Wednesday-1-22-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I literally was sitting there and I could not advance

(00:04):
this morning because you know, somebody's like, ah, I could
you know, I could do the full speed and uh
in my car that doesn't have front wheel drive or
four wheel drive. So seriously, be careful out there this morning.
That is all I'm going to say. Okay, not because
I don't trust your ability to go ahead and drive. Sorry,

(00:27):
I'm literally move because I'm on a secondary microphone because
for some reason, my main one is disconnected. Oh what
a morning? What a morning. That's okay, we'll go ahead
and we're going to truck right through this thing. Uh,
do not Ross? How is the commune I'm in? Just

(00:47):
for everyone. I am in Greensboro in the Greensboro studio.
Ross is in the Raleigh studio. He sent me a
photo yesterday because I asked him. I'm like, how is
it over in in wake Forest where he lives, and
he sent me a photo that I'm almost sure is
the ice wall for the flat Earth people, and not

(01:12):
the actual amount of snowfall in wake Forest, which would
require a glacier. But I don't know for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
So you know what the funny thing is?

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yesterday on the weather app there, which it was like
no snow, no snow, no snow, no snow. And then
suddenly it was like, hey, you're gonna get like four
hours of snow. So I woke up this morning like
an hour early to come to work right right, right clean.
After car everything's fine. The road's in wake Forest and
like Wakefield leading into Raleigh, like you can't see the road.

(01:44):
It's sort of like I think, I think I'm on
the road and I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna make
sure i'm gonna I'm driving the appropriate speed and I'm
gonna make sure my braking is okay. And then when
you cross over like past five forty Downfalls of Noose,
right when you get that that that exit there, suddenly
you can see the road.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
It was like it's like South Carolina.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah. When you're driving, you're driving, you're like, oh, this
interstate is Interstate E. This is now? Oh my god,
what happened? And then you're in South Carolina. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
No, certain portions of it. You still had to like,
you know, be careful right when you're right, be careful.
And the side roads are still bad. But like Atlantic
was fine, falls, the news was fine. The parking light
here at the radio station was all sort of messed up,
so it's like where you want to park so you
can leave at the end of the show because I
don't feel like sleeping here, right, Yeah, all that kind
of stuff. But it was super weird because driving from

(02:33):
wake Forest through Wakefield, it was like, this is bad.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
It was uh So I left my so I'm broadcasting
in Greensboro, uh or more specifically our studios at high Point.
I left the hotel that I stay at in high
Point and uh last night at eight to go to
uh well, I tried. I was trying to go to
the Wendy's down the street, like this is not fine dining.

(03:00):
I was seeking and the McDonald's and the Wendy's nearest
the hotel were closed. And this was at eight. Found
the McDonald's over on sixty eight on east Chester was
open and it was hard to see. This morning, I
woke up and I'm like, I can see the roads.

(03:21):
Looks okay, there's no more snow. The on the suv.
It's gonna be fine. But then I realized right as
I got towards the radio station, some of you suck
at driving. You know who you are well, I mean legally,
if I pulled the thing, we actually have names. But

(03:43):
like it was worse last night, and yet this morning
they're like, nah, you can't drive over here. So I
ended up having to do this, like this weird roundabout
I made it with like I don't know, two minutes
into the station, and that's and and and that's slightly

(04:03):
on me. But there's like a window where I go
through all of these websites in the morning and I uh,
I you know, so whatever you have, be careful, Okay,
just be careful. Plans some extra minutes, or be in
a situation where it's not the end of the world

(04:23):
if you're a little late. Okay, all right, rock on.
That's where we're gonna be. I sa I literally I
have nothing booted up other than my microphone because it's
just that kind of morning. But uh, you know, we'll, we'll,
we'll truck through. There's lots to get to coming up
on the show. H'm I'm done, I'm I have I

(04:48):
have no more energy. I'm literally I I am going
to offer myself up as a tribute to get rid
of Tom tillis I I I'm I can't with this guy. Anymore.
I'm just out. And you know, frankly, I'm gonna I

(05:09):
will compromise my own rules. And I'm ross you've known
me for over a decade. I'm not your political activist host. Correct,
that is correct, that is a hundred I'm willing to
be that guy. I'm just done, you know why, because

(05:30):
I'm having so much friggin fun right now with all
of the things that are available to fix and handle
and do, and I will not have that garbage human
standing in the way. So if I have to compromise
myself to accomplish it, I'm willing to do it. And

(05:55):
I and I didn't. I didn't just jump on this.
I had an amazing nap yesterday because that is the
one thing that is the one thing that this kind
of weather will provide for you, amazing napping conditions. And
so it is post snap as I'm sitting there and
I'm getting ready to put show prep together, I'm just like,

(06:19):
I'm done. What can I do?

Speaker 4 (06:23):
And I.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Realize that it's in a way I'm offering myself for tribute.
Maybe not in the way it means in the movie,
but you understand, Okay.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
I've never known you because yeah, we have like fifteen
years or something. I've never known you to be right
to vote for this, dude. Don't vote for this dude.
You've never done it ever, ever.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
But you saw the tweets. I just not seen the tweets.
I can't.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
I can't anymore. I refuse to allow the cancer that
is Tom Tillis to f up this window, this opportunity.
And it's not because I necessarily. Here's the thing, there
are parts of me that agree with Tom tillis his
take on some of the JA sixers. This is what's crazy.

(07:14):
We're not far off, but he's such a garbage piece
of garbage, which is a new phrase I just invented.
I can't anymore. And I refuse to sit here and
let n see GOP. People go, well, if you say
something and he gets in and the Democrat gets in,
it's on you. No, it's not on me. It's on you.

(07:38):
That's your boy, and you didn't wrangle your boy, you
didn't handle your boy, So screw that. So I'll give
you the terms of this and we'll go from there,
and then we'll talk about fun stuff and unfun stuff,
and I don't care. But I'm just done I'm absolutely

(08:00):
and deal with Adam Schiff and his people trying to
crap all over this and trying to stop it. I
recognize that I will not deal with a member of
the gop let alone, a Senator or a congressman from
the state of North Carolina. It will not happen. It's done.
That person needs fired into the sun. Okay, we're done.

(08:25):
And if that means that I got to sit here
and I have to associate myself, not because I mind individuals,
but because it's a if I have to compromise my
own rules, I will do that, and I will do
that because I'm in a position to do that. Does

(08:46):
that make sense, I'll explain the details. Okay, it's six
point fifteen. Thank god, the equipment's working. Thank god. Ross
got a pardon yesterday. I saw that, buddy, Is that
you gotta pardon? Yes? Say good for you, Good for you.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
I was super excited. I was like, I don't know
what it's for, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, mister Ross, Uh is your real name? Ulbrich? I didn't.
I didn't know. Sometimes the radio people use different days.
I don't know. We'll research it, we'll figure it out,
we'll do it. Coming up hang on my coffee final Sorry,
it was an emergency, had to go make coffee. And
then the thing was like, dah, we don't want to
work this morning, and then uh, you know, here we be.

(09:28):
So I just I hit my breaking point yesterday. And
it would have been great if it was you know,
I went out and was bar hopping with friends and
just you know, posted like a drunk tweet or text
or anything. But I didn't. I stewed yesterday. I sat

(09:48):
there because the weather was coming in. I'm broadcasting in
our Greensboro facility this morning, so we're all week and
just chilling, and I just I hit a breaking point
sitting here and watching what is supposed to be the

(10:12):
GOP elected. Now, I just want to point out I
am not a member of the party. It probably wouldn't
let me in, as I've spent so many minutes on
the radio imploring people not to send them money when
they do stupid stuff. That being said, as I sat

(10:35):
there yesterday and I recognized the opportunity that we have
and let me And I haven't hit ross with this ross.
What is your level of excitement for the first, let's
just say month of the Trump thing in the fire
hose concept that we talked about yesterday, where it's just

(10:55):
there's so many things screwed up. There's so many things
unusual with this last administration up to and including the
fact that the president frankly wasn't presidenting where you recognize
you gotta go ahead, and you gotta get this stuff
in there, and and and and anything that stands in

(11:18):
the way is essentially seen as an Adam Schiff. How
what's your excitement level for this too? Overwhelm the system
with common sense, if you had, if you had to,
if you had to pick, because that's where I'm at,
That's where I'm I'm sitting here, and I'm just like
hit them with everything because they so deviated from what

(11:44):
you know, the normal human stuff as recognized within the
within the election. That is that's one of the things
that is very exciting to me. And so then I
have to ask myself, Okay, so what's standing in the way,
And you know, and Adam Schiff coming out and going
elon did a Nazi salute, and so and so is

(12:06):
saying this, Pete hegg Seth, we we just got a letter.
We just got a letter, and this is all It's
so horrible and uh, Pam BONDI the AG. We don't
want to have an AG, so we're gonna pause her
hearing for seven days. You're facing all of that, and
I can deal with all of that because I expect

(12:27):
all of that. And then I see Tom Tillis in
a hallway pretending like this thing with the J sixers
is a big problem for him because cops and that
son of a bitch, we'll get one of those in

(12:49):
do not dump that. I haven't heard a peep from
him over the fact that the former president or the
people around him were pardoning and lessening sentences for people
who did things like I don't know, killed two FBI officers,

(13:14):
killed children, torture children in front of parents before killing them,
going back to the commutations of the death row inmates, like,
I haven't heard the passion, and I'm just done. I've
had a seating hatred for the attitude that I've seen

(13:34):
from so many Washington politicians, and I don't allow myself
to give into activism, but on this one occasion, I will.
If the North Carolina GP does not withdraw their support
from Tom tillis my only hobby for the next two years,

(13:57):
is carving in to your roughly one hundred thousand or
eighteen thousand, depending on which race margin. And I can
do that standing on my head with the ratings and
the following we have here. You're done. That's it. And
if I'm done and I'm wrong, then so be it.

