Wednesday-09-06-2023

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Episode Transcript

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All right, good morning everybody,and welcome. It's well, normally it
would be to halfway point, butthen we really didn't have a Monday,
so I don't know. One twentyfive of this week's efforts getting underway to
day a c O Day radio programcoming up. Hollywood, gonna Hollywood.

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I don't know what's going on withthis, so we one of the weirdest
movie premises I've seen. But Hollywoodis a buzz, so we'll try to
make sense of what's going on there. We got six of the Georgia defendants,
including former North Carolina Congressman Mark Meadows, making their initial plea down in

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Georgia, and Georgia is all aboutsome Rico stuff. They just found sixty
with sixty one others. He hassixty one others to be charged under the
Ricos statue down there. Some mightargue that it's cover for other stuffs that

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they're doing. They're like doll soyou don't think they should use it.
And then for this, I'll letyou be the judge when I explain what
they're talking about. How do findit interesting? Because one could argue that
many other municipalities and states they wantedto go in this direction for kind of

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this same stuff might have themselves alittle bit of a roadmap, but probably
not. Oh and now I guesswe're officially using the robot murdered dogs for
security, So I can't decide whetherit'll be effective based on the terrifying videos

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of them running around with oozies andstuff, or it'll get parted out like
hitchbot did. But we will sharethat story for you. It's like I
said last yesterday, Man, it'sjust just a crazy week news wise,
but we will we will do ourbet. Oh and one of the one

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of my favorite articles I've read ina while is piece. It was penned
by a family from California, aformally who decided they were going to move
to Texas, but they're gonna moveto Austin, so kind of Texas and
it's not living up to their moonbad expectations. The irony, of course,

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is they made the move right now. It was a job related move,
but they then wrote a whole articleabout how Texas sucks. And again,

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you moved to Austin, so Idon't know that you're getting the full
Texas experience. But also to actlike there's zero difference and then complain about
all the stuff that you say youdidn't move away from because of you just
had to or job stuff and youreally love. I can't figure out what
the heck's going on with this thing, but we will. We'll touch on

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that, and then, you know, whatever other news is breaking out there,
including race stagic, where we'll justhave a kind of a moment of
silence and be like, what happened. Although I did see the new ap
pole and Clemson didn't leave the toptwenty five. They are twenty five,

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so they're not they haven't been excommunicatedyet. I don't know. Man,
Colorado jumps in there pretty deep,and it's some other weirdness on that,
but that's what people argue about,and I don't I don't know whether that
thing is really accurate. For thefirst about four or five weeks, some
would claim it's never accurate. Butwhat are you gonna do? Oh yeah,

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yeah, yeah, I don't worry. I got a hamster ball guy.
He he's he's been on the showbefore and he's from Florida, So
we'll leave. Maybe we'll get theFlorida man tune out, but it's it's
not his first rodeo. He's kindof an angry dude, all right.
So that's just a little snippet,a little teaser if you will, of

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what's happening out there. I dowant to start with this though, because
yesterday we did open the show witha little burning Man discussion. People had
a lot of fun over the weekendwith the whole They send it to put
a tweet out and they'd be like, hey, my friend just sent me
this picture from burning Man, andthen it's just movie pictures of any movie

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where somebody is like engulfed in mudand misery. Right, that's the joke.
So it's like a tray you fromnever ending story like trying to tug
his horse out of the swamp ofsorrows. And I don't know, I
got a pretty good chuckle out ofit. Would you ever wonder whose fault
it is that seventy thousand people whodecided to take a what we would refer

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to out west as a weather road. They call them weather roads, and
they if something is referred to asa weather road, a lot of times
will be signage on it. Andwhat they're pointing out is this is a
road that exists based on kind ofwhat the weather's doing. Get a lot
of these in Wyoming, and itjust says, you're on your own.

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We don't grade this road. Wedon't really do anything. If it really
screws up, maybe somebody will comein. We had a weather road near
us, and basically we had likea community greater piece of heavy equipment that
was co owned by about ten differentranching outfits. We would use for our

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own roads, but we might gradethe weather road and it just you know,
it's just up to that. Soto have a single point of egress
for seventy thousand people in an areathat if it does rain it gets real
flash floody because it usually doesn't rainand can obliterate obliterate the road doesn't seem

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like the best idea. Now I'mnot knocking it. I found myself literally
up in an area in the mountainsbefore where we had to kind of wade
out the snow because we couldn't getout of there otherwise just due to the
grade of the road and the steepnessof it coming out. And eventually what

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we had to do is literally backdown part of the road with a winch
around a tree. And even thenwe were kind of sliding back and forth.
It was a mess, man,But it was of our own doing.
Now, that was just us.I think there was three three vehicles
at that time, and we justdidn't realize how much snow we were going

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to get, but what it was. So the question becomes whose fault is
it? Is it those who decidedto use a single point of access in
an area where the road could disappearin a matter of moments or turn into
a mud pit? Is it organizersof burning man? Is it mother nature?

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Well, luckily the clucking chickens overat the view they were able to
get to the bottom of it yesterday, and I was kind of surprised about
this. This is one of themany tragedies this this summer h due to
climate change. Of these is thethis is the one number one existential problem.

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And it rained three months worth overtwenty four hours, So we're not
here, Republicans say, which,by the way, in an area that
gets very very very very very littlerainfall, the number of rainy days a
year is very minimal for it torain three months worth in twenty four hours,
which isn't exactly accurate. That wasa seasonal thing, but it's it's

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easy because it may only rain onceevery three months. You see what I'm
saying. Like, if you wereto say Seattle got three months worth of
rain in twenty four hours, that'dbe a big damn deal. Right,
doesn't it take place in like adry river bed or something? Right,

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that's a which would which dry lakeor something? Yeah? Yeah, it
is a it is a dry lake. Yeah, pyramid lake. So it's
sometimes very rarely is it a lake, But sometimes it's a lake. Like
you know, when it rains onceevery sometimes a couple of months, or
once a month, or once everythree months. So for it to rain

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once every three If it only rainsonce every three months and then it rained
one day, then you could saythat it rained three months worth of rain
in twenty four hours. But likelywhat will happen is that lake two or
three times a year will garner enoughwater to kind of appear as a lake.

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There's a lot of there's a lotof sometimes lakes, not just in
Nevada. Most people don't realize thatwhen you're on the front range of Colorado,
Wyoming and eastern Montana, you're onyou're you're in the desert. It's
what is referred to from a topographystandpoint is high desert and it's based on
the rainfall. And I remember drivingthrough there being like it looks like a

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palm went off here. Mmmmmmm.So those those those natural drainages, they
exist and you see them and theylook empty, and sometimes they're not.
I could there's a there's a dozenplaces just around where I grew up,
and we get significantly more rain thanthey do. I'm moistured than they do

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in northern Nevada there where there's justnot water, and then when there is
a rainstorm, there's a water.See. There's a lot in Texas too,
especially West Texas. That's how that'swhy people get trapped in a lot
of the flooding and stuff, becausethey live around there, they move there,

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or they go to an area veryinfrequently, and where there normally isn't
a stream, there's there is acascade of water. But anyway, all
right, So but I need aname, Joy, I need a name
here that we can put for thefor the villain poster. You got anything,
Oh, it's not man made.It's not about fossil fuels. You

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know, when Trump was president,all of that went up. The fossil
fuels went up and the regulations downon it. Please don't vote for him.
I'm begging you, get him outof him. He's so dander But
I'm glad you mentioned because it's sodangerous. It's you know, it's important
to keep mentioning and trying to seehow we help the Maui fires. How

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you know, the Nia and Florida'sa horrible, horrible lit Wait wait wait,
hold on. See so the firstexample you then go to after mentioning
literally what is a lake, albeita dry one okay most of the time,
and cut into the cut into thethe topography of riverbeds, which again

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only acts only work. You knowhow, you know how a lot of
people end up getting in trouble outThis happened in Utah a lot too.
Where they go up there in Utahthey have these amazing canyons of of the
you know, with the deep redhues and everything. I mean, just

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incredible stuff. And there's lots ofvideos you can look this up where people
are hiking up them and there maybe a little trickle stream, but the
walls of the canyon going up literallylike ten twenty feet are just this amazing
carved sandstone, and there's some Imean, there's some really cool stuff out
there. Arizona has one of themost famous. And when you're looking at

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it, you're like, wow,that's amazing. But at no point in
your head does it go, Iwonder how the sandstone got carved out there.
That's so weird, man. Andthen it could be raining, like
fifty miles away, and then peoplewill be in these canyons and all of
a sudden they have this old crapmoment because here comes a cascade of muddy

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water. Because it's one of thefew times where where the rains coming.
People have been killed in those scenariosand horrible. Oh in the Maui fires,
I thought that that was man made. I thought we at least agreed
on all that. It's like anuclear bomb hit that poor place. Yeah,
and there are in grease. Therewere fires in Italy. Yeah,

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the Phoenix had a hundred grease.They arrested what like sixty people for setting
the fires. Sixteen degree temperature.Palm Springs must have been over one hundred.
You ever been to Palm Springs,which is in the desert. Yeah,
yeah, it probably was over ahundred because that's it's really really hot.

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There are drying up. If wedon't have water, we can't exist.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, all right, because it's not
enough water in the conversation that startedabout flooding, what you say the conversation
seems to be all over the placeand not based in reality. But yeah,

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but Trump, if you mentioned that, you should be arrested to Trump,
let me look, come on,uh so I is ross pointed out?
Yes, the which is it onthe water? Which one do you
want? And also it's like thiswhole area where again like you're having to

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put you're having to like create pretendyou're gonna have to like you can't build
a reservoir. We remember we didthis story. So they're like, ah,
beavers, remember how we used tolike chase them off. Now we're
gonna let them build it because asif the government, we can't actually build
a reservoir because moonbats lose their mind. But if the beavers do it,
then it's not us doing it becausethey all know, hey, you know

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it'd be a good idea, butwe have this many people reservoirs. Think
about it. We'll be back theshow after the show is on the iHeart
Radio app search case O Day orthe podcast on the iHeart Radio app.

