Wednesday-6-11-2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm gonna I'm gonna share a version of this story
because I just I started laughing, just started laughing when
it was said to me, so good morning. And I
guess if you listen to the show, you probably realize
that next week I am, I'm headed to Ashville and
we're gonna be Now we're broadcasting on Ashville because we
have an iHeart location in Ashville, so it's not just

(00:23):
about Ashville, but it's about western North Carolina. And I
got this idea months ago where I said, you know what,
I'm talking to friends of mine, I'm talking to listeners,
I'm talking to different people, and one of their driving
concerns is they every year as a family, this time

(00:44):
of the year, right between Memorial Day and Labor Day,
which is official to a North Carolina vacation season, they
you know, they do a mountain trip, they go to
Banner Elk, or they go to Ashville, or they go
to a want to Noah or Grandfather or Sparta or

(01:04):
ash County or whatever it is. Right and following what
happened with Hurricane, you know, Hurricane Helen, are we going
to be able to do that this year? And that's
a debt. Look that's a death nail for people trying
to get back on their feet out there, whatever it is.

(01:25):
And so I said, I told our management. I said,
I'm going to go to Western North Carolina and I'm
going to broadcast a whole week out there. Right. That was?
That was It's literally my idea, right not. I don't
mean that in a smug way, but I just mean that,
like nobody within management knew that that was the thing

(01:50):
that I wanted to do. And they tend to let
Ross and I do most of the things that we
want to do because we do a good job for them,
and we'll leave it at that. So I'm setting all
this up. I'm getting it all ready, and on Saturday,
I have to go to iHeart Charlotte, right our our

(02:11):
radio cluster there, and then I am off to Asheville,
just because I got to pick up equipment and stuff
for the broadcast. But you don't need to know that,
all right. So I'm talking to somebody in Ashville yesterday
and I'm like, yeah, so i'll be up Saturday or
I'm gonna I'm gonna have dinner with some folks that

(02:31):
I know up there, and I'll be up Saturday. And
this is literally literally the statement that said, as you know,
my concern on Saturday is Randy Wayingarten's group. Yes, the
Teachers' Union lady has organized something called the No King,

(02:52):
No Kings something stupid whatever, right, And it's just that
I hate Trump rally and they're doing it like all
across the US a bunch of different cities. Now I
don't know what the turnout's going to be. I saw
some rallies yesterday where like five people showed up looking
at you downtown Raleigh, and so I don't know, but

(03:15):
like the thing that makes me go is that Charlotte
and Ashville and Raleigh and you know, the Triad are
all on this list. And the last thing that I
want to deal with when I'm just trying to get
to Ashville on Saturday is moonbats. Like I don't want

(03:36):
to deal with your crap. And so it was kind
of left unsaid. And somebody said to me yesterday and
I had to I had to not start laughing, was oh, yeah,
so when you come into town, just so you know,
they're having like a party downtown or something. So at

(03:58):
the hotel I'm staying at, which is the Hey at
Parks it's a very nice hotel right downtown. Uh, and
there there are sponsor for this uh, this event just
full disclosure. There is like right downtown. It's you know
where it is Ross It's it's the hotel I was
staying at when the giant homeless person attacked me with
their cigarette. It's literally that one. But they said, I

(04:20):
think there's a party downtown, and I'm just like, I
don't think that counts as a party. Have you seen
the party footage out of Los Angeles? Right, because you've
been dubbing in audio, you've seen some of that party
footage now you have seen tons of it. Yeah. Yeah,
it looks like a good party. So they're gonna have
like a big party downtown when you're there. Huh.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
I get maybe it's for me, I don't know, hippies
and masks with bear mace or something like, it's gonna
be a good time.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
How do you party? Do you not party with hippies
and masks with bear mace? I mean, I don't know,
I don't know. I just let's just start laughing. You
might want to bring like an actual mace. Oh that's
a good point. Yeah, what's it imbued with? Should I
go with cold acid, fire, holy on a mace. Let

(05:08):
me just tell you, man, Yeah, it's gonna like a
faith build Yeah yeah, yeah. So it's a party downtown. Uh,
which I here's the weird part. I'm actually excited. I like,
I dude, one of my favorite things ever was running
with the protesters, you know, like it's Pamploma and the bulls,

(05:30):
like because they're just such lunatics. Man. Well, and it's
crazy because you have like a personally, a perfectly reasonable
person and if it's too if it's out of control,
there will be the moment when the reasonable person meaning
like we have different political ideas whatever, where they where
they go the hell did I show up to? Because

(05:53):
they see they see the people around them acting like,
you know, criminals, lunatics. So super I don't want the
party in Charlotte because I just got to get in there,
grab what I need and you know, head head to Ashville.
So I don't want to deal with that. But like
ash Ashville party might be fun. I don't know. I mean,

(06:17):
it's not gonna be fun and that anyone's reasonable and
a lot of people just get very annoyed by it.
But like the stuff, they'll tell you is is wild,
although nowadays you have too many, too many people out
there try to trigger them for video, so I think
they're probably a little more hostile. But we'll see. I'll

(06:40):
report back to you. But it's not a party. It's
it's not a party. I'm just telling you.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
It's like so funny, like it's like a street festival
or like a fast market or something.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
You know, Oh yeah, go down. All they got to do.
They got all the breweries are going to be there.
It's a it's a you do tastings and stuff. Oh no,
it's and it's Asheville. So guaranteed some lunatics will roll out.
Now I can't decide if I want it to be
the younger I actually I know I can't decide. I
want it to be the younger lunatics, not the AARP

(07:16):
meeting that for whatever reason, these anti Trump protests have
turned into. But I will find out. We'll find out.
But that's next week, so just hold on for that.
You know what it is, you know what it is.
It's going to be exuberance, That's what it'll be. It'll be.
And I have to remember this, Nancy Pelosi schooled me.

(07:38):
In fact, let me let me have Nancy Pelosi school
all of you.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
When and I say this as a former party two,
when there is a gathering, a large gathering of people,
the anarchists see it as an opportunity and they move in.
So always have to be careful whether you see a
burned car or broken window or whatever it is. It
may be the exuberance of the moment, but it may

(08:03):
be the anarchist setting in. I heard one of the
former police chiefs of Los Angeles speak about this on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Ross have you have? Have you ever exhubed so hard
that your car caught fire? You know, I'm thinking about it.
I don't think so. You've never exubed? Is that hard?
I'm no, I don't think I have. Okay, maybe I'm
gonna try it hard enough. Yeah, well you're not partied enough.
I think that's that's what's going on here. So all right.
So Nancy Pelosi, who, by the way, you don't even

(08:36):
have to mess with her audio anymore to make her
sound like something's going on right. By the way, she
she made a trade yesterday, just killed it at the
stock market. I followed that Pelosi tracker. They have a
Pelosi investment Tracker account. You should follow that anyway. So, yeah,

(08:58):
it might be a crime, but it might just be
the exuberance of the moment. And if you exube too hard,
your car will burst into flames. Its gonna be a
lot of exuber inso Nashville, that's what I heard. Well,
and Charlotte and Raleigh and the Triad, Yeah, they're exhubing
all over the state. Man, you better be ready. And

(09:20):
as you know, a vehicle that is wrapped as a
media vehicle is not literally a target. So at least
you don't have Rush Limbaugh's big head on it. Well,
I don't know, because I'm gonna grab one of the
Charlotte vehicles and might drive that up because I need
a larger suv, And so I don't know how it's wrapped.

(09:41):
To be cross with you. It could be Rush Limbaugh's head.
And then I end up like you in the MLK
day parade over in Durham, harassing people who march with
the King. So, and for those who don't know this story,
or Ross and our former program director had our station
vehicle in the MLK eight parade over in Durham and

(10:03):
it didn't go. Well, Yeah, that was the old rap
that had like Rush Limba's big head on it. It was
the van. It wasn't even the suv with yeah, yeah, yeah,
it was. It was the van. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
I don't think and I think it was just Rush Limbaugh.
I don't think like it was Handedy or Beck or anything.
Maybe it was maybe they're like tying.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Or remember what we had on that. So but it
didn't matter at that point. The message is out there
and uh, you're driving or Brian's driving. No, I was driving,
and Brian was throwing candy out the window in people's faces.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah, it was like you said, the MLK Junior parade.
And so he's throwing candy out and it hits some
old guy right in the face, leg in the face,
and the crowd turns on the van and they were
already kind of like, you know, weird with the van anyway,
right right, yeah, you know, because the Originallymba's big head
is like being you know, driven down Durham whatever. So

(10:53):
it hits this old guy in the head and you
can just see like a switch in his head, you know,
and he just goes, I must wait the king and
they picked up their candy off the ground. And start
throwing it at the van in the side of the van.
It sounds like it's getting hit with hail.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
It's a poor gunshot.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Or yeah, Brian's just like go, go, go like that,
and he's like ducking under the window because the candy
starts flying into the van to hitting the van.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
And I hadn't done it. We just leave the parade. Yeah,
we got home celebrated enough. Mark, He's like, you're home early.
How'd it go? Yeah? Did you tell her about the party? Uh?

