Friday-2-9-2024

What a day yesterday. Oh my goodness. Now we got a we got a pretty busy show today because yesterday Stephen kent uh from bounding into comics. He he was traveling and normally we chat with him. Uh so we had to move him to today. So at seven oh five we'll get into that. Uh Ross, did you really read down into the Gina Carano lawsuit any of the stuff that came out of it. It's pretty fascinating. I thought it was a little more cut and dry and we knew what was up.

But if you read into it, so the thing that triggered them seemingly wasn't even the post. They say that they parted ways with her over the cake was baked since Bebop boop. And if you don't know but what I mean by that, if you went to Karana, I'm sure if you still do, I guess I could check, but I'm I'm sure she didn't change. It's the sticking point where in her profile she wrote at the end beat bob boop, and it did so in the same the same I guess formatting as

you would put your pronouns. That's what did it. And if you if you get in there and you actually read into it. So that happened, and immediately she started getting phone calls from everybody. Yeah, what a dumb thing to get angry about. Yeah, and they so they demanded that she come in for this sensitivity thing, right, Yeah, they wanted her to change it to her actual pronouns yes on her personal page of Twitter at the time, Yes, yes, yes, yes, And she pointed out that

it wasn't even about the pronouns. She didn't have any pronouns in there and was perfectly happy just doing her thing. And she, you know, the the Twitter activist collective descended upon her and demanded that she put it in there. So in her explanation, she was she was mocking people who are you know, demanding of others. She's mocking the people that were horrible to her.

And anyway, so she goes, she gets the call and first they're like, we like you to meet with like a dozen members of the LGBTQ community and organizations. Well, she agreed to and she went and folks within Lucasfilms afterwards talked to the folks that she had met with and they're like, no, she's fine, we like her. And that didn't sit well, including with Harvey Weinstein's former assistant, who for whatever reason Kathleen Kennedy decided should

be brought on to direct a Star Wars project. And so Krono said, she did that meeting, and then after she got she was getting calls from Kathleen Kennedy yes and saying, Hey, here's what we're gonna do. We want you to come to come to a room and we're going to have two dozen, like twenty five people who work for Lucasfilms, but who are members of the LGBTQ community, and you're gonna sit there and get listen to this,

you know. So it was described as a struggle session, and Karana looked at the list of employees and ironically, just prior to them asking for that, she had she'd gotten a link for what she thought was a fundraiser. And you know, when you work in Hollywood, when you work with people on a show and all of that, if if they send you a fundraiser, a lot of times you'll donate, right just to keep the peace any of that. And she was going to go donate to this fundraiser,

which she thought was a fundraiser for LGBTQ stuff. And she found out that the fundraiser was get Gina Carano and she was literally listed as the reason we need to raise money because she's a monster. And then she realized that it was the fundraiser was started by one of the Lucas employees she was going to meet with, and a bunch of the others, including this big time director

Lady Weinstein's old assistant actually donated to it as well. And so she said, no, I'm not gonna go sit in a room with a bunch of people who are literally having a fundraiser to cancel me. Right, it's not, that's not because Kennedy described it to her agent as a room full of people who want her to succeed, and it was at that point She's just like no. And then they they were waiting and they found what they were looking for in Boom. It's I mean, it's really really nasty b of

work. And you realize how early on it was the plan was to get her out of there. So I'm curious to chat with Stephen ken about that. Also, Pete Calender, he'll join us coming up at eight oh five. So yeah, boy, how do I sum up yesterday? Oh jeez, all right. There were two very important and unique things that happened yesterday. One one is the interview with Vladimir Putin by Tucker Carlson. Was was posted to Twitter. It's uh, yeah, it's our twenty minutes or whatever,

and Tucker's interviewing him. Putin is choosing to speak through a translator. And I want to point that out because I think it's important to my analysis. Because Putin speaks English. So we're all clear here. He speaks English. He can hold a conversation in it. He will do so if he's uh, if he's not on camera. And but it was through a translator.

And I've seen some Russian speakers who I tend to believe are going to be accurate, who rightfully point out that there is look, there's there's some of it's lost in translation, especially when Putin's body language doesn't necessarily comport with his emotion on something. And so I thought that was interesting to fill in the gaps. And and in that case, I wonder if instead maybe do translator, but maybe subtitles where you have multiple people have had a chance to

maybe that's better. But that's always going to be the reality there. But what was not surprising to me, but apparently it was to people who just are out of their minds that this could even be taking place. Is you know, they're going, we'll see see he's sitting there and he's trying to tell everyone he's right. Yep. Did you not think that? Did you

not think that was That's how that was going to go. Nobody was denying that Vladimir Putin was going to attempt to propagandaize maybe he's right, maybe he's wrong when it comes to the specifics on a couple things like the nord Stream

or some of the others. But that's where post analysis happens. It's not surprising that the like I feel like the only world leader out there, or world leaders out there who wouldn't attempt to take an opportunity for an interview like that that they feel may reach an audience that they haven't to promote their se seemingly are ours right, or maybe even expand that to the UK, Australia, parts of Europe and whatnot. You fully expect that, and when you're

analyzing what's being said, you have to see it from that perspective. And keep in mind that Zelensky's been running around and also whenever doing an interview, Hey, this is why I'm right, And then you got to do the analysis and you got to look at it. And the fact is you're starting you're from go, You're starting with two countries that have an immense amount of corruption baked into the cake. Obviously, you know, we talk about the

window problem they have there in Russia. Apparently they're very poorly designed and people are constantly falling out of them. But the reality is that's something you have to take in and you arm yourself with that knowledge and you recognize that just as Vladimir Putin didn't speak English, because the propagandic value of that interview is

not just people are misconstruing. They think it's it's it's purely to reach an American or a Western audience, but in reality it's so one could argue it was more important to Vladimir Putin to be able to speak to his people and be seen as you know, and and so utilizing and speaking Russian is far more important because there's no nuance there to his his citizenry. I guess as long as they speak Russian. And and and then Vladimir Zelensky showing up running

around. Uh where Uh the only the only outfit he owns is coup or you know whatever that look is. But it's it's a visual thing, right. He has to be shown to be that wartime president. And he here's his buddies and they're not asking critical questions, which is analysis somebody. So that's going on, and there's some there's interest, there's a lot of interesting little nuggets in there. And I look, I know this is going to be analyzed to death today, so I kind of wanted to approach this from

the big picture. Did Tucker Carlson ask go and ask him questions where Vladimir Putin gave propaganda? Answers? Yes, does Vladimir Putin think he's right on this? Yes? Is he a guy who you couldn't convince me otherwise that

doesn't have his enemies murdered? No, that's who he is. That's who he is, right, And and you understand that going in it was Mike was a Mike Wallace who did the last that big bin laden and I can't remember which one of the news anchors, but like you run it through that filter, if you see Vladimir Putin, as you know Osama bin laden In enemy and all of this, by the way, all of this still makes

me laugh every time. I remember Mitt Romney and Barack Obama and that debate, and and Romney said, you know, Russia, Russia, although I would I think China is currently, but maybe that you could make that argument, and they all laughed at him. And then of course we had you know, all things Russia throughout the entirety of the Trump presidency, and now here we are. So yeah, but you know, at no point it bin laden go, you know what, You're probably right. Maybe I shouldn't

be doing this. Maybe I shouldn't be attacking the United States. Maybe I shouldn't be organizing further attacks on members of the US military. Maybe I shouldn't be hiding out and Pakistan continuing to run my terrorist network. Now he didn't say any of that. He's said, no, I'm right, here's why. And now the irony of ironies is it wasn't that long ago where his little manifesto, his Letter to America was being lionized by idiots on TikTok.