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What no, why would no?No? No? People are you know,
people are up and they're trying toget no. Oh dear god.
No oh no, no, no, no no. Why would you retweet
that? Oh? Oh dear god. You notice it's in coach too,

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so I don't fly with the pores. Man Ross just retweeted a video the
inside of the Are we just callingit the booplane now or the diarrhea plane?
Uh? That is awful. Allright, we'll be back hang on.

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Thank you. Casey is on ninetyfour five w PTI and the Triad
and one uh six one FM Talkin the Triangle. All right, good
morning, six thirty four here onthe case O Day radio program. I

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I didn't need to see that video, but if you want to see the
video of the Delta flight from Atlantato Barcelona. They were not exaggerating in
the written descriptions that it ran thelength of the plane. I have a

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question. So they turned around,they turned around. They were at least
two hours out over international waters.The total what is the total flight to
Barcelona? Probably what eight hours?I'm not sure what it is from Atlanta,
so you know they're not a halfwayor anything, but there is significant

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distance and everyone wants to get toBarcelona. And it's not like a fuel
issue. And you have to understandtwo that they're gonna have at least another
two hours of flying, right,because they're going back to Atlanta and they're
two hours away, so then itwould be at least half of it.

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How do you not just go toBarcelona? Man? At some point if
you're on there, I mean,it sucks. Obviously. What you don't
see in that is they're going downthe aisle and it's just devastation. Is
every one of those seats adjacent's theaisle likely had somebody sitting there who likely

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had a bag under the seat infront of him, because there's you know,
there's never enough overhead space, especiallyin a wide body like that.
So when I say wide body,you know you got the got seats on
either side, but you also haveseats in the middles. You end up
with two aisles, never enough overheadspace. So of course, right there's

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gonna be some friendly fire on thosebags too, right, And if you're
the whoever that was, can youimagine getting off the plane and they're like,
oh, we lost your luggage,Jez, and then they find it
it's just covered in poop. Whywouldn't Why wouldn't be that it would have
to make an effort. Man,Oh, it's just awful. And that

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person was just running down the aislewell, and it looks like they were
running from economy forward And I'm notsure exactly the eight three fifty on the
wide body what the laboratories look like. But if they're running forward, were
they running to the first class businessclass labatory because those are not for coach.

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They clearly state that no pores allowed. It's why they have that little
curtain. So they were trying tobreak the rules. Man. I'm like,
whenever I go in playing, I'msuper conscious about like what I'm gonna
eat and stuff because I don't wantlike the bubble gut and I don't want
to you know. I'm just youknow, I'm you know, I can't

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want to be the person us havingto use lavatory and yeah, like aggressive
manner, and I care about myfellow passengers, right, I'm trying to
be you know, I'm trying tothink of them and I don't want like,
you know that stench, Like Idon't want any gastinal intestinal problems because
you see that picture, like,oh my man, that's gross, but
just imagine the stench. Oh yeah, and close space. You know.

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I told you, like when lasttimes it was on a plane, there's
some dude who the moment, likeyou hear the ding at ten thousand and
you are already this dude is racingfor the bathroom and then he's in there
for a while and you just whenhe comes out, you just know what's
up. And it was confirmed whenI saw another woman then walk into it

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and uh come out looking like shejust stumbled upon like you know, under
the floorboards of Dahmer's house, right, and they're like, you know what,
i'ma I'll be I'm gonna be finefor a while. I still had
like hours of flight time left.But at least that dude made it,

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you know what I'm saying. SoI don't know what's up gives new meaning
to explosive, No, it,I don't think it gives new meaning.
I think it literally is the definitionof it. But you're right though,
that makeup plane like the next dayor whatever, Like you can't get on
that plane if you're that prob ifyou're that person, yeah, because everybody

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knows you. Now now you haveto get on another flight. You're like
charting a boat to go and wherever. You're like a bus or whatever.
I'm not getting on a plane now. You use the Remember the boat Gretta
took over, right, She's like, Oh, I'm gonna go Green,
I'm gonna take a boat over whenyou came over to like where was it
South America or whatever? Yeah,except it was a boat crewed by like

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six people who then had to liehome. You're like, at this point,
I'll even I'll rent a bouncy houseand go across. I'm not getting
on a plane. What do youthink they ate? Probably Carrabas, But
it's what did Carrabas ever due toyou? I mean, listen, it's
just my opinion. I prefer olivegarden, Okay, authentic Italian cuisine.

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The chefs are trained in Tuscany.Man. I know you've mentioned when you're
there your family. Yes, youknow. What's funny is now all I'm
getting on social media? We're watchingwhat are we watching? We were watching
that Robert Pattinson Batman movie and we'regetting like targeted ads and stuff or whatever
before and like everything, Now allmy targeted ads are for olive Garden.
What a waste? Like they gotyou. It's hilarious, Like what what

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do they need to spend? AliveGarden didn't have to spend a red scent
on marketing to you. That's justlike y'all should be paying me. This
was wasted dollars. Man. That'slike going to like NC State's tail game,
being like, who's I love totell you about the wolf pack?
But we're sitting, you know,we're watching the show and the ad starts

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and we Marky and I just lookat each other. We just started laughing.
Well, like this guy loves oliveGarden. Well maybe it's because you
were like posting pictures of olive garden. You did your whole thing with olive
Garden. So Carrabas is your leadingsuspect there. Do they have a Carrabas
in the in the Atlanta Airport?Maybe I don't, Maybe they do.

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I don't know the big old airportthat or there's a place in Have you
ever been a runsa runs? Itwould make more sense considering the name is
runs a yeah, no, no, no, No, it's an Italian
restaurant. It's it's it's an Italiandrive through restaurant Omaha, Nebraska. Okay,

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I don't think I'm near in theMidwest. Is it is? It?
Is? It not of Olive Gardenquality? It is not. But
if you're looking for like a gooddrive through, like a taco like the
Taco Bell of Ohod like that.Yeah, okay, so they're gonna say
you can go to Olive Garden.You don't have to get out of your
car. They bring the food toyou. You got parking spots and everything.

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Drive through you like, you goup to the window and you're like,
give me a basket of spaghetti orwhatever. That's just that sounds really
messy to eat in your car,especially if it's one of those baskets that
has all the little events on it. But I'm not in the drive through
Italian business. So what are yougonna do? All right? Well,
whatever they ate, man, itdidn't. It didn't agree with him,

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not at all. That is thatis horrific right there. Yeah, you're
not on the next plane. You'renot on any plane. I I mean,
they're probably not gonna kick you offbecause it's not like you're meant to
do that. But still, andthat's the other thing too, Even if
you're not gonna get on the nextplane, you had to then spend two

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hours on that plane with everybody knowingwho you are, straight up knowing who
you are. This is also whyeven and I almost never never check luggage.
I don't care where I'm going.I can perfect I can perfectly easily
travel. How long was I inColumbia, Ecuador? A week and a

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half plus, I'm out on anisland and I'm doing all that stuff I
had. I had the big waycarry on, the biggest one carry on
you can get. Don't check luggage, however, I do that, and
then I have my backpack is whatI travel with, and in the backpack,
away from the rest of the luggage, I will have one change of
clothes on the off off, offchance I get gate checked or I just

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can't access it, and I justlike you got it. You gotta pull
one pair of pants and one Tshirt and some underwear and just stick it
in, stick it in your backpackthere. Yeah, No checking baggage is
the absolute worst. And then you'vegot to worry about them losing your stuff,
which is happening to be for NewYork. Like you're at your destination,
you have to wait like four orfive days from then the send your
stuff or like even just getting offthe plane. At that point, I

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want to go. I don't wantto stand at the stupid carousel and wait
for my bag. Right, No, I'm with you, man, Like
last time I went home to NewYork, like two pair of jeans,
four T shirts, and like pajamasand that was it. And you didn't
even wear all of it. Ididn't. I'm always kicking myself because I'll
pack and then I'll be like,h I didn't even wear all this stuff.

