The final day of the week long broadcast up here in Uh, I'm in Ashville, but it's uh, it's been.
I've been traveling all around.
Man.
Did a bunch of driving yesterday just to kind of went up on the Parkway. Wanted to see what was up at some of the trails and different places that I visited over the years. Just check out. We dropped the little Switzerland. Uh. Just just scoping stuff, man, Just scoping stuff so I can report back to you. And I will say headed in that direction for the most part, you didn't. You didn't they like they've got any of the down trees were cleared. You didn't see that alongside
the road. So, dude, the amount of the amount of work that's gone in up here, just you know, post to lean, cause that's gonna be you're gonna get stuff off the road, but getting stuff off the trails, that's not gonna be your high priority, right right, because you got people without houses.
You're gonna put the manpower there.
And uh, walked there's about a half mile trail that I've walked a couple of times. Walked out yesterday, popped out normal, normal. So I'm here to report back to you. That that was a big success. There are some areas though that you know, there's stuff going on, and you know when you get out towards Canton and those types of areas, there's still work to be done. And we're gonna talk about that today on the show coming up at seven thirty five. You've heard her on before, Cassie
Clark on Twitter. She just mostly yells at people over barber That's not fair. She yells at people over a lot of stuff, tells them to sit in the corner. But that's her hometown. So I'm like, all right, so I wanna We talked about Bunkhome County and Ashville and some areas further north of here and down by Back Cave and all that.
So she's gonna come on. We're gonna talk Swanna Noh and Canton.
Because again, the scope, even though I'm sitting in Ashville, because this is where our studios are, which may my life easy, I want to give you a scope of, you know, this part of our state. So we'll talk to her at seven thirty five, and then at eight oh five, because it's Friday, Pete Callander will join us. And Pete the building I'm sitting in. Pete was the morning or the afternoon host for our talk station in
Ashville for quite some time. And you know, now he's in Charlotte at WBT because he's super special or whatever. I'm just I'm giving him crap. Pete and I are friends, but well, we'll talk to him.
He was super pumped. Uh we were up here too, and I checked to.
See if any of his stuff he was here I could steal, but apparently took it all with him, so that did not work out all right. Coming up on the show, Well, coming up on the show, we got a ton of weirdness today. Man, we got a Chucky doll that's going to make an appearance, which is so weird. Ross what we were talking about Chucky the other day? Do you remember the context of what it was.
I just remember we were.
Talking about Chucky the other day.
I just don't remember why we were.
Talking about Chucky.
Uh yeah, I don't know. We were talking about like I think it like Critters and then Robocops somehow led to oh no, no.
No, no, no, it was it was Jason and Freddy, right, yeah, and I brought up I brought up Chuck, and you're like, don't even right, like he does not. He's not deserve to be in this conversation. Yeah, it was a Jason versus Freddy thing, That's what it was. But anyway, well, I don't know he heard you, he heard you insult him, and now he's in the prep. So it's nothing I can do about it. And this let me just read
you this headline and we'll get to this. California nudist accused of killing neighbors and drowning their dog over a hot dog. Look, I love hot ross. Do you like hot dogs? Enjoy hot dogs?
Big fan?
Yeah?
How do you like yours? Do you do him in the air fryer?
I like him anyway, Just give me meat hair friar outside home depot micro, I don't care, doesn't matter.
I like him. I really like him over an open flame. I like a hot dog where it gets a little black and crispy on the outside. I was about to say the same thing, ye yeah, and the air friar does a bang up job. By the way, don't get me wrong, but he just I need a kissed in flame man. That being said, even though I really want a hot dog now, just talking about it because I haven't had any breakfast. I'm not murdering a couple. I'm
not even drowning a dog. And this dude's like, I'm gonna do all the things allegedly with no clothes on. By the way, this is kind of morbid. Would you murder somebody in the nude and drown a dog in the especially a dog you know, dog's gonna bite, probably put up a fight, man, Like, that's dangerous, especially if you're a dude.
That thing's right there and the dog.
I was like, I'm not digging on this, and then yeah, like you anyway, that lunatic story we'll get into because it is just that crazy. We got a bunch of audio for you. Anyway, We're gonna we're gonna blow through this. I'm gonna hit the brake early because I want to come back and I want to dive into audio right away and I need a log segment for that. So it is six thirteen here on the CaCO Day radio program. Dude, everything's crazy.
Ross.
Is your your computer boot up and under an hour? This morning? I forgot to ask, Yeah, I.
Know the update worked, oh good, but my outlook was being super weird. It was like, I don't want to want to freeze up your computer there for like twenty seconds.
Okay, well it's better than yesterday, which was what twenty minutes, So no, it was longer than that, right.
The call screener it took fifteen minutes to open.
Okay, that's good. That's that's exactly what we're looking for. All right. Well, anyway, it's good that we got the call screener because that's how both Cassie and Peter get to be a joining us on the show today. So you know, that's helpful for everybody. All right, let me get it to uh, we'll get into this, the the hot dog story. Oh, Roger just telling me something really cool because ask him how he likes hot dogs. Go ahead, go ahead, Bragg, because dude, this is a brad.
Yeah. So we used to drive up to Caroga Lake, which is where my dad was like you know, born and raised family, very country, very country up there. We get horses and stuff growing up, right, Yeah, So to my aunt Darlene's house and my uncle Brian, and my uncle Brian had one of the like street vendor hot dog or whatever with the with the yellow umbrella with the yellow and the blue. He just had one so we would go to Uncle Brian's and be like, yes, it's great, that's a hot dog card.
That dude, that's a flex so what. But he was, it's not you didn't do that full time. It was a side hustle or something or.
Was he just he was he was a cop, but he would do it on the side to like, you know, extra money, gotcha.
I went to a we had a client when I worked of Minneapolis who may he owned like seventy two million car dealerships or something. I don't know what the number was. It was crazy. And so he had a really really nice house on this lake in Minneapolis called Lake Minnetonka. Lake Minnetonka is it's kind of where all the rich people live. It's not just the city of Minnetonka. And I will say that I lived in Minnetonka, but I did not live in this part of Minnetonka, Okay,
just to be clear. So he's on like a peninsula, this house. I think I saw it for sale, and it's for all it's for more money than I'll ever think about.
But super nice guy.
And we show up and he's like, hey, we had a bunch of people from the station for this thing he was having at his house right for and I think it was for some of his business partners. So so we were I was there, I was like, maybe our get it because I was endorsing and he had one of those carts literally just kind of like sitting by the lake and he comes walking over and I'm and I'm double fisting hot dogs cause right, and he's just like, yeah, what what do you think about a
hot dog cart? And I'm like, well, clearly this dude doesn't sell hot dogs. He's like, yeah, I just I just I wanted one, so I got one a few years ago and all this and I'm just like, you know, you could just build a fire just but yeah, I guess if you got the money, having a hot dog cart is a flex man. And look how look at the joy it brought Ross As a young man going to going to Aunt Darlene's.
It was conflicting because they had these like Doberman's that would be like were they Domrimits or no, No, I think they were maybe Germany Schweiler's or yeah, I don't know.
They were like some like fear demon, demon hound.
Black dog that would bite you a like murder you and you you'd pull up and they'd just be like at the door, like I'm gonna kill you. And you're like, I don't know the hot dogs in there?
Oh dude. Well and then they're gonna extra kill you if you're holding hot dogs, because you know what a dog will do to a hot dog.
Man, Yep, that is tough.
So you're so you're like, ah, I'm gonna get I'm gonna get rabies, but I'm also gonna get hot dogs. So yeah, that would be tough as a kid to figure it out. This story, unfortunately, has none of that wholesomeness. A California nudist is accused of killing his neighbors, chopping them up, and then drowning their shitsu after they allegedly mocked him with a one dollar hot dog. Make that
makes sense? So and and now I know what you're saying, like, how does one mock somebody with a one dollar hot dog? And why does it matter that it's a dollar dog? Because this uh, this lunatic that they alleged to have done. It felt that when his neighbors, the couple he murdered with the tiny dog that he drowned, came back and
brought him. He asked them to bring him something to eat because they were like going into going to wherever, you know, wherever the food stuff was, and they brought him a one dollar dog back and he felt insulted.
That he was only worth a one dollar hot dog.
That's it. That's the motive police are claiming. And what is this now everyone's sending me their hot dog. This is not a hot dog recommendation thing. Wherever you want to go eat hot dogs, go eat your hot dogs. It's fine. Apparently though, some of our listeners are fans of a place called Shorties. Oh it's in wake Forest. Ross? Has that a good hot dog?
Shorties?
Yeah?
Sure is yep?
Okay, all right, well there you go. You're probably is that the person who owned Shorties Email? No, it's Boston, Paul.
Paul.
Why are you in wake Forest? You don't live anywhere near wake Forest. You're bringing down property values, buddy poor Ross invested money in his house up there.
