Wednesday-3-25-2026

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, somebody sent me a little spy photo just
literally just a moment ago. Hey, Ross, do you remember
under Biden when everyone was putting those Biden stickers on
gas pumps that said I did that. That was I'm
sure we talked about it on the air. But the
Joe Biden I did that gas price sticker. Apparently they're

(00:23):
trying to do a Trump one. I haven't seen this.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh yeah, they've been doing that for like months.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
How okay, I ran your gas price up, it says,
and then it's Trump pointing. Yeah. I don't know, man.
I mean, the Biden thing kind of hit and I
and again, I can only evaluate it through the way
that I consume media, but I feel like that was everywhere,

(00:48):
like people got in fights over that. But the Trump one,
I don't know. Yeah, I don't know if that's quite
doing it. But mostly because while there has been fluctuation
and gas prices, clearly under Biden it hit crazy town levels.

(01:11):
And so I think people kind of embrace the stickers.
But whatever, I honestly, you know, I don't care. And
I and by the way, I'm also not going to
call for people to be arrested over it, which is
what what you were seeing with the piden stickers at
least on one occasion, because I remember talking about that story.
So but AnyWho, there you go. Not that you'll be

(01:33):
able to see him because I'll be covered in pollen.
So I guess there's that at least in North Carolina.
All right, so we've got a few What is this, dude,
I haven't I hadn't even finished going through all my
email overnight because I started reading something else. But okay,

(01:57):
all right, I will look into this. People send me
like super long articles, but at least they have interesting headlines.
All rights, A few things coming up. We got a
little audio for you this morn in spring break, still
in full effect. By the way I watched. This isn't
the audio we're gonna play, But I happen to watch
a news clip that Fox News did. I'm sure it

(02:20):
was Jesse Kelly's people or not Jesse Kelly. Jesse Waters,
one of the Jesse's you know, he kind of picked
up the mantle of the old Bill O'Reilly spring break coverage, which,
if you guys don't remember when Bill O'Reilly was on Fox,
he would send Jesse Waters down during spring break. He'd
basically live down at one of the spring breaks and

(02:43):
then they would do a very lengthy segment every day
with like feigned outrage, but mostly it was just a
roundup of chicks and bikinis and you know what it
The ratings did. Okay, can you believe what's going on?
But I, like, I get it because I was watching.
I was watching whoever the Fox News person was down

(03:05):
there in the little clip, and they were just they
weren't even doing gotcha stuff, they were just asking people
about it. And here's the thing that kills me so clearly.
If you're one of the spring Breakers, you see the
giant network camera, you see it, you know, probably a

(03:26):
sound person, a producer, like it's minimum of four person
crew that's going out and doing this stuff. So you
understand that the likelihood that one of your loved ones
will see this is probably pretty high, right, National Network.
The whole thing. With that being said, what I was

(03:49):
taken aback by. And it's not even just the old
man in me. I would be equally as curious as
a twenty year old. If you know that there's a
high probability that one are your family members is going
to see this thing, you might be a little edgy,
but like, you're not gonna be sluttie, right, do you

(04:10):
ross do you understand what I'm saying, Like if you
thought your parents are gonna see when you're down on
spring break and be like, whoa, we're having a good
time party party, but you're not gonna get specific with details. Right,
So there's there's like the amount of and I'm sorry
I'm picking on the women a little just because they
like the two incidents were really what really stood out

(04:32):
to me. But you know, you had some guys you're like, yeah,
I'm a drink all day whatever, but like to one
of the girls, was like, I'm gonna get run through
and I'll let you figure out what that is. And
then the other one says, when they asked, what, hey,
what do you what do you? What's your goal down here?
She goes, I'm going and she sounds drunk already, and

(04:52):
she goes, I'm going for blackout with my rackout, which
is not a term I had heard before but is
easily under standable. But then I'm like, don't you have
like brothers or a dad. Maybe you don't have a dad,
maybe that's the problem, but you're telling a national TV
camera that your goal is to get hammered and take

(05:15):
your clothes off. I'm not I'm not a prude man,
but I just don't understand why you lay that out
so it can show up in a clip that greeted
me on Twitter and aired on Fox News that one
of your your family members may see that. Don't get
me wrong. At least they were hot, so I mean

(05:36):
you had that going for it, but otherwise, yeah, it
kind of blew me away, and it was it was
a nice little breather from the idiots, right, because that's
the that's the other ones that they do. They go
down and they ask spring breakers, just basic questions because again,
these are purportedly college students and there's tons of those
videos floating around. Right. What have you heard that Donald

(05:58):
Trump has been doing recently? Gulf of America.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
That's the last thing I kept up with.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
For going to war with Iraq. That's been crazy. What
are you doing, Columbia? Oh?

Speaker 2 (06:07):
What's up?

Speaker 1 (06:07):
But that's done. He's like trying to sue those people
for making jokes about him. Shit, hundred time. You must
be happy. I'm very happy. Y Ayatola is dead and
what who? What?

Speaker 3 (06:19):
What?

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Is that who is Iotola?

Speaker 1 (06:22):
I've never heard that word in my life? Wait, wait, wait,
And I like how they ask you to what who
is Ayatola? Like it's some's it's a it's a new rapper, right,
just dropped.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
It's a substitute teacher again, right Ayatola?

Speaker 4 (06:36):
Right?

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah Ayola? He a rod Oh man.
I could watch those clips over and over. Yeah, like,
oh is that doing? They just drop a hot use
this straight fire? Okay, I gotta listen to that.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
What's Ayatola?

Speaker 1 (06:51):
I haven't heard?

Speaker 2 (06:52):
I found out about Chuck North yesterday.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
That was more devastating to me. He was a supreme
leader of our He's dead. Elena, we killed him?

Speaker 2 (07:00):
You did you killed him?

Speaker 4 (07:02):
Juck?

Speaker 1 (07:04):
I would say yes, by the way, because she seems
she seems genuinely impressed. Right, Well, if you were in charge,
how would you take on Iram? Yeah, all my girls
and we would all start putting belt on them. We
get a bunch of girls. I'm sorry, what hold on it? Sorts?
And I like where you're going with this, But I

(07:25):
have to what did you just say, bab I'm so confused?
All right, back to we'll get all the girls in
the bikinis. What is this?

Speaker 5 (07:31):
You make a run across the battlefield all the guys
in the shike that we all run in.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
By the way, that's fair, Ross, put your general hat on, right,
It's go back World War One trench warfare. If all
of a sudden, as the German pith helmets are hanging
out over on the other side, you throw out a
bunch of you'd probably have to go with culturally appropriate,

(07:58):
you know, because they're so like, oh nat you know,
a bunch of blond, blue eyed, bikini clad chicks. I
think you messed the the army up there all right.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
First off, First off, I never take off the general's hat.
It's always there. So you want to turn No Man's
Land into like boob city?

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Uh, just a Swedish bikini boom there you go. You
don't think that'd be distracting. It would be Remember when
they got distracted over Christmas and they were all like
not shooting each other. That was the whole thing. That's
a whole story. So you throw out a bunch of
hotties in in uh tiny bikinis. Man, I don't know
if they know what to do.

Speaker 6 (08:34):
Guys, I guess clirt with him, I'd blow him up.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
I don't know enough about it, but I would probably
wipe it out.

Speaker 7 (08:43):
Drop a bomb baby bomb out of them. I like her,
I would bomb the out of them.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
What have you heard about Venezuela? Venezuela?

Speaker 4 (08:53):
Nothing?

Speaker 7 (08:53):
I'm not sucharlie.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
I barely know what'll be going on in like Tennessee
where I'm from. That they beat us in the World
Baseball Classic. Have you heard no?

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Nothing. I have heard nothing about Venezuela. You know, honestly,
I don't know, and I don't care. Where is Venezuela.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
I'm drunk, I really I don't know. Venezuela. Is that
in Spain? No, I mean a little bit. Well, it's
got a little Spanish connection. Got that going for you?
So like, yeah, I get the idiot walk, but I
don't get the and again I'm picking on these two
girls who are in the Fox Report. I don't get
grabbing a national television camera and being like I'm a

(09:31):
hoe right right, just because I have sisters. Man, if
there was a if, and I'm the older brother, I'm
the oldest, So like I'm if one of my sisters
was on spring break and she's like, oh, yeah, I'm
gonna get black out with my rac out with me.
I'd have to fly down there and bring her home. Man,

(09:51):
I know we're not doing.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
This just it might be a generational thing where you know,
the person comes up with on the beach of the
microphone and they're like who are you with? And they're like, oh,
we're with the Fox News and they're like, nobody watches
cable TV or news, so yeah, I'll do this because
no one's gonna see it. It might be honestly that's
the only but it might be never if somebody came
up or like hey, I'm with the vonn or Joe
Rogan or whatever, they might be like, oh, I'm not

(10:14):
doing that because then people will see me or hear me.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
But he's gonna hear me like the old guy in
the home. Right. But I but again, you saw the
thought process for the other questions that were being asked there, right,
So what you just did is like high level deduction,
you know what I'm saying, Whereas I don't. I don't
even give the I don't give them credit for that
because I think that this generation of all generations has

(10:39):
to understand the power of recording something right, because you
and I talked about it.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
I mean, if you came out there and you were like, hey,
you know I'm gonna be I'm with it, and they're
like who are you with? And you were like, I'm
with the Victrola company, you'd be like, sure, I'll give
you whatever you want because no one listens to that, right.
But it might really be a generational thing where they're like,
nobody's gonna watch this.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Wouldn't they be more cognizant of it though, because they
they have grown. If you're twenty and you're you're getting
bombed on the beach and whatever, right now, fine, go
to your spring break. But you have to be the
most cognizant generation because every ounce of your maturity growing
up you've had everyone's had a camera and a broadcastable

(11:23):
account in the form of social media.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah, I mean they might be broadcasting worth and they're
worse on their own personal accounts.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
If this is on TV, imagine what they're putting out
on TikTok or whatever.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
If you when you were twenty let's say, right, okay,
so you're twenty, Uh, you go down and get your
job at Newburn right your for your first radio job
or whatever? Would would you would you be interviewed by
let's say one of the Wilmington TV still let's say
you're at the beach, one of the Wilmington stations come
by and they're like, what you're planning this week? You're like,

(11:55):
I'm gonna do so much drugs, I'm gonna get drunk,
and I'm gonna find me hosed. You'd never say that
to a camera because of the possibility that your mom
could see that, right or your dad at that point.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
They never would because they were up in New York
and I didn't have my first drink till I was
twenty three.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
So okay, I really I'm just doing a scenario now,
I understand, but yeah, yeah, probably not probably not right.
And I don't know why call me sexist. I just
think it's far worse for some girl to be like
I'm gonna I'm gonna be a pin cushion right to
the camera. There Again, I chuckled a little because I'd

