Friday-06-02-2023

M Well, look at that, you made it. I know it was only a four day work week for a lot of people, but here we go. Happy Friday, everybody, k c O DA radio program and uh oh boy, we got we just got a bunch of stuff we gotta blow

through. By the way, congratulations as we kick off the show this morning to the now former mayor of Chicago, LORI Lightfoot, what an honor has now been appointed as a fellow, and we'll be lecturing at Harvard University, ironically for the School of Public Health, after reigning over a some would say, a rather deadly city of Chicago. I'm is Harvard just now a this is all they do now right, anytime a Democratic politician is out or doesn't

get their way, Harvard is like, you know what, it would be great if you could come teach here. Remember here we got a North Carolina connection to this. When Bev Perdue lost to McCrory, Harvard gave her some some gig up there. And then of course Hillary Clinton, now Hilton. Now it'll be fair. Hillary Clinton was Columbia, so it's not just Harvard

doing this stuff. Although Harvard did be like, hey, David Hogg, want to come up here, but now there have been numerous examples and UM, Lori Lightfoot, Lorie Beatle Juice Lightfoot, as she's referred to in this tweet where I saw this, UM has been appointed as a fellow at a Senior Leadership Lecture Fellow for Harvard's Chan THH. Chan School of Public Health.

Now I'm reading this, I wanted to read this right from Harvard's website because I wanted to hear their UM. I wanted to hear them explain the reasons. During her ten or is Mayor, Lightfoot led a coordinated citywide response across government, business, and community organizations to safeguard public health and minimize economic impact from COVID nineteen. Among the steps she took, she created a racial Equity Rapid Response Team. Well, well, what does the one have to do

with the other one? All right, So you're you're you're talking about how great she was in handling COVID nineteen. And I obviously I didn't live in the city of Chicago, but I do remember that they were one of the municipalities that was most impacted by their teachers union there. In fact, maybe

people don't realize this. One of the reasons she was out is because she didn't give them all the things they wanted and they organized literally against her, And a lot of people see that as the primary reason she's out as mayor. And now you have a guy who's arguably probably a little crazier than her in so you loved her COVID response, and then the first example you give is the creation of a racial equity rapid response team, and then the second

reason is a COVID nineteen recovery task for us. At least that's on point. I suspect if I spent five minutes digging into that, there'd probably be some people who didn't think it was all that keen Chicago's first black woman in first openly gay mayor Tickin' boxes here we go. Lightfoot also focused on generating inclusive economic growth across the city's neighborhoods. Her accomplishments include landmark ethics and good

governance reforms, worker protection legislation, and key investments. She also refused to take questions from white reporters, like I know it's the oldest game out there, but I have to wonder if you had a politician who I don't know it's to say, a white man, right, and he's just like, I'm not taking any questions from any reporters that aren't white men. If you'd be given him a teacher or a fellowship slot. Let's see, I'm not

gonna read this whole pile of garbage. And then they're just a kind of explaining the position, which basically is a catch all. I mean, I'm telling you this is this is one of the things that Democrats do really well.

They have they had safety nets after safety nets, man, and I'm sure to some extent the Republicans you know, have this as well, because at the end of the day, it is a it is a club, right, and I've seen plenty of Republicans that seemingly fall fail upwards, but not to this extent, man, and not in the world of academia. It just doesn't happen, not to this extent. Remember the I've said this before, the Surgeon General, who is a black man under Donald Trump,

who arguably wasn't there wasn't. I can't think of any controversial things that Jerome Adams was involved. And except for people who didn't like how pro some of the COVID restrictions he was, this is a guy who was left off as

his surgeon general. And this doesn't just mean surgeon generals under Democrats or Republicans, because there's lots of examples of under both Republicans and Democrats where they get done being surgeon general and medical schools and large hospital units are they want that, they want that name associated with their brand. That's a big get And

dude couldn't get anything. I saw. I saw an interview with him where he said that literally people at major colleges such as Harvard even told him, Yeah, we'd love to, but we don't want to put up with excuse me, we don't want to put up with the wrath of our own students, and even in the private sector, because they knew the moonbats would organize because it was in that period where anyone who had so much as spent one

minute in any leadership position in and around Donald Trump that started during his term, they were not going Nothing was going to be able to happen for them. But no, you gotta take Lorie Lightfoot up there and talk about how great she is because she fought COVID with a racial equity rapid response team. Because why the hell not man? All right? Eight eight eight nine, three, four, seven, eight seventy four. Don't worry. I'm fully

aware of the Mandy Cohen thing, so we will get to that. I'm actually not surprised by it, considering that's she came from the federal government to North Carolina, and then the idea, at least with the Washington Post and others are reporting does not surprise me. So if you don't know what that is, stay tuned. We'll help you out. Yes, no, yes, Brian, I believe we covered it when that happened. Yes, Brian Stelter after CNN threw them out, got some honorary thing up at Harvard.

It's what it is. It's just it's a giant with an endowment of billions and billions of dollars. It's just a giant slush fund. That's um for those of a particular ideological bent. Alright, six sixteen case O Day Radio Program. I'll give you a rundown to some other stuff as well, coming up in just a few Hang on your Day Smarter one O six one FM Talk and News Talk five w PTI More with Casey starts now. But what do you say we do is story that's just flipping terrifying and the more you

think about it, the worse it gets. Shall we So, um, this is it's not a new discussion, but as AI continues to evolve. Outside of just you know, your kid not writing their paper and lawyers not doing their research, there are there are military advancements that have been talked about.

One of those things are autonomous drones, and not just autonomous drones, which in a way we actually carr there is current usage of this, but not from an engagement or weapon standpoint, but basically drones that yes, they have operators, but also they're programmed and I don't know if AI's necessarily the right work because there's definitely parameters, but their programmed to really kind of work

on their own from a surveillance standpoint. So if like, you know, the example that I've seen in the story is basically they have these drones that even going back to like Libyan stuff, but basically they there were certain signatures that they could look for in you know, these vast open areas of Africa, and if they see those signatures, they would then based on that programming, there's other surveillance stuff that they would do, attempting to more accurately document

what's going on, so you know, the downside if that is wrong or if it's not doing what it's supposed to, is you know, wasted time really at that point. But ultimately there was also the oversight of operators, and there has been discussion about drones that were we're utilizing similar protocols but more advanced AI to do much more deadly things. And so the example would be, and this is the example I've literally heard given same kind of thing.

You have drones that are looking for terrorist training camps in you know, in these remote areas of as some of the African countries, right out in the middle of the desert terrorist training camp, and they would be able to recognize it and then make a decision as to whether they engaged or not. Another application is drones that are looking for enemy aircraft and like the drone and the AI system would make the decision whether they're doing engaged. That's the big hurdle

point. That's what they literally have meetings over. That's what protesters have gotten basically weaponized, you know, murder bots for all practical purposes. But if you thought that that was just you know, people going you know, people who were overreacting. I present to you this an Air Force experiment to test

drones trained on artificial intelligence did not go well. So basically, the researchers trained a weaponized drone, although in this case it's not truly weaponized, but for all practical purposes it is. It thinks it is, and utilizing AI upon that drone to identify and attack enemy air defenses. So they're looking for um, you know, uh, I can't remember the the name of those particular missiles, but but basically that's what they're looking for. Okay, And

if you watched the new top Gun, they're in there. Ross. You still haven't seen the new top Gun, have you? I have not do. We got to remedy this. It's it's pure cheese, it's fanta. Well, yeah know, we only watch like one hour a TV a day because of our schedule, like at the you know, when Lincoln goes to bed, so we're currently watching The Office, that's what we're doing when we're doing with that maybe Top Gun. It's on Prime, so and I know

you guys got the Prime, so hopefully you find a window there. Dude. It's it's so schlocky, but like in the best white pot. It's it's exactly what it purports to be. So, but they do have these the missiles. It's part of the plot. So and there's some other stuff that for a moment you'll roll your eyes and then automatically you're back in it. But anyway, back to this, So, this is what this drone

is supposed to do. And then if it if if it thinks and I hate to use that, if it thinks that that is an enemy air defense thing, then it you know, blows it to smitherings. So that was the experiment. So they set up some that are and then they set up some that were not, and it was they wanted to see if it could properly make the decision based on whatever parameters it had. And then as part

of the experiment also they had an operator that was overseeing it. And so then the operator would tell the drone in some cases to aboard a mission of the event. All right, good enough, I understand the experiment. Understand what's going on here. What do you think the AI murdered drone did well?