(14:21):
We're done. He's done, he needs to go. He's out
because your alternative and you will sit here and you
will blame me for it. Is that. Well, you're gonna
cost us a seat. No, I'm giving you two years notice.
You get rid of him, and you get somebody in here.

(14:43):
Use somebody in here who's just not a giant, vile
piece of garbage. Okay, at least he's not a right Cooper,
which is what a lot of people think. That's why
I'm giving two years notice. There's no excuse. Okay, giving
two years notice the North Carolina And here is the

(15:04):
offer I'm willing to serve up. I am willing to
compromise my own rules. Okay, if the North Carolina GOP
will excommunicate Tom Tillis and say, you know what, this

(15:25):
is not the guy. We're gonna get the guy, and
we're gonna win what is obviously gonna be a hard
fought battle. Yes, I know we're going against Roy Cooper,
but we can't have a piece of garbage in there anymore.
I will indorse your candidate post vetting. I mean, like
it was Freddy Krueger. I'm not going to. And I've

(15:48):
never endorsed a candidate. Ross. Have I ever endorsed a
candidate ever in the time that you've worked with me,
which is over a decade. He's shaking his head.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
I have not.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
I will. That's crazy town. I swore I would never
do that, but I refuse to miss this window of
opportunity to rectify what has been a bastardization of how
we do things in this country. I'm angry, and I

(16:27):
just want to have fun. I just want to talk
about Lauren Sanchez's boobs and Mark Zuckerberg's inability to look away.
Dudes love boobs, breaking news this morning, That's what I
want to talk I want to talk about Ross Olbrich
getting a pardon. But you know, Ross being Ross, you

(16:48):
know having fun that it's him. That's what I want
to talk about. But I refuse, and I have not
gone there on the offense of this guy. And I
firmly believe he's such a piece of garbage that people
around him will attempt to come after me, and I
don't care. Trust me, I have a a bit of

(17:15):
buffering that I've created for myself. What is that way?
Hold up? Boston Paul is a Boston Paul. Get on
the winning team.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
You sound like you're having your period. You know what?
Who cares? I've just done. I was so angry sitting there,
and I don't allow myself to get over that side
of it without a little bit of humor there. The
humor is gone because I recognize that we are in
a precarious window right now. We're in a precarious window

(17:54):
right now, and I refuse to have Tom Tillis set up,
Slender Man or anybody else impede this. We could have
gone on if you would have just shut up for
like three months. But I don't care anymore. So I'm

(18:18):
bypassing you because you're not going to learn. And I
am imploring the State GOP, and I am imploring my
listeners to reach out to the State GOP Liz chaining
him and move on. That's it, And if you do that,

(18:39):
I will aid you in your effort to get people
in there who either can shut up and help or
better be you know, a more expanded part of the solution.
That's it. I'll come your stupid event, not call it stupid.

(19:05):
I won't smile because I don't ros. He will tell
you I don't smile. I won't smile, but I'll say
nice things and we will get it done together. But
you have one thing you have to do. You have
to get rid of him. And I'm a little low CD,

(19:26):
which is really weird because I'm simultaneously OCD on things
I like and super procrastinator on other things. He's done.
It's over, it's gone. It's a failed experiment. He failed
Upward for so many years. Screw him. He's out. And

(19:47):
you can either fall in line with this or I
got two years. You don't think I can shave his
margin of victory with the amount of audience an influence
that we have built on this show. I promise you
I can, which is why people advertise on this show,

(20:11):
because we are so effective in reaching so many people.
I can't get into details on the air of our ratings,
so I will say this, and I want to be
very delicate. Ross have you ever worked in a show
environment that has the insane ratings and reach that we.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Have right now at this moment.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
No ever, no never, And that is an under exact
And I'm not dragging or Ross can do whatever he wants.
I just want to point out this is me. You
have no idea and I'm not this guy, and you've
made me this guy.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
I mean, you know, I you know my position on
Tom Tail for a long time, Like my initial impression
was you can't trust to Tom who spells his name
Tom was.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
From the beginning.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I called him slender man dude. So
you know where I'm at.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, I'm just done, you know why, because it's it's
not even if he was just being an a hole
to be an a hole, it is one moment. We'd
move on and we talk about it. But I'm so
there is such an opportunity here. You've radicalized me and
maybe I'll get over it, but not on this issue.

(21:39):
Gone done, it's over, Or you can work against me.
I don't care, you know why, because I have nothing
to lose. You explained to me how Roy Cooper, who
a lot of people think is going to be any
different than the way that this guy's operating, and then

(21:59):
ask your self, why won't the ncg OP, having two
years notice, do something about it. That's it, that's my morning,
that's my goal. And some of you are not gonna
like me over it because you want the path of
least resistance. But stand for something or stand for nothing.

(22:22):
Those are your choices. So by giving this level of
notice and and this amount of time, fix it, do something.
Sitting here and going I can't believe they did that.
I can't believe that. Uh uh, these pardons with the

(22:45):
Jay sixers. I've already had an adult conversation, and I
would I would have been willing to have one, but
I did not see the passion. I did not see
the effort when literally a week ago, the former president
of the United States or people around him just shoving

(23:06):
papers in front of his face, were like, all right,
so we got some baby killers, let's go ahead and
give them a commutation. Oh this Native American dude, he
killed two FBI agents. Commutation for him, like your Oprah
handing out cars. Those of you listening to the show
right now, you're like, why is this guy screaming? He
doesn't do that? You did this to not you, the listeners.

(23:29):
You did this to me, and I realized I can't
in this time, when there's so much opportunity to accomplish
things and change things and do things, I can't have
somebody who's one of one hundred votes, and more importantly,
is one of you know fifty and you know fifty

(23:51):
one to fifty three votes standing in the way. I
will not be responsible for that. He has to go.
He is Liz Cheney. He's out. He's out, or I'm out. Oh,
he's a US center. I got it. And if that's
the direction they want to go, fine, he's out. Make

(24:19):
it happen or this this is your opposition, choose wisely.
All right, that's it, all right, hold on, I'm just

(24:39):
looking at my email. I have one, two, three, four
or five, six of an eight, nine, ten. I'm counting here,
twenty seven, twenty six, twenty five, twenty seven, twenty eight.
There's twenty eight people in just a few moments who
have taken time I'm out of their morning to be

(25:03):
my disciple on this. It's hard getting people, especially early on,
to interact with the radio show because they're busy, they
just got up, they're doing a shower, many of you
are like, oh, I can't imagine writing an email right now. Dude,
you know I got two years. I got two years.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
I speak to a lot of people, you know, on
social media. I don't know. I don't.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
I can't name one person who's like yay Tom Tillis
everyone I know, everyone I talk to, the conversations that like,
you know, lunch is yeah, Like I don't understand.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
Email's coming in. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy, man, you did
this to me. I'm not this person. Ross, Isn't this person.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Like you say it's it's sort of like I feel like.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
It's it's not like stunning and brave because everybody hates them.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
No, you know what it is. I gave this a
lot of thought last night. It is you know why?
Because if you think, if you believe as I do,
that he is the level of piece of garbage that
he is, let me explain something to you. Do you
know what? Do you know the first politician I ever
spoke to when I moved to North Carolina, Ross, you
don't even know the story because you were with the

(26:19):
show Tom Tillis. Do you know why I reached out
to him? Because when I first when I first came
here and we launched this radio, these two radio stations.
One of the things that I was trying to do
is secure as a media outlet, our ability to access

(26:43):
the North Carolina Legislature's media section. And North Carolina has
a system, and the system is that media credentials. Some
of you aren't gonna believe me. Media credentials are control
by the collective of the media, and I want you

(27:03):
to think about that. So if we wanted credentialing at
the North Carolina a General Assembly, I had to go
through the Press Association, which at the time was the
president was Laura Leslie, who, by the way, arguably I
have more respect for than Tom Tillis, even though Ril

(27:27):
is a constant focus of this show. But the people
controlling access for up and coming or new media outlets,
i e. Two new radio talk stations, and the Triad
and the Triangle are its competitors. It's a horrible system.
And my first conversation with Laura Leslie was well, you're

(27:51):
not and I'm gonna paraphrase essentially, you're not really a
media outlet. And I was. I was taken about. It
wasn't about seniority and having workspace We had that conversation
and I had a phone conversation with Laura Leslie on this.