(12:32):
never heard blackout with my rack out, But it means
the same thing.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
I mean, maybe that's how she makes her income. She's
probably an only fans girl, like wasn't there some like
sixty percent of like girls her age. Now we're on
only fans or some ridiculous I'd probably like give me,
you know, it's gonna make me money.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
I don't think it was quite that high, but yeah,
it is a troubling stat So the percentage, I'm so glad,
just from a big brother perspective, that we all matured
when we matured.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
So like, I don't know if I could, dude, I
don't know, because I'm not gonna lie. I beat the
living wrap out of Lacey, my sister's boyfriend because he
put hands on her. Man, Like I enjoyed that aspect
of being a big brother. I enjoyed that, and I
could not suffer something like that with one of my

(13:21):
sisters back. And I'm just so glad we grew up
when we did. I don't know everything they were up to,
but you know, now they're pretty normal, even if one
of them's a bit of a bit of a boot bet,
but we love her still. So uh yeah, man, just
watching that, I like, somebody could use to come get
their sister or daughter. Man, oh, at least the one

(13:45):
understood chuck. Yeah, I don't have beef with I didn't
necessarily have beef with the ones we just played. I cringe,
I cringe a bit, but uh yeah, I'm glad they reckon.
I chucked Doris's death did bother me too.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
I mean, I like the one dude, the one dude said,
you know, like, you know, not all that big in
the trump, but he gets stuff done.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Yeah, I'm yeah again, it's they're in a cherry pick
what they put in there, both on the positive side
for their audience and the negative side. But uh yeah,
I think the biggest lesson is, uh, there would be
zero chance in a party situation like that that I
would ever talk to a camera, you know, because yeah,

(14:24):
this is a network you know, big network broadcast setups.
When we were kids, right, I saw that I wouldn't
go anywhere near it. And I think everyone loves the
camera now. And let's face it too, you're probably right
that at least one of those girls is an only
fans girl.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah, or they're hoping they're going to be the next
hawk to a girl and go viral and then make
a career out of it.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Like maybe maybe I can.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Say something that's going to make me famous, so I
can make money out of it.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Did you see that? Clearly there's like a resurrection effort
for her. There's also yeah, I have seen her pop
up here and there. Yeah. Yeah, so like this week,
I just she's just been. There's been quite a few
things where they're clearly like she do. She sat down
for an exclusive interview I saw. I saw some clips.
I didn't watch all of it, but some clips and

(15:11):
basically like she's the victim too with the with the
mean coin and stuff. So I don't know if it's
going to be successful, but we'll see. Oh, by the way,
it sounds like the we figured out that Mark Robinson thing,
we're slightly off. So it looks like what Mark Robinson's
looking to do is he's trying to get into media there.

(15:33):
Wants to be our competition. I don't I don't know
to what extent, but because he was, I saw another
another show that wanted to get him on there and
he had his people turned down the interview because he's
under contract for some media entity. Now that's what the
host was saying. I don't know. We kind of guessed

(15:55):
either it was trying to get back into politics or
perhaps some activism over a porn addiction, so we kind
of didn't guess, but kind of an interesting update. Anyway,
we'll be right back. You know, they're getting they're getting
ready here on the well at the end of this
week to head out on a little vacate there in Congress,

(16:16):
and you know, clearly there's some unfinished issues. Although it's interesting,
are begetting spy reports from some of our listeners who
travel a lot for work, and they've been very positive
about their airport experiences, which had not been the case.
And in fact, when I can get my stupid computer

(16:37):
to restart, it was very interesting to watch some of
the the TV reporters have to go to the airport
and be like, ah, things are better, you know, most
likely in the larger airports like Philadelphia is one of
the reports I saw in Atlanta as well, due to

(16:58):
the fact that they brought you know, they brought in
these ice employees to essentially handle the non screening duties
that TSA normally handles, and that frees up more TSA
and clearly that has a positive effect. But that's a
band aid, that's not a fix. So yeah, we will
get into that, all right. So I just restarted this
computer again. Let's see that allows me access to my

(17:24):
next gen. It's thinking, thinking, thinking, Ah, then go through
all the verification stuff because of friggin course. All right, Ross,
I'm gonna need you to play the clip from the airport.
So here is one of those news reports I was
referring to. Here we go, we can get that up there, right,

(17:50):
What is going on? Come on outlook, you can do that.
You might Ross might be screening a call here again.
I'm just frigging blind on this thing right now. So weird,
so weird. Everything was cooking with gas here this week.
There we go, all right here, I thought we were

(18:12):
out of the strum with this stuff. Oh and then
here's uh, let's see, here's the email I got this
morning h RDU and Louisville. I guess one of our
listeners is flying through. Apparently things were fine at the
old airport there. So get out in the face, mister.

(18:33):
Update thing just did it? Why? Why is that with
Windows they'll have an update and then they'll have an
update literally like right after you install the update. All right,
here we go. Here is here's CNN having to suck
it up with what's going on with TSA line.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
It is Ryan Young.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
He's over at Atlanta's Hartsfield Jackson International Airport this morning, Ryan,
what do TSA wait times look like in Atlanta this morning?

Speaker 5 (18:59):
I almost can't believe I'm able to say this. The
times have dropped off tremendously this morning. People were waiting
an hour in line. Now that is not the case.
If you look at the main checkpoint here, there seems
like a less than a dozen people. One thing I
should note to everyone, Tuesday is a traditionally slow day
here at this airport. It's a great day to travel
out because there's not as much volume. So they knew

(19:20):
today was going to drop off, But I don't think
people thought they were going to see the numbers where
they are right now. And that's TSA pri This is
the main checkpoint, and we're seeing those numbers.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Just fall off.

Speaker 5 (19:31):
Of course, the other thing that people have been asking
about is, of course, what are the ICE agents doing
who are walking through the airport. What kind of responsibilities
they have. Here are two of the officers who are
sort of walking through the airport now. They're patrolling the
outside areas of the airport, keeping people safe, interacting with
some of the people as they walk by, But for
the most part, they have this defensive posture where they're

(19:53):
just sort of walking around and making sure the perimeter
is safe.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
They have this defensive PoTA. I don't know what that means.
Of course, they have a defensive posture. They're guarding an
entrance or an exit, I guess, but they're guarding some
sort of egress. So, like, even there was a couple
moments in there where the reporter still trying to kind
of like gin it up, which I don't even understand, right,

(20:19):
He's like, Wow, but that's Tuesday, It's normally slow. Last
week on Tuesdays, you still had three hour weight times
at a lot of these big airports, you still had
three hour weight times. So there's that. And I expect
people who are acting as guards. Oh thank goodness, Rosa
was able to get my call screener. All right, people

(20:42):
are acting as guards. I expect that they have a
defensive posture. What does that even mean. I just want
to know if moonbats are still showing up to scream
at him, because I saw those videos and then they
would have to leave, right because there was such a
ruckus and they just like they're policy. I guess was
just to ignore it, but then you have to get

(21:02):
a TSA person out there, So it literally defeats the
hack that having ICE agents there was. So I don't
know all of that to say, well, we waited through
a computer restart all that to say that it'll be
it'll be interesting to talk to the congressman because like,

(21:25):
is there a plan for this or are you all
just going to go on a two week vac oh,
excuse me, working working in the district or whatever. I
don't know. If you saw this at the Atlanta airport,
I wish all the airports would do this. So whether
I don't know if you know this, but if you're
a member of Congress and you show up at the airport,

(21:46):
you'll coordinate with the airline or security staff or whatever.
I don't know who all the have to coordinate with. Generally,
there's an airline rep. That's that's with them. I'm assuming
you have to contact TSA. But if you're a remember
of Congress you show up to an airport, they have
a special thing where they whisk you privately through. You
get to cut everybody well. Atlanta issued a statement saying

(22:10):
that members of Congress they are pausing that service specifically
with Delta Airlines s based out Atlanta, so so, and
that was where they wrote the article. But that's Delta.
I believe in all US airports. So if you're a
member of Congress flying with Delta, Delta's not going to

(22:30):
fast track you right now, which raises the question, why
the hell should members of Congress get fast tracked. I
know they'll come at you with some bs like we
got to because we got to get to Washington to
work for the people. No, you don't, shut up, No,
you don't. If you were working for the people, you
would pass something that eighty percent of the population wants.

(22:53):
So we need to newter these bastards. Man. So, uh,
we're gonna we'll talk to coiressman not about that as well.
Why should you get special treatment? Go stand in line
with everybody else, you know why, because then and only
then do your policy decisions impact you. Just can you imagine, Ross,

(23:16):
Can you imagine, let's say that hypothetically you were the boss,
okay of the whole radio cluster.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Yeah, you're doing great, You're an exceptional value to the company.
And I just want you to know.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
That I'm getting fired, aren't they You're doing so good man,
I'm getting so fun.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Hey I saw the numbers. Yes, yes, elite, you're doing okay.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
All right, good. But let's say that none of your
staff was getting paid. How would you show your face? Uh?

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah, I don't know if you could.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
How would you show your face at work? Walking in there?
You got what you know, five or six or however
many staff. It's about that.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
So I walk in with the crown in my head.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
After you parked your maserati right, yeah in the very
first spot, yeah you are that? Or so you parked
it in two spots at an angle. Yuy.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
I've got to get in here fast because I have
lots of stuff to do, do you Yeah, so much stuff.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Man, because you because you haven't really done anything.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
I'm putting together presentation O yeah yeah, a lot of
numbers on that in the screen.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
Yeah. But accomplished anything? Oh I have I have?

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Yeah, like what I just did the thing A morale
booster just told you you're doing great.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Yeah that's not really your job, right, your job is accomplished.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, I've got morale, and I got to bring people together.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Morales in the toilet nobody can eat. Oh yeah, yeah,
nobody can feed themselves or have gas to get there,
or an uber or whatever they need. Yeah, so morale
is uh, morales in the toilet, bro and you're having
like catered lunches. It's just so obscene sitting there getting
whisked away, and it's and by the way, it's your

(24:53):
this is this is this is the nonpartisan part of
the show. I want all of them to have to
stand in line.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
So I've decided Thursday is no pant Thursday, so no
one wears pants on Thursday.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
I feel like, well, they can't afford pants, so this
is actually that actually might help. So they're like, oh
thank god, I was gonna be able to afford pants,
but now they're not required. So yeah, now you got
to stand in line. You gotta get your junk violated,
you gotta you want to be a man or a
woman of the people. This is how we're doing this.

