Friday-1-26-2024

All right, good morning Kcoday Radio program. So do you think it was because I said something or do you feel that your brain independently arrived at the wirey twenty four hours off? No, I was feeling the exact same way, Okay, like I saince Wednesday. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So on Wednesday I had this weird thing around just say, I kept I had to literally stop myself. I think I said it out loud ones but then I had to stop myself, like you know, happy Thursday or something,

and I'm like, oh, yeah, it's Wednesday. And then even after you know, you do it later in the day and then Thursday. I don't know. Oh man, Obviously we have to uh run it through Okham's razor, and I think probably we jumped a multible. So I'm sorry, Okham's what do I want to talk about wrestler today? Just to clarify, it's it's Aukham Ockham's razor ramone. Oh wow, it's a technical term. I'm sorry. Do you want the item named after razor ramone? I mean

everybody has their thing. Oh okay, who am I to judge? If you don't know what we're talking about, you will and maybe you wish you wouldn't. Yeah, I would steer clear of the razor ramone. I would also steer clear of Well, we'll get into it. Then I got a whole list. It would make me some some questions. There. The Vince mcmand story's nuts and it's it's nuts, and it's weird, and there's even

some there's a lot of ick factor. But again, and you're dealing with allegations, you're dealing with a It sounds like a deal that was struck that the person the deal was struck with, who was a former employee of WWE, who had a whole laundry list of kind of me too style McMahon allegations. And this goes back, man, yes, early. I don't want to get right into this. Yeh. So this goes back at least a

couple of years. And apparently the two sides had struck a deal and her through a lawyer, claiming they paid like one third of it and then just ignored her. So now we're back here, but we're back with deats details, not necessarily receipts details. So and this is this is a civil thing. Although I know security is in exchange. I think was doing an investigation

on McMahon and something similar to this was was part of that. But I have I don't know if that's still going on or what even like I didn't see anything, so maybe nothing happened with it. I don't know, but yeah, we'll fill We'll fill you in on the details. There we got. We got a wonderful entertainment news for you. Pete Callander will join us

coming up eight oh five. Uh New Hanover County, the superintendent of schools down there in Wilmington, apparently very inspired by what's going on in Guildford County.

I I, you know, this is something I've advocated for, and I think that people who are in higher ed or excuse me, people who are in public head and even private for that matter, but especially in the public sector, whether it is state to state, district to district, if if you're if you're running a school, or you're running your county commissioner,

city council member. Okay, it's the Peatrie dishes man. Chances are somewhere they are doing something more efficiently that you would also be able to adopt and it would bring efficiency to your governmental entity. That's good, that's great. Love it However, this is not what I meant, so let me just start here this morning. New Headover Schools. There's a school down there called

Mosely, and I don't know if you're familiar with it. I've seen it actually written about a couple of times, so I'm I kind of had a working knowledge. Moseley was an academy, and right, so you get the math and sciences academy the districts will do, but Mosley was unique in that it was an academy, a very well funded academy within the public school system

for students with special needs. And it's closing. They said specifically, the students would be filtered back into the district's various schools, and as you can imagine, parents of students within Mosley and parents in general, thought it was this is a good thing that they're doing were ranging from scratching their head to

absolutely outraged. But then the other shoe dropped Wednesday at a joint meeting between New Hanover County commissioner commissioners and by the way, there's not ped peace in the Carolina Journal by Dane Scalise. He is one of New Hanover Counties commissioners and he's writing about this, he relates a conversation he had with doctor Faust, who is the superintendent there. Let's see here, Yeah, and real quickly, the it's called the full name of Mosley is called the Career Readiness

Academy at Moseley. So this was more than just This was more than just adaptive education based on the needs of students who obviously deal with unique challenges. But it was more than that. Even it also was as students got older, it was preparing them for you know, being able to go to work, perhaps you know, living alone, or you know, getting some maybe some depending on what's going on, maybe some additional hands on training or vuccasion

following K twelve that could be beneficial within their particular situation. They were trying to do a lot there, and look, I get that that's expensive. I understand, And it's likely that even with funding and additional what do they call Title one funding I can't remember, which is federal funding that is attached to special needs students, even with that, the likelihood is the new Hanover County was subsidizing it kind of well in the way that schools do, so

it's not profitable. But then last Wednesday they acknowledge that one of the possibilities, and apparently it's the one they're very excited about, because the superintendent has traveled out of Guildford County on multiple occasions, is to replace it with a newcomers school, of which Guildford County has two, the old Jewish Day School and they just they just literally just opened another one. But that's the Nate ROSTI are you are you picking up on what a newcomers school is? Newcomers

school? Yeah, it's a school that, like the Jewish Day School it would be, would then contract and essentially just be filled with migrant kids. Now you understand why everyone's losing their crap down there in Wilmington. Man, they're taking this. This not not wholly unique, but uh, this what most people see is a very positive solution to the education of students who require, you know, independent educational plans. Uh, that's not what it's called.

I That's what it is. I e P right, individualized. I almost said I ED, And I'm like, don't make the Wednesday Thursday thing and please don't teach the kids to make IEDs. So they have individualized plans, the teacher to student ratios higher, all of these things, but New Hanover was getting it done at least within the acceptable parameters of their constituents. But you know, it's really profitable, heavily heavily subsidized federal spending for newcomer

schools. And so that's the debate. And the interesting thing is they go in throughout the article they talk about how let me flip over to the latter part, but let me read from the article for the opped mostly is a one of a kind public school offering custom tailored education to students who require special learning. And while newcomer schools may be called schools, they're more akin to

migrant resettlement and assimilation facilities. The purported mission the facilities is not to educate students in the traditional sense, but to allegedly help and tire immigrant and refugee families integrate into the local community where they're relocated. You know, we had a stat I didn't get into the other day. Do you remember do you remember the that I've referenced this several times in the last week, the the sit down with Trump and Pelosi and Schumer and she's poking her finger and all

that. Okay, well that was about that was about border stuff. And immigration stuff. And Donald Trump was sitting in there willing to give them dhaka and a pathway to citizenship, or or at least he was he had indicated he would be. I mean, when it came pushed to shove, who knows. But and all that he asked was it was a little over what six billion dollars for border wall, and that was they wouldn't do it. And then lay that we had that government shutdown because again they wouldn't just give

six billion dollars. Now, if Trump had known, he could have just executive ordered it apparently I'm looking at you student loan stuff, but he didn't. So the Biden Whitehouse has disclosed that the totality of spending just for housing just housing, right, that does not include secondary programs like this, It does not include other benefits that may be received through state programs and non housing

related federal programs. Totaled for migrant resettlement, twenty billion dollars, twenty billion dollars was spent just on the housing aspect. And his government, so you know that that once you tally everything, that the number would be astronomical or and all this all this for just at just the housing. You know,

roughly four times the price of what the wall would have provided. And one has to think even if people, even if you still had people coming through and they came through the proper as asylum process, it would it would be an astronomical savings. It's not even close. So this is going on down a new handover. Guilford County Schools elected a pioneer the new This is from WUNC, so take it for what it's worth. Guildford County Schools elected to

pioneer the newcomer school concepts. Guildford County has subsequently experienced a rapid influx of immigration and has been identified federally as one of the Hubs Regional Hubs for Refugee Resettlement. What happened well a little over a month later, because remember that they had another newcomer school open in October. In November of last year, representatives from New Hanover County Schools went to Gopher County to visit the newcomer schools

or I think they only visited the second one. I don't know that they went to the Jewish day school. But just two weeks later, New Hanover County School administration publicly announced they were closing Moseley and the superintendent and the school board wants you to believe, Look, this is just one of a number of things, but this county commissioner, he lists out this whole thing where

they were really excited about it. They took trips. The superintendent took two trips, I guess, or maybe he took one and Reps took the other or something, but there were two visits, and then right in the timeline, then they announced, Hey, we're closing the school. This this kind of one of a kind thing that we've been doing, and we'll just we'll shuffle the kids back into the other schools and we want to do a newcomer

school. I don't know whether it's financially that's what's driving it. Ideo Lodge, there's the possibility that they really did they just have to close that school and they're looking at an empty building going what the hell are we going to do with it? But that's not what they're saying. And folks down in Wilmington are seeing that, and Guildford County is the model for it. So there you go, happy Friday morning. You don't make of that what you

will. A little closer to home, I saw a very I saw three words together. I just don't expect to see when reading a local crime report. But I'll get We'll let you be the judge of that. Like I said, we got the McMahon stuff. And Ross, did you see the couple who went to the on vacation down to Mexico? And they were the only one in the resort did because this thing was blown up behind me it? Oh dude, all right, I don't want to say all of you are wrong, but you all are wrong, and I will I'll be happy

to explain that. And yes, we even have a Stanley Cup update, which you know what, I'm not surprised. All right, good morning everybody. It is six point thirty four. Sorry cross diffon was gonna start talking and all of a sudden the age reloaded. Oh man, okay, all right, whow tgif I could just imbew that from the nineties and fast casual restaurant advertising. All right, ros, you didn't see this. I'm gonna start here on this thing. Hold on, ah, okay, super Bowl

was played in eighty six. It was eighty five, Okay, all right, I said, it's the anniversary of that, So again, sir, I think it's Saturday right now, So you're not. That's where my head's at, so just just roll with me. So I was reading this this morning. It started as one of those weird, little light hearted things, which I don't know. Maybe back in the day we could talk about stuff, but the Internet, internets and everybody is perpetually offended or a victim.