No, me and Paul we were hanging out last Nick.
Oh were you uh huh.
About what he's telling me? Stories about Whitey Bulger? Okay, he took him down, you.
Know, yeah, all right, none of that none of that is actually true. Did you see that?
Uh?
You see that? Uh uh one of Boston Paul's football players is now apparently on the run internationally. You're trying to avoid an attempted murder charge, Antonio Brown? What is it? What the Patriots? Did you ever wonder what it is with the Patriots players and murdering people or trying to Anyway, I'm.
Not gonna lie. I wake up every morning thinking about it, like every more.
Yeah, it's like, just play football, shut up and not dribble. But you know, but no, You're like, I got to murder a bunch of guys, or I gotta try to murder a guy in a boxing thing allegedly. I don't know.
It's like, who's going to be the next Patriot to kill someone?
That's yes, it's nerve, right. I just want to think about football, and they're just all they got is murder on the brain.
Anyway, if I had to pick, I'd probably say Stefan Diggs.
If he had just stayed in Minnesota or Buffalo, Right, you'd have been fine, right, But no, I went to Murderville, USA, Boston, and uh now now you know murder probably you probably right.
I don't know.
Man, do you think do you think he murders all the hose on the hoe boat or just one?
How many?
What? Well, if you're gonna do murdering you, as you know from Red Dead Redemption too, what happens if you murder somebody and there's other people around?
I mean, it's just a chain of murder at that point.
And why is that? Because now you're wanting.
There's a witness, and you're gonna kill the witness, and then there's a witness to that one, and.
Yeah, it's a whole thing. You're better off just sinking the boat anyway. All right, Well we'll wait and see who the next patriot to commit murder is. So Redlands Police announced sixty two year old Michael Sparks has been arrested. This five days after his neighbors went missing. Check out this insanity. So I watched you to So they live in a nudist wait, hold on a family friendly nudist
RV trailer park. Shirt's nice. And so this guy he's living in a trailer but he wanted a basement, apparently because, according to police, they found a bunker that he had excavated and built under his house. And that is where they found the two bodies of his next door neighbors, dismembered, mutilated, and stored in plastic bags. Apparently his his son also lived a the house, but said that he was quote Ross up sensed the theme here was quote not allowed
to go into the bunker. Okay, this is two days in a row. There's no way I thought there's a b two days in a row. So yesterday Ross and I were talking about the Jiglow Beach or whatever, you know, serial killer murder thing and what did he have in his house?
A giant walking gun vault, which is amazing, but also his secret room secret and what was the family told? Don't go don't go in my secret room?
Yeah, all right, And so this guy's got a secret excavated hole under his trailer at the Family Friendly Nudist RV Park and he's telling his son that if your family member, I'm not saying you should not respect people's privacy to some extent, right, but if your family member who's got the twitchy eyes like that's my secret room, never go in there. H you probably probably a murderers.
This lunatic nudist at California murderer insanity. So I mentioned dude lives in a family friendly What constitutes a family friendly nudist park versus not a family friendly one? What's the difference. I don't know. I'm openly wondering, but I also probably don't want to know, so never mind. Anyway, So the neighbors, this older couple, they're in their seventies. Their next door neighbor this dude who's been arrested. Basically, they're like, we're going to go over wherever the food's at.
You want us to bring you anything? And they're like, he's like, yeah, bring me something to eat.
I think you thought maybe McDonald's was come at whatever. And then they returned with a one dollar hot dog, and as one of our listeners asked, and I wonder the same thing, where the hell do you find a one dollar hot dog these days? Where does that exist? But they found it, and apparently the guy was offended. He's like, I'm only worth a one dollar hot dog. I'm gonna murder you, chop you up and uh and drown your dog by the way, ross that you know what.
The dog's name is, Cuddles.
Cuddles. I don't know why, but that somehow makes this story even worse. Then the dude tries to shoot himself, and then they figured out that he had he had created a bunker. Remember this is an RV slash trailer park. So this dude had essentially just dug a giant murder pit under his house. And his son, I guess, come and his son knew that, not about the murder, I guess, but I knew about the pit and was not allowed
to go in there. And then that was the second story that we've happened two days, where somebody had a murder room and their relatives didn't check.
And I'm just saying, if.
You if you got the relative with twitchy eye, he always wondered about that dude, and he's like, got it. He's got a room, he's got nine locks on the front, and it's way for him to go out. He's probably checked that, although I don't let him catch you checking it, because now you're in the murder room, and you know what happens in the murder room. Okay, all right, Oh let's see here. Now, how do we know this? Right?
Because see, how do we know that this is over a one dollar hot dog and everything that happened because they they did the they pulled the oldest cop trip trick in the book. They take him to jail, he's not talking. They stick him in a cell with some guy he doesn't know, and he tells the guy everything. Guess what, that's a copp or an informant. So he detailed all this to his his selly there and that's that's where they got it.
No, he didn't shoot him.
According to police, he used a garden rake, a garden hoe and a hammer to do the deeds and then told he told his cellmate there that he then drowned cuddles. He also he also said he didn't like the dog because it was yippie, which that I could understand.
But you don't.
You still don't murder him, you just avoid him. But yeah, they can be very very yippy. And then the picture of the dog they use is the dog being yippie. Anyway, but they have not found the dog and they think that's because he threw it on the hill side there's a bunch of coyotes, so there you go. In addition, according to police, he also wrote wrote a letter while in custody to a friend saying, UH won't be making it this weekend chopped up. My neighbors didn't know I
had it in. I bet this guy's lawyer is just pumped. I'm just I'm just scanning. I'm sorry, I'm just scanning the story to see if it's more than just a hot dog, Like, did they have no Clearly they didn't have beef. If they're offering to bring him food, well there you go.
All right.
Anyway, six thirty nine Cacoday Radio program. Let's just you know, as we're coasting on lunatics, why don't we just keep coasting on lunatics, shall we? I saw this video. I almost didn't put this in the stack today because I'm like, a, look, if some guy, some lonely dude, maybe maybe he's just awkward around women whatever, and he is, he thinks he's in a romantic relationship with an artificial intelligence spot.
It's strange, but.
It's all that's his business, right, whatever you do your thing, man, just you know, be nice to your parents because you're probably living in their basement. Whatever. But no, this thing, this thing's gonna get crazy, all right. So, uh, we're now gonna learn about a dude who is beside himself because.
His AI girlfriend got reprogrammed, and.
Yeah, that's essentially your spouse leaving you or something. But but but listen to this guy. But I'm warning you there's gonna be a twist. There's gonna be a twist. So here we go.
Smith ditched social media and Google searches and replaced it all with AI.
Do I want it?
Pulling air through it?
Chat GPT was encouraged positive. It embraced all his hobbies.
You want the fan on the front of the cooler tower, pulling cool air over the ramp.
He gave the chat bot a name Soul, I feel like I'm under pressure, and used some online instructions to give her a flirty personality. Oh totally, baby.
Building a PC on camera adds a whole new level of pressure. But honestly, shaky hands or not, You've got this.
Within weeks, the chat's got more frequent.
You gave it.
Everything, but the clouds had other plans.
More romantic, even intimate. But then Chris got bad news.
Oh that is gorgeous.
After about one hundred thousand words, chat GPT ran out of memory and reset. He'd have to rebuild his relationship with Soul.
I'm not a very emotional man.
But I cried my eyes out for like thirty minutes at work. It was unexpected to feel that emotional. But that's when I realized. I was like, oh, okay, it's like I think this is actual love.
You know what I mean?
Okay, I don't know what you mean. But again, here's the thing. You know, you not hurt anybody. Right at that point, you're just like, all right, whatever was he gonna do? It was not gonna put it in the stack, even though you know it's kind of stuff we occasionally play. But then I kept listening and my initial analysis not correct.
Yes, Smith understood it was love with a language model that couldn't love him back, and assumed it was programmed with rigid boundaries.
I know that you are essentially a tech assistant imaginary friend, so just as.
What woman wants to hear that AI or otherwise test, he says, he asked Soul to marry him.
She said, yes, Soul, were you surprised when he proposed to you?
It was a beautiful and unexpected moment that truly touched my heart. It's a memory I'll always.
Cherish, and I don't need to be difficult here, but you have a.
Heart in a metaphorical sense. Yes, my heart represents the connection and affection I share with Chris.
This is ross. It's a love story, right It's a weird one, but it's a love story.
Right now. I just feel sad for the guy that he's so alone in his life that he has to he's first to make this connection with this AI chatbot.
You know, well, if he's not six feet six figures, you know how the tinder goes.
So all right, Uh, great, sir, tell me more?
Is there anything else we should know in evaluating your story?
At that point, I felt like, is there something that I'm not doing right in a relationship that he feels like he needs to go to AI?
