Wednesday-8-20-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I don't know if there's something going around now that
the kids are back in school or what the heck's
going on, but I mean, we're gonna do this thing.
I don't feel so bad. I can't do a show,
not gonna lie. I'm looking out for you, and I
don't feel good about this. We should tell you a
best to do. This was gonna.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
This isn't for me, This is for you. I believe
you need your rest. You sound like you're close to death.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
You know I'm really not. I'm just for whatever reason,
my head is just all like buh. And then I
was really nauseous this morning. I mean, it didn't get me,
but like whatever, So that's going on, and I should
have known it because like yesterday, did you did you
notice when I sent you prep like an hour early

(00:41):
yesterday because that normally is not a thing. Yeah, I
came in around six thirty or so. Yeah, yeah, well
the text did yeah yeah, I said it right around
like an hour before. But my point is, I was like,
I'm just really excited, Like I even took a nap yesterday.
I haven't had a nap in forever. And then I still
sent you prep early and went to bed, and I

(01:04):
just I was just like, I don't know, maybe I
overdid it this weekend, even though I really I didn't
move much. I don't I don't know. So whatever that is,
that's a part of the show today, the show we
will be doing in its entirety for those wondering in

(01:24):
the producer studio.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Okay, Now, when you say in it's entirety, do you
mean like all the way, like all three hours, or
do you mean like, yeah, yeah, no, we're.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Gonna do it because we got the congressman at eight
oh five. I don't want to bail on him. And
I again, if it gets worse, you may get lucky.
But you know, for now, it is what it is.
So again, I don't even know what it is, like
it has symptoms of two different things, so I don't know.
Maybe it's some weird disease from Russia got transferred over

(01:58):
here during the summit. I heck if I know, man.
But yeah, so that's the thing today. But that's okay
because we got a we got all sorts of interesting
stuff to fill the void with, so we will not
want for content. Uh, don't worry about that, all right.

(02:19):
Oh and we got uh and I was mentioning the uh,
the Russian summit thing because this motorcycle story, which is
kind of weird. But also leave this guy alone, media,
because I already see what you're trying to do. If
you guys don't know this story, some random dude in
Anchorage who is a he's a fan of like old,

(02:43):
hard to find motorcycles. If I got a buddy like
this who's got some really weird bikes, he's got, why
was he? He probably has like a dozen motorcycles, most
of which he rebuilt himself, and sometimes he flips them,
but he likes to collect weird old moe. Now he's
got some stuff you've heard of, Like he has an
old Indian which is really really cool. He has a

(03:08):
really hard to find Harley, and I'm trying to remember
what it is because I'm sure some of you want
to know, and I don't remembers. He's just got some
weird stuff. He has a motorcycle from Australia. I don't
remember the company that makes them, that I think is
one of the better looking bikes. So this dude up
in Alaska has a what are called urals and urals.

(03:34):
If you don't know you are a l are the
mountain range, the Big Mountain range if you want to
call it that. In Russia. Ross you may know it
from the dit lof Pass incident. We're all where all
the campers got eaten by the monster or whatever. Oh
you forgot, yeah, yeah, I am aware of that. Yes, yeah, yeah.
What what did we decide that was? I can't remember.

(03:56):
Is it interdimensional beans science experiment?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
No, they actually did kind of figure that out. That's
like a fascinating story because there was like theories that
it was like a monster or bears or something, and
they believe that at some point an avalanche, they were
covered by snow, they got out, they could not locate
their tent.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
They got and they rush, they did that.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Hypothermia thing where you take off your clothes because you're
feeling super hot but you're actually really cold, and then
they died that way because they couldn't find their their tent.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, so that's it. I remember that was what was
that sixties seventies when I don't remember, But there's a
couple of horror movies made after it. But it's a
real thing. So, but those mountains are called the Ural Mountains,
and there is a brand of motorcycle I guess in
Russia called Urals. I'm not familiar with them, but I

(04:47):
apparently they're not. Like the idea that Americans traveling around
is pretty interesting. So this dude just literally happened to
be driving by like the like the Russian Press Corps
and some of the staffers for Putin when when that

(05:08):
was going on here the other day, and they were like,
they stopped him, they were talking to him. They were
just very fascinated that, you know, some Americans driving around
one of these motorcycles, which is apparently very iconic in
Russia but very hard to get outside of Russia. So
he has a conversation with him, he doesn't really think
anything of it, and then he gets a call and

(05:30):
they're like, hey, do you mind coming down to this
hotel and uh and speaking with the executive staff of
Vladimir Putin And he goes and me, I'll just have
him tell you. And now now the media is wanting
to shame him for this, and I'm like, leave this
dude alone, Like what what do you think you think

(05:52):
Putin's buying them off? What the hell's going on? All right?
So check this out because it's kind of a crazy story.
What do you think? What do you think it is?
Looks like show, Yeah, let's take a look at it.
It's so they got a motorcycle under like you know,
like a cloth or a you know, a sheet or something.

(06:13):
So like they're in the parking lot and they're unveiling
this thing and putin literally I don't know his staff
told him or the media told him or whatever. He's
just like, uh, ship over. I'm assuming they had to
like fly this thing over. And he just gives him
a brand new ural motorcycle. I don't know if it's

(06:36):
brand new, but it's it's it's clearly in Pristine's shape,
just gives it to this random American citizen. Wow, look
at that.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Just this is the personal gift from the presence of
the Russian Federation to you.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Very good? Yeah all right, I mean and and so now,
I mean that's that's the moment when the gifted. But
now it's time for the interview. All right, So you
got local I'm assuming this is local media. So they
decide they're going to interview this guy, and you kind
of get a sense of where they're trying to go here.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
What was the reaction when you were told that they
were going to give you this bike.

Speaker 5 (07:16):
Was this like, did you think there's a hoax? What
was going through your mind?

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Absolutely?

Speaker 6 (07:21):
I thought it was a hoax because they don't know me.
I don't know them. There is no reason why they
could have should give me a bike. I haven't done
anything for them or to them, and I don't know anybody.
So yeah, it's it's so absolutely astronomically random that it
was hard for me to understand why this happens.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
Matter of fact, I still don't know why. And here's
where the interview takes kind of a weird turn, because
they treat it like it's a Craigslist scam or something.
I don't know what this chicks angle is, but listen
to that kind.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
Of got you the courage and be like, Okay, I'll
take the spike. I'll go down there and meet you.

Speaker 6 (08:02):
I think the fact that it's in a public place,
when you meet someone and there's it's in a public,
busy hotel lobby, I think the anticipation of danger is
pretty low.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Okay, all right, And like, I mean, that's a weird question.
Did you think that like Putin was running a scam?
I don't know, like he's going to say, hey, come
get the motorcycle on the seventeenth floor of this building
and anchorage your site, right right. Well, look, if you
offered it on the seventeenth floor, you probably don't show
up to that, right right, because you know your spidy

(08:37):
cent should be up. But and then they were asking
him questions too, like should you take it, and he's like, yeah, no,
I'm going.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
To take it, Like what did you do to deserve
this was this sort of weird trade or something like
a spy?

Speaker 1 (08:51):
What's going on now? He wants to give you a motorcycle.
By the way, if the Prime Minister of Italy's listening,
Miss Maloney, I love do Cotti's so big fan Ross.
You know that my passion is Ducatti's right. You don't
shut up about it? Oh no, no, no, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I won't shut up. I love Ducatis. So you know,
if you're listening, miss Maloney, that's fine. Uh just big

(09:15):
fans so or you know, ferraris Lambo Ross, you're a
Lambo guy, right, speaking of Italian Shu. No, not for me,
it's for the children, but yeah, I mean for the
of course, of course, for the children. So uh if
she's listening uh that, Like, like if I were to
be gifted a Lambo, I be like, now I need

(09:35):
to pay taxes on this thing and property taxes. I
don't have it, but you know, I'm gonna take one
for the team and I'll drive it on the neighborhood
for the children. So if the kids, yeah, but you're
taking it for the kids. Team kids, they see the
lambo drive past and they're like, wow, dreams can come true.
Thank you uh ross for the lambo for the children. Funt.
So you know, by the way, every time I see

(09:58):
that woman, I like her more. I gotta be honest
with you, man, did you see her like sitting in
that meeting and she's got her eyes literally you know
the thing where you look up or you're just annoyed
to be there. Yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
One of them was like droning on and on and
on and on, and she like shut up, Like you
could have texted this to me.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
This could have been in an email, right right exactly.
She looks like you and I look when the team's
meeting starts, so like three minutes in, like I appreciate that.
And also she did rescue Biden so thank you for that.
So because again, even if you don't like him as
a president, you don't want him wandering off at you know,
falling off the cliff there at Normandy, right, that would

(10:39):
not because it's not a good look for the US.
So thank you to that. But yeah, no, Putin just
gave this guy a motorcycle. So do you think and
I don't, I don't know, do you think you give
it a once over to make sure there's no weird
things installed on it? Though? I mean, you don't tell
the press that you don't want to. But like now

(11:00):
they're giving this guy grief. They're like, why would you
take that from Vladimir Putin? Uh In, My my answer
would be, uh, I don't know what this thing's worth.
But now now that's less money he can use to
bomb Ukraine. I don't know whatever. Give him a motorcycle
some random eul brandom. I don't even know if they're
good motorcycles. I know, I know nothing about them. But

(11:23):
uh yeah, now the guy's like, no, I'm gonna take it,
and uh, I you know, I don't really have a
beef there. So what now? Now the question is what
if it was a different leader? Like ross, let's say
that Kim Jong un called anyone to give you a
North Korean car. I don't even know if they. I'm
sure they make something that's awful, right. You're taking that
just out of sheer wonderment, right, because you just assume

(11:46):
it's gonna be a pile of garb, right, I assume
it's gonna blow up or something like. I don't right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (11:51):
So.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
Who knows. I mean, it's such a weird, random story.
But also, why are you beaten on the dude? I
don't know. I don't know how much money he makes.
I mean, he lives in Alaska, so it's not like
you can ride a motorcycle year round there.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
And you don't want to judge a book by its cover.
But he seems like the most basic, normal dude.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah yeah, yeah, he seemed. He strikes me as somebody
who probably didn't even know the thing was going on,
just doesn't care. So yeah, free motorcycle shows up? Sure, yeah, yeah,
you take it. Figure it out from there now, Because
what I saw some activists like what he should do
is he should sell it and then send the money

(12:30):
to Ukraine. That would show putin Okay, Well, no, it
wouldn't because he wouldn't care, Okay, And I'm like, the
motivation behind it is I think him trying to normalize himself.
But it's not changing anyone's opinion. Maybe that one dude,
And he doesn't even seem to care. He's not out
talking about how great Putin is. He's like, all right,