(25:23):
And if you ever fly through Dulles too, if you
think it's bad at most normal airports, and you fly
through Dulles, they have like there's so much special stuff
there for people members of Congress. And you've probably seen
the carts too that have that eat. There's one for
each state, which are like skiffs, so in case a
member of Congress is there, they can be whisked over

(25:44):
to go have a little meeting in their stupid little thing.
Oh yeah, yeah yeah. Screw all these people. Man, you
can pantilessly go through TSA because Ross has dained it
like everybody else.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Now I'm writing a company white email about your birthday
because I just want once again, I'm all about the morale,
you know.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Could you make sure that you send it to multiple
clusters and every market make it awkward as the entire company.
Everyone wish Casey a happy birthday? All right?

Speaker 4 (26:15):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Encourage them to reply all one nine seven eight seven four.
Everyone wish Casey send happy birthday.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Have yourself a day, Bud. You're an exceptional value to
the company.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
Have I said?

Speaker 1 (26:27):
It is not remotely my birthday, but thank you? So
I got I got you a cake? Kind of cake?
What is it with your kick with cake? Yes, yesterday
Ross was begging our boss for cake on a group text.
Are you just you got a hankering for cake? That's
two days in a row. Carrot cake could be okay,

(26:50):
I can do carrot cake. Even though I'm not a
sweets person. I get down with some carrot cake.

Speaker 7 (26:55):
All right.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
AnyWho, Sorry a little rambly there, just because I was
doing like supercomputer restart. So I will be much more
Johnny on the spot. We'll get into that coming up
next here on the CaCO Day Radio program. Alrighty, So
I was just looking at this number. This is quite interesting.
So you know, we talk a lot about the West
coast states, right Washington with their rich guyde tax, California

(27:18):
with theirs, and like, you know, literally you can see
this playing out. See what's going on. People are getting
out of their founder of Starbucks. I'm moving to Florida,
California losing and and this isn't The totality of the
wealth of the individuals who have left California that are
in the billionaire class is two trillion dollars. Two trillion dollars, right,

(27:41):
and then you extract whatever tax you would have out
of that. Now you don't get to Well, it's not
just West Coast. So we now have numbers from the
great state Oh, Massa Chusetts, which is you know, not great.
So Massachusetts introduced a millionllionaire tax back in twenty twenty three,

(28:04):
and they have I guess because they run a biennial
budget there. They have now determined how much income they
have lost. So again, this is not the wealth of
the individuals. These are taxes that normally the State of
Massachusetts would have collected and now is not collecting because

(28:29):
of their decision there. All right, so how much ross
how much revenue do you think the state of Massachusetts
has now lost because they decided they were read tax
rich people who just moved. I'm going to go five
hundred million, Bob, that's a lot of money, but that
is not even close.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
It's really in seven hundred and fifty million.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Vote. Yeah, you're gonna have to start with words. Start
with a one billion bomb, one billion bucks, two and
two billion, Bob. It's actually higher than that, no way
three but three billion dollars higher than four point two
billion dollars of tax revenue that the state of Massachusetts

(29:12):
has lost following the passage of the millionaire tax, and
a lot of it's very trackable, right, There's been some
very high profile people have gotten out of there. Look,
I don't know why you'd be there in the first place,
you know, surrounded by all those Patriots fans, but whatever, Yeah,
it's it's pretty cooked. Man, pretty pretty cooked four point

(29:35):
two billion. And then the question becomes like, how how
do you in any other states? There's a lot of
places where they want to do this wealth tax. It's
kind of you know, it's kind of it kind of
had its window its moment, right we're able to get
the people all pitchforked up, So you go ahead and
do this, you know, damn the consequences. But there are

(29:57):
states that are working on this right now. How do
you look at what what's going on in Washington, California,
Massachusetts for whatever reason, Like, how do you look at
that and go this is a good idea. Remember even
the governor of New York had to go on and
like begged people to come back from Florida. Man, oh,
we gotta go down there. We gotta get him back here.
After she was basically, you know, two years ago, it

(30:18):
was like, shrew all, you all if you're not patriotic,
because apparently being patriotic involves you turning over as much
money as possible to these crooks. That's that's their definition
of it. Even she's like, yeah, we done messed up. Man,
I guess some of these cats back here. And of
course Mondamie he doesn't make anything easier. By the way

(30:39):
people keep sending men email and mispronouncing his name, you
realize I don't care. Right, that's gonna be fundamentally clear.
I don't care. And if you think I'm mispronouncing it,
what about Ross?

Speaker 2 (30:51):
Are you talking about zil Tarsalami?

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Point rest there you go? Or Zamboni or you know.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Yeah, to is mamate Zimboni.

Speaker 1 (31:02):
I'll give you a hint. Me wanting to pronounce your
name properly is something that is bore out of even
the modicum of respect. And I don't have any respect
for that guy. So if you want Rossbunds to call
him Salami, I want to call him Mondummy. Who care? Yeah,
it's childish, but whatever, it's my thing.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Absolutely, just another one of these policies though that's so predictable,
Yet they still do it like you know how it's
going to turn out if you give any thought at all,
like why would these people stay well?

Speaker 1 (31:30):
And it's but it's also because you've tethered yourself to
an angry mob, right. I mean, I almost understand it
from a politician's point, because I honestly I think most
of them are probably smart enough to realize it, which
is why it's kind of stagnated in some of these
states like Vermont and where else were they trying to
I think they're trying to do it in Minnesota too.

(31:52):
I think it's stagnated because they realize the revenue issues.
But you have honed an angry mob, a mob it's
willing to go out and chase armed law enforcement around
on the daily in between school pickup lines. Like you've
carved yourself out a group of psychopaths.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Man, And they're dependent on them. The democrats and socialism
are dependent on poverty to survive. They need that to
be a thing. Without it, they're not a thing.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
They're not a thing. And again, it's not just that
you're going into the inner city neighborhoods or you know
some of the behavior we've seen in the past where
you just assume that all the black people are the same.
And by the way, statistically, it's paid off for you
even though you tend to ignore them about the time
you get in office. No, you've tethered yourself to people
who want blood.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Man.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Sorry, I just saw this like thirty seconds for coming back.
Where is this? This is in Pennsylvania? In Altoona. Investigators
allege forty three year old Martin High, Hey, I don't
know how to pronounce that each with all the owls
after it whatever, was arrested after he set his own

(33:04):
home on fire and then, according to neighbors and responding
officers or fire department because you know, neighbors called nine
one one, he lit it on fire and then stood
in his driveway singing burning down the house by the
Talking Heads out loud, like screaming it. And then like

(33:25):
every the neighbors heard that, somebody recorded part of it,
and then the investigators say, so he was singing it
on the loop. Ross, have you ever arsened your own home?
What song about fire would you want to sing while
you watched it burn to? Would it be the talking
Heads burning down the house? Or we didn't start the fire?
Probably we didn't. That's probably a better one from a

(33:47):
judicial exactly. Yeah, yeah, I didn't start the fire.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
Surely you're on her. I did not do it. As
I was across the street playing Billy Joel. We didn't
start the fire.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Yeah, yeah, Well he kind of fessed up to it,
because like there's some stuff here. The problem was when
he initially started a fire, like his mom's in the house.
Remember he's forty three, so it's like an elderly mom's
in the house. And I think there was a six
year old. You know, they got they clearly they got out.
I mean they were fine. But still he's going through
some stuff. You know. Jimmy Hendrick's Fire would be a

(34:18):
good song. Oh the roof is on fire, you know,
if you want to get a little more modern, although
people think it's more modern because Bloodhound Gang did it,
but that songs like that's a rock master Scott in
the Dynamic three song, Don't ask me why I know
that initially. Yeah, a lot, there's a lot of good choices.

(34:40):
But you can't go wrong with you know, I will say,
you can't go wrong with Little David Byrne Man. We'll
talking Head's Action Speaking in Tongues, which is the album
that's off of If I Just nerd Out Musically for
You is a great album. So you know, if you
if you like that that era of music. You guy,
and you've never seen CBGB, you should watch that movie. Russ,

(35:01):
You ever seen that movie CBGB?

Speaker 2 (35:03):
No?

Speaker 1 (35:04):
All right, so it's got one of your favorite actors
in it playing so CBGB is a legendary club, you know,
punk club but kind of did everything because it actually
stands for country bluegrass something something, the CBGB. But uh
so the guy who ran it is played by your

(35:25):
favorite Harry Potter h Professor.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Oh yeah, I have I have heard and seen of
that movie. Yes, yes, who's now deceased?

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Alan? What is his last name? Alan?

Speaker 2 (35:38):
I bet in your page the three hundred and forty
haway plays Sneap? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Yeah, what What was the actor's name, Alan, Alan Rickman?
Alan Rickman? Yeah? Sorry, I was who.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Is who is not the guy that recently beat up
the guy in the motorcycle?

Speaker 1 (35:52):
No, that's why. By the way, did you watch that video?
I did. I don't like I don't like the actor
because he's like full o bat not guilty. I look,
I was. He's beating through the neighborhood. He might or
might not have been, but he was clearly attacked by
that other dude gets right out in front of his motorcycle,
puts hands on it, which I don't understand. You're beating

(36:14):
up You decided in front of your own kids to
start a physical altercation with the dude who plays Reacher.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Yeah, but I mean, you know, to be to be
fair to the neighbor. They're like, how could you do that?
He's attacking the lesser Reacher. We all agree Tom Cruise
is a superior Reacher.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh well, I don't know, man,
I know, I don't know. Like I the first season
of making a TV show was phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Yeah, I know, I'm just messing my My buddy, Michael
sent me the house. I'm going to Buldoze, send me
this story yesterday, and he's like, who tries to beat
up this dude?

Speaker 1 (36:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (36:49):
I'm like, what, dude. He's like the guy that played Reacher.
He goes he beat up a guy and I just
said Tom Cruise and he was like, what do you
mean Tom Cruise? And I sent him a you know,
still shot of the Tom Cruise Reacher movie. I'm like,
Tom Cruise is Reacher, bro, And he's like, no, this
guy is Reacher. I'm like, no, Tom Cruise. In my house,
Tom Cruise is Reacher. He's the superior Reacher. You gotta

(37:09):
have other guy. I've blocked him because of his political
leanings and I just don't have that in my house.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
I won't.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
I won't accept it.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
But but he's right, who starts a fight with that dude?
Can you imagine, Let's say you're down in Tampa, right,
and some guy I don't know, some guy cuts you
off in traffic and then uh, just going back the
whole Cogan gets out right, are you like all right?
We're throwing hands? No, no you're not. No you're not.
But this guy did I think he was drunk to

(37:37):
the guy who went to fight.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
I saw a story where the guy was saying that
he had previously knocked out Reacher twice. Did you see
that story?

Speaker 7 (37:46):
No?