So with all of that out there and all of the ability to take out of an hour and twenty minute interview to say, look, here's Tucker Carlson giving aid to the enemy. There was a lawyer yesterday discussing whether Carlson could be charged under the Espionage Act. That was a real piece of analysis that I actually watched yesterday, and the analysis was probably not but who knows with

Washington, which is actually probably fair analysis. So with all of that, all of that opportunity to go and out of those hour and twenty minutes for both sides, so to speak, politically, to grab whatever nuggets they think proves their case. Joe Biden wandered out to do a press conference yesterday following that special prosecutor's study their recommendation, and it was a train wreck. Now

let me get this out of the way before you call. I understand that some people's take, so I'll put it out there, is that it was the Hail Mary. And the reason they put Biden out there, even though they knew it would be disaster is one, it distracts from the interview with Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin, and two they knew it would be such a

train wreck because he spent all week talking to ghosts. Then it also provides an opportunity coupled with that report to clear the way and get somebody else on the ballot, which I understand that that is. That's a takeout there, and who the hell knows it's it's abundantly clear that there's nobody around Biden. And I don't know if it's because he'll brate them or or for whatever reason, because they just realize, you know, he's useful and he basically does

kind of what they want. There's nobody around this dude going no, no, it's no, you shouldn't do that. And at times I was watching it, yes, saying I'm I find myself feeling bad for him. Does that make sense? I'm just like, yeah, if if, if, if you're dealing with something and you might be in denial over it because nobody wants to be dealing with something like that, and nobody around you will be honest with you. Of course you're gonna you're gonna be like, yeah,

what's the big problem? All right, We'll get more on this coming up here on the CaCO Day radio program. We got some audio for you. Uh Um, I got a little less than a minute here, just just a little a little a little snippet. Well, actually, no, because I want to play these in sequence. So, uh, well, we'll do that. And where is this? Ah? Here we go. I saw this. I saw an amazing story this morning. Um and get it to load because I emailed it to myself and then I just started talking to

you. That's some of my brain works. Ah, here we go. Yes, mutant wolves and one of the most one of the craziest post breakup. What do we uh? Lawsuits? It's a it's bonkers, man. It's out of Michigan. So look is it fighting over a pet that you guys got when you're get No, No, this one's a little different. So we'll do our own little people's court all coming up here on the CaCO Day radio program. And look again, is Adimir Putin using the media opportunity

to propagandaize for his side or his interests or neither? Yes? Yes, because there's good I just I have to say it out loud, becuse there's gonna be a bunch of pundits on CNN and MSNBC, and I'm sure they're already doing their thing. I can see them on the TV over there that are going to go see, we told you he said this thing, and this thing is inaccurate and they're probably right in some instances, but nobody thought that he wasn't going to do that. What the nord the nord stream exchange.

Let me just give you. Let me give you a sample of how the vibe in there. This is on nordstream. Uh at Carlson asks, who blew up nordstream? All right? This is that gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea. YadA, YadA? You know? Okay, all right? Uh and again you're going through a translator, so just when you're hear in the audio, it's well, you know, you know how it works. All right, here we go, who blew up nordstream? You for sure I was busy that day, Nate. I did not blow up nordstream.

Uh, thank you. Though you personally may have an alibi, but the CIA has no such alibi. Okay, all right, what did you think he was going to say? And by the way, that analysis tracks with analysis of people within the United States and European Union. Now, whether we did or didn't, I don't know. But I saw people sitting there looking at it, going, you know, oh, look how chummy he is and the rest of it. If you've never watched Carlson interview, somebody the

an undercurrent of silliness isn't the right word. Sarcasm tends to tends to be part of his process. So I just saw it for that. There's another part where he said, hey, can we take that Wall Street Journal reporter home with us? Said it right to Putin, He's like, hey,

while we're here, we got an extra seat on the plane. Can we have that Wall Street Journal reporter that apparently the administration kind of cares about, but not as much as WNBA players, So to which you know, Putin said no, but he's willing to negotiate again exactly what you think he's going to say. I don't know that there was anything groundbreaking presented. I think

that there was. Putin wanted to make the historical argument, but that's not surprising anybody, because that's a dude who craves the good old days, right his I mean, arguably you could say he's living his best life now, but in his mind, his country was living its best life back in the old USSR. And he's always been but heart over the failure of that. It's it's abundantly clear that's always bothered him. And yeah, look at it

from his perspective too. Imagine if, rather than Russia collapsing at the end of the Cold War, the US did, how many of you would have something in your craw So again, you you have to know these things to understand the person, even if you think they're a lunatic who murders their political opponents. So you want to do that, you know, I'd be very

telling Ross, I'm curious what floor of the hotel Tucker stayed on? Right, you gotta go ground floor, do you get well, but you gotta go ground floor, man Like, if you're Tucker, you have to cause you know, look, you know that the the Russian secret police or following Tucker the whole time he's there, Right, that's just that's just commy. Look like if I I would assume everyone was right. So they're going to report back that you've got a ground floor room, and then you know you're

gonna wake up and be like in a sinkhole. Yeah, but what happened to my bedroom? The whole comes from me? Yeah, what's that be? Like? What happened to my bed? Where did this whole come from? You know? Me? Well, you know, look, Russia's uh, you know, got a lot of underground natural gas and oil, hence the whole nord stream thing. So you know, these things happen. Look, we got sinkholes in Florida. What are you trying to say, commie?

So no, it's like, yeah, like that could be indicative, like that may that may be a cultural slight, right, you know, a little cultural It is never run into there like ah, if you check into the first floor, you're gonna be meeting with Putin and that means that you think that he pushes people out windows. So I don't know, but yeah, I watch the interview. Take take all of it, take none of it at you know, question why is this person saying this? Why

is this person? You know, like I said, even even the way in which Putin did the interview purely in Russian, even though he can speak English, which is not uncommon for him. But again it's about because he you know, he's dealing. He's obviously dealing in his own country with pushback, which is why he's got to keep, you know, having window incidents. He's, uh, you know, there's like any other place, there's gonna be a lot of people in Russia's like why, you know, why

is my kid dead? Why did my kid die in Ukraine? And as I think, adults you can do it, but I'm seeing a total inability for the media to do it. Meanwhile, on the other side, which again I understand some people say, Ah, the reason Biden held a pressure up that disastrous report was he wanted to distract from anything that was going on with Putin. But I'm seeing the Internet have the distinct ability to deal with

both. So real quickly, let me just give you the you could tell what's stuck is speaking of sticking in somebody's craw, you can tell what's stuck in Joe Biden's craw. And it was specifically the special counsel, Robert Herr talking, And this is they're doing legal analysis, right, but they're doing explanation, and sometimes a prosecutor will choose to bring or not bring a charge

and give an explanation and reasoning, perhaps even a legal reasoning. And so in some part that's what was going on, but in others it was just them explaining how the interview went with him. And according to according to the special prosecutor, when they initially interviewed him, he couldn't remember when his son

died. He couldn't remember when he was vice president the dates he had just had two incidents where he was talking to ghosts this week, and so you couple that you read the report here going back to I don't know a few months ago when they did the interview with him. Here we go in his

interview with our office, mister Biden's memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting the first day of the interview when his team when his term ended, if it was twenty thirteen, When did I stop being vice president? That's literally a quote from him. He's asking the interviewer that forgot on the second day of the interview when his term began, again, asking him, so in two thousand and nine, am I still

vice president? He did not remember even within several years when his son Bo died, and his memory appeared hazy. When describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him, among other things, he mistakenly said is he had a real difference of opinion with Carl Aikenberry, which that particular general was not who was confronting Biden on some of the decisions. That was his yes man. So he forgot who was his dude? Who he cited he literally

wrote a memo to President Obama like this guy gets it. But then they get into why they're not going to charge him, and it's this line that I think really irritated the president. Mister Biden's memory was significantly limited, both during the recorded interviews with the ghostwriter in twenty seventeen and in his interview with our office. We've also considered that, and this is explaining why they're not going to bring charges. And again this is over the documents in the garage.

Okay, we have considered at trial, mister Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview, as a sympathetic, well meaning elderly man with poor memory. So they're saying that you put that dude on the stand, it'll be so ugly. The jury will feel bad for him. And I watched his pressure yesterday feeling a little bad for him. And they think that that would prohibit them from achieving the goals. Now,

you could think that's all bs charging Trump not charging him. It's another double standard, and you know what, you could be right, probably right actually as far as some of this goes. But that is also something that a prosecutor is going to think about, you know, for the same reason.