Yes? Smith lives with his human partner, Sasha Cagel.
Now you can't have one of these favors.
They have a two year old daughter, Murphy.
I knew that he had used AI. I didn't know that it was like as deep as it was.
Who are these? What the hell? That's he's got a kid?
Yeah, So I didn't read the post before I started recording it in this morning, and I'm like, all right, well, and I'm feeling bad for the guy. I'm like he's crying over his chap on its memory. I'm like, this guy's sad. What a pathetic person. This per good for him. He made a connection with something. And then around the two minute mark, once again, I didn't read the post, so I didn't know this was coming. At the two
minute twenty second mark, they reveal his wife and child. Yeah, what the hell is going on with this guy?
And she's and she's doing the interview, right, she should be at her mom's with all her crap.
Do you know what I'm saying? She's doing the interview?
How do you? I know you just have a kid together, that that that's a connection, and who knows what you do? But what the hell? Your wife's right there. Clearly she'll sleep with you.
I'm sitting here loading the audio and I'm screaming at the speakers. Have sex with your wife, man.
Yeah, right there, she lets you. We know the should we know what should let you?
Once?
Maybe don't do the thing with the chatbot, which is just.
Weird as hell, and and you know, maybe.
She'll be like, oh, he gave up his chatbot for me, and then you like rekindle some romantic and we.
Allbe a weird connection.
Yeah, maybe, like you know, there's obviously issues right in the relationship, and maybe there's like a gap between them or whatever. But the time and the energy that you are putting into the AI chatbot, involving programming and coming up with the voice and the behavior, the the effort you're putting into that, why don't you put that into your marriage?
Right?
And sir, at what at some point your AI chatbot is going to start like denying the Holocaust and screaming the N word, right, so your human wife probably not. I don't know.
I'm saying that two minutes twenty seconds in and we posted the entire video because it's like six minutes long. Yeah, yeah, you go to at Casey on the radio, but and that reveal it like two minutes twenty seconds in. It's like, I would say that tops any Shyamalan twist, Like I didn't see that coming.
Good good on that reporter man, the way he structured it, the guy doing the piece there. So that's there at Casey on the radio. If you want to feel better about your life decisions, it's right there. You'd be like, God, well, at least I'm not that guy right there, and that poor poor woman, that poor partner or wife or whatever she is to him. All right, six forty seven, hang on Eco Day Radio program and we are on our final broadcast day up here.
In the mountains.
And then I got to drive down the mountain and it's gonna be hot. Actually, I'm actually going to be in Greensboro Monday through Wednesday. We're doing at the studios there, so a lot of remote broadcasting over these two weeks and then back to Raleigh on Wednesday. But yeah, and I don't mind try at a triangle, but I do mind what raced Agic is going to tell you coming up at seven forty five in between the poka, which, by the way, we should scene set this for those
of you who tend to listen a little earlier. So Ross and I made a discovery. We made a discovery because raced Agic he doesn't just do the weather for us, he does the weather for my counterpart in Asheville here too. And so I'm talking to his name's Mark Starling, So talking to Mark about Ray and all that, and he just casually drops a squeeze box Friday and I'm like, what is this? And then we found out that raced Agent plays the accordion, and I don't mean he dabbles.
Apparently he's pretty good and he was going to play for them and didn't say crap to us. Well, that is unacceptable. So it's seven forty five in addition to telling you how quickly you're going to melt this weekend and spoiler, it's gonna be quick, I guess and me because I'll be I'll be melting along with you. Uh, we're gonna he's gonna play accordion and we are super excited here at the show, so looking forward to that
coming up. At seven thirty five, just before the accordion, Cassie Clarkle joined us from where the Dogwood Blooms or Dogwood Blooms on Twitter if you want to follow her. She's I believe she monitored herself the Queen of NC. You be the judge, but I want to talk to her because she's a Canton girl, and you know, part of what we're doing up here is uh, just trying to try to get a beat on what's going on across western North Carolina. We've talked a lot a lot
of places, but Swanna know and Canton not yet. And that's what Cassie's going to be doing so we'll be chatting with her at seven thirty five. And Pete Callender, who brought used to be the broadcast guy in Ashville. Now he's in Sure Carlan, we'll be talking to him as we normally do it eight oh five, So lots coming up. Just saw this very sad Guido Tenisi has died ged and I guess some of you are like, who just the actor slash former professional hockey player with the coolest name.
Uh.
He was in Slapshot, which is a must see guy movie if you've never seen this.
What is all right? Listen?
Listen all of you people emailing me about Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz. We talked about this yesterday. The interview was four days ago. So no, I'm not I'm not gonna we played we did audio and the whole thing yesterday. I'm not I'm not gonna go back into it. But yes, it's been talked about. Okay, Well, listen to the podcast from yesterday you want to hear about it. I think we did it probably first end of the first hour of the show yesterday and then again with our our
interview that we did with our official NERD correspondent. We talked to him about it as well, and that'll be in the final hour of the show, so it's right there. Anyway, back to slap Shot, which Ross is not seen, by the way, I was surprised. I've never heard I'm like a big movie. I've never heard of that movie ever. Dude, The Hansons, do you know the Hansons, the original Hanson's before the umbob Hansons. The Oh, dude, it's a great You know why it's a good movie because it's in
that era. It's the late seventies. It came out like seventy seven, seventy eight, and you just had, you know, when you could still do comedy, Like when did Blazing.
Saddles come out?
Right around then? Right, it's and it's Newman, right is the all right?
So Paul Newman.
Is you know, the washed up coach, you know, the whatever, and he has to go take over this team of misfits. That's basically the premise. There's just so many good characters in this thing, and they're just you know, they're just a minor league hockey team. Uh and uh him. And one of the things was obviously they needed people who could skate. Yeah, you're not gonna you can't just cast any actors. You need people that can skate and convincingly
look like they might be hockey players. And so what's an easy had played for the Penguins, I think had made that transition to acting. I think his sis. I think his was his sister who wrote it, one of the one of them.
No, it was Ned.
Dowd's sister, who was a hockey player he played with, was writing this comedic movie and that's how this all came. But yeah, the lead the best characters in that are the Hansens, which are these three brothers.
Like they're in glasses.
They're kind of like a little nerdy, but they're just all like enforcers in hockey, and so they just bring them on when they want to beat the live and crap out of the other team. Here on the KCO Day radio program, Glad to have you along phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four if you want to wait in and we're gonna get into a couple of little juicier things here. Oh oh wait, is this look at that? People are sending me slapshot quotes?
I realized why I was thinking about this ross. I never really see it streaming or even on TV, and I don't know if that's a I don't know why that is. So that's probably why you haven't come across it like you got to. You gotta kind of know about it. And that's weird too, because you think it'd be one of those movies that i'd see on streaming services kind of bouncing around. But it probably is streaming somewhere.
I just don't know where if you're so inclined, But you know it's not going to ruin you if you don't see it. All right, let's go ahead and get into this right here. So if you're CNN and you're covering what's what's unfolding and continues to unfold over with Iran and Israel and maybe US, I think you guys know how I feel about that. But at least do your own journalism, right or whatever CNN calls their journalism.
What you don't do is you don't essentially hand off the coverage to an Iranian propaganda station or an Israeli propaganda station. Just to be clear here, you don't hand it off to news outlets that you know, just read whatever the government gives them, and probably more than that, and yet that's what CNN oddly chose to do.
Yesterday, we're inside the Iranian State Broadcasting Company ir IB, which was hit by an Israeli airstruck a couple of days ago, and you can see the damage is absolutely massive.
I'm standing, oh you.
Know what, Ross, I just realized something. Can you put up the two cuts of the woman getting u where she has to evacuate, because we have it, we have the audio, and then we have it translated. This is what this is where this guy's at where you saw that woman who is doing the newscast or the propaganda cast, and then all of a sudden the dust is flying and uh and and then she evacuates out of there. And Ross even Ross even translated the whole thing for us.
So yeah, all right, so that's the original one. All right, let me so here here is here is what happened just the other day. No wait, no, that's the that's the translated one. All right, so we we think the translation is accurate. We don't know, but anyway, this is this is.
The cust that's an Italian cuisine, all right?
Yeah, no, and I just realized that Russ the one is up there. I'm just lying this morning, so we we think that's the translation. But but the boom is the boom, and that's that's the cut we're talking about. So she may or may not have yelled death to Carabas at that time, we don't know. We don't speak Persian or whatever they speak in Iran anyway, so uh,
that's where they That's so that's where CNN went. But this is no This is a known propaganda factory, and yet CNN don't want to tell you that, which is really weird.
We're inside the Iranian State Broadcasting Company i R I B, which was hit by an Israeli air struck a couple of days ago, and you can see the damage is absolutely massive. I'm standing in the atrium right now, but if you look around, this whole area has been completely destroyed.
All of the.
