Friday-09-08-2023

All right, good Friday morning, everybody, and welcome. It is the case O Day Radio program. And you know, one of the things that we do here on the show, we call them service elements in the bizz. That's gonna be things like news, weather, traffic, you know, stuff that's handy on your day to day. I'm gonna supersede the traffic today

and just encourage you to just become a shut in. Okay, just lock yourself in your house, don't don't be near whatever side of your house is nearest the road, and you know, keep the radio tuned, streaming we get, you know, on the iHeart radio app, get your smart device in there. Do that. Don't leave your house. It's not safe.

I just listened to Ross regale me of his experience, and I haven't physically been into the North Carolina DMV in a while, although next time I renew it's I have to do it. I'm gonna have to physically go in there. But that's not till right right, because a couple of years you have one shot right where you can do it online, but the next eight years, after eight years and then it alternates, you have to go in person. And the reason for that is they don't want people losing their vision and

then they're driving into people. Well, that sounds like that might be the least of the issues. What Ross just told me terrifies me. But it makes so much sense, right, No, it no, it does, although to some extent, like you can kind of go, oh, maybe COVID screwed everybody up. Like do you remember when people were driving a thousand miles an hour and horribly during COVID, when there was like a third of the cars on the road. Right, this is when it's like, are

you a necessary employee? You'd go on you'd go on like four forty or forty for that matter, and there's like four open lanes and nobody can maintain one. And I'm like, everyone just went stupid. But now that I have the information that you just provided, I I think we're onto something, dude. It was so eye opening, all right, right, sit down, everybody, so first seated. I decided I wasn't gonna go take and

renew this thing in Raleigh because that would be completely insane. So I went somewhere else close to Wake Forest. I don't want to name the the specific to one of the you went to one of the rural offices. I did the smaller way, but thirty minutes away from Wake Forest. So yeah, okay, driving down there. And you know how I am. I'm very punctual for things. I'm always on time. I get my work done. I worry about things prime more than you're you're a little You're you're definitely prepared

oriented, right, tend to stress about stuff. I was really prepared. Yeah, I was prepared for this thing. And it said on the DMV website that to an EER license you would have to take a vision test and an eye test, no, you know, a sign test and an item. So I was even like super prepared. I'm like, this is probably gonna be an all day or deal. I am not going to go there a second time, just to be safe. I'm going to get glasses like a prescription in case I need them. Yeah, and then I'm going to

go there and see if I could take the test with or without. But anyway, sign tests just real quickly for the signed test when I moved to North Carolina that I had to take that at the time because I was new to the state. When I'm well, here's the thing. So when I moved here in two thousand and six, he had to take a knowledge test or not. That's what That's what I'm talking. It was a twenty five

question written test about the rule like. It covered everything. How many points go in your license, If you pass a stop school bus, you're right of way? How does it roundabout work? What is the yield sign? Got all this kind of stuff. They got to catch you, and you had to get twenty out of twenty five other ways you fail. You also had to do a vision test and a signed test. That's what you did in two thousand and six. That is not the case anymore. That's what

I gathered after being at the DMV for three plus hours yesterday afternoon. Not just for you because you have one, but you're saying that people who were getting out of state licenses, getting their first NC licenses didn't have to do that right first off too, I got there at twelve o'clock because you can only do walkings now afternoon. So I walk in there and they said, do you have an appointment? I said, I don't, but I want

to get a ticket and so enough to be here all day. So in my ticket and I sat down and I started talking to people around me and we all had tickets they were taking us, but nobody had an appointment.

But on the website it said it was booked up until December, so I could have gotten there at like nine and just sort of like walk through, I guess, but whatever, So that that that was incorrect, and I'm getting ready for my SCIGN test, and yeah, dude, I'm like, wait, because if you try to book an appointment online right now, it

is booked up till December. However, I went there yesterday and everybody who was in line at eleven o'clock, who had been there for hours, had no appointment, even though they said you couldn't make an appointment, because it was makes no sense, all right, perfect anyway, So that's the first dysfunctional thing I noticed when I'm sitting there. Then I started noticing people going

up and taking their test. And there's a person from Florida, and there's another person from Florida, and a person from Maryland, and a person from Vermont and a person from Texas, two of them from Texas. So they're going up and they're transferring, you know, they're getting a new North Carolina license, whereas in the past you would have to take the knowledge test, division tests, and the eye test. That is not the case anymore.

All they do is take the eye test and the scient test. Oh okay, all right, there's but they explains a lot because they no longer have to take the written twenty five questions asked about all the laws and how everything works. On top of that. Listen, I am like, you know, it's anonymous business whatever. There are some people yesterday that should not have passed this test, that passed the test, and I understand they're very understaffed

at the DMV. This DMV had one person working there, and the room when I got there at eleven o'clock probably had about nine people in front of me. Right, how do you know they shouldn't have passed? Though? So I'm sitting there and it's a very tiny office. I want to say. The size of the DMV was like the size of maybe a little bit bigger than your studio in my studio combined. So we're sitting there and when

you go up in front of everybody, everybody can hear you. Everybody get an egg and see you, and they can they can see everything's going on. So this one gets up there, it took her I want to say, ten minutes to do the eye tests, tending like he's in like he's the woman right now, ten minutes to do this, and when you put your eyes in the little view master, there is like I don't want to say, like seven or eight letters from left to right. And it's in

twenty forty vision. So if you have twenty forty vision, you're gonna pass. This woman gets up there. It took her ten minutes to read the first line, and she's going easy to be no easy that you shout, pauses, she's pausing. She goes easy D and then I was like, yeah, it's a D. And then she moves on. Looks to tell her she's a preschool teacher and she just got the blocks in. Now she's

going on to the scientist. And where you're supposed to be like you know, divided highway ahead, put a pedestrian crossing, you always kind of stuck. And she goes right. So this side is like and this isn't what

she sounded like. She actually this is not so I'm I'm actually changing my accent to the fen the woman right right, No, no, no, no, you want to make this as anonymous as possible, So that somebody can get t boned by this crazy This is not it's now as she's not, like, so she goes right, So this is like a sign when you see it, right, you've gotta like slow down, but you don't really have to slow down, like like if there's cars coming, maybe you

slow down, but you don't have to. And sometimes you don't slow down, but sometimes you do. And a woman behind the desk is like, well, no, no, ma'am, you need to slow down when you see this sign, you need to slow down. She said, right right, you need to slow down when you see it. Yeah. When you do that, you know, because you've got to let other people kind of go. And she's like, yield and she's like, yeah, yield, and then she moves on to the to the next sign. So it's not

even one of the hard signs. It's I'm like, woman, it's a yield sign. I don't think you're allowed to shout answers from the gallery. But the woman behind the thing gave her the answer. She said, you mean yield, Yeah, yield. And this happened like two other times, like to these two people. I was there for three plus hours. No nobody failed their test nobody had any issue, but they did two of them. I'm telling you should not of past. One dude gets up there.

One two gets up there and he's been what he was there but when I got there at eleven o'clock and it was this is now like a little after one o'clock, so he's probably been there over two hours. He gets up there, he has the number is called and he goes up and he goes, yeah, I need to renew my license. And he throws two licenses down. He throws on a regular right class C or whatever, and he

throws down a CDL and he goes, this one is expired. And she goes, well, no, if you got your CDL, you don't need this. That is your license. Now you don't need that. This is your old license that expired. So what are you doing here? And he goes, well, no, I have these two licenses and this would expire. She goes, no, sir, you're not understand what I'm saying. This is your license. You don't need this license. And he goes,

well, what have I been sitting here for two plus hours for? And she goes, I don't don't know, because you read read the website. They didn't give him a sticker, they didn't give him a lollipop, nothing. He just he left. Dude, I'm saying, I'm like, I got up there, and I'm finally like I was so excited, and up to this point, I've been like, really quiet. I got up there, I'm not leaving. Like I made this woman laugh the entire time. She was laughing the entire time. And she says to me, she goes,

do you need those glasses? And I said, honestly, I just got these because I don't want to come back again. Right, No, So here's the thing. I was super nervous the entire time, like you months before leading up to this thing. After seeing all the people go up in front of me, I'm sitting there and I'm like, I'm golden, dude, Like, there's no way in how I'm gonna pa I'm gonna fail

this thing. There's there's no way. So I told her, I said, the only reason I got these glasses because I didn't want to come back again. And I thought maybe I had failed the vision test and I didn't want it. So this is just like you know, in preparation for it. And she goes, well, you can take it out their way. You could take it like first you can try it with your vision, you

know, with regular vision, then with the glasses on. So I took it with my no glasses past took like two seconds because there's literally seven letters there. It didn't like to be initially like oh boom, flawless victory. Come on man, yeah, seven in a row. Can you believe that you're going on? It was a streak. So she assuming you're king of the DMV at this point, right, she goes, She goes, you can if you want, you can. You can still wear those glasses to

drive if they're a prescription. And I told her, I said, I'm never wearing these things ever go ever, so like literally right now on the road, there's just ticking time bo But that's why because of the two you know of at a small dm I have noticed in the past three years, Like you said, I think, especially after COVID, that people just are people always sucked at driving, but now it's even worse, Like it's so bad, and there's so many people moving from out of state and these people

no longer have to take the written test, and it explains so much. I've held a license in Wyoming, Colorado, California. And I've always had to take a written test in every state. So I've had I've had a license in five states, and there's a yield sign in all of them. Do you know what I mean? Where you know she was? I want to say she was from Maryland? Oh, well, can we get her on one of the Desantists buses headed north. We'll just trick her. We'll

tell her it's like a cafe or she can't see. She'll probably get in and then boom, just you know, drop her off in Maryland. Dude, No, no, it's not a beat. Ross just wants to drive the tank of doom now, and I don't blame him. All right, Well, there you go. So, uh, you know, Happy Friday. That's what you're dealing with on the road. So if you see a yield sign, you should just assume that somebody there doesn't see it or know what it is. Just fly through it. Just drive. It's optional.