Remember that, Remember that dad who was sitting there waiting, pretending he's on the payphone, and he was waiting for a I think it was a flight, right, it was a flight that a coming because they'd apprehended some they'd apprehended the guy who they said was molesting his kid, and I don't

think there was any question about it. And he turns around for the payphone and shoots that dude in the head, kills him, puts the gun down, like, all right, that's what I came here to do, right, the legal analysis if you go back and read that on why they arrived at how they were going to go after him, and they didn't just let him go. But also they had to mitigate it because they realized, you're gonna stick that dude in a courtroom. And this is what the eighties.

You gonna stick that guy in a courtroom. There's there's photographic evidence and and you see all the horribleness that this guy did to this guy's son, and you're not gonna get a jury to go. Yeah, no, absolute murder, give him the chair. So I know that's an extreme example, but I think it's important. All right, So to the press conference yesterday, here we go. I know there's some attention paid to some language and report

about my recollection of events. There's even reference that I don't remember when my son died. How in the hell dare he raise that? Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, wasn't any of their

damn business? Okay, I have two thoughts on that one. If it's not their damn business, why do you say it at every campaign event that has anything remotely to do with the military, Which, by the way, I don't begrudge him, I wish he'd be accurate about it because the legitimately, in his mind, he thinks that burn pits and some other processes within the military that his son had to participate in that many soldiers do, contributed

to his death. And that's you know, that is from a medical perspective. That is a theory that is out there and many people believe and may not be inaccurate. But you can't conflate stuff like that. And I am curious if did they tape these recordings or was it handwritten notes? In all instances, I know there's video from the ghostwriter thing I'd be curious to see. Okay, so that's that's his response there. Well, let me do this because we've got a few more cuts. It's six forty seven. Let's

take a break. When you watch it, I want you to ask yourself that does Vladimir Putin look like a dude who is suffering from a terminal condition could be cancer, whatever was speculated, and whose mind is scrambled and is just unknowingly in spite of himself pushing forward with a war. Because you remember that whole narrative was out there. He's crazy, Yeah, he's lost his mind, remember that Oldah, there was that doctor who fled Russia and then

the other one who didn't because fell out of a window. Right, But the stipulation was that he is he was so scrambled from whatever the disease was that he wasn't even coherent. Roz, you dubbed some stuff into that. Look like a dude whose brain scrambled on the verge of death, who's incoherent. No, So I you know people may see that and go, well, wait a second, this was the narrative out there. What else what

else may have been inaccurate? Which By the way, I understand why you're going to go out and you're going to paint your enemy as a lunatic. So then you have to go to the tape. And if I go to the tape from the two events yesterday, I see Vladimir Putin obviously, Look, he's going to be prepared to go certain stuff, all of that Russian history, which he was he wouldn't shut up about. I understood that. But the Biden presser, I even think he knew what they were going to

say. But then the question started from Peter Doosey. Fox knew something special Counsel said in his report is that one of the reasons you were not charged is because, in his description, you are a well meaning elderly man with a poor memory. I'm well meeting. I'm an elderly man, and I know what the hell I'm doing. I'm in president. I put this country back on his feet. I don't need his recommendation. It's totally memory. And can you continue as president? My memory is so bad, I let

you speak, which, by the way, that's a funny line. Can we admit that that is kind of a funny line there, And I'm sure one that was recited over and over to commit to memory. But here's where it gets different, because that's the kind of snappy answer that Jean Pierre will give Deucy Biden's given Doucy before, and the rest of the media will they'll

kind of chuckle or smile. But it was different yesterday. And it was different because the moment he said that, the rest of the media jumped in, you know, how it's supposed to be like it should have been the other day when John Pierre's like, I'm not going down that rabbit hole. I know, he said he talked to dead people, but it's a rabbit hole. He was in transit yesterday, actually headed to Atlanta for their comic con down there, so that's where we're talking to him from right now.

And I want to make sure you're okay. Are you okay, Stephen? I'm doing okay, but I might lose my cool when I meet Andy Serkis from Lord of the Rings. I don't know if I can handle it. Well, if you do, I will, I guarantee you dude, you're in you see you see that Alec balls there right, Yes, that is why I'm wearing my flat jacket, got body armor and a helmet handy. You know, it would be a really funny bit for our radio and probably

uh not great for your career. But go over and do your best stuntman getting shot impression in front of the booth and just fall down and then film it for TikTok or whatever the kids do. If we wanted a viral video, that's how you get it. That's how you get it right there, because he you know, he'd loses crap, he does have. He does tend to get a little angry, so anyway, what's that. He has a famous temper, but we love him anyway, yeah, yeah, yeah,

and if he calls you a little piggy, even better. So because that audio is could you ever hear did you ever hear the audio of Alec Baldwin? Somebody up at like w ABC in New York or one of the stations up there, thought it'd be Hey, we needed a fill in talk host, and they asked Alec Baldwin to do it. So he comes in and he has never done talking. I mean he's done it in the sense as a guest, I'm sure, And he is the most painful audio that

I've ever heard of. Somebody because he just assumed the moment he sat down, all the phones would fill, and he's having a grind out, and he keeps going to the producer. Are there any calls yet? Are there any calls yet? Everybody's got a call screener in front of him. So that's a big difference between radio and TV. I mean, the guy was an MSNBC host in like two thousand and thirteen for only a little while, but you know, TV, or even off a script, it ain't the

same thing. No, And so now there's two things I do better than him. That and not shoot the people I work with. Ross, Have I ever shot you? Ross will tell you not yet? Look at that, so boom leading. He might be afraid, he might be afraid to speak out for fear of retaliation. It was now, no, no, no, all right, I gotta I gotta pivot over here, because I

was just about to go down a rabbit hole. I was scanning all, you know, the big list of folks who are going to be there, and I don't see Gina Carano at the at the event, and I gotta tell you, obviously, you're gonna you're gonna be much more deep dove on

this. I reiterated kind of the reader's digest version. The Beep Boop Bop controversy coupled with the go fundme, coupled with the struggle sessions is a crazy story that I absolutely believe because Hollywood Go and Hollywood and most people think that it was the you know, the whole Germany comments, But in reality, it looks like the powers that be, and very powerful powers that be, had it out for this woman from the moment beat Bop Boop appeared on her

Twitter account. It's a crazy story. Yeah, this has been just such

a weird saga. And I was thinking this morning in preparation for this, just all the weird things that happened ever since Derek Chauvin ran into George Floyd in twenty twenty, and just like all these things that you just wouldn't expect that happened in the culture, from the protests to the overhauls and education to the weird things that we see going on in classrooms, to the firing of Gina Carano for having beat Bop boop in her Twitter profile as her joke pronouns,

the world has just changed so fast, And yeah, she got fired from the Mandalorian despite incredible success on that show, good reviews, good performance, and she is now suing with the help of Elon Musk at X And I mean, I'm not a lawyer, I'm not your guy for that kind of commentary, But I am fascinated by this suit because there have been many politicized firings in Hollywood just in the past couple of years, but she is

the only conservative to ever sort of take this fall for explicitly political speech and without any clear indication that it was affecting her job or that it was causing tension with her colleagues. Because she is one of the most liked members of the Mandalorian cast, who all the cast members had nothing but good things to say about her. She just happens to believe the pandemic might have been planned. Well, look, you know, they can all talk about how great

they got along on set. The reality is nobody stuck up for nobody came Pedro Pascal didn't. And I kind of like that dude, Like I like stuff that he's in. I think he's a good actor. I think he's funny too. And it's like, and he gave some comments like months after it happened, but at the time, nobody put it out there. If

there was one person powerful enough, although maybe he wasn't. Maybe all the power lined lied with Again, here we go with Kathleen Kennedy again and this this BS organized struggle session thing where Toronto figured out that bunch of the people and there were people who were donating to a campaign to have her canceled. I mean, it's it's it's just Lugal DRIs. So people are misunderstanding, I think though, because they're saying, well, she's suing, it's trying

to get her job back. Now when you're suing in this capacity, it's my understanding what you're telling the court is like, you want to work there. You're not the one who wanted to leave, and if not for their actions, you would not have left. And by the way, you think, their actions going against the law. So she has to the goal in her mind is not to be back on set at Mandalorian. That's never going

to happen. But she needs to represent to the court that she wants to be there, and I believe that she does, and they prevented her from doing it in an illegal manner. So now okay, so you're you're I mean, because she says in the in the suit of the entitlement to reinstatement. But your your read of it is that she does actually obviously want to be reinstated in a hostile ork environment. But that's just kind of going through the motions. You say, you want to work there, you want it,

you never wanted to leave. That's yes, that's what that's what you You have to indicate that it was they who violated the contract and did so in an illegal manner. I mean, that's that's remedy that I have within my contract. Right, I can challenge certain things that are stepped, that are that are put forward, but it has to be predicated on the idea that I didn't want to depart and and they made me depart, and they did so in a way that doesn't comport with the law. And whether they

did or didn't, I don't know. These contracts are wildly complex. So yeah, And one of the elements of California employment law and the lawsuit that you know, I'm still trying to wrap my head around as sort of a conservative commentator and looking at this stuff, is the is the sex discrimination part of the suit. So you know, we've got the the politicized speech, and the ability under California law to be able to engage in political speech.

