he used to give me guest passes
and uh, and we take you go down to Florida
with the kids, so they go to Disney or you know.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
But okay, well yeah he was on my drinking team.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
But uh he was the fun guy. And then uh,
you know se then the beer distributors they would give
me passes to the pust gardens down there, and uh
in Tampa, he.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Supposed to were your a cop? Are you aren't you
supposed to not take that stuff?
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Well, it depends on how much they were.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Okay, all right, in the in the clown.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
He's a fund, So those are gifts from a friend.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
So yeah, I back in the day, I knew somebody
who was American Airlines just to have those little single
use cards they give their high ranking members, and whenever
I saw it, he hand me. A couple was amazing
social media where they like to post the screenshots of
the website showing that you can get an appointment at
one of the DMVs in like twelve years, maybe if
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you're lucky, but it is. It's a it's a big
deal here in North Carolina. The horror stories of parents
literally driving across literally across the state to go to
some rural county up in the mountains so they can
actually get an appointment this century, these permeate, permeate people's discussion.
So we were very interested when the North Carolina State
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Auditor decided that they were gonna they're gonna look into this.
Everyone's got theories. I have my own, so let's let's
let's get into this. State auditor Dave Bullock joins us
is a Bullock or Bullock? I'm sorry, I always screw
this up. So Bullick, Okay, all right, that's what I thought,
But then my brain tells me I'm wrong. So uh, yeah,
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we're gonna.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Started hearing it.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
But your brain is your brain is at least not
in a box this morning.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
So no, no, that's what a horrible story.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
I'm sorry, I lean back into. Yeah, I just like
I can't even imagine going through that and then going
through that just everything that's going on.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
But all right, well, uh, let's let irresponsible employees maybe
to blame there. Uh that's what I think a lot
of people lean into on the d m V. But
there are a number of issues, and if you talk
to somebody who is at the d m V, they'll
generally tell you that they're overwhelmed because of things like
real ID. But we also live in a state where
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just a few years ago, our former governor basically damn
near bankrupted the DOT uh under his under his purview,
and they stop paying vendors and road projects shut down.
So they've had some problems the larger DOT and then
with the DMV. So you went in and you know
you were that guy. It's your job state auditor to
really look into this. So why is the DMV broken?
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Well, there's a lot of reasons why the DMV is broken.
And first of all, thanks for having me on the program,
I pledged to all that the D and V when
I ran for auditor, I figured somebody's got to take
a look at it, and let's start top line. The
biggest structural problem that are all that found with the
DMV is that relationship between the DOT and the DMV.
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D and V is actually part of DOT, right. The
dots primary mission is to build roads, bridges, infrastructure projects
across the state of North Carolina. The D and V
itself is not funded by appropriations. The tax payers pay
for the D and V by these and the D
and D actually collects more than three point three billion
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dollars a year. Now, a little north of a billion
of that goes toward your property tax that gets remitted
to the counties. But there's north of two billion dollars
the DMV collects and fees and and and various taxes
and and and they run on a two hundred million
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dollar year budget. Now, I know those are big numbers,
the big numbers to me, but that's a you know,
that's a ten x business case, and they're a small
portion of the DOT. First things first, I mean, and
I sort of said this, and I'm kind of going
to day two. Since we released our audit, I'm going
to kind of go a little further. You know, when
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something is clearly not working, the time is now to
sort of blow it up. Un let's start over. I mean,
it just can't get any worse. And so our recommendation
is to pull it out of the dot. Let it
be its own agency. That enhances accountability as well, because
the D and B commissioners should answer directly to the governor.
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There shouldn't be a layer between. I mean, it's like
you said, it's what folks across North Carolina, and I've
traveled from one end to the other end of this state.
It's what people are talking about. They're talking about the
inconvenience of being able to get their kids. We had
a nice lady who had called our office and she
agreed to go on stage with me yesterday and talked
about having to take four days off of work. Well,
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that hurts the.
Speaker 8 (36:34):
North Carolina economy. Yeah, so that's step one. I mean,
but they've got to be separated.
Speaker 6 (36:40):
We've got to blow it up. You know, doing things
the same way you get the same result, and it's
just time to start fresh.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Now, have I gotten into a rather lengthy debate on Twitter,
which I try not to do because it's Twitter whatever,
and people call the show if they want to talk
about it. And here's what I realized, because then other
people were chiming in. People are frustrated by the DMV.
Think the employees are lazy, right, and you know, because
that whole narrative is there, and that that's the only thing.
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I tend to take a larger view of this, I mean,
and that is the technology doesn't seem to be great,
and they the DMV people, because I had some woman
who clearly worked at a DMV was really mad at me.
She said that the reason it's like this is because
of the real id thing and that the legislature is
intentionally not giving them more money so they can look bad,
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to make the governor look bad. So now we're into
conspiratorial stuff. The thing is, I don't care what it is.
I want it fixed because I got to renew my
license next year, so it's very selfish on this day.
Can it be fixed? And is the legislature a part
of this?
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Amen to let's get it fixed. I mean, that's the
top line, right right, look for me, I mean, maybe
it's bad for a politician to start off like this,
I kind of am where you are. I want to
get out of the blame game and I want to
get down to fixing it. And I really think that
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the governor should immediately get together with the leadership of
the legislature and let's move forward to get it fixed.
I said that yesterday in our press conference, because it
is causing people real pain and real problems, and it's
hurting our economy. Look, I think there's plenty of blame
to go around, but it did get worse over the
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last eight years. I mean, it's been the last eight years,
and that's what our data shows that it's got progressively
worse over the last eight years. And there could be
a lot of reasons for that. It's hard to pinpoint
the exact reason. But sometimes when you just don't pay
attention to something, it just kind of gets worse and
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worse and ultimately gets to a tipping point and falls
off the cliff. And I think that what's happened with
our DMV.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Because here's here's it can be. Yeah. Well, and I'm
sorry to interrupt you, but I just I want to
clarify here because this is what I'm trying to understand
from you because too often, and I'm sure you recognize this,
when there's a problem with something in government, something they
want to do, you got one teams like let's just
throw a bunch more money at it, and then you
got the other side like you don't need more money,
You got to handle your resources correctly. I'm wondering on
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the scale where you're at, because I look, I've been
to the DMV in North Carolina and I've witnessed what
I would classify as inefficiencies versus like private sector. I'm
getting blown up with stuff where people here's this guy's
a cop who had to take the whole day off
to go to Jacksonville, who and get his daughter a
driver's license. So now they got police or day off
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to go to Jacksonville. So is it just a more
money issue? Will more money solve it? Is it? Or
is there efficiency that you can find within the DMV
that will be part of this solution. Because nobody, nobody
I know, is going to claim that DMV is working
in a hundred percent efficiency.
Speaker 6 (40:02):
Yeah, and I don't know that we're ever going to
get a D and D working at one hundred percent efficiency.
But I'll tell you, and this is probably not the
answer everybody wants to hear, but I think it's a
combination of the two. And let me say it like this.
One of the biggest issues that I have found so
far in the first seven months of being in office
is the lack of what business today calls KPIs or
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key performance indicators and metrics to measure success. Our government
lacks that across the board. I'm not saying it doesn't
exist in pockets across state government, but we see it
in contracts that our agencies have with vendors. What private
industry offers a lot of value to state government, but
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private industry contract without metrics and performance indicators to let
us know the success and what kind of return on
investment you're getting is not a that's really not a
productive contract. And that goes for the D and V.
The D and V has a lack of performance metrics,
and you can go back to twenty and eighteen. My
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elected predecessor, Beth Wood, actually did an audit in twenty
eighteen and that audit recommended that the D ANDV put
into place performance metrics so that they could actually measure
what was going on, not only at the license office,
but at the management level, and they just never did it.