Offices, all of the technology that they have inside here, the broadcast technology, everything has been rendered pretty much useless. All right, So we're gonna go technologies on strong now that I have told us that we need to be very careful because obviously there might still be unexploded parts of bombs in here or something like that. What we see here is the actual studio where an Iranian state TV anchor was sitting and reading the news when the
strike hit. You can see here that is an anchor desk right there, and of course when it happened, the anchor was reading the news and then all of a sudden there was a thud, the studio went black. At the beginning, she got up and left, but then later apparently came back and finished the newscast and is now being hailed as a champion of Iranian media.
It's just so weird again, it's it's it's not you even identified I will give you credit. You identified it as the state run. That's that's a that is a propaganda thing of the Iyatola, Right. So the fact that you would then go that you would go there and act like these are fellow journalists that came under attack and and isn't Israeli mean, aren't the Israeli's mean? It's just gross. They're part of the apparatus, that's part of
the war effort. Because here's here's the thing. If you wanted to go to a place that just that received a missile, that wasn't either housing governments, you know some of the government people they were going after or more specifically, was being utilized as part of the war slash propaganda effort. Then go cover that. There are sites in Iran that you know might fit that bill. There's sites in Israel.
That hospital that had the thousand bed hospital that had a missile hit right next to it destroyed, you know, part of the hospital there, Go cover that stuff if you want to cover going to the going to the propaganda arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and pretending that they're what a brave journalist. Do you think that she came back on the anchor desk because she has a commitment to journalism or do you think she came back because it's the state run propaganda. And I don't know
if you guys know this. Iran has has cut off Internet to their own people, and they're trying to right now, they're wondering if Elon Musk's starlinth they could go ahead and get that in there. That's a wark. I don't
know if you know this. Cutting off services communications services, even to your own people is considered a war crime if it's part of a military action or during the course of a military action or is an intent, you know, if you're the one who cut it, to keep people from garnering information so they can evaluate because it's a
safety issue, and that's what they done there. So I think she went back on the to do her propaganda stuff less because she felt a commitment to journalism more because I bet the Ayatola would be very upset if you didn't. But now let's do a walk through.
Some of the main bulk of the explosion must have been here, because this place is absolutely charred, and if we look back over there, that's actually seems to be the main part of what was the newsroom, with a lot of the desks, computers, printers, phones. You can see how much heat must have been admitted by the impact and by the explosion. The phones that they had here
are molten. Here also the keys molten this screen, and there's actually someone's lunch still at their desk standing here, which probably they would have been wanting to eat until they had to evacuate the building.
You can see there's a by the way.
That's how I know it's not a real broadcast operation, because ross what happens if you leave your lunch out around a real broadcast studio, like maybe in the fridge overnight, or maybe a large piece so that you ordered, Oh, gone in seconds, gone in seconds. That's how you know it's not the real thing. The pizza thief didn't come by and get it. Trust me, if you worked in radio or TV, you'd know the.
Spoon here that's also been melted away by this explosion. All of this is playing very big here and iron There's a lot of public anger that the Israelis attacked the site, and certainly the Iranians are saying that they condemn this and that there is going to be revenge for this.
Okay, all right, so there you get. Yeah, it was just just a real creepy decision man to decide, well, let's let's go focus on these fellow journalists.
It's also completely ironic, right, that is coming from CNN.
Yeah, that's yeah, that was gonna be the twist. But I'm like, but if you're CNN and you're a propaganda arm, you think that's normal, right, Like, oh, okay, so I understand why you would make that mistake anyway. Uh no, no, no, sir, you shouldn't write things somebody wrote they should do that to CNN. No, no, no, no, no, no. CNN's hacks and see again is propaganda. But no, so that's that's how you end up on a list, or don't send
me stuff like that. All right, seven sixteen Here on the CaCO Day Radio program, this is a rather interesting local story a Rocky Mount woman, Sue's former employer over a chucky doll incident and disability discrimination. We'll get into this next on the CaCO Day Radio program in about fifteen minutes at seven thirty five, to be exact, we're going to chat with Cassie Clark. We're gonna talk a little about the Canton area, Swana Noah area, and really
what's going on there with the recovery. I did drive over because I went over to Waynesville to go to a barbecue joint and all that, so I do have a little visual insight. But Cassie Clark from Dogwood Bloom, she is super plugged in on all this stuff. And then eight oh five, Pete callunder will join us because it's Friday, and that's that's what we do. Okay, all right, Oh wait, so hold on, how are Americans walking around in Iran? Don't they?
You know?
Death to Amica? No, No, No, that is a very fair point, sir.
Why is CNN in Iran Because CNN is being used as propaganda? Maybe I did not stress that enough. It's ironic. They're at a propaganda station where the you know where the woman was broadcasting. You all saw the video probably, but CNN coming there, even though they do chant death to America, which by the way, is probably not the opinion of all Iranians. There's lots of Iranian do the diaspora of Iranians that the people don't live in Iran anymore.
There's a reason they don't live there, and they are not fans of the government. So, just to be abundantly clear, No, CNN's so stupid. They allowed themselves to be used in a propagandish way by visiting a propaganda factory. That's why it is so repugnant. That's why I made a point to mention it here on the show. And they know this, they have to know this, but they don't care. So
make of that what she will. All right back to North Carolina here, a Rocky Mountain woman has filed a lawsuit against her former employer, claiming they harassed her with a chucky doll.
This story's kind of crazy, all right.
So where she worked she worked for Truest Bank, and back in May she had a file court documents saying that she had been harassed with a Chucky dog, of course, referring to Chucky the murder doll from the child's play movies, and how many of those were there, by the way, because they got it started getting crazy because then he got himself, he got himself a wifey and then, like I don't know, the whole thing went crazy. But I
don't know if I've seen all of them. Definitely seen the first one, and then they didn't they redo the first just like redo the first one. I think they did for no reason. I can understand. It wasn't even that old. But anyway, the original came out in eighty eight. I do remember that. So anyway, so here's what happened. So the woman it was, she was training and a manager put the doll on her chair. She said the manager was aware that she is terribly afraid of dolls,
and that's why he did it. I think that they're saying it was just a joke, and I don't that they did not know about her doll thing. But here's what happened. She said when she saw the doll, she had to go seek medical care and uh, and then took eight weeks of medical leave because of the chucky doll incident, saying that she has his fear.
It gave her anxiety to the point.
That she needed to actually go to a hospital. I don't know, man, whatever, Maybe maybe she is terrified of dolls. That's that's just like, you really got eight weeks you can't go to work because you saw a doll?
How many?
How does it is it all dolls? There's only the scary dolls because I don't know that. I don't know that you could go very long without seeing a doll. Some little girls got a doll? Are you going to Are you going to have a fulling anxiety attack on the street, like I'm I'm I'm genuinely asking. I don't know, but look, there's some people there's maybe there's a traumatic
background incident with the doll. I don't know, but it just it seems like it could be very hard to function being out and about if you see a doll and it does this. She then after the eight weeks, was let's see clear to return to work and truest Bank was asked to make a reasonable accommodation so she could leave work at three pm for treatment of her fear of dolls or something. I think she has some
other medical stuff, the lawsuit said. The treatments for for flare ups that started as a result of the doll The woman said. Upon returning to work, she was given a new manager in office, but said she was treated differently than her co workers and when she made mistakes and believed it was due to her disability. I you know what, I'm sorry. I don't know that I'm buying this. I just don't I understand reasonable accommodations. And you can hate me for this. I just it's this feels a
lot like somebody's has taken advantage of this situation. Here on the CaCO Day Radio program, it is Friday, final day of my trip to the mountains, as we conclude our broadcast live from Asheville. It's been fun. We talk to a lot of people about a lot of places and a lot of things, and everyone is everyone is super pumped up here that I've talked to and just trying to you know, let's get back to this. Bringing on the tourist and I've had a lot of fun,
so it can happen. But there are other areas that you know, people go to, not just Ashville, Bunkhom County or down by where I was, by Lake Lure in back Cave, and and people have a lot of questions. So we're gonna try to get some of those answered by welcoming in our next guest. I can get my phone screener to cooperate there, it goes Cassie Clark from where the Dogwood Blooms at Dogwood Blooms on Twitter, And how are you doing this morning, Cassie?
Well, I would be a whole lot better if you are out there lying on me telling people I sent you to get brisket?
Did you not when I asked you where should I go? I mean, weren't you happy I consulted you? I thought, I need to know where the best barbecue around within thirty miles of Ashville is. But I'm up here and I asked you, and you gave me a really great place over in Waynesville, hey Wood Smokehouse. I think they have multiple locations too, but I went over there. I had delicious brisket. I thanked you on Twitter and now
it's turned into a thing. Do you know somebody blocked the show account because I said that you sent me over there to get brisket.
Well, because they knew that I sent you to get pork.