Lord knows it protects a whole lot of employees who consider themselves to be Democrats

and liberals. But the sex discrimination part that she's going with, you know that Pedro Pascal to basically tweet whatever it is he wanted, whatever it is he wanted, and that Guang Carlo Esposito, the villain on the show The Mandalorian, could also make political tweets, and they could also allude to how the bad guys in American politics are like the Nazis, which is pretty much the ground that Gina Carano was on as well, but there are no repercussions.

You know, I don't really know what to make of it from an authenticity standpoint, because we know that it's politicized fire. We know that they were going after her for political speech, But it does seem to me that the sex discrimination part is a vulnerability. It's like an achilles heel. In the courts of California, they've set up a system where that kind of suit is very easy. So maybe this is just sort of getting what you ask

for in terms of califor you law. Yes, I think that. Yeah, I think that that is absolutely it, although they have, Uh, there have been some cases where I'm trying to remember the name. I can't remember the name of the actress. She's a black actress, was in Clueless, what was she was on Fox for a little while. I can't remember her name. If you you know that, you know the woman I'm talking about. I don't know why it escape remember the movie Clueless, the one

friend who was black, Stacy Dash, Stacy Dash. There was something she sued over that and they and it became kind of clear that, yeah, they take that very seriously, but not in all instances. Yeah, I don't remember the exact the exact cause, but I do recall. Yeah, so we'll we'll wait and see. Uh, let's talk. By the way, what are you doing down there other than avoiding mister Baldwin's quick draw demo?

You know, the greatest mistake of my life was published a book about Star Wars because there will always be a convention to go to to talk about it. And three years after the fact, I am still out here hustling books. So I'm down here given a speech about Star Wars on one of the main stages and how it can make our politics just a little bit worse, better, better, I mean it's better having a Joe Biden moment there. But yeah, pushing copies of how the Force can fix the world.

Very excited to do it. Unless you were thinking that the Mexican president is in Star Wars. You're not there yet. So and in Star Wars you can talk to dead leaders because their force goes so different. That's true. No one's ever really gone. Yeah, so we'll do that. Do you find Actually, let me let me get into this. Do you find because I'm assumed when did your book come out? December twenty twenty one? Okay, all right, see, just a couple of years under your belt.

But we were well into I think what was some of the fandom you would agree to arding to push back to considering what they were seeing out of the last trilogy. Oh yeah, how have those conversations changed and the audience that still wants to attack this purely from just like you know, your your standard kind of nerd debate rather than the politics that is intrinsically attached. I mean,

has has the panels changed? You've got you got Ron Perlman at this thing, I'm just like Ron Perlman, is you want to talk about somebody who exercises their political speech on top, Yeah, right, when you're in a room with him, and uh, well, for that matter, Baldwin, and there's I'm just looking down the list here, there's there's a few people that are very outspoken. Does it just evolve into that or are are you guys able to kind of stay on task because of what the event is?

Well, i would say at conventions you certainly stay on task. When you're trying to go to you know, a Raleigh Comic Con event or Charlotte Comic Con event and you want to actually present programming, the programming better be

left of center. Most of these comic conventions are run by management groups, and so these management groups will put on, you know, five or six comic cons in the region all at once, and they are the same people screening every single panel, submission, and speaker, and there will not be a you know, conservatism in Star Wars panel or a talking about the classical liberal virtues of the Jedi sort of thing that just is not allowed, you

know. So I'm going down and kind of giving a talk about Star Wars and morality and you know, I kind of like weave my way towards my values there, but it has to adhere to liberal sensibilities if you ever want to present at a comic con. And that's that's a real problem because the

SANDOM community by and large is very heavily male and very heavily conservative. They just simply have no voice at these conventions at all, and they keep their discourse online where they know they will not be harassed, bullied, or targeted

for that kind of speech. And it does happen at these conventions quite a bit, okay, And I was just going to say, we've seen some examples, so these things aren't cheap, especially if people are traveling, you know, from they say they're traveling from outside of Atlanta to this thing.

You got hotel, now, you got whatever goes with it. If it is that cesspooled, that dearth of ideas from one side, and like why would you go not you necessarily understand why you're there, but like why would people show up if they if they are literally being threatened over questioning the strong female lead narrative or making pandaverse jokes and all the things that will have people literally tattling on them on Twitter. Why subject yourself to that? Why feed

the beast? You know, I think that there's people want different things from these kind of conventions depending on what they're there for. You know. I'm always there to sell, to meet people, and to also speak on panels and do stuff like that. But most fans, and I would say particularly the kind of fans who have political views that are not allowed on the stages, they are there to enjoy autographs, get photos of their favorite stars.

Hayden Christiansen, you know, the Anakin Skywalker actor and Ewan McGregor, who were both together just the other week in Orlando doing joint photos with people. And you know, all fans want to enjoy that kind of thing if they have one hundred and fifty bucks that they never want to see again. So I would just say that people come to these things for different reasons. I love to come and buy stuff myself and bring my daughter. Look for a

cool sword for the wall. We could get you a sword sometime if you want. Well, it's kind of it's a tough sword week. I had a guy I got to write this guy back. I a guy offer to give me a sword, and I'm not gonna because yeah, slightly, No, I did not. I would feel I would feel bad. I really appreciate it. It was very nice, but you know, in reality, it's kind of a running joke that I'm like, how come everyone has the sword but me, Well, I don't have a sword. I have enough

weapons, so we're probably probably good there on that. All right, real quick, I got just a minute left. I'll tell you one thing I am excited about. I saw that there, and I know we talk a lot about, you know, Disney, but Disney partnering for a billion and a half dollars with Epic Games, that's obviously big for the region. In thirty seconds, do you think that goes sideways? Do you think maybe some

cool products come out? Well, I'm sure that they will be able to make cool products, but both of these companies are finding themselves an increasing increasing legal turmoil and their enemies are coming after them on both sides, so I'm sure it will not be drama free, but good for the carry, I would say that's a positive for back home. Well, yeah, I understand

that. I just want to know are they going to because I'm not a Fortnite guy, so it's like, give me, give me something I like, and we'll see, but for now I'll let you get back to it. We're out of time, but I appreciate you calling in this morning. Thanks, you have a great week one. All right, there you go, Stephen Kent joining us here on the CaCO Day radio program. Hanging about a half hour from now. We'll chat with Pete Callender coming up here on

our Friday, so stay tuned for that. There's lots of pouncing to be done, so we'll get into that discussion. All right. Thank you to Stephen Kent for joining us, even if we had to move it a day accommodating, So that was good. Uh So, let me just jump back to the Biden thing real quick, because there's one other element to this story. Well there's actually there's actually there's two other elements. Ross. Why are

you not like writing a book on legal theory right now? Because, like you know, I I thought yesterday, are you expoused some I've questioned from time to time some of your legal theories, like simply asking if you're being detained, we'll have the officers salute wheel out of their direct respect for your let you go, yeah, or for your knowledge? And another one was you can't wait to be old, so you can steal stuff at stores because all you have to do is I'm old. I can't wait all the all

the stakes are going down my pants, all of them. I'm just gonna walk in the stakes actually be like these are all mine. And then once they bust me. Right, your defense is, oh, I don't know what's going on. I'm old, and they're like, oh, I look at the key, old man. Let him go right with his steaks? Which how's he if he's so old, Like, how's he gonna eat the steaks? That's been a little tough, right, So thinking this out, uh, but in like reality, that's kind of what was said yesterday.