It's optional. How are you feeling? Do you want to slow it down? It's up to you. I mean, sometimes you'd slow sometimes you don't. I can't. And she corrected her with the name of the thing. Huh, All right, I get to feel and they just don't. And I don't blame them at all, which is why I'm not naming like the actual where I went, because I don't want these people get in trouble. But like I don't feel it. I don't cause because she seemed like she

was a nice person. It just seemed like they did not want to be there. It needs to be a written test. Look, I'll tell you what. That old man who drove through that farmer's market, probably a nice dude, you know what I mean? Kids were there's original they had, they had, they have my information there. I'm sure it's still there, and they're gonna go through and be like, Nope, you failed give something in the mail, be like what happened? You didn't do a C.

You said it was an F was a d fail. The old lady you drove through the Panera, probably a nice lady. Explain so much, gave her kids, you know, money every Christmas and the birthdays, and still you know, drove through businesses just saying all right, so that's how you get to start your day. But we got all sorts of stuff we gotta

get into. Pete Calendar will join us eight oh five. As per usual, I feel like there's a competition now between the big city mayors to figure out how they can best drop the ball on enforcing laws and not having their citizens terrorized in some instances. So we'll make a contest out of it. They have the phantom phantom pooper, and we have now in Raleigh unarmed security people to deal with heavily armed bargoers based on some very recent stories. So

a plus with that and I'll give you the list run day. Can you please tell people we were not off the ear yesterday because of my DMV task, because people are like, oh, that's why you didn't go. I was here running the rerun, thank you very much. Yeah, no, Ross was there, So that was I didn't feel I was not feeling worth

in a craw. I'm quite a bit better today. But you were bitten by a bat or something this stuff and then you re ran all the stuff with me and the tub and the stairs, so everyone thinks I'm dead and this is ai me. So that's what we that's what we get. Anyway, we gotta take a break. We'll be right back. Case O Day Radio program, Hang on Your Day, Smarter one O six one FM talk and he Talk w PTI more with Casey starts now all right, long per

second there, but you know we had to get the details in. And if you're lucky enough to survive your morning commute, just reminder you know, five pete calendar will join us. So if you're still alive, check in. If not, we warned you and we will get to that. There's a new Joe Biden ad I want to touch on here and kind of get things roll in this morning. Plus it's Friday, so we got a bunch

of stupid stuff because you know that's South Friday's work around these parts. Phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four a poverty seminar that you have to hear the details of. We'll have that next hang up one oh six one a m Talk and ninety four five w PTI two stations driving the best end Talk. This is Casey O Day and Carol Line this morning News. All right, good morning, here we go six thirty five and

we're getting too DMB fun stuff. Ross went there yesterday and figured out we're all doomed. So see what I didn't mention too before it, I'm gonna I'll mention it now because I have no self control. So a few of these people as mentioned that shouldn't have passed. Yeah, I was doing like the woman the you'll sign it was she didn't speak English. It was all broken English, like it is a red sign and it is on the post, and when you'll see this sign if well you don't, but here's it,

like you don't have to. So I've driven in other countries, like so when I've driven in Latin America, you know, rented a car or whatever, the signs look the same. So like if you're in a Spanish speaking country and you see a stop sign, it doesn't it says alto not stop, obviously, but you know because it's in the local language. But it looks exactly the same. So by testing people on signs without the words on it, there shouldn't be a learning curve, you know what I mean,

Like you should not be an issue. Right, So I didn't know that. So you say, like a yield sign, like it's somewhere else it's it's still like an upside down triangle. Yes. Now, now in something like if you go over to Europe, some of them are look a little different, but they have like the same thing but if when you say she was broken English, was it? Did it sound like Spanish was her

first language? I believe, So they came from Texas. Okay, Okay, well I can tell you in Mexico and Central America and South America in the places I've been, it looks like a damn yield sign. Like it's not. It's not a question as to what it is. So I feel like she was just blind man, So that's probably a bigger issue. All right, we'll go have a call on DMV stuff since we're all terrified. Now, Yes, Chris, what's up? Thank good morning, Thanks for

taking a call. Like I was telling Ross, I have an unrestricted Class A CD with the Hasman endorsement and we have to get our license from newed every five years. And this past July, and like Ross did, I too went to a rule d MB office in Sampson County. I want name the town, but in Sampson County and walked in supposed to have an appointment. I walked in right at noon. Brad the number, and I'm supposed to take And with the CDL you can never renew it online. You have

to go win every five years. Take the scientist take the eye test, give him one hundred and eleven dollars. And and if you have a Hasmat endorsement, you've got to read the Hawsmat thing, which is just an extra scientist. They had me do none of it. I give him my money, my old driver's license. He made sure I wanted to be an organ Downer asked him, was I registered to vote? And uh? And so I looked at him and I said uh. And I was supposed to do

this and he can't give me this look like kind? He said no, and I walked out. And I'm fifty. I'm fifty six years old and have a gray beard. And you know, my eyesight is good. I still have twenty round twenty twenty vision. But he didn't know that at all. And I could be out here hauling gasoline is blind? Is no English speaking woman that lost was talking about? And so yes, it's kind of scary, but it's even more scary than what lost things? What now you

holming something delicious, sir? Because I'm always curious. Right now, No, don't him, Hicks. I've got a drill rig under directional drilling, now, okay, but you don't want to it's no, no, take too long to part it out too and sell it like these meth dudes. All right, well, good labor. Let me shout out, Let me shout out our heart radio. I get listened to y'all through them, and lets you sing the home and beck y'all. Oh on the app? You use the app? Yeah, yeah, oh, rock on? Sir.

All right, Well, do appreciate it and stay tuned. Okay, I'm sure the story's coming, all right. I mean, I think a major part of this, right is, I think they're incredibly understaffed. And I said, there was one person there for a few hours, and there was a second person that came, and we were talking about how they don't have to take the knowledge we're intest anymore from out the state because listen, I

was there three plus hours. If those people had taken the twenty five question written test after what I had seen, right observed, I would have probably been there six hours. I'm still I'm still stuck on the morning thing, though, Like I have a theory and I don't know what's going on, but based on your like our employees filling those in with fake appointment, I don't know too. Like I said, it is impossible to get to prove

anything, right. I'm just wondering any explanation there, because it's impossible. I went on two months ago in preparation for this, trying to book an appointment. It was booked until November. Now it's booked until December. However, got there at eleven o'clock. You're not supposed to start going if you're walking till twelve. Everyone there had no appointment, and everybody there was just taking a number and going in their order before before noon. But he said

that it was booked. So why did you say on the website that there that it's booked. I have a I have a really really easy way to solve this. You're ready, just declare everyone is sold citizen, right, right, We're all just travelers. Give people, give them that, give them that giant handbook that they pull out and then start going through so they can explain torte law from you know, British Days or whatever. I felt

because the body cam on those is amazing. I felt so bad and I saw like three or fourteens come in with their parents taking their tests like it was their big day. They were sixteen, right, And I felt so bad for these kids because they show up at like one o'clock and the woman there is like, hey, we don't start doing the driver's test till two. We stopped taking them at three forty five because there's only two of us working here, so you might not be able to fit your time in today.

If you really want appoint me, you're gonna have to book an appointment. And whereas the parent is like, all right, how do I book an appointment? And they go, well, you can't do that till after December. That sucks. If you're a kid walking to take your test for your driver's test. Is it just that little kid? Because I've I've heard of parents literally having to go, you know, ap Dylan. I saw her post something we've had her on before. She writes for The Carolina Journal

North State Journal. She had to like driver kid too. I don't remember where it was, but it seemed way out of the way just to get sort a kid could could do it. So are there openings maybe before that if you're willing to travel a whole bunch? None of it makes sense. But remember we literally like we ran into like a bankrupt dot a few years ago, and I don't know if anyone really answered for that because it turned

into a big political thing. But like all that money was just gone with all these half done projects, and like nothing really happened with it, and like when the money then, when there was then money that came back, like the projects didn't restart, but neither did the money apparently get funneled to the DMVs. So god only know, like this is basic stuff. You got to get the basic stuff before you start into your special project stuff.