Speaker 2 (37:46):
Yeah, he's claiming that he had already fought him a
few times. In the two previous times he beat it, like,
he beat him up. He won.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
So the one time it's on camera, he just got
his butt kicked. That's unfortunate, right.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
And the other times must have been when the guy
playing Reacher was on his off cycle, right, I guess, yeah,
cycling off the gear whatever.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
No, I had not, I had not seen that. But
as yet, the story's messed up. And again I don't
like the guy that I just he's so smug and
condescendingh And it's gonna talk politics. But also I don't
think he I don't think legally he did anything wrong.
This guy wanted to smoke, he got the smoke.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
No chargers are going to be pressed.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yeah yeah, I mean if you if you want it,
and you're gonna get it. So uh AnyWho? All right,
So don't commit arson while singing songs about fire, unless
it's Billy Joel. I think that's what we learned in
that segment, and that is really important news you can use. Right,
here's some other news. I was just digesting the new

(38:46):
you Gove economist pole and uh, this is embarrassing this question. Right,
I'm just gonna focus on a few of these questions. Uh, Ross,
you can answer the poll. Should the US be the
dominant power in the Western hemisphere.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
The western hemisphere? Yes, yes, yes, of course. Oh I
would say the entire globe. But if we're just doing
you know, space, I'm going by the question they asked,
okay Monroe doctrine. Yes, Uh, what percentage of.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
Democrats do you think believe that is that that should
be the case, like twenty pretty close twenty six percent,
which is kind of what do you look?

Speaker 2 (39:27):
I was about to say, what country do you want
in that slot?

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Pick one. I'm sure they'd pick Canada, probably because they're like, oh,
you know, hugs and rainbows and all that stupid stuff.
But like, yeah, what other country in the Western hemisphere
would you be comfortable with being in, you know, being
the the superpower. And again we're just talking Western hemisphere.
I I don't know, especially when you think about the

(39:53):
fact that there is no country in the Western hemisphere
that we don't subsidize in some way, shape or for
with the exception of one, and that's Cuba, right, although
we do subsidize it with remittances, right, people who live
in the US sending money back to their family members
in Cuba. So I argue that that is subsidizing. But

(40:16):
from a federal government, money's out. Even post Doge, we
still send money to all these countries. So I would
think if you polled all the countries, they would want
the US to still be in powered just to keep
the checks flowing. But yeah, only twenty six percent of Democrats, yes,
twenty six percent, think that the US should be the

(40:36):
dominant power in the Western hemisphere. Dude, this next question
is crazy, all right, because I got to read it
to you. All right, So there's two choices, and it
just says which of these two comes closest to your view?
Are you ready? Here is choice Numero uno of the stupidity.

(40:57):
Choice one. Our lives are threatened by terrorist criminals and
illegal immigrants, and our priorities should be to protect ourselves.
This is how you see how Americans see the state
of the world. That's choice number one. Our lives are
threatened by terrorist, criminals and illegal immigrants, and our priority
should be to protect ourselves. Choice number two. It's a big,

(41:18):
beautiful world full of good people, and we must find
a way to embrace each other and not allow ourselves
to become isolated. All right, which of those two more
closely aligns with your thoughts? There's bad people out there
and we should do something, or rainbows and unicorns and
everybody's great and kumba y'a. Well, as you can imagine,

(41:40):
depending on which political party you side with, that's the
direction you're going to go. So only thirty here we go. Yes,
seventy five percent of Democrats think it's a big beautiful world.
People are good out there, and we got to find
a way to embrace each other and not allow And
now I don't like this question, because I think that
you can hold an opinion that encapsulates. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Yes, that's what I was thinking to myself.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
Yes, yeah, but if you're if you have to make
a choice, it's interesting to see where it breaks down.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
It's like, listen, people can be good, and there are
good people. Yeah, but I mean people can also sin
and there are bad people. So I mean, yeah, it's
but I guess that's the point of the question, is
they're making an extreme other way.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
Well, they're just like, what do you generally think? I look,
I think it's insane because here's the deal. I'm always
especially as somebody who loves traveling and whatnot, right, and
you know you're gonna you're gonna know you're gonna deal
with different cultures, different norms, things like that. It doesn't
matter where I go. Heads on a swivel, man, And
that doesn't just involve traveling outside of the US. That

(42:41):
that involves traveling downtown. Yeah, you like to go to
a restaurant at night because who knows who's hanging out
down there?

Speaker 2 (42:47):
Yeah, you need to be aware of your surroundings. Yeah,
but yeah, it's it's like the Rambo question, like are
you the boat man or are you the the the
hippies and the boat going to help the people in
like Burma Christian which.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
Yeah, yeah, but clearly no, that's that's that's a very
good dynamic because clearly they I it would be interesting
to pull those people in the Rambo movie before and
after their little trip. I suspect would go in the
other direction.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Right, Oh, I love that movie too, because he's just like,
y'all gonna die. Yeah, y'all need to turn around and
go home because you're gonna die. Well, so just the
one dude had his legs blown off just in the initiation, right,
but just completely unaware of like the realities of the
world because they've been sheltered by the the you know,

(43:37):
the first world exceptionalism of the United States and the
culture we have here and the laws we have here,
or at least the laws we did have here.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
Dude, it's like some people, some people, I think that
people have to actively delude themselves. And I don't hope
bad things happened to him. Like here's let me, let
me give you a little hint. If you're going if
you're going to a country that's considered third worldish and
you're a dumb American walking around wearing all your jewelry,
got your wallet poking out the back of your pocket.

(44:05):
Like that's who I envision on this stuff. It's like,
have you no concept of what's going You don't even
have to go to third world. If you ever go
to Rome or Barcelona and you have a pocket that
somebody can get into, I think you're an idiot because
that's like pickpocket pro league in those two and several
other European cities. Like it's if you look at the

(44:28):
number of pickpockets that are operating, like in Rome, it's
it's mind blowing. And if you don't do anything, even
though most of the people that you're going to interact
with there might be a little snooty because you know
it's it's Italy, but are genuinely going to be nice people?
Like so yeah, you can. You can definitely hold both
those opinions, but it's definitely looking for you to pick

(44:49):
one or the other.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
People just assume the moral baseline of like our country
or Western civilization is the the baseline of the rest.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
Of the world. And you know, I'm gonna disagree with you, okay,
I and here, but hear me out. I think that
there are segments of people, especially on the left, who
think that the in those places people are more.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
And more no doubt, I did not finish my thought,
and that was all I was going to say.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
Next.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
Yeah, that's exactly what it is. They assume that this
is like the baseline for morality throughout the world, what
we have here or in like Western civilization, right, or
or they actually think that we are lesser than that,
like the other countries are like more spiritually evolved, and
and that we're the corrupt ones, which is completely it's
a falsehood.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, don't get me wrong. We can
do our like we got corruption just like everybody else.
So I mean, that's that's the thing. But yes, that yeah,
the part where they just sit there and assume that
everyone coming from nick like we got what was it like,
eight percent of the population of Nicaragua came to the
US in the last five year under Biden. Eight percent.

(45:55):
But just think about that eight percent, seven or eight percent,
seven or eight percent of the entire population to Karagua.
And and and then when you see all these immigration stories,
people are like, no, it's nothing but winters in there.
And I'm sorry, is not clearly.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Yeah, how many the stories have we had where it's
like you a person is going to hitchhiker bike through
the Middle East or through like you know.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
You remember the guy I wanted to play guitar.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
Or like your jam band, I'm gonna go play my
jam band in like the congo or whatever wherever it was,
and yeah, you're.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Still gonna be Coombay And they're like, nope, beheaded. Well
I don't think I don't know that we know what
happened to the two bicyclists that you're referencing, Like they
just never found them, right, I think they just never
found them. I think guitar guy didn't get beheaded.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
You know what it was they were they were bicycling
through that area and they were like, this is so nice,
We're gonna stay forever.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
What it is, they just built a homestead out there
in the desert, huh okay, planted their flag down and
said this is our land.

Speaker 7 (46:50):
Now.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
Yeah, I'm sure that worked out. In the Middle East.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
It was like Wyoming back in the day, you know,
the land grab don't mind making them myself a nice homes.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
Well, you know what also was a thing some of
my relatives getting murdered by the Native a person man, yeah,
who took and they were not happy with that. In fact,
if you know anything about the old Forts system and
the Bozeman Trail, it was all established essentially so they
could police that area because there were some issues. Man,
some issues going on.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
Okay, now, I don't want to blame your ancestors, but
what did they do to deserve it? Showed up and
started fend some stuff?

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Yeah, more on, Yeah, well it was it was. It
was a different time anyway. So with that in mind,
I look at this poll and I'm just like, I
don't know how we get here. Now. Some of the stuff,
I guess is understandable, especially in this day and age.

(47:48):
For only forty percent of American see Israel is an ally.
Here's the thing. You cannot like Israel. But I don't
know that you could argue that they're not under the
definition of what an ally is technically an.

Speaker 7 (47:59):
Ally, right.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
Even if even if if what they look Masad and
and the intelligence, so they're they're actively not helpful to
the US. I'm for for most things. However, I don't
know you say they're not an ally more so than
an adversary, right, because those are your two choices, adversary
or ally. But like this is where we are. Do

(48:23):
you guys see the Pooka Nakua story. This is again,
this is the brain rut that's just killing me. So
Pooka Nakua, who's you know, a big stud player for
the Rams. A woman has filed She's filed a complaint
and for a restraining order over an incident she says
happened in like in a van or something. They were

(48:44):
going between places, and it's just like, I don't even
know what the NFL is going to do with this,
but I'll give you the details of it. I got
it right here, and we'll get into all that and
more coming up. Eight eight eight nine three four seven
eight seven four. Hang on, My brain is now to
the point where if you're on this long list of

(49:05):
Hollywood a holes that I can't understand, I am. I'm
already prejudiced against your product, and I don't want to
be because like I used to not have a problem
watching things that where people who were just obnoxious, you know,
wokes Goolds were in I could I could divorce myself

(49:26):
with that mentally to go ahead and watch it, but
like I don't have now I can't. Like, there's a
piece of news I saw this morning and immediately I
kind of took my own temperature for wanting to see
the So they're making another Lord of the Rings movie,
at least one, probably more, And I like Lord of

(49:47):
the Ring. I know it's not Ross's thing, but I
like Lord of the Rings. I haven't liked the Hobbit.
I think the Hobbit's fine. The series there I own,
you know, both series of movies. I can rewatch them.
I rewatched one of the Lord of the Rings Return
of the King here not that long ago. But now
that I find out who is who has been hired

(50:08):
to write the new movie, I have zero interest in
seeing it. Stephen Colbert, which I don't even understand that.
I mean, I guess you'd probably right, but like, is
he is he some like deep hobbit nerd that I'm
unaware of?