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Could have totally left more space.But yeah, you never know.
You could eat at a Carrabos orRunza then, you know, dear God.
Yeah, but I think once you'rea certain distance, you just gotta
suck it up get to because likethe hassle over it, because I mean,
I understand the smell, but eventuallyyou just you want to get to

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where you're going. And it soundslike we weren't able to get on a
plane for another eight hours after theylanded, so you know, you got
half a day and if you gotsomething going on. That sucks, man.
I remember one of the times Iwent over to Ireland, we were
supposed to meet a group for itweren't traveling and one of those big group

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things with all the buses. Imean, God help me. But part
of what I was doing in Dublinwas it was a tour of the Guinness
thing and the Jamison Distillery and afew others, and so we bought this
whole thing and it took place overtwo days and then you did some stuff
and then the rest of it kindof on your own. And I wanted

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to kick it off there and itwas it was much easier just to do
it as part of this. Andgot totally hosed trying to go through Newark
and we got there and it wasjust it was a whole thing. It
was a whole nightmare, man,just to try to meet up with the
group, and then hadn't properly slept, and and then you're at the Guinness
thing and you're in this big haveyou ever been in the Guinness brewery?
They had like this big ufo towerabove the brewery where after you go through

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it, they give you like arock or a stone and then that's your
currency in this bar so you cango drink a delicious guinness and stare out
over at all the construction cranes ofDublin. And a time we showed up
to the Guinness thing, they haddone the whole tour of the Guinness Brewery
and it was just that part.So I'm like there and I'm like trying

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to talk to it. I'm like, no, I gotta meet the group
because we were going right from thereover the Jamison thing, and I'm like,
I gotta meet the group and they'reup over there. I need by
stone because I had actually been ona tour once before, so I kind
of knew what was up. Andthat's no fun. Didn't get a chance
to even go to the hotel andunpack and do anything. It was just

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you're going to Barcelona, man,which is a which is a beautiful city,
but obviously you're going there for funand frivolity, the big party city.
They do a similar thing too whenyou go to the top of the
boone big Beer. Okay, butinstead of a coin to give you like
the tag you know, and itcan snap, it's a stone, right,
yeah, like a pebble. I'msorry to give you a what you

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know, you know the tab whenyou open up a cand of beer and
just rip it off. Yeah,it's like one of those instead of a
coin at the top of the boomBig Beer. Yeah, this top of
the boom Big Beer. Does itspin like the holiday in downtown Raleigh used
to with the restaurant before COVID.It did okay, but they stopped it.
They said for some reason, likethe spinning of the top of it
would spread COVID more it was stupid. Well, our people get sick and

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they have asive, you know,the top of the boom Big Beer.
I mean, I can make thesejokes because it's not a real place,
but holy cow, that would behorrible if it was sor right, six
forty seven coming up? Uh So, yesterday the White House honored a Vietnam

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War vet. This guy's story ispretty incredible. This Larry Taylor, like
the whole I remember watching even beforehe got this. I remember watching one
of the YouTubers that kind of doesthese history stories talking about this whole thing
with a retired captain Larry Taylor,and he's from Tennessee and basically he went
full rambo man trying to rescue foursoldiers who were basically the command had been

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like, Nah, those guys aredone for. There's nothing we can do.
And He's like, I don't know. I got a helicopter and a
death wish. I'm gonna do thisthing. It's a pretty incredible story,
although some are saying there was alittle there were some protocol issues on the
part of the White House, specifically, you know, the president, I'll
let you be the judge. We'llget that story coming up. Case O

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Day Radio program, Thank you,CAPTI in the Triad and one oh six
one FM Talk in the Triangle.All right, now, am I the
end all the all arbiter on presidentialdecorum? I am not, don't I

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don't know all the rules. AndI also understand too that sometimes you're gonna
have an event that's going on,and some it could be the president,
could be, the governor, couldbe whoever. They may dip into part
of the event and leave due toscheduling or security or whatever it is.
However, there's a few things Ifeel like you got to have your head

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in the game for the totality ofit. Like remember when they were offloading
the coffins of the thirteen US servicemembers killed during the withdrawal of Afghanistan,
and Biden looks over at his watch, which is somewhat is somewhat kind of

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reaction to people might do if they'reuncomfortable. And I guess I would feel
a little uncomfortable if I botched thatand thirteen people were dead. But still
it's not good optics. And whenyou're at that level, you kind of
have to know. So when you'redoing the Medal of Honor ceremony, which

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you know you may do a coupleof times during your presidency, I feel
like you gotta stay for the wholething, especially when you consider and it's
not a posthumous thing where you've gotthe guy in the room like this guy.
Larry Taylor, retired captain served inVietnam from nineteen sixty seven to nineteen

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sixty eight, ran two thousand combatmissions. He was the leader of a
helicopter lightfire support team during the twothousand combat missions. Is documented to have
come under fire three hundred and fortytimes. So he's there eighteen months and

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he shot at every other day,and then when he actually see the mental
honor of honor for and I'll giveyou the short story on it, but
it's it's it's insane. Basically,in June of sixty eight, during a
battle of up Goo Kung, Taylorwas leader of the light fire support team

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and they were tasked with helping foursoldiers who had been surrounded by the enemy
during the reconnaissance mission and we're takingheavy fire and Taylor and another helicopter provided
air support for the soldiers. Eventuallythey started to run out of AMMO and
they were left to scout out anescape route for the team. So now

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they're just doing you know, fromthe air of visuals, and so he
does that. He literally is comingback to base and he finds out because
it was sending another a huey endto pull these guys out. He found
out that the command scrapped the huey. They said, look, there's just
there's too much fire coming in.They're all probably dead. We're not going

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to send other personnel in there.And he just went effort. He's gotten
almost no AMMO, he's got almostno fuel, and he's just like,
yeah, we're gonna go get him. And he did. They reached the
site, he landed, and justeven though he's getting fired at and just

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took off, running control, tryingclimbs aboard. The whole thing is it's
a Rambo movie, like he wasjust sent in to take pictures and the
president, after doing it, justabruptly left the ceremony. Yesterday. It
was so weird. All right,I've been wanting everybody happy Wednesday, seven

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out six year on the PCO Dayradio program. Oh that's right, No,
uh no, Mark Robinson a dayright. Ross normally would chat with
him in the third hour. Whatwas did he give a reason you gotta
give? You got a thing he'sdoing? Or Ross is trying to eat

(35:52):
stuff so we're bugging him. Didyou think it's a debate. I'm kidding.
It's a joke. I'm kidding.I'm kid it's a joke. Some
of Robinson's opponents are unhappy because hewon't debate. He's basically he's he's adopted
the Ted bud bottle, where he'slike, I'm so far ahead? Why
should I which worked for for Ted? So any who? But are we

(36:15):
gonna get him next week? Oris he just like I can't do this
week and we'll catch him in twoweeks. We might be able to move
it. Yeah, Okay, Ididn't see. I don't know the extent
of your conversation. You just saidhe's not on Yeah, this guy,
pat Riley contacted me yesterday some aboutall the fame coach pat right, No,
no, who By the way,I went to my high school in
our gymnasium is named after but no, oh, that's right, different guy.

(36:37):
Yeah, okay, something to dowith the Board of Education. This
boy, yeah, he does siton that as a lieutenant governor. So
all right, we'll catch up tothat. I wanted to ask him about
a few things. There's some uhand and uh. They had they had
a little pressure yesterday and some folksgathered. It's really interesting to watch the

(37:02):
folks up in Rockingham County. Overall this U casino stuff there is there
is a significant contingent of folks whoare not pleased with the idea of casino
finding its way up to Rockingham County. And you know that is technically our

(37:22):
w PTI station of License Tower areais you know, that's Rockingham County.
So I'm just I'm curious. Obviously, you got you got lawmakers that are
happy they're sitting there looking at thecash infusion, and let's face it,
they've had a tough goal of it, from the from the beer plant closing
down to some other stuff. Andthe sheriff there we talked to kind of

(37:45):
on the regular. So I'm alot of mixed emotions up there, and
I don't know. Look, Idon't I don't live in Rockingham County.
Obviously, we broadcast there. Wetell you we have a lot of fine
folks who listen from the area.Is it. Where are people's heads at

(38:07):
on that? I mean, Iunderstand there's people who hold press conferences,
and there's other people who are like, yeah, let's go ahead and do
this thing. It seems like Burgeris a big fan of it, But
what is what is the average Joe? Maybe just maybe you're just like,
oh, it'd be nice to advocacinoover there, or I don't want all
the stuff that comes with it.However, you know, one of the

(38:28):
things they talk about coming with itoutside of just the traditional gambling addiction and
things like that, or you know, drug use being a problem, but
mess already kind of a problem.So maybe some of that financial revenue provides
more resources. I don't know.I admittedly I don't have I don't have

(38:50):
an opinion, really hard opinion eitherway. I can kind of see both
sides. But if you're Rockingham County, you don't even have to travel that
far if you want to go toa casino to go up to the new
one up in Virginia. So wecan take calls on that. What the
hey eight eight eight nine three fourseven eight seven four. We'll throw that

(39:10):
into the hopper today, but we'llwe'll maybe pick his brain on that coming
up next time we have him on, because it tis curious. Let's see,
I know, let's see. Ithought, well, Mark Walker was
part of that presser, so Idon't think he's a fan of it.

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So I know where he's at.I don't know where our state treasurer and
all those folks are, but Isuspect it might become a bit of a
campaign issue too, although we reallyhave Mark on not for campaign issues just
due to equal time stuff, butmore lieutenant governor stuff. But like I
said, we can throw that inthe hopper. People went awigh in on

(39:53):
that eight eight eight nine three fourseven eight seven four, especially folks who
live up in Rockingham County. You'redown with it. I mean, it's
not gonna be a plethora of highpaying jobs, but there's some good ones
in there. Plus to get towork with Robert de Niro, that's a
big deal, right, even ifhe has like his titles always changing head

(40:20):
of catering, all the different stuff, you know, to thwart the licensing
board. Don't get in a carwith him, by the way, I
don't know if you know that,dude. It's a nice car. It
was a really nice cause you seehis parking spot, like right there at
the entry. Yeah, yeah,at his top batch man. But you

(40:43):
know, if you don't sink thecharges, what are you even doing?
Rook Hey, just to be clear, Casey, we're not happy about it
in Nash County. Yeah, Iknow I should point that out to It
was kind of talking about rocking himbecause they had the the citizens gathering yesterday.
But no, we're talking about severalcasinos different places. See again,

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I don't I don't know. Soif you're not happy about it down there,
why not Nash County. Obviously there'sthere's more people, but that means
there's also other alternative industry, andI don't know, I do find it
interesting. The media is very unhappyabout it because of like five thousand dollars