(28:13):
I didn't need workspace, I didn't need any of it.
I needed access for our news department and potentially me,
but primarily our news department if they need to go
to the legislature to be able to plug in, get
audio and do that thing. And when I was when
there was pushback on this, I reached out to then.

(28:35):
Because Tom Tillis was in a leadership, I reached out
to him and I said, look, this isn't right. And
the response from his office was who cares? And we
had and if I have to go back and pull

(28:56):
the audio from twelve years ago, I will do this.
This guy, this Cretan, went down. He was at a
lobbyist thing down in Florida, and I spent the entire
show to prove to him, and I had him pulled
out of the meeting, and he was angry. We did

(29:17):
an angry interview with Tom Tillis on the air. He
was so bothered by the fact that this happened. And
yet I said, all right, we'll deal with this. And
over the years, every interaction I had. He was a
sports car which is the term that we use as code. Okay,

(29:40):
And even then I didn't turn And even then and Ross,
did I not offer this man interview time and give
him an adult and non angry interview on this show twice?

Speaker 2 (29:53):
Dude, I would say more than twice.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Well, primarily did his last election.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
I should say, yes, of course we.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Have, and then and and and and uh, this will
this will sound petty to you, but it's not because
it's not about me. And then I am in a
social setting where he is two days after we did
an interview, and I said, hey, can I get thirty
seconds of his time? And his his goons literally blocked

(30:22):
me from talking to a person that I just gave
airtime to. And even then, other than you know, to
talk about it because we're shooting straight, I wasn't again.
I'm just done. You know why, because he's gonna squander
this time because he can't shut up. Have you, for

(30:45):
people who listened to this show, have you ever heard
me this angry? It's not about me, It's about us,
and it's about the bastardization and probably the criminal mastardization
of the last four years in everything that needs fixed,

(31:05):
and he can't shut up. You're my project now. And
if you want to come after me whatever, that's fine.
You know why, because we're an open book here. So

(31:29):
you did this and and and the state party I'm
offering I'm offering you as long as we're working towards this.
I'm offering you my fealty. But you have to cut
this loose. And it's not an easy decision, but it's
the right decision. And there will be people in North

(31:52):
Carolina who will be angry at me if Tom Tillis loses.
And I'm willing to accept that because on the record
right now, two years you have two years to fix
this and figure out who it is or give us
some options, but you will not be part because it

(32:14):
only requires a handful. I refuse that this state, especially
this state who is only now finding out that there
are people in Washington who give a crap about it.
Following Helene, I refuse that North Carolina becomes part of
the problem. And I don't like party politics, but I

(32:36):
like a means to an end. See, y'all are on notice.
We'll be back absolutely one percent fair. People are calling ross.
Tell me what you just told Tell the audience what
you just told me.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
Okause I feel like the same way. Listen, I can't
stand Tom Tillis. You know where I stand in the guy.
I feel like he's worse than Mitt Romney, Right, That's
where I feel for a long time. But this morning,
honest to god, all I was focused on is getting here.
The show could be on the air and not dying
on the streets of wake Forest and Wakefield because they
haven't discovered rock salt apparently. So I come in and
you're very angry, and I'm like, once again, I understand

(33:10):
that Tom Tillis is worthless, but I don't understand what.
Why are you feeling this?

Speaker 5 (33:15):
Well?

Speaker 3 (33:15):
What happened that? Because I don't know? You said, have
you seen the tweets? I have not seen the tweets? Okay,
And somebody else call in, a wonderful woman and she's like, I.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Just got up and I have no idea why he's
so angry, but your.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Oh, okay, I don't know why he's.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
So angry, but I don't have the internet. Can you
tell me why he's so paste off at Tom Tillis?

Speaker 1 (33:36):
I will, I will gladly do that. The problem was
is literally we were having I was having a while
I was yelling like a lunatic. I was having issues
with my button bar, which just got fixed yesterday, which
and I will say this because I'm going to be
the one who's fair here added to the Tom Tillis hatred,

(33:57):
probably because I'm frustrated with it. But everything is one
hundred percent where it was that I'm going to explain
to you right now what the problem is. Okay, do
you all remember, and I understand you're going to have
to jump in the wayback machine. Do you remember less
than a week ago when the former president of the

(34:18):
United States had already commuted basically everybody on federal death row,
baby killers, cop killers, you name it. And then just
before the inauguration commuted the sentence of a dude who
killed two FBI agents. You remember this, right, And then

(34:46):
twenty minutes before the swearing inn commuted his entire family,
as well as members of Congress, an entire committee, an
entire committee, doctor Fauci, and all the rest. And I

(35:06):
saw zero passion for speaking against this on the part
of Tom Tillis. And then yesterday, following the commutation of
fifteen and the outright part in a fifteen hundred ish

(35:29):
j six folks, which I was even critical of in
the sense that commutation is the vast majority who were
hit with charges for doing nothing physical and literally we're
charged with the thing that is normally at or fifty

(35:49):
dollars fine. And Trump goes and does that, and then
our garbage senator sits there in a hallway where so
many things are broken, where we are finding out that
there is a likelihood that the President of the United
States was so incompetent and so gone that activists within

(36:15):
his administration we're doing things like pausing natural liquid natural
gas exports. In fact, Ross, will you put that cut
back up. I'm gonna play this again because I want
people to understand why I sound like a lunatic this morning,

(36:35):
which is not me, because the Speaker of the House,
Mike Johnson, in an interview on Friday, said this.

Speaker 6 (36:45):
Reaches over just like this.

Speaker 7 (36:46):
We're sitting in the right next to the fireplace in
the oval and he grazma arm and he says, the
Speaker and I just need a couple minutes together. Would
y'all just leave us alone? And I looked up on
the faces of some of the staff standing around the wall.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
And they're like, no, he did it, so he called it.

Speaker 7 (36:58):
He's the commander in chiefs Ever, he and I are
standing awkwardly in the middle of the Oval office, right
over the rug by that coffee table, and I said,
Miss President, thanks for the moments. You know, this is
very important. I got some big national security things I
need to talk to you about that I've heard and
I think you know and what do we do? But first,
real quickly, Miss President, can I ask you a question
I cannot answer this from my constituents in Louisiana. Sir,

(37:20):
why did you pause LNG exports to Europe? Like I
don't understand. You know, liquified natural gas is in great
demand by our allies. Why would you do that? Because
you understand we just talked about Ukraine. You understand your
fuel in Vladimir Putin's war machine because they got to
get their gas from him, you know. And he looks
at me, stunned with this, and he said, I didn't
I didn't do that. I said, Miss President, you.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
Yes, you did.

Speaker 7 (37:42):
It was an executive order like you know, three weeks ago,
and he goes, no, I didn't do that, and he's
arguing with me. I said, Miss President, respectfully, can I
could I go out here and ask your secretary to
print it out. We'll read it together. You definitely did that,
and he goes, oh, you talk about natural gas. Yes, sir,
he said, oh no, did you misunderstand? He said, what
I did is I signed this thing to we're gonna
conduct a study on the effects of LERG. I said, no,

(38:05):
you're not, sir.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
You paused it.

Speaker 7 (38:07):
I know I have the terminal, the export terminals in
my state. I talked to those people this morning. This
is doing massive damage to our economy, national security. It
occurred to me, Barry, he was not lying to me.
He genuinely did not know what he had signed. And
I walked out of that meeting with fear and loathing
because I thought, we're in serious trouble. Who is running
the country like, I don't know who put the paper

(38:27):
in front of him, but he didn't know.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
That is the greatest scandal of my lifetime. That is,
it's terrified and the fact that we're here and we
have an opportunity regardless and if you listen to this show,
when Trump does stuff I don't like, I talk about it,

(38:54):
but we have an opportunity because we are so far
gone over what is functional and what is normal in
this country. Debates and disagreements are part of this. And
I don't call everyone a moon back just because they

(39:15):
don't vote how I want them to. I'm just not
that guy. And we've set out for this show not
to be this. And Tom Tillis, when he finally decides
to open his stupid mouth, says this yesterday. If there

(39:40):
are we're.

Speaker 6 (39:40):
Trying to go through it right now, but obviously it's everybody, anyone.