They never put any real metrics into place, they never
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put a strategic plan into place, and so you're sort
of rudderless at that point. And yeah, you know, if
you're a frontline D and V license examiner, you're frustrated
because you're not getting support from the top, right, and
the legislature's frustrated because they're being asked to appropriate money
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without any direction, without any performance indicator, without any ability
to have the management of the DMV come back to
the legislature and say this is what we did with
the money that you invested in the DMV. I think
that's really where we've got to get down to brass
tax and that is what are the performance metrics. We've
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got to put some more resources there because it is
an emergency situation for parents, as you said, who have
to travel across the state to get their fifteen year
old to permit get their sixteen year old a driver's license,
for commercial drivers who need to drive a big rig
to get our Amazon packages from place to place. You know,
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we've got to solve this problem immediately. But I'll tell
you what it really comes down to starting fresh with
some metrics and let's pay some incentives. Let's give the
employees just like we would in private industry. Casey, that's
how private industry would do it. We want success and
we want to see immediate success. Let's give our line employees,
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people on the front line, some incentive to increase production.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Yeah, we just had a we had a meeting, a
regional meeting for iHeart yesterday and the whole thing was
them explaining, Hey, if you guys do this, then you
can make more money.
Speaker 4 (43:17):
It was.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
It was an incentive based discussion. I'm not any of
the details of it, but uh, that's just how the
private sector works. When you when you need to.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Do that, so you say it's fixable, you'd like to
get it fixed quick. If people took your advice, and.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
I don't know, I haven't read your whole thing there,
but if they took basically the top line of your advice,
establish something, put those metrics in. There's still a timetable.
Do you how quickly a turnaround? And can you say
by October of next year when I got to go renew.
Speaker 6 (43:48):
Yeah, I'll think first, I think if we Yeah, if
we pulled D and d out of d O T
put in some real solid metrics, get with the legislature,
get the right funding with the right incentive packages for
our team, Get get a couple of recruiters hired to
get really quality folks who want to work at the
DMV and serve people. I think within twelve to thirteen
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months we could solve this thing and get it, get
it moving down the line, and get it to where
there's some reasonable wait where you're not having to camp
out for eight hours just to hope and pray that
you get in the building.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
It doesn't look like you're at thirteen morning.
Speaker 6 (44:24):
Man. If they look like recommend yeah, yeah, to your point,
if they take our recommendations, I think twelve to thirteen
months we can get there how many how.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
Many different parts of government? And I know you've not
been on the job that long back like it. There's
so there are some method I don't want to just
sell like I'm trashing on government. And I will say
that the two times I've had to be in the
North Carolina DMV, the people have helped me have been
very good. Although one of them was at the State Fair,
which is a shortcut by the way. People at the
state Fair. If you go to that little DMV thing there,
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I had my license was damaged. I got to replace
right away. But like how many different divisions of government
would just thrive. This is the thing that baffles I
think a lot of people on the right would just
thrive with a more business focused approach. But it's uphill
to its convinced people. So well, what have you seen?
Is DMV the most broken that you've seen so far?
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Of there are other areas of concern.
Speaker 3 (45:18):
Or D and V is by flaw of the most broke,
but it's one.
Speaker 6 (45:24):
It's just one example of a lot of issues that
we have. You talked about technology. Look, technology is not
a silver bullet that's going to just stix things right.
You can't just throw a new computer program into a
functional area of government and hope that it's going to
be fixed. But the technology that runs our dm V
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is really I mean, I said yesterday, it's like one
or two steps up from a TRS eighty. I mean,
I mean, it's really. It's written on cobalt and they've
stacked macros on top of this to make it work.
But it's just been a lack of attentions, like not
mind in the store over the years and we just
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have to think more forward.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (46:12):
And that's the way business does. But you you you've
got the operations going. But if while the operations are running,
you have R and D running on the on the
sideline to build the next iteration of how the organization
is going to run. And that that mindset just doesn't
exist right now in state government by and large. Uh.
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And I'm not sure it can ever one hundred percent
exists like it does in private industry because there's not
a pure profit motive. But on these high service areas
like D and D that touches every single adult in
the state of North Carolina, every single voter, every single taxpayer.
I mean really, this is almost a Manhattan Project type
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moment for our D M D.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
Now, just real quick, I just got a couple of minutes.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
I was kind of leaning into the larger accountability and
that's this Dave Act.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
So what is this that just passed?
Speaker 6 (47:08):
Well, the Dave Act is an effort by the legislature,
UH to to look at government efficiency and DAVE stands
for a Division of Accountability, Value and Efficiency. Uh. Some
people say it's named after me. I won't take credit
for that, but we'll we'll run with it. But it
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gives us additional resources to go agency by agency, institution
by institution, and and really spread out across government like
we've done with this d m V Audit, and we're
going to get better and better at it because we're
also going to use AI because I think it's here.
Got to use it. We need to use it responsibly,
but we've got to throw jet fuel on it, get
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it running, make it work for people, and we're going
to We're going to find these efficiencies and give some
recommendations to your point where we can take creative solutions
and make government more efficient. I really think we can
make an effort and make a dent, and that's that's
been our theme all along, is to make the Auditor's
Office relevant to everyday North Carolinians.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
Well, I look, I'm all for improvement, and I understand
people are gonna be frustrated. We get frustrated in the
private sector, but if it turns out better and it
makes their job easier, then everyone should be on board.
All right, Dave, appreciate it. I got to go, but
we'll talk soon.
Speaker 6 (48:25):
Okay, Jacy. As always, thank you, my friend. Have a
great day.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
There you go, State auditor Dave Bullock on the CaCO
Day radio program. So nowhere to go but up, I
guess with the DMV. We'll be right back. People are
just like I had to drive to here, and I
had to go here and where this this woman went
to Little Washington. Yeah, man, you gotta I try to
remember our reporter friend ap Dillon said she had to go.
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And then my cop buddy, he just he said he
had to drive his daughter to Jacksonville. He's in the
Raleigh area. So it's like, yeah, we need to we
need to do something about that. Probably, although here's the
one thing I would warn I ran out of time
with Dave. But there there's efficiency metrics, but you still
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got to make sure people are following through on their
work because if it becomes all about the speed, that's
that is a without proper quality controlling. I don't think
he was implying that you don't have the QC and
I'm sorry. I was going to ask if it should
be privatized, and then it just slipped my brain. So
I apologize to some of your email in that, And
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I don't know that needs to be prioritized. It is
a ten x business. So yeah, like there there, there's
wiggle room there. But if you make it all about speed,
then people can cut corners. And maybe you're like, well fine, whatever,
just gets a license in my hand. But when ross
what Now when you were were you there for a renewal,
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I'm assuming.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
You're one of the where you had to go and renew,
because yeah, every second renewal. So yeah, if you went, yeah, yeah,
I had to dry like forty five minutes away right
to go there and then take the test. Then first off,
everything on the website was wrong. They're like, yeah, you're
gonna have to take like a written driver's test.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
Off, Oh okay, so it was your first NC. Yeah,
I was blown away too. I had to sit there
and take the computer test. Yeah no, no, no, here's
the thing.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
The first time I got my license, Yes, I understood that,
But what I was saying when I went to go
renew after the eight years, So with the first eight
years you can do online and then you get to
go you have to go in person the next eight
years like the next cycle. On the website it said
that I was going to have to take a test
again when I went there. That was incorrect.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
Okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (50:34):
So it was just division test, which is no big deal, right,
But I remember sitting there and there was a woman
taking your test. She could not speak any English. Oh no,
and she was take she was taking the test like
looking at it. You have to look at the science
and explain to them. Yeah, yeah, there was a sign. Yeah,
and she's like, you know, it was like family guy,
it was it was it was like know, and the
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woman behind it was like giving her like mass of
hints as to what to say the dent.
