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Cacoday radio program Glad to Have You along. I was, I was just telling Ross off the air. Well, obviously, I feel like if I had to average it out, I would say about once a week there is a story where I go to do we need to do people not know that this is not a thing you should do. And I'll give you an example yesterday and you can still see the video if you want. I didn't think people needed reminded of this, but you had a woman at her son's funeral

in a club and dress tworking on his grave. Again, people grieve differently. But then they filmed it, they put it on the internets, and and I didn't think at any point I had to remind folks that's probably not a good look. But it used to be about once a week we'd have a story like that. What are some other examples? There was one one actually earlier this week. I'm like, I need to do we need to remind people of this? But now I feel like it's every other day or

something. And you know, in some instances, I'm fine with that because it just means, you know, probably more Florida Man stories, stupid stuff, but some of it is truly ghastly, and to prove my point, let me. I was just I literally was just reading this before the show, and I'm gonna I'm gonna turn this into a quiz. So and it's not just horrific human behavior, but also it's a learning opportunity. And I don't know, maybe maybe we can curb some of these things because I'm torn.

Those are always those stories always do well, They always do well, all right, Rosier by Guinea Pig. Two question quiz you ready? Very easy? I know it's early, but it's Friday. Whatever, let's do this question, numeral. You know what is the first rule of fight club? I don't even know what you're talking about? Okay, very good, very good. That's sure. That's called passing kids. Almost he's halfway there. What is I can't believe I'm having to formulate this sentence? What is

the first rule? I want to make sure I have the the deats absolutely accurate. What is the first rule of special education? Classroom? Fight club? What is that? Do you know what that person? I don't know what that is, but it sounds horrific and it should not exist. Yeah, it's actually and I know a lot of people aren't up on this. So it is if this teacher, after going through our constitutionally protected criminal justice, if this is guilty, you want to keep this so secret that you

bury that person under the prison. So in case you didn't know Indianapolis, by the way, do you want to guess the grade or grade range, I'd probably say like kindergarten or pre k or something elementary. Yeah, they

went elementary, so not quite high school, but elementary. An Indianapolis elementary school teacher orchestrated a fight club style punishment between classmates, including a seven year old That was his mom who brought this to the attention of the school, although not entirely because not only is his teacher, Julius Johnakin, alleged to have essentially set this up, but also filmed it, filmed it and put

it up there so people could see it. The child's mother folt of lawsuit with Marion County against the teacher from George Washington Carver School, alleging the teacher condoned other students to duke it out in the classroom on multiple occasions to solve differences. And let me approach this from somebody obviously who is wholly on the

outside looking at I don't have kids, none of that. But but I there was a girl I dated who was a special ed teacher and she come home with wounds man because of some of the issues that she was dealing with with some of her students. She loved what she did and still she still teaches special ed up in Minnesota, but she so like a big thing with her students was dealing with some of the physical stuff that manifests with some of

the students in that class. So the idea, when you're already dealing with that, that you would then be like, you know what, let's do a fight club. I'm a film this world star. Baby, I'm gonna I want to go very deep under the prison if we could. Yeah, it looks like uh, mom and father, life looks like your kid won. So you know, there is that small thing. Uh. The mother inquired because she thought she thought her son came home and was like, hey,

you know what we did today? This because he had some marks on him. No, I mean that's understandable. I mean, because you're having a special special needs child, sometimes they will come home like that where it's like because sometimes it's another student will do it. Like you said, they have they have emotional outbursts, and Lincoln sonded himself, he like, you know, it's the uh, his big trigger in the classroom. It is, you know, the phone in the class the phone in all the sound

that the phone makes. It's not necessarily the tone that it makes, but it's the unpredictability of what it's going to be. So it'll randomly be like he calls it the heat heat sound, it'll go like he heat, and it'll cause him to have like a major meltdown, like an emotional meltout. And they've tried to stop before, and he's he grabbed a ta's wrist and

broke her Apple eye watch wristband, which we paid back. But there's been times when he's come back and the teacher will be like, hey, he has this on his back or he has this on his arm, and it's

because another student had an outburst, and we completely understand it. And for them to have this fight club for special needs children like this in like elementary school, that's right at the age where like if they did come home, there might be some plausible deniability there where you'd be like, oh, well, like if they did say, hey, the teacher had to fight ourselves. You might be like, Okay, well he's making this up. It's

his imagination. It's not really happening, because that is absolutely insane. Mom didn't believe it. Kid was coming home and like, you didn't you guys didn't have a fight club, right, come on, and actually you know, and it was like, I don't believe it, but you know, eventually went and tried to get to school administry to you know, answer her questions, and they just ignored her. And at first she at first she's like, no, that's insane, that didn't happen. And then I guess

her kid backtrack, probably thinking he was going to get in trouble. And it took about two months and then a video emerged and mom lost her crap, and the school still ignored her for two more months, even though she pulled her kid out. In the video, which is awful, a suspected classmate is seen throwing repeated punches at her son while shouting don't mess with me. In the background, the teacher yells and I quote, that's right.

You get him to the kid beating up this woman's son. Toward the end of the clip, the attacker boy tells the teacher quote, and I'm gonna get him again. Johnakin, it's the teacher still filming, replies, I know you want to get him. When he does those things, you get him, so you know at least twenty feet under the prison. And by the way, it's it's like in kill Bill. And I'm assuming the teacher hasn't trained with pie May, so we should be good to go if convicted.

This is alleged, even though there's a video, which I'm not going to play you. It's it's just awful. You get that transcript, I'm not Jonakin. The teacher told Indiana Department of Child Services that the two students were sometimes friends but sometimes had negative engagements. Okay, well that's kids, specially at kids or not specially at kids. Right, but there's video of

you hype manning the kid beating up the other kid. When I asked about the video, he claimed it was a recording to have proof of what was happening, and finally admitted that he had quote run out of patience to interfere in the melee. How does do how does this guy end up in a classroom? Yeah, not just a classroom, but a special needs classroom.

It's just it's mine. The like Lincoln's teacher, I'm saying, like it's a special sort of person, that's the deal, Like incredible people, incredible patients, right, so you don't belong there, and that the fact that they put him there is just nuts, dude. And you know, you know what, and I'll be I'll be directly honest. Do you know what likely led to me in that special ed teacher not work out is she was way too nice a person for me, Like like I don't have that level

of patience or any of the rest, and she did. And uh that was crazy, absolutely like coming home and like her arm would be all ripped up. A kid hit her with a plastic knife one time, and she's just like, yeah, you know, we're working on some stuff, blah blah blah. I'm just like, oh my gosh, I yell at people on the radio and and you're out there doing that. I didn't used to

be patient. I will say that Lincoln has made me a lot more patient than I used to be, like looking back now, because yeah, there's certain things that you just it just it is what it is. Man. I know a lot of people hate that saying like I hate that but you just learn to roll with it. Man, and you got you gotta be patient because if you're not patient and you're not understandable, you're gonna lose your

mind. Well, you don't have a choice, right, No, you know you have to have to. You either go and say and you become gandhi. It's one of the two, all right. Well, like road rage doesn't have I don't get I'm patient in traffic. I'll take my time or lines or stuff. It doesn't So in that way, it's been a blessing because learning how to have patience is a great thing to have. Yeah, I kind of like yelling at idiots on the road. I don't know, but I'm but not like crazy, chase him down and let's do this

thing. I don't know. I feel it's like cathartic. But I don't yell. I just comment in an even voice but horrible words. And that's still it's a hobby. But I mean, I might look at the guy and be like, look at this guy, but that's the extent of it. Yeah, look at this idiot, But I'm not like, no, I want to roll you up the road. You you know what's even worse, is it wasn't just this teacher. They came to find out as they dug into this, that a substitute teacher who specialized in, you know,

being the sub for special at knew all about it. Yeah yeah, yeah. In fact, that teacher is quoted here in an exchange with the the So this is the substitute teacher's communicating with the main teacher who was filming this. When asked, are you uncomfortable with this, replied quote, special needs students are demonic possessed. I don't care. Wow. The substitutent also allegedly texted quote, they're bad kids. This is what you do. What an

awful person? I mean, just the two of these in like, I'm not for some of the stuff they do in North Korea, but right, but you might consider the mortar field here. No, that's too nic because that would be instant, you know what I'm saying. It's just like when hey, I mean and I'm missed, right, No, no, no,

no, something else and again go through the process. Here, let's see here, uh, in this thing, she's probably she should probably own the school district after this, According to the mother, during the three months when she initially contacted because Remember she didn't contact right away, She just yeah, she thought her kid was at the very least embellishing right and was reassured. But then after two months of being ignored, the mom started digging into

this stuff. And let's see, was repeatedly informed by the district, including the principle and the superintendent, that quote it was that was not true. It was her child who was disruptive, lying, and they suggested that he be diagnosed with perhaps disordered personality afflictions or perhaps a more expansive diagnose of ADHD.