But I feel like we just divert the funds there almost immediately. You see it at the federal level right now, where it's like, all right, this is one of your stated parts of government. Obviously, states are different,

they have different duties. Beds are supposed to be limited. But like I've seen this for years where they take like transit funding and they want to build these illustrious bike trails or remember when they were talking about putting like a pedestrian bike lane in the middle of the weight extension, and it's like, why don't you just get the roads and the DMV handled and then like maybe we can talk about that. So all right, all right, people are

sending me all their horror stories. No no, no, no, I hear you. But you're all on the road and you're all giant safety hazard. Apparently. Let me grab one more call and then we get into the other stuff next segment, Jason, what's up? Hey? So two things. Well, so I'm gonna have to carry about seventeen year old because of the DMV being so backed up for his Level two license. Part. But I think the appointment stuff, there's only for driving tests. For all the

other stuff, you can get there when they first opened up. That's when the ticket stuff comes into effect. Now you also get a ticket when you go after lunch to gotta squeeze in a driving test. But about the appointment, Yeah, so if I'm not able to get him in, I've got I lived in Rocky Mountain. I got to drive him all the way to Mount Harry to go take his driving test because that was the closest appointment to get him. If not, I was the last wait till December when I

scheduled. Is now the second part. I think that lady probably lives Rocky mount because between Rocky Mountain Nashville they put sixth round about and nobody will stop at the yield. They'll pull out in front of you while you're going around the purples. It's crazy. Ross. Did you want to respond on since he was addressing you, not talking to me, Well, it's for anybody. I was just you know, I'm just I'm just giving griefs sir.

Yeah. Now, the round about fixations, all right, there's literally six between Rocky Mountain Nashville, and it's not it's probably five or six miles and

they're six round about. I remember when they first when they put that big one in, when they first put it in around NC State, it was initially a double laner, and I remember going through there and watching this and I'm like, everyone is all the college students are going to die, and I it was really quick that they knocked it down to a one, just a single lane. And I don't know that we can handle that here in

North Carolina. But oh man, it's like a whole way thought somebody trying to be vice and let the other firston threw of messing up the whole rotation. But yeah, good, good to hear y'all. See later, all right, Rogan, that's a whole n I mean, the double ones are a little difficult from time to time and people aren't used to them, so maybe they shouldn't have started there when they start putting it around NC State.

But now they got what like five over there, maybe even more so if you don't know it by now, probably not best to drive over there. All right. So what's it like to be poor? Well, if you're somebody who lives in one of the really rich suburbs of Chicago, you don't know, but you know you want to be empathetic. So wait till you hear what they're doing to educate folks on poverty. But they're doing it rich suburb style. That story, Pete, Calendar, your calls coming up.

Case O Day radio program, keeping you connected. This is f w PTI in the Triad and one oh six one them talk in the Triangle, all right, six fifty three and uh good Friday morning, a c O Day radio program, just terrifying everyone on the road. What we do? All right, let me grab it. I'll look at that. Yes, Boston, Paul, what do you want? Hey? Yeah? This private security downtown. I thought they already had. I thought they already had the ambassadors

down here. It was supposed to be doing all that, you know, But I guess that's not worth it. Then she tried and no turn on red all over the downtown that was supposed to solve all the crime. I guess that didn't work. So now we're gonna have people running around and saying stop her. I'll tell you to stop again. Well, I mean this is more Glenwood where we've had you know, stabbings. We had a guy literally get beaten to death, and then the dude apparently bragged on social media

about doing it. So and I was looking at the lists of arrests and various infraction. State's out of control man, and yes, you know, let's let's put on armed Let's put some unarmed folks with no arrest powers in there. That should obviously solve the problem. So, but it's not just client where it goes from Goingwood all the way to more Square. So I don't get what is this part of the defund the police program that they got going on. I don't think it's a combination of things, which is why

we're gonna get into it a little later. And it's not just Raleigh. I mean, they have these issues in Greensboro, down on Elm Charlotte. They have people run around just pooping wherever they please. So that's nice.

You know, I was. I was downtown in Winston Salem here during one of the summer concert things down there, and well I saw a law enforcement in the general area where you know, where the music was going on, like one of the parking garages that people were smashing car windows in there and nobody was doing anything like there's so they should give them at least a revolval at one bullet, you know, and then you know they can have the

other guy running around siting citizens rast citizens. Rast they given one, they're probably gonna be out guns. So let me ask you, really, did you pass your your actual North Carolina driving stuff or you want of these scofflaws that somebody cheated for you people CEO that you had that guy with the CBO. I have a CBO and he's correct with every five years, he can't you. And I said to the person there, it's pretty stupid. You know. I got a little bit of high blood pressure, so I have

to have a physical every year. You know, it's a full physical. It's part I got to go to the DMV to get an eye test. I mean, it's pretty ridiculous. Should yeah, And like I've seen you guys drive, Yeah, you can't even drive over a bridge with your political aids in the car without killing people. So like, I'm terrified. I haven't. I haven't had a movie violation in forty seven years. Well they

got to catch it. So plus, you like you just flipped out year old I used to be a cop thing right, and they just let you go? Is that how that works? I don't know what you're talking about? All right, all right, yeah, do you have a good day? How was your weekend? Yeah? Yeah, I'll think about it. I mean, probably get t bone and killed, but whatever. Can you imagine how high your blood pressure would be if you're taking down Weddy Buls you're

like bossing Paul like for the end of your days. I blood pressure just like handicapping what this season is gonna look like for his teams. So I might have something to do with it. I just Boston, Boston. Plus he's got it, Like didn't he buy an RV or something too? I think he's got a camper. So like, if he's driving that and he's

driving it poorly, you don't stand a chance against that man. But yeah, no, to your point with the high blood pressure, I'm sure sure that's totally what it is, the whitey bulger thing, all right, So

check this out. I love this story. So in a Highland Park, Illinois, the city of Highland Park decided to partner with the Alliance for Human Services Family Focus blah blah blah anyway, basically a bunch of the welfare groups programs various charities to help educate citizens by holding a poverty simulation event to help increase residents understanding an awareness of what it's like to live in poverty. So you live in a very, very nice and I don't begrudge you part of

Chicago. These are huge houses, and they somehow think that if you show up on this Saturday between nine and eleven thirty and pretend to be poor for two and a half hours at an event that I kid you not is being held at a country club, that you'll understand what it's like to live on that poverty line, scraping by trying to make ends meet just the humbers on that man. You leave your you leave your three million dollar house to go

to this country club and then you have to pretend to be poor. How do you pretend to be poor for two and a half hours to it? You could watch a movie and not expend any money and just say I was poor for two hours. But no, that is how out of touch this is. And I just love that it's at the country club. All right. News is nax Thang on good Friday morn and everybody welcome. It is our number two here on the ca c O Day radio program. So we

got one big bastard of a storm ruin out in the Caribbean. We'll chat with Ken Boone in wait stage. It is still taking this Clemson thing hard, isn't he? I wonder if he was also rooty for the Chiefs. Dude, that was a disaster. Did you watch any of that yesterday? Ross? Did you watch any of the I went to bed sort of early, but I went got up at like two am to go to the gym today and I was checking out, you know, like all the clips and stuff on Twitter. Dude, Dude, not good when even when even like

Chris collins Worth is calling out the blatant none calls, it's bad. I mean there was that, but there was also it was just like ineptitude. And I understand that Kelsey was out and Mahomes had a little some something, but like they just won the Super Bowl and they look like bad news Bears.

Man. I couldn't even describe it. And I remember before the game, I was watching a bunch of people that were shifting once Kelsey was announced out, like a bunch of people were doing money line Lions bets and it was moving the line, and I remember thinking, come on, man, it's the Lions. I hope the Lions are not as good as they were made to look yesterday because we need those two wins in the division. As a Vikings fan, like I need the Lions to suck, and they didn't

look like they sucked yesterday. But that might have just been Kansas City. But you got to be pumped because obviously that's like, you know, it's like a big, big stumbling block for you guys right there, ow and one. So now if we lose it on Monday, I'll feel better. You're not gonna if you're not gonna lose to the Jets, I'm confused. So why didn't Mahomes just rush for like one hundred and fifty one hundred and

eighty yards? What I understand, Like, you know, he had some of his receivers out and stuff, and he didn't have the weapons that he's always had from the start of his career. Being surrounded by these all pros, why didn't he just jump over guys, stiff arm people and run for two hundred yards just as as good quarterbacks do. Exactly. Well, look, he couldn't scramble if he wanted his line. Did you see his line was lining up? Yeah? Yeah, somebody said it best on Twitter,

like they were lining up halfway to Arkansas. Yeah, you're not gonna standing at that point. He's standing right next to the guy fall starting every single every single possession. I guess they finally called in the fourth quarter when they were in like third and twenty or something. But you guys are you're the Monday You're the Monday Night game, right, Yeah? Yeah, because Cowboys

are the Sunday Night. And then the Vike and started playing the Thursday Night against the Eagles, which we're just we're gonna get pillaged in that game. Let's see who who plays the Patriots first? Oh that is the Eagles, All right, well they're gonna slam them. We play the Buccaneers. No, Tom Brady, I don't know, should be interesting, but yeah,

I do not want to see Detroit good. I texted Brian the bad boardop while that was going on, since he's a Vikings fan too, and he's like, I'm not even watching, don't care, So I don't know if he's cashed out for the season already, but I wouldn't blame him, by the way, dude, go back to this, but you know, I'll mix that in a little later because I don't want to just sit here and do sports in this. We got to talk about the Liberty Safe thing.