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yeah, there was so much exuberance at the time. Yeah,
I was overwhelmed.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
We had to leave it one more time. Nancy tell us.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
Again when and I say this as a former party chair,
when there is a gathering, a large gathering of people,
the anarchists see it as an opportunity and they move in.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
By the way, I will say this, that is that
might be one of the most that part right there
might be one of the most honest things I've ever
heard her say, because she's not inaccurate.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
I was thinking the same thing, and she actually sounds
pretty coherent compared to pass cuts, especially compared to like
what you're saying, like Maxim Waters yesterday at least Nancy Pelosi.
She seems like she's there.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Yeah, yeah, I'll give you that. In fact, put the
Maxine door slam audio up. I'll probably play that again.
So she's right, right, because looks as funny as it
is to go. You know, it's just a bunch of
criminals gathering. A lot of people come out there. They

(12:37):
don't have the intention of I don't know, threatening to
murder a woman with her babies. Well they throw bottles
at her like that's but you know, you get swept
up in the moment because the exuberance. And she's right,
you have a core group of people who utilize this

(12:58):
to carry out they're much more vibe form of protest
and for whatever reason, like trying to get a Democrat
to admit that has not been easy, so I will
give her credit for that. However, this is where we
go off.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
The rails, so always have to be careful whether you
see a burned car or broken window or whatever it is.
It may be the exuberance of the moment, but it
may be the anarchist setting in. I heard one of
the former police chiefs of Los Angeles speak about this
on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Okay, all right, great, So that's where we go off
the rails because she's like, it may be anarch, it
may be criminals, or it may just be the exuberance
of the moment. And I'm like, the first one's correct,
what the hell is the second one. Cars don't just
spontaneously combust when people are exuberant, like, somebody's gotta light that.

(13:56):
Somebody's got to make the decision that we're gonna to
light this thing on fire. Unless there's very rare occasions
where a car will actually catch fire when you don't
mean it to, depending on what kind of engine you have. Uh,

(14:17):
there's a thing that diesel engines can do where they
start cycling and they can't stop, and you got it.
The trick is you got to cut off oxygen to
them where it will it will just perpetually turn into
a thing where the engine literally converst into flames. It's
a it's a very rare thing. And if you don't

(14:39):
drive a diesel, you don't have to worry about it.
And frankly, if you drive a modern diesel, you really
don't have to worry about it. But you've got to
get old diesel engine, specifically an old diesel tractor engine,
it can start spinning wildly out of control, and at

(15:01):
that point, again you have to you gotta cut oxygen.
It's called a right, you called a runaway. But diesel
people know what I'm talking about. So the engine essentially,
the engine will continue to cycle and the RPMs will
build and you're not giving it any fuel. And there's

(15:24):
a lot of issues contamination of the fuel. It could
be an intake issue, but it's so rare that almost
nobody will deal with this in their lifetime. I have
had to deal with it with a tractor, and if
you throw a rag over the air intake, it'll it'll
solve itself. Right. If it can't get oxygen in there,
that's it. But Nancy Pelosi doesn't know this. It's not

(15:46):
a thing that she's ever had to deal with, so
she won't have to worry about it. So while the
first part is reasonable that you got to watch out
because ne'er do wells will get in there and then
they'll start doing crimes and stuff, the second parts arguably
insane because exuberance has never burned. Twenty two way mos

(16:08):
or whatever the number was that they came up with yesterday. Okay,
all right, So there you go. Now we all learned
about diesel runaways. Very exciting. That's what this show is education,
and we'll be back. Apparently there's a pee Wee Herman documentary.
It's two parts. It's on HBO Max. So that's it.

(16:28):
It's called pee Wee as himself. And well, I shouldn't
say it's a peeweeedy, it's a Paul Rubins documentary, right,
because that's who Peewee is and pee Wee is one
of these first This is so in the wheelhouse of
my childhood and Ross's childhood because it's just the age
and easily pee Wee's Big Adventure was probably one of

(16:52):
the i'll say top ten most watched and rewatched movies
of my childhood. Uh yeah, I would rank it easily
one of the top you know, five movies to Camp
was a couple of the earnest movies. Pee Wee's Big
Adventure watched them one hundred times as a kid. It's

(17:12):
no question. So the document the documentary's pretty good, is
what Ross is saying. Yeah, but you only watched half
of it, right, You watched first.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Yeah, we watched the first episode. Yep, we've learned we've
learned a lot about Paul Rubins. Yeah, would you learn
I don't want to spoil anything.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Well no, no, no. The so the pee Wee's Big Adventure,
This is a fascinating story. So they didn't think the
movie was going to do anything.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
No, they thought it was going to bomb. They released
it in like you know, three Cities and Opening Night.
But he got the support of MTV and you know,
celebrities and stuff that have known him. It's crazy how
he came up with the character, how he sort of
and you see.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
This a lot of people don't know if Phil Hartman
was kind of his writing partner. Yeah, they were friends
at the Groundlings. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
So they talk about how they came up with the
concept of the idea. The idea like it was gonna
be completely different movie. He wanted to be like a
there was this movie with Hayley Mills called Pollyanna. Yeah,
he wanted it to be like a male version of that,
where like pee Wee gets oh no, gets injured and
he loses the ability to walk and it was dies
and he like comes dark, yeah, and he like rehabilitates

(18:18):
and becomes a better person. And while they're writing this movie.
They're really struggling writing this movie. Him and Phil Hartman.
There was another guy too, I don't remember his name, sorry,
guy on the lot of Warner Brothers at the time.
Everybody's riding bikes back and forth like to where it
was just a thing they did. Yeah, yeah, and it
was pissed off because he didn't have his own bike.
And one day he opened the door to where they

(18:38):
were writing the movie and outside was you know, it
was the bike, but it was like an orange version
of the bike from the movie. Okay, and you know
it said to pee Wee Herman and he said, from
there the movie just came to him, like the movie
just pours, and.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Sometimes it worked.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
And you can probably relate to this. Sometimes in like
a creative field, when you have a good idea, it
just sort of happens. Yes, it's best not but if
you sit down try to force an idea, it's not
gonna be as good as the idea just sort of
like comes to you and you hear like musicians say
this too, like the song just came out of me,
Like the lyrics just came out of me, and like
they wrote the movie like super fast once they realized
what it was.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
And I don't mean to make this all about us,
but the stuff that you guys probably think is the
funniest we do on the show, Ross and I don't.
We don't pre create it. I don't know how to
describe it. Like it just it just vibes, man. So
just so that's what Ross is talking. It just vibes.
You just realize this is funny and we're gonna keep

(19:33):
going with They wanted the Gimes. It works sometimes it don't,
so they wanted to give him a different director. He
chose Tim Burton. It was Tim Burton's first movie, but
it cost it that worked out for him.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
It cost them six million dollars to make that movie
and it ended up grossing like forty two million or
something like forty seven for I just looked.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
It up, so this is just the US gross. It
ended up grossing forty one million during its initial theatrical
run on a six million dollar budget. So yeah, pretty
obviously nowadays movies are stupid.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
But but it's also one of these things where like
he created a character and like an you know, alter ego,
this persona that he sort.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Of got, like.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
You know, he created no, no, no, no, but he
was trashed in the character that he created that made
him gave him the fame exactly.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
That's the thing, look, Ernest p. Warrel, yep, right, that's
and and by the way, it doesn't sound like he
appreciated that very.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Much, but he was saying that, you know, like with
the movie with Pee Wee's Big Adventure, he was kind
of upset that he didn't get like the credit he
deserved because he wrote the movie with Phil Hartman, and
he said on you know, it said pee Wee her
you know when. So the credits start rolling and it says,
because he made pee Wee Herman as if pee Wee
Herman was a real character, It's like performance are like
Andy Kaufman, right, like, this is a real guy. His
name is pee Wee and that's who I am. And
I don't do I don't I don't do interviews as

(20:49):
Paul Rubins, right.