The Seinfeld Uncle Leo defense. Okay, you know, you know, my lack of Seinfeld knowledge is very old. And he shoplifts and that's his thing. He's like, I'm oh, okay, yeah, And Jerry's like, I saw you steal and he's like, I'm so confused. I'm old, But you knows exactly what he's doing because you can shoplift and you can flip kids off. Right, those are the those are the two things along with social security. Right, So that's what I understand. But like, that's

that's going to be your argument. Well, you got a deep dive further, right, because now people are like, wait, you're too you're too out of there to prosecute, but you're still president. That's not good, right, And then so like that's why Biden decided he would come out yesterday and in his defense give a long oratory and a variety of issues. In fact, we kind of clipped this last clip, but I want to play it in its entirety. This is not the thing to be doing. It's

you're no, no, I'm fine, press conference this right here. The conduct of the response in Gaza, in the Gaza Strip has been over the top. I think that, as you know, initially the president of Mexico CEC did not want to open up the gate to allow humanitarian material to get in. Well, I talked to him. I convinced to open the gate. I talked to Babie to open the gate on the Israeli side. Oh okay, So he's referring to the gate on the southern end of the of

the strip there known as the Sinai Peninsula, which is in Egypt. Well, it was in Israel and then it was in Egypt. Again, that's the whole thing. So the president of Mexico you think, is the president of Egypt. I mean, well, look correct me if I'm ross correct, If I mean they are, they are right next to each other, so it's I mean, I guess there is some distance there between them, is there? Yeah, you share a border. There's some water between them

two. Yeah, oh they have a lake. Right, Maybe in his mind he was thinking that they're both sort of like deserts or something like that. They're both very hot, dry, right, Well, parts of it, I mean, yeah, absolutely. I mean part of the US is also deserty, but Egypt you kind of see it as all deserty, which

isn't one hundred percent accurate, but it's more accurate than not. Whereas Mexico, Yeah, we think of you know, along our southern border, but in reality, when you get like Mexico City is not hot, it's very temperate, so like, and that's where he goes to meet the president of Mexico, which he did not that long ago. Well, I've been I've

been to Mexico City. I've never been to Egypt, but I've seen some pictures and I would not say that they look alike well, I've also been to Mexico in Red Dead Redemption, and I can tell tell you that there's a lot of stand in there, a lot of desert, very to magic, some pyramids too, right, I mean there are pyramids in both places. That is true. If you go to the Catana Peninsula, you're like,

that's it's easy to figure out why he was so confused. Listen, you should not have to have to I should not be put in the position to defend Joe Biden in this way. Right, it's such a especially after he comes out and says that he's fine, Hey, I'm fine. You guys are overreacting by the way. The President of Mexico opened his side of the gaza stir what Yeah, that was big of him. Good for cc man or no, he refused to and then and then Biden called him.

Do you think Biden actually did call the President of Mexico who was so confused. He's he's telling them no, but he's not telling him no because he doesn't what to but because he's not the president of that country. Do you think that happened? Right? And he's finally had enough and he's just like fine, whatever, and he hangs up the phone, and Biden's like pulled it up. All right, you went, sir, you're the victor.

All right, Well that is a theory. That's you know, I guess, I guess we can entertain because not much else is making sense there. But here's the other other thing not charged was this ghostwriter and the ghostwriter, like I said, they had videos, but prosecutors only ended up with the

transcript. The reason I mentioned that is because most of the video evidence or recording of it, even though there was a transcript that the ghostwriter purports to be accurate, one hundred percent accurate, they didn't have access to the videos because the ghostwriter deleted them, and he deleted them after he was informed there was an investigation on this stuff. And I point this out because his argument is I had transcripts, and frankly, they didn't indicate that they wanted anything

from me, so I didn't think anything of it. I just knew the investigation was going on. But even if you believe that right there, if you look to the because it wasn't just Trump charged with on his version of this, it was also members of his circle, right, so they charged numerous people for essentially, remember it was over the security tape saying that some

security tape. Now their argument was the security tapes only kept this long and also there are you know, we have a process for purging any of these videos, And Prosecutor Jack Smith said no, nope, I don't believe you. And so they charged two individuals over that. But in this case they decided no. So for everyone who's going to be running around saying that this is a Republican prosecutor, he's hold over any of the rest. They write

a very different decisions on things where there's a lot similarities. So it's not just about his perception of Biden or any of the rest of that. It's also the analysis on people who nobody's claiming that they have cognitive issues, and they still went in a different direction. So yeah, that's that's just a little nugget that I think is getting left off here. But we have more important things. Rased Agic has lost control of his household. We got to

do somebody. I can't allow this to happen on your well, this is this is an intervention, like we're sit down, we're all friends here. I mean, his wife has decided that their Super Bowl party is going to be Taylor Swift theme. Wow. Yeah, and we got into it about twenty minutes ago. Maybe you already heard what. Yeah, we got into it down the road. Yeah, Mark and I got into it. Oh no, I don't text smart very much, so Eddie And so that was

my What was my colleague in Ashville's take? Well, I actually had asked, and I actually have some of the theme food names. If you want to do that now or you want to wait like that, No, let's yeah, I want that, so I just do on it mock you again in an hour theme food. So yeah, so remember Taylor Swift. The wives came up with this. So my wife is doing a loaded tay turtot tay as in Taylor and you belong to Brie. You belong to Brie.

I do like, how about that instead of you belong to me? And my sister in law is doing this is why we can't have nice wings instead of nice things. Okay, all right, this is that is exactly what you should have said to them, not the wings say things to them when they decided that this one thing, this is a guy's high Holy okay, sorry, gonna break it down here. This is like your one thing.

This is like this would be a kin. Do you guys have like a walking closet and then there's this small like steamer trunk, right, and that's where your clothes go because your wife has the whole closet. And then she would have the audacity to be like, I'm gonna put my shoes in the steamer truck. You just have to you gotta be like, this is my last stand, this is it, this is all I have. You got to push back, and now they're mocking you with the food names and you

don't. Oh dude, well basically they told me Mark told me that that sucks. And yeah, that's my wife. And we're having the conversation on the air and she says, well, you plan the menu next time, And I said, I better stop. What do you mean? What do you mean ross plan a menu for watching? I was just thinking, this is like the easiest thing ever I want. Yeah, I want chips, I want some subs, I want some I want something. Come on,

dude, yeah, what this is so easy? Joe Biden, Joe Biden could plan a mini This isn't like she said, This isn't like you's saying, plan a wedding. Yeah, right, that's for about a picture, about a picture to burn like a spicy afriget picture. I'm just you. You you've surrendered your last castle. Surrendered one A. That's what the castle is called the bar. Yeah, surrendered one A. It's the Swifties. So listen. I like Taylor, so I'm not a Swiftie. But you

know, now we've got this. It's not it's the it's the scene. It's it's like it's pickles and ice cream, right, this is football, right, and I think a line was crossed, But I mean that's for me to try to figure out on this end by your wife or Taylor's Yeah, yeah, I mean this is why so many of us were against Taylor being all the attention for the games, because this is the inevitable outcome, right, Like, you know this is gonna and look at us, now,

what are we about? Three minut It's all right, exactly what everybody wants. I don't care. But the problem is you need to push back hard and right. So you can't just be like I need to take back my uh my football viewing. We need to go deeper. And you know, I so you got this art of the deal. I think, really what you have to do is you have to go full you have to come fully out against the Nineteenth Amendment and then negotiate from there. So all right,

I'm writing this down right. Tell your wife. Tell your wife, we need to do away with the nineteenth Amendment. Okay, how that goes? Yeah, and then she'll then she'll look it up and then her face is gonna contort. So have fun to be outside with the black and white TV with the rabbit ears watching the game. That's wrong, you know what, But she'll be free, that's what. Yeah. Anyway, sorry, best chance of rate. So you got time for weather? You want to?