You know, a similar thing happened to Lincoln when he was in pre K. A bunch of the student and I'm not going to mention the teacher no longer works in the district and doesn't work in general as far as I know, but there was a bunch of times that he would come home and we were like those are and we were just assuming it was another student because of the difficulties we've already mentioned, and I we were asking about it,

weren't getting any answers, weren't getting any answers, and we weren't and I eventually had to get Dan Forrests help with this issue. And it turns out the teacher, it was this pre k teacher was abusing the children, and my god, but it took us forever to get any answers. Like it's like I was sending emails and sending emails though the parents. I remember, I don't remember. I don't I remember. I didn't ask you all of

the details, but you had said something was going on. And when Dan was doing one of his things, I know you talked to him, but I didn't. I didn't pry on that. But that's horrible, And you know what, let's let's get everybody together for my first rule of fight Club. There you go Friday morning, and that's what I was sitting there reading five minutes before the show. All right, let me do this because there is no way I'm going to pair another story with this. But we'll take

a break, i'll come back. I'll give you a rundown of some of the stuff we're going to get into, including our conversation with Pete Calender chat with him. Since it's Friday, that'll be our number three eight oh five. But you listen, because you're a good citizen to all three hours of the show, So just you know, stay tuned. For a very long time, and we'll get to that and all sorts of insanity, but that might be the insanity takes the cake. All right, we'll be back.

Hang on, all right, welcome back. It is six thirty five. I'm gonna dig We'll dig deeper into this, or I guess we'll redig into this, because I am going to give you the details now. But this story about Mark Robinson's wife is, and especially the outlet that wrote this story, this is fascinating to me. It's horrible if true, but it's also fascinating. And I was surprised wr L wrote this story, So kudos on that one, because unless there's something I'm missing here, this is I think

she's she might be right. I don't know. I mean, I'm not there for all of this, but I think she might be right because initially I saw this and I was like, you know, people exaggerate in the world of politics, and I don't know Mark's wife. I'm trying to think if I've ever met her. I think I did. Where did I meet her somewhere for just a for just a few minutes, and I've interacted with throughout social media. Seems like a very nice woman and I I, I,

you know, I don't feel that this is exaggerated. And what was interesting to me, and this is kind of crazy, is the fact that Ral seems to acknowledge that there might be something here makes me think that there's a lot of something there and they just they just you know, wrote it in the way that they did. Like, is that a weird barometer to use over the veracity of a story When you see an outlet who you feel might be unsympathetic to an individual who writes the story that I feel was kind

of fair. That's where we are in the world of journalism, all right, So you don't know what's up. And then when I said, we'll read to this because we're gonna be talking to Pete about this for sure, coming up at eight oh five, but I want to get into this now, remind her phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven fours. So first line of the story, here's the claim. The second Lady of North Carolina says a state agency targeted her nonprofit because of who her husband

is. All right, look, that's that's a big claim. That's a big claim because you're claiming the thing I thought that used to make everybody skin crawl because it's it's it's a tactic from not America, right, this is you know, these are the these I understand that it happens one hundred percent obviously, but like it goes so against the ideals of how this is supposed to work, even knowing that the reality on the ground is this stuff happens,

and it happens a lot more than you think in a variety of different ways. And it doesn't just happen because you're the wife of Mark Robinson. It can happen because you're a bloviating idiot on the radio. It could happen because your neighbor doesn't like how you park your card. You know what I'm saying. And they happen to work for they have a semblance of power that

they can use against you. But this is so on the nose. So Mark's wife's name is Yolanda by the way, all right, so anyway, Yolanda Hill said earlier this month that she and tended to shut down Balanced Nutrition. Okay, so for those of you who don't know, his wife runs a nonprofit and and by the way, this isn't some Clinton Foundation disaster set

up following Mark's election. She's she was doing this well before any of any of us knew Mark Robinson save probably a few people in Greensboro who knew Mark Robinson. But you know what I mean? The nonprofit, I what is it? Is it? An? It's uh sorry sorry, I started scrolling down and I wasn't ready. All right, Balance Nutrition where she has run

this charity for nearly a decade. Okay, so this is back when Mark's still I don't know, working at the furniture factory, teased off because the city of Greensboro decides, oh, maybe we shouldn't have a gun show at the colliseum. Oh and he's like, no, no, not having that. And you know that was the that was the the the pathway to office. But all of this precedes him. Balance Nutrition, by the way, is works with basically if you're a person who qualifies for federal food subsidies,

that those are the folks that they work with. Okay, and I don't I don't know the totality of what they do, but that's the that's the the realm in which they operate. In fact, let me read the descript the exact description. Balance Nutrition helps adult or childcare centers in the triad that qualify for federal food subsidies. Okay, so in some way, shape or form, that's what they do. But it doesn't matter what they do.

They've been doing something that it wasn't a problem for a decade and now this So let's get to where this gets weird really quick, because you're probably asking yourself, well, how do you prove that? How do you prove that?

Lois Learner. Let me use an example that woman in Texas with her organization, which is so weird by the way, because I actually met that woman just really odd, visiting my buddy in Houston and we went to something where that woman was and I had met her and it was just a passing thing because I don't live in Texas. I'm like, okay this event, and it was like her and Mattress Mac if you don't know who that is, that's the guy who owns the furniture stories, who does the big bets

every year. And I remember there was conversation about how all of their nonprofit stuff was getting stymied, and you know, the suspicion was that somebody at the IRS was doing that. And then you know, crazily like months later, boom, we got the lowest leerner story and no accountability. But this is a little different. Hill said, I didn't know her, don't know

her personally. That person as she is referring to works for the d DHHS Department of Health and Human Services, And according to Hill, the employee, in February of twenty twenty three, so over a year ago, started sending her colleagues Hill's Mark's wife's social media photos that showed her standing next to Mark because that's her husband. Crazy stuff, right, and started setting that around.

And let's see, she used her state cell phone to send that picture to her colleagues on their cell phones, writing quote, look who this is? Look who her husband is? Her husband is Mark Robinson. The employee then told colleagues that Hill quote misled her about her husband's identity. Day. I don't know the conversation, but what is your your damn business who her

husband's identity is. I mean, now, obviously you care because he's a lieutenant governor, and obviously it sounds like you may have a problem with him. But Mark has since assuming office, according to his office, has not in any way, shape or form, helped in any way with the business. I guess he probably did I don't know to what extent before he was lieutenant governor, but recognizing that since her nonprofit in part deals with government funding,

that it would be improper for him to do that. Plus he's lieutenant governor, he's got stuff to do, okay, So if she doesn't want to get into who her husband is, because for all practical purposes, he doesn't have anything to do with it, that's it's a little weird, right, Well, it's gonna get more weird. The person who reportedly circulated those images is DHHS child Nutrition assistant. I don't know exactly what they do,

but sounds like that's probably someone you would interact with. Woman by the name of Joyce Bonner. Bonner was later in charge of reviewing balanced nutrition and the case was assigned to a different specialist in March, obviously after some of this happened. And for those of you going, well, how does she know this? Well, remember how I said it doesn't matter who her husband is. If people are doing stuff on state phones, lieutenant governor gets wind of

it, he probably has a pretty easy time tracking it down. And if the irony is if he in fact helped and I don't know that he did some Moonbat's probably gonna be like, oh, it was improper. It was improper, So I don't know the backstory. I mean, I'm gonna ask you about this next time we talked, but let's see here. So as

a result, then they started they opened reviews on Mark's wife's nonprofit. So now they're putting under that same government microscope like they're doing to you know, the people want to do business with Trump for the bond or anyone really who is ever photographed near a Republican seemingly in March. In March, a letter from d HHS asked Hill for a broad array of financial documents, including bank

statements, tax records, internal records of transactions. There's also a report of what I kind of skipped over when she said this woman was see misleading her about her husband's identity. The way the conversation sounds, and I guess maybe other colleagues may have spoken to Yolanda or to Mark, she's really cheese because it's it's soft sold in this story. It's very clear that this person had

a problem with Mark Robinson, which is fine. You don't have to like whoever the elected officials are, but this is this is Russia's stuff, right, getting the goon squad to go, and oh, well, you know, we can't do anything to him, But how about that meddling wife of his. I mean, that's not stuff we expect here. That's that's China stuff. That's you know, take him to the farm up state and you know, dig through his life and ruin it kind of stuff. Let's see

Robinson they quote in the story here. Robinson, who hadn't worked for the nonprofit since entering office, has been criticized by conservatives as hypocritical. This is this is what a line to put into this story, a story that is predicated on what may or may not be a giant abuse of power by a government employee. And now you want to dig into beef with Robinson in the middle of it. It sounds like you're justifying it. Just my two cents,

Robinson. But here's what it's about. Robinson, who has been criticized because it appears hypocritical for condemning government spending while his wife and other family members have derived income from an organization who does receive funding from the federal government. I always love this too. I love this argument where they're like, well, you know, if you were going to vote against the spending and you didn't win the vote, so but you know, don't you shouldn't avail yourself

of it. And that's not the correct answer. Now, that is dealing with the situation as it exists. That's rolling with it, Like I don't like all aspects of it, and I think that I think that there's a lot of things who could identify that. You know, frankly I wouldn't fund.