I want to get into this yesterday and then obviously I was, I was, I was in no condition yesterday, so we didn't get to But this Liberty Safe thing is crazy. Now if you don't know the details, then you don't have internet, I guess, because it's like the only thing I've seen on my Twitter timeline for like two days and it goes like this,

and I want to I want to be very accurate here. So Liberty Safe, which, obviously, if you listen to this station, is a name you are probably familiar with because what Glenn Beck and Dorston forevertted Hannity like, they've had a they've been they've been part Yeah, like everyone except us. It would have been nice to get some of that, but the big national guys, Liberty Safe has been a constant advertiser. Now Liberty Safe the people

who started it and built it, they don't own it anymore. A Hedge fund bought it, and the Hedge Fund, arguably, if you look at their pattern of political donations, doesn't seem to jive with typically who you would see as a Liberty Safe enthusiast. Whether that was instructive about what happened. I don't know how many of you knew though, that you're Liberty Safe, and it's not just liberty there's some brands that do, some that don't that.

People at Liberty Safe had a master code, so there was ever a problem they could they could crack it open. Maybe you did, maybe it didn't. However, how many of you assumed that they would hand that over to law enforcement without a specific warrant or court order requiring it, because that's what they did, And it baffles me, Like, if you want to talk about a consumer group, this isn't bud Light, that's which people are

sitting there calling it. This is much more targeted and specific right Liberty Safe, liberty in the name market it almost exclusively in conservative talk radio everywhere and on Fox News channel they run a bunch of ads, but like this was

their demographic. It was all about Second Amendment. It was all about freedom and liberty and all of it. So when it came time for a request based on a larger search warrant for a home liberty safe gave law enforcement the access to the safe, the master code instead of holding out for a specific court order. It's two different things, right, two different things, and they had access to this. I don't know how you screw that up. How like I'm not in the safe business. But if I'm sitting there and

you know, I'm in the even like middle management. And some dude comes in and say, hey, we just got an email from the FBI. They're searching this guy's house and they want to get in the safe, but he won't give them the code, So can we give them the master code? And you don't say, I'm sorry, did they have a specific court order forcing us? And if the answers no, hell no, they just did it man. And the blowback has been bonkers. How many of you

have a liberty safe? I have a liberty safe, just super clear. I don't have the big beast that some of you guys have, but I do, and I didn't know, right, I was not aware that that was a thing. So now liberty is safe. They put a statement out saying, uh, yeah, you So in the future, we're going to

allow people to opt out of us having this master code. However, if you ever run into an issue where you can't remember your combination or the or the electronic lock fails, I guess you're gonna have to hit it with a cutting torch or something. But really doesn't. But then, like in the statement literally points out that they just they didn't even wait for the actual court order. They just gave it. Like, it doesn't look like they're changing

that part of it. So who the who the safe company is going to be able to come in and steal market share like they are, you know in the bud Light thing with the with the twenty six percent loss and then MODELO swoops in there. I don't know who that's gonna be, but people are peeved. Man. The problem is is it's not a case of bud Light that you can go out in the field and shoot up with your Uzi and make a TikTok video. Those saves are incredibly expensive, so like,

what do you do in that instance? And I've seen a lot of people saying, what you want to do is you got to take the serial number on the outside off, so there's no way to match it up. And I don't know if that's gonna work. I guess you can go through the op ed thing because you've already made the invest or the opt out thing, because you've already made the investment. But when it comes to selling of new saves, it'll take a long time to figure out what the impact is going

to be. But the speed at which people are willing to squander and irritate their customer base, especially with this man, because it's not as broad like bud Light, you know, ran the political gamut well with liberty safes. I gotta think that most of the people who bought it, obviously your Second Amendment folks, right, that's way by the liberty safe. Like it's like ninety percent of your customers are going to be people who are going to be

deeply offended by this. And they did it anyway, And then we're like, Dad, you know, it is what it is. In the future, we'll do you know, we'll try to do better kind of but we won't actually address the bigger issue of you know, people want you to go and fight for them in the same way that people on the left demand the companies stand up and expouse their political bl to the point where they're willing to

literally push back on government. How many companies who wanted to make a point, we're willing to tell Donald Trump, I don't care what you're trying to do, We're not going to take part in this, or to make statements like Disney did where they stepped forward and they ran this little this this wheel of interviews with people going, yeah, I'm trying to make everything that we

do. Remember these producers like, yeah, I'm trying to implement all of these things in every project that I work on so that I can be an advocate for LGBTQ stuff. And then you had management willing to do that. How many companies issued statements over the All Star Game? Remember they would, they would, they would all issue a statement over this voting change law in Georgia, which had less teeth than many Blue states and was being wildly misrepresented.

Yet multiple airlines, Delta air Lines was willing to step up. I think it was Southwest as well, and others to issue statements and directly take a position, and that is expected by people on the left. On the right though, they just like there's almost this expectation who just stay neutral. But with Liberty Safe, people are saying, no, this is your fight,

this is what you need to do. You need to be an advocate for this, because you've have marketed exclusively to people who have this very strong position about privacy and Second Amendment stuff and they just they had no plan to do any of that. And I think it's worse than bud Light if you just want to get into market share. If what I'm seeing on social media is to be believed, this is not going to go well. All right,

let me grab a call Jamal, what's up? Hey, Okay, see what's going on in this on and saw you had an upset stomaching. You know, he was, you know, your bowsers all over the place. But KC, let me say this Liberty is Safe. When they were sold that this hedge fund group people should have been known because I'm gonna tell you, YKC, you made a perfect example about Disney when they was talking

about they're trying you know, they're slipping in the homosexual stuff. And they're purposely trying to you know, and this is what they were clear everything up because that's what they said. But KC these companies, that's why they want these traditional low taxes, limited government people because they figured out how to take the old Republican conservative talking points and use them against us. Liberty Safe. The people who bought it, they're not for a Second Amendment rights, they're

not for this stuff. This is a hedge fund group. And like you said, look who the people on they donated liberal conservatives excuse me, liberal building. There's a millionars because a lot of people either old this Democrats, four people yeah, fider wants send up there saying yeah, with you try to be poor for about three hundred thousand dollars. But these are the people, Casey, that don't mind losing money to win. So if this heads

phone group an't Liberty Safe, who to say they did? They bought it for what? What was that purpose for buying it? Was it just to make money? Because if it was just to make money and they had no no inkling to try to defend people and their rights, then this is what you're saying. It's like right now, live your question, let me answer your questions. Yes, I think it absolutely was. I think they saw a company that was seen remarkable growth but was under capitalized even with some of

the expansion, and they and they saw an opportunity. The problem is is that you lose the spirit of it. And when the spirit product is what market said, then you don't have anyone with that spirit who's willing to defend it right because it's path the least resistance. It's just another project in your portfolio. And while that may work for some products that are politically innocuous,

this is not one of them. So to remove the spirit and the enthusiasm of the founders and the people who built that company, so when the rubber did meet the road and you weren't willing to stand up after watching all these companies issue statements over Georgia's voting laws and everything else, Yeah, is yet another giant letdown, and one that is almost exclusively going to be aimed at

people who are Second Amendment arden supporters and privacy folks. It's it's just who to say, o, casey, who to say it wants some little blue hair, blue hair, uniform hair. Oh my god, I will sing them ribl who sit here and say oh no, this is well, yes, we will have you get these guys off there, because these are the people that's working in these heads fun groups. These heads fun groups, people hire these radical liberals. Matter of fact, perfect example, look at Fox

News. How many people said, oh Fox News is really changing, really changing. Then you come to find out heads, funs groups like black walking, all these other things that came associated with then you're like, well, wow, I haven't seen it. And it's like conservative businesses who are supposed to be alternatives to what liberals are doing because the other safe places out there, but liberties say particularly marketed to people like hey, we're a Second Amendment

group, this is what we do. We'll defend you. This is a private safe We're not gonna be doing these things, and give people this comfort and knowing, hey, hey I can get you guys. You know I'm gonna be defended, but you don't know. I'm sorry, I only got about thirty seconds. Let me say this, you don't even think that you don't even have to defend for that reason. And I appreciate the call there, Jamal, have a good weekend, s all right, you don't have

to defend it for that reason. You don't have to be like, yeah, we hold firm to the tenants of it. You just have to look at it and go, we're gonna screw this investment. Man. If you fundamentally remove the privacy and safety part of a product called to safe based on the government not having to fulfill their all of their obligations, you're undermining your entire product. It's wasted money. Think about it. We'll be back. Thank you. K c is PTI in the Triad and one oh six one

FM Talk in the Triangle. Let me give you a more succinct example, and I think it's a really good one of why arguably this liberty safe thing is a much larger violation of your customers expectations. I've said it many times on the radio. One of the pieces of advice that a guy in this business that I respect I used to say, and he'd say it frequently. He said, never violate the expectations of your listeners. Okay, that's, you know, pretty good advice. But it's not just radio. It goes

for whatever industry. If you're dealing and attempting to attract customers that you engage in, if you violate the expectations, the trust that is put in you, it's going to have backlash, but not all is created equal. With the bud light example, I don't know that there was expectations per se. Most people are on just the mulveny thing. But arguably what was a bigger screw you was the attitude that the marketing woman had about the customer base.