Yeah? What the hell? Okay, okay, yeah, that's Friday, right, The best the best day of the next few probably be today. Little rain will try to clip us over the weekend. Today will be in the low sixties and upper fifties, eventually trying to come back for daytime highs, which is where we should be. But tomorrow is going to be

warm. We could be near seventy and we might have summer in the afternoon with the gustie breezebor really I think now most of tomorrow during the day may be dry, and that rain is going to come in on Sunday, so a great day to sit inside and watch the fat what But yeah, I don't know. I don't know what we're gonna be stuff. I hope beforehand Taylor Swift karaoke doesn't break out. Oh my gosh, how could this? Oh I never thought I could get I could go off on the I should

tell you the Taylor Swift karaoke incident that we don't talk about anymore. We'll talk about that one day. So rain Sunday and then showers. Are you like, are you martyring yourself? What is happening? Yeah? I am. I am at sunshine returning early next week, so best chance of rain Sunday better, slowly gets better as we get it. The next weekend cooler. Nobody even knows what I said. This is a cry for help. Oh I don't even know. Man. All right, Well, look I

gave you some ideas. Run them by. Start with the nineteenth Amendment, negotiate back from there, the Women's Voting Amendment, and then you know, I see where you land. All right, you're welcome. All right,

there you go, raised agic doomed. We'll be back. Hang on phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seventy four O though, and I'm looking at the time, probably hold off on that because I got just a couple of minutes and then Pete Callender will join us after the top of the hour, and obviously we'll get into the Biden stop, but also some local stuff and whatever else enters my brain. But first, but first, I don't know why I find this so funny, but I saw it was

a Rolling Stone article I was reading yesterday. Obviously you have seen stories of individuals who are making or producing a or using AI to generate deep fake adult videos of people, and it's really creepy, right, it is really creepy. I don't you know. It's one of those things where it's like, but is it illegal? And then it comes down to is it used to harass? And but it is just it's just creepy off the get go right in the same way that that blow up dolls creepy if if you really think

about it, or the sex pot or any of that. But if that's for you, fine, but most people are gonna have that reaction and you know, making those deep fake video like okay, fine, we're on the same page, but that's not what the women in this article are mad about The women in the article are mad because Internet bros four Chan read whoever it is, are you using AI not to create nudes of them or you know, sex videos, but instead they're finding women who are posting really provocative content

online. Right, So maybe they're not full cam girls, but they're thirst traps if you've heard that term, and using AI to put clothes on them. So it's just the photo, right, it's some photo of a chick in a way too small top moments from you know, everyone escaping doing some sort of like photo where she's been over picking something up by the pool and

oh, I'm just a casual moment. I'm gonna post it online. And then the dudes are coming on and the and now they're dressed like the Amish, and they're so mad and the author was so sympathetic that they wrote a whole article in a four Chan led campaign called putting clothes on thoughts. They

that's what they're doing. They're just finding these photos, these these you know where these photos are right on the edge of you know, if you ever go to get a job, I don't know that you want those floating around out there. And then just dressing them up all conservative. We have vladim Re pooting stuff. We got Joe Biden holding the pressor which did not do him any favors at least in my analysis. And to help us break his down is our radio buddy from the South, Midday's WBT, Pete Calender,

joining us this morning. How you doing, Pete? I'm doing all right? How are you? I'm good? Ross did did? Did his test come back clean? As he? Good? To god? I didn't. I'm sorry we had we had Pete drug tested, so yeah, I'm sorry about that. That's yeah, I'm sorry. I made fun of you and you were to see that Daniel at the dentist video, but oh yeah, no, that was no. I would that, that's fine. I did not realize that the text message I said you was confusing for you. Guys.

Well it's the part where you said you were going to be on the show and then the text you sent us the message to tell us you weren't, but then you said you were. But I also knew what was you know what was up? And I'm like, oh man, he's got the good stuff so well, and yeah, I don't even remember if at that point I had taken a pill. Oh well, I wouldn't admit that I was. I was like delirious from the pain. So I went in for what was supposed to be just a consultation for a for the removal of a

cyst that was on my back. And I'd had this thing for like a decade. But when I went in there for this consultation, they were like, oh no, this thing. It's very bad under the skin. It had it had ruptured, it was very painful, and it was growing, and they were like, we got to take it out right now. I was like, oh, okay, well what does that mean. I figured, you know, just a little, a little slicing and dice in local

and on my way, And for the most part that was true. But it took a long time, and they cut very very deeply, to the point where they had to go back for like three different rounds. They had to send out for some more local anesthetic because yeah, yeah, yeah, they did like three or four rounds of it because they had to keep cutting, and as they would cut and it's like, oh yeah, that's not that's that part's not numb yet. So then they had to spray that down

and then cut deeper. Then oh, that part's not numb yet either. And so by the time it was all over, I think my body had gone into some level of shock. I was like shaking and all. Yeah, it was like the adrenaline had kicked in. It was it was not it was not an ideal scenario. Yeah, and you know, it's not like you have to work well seated in a chair either, so well, I couldn't even say ye, it's like so then it's like I got this big open hole in my back and they wouldn't stitch it up because it had

to keep training. It's all very nasty, and so I was like, it's a and then they forgot to send in the prescription for the painkiller. Oh so all right, right, So I drove and then sat in the line, and then the local anesthetic is wearing off, and then I get in the to the to the CBS and I'm like, we don't have anything for you, so they just think you're some drug seeking behavior dude. Now

I know. That was the worst part. And then I have to call the doctor's office and of course they're not there are closed now, and so then they're like, oh, you've got to you can call and talk to some you know, somebody on call. So I get to this person on call and I'm like, I need the antibiotic, but I also need you were going to give me a pain pill and h and They're like, well, we can't just do that over the phone. But I'm not some junkie.

I'm not like I just just tell me something else to take. So tilanol anyway, I took to thilanol and a big fan. Now I'm a big fan of the tailan al. Now, you know, when I had my wisdom teeth out, my dentis was like, I'm not going to give you prescription, but i want you to take these really high doses of both aspirin and ibuprofens. You're getting both of them and like amounts that I was like, okay, I can take that much, but you know what,

it kind of works. So yeah, now it's my it's kind of my go too, which is this is not medical advice I'm giving anybody, but that seemed to be the right dosage for you know, wisdom teeth just getting removed. And I've had a couple other injuries since then where I just it's like I'll just go this route because you're made to feel bad. Now if you want painkillers, it's really weird. Yeah right, And I don't want to get hooked. Yeah right. And so they did eventually call it.

I spoke to another doctor and she was very nice, and she was like, I don't know if I can call it in, but I'll try, and she did, and so I got but all I took was the one pill because I like, I don't I just need enough so I fall asleep tonight, you know. Uh. And then after that it was fine. So I was just taking the tiling off. So yeah, and well and before that, I'm glad that because before that I've been in that situation.

What I had to do was get a Vegas suite, two hookers, and a pile of crack and then a gun and then like like it was, you know, this therapy that I had worked out and it worked for me, but you know I should try that every time. Yeah, No, it's fun. Yeah, you might need to put me on the plane, though I might need some help from her to get me on the plane. Today, I see, Okay, all right, So yesterday just because we got to get into this, so yesterday you get Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin,

and and here's the thing. Everyone's like, see, we told you he was going to propagandize his position, and I'm like, no, everybody knew that in the same way that Zelenski doing all those photo ops is about instilling like this is and any with the exception, although I've come to this conclusion with the exception maybe of democrats in the US and European liberals who would readily denounce their own position seemingly to pander and and you know, do the

struggle session with people. I didn't expect anything less from Vladimir Putin that he was going to come in and be like, I'm right, here's what I think. That's not new. And yet that seems to be what they're trying to hang Tucker on, including a discussion I saw on Twitter yesterday where a lawyer was handicapping whether he could be charged with the Espionage Act leadership in the EUSE and they may put a travel ban on him. So was it so

extraordinary as to elicit this response will start with the Putin stuff. No, No, he just no, he got an interview with a foreign leader that nobody likes. And if that's if that is beyond the pale. Well, I mean, join the long list of journalistic outfits for the last century that have gotten interviews with foreign leaders that people don't like. This is something that journalists actually celebrate when they get these interviews. They've been a lot out of

them being alten I remember watching was at Mike Wallace. I can't remember who interview John Miller interviewing him, and then they interviewed remember slogan on Melosovich. This is this is a dude who was actively being sought for prosecution for genocide, and he was on one of the CBS news I think it is what it was. Yeah, right, it's a convenient cudgel for the media and