The AI murdered drone after an operator told it it would tell it literally either yes or no, started telling it no. As part of the testing decided that the operator was getting in the way of it carrying out its mission. So all right, I'm looking at my client because there's a lot more

to this, but that's the setup. It's doing its thing. It's a test, it's identifying what it thinks is and it's part of training it too, because then the operators that failsafe and it's like, yes, you're correct, that is an enemy air defense system or no, you're not correct, that is not. Do not blow it to smitherings. But it's what happened next that you're going to be ruminating one and I will tell you what the

murder drone decided to do. And it wasn't just one thing. It was a series of things where if you were nervous about this, you're gonna be much more so. So we'll get to that and your news coming up. Hang on smart Talk all DAYPTI in the Triad and one six one FM Talk in the Triangle. Okay, thirty five, Now to the rest of our drone story. Oh wait, hold on, somebody on Twitter. Oh I'll

address that in a moment. I bet your fund sir. All right, So, last we left the story Air Force experiment AI on a drone operator oversight of said drone, training it to recognize enemy air defense and be able to decide yes, that is no, that isn't and then make its own autonomous decision to blow it to smithereens. It's the it's the exact example that

we've seen talked about from a military application standpoint before. Does an you put a bunch of drones out, you don't necessarily have to have an operator handling each individual one, and they can just run around and blow up terrorist training camps and missiles and whatever you want. But you got to make sure it knows what it's doing. You know, you get some preschool that looks a little training campy and international incident, right, So as part of the training

they have it flies around. It's supposed to identify this. However, a operator then tells it, yes, you're correct or no you're not. You know, don't don't blow it to smitherings. Now spoiler for apparently some of you listening, it's not actually blowing things to smitherings, right, It's about

training it to recognize so that it could do that. There's not an actual drone with help fire missiles running around blowing stuff up because you get they just wanted to see if they could train it to do this, so it knows what its mission is. However, it also knows that when it decides, there is this human link in the chain that says yes you can or no you can't. And apparently it got one too many knows that's right. It was told not to enough that it did the It did the thing right.

And what is the classic what is the classic movie trope with murder bots? Ross? What is the classic murder trope? The It is that the the AI is going to see the humans as the virus or the mistake of the obstacle and take them out. Correct, So what did it do? It like? It then went, oh, really, I can't blow that up either, and not for real because apparently I have to explain this to some folks because some guy on Twitter it's like it was a simulation. In spite

of the inflammatory headline, no one was physically attacked. No you're you're extra, but that doesn't make it any less problematic. It decided that the obstacle was the human telling at no, the operator, so it went and not really but pretend murdered the operator figured out where the operator was and then launched an attack. Not a real attack. I can't believe I have to specify this not a real attack to murder the drone operator. That is absolutely terrifying.

But that's not all I mean, surely that's the end of it. It is not, you would think because at that point then because now the operators, you know, pretend blown to smithereens it started realizing what was going on, killed the operator, and then the programmers attempted to fix it. So now it's still flying around all proud of itself because it just murdered the

operator and now it can go blow up whatever it wants. So the programmers attempt to fix it by issuing a line of code that basically forbid the AI from murdering the person giving the go no go order. So that should fix it. Right now, It's got a firm rule in the world of computers. That's what you always hear from people. Yeah, just program it not to do the like the what is it, Isaac Asimov? Rightly, the

three that's exactly that you know from my robot. So it kills the thing the guy for telling them, hey, don't do that, you're wrong. The a's like Donga blow you up. And then you have the guy like, okay, fine, I'm just gonna reprogram you so you won't do that. Yeah you should, you will not physically be able to do it and surely listen to the rules. Well it did kind of. It didn't try to blow up its operator anymore because you know that person and is pretend blown

to smithereens. But what they didn't program as a rule was that it couldn't go blow up the people giving it new rules. So what did it do? It attacked the communications tower where the programmers were pretend attack. Absolutely terrifying. Can we be done with this now? Can we just pull the plug? I didn't say that Drone Ross said that, I mean and and relatively said he wants to pull your plug. Relatively speaking, this thing is sort of, I mean, kind of still in his infancy, right. What's

gonna happen when it evolves even further? It literally found a workaround, is what it did. Yeah, it's like loophole and then Ross wants to pull its plug. Ross Hayes, not Casey O Day wants to pullets plug. I think you're great, Drone, do your thing, man, But you know, Ross just saying yeah, so that like I try to think which AI experiment went went worse? Was it this one or the class the Microsoft one where it turned into the antide Dude? This one by far because ahead

somewhat violent. I mean, it's it's the terminators. It is the terminator coming to fruition, right. I mean the other one was just like words on Twitter and words for people that believe words are violence. But you know a spoiler, they're not right. Sticks and stones can break my bones. This is like break your bones. This is a drone vaporizing you, right, like ye hell fire raining down yep, yep, yep yep. So

um, yeah, this is just terrifying. In January, the Department of Defense introduced revised Autonomous Weapons Guidelines to address us the dramatic expanded vision for the role of AI in the future of the American military. Now, what's what's even crazier here is, um, did you read some of the comments on this story? Not the not the one that I said, I'm sorry because I essent you the Daily Caller one? Um um, the what was it on the tweet on task and Purpose or wherever it was where I first saw

this and then linked through. But um, you had people, I want to make sure that I have this correct. You had people who literally pointed out that humans, human military folk have also ignored orders. Oh okay, yeah, but this is a machine, and it's not supposed to do that ever, right, Like you know what I mean? Like when I put my my, my, my past and the bread and the toaster, right, it's gonna do what I wanted to do. It's not gonna like grow

legs and kill me. Like what kind of toaster do you have? It's a program different, right, because at some point are you gonna be able to stop it? Look, Rambo was supposed to just take pictures. Those were the orders, and we all know what happened there, so obviously exact same thing. Thank you for well, I mean, this is the chain rule that wouldn't have never happened if he was just allowed to get something to

eat. But you had that cop right right, Gotta make uh, gotta make your your your your power known and look at that chain of events it kicked off. So yep, no, screw that done. And I'm almost less concerned. Well I shouldn't say I'm less concerned with the US doing it.

I'm more concerned with, um, somebody who might not might not have the wisdom to not do it, you know what I'm saying, get some you know, because drones are much more achievable for some of these despot countries obviously, So UM, like a Kim Jong un drone running around, what does he care if it's does nuke that preschool? If it thinks it's shooting at an American and military installation. There's a guy who just jailed a two year old, So what are you gonna do? All right? Six forty

four case O Day radio program. We're feeling good about that. Everybody feeling good about that. And they have a whole Have you ever read this um, because they're pretty open about all the different aspects and applications on it. They got murdered drones, murder tanks, murder underwater drones, and h This was this is a big this is a big component of it. And I

would say it literally failed as horribly as possible. All Right, you went to weigh in eight eight eight nine three or seven eight seven four back in just a few keeping you connected. This is ninety four five WPTI in the triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. All right, welcome back, it is six fifty one. We're gonna have to we're gonna to dive into this conversation too well you know what last ye let me just go ahead and set this up and we can still get some calls if you

want. But umm, so Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Uh, the public school thank you for nine pop ups Pittsburgh PA schools um and this uh let's see how many? Well basically the is it all of them? No, it's not okay, So yeah, I don't know how many they have.

Forty of their schools have decided that they will implement a new policy up there that is a holdover from COVID, and they're very excited about this remote learning as a way to deal with in this case, not you know, extreme winter weather, but extreme heat as the schools do not have air conditioning. So I find a little crazy, like Pittsburgh gets hot, but maybe just not normally during the school year. Yes, extreme weather protocol. And

they're not the only district to want to do this. Basically, they looked at remote learning. They're like, hey, everybody knows what's up now, So now on days when we need to, we can just use it. The fear, obviously among some folks is they'll use it a whole bunch. But the upside, they say, is on days where they normally would have to cancel school. And we've seen it here in North Carolina where basically they had to have discussions about they had to like literally change the rules at the

legislative level because school districts found themselves outside of this window. Because in North Carolina we had a rule for a very long time and I don't know if they changed it temporarily or for good, I can't remember, but basically, schools, for traditional calendar schools had to be done by a certain time and couldn't start before a certain time. And you know, basically that was all about making sure that the summer beach going tourist season was carved out so you

had you had years. I can't what it was like seven years ago or something. There were so many snow days for a lot of the districts. It became a problem because even with the days where they could have put it before the end of the year, they weren't gonna make it. So what do you do. Well, The explanation from district officials in places like Pittsburgh and others that have now decided to make remote learning an optional thing, should they need to pull the trigger is this is how you deal with it.