But if they exist, and they exist to the extent that they do, you know, you're saying, you're sitting there and it's like it's it's like it's like utilizing public services when you're one of these a cab idiots, Right, I understand why you're calling Yeah you can, You're you're gonnappear a little hypocritical, but I think you're wrong on the issue, So I understand

why you use it. I just chuckle that you're spitting on a cop one minute and then calling him over not being able to go change your tamp on the next, looking at you, Vanderbilt. But yeah, let's you know, stick that right in there. Then the end of that story. That's wonderful. Uh. A spokesman for Robinson's campaign said the Lieutenant Governor's office didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Uh. Tyler Brooks, he's a he's a lawyer, uh in Greensboro. He he is Yolanda's lawyer. Uh.

He didn't respond to a request for comment either. That's good. Nobody should call Rio. I've told many people who'd he mark this? So, but yeah, I don't out check. We'll tweet the link out, check it out. And again, what's what's strange here is like I was surprised they did this story, but it also sounds like she may have some receipts and we need answers and the DH Chess director at the very least should address

this to Mark and probably publicly now that this thing's out there. Uh here we and then it's just what's crazy is then they use it's like that's the first half of the article, what that is? And then the second half is just digging into digging into her nonprofit, I mean literally doing the thing that they're accusing this this government employee of doing, which we used to all

find repugnant. But now when we live in an area, in an era where we have you know, the the all of the Trump insanity right where the majority, the vast majority of Americans think it's political, like seventy some percent, and that includes a bunch of Democrats. The difference is they may think it's political, but like it that we're having this conversation right here.

Uh all right, so here and then they go the tax filing show the organization paid out more than seven hundred thousand in salaries and wages the most recent publicly available data. Let's see here Hill. All right, so Hill appears, well, yes, she runs a nonprofit. She probably is the largest payroll. All right, So according to documents, Hill appears to have earned three hundred and nineteen thousand dollars over three and a half years. Non sorry

is it three and a half on this it might just be three. Yeah, it's three. So she as the head of this organization. And remember that's going to be salary plus the cost of benefits. Okay, so whatever this, I have to remind people of this. It's not just the salary when you're looking at this, it is the totality of the cost to the individual employee. So I know what I make, you know what you make but if you have you know, employee insurance and really just compliance costs in

general, that number is substantially higher. So should the totality of somebody who's the head of a nonprofit be just over one hundred thousand a year? Well maybe, depending on the size of what they're doing, depending on how much of that is not straight salary but other stuff. I don't know that sounds reasonable to me, because you know, what do you what are you talking?

Maybe so maybe here pays what seventy seventy five, which is look, it's a good wage, but I don't know, and they start slicing and dicing through it. It's ugly stuff, man, but check it out.

We'll be right back hang on. So, as I'm sitting there and I'm just kind of putting together some of the rollover stuff, you know, like things who didn't get to the last couple of days and how it ties into, which is a normal process every day, but it's just been like there's just so much stupidity in the news this week, Like every time I say I'm gonna roll something, we have a John Cougar Mellencamp cut that's just been chilling on the button bar for what three days. Oh, it is wild

times out there. And this story about Mark Robinson's wife who just real quick and then into the calls. The short version is his wife, Yolanda, for more than a decade has run a nonprofit in the Triad. And you know, before anyone, you know, knew Mark on the political scene and everything, you know, everything was fine. And then now we have her claiming that she was targeted by d HHS employee in state North Carolina state office

employee. And she also apparently has receipts so showing that the the employee in question posted fun literally took photos off of her social media and sent them around to her colleagues saying can you believe this woman? She tried to she tried to not be forthright with me about who her husband was. And it sounds like the story sounds like the employee doesn't light Mark, which again she's that's you're well within your right, but when you work for the government, you

don't pull this crap. This is this is jackboot stuff, man, This is this is this is what putin yearns to get back to under a more formal setting. Now, don't don't get me wrong, he does this anyway. But you know, back in the back in the day when the KGB was the KGB for the that is I guess if you don't know, that is Putin's dream man, because his Putin's best days were when he was a KGB dude, when it was still the KGB and before the fall of the

Russian USSR. Right, because he revels in this stuff, which is why obviously it comes so naturally to him when his political enemies keep falling out of windows. But that's over there, and already people are sensitive with what's going on with the Trump stuff. But it's like, it's like with your kid.

Now, here's what I mean by that. Right, if if your kid, and remember I don't have kids, I'm the best parent advice, all right, But if your kid continually sees something, even if they know it's wrong, but they see you doing it, what's the stopping from thinking they can do it? And I understand, you know, my mom's thing was, well, you're a kid, shut up, and I'm an adult.

Fine, but when when you work in the government, and by the way, I'm not sticking this label, and everyone who works there, there's there's there's very competent very helpful people that do work within the government. That being said, when you see at a federal level all this stuff with Trump, and it feels good if you don't like Trump, right, you can just you can just tell and and and it would feel good to you if Joe Biden was under twenty eight indictments or ninety five and dit or whatever the

hell it is, right, you feel good about that. But also I would hope that you would, you know, also check the veracity of like the charges and the claim and maybe be an independent enough thinker to go, this is not right, this is this is not right. But a lot of people feel good. And if that is your political position and you see it going on literally mostly uncontested with with the former president who gave you your TDS, why wouldn't you think you can do stuff at at the state level.

But again, these are allegations, and there is a perfectly acceptable there's an acceptable way in which this could have played out. Right, Oh yeah, but you won't guess who I talked to today, Right, she didn't even say who her husband was. Isn't that crazy? Right? That's it, that scenario, that's just that's just people still doing their job. Point something out that is not what this sounds like at all. And why am I convinced? Oh you know they didn't. Why didn't they ask Roy Cooper

for a comment or the the head of the DHHS. So that's weird. Huh h strange? All right, to the phone from all what's going on? You know what, KC. I'm gonna say this, and I have to disagree with you on something. When you said that it would feel good if it was Joe Biden. You know, I will feel good if the Republicans would do anything and the remote that would look like this, because I don't know how that would feel because we don't. We're always being told we

need to uphold the institutions, and it seems like the only thing. Let me let me all right, let me let me remove that from Joe Biden. I just if it was Hillary Clinton, Okay, okay, and you know what, Okay, you know what, KSE Republicans don't even do it, then it would feel good for Republicans. They have been coming after Mark Robinson, doing this man dirty ever since he been in office. They're gonna compare him to this man, literally to a clansman. Why because he's a

black conservative and it's okay. And you know what, case you can't always blame white liberals. Black folks got to be held responsibles for standing beside and not doing nothing about Mark Robinson being being treated this way and dirty black folk we got to be called out because of what we're doing. But these people came after his wife. They knew his wife had a private organization. And you know what, thanks for confirming what the the judge in New York daughter

is basically doing. You said, oh, it's wrong. So if it's wrong for Mark Robinson white, then and she has to stand and lose everything. I think, guess what, maybe this judge up for New York Daughter needs to he needs to step down or his daughter needs to resign. A site is Mark has been done dirty ever since? All he did was said I want to be because I didn't say anything. There's anything wrong with her

running an organization. No, no, no, I understood why when Mark got elected they wanted to make sure that he didn't involve himselves for obvious reasons like that's a conflict. Yes, I want disagree with you now I'm talking about the part about No. I was disagreeing about the part about if it had been Democrats, and I won't disagree on everything. That was a disagreement on the part about if it been democrats because Republicans don't want to hold on and I I do this, I do this, I do this not out

of that but out of friendship. But Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton got purp walk today, How you would be on Twitter and Facebook the rest of the day, we all would You would be insane. But I would also evaluate what I want to tell you, Like this casey, if you had a supermodel when you was in high school and you said, Jamal, if you had a supermodel, A, guess what. I never had a supermodel.