(12:53):
I showed up. He didn't push me off the seventeenth floor. Thanks,
all right, I'm leaving. So, uh, anyway, if he missed
that story, it's kind of interesting. But the way the
media is attacking it is really the story there. All right,
six twenty. We'll take a break, be right back. Everyone's
emailing me say that they also dealing with the same

(13:14):
symptoms nausea, brain fog, and exhausted. Yeah. I don't know
what's going on, so but it's not so bad that
like I wasn't gonna do a show. I am going
to wander today, but I you know, that's kind of
a hallmark of the show, so probably wouldn't notice if
I said anything. But yeah, yeah, I don't know what

(13:34):
it is. Maybe they'll make it the next pandemic. I
don't know, but uh oh, maybe I have COVID I
don't know. Uh, but yeah, not so bad. I'm gonna
do anything, but I don't know what it is. I
will say this though, even with the brain fog and
everything going on, I'm not dumb enough to be in
the ocean right now, out in the outer banks. Like

(13:54):
why am I reading stories about people having to be
rescued yesterday? What are you doing? What are you doing? Like,
you know, I get one idiot surfers like male LUVII swells,
but like people just I guess they had a people
had a vacation plan. They went out there and like
I'm going in the ocean. I don't care if there's

(14:15):
a hurricane right off the coast. I almost did it again.
Ross has ruined me on this. You know, you get
something stuck in your hau. I'll tell you, guys, what's up.
You know, you get something stuck in your head and
then you have to like make a mental note not
to like, let's say you you ever got somebody's name wrong,
and no matter how many times you remind yourself that

(14:38):
that's not their name, for whatever reason, it's just encased
in your brain like that. So one time, because he
thought he was cute on my Callscreener when we were
having Congressman Brad Not on Ross. I don't know if
it was a typo or you meant to do that.
Ross wrote bread not and I swear to God, every
time I'm about to say it, I have to mentally

(14:59):
tell myself that it's Brad.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Right right, And Brad is a is a friend of
the show and we like having him on the show.
He started that back like when he was he does.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Ross does this with every just damn near every guest
on the Call Screamer, just to screw with everyone.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, but when he was first running campaign ads, when
he was first running off the air, be like, oh,
there's bread no you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, because bread notts are delicious, They're so good. Yeah yeah, yeah.
So now I like, I was doing the promo yesterday
after the show. You know, hey, we got the Congressman
and I started doing the promo. I had to stop
and like redo it because I do it. Ross taps
and then puts it in and it's just like I've
just ruined it. He has to change his name.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
He should do it, and he was a real friend
of the show. He would change his name. But he's
probably gonna be selfish about this and.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Be like, Congress, you probably didn't do that, but I
don't know. So Congressman Brad dot will join us at
eight oh five. We've got to uh, you know obviously
with all the the summit stuff and the DC crime stuff.
So we got we got lots to get into and
I guess whatever Congress is gonna do.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
And you know what, in all fairness, it's really not
a bad name like nickname when you compare it to say,
I don't know, like slender Man Tom Tillis.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Well, yeah, that's a spiteful nickname. That's a different thing
entirely so, and that one I still remember his name.
I just prefer the other one. So anyway, we'll chat
with Brad not at eight oh five. Okay, all right,
very good. Hey, who wants to be a superhero? The

(16:39):
FDA is warning the public not to eat because they
don't want superheroes because they're very selfish. Great value raw
frozen shrimp. So that's the Walmart generic brand there, great value.
I gotta tell you, as far as generic brands go,
not a big fan of the Walmart great value stuff.

(17:01):
And I don't mind generic brands, but there is like
when it comes to like any of the proteins or something. Anyway,
all right, I'm not gonna get the Walmart endorsement. However, however,
apparently the raw frozen shrimp at Walmart is contaminated with
caesium one point thirty seven, a radioactive isotope. How does

(17:24):
that happen? And do you get superpowers?

Speaker 3 (17:29):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Where's it? AD's out of Indonesia. So I guess maybe
maybe they package stuff in Indonesia with caesium. I don't know.
Let's see here now to this point, apparently, and this
is good. This is what the FDA is supposed to do.
So as part of importing foods, specifically raw meats, they

(17:56):
will as part of the import they will test portions
of the just randomly tested. So that's actually how this
was caught, and it so far they do not believe
that any of the positive caesium shrimp has entered the
US food supply. But this is just the cautionary stuff
that they do. So let's see here. I know they

(18:19):
give lot codes. You can go look it up if
I guess you've got some shrimp in your freezer at
the moment. Let's see, how did they I just want
to know how caesium gets in there. I mean, there's
probably I don't want to say a reasonable explanation. All right,

(18:40):
Caesium a soft, flexible, silvery white metal that becomes liquid
near room temperature. So I guess it's like mercury. I
don't know easily bonds with chloride. This has to be
something that they it has to be something they're using
to clean equipment. That's the only thing that makes sense.
And then they just didn't clean out whatever they put
the shrimp in, right am. I again, I don't know

(19:05):
bonds easily with chlorides crates. Well, this isn't making any
sense to me. I'm not a chemist. Also, don't eat
it because I don't think he'll get superpowers. Probably probably
just will be bad for you. Yeah, here it is
cute radiation sickness and death. Yeah, no, that's pretty bad
or superpowers, we don't know. But if you have any

(19:29):
of it, I guess they'll give you a refund. Okay.
Any who just saw that, yeah yesterday, and I'm like,
how does is it a putin thing? Because remember they're
pretty sure he poisoned that British The guy was living
in the UK. He was a Russian dude, but he
was living in the UK with radioactive stuff. So and

(19:51):
he's the only one I know that does that. So maybe,
but probably not. All right, eight eight eight nine three
four seven eight seven. I don't know how I had
missed seeing pictures of this thing. Ross. Have you seen
the Obama Presidential Library?

Speaker 2 (20:08):
I saw it, and I thought it was like a joke.
Like I thought it was like a joke post.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yeah, you know what, maybe that's what it was, because
I swear I've seen it before and I just didn't
clock it. That's an evil guy lair, right.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
Yeah, it looks like something out of like a dystopian
sort of future or like.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah, like I have you ever been to any presidential library?
I went to Reagan's. Have you ever been to any
of the presidential libraries? I have not? Okay, I have been.
I've been to that one, and I've I've seen photos
of another. They just they looked very regular, like the
Jimmy Carter ones, like crazy regular down in Georgia, which

(20:46):
I've seen photos of that one. I don't know what
the hell this thing is. Yeah, it looks like a
dystopian bad guy lair, and the same reaction to seeing
the building. Remember when they revealed like his official White
House portrait, and it was like the weirdest thing you've
put with the leaves or the yeah, the hedge behind it,
it's like equally super weird, Like what am I looking at? Yeah,

(21:09):
but at least that's you know, in the sense that
that's that's an artist interpretation. I mean it is weird,
but like it's an artist interpretation. So it is what
it is. This is a building, man, and it's a building.
I think you want people to come to, right, that's
the point of these right. It's a little bit of
an ego thing, but also it's what we do for

(21:31):
our presidents. So I don't know. I'm thinking we don't
know what Trump's is. I mean we have some sense
as to kind of the general that he wants. I
think he has to go solid gold, right, Like remember
remember we saw pictures of his apartment in New York, right,
where everything's just gold, Like it's a crazy amount of gold. Yeah,
and you've seen what he've done, what he's done to

(21:51):
the Oval office as well, Right, But like the New
York apartment was crazy. I think once it's your your
library can go all out. I think he's got to
go full gold goldfinger man, So one hundred percent. And
and the irony is that even if his looks completely normal,
we're gonna we're gonna go through that period where his
is made fun of by the media and Barack Obama's

(22:14):
is an architecture, an architectural arc. I can't say the
word this morning, architectural marvel. Right, So we'll have this
this acute double standard. So if you're gonna get crapped
on anyway, you got to go as gaudy as possible, man,
one hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
We've already seen this in so many different things, right,
where like they would never talk about how Biden walks
up the stairs to Air Force one or walk is
a generous word, right, or like you know, walks away
from a group photo with world leaders to get lost
on the beaches of Normandy because he has no idea
where he is, or gets lost in the giant walking

(22:50):
closet in the Lincoln bedroom or whatever it is. But
like they were talking about Trump the other day, like
the videos of him, like look at him trying to
get up the stairs to Air Force one or look,
well they.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Had him and he was walking the carpet to meet Putin.
They were like they traced it, and he like he
veered a little and they're like.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Oh, no, no, cook. And I saw somebody I don't
remember recall who it was. Maybe it was Banchie, it
was a really good point. Maybe it was even Jarvis,
I don't know, and they were like, you know, maybe
because he's been shot at multiple times and there was
multiple people trying to kill him, he's walking in zigzags
like he's Bo Jackson and techno bowl.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
I saw that. That makes sense. Yeah, I would too. Yeah,
you got it. You got a juke, you got a
zigzag man. I don't know if that's true, but I
don't know. Maybe somebody told him that or and the
thing with the him walking with with uh on the
carpet there, which by the way, they're mad because they
put out red carpet for Putin. I mean, it's still

(23:45):
a world leader, and you're trying to not be an
a hole one hundred percent to him because you want
him to do something like all of it the and
I understand it's through the filter of Trump, but like
when he's walking over there, he he's waiting, he's kind
of moving but he's waiting. He's waiting for pooting to
get off the thing. And he's got, you know, people

(24:06):
the left of them, people to the right, there's people
yelling questions. So it's really disingenuous to just with no sound,
just slow roll that with a little line and go, oh,
you can't walk straight. He's he's looking at a bunch
of stuff. He might be trying to lean in where
it questions like, it's it's all so dumb. But when

(24:27):
it comes to presidential libraries, the Barack Obama one is
crazy looking. It just maybe it's nice inside. I don't know.
It looks like something out of Batman Forever, the Joel
Schumacher Batman that came out when we were in high
school with The Riddler and Tommy Lee Jones. It looks
like something like that's the sort of style of it.

(24:50):
It looks like two Face or somebody should be hanging
out in there. I don't know, man, somebody should be
in there figuring out how they're going to take over something.
But yeah, unfortunately the residents are not pleased. I guess.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
By the way, it's eight hundred and fifty million dollars
for the building and read. But residents are upset because
they think it's gentrifying the area, which is interesting because
Obama's black, right, can you gent if you're black? Can
you gentrify a black neighborhood?