So if you've got a day where you think the roads are too icy, you don't want the kids coming in, or there's a heat issue, or you know, let's say something happens at the school and the water's not working and you can't occupy a building that the water's not working, then everyone would just get told, hey, it's remote learning, and the expectation would be

then that school day happens remotely. You guys, cool with that? You're okay with that because the reality is now generally we're talking about a snow day, and it doesn't mean for everybody matter. If it's a snow day, Ross and I have to work, and I know a lot of you are

the same way. However, there's a lot of people that if the kids school is canceled because of the snow, a lot of businesses canceled, which was crazy to me when I first moved down here, coming from you know, Minnesota and Wyoming, right, but they'd be like, oh, we think it might snow and then they would cancel school for ten days or something.

But it wouldn't just be school. There'd be like five hundred, six hundred closures on the closure list that we have, and it would be you know, basically any big company, governmental offices, you name it done. Any extracurricular stuff was out immediately, so you know, the parents would be there and there and if the kids canceled, if the kids school is canceled, they've got to be home anyway. You already have to deal with that

somehow. So would you be okay if your kids school district, Wait County, Guildford County, whatever it is, use this as a backup for times when they have to cancel school or do you feel that all of a sudden they might start to abuse this, which is a legitimate concern considering they already abused it the first time. In a lot of cases, the district said

that they will. They're doing remote learning they day yesterday and today for these forty schools, and everyone just kind of had to, you know, flip back into COVID mode. But schools said, look, we invested in this infrastructure. Obviously there's a comfort level that was achieved by both students and faculty, and this is much better than having to reschedule days. And I kind of get that. I just the problem is is I just I don't trust.

I don't have any trust in school officials right now. And a lot of people are probably on the same page. So what do you think, Roster, would you be cool with this? If they have to cancel it's snowing and they got to cancel school, you got to go to work, you know, but you know, Lincoln stays home that day. And they decide, well, and you know, we're gonna have a snow day for Friday and Thursday or whatever, and we're gonna announce those are remote learning days

and then boom back on the computer. No, I can't stand it. I even hate the idea of it. I know, I know, but but then they just rescheduled two days later in the year. So it's not like, you know, it's not like it's a wash once you get out of whatever the allocated number of snow days are. Well, I'm different though, because I can't stand the distance learning. Because it's hard enough to teach a child with autism, let alone through a laptop computer screen. It's nearly

impossible. So I lockdown was so bad for somebody special needs children. It was absolutely horrible. And then if you brought that up on Twitter at that time, you were you want to Grandma to die. But it's a legitimate concern, so I look, I understand the logic of it. But again it's it's the it's partially the trust issue, and it's also what Ross just

talked about. And there's a lot of kids, whether they are students who are on an IEP of special needs students, but there's there's students that run the gamut that the remote learning was not the answer for them. But it's like any government program, right where whence it starts, it's very rare that they go away. And that's why Yeah, well that's why you're seeing the screaming and the mashing of the teeth over this. Uh, the selection bill

that the GOP here in North Carolina is fun to put through. Josh Stein was wet a little panties on the Twitter yesterday. All the stuff they said was temporary. Hang on, all right, good morning everybody. It is seven oh six here on the Casey O Day or radio program phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven pours so we get things roll in this hour. So I mentioned a couple of things. Well, let me

just give you the first hour in a nutshell. One Lorie Lightfoot now got a gig at Harvard, the failed Chicago mayor, because you know that's how that works. Our own Mandy Cohen. You remember her from all those times the governor stood there and didn't take any critical questions for like two years. She had come from the federal government and then left here in North Carolina, and now the hubbub is she is going to be replacing Rachel Wilinsky, the

CDC director. So God help us. UM. I don't believe that requires a Senate confirmation. Some people are, you know, saying that I got some emails. Hopefully our senators say something. I don't know that she has to go in front of it. If she does, she will. She will go in front of one of our senators because Tom Tillis is on that. Yesterday, till Us did vote for them the debt package. Bud did not Just to in case you winner and that was split, but there was

still more in enough votes to us send that to Biden's desk. And just in case you thought that was a compromise. The Washington Post has an op ed today mad that Biden quote won and got everything he want wanted and is acting like it was a compromise and instead he should be out puff in his chest, which could be dangerous for him if there's a stage involved. So um, but yeah, so like they're even calling it for what it is. He won, he got everything he wanted. Why hasn't he taken a

victory lap That tells you everything you need to know right there? Man, So we had that's that fun right there. And then the government was testing an AI drone. Basically it was supposed to go out and identify, you know, enemy targets and then an operator would say yes you can or no you can. And it was part of training it so that one day maybe it could do it autonomously, no operator needed. And it got told no

one too many times, so it and it didn't really do this. It's all a simulation, but it's the way in which it reacted was to kill the drone operator. And then when the computer guys entered a command saying you're not allowed to kill the drone operator, it went a loophole. It then killed the computer guys. So they wouldn't stuff anymore commands into it, limiting

its ability to go murder whatever at once. So that went literally as badly as it could have short of like in the movie Eagle Eye, where it decided just to cut through all the BS steps and go murder everybody at the State of the Union. Luckily shy lebuff stopped it. So there you go, spoiler. So we had that also up in Pittsburgh, and this is not the only district to be getting on this, and we got a we

got a whole laundry list of examples. Pittsburgh as part of a program that is a holdover from COVID, has triggered I guess would be the word for it. It's emergency weather protocols and this case it's heat and they are having two at home days. So remote distance learning once again everybody's favorite, and that is their solution to snow days or any really any emergency that makes it

so the kids can't come to school. Rather than reschedule in another day later in the year, they're just going to kick right into the remote learning. And on one side of it, I get the logic of it, especially I know I gave the example in North Carolina where school districts we're having to go to the legislature to fix things because they had so many snow days that they weren't gonna be able to get them in before the legal calendar days or

within the legal calendar days, and it caused a problem. And so I guess I kind of get it. But also this is so government, man. Once something gets cracking, they're all over it, and I don't trust them not to abuse it as it was abused previously. And it's not just this, it's a bunch of stuff, you know, the North Carolina legislature working on you know, big big elections bill. All right, so what are the horrible things that I had to watch every Democrat tweet were essentially trying

to destroy our democracy. They would they would have more restrictions on mail and voting, same day voter read. Basically, most if not all, of the changes that we were told we're going to be temporary during COVID, the ones they were actually able to get stick because remember Joss Steiny Boy and h

and Mark Elias and those cats who were backroom dealing this crap. They did get slapped down in that one court case where they it was going to be much it was gonna be more along the lines of what Pennsylvania ended up with. Basically, lead the GOP's like, no, you can't do that anymore. And by the way, you said this was temporary, and now that they want to make this thing that we were told was temporary, you know, actually temporary. It's an attack on democracy and they're trying to trying to

keep people from voting and all the rest of it. It's just crazy. The proposal would require election boards. You're ready for this to use signature verification for absentee ballots. How many of you thought they were doing that already. Yeah, there's actual software that can do it. I know. It's crazy, although you still got yeah, you still you still gotta have the people too. Double it up. Man, let's see here. Also would make

it easier for people to formally accuse others of voter fraud. I don't know the how do you accuse somebody of voter fraud now? And how it would make it easier. I mean, if if you think somebody committed voter fraud, isn't it which is a crime? Isn't it? Just? What's the problem with being able to report that you think somebody committed a crime. People do that all day every day. I think so and so stole from my store, right, some shoplifter, although really in a lot of cases,

we don't report that stuff anymore. And they were absolutely apoplectic over this as I was going through the nc POL Twitter yesterday, attack on democracy. It's horrible. You said this was temporary, You said all of this was temporary, and you lied, and you just that you don't even care. One of the example, Ross and I were talking off the year, and I

think it is probably the easiest to understand examples. How many of you have driven through Chicago or on the what's it called the thru Way up there in New York both toll roads, Um, but you know those aren't supposed to be there, right listen, calm down. When it's paid for, the toll will go away, right right, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, that's exactly. That's how Chicago was sold on it. And when when actually they were starting to hit the numbers, people

like, okay, time to do away with the tollway. Like, I'll tell you what instead of the boost, will do high speed tolling. Is that better? And they're like, well, we're going to get a lot of money doing this. Yeah, it'll never go away. This is this is why I fall back on the trust issue, because it makes all the sense in the world if if you get yourself in a position where this this