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Yeah, I know he is okay, like like like a
super I knew the Star Wars thing.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
I didn't know the Hobbit thing. So and like, who knows,
maybe he'll turn out a movie that's fine, But the
problem is in my mind now I don't care and
and I hate that because I did care because I
you know, we had heard that they were going to
make another Lord of the Rings movie, and I was
following it. I'm like, what is Peter Jackson going to

(50:49):
be involved? What's going on here? And I was genuinely excited,
even though Amazon did butcher some other Tolkien stuff whatever,
you know, I thought maybe they pull together in a movie.
Now that I know that Stephen Colbert is in there,
even if he writes a masterpiece, like me, my subconscious
just doesn't care. I don't want to see it. Yeah,

(51:09):
And here's the thing I think he would. I think
that Stephen Colbert, this isn't a joke. I think if
he writes this thing, he will shoehorn in a character
who will be an authoritarian king. It may not be,
it may not be a very important character the overall storyline,
but he'll he'll write some character that's clearly meant to

(51:32):
mock Trump completely.

Speaker 7 (51:34):
It's it.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
It would be an impossibility for him not to.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
It gonna be like the king whose mind was taken
over in the actual Lord of the ringsmen. There's two
of them. But yeah, like I think that he'll write
in some character and it's it's supposed to be some
meta joke and it's and it's a shot at Trump.
And at that point I'm just out. I'm out before
it even happens. And then we have to have the
Ross brought this up off there that we have to

(51:58):
have the Orc debate, and I just Ya've already.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Done it with the Orcs right where they're like, oh,
we're going to humanize the Orcs and the orcs and go.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
They did that on the TV and the Primes here right.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
But where the Orcs were originally supposed to symbolize the pure,
evily evil.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
No, they it symbolizes Africa, got people, African Americans or
something like that. Was that was like, oh, you may
it' it's a shot at black people. And I'm like, dude,
if you're the one that looks at Orcs and goes, hey,
look at those black people, that sounds like a you problem.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
That's the problem with all this modern day media where
these people get involved like Stephen Colbert, and they can't
separate their politics and they have to pull iticize absolutely
everything and it has to be leaning towards their agenda.
It is a physical impossibility for that man both physically
and mentally not to do that.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Yeah, yeah, he can't help he can't help himself. His
whole going They're calling it the angry going away to
her like these the series of shows this year, and
he it is full court press. I saw a little
little clip round up of it. He's all in to
the point where one of the more liberal I think
it was one of the writers for La Times, which clearly,

(53:04):
you know, clearly that's gonna be a moon back. Your
reviewer there was saying that it was off putting. He's angry.
You're right, he's angry. He can't help himself. You might
as well get Jimmy Kimmel to co write this.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
Yeah, no, exactly, And you're right when it comes to
you know, listen, I don't like Lord of the Rings.
It's nothing personal. I respect it for what it is.
I understand how popular it is. I know that I
am not in the majority. I've tried watching it. I
fall asleep every single time. I can't explain why. But
I have the utmost respect, just as I do for C. S.
Lewis for Tolkien. Right, but let's go at like something

(53:37):
I do like Harry Potter, Right, so say suddenly they
were like, Mark Ruffalo is going to be directing and
writing the new Harry Potter. Even before it comes out,
I'm out, I'm checked out and not gonna watch it
because you know what it's going to be.

Speaker 1 (53:51):
Yeah, yeah, And I think that's I think that's what
drives the subconscious on there. Here's here's and it can
change too. I'll tell you who now, I have no
appetite see anything. He's in is John Boyega. Right, So
if you don't remember John Boyega was, he was Finn
in the new Star Wars series. Yeah, when he saw

(54:11):
the first movie, a lot of people assumed he was
going to be the protagonist, right, he was. He's the
black guy who was the Stormtrooper and came out and
when you saw that first movie, you're like, oh, okay,
or it was gonna be like dual protagonists, him and
him and Ridley.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
In the in the Theater of the foss awakens when
Finn gets the lightsaber and turns it on and it
goes goes up the side of you know this, the
PA Filer has said, I cannot explain to you how
the crowd erupted.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
Yes, everybody wanted Finn to be the dude. They wanted
him to be the guy. And now every he just
he did a thing the other day. Every time he
talks about it, he claims that it's all racism, and no,
it was. It was. Well, I mean, arguably, I guess
you could argue that maybe from a China perspective, it
might have been because remember the movie Posters or they
like basically eliminated him again in China. But in reality

(55:03):
he's like he thinks it's some deep white supremacy conspiratorial thing. No,
it was the thing that hampered all three of those
movies really poor uh planning and writing, and you know
it was he got.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
It wasn't white supremacy that replaced him or got made
his character less. It was it was Kathleen Kennedy and
the Mary Sue and the girl Boss thing. Yeah that's
what it was.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
Yeah. So but like he is, he's just I saw
this other he was talking about something on social media
the other day. He's just going on this big ramp
for it. I'm like, I'm just done with you, man,
because I wanted you to win. I wanted you to
be the guy or again half the guy. Right, go
ahead and have the two main protagonists. And you know,
and then he could plug in the standard will day

(55:49):
or won't they, which is a hallmark of damn near
every piece of entertainment in modern history. Uh, you know,
every sitcom has a will day or won't they? Think
about it. Think about any sitcom whether it's not a
will there or won't they? And that basically means you
have two characters, are they gonna hook up or not? Right?
That is that is a pervasive plot point. And they
could have had that in the Star Wars. They chose

(56:11):
not to. But yeah, it's not. It's not some conspiracy, bro.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
Yeah, imagine if he did and some different timeline he
did end up being the dude he was the Jedi, right,
And imagine Ray turned out once again to be related
to Palpatine and in the end they had to battle
each other, right there.

Speaker 1 (56:25):
That would be kind of cool. That would have been
kind of cool. I agree with you. I and and
and remember, especially when you get into the latter movies.
Remember we talked about the amount of time, like they
had to like reshoot so much of these movies because
they kept showing him to audiences and they were like, no, no,
this is not good. And yet they never entertained these

(56:47):
uh would seem like very obvious things you could have done.
All right anyway, sorry, So, yes, Stephen Colbert is going
to ruin Lord of the Rings. There you go. And
I hate that. I hate that for me and other
fans and and all. So I how do people not
see what's going on with Colbert right now? And why
would you attach yourself to that? But I guess when

(57:08):
you're in the bubble that is Hollywood, you just you
do what you do. All right, let's do this, is
he all right, let's got'll grabory stage. Let's go and
do that. A man, how was going? Man?

Speaker 6 (57:23):
Nah?

Speaker 7 (57:24):
You know Wednesday? We're almost there.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
Yeah, A mo're pollen paluzer too appreciate it? Is it
bad in Atlanta? Bad down there?

Speaker 6 (57:31):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (57:31):
Yeah it is.

Speaker 6 (57:33):
I am one of the fortunate ones. However that I
I really am not impacted. I could go out.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
Yeah, physically it doesn't do anything to me. But it's still.

Speaker 7 (57:41):
Grice every day it is. It is the cars dirty
and makes it look gross.

Speaker 6 (57:46):
And yeah, you're kind of kind of blowing a leaf
blowing or grass blowing with the blower.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
My first spring in Atlanta, I was so confused by
the pollen. But I was overwhelmed. I'm like, I don't
understand what's happening right now, like the like the amount,
like the thickness on the cars and everywhere, Like is
this normal? It was really weird When I was a kid.

Speaker 7 (58:06):
Yeah, yeah, I don't understand.

Speaker 6 (58:09):
Like like an upstate New York, I don't remember there
being pollen.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
No it no, yeah, And it's and it's a particular
type of pine tree. Like I grew up surrounded by
pines and wyoming, right and that never happens. So imagine
my shock when I got to North Carolina and I'm like,
what that.

Speaker 6 (58:26):
It's pretty gross, it is, But I know people that
just it destroys them, So, you know, unfortunately, and.

Speaker 7 (58:33):
There's not much to really help us out a lot.

Speaker 6 (58:38):
Now, Friday's changed a little bit from what we were
thinking yesterday. We might be a little sooner on the
timing of the showers, maybe even a thundershower now with
a front coming in, but don't expect a lot of widespread,
heavier rainfall, maybe a couple of tents of an inch.
If you get a thunderstorm, you may see a little
bit more. Some clouds around this morning it is a
little chillier than we've been, and as we get into

(59:01):
the afternoon we should we should see more sunshine, little
mid sixties, mid upper seventies tomorrow and mostly sunny.

Speaker 7 (59:07):
So those two days won't help. It's Friday afternoon, it's
Friday evening. We'll get that threat for a few showers, thunderstorms.
Very warm Friday as we go back into the low
mid eighties, have already been there at least once or
twice this month. And then as we get into the weekend,
it is cooler with highs upper fifties, low sixties, and
overnight lows are going to get back down I think,
especially by Sunday morning, into the thirties, maybe even the

(59:31):
low thirties in some spots. And I don't know if
I was seeing things now, I wasn't. I saw like
an advisory this morning. Earlier there was like a frost
advisory just to the east of.

Speaker 6 (59:44):
The triangle and that's now gone away, but it was chilly.
There are some numbers this morning that are down there
close to thirty thirty degrees to the northeast a wake
forest right now at thirty one. So it's been chilly
even out of the tryat Mcleansville. Thirty degrees right now,
so a little bit colder start, but milder weather than
chillier again, not a bunch of rain over the next

(01:00:05):
several days.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
Okay, all right, appreciate it, sir. We'll chat the next hour.
All right. Oh and will I got destrided by the
Colbert things, so I will get you the Pooka Nakoua story.
We'll do that. And of course coming up eighth five.
Apparently this goes back. This is New Year's Eve, by
the way, reportedly when this happened, so December thirty one,
twenty A woman has now filed a restraining order and

(01:00:28):
a complaint against Nikua over a New Year's Eve incident
in Los Angeles. So it sounds like Nikua had imbibed,
was pretty hammered, not using that as an excuse, but
just to kind of set the scene. So according to
the woman. In fact, let me give you the excuse

(01:00:48):
me the chain of events here. The woman said that
she met Nicula and I guess some other players and
his entourage or whatever met Nikoua at a New Year's
Eve dinner in Century City, at which point they she
then she and a friend then accompanied Nikua and some

(01:01:09):
of his friends I guess to go over to another bar,
another party. So they hop in a van, and so
it's what happened in the van that is the point
of this story. According to the woman, Nicoua was extremely
touchy and he then started biting the two women. So
he bit her friend lightly, but when he bit the

(01:01:31):
woman who fouled complaint, it was substantial enough that he
literally broke skin, but also left pretty deep impressions in
teeth marks, which I guess they have photos of. She
had a cataloged while screaming f all the Jews. So yeah,
now here's the thing I always take, and I'm sorry,

(01:01:52):
it's just the way it is. I take any big
allegation against a sports player in a situation like that,
I'll have a little grain of salt there, because like
there's clearly been stories over the years where it was
either something was being exaggerated or it was a shakedown.
I don't know that this is it, And I'd say,
if you have teeth marks, which are things that people

(01:02:14):
can compare, that's kind of that's kind of a pretty
good piece of evidence there, right, because law enforcement will
use they have used teeth marks, in fact, in some
pretty high profile cases. Right Ted Bundy, right Ross was
spitting this off earlier. So I don't know, man, but
like you're an NFL player, I know you're drunk and

(01:02:37):
you're like, how remember when mel Gibson got in trouble
and like it actually like it changed the trajectory of
his career. I mean the problem was if you if
you hated mel Gibson, this guy had a lot of
money and so he could sell finance the movies and
then there were big hits and then all of that.
So I don't know how the NFL deals with this,

(01:02:59):
but uh, yeah, if you got bite marks. Now, by
the way, Nikua's for his for his people, they deny this,
but yeah, man, a crazy story. And speaking of crazy stories,
before we talk to the congressman, you know, we got
to go to our favorite state, right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:23):
Florida men.