All right, That's where the real violation took place. Because if they did just come out and said, look when it cans, we we said, who is the one hundred you know, most influential people on TikTok right now? And we did. Every one of those people, we sent them a can. Didn't matter what they were engaged in. This thing would have gone away. But that couple with that video of that woman, that was the violation with Liberty Safe, a brand that was specifically marketed marketed as we got

you, We're with you. Second Amendment. Safety government no is is about you and your ability to lock and a lockdown your things, keep them safe from prime and eyes, not just people you know there to rob you, but providing you security. People have higher expectations when you deviate from that stated main goal. Right, you buy a safe to secure stuff from burglars from

your kids, maybe right for safety purposes, you do it too. Also, you know, have that little uh have that little uh good feeling knowing that you're in business with people who agree and share your thoughts, your ideas, and your goals. And one of the goals that I think we should have is government, especially law enforcement. Right. I expect law enforcement to want to do whatever they think they have to do to you know, to uh to adjudicate justice, right I have. I got no beef with that.

I'll give you an example and then I'll go back to the other thing

I was talking about. So the main example is there there was a story a few years ago where they were going up to like town homes, right, so they were directly abudding the public sidewalk and they were walking uh drug dogs through there, and like it's loose enough now to like the living rooms of these homes that the dogs may catch a whiff open windows something like that, and they were saying that that is probable cause and that turned into a

big I can't remember if it was Baltimore or Philly where they were doing this, but it creates what law enforcement is trying to do. Is they want to they want to be able to do this, and I'm looking at this from the purest forms. Let's not turn this into an argument, but understand this. They want the path of least resistance to accomplish their goal, and I have no problem with them fighting for that within the bounds of the law. So that was challenged, and then privacy advocates are going, no,

you can't do that. That's a Fourth Amendment violation. That's crazy. And then you go into court and you figure out who's right. We may not agree with what happens, but both sides fight it out. And the example I was going to give on the consumer side is, do you remember when Apple fought tooth and nail after the government demand ended that they showed them how to unlock the iPhones. Right, it was some terrorist investigation, Right it

was. It was a pretty high profile thing, and they wanted into this phone. It was a terrorists were one of the big mass shooters. I can't remember what it was, but they wanted in this phone and Apple said, no, we're not. And they had deeper concerns like if we create a tool or show you how to do it, then you might be able to recreate it. And now there's a tool floating around that if ever got leaked or uploaded the internet, or somebody you know, dropped a USB thing

somewhere, feasibly could undermine our entire security system. And Apple went to court. They spent the money, they fought the fight. Even though it's easy to say, look, they just want to get into a terrorist phone, you should want them to do it. No, I want law enforcement to say that they should, and I want Apple to say, look, we made a promise to our customers that this is providing the best level of security

and we're not going to do anything to undermine it. But if you want to go to court and we fight it all out and that's where it ends, then we'll do what we have to do. And Apple didn't fully win, but they didn't fully lose either, but they fought on behalf of their customers and their business for that matter, because if their security is undermined, they may not sell as many phones. That's why it is baffling to me that Liberty didn't go. You know, this is a warrant for searching the

premises. This is not a warrant to get into a safe. This is not a court order dictating it in the same way that a separate court order for digital searches, cloud searches. All of these things in new technology have to be adjudicated and figured out because it's ever evolving, and I understand law enforcement is going to have the fervor to say no, we think we can do this, and others will say no, you can't, and it will

be fought out out and we'll figure out the answer. Liberty didn't do any of that, as best I can tell, and that is why it is a much more grievous violation of the expectation of their customers because you didn't how they're back man. So anyway you want to weigh in on it, feel free. Let me grab a quick call here. Wayne's holding on. What's up? Wayne? Hey? Ye have to go on this morning to see he is going, Sir. I just wanted to touch on the Liberty safe.

We were looking for a safe last year and we had a Liberty distributor and mebbin that we went and looked at their safe and there's two factors that I was looking at, and I found out that Liberty doesn't offer a black up key for getting into the safe. To keep Headwin out. They just basically say they'd have to call off a rocksmith or somebody who could break into a safe to get into it. So that was one of the main factors of why we didn't go with the Liberty Safe. The other was the expense.

I mean, the Liberty safe were really expensive if you get on up into the tea for a plan that we wanted, and we ended up going to Mace Gun Story in Maben and bought our safe. Uh and I'm going to blank company of which brand it was, but it wasn't it was exactful. I'm sorry, go ahead, Oh no, it's God, I like bess right on the people who know where it is there, So yeah, that is correct, and we bought the safe there. Uh. It does come with a backup key, and looking at theirs, some of their sates

have backup keys. But that was one of the things that I was I've never heard anybody really complaining about the keypads going bad, but at the same time, if it did and I was in an emergency situation where I needed to get in my safe, having a backup key is kind of a comfort to me. So that's why we went with the safe we chose. This is this is a good example. Let me just say this. You did what is should be the normal customer debate over brands. You did your research,

you said this is important to me, this isn't. But I bet it never crossed your mind when you were looking at these different safe brands going what would any of these brands do if the FBI said, Hey, we need to get in that safe. We don't have a court order yet, but we give us the code. Like, that's not a normal thing the

consumers thinking about. Because you're thinking, this is a safe, I'm the one who's only going to be able to access it, right, And that is why, Well I thought, I thought once I programmed it with my code, that no other code would work. It had to be my code. So when you said that just a little while ago, that there is a master code for the Liberty Safe that the police could use, are they

doing that for red flag laws? I mean, what is the purpose of them that you could be able to get into somebody's safe well without a court order? Well, they like because they had a warrant to search the premises, and in this case it was a J six defendant. You know,

I understand that they're gonna want to get into safe. They just you make them go through the entirety of the process, and you know, and you but you fight for it, and you fight on behalf of the people who paid you all of that money for your product, which look, I think it's the quality of the safe is nice. I appreciate the call there when

I was looking up at the clock here. But if you don't have that backup, if you don't advocate it like Apple did to protect not just you, but more importantly their brand and their security, what are you even doing because you, I mean, you marketed that is we're family, and uh, you threw family under the bus man. All right, seven forty five, let's get Ken Moon from the weather channel. You got a monster brewing out there in the Caribbean. Sir. I'm doing well. I'm doing well.

We sure do. One hundred and sixty five on our Cat five storm. Hurricane Lee is continuing to move towards the west northwest at about fourteen miles per hour. We'll continue on that track here as we head through the weekend. It's staying north of the islands, and right now all signs point to it eventually turning towards the north and eventually the northeast, which would keep it

away from the coastline of the United States. However, we're still going to have to closely monitor that is, it hasn't made that turn yet and not forecast to do so until we get into the early to middle part of the upcoming work week, so we still want to continue to monitor tour it whether it directly impacts. If it doesn't directly impact the US, it certainly will indirectly with a lot of wave action and dangerous surf and rip currents along the

coastline. Hot out here again today, although not as hot as we were yesterday where we saw record high's temperatures today expected to reach the low nineties, a little bit hotter that when you factor in the humidity, and just a slight chance for the late night showers and storms today. Better storm chances over the weekend though, ninety three this afternoon, mid eighties with showers and storms

Saturday and Sunday. Dude, did you see the game last night? You're a football guy, right, I am a football guy, but I didn't I saw the fourth quarter. I didn't get a chance to see the first three quarters. It was like it was like watching a high school team out there that like just wasn't jiving. Those are the those are the super Bowl champs. Man, that was crazy. All yeah, they definitely missed Travis Kelcey. Uh yeah, that dude's their whole offense. I guess all right,

thank you much, sir, previate it. We'll talk in an hour. Yeah, that was that was crazy, all right, seven forty seven. Back in just a few Hang on, it's one oh six one FM Talk in the Triangle and here's talk w PTI and the Triad. You know, maybe they should just be happy people are donating stuff. Did you see the roster? You see when somebody tried to donate to a good will store in Uh where where'd this Arizona? Yeah, now you haven't seen this story,

so what do you what do you think the thing is? It's in the news that somebody tried to donate below it like an inflatable doll. Uh no, but I could just see where they just throw that away. Probably wouldn't call authorities. Uh nope, human skull a donation box left it a goodwill in good Year, Arizona surprised surprised workers who contacted police after Inside of the box, they found a dream catcher that had a human skull as part of it. By the way, what dreams are you catching with a dream

catcher with a human skull in it? And a pretty screwed up looking one to boot? I might add, By the way, I bet that thing would sell for a pretty penny. Some creepy person's gonna want that. Man. No, man, you gotta come on, you gotta frame it, you gotta put it up there best I can. He was like, five bucks. It's in the dream catcher, so it's part of it. It's arsen, Dude, I don't know how long it's going to be in my shop, for like five minutes. Do you think some freak's not gonna come

in and be like, this is exactly what I'm looking for? Fifty, I'll give you seven fifty. I if I if I walked into Goodwill right now and I saw this, knowing that your birthday's coming up, you would you would have a very interesting present coming your way, That's what I'm saying. I would put it up in my studio window and terrify everyone. It'd be great. Yeah, that would freak him out. Wouldn't it. I mean, it's weird enough. Some of the stuff is just chilling in the

window. But yeah, you throw a dream catcher with a human skull. Oh, let's see. Please say the skull appears to be historical. Dude, here's the other thing. If it's part of a dream catcher, right, which is kind of you know, Native American kind of thing, and it is like a Native American and skull. How cursed is that? It's the first thing I was thinking, which is exactly why this is the greatest gift to give somebody. I wouldn't give it to you. I'd find somebody

who I want to be cursed. But ah, I mean it's history. And then somebody put like glass eyes in it. The whole thing looks creepy, man. I wonder why they parted with it. Probably because the Poulter guist right, skull is undergoing testing. They'll try to figure out how old it is. But Goodwill would like you to know that among the items, they would not prefer you donate our taxidermied bones of animals, humans, anything that's not really their bag. I don't know, man, like a nice