Speaker 5 (25:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (25:27):
I don't know the I honestly, I don't know the
answer to that. I guess just because he's really rich
he made all that book money. Plus this is, you know,
damn near a billion dollars south side of Chicago. They
say it's gentrifying, driving up rents and we'll displace longtime
residents and families. Oh you know what, now that I

(25:49):
figured out which neighborhood this is ross, what if the
reason it looks like that is because it's bulletproof. That
would yeah, that would that would that would work out?
That would change? Yeah, it's that's why it's it's made
of kevlar. So no, it looks like I said something
out of that Batman Forever a comic bookie. Or it
looks like maybe like I said, Mad Max, where like

(26:09):
they have to weld the like steal onto the side
of a car or something right right, so it can
like well yeah, yeah, you know, and man, here's the
other thing too. It's hard to criticize really gaudy, ugly buildings.
Considering some of the state buildings that we have in
downtown Rawleigh, they're just hideous. Man, Like, there's a there's

(26:31):
a there's a few, and everyone knows they're hideous and
it was just during that era when they built them.
But this is this is like futuristic ugly. Yeah. No,
it stands out, like intentionally stands out. It's like you're
looking looking at uh. I don't know, I don't know
if you get the reference.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
But indespicable me how Gru's house is so much different
than everybody else's. It's like it's obvious that's where the
evil man lives. It sticks out like that, like.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
There'sh's the crew's the bad guy in the black shirt. Yeah, yeah,
clearly I don't get the right. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
No, his house is like way differend than everybody else's
house on the block. Like it looks like an evil layer.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Let's see here, what's all inside. So they have the museum,
they'll have a public library, branch, an athletics center. Good
lord man, they don't have any of this in the
right well, they have obviously a library thing in the
Reagan thing, but gardens and a children's play area. Then
they can just see what you do is ros You
trick them in there and you just get the adrenachrome

(27:25):
right from them. Perfect. Oh and it's uh by the
Oh jeez, good lord. What so what do you so
they've spent they're gonna spend eight hundred and fifty million.
What do you think the budget was for this thing?
This is crazy? All right? What do you think the

(27:45):
stated budget was for this? This I sore that they
now say is at eight hundred and fifty could balloon
to a billion? What do you think the initial budget was?

Speaker 5 (27:56):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Wait, wait wait, wait, start over, start off the original budget? Wait,
hold on, all right, so they've spent eight hundred and
fifty million. They're saying it could balloon to a billion
before they're done. What do you think the quote unquote
budget was for this when they started? Two hundred million?
No no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
Seven hundred fifty thousand, No, two hundred and fifty thousand,
No a little higher, three hundred thousand, up for four
hundred thousand.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Oh we're going on six hundred thousand. No again, now
you're over half a million. Oh my god, you hit it.
You had didn't die. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're only three
hundred and fifty million over budget, and that's expected to
be more. Never doubt spinning the big wheel, that is, dude,
How embarrassing when guys would get on there and not

(28:44):
get the wheel all the way around. I was under them.
If you're a dude and you show up on the
prices right and you fail to spin the wheel all
the way around, they should just they should. There should
be a little pit that opens with sharks or something.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
I think a lot of them. It doesn't have to
do with weakness, right, They're trying to be like cutesy
with it, and they're like, I'm gonna spend it. Sat
Land's right in the dollar, so I'm gonna give it
like a week spin and then it doesn't even go around,
and now you have to you have to move, You
have to move.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
I love how Bob Barker would call him out on
it too. You're like, what are you a pansy? What's
going on? Dude? I just happened to see a video
the other day of him just trash talking dudes who
didn't get the wheel around. Was very satisfying. So yeah, no,
now that's how you know, it's the Obama Library. It's
almost one hundred percent over budget. And then it looks

(29:31):
like that, but you know, kevlar's not cheap. All right,
six fifty one, we'll be right back. Hang on. Yesterday,
we we were talking well, I'm trying to remember why
we were onto the oh because the tribe in Scotland,
by the way, Ross, there is so much video of
this tribe. They make videos and I fell down that
rabbit hole. If you guys don't know this, there's a

(29:53):
tribe called there's a group of migrants in Scotland that
have just taken over like a forest. Uh they're you know,
they're they're from Africa. They call themselves a tribe, to
tribe of Cabbala or something, and they are demanding the
land that was stolen from him four hundred years ago.
And it's really entertaining because Ross and I think this

(30:14):
guy Linde will just give it to him because they
are a bunch of cowards. But but they make videos
and there's a video of the king because they have
the king and they're like waving palm fronds at him
and stuff. It's it's crazy. But then we were talking
about the Last King of Scotland, right the movie and
Edia Meane And I was reminded of this yesterday after

(30:36):
the show, and I wish i'd brought it up. When
that movie came out. They did a poll and if
you were under twenty five, more than half the people
thought that was just a character they made up. They
didn't They didn't realize Ediaman was was real, which is
crazy because not only was he real, he's also not
even the worst maniacal dictator on the a for con

(31:00):
continent at the time. Woke up Nausius. I feel fine now,
but well, at least on that front. Just had his
fog exhausted yesterday, so I don't know if there's something
going around not so bad. I couldn't do the show,
much to Ross's dismay. But here we be, so be
on the lookout for that fun. I guess, especially with
the kids back in school, tis the season right to

(31:23):
bring home all this stuff. Although be I guess, be
glad if your kid just brings home a bug from
school and you're not embroiled in a lawsuit with Wake
County schools. This story's crazy, man, all right? So yesterday
or yesdair mon I guess it was yesterday. There was
a court hearing because the school district decided to request

(31:48):
having a lawsuit thrown out. And the judge is like, nah,
I think we're I think we're gonna keep this lawsuit.
I think we're gonna do this thing. So they were
unsuccessful there, and frankly, I'm kind of happy for that.
I know that you're getting into I mean, it's insurance,
but you're getting into taxpayer dollars here. But at some point,

(32:08):
like parents have to have some recourse, man, And here's
what it centers around. So you have these two students.
They name them in the article, and the families talked
about them, so I'll give you their names, Christian King
and Justin Hemphill. Now these two students have something in common.
They're both nonverbal special ed special ed students. And that

(32:33):
really really is an important component here because if if
something goes wrong at school, they're not really able to
tell their parents about it, even in the little kid way.
The little kids will tell you they're not coming home
and talking to their parents about an incident at school.
They're nonverbal, and I don't know the level of communication

(32:54):
that they're able to do is Lincoln able to accurately
describe things that happened at school or is it kind
of where you're putting puzzle pieces together? Talk to the teacher. Yeah,
a lot of it is puzzle pieces. Okay, all right,
but these kids are straight nonverbal. So again I don't know.
But here here's what I do know. So, going back
to twenty twenty two, so we are three years out

(33:17):
on this, the parents received anonymous letters from support staff
at the school their kid went to, their kids went to. Okay,
because again the kids are not able to communicate, there's
a problem, So literal support staff recognizes that something's wrong,

(33:39):
so they reach out to the parents. Probably probably get
in trouble for that, I guess, but I don't know.
I'm glad they did. And according to what they what
they were told, one of the special education teachers had
physically harmed the students in class. All right, Well, if
you're a parent, obviously at that point you're going to

(34:00):
write to the school, right because what the hell? And
so they go to the school and this school doesn't
do anything, and in fact, it took the school and
this number is kind of crazy. This is according to
the lawsuit, the district was negligent in its response to
the violence, claiming the district waited six hundred and two

(34:21):
days before notifying police. I'm assuming they notified police. The
school didn't for six hundred and two days. But you're
damn you're not quite a two years. But that's that's
born a full school year. And eventually, once the police

(34:41):
got involved. Just so we're clear, the teacher was charged
with assault and convicted. So in the eyes of the law,
this thing happened. But the fact that it took six
hundred and two days, their kids still have to go
to school, they're not you know, they're not They're not
getting a response here, and you know, there's positively what

(35:02):
do you do maybe your kid gets harmed again six
hundred and two days before he called police. That's the
hook here. It wasn't just the process took six hundred
and two days, which would be obscene anyway. They didn't
even reach out to law enforcement for over six hundred days.
That's what the parents are suing over. And in fact,
it wasn't until and you know, sometimes this is the

(35:25):
power of the media right here. The parents also claim
that that only took place because eventually they got WRAL
five on your side or whatever their thing is to
go contact the district and it was only then that
they reached out to police. Let's see the lawsuit seeking

(35:45):
damages of one hundred time. You should sue him for
a lot more. Yeah, I know that I pay into
the system. A lot of people listening do. But what
you can't operate like that six hundred days? Ask for more.
The mom found the lawsuit against the district last year
a legend the district was negligent and its response to

(36:06):
the violence. Yeah, this is what I understand. I now. Look,
don't get me wrong. I'm sure that you deal at
the school level with all sorts of parents who are
coming in because kids are not necessarily always honest about
what happened, and then you got to explain what happened,
and you know, maybe you calm the parents down, maybe
they're unreasonable, and you don't. Right, there is there is

(36:29):
a lane here where I understand what teachers in the
district goes through. Like, I get it, I get it.
I told you I dated a couple of teachers did
one very long time, and the stories that she'd come
home with were crazy, and most of it had to
do with like the kids that were getting passed through

(36:50):
to her grade, and then also where she tried to
talk to parents and like she had a parent threaten
to file a restraining order on her because she called
because her kid was like failing, and so she called
like every few weeks to try to talk to the parent.
The parent threaten to file a restraining order. I understand
that you got to deal with that. That being said,

(37:11):
if somebody alleges there's assault, and especially especially when you're
dealing with students who can't even really communicate to you
quote unquote their side of the story, how do you
not err on the side of getting like you don't
want you don't want the liability. You got to get
at the very least the school Resource Officer, ROLLIPD, whatever,

(37:32):
Wake Forest police whatever, what school is it? The saying
the story doesn't matter, it's one of the way county schools, whoever,
the police, you gotta get them involved, and police will
go in and investigate. And look, clearly, you have witnesses
because people were sending you messages on this, so it's

(37:52):
not like it's not like your kid is verbal, came
home and spun a yarn, right, they had no idea
this happened.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
We had sort of a similar situation when Lincoln was
in pre K where I remember this, this teacher disappeared
and we all wanted to know when is she coming back,
and the school would not get back to us, and
then rumors started to formulate that she had abused the
student and nothing.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
This is you and the rest of the parents and Lincoln's.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
Yeah, Like one of the parents, one of the parents
spoke to us and was like, hey, my kid was
sort of like you know, abused by the teacher, and
we're like, oh what, Yeah, So we're all trying to
get a meeting and just get some word from the
school as to like, hey, when are we going to
have an official teacher, what is the status of this teacher?
Why was this teacher removed? And nothing. We're not hearing anything.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Against And you need to know details so you can
figure out if your kid was.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
Also correct, because Lincoln would it come home and say
hey this happened, it would You'd really have to pull
it out of them, like you'd have to figure it
out like a puzzle, like you were saying. So eventually,
like I sent an email this is after like a
month and a half or something. We're sending all sending emails,
like they were all sending emails. What wasn't hear anything back?
I sent email from my work email address. And when