Speaker 8 (39:44):
What I'm trying to do is figure out there are
some commutations. To me, I just can't agree. I'm about
to file two bills that will increase the penalties up
to and including the death penalty for the murder of
a police officer.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
Here's the thing that sounds good, except the impetus for
him to give a crap is an issue where it
is clear that people in power, judges, prosecutors, doj folks

(40:17):
so wildly abused their positions that he should have addressed
this previously. And I understand he's being asked the question,
but he and I'm going to play the rest of
the cut. There's still a minute to go. He gets

(40:39):
into it as an afterthought and that needs to be
if you're attempting to accomplish things, it needs to be
your driving force smacking my hands together. Let's finish the cut,
increasing the penalties and creating federal crimes for assaulting a
police officer.

Speaker 8 (40:58):
That should give you everything you need to know about
my possession.

Speaker 9 (41:01):
But you get it as it's It was surprising to
me that it was a blanket pardon.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Now I'm going through it, but it wasn't a blanket pardon.
There were commutations as well. If he has a beef
with an individual issue or an individual person, that's fine,
but you are styming the ability to right the ship

(41:28):
so that we can have the normal disagreements. And I
don't know if it's because you crave power, but I
have no trust in you that it's because you're a
good person. That's why I'm upset, and I understand it is.

(41:49):
It is probably nuanced for people who don't pay attention
to this all the time, but it's a waste. It's
an absolute one hundred percent, one thousand percent gift to
the very people who have decided to go ahead and

(42:10):
bastardize hiring practices. Who gets prosecuted, how they get prosecuted
any of the rest there were There were people within DC,
within the UH Corrections, and maybe even the mayor of DC,
Muriel Bowser, who were explicitly rejecting presidential pardons yesterday. Things

(42:40):
are far more broke. And yes, as I said yesterday
on the show, if if, if everyone was acting within
their constitutional bounds and you chemical sprayed a police officer,
I don't have a problem with you doing the time.

(43:00):
But the thing is, the time is there. We don't
need new laws on this. You don't need to aid
your political opposition.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
It was about to say, it seems like it's a
timing thing, right, because Trump's in office for less than
what twenty four hours, and suddenly twenty four hours you're
out saying this. And this is a time when the
media is looking for anything and anything they can poke at,
and now you're coming out and now they can say, well,
look now, not only are these other things happened eon
must thing and this thing and that thing, but also
now there's infighting on the right.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
And he knows this. It's not like he just got
you know, he didn't. He wasn't. Mister Smith goes to
Washington and he had no experience. He was the most
powerful lawmaker in North Carolina. He knows things. He understands
this right.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
They're going to use him as a weapon now to
take down Trump.

Speaker 5 (43:52):
And.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
I'm done with that. It was one thing when he
was just a feckless idiot. Now he's a tool in
opposition of how things are expected to run in this country,
and for that is unforgivable. Keep your mouth shut. You
know there are two words you ready, no comment? This

(44:19):
is easy to detail. What do you think I mean?

Speaker 2 (44:21):
Is there anything or to it at this point?

Speaker 5 (44:24):
You know?

Speaker 9 (44:24):
Although you know with what I should have mentioned before
is you should.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Pay a ten.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
By the way, as a beard enthusiast, your beard also
looks stupid if you can't grow it in get rid
of it.

Speaker 9 (44:37):
Mentioned this probably won't get reported, but I hope it does.
That's the abusive of the of the abuse of the
pardon process by Joe Biden. I hope anybody who's going
to be critical of what occurred last night is also
very critical of a massive overreach by President.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
He's not wrong, he's three days late. By beard is
luscious and thick, by the way, not scraggly with whatever
that is.

Speaker 9 (45:04):
A perspective part, it's kind of like a get out
of jail free card makes no sense to me either.

Speaker 6 (45:10):
So to answer your question.

Speaker 8 (45:12):
Maybe we need to go back and look at the
contours of the authority that future presidents have around park.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
How about the never went to jail, get out free card,
because that's what we saw throughout the West Coast, That's
what we saw in DC, that's what we saw in
Minneapolis when they burned down the neighborhood I used to
live in. Too little, too late, Too little, too late.

(45:42):
And if you all, if you all want to send
your money in, you're working against me to counteract what
I'm doing, what I will do on this show over
the next two years, or you can fix this. Don't worry.
We're gonna have fun here in a few minutes. I

(46:03):
gotta get this out of my system. But it's not
going anywhere. So that's why I'm angry. That's why I'm
sitting here. As Ross pointed out, I'm sitting here and
I'm looking at this opportunity that people like Tom Tillis
are going to squander. Who if they actually felt that

(46:24):
passionate about it, should have held a damn press conference.
The other day for the very thing. He's not proposing
that he's going to fix this following Biden doing stuff.
He's proposing this as a I'm going to show you
how bipartisan I am. Process. Now I don't like what

(46:46):
Trump did. I don't like what they did. Well, I
was on the radio pointing out both things, because that's
how humans with independent thought operate, who are not sitting
here strictly for their own betterment, Are we clear?

Speaker 8 (47:09):
Its Democrats in a difficult position if they look at
President Biden's pardons and they don't say what I've just
said about President Trump.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
What do you think you're scoring there? Do this, be it,
do it consistently, and we don't have a peep and
and perhaps I would have regained a little bit of respect,
But no, now we're here. Now we watch the pardoning
of his entire family, an entire Congressional committee, members of

(47:42):
the Pentagon, health and Human Services, you name it. And
now we have a problem. Unacceptable, And and I arrived
at the conclusion that we're better off without him. So
I want it to be as immediately as possible, one

(48:02):
thousand percent on the record where I'm at, and utilize
what little bit of power or a little bit of
influence that I have to make this point some a
series of ducats that I have never cashed in on
this show in a in a significant manner. Obviously, we've

(48:28):
had opinions. I've never told people who to vote for.
I've never endorsed a political candidate. None of these things
have happened. But I will be damned if an opportunity
to attempt to write this ship is undermined by somebody
who's supposed to be part of the crew. You can disagree,

(48:53):
but you need to do so in a consistent manner.
That's why I'm upset. Disagree. If you want a respect
your opinion, we'll be back to say this in one
fail swoop and not split it up. So I'm going
to open the segment with with this, and it is

(49:14):
the lifeblood of why I'm losing my mind this morning.
If you believe that Trump is purely transactional, which is
you know with the media and any here's the deal.
You can believe that if you believe in and and

(49:37):
Tom Tillis has shown himself to not be a fan
of Trump, which I don't require him to be. But
if you then believe that he is purely transactional, worst
case scenario, and you decide this is how you want

(49:59):
to go about it. Well, my fellow North Carolinians are
sitting in propane lines and finally getting heard and finally
potentially getting a FEMA director who gives a crap. Donald
Trump is coming to North Carolina right now, right now,

(50:23):
one of his first trip as president is to North Carolina.
And if you believe that, if you believe he's only
doing it for votes or clicks or whatever cynical thing
you can believe that, And if you are an elected
official who believes that, and you do anything to jeopardize

(50:46):
the five thousand plus families in North Carolina who continue
to not be able to access their homes, many of
which will never be able to access them again, and
you do anything to screw that up for whatever this is.
That's why I'm so angry. How hard have you and people,

(51:10):
all the people around you, and that people on social
media and the activists and the non activist who became
and were forced to be activists. How hard have you
worked so that North Carolina who was crepped upon when
they were kicking people out of hotels while the president

(51:31):
at the time was saying that one hundred and eighty
days of emergency funding for shelter was immediately guaranteed to
the Pacific Palisades. And you are one of the two
senators who represent this entire state and you decide this
is the time. That's why I'm upset. Screw this guy.

(51:58):
You may never hear me this fired up again. But
this thing that might possibly not be fully fixed, but
slightly fixed so people don't freeze to death in their
RVs because they didn't want to stand six hours in
line in a propane line. If you do anything to
screw that up for your own whatever this is, we're done.

(52:23):
You picked the wrong time, buddy, It's done. You have
made you have radicalized me. I mean, I don't ross
does that make sense? Right? Like where we're sitting here,
and and I like, people, did you see the video

(52:44):
of the propane lines out in western North Carol ross
By between screen and the college.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
I know I've seen the video the propane lines and
the and the texts and the tents, and it's yeah,
if you f.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
That up for anybody, I don't care who you are.
How dare you how dare you not be able to
put rubb two brain cells together and go, this is
not the time. That's the core of what started me yesterday.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
So especially he said, because he's such a political animal anyway.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
Yes, so there's thousand percent.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
How is it possible that he could be blundering this much?