Speaker 3 (01:03:24):
Florida men, just something in the water, they errors hand
that makes you do all that crazy crap. It's like
the state is wanna be dumb ass trapped. Nowhere else
has the Florida.

Speaker 7 (01:03:34):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:03:36):
It is almost like as the weird factor climbs that
you find out it haven't in Florida every time.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
Florida men, Florida.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
Man, if anyone can jeer me of you know, you
can just mind life be crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
But of course, but it's not.

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
It's bad crap crazy as yours. Nowhere else are you
gonna find him. They're so used to it they don't mind.

Speaker 7 (01:04:00):
Hooray for Florida.

Speaker 1 (01:04:02):
There and the lucky locale is Tampa, Florida, where a
man was pulled over after multiple reports came into nine
to one one that an individual was driving a truck
around with missiles mounted on the back of it, probably
not getting tailgated, I might add, yeah, so so the

(01:04:25):
Florida man in question, the rocketman in question, was eventually
pulled over by state troopers near Plant City as he
was departing out of Tampa. There, and there's a picture
of these things. Russ gonna tweet the article out so
you can look at him. And it's like a blue
pickup truck, super military stuff too. They got all the

(01:04:45):
US Air Force, retired proud Navy grandparent marine dad, you know,
all the stickers in the back window, but in the
bed of the truck and the size of a bed
of a truck. So you like six feet you have
what looked like two missiles, except they're not missiles, all right,
So the state patrol pulls them over. They're actually PVC

(01:05:06):
and even the rack they're mounted on his PVC. But
the guy wasn't just driving them around to alarm people.
He was, according to the reports, he was taking them somewhere.
He was hauling them after they were set to be
used as a display at an event. It doesn't say
what event it was. I don't know, maybe a gun
show or something. Hey, what else would you need fake
missiles for? But they're not real missiles. But yeah, here's

(01:05:29):
the thing, ross, wouldn't you cover them with the tarp
because you have to know somebody's car.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
I'm more of like an open carry guy. So for
your missiles, yeah, you open carry missiles.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
I mean if I were going to yeah, okay, but
shall not be infringed? Right, shall not be?

Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
And happy Wednesday everybody as you swim through Paul in Hell.
All right, it is that Wednesday though. When we chat
with Congressman Brad Nott, who joins us this morning, how
you doing, sir, Hey.

Speaker 4 (01:06:01):
Good morning, Casey. I'm doing well and I hope you are.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
Uh yeah, are you you're up in d C? I
suppose I am. I am you You guys, have you
got a little vac coming up? I was seeing what
end of this week for like what we will have?

Speaker 4 (01:06:15):
Uh, well, I'm going to be I'm going to be
in d C through Friday. I'll get back to North
Carolina on Tuesday. I'll be in in district all the
way through next week, and I'll be back up to
DC the following week.

Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
Okay, so it's it's the Senate that has ten days break.
I just want to make sure I have this.

Speaker 4 (01:06:33):
Yeah, I think it might be the Senate, but uh,
I've heard rumors. I hope, I hope it's correct that
they're they're leaning on canceling their their Easter break to
try to get these bills through.

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
Yeah. Yeah, you guys should do that, because that was
sky great. That was going to be my suggestion. And
again I'm not picking on you necessarily individually, but just
the height of absurdity, the height of absurdity that we're
still doing this thing I saw I got. I'm flying
around Easter. I'm terrified to have to go. Although I've
been getting spy reports from our listeners who you know,

(01:07:08):
we got a lot of listeners who do a lot
of travel for work out of Raleigh in Greensboro, and
they have they have communicated to me that last week
versus this week has been very different at airports. Apparently
the ICE thing has has helped, so that that's good.
But like if you guys take off for ten days

(01:07:28):
and this thing's still broken, I don't I don't even
know what we're doing, So explain to me where we're at.
And and the gamesmanship is the Democrats have agreed to
do a standalone TSA bill, right, That's what Schumer was pimping.
You guys want to do the entirety of DHS because
ICE is already funded. So this is still the same standoff.

(01:07:51):
Do we have movement? Because I don't know that I
could look at TSA person in the face right now.
It feels so bad for them.

Speaker 4 (01:07:58):
So this is just the most recent iteration of defunding
the police. That's first and foremost. This is an effort
to leverage pain on American citizens to prohibit any immigration enforcement.
You hit the nail on the head, casey when you
said that ICE has already been funded. We have already

(01:08:19):
appropriated dollars to them, and the Democrats have refused to
take up House legislation which has passed the House three
times now that funds the Department of Homeland Security fully.
They refuse to take it up, and their bartering ship
is to say, we will not open up the TSA

(01:08:42):
Coast Guard diversecurity profession. We won't open up any of
those of those areas until you agree to remove money
from ICE and specifically with the TSA bill, they offer
to remove funding from defortationed allocations. It's discussing they are

(01:09:03):
fighting this battle to keep illegal immigrants inside the United States.
The media is not giving it a fair report. Again
to House, Republicans with a two seat majority, have passed
three bills to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security.
The Senate gets it. Every Republican is for the clean

(01:09:24):
House bill, but the Democrats filibuster and they play gimmicks.
Will pass TSA if you defund deportations. So it's an
unbelievable predicament. And again it's defunding the police. They want
zero immigration enforcement and they're willing to go to the
mat over it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:44):
I saw that Delta Airlines announced that they would suspend
special services for members of Congress. I think there's a
lot of people don't realize this is a thing. I'm
not of the opinion that should be a thing. I
think that members shouldn't. You guys should stand in lines.
You should suffer the consequences of your decisions and reap
the benefits of your decisions. Right, I agree? So, like

(01:10:06):
what it's worth?

Speaker 4 (01:10:07):
I don't you what?

Speaker 1 (01:10:10):
What is it? Really? Explain this to it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:13):
I know that I know that some members I don't
want to say names, but some members are I've.

Speaker 1 (01:10:19):
Seen in others. I've seen them. I've been in I've
been out of Reagan, and I've watched this happen with
members of Congress that I know when I get in line.

Speaker 4 (01:10:28):
When I get in line, Casey, I have usually a
coat and a button down, no tie, no congressional pen.
Sometimes even a hat and sunglasses. I try to blend
in sure, I listened to a podcast, I'm doing whatever.
There are other people who want to full on security detail.
They want an entourage, they want to be escorted to
their gate, and uh, that's not for me. It's it's

(01:10:51):
more the taste of some other people. And I will
say this there are probably ten members or so. I'm
thinking about Randy Fine, for instance, out of Florida. He
has real security issues. Uh, he has. He has numerous
threats that he does not advertise often. Right, I have
zero problem with him getting an escort. But people looking
just to cut and lines to uh to be you know,

(01:11:14):
quote quote prominent, that's that's that's bad taste.

Speaker 1 (01:11:17):
Yeah, what one is what is in your caucus there?
And she may or may not be running for governor
of the state who threw an absolute hissy fit over this,
and her name might be nance And I think people
see that and they did with what's going on right now,
and it's just another thing where they're like, these people
are so out of touch, man.

Speaker 4 (01:11:34):
It's very much so. Yep, that was bad taste, bad form.
And uh, even when the airlines are running properly, most
members who utilize that abuse it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
Yeah, there's we get. We can do a whole show
just on stuff I've learned over the years that uh,
a little carve outs and specials. But I just think
on those point right now, on what's going on here,
and uh, well, as you mentioned, members of the Coast Guard,
members of t say and various others. Did you see
what happened after the plane collided with the fire truck

(01:12:05):
up at Laguardi on Monday with the director of the
NTSB was talking about I did not.

Speaker 4 (01:12:11):
I did not, So.

Speaker 1 (01:12:14):
Yeah, no, horrible accident. But the NTSB shows up and
they were stuck in the TSA security line for three
hours because they couldn't call in one at DHS to
fast track them. These are the people that were sent
to investigate the deaths that just happened, and they were
stuck in a security line. According to the NTSB director,
I can't remember her name.

Speaker 4 (01:12:34):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:36):
So, so that's one side of the coin, right clearly.
The other ones the Save thing, the Save Act, I
know you guys have have voted for that as well. This,
you know, the Tom foolery, if you will, seems to
be happening in the Senate. Are we moving even any
any closer to that or is this just a performative
thing that's going on.

Speaker 4 (01:12:57):
I think that there there's a real appetite in the
Republican Party. Again, We've got a two seat majority in
the House, we have basically a three seat majority in
the Senate, and eighty percent of the country, give or take,
wants some form of this bill passed. And the Democrats
they feel it, Casey, when I say they feel it,
they are doing everything they can to distract the public

(01:13:21):
from what's actually going on. And what do I mean
by what's actually going on. I'm sure you've heard the
story that happened in Chicago, Sheridan Gorman. The student was
truly chased down and murdered because she and her friends
were in the quote quote wrong place, wrong time, where
an illegal alien who was released by Joe Biden was

(01:13:42):
under a bridge. He had been arrested, he didn't show
up to his court date, and he was enjoying the
sanctuary status that Governor Pritzker has mandated for his state
of Illinois, shot in the back a nineteen year old girl.
That's thirty five to forty percent of the jurisdictions in
the United States, all controlled by Democrats, all controlled by
the far left of the party. And the Democrats know

(01:14:06):
that if the American people can refocus on just how
absurd their policies are as it relates to illegal immigration,
they're in for another wipeout. So they are distracting as
it relates to the say back, they're distracting as it
relates to the Department of Homeland Security, and they're caught
in a real bind because their base truly wants more

(01:14:27):
illegal immigration. They need it for their party's survival, they
need it for their voters, they need it for their
their NGOs. And so right now the Democrats are just
blowing up things metaphorically of course, to distract from the
narrative at hand. And unfortunately they're quite effective. And when
you have the megaphone of the mainstream media amplifying this

(01:14:49):
nonsense like this is Jim Crow two point zero, it's
just it's very confusing, it's very disruptive, and it puts
us in a bind. But I can just tell you
this continued pressure is our only option. And I think
that with the right pressure, with the right drum beat,
I think that there's a chance we can get this

(01:15:11):
thing passed.