And I'm not necessarily implying that the people who made the video feel like that, although that you could tell that they kind of do. But sometimes things don't go well, and it's perfectly appropriate if you have a problem with a with a company to attempt to redress and if you don't feel that it were you were properly dealt with and have reasonable expectations. Some people are just wholly unreasonable. Those of you who are face forward customer service you know exactly what

I'm talking about. But sometimes you got to go, all right, we'll screw you. I'm not going to do business here anymore. I gave it, you know, I just I had an example one of the last times

I flew with American Airlines. They you know airlines are the airlines, right, and they canceled the flight eye was or they moved it to the point where I had they had to move me and like it screws everything up, and then they had a way to rectify it, and they wouldn't do it, even though I had all the stuff in front of me, and I was talking on the phone talking to the customer service person and I and I

was basically I was asking not for the totality of the ticket. I was asking for a credit in the amount of what I didn't get to do but I had paid for. That was my that was my reasonable thing. And they basically told me to pound sand. But now, as an formed consumer, I can sit here and I can do that. And then I called them back and they took care of part of it. But that's you know, that's what that's what people do. I'm not a victim. I'm just

somebody who got poor service. And now I have to decide, all right, do I want to them next time I'm in the market for air travel. So this couple they decide they're going to go to uh Los Cabos, Mexico, the Grand Theos boutique, which is described as a brand new luxury, five star all inclusive resort. It is a parent or a sister resort to a very well established one that is really nice. But this was going

to be the Krem Daily Krim, and I'm looking at the pictures. It looks amazing, other than the part where if you get too far away from it, your head goes in a cooler. But this is this is, this is what it was, and it's one of those resorts where they there's no peasant rooms. Okay, there's no other rooms that most people would probably book it a five star because I screw it them on vacation and be at the beach, at the bar, at the restaurant, or at the golf

course. The whole time cares. So you're paying good money. And if people want to do that, God bless them. Go do your thing. You get a good five star resort. The service is amazing. So they go down there and the couple who they say were let's see, sell, let's see. Let me just read this to you. The couple uh said that their dream vacation took an unexpected turn when they started to wonder where the other guests were. The couple, uh, Cameron and his wife and of

his wife's name here, Uh, we're celebrating their baby moon. What is that? Ross what is a baby moon? What is this? Is this another thing that I have to buy a gift? We never heard of that, the baby moon, celebrating their baby moon? How many this is? You know this? This is like push presence. Isn't it your baby moon? Isn't it the the birthday hit your baby? The anniversary of making the

baby? This is so dumb. I just uh yeah. The first time I heard about push presence, I'm like, I'm sorry that right, because it's if it's a honeymoon, Yeah, that's the anniversary, Like, that's your the baby. I guess this is their vacation from their baby. They just had the baby, and they're like, oh, we're going to vacation, alright, we're celebrating. You gotta, I gotta, I gotta know. Oh no, what? Oh my god? What? I have so many questions? Now? All right, Ross, you're ready for what it

is? You're ready, ready, ready, all right? Oh. A baby moon is a romantic vacation taken by parents to be before the baby is born on the eve of the third trimester. Okay, so what you definitely want to do is go out on a cruise or whatever. Well, that's all it's it's kind of all inclusive Mexican resort five stars. Look, here's

the thing, here's where I would question it. But I'm you know, if there's a lot of people don't drink, so you know, one of the reasons that people will justify a five star resort is the food and booze is included, and you know, hopefully it's it's not poison like that time, and and then that other time, and then recently the other time. So but if, but if you want a really really nice resort, and this one looks like it, I just didn't know that was a thing.

So now if if, if a couple is is pregnant, and as the woman is transitioning into the the uncomfortable phase of the pregnancy, you board a plane for a week long all inclusive baby moon vacation. And by the way, it was a hell of a vacation. They started their vacation in Amsterdam, which again is a city of a thousand things that they pregnant woman probably shouldn't be consuming. Then flew to Mexico. All right, I'm sorry, I haven't even gotten into the meat of this. I just never heard that

term, and now I know it's a thing. Ah, Okay, So the couple who was celebrating their baby moon said that what started is a little bit of a joke turned into a very strange experience. Yeah, and people are emailing it's the last trip before you have a baby. I didn't know that, sir. People are acting like I'm insane. I don't have kids one but Ross does. And he didn't know what it was. I never

heard that ever. Yeah, and the last thing I'm gonna do is spend money before baby's born on a t The other thing, yeah, I saved my money for the baby. Really, you don't want to go to the casino in money? Carlos put it all on thirty three. Okay, all right. So anyway, so they go there and they they noticed that everywhere they go in the resort, everything is perfect. The pool, the restaurants, the bar, fully staffed, everywhere they go, fully staffed, perfect

turn down. Everyone's great. But they never see anybody. And they said, quickly, within a couple of days they were starting to get a little concerned, and they were like, where is anybody? And of course the internet thinks they're at me, you know, they got sucked into a wormhole or something. But they post this video and like, hey, we have the whole resort to ourselves. The resort, which again is sweets and above, does not have a huge capacity, but yeah, that's odd. It's

it's a pretty big building. Oh and when they say sweets, they mean actual sweets, not the weird language that hotels will use, like oh, it's a sweet and you're like, what does that mean. It's like there's room between the bed and the wall. It's amazing. Yeah, we tend

to over use that word. This and this one is very expensive, and that's because they the people got mad and they were upset, and they were upset because they felt that the resort should give them part of their money back or all of their money back, because part of going that is you're you're you're buying the atmosphere and the experience, and so uh, they you know, they get there and there's not a bunch of I guess other drunk American

and British tourists and they they missed out on the part of that, And I'm like, are you insane? Can you can you imagine showing up to a five star all inclusive resort with non poison alcohol and it's fully staffed it's not like that time. It's not like those weird times in COVID where you did have to travel and there was like if you want uh, if you want housekeeping, let us know a week in advance, right, that kind

of No, they were full on. They got everything they wanted. They had the whole play, They had a private beach, a private pool, and people are upset because what they didn't have is a bunch of other people to talk to. Do you understand the level of excitement and smile that would cross my face? If I like that, that would be the greatest thing ever I would. I would like I would. The only thing that would concern me is I would want to make sure nobody did show up, right,

So you like, oh, I'd be concerned. Like you said the entire time that it was like somehow in the twilight zone or something like, yeah, there's some weird dimension where how is this happening right now? So the way, here's why it's happening. By the way, So it's a brand new resort. It is. It is directly next to a very well known, very high end resort. But this is the Krem Dayly Krem version. It has a much more limited number of rooms. It just opened.

It's the middle of January, which is a horrible, horrible travel window until until you get you about February. Most people because of Christmas. That's they're just not taking these trips. They have very low occupancy, and not all of the suites are open yet because they literally are. They wanted everything to

be perfect, and so the block that they're in is open. And they didn't lower their prices, which is something that resorts do this time of the year because of the aforementioned lull, because their reputation they're establishing is more important

than discount weeks. If that's the corner of the resort. So if you want to go there and you want the level of luxury that these two experienced, then you will pay top right, and you'll pay it all the time, probably more during very busy seasons, because again this they are they're looking. They're I set out to do one thing, man, and just talk about how happy I would be if I showed it Ross, if you showed

up in Disney was empty except all the employees were there. Everybody who's supposed to be there is there, Just no guess that would be the day wouldn't it. I would be doing like the Buffalo bills. Don't mention the score thing because you don't want to jinx it, like, don't even bring it up, don't even think about it, just go and just go with it. Yeah, you just like you ever you ever ever been someplace? You ever been on a plane alone. I was on a flight once from like