Speaker 1 (53:26):
It's it's the dumbest thing I've ever seen, and and
and and and and it's not just that he would
look bad on the backside. He could get people killed.
He could get people killed for whatever this is. And
that's what did it. Everything that I just expounded upon,
and then this cherry on top that I wanted to

(53:48):
be sure that I communicated properly, even though I sound
like a lunatic right now. It's unforgivable. You can't come
back from this. You did something to imperil. If you
think Trump is transactional, which till Us does not. He

(54:08):
has not demonstrated that he has a high regard for Trump,
so I will operate under his own theory. If you
think Trump is transactional, it's worse that you did this,
have I So I hope that you and and and

(54:30):
I and I invite you because my anger is not
even if you even if you still think, hey, we
got to have till Us because it's better than Roy
Cooper or whoever is. You know, the likely you have
to come to terms with that that this guy is
creating a situation where your fellow North Carolinians could freeze
to death. If you think the worst of Trump, that's unforgivable.

(55:01):
So with that in mind, I'm going to do whatever
in my power to make sure that that doesn't happen
and that we have people in there who are able
to add two and two and he's not. And I
just saw that. I saw an announcement yesterday with this
poor woman got brought in to be his campaign manager.

(55:21):
What a speed bump in her career. I don't know
anything about her. I feel bad for her. You need
to tell your boy this ain't it, and then figure
out who it is. Cool, wonderful, Let's do the stuff
we want to do, shall we? Okay, wonderful. I'm going

(55:45):
to make the transition now eight eight eight nine three
four seven eight seventy four. Oh, I don't even know
how to quick leave that.

Speaker 3 (55:56):
I'm a big fan of you being pissed off with
the microphone in Greensboro because it adds like an extra
bunker feel to it, Yeah, like an extra level of rage.
It's sort of like when you used to listen to
Art Bell back in the day and his microphone had
this filtering on it, right, and he would talk, Yeah,

(56:17):
oh my god, that guy's really in the desert, you know,
in a bunker somewhere.

Speaker 1 (56:20):
It really was, he was. He was, yeah, yeah, okay,
all right, keep talking for a moment. I'm trying to
make my call screener work now. Oh Tom Tillis Jack
was like, no, he didn't. No, that's just that's our network. Okay,
there we go. Oh And if you have any questions

(56:43):
for me, or if you want to challenge my thinking,
I I welcome it, and I'm not going to be
disrespectful to you. But if, if, if, if you think
that I am not being fair, please eight eight eight

(57:04):
nine three four seven eight seventy four. Because while clearly
the object of my ire is this man, my goal
is not an individual goal. It was the fear that
struck me yesterday that it could somehow impact the ability

(57:25):
of people who lost everything, including family members. I'm not
going to get into details. Ross you know you're you
guys know somebody who's literally their family is still missing.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
Right, yeah, yeah, yes, yeah, one of one of Marky's
old coworkers. It was made the news. It's because it's
one of the people that they came out with a list,
like FEMA came out with the thing. Yeah, these are
the people that you know are missing. And one of
them they called out. They were like no, and it
was a it's a it's a known story. Last time
she was seen, she was on the roof of her
house and the house was floating away down the river

(58:02):
while the husband was watching.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
You do if you are in a position of power
and you do anything to make it harder for people
who are dealing with that or dealing with any of this,
we have no more use for you. You have an
inability as adults should. Everybody who everybody who considers themselves

(58:29):
an adult, understands that you pick your battles. Except one
of the two people out of ten plus million that
this state has decided speaks on their behalf. And I
have seen the work of countless individuals who not only

(58:50):
have to deal with how are we going to get
this fixed? How are we going to get people homes?
How are we going to get people the heat that
they need to survive while also dealing with drifters who
come in and and you know, and pretend to run
these organizations like they're having to fight that too. They
shouldn't have to fight the people that they sent to Washington,

(59:14):
and you're creating that scenario. You need to apologize. You
still need to go, but you should apologize if you
have an ounce of humanity. You done fed up. As
the kids and the adults say, okay, wonderful, raced agic here,
he's got a lot of displaying him to do. Okay,

(59:38):
would you do? Man? Why is there? Why are they
having snowball fights in New Orleans? That's not okay. Destin Florida,
sitting on the Gulf of America has like multiple inches
of snow. That's right. I used the new name. Stop it, man,
just stop it. So you've never flustered. It's been a long.

Speaker 6 (01:00:01):
Time since I've had an eye opening weather event.

Speaker 1 (01:00:04):
Wow. Okay, wow, that sounds yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:00:06):
I mean if you get me to react in a
way where I almost don't know words, what do you
think of when you think of Pensacola white sandy beaches?

Speaker 2 (01:00:15):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
I was just going to say, I saw the pictures
in Destin, and we got a cluster in Dustine there,
which is literally right in the little thing there, And
I've stayed at that hotel directly next to it in
the Redneck riviera that is the Pensacola Deston area, and
the beautiful white sand beaches on that little peninsula there.
It's gorgeous and it's now extra white because it's covered

(01:00:37):
in snow.

Speaker 6 (01:00:38):
So I said, seven point six in Pensacola. What do
you think? I think the movie Contact right when the
father goes to that wherever he goes and he thinks
Pensacola whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
Yeah, right, this is how you know.

Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
It's like a serious thing, like we're you saying, because
we've been with Ray we for over a decade. Right
this morning, it's the first time he sent me a
PowerPoint presentation of the highlights, the highlights of this storm,
like the yeah, like the snowfall in different areas.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
That sounds so nerdy.

Speaker 4 (01:01:13):
I do.

Speaker 6 (01:01:13):
I do go off the rails once in a while.
But Pensacol is seven point six. The previous all time
record two point three inches. They absolutely destroyed the record.
New Orleans two point seven was the old record eight
inches of snow. The State of Florida, eight point eight
in Milton, doubling their all time snow record set in

(01:01:34):
nineteen fifty four first blizzard warning in Lake Charles. I mean,
the list goes on and on. We even had one
point five officially at URDU at the airport in Raleigh,
which was a record for the date, and that certainly
messed things up for us this morning. So be careful
this morning. There might be refreezing tomorrow morning. It's a
temperature story now teens and twenties this morning tonight we

(01:01:55):
may see some single numbers in the area. So it
is going to be a fridge night tonight, some sun
upper thirties tomorrow, might get forty by the end of
the week and the weekend and maybe close out of fifty.
But right now doesn't look like any more precipitation through
about Sunday, so, as I said, quite an event. Still
looking at the data coming in. Unfortunately, there's been fatalities

(01:02:15):
and now we're looking at maybe even deaths because of
the cold. So we want everybody to keep in mind,
going to be a frigid night tonight. You know, open
up the doors on the sink, drip the faucets, keep
the pipes, the exposed pipes, try to cover them up.
It's going to be a cold one.

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
Tonight and and like all the nights this week. So yeah,
the snow that was you answer my question. So totals
not adding until potentially Sunday, Yeah, come back, yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:02:51):
No, no, And yeah it's it's twenties coldest night tonight,
although we will be in the twenties tomorrow night and
it's still going to be below freezing. Same thing for
Friday night.

Speaker 1 (01:03:02):
No, no, no, but no initial no more additional snow
potent Sunday, yeah, yeah, potentially until Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:03:09):
I don't even know what that's going to be because we
get at the Monday early Sunday Monday morning is another
little system coming through. I didn't want to really, man,
but thanks. I kind of want to recover from this first.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
Well that's that's the thing. And it's a little selfish
because I literally have an event Saturday at the coast.

Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
Did you all hear the theory about New Orleans and
the snowstorm the football theory? No, it's snowing in New
Orleans and one of the teams that possibly could go
to the Super Bowl is known to be from a
city where it's snows. So it's a sign from above
that there's a certain team playing in New Orleans in
the Super Bowl.

Speaker 6 (01:03:44):
I remember what that stand playing a dome. It's a dome, right,
remember in the.

Speaker 1 (01:03:54):
Past, old man living in the past. What time did
the Cowboys play Sunday that you look up?

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
Yeah, what time I think we're playing? So all right, well,
we'll make fun of each other more in the next hour. Okay,
all right. Really, Ross hadn't even hit me with that theory,
but it makes sense.

Speaker 3 (01:04:16):
Yeah, they're like just never snows in New Orleans, and
now the Bills have a chance to play there. Even
if they play in a dome, it's still snowing in
New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
It's sign.

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
I mean, it's a thing. And and uh, let me
ask you this, Ross. Do you think the mayor of
Buffalo can spell Bills?

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
Yes? I do?

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
Oh wow, okay, because uh, you know that's apparently an outlier,
as I'll demonstrate next. Hang on a little bit of
a rant this morning. That's okay, it's what we do.
We got some calls. We'll go ahead and get into
those and and at the top of the hour, I'll well,
we'll finish out the calls and I'll explain the reference
there going into the break about being wealthy. But folks

(01:04:56):
have been holding Let's get to it, Janet, thank you.
What's up?