might be more helpful. There's a lot of other downsides to remote learning, as we've talked about some For a lot of kids, it's just it ain't it you know. Uh. In fact, it might be doing more harm than good because now they're going to be expected to retain information that will that they won't because it's not how they learn, and it won't be represented to them necessarily, but there will be tested on it, whereas at least if

you rescheduled days, will have the traditional experience of learning that information. But I am curious, would you prefer, as a parent, on the inevitable snow days that you're instead of having to worry about how many extra days they might have to tack unto the end of the year if they exceed their allotment, would you rather just we attempt to have business as usual and we do the remote learning because now people at least have some experience with it. Because

this is what a lot of districts are wanting to do. And the problem is is it makes sense during a blizzard maybe, but once there's a comfort level there, then maybe it's not a blizzard. Maybe it's um and a new kind of teacher enrichment day. Or right, here's the political scenario. Maybe it's we're going to have a new green pilot program ready for this ross I should be elected a Democratic lawmaker. Are you ready? Here we go

a green pilot program to show how a woken awesome we are. So one day a week, we're gonna go remote learning to keep those buses off the roads and those cars off the roads. We're gonna and then we'll put out a BS number about how much carbon we're saving. It's okay, your kids are comfortable with remote learning, and it's for the planet. Why do you hate the planet? If you think that is not a scenario, that is at least a possibility, you're not paying attention. I bet somebody's thought of

that before I did. All right, let me grab a call here, Ben, What up, Casey? This AI stuff planic is driving me crazy. I'm being a software developer for forty years and AI is just software written by human beings. Now this drone that turned around and attacked, it's an operator. The only person whose fault is that is is a software developer. And he's like, I'm not going to say he was a government software developer

and he might have not been the best. I'm not gonna say that, but this is a panic and we've got to stop people growing up on how and attack robots and stuff like that. They don't understand this. But it's not as simplistic as that. And because what it did is it said it determined that it prioritized its mission and it realized that its mission was being hindered by this individual. That's a there's a certain amount of clostness to that,

sir No. The software developer had to write that this program did not think of this as by itself. But what's even scarier than all this casey is that the government wants to control it. There's no way to control this. You can't stop a thirteen year old kid from sitting down in coding. Well maybe so you're saying that is somewhere it was programmed in that if the if if the AI thought the drone operator was impeding its mission, that it should

kill the drone operator, You wouldn't code the code. Yes, somebody screwed up in the code. Software cannot think on its own. It's a it goes ABC. Some software developer screwed up on his code. You know, maybe you know, uh, you know, maybe it was busy playing. What would you enter in there where that scenario would occur to the drone? That's what I don't This is all you know, I want to understand, sir. I just don't like what would that look like? Because you're not

going to literally write that. Hey, if you want to kill the operator, if you think that the operator stopping your mission, nobody's gonna nobody's gonna r in there. No, but the software is a little more cryptic, you know, and it could identify you know, so sure, you know, maybe there's exactly it because of the crypt Because of the cryptic nature of it, you recognize that it created this window with which it you know, the parameters in which it was supposed to operate, right, which is basically

what the code does. These are your parameters, right, and and tells you step by step what to do. So it's a scan what didn't if you want that it would say scan areas and if it's if it, if it has this signature, blow it to Smitherings. And that I understand that part of it. But after it was told not to blow something to smithereens it then blew up the operator. I mean didn't really, but obviously in

the in the scenario it did. So if I if the simplest steps that I put in there saying, if you see something that looks like this or has this heat signature, whatever it is, blow it to Smitherings. And that's the parade. We write this code all the time. This is when you find errors in code. It's like, oh, shoot, I should I should note that when it scans the air, if it sees an operator, do not blow that person up. This is just software that someone screwed

up on. But if the operator was Alanic, the the operator wasn't sitting on one of these missile batteries like uh um, I'm trying to remember the guy in the movie rode the missile back in the day. Um oh oh yeah, oh that was great. Yeah yeah yeah, but but like that that that's not where the drone operator sitting off in the drone operator station, right, He's not He's not hanging out on the missile man. So I don't I don't know, but uh, there's no way, there's no no

ways this drone could act on its own. Someone directed someone in the software directed it to do that, which means it's it's basically pilot air. You know the question all the time, Well, can I ask you a question? Are you the drone? Are you the drone? Are you the drone running edition information campaign on my show? I'm not the drone. This is not possible. This very funny. That's what the drone would say. Hey see, drone could not tell you what a great show you hub and much

I enjoyed. This is. This is drone not possible. All right, hey Ben, I gotta our drone or whatever your name is. I gotta go, but thank you very much. Okay, bubba bubba, right yeah, all right, that's the drone. Ross, that's the drone, right one percent. That was the drone. That's the drone that Ross said he wanted to turn we need to shut it down. Well here we go again.

I didn't say that. Ross said that. So if you're listening, still drone, there you go, all right, seven twenty two, hang on, all right, long first segment there, but we had to get to the bottom all the grown stuff, so that and yes, we'll talk about the Joe Biden incident where he was what's the word of you? Sanday plus Pete Calendar will join us at eight oh five, so lots coming up

back in just a few Thank you. Casey is on ninety four five w PTI in the Triad and one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle. Prons just told me there's not enough bleeps in the budget. How many bleeps are we budgeted? I haven't even looked. Have we used up all our bleeps? We have a surplus and it's not gonna be enough. I just I just tweeted this out and it's it's a tweet and then there it's actually two so it's a little mini thread. I saw this and I thought I

cannot be the only person who has to see this. So then I made Ross watch it and his response was, uh, um, no, we don't have enough bleeps, which is probably right. So apparently trans raps a thing like wrap the music. It's a trans rap artist, but there's a lot of naughty words in it. I'm just warning you we go check that

out. Well, a couple little snippets from the music video there. It's, um, it's something by the way, I just got an email Ross and some guys like, hey, love the show, need your lat launch coordinates to send a gift. So I should probably give him the coordinates. Bro, Yeah, it could go wrong. Man, Huh, come on, it's a bow time. You think that's what you think that's the gift. You think it's bow bow time. You know, Latin not address wanted

LAT launch. Very weird alloa the morning that's on there. And also this one didn't require bleeps because it's actually another one of these AI or AI. Yeah, AI generated but very very memes or memes are the best. So yeah, I understand the AI right wants to murder everyone, but also it

wants to create funny memes. So I'm actually torn on this issue. So we had the one the other day that went viral over the weekend where somebody had taken a scene from the office, and actually both of these are from the office, but it's the scene where Michael shows up. Michael Scott shows up wearing a suit, but it's a woman's suit, and um, he's in the middle of negotiations with the guys who work in the warehouse, and

and you know, it's a funny little exchange. And they just superimposed Ron de santis his face over Michael Scott and his voice but seamless, it's perfect, seamless in this and the voice says all the things that is actually in the scene, but in Ron de Santis' AI version of his voice. Are you wearing lady clothes? And what are you wearing? Lady clothes? Look like lady pants? Now this is a power suit that there's a woman's suit

and it's really funny. And if you scroll it on the Twitter timeline you'll see that on their butt. Ross found a new one this morning. Now this is uh, this is Creed. Yeah, he's such a great character. I used one of my favorite characters. Creed is an old hippie who's got some stories and he happens one of the what's he's a mystery. He's a mystery. And there's a scene where he's talking about him, um during the sixties, hooking up with a bunch of women's right, and so what

do they do? Uh, somebody put Joe Biden's face over Creed and Joe Biden's voice or is it the voice that I didn't even I guess I know it's Biden's voice. Yeah, that's what makes it so much better. It's not just because the old memes. You just could kind of get my face over there, right, perfect, Now twenty twenty four is gonna be amazing when it comes to the memes. So and then like the caption on it was by like happy Pride Month or so Biden Pride Month or Biden celebrates Pride

Month or something. All right, so check it's very short, but the videos on there, but here's the audio and the sixties, I made love to many many women, often outdoors in the mud, in the rain, and it's possible a man slipped in. It would be no way of knowing, right, And they've only tapped one TV show for this, do you

understand? Like, how about however amazing this stuff is? Like if you were to go back like ten years ago, go back a decade and show somebody this, you'd be like, there's no way that's possible, right, Like what what kind of witchcraft is this? And now we're taking it for granted. It's it's look at it's crazy, dude. You could show it to uh, what's his Why now? His name is Kate the Avatar director James Cameron. Right, you showed to James Cameron ten years ago. What

the Wakowski are they Wakowski's sisters. No, I can't because the one had the ones from the Matrix. The Matrix. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, you could show this to them in nineteen ninety nine and they'd be blown away. And you remember watching The Matrix in nineteen ninety nine and how you felt it's bonkers, dude, but it's funny. So yeah, we got lots of stuff there. Make sure you're on the Twitter phone, us on the Twitter at Casey on the radio, Casey the two letters at Casey

on the radio. You can see that. And then check out the trans rap that Ross called straight Fire. So big fan, big fan. But just you know it's got some it's got some lyrics in there, and we don't have enough bleeps. So there's that, all right. Speaking of Biden in Colorado Springs yesterday at the graduation of the Air Force Academy, I've actually been down to the Air Force Academy and it said, um cool little setting.