Speaker 3 (51:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (51:03):
And it went on for like ten fifteen minutes on
this one sign, and then.
Speaker 1 (51:06):
Finally she was like, oh that's a year. That's a year.
Speaker 2 (51:09):
She's like, that's right, stamped that one correct. Let's move on,
Like what is happening here?
Speaker 1 (51:14):
What is going on?
Speaker 2 (51:15):
If you don't know what a yields sign.
Speaker 1 (51:16):
Is, I mean she probably she probably knows what it means.
It's here. Here's the one thing I will say up anywhere.
If she's from she was Hispanic, you think, yes, okay,
all right, the sign. I just I've driven in Mexico,
I've driven in Costa Rica and the signs like the
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stop signs while they say Alto instead of stop. They
still look like a stop sign. The difference is nobody
stops at them, so you take your life in your
hands driving those two countries. But like so there is
some but no, that's a big problem because it's a
big problem for a lot of reasons because some of
the signs are clearly not that well.
Speaker 2 (51:56):
The thing it pissed me off because, like, you know,
I had read on the online that I was gonna
have to take the actual test again, which it's always
absolutely insane because like I've had my driver's license forever now,
really no tickets, Like, I'm fine, I haven't gotten in
any you know, accidents. Just give me my license again.
But I'm like, you know what, I'm responsible. I've done
my homework. I'm going to study for this dumb test,
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download all the materials again, take the online course over
and over again. And that was me, and then the
information on the website was wrong, and then this woman
stumbles in knowing absolutely nothing and passes the test. Just
because that's annoying to me.
Speaker 1 (52:29):
I've been reading, I've been reading on and I don't
know the I don't know the full breadth of it.
But yeah, I think it's just because we have a
lot of truckers who listen, then they follow the Twitter
account and then I see stuff. Is it really a
big problem in the trucking community that there's a bunch
of drivers who don't speak any English and they're getting
cracked down on now, because I've been reading stuff about
this where they're like, and I don't know if it's true,
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like where they they were at a way station and
they had state troopers there or not state troopers, like
DOT officials who were going, we're actually interviewing the drivers
came through it. If you didn't speak any English, they
were literally could grab your CDL from you, And I'm like,
how does he have a CDL? What the hell's going
on if you don't speak any English? Because now you're
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driving an eighteen wheeler down the road, You're just so like,
that blows me away. Let alone this little passenger car
that this woman's tooling around Raleigh in now. So again,
I don't know how much truther there is to that,
because I've seen some stories, but it's a lot of comments.
But I imagine, I imagine that's problematic. Although probably that
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is a problem that is decrease now with everything's Trump's doing. Ross,
did you hear the statues say that we're we are
set to have negative immigration this year.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
Yeah, unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
And keep in mind that includes legal immigration, and we
let in over a million people a year legally, right
the legal pathway, So it is to decrease is not
just to stop all the illegal immigration, but to also
have it so drop and have so many people out
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that it then negates the the in the influx of
the legal immigration. That's a crazy number. And I just
want to make sure people understand this.
Speaker 2 (54:14):
Stat was going back saying like it hadn't been this low.
It was some stupid fifty years.
Speaker 1 (54:18):
Yeah, fifty years, and a lot of that had to
deal with because it was so do you know why
just poor Reagan? It was because it's actually more than that.
Why there was that trend downward, Because the economy was
such crap. That's how bad the And I wasn't here
for it. I was conceived for it, I guess, but
I was born in eighty. But people who lived through that,
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like people, that's how bad the economy is. When people
live in third world countries don't want to sneak in here.
Speaker 2 (54:45):
They're like not things, holy crap, man, But it also
like completely destroys what we've heard for the past twenty
five years from you know, both parties, right, but specifically
the left, where well, we'll look into the problem. We
need comprehensive immigration reform and we need Yeah, no, you
don't fix it.
Speaker 1 (55:07):
Prior to that, it was they only want immigrants so
that the big business, greedy fat cats can use them.
That was Bernie Sanders' position, like fifteen years ago. I
saw a video of him, and that was a shared
position on a lot of Democrats. It's just, oh, it's
the big, evil corporate guys who want to exploit labor.
And don't get me wrong, that's some of it. Now
you're seeing you're seeing that exploitation through the H one
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B visas. That thing is out of control. Right. I'm
not saying it's all got to go away, and I
understand the reason for it, but it's clearly being abused.
And now it's like this reversal. It's just politics, man,
But it's so frustrating. Hey, I go and screen that
call because if it is a truck driver, I want
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to throw that in this segment. I'm just curious. I'm
just curious if that's if that is in fact the
thing that's happening, So could I read about it? And
then I try to research it and I don't see
anything really on the nose. But you know, that's that
is one of the frustrations too, with the level of
media bias we have. Because we had a bunch of
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people driving around giant you know, forty six thousand or
however many seventy six pound metal missiles on the highways. It's,
you know, seventy miles an hour, but they can't read
any of the road signs. Most people would think that's
a problem.
Speaker 2 (56:25):
And yet getting the media to cover it because of
the partisan nature stuff is, it's not easy.
Speaker 1 (56:31):
Scott, what's up?
Speaker 8 (56:33):
Hey, I'm a driver for Buster Brown. I'm actually right
now up in West Virginia talking about drivers from other
countries that are.
Speaker 6 (56:43):
Here that can't speak English.
Speaker 1 (56:45):
It's down a character from other countries. It's the speaking
English part, considering that's what we write our road signs in.
Speaker 8 (56:51):
So absolutely, and I actually, when when I'm at a
truck stop, I'm a very friendly person. I speak to people,
and a lot of hews I do this is just
to see where people are from and there is quite
a few, a lot a few people that cannot even
speak English that Katy speak to me.
Speaker 1 (57:10):
Are the FEDS doing something about that? Because I see
these stories where they try to make a guy and
I don't know if it's true. They literally they were
testing them like can you read the cat in the
hat or something. It was some really insulting thing, and
then they just jerk the guy's CDM. How the hell
do they get a CDL in the first place?
Speaker 6 (57:24):
Is my question?
Speaker 8 (57:25):
Well, that's that's the question that all of us, we
get all the party line, a bunch of US drivers, and.
Speaker 6 (57:33):
We talk about that all the.
Speaker 8 (57:34):
Time, like, how in the world did these guys, even
you know, you get their CDL?
Speaker 6 (57:39):
To begin with?
Speaker 1 (57:40):
Can you can you come in from again, let's just
say that you speak English. Can you come in from
another country where you're driving. Let's say you drive over
in Europe, you emigrate to the US legally. Is that
just immediately transferable? Like if I go to another country,
I can drive, I can get a rental car because
they just carry over my US license. Is that how
it works? Or do you still got to go through
the whole thing here?
Speaker 7 (58:00):
That's all I know you're supposed to go through the
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (58:03):
Okay, yeah, this is so I don't know, man, I
piqued my interest in this story and then I just
remember to throw it out. So but I'll keep an
eye out for it and if somebody is actually doing something,
which maybe the Trump administration should.
Speaker 8 (58:16):
Uh recently have we recently have we seen? Uh you know,
there's a lot of stuff on the internet about how
they're supposed to crack down and they're pulling people over
and uh, you know, if you're pulled over for a violation,
if you don't speak English, then that's another issue right
then too.
Speaker 1 (58:33):
So okay, yeah, I think this was at way stations
they were checking guys. I can't remember what's fully what
it was. All Right, we'll drive safe, sir, because West
Virginia is a super curvy and uh, you know, enjoy
hopefully you don't enjoy one of those runaway truck ramps, man.