Greenville to Omaha and there was like no one on it. It was it was awesome. We had a flight for Greenville where I can't remember where I flew out of it, but I went to Omaha. Yeah, or maybe I had a new hanover so I don't know who the hell knows, but yeah, yeah, and there was you were the only one or there was just a handful. There was like maybe two or three people on it. Yeah, yeah, I was. I've been on a flight twice, commercial

flight twice, let's be clear, and it was me both times. Now, both flights were both flights were Denver to shear It in Wyoming and so and it and it all so and it acts like a bus that route. So you take off and you if there's somebody on the plane where somebody needs picked up in Rock Springs, then they land in Rock Springs, and then they do, and then Gillette and then Sheridan's end of the line, they

turn around. That literally is how it works. I was the only one on a couple of those flights, and they have you know, they obviously they got crew, they got a flight attendant, all that. I remember the flight attendant. She just comes over and I'm like, you don't have to do anything, right, it's fine. We talked for a little while. She got me, you know, like a soda or something to drink, and she just sat there and read a book. I'm like, this

is great, man. She's like, yeah, you sit wherever you want, do whatever you want, just you know, don't go in the cockpit please. But yeah, I and at no point, I'm like, am I on the Twilight Zone. I'm like, this is amazing because think about all the stuff that irritates you about flying, and you'll find out so much of it as all the people around you. So yeah, yeah, you roll into a five star resort. Now hold on, now, people were

not here to debate what baby move means. I just needed a mini example, all right, Ross, just so you can catalog this. You don't have to be pregnant. You can also it can also be your baby moon if it's your last trip before trying to get pregnant. Okay, well then why in the story or why in this is a reference trimess. I don't know how about this if if if you and your your significant other want to go on a vacation and then go, then go. And by the way,

you have to film everything. I don't know if you know this, you have to film anything. What I'm trying to remember what I I had, some somebody said something to me ross what I'm trying to remember. What photos I showed you of the glotpaghost. I showed you. I showed you this the hotel dogs because I thought that those that was insane a turtle or something else. But like the if you go over to a couple of the areas there and the glopaghost because they try to they they don't you know,

they don't want you to be solo traveler. But you can kind of get around that because I don't like to hang out with groups and tour groups and all that stuff. But like everybody's taking a picture of every like a bug, even a bug that we have, and they're like if they're fascinated by it, and like this lady's like, aren't you got to take a picture of this? And I'm like no, I'm good, I'm fine. I told her my phone was dying because I didn't want to deal with that.

And there's like this little walk thing you do where you can see a bunch of cool stuff. So all right eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four, Yeah, that's crazy. And everyone said they're mad at the resort. How dare you offer the greatest? You know what you are. You're a billionaire at that point, think about it. You're a billionaire. Yeah. No, I'm walking around like I'm a king. I'm like, finally they respect that deserve you snap your fingers alitas, which is a chicken

wings in Spanish. You just snap your fingers go alitas, and they appear in front of you because you're at a five star whatever you want. I would completely like fall into the role play too. It'd be like, what am I going to pretend I today? Today? I am a I'm Pablo Escobar today. Oh so you know it, just change it every day. Get a hippo in the pool. What do you want? Spot pool? This week? You can deal with the hippo after. Oh that's so great.

All right, hang on, we'll be back. One O six one FM Talk and ninety four five w PTI, two stations driving the best in talk. This is cac O Day and Carolina's Morning News. All right, good morning, and uh yeah, so fifty seven CaCO Day Radio program. Good. I'm glad our audience is normal. Everyone's like, that's amazing. Where's this resort? Well, the problem is now, well it's in Mexico.

Five. The problem is now obviously it's getting some pub because I I you know what, Frankly, these two I think are kind of I think one of them thinks are an influencer. What a brilliant marketing thing that would

be. Ross Huh. You want to stand out, you're a go to like uh, you know, especially like can't cut the area on, can't coon Like you just got on the coast and it's like it's like driving a one A in Florida once you get south, like you know, sunny aisles and basically everything Miami up to, like Palm Beach, it's just a never ending, you know, giant beach front in this case resorts. But yeah, so alling at this guy. I had no idea what the baby moon

was either until my wife's exected. Well of course she did. Yeah, take the internet away from hers her. I'm just kidding. I hope everything worked out there with the baby, all right, So yeah, yeah, I think they're gonna do just fine. And if it was a marketing stunt, very well done. All right. Other stuff to get into will coming up that stand up run and everybody, I'm welcome. It is hour number two and we're glad to have it on. One hour from now. One

hour from now, we will have Pete callaner on him. We got all sorts of goodies to talk about fen one of those weeks President's out doing his thing. First Lady, I guess I couldn't remember if it was yesterday or today that the Joe Biden's in North Carolina that's today, So hopefully her husband doesn't need walked off a stage. Where would he was at a brewery yesterday?

Hmm, Frost, do you ever feel like we're piling on? I questioned this just due to the sheer frequency of this of these cuts, these audio cuts, like I want to accurately represent and if also if we find something funny. We're probably gonna do it. Yeah, I mean I don't find it funny. It funny sad now No, no, no, I'm not saying that we find it funny. I'm sitting here well, and there

is that transition. There is what the funny part is. And it's not funny in a haha way, but it's the it's it is every day.

It is a giant reminder of the double standard right in in coverage with that's going on here and they and as I think you said at one time, it is the real world representation of that meme with the where he's like in the fire room and he's like, oh it's fine, right, and as what the media does every day, but also the people around him here he is in a brewery yesterday and again, as I said before, listen to the audience. Look hold on, yeah all right, so here we go,

but bar listen to the audience. It is used to make the crew beard and the fire ooh Worth rider, thanks for the great lakes. I wonder what I at least yesterday I could try to figure out what he's sitting there saying. But also you know what it felt like? You felt like a rock star saying the town's name he's in right because gets no reaction until he says the name of the brewery, and then everybody's very jovial about it.

Also, I kind of they probably have a choca choca chocolate chip beer or something, which probably is true because some of you casual beer lovers, with your pumpkin spice and Christmas nutmeg stuff, you've ruined beer or at least tap space where valuable good beer could be. But that's a constant problem. So uh, but there he was, and again he's running again. So this is where we are. Let me let me do this. Let me grab a quick call here. We're talking about that resort insanity. Yeah,

Chris, what's up? Hey, good morning, case, thanks checking my call. I was just commenting on the Mexican thing for the resort. It sounds like Cartman Land where they where Cartman didn't want anybody going to his car or his Yeah, because then the whole spent the whole episodes on them. They can't come in because he was mad he had to wait at the other one. That was a great episode. Yeah, right, so that's a stroke of marketing genius. I'll tell you the whole world turning into a South

Park episode. Man, I'm just again the reason I'm doing the story is it's like, what are you complaining about? This is right? This is you have all it's yours and they have nothing else to do but wait on you hand and foot and complain about it. And yeah and again, I don't know that they're complaining as much as some people, but the reaction and thank you for the call there, sorry, appreciate it. The reaction just

blew me away. You know, you know what one of the most exclusive resorts in the world is just from a from a cost standpoint having to get there, right, it's in French Polynesia. But it's not Tahiti, though obviously there's some really impressive stuff. It is a different island. Is actually it is Is it in Polynesias? And well it's it's out in that area and the island is called the brand O. It's amazing. I've never been

there. I will not be affording that in my lifetime, I'm pretty sure, but it's the Brando and it is this beautiful private island and you know, you know what it looks like there with the you know, the stilled houses that you see over in in the resorts normally over there where you're out over this beautiful, beautiful water. Well, it is its own kind of a toll there, but it was. It was a private island owned by

Marlon Brando. And in fact, I remember I remember reading something that said after he acquired the island, he became difficult to work with because he didn't want to leave. I had never heard that. I thought he was wonderful to work with at all times. But I digress. Now, that island is a super exclusive to the point where you can you can be the only person there if you've got the jack for it. So and so, you know somebody is willing to pay a week's vacation that is, uh, what

your home's worth. That's what they'd have to do it you paid what maybe six hundred a night or something down there, one thousand a night if it's really really upper end. Shut up, man, shut up and enjoy it, all right. I gotta, I gotta, I gotta pivot to something I spend the whole time on that. That's a yeah, Ross, that's a good point. Instead of waiting for Disney not to have you should build

your own theme park. Man, on you're up at the compound there, and then those poor bastards in the new condos that have to watch you through the window having fun and there's nothing they could do right good and they can't come in. They can't come in. Yeah, yeah, you could have signage. You could. Literally people have started moving in there. People have started moving in there now and to hate it. Oh no, like because and like none of them, like they don't have like drapes up reately,