Colorado Springs is an interesting town though, because like half of it is it's like South Chicago, man, like crazy, crazy crime problem over there. But yeah, then you have the academy set up against the mountains there. It's a very beautiful, beautiful area over there. Um. So he's there, he's doing the graduation. And I'm sure you've seen the video by now. He gets up on walks up on stage. He's standing in a position and he's waiting then to walk over to the to the podium. I

guess I don't know where he was going because he didn't make it. Yeah, he down, he's down, and the media said then he quote got right back up. He did with three people, and they said he tripped over He said he tripped over a sandbag. He actually said I got sandbaged. He from the moment he from where he was standing the moment he went into motion. He did not look steady. So maybe maybe it was because he saw the sandbag. But I don't think his foot made contact with him

before he tripped. But maybe he was trying to pivot. Whatever. Here's the thing. As as people pointed out, Donald Trump slowly walked down a wet ramp and the media went twenty fifth Amendment, there's something wrong with him. New York Times. It was their front page story because you know, the receipts are there. You can look at the screen caps and and and Instead. Yesterday, not only did they just choose to ignore it, they chose to lie about what actually happened, like, oh he did, like

he just bounced up. He didn't. Three people helped him up, but he's also the president and he falls down. Secret Service runs over the one part though that um well, and I saw many people notice this, but it is my favorite. If if you watched it but you didn't notice this, you should watch it again. Is the one the one cadet, the female cadet who is she's getting ready, I guess to walk over the podium,

but she's waiting for the president go over. She sees him go down, and she looks and she literally just pivots one hundred and eighty degrees and kind of walks off. And it's just her reaction like, oh, hell no, I'm not going over there. Obviously too, when he got Secret Service rushing up to help the president, you want to go over there. But instead of staying stationary, she gave this horrified look, spins around and just walks off. And I just I don't know. I kind of laughed

at that. But they, you know, they say he's fine and all of that. It's just like, just if you're gonna treat it one way for one, just treat it the same way. But here's the serious question too, So how many times has he now fallen in so it's four times, how many times has he fallen not in public? Right? Well, yes, if he's a documented ones they had a caller or a twitchy or somebody had a story where they had the four of them in there. Yeah, you're right. No, I mean you don't know, man, how

many times have you stumble on that basement or in the White House? I don't know. I will say this, Look, people trip, people fall It happens. I think we've all done it. That being said, there is one, there is this disconnect in the way that the media handles it. But two, there's also the part where it it's immensely mockable by world leaders who hate you. Whether that's right or wrong, it's the reality of it. And you know, they've all they already kind of adopted their own

sleepy Joe attitude towards it, like Putin's mocked him. But the Chinese mocked him too, right, and I and I'm sure many many others um it. It doesn't. It doesn't scream power. Whether that's right or wrong. It's the reality of it. But yeah, the the official number that I saw was four, and you're right, it's probably probably more than that. All right, seven five phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four. Race Stagic from the Weather Channel. He is, he's here.

How you doing? Start happy Friday? Yes, aimed at you doing well? How about yourself? Ah, you know pretty good. Just terrified over that. You saw that military drone story, right, did you see

the story? So? All right, So you know one of the one of the AI dreams of the military is to have drones with missiles that can fly around, figure out what's an enemy target and blow it up without somebody, a human having to do it. So they ran a simulation with the drone with the AI programming, and but whenever it did identify a target, then a human operator would say yes, you're right, blow it up,

or no, you're wrong, because they're trying to train it. Well, it got mad because it got told no, so it turned around and blew up the operator and then the programming guys put a code in saying, hey, you can't murder your operator. So it went loophole and murdered the programmers. I mean obviously not really, but yeah, so that's going well, it's good going well, yeah, you know, will Will Smith was onto something. It's freaky, man. I have no interest, not even interested.

I have not one. And you know what, they can't bring this if it can duplicate the camaraderie here. You know, maybe I'm four it, but it just I don't know, scary stuff now. It's not there yet, no, no, not yet. But it was not a hurricane developing. Hope, yeah, I hope not. And TD two speaking of tropical depression too in the eastern Gulf. I'm really not much of an influence to the US mainland. M gonna drift south the head toward western Cuba.

Small chance it becomes our lean, but that doesn't look real likely. Wins at thirty five right now, gusting over tropical storm force, which, as a reminder, is thirty nine miles per hour, but at that point doesn't look like direct impacts to the state of Florida. Here kind of a split a little more cloud try it triangle, a little more sunshine. Try it

so. Greensboro, Thomasville, Louisville looking good this morning, and you get near a wake forest and downtown Raleigh and out toward Fayetville a little more cloud Goldsboro. So temperatures will probably be a little more uniform and eighty three eighty four degrees for everybody today, It depends on where you are. There's partly sunny and then more sun as you go west. Tonight most of us are clear. We'll be down near sixties, so pretty comfortable for tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow afternoon maybe a hit or miss shower, thundershower into the evening, nothing widespread. Most of us are dry for rains and all rain briefly, and then on Sunday we'll have sunshine as we get this front through a very pleasant with the northeast breeze, mid seventies but warming back up into the eighties low eighties as we get into next week. And I think I mentioned it yesterday.

Doesn't look like much rain over the next seven to ten days. Maybe some I'm hit and miss stuff every couple of days, but other than that casey, I think we go on a more dry than we do wet run and likely more seasonal temperatures than we have anything real hot or anything real cool. Okay, by the way, you're as you're sitting there talking, I've got an email from not a drone once or at launch wants to send you again. Yeah, exactly. Okay, so I'm not giving out that information

on the air. Okay, all right, Well, being your bunker, be well, we'll talk in an hour. Okay, sounds good, all right, and coming up a couple couple of quick little hitters and then uh Pete Calendar will join us eight oh five and yeah, we'll talk drone and North Carolina legislature and Biden and you name it. That'll be our three kickoffs. So stick around back in just a few this one oh six one FM

Talk in the Triangle and here's talk w PTI and the Tryad. All right, So your theory is those things on the bottom of Joe Biden's shoes which just looked like oddly shaped lift or traction heels, are what magnets. Yeah, their magnets. That's how they control the clone. I mean, this

is an indisputable right. Well, you couple that with the very compelling videos where they're like, oh, he didn't put the face on it, right, you know, but if he was a clone or drone or whatever he is, like, you wouldn't make him fall down, right, I mean if it malfunctions, I don't know, because then like you know, it falls down and then all of a sudden like um, you know, like his the parts start falling off. The the jigs up. Man. All

jokes aside. It's some sort of like the lift or stabilizer or sometimes obviously it's a traction. They look like traction heels and probably a little bit of a and maybe not even a lift. I mean he's a tall guy,

but they they definitely look like the traction. Some you know, there's people people who have stability issues and when people get older, you can get the you can get shoes that have um basically assistance, or you can buy shoes that are you know, high traction shoes, um just for the interest of um, not slipping. But you can also do them if you work in a wet environment or no boots come with them. I think they just look weird. They just look like a magnet. So the joke, the joke

worked. So ah, do you want some or you want some worthipedic shoes. We can get those for you. I mean, I'm all down for comfy, for comfy shoes. Yeah, I'm with you, man, let's see here except for crocs. I don't know what's up with you people, Janet, what's going on? Hey Casey about Biden? You are absolutely right, stuff does happen. I get that. But to be fair, um pushing fifty three and I'll following twice in my adult life, and once because

I was being stupid trying to ride on the grand daughters. How were board with her? Well, now that you've got that involved, I don't even count that as a fall. Let's just straight once I fell on I fell on my stairs here, like not that long ago, because I had one in their woodstairs. So that oh yeah, that's not a good comma. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. Well the other followers because some construction workers had left a rake outside of their work area and I tripped on it as

I was crossing the street. Yeah, Julie, take the rake, I mean, that's yours at that point, I think, but I didn't. But I did have an instant flash in my brain of jumping up, grabbing the rake and smacking a construction worker with it. Well, if you do that, get somebody to film it and center the k Janet. I will definitely do that, all right, all right, thank you, appreciate it. Thank you. That's my rake. Now you tried to murder me.