I think, like a nice mounted elkhead or something. You could probably sell the heck out of that. Let's see, Yeah, that thing looks super old, but yeah, if you robbed it from a grave or something, it's probably super cursed. You might as well put Aztec gold as the eyes and just go full on man. Yeah, that's for like, you give that to your mother in law. They give it your mother in law, just be like, here we got you something thinking of you. I know

you like art, Here you go. I'm curious what the dream catchers made of? Too? Is like sinew? Is there human parts in there? Dude? That's crazy? What else was in the box? Too? Would give any clues? Like somebody had to go clean out their dead relative's house and they're like, oh wow, like we knew he was weird, but holy crap, look at this. Well anyway, that is that is super creepy, but not creepy as this. You're ready, did you see that?

Scientists we're able to create a fourteen day old embryo using stem cells. I'm gonna repeat this. They created a fourteen day old embryo using stem cells. Obviously, you know the embryo first few weeks sperm fertilizes the egg. Periods of dramatic change boom. So this is post that. But they built it. They didn't even peachree dishes. They built the damn thing. Let's see here, this is great. Now we can just all cut our genitals

off. Well, I feel like maybe we should run a few of these through the old you know, the old easy baked you know what I'm say. Right, It makes it a little unnerved a little bit, you know, because there's a whole lot of women that you see on social media who are like, there's literally the last thing we need you for. And I think they mean it, Yeah, turn into wicker Man. But apparently we don't need them either. Well, no, I understand that. But ultimately,

the guys have certain needs. I understand this. I think they'll probably be a little a little more hesitant to swear it off. I'm trying to figure out what what are they even gonna do with this? Like, at some point you just have to go grease that. Do the cells continue to divide that you're gonna have AI versus like Adam Warlock from Guardians at some point battling in the future. I do not like this at all. I need to take away all the science funding. Yep, I'm going there, man,

it's so creepy. All right, hey, he Calendar joins us. And speaking of creepy, we got all sorts of stuff to get into our the big city mayors given up on public security. We'll talk about it next. All right, Good morning everybody, and here we go Friday, third hour. All ready, Cacio Day Radio program eight oh seven, and uh, we got lots to get into with our usual guests Radio Buddy in South mid Day's w b T and on the iHeart radio app. So check out

Pete Calendar. What's up Pete today? I'm doing all right. I'm, you know, just chilling out here in my luxurious air conditioning that we believe in down in Charlotte. I don't know what's going on with you guys up in Wait County there with your schools. Just heard them on the news another school now doesn't have air conditioning up there. Well, you know the COVID money, they needed it for some other stuff. So yeah, well I

had an idea, because you know me, I'm all about solutions. So how about this, because I heard in that news report that they did not have that. The schools were saying there's enough, not enough, HVAC technicians, and so that's why they can't get the work done. I'm thinking maybe we create some sort of system where we could, i don't know, like train and educate like another generation, like the coming up generation of the kids today. They would then be in a position to take the jobs in these

various trades that obviously have been left unfulfilled. So that would be like a women's studies course or yeah, well maybe a little bit more. Yeah all right, yeah, but like a whole system we could like levy taxes and stuff, fire people to teach the skills necessary that kind of thing. Okay, well, I mean yeah, create a pipeline. That's pretty crazy, I guess if you asked me. I mean there's a lot of philosophers we need right now, and gender studies majors, yeah, d E D E

I administrators. Yeah. Well look, if you can get a good gig, that's quite lucrative. Yeah, I'm sure what we pay for these things. I'll tell you another thing that would be good. Because now I'm being told this is the main issue. I feel like we're in a competition. Pete. You guys have the you got you know, you got all the phantom pooper stuff going on down there. I don't know if you I don't

know if you've heard. We've had some issues in uh, in Raleigh, not just RALI, Greensboro's had some mission but basically the big cities in North Carolina where it kind of feels like maybe those who are in charge aren't really interested in the law enforcement aspect of what they're doing. And so like the entertainment district and Raleigh, we had one of the employees there who was literally beaten to death. Yeah, that was right, Midwood smoke House, right,

they come out of Charlotte. Actually, yeah, And there has been a whole host of issues. It's yes, like if you look. And so the city's solution, as I understand it is, rather than to invest more in law enforcement, which I understand it is a bit of an uphill struggle because some people are not thinking that they want to go into law enforcement. I can't imagine why. Rather than beefing those numbers up, because those individuals are armed, they have arrested powers they're gonna go with, they want

to do private unarmed security. Oh, to deal with what is a problem of armed individuals and uh, you know, various crimes and stuff, And I'm I'm not understanding this because I feel like that doesn't address the problem which is obviously a rising problem, not just in Raleigh, but in many, many, many large cities that we've seen over the last couple of years, Charlotte included. And I just feel like they have no fervor to fix anything.

Do you get that feeling down in Charlotte as well? Well? I mean this idea of unarmed private security, I mean, I kind of it's not without precedent, right, I mean, look at how secure our malls are, for example, and those individuals are generally considered, you know, sort of the apex of law enforcement, right, so why not adopt that

kind of that pinnacle model in the city writ large. I'm also thinking there might be an opportunity for some violence interruption, maybe some ambassadors, you know, those types of folks like the COVID ambassador already have those they actually have Roley's got a downtown ambassador thing, and and they're fun. I would thief with them. They actually serve a certain purpose down there, and they've been around for a while, and you know, but but they're not there.

They're not for for the law enforcement thing. Do you know that that's the that's the niche here. So like if somebody, let's say, somebody's I don't know, beating somebody else to death, just use that hypothetical. Sure, and you know it and it's you know, it's one in the morning and the bars are spilling out and it's just crazy town. It would be good to have somebody with arrest powers and perhaps some tools with which to arrest

those individuals. Right. But that's just me looking for someone. But why why go through the hassle and the trauma inflicting this generational PTSD on a person and all of their ken uh and arresting them, right, Because there's not much that's going to happen once they are arrested, right, So what's the point of arresting like this is? It really is a brilliant strategy if you think about it. It was like, hey, defund the police, and

then everybody's like whoa, whoa, you're crazy. And then they kind of looked around and like read the room and they said, Okay, this isn't working. We're getting you know, waxed in some elections. So how's about we don't talk about defunding the police. Anymore, we'll just say reforms and blah blah blah and all of that, and then on the back end, we just won't prosecute people. We'll drop all the gun charges and then cry

about gun deaths. Right, we'll do what we'll do on the back end what we would like to look on the front at the local level, but at the federal level will really drill it to people. So don't worry about

that. Well, only certain people. Yeah, So the sentences there, and literally on the day like raleighs Mirror is putting this out, somebody just reminded me of this, Like literally the day were they've been trying to figure out a solution of this problem is the day that like somebody was literally stabbed right as the announcement is going on, and it's like, I feel like we need to do more, and that looks right. Well, it's a

problem and solution so obvious that only the left can ignore it. Only the leftist don't see it. And because it flies in the face or it's part it flies in the face of a narrative, or it's part of actually there the strategy, which is by the way, always been a hallmark of leftist strategy is to encourage disorder on the streets in order to make the population be

willing to sacrifice liberties in order to gain some modicum of security. And so when you allow for the destruction of the security of society, then it opens the door for liberties to be taken. So if there's an intentional strategy, that's it. Otherwise I suspect it's just a whole bunch of dumbasses. Yeah, now I'm gonna go with coordinated the first thing you said there, But

like, I feel like I just use another hypothetical. Let's say that you are a very involved advocate of the defund the police to the point where you're out there maybe getting maybe getting a cushy position as a high ranking state official within a certain political party. And and let's say you're out in your driveway in the city where you've advocated for this, and you get beaten half to death, your leg broken and pummeled so that your car could be jacked with

your kids right there. Do you feel like at that moment you go, maybe we should rethink this would make okay, because that literally just did happen up in Minneapolis, in a neighborhood where I wouldn't think it would happen, having lived up there and having some knowledge of it, and she is, she's all in on her thing, and she's like what the second DFL they called the Democrats DFL up there, DFL party chair. So she like, she's all in on this and she damn near beaten to death over her vehicle

and her kids. Possibly something could have happened to him who she was trying to protect at the time, and she's like, well, maybe we should reconsider this. Well she does. She does want the juveniles, uh, and young people to be held accountable. I thought that was interesting. So you know, maybe baby steps here, maybe you know, just you know,

coming around just a little bit. She's gonna start with because she got attacked by some youths, right, Uh, maybe maybe this is sort of the first step on the road to recovery here where she realizes, oh, maybe there needs to be some more quote accountability for these youths, these juveniles and young gils that did it. Yes, it reminds me there was a judge in New York back in like the seventies or eighties, right when it was you know, just this cess pool of crime and violence and stuff,

and there was they called him turn him loose. Bruce was his name, and as the name mightn't you know, might imply he would let everybody go. And so he got mugged and he comes bay, going to the hospital and stuff. He finally goes back onto the bench after some hiatus. He's back on the bench. The media is there to cover his return, and he starts off by saying, if anybody thinks that I'm going to now change the way I sentenced people in my courtroom, you got another thing coming.