(41:30):
campaign donations by several interests. Herehere's my thing, though, it's like
anything else they're talking about maybe legalizing, it's I see this this path,
whether it's like the sports book stuff, right, sports gambling stuff. They're
like, all right, but we'reonly gonna let you know, a handful
of people do it. And thenyou just kind of know the fixes in

(41:51):
Like you know, Ross and Icouldn't start at casino, right because we
don't have the lobbying efforts, theinfrastructure, any of that. But we
couldn't. We couldn't know and youknow our own Biff Tannen style up,
you know, pleasure Palace, right, We're not We're not We're not tight
in enough. And you see thatanytime you see governments kind of deciding that

(42:13):
they're going to expand this stuff,like in Colorado when they first launched,
they're like, all right, justgonna be a handful of you, and
it just happens to be all ofour friends who are actually gonna be able
to do it. And then theyquickly realized there that when you do that
and you limit it and then youtax it, that all of the people
who are still doing it illegally.They're just going to continue to operate because

(42:35):
they're offering a cheaper product. They'renot in your little tax structure, and
they got edged out and they're justlike, screw it, I'm gonna do
this anyway. So yeah, justuh, there's a lot going on there,
just saying all right. So anyway, I was mentioning that yesterday you

(42:55):
had the Medal of Honor ceremony thisVietnam. That helicopter pilot some soldiers pinned
down. They think all is lost. He actually thinks they're coming back to
rescue these dudes. He finds outthey're not. Turns out helicopter around and
with limited AMMO and almost no fuel, goes right in there. He was

(43:20):
told just to take pictures. Hedidn't give a crap man, and he
spent most of his days in Vietnamtaking fire, and he didn't care.
He said, I'm not leaving theseguys behind, just the stones, you

(43:43):
know what I'm saying. So thisguy went through this eighteen months of hell,
three hundred forty days under fire overthe course of eighteen months, put
himself in in almost u sure lifeending danger, and somehow I was able
to prevail you stay for the wholeceremony, is what I'm saying, if

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you're the president of the United States. But unfortunately he did not, and
some people are wondering, what's whatwas up with that? Why would you
walk out? So he did theobviously the photo op part of it,
where he is uh, you knowhe's uh was a pinning the medal,

(44:30):
but he's providing the metal, uh, poking it around the captain's neck.
Larry Taylor, by the way,from where is he from? He's from
West or from eastern Tennessee, right. And I don't know if you've known

(44:50):
this, there's there's been some roughoptics surrounding this, uh, this president
and the military lately. But youhad the stories of the gold Star families
who were just like, you needto stop talking to us. This is
crazy. Like the conversations he washaving. You had that one dude who

(45:12):
who was lying and he you know, he's lying in recovery at Walter Read
his arm is gone. The Presidentis trying to shake that hand and then
like gets down. It's just like, what do you want? You had
all this stuff going on, youstay for the Medal of Honors ceremony.

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Biden abruptly left the ceremony after fasteningthe nation's highest military decoration around the neck
of retired Army Captain Larry Taylor,military veterans, slamming by and afterward arguing
the commander in chief showed a startlinglack of respect part in my French.
But what a I can't read thatI'd have to go back. Did the

(46:02):
presidents always stay for the totality ofit because there's a closing there's a closing
prayer, so they do it.Then there's some more comments, there's some
photos, and then there's a coupleother things. It's a it's not a
ton of time after And what alsowas interesting is the White House provides an

(46:23):
official feed of the event, andwhen the president leaves, they cut the
feed, so anyone who was pullingthe video of the event, they didn't
even see the rest of the chaplain'sbenediction. Because the president leaves the room,
they cut the feed, so anyonewho was watching it via the White

(46:46):
House stream they didn't even get tosee the whole event, So it became
incredibly noticeable. All told, thecaptain took in forty five minutes of intense
ground fire as he had went backin to extract the US Patrol group the

(47:14):
rescue, something that had never beenaccomplished or even attempted over the course of
war. Showed a complete disregard forhis personal safety. This is part of
the actual proclamation. Just craziness,man, but like in a good way.
Like you have to ask yourself inthat situation, because you're in a

(47:36):
helicopter. You you've left the area, you're not getting shot at anymore,
you're being told really not to goback in there. You've got basically no
ammo, you don't really have enoughfuel, and yet you still make that
decision to dive right back into it. And you'd like to hope that that's

(47:58):
the decision others would make in thatsituation, but a lot of folks wouldn't.
And actually, the larger telling ofthe story, we're trying to have
all of that in front of meof this video I watched is pretty crazy
because you you realize just how doomedthis whole thing was. But he didn't

(48:20):
care, all right, eight eighteight nine three four seven eight seven four.
So we get into that casinos stuff, you name it, coming up
a little Hollywood and sanity. Wegot to get to and Florida Man.
Well not just Florida Man. Wegot Florida man and Florida wildlife which is
very Florida man esque. We'll havethose stories in your calls coming up here

(48:44):
on the case O Day Radio program. This is one oh six one FM
Talk in the Triangle and nearest Talkninety four five w PTI in the Triad.
All right, good morning and welcomeback. It is six twenty six

(49:07):
here on the case O Day Radioprogram. Alrighty we got some Florida We
got some Florida stories. In fact, let me let me do this and
we'll get one maybe two, andthen if now, we'll get the other
one after the break. Yep,Florida Man, Florida mans. Something in

(49:29):
the water, the air or scentthat makes you do all that crazy crap.
It's like the state is one weekdone ass trap. Nowhere else has
the Florida Man. It is almostlike as the Weird Factor climbs, you'll
find out it happened in Florida everytime. Florida Man, Florida Man.

(49:50):
If anyone can cheer me, ifyou know you can, does mind life
get crazy? But of course,but it's not as bad crap crazy as
yours. Nowhere else are you gofind him? They're so used to it,
they don't mind him. Ready forFlorida now all right? Actually we
have three of them, and justrealized we have three. Let me start
with the Florida not man. Butyou know how sometimes they say pets look

(50:13):
along like their owners. This isstraight up Florida bear here man. So
Officials in Lake Mary, Florida,say a homeowner contacted them after a three
legged bear broke through their screen doorunder their into their lannai. All right,

(50:34):
so one of those pools and closedpools there and rated the drink fridge.
Apparently they have an outdoor drink fridge. According to the family, just
their thirteen year old was home whenit happened, and even though there was
a wide variety of delicious refreshing beveragesin there, the bear just drank the

(50:57):
white claws. So bears A littleghetto man, a little trashy bear there,
got three legs. Got a story. Yeah, you can't even fight
off a three legged bear. Everyoneis so soft. You should just be
happy you didn't get into the fourlocos. Man, get your your bear

(51:22):
stool and white claws that's a bearyou should be able to take. I
don't care if you're thirteen year old. You're thirteen year old. Was the
only one at home. Many smarttalk all day, four five PTI in
the Triad and one six one FMtalk in the Triangle. So I'm just

(51:44):
reading a little more of this beararticle that I mentioned. We just had
a very short time there. Sodown in Florida, a bear got three
legs. Man broke into a house, went for the old drink fridge and
started consuming apparently just the white claws, so kind of doing the homeowner a
favor. And I was just like, man, if you can't, you
can't take a three legged bear protectyour property. Although some of the comments

(52:15):
are pretty interesting because residents in thearea say that it's a friendly bear who
is is known within the community asTripod. You know, Rossa. Did
you know that my nickname in highschool? Tripod? Did you know that?
Fun fact? I didn't have afood related one like all the other

(52:36):
ones. I'll let you figure thatout. No, the okay here,
let me just say this. It'sif it's a wild bear, it's not
a friendly bear in the purest sense. This is how people end up you
know under a bison. Okay,hey, I know it looks pretty chill.

(52:58):
I just wanted to get in thelenai have some white claws, had
to make a fun TikTok video allthat. But why don't you I don't
know, why don't you go putyourself between the white claws and the bear?
I mean, chances are right mayjust run away. It is a
black bear. They can be somewhattimid. But if it really wants those

(53:19):
white claws, or if you reallywant to pet it's babies, this is
how you end up on the news. Well, parts of you, the
part they found under the one tree, and then they're looking for the other
parts and now you're on the news. But I'm glad you got a nickname
for it. Is it a female? Yeah, it is female. Yeah,

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you probably don't want to go toshare a drink with it, all
right? Other Florida stories real quick, here we go, Clearwater, Florida.
A Lakeland man arrested and accused ofassaulting a person in Walgreens was snickers
bars. Described as highly intoxicated,twenty three year old apparently became agitated when
employees at the Walgreens in Clearwater refusedto sell him a box of cigarettes,

(54:16):
says sighting store pup. Maybe hedidn't have an ID. I mean he's
legal, but he didn't have one. I don't know, but whatever,
he's hammered. He wants the SIGsand when refused, according to security footage,
the man started then grabbing Snickers barsout of the box that was sitting
there. But you know they havehim up the counter there for all the

(54:37):
different candies and pelting the store managerwith the Snickers bars in the face.
Dude, you're doing the angry memeall wrong. Bro. Another employee rushed
over to help ordered him to leavethe store. Initially, he said that
he was not trying to hit theemployees, he just was throwing them,
but in the footage it's clear thathe's aiming right at the dude. Do

(55:02):
you feel assaulted though, when somebody'sthrowing delicious snickers at you? Though?
If you like snickers, like hypotheticross, Let's say, stormed into your
studio, I rate drunk, Idon't know whatever, and I started like
pelting you with olive garden breadsticks.Do you want me brought up on charges?