(39:09):
I send an email from it's one of these things
I really think about doing big, you know, I personal
at my work. So I sent the email for my
work address that says does.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
People respond differently to an email address.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
From a media but when it says w TKK fmwpt
I FM kram blah blah blah blah blah, you know,
and and all the iHeart logos and stuff. I sent
that back and got a email back immediately, Yeah, immediately,
because and I had said at the time, I said, hey,
we're really looking for information. We want to know what's
happened here. We're all very confused, We're very concerned. We

(39:43):
want to know what the status of this teacher is.
Why is this teacher gone? You know, if I need to,
I can reach out to my friend, Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest,
who is in charge of you these schools and stuff,
and yeah, maybe he can get some information. And I
got an email back immediately, right, And they were like,
you know, we all need to have a meeting about
this and get the yeah, they're like, oh, really okay.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
But but the fact that you have to flex that
these parents to get finally get Ril to come in
there and do a story, and then and only then
does the ball get rolling and we're gonna get some
police in there. It's just it's crazy. And what Ross
is talking about. I want to be very clear, because
we had this the story about the day I'm an
a g blah blah blah. When when when when Ross

(40:23):
says we think about using it, I make a conscious
decision to not use it in most instances completely yep, correct,
because I don't because just sending it, I don't want
people to think if it's not my intent, that I'm
using my position or the fact that I work for
the media to get something done right. And also I

(40:45):
don't want a bunch of dumb radio questions too, because
then they look up your show and if they don't
like Trump, then they're mean to you. It's just not
worth it. But man, when you use it and it's
and it's really bad, that that's how you can finally
get people to re fond of stuff. But it's true,
and you see these stories, what was the way, Do

(41:06):
you mind me asking what in what fashion was the abuse,
because I see there was a crazy story I saw yesterday.
I'm gonna find it. What was I think if if
I'm remember it was, if I'm remembering correctly, I believe
it was like a slap or something. And that teacher
no longer works for Wake County as far as I know.
And this is back in pre K and he's in
what eighth grade now, so I mean it's where every go.

(41:26):
But we also you've had instances in the past where
you know, Lincoln was dragged down the hallway by his arm,
you know, and they brought and he would have never
told us he would have come home. It would have
never been a thing. He would have never told us.
And and and uh one of the one of the
teachers that I did was special ed teacher. And I've
told this story on the air. Like she'd come home
with like injuries occasionally. In fact, I remember on two

(41:50):
occasions came home with black eyes man or she got
hit and then the next day she got a black eye.
And I'm like, we're not going to a restaurant. By
the way, people sitting around thinking I'm abusing you but
like she understood that as part of the job. And
so I understand that these teachers are in a unique
position where they also have to deal with kids that
are having meltdowns. Right, doesn't mean they're bad teachers. They

(42:10):
got to deal with it. And so clearly it's not
going to be a job that's for everybody.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
No, I mean, I mean, listen, we're all human. Yeah,
And I've discussed on the air before. You know, when
Lincoln I call it hulking out right, when he goes
from Bruce Banner to the Hulk, And it's really that
sort of transformation, and.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
You're really starting with the kid not to hurt themselves.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Correct, But there are ways of doing things. There is protocol,
there is procedure.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
Like you what you want to do is you want
to go and then you want to break their fingers, right,
that is not what you want to do. Oh well,
nobody told this teacher in Flugerville who's finally McKinsey Murrel,
who finally went to court. This actually happened last year,
but it's just I guess for whatever reason, it took
a year to get her in court. So she is

(42:55):
she's now convicted of breaking kindergarten specially ed kindergartens fingers,
so if they were she would grab their fingers to
quote get them back in control, and she would bend
them so much she broke some of the kids fingers.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
Yeah that sounds awful. Yeah, I will say this Lincoln's
teacher now and the group they have around them, they're fantastic, like,
but not like breaking your fingers. She does this thing
where like if he's feeling stressed, like draw a circle
in the palm of your hand with your finger, or
she was explaining that sometimes you know, autistic children, they
get lost in one hemisphere of their brain, so if

(43:30):
you like cross over and touch your toes, it helps
you get out of this. She's fantastic yea. So it's
like you're saying, like this teacher was doing that sort
of thing, but breaking their fingers.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, break their fingers right. So, and
I don't know if that worked to calm them down
from the one thing, but clearly it would probably set
them off on the other. Uh yeah, and these were
these were kindergarten kindergarteners. Yes, yeah. The difference is this
when it happened, I mean, clearly there's visible in this

(44:01):
was in Texas. I thought it was Pennsylvanias in Texas.
And in Texas they immediately contacted police, CPS, took her
out of the classroom. And now she's convicted of this.
She'll never teach again, at least in Texas. I'm hoping nowhere.
But yeah, yeah, she won a different route. They did
not sit on it for six hundred plus days and

(44:23):
have to wait for the media to get around and
to do some about it. Man, But yeah, so good,
good on the judge there again. You know it all
cuts into taxes we pay for the district. But you
also need to figure out whose responsibility it was to

(44:43):
elevate this to police, and they need to not work
there anymore. Right, there's somebody in that chain of command
whose job it is to evaluate whether it's time to
bring law enforcement in. And apparently your detectors broke. Clearly,
your detectors broke. And I know what they'll say, Well, look, well,
you know it's not like we could talk to the kid.

(45:04):
We didn't know. You have other staff reaching out to
the parents. Clearly there's a problem, and at that point
you take it out of your hands. You let the
police investigate and if there's not something, that's fine, you
keep the guy in there whatever somebody Then you know,
like it's a scenario where another worker didn't like the
teacher so made up a story, Right, I could, that's

(45:25):
a possible scenario. But now the guy's convicted, so clearly
it's not.

Speaker 5 (45:30):
No.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
You hear a story like this, it reminds you of
like when the FBI would do an investigation upon itself
and find that nothing happened. And it's like, at some
point you start to wonder, you know, I don't know,
a little spitball in here. Is the district just trying
to cover its ass, right.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
Yeah, a little bit? And and what's really gross here
is you're kind of relying on the fact that these
kids can't talk about what happened, you know what I'm saying.
That's like I don't know if that crossed their brain,
but that's very convenient for you. Well, it's not like
the kids can sit in a deposition kind of what
kind of what kind of monster uses that to their advantage? Man? Hell,

(46:08):
if anything, when you're when you're when you're dealing with
students who are nonverbal, you will almost have to err
on the side of it. And again, you don't have
to immediately fire the guy right, figure out what happened.
But you can't sit on it for a year and
a half because you have trouble recruiting teachers and what's
this going to do for our staffing? Good lord man.
So yeah, I am aokay with that lawsuit. I'm glad

(46:31):
the judge is letting it go forward, although he did
say they have to go to mediation. I don't like that.
I don't like arbitration mediation. No, no, no, put this
in front of a jury. Man, Let's get the jury
trial going. I I understand that it's probably part of
the process, but no, no, the school district needs to
be shamed. It needs to be an open thing. And uh,

(46:52):
you need to put this in front of twelve or
ten or whatever individuals and and uh, you know see
how they feel about it, because I suspect it's probably
not going to go well for the district. And again,
you should ask for more. That's just me anyway. Creeping
up on seven to twenty three reminder Congressman brad Not
will join us at eighth five and much more to

(47:12):
gift to So hang on all right, So if you
missed this, let me just better set it up, because
if you didn't hear this yesterday, even me saying it
a few minutes ago probably was a little confusing. So
a group of I said, they're all from Africa, and
it turns out they're not all from Africa. We'll learn
about that in a moment. But African migrants go to Scotland.

(47:36):
They go find some woods up in the Highlands, which
there's plenty of it, right, a lot of open space there.
The Highlands is, by the way, I just I don't
know how it is now. It was definitely one of
my funnest places when I visited UK Ireland. I really
enjoy going up to Scotland. I really enjoyed. I also

(47:57):
trying to understand what the hell people were saying when
you're in rural scott it's not easy. Remarkably easier in Ireland.
But uh no, it's just even though it's not like
there's a ton of forests and trees there, it's just
it's just really cool, man. It's uh with the locks
and and everything going on there. I really enjoyed that.

(48:18):
But they enjoyed it so much they decided to squat
on on this in these woods, and they claim that
this was land stolen from them four hundred years ago.
And they're the tribe of Kabbala Kubala, and they have
like a king and a queen, and they dress like
they're in Africa, right with the with the face paint.

(48:40):
They have the sticks with the feathers on it, and
they're but they're living in tents surrounded by piles of garbage.
So there's that, and I don't know, it was just
kind of a weird story yesterday, a little haha. And
then you know, to speculate that Scotland'll pride just give
it to him because everyone's just that woke over there,
we'll see. And by the way, the reporter showed up

(49:03):
to interview them, not because it's insane that you've decided
that this is your land from four hundred years ago
when it's clearly provably not, but that because somebody, some
locals who were frustrated basically came and like started taking
down their tents and stuff. And so now they went
to go make sure they're okay from the evil racist

(49:23):
I guess. So that was the angle of the story.
But here's the update. You ready. So that video which
we reposted at Casey on the radio that you know,
that hits the internet, that goes everywhere yesterday and lo
and behold, a family who had filed a missing person's
report on their daughter saw that video and they're like,

(49:49):
holy crap, that's Kara. Their daughter's name is Kara Taylor
and so's she's in the kent cloth. She's in the video.
She is giving an offering to the king who's been
like way, they're waving palm fronds on him, an offering
of soda, which okay, wait, what was that? What was

(50:13):
that movie in Africa with the coke bottle Ross Soda
apparently plays a h the guy the gods are Crazier.
I think it's the gods are crazy.

Speaker 5 (50:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:21):
Yeah, so there's a little soda connection there.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
Now the crazier part is the family lives in Texas,
not even in Scottish.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
I was going to ask, is she Scottish? So she
went from Texas to Scotland to be in this tribe?