Speaker 6 (58:46):
All right, absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (58:48):
A good one, dude. The runaway truck rams, you've probably
seen them. We don't have many in North Carolina where
most people drive. In Wyoming, they're everywhere because you're going
up hill, going down a hill, and every year I'd
see this dumbass tourists in summer that would come and
thought it was a park, a pull out spot to park,
and uh, they would be blocking that. He didn't know
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what the hell it was. Yeah, it's a big gravel
thing then goes upwards so that the truck driver can
literally stop and not murder himself and everybody else. And
then people park and go, you know, hiking. And I
remember lighting up some dude. I was polite at first,
and he got mad at me, and I'm like, dude,
if a truck doesn't have if his brakes are on fire,
(59:30):
he doesn't carry that. Your car's there. That's the other thing.
Even if you want to approach us from a selfish
he's going up that runaway truck ramp and your car's
going with it. Dumb ass. So anyway, raced agic from
the weather Channel. He's here. Uh not a dumbass, No, no, no, no,
you know what a what away truck ramp?
Speaker 6 (59:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (59:47):
So I used to blow oh ya on Highway sixteen.
It's just the mountain pass right where I grew up.
You have, you know, you're like ten runaway truck ramps,
just the elevation change.
Speaker 9 (59:57):
And I there's a bunch on eighty one to.
Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
Yeah, so his tourists park right on the like, oh
it's a gravel pullout, Yeah not really, not really, No
you think that thing?
Speaker 9 (01:00:07):
Don't park there, please right right, well you'll see right yea, yeah,
I care.
Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
I didn't want Himonet to be in it. Wanted him,
but I kind of wanted some jackass to basically have
his car demolished so that they would learn. Right, that's
just me being a horrible child. What's going on?
Speaker 9 (01:00:25):
Weather was, Ah, well, it's gonna get wetter right now,
some of the moderate and heavy rain coming into the triad,
just getting into maybe west and northern parts of Orange
and getting into Chatham Counties and getting ready to come
into the triangle. So going to be a wet morning,
some moderate even heavy rain. Wouldn't be surprised if we
pop a couple flood advisories here. As a rain down
(01:00:48):
into Randolph County, Davidson County pretty steady to heavy, so
places like High Rock, Dinton, Martha, and as you get
into random In and Ashburo, those are places getting heavy.
Raine extends on back to the south and west of that,
so ocasional rain and this batch of rain lasts for
quite a few hours here this morning, and we'll go
into the afternoon instead of see more occasional rain, some
(01:01:09):
heavier times, could be some localized flooding. Probably gonna hold
us in the seventies today, and still a chance of
occasional rain and showers tonight and tomorrow, probably even on Thursday,
but we will start seeing tens come up, upper seventies,
maybe eighty tomorrow. By Thursday about the same upper seventies,
low eighties, and as we look ahead towards the end
of the week, more scattered wet weather around. I think
(01:01:29):
the weekend though, it's gonna have a little bit more
of a sound and a feel like it should be
this time of year.
Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
Maybe still a little bit below.
Speaker 9 (01:01:37):
Normal in terms of temperatures low to mid eighties, but
scattered mainly afternoon showers and thunder showers. So kind of
in a wet weather pattern right now case, and again
emphasizing some of this rain coming in right now could
be heavy for many of us. There's a big swath
of it coming through Davidson Randolph Counties right now, just
south of Greensboro. If you're not getting into the heavy
(01:01:57):
rain yet, you will and eventually here the triangle. As
you go further east though, east of Raleigh, somebs actually
miss a lot of this rainfall. So the further east
you go, the less of a chance you'll have of
seeing this batch of brain getting you.
Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
Oh well, you got to reverse. You suppose the bad
one is supposed to be east of ninety five? Man,
how do you not know?
Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
Sorry about that? Okay, yeah, sorry, we'll try again. And
another All right, there you go, raced agic from the
weather channel. All right, coming up, we'll grab a call
or two. What is the most annoying speech pattern where
you hear somebody using it and you immediately realize you
never want to be around them again. Like if you
don't understand what I'm asking, let me give you an example.
(01:02:37):
Somebody who says like every other word right, that would
be an example.
Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
Or people who use hashtags verbally they go hashtag blah right,
and it's like I those pale in comparison to what
I experienced this weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
I was ross, was horrified when I just told him
what it was. So just wait for it. I'll explain that.
We got some audio to play as well, and calls next.
Speaker 6 (01:03:01):
AKC, I enjoy your show.
Speaker 10 (01:03:04):
I drive locally around the Raleigh area, have been driving
probably about thirty five years, and we have a lot
of drivers that don't speak English, and some of from
Jamaica of course, a lot from Mexico, some Honduras, you know,
so it makes it very difficult to try to help
(01:03:25):
them find directions, especially around Raleigh Durham. You know, while
we do a lot around Raleigh and it's all the
construction and the low clearance bridges and all.
Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
That stuff, truck advice just because I was going to say,
because those people go yeah, but it's different for you guys.
Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
So yeah, because.
Speaker 11 (01:03:45):
Everything around Durham happens so quick, you know, so you
have to be able to read react, you know, because
it's really busy, and with the new eight eighty five
that cuts through there, I mean, you got to make
decisions quick, and if you can't read the.
Speaker 6 (01:03:58):
Signs and make it very hard, you know.
Speaker 11 (01:04:01):
So but you try to help him and it just
makes it difficult.
Speaker 1 (01:04:06):
Yeah, this is Uh. I was wondering the scope of
the problem, but I'm not surprised. Hey, Billy, I appreciate
the call.
Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
Yeah, especially where that the can opener bridge over there,
Durham is man. They got one in Greensboro, tour by
the coliseum. They'll bust it up. So all right, so
ross this weekend I go visit. I have only I
have like two or three friends that I actually hang
out because we're excited about football season. When I was
get together on Sunday, and so two of them are there.
One guy shows up and he brought his neighbor and
(01:04:34):
I guess I don't know who the other if he
was a neighbor or whatever. And and so the guy
comes over. He starts talking to us, and he has
the most obnoxious He doesn't listen. He had no idea.
He clearly doesn't listen to radio. So I'll tell this story,
but I don't care if he hears it. So he's
ever talking to us, And well, let me do this,
and I'm gonna I'm gonna tease this, just giving exam
(01:04:57):
a couple examples because we're gonna want to discuss this.
He starts talking to me, and it's fine normally in
that setting. What will end up happening is the question like, well,
what do you do for a living? And I know
Mike listens to the show on the iHeartRadio app and
he I don't know if he told him. And then
a lot of times then you're not having a fun
(01:05:19):
conversation anymore because it turns into big political They want
to have a big political discussion. And look, I appreciate
meeting listeners out there, but sometimes I just want to
drink a beer and stare at the TV. So and
within thirty seconds he said something and I'm he seemed
nice enough. He said something, and I'm like, it caught
my attention. I'm like, did he just verbalize that? So
(01:05:43):
it's not that the guy said like every other word
the hallmark of fifteen year old valley girls. It's not
even that he would do air quotes way too much. Right,
there's certain things that bug you, and I will tell
you in radio, you try to be cognizant of this, like,
but not to the extent like Sometimes times you get
into like a verbal trap where you keep using the
same phrase. Well, ross, what is it? Because Russill called
(01:06:06):
me out. Radio guys will call each other out because
you don't even know you're doing it. I'm trying to
remember what it was. I had to make a conscious
effort not.
Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
To you The last one you were. It was you
kept saying the word. You were saying wild a lot
saying wildlife.
Speaker 1 (01:06:18):
That's what it was.
Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
There was something else before that, but I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (01:06:20):
Now. There's always something over the years, and you just
try to pattern around it. And so I don't know.
Maybe this guy can be cured, but I'm not going
to stick around to find out. So here's what it was. Well,
let me give you an example. Ross says something that
you want me to respond that I think you're correct. Okay,
So say put a fact out that you think I'm
going to.
Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
Tell you is correct. Okay, okay, but the sky is blue?
Speaker 6 (01:06:44):
You know?
Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
Donald Trump gift correct? You know, the one who's leaning
the microphones goes correct? Right yeah, Donald Trump gift correct.
Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
Olive garden is authentic Italian cuisine, Donald.
Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
Trump gift correct.
Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Say something where you think somebody's justified in what they're doing.
I give you another example. Uh, what do you mean,
like the guy the guy murdered the guy he caught
uh trying to Uh, I don't know, murder his son, right, whatever.
Just give me some where you think it's justified, and
we'll give you that example. Judge Joe Brown gift not guilty.
Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
He did this like three times, so this is something
that cannot be something that I do not want this
to become popular, saying that again.
Speaker 1 (01:07:31):
The wave structure, it has to be I guess a
known gift, which those two. He did a third one
and I can't remember what it was. And because by
that time, I'm like, how can I be as far
away from this person as right?
Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
So I'd be like, oh my god, the Bills are
winning the super Bowl and be like, Michael Scott Gift,
it's happening right. Oh, he used that was one of
the other ones I tell ross off theear. So he
used the Donald Trump one, and then he went to
he did Michael Scott Gift.
Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
That's what she said. If somebody I'm just like, you
can just say that's what she said, I'll still think
you're like ten years too late. But what the hell?
Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
If I encountered that in a wild I don't know
how I'd react. I really would have to distance myself
from that person. I'd probably be really confused, like what
is happening here?
Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
I just kind of digging around on my phone, But
now I'm like, now I'm not having fun over there,
and I want to Oh, you know, I don't. I'm
not super chatty because like we're on the same page.
We're there to drink beer, lie to each other, and
you know, watch sports whatever. We're watching the window. And
but now I'm like, and I talked to my buddy
(01:08:32):
who it's his neighbor. I don't know how well they
know each other. And I'm like, bro, you got to move.
Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
If you if you risk walking out of your house
and encountering that man every day, you got to sell
your house. You already try to avoid your neighbors. And
now they're speaking to you in gift talk or whatever
it is.
Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
Yes, yeah, gift Now how does that happen? Has anyone
ever heard that? I thought he was putting.
Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
I thought the first time it was an inside joke.
That's why I talked to Mike. I'm like, is that
Am I missing something that the end is? Nope, that's
he says that all the time.
Speaker 6 (01:09:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
No, The Internet was a horrible mistake. Yeah, and it's
made us so dumb. And now you know, because you said,
now people were speaking hashtags or emojis or lols or
and now they're adding like gift talk to it. That's crazy. Yeah,
Like I so, I was watching a video on social
media before the show, and it was people getting out
of the theater in nineteen eighty four after.
Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
Returning this so where they got the young black man
is the first guy they interview and then yeah, I've
seen that.
Speaker 2 (01:09:29):
Yeah, they're getting everybody's comments on it. But the main
point of the post was the poster couldn't believe how
people back then quote all spoke in the same cadence
where people are saying like, oh, they're all speaking in
complete senses and it's loud and it's clear, and they're
inflecting properly and they're using proper grammar, and what happened?
How can people don't do that anymore? Because now people
(01:09:51):
mumbo and.
Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
Now or they talk and they use abbreviated like lol
yeah or yeah yeah yeah. Gift things new though, So
to your point, it's getting worse. So the Internet we
need to repeal? The Internet? Is that where we're at.
Let's get rid of it. I guess now. I did
think about this though, What if you could weaponize it?
(01:10:13):
So like, let's say every time I interact with any
of our sellers, I use gift talk, so none of
them want to ever talk to me? Then, you know, yeah,
I don't get called down there to do stuff. I
don't drop into the state like I don't know. Or
maybe you're at a workplace and you're one of those
people who just wants to work. You don't like the
office politics, use the gift talk. They'll probably leave you alone.
Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
They'll make up, they'll probably tell stories about you and
think you're a serial killer, but they'll leave you alone.
Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
So uh, yeah, I had never heard anything like that,
And uh, maybe I don't know. Maybe, uh, you need
to have my if Mike's listen, yeah, he's probably listening.
You need to have an intervention with your neighbor.
Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
Just like reply to the guy. But like you know,
Samuel Jackson and gifts staring, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
I mean or Game of Thrones gift shame, shame shame, right, yeah, yeah,
weaponize it. Just very clear this is probably a forty
year old adult.
Speaker 2 (01:11:14):
It's unacceptable. Nope, I was understanding it, right, I could
understand like a teenager, like fifteen sixteen, there's some new
thing the kids are doing. This is crazy and I
don't approve of that. And nope, wanna step Nope on
that one. That a forty five year old dude. That's weird.
Speaker 1 (01:11:27):
Yeah, this is a There is a man with a
wife and I think two or three kids he said
he had, or Mike said he had, because his kids
are the same agent. How does that happen? How does
one get into that?
Speaker 2 (01:11:39):
Maybe he got it from his kids.
Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
Maybe it is the kids that all their kids are
really young. I think Mike's oldest is eight, So I
don't know. Man, crazy crazy. I just never heard it,
and I just wondered if anybody else ever heard that,
because it immediately it immediately made me the second time.
The first time he used it, he was talking to
directly to me, and I thought I was just it
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was the Trump thing, and I'm just like, okay, all right,
And I thought it was a one off or some
weird thing. And then he said it again. But he
was talking to like two of the other guys, and
I was passively listening, and all of a sudden, I
do nothing but listen to this dude when he's talking
to anybody, because I just have to make sure I
didn't mishear it while positioning myself is far away from
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whatever conversation he's in as possible. Oh, We're so broken, man.
All right, let me really flip over to this. You know,
here's another fun part of the Internet that somebody like
this not only has a platform, but is able to
go super viral while being one of the dumbest people
(01:12:45):
I've ever heard make an Internet video. So check this
woman out. So she not a fan of Trump, and
she's not a fan of Alligator Alcatraz. But if you
think it's just Alligator Alcatraz, she would like you to
know that she's she's got some sources and it's way
worse than you thought. All Right, you ready for this?
(01:13:05):
Here we go, because there's just so much to unpack here.
All right, tell me more. Lady, crazy lady in Florida.
Speaker 4 (01:13:15):
This girl on TikTok said one of her neighbors got
a government contract to install incinerators at Alligator Alcatraz, which
is already crazy because that place is on protected indigenous land.
Speaker 1 (01:13:28):
And then well, okay, all right, so that's the first charge.
And so she literally posts a picture of these incinerators. Dude,
I don't know. Rossby saw it on Twitter the creepiest comment,
as one of our listeners wrote, those incinerators will incinerate
a whole body? What what?
Speaker 4 (01:13:43):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
How do you know that? And I wanted to ask,
and if you said, well, I work at a funeral home,
I'd be okay, fine, or at creemator. But like it's
such a random comment. Ah, those won't even do the job.
But I guess it's a defense, all right, So what
else are they doing?
Speaker 4 (01:13:58):
People started noticing migrants wushing up on shore wearing shackles,
actual shackles. That's where we're at right now. There's another
girl tracking government flights leaving from detention centers, and they're
literally all.
Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
Right, So I want to these two are connected, even
though she tries to separate them. So you're going, we'll
wait to say, now you have you know, brown people
in shackles washing up on the beaches of Florida, which,
by the way, is not a thing I've heard about.