(55:23):
It's like early birthday present, mydude, you're like a week early.
Uh, I mean that would belike that, that would be that
would be great. It would bean amazing day, like it's your wedding
and instead of rice, just boombreadsticks'll follow you around like a Roman emperor

(55:45):
with rose petals and stuff. Butinstead they arrested him and he's charged with
battery. Does he get to keepthe snickers? Because I'm sure they're gonna
get him for the property too.We still have something for his commissary.
And finally, in our Florida Mansection slash Florida Bear section, the idiot

(56:05):
in the giant hamster ball who wantsto run across the Atlantic is back at
it. This guy has tried andfailed on numerous occasions. This time he
got seventy miles offshore. I thinklast time he barely got offshore, and
all of a sudden, it's likeAH should have checked to see if there
was waves and stuff, and ofcourse has to be rescued. In this

(56:30):
case, the forty four year oldit was attempting to run to London did
not farewell with Coast Guard officials whenadditionally located in his bizarre hamster wheel contraption.

(56:51):
Coast Guard officials say they attempted toask him standard questions based on the
condition of the vessel, which hadactually tangled. So he's trying to and
then he runs through wiring and Booey'sand gets caught. The coast guard determined
that he was conducting a w Theydescribe his manifestly unsafe voyage the vessel,

(57:15):
which is it doesn't look like oneof those softballs, you know, like
people put themselves in and then rolldown the hills. It's it's like a
metal drum cage. And then onthe edges it's got giant inflatable boois,
so there's a lot of space inthere, and on the buoy part there's

(57:39):
there's like paddles to propel oneself.Howeveryone asks questions. Blucci was unable to
provide officials with any registration for hiswell, oh, they got him on
registration for the water vehicle. Comeon, man, you know licensing that.
I'm all fortately if some dude wantsto do this, you know my

(57:59):
opinion, right, If you're likeI wanna I read the Kenticki book and
I'm gonna I'm gonna chop this treedown, build my own thing and I'm
gonna float to Fiji. You wantto do that, go ahead, But
my caveat is we're not rescuing you. So you're making it rain breadsticks on

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Ross? Is there a stripper poleinvolved? Now? Why do you have
to make this dirty? Sir?That's why I use the wedding thing.
This is a happy moment. Rossdoesn't have to be twirling to make it
rain breadsticks. How do you thinka stripper would feel about that? Even
though you're doing her a favor,right, you go in, there probably

(58:45):
be a work hazard for her,right Why? Because they got a little
like a little greasy. They're alittle greasy. You're putting on some weight.
Not good. Oh so it's acombination of your fingers or slippery And
yeah, you don't want to upbeing one of those you know the memes
where you see the video or theperson jumps on the pole and the pole
falls down. Yeah, those areI see those a lot. I think

(59:10):
you should balanced the bread stick.Look, there's a lot of cardio that's
being done there, right, Plussure, yeah, I mean if she's
doing enough exercise to burn off thecalories she's consuming. Plus there's the possibility
this is not you know, andit's not one size fits all. But
there's also the possibility that maybe there'ssome other stuff being ingested that tends to

(59:30):
keep the weight off. Do youcatch them adrift? Other than not talking
about the delicious of meatballs U no, no, equally is addicting, though,
but something else that somebody might take, parmesan cheese or something. I
mean in the sense that you toocould cut it into a line, right,

(59:55):
you know, and maybe if thelow light, if if like the
police busted in for a moment,they mean like they may think it's something
else. This is confusing me becauseyou're at the Olive garden. When you're
there, your family, So Imean, this is not a this is
a family program, I believe.I don't. Yes, no, it
is. That's why I used thewedding thing, because what you know,
it's family oriented. Right. It'sone of our PERV listeners who happens to

(01:00:17):
be a Patriots fan who immediately likethis is where his mind goes and you
understandably, so like when the headof your organization is, uh, you
know, going to a rub jointfor fifty dollars a pop. Right,
there's a there's a whole just awhole culture of you know, I'm not
sure who the emailer is, butfrom what I've heard, his opinion,

(01:00:42):
they need to apologize and resign.Okay, well that's that's a fair point
right there. I mean, speakingof the Patriots, did you see that
their cornerback who was facing thirty yearsin prison? Somehow yesterday we found himself
a deal where they dropped the chargesand he just got like probation and now
he can play week one. That'slucky, huh, lucky stuff, especially

(01:01:09):
when you're facing federal charge. Whatwas the reason for that? There had
to be an actually reasoning behind it. What do you mean besides being you're
a very important player that we can'tlose and not guilty? What was like?
What was the reasoning? Uh?He he you know, he was
a whoopsie that he had. Whatwas he he was arrested for? He
had multiple handguns and pieces of luggagewhen he went to the airport. He

(01:01:35):
didn't just forget one gun. Hehad at least two, and then I
think he had parts of another one, like he grabbed the he grabbed the
range bag. I guess, Idon't know. So he just got up
in court and said shall not beinfringe, and they were like, good
point, Well, whatever was thepoint at the court there, which you

(01:01:55):
know, is a court that happensto be here a bunch of Patriots fans.
The thirty year potential is now fortyfive hours community service and one year
of unsupervised probation, so and thenhe can play week one. So that's
good anyway. So Coastguards dealing withthis dude, we got sidetracked and h

(01:02:21):
let's just say he's he's not oneto answer any of these questions. He's
basically taking the m I being detained, which ironically he was because he had
put his hamster wheel through cables andbuoys that were you know, U measuring
booty booi's used by the Coastguard aswell as the National Weather Service and stuff
for and he just kind of atrove through all that and wasn't going anywhere

(01:02:45):
anyway. So but yeah, sohe's facing charges man right there, all
right, seven forty six race stagingfrom the Weather Channel. Morning. Bro,
I'm good, I'm good. It'sall good. Panic yet, bro,

(01:03:07):
bro, what were you a coupleof fumbles and that's you were?
Dam were? Oh my daughter wasoh yeah, I think I wouldn't without
uh. I haven't really talked muchyesterday. She was very trite. Hey

(01:03:28):
listen, it's oh man, thesmallest chances. Now you basically got to
win out and it's it's not gonnabe. But they listened. Props the
duke. They came in and youcould tell from the first couple of plays
they were ready to play. Uhhuh, they were ready to play.
And you know, and they stilla couple of fumbles, which you listen,
coaching doesn't fumble footballs. I'm sorry, you know, and that's probably

(01:03:52):
a different ball game, but couple. But the Duke was making mistakes.
They made a lot of mistakes,and they did the first half. I
think they won all the penalties,right, Yeah, they did. Up
then Clemson, I've won the wholegame, one penalty the whole game,
which is amazing to me. Buta lot of work to be done,
and I wasn't so it looked likethe same old, same old On the
offensive. I never in my lifeI've seen so many screens and bubble screens

(01:04:15):
and just these little swing passes inthe last couple of years. And I'm
saying, like, in all offootball, what that play usually gains nothing.
Whatever happened up throwing a ball downthe field anyway, I digress.
You're still in the top twenty five, barely barely twenty five is part of
the top twenty five, it is, it is last I checked that.

(01:04:36):
Well, it's the part of thetop twenty five. But let's see hot
there. And I know a lotof people complaining about the heat at the
game, even Monday night. Andnow the heat continues. Yesterday record in
Raleigh at ninety eight. Not atthe try it was still in the mid
nineties. More heat today. Therecords are a little hotter today they were
yesterday. So although it's going tobe ninety eight again in the triangle,

(01:04:59):
it's not going to be a recordprobably like ninety four ninety five at the
tryad lots of sunshine, load ofmid nineties tomorrow. Then we'll start backing
it off by Friday with a fewshowers thundershowers scattered around upper eighties to load
nineties at the weekend, a fewshowers and thundershowers by Saturday afternoon, and
Sunday load of mid eighties for daytimehigh. So I think we'll break this
heat here as we look ahead towardthe weekend, more seasonable temperatures after a

(01:05:21):
couple more hot days, today beingthe hottest. Okay, all right,
it's all good, it's fine,all right, I'll be okay, all
right, we'll check in on theinternetur okay, okay, all right,
there you go. Race Dag recoveringseven forty nine. Hang on the show

(01:05:44):
after the show's on the iHeart Radioapp. Search case O day for the
podcast on the iHeart Radio app isseven fifty four. Let me get to
some phone call, kint a littlesidetrack by stickers and other stuff. One
of the things we were mentioning wasthe casinos and whatnot right, Rockingham County,

(01:06:08):
Nash County. Various others had alittle had a little thing. What
is going on here? Hold on? Yes, hot line is as Ray.
What's up, mister stagec A goodmorning? What I do? No,
no, nothing nothing. I didn'tknow he's putting me on now.

(01:06:29):
I just wanted to make sure wewere off ended up dumping my coffee cup
on me, so I didn't hopethat nobody heard me scream out in a
loud kind of jubil Asian right whenthe hot coffee just spilled up. Just
make I did it myself. Ohwow, you're just having a it's not
a good week for you. Itwasn't Duke's quarterback or no, no,

(01:06:53):
it wasn't knocked the mic stand overand everything. So I'm just cleaned it
up here. Just wanted to,you know what, I'll be it look
does it look like that delta flight? Now? It doesn't look like that.
That's that's so Luckily the cup wasn'tfull and it was only moderately hot
because it's been sitting here since fivethirty when I usually bore that first cup.