Speaker 4 (20:50):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
So the credits are rolling and it says pee Wee
Herman as himself, and then it says who wrote the
movie and it says, you know, Phil Hartman, Paul Rubins
and the other guy that I can't remember. I'm sorry,
And guy's listening like a pistop at you.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, he's cash and checks. He's fine. But he realized
like people didn't know who Paul Rubins was, Like they
didn't know that he wrote the movie. No, I think really,
I think people picked up on his name with the
theater incident, which is unfortunate. Right, That's when everything sort
of like came to light, Right, Yeah, yeah, what's crazy
about a character too or an actor like this? Pee

(21:24):
wee Herman went to And I didn't know this was
a thing until I went to school in California, and
you know, now you're in the college culture there. Some
people talk about it. So when when we think of
like famous acting schools, what's the one in New York
that everybody knows Julliard Julliard? Right, Oh, this this person
went to Julliard. Pee Wee Herman essentially went to Juilliard.

(21:46):
He went to what's called cal Arts, which is like
it's if you don't go to Juilliard and you're a
famous actor, you probably went to cal Arts. But like
famous dramatic actor.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
And because he went there and he like everything is unfit.
There's so much early footage of him that he tried
keep keeping hidden for a long time, like different roles
he was in and a lot of the reasons he
was trying to keep that hidden is spoiler beginning of
the movie. You know, if you don't know the history
of Paul Rubins and Super Gay. Oh yeah ye, so
a lot of these role like he was a straight

(22:17):
up like drag queen like most of the early Dad doesn't.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Work in eighties nineties kids television.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
But he decided along the way that he was going
to become pee wee Herman, and he had to completely
separate himself from you know, you know, if his sexuality
was public, he believed that his career wouldn't have had
the trajectory that it had. He might yeah right, it's
probably right. Yeah, So, I mean he had to hide,

(22:44):
Like he said, he was trapped in this persona like
I'm pee wee Herman now all the time I was.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
And this is going back to Ernest and some of
this others. It's like, it's got to be frustrating because
you want more latitude to be creative. But I bet
those checks were nice, you know what I'm saying. Ernest
also went to Juilliard. People don't you go to Juilliard colts, No, Earnest. Yeah,
this is this is the point that I'm making. So

(23:11):
like you see that and you think of the silliness
of the characters, right or the kids focus, But then
you realize like they were doing they were doing Shakespeare
for their mid terms.

Speaker 5 (23:20):
Right.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
There was a photo of Paul Rubins in a in
a play or whatever, or in a performance at school
as Jesus on the Cross, as Jesus in the play. Yeah,
that's not something that I thought i'd ever see.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
No, that's it.

Speaker 6 (23:37):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
This is why I always find it fascinating. And we
talk about, well this this really goofy actor went to
Juilliard or went to CalArts. Yeah, or there's a school
in London, I can't remember the name of it. Which
you are like hardcore acting dramatic. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
I remember like seeing a video of a you know,
Jimfarni r Ernest right, yeah, playing it was like Hamlet
or Macbeth or something.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Holding the skull.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yeah, and look some people embrace it. Dan Whitney, who
might so the guy used to host a radio show
that was literally his roommate when they were starting out
in comedy. If you don't know who Dan Whitney is
I promise you do. His name is Larry the Cable Guy,
which was a small part of his act where he

(24:24):
pretended to be the cable guy. So you have this
comedian his name is Dan Whitney. He's doing his you know,
he's trying to cut it, he's trying to figure it out.
And then so as part of a forty five minute set,
he's got five minutes where he pretends to be this
cable guy character. Now he's Dan the Cable Guy. Yeah,
it's done right, that's it to go up.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
And Paul Rumans just embraced it. He's like, I'm not
gonna try to be serious actor anymore. I Am going
to be pee Wee Herman. And he said one of
his biggest heroes was Andy Warhol because of you know,
the performance art sort of thing. And that's and he
said one of the biggest, most surreal moments of his
life is he was performing this Too Dio tour before
he filmed Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Even wrote it, and
one of the people that showed up to watch it

(25:04):
was Andy Warhol. He's just like, you know, he wants
to have this conversation with Andy, like Hey, I'm a
performance artist too. You know, I'm not really pee I'm
Paul Rubins, but like he's pee Wee. Yeah, I made
the decision. I'm just going to be pee Wee, and
I'm going to be the best pee Wee I can be,
and it's going to be real successful.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Hold on, somebody send me an email. I it was
pee Wee a child per No, I don't. That was
not part of it. Somebody just send me an email.
I don't. I don't remember any kids stuff with pee Wee. No,
there's nothing about that. No, he went to he literally
went to an adult He went to a porn theater
and there was an incident, which is still really questionable.

(25:42):
You know, you probably. I'm just saying like people would remember, no,
remember when that happened.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
When they hit the news, it was like it was
imagine like you know Captain Kangaroo where mister Rogers gets
caught at a CD movie theater.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
It was like, wow, he had the incident with mister
green jeans. So it was a little before a time. Yeah, No,
it was a dude. The idea that a kid's a
kid's television show star was at a theater with his
pants down, dude. You couldn't write a more eighties nineties
sensational story, you know what I'm saying. I remember that.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
I remember that happening, and it was like such a
shocking thing because kids loved Pee Wee Herman. Every kid
did the Pee Wee Herman dance and loved that movie
and watched that movie a million times. And then he
disappeared after that like you didn't hear anything because it
was a huge scandal, right, And the next time I
remember him popping up was in the movie blow At
Johnny Depp where he played like the the Dealer, but

(26:37):
he was in there credited as Paul Rubins. He was
in that movie is Paul Rubins, And it's the first
time I saw him not as pee Wee Herman.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
It was shocking. It was like, this is the real guy.
What's the mister green Jeans? And so see guy? All right?
So Hugh Branham I think was the actor's name of
playing mister Green Jean. So it wasn't true. But the
when he died, he died of natural causes. Just if
we're jumping the way back machine, so he died of

(27:07):
he was on Captain Kangaroo mister Green. He died of
natural causes, and it turned into this rumor that he
killed himself, which he didn't, but yet that was I
remember being taught that he killed himself. He didn't kill himself.
He just he was in his seventies. He just died.
It happens. And and then that turned into a thing

(27:29):
and there you know, there's been other stuff like that
where remember the remember the thing with the Blues Clues
guy where they're like, oh, he's doing Heroin.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah no, and he was just tired of filming in
front of a blue screen and he was like, I
feel like I'm living in a swimming pool.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
I need to leave. Yeah. So, but it's the idea
that like, for whatever reason, if it's a kid show,
we like make up the worst version of what happened.
Some guy in his seventies just dies of natural causes,
which again, it happens, man, it happens. But they're like, ah, right, murdered,
he killed himself. Or the Blues Clues he's on Heroin

(28:04):
banging hookers bh bah. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (28:06):
So it was like.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
And it's like that guys just burnt out, man, just
leave them alone. Oh jeez. All right, So anyway, so
you recommend the all of this to say you recommend
the I mean, if you grew up loving Pee Wee herman,
you should probably watch it, but just be aware. Wait,
hold on, does you find his bike or you know what.

(28:29):
I don't want to spoil it. I don't want to
spoil man. I gotta know, I gotta know. All right,
I'm putting that on the list for the weekend. They'll
give me something to do while the party's going on outside.
So weird waited oh to say that. All right, coming
up on the show, out, let me do this. We'll

(28:49):
hit a break. I'll give you a run down here
in just a moment. We have we have the congressman today,
right we should yeah, yeah, okay, all right, so uh
we will. We'll be chatting with Congressman Brad Not that'll
be coming up at eighth five. Lots to get to
hang out. Listeners have co signed your recommendation here. They
watched the peewee thing and they thought it was pretty good.

(29:11):
So just checking my email here, Oh somebody's oh wait,
hold on, somebody's upset because I said banging. Okay, all right, well,
what what do you want me to say? Carousing with
ladies of the evening. I mean I'm trying to I'm
trying to explain a narrative that people understand. So I'm

(29:33):
sorry I use the term hookers. Whatever you're offended by,
I should have said hookers and blow. You're absolutely right,
that's wrong. People. Man, Oh, do you tune into the
show for niceties or do you tune in because you
want to be entertained? Are you not entertained?