Speaker 1 (01:15:12):
King Jeffries and I saw him yesterday. He wouldn't even
say that he thinks that that the person who is
suspected of shooting the Scleola student should be deported. He wouldn't.
He couldn't even bring himself to say that the guy
should be deported.

Speaker 4 (01:15:27):
So they goes against their orthodoxy. I mean truly, Casey.
We know that hundreds of billions of dollars over the
last four years were stolen because of illegal immigrants. We
know that there are tens of millions of illegal immigrants
inside the country. And now we know without any hesitation
that whether it's congressional apportionment or few future voting blocks,

(01:15:48):
that the illegal immigration caucus is a main pillar of
the Democratic Party and is as much as the American
citizens can really dig in and haul old fast. That
is the issue of our time. Are we going to
have a country or are we not? And if we
let anybody who so wishes come into our country and

(01:16:10):
steal and take and murder without they have made illegal
immigrants a protected class. They're treated better than American citizens.
And if we can't fix this, we lose the country.

Speaker 1 (01:16:22):
Yeah, So why does it feel like the White House,
or at least the administration is now not as aggressive
with the immigration stuff. A lot of people are theorizing
that it's the numbers thing Trump feats. Its distracting, and
so they're not prioritizing it. Because I think there's people
who are like, why am I not seeing this at
the pace that I was seeing it. You can you
shed any insight on that because it feels that way.

(01:16:45):
But maybe it's because of the funding stuff. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:16:47):
Well, part of it is the funding. I mean the department,
if i'd want secure, like, they are having to send
some ICE agents back to the airport. They're having to
reallocate to deal with the mess that the shutdown is causing.
But I will say this, there was a very real
about face given how Christy nom the former secretary, and
some of the agents exercise their discretion in Minneapolis and Minnesota,

(01:17:12):
and and what I'll say is this, those agents, as
far as I can tell, acting within the appropriate bounds. However,
the President realized that its sentiment changes on the issue,
we take several steps back, and so Tom Homan has
gone in there and he's amended the strategy. They are
still for mass deportations. They are still for dealing with

(01:17:32):
this this problem. It is an unbelievably large problem and
it has to be tackled. So I think going about
it in a little bit more of a quiet way
while still being aggressive is where the administration is and
going after the sanctuary jurisdiction is going after the places
where there are the most illegal immigrants, you know, the

(01:17:52):
Illinois to California's, the New York's, etc. That's sort of
where the focus is and trying to keep it as
quiet as possible but still may painting the the aggressiveness.
That's the that's the strategy at hand. I mean, Christy
Nunn would show up with with a thousand cameras in
tow that's what you want to be about the job.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
Yeah, it wasn't a good look. Here is this funny
to me that you mentioned something's being done quietly and
then you invoked Tom Holman's name, like Tom Holmes. Tom
Holman is a hoop by the way. So I when
I hear the radio Rowse when he was, you know,
just out of the Trump administration the first time, he
was always there. And yeah, I've sat there for literally
hours with the dude, just talking to him at that

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Irish bar that's in the Phoenix Park Hotel.

Speaker 7 (01:18:36):
There is where we do it, yep.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
And I never used the word quiet. I would never
use the word quiet to describe Tom Holman.

Speaker 4 (01:18:42):
But well, I'll say this, he does the job without
looking for publicity. He'll talk to the media, but he
does the job, and that's what the president is about.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
He's got some wild stories too, all Right, I gotta pivot.
I gotta pivot over to uh a couple of Oh
just real quick, one other thing on the TSA, because
I see people who are then re wondering whether government
running airport security is a good idea. Where do you
fall on that? Well, you know, why not turn it
over the airlines so we can't play these games or

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we just start ASA forever.

Speaker 4 (01:19:16):
I'm the I'm of the mindset casey that there are
very few things outside of the military, law enforcement, and
courts that the government can do as well as the
private sector. And you look at how how politicized the
TSA has become. I think there's a very real case
to be made to at least discuss if the airlines
can monitor their own security, why shouldn't the government be

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able to inspect those security protocols to make sure they
meet muster and then hand it over to the airlines.
It's not rocket science, and I think there's a lot.
I think there's that is a very interesting discussion to
be had.

Speaker 1 (01:19:50):
Well in the bar can't be that, Hi, I'm sure
you've seen the stories where they test, they tested, and
like the failure rate at some of the TSA checkpoints
was in the ninety percentile. Right, yeah, no where to
go but up? And again this is not me attacking
TSA agents because a lot of them would probably be
able to transition model. Yeah yeah, yeah they could transition over.
So but you don't have all the federal benefits. All right,

(01:20:14):
on the Iran thing, real quick? So Trump comes out.
The stock futures on Monday were down three fifty and
then they were up a thousand because Trump tweeted, hey,
we've had a couple of good days of negotiations. And
then some other element of what I guess is the
Iranian government would come out and be like, no, that's
not true. Yesterday's same thing. He sent the fifteen things

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he wants. And then the rebuttal comes from a lesser general.
Do we even know who's running? Is there multiple factions
who think they're in charge over in Iran? Because that's
the vibe I'm getting.

Speaker 4 (01:20:50):
Well, several things are true at one time. First and foremost,
there's absolutely discussions with the newly ushered in senior class
of leadership in Iran. They have been pummeled. They have
been absolutely disorganized. They've been punched in the mouth, and
what they're doing, they're talking out of both sides of

(01:21:10):
their mouth. They want to save face, but they also
want to save their own life. And the President, the
President is correct. No one wants a protracted conflict. No
one wants Americans over there, but no one wants Iran's
regime to have nuclear weapons to use for themselves or
for our adversaries. And the President has hit them very hard,

(01:21:31):
and he is again giving them a chance to off
ramp peacefully, just like he did with Maduro. But more
so than Americans realize, our adversaries in the form of
China and Russia were behind Iran. We're behind Venezuela for
very aggressive short term goals and to the nation's benefit,

(01:21:52):
we have a president that said not under my watch.
And my hope is that the Iranians will realize that
if they want a long fight, we'll give it to them,
but they're gonna lose, and hopefully they'll choose to get
out of it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:04):
All right, Cottrison, I gotta leave it there, so we'll
talk soon. And again, I hope you guys get your
stuff done before you go on vac because I think
the media will feast upon that. Have a good rest
of your day, okay, and we will beat So Senator
berger Is has conceded the Senate race to the challenger

(01:22:26):
Sheriff Sam Page there, so that will be a transition.
I don't like when I'm reading though in this article
from R. E. L. And look, I hadn't already, you know,
It's not like I didn't speculate on this, but I
just I want to put people on notice here because
like this is the crap that irritates people to the

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tenth power and and that is people who are upset
that Page unseated Burgers. So now there's the possibility. Now
this is just speculation, but we've seen this stuff happen
both at the North Carolina level and at the federal level,
where people within the party because you unseated somebody who

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was you know, had been there as long. You know,
Burger Berger had had the top Republican position in the
Senate even before the GOP took power, right because he
was the minority leader prior to that and then became
the majority leader. And as we've talked about, it's it
was a very powerful position, especially with the numbers they
had where they had, you know, they could overwrite vetos.

(01:23:32):
Essentially it was Burger and uh you know, it was
the House leader and the Senate leader basically run in
the state of North Carolina. They were the ones who
could get the legislation through that they needed and they
picked and choosed. Well, now Burger's gone, and uh so
if if leadership decides that they want to somehow punish Page,

(01:23:55):
who clearly the people in the district won in there,
I'll burn you down figuratively on the show of course,
like I have no, I don't have an ounce of
patients for this crap. And again this is speculation. I
don't know what's gonna happen, but this is who the
people wanted to send up there. So if like you

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don't give him committees or some of you know, some
of the other punishments that we've seen in the past,
which are internal party punishments, just because he had the audacity.
And remember one of the one of the very powerful
people is is Gaily, uh you know, represents the triad
there who if you remember when Paige said he was
gonna run against Burger, showed up at Paige's house to

(01:24:40):
try to like, I don't know, talk him out of
it or whatever, but just unannounced showed up at his
house and uh so, I look, I don't know who's
going to be the new Senate majority leader. There's you know,
there's there's names that are floating around out there. Page
will probably win the seat. It's just the nature of
the district unless something crazy comes out. But you know,

(01:25:01):
Amy Gaily is the she's the majority whip, so she's
already in a power position. So her name's floating around
out there. There's others, but let me, let me, let
me read this. Let's see here. If Page reaches Raleigh
after the November election, he might face hostility from his
fellow Senate Republicans. Berger has been one of the most

(01:25:22):
well connected, most effective lawmakers for more than a decade.
Who's this guy there? Quoting mcclennan, sorry, zipped down to
the bottom, So he's a floating head. What is his
first name? David mcclennan. Okay, Yeah, this is a professor
over at Meredith I think, I believe, so they tend
to go to him. So this is his speculation. I
just want to let you know. This is this is

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this is his speculation, I said McLennan. Burger has also
been one of the major drivers of fundraising for Republican
candidates up and down the ballots. And it's possible that
Berger's remaining allies could resent Page for defeating Burger. I'm sorry,
got your face. Nobody cares what you think. If I
listen to me, if you are a Senate Republican in

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the North Carolina Senate and and you want to be
all butt hurt in a whiny little B word and
and you know, clickish like it's high school screw, you
do your damn job. I got no patience for this.
I'm just again, I gotta get this out. I just
want it on there. And if I hear of any
of this or I read about any of this, you'll
be the focus of the show that day. Remember we

(01:26:29):
have We've launched many a treasure hunt to try to
find some of your cohorts, testicles, all sorts of fun
like we got fun ideas around here. But you're not
turning this to a high school thing. It's possible that
Burger's allies could resent Page for defeating Burger and tying
up caucus resources. And here's the other thing. For the GOP.