(01:07:14):
But yeah, so I'll be therenext hour. Just let everybody know
if they heard a loud noise anda thump, that's what it was.
But I'll be back. Okay,all right, We're glad you're okay.
All right, Okay, thanks dude. What a what an absolute what an
absolute hell week that dude's happen.All right, let me grab a call
in casino stuff, all right,Chris, thanks for hanging on. What's

(01:07:35):
going on either? Oh my call? Before we get to the topic,
I called in amount. I justwant to say a huge fan and I
appreciate you know what you're doing inyour radio station all the members of it
are doing. But as a ChristianConservative myself and a former slash current resident

(01:08:00):
of Rockingham County, I grew upin Rockingham County from there for twenty nine
years of my life, I seeboth sides of the field. So you
know, I guess I'm not toostrong Christian values because I have gambled in
the past, not severely or anything, but just for fun in the in
the mountain casinos of North Carolina andCherokee. Yeah, but you know,

(01:08:24):
being on the ground, I seeboth sides. So you're right in your
comment about drugs bringing drugs, youknow, more adamant, more fluent,
I guess, to the streets,but they're already there if anyone has ever
been in Rockingham County. I'm fromReedsville myself, but the neighboring town of

(01:08:45):
Eden, they're just drug written already. So I don't see that argument at
all. But Rockingham County, beinga conservative county, I just think that
would raise a lot of red flags. I'm it's conservatives, you would admit,
though, especially Eden, there's beena lot of financial blows, manure

(01:09:10):
plants, and various other things.So and you know that's that is a
cash infusion to the extent that itis. It just comes to and Chris,
I appreciate the call. I justlooked up at the clock. Thank
you for calling in and listening thismorning. So appreciate it. Thank you.
Yeah, you gotta you know,you gotta figure out what is inherently
this is gonna end up posthumous moreand I don't know the answer to that.

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That's why you gotta, you know, try to take an honest approach
looking at these things. We canget. Like I said, we get
some more calls on that. Weget calls on apparently mister ts coming up.
Also, we got to talk aboutplaylists by cabinet members and some concerns
that people may have had. Moreon that in a bit hang out.

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All right, good morning, andwelcome. It is eight oh six.
You're on the k c O Dayradio program. Normally, since it is
the first Wednesday, we do firstand third Wednesday, so we'd be chatting
the Lieutenant governor. But he hada thing, so I'm not gonna chat
with anything, so we're tuning infor that. It's not happening, okay,

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all right, but we got lotsof stuff to fill the time.
So if you're not just a quickreminder for everyone listening this morning on the
Triad side of things, or ifyou're anywhere else and you're headed to the
Triad the Forsyth County Public Safety Building. So for sythe County shrifs, it's

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not a drive through, not adrive through. Lots of things are drive
throughs, right, biscuitvills, adrive through, hardis is a drive through.
Cookouts a drive through. For sytheCounty Sheriff's office, not a drive
through. I understand it could betough to keep this stuff straight. So

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apparently, yesterday, according to authorities, a man decided that it was a
drive through. Lee Anthony Marcel SlydeJunior, according to authorities, drove through
the front doors of the Forsyth CountyPublic Safety Building. So you got administrative

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offices, community corrections, so likeparole and probation officer and yeah, just
drove right through. So the publiclobby, by the way is closed for
obvious reasons. If you thought you'regonna go over the lobby today, that's
not a happening because the dude drovehis car through there, allegedly, I

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guess. Thankfully no one was hurt. The Winston Salem Police investigated the crash,
which Sheriff's office says has made thefront entrance unsafe for the public.
Dude's charged with misdemeanor vandalism, breakingand entering while I guess damaging the government

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building to facing a public building,damage to real property, trespassing. He
didn't have a valid license. Theygot him for that, impaired driving,
and he had a couple of warrants. Now why did he do it?
Allegedly he told investigators he did itbecause he was mad at his probation officer.

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I'll feel like that's gonna work outfor you, dude. I don't,
Yeah, I don't. I don't. You could be mad at your
your your probation officer might even bejustified, right, But how did you
think driving through the lobby was gonnado anything? That's something his his desk

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isn't there. I'm assuming did youthink it's every action movie ever where you
can just keep driving through the totalityof the building. Because that doesn't generally
work, especially a big building likethat, or they're gonna have support beams
and stuff. You're not gonna win. So yeah, again, just a
reminder not a drive through. Yeah. I don't know why we have to

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have these these little reminders, man, but we do. All right,
quick call little man, what's goingon? Casey interrupt us to the Florida
Man and throwing the candy bars.If folks will remember, back in the
I guess the mid eighties, duringthe heyday of the A Team and Mister

(01:14:09):
T's popularity, Snickers made a commercialwith mister T where he goes to the
A Team deal and builds the bigGatlin gun inside the barn and he explodes
out. He starts shooting. Thisthing is as big as a nose gun
on the A ten warth hog.Shooty Snickers at this fellow who's running down
the sidewalk, kind of like aDylan mulvaney, tell him run like a

(01:14:30):
man. I know he was inthere. He did one of the hand
commercions recently. I haven't seen that, but you can find up on the
online. It's still out there andit is hilarious. Okay, all right,
I'll check her out. Ross.Did you notice anything in the background

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of that call? Are you listeningto the background of the last call?
Did it? It sounded like weweren't on delay. I hope he's streaming
stuff because like I could hear normallywhen when I'm okay, well yeah,

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but it was he listening on PTI. I'm not terrified. Ah, I
was hearing my voicecoat. But bythe way, when he called the show
and understanding, gonna keep listen,I'm gonna come to you. So it'll
be a little moment that you gottaturn down your radio. Okay, Oh
thank god. I just got incrediblynervous, especially because we're gonna get into

(01:15:33):
the rap lyrics thing and we'll we'lldicey that topic. I'll look at this.
Oh okay, all right, Well, one Mark not here. Another
Mark is here, and he wasactually a part Mark Walker was talking about
the casino thing. What's going onthis sporting sir? Okay, see,

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I hope you're doing well, prettygood. We just we're just chatting with
a resident of Rockingham County. Seemsa little we're on this. I know
you were, you were up withsome of the citizens groups up there had
some objections. I got to admit, I'm kind of tore on this thing
because Eden's taken a bunch of gutpunches, right, you know this over

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the last few years from the beerplan to many of the financial struggles,
not just in Eden but other partsof Rockingham County. And there's issues and
I understand people think that there's goingto be additional issues with a casino,
but there is also the financial impact. So talk about what folks were doing
up there yesterday. Yeah, Imean it all started a few months ago

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when a small group reached out tosome of their elected officials, Thunderberger,
the commissioners, including within a governorMark Robinson, and they simply couldn't get
a call back. And we've wewere privileged to represent these folks for six
years in the US House. Andfrankly, I live less than five miles
from the proposed site. But there'stwo points to be made here. One
if you're arguing it against it froma faith or a moral standpoint, If

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you look at if you look atwhat they call problem gambling. According to
the National Association of Addiction Professionals,problem gambling is the highest suicide attempt at
rate of any addictions. And plus, if you're looking at federal funding,
unlike drug and alcohol treatment and allthat, if there is no funding to

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deal with people and approximately four millionpeople struggle with this. So there's one
aspect from the faith and moral,but the bigger issue for these people,
and this is where I agree withwherever you're all casinos, with the lack
of transparency, just to come inand plow through these rural counties and use
them as to help with the budgetshortfall, giving no voice, giving no

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referendum, not even a vote reallyin the state House. This was just
planning to be packed away or tuckedaway, i should say, in the
overall budget. That was the bigissue. And then when you write the
legislation that's designed for just one gamingorganization, that's chronyism, and that whether
it's at the state level or thefederal level, that's the problem that I

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had with it. Look, ifyou want to do it straight up,
go ahead. From the libertarian sideof me, that's your decision. If
you want to go spend your money, stupid probably, but that's your decision.
But that was the problem these folkshad. That's where I was willing
to help them get organized. Wehad the largest ever turnout close to eight
hundred people at the Commissioner's meeting justa couple of weeks ago, and had

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a good crowd yesterday as they metwith their legislators. Well, I hear
you on the chronism thing, becauselike I, you know, if that
passes, it's not like I canjust go up and give me a little
plot of land and open up Casey'sgamble and pleasure palace, right, you
know, like bift handon from back. I can't just go do that.
It's going to be a handful offolks. And you see this with expansion
of like marijuana laws in different statesand various others. So I share that

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frustration. I think on the addictionside, the only thing I'd say is,
if I'm sitting up in Eden andI want to go gamble on,
something is really easy. I candrive to the new casino up there.
I can go online. I cango to some of these sweepstakes parlors that
still continue to exist. I canjust place bets with my buddies calling d
don't watching golf. Do you knowwhat I'm saying? And I think that

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people are going to find that.And you can argue that it makes it
easier for them to find, butreally it makes one aspect of it easier
to find. Not to mention thestate lotteries and like all those things exist
out there, and the libertarian partof me is with like, I get
really uncomfortable when I see people whosepure objection is one that is just a

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faith based objection. I know thatirritates some of my listeners because I share
the I share the discomfort in thetargeting of the disrespect of Christian beliefs in
so many issues, with things likepeople wanted to take a moral state ants
on using their artistry for baking cakesand things like that. But in reality,

(01:20:05):
if it simply exists and somebody hasa moral objection, they can simply
not go to it. I understandwhat I'm saying, Mark, I try
and even as a former pastor,identify what you're saying. There is a
difference is for as what we believeas Christians versus what the rights that people

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have, whatever your background, whateveryour sexual orientation, as the Constitution protects
the individual rights, and when you'rein public office, your job is to
defend that without discrimination. The pointbeing this, of course you did mention
even in the closing of the Corselets, certain breweries and things, this is

(01:20:49):
about twenty miles away from that partof the county. But the point was
being is that the people simply wantedto have a vote or have their voices
heard. And that's what I whatdrove these folks. There's something about principled
rural country folks. They just don'tget bought off and they dug their heels

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in. And this is a veryrare if they're able to win this,
it's very rare that once checks havebeen cashed, that you can actually overcome
the powerful politicians. But it lookslike there is a chance to do this.
I will tell you I don't thinkit's been released it, but in
the House caucus yesterday, the dealwas trying to find fifty percent of a

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House caucus for what I'm understanding,that failed miserably. That's a huge step
in a win for these rural countieswho simply don't want their entire community,
the culture of their community completely changedovernight. That was their biggest sue.
Put a referentum on it. Ifthey voted, that's fine, but don't
just force feed this to us.What if county step up and say we

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do want this. So maybe it'snot Rockingham County, but maybe it's I
don't know, Pender County down onthe coat story. You know what I'm
saying. Yes, that's there.That's they're right from A from a it's
different to your point, it's differenthow I morally feel about it. What
should be legally allowed in f acounty or state vote something in this republic.