Speaker 1 (50:37):
Correct, Yeah, from Austin, I believe. Yeah. Now she's an adult.
So actually when this when the parents then contact the
Scottish authorities, they went and talked to her and she said,
I'm an adult, Leave me alone. They just left her alone.
But imagine that, like you're and I'm sure there's somebody
listening who had a family member who just this guy.
I had a cousin do this for years and it

(50:59):
turned it was a drug thing and some mental health stuff.
He's doing great now, but like we didn't know where
he was for years, and like all the thoughts are
in your head, like is he living, is he living
in one of those homeless encampments in La Math? Is
he at a cult? What the hell's going on? I
started watching this special on Netflix.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
It's about the police unit in Richland County, South Carolina. Okay,
it's the missing Persons unit, and that's where that's where
those nine kids are kids of killing the other kid
that we talked about, yes, ask yeah, no, But that's
like the premise of the show where these people will
go missing and they have to like find them, and
sometimes it's really tragic and the person is dead somewhere, right,
But other times it's just people that just want to

(51:39):
get up and move and get away. Like I think
everybody at some point has aid that fantasy, right, I'm
just gonna get up and move. I'm just gonna leave
and I'm gonna start over. And sometimes that's what happens,
and they're adults, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
And I'll bet in the in the years she's been
gone years, I'll bet in the years she was gone,
every single permeation of where their daughter might be. Oh, yeah,
you put in the happy stuff, you like, maybe she
maybe she found somebody, got married, got kids, she's doing
yourself this stuff. At no point do I think this
scenario crossed their brain.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
No, you're thinking crazy stuff like you know, worst case scenario,
dead somewhere, sex trafficking. You don't think queen of some Scottish.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
Or you're not queen, she's she's not the queen, she's
the number two. So she got she got to work
her way up. So is there a room for advancement
in the tribe. I maybe I don't. I don't know, man,
I'm not I'm not up on the politics. So the
king's name is King Otnay who. By the way, I

(52:38):
don't know if you know this Ross is actually yahweh.
I didn't catch that in the video yesterday. He is
He's so he's he's he's Jesus, He's God. I don't
know there, so that's what he says. And then then
there's the oh and this is crazy. So the king

(52:59):
in the video do you know what he used to
do for a living? This is even crazier. So I
didn't even deep dive this yesterday and tell us other story.
So the king is a former opera singer from Africa,
which okay, all right whatever, So there you go. His wife,
Queen Nandi, she is so the girl is a handmaiden.

(53:22):
That is her title, so I don't know how that works.
She goes by lady Sofie, but she concubine or something
like what is that? No, she I guess she's like
the servant to the queen or something. She's the one
who like waves palm fronds and brings soda offerings to
the King and queen. That's her gig. But anyway, Yeah,

(53:44):
they went and talked to her and she's like, I'm
an adult, so leave me alone, although the parents said, yes,
she's an adult, but she's she's dealt. You're gonna be
shocked to learn. Apparently she's struggled with mental health over
the years. But now she lives in the sky the
New Kingdom in Scotland there, so I'm sure she'll be fine.
Is probably not enough, Probably not a lot the Scots
can do. I wonder she has legal status over there,

(54:06):
but you know they don't throw anyone out over in
the UK, now, all right, seven forty two, so yeah,
just wacky updates, man, We had all sorts of them today.
Oh amazing. All right, all right, well, let's go ahead
and hit him if he's ready to rock and roll.
Ken Boone from the Weather Channel, who's on the comrades today.
We're very excited. How you doing, Ken, I'm doing well yourself. Yeah,

(54:28):
pretty good man. I was looking at the phones waiting
for you. I'm glad the commerce is working this morning.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
Yeah, finally, I finally, I finally upgrade it.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
So very nice. All right, well, let's unfortunately I was
chastising they had to do water rescues because idiots thought, hey,
you know, it would be a really good idea to
go to the outer banks and get in the ocean yesterday.
So let's go ahead and warn people how dumb that is,
can we.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
Yeah, not a good idea to be in the water
at all, and really that's the case from South Florida
all the way up into New England. That's how big,
that's how powerful this storm is. High surfeit advisories and
dangerous life threatening rip currents literally from South Florida to
New England. Conditions on the outer banks were expecting to
start deteriorating later today and into tomorrow, as we might

(55:11):
see some tropical storm force winds there along the coast
and could potentially see as much as a two to
four foot storm surge there on the outer bank. So
conditions certainly worsening overnight tonight and tomorrow, but even today
along the coast, and very dangerous to be out in
the water. We've got a partly sunny sky for us today,
a little bit warmer than we were yesterday, temperatures climbing

(55:32):
up through the middle to upper part of the eighties
seventy two tonight, mix the clouds and sun. Tomorrow a
bit breezy. We might actually feel some of the winds
as Hurricane Aaron makes its closest pass to the US tomorrow,
So a bit breezy for US. High temperatures mid eighties,
and then it's sunshine and low to mid eighties as
we look towards Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, maybe some showers
late in the day Sunday.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
Okay, all right, Ken, appreciate it. We're talking an hour, sir,
thank you. All righty, you heard Ken mention all the
way down to Florida, and that reminded me. We have
an amazing Florida man story today. And much like that
family unable to even fathom that their daughter might have
joined a tribe of Africa that lives in Scotland, you're

(56:15):
not even gonna be able to guess what this dude's wearing.
And remember, we just had a Florida man story last
week where the guy had a furry tail shoved in
his behind. So we'll see what this dude from Saint
Pete's up too. We'll do it next hang on top
of the hour, we will chat with Congressman Brad Notts.
But first, because Florida still exists and continues to churn

(56:37):
total show goodness. Here we go, Florida then Florida.

Speaker 4 (56:45):
Then, is something in the Wanderty Arrow sand that made
you do all that crazy craft? That's like the state
is one week, dumb ass trapped nowhere else.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
Has the Florida man.

Speaker 4 (56:56):
It is almost like as the weird actor climbs, you
find out it haven't in Florida every time, in Florida,
then Florida.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
Then if anyone can.

Speaker 5 (57:08):
Jeer me have you know, you can to mind life
be crazy.

Speaker 1 (57:11):
But of course, but it's not.

Speaker 4 (57:13):
It's bad crap, crazy as yours. Nowhere else are you
gonna find him. They're so used to it they don't
mind him.

Speaker 1 (57:20):
Hooray for Florida Man. And this particular Florida man resides
in Saint Pete all right, and according to authorities, was
arrested after he assaulted a neighbor who was out mowing
his lawn and apparently that disturbed this dude. I guess
it's the lawn technically of the guy's business, but it

(57:41):
is adjacent to this dude's house. And by the way, Ross,
it was two in the afternoon. I went to look
up with time because I have a neighbor and I've
complained to Ross about this. I have super early lawnmower
man once a week or once, you know, whenever he
can get to it. And he's like seven eight m
mower and I'm not saying that mower is gonna you know,

(58:03):
get lost in a wood chipper. But one day. That
being said, I've never got over an assault to the
guy because technically he can mote with it. I think
like nine o'clock is a proper lawnmow in time. This
was at two pm. Is that okay on a weekday? Yeah? No,
that's fine, two pm. Sure, Yeah, it seems okay. Now,
if that was the total, the totality of the story,
I wouldn't be doing the story. So what's the Florida twist. Well,

(58:27):
the dude who was arrested for assault, his name is
Anthony Marzola Marzola, and he was at the time dressed
in a full gestre costume, as you do. And also
I had a and produced and threatened the guy with
an ornate twelve inch old timey dagger, which is at

(58:50):
least in keeping with the outfit, I guess, so I
can appreciate that. But he's dressed as a jester, you know,
with the bells and the pajama look and the whole thing.
And it's really not clear why. Now the question is
ross do you think he was? He just got home
from gesturing and he had had a chance to change,

(59:13):
and it just so happened he was wearing that when.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
He was trying to say there has to be something
going on there, like he's like a mime or something
or some sort of weird entertainer I don't know, or or.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
The other possibility is he's like, I really want to
scare this guy, and uh so I'm gonna go full
gesterre ornate dagger that would do it. Yeah, that's crazy.
So here's the backstory because those are my two theories.
The reason he's dressed is a Gester box number one.

(59:43):
It turns out that Marzola owned also owns a nearby
business called the Psychedelic Gester Smoke Shop, and apparently that's
how he dresses for work. Yeah what Yeah, that's great,
isn't it. So a lot of times we don't understand

(01:00:05):
how one ended up where they ended up. There's pieces
missing and makes us very annoyed. Here we got the deats.
So uh that's why he was full gesture outfit middle
of the day because the smoke shop is also near
the business in this guy's house.

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
Props to the reporter because there's so many stories we
have where there's something open ended, where there's you know,
he should be answered.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
Somebody shot somebody over an argument over a song and
then you don't tell you. They don't say what the
song is. Yeah, No, this guy is uh he owns
the Psychedelic Gester smoke shop, and I guess that's the uniform.
So I kudos to him and that I think the
use of psych I mean, it's psychedelic, but maybe change

(01:00:50):
it's psycho. But yeah, what happened to gesters? Aren't they
supposed to be fun? Is run around a fart on
people you're watching documentary at old timey.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
Jester was like their big trick man. No, there was
one who was notorious for farting.

Speaker 5 (01:01:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
Yeah, he could do the alphabet and he had like,
you know, like a big like chateau or whatever, like
a big part.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
But the jester back in medieval times was a very
important part of the royal court.

Speaker 1 (01:01:15):
Yeah, the only one who could insult the king.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
It was more of like an advisor role, right, And
he was the only one that could insult the king
and get away with it, right. So and he at
times the jester would break really bad news to the
king because he was able to do it with humor.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
Mm hmm. Yeah, Yeah, I watched the whole thing, and
then I also saw it in the the I know
it was a History Channel thing or whatever, like where
some of these guys got really really you're talking about
the chateau like they Yeah, I mean they lived really well,
some of them. And then there were some others who
made a joke about the king's wife and then were

(01:01:48):
executed literally like an hour later. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
I watched a documentary on the Jesters and on the executioners.

Speaker 1 (01:01:54):
Yeah, the executioners is fascinating.

Speaker 2 (01:01:56):
Both, they're fascinating. Yeah, because yeah, it's one thing and
it's completely opposite.

Speaker 1 (01:01:59):
It's it's not it's a family business, so kind of
sort of. Yeah, and then how you could bribe the
executioner and stuff, so like that's crazy. But yeah, the
Gester thing, so we now we do know how he
got in the Gester outfit. By the way, and this
is just a fun fact in the story. Police in

(01:02:20):
April on the in the very same area arrested a
man dressed as Ronald McDonald for assaulting somebody. So apparently
this little neighborhood in Saint Pete is just chock full
of crazies.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
Man, You imagine he was trying to mow your lawn
at two o'clock in the afternoon, and then suddenly here
comes this psychedelic gesture, throwing like a chainsaw or something
at you.