Speaker 2 (29:53):
I mean, I'm not gonna lie though. The beginning, Like
watching the beginning of that Paul Rubens documentary, I was
a little like surprised, like like you said, so.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Just no, just just in in the sheer gayness of
Paul Rubens, right.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Like yeah, it's it's out there, like you know, they're
not going to hide anything, and this is like, what
is it? What is I guess I always knew he
was gay, So it's so funny because you know, I
don't care, but it's some one of those things like
in retrospect you look back and you're like, well, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Yeah, okay, did you see how nice that suit was?
Clearly gay? What is wrong? But it was such a
surprise at the time, like it was a scandal when
he was like, what are you talking about? Yeah, because
we're eleven, right, right, right, we're eleven or whatever. That
When did that movie come out? Hold on, I think
it came out nineteen eighty eight maybe, yeah, I got it.
I hold out here in front of me. Uh eighty No,

(30:43):
it came out in eighty five. Wow, I had no idea. Yeah,
so you me or five or whatever. Yeah, I don't know.
It was good. I just we've talked about this on
the show. Large Marge was the most terrifying thing in
my childhood up to that point.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Yeah, and it's a it's like a Tim Burton moment
now that you go back and look at it, right, Yeah,
it's so like, wow, you know clay mation when her
face transforms driving that eighteen that's hor terrifying. After yeah,
terrifying as a kid.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
I I remember that it literally turned into like it
cost me sleep. I played it for Lincoln because and
and so it gets how old was he? It was
like like a year or two years ago. Oh, so
I'm playing it for him and we get to the
large March scene and I'm so excited. I'm so excited,
so I'm not even looking at the screen. I'm looking

(31:35):
at him with my eyes open and like, because you're scared,
ready to go, ready to go where? And he thought
it was the funniest thing on the planet.

Speaker 5 (31:41):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
He just bursts out into laughter and he watched it
over and over again. I'm like, no, you're supposed to
be scared, terrified. You gotta have buddy weird, you know,
I mean, this was daddy's this was daddy's death.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
And he's just like, he's like, ah, it's so funny.
They're just like they're like Vietnam vets. Now it's just
the crap. They can access us just a thousand yards
stare on your kid? What a what a better time
when the large march thing could be the worst thing
in your life? You know, it's weird too, ross. I

(32:16):
saw the Senator Bud posted a picture he flew on
Air Force one yesterday. He was I think he was
on Air Force one when we did the interview. Did
you hear how his audio sounded a little weird yet
what a jerk? And he didn't mention it. I don't
know if he was technically on, but I saw the
timeline of when there was some pictures posted on social media.

(32:38):
I think he might have been on Air Force one.
How do you not say anything nice? I want you
to go steal something for me that says air Force
one on it. That's what it was. He knew i'd
put him, I'd try to put him up to something. So, dude,
if I let me just explain Ross, if you're on
air Force one and you're calling people, are you leaving
that out? No, it's the first thing I'm saying, Hi

(33:02):
from Air Force one. You're not gonna believe where I
am right now? Yeah? Wait, hold on, let me hit
a button. Ah, look at that. Oh I just duke
something right, or you know, whatever you do when you're
on Air Force one. I don't know. I've never been
on Air Force one. I have been in Trump's plane.
I will say that on the ground he led some
journalists up on his plane, so I have peered inside

(33:24):
Trump Force one. That being said, dude, if I'm on
Air Force one, I'm calling everybody. I'm not video calling
everybody because like they're not gonna believe it. Oh, sure
you are. No, I'm on Air Force one. So next
time we have him on, remind me to chastise him.
But anyway, so they so Trump was down at Fort Bragg.

(33:46):
We've got the big missile parade coming up this weekend.
I'm calling it missile parade, even though there's probably no missiles.
And let me just say this one. I want to
throw the phone number anyone who was at the Trump
thing that's listening from Brag. I'd love to get your impression.

(34:07):
So eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven
four eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven
four Where yet, if you were on BRAG yesterday and
you went to the Trump event, love your first person
how that went. Here's what I realized. You all must
have hated Biden, bro Like watching the reaction to Trump

(34:31):
just doing all of his stuff yesterday and watching our
soldiers react to Trump, like you can just tell when
people are vibing. You must have hated Biden, and all
of it is, oh, we're going to change the name
and no like that. That must have just stuck in
your craw And I am so sorry for that, because

(34:54):
you're out here doing a job which may include you
literally given your life for this country and you had
to deal with with Joe Biden. Trump was an absolute
rock star yesterday, absolute rock star. Listen to this for
a little breaking news.

Speaker 7 (35:11):
We are also going to be restoring the names to
Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Brooker, Fort Polk, Fort.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Ab Hill, and Ford Robert E.

Speaker 7 (35:27):
Lee.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
We won a lot of battles out of those forts.
It's no time to change. And then Trump at the end,
do we not. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't send it
to you, dude. There's also at the end he starts
doing the dance. So he's playing the you know, he's
playing the music and he's doing the Trump dance with
the arms out to the side, and the troops are

(35:52):
losing it. Man, they're losing it. They love this guy,
Pete Haig Seth. He's talking about, you know, lethality, and
it's it's an applause line.

Speaker 6 (36:04):
So at the Defense Department, we're doing three critical things
at his direction. Number one, we're restoring the warrior ethos.
We're getting back to basics, standards, accountability, readiness, training, war fighting, lethality.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
We're not a college or a university. We're not interested in.

Speaker 6 (36:27):
Your woke garbage and your political correctness.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Listen to them. They got no time for that. Having
to sit there with Joe Biden rambling and then falling
off stage or whatever the hell. I don't know that
he spoke at brag, but the fact that he wouldn't
acknowledge it as brag but rather vove for liberty.

Speaker 5 (36:50):
No.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
No, those soldiers on Brag yesterday, they love these guys.
I'm sure there's one or two who doesn't. But for
the most part, like that's the mindset, man, And this
is this is why it's so important. And just to
be abundantly clear, I never served in the military, so
I'm only this is why I invite you guys to
call in and tell me if I'm wrong. But like,

(37:13):
just the vibe there, just the mindset that you have
to have. I got a lot of friends who did.
I got a lot of family members who did. Served
and literally served entire careers of the military. I've told
you my cousin did twenty He ended up doing like
twenty six years or something because he kept getting talked
into it. He retired at the highest rank achievable for

(37:35):
an enlisted member of the Army all right, commands was
a command sergeant major. I probably apologized, I'm screwing this up.
Like he gave his life to the military and the
mindset of people like my cousin and and and friends
of mine, whether it's Marines or air Force or whatever.
It is, right, it's it's it's it's clear that the

(37:57):
very same mindset that they operate on a day to
day basis is not a Joe Biden mindset. Donald Trump
dancing they were going berserk, man. But I am curious
if any of our listeners, and I'm sure there are
some eight eight eight nine three four. Oh good, okay,
we got some folks here a right, eight eight eight
nine three four seven eight seven four just the clips

(38:19):
I saw looked the electric yesterday. And I'm so happy
for you guys, because I can't imagine signing a contract
saying that I can essentially be cannon fodder and then
having to do that for a guy who disrespects me.
So I'm so happy for our listeners down at Bragg

(38:39):
or Le June or you know, Seymour or wherever you're
working for. A dude who seems to respect you will
give you the acknowledgment that you're deserved. I love that
for you. Yeah, Hey, Greg, what's up?

Speaker 5 (38:59):
Good morning?

Speaker 1 (38:59):
How are you okay? See, I'm good, sir. So you
were at the You're at the big Shindy yesterday. How'd
that go?

Speaker 8 (39:05):
It was phenomenal. I'm not military, My dad was a
marine and I loved Trump attended it and uh last
minute signed up and walking through. There was plenty of security,
of course, but the flyover in the beginning, watching two
helicopters come in, you weren't sure which one was on
President Trump was riding on, but you got to come in.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
Hold on, sir, you're telling me he rolled in on
a helo.

Speaker 8 (39:33):
Uh no, what I can't think of what they call it, uh,
Air Force two or whatever the helicopter is they flying on?

Speaker 1 (39:41):
Yeah, Marine one one.

Speaker 8 (39:46):
There were actually two of them, so you really didn't
know which one.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
He was on, right, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, there's actually I
think there's four of them total, but yeah, yeah, they
fly multiples for yeah.

Speaker 8 (39:55):
And then when they right and say he was coming out,
they did a fly over. There was like maybe I
would say seven or eight apache seven eight black Hawks
and two Chinooks flying him one by one.

Speaker 5 (40:07):
Behind each other.

Speaker 8 (40:07):
It was phenomenal. And uh, I think that the military
presidence and not and then other people like the wives
and kids. It was it was just a phenomena show.
They had all kinds of weaponry out there that they
use a combat battle. And Uh, the one thing that
I think, the one thing that I loved that they
said was President Trump announced that if we can waste

(40:29):
money the way we waste money, that he's going to
give the military a raise. And it went berserk when
they did that.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
Well, yeah, it was not going to be a fan
of that, all right, Greg with the exactly appreciate that.
Look at that Ross. If you run for president and
you win, you can go everywhere on Earwolf, so as
it should be.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
I I was looking for the audio, can't find it
because you were talking about, you know how what was
it like when Biden was there, like the difference, and
I was thinking about the day after the election, or
maybe it was the day of Ye then the first
results came in. Do you remember the audio we had?
And I think we played it live on here, So
I can't find it in the system where it was
the Military academy and they said the loud speakers that

(41:11):
Trump had won, and the entire place erupts. Yeah, because
it's because it's at night, so they're doing the announcement. Well,
they're all you know they're all bunked up, right, and
they say over the loud speaker, the winner of the
election is you know, Donald J. Trump, and they they
go crazy, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
Yeah it was, it was it was the Army cat
it was Yes, it was West Point. Yeah, I remember
that absolutely. Yeah, big fans of that. So Joe Sett
good morning, what's up?