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This is the way that we dothings in America. And that was
the point these folks make, becausethe legislation wasn't for every county. You
had to have less than a hundredthousand. You had it all these different
cypifications there. This is what theyhad to follow through with. And they're
like, wait a second, dowe not have any voice? You're going
to put something here that's borders onehundred and fifty feet of a camp with

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children that they are ministered to withdisabilities. That was a bad pr move,
I think on their part. Butthis is something that is a reminder
that people can still rally together,they can get organized, and they can
make a difference and push back evensometimes when the big government is coming from
the Republican side. All right,Mark appreciate it. Uh uh yeah,

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Well we'll obviously we're gonna keep followingthis and we'll see. It's interesting they
weren't able to get fifty percent there, but I don't suspect they're going to
stop trying. So all right,alright, all right, there you go.
Yeah. I mean, if you'reyou know, pick a k,
if you're Ashe County up and youknow, way up in the mountains there,

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I don't know see my big,my big deviation. And I know
what you're to take people in sayingthat is, I feel like there's a
difference between government telling you you haveto do something or force you need to
do something, versus when you're notforced to do something, but maybe them
doing something that you feel is notmorally within your religious structure, which is
what the actual separation really is supposedto be. But that that obviously is

(01:23:51):
lost on a lot of folks.All right, let me grat one more
call on this since we're already init. Jeff, go right ahead.
Hey, Casey, Yeah, Ihad spoke with mak Walker about this,
and I agree with him one hundredpercent. We don't want it. It's
a poison pill. Uh. Youknow, they're going to put this cancer
cell right at the front door cominginto Madison on two twenty and in five

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years that cancer cell is going tobe stage four cancer throughout all the towns
around here, and you can't stopit. And that's not just hyperbole.
That is coming from Sheriff Page,who got up and talked about all manner
of crime that come along with acasino and we just don't want it.

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The early caller, I think hisname was Chris, was saying, well,
I see both sides of it,and he lives in Reidsville and they
got crime. Yeah, they dohave crime in Reidsville and Eden, and
we don't want it here. Whatis disappointing is I called Mark Robinson's office
about this, and I did geta call back from his coordinator, and

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she wanted a manner all detailed informationon meetings that we're going to be taking
place, and I said, look, I'm going to put you in touch
with this other lady that has alot more information about it than I do.
And she also spoke with her,and then suddenly there was radio silence.
Nothing. Mark Robinson just he couldhave got a hold of Phil Burger

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because Phil Burger's wangling some things upthere in Raleigh too, which Phil Burger
and all these commissioners are going tobe in big trouble because they are nobody's
going to vote for these guys,which is another bad thing for Robinham County
because it's going to be a bigsnowball effect. Nobody's going to vote for
these commissioners. They're all Republicans,nobody's going to vote for him, which

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means it's a very good chance thatDemocrats will take over, and then we
can expect a transformational change in ourcounty up here with primary and then,
Sir, I have a hard timebelieving the well, that's what we yeah,
hold on. Let me just sayis I don't think that I think

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the chances of Rockingham flipping blue,even though I can understand where people would
would say, like this is notthe small dividing line that you saw when
people turned on McCary over toll roads, Rockingham is gonna be read. And
I think that if there is aplace where you have an easier chance of
flipping it, if that is theappetite of the public, Rockingham would be

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a good example, because I thinkpeople do rally. You're passionate about this,
Mark said, eight hundred people showedup to the meeting the other day.
I saw Mark's been at all ofthem. Yeah, as far as
what Robinson's doing. I plan onask him about it today, but he
had the school, but it's onthe list. I hope you press him

(01:26:47):
hard on it because he has justgone radio silent on us. Yeah.
Well, and I don't know.Maybe he's doing something the bad. I
don't know, and I will I'mhappy to ask him about it. But
I will tell you this, Idon't think Phil Burger scared at Mark Robinson
in any way, shape or form. I think that well. I think
I think people fail to realize thereal levels levers of power that both more

(01:27:11):
in Burger. I mean those arethe most powerful people, especially with the
ability to override the governor. Imean they're basically untouchable. So all right,
well, Jeff fight. Look,I appreciate the call this morning.
I got a role, Thank youvery much. All Right, anyway,
it was went long in that segment, but that's okay. Did you all
see the big whoopsie in the Turkishpresident air degons meeting with the Vladimir Putin

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yesterday? Oh wait for this,it's next rising Sundery one h six one
FM. Talk in the Triangle.There's talk n w PTI in the triad.

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All right, good morning, eightthirty six, happy when everybody it
is the case O Day radio program. I'm not sure the protocol on this.
I don't know if somebody falls outof a window or where we go
from here, but oh boy,oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
So the head of Turkey, Presidented Gun was having himself a little

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a little sit down with the VladimirPutin, right, So it's that standard
thing you see anytime you got thesetwo world leaders the chairs and get the
flags behind them and they're having themselvesa little conversation and then a little Q
and a maybe after there was translatorsin this instance because I guess, you

(01:28:48):
know, like they don't speak bothTurkish or both Russian. You want to
make sure. And there was alittle bit of an issue. A good
reminder too at this point the Turkeyis a NATO state because we thought that
was a good idea. So weget some missiles put in there, but
whatever, But it does come withcertain obligations on the part of US and

(01:29:12):
other NATO members. So even thoughit was a bit of a blunder between
those two countries, obviously there's someUS interest here. So at one point
and it's not abundantly clear exactly whatair Degne was getting at. And they
don't think it was his screw up. They think it was the interpreter.

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We try to read this the wellhere Basically, the interpreter, when interpreting
from Turkish to Russian, inadvertently saidthat air air Degne declared war on Russia.
That's not what he said. Buthow does it? Are there take
backs at that point? Can youdo TakeBack? SI's does that even?

(01:30:04):
Like? Did he just say hewanted to nuke the Kremlin? What he
s like? I said, haveyou seen Kremlin's? Oh? Oh no,
I have it in a while?Doesn't hold up. It's been a
like, dude, you gotta getthat right. You know what I'm saying.
Here's one thing if they're like comparingjets or something and there's a little
whoopsie, like uh, got thewrong Gulf Stream number or something right,

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but not ah, we declare war. Now. The reaction on the part
of Putin does he seemed to benot But I think he even I think
he probably realized it was a whoopsieeven at the time. I think he
does have a little bit of Turkishlanguage skills or something. But still still

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maybe it's one of those things wherehave you ever told yourself over and over
again not to do something because you'renervous you're gonna do it, and didn't
do it anyway, Maybe it waslike that, like the interpreter goes in,
like, whatever you do, don'tsay that we're declaring war. Do
not say we're declaring war. Andas soon as they start really declaring war,
I think it's important. I thinkit's important from an interpreter standpoint.

(01:31:11):
You gotta want, you gotta beaccurate, obviously, but you know on
occasion there's going to be things thatbecause sometimes things just don't translate exactly.
Like I have very minimal second languageskills, but as as I've gotten better
with it, like there's times whereI gotta sit there and go, well,

(01:31:33):
I don't even know exactly how thatwould translate. So when somebody says,
well, what does this mean,and you're like, it kind of
means, you find yourself saying thatwhat it kind of means is because it's
not. It's not. But whenyou're an interpreter, you're beyond all that
because you're, especially at this level, you gotta have the skills, not
just for conversational interpretation, but forvery specific nuances. Yeah, I mean

(01:31:58):
certain languages don't even have words forother things. You mean, yeah,
I heard Vietnam. It's really hardto translate Vietamese. Reason I don't speak
any of that, but that probablyyou know. So like when they tell
you that they're not holding an entiregroup of POWs at this camp, they
you know, which they did,and then we found out that's not the

(01:32:20):
case when they went into take likeyou think that was an interpretation, Okay,
all right, but when you're atthis level, even though there's a
certain muscle memory to it on theon the part of the interpreter, yeah,
you're obligated to interpret exactly. Andthey say, it's why in a
lot of these instances they have aninterpreter who's working, because again there's a

(01:32:44):
trust issue. They have interpreters thatare working, but one that's working for
both sides, and then generally anotherinterpreter's kind of like on the side doing
stuff making sure the other ones arebecause you can't you can't inject your own
interpretation if it doesn't mean exactly that. I was thinking of an example and

(01:33:06):
then I just it went away frommy head on something something that somebody said
in Spanish that I thought meant onething, but in reality it has a
very different meaning. I remember beingvery confused by it until somebody who was
much much better at it I wasable to adequately explain to me. But

(01:33:26):
I realized, like that could bea huge whoops. And it's one of
the problems that you have with liketranslation apps when you go to translate things,
because you know, when you thinkyou're translating something and what was gosh,
what was it? It doesn't translateexactly, especially when you get into
like slang, it's just you're justdead in the water. So you know

(01:33:53):
things that if you were just toodirectly interpret it wouldn't mean the slang that
you think it does. But whenit's something as important as and you're then
interpreter and you think, you know, this is gonna be a pretty everyone's
a good spirited conversation, there's not. There's not huge huge Turkish Russia issues.