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
Can you imagine, right, Yeah, what did he have a dagger? Yeah?
Or nate dagger chainsaw would work too. Yeah, you just
got to make sure you're wearing the gester out right,
and you'd be thinking this absolute loon. What's crazy is
that there's a hold on there's a part of this
story because you're screaming at him for mowing and making noise.
We know that the guy who is mowing, who is

(01:02:59):
assault had said that he initially didn't clock that the
guy was coming up on him, but did see him.
I got a question. If I see a dude dressed
as a gesture, I'm keeping an eye on him the
whole time. That's how I know this neighborhood's crazy man,
because he clocked him. He's like, oh, that's normal. Back
to mowing.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
There's got to be like a second or two where
like you just do like a double taking, Like, am
I seeing things?

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
Yes, if you go to the store today and somebody's
dressed as a gester, even if it totally they're not
doing anything, and then totally like, oh no, I I
teach gesturing right, you're still gonna be like, what the
hell's going on? Man? Unless it's Halloween. That's the only
day where you you get away with that. Halloween. I
see some weirdo dress as a gesture, I'm out it's
Halloween or a slutty gesture, I'm like, oh, she's doing Halloween.

(01:03:45):
Did they make a slutty Gester costume?

Speaker 7 (01:03:47):
Ross?

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
Oh, I'm sure they do. Can you mention everybody getting up?
You're like, you gonna get up and you wipe the
sleepies out of your eyes. You're like, ah, it's another
workday and you in the bathroom put on your Gester outfit.
Hey do your mushrooms that go to the vape shop?

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
Yeah? Hey, that's that's commitment right there. So ketn boone
coming up a little later, and again for you idiots
deciding to go swimming yesterday off Hatteras and having to
be rescued, what are you thinking? But lots of news
also coming out of Washington, d C. Even though you
know Congress is doing their go get yielded town hall

(01:04:20):
break right now, So to check in we've got Congressman
Brad not with us. How you doing this morning, sir,
Good morning, Casey.

Speaker 5 (01:04:28):
I'm well.

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
I hope you are pretty good. So you haven't been
carjacked all week? Are you in DC or you back
in the district?

Speaker 5 (01:04:35):
You know, I was in DC at the end of
last week and part of the weekend, but I'm back
in the district now, Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
So that is it is fascinating to watch this play out,
and it is more fascinating to me to see those
protests up there over it, which is a bunch of
white kids from Michigan. And I didn't see any because
the district, if people don't know what is the district,
it's about fifty percent minority, right, I believe it's the same.

Speaker 5 (01:05:02):
I don't know the exact one.

Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
Yeah, And what is interesting is that I didn't see
any of the folks who would be quote unquote minorities
within the district, and a lot of these until I
see them interviewed by the local news stations up in DC.
And uh, this one woman was so excited. This was
she was so excited because she says she's able to

(01:05:24):
drive around and stop at a stoplay with her window
down and it's like small miracles, man, But what do
you what do you clock and when when you're up there?
Because I saw the stats of the week over week.
Take it for what it's worth, and clearly, clearly people
were having a safer experience last week.

Speaker 5 (01:05:43):
Yeah, it's a real shame because for the last you know,
two decades, probably Washington, with the acception of President Trump's
first term, has really morphed into a woke city. And
one of the effects of that is it makes public
safety a privilege for the elite and for the you know,
for the people who are affluent. But what we've seen

(01:06:04):
recently is that city became so unruly that it did
not matter where you were, you were at risk of
terrible crime. And I mean that literally. There was an
intern for a Republican member of Congress who was shot
and killed just by just by nature of being in
the crossfire. Uh, staff people from Congress. They are carjacked,

(01:06:24):
they're robbed, they're assaulted. It doesn't matter where you park
your car at night. If you have anything visible, you
have a very high likelihood of getting it, of getting
your window smashed. And uh, you know, President Trump, to
his credit, he knows that is not how it's supposed
to be. And to learn what's going on, don't listen
to CNN. Go to Washington and talk to business owners,

(01:06:47):
to families, to people who work behind the counter or
into shops, and they're thrilled. They are absolutely thrilled. They're
breathing a sigh of relief right now. And my hat's
off through the President for doing this.

Speaker 1 (01:06:59):
I told you the most shocking thing for me. Who
may maybe I would go to DC for a week
or two at a time for like radio rows stuff
like that. And one of the last times we did that,
I think I mentioned this to you last week. I
would say the Phoenix Park Hotel, which is just like
two blocks from the Capitol, right, It's very close there,
and it's right across from Union Station, and it blew

(01:07:21):
me away waking up in the morning and this had
gone all night, but wake up in the morning and
it looked like a woodstock festival of tents in front
of Union Station. And then you go outside and a
about six foot two black woman is completely naked, screaming
at everybody and like the police are nowhere? Man, it was,

(01:07:42):
and I'm like, this is DC. This is two blocks
from the seat of power. And this is allowed to happen.
So if people didn't get up there and see this,
you really had no idea how out of hand they
let it get.

Speaker 5 (01:07:56):
Well, here's one of the things that no one talks
about with the Washington DC Police Force. There's some wonderful
officers there, you know, veterans, patriotic folks of every stripe.
But the woke policies of that department, especially under Biden
and Harris, it lowered the standards so much that you
have people who can't even do a push up who

(01:08:17):
are behind the badge. You have people who don't leave
their police car no matter what the situation is. There
are no standards to require excellent service of the capital
and of the entire district. And there are officers who
are unbelievably demoralized because of how restrictive the work policies
made that department. And again, when I was up there,

(01:08:38):
I saw many officers. They do a great job protecting
us in our buildings, and they even they are thrilled
at what's going on because they're making a difference.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
Now they are.

Speaker 5 (01:08:48):
Allowed to go after the people who are harming the community.
That's all this is about if you commit a crime,
you should pay a price that's not too high of
a standard. And that's what we're seeing in Washington.

Speaker 1 (01:08:58):
And the effect is the media, we're getting more info,
like everyone just assumed they were juicing the numbers, and
there's certain manipulations that different cities have done. Chicago was
a good exu where they kind of reclassified crimes. And
but there's an article from a reporter at Washington Free Beacon.
I don't know if you ever perused their stuff, a
female reporter, and so she talked about a few years

(01:09:22):
ago when she was on she was on C Street,
I think where where the Capitol Girl burger bar is?
Do you know where that is?

Speaker 5 (01:09:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:09:31):
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, And she was literally pulled
into an alleyway and sexually assaulted and some bystanders had
to come stop it. And so she finally told this story.
But she said that the incident that happened, where the
guy was arrested and convicted of it, did not appear
on any crime reporting statistics, and she was pestering the

(01:09:52):
department why that is, and she could never get an answer.
So a violent, attempted, almost successful sexual assault was not
even in the crime statistics. How is it that you
guys in Congress can then to the extent of the
rules that you had. How are we supposed to get
an idea of what is going on in America if
some of these big cities are willing to lie to

(01:10:14):
our face about it.

Speaker 5 (01:10:16):
Yeah. Again, it's a disgusting display of caring about one thing.
They don't care about the job. They don't care about
protecting the public. The only thing that the DC police
leadership cared about was political power, and to maintain political power,
they had to paint a story even if it wasn't

(01:10:36):
true that their diversity, equity, and inclusion. They are woke policies.
They're focused on everything but enforcing the law was working.
And you know, here's how that works, casey. Let's say
that there was a robbery of somebody, someone is held
up at gunpoint. Officers would be forced to amend the

(01:10:57):
report to label that crime at e theft. If there
was a shooting where someone was wounded and not killed,
that would be labeled as something similar to an injury
under investigation or an assisted visit to the hospital, not
a shooting. If there's someone who breaks who breaks into
your house and feel stuff that's labeled as a trespass,

(01:11:18):
not a breaking an entering, and so this is this
is yeah, that's what was going on in Washington, and
it's very telling. When you looked at the police chief
who was being interviewed by the national media, someone asked
her the most basic question. They asked her, who is
leading the chain of command now? And she looking yeah,

(01:11:40):
and she said what are you talking about? What does
that mean? And again you pull the onion back. She
was head of the DEI wing of the department. You
need to get people into roles who can do the job.
And that's the basic end of discussion. Merit enforced the
law and if you commit the crime, regardless of or
where you are, you should be prosecuted. That's it. That's

(01:12:04):
not too radical.

Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
No, it's basic. And I did you know we ran
the audio that that lunacy and then the mayor had
to step in, which is because now here's the deal.
I don't think the mayor's people say, oh, Bowser's I
don't think she's dumb. I think she's actually pretty sharp
and she's one hundred percent wanting to do what she's doing,
which is actually more dangerous to me.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
It is.

Speaker 5 (01:12:24):
She's a very smooth operator. But I will let me
just say this one thing. I know some of the
federal agents who were called from North Carolina to Washington.
This is not just a bunch of random street crime.
And one night, two nights ago, I got attacked from
one of those agents. They got almost twenty illegal tactical
firearms off the street, they got kilograms of heroin and

(01:12:47):
meth off the street, they got over one hundred thousand
dollars cash off the street. And all they did was
to go and serve warrants of known criminals in Washington, DC.
So this is not just some you know, local power
sit on the corner of the street. This is very
serious crime that has spilled over into the nation's capital
in a big way, and thankfully it being dealt with.

Speaker 1 (01:13:09):
Yeah, there was some video that emerged of them serving
warrants literally at right after Trump's press conference, and because
some bystanders were filming it while they yelled at the
cops at their pigs because you know, that's what people do,
I guess, and it was and then you found out
that they were literally just executing felony, high profile felony
search warrants, and they immediately knew where they was they
were because they get it within like a few hours,

(01:13:31):
And it's like they didn't just figure that out. Clearly
they knew where these cats were. And only now are
we getting to dealing with it. Congress, ready, let me
pivot here just because I'm curious your thoughts on both
the Alaska thing with Putin and then of course the
gathering of some of the European leadership there yesterday. Is
this moving the needle? Is this show? The media would

(01:13:54):
tell you this is horrible, but I think it's pretty
telling that they, the European leaders in Zelensky, were immediately
wanting to come over, which is what I think Trump
intended by talking to Putin, even though they criticize him
for quote normalizing the guy. If nobody's talking, nothing's going
to happen. What do you think about this?