It's they're just one. I'm like, and I'm like, I I'm definitely putting drapes over this window now, like something over it. Don't you look it in my kitchen. It's weird. I don't know why you you would spend that much money, Like these are like four hundreds yeah, I'm not kidding you. Yeah, but they started. They they're like townhouses like three four level and they start at four hundred thousand. And your your view on your balcony is my backyard in my tiny house. What are you doing,

dude? You gotta start doing weird stuff? Man, completely, I want and just like all right, so we'll just come up with stuff. Here's number one. Once it gets dark tonight, go out there dragging a giant sack and maybe you know, I want to be heavy. It's got to be it's got to look like you maybe fit a body in there and then just start digging a hole. That's all. Or or or dig a hole

and maybe I could like conceal it. And they're like stumble across and start, you know, taking stuff out of it, like, oh my god, I fund this whole? What is this right? You know what I mean? Or make it look like you struck oil, right, yeah, or something. I don't know, man, because the likelihood is considering their housing style, they probably don't have mineral rights or even own the land underneath them, so so they when you have access to the oil, it's just

you looking like you're getting ready to move to Beverly Hills. Oh, speaking of speaking of country, to to Hollywood. All right, So check this out. A North Carolina legend has passed away. Herbert Cowboy Coward, Cowboy coward you know who that is or who that was? Coward? Uh from Clyde, North Carolina played toothless man. That's how it's written in Deliverance. He was the He was the toothless dude who wanted to welcome the canoe guy

or the vacationers in the did they welcome him? I think they did. It was that's been a while since I've seen the movie. Yeah, the seven let's see. No, the eighty five year old had left a doctor's office in a vehicle that was being driven by his seventy eight year old girl, Robin the Cradle, Good for you guys, seventy eight year old girlfriend, Bertha Brooks, and sadly they got an accident and were killed. In fact, they were killed along with the woman's chihuahua and coward's pet squirrel,

which were in the vehicle at the time. And I'm not an accident investigator, so before I figure out exactly what happened here by continuing to read is at this moment I'm like, again, not an accident investigator, but you had a chihuahua and a pet squirrel in a car together. Is it wrong

to think that may have contributed? I don't. It doesn't look like it probably was, but like just the imagery of that, Like if you told me you were gonna put a chihuahua and a squirrel in a confined space together, I would I would say you should rethink stuff. Who knows. Maybe they loved each other. But like dogs and squirrels, I can't even imagine. I haven't been around a chihuahua when it's seen a squirrel, I gotta

think it would be losing its mind ross you had chihuahuas. If you were to PLoP a squirrel in the middle of the living room when you had the three of them, is that Is that a calm moment in your house? If it wasn't my house, it might be the greatest thing ever. If

it wasn't your house. Yeah, right, if I could just watch it be destroyed slowly, you know, maybe like my one of my enemies, or or maybe you need to start seeding chihuahuas into the town homes and then at the right moment drop a couple of squirrels in there, and then from your kitchen window with no blinds, you can watch, and since they have no blinds, you'll see it all. Oh man, that's so country man. He's got his pet squirrel. He's just packing it around. She's got

her chihuahua. Sadly, though, it appears a pickup truck driven by a sixteen year old struck the vehicle as it so the way it looks is this the couple was leaving and they pulled out and they didn't I guess they probably maybe they didn't see the I guess they obviously didn't see because it says here in the report the sixteen year old was not speeding. It doesn'tok like he was sighted for anything. It was just a It sounds like it was a

tragic accident. It may have been distracted. Again. The chihuahua squirrel thing is is weird. But I don't know, but I could see how that might be a distraction. We're just like, shut up, please, because dogs love to You know what happens when your dog sees a squirrel a thousand feet from your house just glancing out a window. You think you were being burglarized. Coward actually got his act I love this, by the way.

So do you know how he got his acting start. He got his acting star way back in the day working at a wild West themed amusement park. This is in Maggie Valley. It was a ghost town in the skies. I'm sure is that still there. I don't even know if that's still there. But he he would do shootouts. He was a shootout actor and he had to quick draw and he had all of that, and I guess Burt Reynolds came to the resort and he's like, hey, I want to put

you in the movies. So there you go. Little story there, and obviously they had a sad ending, but I wanted to throw that in there because I found it interesting. All right, seven eighteen, we're going to take a break, come back. We got this Vince McMahon's story, and you ready for this. Somebody's going to jail for defying a congressional subpoena. It's happening. I think kind of maybe we'll fill you next. Hang on your Day Smarter one six one FM Talk and News Talk ninety four w PTI

More with Casey starts now seven four Friday Morning. Glad to have you along phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. That'll get you up on the show. And reminder eight oh five in that window. Obviously we'll be chatting with Pete Calender, but you know, a bunch of other stuff. Glad to have you way in on. All right, let's let's just dive right into this story. And it's a weird one, and

you know, there's elements of the me too stuff. There's also questions because it's not it's like a civil thing and is you know, some people are claiming it's a nuisance suit. Others are saying that, you know, Vince McMahon should be criminally investigated. I'm not here to take a position on that. Admittedly I don't know all the details, but the ones that I do know make it sounds like there was a resolution and then McMahon didn't pay and

now there's a lot. The whole thing is just strange. So again, I'm gonna get into that, and we're gonna do that at seven thirty five because there's a lot here. But let me grab a quick phone call, real quick, don what's up? Good morning, Casey, just calling in to let you know that I'm listening from day one a just around both are

his own, loving you guys. I was telling her as I listen in every morning, I don't understand why you guys don't have a national radio gig, because it's really amazing what the two of you do together, ma'am, ma'am. We would like an international radio gig. They should have to they should be forced to listen to us every week. So but well that may be true. Let's just get started on a national level first, and not

seriously. I really do enjoy you guys. It's it's humorous but informative and without all the snark, and you and Oss together are just it's brilliant. Well thank you. Are you going to comment on the resort? So? Uh, you'd be down with that, right, especially around Boca? I mean yeah, so elbow to elbow down there. Well, that's what I'm saying. I would love to be on a private island resort without anyone else around, Are you kidding? Yeah, I might set up defensive perimeters so

that nobody comes in. This is really I mean your Mexico. You probably have easy access to any of the weapons you'd need, so well, everybody down here is pretty loaded up too, So yeah, but yeah, whoo, who in the right mind wouldn't want to be on a private in a private setting without having to listen to all the duleads and the speaker funds don't get done. I think, well, there, look people, and I'm

not even gonna make it. This just a generational thing. Some people are introverts, some are extroverts, and some people, you know, they're the ones who are generally really chatty on a plane or at a resort or something like. They crave having that social contact because it's part of who they are. So it's pretty jarring when it's not, Whereas I usually go into the woods for a week, right, right, So it's like, yeah, I mean that was That's fine. I'm happy, so yeah, but it

was just the people who were upset. Thanks for the call so much, don We're so glad you're listening down there, and we're so sorry about all the Florida demand stories. But that's not on us because y'all just keep producing. But yeah, so it depends on the kind of person you are. That's why when I saw this story, I'm like, Ross and I would love this. I'd be mad if I showed up and Ross was there, and I'm assuming vice versa. Right, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

what's the old line? I would not be I would not want to be a member of a club who would have me as a member or something, right in this case, I don't want to go to a resort for keeping you connected. This is ninety four or five WPTI and the Triad and one six one FM Talk and the Triangle, all right, hold on, hold on, that blew my mind. You should have led with that. So we just we just got fact checked. Yeah, yeah, my bad.

Yeah, my wife is completely correct. Yeah. The actual value of the townhouses they built behind my tiny shoe box of a hole down into your shack. Yeah, seven hundred thousand, seven hundred for all of them, right you have. Hey, they come with a garage. So yeah, it's how many units are there? I'm surprised, not eight hundred and fifty thousand. How many units? Yeah, the entire block, I don't know, maybe three, four or five, twelve, maybe twelve, So sweat twelve

condos for seven hundred thousand doesn't sound bad. Wait, you know what is that? What is that divided by twelve? No? No, no, no, that's per, that's per it's every Oh my god, it's not a total. They didn't think that was possible for there. I mean, look, yeah, I will say this. I'm not going to give out where you live, but you're not out in the boonies, so you know there is some value I guess there to be able to walk this stuff. But still, oh, it's crazy and all the tax stuff's about to get

crazy. And you know, here's the thing, you know, it used to be some municipalities would have they would have a taxable amount. Right, So if you were a municipality and you know that, and you needed a

million dollars, let's go the round number. A million dollars to run the functions of government and and a million dollars from property taxes, then you would go, all right, we need a million dollars, and then utilizing the values of each of the homes within the community, they would be assigned a percentage of that, and then that's how you would arrive at that that way

of doing it. The other way is the dumb way where they're like where you kind of figure out what you need it to be, and then when values of homes go up, you just add more taxes to those homes. But the chances are if there is massive, a massive increase in home prices, it's probably across the board, and then all of a sudden you're getting a lot more taxes. So yeah, it'll come down to how we got used to structure. We got there just because your value it used to be.

In some places, just because the value of your home, if everybody also went up, your share probably didn't change. Does that make sense? Yeah, we got that notice from the from the county. Yeah, a property tax where you know, you pay whatever it is. It goes into your mortgage every month. And they're like, hey, by the way, your property value has doubled, so your tax is going to double or whatever. Ridiculous. Yeah, and it's like, well why would it doube?

And then you look at the back here, and you're like, oh, what's that thing blocking at the sun. It's a seven hundred thousand dollars townhouse with a garage. They done, Yeah, you can park your car right there. I think maybe so option. I don't know. Are they made of gold inside? What is? Are they like a Stanley cup where there's no I'm just saying, if you can afford a seven hundred thousand dollars townhouse, I would assume you can also afford blinds and close them and stop looking

into my kitchen. I'm just what do you Oh no, man, you turning into porch dude, and you're fully just completely yeah, you're fully justified. Oh man, you gotta be out there like uh the that you know that Simpson's meme man yells at clouds. It's literally it started like killing the grass in my backyard because the grass is not getting the sun anymore because it's blocked out by the townhouse. Oh man, it's just turning into mud, I imagine. So well, that's where the pit has to go and the

wrestling and then we'll have tour. Yeah, oh man, that's you know what, that's another good point. You should start pulling random stuff out, Like you said, you have to get you dinosaur skull, cursed voodoo bones. Yeah, no, you got to go full black sarcophagus. They need to be staring out the window when he cracked that bad boy and start drinking the bone juice. They'll move, they'll move. No, they'll probably banded together and have you thrown out of there somehow. But he got options.