Speaker 10 (01:05:02):
So the ncg OP and Tom Tillis have been a
real problem for a long time. I'm fairly certain that
they're replacing the n CGP members with leftists out here.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
As a matter of let me say this, I know
a couple of them, and that's why I'm doing this,
because I'm appealing to what I think is some sensibility.
So I just want to be very clear here, and
I hope that that's I hope I'm right, but I
understand why you feel like that, Janet.

Speaker 4 (01:05:34):
Right.

Speaker 10 (01:05:34):
As a matter of fact, the n c g OP
actually closed up shop out here in Chatham County, which
right now is vital territory because we're being inundated with
leftists right and the n CGP has just packed their
bags and left.

Speaker 11 (01:05:52):
Us to thin for ourselves.

Speaker 10 (01:05:56):
Right now what we need is the most.

Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
So now we get emails from people who frankly didn't
listen to any of the Tillis stuff. Accusation, what are
you a secret Democrat? No, No, I hate everybody, not everybody,
but I'm I'm the only one who's consistent here. And

(01:06:22):
I explained to you my biggest drive We're gonna get
to calls momentarily, my biggest driving thing is let me
tell you that. And I'm not going to tell you
the numbers because I don't want to make this about me.
There have been two things in my life where I
have donated financially. Obviously, we can utilize the platform that

(01:06:49):
that Ross and I have here for good, but there
have been two things where behind the scenes I have
stroked checks or well, in this case, digital donations that
likely exceeded we don't make as much money as you think.

(01:07:11):
Where I have donated out of sheer emotion. One when
I served on the board for Big Brothers Big Sisters
when I was a broadcaster in Minnesota. I donate a
lot of money there. I donated more to causes in
western North Carolina through about ten different transactions, and it's

(01:07:36):
not a small amount. I am passionate about it, and
I have spent countless hours of broadcast time using this
platform not mentioning that because it was so heartbreaking. So
that is what has driven my sheer insanity. This morning,

(01:08:00):
top of everything else, that we would have a representative
of this state if he believes what he has shown
me that he believes where he thinks Trump is transactional,
he doesn't like it. It's not good order any of
the rest of it. In the same way that if
you're Californian you believe that climate change is the greatest threat,

(01:08:23):
and then you do nothing to mitigate it. I see you.
And if you're Tom Tillis and you think Trump is
transactional and you do anything to imperil North Carolina finally
getting some attention, screw you. You have no business representing
me or anybody else. And it's going to be up

(01:08:48):
to the party to recognize this cancer and cut it out.
So don't question me. I've got receipts, quite literally, because
I will write it off. But that's our tax system.
Avail yourself of it, doing my taxes here in a

(01:09:08):
few days. That's where we are. He made his bed,
he can lie in it, and it's not one where
he's an elected official anymore. In two years, and if
he had any if he had any decency, he resigned
a day. Oh but Josh died. I don't care. How
could it be any worse. Trump expects Democrats to you

(01:09:33):
to disgree with him and still get put. He doesn't
expect Tom Tillis to do it. Not right now, Jim,
thanks for hanging on. What's up?

Speaker 5 (01:09:47):
Good morning, Casey.

Speaker 1 (01:09:49):
It's not a good it's not a good morning. And
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm a buzzkill this morning. But
it's just.

Speaker 5 (01:09:56):
Don't hate me, because I promise I'm not beautiful.

Speaker 4 (01:09:58):
But U.

Speaker 5 (01:10:00):
From the stratosphere aboard Trump forced two point zero. Tom
Tillis doesn't even look like an ant. He's an amiva.
So don't let him rent space in your head. It's
not worth it. You need to save your adrenaline, get
an adrenaline metering valve, and just use.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
I'm not I'm starving the beast. No, no, no, no,
I'm starving the beast. That's that's what we're here for.
He is banging around in my head. And and now
I get to use whatever little flex power or notoriety
that I have to starve the beast. It actually is
a very good day.

Speaker 5 (01:10:35):
Well, you're gonna need it. You're gonna need it over
the next two years because and don't stop at me.
But Senator Casey O'Day has a nice ring to it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
Nope, things have happened far far more useful here, far
more useful here.

Speaker 5 (01:10:52):
Well, let's find somebody and let's get behind him right now.
But add that wise old stage Rick James, let me
frais of here you didn't see is a hell of
a drug. Beware we fake that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:07):
You could put Joe Biden in and then just put
papers in front of him so he can like proxy
vote and and you would get it would be more effective.
So you know, let's get a dementia pation in here.
It's better than Tom Tillis.

Speaker 5 (01:11:22):
You're right, but I support you one hundred percent. I
agree with you one hundred percent. But we don't need
you blowing a kicker on the air.

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
So yeah, I said, I was actually surprised my blood pressure.
I just had to check up here about a month ago.
Actually good to go, so we'll see. So if I die,
it's a it's a putin. It's a putin thing, Okay, Like.

Speaker 5 (01:11:43):
Well, don't check it today, check it tomorrow, all.

Speaker 1 (01:11:46):
Right, Yeah, I appreciate it. Oh, hello, what's this? Amibas
are useful sometimes? Yeah, for the average person. How is
Slenderman impeded help for North Carolina because I am going

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through his line of thought and it is clear that
he is not a fan of Trump, and the criticism
of Trump is that he's transactional, and he's moody and
he's emotional. And even if you accept all of that,
for you to stick your finger and that fan at
the exact moment where North Carolina is getting some attention,

(01:12:34):
that's the problem because either one you're right, Trump is
transactional and North Carolina loses out, or you're wrong and
you're still crapping over somebody who's trying to help. Finally,
that's the difference.

Speaker 5 (01:12:52):
Jeff, what's up, hey, Casey?

Speaker 11 (01:12:56):
Yeah, I agree with you one hundred percent. Tom tillis
every single time it comes to an important bill, he
can never be trusted or counted on to vote in
the right direction or do the right thing for us
all this country. We need somebody that's going to be
able to beat him. And that's why I would beg

(01:13:16):
you to reach out to Mike Wattley and get him
to beg Laura Trump to run for senator against him,
because she can beat him.

Speaker 5 (01:13:27):
She can beat him, and.

Speaker 11 (01:13:29):
I would like you to make Whatley a regular on
your show at least once a week.

Speaker 1 (01:13:35):
And hey, let me let me say that. Let me
let me tell you something. Because Wattley and I have
beef over an incident which I've talked about on the air.
I will I will no, no, no, hear me out. I
will comb by Mike Wattley and give him a weekly
spot on this show. If he will denounce Trump or
till Us for going after Trump on this.

Speaker 11 (01:13:58):
Stuff, that would be easy. I would hope he would
do that with without a second thing.

Speaker 1 (01:14:03):
It's out there right now. You all can communicate to him.
I will, we will mend the issue. We will call
it a misunderstanding. I won't even get into the issue
is over an interview thing. I will be done with it. Well,
let's God bless you because.

Speaker 11 (01:14:24):
The inauguration was equivalent to us landing on Omaha Beach.
The fight has just begun. And you can you know,
people can call Tillis and amiba, but he gets votes,
and he can derail Trump's agenda right from the get
go if he doesn't vote for his nominees. And Tillis

(01:14:46):
can be a real serious problem. And we're wondering why
is he like one of the only senators that is
railing about Trump's decision on the pardons. Well, personally, I
believe he's corrupt and I believe his handlers are telling him,
you find a way to vote against Trump's nominees and

(01:15:09):
this could give him what he needs. You can say, wow, Trump's.

Speaker 1 (01:15:13):
Just too No no, no, no, no, sir, let me
pause you for a moment. We are going to find
out this week because of the hegset thing, which I'm
going to get into here in the moment. You know,
because the claim is that there are GOP senators who
who will not vote based on this story from the
sister in law of Hegseth's second wife, and God helped me.

(01:15:36):
If one of those people is Tillis, we will find out.
So I'm with you, and I have been called I
was complimentary of Mike Wattley because of the action, immediate
action in Pennsylvania when they were screwing with observers. So
we can fix this, but it requires this, It requires

(01:15:59):
the ex community of this individual. And there's no and
I love that word.

Speaker 11 (01:16:05):
I say ostracize, I say eradicate, I say we're on
the beach and we got to move forward. And I'm
thank god you're going to use your microphone because we've
got two years to that that next election, and let's
fix b and that's and and let's just move forward.

Speaker 1 (01:16:24):
And if and if Tillius wants to pretend that he's
retiring to spend more time with family or whatever that garbage,
I would and not challenge that. I don't care. But
he's gone. And if he's not gone, God help us. Okay, Well, Laura.

Speaker 11 (01:16:39):
Trump is our first one we've got to go for.
And if not, then who who there's got to be?

Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
I don't know. I don't know. I have for million
plus people, sir, we got ten million plus people. One
of them's got all.

Speaker 11 (01:16:54):
I asked for a list of the J sixers that
are from North Carolina because some of these guys are
incredibly smart and tuned in and know what they're doing
and could make a very good candidate. I'd like to
know who all the North Carolina Jay sixers are. Maybe
there might be somebody in there, but we got to

(01:17:15):
try every avenue, but we cannot fail this time. He
has got to go. He is a threat to not
just this state, but this country.

Speaker 1 (01:17:24):
There's probably five or six current House members right now,
and thanks for the caller, Jeff, you know, let's do
this thing. Let's do this thing. Come come convince me
you're the guy because you're not him. And again I
don't get into this stuff. I never have, but you

(01:17:46):
have radicalized me real quick. Boston Paul, what's I just
want to be clear, Boston Paul is not on the
short list for senator because everyone would be dead.

Speaker 12 (01:17:58):
Yeah, what's a oo sah?

Speaker 1 (01:18:00):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (01:18:03):
Come on, man, just come down a little bit instead
of that coffee. No, I don't want to be saying up.
Once you get Marc a call, see if he's done
working for Trump, and we'll primary this guy. I'm up,
I'm in.

Speaker 1 (01:18:15):
I got a hundred mark Mark Walker or Mark Walker
or Mark Robinson.

Speaker 12 (01:18:21):
Mark Walker.

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
Sure you know what, yeah, absolutely one hundred percent. Walker
wants to run per se. You can have a weekly
spot on this show and tell us about to get
the same offer because equal time. So whatever.

Speaker 12 (01:18:34):
But hey, you said you were drinking coffee this morning.
I mean, don't be drinking Colombian coffee. Have a little
smoke of Colombian gold.

Speaker 1 (01:18:43):
Why don't I get some Bolivian marching powder? So I
can get you further am coom or whatever he does. Yeah,
the reason you could get the problem, Boston Paul. The
problem with you running for Senate is where you're from.
And as we know, considering where you're from, Boston Paul,
the only way you can be an effective senator is
to murder an aid first, So I don't want you

(01:19:05):
to do that.

Speaker 12 (01:19:06):
Okay, well all right, wait a minute, Wait a minute,
what about Ross? I mean he's done with the Water
and Soil Commission?

Speaker 1 (01:19:12):
Right wait wait, wait, are you gonna murder Ross?

Speaker 2 (01:19:14):
Is that Ross?

Speaker 5 (01:19:17):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:19:18):
Here he could run.

Speaker 12 (01:19:20):
He's done with the Water and Soil can't He went
the Senate?

Speaker 1 (01:19:22):
Now, no, this is how we get camps. All right,
you got you're full of bad ideas. Get out of here,
all right, Go be safe, Go be safe. Most people
get bread and water. I'm pretty sure he went to
Tarja and I got about six cases of beer. So
Ross has been tasked with going to target to today.
So he's very excited. Uh yeah, I think Boston Paul

(01:19:43):
just read to kill you, bro, so saying I want
to watch out all right, So, uh, full show is
silly today but super serious too, So going back to this, Yeah,
I'm going to be very curious if among the senators
who are stated to care about this story that just

(01:20:06):
appeared compliments of CBS and others surrounding Pete Hegseth, a
story that is literally denied by the person who is
the focus of the story. We're doing the Kavanaugh thing again,
and God helped me. I started in my mind, I'm like,
which senators is it? Are they talking about? Jonie Ernst
came to minds because she's had some problems with Hegseff

(01:20:29):
and then tell us what the second guy I thought of?
If you don't know the story, here it is David
containing new allegations against Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth. NBC
Shulie Serkin help break this story, she joins us, Now
what more can you tell us?

Speaker 13 (01:20:43):
Well, Chris, this is significant because for the first time,
we are hearing on the record of somebody who spoke
directly with Samantha Hegseth during the time in which she
was married to Pete Hegseth, who shared concerns fearing for
her safety. I'm talking about Danielle Hexseth. She's a former
sister in law to both Samantha and Pete Hexseth. She
says in this copy of this affidavit, a redacted version, quote,

(01:21:07):
I have chosen to come forward publicly as significant personal
sacrifice because I am deeply concerned by what Hexset's confirmation
would mean for our military and our country. She adds
that part of her reason, and this is so significant, Chris,
for coming forward is because I have been assured that
making this public statement will ensure that certain senators who
are still on the fence will vote against Hexset's confirmation.

(01:21:29):
But for that insurance, I would not subject myself or
others refer to in this statement to the public scrutiny.
This statement is likely to cause.

Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
This woman is claiming that she has essentially struck a
deal with likely GEOP senators to block heag Seth. Now
the woman in question, this is the sister in law.
The actual wife denies this categorically, and yet it was
the lead story on CBS News last night. Is that

(01:22:00):
audio is from? Is that Tom Tillis? Is he one
of them? I have some questions. Hang on, just send
me an email Ross and it said stay away from
open windows in the building. The Greensboro facility does not
have open windows on the elevated floor. However, the Raleigh
facility does, although I don't know if it still does

(01:22:24):
or it'd be about.

Speaker 2 (01:22:25):
There's still like three of them opening. Chocked them up there, the.

Speaker 1 (01:22:27):
Three still open. Okay, this on this fine week.

Speaker 2 (01:22:30):
Walk right up this morning. It looked right at him.

Speaker 1 (01:22:32):
Yeah, I'm in Greensboro, Rosses and Raleigh right now, so
I don't know if they fixed it, but all right, yeah,
so that's why I'm in Greensboro. I'll just say that,
it's not really why I'm in Greensboro, but whatever, that's
the seventh floor probably not surviving that. All right, dude,
I just saw the wildest we're gonna we're gonna talk
about the church thing from me yesterday and h and

(01:22:56):
that insanity, which, by the way, is that Tom tell
Us' his church that he goes to, I think it is,
which is an extra added bonus this morning. But we
have this cruise ship story that's one of the craziest
things I think I've seen in a while. However, because

(01:23:18):
we try to be intellectually honest here, I will come
up with why I think there's a possibility not I
don't even know possibility is the right word. There is.
There is an iota of potential for the reason they
gave for this thing that I will tell you about.
But I want to grab a call first and Brian,

(01:23:39):
what's up?

Speaker 4 (01:23:41):
Hey, guys, you know, just thinking about what you were
saying before. Excuse me, I'm really getting kind of frustrated,
Well not kind of, I am extremely frustrated with this
this BS. You know, the woman who was the ex
wife has come out and publicly said and I know
you mentioned this book, but not totally. One, she never

(01:24:04):
said that. Two, she does not have a representative who
would have said that. She has not hired a lawyer,
she does not have anybody else who would have been
her mouthpiece. She did not say this. So this is
a clear total fabrication. But is getting me like so
ticked off? Is these things happen all the time by Democrats.
It is their actual playbook. And I know somebody on

(01:24:26):
kids I think it was a point who said it.
You know, doesn't matter if it's true or not. Make
the most outlandish allegation and let it do its thing,
which its thing is, you know, to be negative against
that person, even if it's not true. For as long
as we need it to do that thing and then
move on when we when it's proven that it's not true.

Speaker 5 (01:24:45):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:24:45):
It is so frustinting because what happens is they only
get fined if they actually get sued. They need to
freaking go to jail because finding these people does nothing
to them. It is a drop in the bucket because
obviously somebody paying these people to do this, and the
people who get fined look to that person who paid

(01:25:06):
them and they say, yeah, okay, yeah, I'll pay the
five million bucks. I'll pay the fifteen million bucks. It's
pits in a bucket to me. I don't care. We
got our thing, we we got our goal.

Speaker 1 (01:25:20):
You can't you can't use that p word, okay, but
I'll keep you on normally and hang up on you.
And because I understand your level of frustration, but I
also right now is the last time I need the
FCC crawling up my butt. And I wouldn't put it
past till us to do it. So all right, anyway, I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:25:38):
Some of the word that you could say. I'm sorry
about that. I apologize.

Speaker 1 (01:25:41):
I'm on the fence. Yeah, I'm on the fence, but
I don't think it is But anyway, go ahead. Yeah,
I don't know, but yeah, I mean right now.

Speaker 4 (01:25:52):
To well, how do we get somebody to rewrite laws
that's basically say, redeless is now something if it's used
for political game, you go to jail.

Speaker 1 (01:26:02):
Well, look, there's there are first there are First Amendment
issues over the words. However, in the same way that
we have slander and libel that exists out there, you
have to work it through that. I don't want to overcorrect,
because if you honestly believe, just for a moment, let's
say that this woman honestly believes that this uh, this

(01:26:25):
this sister in law, and and she's being somewhat manipulated
obviously by political powers that be. I don't know. If
I again, we're giving to the benefit of the doubts,
she honestly believes that she had she hallucinated or whatever.
I don't care. You have to figure out how you
hold those opportunists who would then use it knowing that

(01:26:48):
they don't necessarily have that. And I don't know what
that looks like, but like you, I would be very
curious to have that conversation. That's that's a I'm that that.