Oh you probably just sue for billions of dollars or something like. That's how that goes. M all right, So coming up, we're gonna chat with Pete Calendar. We got so much stuff I want to get too. I don't know if we'll get to all of it, but we'll try. We'll try. Also, Um, so the Little Mermaid went for woe, but apparently, for some people's taste, didn't get woke enough. This might be one of the dumbest criticisms I think I've seen, but we will. We'll

have that for you coming up in the next hour. And oh yeah, things are going well in Mexico. So if you're let me taking yourself a little little trip, maybe when the when the when, you know, the kids out of the school and stuff. Um, bring your own bolsa bag because all the ones in Mexico are being used and for a pretty horrific reason. Phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four, of

course. But yeah, our radio buddy to the South Peak Calendar Midday's wbt n V, the I Heart Radio Apple, he joins us, coming up here in just a few minutes, and during the break, maybe stop by the Twitter see the trans rap and the office meme and all the goodness it at Casey on the radio. All right, good morning everybody, and welcome. It is EAT seven Friday, and I know it was a four day work week for most people, but it felt like six. What a crazy

weekend. To help us make sense of it, Pete Calendar radio buddy down in Charlotte middays there and via the iHeart Radio app. You want to listen to him, you can do that, but we're gonna talk to him now. Pete, how you doing this morning? Well? I was better? Uh like about what three minutes ago? Whatever could have happened? So you look pouted. You've polluted my uh my, my Twitter timeline and now my

eyeballs. Well look, you ever see something on Twitter and you're like, there's no way I'm going to be the only person having to see that. And yeah, so you you you spread that. I didn't know trans rap was a thing, and that's highly produced too, man, I mean, yeah, it's just something. It's on the Twitter by the way, at Casey on the radio. There's a couple of little snippets in that thread if you want to check it out. But I warn you the lyrics are interesting.

Um so yeah, yeah, you're not gonna maybe bleep it out and then use it as bump music for your show. Come on, man, um yeah no, probably not. Probably not. I don't think you really. I don't think the rap comes across as well unless you've got the video with it. I don't know if the song like just on its own, it's you know, that's fair like the video kind of makes it because it's a very it's a very uh dare I call it a trans aggressive kind of

attitude. You know, it's a very or just aggressive approach. It's it's all up in your face. I am this, you stink. It's a very antagonistic kind of thing. And I don't know if that comes through. I don't know if it seems as hard. You know, when it's when you don't see the video of the person, the human who is the artist,

yes, the recording artist that is that. Yeah, they're they're claiming to be trans and and they're they're very tough about it, and they're very in your face about it, and they're not going to live up to your ideas of what it means to be trans, which once again, it like there is something at the core of all of this that just screams narcissism and validate me. And uh, it comes through in that video of showing the

artist as well. And I think that if you just listen to the song, you might be mistaken and you may kind of think it's warm on the lines of sort of the old school gangster rap, but it's not. You got to have the video because it's like I need you, I need you to validate me, but I kind of don't want you to validate me. But at the same time, yes, it's about me and what you think of me. Well, but to be fair, it's not the first time

that there has been a rap song where it's aggressive, right. There's there's many gangster rap, right examples of this, and not even just in in rap, right, there's country music that's very in your face, I'm the man kind of stuff. So but yeah, I know you're right. The video definitely completes the the pictures of the tableau. Yeah, all right, so here's the deal, man, We're gonna we got so much stuff we gotta get to. This is just crazy. By the way, congratulations to

Lori Lightfoot for her new gig up at Harvard. Yeah yeah, remember, well she did such a great job in Chicago. Why wouldn't you want to tap that brain and get some of that information out to more people. And this is this is a thing that kills me. Man. This is just the safety net that Democrats set up. Is amazing, Right, Hillary Columbia, she's got some gig. Remember it was our own former governor that also

got a gig up at Harvard when she's reelection. Well, and you also, you can't ever forget the guy one of the trailblazers in this arena, John Edwards, Right, yeah, for former vice presidential candidate, former North Carolina US Senator John Edwards, who in between gigs right while he was before he was gonna launch the run for president, and after his senate tenure, he he landed the gig at UNC the poverty center that was created just for him, and then he led it and then he left when he ran for

president, and then I don't know whatever happened to it. I think it's defunct now. Oh was Gene Nichols not still less? But maybe it can get Reverend Barber. Yeah, I don't know. Okay, be very careful what she said. So for those of you don't know, Um, there was a dog whistle, a correct whistle. Uh well almost almost the man who we on this show have referred to as the Buffet's layer for years and didn't get the press. Um. Uh so they was it? Was it

the actual gop account? Yeah, it was the Goop account referred to him and another term that we've also used and didn't get the press, as a poverty pimp. I like uh grievance monger as well. But it hit the fan from the people who uh tucked frump on all of their tweets for four years. They got very upset because referring to the Reverend William Barber as a poverty pimp is that's it, That's the threshold we can't cross. So the

pearl clutching was something else yesterday. Yeah, between the rushing to defend the honor of the political activist Reverend William Barber, did you know his original degree was in political science, right, like he got the he got the divinity

degrees later, But this is he's a he's a political person. That's this from the very beginning anyway, you know, the moral mundane movement founder and all of that, and and to me, it's it was very striking between the defense of that and then the rushing to, you know, celebrate Mandy cullen. Um. It was a banner day for North Carolina media and Democrats. But I repeat myself, and the barber thing is quite interesting and how

many Democrats apparently associate the word pimp with black people. I was not aware that that was a term that was racist because it only describes black people. I thought, I thought, Jeffrey Epstein, he's a white guy, and he's he was, he was a pimp, right basically. So I don't, right, I don't understand how that became a racialized term, particularly when you're using it to describe when you stick in front of it the word poverty

pimp. Right. I mean, now, granted I do not I have not used that branding you have, so right, So I mean, as anything, it seems like the North Carolina GOP account is maybe listening to you. You are an influencer case o day. Probably not now that's for other reasons. No, But but you make a very good point, and that is it felt to me like thug. Remember when thug And it's like, so you're telling me that you only associate the word thug with black people.

Yeah, I mean that's that's that's more on you. I feel like, and yes, I got this. The pimp got the same treatment yesterday, right, I had no. I had no idea that that was the case, that that word was racialized. And then of course the claim that this is a dog whistle, which that is such a stupid term for uh, if for use against an opponent, for the people who hear the dog whistle

would be the dogs. And if it's a racist dog whistle, then you're the racist dog that hears it. That when if you hear the word pimp and you think black person, you're the racist in that scenario. That is how I see it as well, Um, maybe we're the only two people. Unfortunately, that was that was the point that they were going to seize upon. I just and honestly I saw it and I just started laughing, not theeing it because I didn't see when they tweeted it, but I saw

the reaction, right, they were just over the moon. And it reminded me too of watching Josh Stein yesterday lose his ever love and mind over. Basically the GOP saying, hey, remember all that stuff you said was temporary from a voting perspective, how about we actually make it temporary and do it anymore and once again an assault on democracy and racism and uh and all the

rest. So right, uh yeah, aligning our our absolutee mail in ballid deadline with thirty other states, that makes us the racists yep, yep, yep um. And uh. Also, let's see what was it requiring people to actually submit by you know, election day um or received by election day?