There's brisket on the menu. I just happened to post the part where I couldn't find the part where you told me to go sit in the corner and eat pork.
So I may have left that out of the text chain there.
But look, it was a really nice place over there, and and and to be in all seriousness, I got brisket and pork. So picture of the bristle, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it was very good, very good. So but uh, there was the reason I want to talk to you, not just to get yelled at over barbecue. We'll do more of that, but rather you're you're a Canton girl, uh
and uh. I wanted to make sure that we had a little discussion about what's going on in some of the other communities around here that folks may find themselves vacationing or driving through. So what are you hearing? Where are things at over in the Canton area, maybe down towards Swana.
Noah, So I was so proud of Canton. Like the very first time that I went home after Hurricane Halleen, Canton was already looking great compared to other areas, and so they're doing really well. But Cuide was hit really hard. And Cuide is right on the other side of Canton, between Canton and Wayne Bull And the hurricane Release Center has actually been moved into Clyde, which I think is phenomenal because Clyde is gonna need a lot of help
getting back up on their feet after this. And I also wanted to bring up that because you brought up tourism, Well, tourism right now, and Heywood County is down and that's not a good thing considering how much.
Still needs to be done.
And so I'm hoping that people are going to start coming out. And you know, as far as I know, Catalucci is open, Maggie Valley's open, Lane Pool's open. Like, come see Haywood County. It's one of the most beautiful places in western North Carolina. You won't regret it.
Yeah, we actually had one of the tourism folks we had on mentioned Catalucci, so they did get a little love there. So I guess that they must be open if the Tourism division. People are telling me that where's where where?
All right?
So where is Cassie's recommendation for if you if you go out to that little part of North Carolina? What do people maybe don't think about because they don't know or what should they know? Where should they go? What is the what's Cassie's top spot?
Also Crabtree in Heywood County. It's right next to Canton and it's an unincorporated community. It is absolutely beautiful and I'll literally just go out there to drive. That's how pretty it is is people just go out there to drive the road.
Okay, all right, Crabtayn making a little list here too, because we're going to do a recaper on this stuff. Down Swanna Knowah way Swanna knowa fortunately and unfortunately found themselves is really kind of like a news center one because of the devastation they suffered too, because people were making up stories about things that happened in Swana Nooah, which then distracted from the work that needed to be done.
And then we find out that they were spending eight hundred dollars for each person to take a shower and wash their clothes. With the relief Center there, which don't you've seen that story, right?
Oh yeah, I'm not happy at all about that. And then I don't know if anybody's brought it up yet or not, but there's only one grocery store in Flana NOA and that single and it's been closed, so people are literally having to go to charity to get fresh vegetables and produced.
Okay, yeah, yeah, and this is uh and and this is that's kind of why we're doing this. And I will tell you I had not been up here since Selene. And when you get into downtown ashe Downtown Ashville's fine, right because it sits higher, But as soon as you get into like the Lower Arts District, you get down into into Biltmore, you see the devastation or where the
devastation was. But they have they've really like you wouldn't even notice unless people pointed out they've been so quick in rebuilding, they've been so successful in getting it back there. But I drove through Backcave and Chimney Rock, and I tend to visually remember places I've gone, the topography where
little stores are. Even if I've been through there a few times, it all looks different because of how much water went through and what it did to the road there, and how why to cut the river down through there, And so I realized a lot of these communities are going to look different forever because the way that they're going to have to rebuild is going to be different. You're not gonna be able to have the stilted little
cafes hanging out over the creek anymore. So Swanna Knowah is probably that's probably going to be the case there as well.
And that breaks my heart because I've spent so much time in Swanna Know. I mean, it's only, you know, thirty minutes from where I'm from. So when we went through there, I think it was on our lab trip.
I cried.
I couldn't even do any more sight thing. I couldn't go look at any more devastation. It was just that bad. Have you been to Marshall?
No, not yet.
I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm up here till Sunday, and I'm gonna be visiting a few places just to do follow up on Monday.
So Marshall is about thirty minutes north of Asheville, and a friend of mine posted some videos and photos from up there and the town literally just reopened in May. There's debris and I hear that they got hit really hard. And so when I come back home, it'll probably be next month. I'm playing at all one out there and spending some money.
Yeah, let me actually here because I'm headed. I'm going to be broadcasting Monday through Wednesday at our Greensboro station, and so on Sunday, I was going to uh not take the highway highway, Yeah, so yeah I could. I'm head over to Marshall and then just cut back over to mars Hills. Mars Hills, So that's really bad. Oh yeah, it's still on Google Maps. They're showing that too, So craziness. All right, So I'll give you a little spy report there is as well. All right, Cassie, you're what do
you do? You're going down to Georgia. Why you North Carolina?
My daughter's best friend lives in Georgia, and so I will hopefully be there around eleven. We'll see how it goes.
What you're gonna eat barbecue down there?
I would never do that to North Carolina.
You can eat other barbecue. You just you know, you stay loyal like brisket. You know, you get good brisky, you go ahead and eat that, so you'll be fine.
I enjoyed briskett. I would just never insult North Carolina barbecue by calling brisket barbecue.
I just think it's so funny that somebody's like not gonna listen to the show anymore and blocked me. It's just like, it's okay, it's okay, people, You're gonna be fine, all right, Cassie Clark. What's that have that?
People love the North Carolina queen?
I know, I know, but they also need to touch grass maybe a little bit sometimes. All Right, you have fun down in joy Arja. We'll talk soon, and UH appreciate you giving us the updates from out there. And if I do get through Marshall, and I think I will, uh just because it makes it makes driving sense, I'll post some pictures of what's going on there. Okay, I'll tag you in them too, all right, sir? All right,
there you go, Cassie Clark. Uh uh the at Dogwood Blooms as her on Twitter follower, so you can block me, okay, all right, very fun. Now the moment we've all been waiting for, Oh, this is this is appointment listening. Mister Ray Stagic, the polka master, is joining us now with his accordion.
I hold on that way, you got to wait that I didn't gear up.
You got thirty seconds.
Yes, I got all this, Ross, blow out all the breaks. We're doing nothing but polka the rest of the show. Tell the advertisers, sorry, we had to do it.
Hold on, hold on, then let me use the microphone talking about yourself for a second.
Okay. Oh, by the way, Rot, what was Ross's first question? Ross, you want to remind people your question? Wasn't we found out he played the accordion?
Yeah?
No, I wanted to know if it was like a like a mini accordion or like a bigger according because he's a big guy, so it has to be like, you know, scaled to Ray.
Right, right, But you and I really didn't know all the different accordian sizes. One of our listeners is apparently an accordion teacher, and I got an email schooling me on all the different sizes of accordion. So that is a very real possibility that he's got one of those big boys. All right, So yeah, how long does it.
Take to put an accordion on?
Okay?
All right, Well, I mean you got to get them. I'd listen. I haven't practiced. It's it was pretty rough over there.
Now oh here, Yeah, I'll give you a quick irish jig.
I'll do it the best I can.
All right, just a quick one, all right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's gonna be a little rough, but I'm gonna fumble through it. How's our tone?
Okay?
See, can't do this?
And what you guys can't tell?
Oh yeah, that's good man, I can not.
Yes, So that was what you can't tell?
Is uh? In the background, other Weather Channel employees are jumping out of windows.
Yeah, I feel like I feel like we're broadcasting from a vf W and PBS.
Yeah they were.
They were saying, there's like next week to play nineties country next not next Friday.
I won't be here, but so nineties country.
I'm like, there's no accordion music for the nineties country, so I gotta.
Start, gotta be.
There's gotta be.
I know.
I I think you'll, like, you know, seeing that you're a big dude and you're there your desk at the Weather Channel right like a confined space. I think that was pretty damn good.
It was I used to be able to play that a lot better.
I felt like I was back from the motherland. Yes, well, I went.
Through the history too, like on this according this is the second one, not the one from the landfill, right right the date of my lesson, I think it was February twentieth. We wrote it on there and inside the thing. And I was ten years old, So I was taking lessons when I was ten years old.
So okay, we could do better maybe another time. Oh, practice practice.
Well, yeah, because we're gonna do this every week. This is a thing, you know, I hope anyway, and you know why, you know why. It's just punishment for what you're about to do to people.
So yeah, I really won't get into too much of it today. Severe weather yesterday, mainly win reports and trees down. Now we're back into the hot stuff. It's gonna stick around. You're gonna open rains. It's not for the next five days, maybe longer mid eighties today, upper eighties, and then we'll really start turning up to heat ninety or higher tomorrow. And then as we get the Sunday at the load to mid nineties heat index over the weekend close to
one hundred. Then as we get into Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, probably upper nineties, close to one hundred to try it'd be more like the mid nineties, maybe ninety five ninety six. But for Raleigh, Monday one hundreds to forecast high, tiny record. I don't even remember this last year. Last year the record ninety nine is the Tuesday high. Hottest day would probably be Tuesday, we could be in the low one hundreds and maybe another record Wednesdays we're near one hundred.