I've never seen the Democrat models in high school. So this is lo so know that pleasure is It's like Republicans, we don't know that pleasure of Democrats suffering and crying about stuff like this for them to say, hey, we don't need to do this and put laws in praise so they can't abuse Mark Robinson and they can't abuse Republicans. It's just that Republicans, we just uphold the constitution, upholder institutions to the Democrats get back in power and they can

finish destroying it. This is all they do, and and it's I'm a friend of Mark Robinson. Mark Robinson is a great man. Your lot is a great woman for them to for them. This is a government employee that sat here and use this extreme political and what she fired, she put on her jacket. She can never work again. Was she even was she even some type of retribution? And know why because it's okay because it's Mark Robinson.

And it just gets This is why, Casey, I'm the biggest caller for the tech for tack because they keep picking the Republicans not tacking, and until the Republicans start packing back, it's gonna continue going one way. And it just gets so frustrated because Mark is a great person. All thing he does, he has Christian believed on Christians. He's a Christian Republican. He believes in the Bible, he believes in doing things right. And they count

that against him. And the main black folk that is dancing and shouting in church talking about they got the holdergos sit there and staying right then watch what's going on against him and won't speak up and say nothing. And I don't know. I see every time I see a video of him in a Black Church. They're you know, they're they look like they're happy he's there.

So that's that's bishop upper room. I believe that's upper room when he because as bishop BIG's bishop, he's with the W. But he's a great person. I mean him the one church down on rot was the rock Quarry area that in fact, I think word tabernat, that's the word taberanac or well, he's a great person. I met him when we passed amend met one. He is a great bishop. And when you meet his people, they're great. But I'm talking about the majority of black churches in eastern North Carolina,

Dunbar, Rocky, Mount Greenville, everywhere. They're silent on it. But to preach about transgenderism and preach about the stuff. But then you won't stand up and suppose how about Black History Month? Nobody gives him the respect as being the first black lieutenant governor of North Carolina. We don't see w r L people do stuff like that. Permently everybody wanted him to speak for

Black History Month. To ignore him. This man goes through something and it really that's why people say, Jamal walk you rump office again because I'm too mean and I'm too either black or white. I don't play gray areas. That's why can never win office. And not that I thought it would be intimidating that right, right, but not just and then I have to go.

Not that I think you would be intimidated by it, but you know that is also if if you're a black conservative and you watch what's going on with Mark, you you know all these arguments that voter id has a chilling effect on black voter turnout, and then you know then they as are they allege and there's no numbers that support that. But in people's minds, if they're sitting there going you know what, maybe I would run, but uh, if they came after my wife that I'm I'm I'm not gonna put my

family in that position. And there's a lot of people it's meant to have a chilling effect. Do you understand what I'm saying? It It is, Yes, it's a feature, yes, yes, yes, That's why I've always told people if I ever get elated to a public office, I'm the firewall and Democrat Party and we have an all out rule. I'm gonna do everything in my power to pay them back. Because still somebody does that to them, They von't stop until they see there. They von't stop. Well,

I want to hear them. Yeah, yeah, jam I'm sorry, I gotta go to break, but I I in the story. They say that the while she was initially investigating that in March, so remember in February was the email. In March, they assign somebody else to the case, but maintain the case. So I don't know if she was disciplined. We don't have comment, and frankly the comment would probably be we don't comment unemployment matters, but I think the public has a right to know. Jamal,

thank you very much for the call this morning. Okay, thanks Casey. All right, Oh and then I just put them on hold. Sorry, uh, the wrong button there, Let's try that. Okay. Yeah, you know, that's one thing I guess I forgot with my larger setup. There is it? It's it intimidates people, right if you see that going on and you're like, I don't want to, you know, run for this office, because not because you necessarily have anything to hide, but because

you don't want to bring that on your family. Like people make those decisions every day, whether they're going to run for office or not. I talked to guy. I talked a guy out of running for office one time. I won't tell you who it was. I think that And before you jump on me, what I knew about this gentleman who I have known for years is his privacy is paramount. And he came to me because people were trying

to get him to run for office. I didn't necessarily talk him out of it, but I said, look, let me I said, let me show you what in an hour I could dig up on you. And this guy, this guy is not a bad dude at all. He's he is a truly good guy. But he is super privacy oriented and I just knew from his personality this is what it was. And him and I we had dinner on the steakhouse this year and we talked. I said, I just want you to understand this going in. He ultimately made the decision not to.

He's very protective of his family. So people, you know, people think about this stuff, and so if it has that second, you know that the chilling impact to do that, well all the better. If this is what you feel like you can do to people, And it's crazy, because ross can you look this up real quick? Would you see if Democrats have ever used intimidation to keep black citizens from fully participating in our democracy, our constitutional republic. Whatever. Sure, yeah, let me check yes they

did. Oh wow, really really that is crazy. Apparently there's a history of that. Get so fast. Yeah no, that was so. I didn't even hear you type and seeing nothing no click any clack in there. So oh man, yeah, this stuff is this stuff's not okay. And then lastly, if at noon today break you get all the breaking news alerts right, uh wait, was it Ross you talked out of running for office? The office? No, I wanted to say thank you for helping me

with that decision. I do appreciate it. Thank you for the kind words. Dude, that was an awkward conversation to have with my buddy because I'm like, I think he'd be great, but also like, he's one of those dudes that is real, real, real protective of his privacy and I'm just saying, it's just you're not your personality type. So but luckily he's got he does okay, so he can help in other ways. But yeah,

it wasn't Ross. But yeah, going back to this man, it's just oh, it's so bad, and I we we have to know what they did, because this isn't just somebody was late to work too many times, all right, this is something else and maybe she didn't do it, and if that's the case, reported we'll be back. That's right. So Ross and I let me let me explain this. So we go to we

go to break. We had a longer break there because I rolled it through, and uh, Ross and I have been talking about Star Trek for the break and then I and I remember we had a story that got me thinking about this, and then we were talking about it, and now I can't remember why we're talking about it, but I'm also very glad we had a long conversation about Star Trek, so because that's a good use of one's time. So any who, maybe I'll remember, but either way, all right,

let me let me get over to this. Do all right, So you knew it was going to happen after twice during his visit to Scranton, PA, Joe Biden told the story that we talked about yesterday once again. If you missed it, here he is chatting about his war hero uncle, who, by the way, I want to be clear, I got I got, I got no I have. I don't know anything. Well, I guess now I do, because I researched it so I could have the

truth for you. But I don't got beef with his uncle. It's in Honestly, the whole thing's just so weird because like Biden's thing is telling like ten stories over and over and over again, but different each time. And by the way, that's not a unique thing, especially for politicians who especially the ones who are more pandery, like hey, I'm just like you kind of thing that that's not different. This was just so crazy. I couldn't

believe I had never heard it before. Here is Joe Biden talking about his uncle, who was among four members of his family to immediately go to war during World War Two, and tragically he was the one who didn't come back. Here is Biden explaining that yesterday Ms Finnan they called him Uncle Bosey. He was shot down. He was Army Air Corps before there was an air

force, before a single engine plane reconnaissance flights over New Guinea. He volunteered because someone who couldn't make it got shot down in an area where there were a lot of cannibals. In the beginning at the time, they never recovered his body, but the government went back when I went down there, and they checked and counts parts of the plane and the life. And what I was thinking about while I was standing there was when Trump refuears to go up

to the more. Yah yah, Yeah, we've heard the suckers and losers. And by the way, that'll come back here. So that story, and again, as I reminded you, if you can simply look at the record, his uncle did serve. He was second lieutenant. UH. He was on a on a dual engine plane with the three crew members. He was not a crew member. He is listed as a courier on there. But as Biden pointed out, he said, somebody couldn't go to his uncle

went. So that's that's not unusual. But everything else is wrong. One, they were not on a reconnaissance flight. They were they were literally transferring him and some items from baseless Negros to the base that we had in New Guinea and uh and the reason just a reminder, because I saw some people go why would they be down there? This was this is right in the window of when the Japanese and the US are in this struggle to control all

of these pieces of land nearer Japan. Japan is japan is doing everything their power to make sure that the US does not have an airfield within striking distance, because eventually we did, and we carried out a lot of bombings, including two big ones you probably heard of, but that you know that follows you with Jima and all this other stuff, so reconnaissance flights, especially with what the Japanese were doing in the Philippines and parts of Indonesia, it's it's