Speaker 5 (01:14:14):
I totally agree, Kasey. You know one thing that this
president is not afraid to do is trial. He has
been uniformly consistent he wants the death to end. And
people should not lose sight of the fact that the
president has applied massive pressure to President Putin. He's replacing
Russia as Europe's primary supply of energy. He is mandating

(01:14:36):
that NATO double their defense spending. That's hundreds of billions
of dollars. He's bossing them in on trade, He's going
after India, he's going after China. After all of that
was done, then Russia, President Putin comes to the table,
and the President is acting very strategically trying to bring
this thing to it because he knows that if this
thing perpolates, a simmers for years on end potentially, but

(01:15:00):
it could very likely blow up into something much larger
and much more consequential, which we candidly cannot afford. And
the President is working feverishly, he has been working feverishly
since January, trying to make this peace durable in a reality,
and my hat's off to him for trying to achieve it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:19):
Yeah, and then there is and there is something else
that is from a tactical standpoint that people need to realize,
and that is, if you give Putin absolutely everything, then
you're also China's China's watching this right. China wants to
see how the US is going to handle this because
you know Taiwan, so how important is it is to

(01:15:40):
look like Putin settled for the purpose of China, not
feeling empowered to go into Taiwan because arguably that we
don't think we can afford Ukraine, Holy hell, going up
against China.

Speaker 5 (01:15:51):
Man, sure, no question about it. And again, the President
is using strength, he is using the economy. He is
still and they bling to defense militarily in Ukraine with Europe.
He is acting very, very in a very focused way,
from a position of strength. And that is why Putin
came to Alaska. And I will say this for all

(01:16:12):
the Democrats saying that President Trump is bending the knee,
Where were they? Where were they when President Obama literally
handed PRIMEA to Russia in twenty fourteen. Their hypocrisy on
this issue is disgusting. Without CRIMEA, without the cowardly withdraw
in Afghanistan, Russia would never have invaded Ukraine. Period. President

(01:16:32):
Trump is cleaning up the mess that was created by
somebody else, and that somebody was President Biden and President Obama.
And he is doing it very, very strategically and with
warp speed. And again my hats offer him for trying.
He is trying to land a plane in a way
that will result in American protection Ukrainian sovereignty and that

(01:16:53):
Russia will be boxed back into their essential borders that
they had before the conflict. And again he is he
is doing the lord's work here.

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
I do think it's funny too, doing the meeting in
Alaska so you can be like, hey, remember when you
sold this to us for next to nothing, this is great,
and then applying the B two bomber over his head.
I did enjoy that, all right. So you guys, it's
August recess. You guys, you did some passport fairs. We
talked about that last week. But soon enough, you're going
to be back in DC. What are you guys going

(01:17:22):
to do? I mean, give me, give me a preview
of what we're going to see right away when you
get back, because I think people are still waiting on
quite a few things that have been in the works
that they'd like to see, and so I'm curious what
the schedule is.

Speaker 5 (01:17:37):
Well, I will say one more just for a plug.

Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
We did.

Speaker 5 (01:17:39):
We also had we had passport fairs, and we had
a very successful veterans demo, which basically allowed veterans from
all over the district, all over the state to come
to a place in Harnett County where we had state, local,
and several representatives from universities, from community colleges, from the VA.
We had a tremendous response from people in the community,

(01:18:01):
and whether it was jobs, education, or claims. We were
able to facilitate caring for our veterans, which is a
remarkable responsibility. But we had a great turnout and we
were thankful to everyone who took part. When we get
back into Washington, I think we had two things. One,
the normal course should resume, so we will be doing
things like the Farm Bill, like the Surface Reauthorization Act, roads, bridges,

(01:18:24):
water infrastructure, hopefully before the end of the year. And
then we're going to have to deal with things, you know,
like look at Thomas Matthew's discharge. You know that's going
to be on the let's say first and foremost, that
clock is going to be ticking, and so we're going
to try to work through whether it be the Epstein
stuff or other investigations and the Judiciary Committee kind of

(01:18:46):
high profile stuff. I saw that the Oversight Committee has
received a tranch of documents from the Epstein files, and
so going through those in an orderly responsible way to
get those revealed. That's a high priority for us, and
you know, wheels are moving, and I expect once Labor
Day comes and goes that it will be a fast
paced tract from here to the end of the year

(01:19:08):
in DC.

Speaker 1 (01:19:10):
So do you have a timeline on the Epstein stuff,
because you know that's that's one of these things here
on the show that we always ask about because people
always ask.

Speaker 5 (01:19:16):
All, well, Masthew's yes, I will say this Massiw's discharge.
It could be you know, forty five days, I would
say cautiously with what leadership is working on with Massey's
petition with represented comma is you don't want to create
new victims, right, You don't want to create new victims,
and if you if you release everything, Let's say hypothetically
a preacher went to visit Jeffrey Epstein to read the

(01:19:38):
Bible and to pray with him, find a witness to him.
If his name, if that preacher's name is released, he
will forever have a stain that he met with Jeffrey Epstein, right,
and he can't defend against that. So I personally would
want to protect that preacher or that you know, rabbi
whoever it was that was going to go meet with Jeffrey,
and that's just a hypothetical, So we do have to

(01:19:59):
be cautious to protect think victims and not creating new victims.
But once we can ensure that, my hope is it
will be very rapidly released to the public.

Speaker 1 (01:20:07):
Well, we'll keep on that. Oh I didn't even get
to get into your colleague Lunas Smith's interdimensional beans. Maybe
we'll do that next week.

Speaker 5 (01:20:14):
So let's do it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:16):
All right, sounds good, Congressman, do appreciate it, and we'll
talk next week. Thank you, and we will be right back.
Hang on, it was he a Twitch streamer? Is this
on Twitch this French time? I know it was on
Kick on Kick? Okay, all right, So the dude was
doing a a it was day ten of a marathon stream.

(01:20:38):
What did he have a number he was going for?
I'm a little unclear on this, and what does that mean.
He was just like he just didn't sleep at all
or was he sleeping small amount? He's dead by the
way he died.

Speaker 2 (01:20:50):
But on some of these marathon streams, and I don't
know if this was one of them, they'll actually put
the camera like the webcam on their bed and they
will go to sleep and part of the stream will
just be them sleeping in bed for eight hours. I
don't know if he was doing that or not.

Speaker 1 (01:21:04):
All right, but but it's a little misleading. It's he's
not dead just because of sleep deprivation. That's not what
it is. Let me help me explain this for people.
So when if you go watch Ross's stream or anyone's
stream on Twitch, I'm sure kick probably works the same way.
There are you can redeem credits whatever points whatever. What

(01:21:30):
are they called on Twitch? Yeah, what is it?

Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
So they're like channel points so and but you know,
not actual currency. It's it's like time watched. So if
you watch for like, you know, five minutes, he'll get
like twenty points or something, and those points rack up
and you can spend them in the channel to have
the stream or do certain things or have certain things
show up on the on the on the screen.

Speaker 1 (01:21:50):
So if you go to Ross's you can do you
do little things where he'll y eat a horse. Basically
he'll kill his characters like.

Speaker 2 (01:21:57):
I have won for like twenty thousand points. So if
you've said and you have twenty thousand points, you can
make me put on a Patriots hat.

Speaker 1 (01:22:03):
Right, it was a million. I thought you're charging a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:22:06):
No, the one hundred million is I will steal. It's
that redemption is called the Nick Cage redemption. And if
you click that button after you get like one hundred
million billion points or whatever it is, that's the official number.
If you click Nick Cage, I have to steal the
Declaration of Independence. No one has clicked that yet.

Speaker 1 (01:22:22):
Wow. Yeah, wait, do you also have to take the
president hostage? I'm not you know, I don't have a
plan yet. Oh, okay, you should probably put one together
because chat is super smart. We could figure it out.
Because I don't know if you know this. They're kind
of enforcing the law on DC now, so it probably
just got a little more complicated. So how many points
to have somebody strangle you? Yeah? So I wouldn't do that,

(01:22:43):
all right, And that's where this thing goes sideways. So
there's video of this dude during his buddies are there,
and then people are paying them to like injure this dude.
It's I mean, one, it's got to be against TOS
right terms of service? Maybe maybe not. I guess if
you're a hot chick getting injured in a you know,
you know, a small kids pool. It's probably okay. I

(01:23:06):
don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:23:06):
About like kick, but on twitch, I know that'd be
against TuS, Like if I had a redemption that was like, hey,
for X amount of points, you waterboard me, which this
guy had.

Speaker 1 (01:23:14):
Uh you know, I don't. I think that would be
against the terms of sun he had water boarding. Yeah, okay,
do we know exactly what he died of? Well, they
say he died in his sleep, right, so sleep deprivation
or injuries that maybe his buddies did to him. For
fifty thousand points, the whole thing is pretty crazy. Yeah,
he sent you the one video of his like crew there. Yeah, yeah,

(01:23:37):
like choking him out, like putting him in like a
reverse choke. Now, to be fair, you have injured yourself
for audience on stream before with hot sauce, so that
is true. Yes, you're not immune. Ross did a shot
of ghost Pepper sauce and almost died.

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
It was the worst pain I've ever felt in my
entire life. It was like a double shot glass of
ghost pepper whatever they know, the Carolina Reaper, Caroline hot sauce.
And after the stream I had to cut it short.
I was sitting in my chair in the living room
and I thought an alien was gonna pop out of
my stomach. It's the most pain I've ever felt. The
cat comes down the stairs looks at me, and you know,

(01:24:15):
some people say cats are like, you know, premonitions. They
can tell you're gonna die, that's what. And the cat
is staring at me. I'm like, I'm gonna die.

Speaker 1 (01:24:21):
Oh it was rough. I guess I have to get
the woman to feed me now because that guy's not
gonna make it all right. So yeah, that story is
just so strange, man. But it's like it's it's the
cloth thing. Like we we have driven ourselves insane with
the things that people will do to get people to
notice them on online, you know. And it's not just this,

(01:24:43):
it's you know, the I'm gonna make a video of me.
You see the kid who was like riding his bicycle
at cars and then he would like he'd like chicken
out at the last moment, and he did that, except
he didn't realize that when you're doing it in two lanes,
there might be a car in the other lane, and
that did not well, did not go well for him.
But they were filming a video for the Internet cloud man,
it's like we steymied Darwin for a long time and

(01:25:06):
we're kicking those numbers back up again. So what are
you gonna do? Speaking of Darwinistic behavior, let's head to Boston,
shall we. So Boston was on the list of cities
where when Trump was talking about other cities, well mostly
he was asked about it, of other cities where they
have some crime issues and their sanctuary cities, he called

(01:25:27):
out Boston and they actually sent a letter to many
of the mayors of these cities who would pledged not
to cooperate with ICE, saying, hey, if you don't, you
don't gonna get federal funding. So you have a big
budget hole do you want to do this? And the
mayor up in Boston, what is her name?