Now, if you are going to do mud wrestling in your yard because an iore has blotted, your son and your family will now suffer calcium deficiency as a result. Probably you know, you got you're competing against uh you know, WWE, UFC, all of that stuff. Although one of those one of those groups in a little bit of turmoil right now. Vince McMahon. Now again I don't know fully what happened. You're talking about civil stuff here, but holy crap, the information that was released. Janelle Grant, she's

the one that provided her name. It's gonna be abundantly clear, has decided to break her silence about the relationship and uh Levy some significant allegations, but also understand that right now she had a deal, or she says she had a deal behind closed doors where McMahon was going to pay her three million dollars and then she received the first million and then crickets. So that's why she

says she's suing now. But she also is speaking. Previous to this, she had not documented other than individual a very generic way, which she said, we're troubling incidents, according to Grant, and I'm gonna have to dance around here the wrestling magnet Ross. I don't think I can talk about the one thing right with the where there was the three people in no way, there's no way I could talk about it. But let's just say it's really

gross. Okay, We're gonna tweet tweet the New York Post article out and then it's right there in the headline. I just I don't feel like I need to get into that particular. I don't know if there it was two girls, if there was a cup infall, I'll let you figure it out, all right anyway, So with that, please don't drive off the road. But then it just gets weird, like Prince Andrew weird, and I want to be clear, I'm not there's no allegations to McMahon did anything with

anyone in underage or sounds like. It's not like the vibe there was a very party atmosphere, which I'm shocked was something that was surrounding pro wrestling. But remember, like my weird one of the weirdest things about the Prince Andrew was the allegations that he had a hand puppet of himself that he would use to touch the underage girls. That's like, that's like a weird level of strange there. It's not the worst thing that he's accused of doing, but

come on, man. So in the lawsuit, she goes on to point out that it was also kind of what was the what's the stupid movie that all the women liked? Where it had Dakota whatever her name is in there? Great as No, it was the book series. Why can I not remember with the damn fifty Shades of Gray? Oh, I'd almost purshed it from my brain. I was doing so well. It kind of had that

vibe. She alleges that McMahon it seems like they had like a dom submissive kind of thing going on, and as part of it, McMahon would send her text messages saying I'm the only one who owns you. So there is dispute over the text that she provided, which also involved her participating in adult acts, not just with McMahon, but McMahon and others or individually. She might be told, hey, you know, go take care of this executive.

But then we get to hear McMahon was also, according to Grant, had an entire collection of adult toys, each themed on a different wrestler finger on the button. I mean that would have to be one, right, if you're making a list there. I mean, I'm not saying I've made one, but well why wow, Okay, no, you know, no, you're not gonna want to know consider any catchphrase. Probably don't want to

bring that into the bedroom with that. No, Oh my gosh, No, dude, if if you're if, if you know this going on, and he has what you don't want the razor like that would be off putting the razor ramon. Come on, man, this is still going in the best of category. No, no, what all right? If you had to pick one, I'm just I met the Rick Flair ones interesting, but the rais of ramone one that just sounds like a horrible, horrible idea.

So that's just weird, man. And when you say that they are let me read the actual language adult items that were fashioned after and named after individual wrestling stars. I don't even know what to say about that other than Roscott to play all of his Oh that's the other thing. When you take it out of the drawer or the weird closet or the whatever, you have to have the walk On going right. Wait, was he sitting in the room

too, Oh, that'd be weird. No, But if you remove one of these items, right, you have to over some sort of I'm sure, massive stereo system because he's really rich. Like you got to play the walk On music for it, right, And that's one of the positives of owning the rights to it. Yeah, Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, write no copyright issues when you're grabbing the razor ramone. Also, if you are a wrestler and you find out that you are not among the

individualized ones. Do you feel like McMahon never really liked you or you got it all out your system? Are you? Yeah? I feel great? Okay, good. Yeah. It doesn't have a list of all the different ones there. I'm just saying, like I have, I have some some questions. But if you had to convince me that it was, as they say, a fratish atmosphere around there, I would probably believe you because it is what it is. But again, this is this is civil stuff.

It's just really strange, and it's having the added the effect that she wanted right throwing it on out there, and uh, you know they didn't if if they agreed to pay her three million, whether they was just hey, go away because we want to deal with this, or if they actually think that she deserved it for whatever. I wasn't behind the scenes. But if you say you're going to pay three million, you only pay a million, what did you think was gonna happen? Just contemplate that, all right?

Rased Agic from the Weather Channel. He's here that make man's stories crazy. I'm not going to drag you in, you but I'm sure you've seen it right. No, Yeah, that was a good listening though, I mean I was enjoying. I think, well, I'm going to drag you into games. Yes, the Razor Ramonau so yeah, yeah, it's not going to do any of that. We will see better weather, yeah, we talked about it yesterday that things would get better. Is going to take a

few days. A lot of clouds today, most of the showers now pushing east of the triangle. Up sixties, low seventies today, So might get close to a couple of records. I'll get them for you next hour.

See if we can see how close those numbers are. Tonight slight chance of showers really not much for your Friday night out in terms of rain, but staying mild too, mid fifties tomorrow little mid sixties, better chance of rain probably it's going to be midday into the afternoon, so try it first and through the triangle because the system's coming from west southwest to north northeast, so thatn'll make sense, right, And the showers and maybe even a thunder stom

will continue tomorrow night into Saturday into Sunday mid day, excuse me. And then the next change will come in with some drier air, cooler air for early next week more like normal. Plenty of sunny days coming up through Wednesday in the fifties, overnight lows back down in the thirties, might be a couple of nights in the upper twenties, especially early in the week. But it does look like we'll get out of this kind of this jam that we're

in right now. Casee you get to some beautiful weather starting Monday. I won't say Sunday. There might be some drier air Sunday, but especially Monday, big area high pressure coming in and it should dominate most of the week. So hang in there, okay, all right, appreciate it. We'll talking an hour, sir, Thank you very much. Okay when we come back. Well, a couple things, Oh Ross, you're partially to blame for this. Did you see what's Do you see what's now? Congress?

You have members of Congress saying they're going to do something over people using AI to manipulate Taylor Swift. No, I've not seen that. You wouldn't know anyone who's done anything like that. Okay, all right, because they're very they're big bad. So I'll explain next hang on. So after the show's

on the iHeart Radio app. He searched Casey O Day for the podcast on the iHeart Radio app A little bit of House You've been here, Ross, I got a message from some of the bosses wanting to know if we have any interest in going to the d n C and r n C. You remember last time around we were actually we were putting together all of our broadcast coverage plans for Charlotte. Uh. We you know, that's a pretty big operation. Is we had stations all over the country, so we get everything.

We were all ready to go, and then obviously, you know, everything happened, so we found ourselves not doing that. It's been a while, but yeah, So do you have any interest in going on to Chicago in mid July to the Democratic National Convention. I mean, I mean it has a history of Chicago. Yeah, it's one of the yes Chicago read that. I'm i gotta look at my I'm very busy. I'm sure you can't go to can't go to Chicago for a Democratic I mean, what's the

worst that could happen? Sure to be fine. The Republic was in Milwaukee, which ain't much better actually right now, although I did like Millwake, there was this Milwaukee the other thing I kind of liked about Milwaukee is one of the politicians up there. He was at the fair and he saw some dude to costing a woman. He went over and just beat the crap out of him, and they partially beat him up because there was a group of them, but he's just like, yeah, we don't put our hands on

women. He went old school, and he got a little us, got a little heroic story for a moment, and then he did something I can't remember, some scandal, but so all right, I'm gonna put us down for probably not. I mean, sure, it's nice. Actually Chicago mid July. I've been to July fourth in Chicago because they have this big Taste of Chicago thing. I went to and it was so miserable the humidity in

you know, July right there. It was You're at a food festival, but you're so hot, you know, want to eat anything, and if you did, it would cash you like forty bucks now throw in I don't know all the protesters and as Ross mentioned a little bit of history, and God help us as to where that might have gone. All right, so apparently now because I guess it wasn't a problem before or not one that people could rally around. But now that it's Taylor Swift, here we go.

Several lawmakers and advocates say it is time to crack down on AI deep fakes after Taylor Swift AI fakes emerged. I can't believe somebody would make an AI fake Taylor Swift. Yeah, they're discussing right the pornographic AI images of Taylor Swift. They were hitting and listen. Perhaps I created one that was her eating chicken wings in Buffalo where she was morbidly obese, but they were not pornographic food porn perhaps, well, it depends on how you feel about wings,

right and right? Yeah, yeah, no, I know that overall unbiased opinion, not guilty unbiased opinion here to your point, yes, really what drove this is AI Taylor Swift adult stuff. But it's like everything with government. Uh, we're watching this show. The stuff they're doing over in the EU right now is insane. And do you know, have you followed what's going on in Poland? The the the prime minister, the new Prime Minister of Poland who is not of the Conservative Party, Uh, there is.