Not that people don't drown in Florida, but they're not usually.
It's not like they just fell off the amistad, you
know what I'm saying. So anyway, so how are they
(01:14:33):
getting out there?
Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
Man?
Speaker 4 (01:14:34):
Tell us more just flying out over the ocean and
turning right back around, no destination, just out, turn around,
come back. That doesn't make any sense. Two those two
is not equaling four. Well, and then there's this guy.
He's an American citizen, white, but with the Spanish last name.
He got pulled over, showed multiple IDs and the cops
(01:14:55):
told him they couldn't find him in any system. Then
they said, you can thank your friends at ICE, Like
they're removing people with Spanish last name from the database
just so they can say you're not documented and detain them. Oh,
that's what's happening. If you're not paying attention right now,
you really need to be. This is not a conspiracy.
It's happening right in front of us.
Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
Okay, all right, So three big allegations. They're one there
they turned Alligator Alcatraz into Auschwitz. Two they're shackling detainees,
flying them out over into the Bermuda Triangle, I guess,
and then just dropping them off in the ocean. And
then they're washing up on shore. And then ICE is
(01:15:40):
somehow accessing the fifty states that DMVs and removing anyone
named Gonzales or whatever, and so that they get popped
and then they get detained. I I mean, it's all
crazy town. I don't even know where to start. I
will say this on the flights, because she had a
(01:16:00):
little map with some flights. You can look up the aircraft.
And I see one of our listeners already figured out
what this is. Do you know why planes may take off,
fly around out over the ocean and then come back
without going to some other destination. Therement bigger government planes.
I don't know if you know this man weather stuff,
(01:16:21):
but also you know there's some military stuff too, right,
But the type of plane she's looking at our weather
is stuff that they use for weathers, weather stuff, So
they go out. I don't know if they were observing
the hurricanes. I don't know what date it is, but uh,
that's something they do. That's a thing. So and I
see you didn't google it, but let me ask you this.
(01:16:42):
If their thing was to load up prisoners in shackles,
I notice she didn't use handcuffs raw. She used the
term shackles. If you put them in shackles and you
fly them out and then you just drop me into
the ocean, and that's what you're doing because you're evil.
Wouldn't you do it where? Because we know current flows, right,
(01:17:04):
I don't know if you know this, wouldn't you fly
somewhere where the body's not gonna float right back onto
Miami Beach, because I would feel like that would be
something that you know, this evil government would understand and
be able to mitigate against. So uh, I don't believe you.
But then you see the number of people that have
(01:17:26):
liked that video and you lose faith in society. So shocked, Gift. Sorry,
I will refrain from doing that. All right, Oh we
got Denver Paul. We had Boston Paul. Now Denver Paul.
What's up Denver Paul.
Speaker 7 (01:17:45):
I've got a speech pattern or the way people talk
to just absolutely rubs me wrong. When people fail to
purl or you know, pearl and posessive, like oh he gone,
oh he over there? Okay, you don't want to say
he is over there or he is gone, but you
could say yeah, yeah, oh my god, it just right, man.
Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 7 (01:18:08):
Apparently, and people didn't grow up the way we did.
Speaker 1 (01:18:10):
But anyway, I would say this, I was reminded of
one just because you're Denver p did you where did
you live in Denver?
Speaker 3 (01:18:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (01:18:16):
It was actually a Denver police officer.
Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
Okay, all right, yeah, so balking Ridge, for I lived
in Breckenridge for a year, which in Summer County up there,
which is not affordable if you just got out of college, which.
Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
I learned, and I was. I was blown away with
like the the ski bum thing because they sound like
surfers in California. But somehow it's more obnoxious. Yea, I
was just reminded. So it's a yeah, it's just very disconnect.
I don't know how to describe it. All right, Well,
thank you sir. Yeah, that is uh is abdoxious and
(01:18:50):
it's just the mashing down of our language. Man. Oh wait,
oh ross did he is that? How he said it?
Speaker 6 (01:18:57):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:18:57):
Come on, man, hey Marshall, what's up?
Speaker 3 (01:19:01):
Good morning, mister Casey o' Day's still on the radio.
Good for you man.
Speaker 1 (01:19:07):
That you were surprised. Why did you say you were surprised?
What's up with that?
Speaker 3 (01:19:12):
Well? I had I suppose I was just when I
heard the voice and I heard what you were talking about,
I said, I know that voice. I remember that that's
Casey o Day from back in the day. And he's
still on the radio and he's still he's still getting
the truth out there for robbery Heights. And it was
great today. I got an idea, make a mack A
(01:19:33):
great again, make the homeless great again. Believe it or not,
it's a possible resilience factor homeless versus tax payer. Make
the best worker win. How about these homeless encampment sights?
How about all of that? How about all the tracks.
Speaker 1 (01:19:50):
You want to? You want to? You want a d
m V at the homeless encampment under the five forty bridge.
Speaker 3 (01:19:54):
There no, sir, I want to clean it. I want
God's green earth to cleaned. And I want the other
tax payers to be able to drive through the city
and see that it's cleaned up, and then there's no
more litter, and then then the homeless in this issues
like how about the city bus stops? You see transh
is overflowing and greater volunteers is. It's something that I'm
(01:20:18):
starting up. And the idea is to go around and
for the homeless and the poor and those that are neglected,
that the rires up and take things so high level
and out do the tax payer competition. It'll lead to production.
Speaker 5 (01:20:32):
Which got it.
Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
Well, you know what, sir, If if that picks up
steam and something improved covers a call back and let
me know.
Speaker 3 (01:20:40):
Okay, copy that take care and see your day in
the house.
Speaker 1 (01:20:45):
All right, going there, sir, will you that we're retro?
Speaker 3 (01:20:51):
Now?
Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
What we're retro? Did I just use the word surprise?
I think, yeah, I know right back. I can't believe
you're still alive and still are you not in jail?
Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
Right?
Speaker 2 (01:21:02):
How did you not explode or something? But like, one
of the biggest, like craziest things I heard from somebody
is that they had listened to me or listened to
us between kindergarten to graduating college because their dad used
to drive them to work and they used to listen
to us every morning, and then after that they listened
to college. And think about that, said, I screw them up.
(01:21:25):
The kids are listening once again. You turn it, you know,
it's that if we're talking gift talk, right, it's Matt
Damon turning old gift or whatever from saving private Ryan.
It's like, how is that happening sixteen years?
Speaker 3 (01:21:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (01:21:36):
Man?
Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
All right, well, I'm glad so I heard it was
only ten. So that's why I was confused. I'm like,
did he skip some grades because the promo clearly said
it was ten, So I don't know. No, It's cool, man,
I'll take that all day, So just a surprise thing,
all right, So what do we learn? Apparently there's these
evil conspiracies with incinerators and dropping people from planes in Florida.
(01:22:01):
Who knew we'll be back?
Speaker 6 (01:22:03):
Is ross?
Speaker 1 (01:22:04):
Is it about the moon fan? I see you added
a story here? Is it the moon fan? Somebody's got
to power the moon fan? I think it would be
the good tease. So we'll get to that here in
a moment. But first I have a question, what the
hell's wrong with the Dutch? What's going on here?
Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
I mean, that's a question that's been asked for centuries.
Speaker 1 (01:22:22):
I'm me all right? So check this out. So in Denmark,
who I was always I was really hoping other countries
would follow suit and leave Brexit or leave the EU.
And then so we come up with names, and I
was excited because then you could call it Denmark and
it'll leave I spent we spent a whole day coming
(01:22:43):
up check out for Czech Republic. Yeah, and nobody nobody
else did. But so they got a big zoo there
in Denmark, not surprising, and they're trying to figure out
how to get more financially straight with this thing. So
they put a post out, and they want they want people.