You know. I'm not changing the way that I meet out justice here, very very leniently. And somebody in the back of the courtroom yells out mug him again. And I get the sense that this is what it's going to take for people to kind of come around to this, or the electorate to finally say they've had enough and start putting in place, you know, some you know, tough on crime mayors and DA's again. I don't know, maybe it's just a cycle that we are doomed to repeat over and over again.

Well we'll find out. I want to flip to something else because I want you to help me solve the mystery. I'm good at those. No, I'm good. I'm good at those. Get a little unsold streets music going on there, all right? So back hold on, I want to kill that. I don't know if it's going to dip on the since you're

on the phone. All right. So I was reading this article yesterday about the top education officials are asking North Carolina state lawmakers to postpone the January first compliance deadline for the new Parents' Bill of Rights, okay, saying they need more time to comply. They got to put systems and they're gonna see. So here's my mystery. If none of this stuff that this bill is addressing was happening, and it's just you know, it's it's it's a solution in

search of a problem. Right, none of this is going on. If none of this is going on, and it's all made up in conservative lawmakers minds and parents, then why would you need more time to comply with it? Right? If? Because you are compliance? Right, I mean you're in compliance, you're golden. You you could start this today, right, unless, of course, there this is all about like posting of the curriculum

on the website. Maybe that's what they need, like an extra six months or a year to do to learn how to use their websites which they already use and post things too. That could be it. I don't know. And look, Charlotte Mecklenberg actually adopted their stuff what two weeks ago, Charlotte, So if CMS can do this, and far be it for me to

suggest that CMS does a lot of things correctly. But they were the first in the state to do it, and they essentially just lifted all of the language right out of the state law and they just implemented and they put it into policy. They are like, this is what we have to have as our policy. This is what we're going to adopt, so we do it.

Meanwhile, like out in Asheville, I saw that that school board, the city school board and actual is saying and they got people in there being like, well, you know, we should really even comply with this stuff, Like oh okay, So once again you know rule of law typeality, where the laws are are good to enforce against my political opponents, but not for me to live by. It's just it's yeah, it's it's the lack

of a consistent standard applied. Yeah. And and if if people were making that nuanced argument, which I realize you were slightly tongue in cheeked there, but where where it was just well, we just have to develop this system for uploading this stuff which we already upload. They're not even making that argument. They're going, well, now these schools have to comb through everything that

they have to make sure that what we're going to go to jail. And I'm like, well, hold on, you assured me that none of this stuff existed, right, I was assured. So I'm on Twitter yesterday banging my head into the wall going, you know, which is it? Right? And and the gs and the gowner's beef and over Disney carriage things, right, yeah, right, it's beat, it's beef or it's it's both, it's both. Like, that's the it's the thing that we're not doing.

But now that we have to comply with the law, we have to ensure that we haven't actually been doing the thing that we haven't been doing. I don't understand why this is so difficult to understand. Casey like, they were not doing it, and so now they're going to continue not doing it. But they just want to make sure that they continue not doing the thing that they were prohibited from doing. Which they why we didn't need to law in the first place. I just you know, it's a short week,

short week, you know, my brains. Yeah yeah, okay, all right, well I just again, I just tried to let's try to clarify these things. And it's great when you know there's an opportunity for us to talk and really kind of bounce these things around. That's right what I'm saying there, So because I get really confused sometimes, Yeah, you're not happening, but they apparently are happening, so right. Well, and also this

idea that you know, this goes to the whole book banning argument. And I saw that, like there was this hysterical piece written by the Ashville Watchdog group about the Moms for Liberty chapter getting set up in Bunkham County, which is where Asheville is, and you know, it's this four page hit piece on Moms for Liberty, this ultra conserve group that's like, you know, trying to ban all of the books. But look, librarians curate their collections

the libraries. Any library you go into does not have a copy of every single book ever published. That would be insane. The libraries would be massive, right, they don't have every book, so they have to make decisions based on what books they would like to stock on the shelves and which ones

they think their clientele, their customers are interested in reading. So the idea that there should be some discernment in the curation process based on who the audience is, right, This idea that oh, this is a book band, it's laughably absurd on its face for starters. Secondly, you have you have these rating systems that exist in all sorts of entertainment. Why, it's in

order to help parents parents, so they have an understanding. Because every parent cannot read every single book before their kid does, they cannot watch every movie before their kid does, play every video game. Right, so the industries create and sometimes government creates these these rating systems. Right. And when this idea was pitched to education folks, oh no, we can't do that, Well, then you know what, Then we're going to get engaged in the

civic discourse. We are going to run full office, We are going to take over some of these seats, and we will impose the curation process ourselves. And this now is a threat to democracy. According to these left wing reporters, that all of a sudden parents taking an interest in the public school system. This is then it kills me. The conservatives have a right to engage in setting the curricula too. It's not just you guys on the left.

You don't get to control all of these levers. The Moms for Liberty Group and other parental rights organizations, they were prompted to respond because you guys lost your minds on this stuff. That's why. That's why this bill got passed, and others like it all around the country getting passed. And again, if you hadn't been put sing, then you wouldn't have gotten the push back. Well, no, this is I got less than a minute.

This is the same thing with Leandro right where it's like where there is only a singular, acceptable definition of what is an adequate education and it's only public schools and it's only funded to the hilt and it's only this and it's only and it's like, have you considered that there may be other versions of that?

And yeah, it's another another discussion. All right, real quick, thirty seconds you're going to go out to the Cherokee resid and get high or you ready for that or uh, well, I mean it's all the way. It's like I've moved two and a half hours east. Now, back when I was out in Asheville, that might have been something to do. Although I maybe I just wait for some of the casinos to get opened around

the state and then maybe they could get recreational marijuana. One oh six one f M Talked and nine four five w PTI, two stations driving the best in talk. This is Casey O Day and Carolina's Morning News. All right, well we're gonna have to Friday, so we're gonna have to take this thing apart. Ross I just stumbled across the twenty twenty three ranking of the

best cities for surviving the zombie apocalypse. Now you were saying off the air, you don't want to be in the city, right, Oh, there's no way, all right, So with that, like understandably, yes, there's spots in Wyoming I would that would be where I'd go. Just did a density of population, terrain all of it. However, for the purpose of this list, they ranked the two hundred largest cities in the US. You're gonna have to be in one of them, all right, And the

whole thing is stupid. Now, maybe number one I could get with if you think this out. Number one's Houston, Texas. It's a big footprint of a city, a lot of spaced out stuff, a lot of guns. You know what I'm saying. That kind of makes sense, kind of makes sense. But number two's New York City. No, that's completely wrong. It's list already minimal guns, thousands of zombie hiding points, zero line of sight, right, all the things working against you. You don't want

Number three, San Antonio, Miami, four La number five. I'm not gonna hit all of these, but just the ones that stand out, like Las Vegas, lots of guns. Maybe, I don't know, Portland number eleven. I mean yeah, if you dress them up, like, you know, one of the two groups that like to fight, I guess then you get the other one attacking them while you get away. I don't know. Seattle's number fourteen, Honolulu's fifty. You're on an island, man,

but you're limited where you can run. San Francisco's twenty one. How would you know the apocalypse started? Yeah, there's no way you'd be like, are you a zombie? I have no idea. I guess, well, zombies don't poop on the sidewalk right, So like that again, well, I guess it would determine. It would depend upon the rules of the zombie universe we're talking about, because they vary from universe to the universe. I understand we're gonna go with. Yeah, we'll go with kind of Walking Dead.

Let's go. You know, I think that that's a good standard in middle It's not quite World War Z right speed give an example like Walking Dead the later years, right, these zombies started to decay and to fall apart in the heat, right, So maybe you'd want to choose a desert type area if we're going with those rules. Yeah, so Vegas is highly ranked. I get yeah, sure, well then it is a dry heat.