He came in and he just started firing people. He's not allowed to fire start doing stuff. He jailed some people. It's and he did it under the purview of I need to do this to protect democracy. Does that sound familiar? So the president of Poland, who is the could you know is the Conservative Party over there? Like it's crazy, he just fired a

bunch of his people, which he can't do. The even the even the media is like, yeah, you can't do that, buddy, and the President's that you can't do that, and the guys like I'm restoring democracy. He's trying to purge the president's party, which, by the way, do you know what the do you know what the Conservative Party in uh Poland is called? It's spelled it's a The acronym is p I S S Party. Ross google that, will you P I S S Party? Because I'm sure

as hell not saying that party name on the air. But yeah, things are breaking down and part of it is AI stuff and much more we'll get into. We got Pete calendar next. Hang on, all right, good morning and happy Friday. And it's not a billion degrees below zero or anything this last week and now warm weather we're chat with race stage is coming up

a little later. Unfortunately, some rain to go along with it, but it is fri and uh, we do this thing in the third hour where we hang out for a little while with Pete Calender, Pete Midday's wb Key and Charlotte and how you doing this morning? Sir? What's up? Hey? I'm doing it right? How are you? You know? It's good? It's good we do this on a Friday and not a Monday. I feel like our attitudes would be mildly different. Although Mondays can be fun sometimes

because craziness over the weekend. But yeah, yeah, anyway, but you Fridays there's hope and stuff. So oh oh, that's that's interesting. You have hope today. I do have hope today? Are you not? Do you not? Because you know, there's some guys that do what we do and I just feel like they never come out of the pit, do you

know what I mean? And don't get you're wrong if you want to be in the pit, it's easy to be in the pit and all the time, and like if I don't find one or two things that are just not that for a few minutes, because it's really it's really easy to like, look at the border. I saw you were going back and forth with some moonbat on Twitter and right, do you all have I do? Do you believe I live? Do you believe that the majority of Biden supporters actually think

the border is fine? I don't know that I believe that. Yeah, I don't. I try not to ascribe motive to people, and I try to give people the benefit of the doubt. It's particularly hard on social media to do that because you you know, you lose a lot of inflection if you're you know, talking to them like on the radio or over the phone. You can't read facial expressions because you're not in person with them. So

it's difficult. But when you see people making these arguments that we're now seeing over the last you know, twenty four to forty eight hours, that you know, Texas is defying the US Supreme Court, which it's not, or that like you said, the border is secure, and that Texas is murdering

women and children with their razor wire and stuff. I again, I try to give them the benefit of the doubt, and I assume that they are simply regurgitating the only talking points and stories that are fed to them by the Democrats and the media that I repeat myself. And that's why they believe their cause is just you know, for example, they they're hammering away at Congress, the Congressional Republicans for not being willing to secure the border. They rejected

this border deal. First off, we don't even know what the deal is, right, nobody has. Nobody has seen any of the write up on what they're they're hashing out behind closed doors among some of the top Republican and Democrat legislative leaders. So we don't know that, first of all. But more importantly, Joe Biden can simply reinstitute the policies he dismantled on his first day office that would automatically immediately reduce the flow. Because the people are coming

for a rational reason. They believe correctly that if they get across and they say I'm yeah, I'm a seeking asylum, because if I go back, I'm going to be killed, right, and that's all they need to say. They are then processed and released into the society, and they are given court dates of you know, seven eight years down the road. These people will never be sent back and they know this, and so they are acting in a rational manner trying to get into America in the way that is most

you know accessible for them to do so. Meanwhile, the cartels are profiting off of a massive human trafficking operation that's victimizing young kids, little girls being raped, women being raped, people being murdered all along the border, cartels making billions of dollars hand over fists, and more importantly, by overwhelming parts of the border in Texas, it allows the cartels to continue smuggling in the fentanyl in other parts of the country along on different parts of the border.

I want to, I want to, I want to stop here because I want people to really take that in because there's two questions or two rebuttals or questions that I always here, and one is, well, if you bring up smuggling, they go, look at the look at the little girl. She's not smuggling, And you're probably right, she might be being trafficked,

but she likely doesn't have fentanyl tape to her body. But when you it's the same reason you would create a distraction if you want to do a criminal thing, which is a movie trope, right, you know we're gonna go rob this bank, so let's go set a bomb off across town and they'll all be over there. In reality, it does allow that because it pulls people away. Did you see the video of the the mom whose son was

killed by an illegal immigrant in Texas. I've interviewed that woman. Actually, she said radio rowd thing in DC that we used to do annual, that your coworker would come up to one. She was one of the moms up

there, and it's a very tragic story. And that idiot Goldman or whatever up in New York is like he's almost berating her, like she doesn't understand what the issue is, and she was talking because she was talking about the fetanyl and all that stuff, and like he's got to sit that he might be one of the dumbest members of Congress who would initially peer that way until you hear him speak after watching his work with the committee work here recently.

And the other thing is, well, the people are under the mistaken plan that everyone comes across the border. The Democratic plan is because they want them to vote right now illegally, and it's not as it's not. There's a lot of nuance. And there was a congresswoman in California kind of gave away the game. They don't have to vote to be a net positive for your political party. In fact, it's almost better because then you don't have to

woo them. Then they just have to exist geographically where you are amongst all of your liberal friends, and you'll be a shoe in. Plus, your district will never go away, which is what California right now was looking at. They're going to lose a bunch of districts right. So for people who don't understand that the nuance you're referring to, which is the counting of the

census. So if you put enough people that can't vote and don't vote because they are prohibited because they are illegal immigrants, they're not allowed to vote, but they count in the census. So you can pack a bunch of people into a congressional district and never actually have to listen to anything that they say, knowing that the people who can vote are Democrats, and so you will continue to win re election even as people who are citizens and can vote for

you flee your district or your seat. So you can have a district representing eight hundred and fifty thousand people, but only half of them are eligible to vote, and only a fraction of those actually do yes, And so that is that's the immediate game. And sure, there's the long term, you know, a tip O'Neil Reagan style discussion over amnesty. Booled me once, But that is the immediate impact and effect, and it's important that people understand

that. All Right, we got you've got a whole host of stuff here. I want to touch base with you. Can you give me a favor because I didn't realize how awesome they were and I don't have firsthand experience how great are electric buses, mister guy who used to live in Nashville, because you guys have some that have some there, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. In fact, when we got I was there. I was working in

Nashville. I worked in Nashville for about eight years, and I was there when we first got the electric buses, and oh my god, super exciting until like I think it was the first week or so something like that. It was very early on after we first got our buses that one of them broke down and I got a picture. Yeah, we got pictures sent to us, and so we had a little bit of fun with that because these were like the brand new buses. They broke down, and now apparently they've

got they have five electric buses, which is super exciting. Except for the fact that, like they haven't been able to run because they've got software problems, they've got mechanical issues. One of them need a door and slight problem. The company that made the buses for Ashville they're bankrupt. They're bankrupt. Yeah, so they can't that's true. Ye, Well, and yeah, I mean maybe they roll it back out for summer time. Well, so

here's the other problem is that when it gets cold. I'm not sure you're aware of this with electricity batteries such yet. Yeah, when it gets cold, the batteries don't hold the charge for very long, so they don't go very far before having to come back to the recharging station and then juice up for like several hours. So it's not quite the most effective system. Now,

I like what the city of Gastonia is doing. Have you heard what Gastonia is count No, they are scrapping their entire bus system and they're doing like, yeah, they're doing like an uber lift ride share deal. They're contracting with a company that's going to do basically taxi service. Because the thing it might be cheaper, it might be cheap than some of these mass transits, which are just money pits. Man right, and the routes are terrible.