Speaker 9 (41:38):
Good morning. I was there yesterday as well. I was
not on the base when when Air Force one flew in,
so I got to see that that flew over exactly
where I was, which is always amazing to see that, right,
It was great, and Trump is amazing. He is such
an amazing speaker. We got to see they had on

(42:02):
the screens when the paratroopers were jumping, so we got
to see that, and I mean that was unreal just
to see all. I think I don't remember. I think
he said it was like six hundred that jumped. I
think you got something like that in his speech.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
That's that's what Bragg's there for, is paratroopers.

Speaker 9 (42:24):
It was amazing. And then the only thing that I
was a little disappointed in was the energy. The energy
was it what I thought it was? I mean, it
was hot and we were all like melting out there.

(42:44):
But I still don't think it was that. And I
don't know if it was because I was expecting the
energy that I saw on TV whenever I watched his
rallies when he was running, and this was a completely.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
Different dynamic too, obviously, right right, that's that's your boss
where versus howe it is, that's you know, that's the
president there. So I don't take anything away. Yeah, I
saw people that were happy that heg seth and Trump,

(43:16):
oh yeah, and like the mindset and that's that's what
I want for people who signed up to serve this country.

Speaker 9 (43:25):
And I got to tell you that, yeah, the the
the for the civilians that were on there, there was
quite a variety of different ethnicities. So when the media
tries to say that, you know, there are certain ethnicities
that you know are anti Trump, there was a variety
of folks they are. So that was that was really

(43:48):
nice to see as well.

Speaker 1 (43:49):
Yeah, they saw the video and that's you know, that
is the military. The military is not a homogeneous group
of white people. And I saw folks of all shades
that were dancing around when he was dancing and cheering
and yeah, and so I thought it was great. All right, Joset,
thank you so much for the call this morning.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
Be that.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
I mean, that's that's what I want for our military
because God knows what we're going to ask of them.
I hope we don't have to ask anything of them,
but if we do, you want it to be somebody
who they that they like that they'll follow into battle.
Not really obviously Trump's not going to battle, and go

(44:35):
ahead and make your bone spurs joke. I don't care.
My point is that I did not see that enthusiasm
with Biden and and and people with in the military
that I talked to were genuinely concerned with what they
saw going on with all the DEI stuff and everything there.
Like they couldn't they couldn't understand how this is helping

(44:58):
them complete whatever their mission is, right, And the recruitment
numbers showed that correct. Yes, yeah, people who were of
a military mindset went nah, nah, I'm good, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
The whole focus on we need Dee in the military
to me is like super weird anyway, because like this
is you're talking about the ultimate meritocracy, right.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
And everyone look with all of its bruises and blemishes.
I understand that I've talked to enough military people that
being said, you're right, it is merit, right, And of
course what does your CEO think of you is what
matters within the military, right.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
And of course there's gonna be like politics involved when
it comes to you know, and everything there is, but
like the top military brass and that kind of stuff.
But you know, it's the sense everybody is an equal footing.
You get off the bus right right, they're gonna scream
at you, They're gonna shave your head, and on and
on and on. I mean everybody is treated the same,
that's the point, right, and they all and the end

(45:53):
result is you're turning out, you know, one of the
most badass killing machines on the planet to defend the country.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
That not one of the the yes, yeah, the the
this whole Russ and I have a discussion before the
show whereas people are trying to reshape World War two.
You've probably seen this like, oh, Russia won World War two.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
Right, because Trump was saying that yesterday. You know, if
it was you'd always speak in German. And you see
these people from Europe on social media and they're like,
you know, why do Americans say that they didn't win
the war. The Soviet Union won the war. I'm like,
I don't know, counterpoint, we did yeah, two and oh
undefeated world wars.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Yeah. But and here's the thing, And not to diminish
the job that Russia did, but you know, they throw
out will Russia suffered the most casualties, Yes, but like
eighty percent of them are on Russian soil, right, defen,
I'm not taking away and the fact that Russia had
at that secondary front so that we could move through

(46:49):
Europe was wildly important. But what did Russia do about Japan?
What do they do?

Speaker 6 (46:58):
You know?

Speaker 1 (46:58):
The first thing we did we conquered Japan is we
made a point to Russia wanted Japan, I don't know,
or they wanted the North Islands, and we literally were like, no,
you can't. By the way we did the thing. That's
why we're here. Who the hell are you? You could
go ahead fact check me, go ahead and look this
stuff up. I'm a huge nerd on this stuff. So

(47:21):
I don't want to diminish the fact that Russia absolutely
helped win the war, but you weren't winning that thing
without us. That's it. I'm pausing for dramatic effect. That's it.
US doesn't show up. You don't win that war, not
in the way that we understand it today. Right. And

(47:44):
if it wasn't for if they weren't speaking German, they'd
be speaking Russian. Right, Yeah, Russia, Russia's big thing after
the wars. They wanted to gobble up a lot of
this stuff and turn it into Russia.

Speaker 5 (47:54):
Man.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
And you know, the US had decided after what happened
with World War One, and you know, this is when
we first had the idea that this is when nation
building kind of turned into a thing. But we looked
and we realized that after World War One, because we
had so thoroughly humiliated the Germans, which was the main
motivator for Hitler. I don't know if you guys know this.

(48:17):
That was the thing that stuck in his craw that
we had to do things a little different. That's why
we were the top allied commander US US US US US.
So take a victory lap. We'll be back. I'm going
to need you. Can you do an educated guess? Because
I can't. It's it's paywolled, so I can't see the results.

(48:38):
So we'll have to guess. All right, you ready, do Americans.
This is from News and Observer. Do Americans support or
oppose Ice? Here's what a poll found amid LA protesters,
So if you had to, we don't know the results
because again it's paywolled. Actually let me click see.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
Right, So I'm gonna I guess the guy with the
ski mask on the motorcycle holding the Mexican flag while
everything burns behind him like a Michael Bay Yeah, yes,
does not support ICE. Oh wow, Okay, However, I'm gonna
say the average person outside of LA does.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Well. Remember this was a poll of protests, right. I
just thought i'd throw the second part out there. Yeah yeah, okay,
that's like it's like going to a comic conomy being like,
is sci fi cool? What do you think?

Speaker 6 (49:31):
Er?

Speaker 1 (49:34):
What do you think of manga?

Speaker 2 (49:36):
It's like the pole we had from NPR talking about
or what was it the member they oh, they don't
want to cut public funding for right?

Speaker 1 (49:46):
Yes? Yeah, yeah, No, VPR did a poll about whether
PBS should be right, Yeah, Overwhelmingly they did not think
PBS should be cut, by the way, shocking in that
pole there, but no, no, no, this is worse because
it's not it's not who's doing the poll. It's who
they're pulling, right, It's like it's like going to brag, yes, Sdaron,

(50:06):
like do you like Trump? BurrH All right, hold on,
hold on, oh no, oh no oh. I was able
to get the dumbers. All right. What percentage of the
protest Actually, I'm surprised by this. What percentage do you
think has a negative opinion of ice among the LA protesters?

(50:27):
Because you were shocked, I'm going to say, like fifty
two eight? Oh wow, so but like so wait, hold on,
so there's nineteen percent of the people burning things down
like ice? Is that what I'm doing? You know what
it is? It's the exuberance of the moment. Oh, that's
a very good point. Thank you, Nancy, appreciate that. In

(50:48):
case you guys didn't hear, here is Nancy Pelosi yesterday.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
When and I say this as a former party chair,
when there is a gathering, a large gathering of people,
anarchists see it as an opportunity and they moved in.
So always have to be careful whether you see a
burned car or broken window or whatever it is. It
may be the exuberance of the moment, but it may

(51:13):
be the anarchist setting in. I heard one of the
former police chiefs of Los Angeles speak about this on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
Right, So, for those of you who've never exzubed to
the max, apparently if you exube hard enough, things burst
into flames and sushi does your joints get looted? Did
you see that? That was the weirdest thing. Yes, say,
they looted a sushi restaurant. What what did you? What
did you take? California rolls? Probably sushi is so good. Yeah,

(51:45):
I have a California caro. Give me a fatty tuna
all day, spicy fatty tune. Oh yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
I went through a gas station sushi phase for a while.
Like if I stopped in and there were live yeah,
I'm still here.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
Okay, good for you, man, You're probably probably nothing can
kill you now.