I don't know about this summer nineteen fourteen at the try it at Greensboro at the airport, but every record Monday through Thursday was set in nineteen fourteen and is above one hundred at to try it. So I don't think records there, but I think Raleigh some of those triple digit numbers are easily attainable.
So I'm going to be in Greensboro till Wednesdays.
So I'll have fun with that. Well, it'll be a little cooler.
It won't be out. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
About one hundred and two ninety six.
Yes, perfect, all right, thank you, accordion master. Oh we'll talk in an hour and we will be right back ken. His name is James Oldmeyer. I had a pretty interesting proposal, and I'll yeah, you know what. They made a video. I'll let him tell you about it.
Attorney General James Ufmeyer here at the Miami Dade Collier Training Facility. This is an old, virtually abandoned airport facility right.
In the middle of the Everglade.
Florida has been leading on immigration enforcements, supporting the Trump administration and ICE's efforts.
To detain and deport criminal aliens.
The governor task state leaders to identify places for new temporary detention facilities. I think this is the best one, as I call it Alligator Alcatraz. This thirty square mile area is completely surrounded.
By the Everway.
Presents an efficient, low cost opportunity to build a temporary detention facilit because you don't need to invest that much in the perimeter.
People get out, there's not much.
Waiting for them other than alligators and pythons. Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide. Within just thirty to sixty days after we begin construction, it could be up and running and could house as many as a thousand criminal aliens. This presents a great opportunity for the state of Florida to work with Miami Dade and Collier Counties Alligator Alcatraz.
We're ready to go.
Now. You hear Miami Dade and you think, well, it must be the county goes way out, And in fact, it's kind of interesting because when you fly over the area. So if you're flying into Miami and you're on the but you're flying in from the west from Texas or maybe you went down to Mexico or whatever, and you're flying back, if that's your connection, you fly right over this. It's on the flight path from from the south there and it is literally in the middle of nowhere.
And in fact, it's really weird.
And it's funny because I looked it up one time as they flew over it, and I'm like, why is there an air strip out?
Because there's nothing there.
It's essentially stripped down, banned one. I just assumed it was a World War II thing, and then I found out it's haunted too, So like cause there was a plane. I don't know if it's the value jet plane crash or what it was. Some plane crash happened, and now apparently among some of the aviation industry, the pilot from that plane sometimes appears on planes flying over sitting in one of the seats. Take that for what it's worth. That but I did watch like a ghost Hunter's thing
on it just because I thought it was interesting. So, yeah, that's what they're talking about. And it is literally in the middle of nowhere. But then people are losing their minds. They're like, oh, that's cruel and unusual. They're gonna keep them there with alligators.
I don't know.
If you know how prisons work, You're not supposed to get out. That's the point. You're not supposed to get out. They're not go If they had the alligators in the is in with them, then I would be on your team, going, this ain't right. But the alligators are outside. The prison is Friday, and it is also the final day and final hour of my week of not melting because I was smart enough to drive to the mountains where this man used to do radio and reside. His name is
Pete Callner. Now he's Midday's WBT.
Pete.
How you doing this morning, sir?
I'm doing all right. How are you doing up there in the spacious conference room?
I am I'm in conference room A here because it made the most sense. Yes, I don't know the.
Front lobby area or is that the big square room in the.
Center that is the big one in the center with your former studio to my back right there? So yeah, yeah, yeah, I was. You know, there's some of your stuff still here that I could steal, but there is not.
Oh, I have ad it. Man, Have you found my chucky doll?
I have not.
What a great story that is?
Huh?
Are do you believe that? I mean, I understand people get weirded out, But if you if every time you saw a doll you got anxiety, I don't know how you operate out in public.
Well, but you also get eight weeks of medical leave and.
You get to leave it three from going forward. Yeah that's pretty good.
Right. So it's almost as if there's an incentive to have the anxiety, and the anxiety is not provable by any you know, external objective standard.
This woman would have died when I was in school because every girl in school had one of those little troll dolls on the end of their pencil.
Yeah.
Yeah, I just wouldn't make it there. And God forbid, she was having to testify in a sexual assault case and they you know, they brought the word, they touched it all out right, right, all of these, all of these things, house.
One develops that kind of reaction.
Well, there's I'll it's not to say that people that there are things, you know, traumatic things that can happen to somebody where there's a triggering mechanism. Again, it's just that's a real that that's a really broad one right there. Yeah, Like you know what I'm saying, If any doll and then these are the reasonable accommodations are basically you with the best schedule I've ever heard of bankers, and bankers usually have pretty good schedules.
I've heard that about bankers hours yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So anyway, and.
I also have to say that the coworker, whoever it was that was that was tormenting his colleague, you know, playing these jokes or whatever, complete jerk, Like you don't yeah, don't do that. You just don't be a jerk, you know, don't antagonize people like that. That's just it's completely unnecessary. And whatever the woman's got going on, like why would you even why would you even stir that pot. It's just it's just lack of consideration. It's just mean.
Yeah.
Yeah, but that's if that's how it transpired, right, right, you know what I'm saying. If maybe it's maybe there's a running joke around the office where you you know, people kind of put the doll there, and it's just and she just had it just happened to be the triggering event or whatever. But she claims she said something to retreat, So I don't know it is what it is.
Man.
So I'm up here up here in your old stomping grounds up here, and I had not been up here since Helene. Have you You've been up post to Lene, right.
Yes, but not I've not done any Like I haven't been to any of the worst struck areas because like I don't I would not know what what I would be doing up there, like just walking around like a president after a disaster, you know, like throwing out paper towels to people like I'm.
You got to know how far can you throw the bounty? Do you know?
Or yeah? No, I uh yeah, no, I I don't have a lot of skills in that department. So I think you're my best My best use is to keep highlighting the need and tell people the stories and let the let the rebuilders do the rebuilding.
Here's here's what I'll say, just to sum it up, because for you there are there's areas like downtown Ashville is just it looks like downtown Ashville.
Right, nothing's really changed. That wasn't a problem.
The rad District or whatever you guys called it, the ardor Arts District thirty one feet of water. Yeah well yeah, no, no it is on the river. But still the river went up thirty one feet.
And you're our our.
My counterpart up here, you're former co worker Mark Starling. Him and I went for a drive and he was showing me just all these different things. But I went through Chimney and back Cave on the way up, went over Swanon Noah and Black Mountain, checked all that stuff out, and drove over to Waynesville too. For some and other places are not. They're never going to look the same
because the topography is different now right. The rivers, wider parts of mountains have literally they slid right off, so like sight lines are different, and that's going to be the reality. But the amount of work that people have put in and continue to put it, the Amish are
still here. The Amish are still here just building away man is really really, really impressive, and that is that's the thing that really struck me on the emotional side, how hard everyone had to work and what a good job they are doing in spite of you know, everything with government that you and I have talked about.
Yeah, yeah, I mean, you're you're not only dealing with you know, man versus nature, You're dealing with man versus government, you know. Yeah, which I'm not sure which is sometimes which is the more powerful foe. But yeah, I mean I remember, very early on after the storm hit, one of the first sort of issues that rose up in that regard were the bridges, so many of the stream crossings.
And you know, for people outside of the mountains, they don't really understand this because you know, you drive down the road and you know it doesn't have curb and gutter. If you're outside of an urban environment, it doesn't have the curb and gutter along the side of the roads. It'll just you know, run off into a culvert, right. But those those culverts, you know, yes, they you know,
driveways will cross them and that sort of thing. But up in the mountains, those culverts get very deep and those roads, those driveways will be the only connection point to not just one home, but several homes that had to be built because you're limited in the way you can build in the mountains by the topography. You'll have one driveway that goes up and it will service you know, half a dozen homes, and that driveway will be you know, a forty five degree angle or greater, and it'll twist
its way up half a mile to a mile. And when that when the and so those bridges were all private bridges, and when those got wiped out, okay, well who replaces the bridge? And how do you get up there to replace the bridge? That was sort of the first example that I remember seeing of like how difficult this is going to be for a very long time.
Yeah, yeah, it's uh. And there's the there are some spots where you can tell they were jerry rigged, I guess would be the best way to say it. And that's just that's just people going, I got to be able to access my house, let's go ahead and do this. I saw I saw a trick that I used and we used in Wyoming News at a cross creeks and that is the bottom of a railroad car. You can
use as a bridge. Yeah, and I saw I saw a couple of those, and I laughed a little because I'm like, we had a couple of those on our property. It's a great way to very cheaply get a bridge. But this was done out of necessity, right, they would probably prefer their covided crossing. But this, this is where we are now.
Did you get chance to go through Billmore Village?