Speaker 4 (01:27:01):
The fact that somebody believes what they're saying is what
makes it okay? That's ridiculous. If I believe that I'm Jesus,
does that make it okay for me to go around
and be but it don't lead or whatever?

Speaker 1 (01:27:14):
No, yes, yeah, no, no, no, but it does, but it does.
I'm not going to compromise my principles just because I
totally agree with you, sir, because others have been willing
to do that. But I think that there is room
within the law because while she may believe that a
you know, a lot of a lot of law comes

(01:27:35):
down to what a reasonable person would believe, Right, that's
a standard. What would the reasonable person? And if you
are Adam Schiff and you look at this and then
you hear directly from the person who is supposedly quoted,
the fact that you would launch on that, now you're
not being a reasonable person. Because I can't think of

(01:27:55):
another scenario where the media would run and go, hey,
this we heard this thing. Did it happen? But and
they go no, And there's not a reasoning why they
might lie like they Nobody's explain to me why his
second wife, who probably is still pretty po that he's
onto his third wife, would would lie and so if

(01:28:16):
they don't have that to then run with it. Now
we're getting into a different thing than an individual who
may think they're Jesus. Do you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (01:28:27):
Okay, I understand the difference, but but here's the thing
you're basically saying. Then I can go around saying things
about you because I personally believe you would have said
these things and you would have felt this way. That
is that that's ridiculous. No, no, no, I can beat this
both person for any person I want, because hey, I've
listened to Casey on the radio for the past ten
years and I know what Casey thinks.

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
But the onus isn't on you, sir, No, no, no,
But the onus isn't on you, Brian. And I don't
mean this as an insult, because you're not the media,
you're not the amplifier, you're not in a life official.
You are a guy who's who. Let's say you posted
that on Twitter and if I denied it, it was
an r L picked it up. Shame on w r

(01:29:09):
L for not having anything other than some random guy's tweet.
It's nuanced. But I hear you.

Speaker 4 (01:29:17):
No, but I hear you too, and I totally agree. Again,
So then who put this on the air? People who
did it because they have a political right benefit that
they want to see. Those people should go to jail,
not getting fine, not get a slap on the wrist
by the FCC or whoever. Go to jail, because that's

(01:29:40):
the only way to stop it. Because again, and they
said in the beginning, these people don't care. They're like, oh,
you're gonna find me a million bucks? Okay, great, yeah,
well right, I agree.

Speaker 1 (01:29:48):
Check, yeah, let's stay Cavanaugh. Yeah, they had no there's
not a single person who who decided to jump on
the Kavanaugh was running rape conga lines who probably believed
it or wherever held accountable.

Speaker 4 (01:30:05):
So I'm I'm with, how do we change this?

Speaker 1 (01:30:09):
I don't know the answer to that.

Speaker 4 (01:30:11):
Well, when you talk to one of the politicians, can
you bring this up? Hey, we need to make stronger lives.
Sure it's not just her.

Speaker 1 (01:30:19):
Yeah, what's Here's here's the deal. When Michael Wattley accepts
the deal that I have offered this morning to give
him the airtime to to do what he's going to do,
it will be the first thing we discuss all he's
got to do is throw tillis to the wolves. That's it.
I ask one thing of them, that's it, and I
will ask your questions. Sir.

Speaker 2 (01:30:39):
All right, good deal than you.

Speaker 1 (01:30:41):
Absolutely all right, thank you for the call. Look at
that wheeling and dealing on this fine morning. Speaking of
the church, So yesterday you probably saw the video. The Trumps,
the Vances and others head over to uh the Episcopal
church there up in DC. It's a pretty standard tradition.

(01:31:03):
Day after inauguration, you have this service, and emaciated bon
Jovi looking woman decides she's going to use this opportunity
to go ahead and make some political points. Absolutely one
thousand percent disgusting. But yet here we are in the name.

Speaker 14 (01:31:25):
Of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon
the people in our country. We're scared now. There are gay,
lesbian entrance ginger children in Democratic Republican and independent.

Speaker 1 (01:31:44):
Families who you've castrated in some instances, just so we're clear,
some who fear for their lives or being castrated.

Speaker 14 (01:31:55):
The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings.

Speaker 1 (01:32:00):
So they're all cleaners and crop pickers, like could you
do the meme?

Speaker 14 (01:32:04):
Harder farms and meatpacking plants who wash the dishes after
we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals.
They may not be citizens or have the proper documentation,
but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They

(01:32:24):
pay taxes.

Speaker 1 (01:32:26):
If they entered illegally, they technically are. Tom Holman can
explain it to you. He does on the regular and
our good neighbors.

Speaker 14 (01:32:34):
They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues,
Wodara and temples.

Speaker 1 (01:32:43):
Okay, rejecting this and mocking it is the wrong play.
I think that Trump administration should embrace this.

Speaker 2 (01:32:58):
Hear me out.

Speaker 1 (01:33:00):
They should embrace it because the Democrats celebrating this and saying,
look here you go, this woman just explained it to you.
Then you are of the opinion that churches should dictate policy.
So if you're Trump, I'm like, you know what, there's

(01:33:20):
a great idea. I think the churches should dictate policy,
not this church, but this I don't know, Franklin Graham's church,
and then operate based on They would lose their minds.
That's how I would play it, because this this is

(01:33:40):
a violation of this tradition and frankly, this woman should
never be allowed to speak to another elected official for
using this to do that. As much as everybody screams
about separation of church, Trump should embrace it, find the
church that comports with his voters, and let them dictate
policy and then watch them scream that's my entertainment rate, stagic.

(01:34:05):
How's your snow entertainment? I got about forty five seconds
because I ran out. I don't worry SnO, that's okay,
all right, Yeah, we'll get out.

Speaker 6 (01:34:13):
Of this cold, this arctic cold soon.

Speaker 1 (01:34:17):
Jilie day.

Speaker 6 (01:34:18):
And after the snow, there's still some icy patches and spots,
especially believe it or not east as you head out
near the outer banks and coastal parts of not only
North but also South Carolina where they saw the burn
of the snow cold night tonight. Today we do get
above freezing tonight ten or maybe even some single digits
to the west of the triad and into the mountains,
and then we'll start that slow recovery as we head

(01:34:39):
on through the next few days, back into the forties
by late week, maybe closer to fifty for some. By
the end of the weekend. Loads will start coming up,
most likely being the teens. By Friday, morning twenties near
Saturday and Sunday morning before we get more pre sip
in here late Sunday night and Monday.

Speaker 1 (01:34:54):
Okay, all right, I'm gonna go sledding on Okra Coke
and I'll talk to you tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (01:34:58):
So have a good one.

Speaker 1 (01:35:00):
Should never be a phrase that's uttered. Come back with
Jeff Bellinger, Hang on, Jeff, what's happening?

Speaker 10 (01:35:05):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:35:05):
Good morning.

Speaker 15 (01:35:05):
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estimated median renter income is more than sixty one thousand dollars.
Future of TikTok's on President Trump's radar. The president says
he's opened to Elon Musk or Marry Ellison. Buying The
social media app is part of a joint venture with
the government. Jimmy Donaldson, the content creator known as mister Beast,
says he's working with investors who have submitted a TikTok bid.

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Those investors were not identified. Meta Platforms has some new
products on the drawing board. The social media company plans
to introduce new Oakley branded smart glasses designed for athletes,
and some good news for iPhone users. Casey, the spam
fighting app True Caller has been updated. It now works
equally well on iPhones and Android devices. True Caller is

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a subscription service, not a freebie. The company is currently
working on technology to counter voice clones generated by artificial intelligence.
Those clones are increasingly used by criminals.

Speaker 1 (01:36:46):
Casey, okay, all right, hey, Jeff, just you guys have
snow up there too.

Speaker 11 (01:36:52):
Or.

Speaker 15 (01:36:53):
Over the weekend? Not a lot, a little bit, a
few inches in New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (01:36:58):
Like destin Florida. I got like three inches. It's just
a wild down here right now.

Speaker 15 (01:37:03):
So all right, yeah, Anyways, ice ice in Houston have
been hearing my My Houston station has been talking about it.

Speaker 1 (01:37:10):
Oh you are k p R C or k t
R H K t R h oh Okay, all right, hey,
the guy's a friend of mine. All right, well, thank
you very much. Appreciate it. Jeff, have a good one, Okay,
have a good date.

Speaker 2 (01:37:21):
All right, Look at that.

Speaker 1 (01:37:22):
Yeah, Houston's getting rocked as well. So