Well, right, it All it does is moved the deadline to receive to the day to close a business on election day, which makes sense, you don't You don't keep accepting like, well, we want the postmark to be election date, right, so you can get this this deluge of last minute absentee ballots that flood the system at the very after the election date polls closed. Then we have to wait for three more days while the mail comes into the Board of Elections and we have to wait on that. It's just

it's absurd. And also, you know it forbids the Zuckbucks, right, Mark Zuckerberg, who funded all of these election operations. And I know this is going to come as a shocker, but it tended to be focused. The grants got focused in heavy Democrat areas. I'm sure it's completely coincidental, but there's the GOP would like to the Republican legislature would very much like to not have the private financing of our elections. Right, And then you said

mostly I was there anywhere that wasn't a blue district. I think there were some. Yes, we're okay, wow, okay, But to your point, no, the vast majority was obviously that and quote make it easier for people to formally accuse others of voter fraud. Correctly, if I'm voter fraud's a crime, right, it is so if so if if it's a crime and I witness or I think that you've committed a crime, let's say it's

shoplifting, right, and I accuse you of it. I don't understand what the disconnect is here, right, So is it objectionable for people to go, Hey, I think I witnessed a crime, let me report it to the authorities, which is a thing that happens a lot. Once again, yeah, I think once again it gives us a glimpse into the mindset of the people making the accusation. Dare I call it projection? The very idea that they would think of this as a as a as a weapon, right

like to me, I don't. I don't think in those terms. I think in terms of, Okay, we've got poll watchers. It's always difficult to get poll watchers. And the whole point is that you be on the lookout for any kind of shenanigans, and if you see shenanigans, then you

should say something, right, see something, say something. And they don't even want to allow that because their mind goes to, you're going to target our voters, you're going to target our people, You're going to target people of color, Like all of a sudden, they go to like these really dark places, and I don't I don't understand that knee jerk reaction. Well, and there's even stuff that they didn't address. Do you remember how they

were stacking the poll watchers in Wake County? They did this. I don't know how it worked there, but basically they didn't have enough Republicans or Democrats, or they hadn't enough Democrats, they didn't have enough Republicans. And then what they did is they were in the blue areas, they were double assigning Democrats and mostly sticking the Republicans in red areas rather than attempting to lit it,

which is what they're supposed to do, UM. Whereas you know that would be especially in UM in the busier areas, they seemingly made an effort to not put Republicans in those areas and instead stick them in a place that really wasn't going to swing anything. And it's all these little nuances and these little tricks in these little games that when you're getting your hand slapped on it,

um, you have to you have to feign outrage. Josh Stein and his little him, Mark Elias back room deal that ended up getting smacked down. That's what he's complaining about easily projecting that. And yeah, they wanted to do the pointed out, So, yeah, they wanted to do a rewrite of the election law. COVID was the excuse they got their election law. The collusive agreement that you know that they made with the plaintiffs in the case against them. They got their deal and then yeah, they got smacked

out with it. And so then they and these are the very rules that they agreed to that Kristen I'm Brinson Bell, right or Bell Brinston to the elections director. This is what These are the very rules that she was lobbing for before COVID, Right, she wanted these things in place anyway, and look at that. Lo and behold, COVID gives her the excuse to start implementing this stuff, and then she gets smacked down to the oh lo and behold we got sued and oh lo and behold. The agreement is the thing,

the very things that I was saying we should have. The gamesmanship is something. All right, let me get away from politics for a moment. Yeah, okay, you saw this drone story. Holy crap, I saw the story. I printed it out. It is in my stack of stuff. But then I saw at the very bottom that they made a whole bunch of corrections, the kind of sort of so it was just like a war game kind of thing. Okay, well, no, it is a war game, like nobody actually got murdered. But right, it doesn't Negate it

because somebody said that earlier when I did this story. So the crux of the story for you're just joining us, because this is is long in a dream of the military, like where they were like, oh, we get autonomous drones. They'll be able to fly around see where the bad guys are and then they can just make the decision whether to murder them or not. So now with AI doing its thing, which I'm so torn on because AI is doing some great memes right now, but also it might kill you.

And so the war game was enemy missiles, fly around, see them, and then we'll tell you whether yes, those are and you can shoot them or not. So there is still a human in the chain, but it's about training, and the AI figured out, well, you told me no, and I really want to blow that up. So to get around it, it murdered the operator and then when the computer guys try to put code in saying you can't murder the operator, it said, well you didn't say

I couldn't murder you, loophole, and then murdered the programmers. Obviously, it really the idea that it is the thing, it's the movie trope, and it's the thing that it did right it's because what is its objective? Its objective is to protect all of these people, right, ther objective is to protect these people, so you have to blow up the missiles. So anything that gets in my way of blowing up the missile now prevents me from

completing my objective, which is to protect all these people. So I mean, wagh. The consequence is here, if I just whack two or three people, I can save all these others by blowing up the missile that these two or three people told me not to blow up. And so it makes logical sense, right, It's it's I Robots. That's the very sorry spoiler alert, that's the very premise of the movie. It's in order to protect

everybody. Sorry, we got to put you on lockdown. Like Mandy Cohen, she's kind of like I Robot, she was, She's the iRobot of medical officials. Yeah, pretty much, all right, I got less than a minute over under on a number of sandbags you've tripped over and more so because people trip. The insane difference in the coverage. Oh man, Saturday Night Live, they are gonna have a field day. Remember what they did to Gerald ford Man. This was Yeah, this is what he worse.

I mean, imagine like if if Biden had some sort of a history of falling, oh my god, Saturday Night Live would just be all over this. So I'm thinking they may be. It might be a pretty funny episode. They may have some pretty good bits this weekend. All right, well you tune in for that. Let me know how it goes, because let's share your confidence. But unfortunately we are at a time, so I'll let you get back to it. We'll chat next week, sir, have a

good one and then the iHeart Radio app noon to three WBT. But you can catch the show on there. Thank you, Thanks, thanks, Casey, have a great weekend in all right, you two. There you go. Pete Calendar here on the case O Day Radio program. He's off to assuming watch more trans rap. All Right, we'll be back one oh six one FM Talk and ninety four five w PTI, two stations driving the best in talk. This is case O Day and Carolinas Morning News. All right,

welcome back. It is eight thirty five here on the case O Day Radio program. All right, let's talk about something insane. So as you know, as you know, there is really almost it's like it's not even different it almost feels like standard practice. Now this we're gonna do a movie and we're gonna do something in it that for woke reasons, and immediately we're going to claim that everyone is being abused in a racist manner, and it

literally will serve as part of our marketing. It just just rinse and repeat from the Women, Ghostbusters to whatever. So what do they do, Well, they make some changes to the Mermaid. Now, the changes in and of themselves are not huge in the sense that you know, Ariel is a fictional character, and yes, obviously people have they have a vision in their head because of the classic cartoon, but they decided to go in a different direction. They cast to different actors. You, by the way, is

a very good singer. I watched a few little clips that were part of this story on the on the tweet that I saw. But people are being critical over acting skills, and I saw a couple of those scenes, and I guess I get it. But it's a it's an escapist movie. However,

they do a lot of little things. They do that, and then they go out and say that they're doing it for political reasons, as did one of the producers or writers for the movie, but then they also change elements of it, like they change the lyrics of some of the songs that were iconic, which just kind of leave you scratching your head on it. And they also change spoiler alert, they change who is the hero that defeats

the the you know, the bad girl in this case Ursula. Spoiler On the original one, Arial is about to be killed by Ursula and the Prince takes his ship and basically spears her with it and happily ever after, you know the drill. All right, So they make those changes. They brag about it being political, but I also pointed out several things in there, like changing of the lyrics. Some may question the acting. And then they have to in on IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes, they literally have to like screw

with how reviews are allowed to be. It's it's like, this is all the stuff that we're used to dealing with. That's all the stuff that I expect. Right. What was the other one I'm saying, Oh, Captain Marvel was the other one, right where they changed the reviews so that because they felt they were getting quote review bombed, because people were and I read

some of the reviews. They thought were review bombing, and they were like, they seemed to be legitimate points that people made about a movie that they had actually seen, and with some of the stuff with Little Mermaid as well. Okay, so that's what we've all come to expect. Why am I laying all that out because it's this one I didn't see coming. The Little Mermaid now being criticized for failing to include acknowledgement of the horrors of slavery.

Read that again, there, the Little Mermaid being criticized now for failing to acknowledge and include or include acknowledgement of the horrors of slavery. Okay, um, I had to look this up. So where it takes place, Obviously it looks like the Caribbean, right for all practical purposes, that's but it's it's not any particular Caribbean nation. Oddly, it's a nation where most of the citizens seem to be white, but the the all the leadership are people

of color. So that's, you know, another little tweak there. But it's not any place in particular because it's a fantasy movie. There's also not really a spoiler alert. There's not really smoke show Mermaids. They want to hook up with land dudes. So if that was your dream for this beach season, you're going to be disappointed. There are a bunch of really weird people on this New York Post article I saw that do enjoy pretending to be

mermaids. But you know that's for them, so it's not his. Because yes, obviously in the Caribbean, slavery is was an issue and in many cases it now is reflected in the populations that you see in many of these nations who primarily are African of African descent. But this is a kids movie, so I ask you, what do you want Disney to include in it? Because they're open to making changes, it's quite obvious, how the hell are you going to inject a slavery lesson in the middle of the Little Mermaid?

What does that look like? Like? Like maybe at the end of the movie, although they did change kind of how like does he spear ursula with lah amistad or what? I mean? The whole argument right, they're saying because you didn't incorporate slavery, you're saying that slavery didn't exist and therefore you are for slavery. Yeah, absolute lunacy. I just I mean you don't want what you like? You said, Amista, what you want this to be? Roots? What do you want? All right? You ready?