They want the citizens of Denmark to help mitigate their
(01:23:06):
feeding expenses. By the way, how much how much food
do you think an average size zoo spends or how
much money they spend on feeding the animals every year?
I never really thought about that. I saw this number
here Ross What do you think the number? What do
you think the I don't know that this is the
North Carolina Zoo's number, but this zoo sounds about the
same size. So what do you think it costs to
(01:23:26):
feed all the critters annually? It a zoo?
Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
Ah, dude, I have no idea seven hundred thousand. I
was about to say maybe like a million or something. Yeah,
that was like too high.
Speaker 1 (01:23:39):
Yeah no, but yeah, so and it makes sense. By
the way, they have a breakdown on animal by animal.
What do you think it average zoo spends to feed
one tiger? This is crazy?
Speaker 2 (01:23:51):
Eighty thousand No no, no, no, it's not no.
Speaker 1 (01:23:54):
One tiger. Tiger roughly ten pounds of meat per day.
So so they're but they are among the most expensive,
the big meat eaters. So here's what the zoo is
asking the Dutch citizens to do. You ready bring your
old pet, Bring your pet, donate it to the zoo
(01:24:15):
so we can feed it to the tigers and polar
bears and lions, and they get some other big cats
and some other stuff. Now I know what you're thinking.
You're like, well, I mean, if your pet passes away,
that's a little morbid. By the way, if you donate
a pet, you get to come to the zoo and
watch who's doing that. Who's doing that?
Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
Yeah, Marky sent me the story yesterday, and my immediate
reaction was, if you have to like feed your animals
at your zoo people's pets, maybe you should put the
animals back where they came from. Because if you can't,
you can't do you know, you can't do this responsibility.
Speaker 1 (01:24:53):
Now, let me be very clear, because I know a
lot you were thinking. You're thinking like, oh, your dog died,
you were going to bury it, and now you're gonna
do names to the zoo. I want to be clear
because in the post they talk about they talk about
wanting to make sure that the feeding experience, how do
they word it? It needs to be.
Speaker 2 (01:25:15):
All right, where is this line?
Speaker 1 (01:25:18):
Because it's just it's it's nuts. The zoo said, it's attorney,
the public for this very unique approach to meet the
needs for feeding the animals, which includes meat eaters, lions, tigers,
polar bears, links. I think they have some some grizzly
bears too, And here we go.
Speaker 2 (01:25:37):
They want you to donate, and they remind you, yeah,
here's the line that they have a responsibility to imitate
the natural food chain of the animals.
Speaker 1 (01:25:48):
So they encourage not just donating your pet that died
and I'm going to read this verbatim, but also bring
any healthy animal that has to leave here for very reasons.
So I guess if you're gutting youth and I or
you're just sick of it, you can bring it to
the Denmark Zoo and then watch them feed it to
(01:26:10):
a tiger. This is serial killer stuff, like dude, And
that's the only thing I think. And I'm thinking, maybe
this is like that thing we talked about last week.
I can't remember what the subject was, where you just
see if people show up, so you know who the
serial killers are or the bad people, or like when
they tell felons with warrants that they all want Super
Bowl tickets and then they nab them. I that is
(01:26:32):
the only way this isn't the creepiest damn animals store.
I've seen them forever. But I guess maybe if your
wife's cat's annoying, you know, like, ah, I ran away,
there'll be no evidence. I'm kidding, don't do that. But
who's who's doing this? People want who want to save
money on zoo tickets and apparently feeding their animals. Now
(01:26:56):
they they won't throw the live animal in there. I
just want to be very clear on this because it
keeps building on the horrific. You can take the animal
there alive and the zoo staff will euthanize it moments
before they then hand it to the tiger. So because
that would that's the only way this could get crazier
(01:27:17):
if they'd throw it into like the live animal in there.
I know this is you animal people are probably freaking out.
I am a little, but I just want to be
very clear. They're not throwing live animals in there. And look,
people euthanize pets for right. We had to euthanize her,
one of my favorite dogs when I was a kid.
She got distemper. We thought she had all her shots.
It was the whole thing with the vet too, But yeah, man,
it was a sad, sad moment. I couldn't fathom going like,
(01:27:39):
all right, let's go to the zoo. See that tiger's
up too. Maybe it's that's nuts.
Speaker 2 (01:27:46):
Just it's just just to even put the proposal out
there is insane. Yeah, like, let's let's tell the public
that we want our animals to eat their pets.
Speaker 1 (01:27:56):
I mean, I know they got to eat something, and
and and ironically they are eating my pets, right, although
we probably don't sell low enough grade beef that they're
probably buying them in masks, but you know, eading a
cow by the way, they want small pets. But also
we'll take horses because apparently they can cut those up
pretty good. And the critters are all happy. Uh and
(01:28:17):
then the story like oh that well, they have good intentions.
It has rubbed some people the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
No, no, no, everyone I've seen that talk about the
story with they've recoiled would be the word for it.
Speaker 1 (01:28:28):
Yeah, it's horrible, that's horrible. And don't mistake this. But
North Carolina, zo, you go to the zoo where the
polar bear exib it is and toss your dog in there,
You're gonna get arrested. But it won't get eaten, will it? Ross?
So there is that, So it has to be a
polar bear. See what we did there? All right? Uh
they grab a ross is green and a call fit.
(01:28:50):
That's in probably before we go to uh yeah, John,
what's up?
Speaker 6 (01:28:56):
A friend of mine wants to know if you get
any tax benefits for doing this?
Speaker 1 (01:29:01):
You know, people showing up with like a bag of
kittens or something.
Speaker 2 (01:29:05):
But then I'm out.
Speaker 6 (01:29:05):
I mean he's out. That person's de friends out. That's that,
so then that friend is out. I think it was
an at tax, a tax benefits sort of a.
Speaker 1 (01:29:16):
Mark. Does I know you get zoo tickets? I guess
they probably?
Speaker 6 (01:29:20):
Well at least you get something. Yeah, that's nice of them.
The experience.
Speaker 1 (01:29:24):
Yeah, you come watch your peck getting I'm not making
this up. You can you can get you they'll give
you zoo tickets and then you can come wonder what
the your your sweet little your your your little sweet
dog get consumed by a polar bear. Yeah, bring the family, absolutely,
they'll love it.
Speaker 6 (01:29:41):
Just make sure we watch the amount of pit plane
tickets that get sent over and didn't walk recently.
Speaker 1 (01:29:48):
I don't know, man, I don't know. That's probably it's
probably another way that it takes for the call there,
so it's ross. I just thought this is probably another
way that Trump is, uh, the evil Trump people are
murdering migrants.
Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
That's absolutely say you're yeah, you're gonna hand over our pet,
you know, handover Fido to the zoo. And then you're like,
your kid is balling in front of you, like how
could you do this? You monster? And you're like, no,
but we got free zoo tickets.
Speaker 1 (01:30:08):
Now you want to watch? You want to watch? Yeah,
that's no, that's the part that really blew my mind.
I mean, one, they ask for live animals, but at
least they're euthanizing them, and I guess if you were
euthanizing your animal, you could justify it, you know, if
that what's the difference between the that and the zoo? No, no, no,
it's the part where they then throw your beloved pet
in there and you have to watch a pride of
(01:30:29):
lions devour it. Who wants that? And that's how you
know that person is a serial kill.
Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
I know that needs to be one of those sting operations.
Speaker 1 (01:30:38):
Yes, that's what I was just saying.
Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
Man, oh you brought this random? Also, how do you
prove it's yours? But you just get a little dark here.
I mean if you just show up with the zoo
at the zoo with some little yappy dog and you're like, ah,
this is my as my yappy dog. Yeah, you know
he keeps trying to bite me. Oh he's very sick.