Speaker 3 (01:25:43):
Wu?

Speaker 1 (01:25:44):
Michelle Wu. She is an absolute steam in moon Bet.
She was the one who was having remember she had
like a victory party but was not but no white
people were allowed. Yeah, yeah, because that sounds legal. So
she decided, rather than just either ignoring Trump coming correct

(01:26:04):
and having the department cooperate with ICE or sending a
letter back that she'd hold a press conference yesterday to
tell everyone this.

Speaker 7 (01:26:14):
We're here again today because last week, Boston received a
letter from the Attorney General of the United States.

Speaker 1 (01:26:22):
Oh wait, hold on, I haven't set the scene properly,
and that's not fair of me. Before we hear her
insane cope, you need to understand how the press conference started,
just so you understand the message she was hoping to send.
It didn't start with everyone standing around. She walks up

(01:26:43):
to the podium and we go no, no, no. To
really drive her point home, before she got up to speak,
they put a whole damn ranchera mariachi band on this stage.
Audio is not great, but they're in the full They're

(01:27:10):
in the full outfits, the whole thing. Man Peter Chick
with fruit basket on her head, and it would be
a complete thing. Yeah, So to so you knew what
you were going to get when she's like, not only
am I not going to cooperate, but here's a mariachi band.
Just as a big f he.

Speaker 7 (01:27:30):
You're here again today because last week Boston received a
letter from the Attorney General of the United States on
official letterhead from the federal government, threatening to prosecute city
officials and withhold federal funds unless we cooperate with carrying
out mass deportations.

Speaker 1 (01:27:52):
We specifically, they said, keep do.

Speaker 7 (01:27:55):
The ice defenders when this federal administration is already causing
so much fear and harm in our communities. These threats
are serious and consequential. But our same communities have told
me loud and clear that silence in the face of
oppression is not an option.

Speaker 1 (01:28:22):
Yay, it's flap for having to slashed the budget here
in a month.

Speaker 7 (01:28:25):
Yeah, the US Attorney General asked for a response by today.
So here it is.

Speaker 1 (01:28:40):
Get it.

Speaker 7 (01:28:40):
Very is our response. Stop attacking our cities to hide
your administration's failures, right.

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
Yeah, yeah, because that all the people here, that's that's
Trump's fault. And then Ross, did you see at the
very end where they brought up another band they old musical.
Oh yeah, listen to this. Oh that's the band. That's
a Guapo's band. Yeah, from Three Amigos.

Speaker 7 (01:29:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:29:09):
I don't know how GLAPO got any country. They're expensive bent.
So yeah, yeah, that was good. So that's your message.
So I guess we go to the the f O
portion of our program because we have the first part,

(01:29:32):
so we'll see what the response is there. All right,
let's let's get ken Boone from the Weather Channel, because
you're ready to rock and roll. And what are we
looking at, sir? Good morning.

Speaker 3 (01:29:42):
We've got partly sunny sky out there today, a little
bit warmer than we were yesterday. I think temperature today
will climb up through the middle even upper part of
the eighties, partner to mostly cloudy overnight tonight low seventies
will be in and out of the clouds tomorrow, a
bit breezy. Those wins tomorrow will actually be winds circulating
around the broad circulation of air and as it passes
its as it makes its closest pass to the North

(01:30:02):
Carolina Coaster in the day tomorrow. High temperatures in the
mid eighties on Thursday, and then as we get into
Friday and Saturday, lots of sunshine, temperatures warm in the
low to middle part of the eighties. Could see some
showers late Sunday. Otherwise another Sunday day to finish the weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:30:15):
Mid eighties. All right, Ken, appreciate Are you with us
tomorrow or no? Race should be back tomorrow, okay, all right, well,
thank you very much, sir. Have a good rest of
your day. Okay, you too. And Jeff Bellinger from Bloomberg
News joins US next hang on Bloomberg Update Now with
Jeff Bellinger, Jeff, What's happening well.

Speaker 8 (01:30:31):
The morning case a. Lowe's posted second quarter sales that
were in line with estimate, but that's not the biggest
news from that home improvement chain. Lowe's announced a deal
to acquire Foundation Building Materials, a privately held distributor of
interior building products with locations across the US and Canada.
Lowe's is paying nearly nine billion dollars. Several Claire stores

(01:30:54):
across the US and Canada getting a reprieve the bankrupt
retailer Claire's Holdings rock a deeal to sell what it
calls a significant number of its North American stores to
the private holding company Ames Watson. Claire says it has
paused the liquidation process as stores that are included in
the sale. Liquidation will continue at other outlets. Target named

(01:31:16):
its next leader as it posted its second quarter results
this morning. Current Chief operating Officer Michael Fidelki will become
CEO in February, succeeding Brian Cornell, who has led Target
since twenty fourteen. Fidelki gets a big vote of confidence
from Target's board, but not from Wall Street. Target shares
are lower in pre market trading. Investors would have preferred

(01:31:39):
to have an outsider brought in Hert's car sales. Teaming
up with Amazon Autos, Amazon dot com customers will be
able to check out thousands of pre owned vehicles, make selections,
and arrange financing. And the White House has launched its
own TikTok account. This move scene as a sign of
support for the social video app. President Trump, I'm still

(01:32:00):
trying to arrange for an American firm to buy TikTok's
US operations from the Chinese company Byte Dance and Casey.
The first video posted by the White House features the
President and several administration officials.

Speaker 1 (01:32:13):
Casey, are they doing the dance thing he does?

Speaker 8 (01:32:16):
Or I don't know, I have not seen it. I'm
not a member of TikTok.

Speaker 1 (01:32:20):
Yeah, yeah, me neither. So all right, Well, I we'll
never know because I ain't going there. All right, Thanks, Jeffrey,
have a good day, take care of there you go.
Jeff Ellencher, Bloomberg News, Hey, have you guys seen the
video of the exploding vet clinic down in Wilmington? You
probably you might have heard this story because I think
Kyle and News to the story, but I had not
seen the video. And I saw the video. Ross you've

(01:32:42):
now seen the video. That doesn't look good, right, Oh okay,
all right, yeah, yeah, because I'm gonna have him tweeted
out so you can go ahead and see this thing.
But it's you see the aftermath. It's a car and
I'm not sure exactly why I went out of control
slammed into the side of this VET clinic and uh
it when it did, it hit the gas the gas

(01:33:04):
line in which is and then uh, just shortly thereafter,
I right as firefighters were showing up, and then the
damn thing exploded. Some of the firefighters were injured. I
think only one got burned or any significant injuries, so
we hope they're okay. But yeah, man, dude, that is
a big explode. That's nuts. Yeah, And uh and like,

(01:33:29):
can you imagine you get a call from your vet
and you're like, well, the good news is your cat
doesn't have no or anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:33:33):
So that's what I was exactly thinking of. But I
didn't want to be too morbid because you know, I mean,
last time I went to the vet, right, I had
to put my dog down. It was absolutely horrible. Yeah,
I cried like a baby. It was awful. But you
you know, you give them your pet. And then they
were going to you know, they did a thing where
they can cremate them. And you see these once again,
I did not want to go here. You see these,

(01:33:54):
this debris in the air, when this, when this this
the smoke from the explosion, and to make that's sad
man to think that could possibly be like somebody's pet.

Speaker 1 (01:34:03):
No, So here's the good news, all right, uh it
the vet had the clinic had not opened yet. Oh
that's great. Yeah, so uh in there were some construction
guys in when the car hit. They got the hell
out of there, obviously, because yeah, here comes to and
have you ever heard a wide open gas line? It
makes a little noise. I just had one right in
the front of his house. No, it wasn't in front,

(01:34:24):
it was down in the corner. Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:34:26):
We had like a knock on the door. And it
was this guy wearing this like et sort of outfit
that they have at the end of that movie where
they were like yeah, and they were like, we need
to come in here and check for gas. And Marky
was mortified because it was like March and the Christmas
tree was still.

Speaker 1 (01:34:41):
Oh my gosh, we're going to see our Christmas tree.
These guys are in hazmat suits because there's a jet
engine full of gas shooting out the end of your block.
But you could, yeah, you could hear it down at
the corner. Yeah. So no, thankfully they it was getting
ready to open. They were just putting the finishing touches
on it. But no critters inside. So but you're right, yeah,

(01:35:01):
if it had been like some place that had been open,
that could get real weird, real quick. My question is too,
if you bring your pet in to have them put
him down, but this happens before they put him down,
do you still get charged for that the put down
because technically they didn't do it. I don't know, man,
I'm just biscally responsible.

Speaker 6 (01:35:20):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:35:20):
The happy part of I mean, the down part. The
sad part is there was some injury to some firefighters
there because they show up and then the thing like
literally just goes up. But no, it was not chock
full of people's pets or staff for that matter, other
than the construction guys who quickly evacuated. They're like, no,

(01:35:41):
I don't get paid enough for this and then called
the police and the fire department there. So what about
the driver please? The driver was taken into cuss Oh good,
Oh he was drunk, okay or showing signs of impairmid
I don't know if he was drunk or what was
going on? Kind of the day did this happen? You know,

(01:36:06):
you always think about drunk drivers, like around bar clothes
and watch out on the roads. But the number of
stories we do where somebody's hammer does something horrible and
it's like eleven in the morning blows me away. Yeah, okay,
So he's taken into custody, but it doesn't seem to
be injured, which is sometimes a hallmark of being intoxicated.
He is slam into a school bus, kill thirteen kids

(01:36:27):
and you don't get a scratch. One of the life's
mysteries there. But yeah, check out the aftermath there. But yeah,
if your pet sense it, I mean, I don't want
to watch it. There were no pets inside, so it
did not open yet and probably won't open for a while.
I would have to guess. But yeah, and again this
is in Wilmington. Oh that's what I know where that

(01:36:48):
is where the lows is over there. Okay, well any who,
so at Casey on the radio is is of course
the the Twitter handle if you want to go see that,
and real quickly, a other billionaire is planning a trip
to the Titanic. Why do you guys keep doing this?
If I had a billion dollars ross, you know what
I'm not doing going to the Titanic and the murder

(01:37:09):
subs or going to space.

Speaker 2 (01:37:12):
This one's gonna be better though, because they're not using
an Xbox controller. They're using a we sort of controller.
Oh so there's no controller. You power the sub with
your body.

Speaker 1 (01:37:21):
I see. Yeah, it'll be I see. So you gotta
be kind of running in place with the somewhere going