Ross? I want to pitch you a movie, all right? Oh I can't wait? All right, ready Lion King reboot. However, in this one, there's a very moving scene where the animals are up on that rock where his dad held him up or whatever, and they're look what they see down below? Is they see that that woman tribe from the Woman king enslaving their neighbors, marching into the coast and selling. I mean, it's what the kids want, I think, so, I think it would just

so pay me. I'm a Hollywood producer. Now, I could go through every Disney movie and and play this game. Go ahead, Ross, give me a give me a classic Disney movie ahead, any of the animated fun ones, Cinderella, Cinderella. Oh man, this is almost too easy right there. Well, there's actually there's a couple different angles you could go there because you're now having to go much further back in time. But one not

enough shows of toxic masculinity. I really think that basically at some point he the prince she wants, has to have beheaded like all his previous wives for not burying the proper children or something. But then she beheads him at the end because girl power, you got options. You just gotta you gotta be

willing to tweak it. Now this guy wants because it appears to be you know what else didn't have Although no, I shouldn't say that they did right, because didn't Disney like change the ride, Like wasn't like Pirates of the Caribbean. Wasn't there a problem with slaves and Randy went There's been a lot of problem with that. Yeah, there's one part of it. We're like the animatronic robots are chasing like, you know, like a pirate wench.

Yeah, hey, come over here, your hot little pirate wench. And they're like, day, you can't do that, because that's that's obviously that's rape. You can't do that. And I believe they took Johnny Depp out of the end of it. The end of it. You'd get their spoiler and it'd be like, you know, Jack Sparrow sitting there in like the vault full of gold or whatever, and he's like, oh, hey, maybe he's have a great day, and they're like dah, yeah, he

you know, in domestic abuse. Uh, you know the emperor heard you got to take him out of the out of the ride. Oh so now it's a pirate, But I don't I don't think it's the Johnny Depp. I don't think it's Jack Sparrow anymore. But now they're gonna fix it, right they are not? Oh no, who saw that coming? All right? So just know that if you're going to see the Luom Mermaid reboot, um, there's not going to be any scenes of slavery. Uh in there?

And uh this uh British. This is a reviewer Marcus Riders quote in the article he and the rest of his idiot friends are very upset about that. All right, eight forty four here on the case O Day radio program, Race Stagix here and he's gonna give that final weather forecast going into the weekend, and let's make it a good one. Now, this gee compared to last weekend, seems like nothing to memory. Now this is going to be a decent one. There is a mention tomorrow afternoon of some isolated showers

and thunderstorms, but nothing widespread. If you do get rain, probably not gonna last long. Now, today, the big story or the headline is your location. So if you go from Wadesborough well down southwest of Raleigh and up through Durham, Wake Forest, Henderson, Raleigh, Fayeville and east,

there's more clouds than sun. But you go west to that, you'll be driving red into sunshine and it looks pretty good the further west he goes, So kind of a split today, but temperatures will be fairly uniform between about eighty two and eighty five tonight down here, sixties, some spots will dip into the fifties, and then mid to late afternoon tomorrow just some pop up showers, thunderstorms with hides, a little warmer, mid upper eighties, little

front comes through. We are cooler Sunday, but still real nice mid seventies Sunday, Monday, maybe some storms Tuesday, but all next week. Really there's plenty more dry that we do have wet. I think we're going on a real nice run. We'll have dry weather more days, we will have chances of wet weather, and even the rain chances not only tomorrow to get on Tuesday are pretty low. Okay, all right, well, much better

job than last weekend, sir, All right? Enjoy it? Yeah, yeah, we'll talk on Monday, okay, and we will chat with Jeff Bellinger coming up next. Hang on your Day Smarter one oh six one FM Talk and News Talk nine four five PTI more with Casey Starts now. All right, good morning eight fifty two. Here on your Friday and your Bloomberg Update. Now, Jeff Bellinger, what's happening? Well, good morning,

say just to her this morning. The job creation was much stronger than expected last month, the Labor Department reporting the three hundred thirty nine thousand workers were added to payrolls in May. The nation's unemployment rate rose more than expected. It jumped to three point seven percent. It was at three point four percent in April. Average hourly earnings rose three tenths percent. That was right in line with forecasts. A Bloomberg has learned that Amazon dot Com has been talking

to wireless carriers. The online superstore is exploring the possibility of offering its own wireless phone service to Prime members as a very low cost or even free perk. The threat of a catastrophic default on US debt has ended. The Senate passed the debt ceiling compromised late last night. President Biden will sign the measure before Monday's deadline. It's very expensive to raise a child. Any parent knows

that. The financial information provider smart Asset analyzed nearly four hundred metro areas and says the average nation and wide cost of child rearing is nearly twenty one thousand dollars a year. There are big variations depending on market, though San Francisco is the most expensive city, with an annual cost of more than thirty five

thousand dollars. The Raleigh Kerry market ranks number forty six in the nation, with an annual cost estimated at twenty four thousand, three hundred forty eight dollars. The clam down on remote work in the tech industry is continuing. Meta Platform's employees will have to be in their offices at least three days a week. That will start in the fall. We have a glimmer of hope that

food inflation will start to ease sometime in the near future. A United Nations index of food commodity prices fell more than two and a half percent last month, hitting the lowest level in two years. And speaking of food, there's a free food to be had today case today's National Donut Day. Big chains like Duncan, Krispy Cream and Duck Donuts have special offers and freebees, and a lot of local bakeries and donut shops across the hundry are participating as well.

Casey, alrighty uh, what's your what's your favorite donut? I like a Boston cream Almost any anything with the custard cream and a chocolate topping is good with me. It clares Boston cream pie. I'm not really a sweet skuy, but I give me that French the egg one. I don't know all the crawler, well know the like the the egg the French one. Yeah, but it's a circular one. Yeah, the French crawler. Yes.

Oh is that what it's bought anyway? But uh, all right, we'll have a good weekend, okay, Jeff, Okay, dude, the same. Take care? All right, there you go, Jeff Palinger. I just want to make sure you ate a donut. What ross? What's your go to donut flavor wise? I mean not the location. I feel like the lemon filled really okay, all right? When there is there, when they're donuts or paste reason the break room. I just remember in that

email from day I suppose those all got lifted. Well anyway, all right, a couple of things where we roll out of here, do do do? Do you gotta run back over to this? Hey, if we're going to Mexico, good news, you might get a free gift bag. Unfortunately, it will contain human remains. Authorities in northern Mexico say they found forty five bags containing human remains. I want to know how big the bags were.

Not Look, any size bag containing human remains is problematic. But are we talking like the big lawn bags where you put all your clippings in, or like the little the little bag you use for the trash can in the in the bathroom. I don't know why, but I feel like it makes a difference. By the way, this is crazy. Do you know that in Mexico currently these are people who are missing where they think that something bad happened to them. It's not just people off the radar, but missing people

who suspect may have fallen victim to a cartels or other criminal acts. One hundred and ten thousand people. So that's nice. That's good there, and get your sad music on. Apparently gen Z is in the grip of a sex recession, and it's your fault, bigot. All right, so wrap

your head around this. While younger folks are better at parsing their sexualities because now it's like what one in four or something, it is then harder to go out and find what they're looking for because of the constant negativity expoused by you know, horrible people or something really, because I I don't know, man, like yeah, can you imagine for those of you who are at least like forty, can you imagine the tools it's your availability now versus back

in the day when we had to go and you know, find people to date like that or there we have to find people to date. Right, You got whole apps where you just everyone's on there just looking for a hookup, Like it's never been easier you have and even things are nuts, but people like go on LinkedIn and flirt with people. It's crazy. Here's a pro tip I heard one time. You're ready, let me let me help some of you guys out, all right, this is genius. You're ready

Facebook Marketplace, right, all right? Go on there, search for used wedding dresses, nothing but bitter recently divorces, and you can parse the dresses by size. So boom, there you go right. It's never been easier, as my point, but the idea that people are having you know, less fun time at that age, and then somehow you flipped it around to it's it's older people's faults who may not understand the thirty two different genders and

fifty five sexualities or sexual preferences. I'll know about all that, man, But whatever I'm telling you, the Facebook marketplace thing, You're welcome. All right, there's another big gold around here, And let me tell you a nothing big gold on the Twitter between the interesting rap Yet another genius office related meme, this time Joe Biden's expense. The decantist one was last time. That's there, plus all the links to the insanity we've talked about. You'll

find it. It's at Casey on the radio. Check it out. See you Monday,