I'm not sure the rules. And I watched a movie where they were trying to get into a zombie during a zombie apocalypse to Rob's Safe, and it looked really difficult. So something on Netflix I saw them. Let's see here, Minneapolis, you got no no enforcement there. Let me let me look in North Carolina and see how the city is fair. What what city in North Carolina? You gotta go with? One of the big ones? Would you think would be the best? Where I put it out there, I

mean I'm going, I'm going hometown. I'm going Raleigh, going, Okay, just because I'm loyally, it's nothing else behind it. It's just because you don't want to leave your house, is correct. But there's a zombie apocalypse. But I like my I don't like leave my house. Right, but you, but you may have to make tough decisions, right if you overwhelmed me, then then I will make them, damn it, and I will leave my house and go to Raleigh. That's not really getting away from

it, like they're gonna catch up. Well, so let's see what do they say? It is the best city banks stored by state here Charlotte at fifty, so out of two hundred, the best city in North Carolina still is a bad option. And it's Charlotte, followed by Raleigh, then Durham, Greensboro, Fayetteville, and then Winston Salem. Fayville is one hundred, twenty ninth. It's it's like sold it's a bunch of soldier. It's soldiers

and gang bangers. This is so stupid, Like I would take the vets or whatever, the soldiers in Fayetteville over some idiot in a bodega, New York city any day. Come on, dude, stupid. Yeah, you're gonna you're gonna beat the zombies, a devil to your cat and criminals, like, dude's high crime. Man. Everybody's arm down there. Oh this thing is so dumb. Uh. Yeah, Raleigh's sixty eight, Greensboro one hundred and twenty one. I feel like Greensboro would be better suited than Raleigh.

Oh no, it would if you're looking at it that way, just because of the terrain and the surroundings. Yeah, so what do they I'm not even go there's a whole bunch of data points that they used to arrive at this. Yeah. I don't know. I don't agree with anything. I feel like people here have no concept of actual survival. The people putting this list together, Like in even the most minimal survival situations, like I used to be constantly baffled by We'd have hunters come out, right, We'd

have hunters come out and I would say stuff to them. I'd be like, all right, so I'd drop them off and I'd be like, all right, So what you want to do is, you know, start here, but after light if you don't see anything and you want to make a move, you want to go east about you know, a half mile and there's a set of trees, and they'd be like, which ways east? And I'm like, how do you not know? I'm dropping you off in

the woods man? How do you not know north southeast west? Especially when you have a mountain range that you know runs north to south and you have the sun. And I feel like you're dealing kind of with that here where

everyone who was in charge of this list would be horrible. They would be only good as zombie bait if they were in your survival group, you know what I'm saying, where you just kind of be like, hey, Bob, remember that list you put together, and then you push Bob down and then the rest of you get away, and that is the only net benefit from these idiots. I think the safest city would actually be my hometown is

connected in New York. I think that would probably be the safest because the zombies would be like, Nope, we ain't going there, Like absolute poverty can't do it. So they got standards that you say, it's not on the list because it's not one of the tuner biggest cities. So I don't know where it ranked, but to your point are, well, no, because you know, one of the worst cities on the list, Detroit. I think it's like next to last. So I like, if the zombie

they're gonna have, you know, they're gonna get picky. It sounds like they would overrun Detroit. No problem solves connectady, here's Buffalo, New York. Hold on just throwing zombies through tables, That's what I'm like, Yeah, you just turn you if the zombies decide to outbreak during a tailgate, they do, they stand at I don't think they stand a chance. Yeah, but whoever put in New York City as number two, get out of here. They're wrong with you people. So I'm just scanning some other stuff.

Most of the Texas cities are ranked pretty high, which makes sense, like there's actual data there where I could go, Okay, all right, armed to the teeth, although maybe not Austin, which is ranked six craziness all right eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. It's Washington, DC doing They're all getting eat and good. Although if they eat brains though, right, So I'm just say it wouldn't be I can't believe you

would. I can't believe you would. You would use this to attack Mitch McConnell like this. It's gross. Really, you think it's just him or not the totality of everyone up there, all right? Eight forty three Ken Boon from the Weather Channel. Do you think you'd survive a zombie apocalypse? Me? Probably not for a little while at least, Matt maybe. I mean, there's a lot of really dumb people, which can you just push them down? Let the zombies and then you get away, and you're sure

you surround yourself with enough idiots you're gonna you're gonna do just fine. All right, Well, we don't have to deal with that right now. We just gotta deal with heat and more heat and maybe even a hurricane of sorts. So give it to us. Head it into the weekend, sir. You bet well. It's gonna be another hot day out there today. Maybe not as hot as it was yesterday, but temperatures are still going to get

up into the nineties with some sunshine. Chance for a few late day showers and storms, but I think a much better chance to see those showers and storms as we head into the week about ninety three this afternoon, seventy one tonight, showers and storms more likely tomorrow and Sunday, especially through the afternoon and evening hours. It won't be as hot over the weekend, with high temperatures into the middle to upper part of the eighties. Now, dryer air

does build in for early next week. And of course we're watching Hurricane Lee one hundred and sixty five mile per hour Cat five storm now as it continues to move west north west, looking forward to make that turn towards the north as we get into next week. But we can still potentially have some indirect impacts on the coastline with some dangerous surf and some dangerous rip currents. All right, thank you, sir. You know you're with us Monday as well.

Right, No, I believe Jeff will be with you, Jeff, you know, Okay, but it's not Ray So he's like preemptively thrown in the towel on the Cowboys games. That what's happen? Think? So dude's having a rough go of it, all right, Ken, have a good weekend, sir. All right you two yep, and we're gonna come back to chat with Jeff Bellinger, Decks, Hang on your day Smarter one oh six one FM Talk and news Talk ninety four five WPTI more with case starts

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for cheap Chinese made product. No case, no, I'm show come on, say it ain't too all right, just guaranteed lead with every purchase. All right, well, thank you sir, have a good weekend. You do the same talk monday. Okay, sounds good. You have a good day. Take care. Yeah, wow, didn't see that. So TikTok he's shilling Chinese crap. Okay, all right, well there you go. Uh, couple a couple quick things we get out of here. This isn't

going to affect you. But I do think that it is an interesting It's it's interesting in how we and social media and various other tech entities see the future of uh, you know, monitoring users. And in this case, Activision is using AI now to scan conversations on with players that are playing online in group settings for toxicity. Well one, it comes down to the definition

of toxicity. But two, like I still don't trust the AIS not to murder the drone human pilots, deny the Holocaust, and like screw up and make up fake legal cases. So it's bad enough when you got a bunch of blue hairs in a room doing content moderation like we saw with Twitter and Facebook. Now they're just going to program AI, which is not full proof, and have them do it. Are we feeling comfortable with that? Ross?

You game but you don't really do the online? Well here's what they right, So they want to like, you know, cut down a quote hate speech and these like I say, they call of duty lobbies or whatever because it's activision. Well technology in the use of technology evolves, it just doesn't like it's not static, right, Yes, So eventually, if this is successful, you can see like maybe a company like Twitch or kick or whoever, or even YouTube using it to monitor people's live streams. I could

see that happening in the future. I think it's terrifying. Tube. I think you Tube must already do it, I think because through but they do it through the transcripting service, right, So I don't know that that's AI necessarily, it's it's it's speech recognition, which is why when like YouTubers won't say certain words. You know this, Yeah, like there's a bunch of

words they won't say. They won't say COVID, they won't say anything you happen to do with like sexual assault or child say, even if they're if it's in a documentary style setting or they're doing a news story, they'll say CP or you know, they'll use code because the captioning program they assume the algorithm is pulling on that. So I don't know that it's really that different. And let's face it, a lobby of a Call of Duty server,

there's some horrible people too. Yeah, I mean, I this one reason I won't stream that game is because I've been on friend streams before and they're streaming and there's some kid you've never met, Rando in a lobby, right, and you forget to turn off the other people's mics, and all of a sudden, an end bomb is dropped, right, and you have to end your entire stream because you don't want to get canceled because some idiot you know said that on a live stream. But you know, it's it's sort

of like technology is like any It's like a government program, right. Government programs tend not to shrink and tend not to go away. They get bigger and more out of control. So you can see them eventually using this on live streams to monitor what you're saying, and like you said, it's Ai. It's not going to know content exter sarcasm or her her her Why can

I say the word her perboly? Right, Yeah, they're just gonna be like, you know, I, oh, I heard this word, or I heard this this joke, you made this inappropriate jokes to now your stream, it's gonna you know, we're gonna cancel your stream. I could see that happening. And well, like, these are not just people streaming. These are people that are literally playing a game that they paid for, right, So I mean that are in there doing this, and you're right if

it mishears it. What were we doing the we're talking about something the other day where it was oh, was the air degon thing? Right? Like did did he just did the translator? The translator accidentally said that the president of Turkey was declaring war on Putin while Putin was sitting there. Obviously it's a mess up. Then we were making jokes about you know, not hearing

stuff. But like, content moderation already sucks within these because even humans, for whatever reason, when I've challenged some of the posts we have, don't recognize sarcasm or jokes or any of the rest. And now it's just going to be baked into the system, and then eventually once you remove more and more humans, like there's no way to even get around it. It just is what it is, and they'll go, well, our hands are tied.

The AI sets. There are people that really have a hard time recognizing sarcasm, and a lot of these people tend to be the younger generations. I've noticed there seems to be a huge percentage of say, you know, comparing zoomers the boomers. The boomers can recognize it a lot of the time. Zoomers, for some reason cannot, especially online. It seems like a

lot of times it's an impossibility. By the way, if you got a Ross's twitch thing, he's got humans moderating stuff and they'll throw you out for anything, like even if it's your first name, you know what you did, man, you need to apologize. It's nothing you need to apologize to say you're sorry. Don't deny the big boon beer booon beer, and like that, I'm ampled