Democrats. But I repeat myself to beat the snot out of Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump and everybody on the right as being you know, putin loving uh anti American insurrectionists. That's the saw. Yeah, what I saw, I'm sorry. What I saw was a dude who I absolutely believes has his enemies killed, who longs for the days of the USSR and views it as in the same perspective. I think some Americans would that if we had, like if the US had collapsed at the end of the Cold War, there'd be

a lot of people very nostalgic. And that is all Putin approaches things because those even though he's richer than he's ever been, those were the good old days. But never for a moment do I think he's a good guy or anyone I would want to be in an elevated window near. So it didn't

change anything. Did anything change for you? Sorry? Go ahead? And the other I think no. The other thing, just real quick to keep in mind is that you know, people are expecting or demanding the Tucker Carlson, you know, do some you know, hardball interview with Vladimir Putin, Like you are aware that he will throw you out the window if you ask him stuff that he deems to be inappropriate. There are people literally in jail

right now in uh in Russia for committing acts of journalism. So like to fix on this was always in but for Tucker Carlson, like he's using Putin in order to get the interview, so he gets an audience. That's I mean, And that's I'm not saying that to detigrate the guy. That's what media does. This is a big get This is an international news story that he got to sit down with Vladimir Putin and do this interview. So yeah,

he uses Putin and Putin uses him. Oh my gosh, the shocking nature of media, Right and CNN at their initial position was nobody should be talking to him, and then when Carlson put that teas around and said, you know, nobody's none of the mainstreams. That woman is on CNN weeping, I can't remember her name, damn near in tears, saying we keep asking for an interview, and it's like, hold on, what's your position then, but which is it? Yeah? Right, Well, it's the

same thing with the border deal. Right, it's like, it's not a crisis, border secure, not a crisis, border secure. We keep hearing that for three years, and then as soon as the bill fails, then it's, oh my gosh, the Republicans don't want the border secure. Well

wait a minute, I thought it was secure. What's the deal. It's like Joe Biden being accused of being elderly and feeble minded, so we can't prosecute him, and then the Democrats are like, no, he's not okay, so wait a minute, so you should prosecute him, is that what you're arguing for, Like these positions are just completely ridiculously illogically contradictory all the time, and but that that position is morphed because you're right, I did

see that initially, or they're like, no, that's not fair. And then people I saw some were scooting to the Uh it's a Republican conspiracy because is the special prosecutor? Is Trump pulled over or whatever? And I'm like, all right, so if you think that he was going all in to get Biden, Uh, the they chose not to either also charge the people around him, including that ghost saw the ghostwriter or direted those those videos, right, which is almost on the nose for what some of the Trump people

were charged over basically basically video evidence being deleted. So I mean, it still appears that there's a double standard, and I but I want to go

forward. D Chess. Do you think that people around we know, the people around Joe Biden would never tell him that he's that anything's wrong, right, But like, and that's got to be tough because like if you're by I almost felt bad for Biden because like nobody's gonna tell him he's screwing up and one of the reactions that people have to cognitive decline his anger understandably.

So so letting him go out was that his idea because I can't believe anyone would recommend it, or did somebody recommend it because two birds won stone. It gets him out of there, and it simultaneously detracts from anything that was on the Putent Tucker thing. So how conspiratorial do you want to go on?

Why he took the podium yesterday and talked about the Mexican president not opening the gates and the Sinai Peninsula. Yeah, well, I think you know, I saw somebody on Twitter, Sonny right say that denial is not just a river in Mexico, So yeah, yeah, so I think. Look, I don't know. I think Joe Biden, when he demands something, I think staff to first, right. I think that they they do a lot. If he says I want to go out there, I want to say, you know what, I want to say, I could do this

news conference. I do think that that they let him do that, So I have to I got to believe that they allowed him to do this. They may have tried to talk him out of it, and we're not successful. But what I'm seeing quotes like at Axios and these are all, of course, you know, anonymous quotes, but they've got one from a quote former Biden aide who said taking the nomination away from Biden is like taking the car keys away from your parents. And look, I do a lot of

work with the Alzheimer's Association. My grandfather died of Alzheimer's years ago. We had that conversation with him to taking the car keys away, and anybody who has had this in their lives, they know. And I've been saying this for years. When I look at Joe Biden, I look at the spatial expressions, but more importantly, there's a look in his eye that comes and goes, and I recognize that look, and I don't know what to call it. It's sort of like a like a gleaming kind of distant stare that

the eyes kind they kind of go to. And when I see that, that reminds me of my grandfather. And I've noticed that for years. And I don't say this in order to denigrate the guy. I'm not trying to be mean. Actually said that there are people around him that continue to have him in these situations because they don't want to give up the grail. That's

what to me, that's what's occurring. And so he goes out there and he starts yelling at people, and he presents himself as this irritable, elderly old man with memory issues, and the whole point was to go out there and disabuse people of this notion. So, and by the way, there is a term for this. It's called sundowners where and in that same Axios piece, you've got a Democrat house member saying, you know, why would they let him go out this time of night, and you know, do

this thing? He should have done it in the morning when he's fresh again. That's sundowners. So there are obviously people around him and in the know in Democrat circles, they understand what's going on. The fact that they continue to allow the country to be led by him and his aids the people around him, that to me is the danger. That's a d the argument. Yeah, But the argument on that is he's not leading it, right, so they can justify it by going, no, he's not the guy making

decisions. We have like aren't they bringing Axel Road back for something I saw? But it's like it's the same cats that have been hanging out there since the Clinton administration. Right, yeah, so in their minds, well, they know what to do, and you know, we hold on to the power and he doesn't push back, and which is very devious, right well, and dangerous before that very reason, which is that he is now a

scapegoat. Right if we assume the premise that other people and these aids and people around him are actually running the show, and they're doing it without his knowledge because he's either incapable of understanding it or they keep him in the dark or whatever, the effect is still the same right where they're running the show. If anything goes wrong, they make a bad decision, whatever, they're

gonna blame him comes the scapegoat. And that means then that they are there are machinations involved that we don't know and who the players are and what their motives are. Right with at least with him, if you know that he is competent and he's all there and he's in charge, then you know kind

of what his motives can be, which would be to win reelection. But if we don't know what the leader's motives are anymore, now, now that's a dangerous situation because they can just kind of pin it all on him, make terrible decisions and enrich themselves or put the country in a bad spot and they and they can then skate on that. Yeah, last question, just real quick. I got about a minute. Did you see that in Alabama?

As somebody stole a radio station's tower in the middle of the well the headline, but then I never I never followed up and read the piece. I'm astounded. Would they just do it for the medal? I guess, is that what they're doing? But I looked at it, and we even looked up on Google matt it wasn't in the middle of nowhere. It's like on the edge of town, next to like a holiday inn and a mattress firm and like some government offices, and it's you know, it's an FM.

Uh, state just stole the tower. Is it like a conservative news talker? Like, no, it's not like a local oldies and news. You know, it's very small towns. You know, they're doing stuary and stuff like that. But yeah, they stole their whole tower, man. And uh, the industriousness of crackheads is astounding. Man. If that's what in fact, what it was, but uh, we'll leave it there.

And uh, well, I'm glad you're feeling better. We told everyone you got shot with a cannonball and we're on horse, so we'll do that. I mean, that is what it felt like. Yeah, okay, all right, man, I have a good one old time k c O DA radio program in case you need more than you know the future of the country and beating your family and who the hell knows what else to worry about. I'd like to introduce mutant wolves of Chernobyl, but in a pot positive light.

Hear me out, So this story right here, mutant wolves roaming Chernobyl exclusion zone have developed cancer resilient abilities. All right. So one of the things in and around Chernobyl is wolves and was it wild hogs that both when they study them, they still have elevated levels of radioactivity that far exceed would we would consider healthy. So it's not the first time they talked about it.

But in studying them, they've also figured out that the animals, because they are obviously inundated, right, this is this is what adaption looks like. They're inundated in this environment where their body's normal reaction is to you know, get cancer, right, that's what radioactivity does. They have started to literally adapt to it, and it is that adaptation that scientists are discovering.