(01:26:51):
I don't want to hear you whine about any of this.
Up in Virginia. They're trying to jerry mander that whole state,
and they're spending that the people want to do it
or spending twelve million dollars in advertising and and outreach.
I saw that the Republicans spent one million. So I
don't even take I don't even take you seriously. And
in fact, some of you were in town or you know,

(01:27:12):
gathered up for the I think the Wake County GOP
Convention's going on. Rights Pressler was coming in to speak,
so I know some of you can hear me. We're
not doing this and this isn't. This isn't because you know, uh,
there's this is not me backing Page necessarily. I know
Page because we interviewed him here on the show and

(01:27:32):
he I did meet him in person up at the
radio row there. But I'd be saying this for anybody
coming in because of the nature of the type of
election that just happened there, most powerful, most powerful political
person in the state of North Carolina got unseated in
a primary, and so if any retaliation is on your
mind and not, hey, maybe we should figure out how

(01:27:53):
that happened. Maybe we're doing something wrong. You're definitely going
in the wrong direction. In November, Republican State Senate majority whip.
Here we go, Amy Gaily said in a letter to Page,
there will not be enough money left over he keep
the super majority of Page ran against Burger. Well, then
maybe Burger shouldn't have irritated half of his constituency plus

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twenty three. Maybe that's the issue. Politics are very personal,
so it may not be overt retribution, but there could
be some kind of behind the scenes things that happened,
speculated McLennan. The next Senate leader could exclude Page from
meetings and Senate committees. This is what I'm talking about.

(01:28:36):
This is you know you do this and and anyone
partaking should be primaried. They don't have time for this.
There's two there's too many really important things going on,
too many really importantly and you guys haven't even done
a budget. I hate to sell like Josh Stein here
because he wants his own special budget, but you haven't
even done a regular budget, and you haven't done constitutional carry.

(01:28:58):
And I'm telling you, if the whoever the Senate Majority
leader is going to be and you are this is
not a priority to you, then I hope you lose
your next election. This is another one of those things
that I just don't understand how you can't get this
through much like the Save Act up there, and arguably
the Save Act has a higher uh you know, cross

(01:29:21):
across approval rating, through across the political divide. Uh. Now,
will Berger throw his support? That's his right, he can
go ahead and do that. I'm I'm sure that those
conversations are going on. But uh, you're not going to
get new blood up there because your your buddy got
primaried and and and screw with them, because what you're
doing is you're not screwing necessarily just with the candidate.

(01:29:43):
You're screwing with the residents of Rockingham County and parts
of Alamance County who decided this is who they want
to rep them. And if you if you don't let
him just be a senator up there, then those are
the people you're attacking. And maybe you don't care about
those people because they're not in your district, and who
are you to tell me? But I don't like the
way that this is getting set up. I hope this

(01:30:04):
is the fever dream of a political professor who's quoted
in here. But we've seen this happen. We've seen where
they go extramunicado on people, even you know, because of
something that happened in a political race that has nothing
to do with the politics or what you're trying to accomplish,
And it's just some of the most childish behavior. Now

(01:30:26):
you know, who who could be the majority leader? I
think a lot of people are looking at Ralph Heist,
the Heiser HEISEI can I remember who's what Mitchell County?
And then the guy down in Wilming to Michael Lee.
I've heard his name floated, So we got options. But yeah,
the retaliation stuff, I don't think so, don't think so

(01:30:50):
at all. Don't have time for any of that. Do
you have time for the weather though? For a stage
is already could go courier?

Speaker 7 (01:30:58):
Hey much? What's going on?

Speaker 4 (01:31:00):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:31:00):
You know, just uh, just I'm spending I should be
working right now, but I'm spending all my time trying
to figure out, as the basketball kicks off again tomorrow,
how I want to waste money?

Speaker 7 (01:31:11):
So would you figure out?

Speaker 1 (01:31:14):
I figured out lines and I kind of like not
having and I know it's a lot of discussion. I
kind of I wish that there was some underdog still
in this thing. I guess Iowa you could kind of
see as an underdog, but like, yeah, aren't they better
tournaments when some thirteen seeds going into the elite eate kind.

Speaker 6 (01:31:32):
Of stuff there are? But I really took the approach
this year. I went with a lot of like just
single digit ranked teams. I didn't pick a lot of
no no.

Speaker 1 (01:31:41):
No, I just mean but within the tournament, because it's
always a fun extra storyline Maryland Baltimore County or whatever,
or the gun up in Chicago with Leola right right,
the great storylines from years past.

Speaker 7 (01:31:52):
We don't know they are. No, no, there's not, but
you know, yeah, you're probably right.

Speaker 6 (01:31:57):
Iowa was probably the probably the dark horse they're trying
to trying to sneak in. But hey, we'll see, right
And then yeah, I guess all that baseball today right
off today?

Speaker 1 (01:32:07):
Yeah, well at least.

Speaker 7 (01:32:08):
Tomorrow, so yeah, and then I don't know, maybe to
pass the time. I can only stand just a couple
of innings these day, and I believe it or not.

Speaker 6 (01:32:15):
Of all the sports I played, I probably played the
most baseball in my career, and it's the sport that
I watched the least. Now, if anybody's interested, it's just
it's just strange how all that kind of worked out
for me.

Speaker 1 (01:32:28):
But it is what it is.

Speaker 6 (01:32:29):
But I do a lot of weather, and yeah, right now,
it's a little chillier than we've been this morning. We're
seeing some low thirties actually even around the triangle, the
Triads a little mild. There's a little cloud deck that
came over Hell, temperatures up a little that's now moved
over a triangle now that's heading east toward Fayetteville Goldsborough,
so we should see more sun as the morning continues

(01:32:50):
to progress from west to east and into the afternoon.
Nice day, not really too bad at all. I could
have complain about some mid upper sixties this time Tomorrow,
midupper seventies, and by Friday we get into the eighties.
But that's threat for showers thunderstorms in the afternoon behind
our next coal front that'll knock us into the upper fifties,
low sixties over the weekend and it'll start taking the

(01:33:13):
all night lows back down into the thirties. I think
another morning coming up on Sunday morning where we'll see
some low and mid thirties before we get warm again
next week. Because so kind of the ups and downs
of March looks like that's the way we're going to
wrap up the month, the next one to the ear five, six, seven.

Speaker 7 (01:33:27):
Days, whatever it is the rest of the month.

Speaker 1 (01:33:29):
Let's leave it to day I guess.

Speaker 7 (01:33:31):
Yeah, it's amazing. Let's go fast man.

Speaker 1 (01:33:33):
Okay, well, I appreciate it. We'll check out tomorrow. Okay,
there you go, racet Agic from the Weather Channel and
we'll be right back with Bloomberg News. Denise Pelgreeny, Denise,
what's going on today?

Speaker 8 (01:33:43):
Yeah, we've got some bad news. Sorry to start out
that way, but we do have some bad news if
you're hoping for a hot spring home buying season. Mortgage
Bankers Association Casey says, US mortgage rates climb for the
third straight week. So now we're sitting at six point
four to three percent on the thirty year fixed, just
putting us further and further away from that magic rate
of under six percent that we briefly touched a few

(01:34:05):
weeks ago that is believed by agents and by economists
to be able to trigger a whole new wave of
home buying, and that's what a lot of people in
this business we're hoping for. Still not too late, but
we are pretty much through March right now. We should
see some contracts, so but home buying just cooling off
right now with those higher rates. Also, airlines prices may

(01:34:28):
have to go up. United Airlines Chief executive Scott Kirby
now says ticket prices could go up by twenty percent
at United as if jet fuel prices remain elevated for longer.
They are lower this morning, but what happens tomorrow is
certainly in dat. Eli Moore on that in a minute.
Tomorrow's a big day for sneakerheads. It's Nike Airmax Day.

(01:34:49):
That's the day they release all their new models. We're
going to get a new Nike air Liquid Max, Women's Airmax,
and the Airmax ninety five. They'll be available on Nike
sneakers website tomorrow. You know, it was thirty nine years ago, Casey,
that the original Nike Airmax one came out. As for now,
stock futures right now, they're higher, They've been higher all morning.

(01:35:13):
There's just some debate about these talks between the US
and Iran and whether or not they're really on. Iran
did say today it does not accept a ceasefire, says
US talks are logical. That's according to FARS News Agency
officials also telling Fars that Iran says the US stepped
up efforts to secure a cease fire, but they're not interested.
So investors kind of ignoring that, hoping that maybe behind

(01:35:36):
all that that that's maybe bluster and maybe there are
some talks. Stop futures up three ninety six s and
P futures up fifty three, Nasdaq futures surging two thirty four,
and Casey, I don't know, are you a big pickle lover?

Speaker 1 (01:35:49):
I mean, yeah, I like pickles. I don't go out
of my way to eat them, but I don't.

Speaker 8 (01:35:57):
Apparently there are yes fried Apparently there are a lot
of people who do go out of the way. Uh
KFC is offering this pickle burger okay, with pickle ranch dressing,
pickle loaded French fries, a Pepsi mac served with a
side of pickled juice. Right now. They're only doing that

(01:36:21):
in the UK, so if you really want it, you're
going to have to travel there. It could come here, though.
There are a lot of pickle partying people here in
the US too.

Speaker 1 (01:36:30):
Yeah, I'm out let the bridge have their food sucks anyway.

Speaker 8 (01:36:34):
I'm not a pickle fan at all, so.

Speaker 1 (01:36:37):
Alright, yeah, I'd appreciate it, Denise. We'll get tomorrow. There
you go, Denise HeLa GREENI from Bloomberg News Ross your
truck trap captured something. I don't think you're gonna like it, though.
What's the thing you would last you would least want
to see in a tractor trailer that is crashed guacamole? Eh? Yeah? Yeah,

(01:37:03):
semi full of tofu? Where'd this happen in Missouri? Let's
see here. No injuries, thankfully, But I don't even know
why I drove off the road here. But yeah, yeah,
apparently it's a truckload of tofu. So Nope, that's disgusting.
You can go ahead and keep that. And uh, I

(01:37:23):
just saw this story. Yeah, I got enough time to
share it with you. I don't know what the hell's
going on here? So and if this is driven by nil, right,
the the money's now for the college athletes, so apparently,
and they focus on Florida, Texas and Michigan in this story.
There is a growing trend of parents who are deciding to.

(01:37:45):
And they have a term for it called reclassifying, reclassing,
or bridge hearing. And what it is is if they
think their kid has some sports talent and is in
middle school, what they are doing is they are electing
to hold him back one grade so they can get
a little bigger, a little taller, a little stronger, so

(01:38:06):
that when they enter high school they're more competitive to
eventually end up on a D one school so they
can get paid. How embarrassing would that be if you're
a seventh grader and and it's not from an act
for academic reasons. I wonder if they hold anybody back nowadays,
but your parents like, nah, we're gonna you're gonna do
seventh grade again, and then you know, you get paid

(01:38:28):
when you eventually.

Speaker 2 (01:38:29):
Go to college.

Speaker 1 (01:38:30):
I would just be so embarrassed all your friends move
a grade ahead. But also just people, man, And this
isn't a new thing, as the article points out that
this is this is something that actually has a nickname
called a Texas red shirt because of the craze of
football there. It's something that has been happening in Texas
for a while now it's just spreading elsewhere.