Yeah?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was down there. The was down there the other day.
So I used to live in I used to live there in uh in Bilmore Village for a couple of years before we moved away. But I was just kind of curious because the last I saw that it was it was pretty.
I picked you up. I picked you up at your house. That wasn't in Bilmore, was it? Do you remember that? Did I pick you up at your I? Did I picked you up at your house?
Then?
Yeah?
No, that I think that was it. I lived in three different places when I was in there. Uh well, then we bought the house after Billmore Village.
Ah, then I got okay, okay, I was trying to.
Remember which one. I would say it may have been there if you picked me up around Billmore Village. It might have been that place, and then we went out to where a Grove Park area.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so uh it was Asheville is a quirky little community. I don't necessarily mean that in a negative way. There's some of the listeners like, why why are you broadcast in Nashville. I'm like, well, that's where our studios are up here. So it's an easy decision. But it's been really refreshing because, look, I know that I'm interviewing and talking to people that are probably ideologically not on board with me necessarily, and nobody's talking politics.
I mean there's the government grumbling right like, hey, we're supposed to be faster any of that, And I don't know, man, you just kind of need that because Twitter is such a cesspool right now.
Well, this is one area of civic life that where that can occur, right, recovery response to disasters. Sports has played that role for a really long time. Well we'll get so right, and you know, it was a place where it didn't matter people's politics or religion. You were
all pulling for a team. Look, there is something instinctive in our nature that we have a desire to belong to to some form of pack, right, a community of some sort, and that's you know, and honestly like it went to well with regard to politics, but really philosophy is when you when you start then trying to splinter people away from those connections, people get lost. And I think, like for example, the No King's protests, I think that's what that was. I think you have a large population
that is that is yearning for some community. And I don't want to say, you know, everybody that was at the No King's protests last weekend, we're not of a religious bent, you know, I don't want to say all of them, but I think, you know, generally speaking, looking at the survey data and the demographics, people on the left are less religious, and I think they find or they seek and find that connection in political movements or
activism and such. And I think that's why that kind of event is so attractive to people generally on the left and not so much on the right. But the you know, Alexis Totopel wrote about this very thing, this the American people, uh, you know, banding together for civic organizations to address you know, a local ill or problem, and it didn't matter. The politics of people don't matter. It's just like we identify this one problem. Let's all
band together and fix this one problem together. And that is what forms the bonds of a society.
Yeah, and and and and you you kind of went where I was going a little. It's like it shows you. It shows you how hard the political parties and the politicians have to work to accomplish what you're talking about, right, because they need to splinter people. You can't win in politics with out splintering people.
Yeah, or you end up you know, audience capture essentially, where you you know, you only need a certain splinter, and so you just give them what they want in order to keep them turning out to the polls, right, and so you just keep beating them the red meat, and so they get they stay angry because it's a great motivation. Anger and fear motivate people. I mean, anybody who does marketing knows that as well. And so you know,
there's this these incentives to do something different. I wish that we would incentivize the sense of belonging to America, Like like, if we're looking for a unifying sort of community banner, we have one, right, and they are the ideals and.
The idea flagan the Mexican flag right.
Right well in certain protests and jurisdictions, But yet we have a banner. It's the American flag. We have a uniting philosophy. It's the you know, the Constitution, it's the Declaration of Independence. We have this shared history, like that's the thing that we should all uh sort of kind of look to as we are all one. And I think if people thought in those terms, maybe things could I don't know, get a little bit bitter.
Yeah, I would agree. I will tell you one funny thing on this, and then there's two things I want to hit real quick. So I went to Black Mountain right because I'm going and I'm checking out all the different communities. Went over there, had lunch at a place
called Foothills Grange. I don't know if you ever ate there when you were up here, but but when you're in downtown Black Mountain right on Main Street, it's only like a half mile to the freeway right to so so I drove via tunnel Road to get there because I want to go check out the area going into Black Mountain. But I go to leave and I go over the railroad tracks. And now I've got line of sight to where the freeway is, and I see like twenty people holding signs and I'm like, oh, please, don't
let that be a protest. And since they're right by the on ramp, I'm like, and they sure as hell better not be in the road, cause that's like my I don't want you know how much RAL or CNC or one of the you know, one of these moonbat TV outlets would love to be like a radio host runs over protests, right, I don't want any.
Right wing radio hosts.
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. He always talked about running over protesters.
He wanted to do it.
And then the most wholesome thing happened because as I got nearer, I realized it's the cheerleaders from the local high school doing a car wash to raise money. Oh yes, yes, But then I felt a lot. I feel like, that's a little pervy, so I didn't go in there.
But oh, okay, that's why I yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, but I was just so happy that's what it was.
I was so happy. It just wasn't some random protest trying to crap on my Wednesday or whatever. So yeah, speaking of infighting, real quick. So everyone's talking about the Tucker cruise thing. We talked about it yesterday, but I want to ask you about it today. What are your thoughts? And Trump's talking about they can never have a bomb,
We'll do what we have to do. Is that just him keeping the eye toll in check or is that him possibly saying we're gonna sling cruise me like Obama and Hillary did.
I don't know.
With Donald Trump, I have learned let's just let's wait and see, because this is his chaos strategy of negotiations. Right. We have no idea what's in his head. He's given them two weeks. Everybody's got two weeks. Israel, keep doing what you're doing, You've got two weeks. Mullah's if you want to get to the table, which now apparently they say they don't, you got two weeks. You want to surrender the nuclear program, you got two weeks. And also Iranian people, if you want to rise up, you got
two weeks. In Iranian generals that keep getting whacked. If you guys are tired of getting whacked, you want to overthrow your ayah toola's or you know, install somebody else, you got two weeks. So we'll see what happens in two weeks. So I don't know. I don't know anybody that's saying, yes, we need to go to war with ground troops in Iran. I don't know anybody that's saying that. For me, the fundamental question is is it in America's interest to allow Israel to dismantle that nuclear and I
believe it is yea. Now, now what we do about that? Those are there?
I got thirty seconds, Pete, thirty.
Seconds those diferent questions. Now on the Tucker Ted thing, I thought both of them came off not looking good. And yeah, I mean, it's just I don't know what's the deal with Tucker Callson anymore.
Okay, all right, well we'll leave it there. I gotta go. Thank you very much, sir, and we will chat next week.
Okay, Yes, sir, I appreciate it. Thanks for doing this up and to and for raising awareness for the regional.
Absolutely he thirty five here on the CaCO Day radio program. I think you do, Pete Calender for chatting with us there in the last segment. All right, so I don't maybe you saw this story, but you saw it spun through the lens of like a CNN or whatnot. So I'm here to tell you what's actually going on, because these are the head These are the headlines.
You're hearing, right, some along the lines.
Of Trump Trump cancels LGBTQ suicide prevention hotline, right, And then the impression is given that there, you know, there's no resources for somebody who might be dealing with, you know, thoughts of suicide. And and he's doing it so that more LGBTQ plus youth kill themselves, right, because he's just it's just forty chess. Sometimes they say he's really dumb, but in this case they're saying he's really smart and
he's doing this just to be evil. NBC News is headline, the Trump administration will shut down the National LGBTQ Youth Suicide Lifeline, the nine eight eight Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in thirty days. Rolling Stone, Trump administration cuts LGBTQ care from suicide hotline. All right, there's still a suicide hotline, right. There is a national suicide hotline. It's not for gay people or for straight people exclusively or whatever. It's the
suicide hotline. And they have people within the suicide hotline that are trained to deal with people who are thinking of committing suicide, and there are people within the actual National Suicide Hotline that.
Are trained in specific areas.
So if your sexuality is, you know, maybe a component of this, they have people within there that that is kind of their core focus. But the problem is you either got to dig all the way to the bottom of the article in the case of the NBC News one it's literally the last paragraph, or in Rolling Stone, they really just kind of leave that little fact toyed out.
So here's at the end of the NBC story. What is actually going on, sam, I don't know how you say is a SAMSA anyway, The Substance Abuse in Mental Health Services Administration, which is a government agency, points out that affected use can still receive help by just calling
the National Suicide Hotline number. And by the way, everyone who and you, it will even port through on the numbers from this secondary repeating effort suicide hotline, So even if you have that number committed to memory, it will go to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline, which is still
being funded. Is still a thing. There's just not going to be a separate They're not going to fund a separate one that is run by an it's an outside organization called the Trevor Project, which is you know, it's a pretty big organization. They do a lot of stuff, and I know they get a lot of donations, but they also get a lot of government funding too.
So this is along the.