if you've never read the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, it's it's insane, like they just go they just go into villages and they get all the dudes and essentially put them in custody, and then they would just rape all their women in front of them and then either kill the dudes or keep them around

to watch his prisoners. It's it's it's really really twisted horror, you know, just another twisted, horrible portion of World War two, all right, And I would encourage you if if people concentrate a lot on obviously, towards the end of the Japanese battle, some of the bigger ones like Ywajima,

and of course you know what was going on over in Europe. But what the Japanese were doing to people in the Philippines, Indonesia and parts in between was it's really really I know, Hitler gets all the attention when you're talking about the most horrible people of that, but what the Japanese army was doing there and their medical program, which is what they called but really it was some of the most obscene human testing that you could contemplate. So with that

in mind their positioning over there, we obviously have positions down there. None of this is unusual. And if his uncle's plane, as listed in the documents, was a suffered dual engine failure and tried to ditch in the ocean, there's nothing to be ashamed of of that, right that this is a guy who, along with other family members did what a lot of people during World War Two did and said, oh hell no, and and you know,

literally lie about their ages and stuff. I mean, that's so I saw some people that are kind of beefing on the uncle And I don't what Joe Biden's telling you though, isn't right And it's not even close. Like the only thing is his uncle was in a plane and then the plane went down. It wasn't shot down. It had engine failure. And we know the series of events because one of those three crew members survived and was able to detail exactly what was up and gave you there's a very detailed description.

Can go read it if you want. And he said when he came up, the other three never emerged. And Biden also said they went and found parts of the place. No, they didn't the things at the bottom of the ocean. So you knew that that was to be a question that came up for missus Jean Pierre. And now it's almost like a sport to me to see how bad she can be with stuff she doesn't want to talk about. And we had some doozies. But let's get into it, shall we.

Oh man, Ross just sent me some nuts. All right, Hey, let me do this. All right, let's so this is this is not in the press room. She's traveling and you have the press pool traveling. I think they're going to Philadelphia or wherever, so it's a more casual environment. But also listen to this. Look. I'll just and I think we shared this with some of you's. I'm just gonna kind of repeat. Look that you saw the president He was incredibly proud of his uncle's service in

uniform. You saw him at the war memorial. It was incredibly emotional and important to him. And by the way, nobody has beef with that at all. I mean, not anyone who matters idiots on Twitter. Idiots on Twitter. Is this email cut him some slack. He said his uncle's job. He was not applying. He was on a reconmission, and I mentioned that yesterday when we talked about it. But also that wasn't his uncle's job, not that day and not other days. Okay, So it was similar

insomuch as his second lieutenant, he had some command control. I have to go back and read it. But again it's the cannibal's part that I think is sticking in people's brain, and that requires that you went down literally where the cannibals are, which is not the middle of the ocean. Okay, all right, So anyway back to this horrible answer, here we go.

Saw him respond to all of you when asked about the moment yesterday and his uncle who lost his life when the military aircraft he was on crash in the Pacific after taking off near New Guinea. The President highlighted his oh, this is the story, as he made the case for honoring our sacred commitment to equip those we send to war and to take care of them and their families

when they come home. All right, And I'm gonna pause here because everything she just said right there, I mean, it is spin right there. But Joe Biden, the reason Joe Biden was talking about it, whatever you think his motivation was, is because he was at that war memorial and he is the uncle's name is on it. And yeah, yeah, people want to talk about their family. But he didn't tell the correct story at all. And while she is, if you listen to her word, she's being

very careful how she words it, so it is accurate. But the last fifteen seconds where she goes are right where you think she's going to go. So here is the rest of her statement. And as he reiterated that the last thing American veterans are are suckers or losers, and he wanted to make that clear. He wanted to make a statement the story. I mean, look, I don't have anything beyond about what I just laid out, but

it was a really proud moment for him. It was incredibly emotional. Yeah, Okay, Again, I don't begrudge any of that, but and and they let her, and then they stopped pestering her about it. And you just if it was one of Trump's people, they'd still they wouldn't accept it, and they would still be you know, they put it on the list of Trump's lives. Remember the New York Times had that Washington Post. I think Aril was doing that with McCrory, right, that was the hot thing

then. So yeah, but you know, what do you expect? All right, seven forty six, here's what I expect. Race stage. It's going to take your Friday and throw your curve walls. Maybe some fun weather, no, no, stop, yeah no, we scheduled this stuff for Monday. Maybe let us let us have our weekend. No, well, the weekend's not all bad. Today, I'll get a little tough at times. Already seen showers coming into the mountains out near Ashville. They're heading east,

so spreading west east. Showers scattered about late morning into the afternoon. Try it to the triangle if they're coming west east. Obviously, if that's how it goes, at a few thunderstorms that could be severe. There's a small chance of severe weather it's a slight risk from the Storm Prediction Center, which is actually one of the lower risks, but it doesn't mean it's zero. It could only be one storm. Just means that it could have strong

winds and hail, small risk of a tornado that's spin up. Otherwise, clouds and maybe some sunshine around as we've see in some spots this morning. Tonight, we'll still have some scattered showers and thunderstorms around. After we go near eighty today tonight we'll drop to sixty. And the beginning of the weekend

actually not bad. Cloudy seventy five but dry, so no rain Saturday, and then rain's coming Sunday, but it looks like it's early to mid afternoon, so you may get half of Sunday casey with dry weather, but it's gonna be cool and probably an indoor afternoon on Sunday with highs close to about sixty degrees. I will say the further north you go in Northwest will be less of a chance of rain. I wouldn't be surprised if some of us don't get much rain at all on Sunday, especially as you go north into

the northern parts of state, up near the Virginia borders. You go south, there'll be a better chance. But the good news is next week high pressure is going to be back. Great start to the week next week, mid sixties on Monday, sunny, sunny Tuesday, sunny, Wednesday, probably sunny Thursday. Chapters back into the seventies, maybe close to eighty degrees by the middle and end of Wednesday. So it looks pretty good next week.

Got to deal with a little wet weather a couple of rounds today, there'll be dry hours in between, and then a little rain on Sunday afternoon. That takes Saturday as the better day of the weekend. Okay, all right, well, yeah it is what it is. Thank you appreciate it. Yes it is okay. All right, there you go, raced agic from the Weather Channel. So I guess do all your fun stuff Saturday. All Right'm gonna take a break. I have one other Biden cut from his travels

this week, and I'm just gonna let you know. You're gonna have to make a decision. Okay, I'll tell you what it is. Plus Pete calendar, He comes and joins US eight five All on the way here on the CaCO Day Radio program. Coming up. Like I said, we'll chat with our counterpart down Charlotte Way mid Day's WBT that is Pete counter and we share our prep lists. We share our prep list. No I'm not damn it, the paywall and the Charlotte Observer, Oh look at that. Just

go to this website and bypassed. Okay, and it seems he had he too has been captivated. Captivated by crazy this week. Man. I know I say it every week, but sometimes I'm I'm embellishing, but not this week. So we'll get into a bunch including and this is really why I'm

excited to talk to him. If you remember the story we did yesterday of this sixteen year old in Lexington who's in a high school class English class of some sort, and the teacher is giving them a list of vocabulary words, which one of them was alien, which, by the way, the whole thing is kind of weird because that sounds like stuff you do in like elementary

school, with vocabulary words, short vocabulary words. But I don't know the assignment, but I do know everyone seemingly agrees that when the teacher said that, he asked a qualifying question, and that was, do you mean space? Aliens or illegal aliens, and for that question, and I guess he

asked it at least twice. He received three days suspension, and that is also going to be explained in his record, because it's going to say along the lines that he was suspended for racism and his family, as you can imagine, is not pleased. And that was the point that they brought up. You basically just label my kid a rasis. How is that gonna look trying to do college stuff, especially when you consider the the mindset of many

who work in university environments. Well, Pete actually interviewed the mom, so we'll get into that. I'm very curious. I listened to just a couple of minutes of it and then I got super distracted yesterday. So I'll let him explain it, all right, let me get over to this one other

cut here. So when not waxing nostalgic about that time your uncle got shot down and eaten by cannibals, you know, Biden still saying some other stuff during those speeches that had me scratching my head, like this one right here, and this is Biden talking about what's at stake in this election. Okay, here we go Are you ready to choose freedom over democracy? Because that's America? Okay, all right, just a little short clip. Are you

ready to choose freedom? He's freedom, I guess, and then democracy is Trump? But I thought Trump was opposed to democracy, Like isn't that all of That's what all of the the stuff was, right, Like his own advertising is like he's trying to destroy democracy the line in the media, Now, I got it. Don't call by the way, I understand, we are not a democracy, and frankly a pure democracy. I'm not good with that. I like the system we have, you know, when people are

actually abiding by the rules. But so, but if I had to chop ross, you're on your going freedom right instead of democracy, if you're forced to make the decision. I mean, for me, freedom sounds like freedom right right, all right? But democracy speaking democracy, you know, it leads to my rules. So I'm going freedom right right right? Yeah? No, no, no, if you put it in that in that pure point, but correct me if I'm wrong. But isn't every attack Biden attack

ad and isn't it about Trump's trying to destroy democracy? Every congressional talking point from Chuck Schumer and others, it's an attack on our democracy. I mean, that's so for him to say that, but that also being the strategy of his campaign. It hurts my brain. It is the CaCO Day radio program. It is that fun time of the week when we welcome our radio buddy to the South Pete Calendar Middays WBT. You can hear him on the iHeart radio app or should you dare to go to the most dangerous city of