They don't cover all of the areas. Like you said, this has always been the problem with a fixed route system, right. It makes sense in sort of an urban, dense core that makes sense subways that take you, you know, to this area and then you can walk around whatever. But in a more rural setting with a town center or something, it doesn't really make a lot of sense, especially you know, because it's all spread

out. So what you're going to take a bus and then be you know, a mile from where you need to go after you get off the bus. How do you fix that the last mile problem? And so what GAFSONI is doing is they're like, you know what, We're just gonna go ahead and do ubers. Oh, I mean if again, I ran the math in my head and I'm like, I'll bet having covered I watched the rollout of the light rail in Minneapolis, which by the way, is in the news again. Yeah yeah, hold on for that. But I remember,

I remember being there and through the whole process. Right, we want to do this. Here's the real They had a route that went to Saint Cloud, Minnesota. I mean, it was crazy, which that ended up getting scrapped. But they were doing things like they like they didn't they weren't going to have it go to the airport. Everyone lost their minds, like why would because they were trying to protect the parking revenue, and they got just

enough pushback that it does go to the airport. The initial route ran from them all of America north to the airport into downtown Minneapolis, and now it's expanded from there. But at the time, before they even expanded it, it cost twelve dollars for every writer. Twelve dollars that was That was a

combination of their fare and the subsidized cost of running it. I don't know what Charlotte's was, but twelve dollars will get you a lot of places in an uber Yeah, yeah, absolutely, I want to say Charlotte, their fares were in the single digits. If I recall correctly when we started ours about twenty years ago almost and I guess ten years fifteen years ago. But the I recall at the time the prices, the actual cost was somewhere north

of twenty bucks. That's the actual cost. So yeah, and again, like people look at the light rail as as a transportation deal and to an extent. Obviously it is, but it's also a development deal. It is. It was, and look, Pat McCrory when he was mayor, was very explicit about this. He said, this is to direct growth and give people an option right to pack more density into the urban core so it's not

sprawling everywhere and where we got traffic jams at everywhere. So if you want that kind of a lifestyle to to be able to hop on a train, get into center city and work, then you should. Then this is going to be the option for you. Now. Of course, nobody could predict that office space would be clearing out after a pandemic like it is, but you know, details whatever the other thing is, we don't have our light rail running to the airport either, and everybody's complaining about that. But and

they're like, look at the look at the passenger numbers. We have so many passengers. Well we do, but they never get out of the airport. It's not originating traffic. It's you know, when we when they were building this thing, and McCrory was like, we should have this thing run out to the airport, the transportation people were like, they're all flights that are layovers. They're coming from somewhere else, getting on a different flight and

leaving. It's a hub. Charlotte doesn't have enough people leaving from the Charlotte area to justify a train from downtown to the airport because nobody lives downtown. They do now, but not at that time. Right right, right, right, yeah, let's speaking of Well, I'll let you because the seat's in your stack. Here I mentioned that the mass transit in Minneapolis Saint Paul is in the news again. Is it because they bought their they brought their

costs down, right, and it's cash flows now or something? Oh, I haven't seen that. That seems like it would be newsworthy. Maybe something other jurisdictions could emulate. No, I think it's because well it's so. There was a campaign a couple of months ago down here with the DA and the US Attorney and they were putting up billboards and they said think again, think again, Think again, And it was about crime. So, in other words, before you go and murder that person, think again, right,

don't commit a gun crime. Before you commit a gun crime, think again. No, no, no, no, dude, you're missing it. You're missing it. It's genius. You don't understand what is something if you want to convict somebody for the higher level version of a crime that is necessary to prove by prosepecting premeditation. There you go. So they're trying to hang more charges. Oh I gotcha. Yeah, that's probably See, this

is why you're so much more successful because you see around these corners. I just took them at their billboard word and I thought, that's just a ridiculous thing to try to advise people who were going to make county interesting. Well maybe that's what's going on here. Then they've told people in Minneapolis, hey, don't be raping people on the bus. Uh, and don't be peeing and pooping on the bus. Yeah, and the light rail don't what you

do it on there either. So yeah, so they posted signs which will totally take care of the problem, as I understand it, because once you post a sign, for example, like a gun free zone, nobody ever brings guns in them. The signs are I think one hundred percent effective. I know. In fact, they put them in shower prisons and it's everything's

fine. Oh that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, it does make me wonder with the with Minneapolis, why it took so long for them to think of this like why, yeah, yeah, you want to hear something crazy. This was an this was an issue when I was there. Yeah, there were certain routes they're just like, yeah, you shoul probably not go on that route if you're not a criminal. Yeah, it was really bad man. Yeah. So why and so how long ago was that? What?

Ten years? Fifteen years ago or so? And two thousands? Yeah, late two thousands, mid to late yeah, So why did it take all of these years to figure out how to write on a sign? Hey, don't be raping and robbing and booping and being Well, there's a lot of lakes, you know, if you're in the if you get to fish them all, man, it's it's very time consuming. So that's a thing. By the way, did you see a cowboy? Coward? Do you know who that was? Cow Yeah, coward? Yeah you see Yeah,

wait, did you see the details of that? For a car accident? His girlfriend's driving, but in the vehicle they have both their her pet, her pet chihuahua and his pet squirrel. Now, I'm not saying that that might have caused the distraction, because it sounds like they pulled out and the young man hit him but he's not. He was not speeding or anything,

so just pure tragedy. But I can just imagine how I distracted. I would be if you were too, Like if at a light as a prank, you threw a chihuahua and a squirrel into a car, that sounds like pandemonium. Man. Yeah, I mean I got to believe that they got along, but I mean, like literally, it is the example of distraction. Squirrel, Yeah, it's the Yeah, the dog seemed yeah, but

yeah, it was crazy story there. Like he was he was doing Old West shootout stuff in Maggie Valley and Burt Reynold showed up and he's like, I want to put you in your lack of teeth in the movies, right delivery Yeah, off the deliverance you go. So I think eighty five or so. Yeah, and it's his girlfriend was in her seventies, so he was, you know, he liked liked him a little younger there, but yeah, yeah, the squirrel and chihuahua component definitely caught me off guard.

All Right, Well, hopefully you're alive next week because he got the new signs. I'm sure everything will be fine, very safe for you. Yeah, we'll do this thing again. Okay, that's good, every great weekend. And I'm sitting on a pile of audio. So let's go ahead and go ahead and get into this. Let me start with this Taylor Lorenz, who is boy, she's a peach. She writes for the Washington Post.

She's as moon bad as they come. And uh, what was her Her claim to fame was the gamer Gate thing, right, wasn't that her big thing? Well that in the moon the moon rocks. Oh, I forgot about the moon rocks. Remember the moon rocks. I'm almost yeah, that was Lorenz? Yes, all right. So she is a journalist who at one point her what was her her concern is that they could drop a rock off the moon and hit the Earth, right, because that's how that works? Do you am? I am? I halluciny? You guys remember the

story, right, And everybody's kind of laughed at her. She's like, that's not what I meant, and I'm like, I don't know, I saw what she said. That's kind of what you meant. So anyway, so she had her little self a little diatribe, and she's reflecting on a few things that have happened this week. One sports Illustrated is just like, yeah, we're not going to do this anymore. And I can't imagine what happened. LA Times laid off one hundred and fifteen. I think it's the

number. And you had people reporters who didn't get laid off, who were showing, you know, what they'd do. They were showing pictures, but they were also taken it away. So it was kind of like when you'd see those pictures of libraries in Florida. They'd be like, look, they took all the books, and then you realize, no, they found a single area where there's no books and there hadn't been and took that picture. So so, but it's the state of journalism. And she goes on this

dumb rant yesterday, here we go, what is this thing? Here? Come on, button bar? All right, here we go. They are dude, I'm telling you, I want to do radio the old way with coconuts and all that. Their journalism industry is basically in a free fall today. The Los Angeles Times laid off one hundred and fifteen employees. They wiped out their entire DC bureau in an election year. They laid off pretty much all of their sports teams, They killed their entire tech and business section.

They laid off breaking news writers, social media editors. The list goes on. But what's really dark is this is just the latest in months and months and months of layoffs in the media industry. In fact, tens of thousands of journalists have been laid off in the past year. Major media companies like BuzzFeed News have completely shuttered their news operations. Time Magazine also just laid off a ton of people, and Oh, Sports Illustrated basically shud down last week.

Okay, all right, and all of that is true, by the way, but all of the you know, there's a lot of similarities there in that it's print publication, you know, and you know, so then the learned to Code thing came out, and then people thought they were going to debunk it because Joe Biden never said that, and then people posted all the video of him saying literally saying it. Everything got dumb. But she

goes a step further. Pretty much the entire digital media ecosystem that myself and a lot of other millennial journalists came up in has been completely hollowed out. And it's not just digital media sites. Local news has been obliterated. The newspaper industry is cratering. Radio is essentially dead, aside from NPR, which

has been gutted. Really is that true? Is that because I can't speak to the economics within the you know, in McClatchy, right, I mean I can follow, like, you know, various things that happened, whether it's layoffs, hirings, expansions, selling a properties, banquote, whatever it is. And yes, in radio, the compression of the industry is something that has has gone on for a significant amount of time, although the meat of it really was back during the Obama administration. But it's not the radio

is basically dead. We're doing pretty well. Like I'm not gonna go I can't get into the details. I'm not going to get into the details, And I just want to be very clear, I'm not when I says, I'm speaking within my own personal experience and not as some sort of corporate entity for our parent company. But there there's a lot of stuff where we're seeing a lot of gains, and so a lot of it's picking up slack from some of that stuff. And the amount the percentage of the American population they

love this stat you know, internally at our company. But it's very true. You know, of all of the people, all the people out there who consume media in the United States in the ninetieth percentile, well, at some point consume our product every week. That's that's that's crazy high there. So and so I would push back on that, But I feel like while she is, she is accurate in a lot of stuff that she's saying.

At what point do you think somebody's gonna go? Man, I wonder why BuzzFeed, the LA Times and many other publications that seem to have a similar bent are suffering the way that they are and somes in their control, somems out of their control one hundred percent, and and you've got to be able to adapt to it. And it sucks. And I look, I'm fine with local media. I I can be critical of it, absolutely one.