Speaker 5 (52:07):
You know.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
The funny thing is the first time I had sushi
was gas station sushi. I was like, I'll try this
out on and try sushi, and I was like, this
is so good. And then somebody took me. I think
it was a Randy. She took me to like an
actual sushi place, and I was like Blue.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
Girl program director again, blew my mind. Yeah, Randy will
always be the person who had to go. I literally
had to go to the emergency room for do you
remember do you remember her going away party? I do, yes? Okay,
So we started it at Seaboard, right, one of the
restaurants at Seaboard, I can remember which one it was, whatever,

(52:38):
the seafood place was down there at the time, and
then a bunch of us went to and Randy's a
girl by the way, just so we're so we're clear here.
So she was she was program director for the station
that Ross used to work on, and she was headed
to Florida. I still does she still? I kimember she
still worked for the company. She worked for a different,

(52:59):
different compan but she left. She's doing her own voice
over now.

Speaker 4 (53:02):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
I always like so so somehow and I'm not sure
exactly how it happened. I remember, this is the first
time I met your wife too, And where did we go?

Speaker 6 (53:14):
Go?

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Ahead? Tell them the Foxy Lady. The Foxy Lady, which
if you're listening to this and you're like, what is that?
The Foxy Lady was a gentleman's club in a trailer,
I'm going to repeat that it was a gentleman's club
in a double wide trailer, so it was super classy.

(53:36):
And there is a row of high stools as far
away from the stage as you can go because everyone's
weirded out because you're there with coworkers, right, And I
don't even know how did we end up there, Like,
I don't even know, but there was probably like fifteen
of us that went over there. So there's these high
stools that sat at the very back of the bar,
and we're all kind of sitting on there talking to

(53:57):
each other. We're having a good time whatever, and the
dancers come over and they're like, you know, they're trying
to get you to go get a private dance, and
so this girl is like working the ropeline of all
of us sitting there, and we're like, we're not we're
not into it because we're all just talking to each
other and it's a work thing whatever. And this dancer

(54:18):
like hops up on the you know, it's like a
high barstool, so it has like the foot rest thing there.
So she hops up with her giant like plastic heels
and I'm wearing sandals, don't judge, because I didn't know
we were going here, and she hops up and she

(54:39):
took she puts the heel of the plastic stripper shoe
through the top of my foot. It drew blood, and
whoever I was talking to was like, you might need
a tetanus, Like we're in a double wide trailer. I need,

(54:59):
so I want.

Speaker 10 (55:00):
I went.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
I ended up going to the urgent care over at
the Duke Hospital there on wake Forest. And what was
worse is when I explained to the I think it
was a PA that I talked to what happened, she
clearly told the rest of the medical staff, who thought
it was hilarious. I was there, I was there. My

(55:24):
injury was stripper heel through the top of my foot.
Because like, way too many medical professionals came into my
room to hear the story like it was. Arguably it
was way too many, because that's you know, that's not
normally what you get in that situation, because they're like
triage and they're trying to figure out what everyone's doing,
and I'm like, yeah, yeah, no, stripper heel injury. Yeah, yeah,

(55:49):
that's what happens. They ended up giving me the tennis
and they cleaned it up, but whatever, But yeah, I went.
I went to the hospital for her going away party.
And I had been Raleigh like five minutes, like it was.
That was really early in the show history, you know,
maybe maybe been a Raleigh for like a year tops,

(56:11):
and now it's like fifteen. But yeah, yeah, so I
I literally have a stripper heel scar on my foot.
It's very faint, but it's a great story. So anyway,
they pulled the protesters in Los Angeles and they all
hate Ice. So that's that's the point there. And you

(56:32):
would notice that if you watch the video. Of course,
if you watch the videos, though, Brian Stilter will be
mad at you. This is really important, So if you
watch the videos, Brian Stelter has some advice for you.

Speaker 10 (56:45):
We all live on our phones these days, we're all
scrolling through social media. You've got to be careful at
a delicate moment like this to look at the time stams,
look at the dates, look at when things are actually
posted and if they're really from the situation they're purporting
to be a lot of these algorithms are servicing hours
old or even days old content. So you might be
looking at a video of something wondering what's happening in

(57:06):
LA it's actually from two days ago and that's you know,
it only matters because it can give people a false
impression of what's actually happening at a moment of unrest.

Speaker 5 (57:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
Yeah, So if you watch any of the videos and
you see I don't know all the waymos on fire,
which you need to remember is the Weymo fires are
so two days ago.

Speaker 2 (57:27):
But it's just the complete irony of what he's saying there,
Like he's talking about can you believe you know, on
social media they're going to just replay old footage over
and over and over and over again. Yeah, And you
might think that, and then you have like, well what
about January sixth, dude, or what about Like that's what
you do?

Speaker 1 (57:45):
You literally do that.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
You'll speaking to you'll you'll play the same video on
loop over and over again, and you'll bring in different
experts saying the exact same thing. Right, twenty four to seven,
you're literally on the twenty four seven you just describe yourself.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
Yeah, yeah, he means the other guys, but the other guys.
It's worse though, because there are always a few days
behind social media. I never one thousand percent, man thousand.

Speaker 5 (58:15):
What is this?

Speaker 1 (58:17):
Oh all right? I got some good emails coming all right, Well,
well we'll do this. We'll do phone calls and uh
a few I got some more audio and then uh
we'll talk to the congressman at eight o five. So uh,
let's get raced agic from the weather channel here. Ye,
what up? Are you doing? Much? All right? How are
you you guys gonna sign that corner that the packers

(58:39):
just released or are you guys just gonna let everyone
throw on you this year? Oh, we'll just let everyone
throw on us this year? Why not? Yeah, it's the
Vikings plan.

Speaker 11 (58:47):
So well, I mean, is there really a shutdown corner
in the NFL anymore?

Speaker 1 (58:53):
If he's healthy, Yes, but the problem is he's not healthy.

Speaker 11 (58:56):
Yeah, it's all it's all geared toward creating more offense.
And I'm a defensive guy myself, but I'd rather see
more defense at offense.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
But he been taking that helmet away. Yeah, in the
in the five years or whatever he's going to Packers,
he probably was like justin Jefferson's going in the Hall
of Fame, and this guy really because we he just
torched him twice a year. I appreciate that. But yeah, anyway,
we'll see what's almost weatherwise as we know tomorrow the

(59:24):
US Open starts.

Speaker 11 (59:25):
Yes, yes, tomorrow the US Open, and yeah, things are
going to be okay, maybe a little wet weather for
Pittsburgh over the upcoming weekend, but it looks like it,
uh maybe scattered around.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
Same thing on Friday. Green speeds at sixteen? Is that fast? Bro?

Speaker 5 (59:45):
What you know him?

Speaker 6 (59:47):
Not?

Speaker 1 (59:48):
Listen, Alane, that's in sixteen is insane? I have no
idea what that normal golf? You got a brush up,
You've got a green speed of eleven or cook? Okay,
I'm cooked at eleven. O. We went sixteen. Good for you.
You ought to be entertained. We should. We should go
out sometime. I'm a bad golfer. Bad me too. You

(01:00:08):
and me both worse than you. I promise, I promise,
well clearly because you don't know anything about not much
at all.

Speaker 11 (01:00:15):
So you're supposed to hit the ball right, Yeah, Yeah,
that's supposed to hit it straight.

Speaker 1 (01:00:20):
Check out. Oh it does not start on Yeah. But anyway,
good golf day today, good outdoor day. No mention of rain.

Speaker 11 (01:00:29):
Yesterday actually had a couple of storms. They were isolated,
as we expected. That produced a little wind and hail
in the state, but there was only three of them.
One came into Stanley County of some hale, so it
was out there today, no low to mid eighties, probably
everybody close to eighty five. Tonight in the sixties, and
tomorrow afternoon just hitting miss storms mid to upper eighties,

(01:00:51):
and then Friday will have a chance showers with thunderstorms continue.
We get back into this kind of scattered clusters of
storms from time to time coming in for Friday. In
the upcoming weekend, especially during the afternoon hours, it's gonna
be warm, humid, this boundary kind of meandering around, probably
middle upper eighties, and with enough sunshine one of those
days we could actually hit ninety degrees too.

Speaker 1 (01:01:10):
So it looks like we'll.

Speaker 11 (01:01:11):
Get back to some wet weather slowly today, no tomorrow maybe,
and as we look ahead toward Friday in the upcoming weekend,
a little better chance. But now not outlooked any day
for any severe weather on Friday and tomorrow, just general
kind of thunderstorms around, so not expecting damage you winter, hell,
at least doesn't look like it at this time.