Charlotte over the airwaves. I'm just look, you got naked people in your planet fitnesses. You got crazy folks running around stabbing people. You got the homeless who I guess they're they're sticking them in the stadium or something, which I it was my idea, by the way point, or I'm sorry, yes, yes, yes, yea, at the airport, at the airport, uh but no, no, no, But basically to relocate them, I advocated for the stadium, uh because there's you put them up up upper

deck. Nobody's up there even during that So yeah. So, uh but we're going to try to cover a crap ton of things and uh so let's uh, let's both of us commit to uh being quick, because I want to get through this list where do you want to start? I'll ask you because I look at your list and it's most of the stuff I love. Oh, I just throw stuff on that list just to say, like, these are things that I'm reasonably aware of, and then I, uh I send it over to you. So uh yeah, anywhere on the list is

fine. But since you already hit the the crime, we can do this. I just highlighted the difference here between if you get busted for something in Charlotte Mecklenburg County versus getting busted in Gaston County right next door, just across the Cotsauba River. If you are in uptown, apparently you get to stab people multiple times, life threatening injuries. They go to the hospital, no

self defense claim necessary, you are released on an unsecured bond. So I've wanted to while in uptown of Charlotte, I have thought about stabbing people. Yeah, just basically because some people are so rude in public. The difference is I didn't, but now knowing this, I wish I had right or anytime, just you know, during rush hour, just if you can get

close enough, stabby, stab and you're free to go. Go across the river though, and just walking around naked in the women's shower area asking seventeen year olds to rub lotion all over your body while showering with them. That will get you thrown into the jail and a bond. And as far as I know, the person who is alleged to have committed said lude and lacibious

act, they are still in the jail. I don't know the person claimed to be trans but the nine one one call said that it was a dude, and I saw there was one report WSOC TV said that they have not yet spoken to this suspect, so they cannot confirm whether the person is transgender or not, which I told the SoC people like, that's you're not going to find that out by talking to them, because all they have to say

is that they are transgender, and that's all it takes. Right, And it was the k you mentioned in that the comment about the lotion was more than just that it was lotion and was some other It was clearly not typical locker room behavior if you're just, quote, you know, trying to live your true life, because well, I don't know, I've not spent a lot of time in women's locker rooms, Casey, I assume I assume if

they're like women's restroom for whatever reason, they're like nine times filthier than men's restrooms, which is because usually it's men who are dirty, but women's restrooms are roast man. That's true. No, that's I've seen the science and the data on that. That is true. Well, I think it's also the like you can go you can go in and out as a dude. You can go in and out of a restroom and really not touch anything in the in the room. Right, Yeah, yep, it's it is.

It is an art, but it is doable. My question is, in in jail, is he also like this is the true test of whether he really wanted somebody in the public shower to rub lotion on him, if in fact he requests that at the in the pokey there. So yeah, we know, do we know? I mean because that my master is claim or her claim or whatever. I don't know. So that's story number one. And let me attach the story if I could, Pete, what a difference

who's in charge of actually enforcing our laws makes? I know that we beat this to death. You saw the video in Winston Salem with the kid slapping the teacher multiple times knocking the glasses offer Jim O'Neill, who just full disclosure, is still he is in the Lieutenant governor's runoff, but he's a prosecutor there. And that dude was on it yet like five minutes after it happened, or the video was and is actually pursuing it. And it is so

night and day when we see this stuff right and right there. And that's I've said this now for a while, which is all of this garbage that we're seeing, whether it's the street takeover because you know the Golden Gate bridge takeover that occurred a couple of days ago over quote Palestine, they all of those people walked, no charges for any of them, and what they literally did was kidnapping. Everybody that was stuck on that bridge and could not get

off that bridge was being prohibited from doing so by somebody else's actions. Right, So, I mean I've seen people that charge kidnapping when you know, close a door and you can't get out of an office or something like,

that's kidnapping because you're preventing them from leaving. Right. But yes, the leadership makes a difference, and this is going this kind of stuff is going to continue until Americans say no more, until Americans say stop, we are no longer putting up with this crap, then it's gonna it will continue.

And now how Americans say that, I don't know whether it's through law enforcement like gremonial or it's through direct vigilante action out on the streets when somebody tries to prevent you from driving to work or taking your kid someplace or picking your kid up, and you're just gonna people are just gonna start taking the matters

into their own hands. And I'm not advocating that. I don't want that, but that's where this goes, no, and that is to that that is a point that we have harped on on this show because I also don't I don't want people feeling like they got to go out and go full nightstick or maybe even worse on somebody. But it is the inevitability once you determined

that the job which you're paying for right to be done. When he paid taxes and my buddy, my buddy owns a store in downtown Raleigh, and when they had the mostly peaceful protests and they started, you know, burning the CBS just down the street from looting through stuff, sitting there and listening to him explaining to me all the ways in which he sought help from city, from the city, whether it was police or lawmakers, only to be

ignored. And it ended with him and the adjacent shop owner moving into their stores with guns yea, and staying in there until this was over and nothing happened. And he's a responsible dude. I don't think he would go but

sometimes this does. But in Nebraska, I know. Do you remember the story of the bar owner in Nebraska who shot the dude who came into the bar, And initially they're like it was it was self defense, and then an activist, activist prosecutor got in there and eventually decided to go ahead bring it to trial. Do you think I killed himself? Well, there's a

story today. There's a story this morning out of New York where they are not bringing charges against a seventeen year old who shot and killed a store owner after he robbed them. He robbed the store and as he's walking out, the shop owner goes after him, like walks after him to say, give me back my stuff, and the kid kills him. And he is not a defense right, That's what obviously my head oh dude. Yeah, all right, I'm gonna I'm gonna continue. Yeah, it's going to continue until

people say stop, I gotta I gotta pull this over. But no, I share your prediction. And when it does, the the feigned outrage is going to be just I'll probably have take the day off. It'll make me so angry. Here's what doesn't make me angry. Although I am going to disagree with you, although technically this is a quote, so I'll see if you agree with it. I highly encourage any visitors to the great state of North Carolina, especially dumb ones, to avail themselves of this amazing opportunity where

you can. We have such great agriculture here. Literally we have bear cubs growing on trees. Feel free to grab them, absolutely kick them off. What you want to do is poke them so they make this squeally noise that bear cubs do for you know, anyone who may be listening just slightly into the woods, that's fine. So no, I'm I'm all for it. I know Ashville officials like, don't do this, dummies, and especially don't drop one, but no, no, no, I'm going the other way.