But if they're not there, there's opera, there are things that are missed, and there are good local journalists, there are people out there doing way ep I think ap Dyllan's a good journalist because dicing up specific stuff about school budgets and stuff, oh makes people want to bang their head into the wall. She seems to enjoy it, and I think does a good job of making it understandable, and people are consuming that product. So but yeah,

I saw that and chuckle just a little, But I digress. Meanwhile, in California, they have found a lost city, seriously right under their own feet, kind of a river bank in Californias is what you're in Modesto or no, I gott figure out where it is. But in California has they has a city that's been carved into the side and he can't see it from the main road up top, and there was just this path, and they figured out that they would see homeless people go down there. They thought they

were living in the woods and they go down there by the river. They didn't see them. And then somebody figured out that they had carved almost like you know those the ancient cities of what Ancora and what's the other one where you have these ornate temples carved into the side of sandstone and whatnot. And you go in and it's a hole and it's and it's they got statues. It's in the front of them. Looks like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,

Right, that's the one probably most people could think of. They had that a homeless encampment like that. It was pretty ornate. Although I don't think that at Ancora they had they had heroin needles inside, but maybe I don't know. But check this out in homeless caves tucked along the Tuolmi River in Modesto. These are basically stairs that they made to get down to the

dwelling. Tracy Rojas took us on the treacherous walk to see the craters created near Crater Avenue, and if one of these were to collapse, it would be devastating. This whole side would come down and into the water. Seventy six hundred pounds of trash, that's how much was cleared out by volunteer groups and police over the weekend. So this was fully furnished. Yes, there

was betting. There was little things up on the Mantle block of a better word, Mantle food items, drugs, gun all right, so don't look this woman's under selling it. It's kind of impressive. I'm not gonna lie, but I suppose you got all day plus depending on which drug you're using, you might be in a very efficient digger. So there's that, but just Craziness'll tweet the video out, but check it out. I has a

little more audio, but we'll get to that here just month. Also, Ross, I actually got because I wanted to help support since they had to have they evicted all these people. So I got you a goblet from their merch store. It's got a bunch of jewels. That was very nice. They pulled it out of there. So really wait, Yeah, I want to. I'd like to, and I want to see you use it when I when I bring it for you. So you got one there too, huh. Well, but I here's the thing, and it's because I'm a

giving person. I I budgeted to get one for you one for me, but I spent so much on your ornate but jeweled one. All I could afford is this carved wooden one. Look at that poverty wooden. Yeah, I'm telling you, it's it's all I need. I can't wait to see you drink that. I'm gonna look at well you drink yours first. Yeah, I'm gonna Okay, you're gonna feel awful poverty really because yeah, I

know you film that put that on there. It's gonna be very nice, I would say for you, I have chosen, perhaps wisely, perhaps poorly. I don't know. We'll see what, We'll see how it goes? All right, raced agic, he's here, Indiana Jones reference, Sir, what are you doing? Do you know why? I just bumped my bumped my elbow on the desk. Okay, we're gonna say, do you know what? Do you know? I've never seen in Indiana Jones movie in full? Can you imagine? Sorry to your weather? All right? You want

to play? Do you want to play a wrestling intro? I'd be fine with that. I feel it's better cut. How does that happen? You know what I do? You didn't see Crystal Skull or the dial of uh whatever the thing was that just came out. It was just not that funny because I've always bet a Harrison Ford fan, obviously with the Star Wars, h with the Star Wars, you know, favorites. But anyway, you gonna what are you gonna do now? If you don't have the knowledge that

was imparted? Like what if a some dude with a sword in an ancient Arab city is chasing you? You don't know how to add No, I won't do you know how to sell Jesus' name in Aramaic? But no, definitely will not be able to do that. You are so scary. Guys, look at the arc man, Yeah, oh what's it here? Oh yeah, that's great. So where a big gold box going? Yeah? Right, I start with Raiders of the Lost Ark? Right? Is that the first one? At this point I just start stacking them, man,

I don't care start with the first three. But yeah, yeah, I'm gonna get I'll get on that. I'll put it on my to do list. Yeah, and you know, there's actually if that's the plan, make it for a plan for Saturday. If it's movies, it's probably an indoor day more than anything else. Do have a lot of clouds today, very mild too. It's a little humid out there for this time of year.

Upper sixties to low seventies. Tonight only in the fifties, and tomorrow the rainbow spread in west from east west east late morning into the afternoon, maybe a thunderstorm late load of mid sixties, and then finally by Sunday, maybe some dryer air and maybe some sunshine in the afternoon after a shower thunderstorm threat early and then early next week into the middle of next week, maybe longer.

We'll get into a nice stretch of load of mid fifties during the day with mostly sunny sky and upper twenties to little mid thirties at night, probably starting Monday through Thursday. So after we get through the next couple days, we'll get rid of this yuck and next week it's really good. One quick question, what does a penitent man do? Oh? Who a penitent man? Next question? No, there won't be another question. All right, get out of here. You're okay man, All right? Jeff Bellinger's next

hang on, All right, good morning, and welcome it. He is eight fifty three year Bloomberg Update now with Jeff Bellinger. Jeff, what's happening? Ain't happy Friday? The government just reported American's personal incomes ticked up three tenths percent last month, right in line with forecasts, but consumer spending was stronger than expected. In December, it rose seven tenths percent. Spending more than we're making. Helps to explain why Visus quarterly results were better than expected.

The credit card company reported an eight percent increase, and it's quarterly profit because people are reaching for their credit cards more. But shares of Intel are sharply lower, and pre market trading the giant chip maker could end Wall Street's winning streak. Intel issued a disappointing forecast after the markets closed yesterday, raising doubts about its turnaround efforts. Boeing shut down production of its seven thirty seven

factory in Renton, Washington, yesterday. About ten thousand employees took part in the company's first ever full day working session. Boeing says the focus was on first time quality and safety, and the company says it's planning more of what it calls quality stand downs. In Casey, after some arm twisting by regulators, Apple's making changes to its iOS, Safari, and app store offerings in

the European Union. Customers will be able to download software from outside the app store and use alternate payment systems, but Apple is warning these changes will raise new security issues. Casey, Jeff, Hey, real quick of the five? How many of the Indiana Jones movies have you seen? I know I saw the first one. I believe I saw the second as well. That was all okay, all right, well you're doing better than our weather guy.

He hasn't seen any what a weirdo? Huh yeah, I won't cast any all right, all right, all right, thanks Jeff, appreciate it, have a good weekend, take care. Yeah. Yeah, Oh dude, I was so close. Do you know how much I wanted audio of Jeff calling Ray a weirdo he's craving show. Oh I love it. Yeah. But also Jeff's seen two of them, man, I say, if people say three, fine, yeah, like I expect that. If you've seen all five, then uh whatever. And he was mentioning the European Union.

Let me pivot back to that because I started talking about that. We have a chat with Pete. The think what's going on in Poland is damn near criminal. Like if you're not paying attention to that, you should. But also the EU. Man, if you think politicians just on the Taylor Swift here want to do stuff and then have it also allow them to control the narrative on other things, just know that that is the end game. They'll say, Hey, this is wrong. People shouldn't be making Taylor Swift

porn and put it on the air. And they shouldn't, right absolutely, And I mean that not just from a legal standpoint, but but more in it from a from a moral standpoint. And also she is a human. As many jokes as I want to make about football like that would I don't. I don't want to see them. And I know some I know some women in broadcasts who have literally showed me like mockups. Although these are old school bad ones where their head is like clearly almost paper machete on another body

and it's just so weird. Sure it happens to us all the time. We just haven't seen it, I'm sure. But over in the EU they want to. They want to reevaluate influencers, and their discussion includes everything up to and including licensing influencers or at the very least requiring training and things like that. These guys can't big, they can't not screw stuff up because they can't have an influencer saying something that goes against it. So this is the

way that you gatekeep that it is Orwellian man or Wellian. And remember the last time the EU got together and tried to screw with the internet. Why do you think when you go to a website now, every effing time you're there you have to click except or decline on cookies before you can do whatever you're there for. That's because of the law they passed a couple of years ago. Am I the only if I find that it is the bane of cruising for prep every day. And also if I say yes to cookies,

should there be a cookies saying I said yes to cookies? So they'll jack this up ross Some of the people you watch that on twitch, watch you and you watch are probably in Europe, right, tons of them. Yeah, so like what if what if you, as a streamer don't have your EU streaming license, They're not gonna be able to see you, man, And like probably they probably don't want to hear what you have to say, even though you don't you're you're you're not doing deep politics on there, but

still you got to. You got to bend the need of them. That's crazy. And don't get me wrong, there's a bunch of influencer who influencers out there who serve no purpose and probably makes society a worse place. I think I think we agree. But still you got to keep an eye out because well, it may be for them now, it'll be about you tomorrow. You know the old saying, well not tomorrow tomorrow, because tomorrow's Saturday, we won't be here, but you know, Monday, we'll see then