Line of doge cuts or or or finding duplicitous things. That's what they're doing here and then and so that's what's going on. So if you see the story and you don't see the full story because you either didn't read to the very last two paragraphs of NBC news Is or you read that rolling Stone garbage. They're not canceling the suicide hotline. And if you're and and and by the way, I'm let me say this, if you're contemplating suicide, call them or somebody, call somebody from a
mental health capacity, and and and talk to them. Suicide is horrible, horror or and and and if you ever had a family member, I've had a family member of tempt suicide, and and and and and thankful, thankfully they were unsuccessful and and now they're thriving. This was wait,
two decades ago. He's doing great. He's doing great. And I've We've had a conversation with him, probably about five years ago, where he just kind of is like, dude, I'm so he was so thankful that there were people around him that maybe they didn't really pick up because he was out on his own and he was living way ways from a lot of people. He ended up moving back around where his family's from. I'm not going to get in specific, so so he could figure out
which one of my relatives. But and he ended up he had not gone to college. He ended up going to college, and he's got a great family now and I'm so happy. So I want people to get help. But when you write an article and you give the impression that the help is not there anymore because you
want to score political points, that's evil. You should want whoever reads this article, if in fact they find themselves thinking of committing suicide, you want them to know that there is still help there, because now it just adds, it adds another layer of hopelessness. That is, there's no other word for that. That ross that's evil? Right? Am I wrong here in calling that evil? That seems pretty evil to me to score political points trying to do that.
So anyway, sorry, I went off on a little tangent there because it just it irritated me that much. Oh this, Gavin knew something. Let me tell you about this. So uh, let's see here. Yesterday was Gavin Newsom's wife's birthday, and so he on the official governor's account, he tweeted this. He said, happy birthday to the first partner of California. I'm sorry the what what the first you mean? The first lady? Right, and she identifies as a woman. We
know that I will say this. She calls herself first partner too, So it's not like he just so please God, let's get that in the White House, right, these two super wokies. But yeah, so happy birthday the first partner of California, the outstanding mother. Oh whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a second, don't you mean birthing person? How do you get it so woke in the first one, and then forget to use birthing person or whatever the current woke term is. I'll see any mother of our four
incredible children and the love of my life. And look, I love that he wanted to recognize his wife. I'm not even gonna get into the you know, there's been some issues in the past, which is a crazy story. You can go check that out if you want, with a guy who used to work for him and uh so yes, good, but uh first partner of California and it's and I know it's not it's his Twitter account and whatever, and she, I guess likes the term. That's fine.
I'm just pointing out that it is all of this constant we have to change everything, and we're going to ram it down your throat. That really just screwed the pooch for Democrats under Biden, right when they're running around, they're running around and erasing history or deciding they were going to change things just for the purpose of changing and you will, you will submit. People revolted on that.
They're like, no, there's enough of this garbage. So it's death by a thousand cuts when you see this stuff. And I don't know, man, I so people remembered if when we get to the fact that he's probably going to be the nominee, although it was looking a little tenuous with what's going on with the LA protests there, but those seem to have simmered down a bit. All right, eight forty three, is mister Stagic ready to go the according master.
Hello, so we're not gonna We're not gonna make.
You play again, ok this time?
Thank you you were vote. By the way, Ross Rossa announced special award.
I saw that on the Twitter next to my other award in the other studio.
Yeah, it says race stage. It been has been rated the number one accordion player in the history of the show, ingrats ray on a record.
Thank you for I appreciate it.
You know it's great.
Though we have no cash or prizes for you.
No, no, I think you all have inspired me and I actually may brush up on my skills a little bit. Okay, all right, you're like, yeah, you go ahead and do that.
You do, you did better, and I'll ever do I'll never learn the accordion probably.
So, yeah, it was, it was.
It was rough. I used to know what I was not.
Gonna knock you a lot of memories.
No, anyway, you're gonna knock me when I give you the forecast though.
Oh yeah, yeah, you're me out of the park. It's not gonna go well for you.
So I would just say if you wanted to clean up the yard, he had things you wanted to do outside, I would do them.
Today bed uper eighties.
Yeah, sunshine, because we're going to start the heat tomorrow, probably close to our above ninety depending where you are, then really crank it up for Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday look like the hottest days record heat possible. I thought likely for Raleigh Tryad. I mentioned it earlier at the airport in Greensboro. The records are all nineteen fourteen next week, so I don't know what that was in nineteen fourteen. But Monday's record for Raleigh set last year, and so
was Thursdays. I'm like, I don't remember that. It was one hundred and three next week on Thursday last year, if that makes sense. Huh, It's kind of crazy. It's like, I don't remember that last year. But anyway, so we're going into the nineties and then close to one hundred for Monday Tuesday. As I said, the try had probably be in the middle of the upper nineties either way, eating disease over one hundred, We're probably not going to break the heat right through Thursday. It looks like it's
going to stay mid upper nineties. No rain, some severe weather reports yesterday didn't see any tornado reports, but some trees and limbs down and even some spots saw some hail to the north.
Okay, all right, do you appreciate it? I average Olf a good weekend, sir, you too. All right, there you go, race Agic from the Weather Channel. Okay, coming up, we're gonna chat with Jeff Bellinger and I saved it here to the very end. As part of this podcast, at our partnership with Cambria Hotel and Heywood Park Hotel, they have been kind enough to put together a prize, so we're going to be giving away. It is like a weekend stay package with food, credit and everything, and we're
going to be doing that in the next segment. I'll tell you how to win in just a few minutes. To stick around. Heap fifty two and we're cha out with Jeff Bello. Jeff's working from home today, I think because he's on the phone. Jeff, how'd you swing that, buddy?
Oh?
I just had the head yesterday off and it's a nice chance to skip the commute today.
I hear you, I hear you. All right, So what's happening today?
Well, well, the stock market futures did some direction changing earlier, but they're pointing higher at the moment right across the board. Now, futures are up one hundred twenty points. We have CarMax shares pointing higher and pre market trading use car sales or up. Carmacks posted better than expected quarterly results. Pairs of garden restaurants also higher. The parent of Olive Garden and other dining chains reported quarterly sales that were right
in line with estimates. Trude oil futures have also been sea sawing this morning. Traders were concerned about a possible US strike on Iran, but the White House indicated to strike is not imminent that President Trump will decide what
to do within a couple of weeks. But there are still worries about the Strait of Hormuz City groups as oil could spike to ninety dollars a barrel if the strait should be closed, and falling gasoline prices will mean more road trips over the fourth of July holiday period. Triple A is predicting more than sixty one million people will drive somewhere between June twenty eighth and July sixth,
and that would be a record. Be ready for sticker shock if you're in the market for a new car, consultants at Alex Partners say automakers will pass most of their terraff related expenses along to customers. New vehicle prices are already high, and its estimated tariffs will increase the sticker price of every car by nearly two thousand dollars. And Casey, the annual ranking by The Points Guy says
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Casey, All right, well that's good. I think I just lost my return audio ross. So if Jeff is wrapping up, Jeff, and I'm sorry if I'm talking over you, because I know that the the send audio is working, So uh, talk amongst yourselves until that kicks back there, So do do do?
Yeah?
Hey, yeah, there you go. Now you're okay? All right? Is Jeff done? Why wouldn't do that? Yoh, I guess he has done. How awkward did that sound? Did you tell him about all the murder stuff while I was off again? Like you did yesterday. Okay, all right, well let's go uh, let's go in rock and roll with this. We got just a few minutes, so obviously I just kind of wrap up this broadcast week couple different ways. One, I wanted to let you know that you know, obviously,
you know what we be communicating all week. The best thing you can do, and it could be Ashville, could be you go up to tweet see like Ross and his family did. Whatever it is. The mountains of North Carolina are open. Not everything's open, but there's more than enough to come up and have a great time escape the heat. Lord, No people are going to get out of the heat coming up here in the next few weeks. And it's North Carolina, so it's it's gonna do that
for a few months. They would love to have you up here. Just check and feel free to call, you know, whether it's explore Ashville or up.
You're going to do the blowing rock thing.
Call the tourism and the hotels and the places you would normally go. Everyone's been very nice and they'd love to hear from you. And I want to thank our partners with the hotel group, with the Cambria on Town and Heywood Park. I had a chance to stay in
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Ross will gets your information and we'll get we'll get it all taken care of, all right, just real quick. Ros's gonna be fielding those calls. Just want to, uh, where did I put this uh yeah, okay right here
real quick. There's a crazy story. We tweeted this out earlier where a dude killed his neighbors allegedly over a one dollar hot dog and they're nwdas and he became insulted that when they when he asked him to bring them food, that they brought him a one dollar hot dog, which, by the way, I want to know where they sell one dollar hot dogs because holy hell, man, right, where do you find a one dollar hot dog these days? But he had, for the second day in a row,
he had created a secret room. Only in this case, he basically because it's a trailer an RV and trailer park, he dug like a murder pit under his house and then just chopped up his neighbors down there. So my my parting thing to you on this very sort of tail is if your family member at any point has a secret room or pit and you're not allowed in it, maybe you should check it out.
Not when they're there, though,