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
Okay, all right, well, we'll see you see what's up
in an hour. Thank you, sir, appreciate it. Okay, all right,
and it is seven forty eight. Hang on ipid fire
these phone calls because we're gonna chat with the congressman
here in the next segment. So everybody's got like a
minute and a half, two minutes, let's do this thing.
What's up, Hey, Anthony? How you doing? I'm no good?

Speaker 5 (01:01:54):
How you doing?

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
Pretty good? Sir?

Speaker 10 (01:01:56):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
What you got?

Speaker 5 (01:01:58):
So you're talking about the foxy Lady that At another
time in my life, I used to live in Greensboro
and down by the airport down there to Pimont Airport,
there's a place called used to be a place called
south Side Jars, and I think it used to be
like a Taco bell or something because the DJ booth
was the uh was the draft.

Speaker 3 (01:02:18):
I know.

Speaker 5 (01:02:19):
It was a really small point.

Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
Our studios are now in High Point in Greensboro, but
we used to be just south on the on the
airport freeway there.

Speaker 5 (01:02:26):
Yeah, yeah, I used to.

Speaker 1 (01:02:28):
Yeah, I used to get off when you get off
the exit there, there's like nine strip clubs or something
over on the right side.

Speaker 4 (01:02:36):
It's yeah, I know.

Speaker 5 (01:02:37):
We used to. We used to take care of your
your studios there. Spoke to in down there and all
your towers and stuff all the other.

Speaker 1 (01:02:44):
Oh cool cool, yeah, yeah, yeah, there's a place that uh.

Speaker 5 (01:02:50):
I think it's a Taco Bell some type of fast
restaurant they have and also there no uh.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
Uh yeah, I mean, sir, don't be a perv. So,
like you know, I'm always creeked out when they serve
food anyway, but the fact that they might have chiloopas
actually intrigues me. All right, thanks for the call there, Ross,
you want to go to the former Taco Bell Strip club?

Speaker 6 (01:03:15):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
I love things that used to be other things. Do
you know how many buildings used to be pizza huts?
Remember the old pizza hut buildings that are now like
pawn shop.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Yeah, but you can't hide it now. Everybody knows that
was a pizza hut, like everybody absolutely. And that's when
pizza hut was the bomb. Buffet pizza hut. Like, if
you're young, you don't even know pizza hut.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
Buffet pizza hut back in the day. Was that was
like that was going to dinner at the White House.
You gotta you don't even understand when we were a kid,
if we got to go to buffet pizza hut. Yes, buffet,
Pizza Hut. Look it up, it's a thing. Mark, what's
up readings?

Speaker 5 (01:03:57):
Hey? Yeah, yeah, I was telling Ross four seven. I
didn't know you changed your name because it was a
very energetic young lady. Stay tuned for the Casey Odea Show.

Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
What is it was?

Speaker 4 (01:04:09):
Oday?

Speaker 5 (01:04:10):
I'm wrong?

Speaker 1 (01:04:11):
What is going on? For those who don't know yesterday?
We have this spot this hour of the case the
Odeal Show is sponsored by wind Donation. Why just total
disrespect man, And now you're telling but you're telling me
it's something different.

Speaker 5 (01:04:24):
Uh yeah, well I didn't hear the l I said
it was just the Odea like I was saying. It
might be AI reading it because they have a tendency
to read all the vowels and pronounce them.

Speaker 7 (01:04:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
Well some we call a dub center. But all right, Wednesday,
and you know it is so easy to prep a
talk show in today's current environment. To help us slice
some of these stories is Congressman Brad Nod who joins us,
how you doing today, sir? What's going on?

Speaker 4 (01:04:54):
Good morning, Kathy.

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
It's good to be here.

Speaker 4 (01:04:57):
I hope that you're doing well.

Speaker 1 (01:04:58):
Well. I'm not in downto having lost singage lists so
that probably that probably increases is help me understand something.
And I add, we were chatting with your colleague, Senator
Budd yesterday and I asked him the same question. Explained,
explain to me your colleagues from the other side of
the aisle their strategy in embracing what's going on in

(01:05:20):
LA because I don't understand it. Man, this was like
political suicide to me. But maybe you have some insights
since you swimming it up there in DC.

Speaker 4 (01:05:31):
It's a great question, Katie, and I think that it's
a it's a fairly uncomfortable truth to acknowledge. But I
think many on the other side advocate and defend the
mass migration into the country, and that's their entire political platform.
I mean, you look at what Biden Harris did. They truly,

(01:05:51):
this is not hyperbole. They truly fought to allow and
to facilitate the mass migration into the country. You have
Democrat mayor, you have Democrat governors all over the country,
even some of North Carolina, to adopt this sanctuary mentality
and sanctuary policy, and for them to to acknowledge it's

(01:06:12):
a problem when undermined their entire platform and their entire
goal politically and they just.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
But they just got clicked in a presidential election over
this issue, right.

Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
Well, yes and no, I mean that that is that
is true in the short term, but in the long term,
we have another census coming up and apportionment counts illegal immigrants,
and if you start to facilitate, you know, the mass
removal of illegal immigrant criminals, that's what we're talking about here.
The ICE officials wanted to remove people who are in

(01:06:46):
custody in California, and that's what triggered these riots. It's
outrageous and uh to to even facilitate that would potentially
remove individuals who are going to be counted and a
portion for electoral purposes in the Electoral College, the House
of Representatives, the allocation of fadual resources, so on and

(01:07:08):
so forth. And so yes, they got beat in this
last election, but they are very much working towards trying
to take back the House of Representatives, trying to take
back the White House and the Senate. And if that happens,
we're going to see exactly what Biden and Harris built
for four years restart. And I think they're trying to
play the long game here. There's no defense for it,

(01:07:29):
it's dangerous, it's deranged, it hurts the country. But what
they're doing defive logic, and there's only one explanation. They
believe it will benefit them politically to have more illegal
aliens in the country, and that's what they're fighting for.

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
So, like, I'm always fascinated by the way that you
all interact with each other up there with the cameras.
Aren't on right?

Speaker 5 (01:07:54):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
Where it's like, because I'm sure that there are people
on the left side of the aisle that you probably
count amongst as friends, right, or at least people that
you feel you can have a conversation with.

Speaker 5 (01:08:04):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:08:04):
If the kid are so likely, will they privately admit
that this is a doomed voyage or I mean, how
does that work?

Speaker 5 (01:08:15):
You know?

Speaker 4 (01:08:15):
It's one of those things, Kasey, where the party itself
has drifted so far to the left that the Bill
Clinton Democrat is an endangered species right the America first,
the realist, the we need to protect American citizens, need
to protect Americans pocketbooks, me to protect American budgets, death

(01:08:38):
and all that stuff that is gone and right now
the Democratic Party in public is anti Trump with everything
that they have.

Speaker 5 (01:08:47):
If Trump is for it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:48):
They are viscerally against it. And that is actually fairly uniform.
There's a real hatred across every every elected official and
the Democratic side up here that that really really has
a dane for President Trump. There are some who very
much loads the fact that the Democratic Party has lurched
so far to the left. I don't want to out them,

(01:09:10):
so to.

Speaker 1 (01:09:10):
Speak, but there's something are probably in purple districts too, so.

Speaker 4 (01:09:14):
Well, yes and no, I mean there are some who
come from blue districts who are very pro business, who
have great histories with you know, whether it's family businesses
or their own businesses, et cetera. And and they're they're
very much you know, they're they're liberal in a classical sense.
They're not leftists. But you look at Gavin Newsom, for instance,
he knows better, but he is trying to to skate

(01:09:36):
that line of catering to the radical left, which is
now becoming the majority of the party, appealing to big money,
you know, the tech industry and so forth, and chart
of course to the White House. He is so politically ambitious.
And he came out a few months ago, what did
he say? He said, men and women's sports has no
place in America.

Speaker 1 (01:09:56):
Well, he's already rightwa washing we're calling it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:59):
We're calling it already, He's already walking that back because
it incensed the left. He made claims illegal immigrants should
not be prioritized over American citizens or illegaland well, he's
walking that back, and he is going to war. Literally,
he is burning down his cities to protect those who
are here illegally. And uh, it's unbelievably disheartening because it's

(01:10:22):
a huge problem. And basically what we're seeing is unless
the Republicans can lead, which is what we're doing, unless
the Republicans can maintain power, it is going to be
an open border boondoggle that will destroy this country. And
the Democrats are they are committing themselves to the open
border policies of Biden Harris and the places like Manhattan,

(01:10:45):
the places like California, and it's very, very dangerous, and
I wish they would change course. Just because you're anti
illegal immigrant does not mean you're anti immigrant. They blur
those minds to capslcate Republicans and it's not true.

Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
But anyway, Doug yet, Yeah, well, are you comfortable with
the way that Trump's been handling this with the National
Guard thing, right, you would think that I am eventually
doing you know, the Lincoln suspending previous corps. I mean,
it's just crazy. And then but also bringing in the
war dogs for twenty nine palms. That's a thing, man,
That's a wild thing. So are you comfortable with everything?

Speaker 4 (01:11:25):
I'll say this. You know, the left is scurrying right
now because they don't have a winning message right now
with Los Angeles, and they're saying that President Trump started this. Well,
that is an absolute lie. That city was on fire
before President Trump ever ever decided to send into National Guard.
Their local leaders could have put this down their local leaders.

(01:11:46):
If the local leaders in California mayor Basque governs and
so on had handed over criminal illegals, those who are
in their custody and here illegally, there would be no riots.
It's outrage And when you just put yourself in the
law abiding American citizens of Los Angeles who are losing businesses,

(01:12:08):
losing cars, having their public safety threatened. It is the
duty of the federal government when you have such such
derelict officials in mayor baths and so forth, it's the
duty to protect Americans and the California government top to
bottom has abandoned Americans. And you know, I applaud President Trump.

(01:12:31):
He is basically saying to the rest of the world,
you cannot come here to pillage this country. You cannot
come here outside of our laws. You cannot come here
and walk all over the American people and the American
generosity without consequences. And that's something that is offensive to
Democrats apparently. And you know, if I were an American

(01:12:52):
business owner in Los Angeles, I would be thanking the
Lord that President Trump is protecting me in my country,
because the local officials there are not.

Speaker 1 (01:13:01):
They looted a sushi shop, which I don't even understand
what you think you're accomplishing there. I have seen video
of both the President of Mexico and the governor of
I'm trying to remember what this. I think it might
be the state of Chihuahua, which is one of the
states of Mexico, who are saying things like, you know,

(01:13:21):
you know, go ahead and rally. I mean, they're encouraging
people to gather and protest in the US. The governor guy,
he said that we should build the wall, but based
on the eighteen thirties map, which is crazy because in
the eighteen thirties they were part of Spain. They weren't
even their own country. But if you go to Mexico
and attempt to protest as a US citizen, they instead

(01:13:42):
to port you. It's literally in their constitution that foreign
agents can't protest. So like this thing has gone international, man,
and we're talking about taxing remittances and things like that,
There's going to be some punishment for them.

Speaker 4 (01:13:58):
One thing that no one talked about is how the
illegal immigrant population in the United States there are portions
in it that are part of the most sophisticated criminal
enterprises in the world, whether it's terrorism, narco trafficking, human traffing.
These are sophisticated bodies. And those sophisticated bodies control various
portions of South America, and they control various portions of

(01:14:21):
the Mexican government. And one of the things that the
Mexican government has turned a blind eye to is cartel
activity in the United States. Why have they turned a
blind eye to it? Why do they encourage it? Why
are they now stepping.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
The second largest GDP remittances and moneys back from Mexican
citizens is the second largest part of their GDP.

Speaker 4 (01:14:43):
Exactly, they are enriching themselves at our expense because of
their own greed. They are selling your neighbors Heroin, sentinel, guns, fexlats,
et cetera to make themselves money. And the Mexican government
has supported it. And they won't say that explicitly, but
they're turning a blind eye to it. And when you

(01:15:04):
start to choke off the money, they get furious. And
it has to stop. It absolutely has to stop. And
President Trump is not going to tolerate that. It's been
happening for years. When I was prosecuting organized crime, every
one of the organized crime entities that we prosecute sent
money overseas or to countries south of the border. Again,
this is a pillaging effort of the American country and

(01:15:28):
we have to stand together and stop it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:30):
Yeah. And by the way, I would encourage people who
just heard me say that it's the second largest part
of money coming into Mexico as part of their GDP
look that up. It's true. It goes agriculture and then
moneies that flow in via remittances as well as out
quote unquote outside business.

Speaker 4 (01:15:48):
Yeah, who controlled most of the agriculture casey, I mean
the car sales controlled much of that. I mean the
car sales control. I don't want to say it's a
full Marco state, but it's getting awfully closed. And when
you start to like we're getting great attention them, that's
that's what inflamed attentions.

Speaker 1 (01:16:04):
Yeah, no question, All right, let me let me hit
on a couple other things that are not Los Angeles
on fire, big beautiful bill? Do you think it's a
big beautiful bill. The Senate's going to do what they're
going to do. We talked with budd yesterday and obviously
there's going to make some changes there. But clearly there
is a divide based on the whole Trump elon thing
that we saw. And I'm curious what you think of that.

(01:16:26):
Are are you down with it? What do you want
to see?

Speaker 4 (01:16:30):
I will I will say this, No one has claimed
this bill is perfect. We have just a few seats
in the House. One of the people in our house,
in the House Republican Caucus, Casey, are representing districts that
Kamala Harris won by five points. And when you have
as a small margin, you know, if I were riding
this bill alone and I was the only person who

(01:16:50):
col decided it would look very different. But what we
do have is a bill that is unbelievably profound in
its conservative achievements. It is I disagree with Elon Musk
that it is a spending bill. It is not a
spending bill. The budget reconciliation process is something that has
to be essentially a wash. We have cut, we have reallocated.

(01:17:10):
The only thing that we are increasing the dollars for
is border enforcement. Immigration enforcement, our ice officers, our border patrol,
so on and so forth. That is the big boost.
Law enforcement dollars is where we have increased money. But
when you look at the broader picture here, it is
an immigration bill, it is it is a an energy bill.
We have gutted the ability of future administrations to to

(01:17:35):
stop exploration, to stop natural gas development, to stop oral development.
And it's taxes. If we do not pass this bill,
there will be five trillion dollars of immediate and direct
taxes levied on the American people.

Speaker 8 (01:17:50):
We can't have that.

Speaker 4 (01:17:51):
And it's not tax cut bill. We are keeping the
rates the same. We are incentivizing reinvestment into our local communities,
into our businesses. So it is taxes, it is energy,
and it is it is immigration and these things. If
the alternative to not passing this bill is drastic, it
would be a recession or worse, there wouldn't be funding

(01:18:12):
to protect the home land. Energy would would Energy costs
will continue to skyrocket. And I'll say this very important
point to mister Musk and anyone else who is listening.
This is not the last reconciliation bill that we can achieve.
We can start working right away on another one we have.
You know, we we've made tremendous strides in this bill.
We are we are saving a trillion six, minimum a

(01:18:35):
trillion six over the next ten years. If we go
forward and say we want to do another reconciliation bill,
will we tighten up budgets further? You know what we
can do just that. So all of this hysteria that
this is a sellout, this is a spending that's that
is not true. Do not listen to that. We are
utilizing the levers. We have to achieve the most conservative

(01:18:57):
results we can and the and the bill does. It
has mendous components. Again, whether it's taxes, private sector investment,
whatever it is, there are wonderful things there.

Speaker 1 (01:19:08):
The other criticism, let me just throw this at the
other criticism here is you guys should make permanent more
of the executive orders. The Trump's like, you know, why
are we not solidifying the executive order stuff within this bill?
So what do you say to that?

Speaker 4 (01:19:22):
Well, that's another That's another thing that has irritated me.
There have been a lot of people who have said, like,
they take the recisions, the recisions are the Doge cuts.
Why are we not passing these things? Well, it's that
has served as either a demonstration of ignorance or political opportunism.
If it's political opportunism, shame on my colleagues. If it's ignorance,

(01:19:43):
I can understand it. Because recisions packages have to originate
from the White House. We cannot codify the the the
Doge cuts unless we are sent those cuts in a
legislative package by the White House. So, you know, Mike Johnson,
let me shore the listeners to the Speaker of the House.
He will sign and push for every cut that the

(01:20:04):
White House sends us. They and their own prerogative, in
their own calculus, have said, we are going to push
reconciliation to prevent five trillion dollars in taxes and to
secure our border.

Speaker 1 (01:20:16):
And our homeland.

Speaker 4 (01:20:17):
Once we get that ball moving, we will start to
go through in earnest every week if we need to,
with one recision package after the next one. And the
first recision package will be voted on this week because
the White House sent a sent it to us, I
believe last Friday. So that's that's point number one in
terms of the executive board. I'll do ten seconds. The

(01:20:39):
executive orders we are going to we are gonna put
them individually in statutes or they're probably fifty that are
in the reconciliation package that we sent over to the Senate.
So we're we're keeping track.

Speaker 1 (01:20:50):
Okay, Yeah, and we'll see what the Senate looks like
coming back on the main bill. All right, Congressman, I
appreciate it this morning. We'll talk soon, okay, Thanks, Jakie,
all right, and will be right back. Hang on.