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I don't look, Russia has concernsabout US military sites within Turkey and
launch capabilities, but that's not whatthis this little, this little gatherings for.
So when you hear and if youthink you here the president of Turkey
declaring war on Russia. You're Iguess you're obligated to exactly translate that,

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but in your head you gotta belike, am I sure that's what I
heard? Because I don't I didn'tsee that coming. And then once you
declare war, is it like it'slike when you've declared a thumb war.
It's just on there's nothing you cando. I don't know the rules of
declaring war. So maybe it's likein the movies when you have to like
turn the keys to arm the nukes, like you need like three keys simultaneously.

(01:35:03):
Like maybe you would have to declarewar like three times. Yeah,
But the problem is just I don'tknow, if you know this. Russia
seems a little unhinged on some ofthis stuff, right, Like let's say
you were to hypothetically almost stage acub but then go, nah, I'm
just kidding, Like, it's prettyobvious that he didn't he took that personally

(01:35:25):
right at this point, I mean, I don't. I don't see any
evidence pointing to that. I thinkhe gave him a promotion or whatever,
and the guy unfortunately died in aplane crash. Yeah, that's this guy.
Well, technically I think there wasa bomb on board. They somebody
dis misplaced their bomb. These thingshappen, so yeah, you gotta be
you gotta be really careful on that. So so I don't know, it

(01:35:47):
doesn't sound like we're going to WorldWar three though. Everything's good. But
again, everything was good with thatdude, right because Putin's like, nah,
I don't worry about it, almoststage into coup and stuff. Totally
didn't mean that. And then yeah, everyone was fine, and then somebody
actually left the bomb over there,this insanity. Man. The World Health

(01:36:13):
Organization is warning that super gonna rheacases are on the rise, So that's
good news, I guess. Forthat's obviously not good news. Yeah,
what had been limited to certain regionsof the world. Ironically, they seem
to be the regions like where likeit was in like Thailand, and then

(01:36:35):
in the UK because a lot ofBritish tourists go there for like sex tourism
and stuff, and then like butapparently now there's many many other hot spots
of this. So in case youneeded one other thing to worry about,
uh, super gonarrhea, which obviouslyhas a more technical name, is obviously

(01:37:00):
big concern because part of what makesit super is not that it makes you
invisible or you learn to fly,but rather it basically doesn't give a crap
about most antibiotics. They call itness saria. You shouldn't you should not
call it necessaria. You shouldn't haveanything that sounds like the word necessary,
and then followed by Ganerio. Uh. Yeah. As part of the World's

(01:37:30):
Sexual Health Day, which was apparentlyMonday, okay, uh, the organization
listed several different concerns going forward,and this was one of them. So
if you don't want to get it, baby, don't go to a opium
den slash pleasure palace in Thailand ornow twenty six other countries. So there

(01:37:57):
you go, all right. Eightforty six race Agic for the weather Channel.
He's here, got no pants becausethere's other one's were ruined by coffee.
But weather Man, goodness gracious,we're doing well in terms of precipitation.
But the heat boy all the wayup there in the upper nineties,
and the Triangle yesterday, low ninetiesat the try, and I think about
the same today. Ninety eight officiallyfor Raleigh, in about ninety four for

(01:38:20):
Green four for Winston, Sam Greensboromight get the record at Raleigh. The
record is ninety eight degrees lower thanyesterday's record. At the bottom line is
it's hot and it's a little bithumid too, so it'll feel over one
hundred still, sun MOADI bid ninetiesfor tomorrow. Then we'll start to see
some change come in for Friday witha few showers Thutterer showers. Highs will

(01:38:41):
be a likely near ninety degrees withthe upper eighties. And then over the
weekend more seasonable temperature is closer tonormal with some scattered showers, even a
few thunderstorms for Saturday and Sunday.Sunday afternoon looks like the better chance or
Saturday afternoon actually, so what temperatureis coming down, the rain chances might
go up a little, but anothercouple of hot ones case he was hot
out there the last few days.Certainly still hanging out this midsummertime heat here

(01:39:03):
late in summer. Yeah, wecan quit that. So, yeah,
we will do something about that.That'd be great, all right, thank
you, sir, appreciate it,Okay, and Jeff Bellinger, plus we'll
grab a call. We've got atleast one hanging out. We'll do it
next? Hang on smart Talk allDay ninety four five w PTI in the

(01:39:30):
Triad and one oh six one FMTalk in the Triangle. All right,
eight fifty two Bloomberg Update Now withJeff Bellinger. Jeff, What's going on
morning? Casey stocks pulled back yesterday, and it looks like investors aren't finished
with the selling. The now futuresare down eighty two points at the moment.
Home loan demand declined last week.Mortgage bankers report total application volume was

(01:39:56):
down nearly three percent from the priorweek, and the banker's gay page of
applications for home purchases fell to atwenty eight year low. It is expected
Amazon dot Com will face a newFederal Trade Commission lawsuit, sources tell Bloomberg.
The agency will likely file suit laterthis month. The FTEC legal action
this time around will reportedly target Amazon'smarketplace, where a third party merchant sell

(01:40:19):
products and pay commissions to Amazon.Pandemic ere a federal aid to support daycare
centers set to expire at the endof this month, and the Century Foundation
is sending out a warning. Itsays childcare providers are already struggling with high
costs. And labor shortages. TheFoundation estimates as many as seventy thousand childcare

(01:40:40):
programs could be in danger of closing, possibly displacing more than three million children.
How Motivated Are You? New surveyindicates American workers motivation is slipping this
year. The ADP Research Institute's EmployeeMotivation and Commitment Index is at the lowest
level since June of last year.A piece as productivity is reduced when workers

(01:41:01):
are less engaged, and some ofthe car rental agencies a Casey or pushing
electric vehicles now. For now,most customers who prefer a traditional car or
suv can get one, but TheWall Street Journal says some travelers have been
stuck with evs that they didn't reallywant. The vehicles may not be properly
charged, they don't always come withoperating instructions, and finding charging stations along

(01:41:26):
roads or at hotels can be abig challenge. Casey, Yeah, I
had when I runted a car herenot that long ago. They wanted to
sub me one. It wasn't theone I thought I was going to get,
And I was like, right,God, no, how about no?
Yeah? Because you just don't.It'd be one thing if you're like
in your you know, you're inyour element, right, you know where
the stations are. Maybe you gotone at your house or whatever, like

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you plan for it, but you'rein a weird city. I don't know
about that. But anyway, allright, thank you, sir, appreciate
it. All right, have agood day, take care. Yeah,
there you go. Jeff Bellinger,Bomberg News. All right, quick phone
call. Doug's been hanging on onthe casino issue. Let's grab that dog.
What's going on. Hey, goodmorning, Casey. How are you

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today? I'm good, sir.I just wanted to call in. Had
some folks alert me that you werediscussing the kid casinos. We went to
Raleigh yesterday and we've started a grouphere in Rockingham County Citizens for Good Growth
in Rockingham County. I'm conservative,but these Republicans, man, what they're

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doing in the back rooms and thehalls of the Legislative building is ridiculous,
not letting the be into it fromthe public on casinos and the fact that
Senator Burger has got money coming inleft and right from Cordish Group out of
Maryland. Three of the top people, the CEO of his wife and gentleman
named zeb Smith, giving him thirtyfour thousand, five hundred dollars in November

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and March was this year maxing outthe nation that they can give to him
for individual donations. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would encourage people to
look at I'm sorry, I'm justkind of pushing along because We've just got
a couple of minutes. So whatwas I have? But you know,
that's not new in the sense thatyou know, different business interests are gonna
lobby and I guess the question becomes, is it just because of the type

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of business, Like if somebody wantedto open a laser tag facility in Eden,
should the citizens even if that personwants to go buy a piece of
property, should the citizens be like, nah, you can't use that piece
of property. I mean, don'tyou kind of get out of that level
of democratic micromanagement that some people objectto. I don't know. The folks

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that i'm I'm working with and thefriends that have come together, it's not
we're not against the gross This particularkind of growth is not good. It's
not beneficial for the state. Imean, it's going to be quick cash
for a casino, it's going tobe quick cash for the politicians that's got
investments. His friend David Cauchoo's buyingproperty nearby. It's not the kind of

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growth that we need. Everybody understandinggrowth that they never going to not make
money. I'm sorry, I'm justtrying to double's advocate you because it sounds
like you've got a lot of thesenumbers in front of you. And I
appreciate that you're you know, you'reyou're digging into this issue, and I
would encourage people to do that.But the reality is there is a financial
benefit to the county. There arejobs that are out there. The question

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is going to be a total tallyof you know what those costs are associated
with it? And yeah, wellthe jobs, the jobs that are going
to come to Rockingham Canny from thisCaseine Tho like he's stating five thousand across
the state with the three locations,seventeen hundred and ninety in Rockingham Canny.
But the folks that come into manageare not going to be from Rockingham Canny.
They're going to be people that theybring in from their establishment that knows

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the operation. The people here aregoing to get the low hanging fruit.
You're not going to give them aforty hour week jobs. Some of them,
I mean, they want to opena Walmart. That's that's inherently another
issue that you that you have withbig box retailers. I'm just I'm just
saying, sir, I I reallywant to see an entire balance sheet,
and I think the numbers that youand your folks are pulling together, coupled

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with whatever the argument's going to beon the part of politicians who may support
this, it's going to be important. And thanks for your call for everyone
to, you know, look atthis stuff.