Here you go, and then your neighbors like what happened
(01:31:01):
to my yappy dog? Like this could go really sideways.
Speaker 1 (01:31:04):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (01:31:05):
He's got a text from Ryan, my buddy, and he said, yeah,
a lot of people are going to grab their neighbors
annoying pets. Yeah, I'm not encouraging it, but like, you
ever live next door to a really yappy dog. What's
the name? You're like, there is a little Yappers?
Speaker 6 (01:31:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:31:23):
Oh his caller says Bill what no Ah, that's his
Christian name, that's his his nickname is a little Yappers.
He just said he hates me, but he's very sick,
very sick, very sick. All right?
Speaker 2 (01:31:34):
Is racetagic there for the Weather Channel? But I just
had the creepiest story out of Denmark. Then the zoo
there is asking people to bring their pets to be
consumed by the the large cats.
Speaker 1 (01:31:47):
Of the polar Bear. Give zoot tickets can watch. Yeah,
they will even take live pets, but they'll euthanize them
first for them annoying dog my neighbors. I just found
a one way trip to Denmark. Yeah, you go.
Speaker 9 (01:32:04):
What's up man a lot in terms of outdoor weather
unless you go east. Not gonna use ninety five. I'm
not gonna use eighty Well, yeah, I guess right around
eighty five where some of the heaviest rain is right now,
not really getting into the Triangle as we speak, but
(01:32:24):
starting to. But I really think there's modern heavier rainfall
going to extend from person Cast Well down through Alamance,
Randolph Counties, Davidson County, and around the Tria. But as
you go west of that, still see more rain. So
we might get some flooding here, maybe some advisories coming
out over the next couple of hours. And it looks
like the further east you go of Raleigh and Durham
(01:32:44):
and wake Forest and even down there Fayetteville. East of that,
there's not gonna be much rain at all. And from
about there in points west, steady or heavier rain this morning,
which may continue on and off into the afternoon. So
someone get a bunch I think closer to the try
and someone get less closer to the triangle. Temperatures will
be in the mid upper seventies and more chance of
(01:33:05):
rain this week Wednesday through Friday. Scattered areas of rain
and showers at times. We even get a few thunderstorms,
not all day rain. I think today will be the
heaviest of it if you do get it, and then
toward the weekend more typical weather for this time of year,
with milder temperatures coming back. We'll get back into the eighties. Casey,
we didn't talk about topics earlier, so we will. A
(01:33:25):
couple of disturbances. Were looking at Dexter's going away, so
no threat from that as it heads out to sea.
An area off the southeast coast does have a forty
percent chance of developing over seven days, so I'll have
to keep an eye on that see if that increases
our moisture and becomes anything. And then a wave coming
across the Atlantic has a fifty percent chance of developing
in seven days, so tropics starting.
Speaker 1 (01:33:46):
To heat up.
Speaker 9 (01:33:46):
We've got some rain around, unsettled weather continuing here over
the next several days. Don't have a day here through
the weekend that we don't mention at least a chance
of some rain.
Speaker 1 (01:33:56):
Okay, thank you, sir, appreciate it. Yeah, and we'll come
back with Jeff Bellinger next.
Speaker 12 (01:34:00):
Well, Good morning, Casey. This report is sponsored by Fidelity A.
Stocks rebounded in yesterday's training. Wall Street had its best
days since May. Stock market futures are mixed this our.
SMP and Nasdaq futures are higher. The Dow futures are
down twenty one. Could be partly because of Caterpillar. Shares
of the heavy equipment maker could weigh on the Blue
(01:34:21):
Chips today. Caterpillar posted a smaller than expected profit for
the latest quarter. Caterpillar said total sales and the construction
and resource industries were down. The company's energy and transportation
unit posted higher sales. Clares Stores may be close to
a Chapter eleven bankruptcy filing. Sources say the jewelry and
accessories chain has missed rent payments on some stores for
(01:34:43):
the last couple of months. Claire's has been exploring restructuring
options for a possible sale. A couple of stories indicate
that Drinker's tastes are changing. Diagio Chairs saw their biggest
surge in nearly five years. The spirit's company expects to
maintain sales growth while making more cost cuts. The Johnny
Walker maker predicts its organic sales growth for this year
(01:35:06):
will match last year's increase. Diagio says it's seeing robust
demand from younger consumers, but Americans are drinking less beer.
Molson Cores lowered its outlook for a second quarter in
a row. The brewer says its bottom lines being pressured
by a weak consumer, declining market share, and rising costs
due to aluminum tariffs. In Casey, a phenomenon known as
(01:35:28):
climate inflations hitting our wallets, droughts, heat waves, floods, and
wildfires are pushing up the cost of everything from home
insurance to groceries, and experts say beef prices illustrate the
impact of the food system. Dry pastures don't produce enough
grass to feed cattle, so ranchers have been sending animals.
Speaker 1 (01:35:46):
To slutterhouses earlier.
Speaker 12 (01:35:48):
They're cutting back their herds even though Americans are eating
more beef, and Supply and Demand says that's pushing beef
prices up, and that's the reason. Part of the reason anyway,
that beef prices are through the right now, casey, Well, that's.
Speaker 2 (01:36:01):
Clearly not from people who produce beef telling you that.
So I'm I'm from a cattle ranch. That is one
part of the issue. There's much bigger issue, but that's
it's part of it. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Sorry, I
get angry about that stuff.
Speaker 8 (01:36:14):
Not that.
Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
Hey, has Caterpillar thought of you, Sydney Sweeney, to like
sit in one of their pieces of equipment.
Speaker 1 (01:36:21):
I don't think that's occurred to them yet. I think, Oh,
she can run a back home. All right. That's just
my advice. So all right, thank you, I appreciate it.
All right, have a good day. Yeah yeah, sticker in
some heavy equipment.
Speaker 2 (01:36:35):
I mean you saw the video of her working in
the car, right yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah the Mustang
thing yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:36:42):
Does that she shoots? Why can't she run a digger
or a greater I mean, what's going on here? Man,
Let's do it? Hey, maybe she can help with the
New Moon based construction. Roskeet's really excited about this stuff apparently. Uh,
former Congressman Duffy's now the interim administrator is now excuse me,
(01:37:08):
sip of water. But I got a short time here.
Basically they're talking, they want to announce they're gonna they
want to build a nuclear plan on the moon.
Speaker 9 (01:37:15):
We will have the first permanent base on the Moon,
and it will be American.
Speaker 2 (01:37:22):
Yeah, he didn't win, but I still remember this day
when he said that in that debate, and I'm like,
I got to vote for that guy.
Speaker 1 (01:37:29):
Yeah, man, Yeah, Well anyway, Yeah, so look, obviously, in
all the discussion about further you know, exploring further out
in the system, it requires almost excluded, almost every plan
requires to have a base outside of a resort of
it because of the amount of energy that is needed
to escape. So if you want to throw it on
(01:37:51):
the moon, it's probably a little more practical than space
station you're further out. Yeah, okay, but can I can
I make a suggestion Instead of a nuclear plant, how
about we go old timey like turn of the century
coal plant just to own the Libs. They would can
(01:38:11):
you imagine ross they put one. You're like London in
nineteen hundred where you can't see anywhere, and they just
put some of those up on the moon. Oh, they'd
be so pissed, but they wouldn't show up to protest.
So you got that going for you, Or all right,
other idea instead of coal because some of you are
going to like that, or or a nuke plant. We
it's it. Basically, we use people's pets to create energy.
Speaker 2 (01:38:37):
We're gonna need a lot of pets though, so and
the Denmark Zoo's probably not gonna like the competition.
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