Is how wild is it? Now? Who the hell knows? Right, I don't know if this is gonna pan out or it's true even really other than in a speculative way, but like, can you imagine this world of the inability to historically provide perspective on things? Can you imagine if what cures cancer turns out to be the Chernobyl disaster? That's just I don't know,

it's kind of crazy to me. Man. It's like, yeah, we've used this incident a couple others to essentially handcuff the world from utilizing nuclear energy. Right, every time somebody brings it up, some moonbat with a flower

in their hair is like, remember Chernobyl, Remember Chernobyl? And then they also go remember three Mile Island. You're like, yeah, that worked out was supposed to, right, they had a problem, they had this this thing going critical and then they implemented the the protocols there and it didn't. But going back to Chernobyl, yeah, like if that kick starts cancer research, that's going to be awkward. But Hey, look, any anything,

anything that you got that kills cancer. I mean, if you think that that's a valid way to explore it, uh, you know, by all means, I just how'd you like to be the person who has to go wrangle the the the radioactive wolves. Like, can you think of a worse job? There's the guy who mops at the you know, with the adult bookstore, and then there's the hey man, like you think your day at work sucks? Can you imagine Bill? Come? I will just say his

name is Bill. Probably not because this is in Ukraine, but it comes in. They're like, Bill, we need two more radioactive wolves. And is just shredded. And I don't mean in the workout way. All right,

go get two more radioactive wolves. Let's see, in fact, evolutionary biologists and eco toxologists toxicologistscuse me, it's a title, say that they have been since twenty fourteen capturing and studying these wolves, and I have noticed that literally they've started to not react and form cancers to the extent that they used to. It's just kind of incredible. I just wanted to kind of throw that in the mix. All right, let me get back over to this

because we are quickly running out of time. We have a cancelation. This is this is going to hit your kids hard, especially as the weather gets nicer. But unfortunately we have no cancelation. So now parents need to not allow their kids to play on carousels. Activists have decided that your kids, well, I don't know your kid's favorite carnival ride, but definitely one of the most iconic, which of course is the carousel, usually with the horses.

But yeah, they make with all sorts of things, but in its purest form. The protesters have targeted Chance Rides, which is a Kansas based company and is the largest manufacturer of carousels in the country, claiming the organization that uses designs of horses and other animals is unintentionally celebrating the exploitation of animals, training kids that horses are to be ridden and it is to be a joyful experience. Proven once again that there will be no fun had here.

And by the way, why are they only going after the horse one? Correct me if I'm wrong, Ross, But at Disney, can't you force an elephant to fly you around? Isn't that a ride there? Oh? It definitely is. Yeah, yeah, wow, much of them. You were exploiting baby elephants? Is that true? Did you do that when you were at the park? Oh? Completely? Oh man, Like, what

the hell are you talking about? It's it's it's intentionally because the alternative is ponies, right right, So if you want to put a kid on there, you can take the kid to the carousel where they're carved out of wood or made out of you know whatever, or you can get them an actual pony. Have you ever been you ever been to a pony riding operation? Right? Well, that's just it. That's what it is all day. There's no life in those horses eyes. Man, So the wood altern it.

You should be celebrating this, but no, we got to cancel those So no having fun and Ingrid Newkirk, as president of PETE, has quote in this article saying that quote children learn through play and teaching, and you need to teach them to have respect and compassion for all living feeling beans. Well, do you think the kids think those horses are real? That I don't have little kids. Is there a period where they go through with like, oh, these are real horses? Because I think I think they don't.

I think they recognize it for what it is even as little kids, But hey, what do I know? All right? Eight forty three Here on the CaCO Day radio program, Bloomberg Update, Jeff Bellinger, what's going on today? Good morning, Casey. The major averages made modest advances yesterday, and it looks like we'll start out higher this morning. S and P futures are up thirteen. Nasdaq futures or up sixty five. The Dow futures are up seventy four. If these numbers hold, this could be the day

we go above five thousand on the S and P five hundred. New rules may not mean we'll get fewer robocalls, but if callers follow the rules, and that's a big if we can be sure we're not listening to fake messages generated by artificial intelligence. The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to outlaw calls that use AI generated voices. Entirely simulated voices are banned, and so are those that imitate a real person. You mail reported yesterday, the consumers here in

the US received nearly four point three billion robocalls last month. The global shipping giant Marisk issued a profit warning today, Marsk saying its earnings are going to take a hit this year because of the double whammy from attacks in the Red Sea and industry over capacity. There's a recall you may need to know about handheld clothing Steamer sold under the Steamfast, Ornado and Sharper Image brand names being

recalled because of a serious burn hazard. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the recall involves about two million steamer sold since two thousand and nine by Walmart, Amazon, Bedbath and Beyond and other retailers. Experts are still struggling to get a handle on exactly how artificial intelligence is affecting the nation's workforce. Casey.

Since last May, companies have announced they were cutting forty six hundred jobs, either to free up resources to hire more AI specialists or because AI had replaced tasks. But the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas says that numbers definitely and undercount. Because layoffs attributed to AI gets so much attention, employers generally don't mention the technology when they announced cutbacks. Challenger says the firms would rather

fly under the radar. Casey, all right, thank you, Jeff. You're doing a tailor swift theme. Does super Party Sunday now? With my schedule, I'll be I'll be in bed before the game even starts. Uh yeah yeah. Our weather guy, his wife took over and it's it's pretty horrible, man, So we're pulling for him. But what are you gonna do? All right? Thank you, Jeff, appreciate it all right, have a nice weekend. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jeff Ellinger, Bloomberg

News. There. Speaking of football, I I know you guys have uh Bill's fans have been dealt a series of disrespectful stories kind of it's like almost part of your guys's image at this point, you know, Josh Allen, MVPCE at whatever. But the fact that your dude didn't win Comeback Player of the Year DeMar Hamlin versus Joe Flacco. They gave that award out yesterday.

How does that work? Joe Flacco came back from what his couch right because he was out and then brought in what mid season, and then your dude came back from death, came back from the dark void of death, Like what, what's the dame? I'm sorry, a Comeback Player of the Year. I feel like that wins, but it didn't win. So sorry, you got a little sidetracked. There. Although actually, now that I'm on a sports tangent, one other thing, dude, what is going on with

the Saudis. So they they're awarding their top their top award for sports right within the Riad Soccer League or whatever it is, which is you know, is not the Premier league. But they have so much money. It kind of is like, remember that's where the Portuguese so much I know about soccer, Rinaldo, Right, didn't he go play with her? All right? But so you did all that. You have unlimited funds at least for now, and so you can do things like have the Undertaker be the trophy percenter

at your thing. Dude, I'm telling you, man, it must be good to have an endless spigot of money. Yeah, and they recently they did they did a crown jewel of it now with wrestling with the wrestler Like right, yeah, I said, like, if I'm ever kidnapped by Saudis, like if that ever happens, right, there's a good chance it could, right yeah, right? If I kidding that by the Saudis. The first thing I do, I just start talking about wrestling and the like a

week I'm like a shaw or however, it works over there. I don't know that that's how it works. Yeah, full disclosure. Not really sure how it works over time. But what I'm saying is I would get around and get away safely. I don't think they have a shot. Let go whatever you go. There's an opening. Yeah, and still you're right away. But if you're the Shaw, you got to you gotta open all your speeches with death to America, so like, you know, you got to

come to terms with that, all right. So that's Ross's kidnapp plan. He's gonna talk wrestling. Somebody said it and they're not inaccurate. They're like the Saudis are like, what would happen if a ten year old had unlimited money or just or me or you? Right, you know what I'm saying, just doing stupid stuff. Yeah, you're like, oh what if what do we get the Undertaker to raise the trophy to his theme music? Yeah, it'll be amazing, but can you imagine how big that check was too

for him to do that? Hey? You know what, because he doesn't get off his ass for a lot to do a lot these days, he's retired, so the check had to be just massive, like life changing. But it was more than that, because it wasn't just they didn't just pay this dude this year to lift trophies, didn't they? What was it? This was it last year they paid him to come and almost get his back broken? Yeah? Was that the Yeah? Yeah a few years back, but that was over in Saudi Arabia, wasn't I think? So? Yeah?

Yeah, Like the Undertaker showed up and you're like, oh my gosh, he's gonna die. Nothing personal, but it just it looked really bad. So