I don't want to get hurt. I want you to have that cuddle session and good luck. So that I thought, you know what, Casey, this is why we get along, because I love the same thing I would like, Oh yeah, this is a remarkable method to co our herd. You know, Darwin Awards and tree. I'm thinking I told you about two rist scoring season, right, Yes, you did, right, one

of my favorite growing up memories. Right. So see I saw the story as I immediately thought of you, and so that's why I put it on my list, because yeah, yeah, you got these morons that literally walk there in some apartment complex. There's a chain link fence and on the other side of the fence there's this tree and it's not a very large tree. It's maybe like you know, ten feet fall or whatever. And there are two little baby cubs and these cubs are young, right, you can tell

these are very young baby cubs. And these people go over and they pluck, they try to pluck both of the cubs out of this little tree. They only get one and then they like dropped one and they took a picture with it, and then the cub is trying to get back. It like tries to run away, and it's running along the chain link fence, but it can't climb the fence. And then like the wildlife people had to come and they took the cubs into into custody or whatever they do with these cubs

to to protect them. Basically. Now, what's amazing to me was that all of those people that did it did not get mauled by the mother who was apparently not around. Not sure where the mother went, but the fact that all of those people were not just savaged. I don't I cannot explain

that. Yeah, yeah, it's well. And then and on a more serious note too, I'm sure everyone's heard this, but just a reminder it don't don't touch baby animals unless I like it's stuck in a fence or something and you're doing it, because a lot of times they will be rejected. And now you have a scenario where you have an animal who is has essentially been excommunicated because of the scent it carries and and other stuff. I've seen it with antelope, man, I've had to pull it. When I was

growing up. I pulled a couple of baby antelope out of because they tangle in the fence because they don't jump on the deer, do they try to go through it. Yeah, and in both instances have lightly handling their legs to get him out of the fence. Both instances the mom rejected them. So yeah, but in this case that would have been the sad part would be then they destroy the mother. So so there is that. But yeah, no, I'd encourage a tourist goring season favorite family memory. And that's

probably because I didn't have a family member consumed by cannibals. So I did have I did have a distant family member who was killed in Native American raid. Yeah, yeah, back, they did not, and he had, and I'm relying on the reports of the time from the notes at Fort Pilcarney, they indicate that he had attempted to take shelter in an outhouse. So literally a distant relative was killed, like he was the dude in Unforgiven who cut up the whore. So but the difference was he wasn't in there for

traditional purposes. He was in there to take cover and it didn't make out. But not canals, No, they didn't need them. So what do you think the Tourism division in New Guinea thinks of that story that our president fabricated, because it's It's clear he fabricated the story. He made it up. The records are not right. The records indicate that the plane ditched in the water, not that it was shot down or something by the cannibals. Now, I was not aware until I saw it on y'all's Twitter feed that

mermaids and merman are cannibals. I was well aware that that is one of the historical versions of what mermaids and merman are like. When you see the way that they've been represented prior to you know, the Disney movie. Yeah, a lot of times they look like they look like demons with big teeth. Man. But oh my, so maybe those are the ones he ran into. I don't know. Look, here's the deal. You know New Guinea Papua New Guinea as a one of the most recent histories of cannibalism.

You have the story also of the Kennedy cousin. Right, he went down there and that specific tribe. I watched something on it. That specific tribe to this day doesn't make pun intended. They make no bones about it. Right. A lot of times it wasn't for consumption purposes. It was along the lines of eating your enemy soul kind of stuff really creepy, right, But I think that's the story. I think that's the story Joe adopted.

I think he adopted the Kennedy story. I think when you get as adult as he is, I think all of the lies and stories that you have told from your past, you don't remember what's true any longer, and so you've now adopted these stories you have heard as if they are you your history. Yeah. Yeah, crossed my mind because of the similarities there. But man, he was, as Jean Pierre said, he was so emotional, so to share his memory there. And then have you seen the RL story?

Aril wrote this story. It's amazing about the d HHS worker and Yolanda Hill, Mark Robinson's wife. Okay, that is crazy town, man, I'm gonna get We'll get into more next week because I have to ask you about this. We did the story yesterday the kid in Lexington with the illegal alien thing. You interviewed the mom I have, Yeah, I got two minutes, give me the reader's digest on that's what's happening. And Mark Robinson said he's going to dig into this, but fill me in, fill us

in. So right, So kid named Christian McGee he's in English class. He's assigned some vocabulary lesson in One of the words in the vocabulary list is the word alien, and I guess he's supposed to use it in a sentence or something. And he says, you know what an alien like space alien or illegal alien without a green cart, and some other kid who apparently maybe a minority, I don't know, uh, it gets offend thretons to beat him up. They go, the teacher calls the principal. The principal settles

it out in the hallway and he was just asking a question. The kid was just kidding when he said he's going to beat up Christian, and so they go back to the classroom. Later, an assistant principal comes in and takes the threatening kid out, talks with that kid, and then suspends Christian

at the end of the day three day suspension non appealable. Mom is now trying to get it expunged from his record, saying that it was overreach and it was you know, the punishment doesn't fit and there was no crime. Basically, I've been I've been forwarding this stuff to her, which is she's been offered representation by various lawyers and organizations. National media is now seeming Dylan. Yeah, yeah, Army Dylan was one of them. Yeah, So

all right, so that's the research where we are. So she but just line thirty seconds. But she gonna fight this thing because I don't blame her. Your kid on his record, it says suspended essentially for racism. How does that look into college admissions in today's universities? Right, And this kind of stuff can actually lead to you not getting admitted or getting scholarships, just

like the cheerleader chick out in I think Texas or Louisiana or something. So yeah, it can have detrimental effects on the kid's future, and so she wants it expunge. I don't blame I. I got it. I'm sorry, I got like ten seconds. So yeah, just real quick. The only thing to say is that we don't know what the school side or the other kid's side of the story. Correct. All right, thanks Pete,

and we'll be back hanging out here. In the show, I mentioned that in Indiana they arrested a teacher, a special ed teacher, and may charge another substitute because running a special ed elementary fight club on video. They were literally having special needs students fight each other to resolve differences and laughing about it and sending messages like all these kids are demonic and I won't bury him out of the prison, but I have we got one to go with him,

which we'll try to get to that as well. One last thing on uh Papoo in New Guinea or New Guinea uh. As far as you know, I know a lot of people of the tourists that go there. I guess on the uh Papua side because the island's split. They have some pretty intense and kind of famous climbing and mountain climbing and free climbing, but also you know, like UH and I and it's it's incredibly beautiful and I can't remember the mountains are called, but they they're like the Teitons. There's just nothing

that looks like them. So I know folks go there, but I'm reminded. I got a buddy who is from Australia. He's lived in this He's lived in Raleigh for I don't know a long time now, but him and I play golf, and I remember one time he was telling when he was still working in Australia, he worked for a company that they were involved in shipping, and I think they did energy exploration, but they worked up in the Torres Strait, which, if you don't know, that's the area the

small gap between the very northern end of Australia and New Guinea. It's basically

like the distance to Cuba from Florida. And as a result, he on occasion would go to, you know, some of the villages there in New Guinea, whether they're refueling, dropping stuff off, and he said that one of his first times up there was really weird because he's sitting there and it's like if you ever got off a cruise ship in the Caribbean and all of a sudden, all the locals are there, either trying to sell you stuff

or whatever. He said that it was that, but one of the guys there was attempting to negotiate something and he didn't quite understand what it was, and then it was explained to him a dude tried to trade. He wanted my buddy to give him a pig and a hair brush. I'd always stood out the hairbrush part in exchange for his thirteen year old daughter. My buddy refused, but that was that would have been late nineties. So I don't know, man, But again, maybe they're screwing with him too, but

he didn't sound like they were. He was just super creeped out, as most people would be. All right, let me pivot over to this. If you maybe you've seen this story in Utah. You had about what seventy eighty kids who walked out of a school there, you know, stage to walk out, and but not for some of the reasons we've seen, like

divest from Israel, or I hate Trump or whatever it has been. No, no, no, they walked out because they claimed that school officials were not doing anything to stem the tide of students being harassed and in some cases physically harassed by students who identify as furries. I suspect they're not in full regalia, and you know, we've got the years and stuff. But the students claimed that like some of these students who would come up and lick them,

and it's just really creepy. Now. Now, look, it's a bunch of kids all talking at one time explaining that. However, the school has responded, as you'll hear in this this news clip, and they didn't outright dismissed what these kids are saying so like that. That tells me that something's up there. So that's the story. And then about twenty minutes ago, Ross sends me this amazing video. So this is the NBC News Salt Lake City. I guess salt is probably the Salt Lake because it's in just

outside of Salt Lake interviewing. Not the students, not the teachers, not principle, not the other students who are accused of licking. Instead, this reporter decided to set up an interview with a member of the furry community. And it's a thing, thank you. This is Strudel, by the way, I forgot, and they go by Strudel. I refuse, I refuse. All right, anyway, here we go. Thank you. This is Strudel, a member of the furry fandom. Though they've been a furry for

over a decade, they have their own opinions. It's crazy that it's escalated to this point where these kids are being so distracting to their peers that their peers want to stage at walkout or to have, you know, the next generation kind of muddy our name and not represent it very well. It is kind of disappointing. Strudell believes there should be some limits. Continue doing things you like, continue dressing up, continue making art, but maybe let's keep

it outside of school hours. As for the school, Sorenson says, they have one main goal. We want every student to feel safe when they come to school, and we want students to get along. In fact, we want adults to get along. Okay, all right, well yeah that's and sorry the little floating head there on that he's I don't know if he's the principal or one of the ministrators, but he's the school spokesperson for the for the purpose of this how did you procure this inner? Like this is what

I'm fascinated about, Like she had I suspect that I'll use it. Strudel didn't call the newsroom, right, so this reporter who is you know, tasked to go and report on this story? What do you just reach out to like a free meetup group? And then is there a conversation about whether you're gonna wear your suit or not? Because like from a sound from a sound standpoint, it's it's it's distracting. It's like, I think it's perfect. Why do you think it's because I think it's funny. It is fine.

I think the muffled sound of her and her strudle, What is she a cat? I don't know. I was going to ask you because I have no idea. I don't know if it's a county. You know what she is. She's a human, That's what she is. She's a human. Wow in a Halloween disrespect. It's not disrespect, it's she's a human. And here's and here's the deal. I look, I understand the whole furry If you just want to wear a suit whatever, and then uh, you know, have weird uh you know, orgies at coton whatever, do

whatever you want. Or if you just feel like you want to wear it to uh David Busters down in the Apex, which was a thing that happened a few years ago, like a furry meetup group, that's fine, do whatever you want. Obviously, what we're talking about here is students harassing other students and in some cases physically. And I agree with Strudel, but you said, if you're a frey given an interview, there's no question you wear your suit, right. I mean, I would think so, but in

this situation. The most famous furry interview until this was when they interviewed the head of the furry conference in Chicago where they had to quickly evacuate the hotel from a chlorine leak I think from the pool. And so you have pandemonium on the snowy streets of Chicago and it's just covered with fire trucks and furries. And then the dude in charge walks over and he's not in any costume, and he gives an interview and he sounded exactly like I thought he was

going to sound. Here is that from a few years ago, we've been having a grand old time and we do not know what's going on at this time. We've been asked to leave the hotel for unknown reasons. But we have a lot of costumers out here with big, fluffy costumes that'll keep people. So at this point we're not at all worried, all right, And he look, I appreciate the guy's attitude, right, He's just like, look live and let live. We'll do this, and uh, that's fine

because they weren't run around licking people. But I don't know, man, thing is so creepy. The and he didn't constant, no, that not the costume, the part where you just be sitting like kids suck anyway to other kids. Occasionally it's part of growing up. But if some person dressed up as a cat, even if it's just the ears and some makeup, as they describe it in one of the other stories, and they just run around licking people, no, no, no, no, no no no.

I'm surprised somebody hasn't got punched in the face. But anyway, I'm sure what were you saying the guy was side there in Chicago. Yes, because he was not in his for a use that he didn't have his his maskot or whatever. It's non professional. Throw him out of the pack. Well he's that he was the leader, but don't vote and ban him for life. Doesn't have the respect and the admiration like Strudel does for the community, right, Strudel Strudele is a pro. Really you think Strudel's the real

name? And what does Strudel have to do with an animal? But do you make Strudel out of cat? I don't know. I know that we got to talk to Ray real quick because weather's gonna be a mixed bag, all right, fire aways, sir, Sorry to hit you there. Yeah, well maybe if you're going home and get a cut the grass, do it. Now, you got a couple hours yet before the showers come in Dispatch now getting through Ashville and moving on into Yancey County, Avery County at

heading east. So obviously try it first in the triangle and then we get a break. Then we'll get more showers, thunder showers into the afternoon. Now the Store Prediction Center does give us a marginal risk for a severe storm or two, so well, we'll have to keep our eyes out for that. Near eighty degrees may stay in the upper seventies, especially where you get

more rain, and we'll have some scattered showers with butterstorms early tonight. Then overnight we'll drop to a cooler sixty mainly cloudy tomorrow up into the mid seventies. So Saturday is going to be dry. We'll get some rain around Sunday, mainly in the afternoon. Cool temperatures though Sunday only near sixty. But it looks like a beautiful start to the week next week with warming temperatures getting back into the seventies by Tuesday Wednesday. So the little rain got this one

batch of showers coming through. May rain for maybe an hour or two and then we get a break. Then we'll get more later today, so we probably actually end up KC with in terms of daylight and dry hours, more hours of dry than wet, so it's not a complete washout. Sunday afternoon, Sunday night looks a little different. That could be a steadier rain, but less rain as you go just north or maybe some of us near the border of Virginia to get no rain. It'll be a little bit more just

down towards the south. Okay, all right, we'll have a good weekends. Yeah, appreciate it. We'll chat with Jeff Bellinger next. Hang on. Well, good morning, Casey. Yeah, the Blue Chips managed a small advance yesterday, but the S and P and the Nasdaq both ended lower. Stock market futures have turned a volatile after reports of Israel launching retaliatory attacks on Iran overnight. Right now, the S and P futures are up by a fraction. The NASDAC and Dow futures are modestly lower. No relief in

sight when it comes to sky high chocolate prices. Cocoa prices surge yesterday. They closed at a record high. Coco futures are nearly four times higher than they were just a year ago. Federal Reserve officials are still driving home the message they are in no hurry to start cutting interest rates. Atlanta FED President Raphael Bostik spoke in Florida yesterday, saying that for now he's comfortable with rates at their present level. He thinks it will be close to the end of

the year before it's appropriate to start lowering rates. Minneapolis Fed President Neil Cashkerrey told Fox News rates could be held steady all year. White House Economic advisor Lyle Brainerd says the administration wants to keep gasoline prices from spiking this summer. She did not offer details on what will be done, other than to say that officials want to keep pump prices within current ranges. Brainard sidestepped questions about

a possible new release from the strategic petroleum rege. Netflix, coming off a blowout quarter. The streaming video service had its best start to a year since twenty twenty, adding nine point three million subscribers in the first quarter. Paramount Global may become the target of a bidding war. Paramount's been talking to David

Ellison's sky Dance Media. Now, Apollo Global Management and Sony Group are considering making a joint offer for the parent of CBS, MTV and other networks, and Casey, being remembered in a loved one's will doesn't necessarily mean a gift of money or fine jewelry. A survey in the UK found a significant number of people leave things like washing machines and refrigerators to their heirs, and a lot of the recipients, especially the younger ones, are happy to get them.

Casey, it seems normal. Is that not normal? I remember my mom's will literally detailed some of her more expensive items. So all right, maybe we're the weird ones. All right, No, I guess it just gets rather granular. Okay, yeah, like far as you had farm equipment in there was crazy, man, But yeah, it just seemed natural at the time. We'll have a good weekend, okay, Jeff, Okay, you do the same, take care all right, Yeah, there you go. Yeah, it was I remember that too. She had an old detailed

the whole thing. And anyway, all right, let me grab a quick phone call and then we're gonna try to fit. We're gonna have to rapid fire a couple of things. Janet, real quick, what's up, hey, Casey? I was just wanting to talk about President Man lives there. Maybe we should just be grateful for where we are in the moment, because you know, I mean, next month it could be anything like his son

got eight miles of Arts and Nemesis corn Coffer and whatever. If it wasn't so such a serious job, it would be, uh, it would be one hundred percent funny. But it is. It gets funnier every time I will say that ror cannibals are not right. I thought I would be thinking about this week. So yeah, I don't know, Janem. Well, I just hope it lasts long enough to you know, finish out his time, because I'd rather have president than President spreading. Okay, all right,

well that's is that. Well anyway, I'll leave that right there. But have a good weekend, Okay, Janet, there you go. Oh Man, all right, all right, here we go. Uh, Elon Musk. This is the headline. All right, So as you know, he has h he has been suffering quite a few allegations, investigations and government interference. Uh. This is uh, this is uh an ex NASA physicist who's quoted in here. Here's the headline, Elon Musk, Starlink satellites might be

eroding Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere and slowly poisoning us. All I know that there are the Starlingk satellites are numerous. That being said, there's a crap ton more satellites than than you know the totality of what Elon Musk has. And why is this the first time I'm hearing that the satellites are doing this? Do you know how much crap is flowing around the space? You ever

see a map of that including satellites and other stuff? This is bonkers, man, And it's it's all conjecture, right, It's a guy's theory on this, but it's like, is this where we are? He's he's literally he's the bad guy in Star Trek? Which Star Trek? Was it Star Trek Insurrection? Stealing the planet's atmosphere that kept people from age? I remember that movie's a piece of crap. It is, it's a dumpster fire. I totally agree, But that was the premise, right, it was they

were I have purged that from my memory. Oh well, it's probably good. Do you know it was the highest grossing opening weekend of it. I'm not surprised it came after First Contact though, I believe right so, and that movie was amazing, so people are like, oh my god, star Trek is so back, and then we would Man, it sucked. Do you think Elon's dresses are Romulan while he does it? I think that's who was stealing it, So I don't know. Yeah, that movie was not good